Emperor Sui Yang

Half of the people who showed up at Prince Qin's mansion today were people who had already taken refuge in Yang Ming, and half were people who saw the momentum and planned to take refuge in Yang Ming.

It can also be said that anyone who enters the gate of Prince Qin's mansion today is supporting Yang Ming's superior position.

But there are too many people, some things are really inconvenient to discuss, and Yang Ming doesn't want to discuss with so many bigwigs in private for too long, lest the old man feel that he is forming a clique.

So at noon, everyone dispersed. Gao Yan and Pei Ju intended to stay and discuss secret matters with Yang Ming, but Yang Ming did not agree.

Today is not suitable, at least let's talk after today.

After all, there were so many carriages gathered outside the palace, and they were all high-ranking officials. Yang Ming didn't want to make too much publicity. Yushitai must have reported the matter to his father, so he had to enter the palace this afternoon.

On the way into the palace, Yang Ming was in a very bad mood because Li Yuan was released, and he was still going to Jinyang.

During the whole process, Pei Shuying also told him that the second child killed his son, and Yang Guang made it up to Jiancheng as the prefect of Xiangcheng. The money is used to achieve the purpose of exchanging, which is convenient for changing identities, so as to enter the center in the future.

Yang Ming was speechless. He never thought that Li Yuan would go to Jinyang in such a way.

Second child, second child, what the hell are you doing?
Yang Ming also felt that Pei Ju's analysis was correct. Li Yuan was in a hurry to go out because he was unwilling to be just a general of the imperial guards. He wanted to enter the central organization and participate in state affairs.

Menxia Province, Shangshu Province, and Internal History Department are basically the ultimate goal of being born in a wealthy family. They will never think about rebelling and becoming emperor now, because they don't have the right time, place, and people.

Among them, the Shangshu Province has the greatest power, and the responsibility in charge is also the top priority of the dynasty, so it is very likely that Li Yuan wants to enter the Shangshu Province.

So what Yang Ming has to do is to find a way to get Li Yuan back as soon as possible. You can enter Shangshu Province, no problem, but you can't go to Jinyang.

And it is completely reasonable for him to help Li Yuan return to Beijing to work, after all, I married your daughter.

After entering the palace, Yang Ming first went to Yong'an Palace to pay his respects to his mother.

Empress Xiao would definitely not hide it from her son, so she told all about inciting Yang Hao to deal with Wang Yu.

Yang Ming nodded and said: "Second brother is a bit more aggressive, but if you kill him, you will kill him. As long as you can make A Niang get angry, you can do anything."

He had to follow Queen Xiao's will. As a son, he couldn't say that Wang Yu shouldn't be killed, could he?Empress Xiao doesn't like to hear such words.

Empress Xiao said helplessly: "My son is too insecure to do things so that Li Yuan's son has been implicated, and Li Xuandao has not been found until now. As a younger brother, please help him, so that this person does not fall into Li Yuan's hands." hands, I might blackmail your second brother in the future."

Yang Ming nodded and said, "Don't worry, Ma'am, I will find a way to find this person."

In fact, Yang Ming felt that Empress Xiao could rest assured that Li Yuan would never dare to blackmail her anymore, otherwise Yang Guang would be the first to kill him.

And this Li Xuandao must be in Li Yuan's hands right now. Li Yuan held this person, and he was also worried that Yang Hao would retaliate against him. After all, this time Yang Hao was bleeding heavily, more than 200 million pens.

Yang Guang learned about Yang Ming's visit to Yong'an Palace from his servant, so he sent Gao Ye over to call Yang Ming away.

In the study room, Yang Guang was looking down at the memorabilia accumulated over the past year by the Xia Province of the capital.

There is a reason for people to stop court for three days, because Yang Guang first needs to know what he knows.

After Yang Ming came in, Yang Guang pointed to a place beside him, motioned his son to sit down, and stopped talking.

Yang Ming didn't speak either, and the father and son just kept silent.

Until Yang Guang was tired from watching, he asked Gao Ye to bring two cups of tea.

"What do you think about Gao Shengdao?" Yang Guang asked, taking a sip of tea and looking up.

Yang Ming didn't expect that the father's first sentence was actually Gao Shengdao, so he thought for a while and said:

"Gao Shengdao privately awarded the farmland and opened the official warehouse privately. It was also because of the helplessness of the situation. The minister thought that a few words of admonition would be fine."

Yang Guang said with a smile: "Everything needs a reason. If you excuse Gao Shengdao, you must have a plausible reason."

Yang Ming nodded and said, "First of all, Bohai County is the place where the leader of the bandits, Gao Yingnian, was put to death. The prefect, to appease the local government, has no shirking responsibility, although he breaks the law, the effect is good, and Bohai has indeed been appeased by him, as for supporting the rebels, it is even a baseless slander, so I think that he should not be punished."

"What you said are all high-sounding words," Yang Guang couldn't help laughing: "These words are used to say to others, but not to me, think again."

how?Is my reason not enough?After Yang Ming thought for a while, he still shook his head helplessly:
"My son can't think of any other reason."

Yang Guang said with a smile: "You can think of it, but you don't want to say it, or you don't think it should be a reason."

As he spoke, Yang Guang rubbed his sore eyes, and said, "Just because Gao Shengdao is Gao Xiong's son, this is the most real reason."

Yang Ming frowned and said, "My son never thought about it that way."

"Then you have to think like this from now on." Yang Guang took out a memorial, threw it to his son from a distance, and said, "Look at it yourself first."

This memorandum is to sue Gao Shengdao. It was made by local officials arranged by Yushitai. The first high should be related to the year.

However, when the Ministry of Criminal Justice arrested people, it was clearly recorded that Gao Shengdao suspected that he had some intersection with the rebels.

How is this going?

Yang Ming looked at his father in astonishment.

Yang Guang said with a smile: "I added it to the collusion with the rebels, do you know why?"

Yang Ming was startled: "Father intends to kill Gao Shengdao."

"Stupid!" Yang Guang said with a smile, "I want to kill him, why do I need this?"

That's true, Yang Ming asked suspiciously, "What does Emperor Father mean?"

Yang Guang said slowly: "Remember, you have to leave yourself a choice when you do anything. I added this one to him so that I can kill him anytime and anywhere. It's also this one. I can kill Gao Yan anytime and anywhere. , this one is a sword hanging on Gao Lin's head, when it falls, I am alone."

Grass, the feelings are aimed at Gao Yan?Yang Ming asked curiously: "So, Father is planning to let Gao Shengdao go this time?"

Yang Guang still shook his head: "I won't let him go, but you can let him go."

Yang Ming still doesn't understand, what you said is too profound.

Seeing his son's puzzled face, Yang Guang explained:
"Gao Yan is useless to me. He won't really work for me, but he seems to value you, so leave this person to you. If I want to kill his son, you can help him to excuse him. Isn't he also Can I owe you a favor?"

Yang Ming suddenly realized, there is no need to be so troublesome, right?Gao Yan should be sincere to himself now.

Yang Guang seemed to see what his son was thinking, and continued:

"Don't trust anyone. Remember, after you enter the East Palace, you are a lonely family. Your blood relatives don't expect you to be well. Do you still expect others to wish you well?"

Yang Ming was taken aback for a moment, then sighed: "My son has been educated."

"You still have a lot to learn," Yang Guang suddenly emphasized: "Don't think that so many people surround you and support you, and you will be smug. These people can support you today, and they can deal with you tomorrow. It is your job to make this group of people honest and well-behaved."

Yang Ming let out a long breath and nodded, his father is teaching himself a lesson.

"Back to the topic," Yang Guang continued, "If Gao Shengdao is not Gao Xing's son, do you think he should be killed?"

"For love, you shouldn't kill, but for law, you must kill," Yang Ming said.

Yang Guang frowned and said, "If you're talking about reason, what do you need the law for?"

Yang Ming was puzzled and said: "What Gao Shengdao has done has appeased the people and gained the hearts of the people. This is reasonable, and the hearts of the people must always be taken into account, right?"

"Don't care about people's hearts, people's hearts can be guided," Yang Guang said:

"That's why I added a reason for him to kill both emotionally and rationally, that is, colluding with the rebels. You should do the same in the future. When employing people, you must first hang a sword over their heads. It can be called shackles, and it is terrible for people without shackles."

I understand, this is why many officials will take the initiative to expose their shortcomings, because the emperor dare not use people without shortcomings.

The emperor was plotting against his ministers, and the ministers were plotting against the emperor.

Yang Su is greedy for money and lustful, and he did it for the emperor to see.

Then people who seem to have no shortcomings will be eliminated instead.

Yang Guang continued: "The first rule of employing people is whether you can control them. Some people can't control them right now. It's okay to kick them out and let them reflect. If they are still not sober when they come back, let them go completely. If you learn well, it's worth using, Yang Susuwei's ups and downs, that's the reason, Gao Yan is still alive and standing in the court, it's also the reason."

"My son has been taught." Yang Ming has really been taught. The power of the emperor is definitely not as simple as he imagined. If you don't become the emperor, you really don't know how difficult it is to be the emperor.

Not to mention being a wise ruler, it is not easy to be a foolish ruler.

Yang Guang picked up a memorial book, opened it and read it:
"If you don't want to be King Fangling, you'd better remember what I told you today, and think about it well, well, go to your mother's place for dinner tonight, and tell her that I won't be going tonight gone."

I understand, you hinted at me with Yang Yong, it's like a sword hanging over my head, which means that if I don't listen to you, you can destroy me at any time.

What the hell, the emperor is really a loner, you only have two sons in total, and you have calculated.

Yang Ming got up and said, "I will never forget my father's teachings, and my son and minister will leave."