Emperor Sui Yang

Chapter 118
This trip to Hedong made Yang Ming feel a great gap in his heart. It was the first time he left Daxing, the capital, and came to such a relatively prosperous and developed county in the Sui Dynasty.

Compared with Daxing, Hedong is really a very poor place. Perhaps, as Yang Lihua said, if Yang Ming stays in Daxing, he will be gradually corroded and thirsty for power.

This is a fact. I am used to living in a place like Daxing, so I really can't accept a small county town.

But fate is like this, he is the king of the county, and will be the prince in the future, so he must go to the domain, and the capital is not the place for him to stay.

Just like Yang Xiu, the king of Shu, and Yang Liang, the king of Han, they were not allowed to enter Beijing unless they were recruited. The third child Yang Jun died, and they couldn't come back to take a look.

But people like Li Yuan and Fang Xuanling are all focused on sneaking into the capital from other places.

Of course, Li Yuan also knew in his heart that he would have to be released in the future, but he had to wait until he climbed up again, and when he was qualified to release a governor, he would figure out a way by himself.

The next day, Yang Ming returned and left. Dou Qing and others stood at the gate of the city, watching Yang Ming's motorcade disappear from sight.

Dou Qing asked someone to find out that the reason why Li Jing was able to serve as the governor of Hedong County was because Yang Ming greeted the officials, so he has always treated Li Jing fairly well, and he didn't wear small shoes for him.

Now he is even more afraid, because he has already received news from Daxing that King Jin will be extremely valuable in the future.

At this time, unless his head was kicked by a donkey, he would offend Yang Ming.

"The pharmacist has worked hard for the past few days, let's go and have a drink at my house."

Of course Li Jing would not refuse, and said with a smile, "Mr. Dou please."

In the prefect's mansion, Dou Qing and Li Jing sat opposite each other, and asked the maid beside him to pour wine for him, and said with a smile:
"How long has the pharmacist been with His Highness the King of Hedong?"

Li Jing said: "According to the calculation, it has been nearly two years."

Two years is not too short. He lives in the palace and is raised under the knee of the Holy Empress. He has known you for two years. It can be seen that the relationship is unusual.

So Dou Qing tentatively asked: "Recently, pharmacist, what have you heard from the capital?"

"The capital?" Li Jing shook his head: "I just heard that the previous Secretary of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Hu Lu Xiaoqing, just passed away."

Does he really not know, or is he pretending not to know?Dou Kang said again: "The king of Jin has been in the capital for half a year, what does the pharmacist think?"

Li Jing frowned upon hearing the words: "Could it be that there is something inside?"

Dou Qingshuo smiled and said: "The vassal king is not allowed to enter the capital unless he is recruited. Although the king of Jin came here to mourn the princess and then led his troops to the north and returned with a big victory, he really shouldn't stay in the capital for so long now. Besides, The kings of Shu and Han did not come to Beijing to mourn, so why only the king of Jin?"

Why?I don't know why, Li Jing is really not qualified enough, so it is related to the upper-level affairs, he has no source of information,

Unlike Dou Qing, who is a relative, and his elder brother, Dou Kang, also served Yang Jian as a thousand oxen for his body.

However, Li Jing also heard some problems from the probing words of the other party. The king of Jin was originally the governor of Yangzhou, guarding the southern part of the Sui Dynasty, and the military governor of the 44 prefectures. Abnormal, something big is bound to happen.

He was also curious in his heart, so he whispered: "Please ask Mr. Dou to clarify."

Dou Qing wanted to curry favor with Yang Ming now, so of course he would take the initiative to show his favor to Li Jing, the celebrity in Yang Ming's eyes, so he replied ambiguously:
"A small place like Hedong may not be the place where the King of Hedong lived for a long time."

Li Jing was taken aback for a moment, and then slowly savored this sentence in his heart, Yang Ming is the king of the county, and Hedong is a rich land, how can you say that it is a small place?

In the Sui Dynasty, there were not many feudal lands better than Hedong.

And Dou Qing just said something about King Jin's stay in the capital, could it be that
Li Jing was shocked, and looked at Dou Qing in disbelief.

Dou Qing could see that the other party understood, so he raised his glass and said: "Dou will never say it in the future, and he still has to ask the pharmacist for advice."

"Don't dare dare," Li Jing toasted hurriedly, the shock in his heart was undeniable.

It is often heard that the crown prince fell out of favor with the second sage, but he never imagined that this day would happen.
The crown prince is the eldest son, although there is a fault, it shouldn't be like this.

So, in the future, Yang Ming will be
Yang Ming still took Pujin Ferry for his return trip this time. He originally planned to take a long detour and go north to Longmen Ferry to have a look, but the weather seemed to be changing, so it was best to cross the pontoon bridge as soon as possible, lest the water level rise. I can't make it through.

Pujin Ferry and Longmen Ferry are the two major passes from Shanxi to Beijing. When Li Yuan and his son rebelled, if they could not defeat Song Laosheng in Huoyi, then their father and son could only go south to seek a way out, or form an alliance with Li Mi's Wagang to attack Luoyang Wang Shichong, or Form an alliance with Hebei Dou Jiande to deal with Li Mi.

In short, as long as they can't cross these two ferries, Jinyang can't be kept, because the Turks and Liu Wuzhou will raid Jinyang.

They had to find someone to form an alliance, otherwise Qu Tutong in Hedong would definitely chase them down all the way when he saw them going south.

In fact, in the battle of Huoyi, Song Laosheng only made one mistake, that is, he should not be lured out of the city. As long as he does not leave the city, there will be reinforcements at the Longmen Pass across the river behind him.

Don't think too much of Li Yuan and his son, they don't have many soldiers, and it's not an exaggeration to say that they are a mob.

That's what Song Laosheng thought at the time, that's why he underestimated the enemy and left the city rashly.

Li Yuan's father and son really rose to power after they entered Guanzhong, because the main forces in the Guanzhong area were taken away by Qu Tutong and Song Laosheng, so that Jingzhao was empty, allowing Li Yuan and his son to capture Daxing and deal with Qu Tutong in turn.

Although Qu Tutong pointed to his neck and said, "You should be stabbed for the country", he finally surrendered. Li Yuan canonized him as Minister of the Ministry of War and Li Shimin's Marshal of the Marshal.

Dominating the Guanzhong area, it occupies the absolute initiative.

Yang Guang's mediocrity is the right time, and it is the right place to occupy the capital. The reason why Li Yuan and his son can win the world is because they occupy the Guanzhong area.

Qu Tutong is just a chariot general at the moment. As for Song Laosheng, he has never heard of it. He can ask the official department after he returns.

After returning to Beijing, as soon as she returned to the palace, she heard from Concubine Xiao that Li Yuan's wife had come to Beijing.

It seems that Shimin's children are also here.

Mrs. Li Yuan's wife, Dou's family, was born in Daibei Dou's family, Xianbei nationality. Her original surname was Hedouling's, but it was changed to Dou's in the Northern Wei Dynasty.

His father, Dou Yi, is the son-in-law of Yu Wentai, the Duke of Shenwu County in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Shangzhu State, Da Sima, and leader of the Guanlong Group.

In other words, Dou is Yu Wentai's granddaughter, and Jian Jian Shimin is Yu Wentai's great-grandson.

Their family is not only a relative of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, but also a relative of the Sui Dynasty, and they are quite powerful.

Don't look at how unbearably Li Yuan's family background was described in the Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, his family background is rich.

Concubine Xiao stayed in the palace all day and had nothing else to do, when Mrs. Li Yuan came to Beijing, she wanted to visit her, so she could find something to pass the time.

She also has girlfriends, one is Yu Wenshu's wife Dugu, and the other is Guo Yan's wife Wang.

Yu Wenshu's wife, the Dugu family, is recorded in many unofficial records as the fifth daughter of Dugu Xin, and Dugu Jialuo's sister, but she is not, she just came from the Dugu family in Luoyang.

Otherwise, wouldn't Yu Wenshu be Yang Guang's uncle?
On this day, Yang Ming followed his mother and concubine to Li Yuan's mansion to visit his wife Dou.

Originally, Li Yuan had already sent someone to send a message, saying that his wife had settled down, and he would come to greet Concubine Xiao himself.

But Concubine Xiao wanted to go out to get some air, so she took the initiative to visit.

Li Yuan is rich, very rich, and he lives in Longqingfang, which is only one square away from Chongrenfang, where Prince Jin's Mansion is located, and they are both on the Jiusan line of Daxing City.

In any case, he is the Duke of the State, the Duke of the Founding State, and the title is the same as Yang Su, Su Wei, and He Ruobi, and they are all third-class.

Li Yuan and his wife got the news and waited outside the gate of the mansion early.
When Yang Ming stepped out of the carriage, he immediately saw the graceful lady next to Li Yuan, and her two children holding her left and right hands respectively.

One is Jiancheng's child, and the other is Shimin's one-and-a-half-year-old child. To be precise, he is two and a half years old, because birth is considered one-year-old.

Yang Ming couldn't help looking at him, Jian Jiancheng undoubtedly followed his father's appearance, as for Shimin, he seemed to be more inclined to Dou's, but he was only two years old, and his appearance hadn't fully grown yet.

Li Yuan and his wife welcomed Concubine Xiao into the mansion, while Yang Ming was held by Jian Jiancheng who took the initiative to step forward and said that he would take him for a stroll around the mansion.

Shimin was still young, so he was followed by a wet nurse. Yang Ming took the initiative to hug him, raised his hand to wipe off the two snots hanging from his nose, and then wiped it on Shimin's clothes.

This kid, you are the one who took over our Yang family's lair?

Li Shimin can't speak now, he can only babble, he even thinks it's very interesting to wipe his nose on his body, so he imitated the same thing, put his fingers into his nostrils, hooked a handful of snot, wiped it on himself, and then flushed Looking at Yang Ming, he grinned.

Yang Ming was also amused, children are just fun.

But this kid was so fat, Yang Ming hugged him for a while and then threw it to his wet nurse.

Maybe it was because he was too young, so Yang Ming didn't feel the slightest threat from the future Emperor of Tang Dynasty, but this kid is really not a good person when he grows up.

Killing a brother, occupying a sister-in-law, forcing a father to abdicate, none of these things can be done by ordinary people.

As for whether Li Yuan will be left behind in Taiyuan in the future like in history, this is not up to Yang Ming.

Although the father Yang Guang is not in the position yet, the real side of his character has gradually begun to be revealed. Yang Ming feels more and more that his influence on his father Yang Guang is actually very limited.

If he crossed over to become the son of any moderate emperor in Chinese history, he would definitely choose to lie flat.

Eat, drink, have fun, and live this life leisurely and unrestrainedly, isn't it?
The true meaning of life lies in eating, drinking, whoring and gambling. This is the truth of life that an old man surnamed Qin summed up when he lived to be 70 years old.

Yang Ming deeply agrees.

Unfortunately, his father is Yang Guang. If he lies flat, he will lie down in the ground with Comrade Yang Guang in the future.

Lying down like that is really flattening.

(End of this chapter)