Emperor Sui Yang

Pei Ju's management of the Western Regions was very fruitful. During Yang Guang's northern tour, Pei Ju started from Zhangye County and waited for the emperor in Yulin County.

At that time, he was accompanied by a foreign mission, Gao Changguo.

Among the countries in the Western Regions, Gaochang State is the closest country to the Sui Dynasty. It is located in the south of Tiele Xueyantuo tribe, east of the Western Turkic Royal Court, and is separated from the Dunhuang County of the Sui Dynasty by Yiwu City, or Yiwu City. my country.

Yiwu country is a very small country, where Hu and Han people live together, sometimes attached to Western Turks, sometimes attached to Xue Yantuo, but it is not attached to Sui Dynasty.

This is determined by the living environment. The threat of the Great Sui to them is far less direct than that of the Western Turks and Xue Yantuo.

Pei Ju was very scheming. He took the envoys of Gao Changguo to follow Yang Guang's northern tour team all the way, and let them see how majestic our military might of the Sui Dynasty was. 50 elite troops rushed to the East Turks in mighty strength. Such a scene left a deep imprint on the heart of the Gaochang Kingdom envoy.

The Great Sui Dynasty is too awesome, the Emperor of the Great Sui Dynasty is even more powerful, and the Eastern Turkic Qimin Great Khan bowed to the Emperor of the Great Sui Dynasty. So besides attaching to the Great Sui Dynasty, is there a better choice for Gaochang Kingdom?
So the envoys of Gaochang Kingdom left from the Eastern Turkic royal court and returned to Gaochang. Half a year later, Qu Boya, the king of Gaochang, came in person with a mission.

He has now lived in a place specially used to receive foreign guests in Daxing City.

Gaochang is a big place, about the size of two or three counties in the Sui Dynasty. Yang Ming didn't pay attention to the other party at first, but Pei Ju said in his letter that he was already persuading the emperor to treat Yiwu The country uses soldiers, so it is necessary to temporarily appease King Gaochang.

Wait until Yiwu is destroyed, and then deal with Gaochang.

Since the Qin Dynasty, the Great Sui Dynasty has done the best so far in terms of oppressing foreign tribes. All the Eastern and Western Turks have surrendered, and the countries in the Western Regions are well-behaved and sensible. That is, Goguryeo often takes the lead. This is why Yang Guang focuses on Goguryeo. s reason.

Yang Ming simply invited King Gaochang's mission to the Jinyang Tower, where they ate, drank and had fun.

And after he finished dealing with some matters of the Shangyuan Festival, he went to Jinyang Tower to meet the King Gaochang.

Here, he met a familiar face, Hu Shangqu (qu) Lai, the one who sold Yang Ming's Gaochang horse back then.

This kid is a member of the Gaochang royal family, resident in the capital, and has always been in charge of the trade between Gaochang and the Sui Dynasty. What is his position called General Fubo, he seems to be the number one person in Gaochang.

"King Gaochang came this time, didn't he bring some high-quality horses?" Yang Ming smiled after sitting down in the hall.

Gaochang speaks Chinese, communication is no problem, no translation is needed.

Qu Boya smiled and said, "King Qin, don't worry, I'm here with two thousand of the best horses. I'm still on the way, and I should be able to reach the capital in three to five days."

Two thousand horses is not too little, but it is definitely not the best, the best people are reluctant to give, and Da Sui doesn't care about his quantity, only the breed of his horses.

Once you have a stallion, you can breed it slowly.

Yang Ming was quite satisfied and said: "Then King Gaochang came to the Sui this time, besides paying homage to the Emperor of the Sui, does he have other things to do?"

Qu Boya smiled, and winked at Qu Lai beside him, who hurriedly got up and said, "Our lord hopes to get married with Da Sui, and begs the Emperor of Da Sui to give us a princess."

Gaochang?Marriage?You really think highly of yourself, Yang Ming nodded and said: "I will pass on your opinion to His Majesty the Sui Emperor. As for whether it can be done, it depends on His Majesty's will."

At this time, Qu Lai asked someone to deliver a small box with a playful smile, put it on the long table in front of Yang Ming, and said:

"I hope King Qin can help us say good things, a little heart, not respect."

Yang Ming raised his eyebrows and gave Su Lie a wink, who stepped forward to open the box.

A box full of gold.

King Gaochang also knew in his heart that he was not qualified to marry Sui, because Luo Khan, the current Western Turks, had not yet been able to marry Sui, and Western Turks had always been the most powerful in the Western Regions.

Of course Yang Ming thought so too, with his father Yang Guang's temper, you're a big ass, and you want to get married with me?You don't take a pee to take care of yourself.

But Pei Ju's letter made it very clear that King Gaochang must be appeased and the other side be appeased, so that Da Sui will be able to attack Yiwu with the least force in the future.

Marriage to the princess is meant to fool people. It is impossible for the emperor's daughter to get married, only the daughters of the clan, and they are also the daughters of marginal clans.

For example, is it realistic for you to let Yang Xiong's daughter get married?This is simply impossible.

But Yang Ming has always had a question in his mind. In history, the conjugal princess of the Great Sui Dynasty and Gaochang Kingdom, surnamed Yuwen and named Yuwen Yubo, was named Princess Huarong by Yang Guang and married Qu Boya.

Since your surname is Yuwen, how can you be the princess of Sui Dynasty?

Yang Ming couldn't figure it out either, so he could only say, "My lord, give it a try."

As soon as he let go, Su Lie immediately put away the box of gold.

Next, it was the orchestra performance, and everyone stopped talking, thinking about their own things.

After returning to the palace, Yang Ming went directly to see his wife, Yang Yinjiang, and asked her to send someone to find out if there was a woman named Yuwen Yubo.

Yang Yinjiang's biological mother, who was born in the royal family of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, was the second son of Emperor Wu of Zhou Yu Wenyong, and the daughter of King Yu Wenzan of Han, the younger brother of Yang Lihua's husband Yu Wenyun.

Her three uncles, Yuwen Daozhi, Yuwen Daozhi, and Yuwen Daoyi all died at the hands of Yang Jian. Her mother married Yang Su's eldest son, Xuangan, so that she was spared the disaster, but it was also difficult to bear the blow because of the family collapse. , and even premature death.

So Yang Ming asked Yang Yinjiang about this person, he found the right person.

Yuwen Yubo, still a relative of Yang Yinjiang, is the daughter of her grandfather Yuwenzan's sixth brother Yuwendui.

"Yu Wendui's daughter, you still have to call her aunt?" Yang Ming asked curiously.

Yang Yinjiang nodded: "She should be 32 this year, so she lives in Jingzhao Nunnery and takes her hair to practice."

Qu Boya is about 30 years younger depending on his age, but is it a bit too much to call a woman in her [-]s a marriage princess?
This is ancient times, women didn't have so many skin care products, and crow's feet appeared once they were over [-]. If you want to change your age and pretend to be young, you can't pretend, and it's not easy to have children.

Calculating the time, Yuwen Yubo should have been thrown to Jingzhao Nunnery after the founding of the Sui Dynasty. At that time, he was only four or five years old. Since he was a nun, he should be a virgin.

But Yang Ming knew that his father would never agree to make a marriage with Gaochang, and the old Yang family's clan was withered. If there was a suitable candidate for a marriage, why didn't he make a marriage with West Turk?
Pei Ju has already said that after taking care of Yiwu, Gaochang will be taken care of, so is there still a need for a marriage?
So Yang Ming thought about it, and still wanted to see what the old man meant first. After writing the memorial, he sent someone to send it to Luoyang urgently.

As for himself, he took his wife to Jingzhao Nunnery in Niu'er Mountain.

When Yang Yinjiang saw Yuwen Yudu, she had nothing to say. Although the two were close relatives, they had hardly met each other, so they had no feelings for each other.

Yuwen Yudu has an ordinary appearance, but perhaps because of his practice, he doesn't look old at all.

If you say that she is only in her twenties, some people will believe it, but if you say that she is eighteen or nineteen years old, that is nonsense, but the general princess and princess are around seventeen or eighteen years old.

"Why did you come to see me?" Yu Wenyu talked to Yang Yinjiang, not polite at all, after all, they are elders.

Yang Yinjiang smiled: "See how my aunt is doing?"

"It's been more than 20 years, and I just remembered to visit me today?" Yu Wenyu sneered and said, "You can't think of me, are you?"

"Hehe." Yang Yinjiang was speechless, she didn't like talking to smart people.

Then, after Yang Ming and his wife met Cui Heng, they chatted for a few words, and then left early down the mountain. After all, they had to go back to the capital before dark.

"Your idea is really weird." On the way back, Yang Yinjiang, who had become a concubine again, was in a good mood, and said with a smile, "Isn't it inappropriate to fool King Gaochang with the clan of the old Zhou?"

Yang Ming said with a smile: "What is a marriage princess? Your majesty can only be called a princess if he recognizes his daughter. So, even if the daughter of a commoner's family represents Da Sui's marriage, it is still a princess, and it is not considered a fool."

"Although there are few people in my great Sui clan, it is not impossible to find a few girls of the right age, so why bother?" Yang Yinjiang said.

Yang Ming smiled and said: "Because the father looks down on Gao Chang, he thinks that King Gao Chang is not even qualified to marry a daughter of the clan, but what Pei Ju means is that he doesn't intend to spend too much time when using troops against Yiwu, so Gao Chang needs to appease for the time being. , and it will not be an easy task to clean up Gaochang in the future, and it will make Western Turks and Xue Yantuo think wildly, after all, Gaochang is the throat for their two countries to enter the Sui Dynasty."

"The current situation is indeed inappropriate for another war." Yang Yinjiang nodded and said: "My stepmother is from the Cui family. I heard that my father is negotiating with the Cui family. I hope they will stand up and testify against Yang Hao for harming Hebei. I hope this time, there will be no surprises."

After finishing speaking, Yang Yinjiang held her husband's hand and said softly:

"If you have a husband like this, what more can a wife ask for? Thank you for everything you have done for me. No matter how you treat me in the future, I will not have the slightest resentment."

Yang Ming said with a smile: "Although Yang Yue was demoted to be the prefect of Xiyang, he must be very happy now, but you have to be mentally prepared, it will not be easy for him to come back."

"I know this. I have long known that my father is afraid of our family," Yang Yinjiang said with a forced smile, "I don't mean to resent my father. The Yang family is huge, with as many as 400 officials. It’s impossible not to miss your family.”

"And I also know." Yang Yinjiang suddenly looked at Yang Ming, looked directly into his eyes and said, "If you succeed to the throne in the future, you will also target the Yang family, but please don't worry, husband, I will only stand by your side and help You suppressed your natal family."

Yang Ming smiled, and did not answer her directly, but said:

"If you get a wife like this, what can a husband ask for?"

Yang Yinjiang pouted and buried her head in her husband's arms.