The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 603 Yang Guangzhi's Plan

After the conversation, Yang Tong had dinner with his grandparents in the Honghui Hall, and ordered a few things. Yang Tong went to Shengwu Hall to handle official business, and Yang Qinfang followed suit like a little girl.

Empress Xiao took a sip of tea and asked, "What do you think of Fang'er?"

"What should I do?" Yang Guang looked at Empress Xiao in confusion.

"Fang'er?"

"Fang'er is like a beauty in a painting, dignified and elegant, simple and elegant, without a trace of frivolity, very good. For girls, I don't have high requirements, and I don't need to have too much talent, but I must be virtuous and know how to respect my elders , Respect your husband, and be strict with yourself, that's enough."

"Fake it!" Empress Xiao said angrily, "This girl has learned martial arts, and she went out to suppress bandits secretly in the past few years and killed many bandits."

Yang Guang took a sip of tea comfortably, and said, "Both civil and military, very much like our family!"

"But this girl likes Dong'er! What do you think I can do?" Yang Qinfang's marriage was a big problem, and Empress Xiao was very depressed.

Yang Guang was startled. He didn't know what happened. He pondered for a moment and said, "As Fang'er, no one in the world would dare to marry her. If she likes Tong'er, why not keep her in the palace? Everyone knows that her surname is not Yu, and you also said that this girl has a strong personality, if you force her to marry someone else, only tragic things will happen."

Empress Xiao also sighed, knowing daughter Mo Ruomu, she knows Fang'er very well, knowing that once she has made up her mind, no one can persuade her, now only Yang Tong can let her listen A few words.

"Ugh!"

Empress Xiao shook her head and sighed, she was worried about this girl, the debts of her children would never be paid off.

"There are quite a few people who know Fang'er's life experience, at least Yang Gongren, Yang Shanhui, Yang Shidao, Li Jing and other veterans know. I will ask her another day. If she wants to be with Tong'er, I will tell the world that she is Zhongliang. .”

"Look, it's done!" Yang Guang said irresponsibly

"What about Nanyang? Could it be that Yuwen Shiji was arrested and reunited?"

"This is definitely not possible!" Yang Guang said angrily: "Yu Wenhua and rebellion, Yuwen scholars and conformity to the situation, I recognize these. But he jumped out, in front of me, and put some strange names on me. , this is wrong."

"Okay! I got it." Interrupting Yang Guang, Empress Xiao said solemnly: "You are right, there is something wrong with this world, the fault is that I didn't explain it to you at the beginning, and the fault is those courtiers who followed you I shouldn’t have persuaded you, am I right?”

"Uh..." Yang Guang's eyes widened, as if this was the case. If Yu Shiji and the others hadn't reported good news but not bad news, and deceived the superior and the inferior, he would have known that the world would have been torn apart. , but the world is in his hands after all, it seems too irresponsible to say this, if he dare not even admit defeat, is he still Yang Guang?

"That's enough! I, Yang Guang, am not so shameless!" Facing Empress Xiao's teasing gaze, Yang Guang said in embarrassment: "I have never encountered any major setbacks in the first half of my life, but the Battle of Yanmen disgraced me, deeply Feeling majestic and grandiose has become a thing of the past. Coupled with the turmoil of the Sui Dynasty like a candle in the wind, internal and external troubles, I lost the courage and confidence to reorganize the rivers and mountains. After that, I fled to the left of the river to seek peace. I lived a good life for myself for a few years, but the falling flowers were intentional and the flowing water was ruthless. As a result, the Jiangdu Palace Rebellion occurred. I was decadent for a year, and slowly recovered under the persuasion of my brother. I wanted to regain my strength in the south, but Seeing that Dong'er has done better than me and suppressed the family more thoroughly, I didn't bother to raise the flag of the Sui Dynasty, so I simply tried to do my part for the Sui Dynasty in another way. I regret coming to Luoyang now, If I know that this kid is 'under house arrest' in the palace, I will never come back, and now I am not free at all."

"Reluctance to part with your Jiangnan beauty?" Empress Xiao looked at the complaining Yang Guang, and said with a smile.

"No way!" Yang Guang was wronged, and he expressed his loyalty: "I have been hiding in Tibet like a mouse all these years, and I am precarious. How can I play with women? Don't you know what I am?"

Empress Xiao rolled his eyes at him angrily, and sighed, "I know Ah Chun, but when you become a prince and emperor, you change."

"Didn't it change back again?" Yang Guang held his wife's hand, and said softly and affectionately, "Don't worry, I will still be your Ah Chun from now on, and I will never change again."

Empress Xiao liked it in her heart, she shook her husband's big hand instead, and said angrily: "You have a slippery tone, I don't know who you learned from?"

"Dong'er!" Yang Guang sold Yang Tong unceremoniously. After the joy of reunion after the catastrophe, Empress Xiao who came back to her senses began to feel dissatisfied, feeling cheated spontaneously, thinking of her these years Reciting scriptures and paying homage to Buddha were all put into running water, and I was very upset, so I ignored Yang Guang any more.He drove Yang Guang around in a hurry, and asked Yang Tong for advice when he was in a hurry. Then Yang Tong taught him the big trick of 'thick skin', and the effect was greatly increased.

Of course, this is also the reason for Empress Xiao herself. She is just angry at Yang Guang for not contacting him for many years, so there is no unresolved resentment. Young people making trouble like that?

"You are so old, are you really going to Bashu?" Empress Xiao said worriedly.

"Didn't Tong ask that Sun Simiao to help me feel my pulse the day before yesterday? He said that my pulse is steady and strong, and my body is strong. If you don't know my real age and just listen to the pulse, it is basically the pulse of a 40-year-old man. This is my year-round practice of martial arts. Lay a good foundation."

"That's why I agree to your expedition."

"Don't worry, I won't carry a knife to the battle to kill the enemy, nothing will happen. On the contrary, Dong'er is the king of a country, and he goes to the battle to kill people from time to time. This is very dangerous and very serious." Yang Guang Misfortune leads the way.

"Dong'er is the God of War in the Sui Dynasty. He killed all four kingdoms and bowed his head to become a vassal. He galloped freely among thousands of armies and beheaded a general. Can you compare with him?" Xiao Hou said proudly.

"Why do I feel that I have no status at all now?" Yang Guang said with a wry smile.

Empress Xiao stared at Yang Guang contemptuously, "What status do you want? To seek to usurp the throne and become the emperor? Then you will tear the world apart?"

These three consecutive questions choked Yang Guang half to death. He stared at Empress Xiao for a long time, and said dumbfoundedly: "I tore the world apart so that my descendants would not suffer from seeking the court and usurping the throne. Now it is finally thriving. Everything is going in the direction I want. How stupid am I to seek to usurp the throne?"

Empress Xiao said angrily: "How long are you going to pretend to be dead, you living dead? Always wandering around in the palace will cause ugly gossip sooner or later."

"The world is unified again. I'll let Dong'er announce that I'm not dead. When the time comes, the world will be shocked." Yang Guangsha said proudly.

"and then?"

"Then let go of all the mundane things and travel with your sisters to enjoy the great rivers and mountains."

"Really?" Empress Xiao was overjoyed upon hearing this.

"Of course it's true."

Yang Guang nodded with a smile, and said with emotion: "Others say that the country and country I inherited from my father are peaceful and peaceful, and the prosperity is unparalleled. In fact, it is internal and external troubles, only because my father reformed the administration of officials, opened a department to recruit scholars, and shaken the world's aristocratic families. As a result, the conflicts between the Sui royal family and the Guanlong dignitaries, the Kanto gentry, and the southern gentry became endless."

"Foreign aggression, there are Turkic, Tuyuhun and other packs of wolves around, internal troubles, the nobles of Guanlong overpower the court, control hundreds of thousands of imperial guards, there are also oppositions between the North and the South, and the opposition of the aristocratic ministers. Daxing, Luoyang... Millions of soldiers in the Guanlong Mansion lived on empty pay. They did not engage in production and did not pay taxes, which made the court's finances even more difficult... The more I understand it, the more I find that the Sui Dynasty is a mess... I have a heart We have made great efforts to rule the country and find out the shortcomings, but there are many difficulties... For the stability of the world, there will be no rebellion, and many times we have to compromise, compromise with the Guanlong nobles, compromise with the Guandong gentry and the southern gentry."

Yang Guang sighed in a low voice, and finally said: "Emperor Daye, who seems to be radiant, is actually a lonely man among wolves. Every day he faces a group of liars, and he has to rack his brains every day to distinguish which of their words is true. , which sentence is false; which sentence is harmful...the feeling is really hard to describe."

"Liar?" Empress Xiao was incredulous, it was the first time she had heard about Yang Guang's affairs about the court.

"That's right." Yang Guang said with a smile: "The civil and military officials at my time were all the smartest liars in the world! These liars would use different lies to deceive me every day. One was to flatter and the other was to harm others. Good; but most of them are for the self-interest of the family and the benefit of the party."

"The courtiers are always trying to figure out their intentions; as a lonely emperor, he naturally has to figure out the intentions of his courtiers. Of course it is easy for hundreds of thousands of people to figure out what one person thinks, but it is simply difficult for one person to see through the hearts of hundreds or thousands. It's like ascending to the sky."

"Some people also say that I am mean and ungrateful to generals such as Zhang Xutuo, Yu Juluo, Yang Yichen, etc. who have made great achievements, but they don't know that these generals are the kind of simple people who can be guessed at a glance. It is suitable to be an official in the court. Once they enter the court as an official, they will be squeezed out to death in less than a year. Putting them outside is the best protection for them. Especially Zhang Xutuo, I have asked people many times Presenting his portrait to the imperial capital is actually telling other people: "Zhang Xutuo is my Yang Guang's man, you can't move." In addition, he has been away all the time and his status is not high, so no one thinks he is a threat. It's safe and sound."

"It can be said that I have been the emperor for so many years, and I have never had a happy day. The emperor's throne gives me only a mountain of heavy burdens. But in the end, the world is still in chaos."

Empress Xiao was silent when she heard the words.

"Now I can finally let go of this heavy burden with peace of mind, and let Dong'er worry about it enough. This Ziwei City is just the biggest cage in the world. I have never liked this kind of thing."

"You didn't fix it?" Empress Xiao said with a smile.

"So, I seldom lived in Daxing Palace and Ziwei City before. From now on, we will travel all over the world's famous mountains and rivers, and write a thick travel journal. Let me tell you, you can't imagine the beauty of the world."

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In the Hall of Sacred Martial Arts, Yang Tong buried his head in the mountains of memorials.

(End of this chapter)