After the conversation, Yang Tong accompanied his grandparents to have dinner in the Honghui Palace, and instructed a few things, Yang Tong went to the Shengwu Hall to deal with official business, and Yang Qinfang followed suit like a little girl.

Empress Xiao took a sip of tea and asked, "What do you think of Fang'er?" ”

"What to do?" Yang Guang looked at Empress Xiao in puzzlement.

"Fang'er?"

"Fang'er is like a beauty in a painting, with a dignified and elegant temperament, simple and beautiful, without a trace of frivolity, very good. For girls, I don't have high requirements, I don't have to have too much talent, but I must be virtuous, know how to respect my elders, respect my husband, and be strict with myself, which is enough. ”

"Pretended!" Empress Xiao said angrily: "This girl has learned martial arts, and in the past few years, she has secretly gone out to suppress bandits and killed many bandits. ”

Yang Guang took a sip of tea comfortably and said: "Both civil and military, very much our family's style!" ”

"But this girl likes Dong'er! What do you think I can do? "Yang Qinfang's marriage is a big problem, and Empress Xiao is very depressed.

Yang Guang was shocked, he didn't know about it, and said after a while: "With Fang'er's identity, I'm afraid no one in the world dares to marry her, if she likes Dong'er, why not leave her in the palace?" Just let everyone know that she is not surnamed Yu, and you also say that this Nizi has a strong personality, and if you force her to marry someone else, only tragic things will happen. ”

Empress Xiao also sighed, knowing her daughter Mo Ruomu, Fang'er, this child is soft on the outside and strong on the inside, she is very understanding, knowing that once she makes up her mind, it is useless for anyone to persuade her, and now only Yang Tong can let her listen to a few words.

"Alas!"

Empress Xiao shook her head and sighed, for this girl, she was heartbroken, and the debt of her children would never be repaid.

"There are many people who know Fang'er's background, at least Yang Gongren, Yang Shanhui, Yang Shidao, Li Jing, these old ministers know, I will ask her another day, if she wants to follow Dong'er, she will tell the world, saying that she is loyal and good."

"You look done!" Yang Guang said irresponsibly

"What about Nanyang? Do you want to bring the Yu Wenshi and the arrest to reunite? ”

"This will definitely not work!" Yang Guang said angrily: "Yu Wenhua and rebellion, Yu Wenshi and adapt to the situation, I admit these." But he jumped out and put some strange infamy on my head in front of me, which was not right. ”

"That's it! I know. Interrupting Yang Guang's words, Empress Xiao said seriously: "You're right, it's all because there are problems in this world, the fault is that I didn't explain it to you well at the beginning, and the fault is that those courtiers who follow you shouldn't have persuaded you, am I right?" ”

"Uh......" Yang Guang's eyes widened, as if it was really the same thing, if it weren't for Yu Shiji, who reported good news and didn't report bad news, deceived and deceived the subordinates, he would have known that the world would have been torn apart a long time ago, how could he dare to be chic in the Jiangdu Palace, but after all, the world was known in his hands, and if he said this, it seemed too irresponsible, if he didn't even dare to admit failure, would he still be Yang Guang?

"That's it! I, Yang Guang, am not so shameless! Facing Empress Xiao's teasing gaze, Yang Guang said very embarrassedly: "I have not suffered a major setback in the first half of my life, and the battle of Yanmen has disgraced me, and I feel that the majestic plan has become a thing of the past." Coupled with the turmoil in the Great Sui world, which is like a candle in the wind, internal and external troubles, I have lost the courage and confidence to reorganize the rivers and mountains. After that, he fled to Jiangzuo, in order to seek a corner of peace, and just wanted to live for himself for a few years, but the falling flowers were intentional, and the flowing water was ruthless, and the result was the Jiangdu Palace Rebellion. I was decadent for a year, and slowly recovered under the persuasion of my brother, and I wanted to regain my strength in the south, but when I saw that Dong'er was doing better than me, and the suppression of the family was more thorough, I didn't bother to put up the banner of the Great Sui, so I simply did my part for the Great Sui in another way. I regret coming to Luoyang now, if I knew that I was 'house arrested' in the palace by this kid, I would never come back, and I am not free at all now. ”

"Can't bear your Gangnam people?" Empress Xiao looked at Yang Guang, who was complaining, and said with some amusement.

"What a thing!" Yang Guang was aggrieved and said loyally: "I have been hiding in Tibet like a mouse all these years, how can I have the heart to play with women, don't you know what I am like?" ”

Empress Xiao glanced at him angrily, and sighed: "Ah Yi, who I know, has changed when he becomes the prince and emperor." ”

"Isn't this changing back?" Yang Guang held his wife's hand and said in an affectionate and soft voice: "Don't worry, I will still be your Ah Yi in the future, and I will never change again." ”

Empress Xiao liked it in her heart, shook her husband's big hand, and said angrily: "The oil tone is smooth, I don't know who you learned it from?" ”

"Dong'er!" Yang Guang unceremoniously sold Yang Tong, after the joy of reunion after the catastrophe, Xiao Hou, who came back to his senses, began to be dissatisfied, and the feeling of being deceived spontaneously arose, thinking that she had been chanting scriptures and worshipping Buddha in the past few years, and she was very angry in her heart, and she ignored Yang Guang again. Yang Guang was so anxious that he went to the doctor for advice from Yang Dong in a hurry, and then Yang Tong taught him the big trick of 'thick-skinned', and the effect really increased.

Of course, this is also Empress Xiao's own reason, she is just angry that Yang Guang has not come to contact for many years, how can there be any resentment that cannot be resolved, after all, they are all old husbands and wives with great-grandchildren, how can they still be as awkward as a young man?

"You're all old bones, do you really want to go to Bashu?" Empress Xiao said worriedly.

"Didn't Dong'er ask that Sun Simiao to help me take the pulse the day before yesterday? He said that I had a strong and strong pulse, and that if I didn't know my real age, I would have heard the pulse of a forty-year-old in the prime of life. This is the foundation that I have laid for my perennial martial arts training. ”

"That's why I agreed with you to go on the expedition."

"Don't worry, I won't carry a knife into battle to kill the enemy, and I'll be fine. On the contrary, Dong'er, this kid, is the king of a country, and he also goes into battle from time to time to cut people, which is very dangerous and unavoidable. Yang Guang led the way.

"Dong Er is the god of war of the Great Sui, he has killed all four fortresses and bowed down to his subordinates, galloping among the ten thousand armies, and cutting off the heads of generals, can you compare?" Empress Xiao said proudly.

"I don't think I have any status now." Yang Guang smiled bitterly.

Empress Xiao glared at Yang Guang with an imposing eye, "What status do you want?" Seeking to usurp the throne and become an emperor? And then tear the world apart? ”

These three consecutive questions choked Yang Guang half to death, stared at Empress Xiao for a long time, and said with a smile: "I only tore the world apart in order to save my descendants from the pain of plotting to usurp the throne." Now it's finally thriving, and everything is going in the direction I wanted. Am I plotting to usurp the throne? How stupid it must be. ”

Empress Xiao said angrily: "How long are you going to pretend to be dead as a living dead?" Always wandering around the palace will sooner or later lead to ugly gossip. ”

"The world is reunited, I let Dong'er announce the news that I am not dead, and when the time comes, the world will be surprised." Yang Guangxu said proudly.

"And then?"

"Then put aside all mundane things, and travel with your sisters to enjoy the mountains and rivers, and enjoy the great rivers and mountains."

"Really?" Empress Xiao was overjoyed when she heard this.

"Nature is true."

Yang Guang nodded with a smile, and said with emotion: "Others say that I will be the next country from my father's hands, and the country will be peaceful and prosperous. In fact, it was the internal and external troubles, only because the father and the emperor reformed the rule of officials and opened a department to take scholars, which shook the foundation of the world's family valves, so that the contradictions between the Great Sui royal family and the Guanlong magnates, the Guandong scholars, and the southern scholars reached the point of endless death. ”

"External troubles, there are Turkic, Tuyuhun and other wolves around, internal worries, Guanlong nobles override the court, control hundreds of thousands of guards, and there is the confrontation between the north and the south, the family and the lords, and the court decrees can not be issued in Daxing and Luoyang...... Millions of soldiers in the Guanlong Prefecture ate empty salaries, and they did not produce or pay taxes, which made the imperial court's finances more and more difficult...... The more I dig deeper, the more I find that the Great Sui River is a mess... I have the heart to work hard to get rid of the ills, but there are many difficulties... In order for the stability of the world and the absence of rebellion, many times it is necessary to compromise, compromise with the Guanlong nobles, compromise with the Kwantung Shi clan and the Southern Shi clan. ”

Yang Guang sighed in a low voice, and finally said: "Emperor Daye, who seems to be radiant, is actually a lonely man in the midst of a pack of wolves. Facing a group of liars every day, you have to rack your brains every day to distinguish which of their sentences is true and which is false; Which sentence is harmful...... It's hard to describe. ”

"Liar?" Empress Xiao was a little incredible, it was the first time she had heard Yang Guang talk about the court.

"Not bad." Yang Guang said with a smile: "The civil and military officials I was at that time were the smartest liars in the world!" These liars deceive me with different lies every day. This one is flattering, and that one is harmful. It's okay to be sincere for the public; But most of them are for the selfish interests of the family and the interests of the faction. ”

"The courtiers are always trying to figure out what they want; As a lonely emperor, he naturally has to figure out the intentions of his courtiers. Of course, it is easy for hundreds or thousands of people to figure out what one person thinks, but it is simply difficult for one person to see through hundreds or thousands of hearts. ”

"Some people also say that I am mean and unkind to the highly meritorious generals such as Zhang Xutuo, Yujuluo, and Yang Yichen, but how do they know that these generals are the kind of simple people who can guess at a glance, they are not suitable for entering the court as officials at all, once they enter the court as officials, it will take less than a year, and they will make people squeeze out to death. Putting it outside is the best protection for them. Especially Zhang Xutuo, I have asked people to present his portrait to the imperial capital many times, but in fact, I am telling others: 'Zhang Xutuo is my Yang Guang's person, you can't move', plus he has been outside, and his status is not high, so no one thinks he is a threat, so he is safe. ”

"It can be said that I have been an emperor for so many years, and I have not been happy for a day, and the emperor's throne has only given me a heavy burden. But in the end, the world is still in chaos. ”

Empress Xiao was silent when she heard this.

"Now it's good! I was finally able to leave this heavy burden behind. Let me tell you, you can't imagine the beauty of the world, and this Ziwei City is just the biggest cage in the world, and I have always disliked this. ”

"You didn't fix it yet?" Empress Xiao smiled.

"Therefore, I rarely live in Daxing Palace and Ziwei City for a long time."