Emperor Sui Yang

Chapter 217 Buried in Hongdu River

Yang Lihua's last instruction was completely from the bottom of her heart, which is why Yang Ming never dared to be tough with his father.

If you really want to offend your own father, it is entirely possible to cut off his King Qin.

He has a lot to do, so he can't lose his rights, or he can't do anything.

Emperor Gaozu Yang Jian had five sons in total, and he took care of three by himself. Who can guarantee that Yang Guang would not do this?
So things like family love also depend on maintenance. If the maintenance is not good, your father will kill you. In history, there are not too many emperors who have turned their faces against each other.

Old Yang's family is now somewhat depleted, and Yang Guang can't count on any of his brothers, so he won't deal with his three sons easily right now.

And Yang Ming knew in his heart that he should take it easy in the future, so as not to be demoted as a commoner.

Yang Guang's arrangement at the court meeting yesterday was a stroke of genius. The central bosses didn't offend any of them, but they managed to dismantle them, so that the court could no longer form a force to challenge the emperor.

Feelings have not gone to court in the past two days, they are holding back their big moves.

Yu Wenshu, Lai Huer, Yang Yue, Pei Yun, Zhang Heng, these are all Papa's people, when Guo Yan comes back, these people will be enough to compete with Gao Jiong Suwei in the court.

Digging canals will probably be impossible to stop.

Yang Ming also felt powerless.

After returning home, he called Yuan Wendu and the others, and Yang Ming ordered everyone to start preparing. He would take everyone out of Beijing and head for Luoyang.

Yang Yinjiang knew that she couldn't get away, because the child was still young, so she hoped that besides Chen Shuyi, Yang Ming would bring another person to sleep with her.

After much deliberation, Yang Ming decided to take Li Xiuqing with him, not because he liked the new and hated the old, but because Pei Shuying wanted to go back to her natal home to help Pei Ju copy some classics.

Pei Ju went to Zhangye this time, and the burden on his shoulders was not light, because Comrade Yang Guang had the idea of ​​cleaning up the countries in the Western Regions, so he let Pei Ju take the first step to find out the situation there.

Pei Ju has a diplomatic skill no less than Changsun Sheng's. No one else can do this kind of thing.

And since he was going to go to other places, he naturally had to bring a lot of books for reference, some of which could be copied by his servants, and some could not, so he could only use trusted people.

Everyone has secrets, and Pei Ju is no exception.

Most of the copies are single copies, which are bound to be lost or damaged, so another copy is required.

Books were very precious in the Sui Dynasty. The Secretary Province with the largest collection of books basically collected half of the world's classics. Books are knowledge, and only when knowledge is controlled can people be controlled.

Therefore, all the big and powerful families also attach great importance to the conservation and collection of books.

When Yang Ming left this time, he would bring Dugu Bailou with him to protect his own safety. As for Dugu Feng'er, he should stay at home honestly.

Dad's original guard, Ma Lao Liu, was unable to follow Yang Guang into the East Palace because of his bald head. He followed Yang Ming for a short period of time, but now he has successfully entered the Imperial Palace. The status of a civilian has become a thousand bulls.

In Da Sui right now, the old man has the final say.

Don't say that it is not in line with the ancestral system. In fact, Yang Guang has been reforming the system.

Yang Ming will not leave Beijing this time by land, but will take a boat from Guangtongqu all the way to the east, and enter the Yellow River from Tongguan.

Tongguan is downstream of Pujinguan, and the Yellow River starts from Pujinguan, and boats can sail, but you have to be careful on the side of Dizhu Mountain, that is, Sanmenxia, ​​because there are too many hidden reefs and the current is fast.

After entering the Yellow River, pass through Shan County, Yuan County, and arrive at the wharf of Heyang County. After crossing the Yellow River to the south, it is Yanshi. More than 40 miles southwest of Yanshi is Luoyang County.

Luoyang, the capital of the Northern Wei Dynasty, has been reduced to ruins. Today's Luoyang is built next to the ruins. It is no longer the size of the palace city of the past, but the area is still not small, and it belongs to Henan County.

Henan County covers [-] counties, and the government is located in Henan County. Its scale cannot be compared with Luoyang, but it is very close to Luoyang, about ten miles away.

After Yang Ming and the others arrived in Luoyang, they would temporarily live in the county seat and take charge of the construction of the new capital.

But they haven't left yet, because another incident happened in Daxing.

News spread to the capital that Liu Shu died of miasma poisoning on the way back. As his wife, Princess Yang Awu of Lanling had been on a hunger strike for three days.

"When did this happen?" After receiving the news, Yang Ming rushed to the East Palace and asked his elder brother Yang Zhao.

Yang Zhao shrugged: "I only heard from Auntie yesterday that it seems to be something that happened before the father returned to Beijing. The news has been suppressed, and it only leaked recently."

Yang Ming frowned and said, "How is Fifth Aunt? Does Emperor Father have a visit?"

"I've been there, but when my father came back, he was very angry and dropped a lot of things, so A Niang didn't dare to persuade him." Yang Zhao reminded in a low voice, "My father is getting angry these days, so don't bump into him."

Yang Ming nodded, knowing that Yang Zhao was persuading him to leave Beijing early, after all, because of the canal, he had already angered his father, if it happened again at this juncture, he would be punished.

So he left the palace in a hurry.

As a result, that night, Yang Lihua's maidservant came to Prince Qin's mansion with a look of panic and asked Yang Ming to go to Liu Shu's mansion immediately. As for what happened, the maidservant didn't know.

Yang Ming guessed it.

When he arrived at the Liu Mansion, there were already many people inside, all from the Sui clan, and not a single foreign minister.

As soon as he entered the backyard, he bumped into Yang Gongren, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, Yang Ming hurriedly asked:

"what happened?"

Yang Gongren cried and said with a mournful face: "The princess died for her husband, and she walked away with a white silk."

"Oh..." Yang Ming sighed, and hurried towards the dormitory.

In the room, Yang Guang, his wife, and Yang Lihua were all there, and the other princesses were also on their way after hearing the news. Besides, there were Prince Yang Zhao, Guan Wang Yang Xiong, Cai Wang Yang Zhiji, Hejian Wang Yang Hong and others. .

Yang Guang sat on the side of the couch, clenched his fists, the veins on his forehead were bulging, and he was extremely angry.

And Yang Ah Wu's body was covered with a white cloth.

Seeing Yang Ming coming in, Yang Guang gave him a hard look, and scared Yang Ming back quickly.

Seeing this, Empress Xiao turned her back, and secretly shook her sleeves at her son. Seeing this, Yang Ming quietly retreated outside the door.

"Get back!" Yang Guang scolded angrily, "Your aunt is dead, don't you even shed tears?"

Grass!Why are you angry at me?Yang Ming hurriedly knelt down pretending to be terrified, and said:

"I just found out, but I still don't want to believe it."

"Why are you yelling at him?" Yang Lihua had obviously just cried, her eyes were red and swollen, but she still made a sound in time to protect Yang Ming, but it was her own mother, Empress Xiao, who did not dare to speak.

Yang Lihua said: "Ming'er has little contact with Ah Wu when he urinates, men don't shed tears easily, so don't get angry."

Yang Guang still listened to Yang Lihua's words, he snorted coldly and said:
"It's all my grandpa and grandma who spoiled me. If you don't listen to others' persuasion, how can Liu Shu be the only man in the world?"

After hearing the first half of the sentence, Yang Ming thought he was scolding him again, but after hearing the second half of the sentence, he was relieved.

As he spoke, Yang Guang picked up a piece of white silk on the ground with several lines of blood written on it, only to hear Yang Guang muttering:

"In the past, Jiang Zi swore to write beautiful poems, and the concubine didn't say anything, and passed on her fragrance. Although the concubine was guilty, she secretly admired the ancients. Since she was born, she could not follow her husband, and she died begging to be buried in Liu's family."

"Death begs to be buried in the Liu family. Death begs to be buried in the Liu family." Yang Guang threw away the white silk fiercely: "She wants to be buried with that traitor Liu Shu, but I will not fulfill her wish."

"Preach my will," Yang Guangchao's servant Gao Ye said, "Isn't Liu Shu buried in Hedong? We buried Princess Lanling in Hongduchuan (north of Xianyang) and downgraded to the burial of the county head. If I let them die, they will not be able to meet each other." .”

Yang Lihua's complexion changed drastically, and she was about to speak when Yang Guang waved his sleeves, stood up abruptly and said:
"Sister, you don't need to persuade me, I've made up my mind."

After all, Yang Guang walked out the door without looking back. When he saw Yang Ming again, he said coldly:

"Your aunt Fayin (funeral) doesn't need you, go do your business."

Yang Ming hurriedly agreed: "My son takes orders and will leave tomorrow."

"Hmph!" Yang Guang snorted coldly and left.

After the emperor and empress had left, the rest of the people in the room looked at each other with different expressions.
The dignified emperor's own sister was buried in a lonely tomb in the end according to the specifications of the county lord. What is this called?
In history, it seems that there was such a rule in the Qing Dynasty that the married princess could not be buried in the imperial mausoleum, nor could she be buried in her in-law’s house. She had to choose another place for burial. This is why so many princess graves all over the country were from the Qing Dynasty. of.

But in the Sui Dynasty, there was no such rule.

After Yang Lihua stood there for a while, she sighed with a lonely expression, looked at Yang Ming and said:
"Let's go quickly."

Yang Ming nodded and backed out.

If he was not sure yesterday whether his father was angry with him, today he is sure.

It seems that my future life will not be easy,

The next day, Yang Ming, Yang Su and others left Beijing together.

They will take a boat from the Shiwuli Wharf outside the city, head east from Guangtong Canal, and enter the Yellow River.

Traveling by water is much more comfortable than by land. Except for the boatman who is in charge of steering the boat, everyone else is very relaxed.

Because the Guangtong Canal is an artificial canal that diverts the Wei River, the water flow is very slow, and the boats travel on it very smoothly.

On the river, there was an endless stream of boats coming and going, with many entering Beijing and few leaving Beijing, most of them were grain boats.

Guangtong Canal is almost the lifeline of Guanzhong, and grain is continuously transported from the Central Plains to supply the capital.

The journey is easy, but everyone's mood is not easy at all.

Especially after seeing the drawings drawn by Yu Wenkai,

Not just floor plans, but stacks of complex drawings piled up all over the floor.

Not only does it need to build Luoyang, but it also needs to build granaries, and it needs to relocate a large number of people from other places to enrich Tokyo.

"Where do people come from?" Yang Su stared at the drawing and asked with a frown.

Right now, Yu Wenkai is most familiar with the specific content of the creation, just listen to him:
"Your Majesty means that, in addition to Henan, rich families and wealthy families must be relocated from Hebei, Shandong, Jiangnan and other places to enrich Luoyang,"

Yang Su nodded: "Your Majesty has any other arrangements, please tell me about them."

"Okay," Yu Wenkai spread out the drawing and began to explain it to everyone.

Yang Ming sat on the main seat, closed his eyes and listened.

(End of this chapter)