The palace covers a wide area, but there are not many buildings, and there are no precious flowers and trees, but it is full of greenery, and most of them are evergreen trees in all seasons.

The exquisite small buildings are hidden in the dense shade of the trees, and the small river gurgles, making people feel as if they are in the forest, and everything remains in the original state of the forest.

Walk across a small bridge and enter the main area of Chaolu Palace, where the shade is still dense and connected to the outside, but the trees are much more precious, such as pear, camphor, nanmu, laurel, grape, and white coffin...... You can see it all here.

They walked across a jade belt bridge, and the palace maid's footsteps were slight, lest the footsteps alarm the front.

In front of it is a white jade platform, surrounded by beautifully carved railings, and a pool of lake water under the platform, there is a group of red carp tumbling up and down for food.

Empress Xiao stood on the platform, wearing a snow-white wide-fitting gauze skirt with snow hair, the whole person was like an ice and snow princess, and her elegant temperament was integrated with the forest and lake, as if she was a fairy in the forest.

Her eyes were fixed on Yang Tong's face, filled with a kind and loving smile, and it was this kind of kind smile that made Yang Tong feel that she had returned to the world from heaven, and the complaints in her heart were also passing unconsciously.

"Imperial Grandmother!" Yang Tong stepped forward quickly and saluted.

"Come with me!"

Empress Xiao smiled and nodded, and walked towards the small building in the verdant bamboo forest

At dusk, the setting sun shines on the yellow building through the branches and leaves, dyeing the small building with a layer of golden magnificent color.

Yang Tong followed all the way into the courtyard, where some blooming peonies were planted, and a bluestone path led to a white jade pavilion, behind which a towering old apricot tree shaded the pavilion.

Yang Tong was surprised to find that there was also a faint grievance, adding a bit of delicate female Taoist priesthood.

Her name is Yang Xinfang, and she is the eldest daughter of Yang Guangchang, Princess Nanyang...... As the eldest daughter of the emperor, Princess Nanyang was born with thousands of love, inherited both parents is good looks, as Yang Guang's beloved daughter, Princess Nanyang did not develop an arrogant and domineering character, in the year of cardamom by Yang Guang personally married the favored minister Yu Wenshu's second son Yu Wenshi and.

The married Nanyang princess is just like an ordinary woman, her husband and children, and she is filial to her in-laws. Soon he had a son, whom he named Zen Master. It's a pity that the world is unpredictable, and it was none other than her beloved father who killed her beloved father and slaughtered the Yang bloodline, it was her husband's brother Yu Wenji, and the husband reprimanded his father for his father's mistakes before his death.

On the one hand, there is the love of husband and wife, and on the other hand, there is the family of father and daughter. The change of Jiangdu Palace, the deepest damage is definitely Princess Nanyang,

Ruxu's change made Princess Nanyang's personality change greatly, and her hatred for the Yuwen family made her lose her mind.

Historically, Dou Jiande's Tiger Benlang will ask the princess in Shicheng: "Transformation and great rebellion, the sons of brothers should all sit, if you can't give up the Zen master, you should keep it." The princess cried and said: "Hu Ben is a noble minister of the Sui family, why do you need to ask!" "Jiande actually killed him.

After her son was killed, the last concern in the princess's heart was gone, and she chose to become a monk after seeing through the red dust. Throughout history, there is really no princess like Princess Nanyang who killed her relatives in righteousness, especially her heart of vowing to split with her husband, which made her the princess who sacrificed the most to avenge her family in history.

Fortunately, now, not to the point of madness, she was able to come. It was Yu Wenshi and saw that his wife washed her face with tears all day long, shaped like dead wood, and she couldn't bear it, so she was sent to Yecheng.

With the careful care of his mother, young sister, sister-in-law, nephew, and niece, a broken heart has a trace of warmth, and finally regains a trace of vitality.

Yang Tong rarely saw her, and he couldn't think of the day of goodbye, but he was already dressed in a female crown costume, and from a distance, she looked fluent, weak and slender, and the canopy on her head covered the sunset, sprinkling a colorful spot of light, like a fairy......

After saluting one by one, Yang Tong sat down in his seat, mentally preparing for the three sessions.

"Why is Dong'er making a big move, is it to blame the emperor's grandmother for being troublesome?" Empress Xiao has been favored since she married Yang Guang. Beauty, of course, is one aspect, but a shrewd mind is the main reason, and Yang Tong's angry behavior can't hide it from her at all.

"Sort of."

A group of women were stunned.

Ben thought he would hide something, who would have expected Yang Tong to admit it so barely! At this moment, the set triage plan was completely useless.

Empress Xiao said angrily: "Then what do you want? Do you want to push out the imperial grandmother and behead it? ”

"I've always been a selfish person!" Yang Tong said: "Relatives are the most important, the people are second, and the community is third. I'd rather not have a society than let anyone hurt everyone in the slightest. How could he hurt the imperial grandmother? ”

Although his voice was soft, everyone could hear the sharp and firm taste.

In an instant, everyone's gaze softened.

"Yecheng is the capital, which began at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when there were two generations of male lords who were based on this capital, one was Yuan Shao, the fourth and third princes who unified the entire north, and the other was Cao Cao, Wei Wu!"

Yuan Shaoxiong based in the north, occupy the heavens, the location, the convenience of the people, the command of thousands of generals, the ministers like rain, the elite division as high as hundreds of thousands, is the only one who has the ability to dominate the world at that time. But in the end, the Yuan family, who looked down on the world, let Cao Cao take his place. Two generations of heroes also take Yecheng as their capital, but the fate of the two is completely different, what is the reason? ”

Yang Tong's gaze swept over everyone's faces one by one, and continued: "It's infighting!" ”

"Yuan Shao raised the flag on the prince again, giving those sons plenty of imagination space, his sons Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang thought that it was only a matter of time before they regained the world and won the supreme, and the two of them tried their best to win over the military generals of Wenchen for the position of the prince, laying the foundation for the future struggle for the throne, causing people's hearts to float, the minister could not engage in peace of mind, the general could not lead the army to go out, loyal and upright as Tian Feng, frustrated and conferred, became a victim in the internal struggle, and finally unified the first prince of the world in the four states, collapsed!"

"Cao Cao, who replaced Yuan Shao, was wise and martial, and strictly controlled his sons, not to mention cultivating his power privately, even if he had close contacts with courtiers, he was taught a lesson. This is Cao Cao's wisdom and the reason for Cao Wei's success. Because when the world is not yet unified, any force needs the courtiers to work together, not because of the dispute between the sons of the world, intrigues, and detachment. ”

"Now the Central Plains is in turmoil, Guanzhong is in turmoil, Jianghuai is in turmoil, and Jiangnan is in turmoil...... Only Jizhou, Youzhou, and Bingzhou are pure lands to escape war and live and work in peace and contentment! Therefore, those family lords and scholars who only have family interests in their eyes scold me, saying that I persecute the scholars; But in fact, one or two dreamed of wanting to gain a foothold here. As soon as I let go, those 'noble' five surnames and seven sects will immediately obediently run to Hebei to be my dog and cheer for me. But I just won't let go, I just don't want to starve these bastards. ”

Everyone looked at Yang Tong, who was like a lion, and they all smiled and smiled bitterly.

Empress Xiao had a soft face, shook her head and smiled bitterly: "If there is an ancestor, there must be a grandson." Your temperament is exactly the same as your imperial grandfather, he pursues perfection excessively, and he can't tolerate a single sand in his eyes, which is what my Great Sui will do. ”

is worthy of Empress Xiao, who clearly said that her ancestors and grandchildren have similar temperaments, but in fact, she is indirectly persuading Yang Tong: the world is not perfect, if you can endure it, you can endure it, and if you can compromise, you will compromise.

"I have today, but in fact, it happened that the family lords and scholars were not satisfied with the status quo and the court's giving." Speaking of this, Yang Tong paused for a moment, and then said: "The scholar clan is not enough to succeed, there is more than enough to lose, and there is more than one thing to lose, and there is no one to fight insiders and outsiders, if I lift the ban, Yuan Shao's ending will be my end." One day with me, don't let them enter Hebei! ”

They know that, too! Therefore, leaving me aside and trying to open the door from the imperial grandmother, once I accept the Pei family woman, the Pei family's forces will follow the trend, and the Zheng family, the Cui family, the Lu family, and the Li family, who have a relationship with them, will also follow... The reunification of the world is not a battle of day and night, maybe one year or ten years, maybe one generation and ten generations. And they know that they will not be reused by me, so they hope for my next generation, trying to put their nephew on the throne and realize their own value... The ascension of princes with their bloodlines to the throne is a shortcut for them to take power again, and when that day comes, the battle for the throne of the next generation will be very cruel and bloody. Yang Tong said very seriously.

Xiao Wu, Tianji, and Wuji's faces turned pale.

Empress Xiao got up and walked a few steps, and said, "Dong'er, it's just a woman, can it be so serious?" ”

Yang Tong said: "Actually, the imperial grandmother is the person who has the most experience and the deepest understanding, isn't it?" ”

The two empress dowagers, the two empress dowagers and the princess of Nanyang had stern and serious faces, and the five of them were the elders of the family, and they had the best understanding of the dispute between the crown prince, because they not only witnessed the bloody and tragic dispute between Yang Guang and Yang Yong, but also saw the dark tide surging in the calm of Yang Zhao and Yang Xuan. If the world is unified in the hands of Yang Tong. So will the next generation be Yang Guang and Yang Yong's ferocious blood, or Yang Zhao and Yang Yong's open and secret battles?

The answer must be Yang Guang and Yang Yong's ferocious blood.

Just because Yang Dong unified the Great Sui, except for a name, in fact, it is no different from the new dynasty, at that time was a critical period for the division of power and interests, and many people would bet heavily on each prince. If there is a family gate lord and a leader of the noble clan to help the trouble, no matter who wins or loses, the result will be a very severe purge.

"Those who do not seek eternity are not enough to seek a time; Those who do not seek the overall situation are not enough to seek a domain. ”

If you don't have a strategic vision and only seek to fight for every inch, it is like playing a dead field of Go, getting a corner, but losing the overall territory and fighters; If you don't have a long-term vision and only seek immediate interests, it's like killing a chicken to take eggs and cutting off your own bloodline.

The crowd was silent.

Yang Tong smiled slightly: "Since I put the problem on the table and said, of course there is a solution, don't worry." ”

There was a bit of excitement on everyone's faces, and Empress Xiao was the same, "Dong'er, is there really a way to solve the dispute between the crown prince?" ”

Yang Tong smiled bitterly, but he still deceived himself and nodded very firmly: "I can think of new policies such as apportionment of the mu tax, compulsory education, and enriching the people through commerce and trade to restrict land annexation and prevent the birth of a new generation of great families, of course, there are ways to solve my own affairs." So, you just have to rest assured. ”

Hearing this, Xiao Wu, Tianji, and Wujian breathed a sigh of relief, a trace of pity flashed in Xiao Hou's eyes, and he said in a soft tone: "Dong'er, you are a person who does great things, but you can't help but reproduce heirs, right?" ”

This problem, she actually heard from the mouths of Xiaowu, Tianji, and Wuji, it's not that they can't give birth, it's not that Yang Tong has a problem, it's that he doesn't want to give birth.

"It's not that I don't like children! This, in fact, everyone knows. Yang Tong pointed to the little princess and Yang Yu!

The faces of the adults turned strange, Yang Tong really doted on the little princess who was his aunt and Yang Yu, who was his brother, as children!

Who is the most extravagant in Yecheng City?

It's not Yang Tong, it's not Empress Xiao, it's not Yang Yu, it's not the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs, it's the little princess...... All of this stems from a nephew who pampered and doted on her as a precious daughter.

But!

The family is clearly not used to this reversed substantive relationship.

"That's the case, didn't Mr. Zhang Qiu Taiyi come here a few days ago......" Yang Tong thought about it and felt that it was best to push Zhang Qiu Taiyi out.

The name of this product is born to be the first choice for carrying the black pot.

Especially on the big issue of right and wrong like the heir, and he has just entered the Shenwu Palace once, and he has also had a dog meat friendship with himself and several others, it is appropriate and logical for him to take the blame.

"Huh?" Empress Xiao was very upbeat, and her expression instantly became nervous: "He said that I have a dragon and phoenix fate with Xiao Wu, Tianji, and Wuji!" ”

"Everybody knows that." Empress Xiao glanced at him and said, "I'm asking about the heir, what did he find?" ”

"Children and grandchildren are all over the world! But only if you can't have children before the age of eighteen! Otherwise...... "Okay, let's fight for three or four years."

"How else?"

"The dragon flies and the phoenix dances, the Yang family is extinct!"

"Is that true?" Xiao Hou asked for a word, obviously not convinced.

"This is what Mr. Zhang Qiu said, not what I said. If the imperial grandmother doesn't believe it, ask him next time. ”