Su Wei walked into Yang Yuanqing's official room quickly, his steps were quite brisk, and he couldn't tell that he was an old man who was nearly seventy years old, and even he himself felt that he was rejuvenated, and the reason was that the new dynasty in Hedong was about to appear, or the newly married concubine in his family.

In short, Su Wei did not regret that Yang Yuanqing had semi-forced him to go to Fengzhou, and he was a little unhappy at first, it is said that Fengzhou is extremely cold in winter and belongs to the wilderness of the frontier, but he heard that Yang Yuanqing has taken Hedong, and he suddenly felt that Fengzhou also has nostalgic places, such as fine wine, such as the people living and working in peace and contentment.

Today is also the first day he entered the city, Yang Yuanqing placed him a mansion covering an area of twenty acres, and his concubine went to clean up the house, but he was uneasy, and finally couldn't help but come to Yang Yuanqing.

"See Mr. Yang!"

Su Wei gave a deep salute, and when he was with Pei Ju in the morning, he called Yang Yuanqing 'Yuanqing' and behaved very affectionately, but when they met alone, he didn't have a personal friendship in the morning, maybe it can also be called a clear distinction between public and private, the morning is private, and this time is public, all in all, Su Wei knows how to be an official, which is to grasp the occasion and opportunity.

"Elder Su Ge, please take a seat!" Yang Yuanqing waved his hand and smiled slightly.

Yang Yuanqing's 'Pavilion Elder' called Su Wei's heart warmly, "Others call him Meiyang Gong, he is very uncomfortable, after all, Meiyang Gong is just a county duke, this call will expose his old bottom, mixed in the Sui Dynasty for 30 years, don't say Guogong, not even a county duke."

Yang Yuanqing's "Pavilion Elder" made Su Weiton feel like a confidant.

Su Wei sat down, and when he saw the piles of various documents on Yang Yuanqing's desk, he sighed: "The manager is entangled in these trivial matters all day long, how can he have the energy to think about big things?" ”

Although Yang Yuanqing knew that Su Wei's original intention was to consider his own fame, he must also admit that Su Wei was right, these trivial chores consumed too much of his energy, and he really didn't have time to think about military affairs now.

"I have decided to appoint Zhang Liang as a clerk to join the army and sort out the documents and secrets for me."

Joining the army in the office is an extremely important position, although the rank is not high, but it must be a confidant to hold it, Su Wei thought in his heart, 'Oh! 'Look, Zhang Liang, isn't it the little guy who doesn't slip in the dark? I heard that he was once caught cheating in exams, and he actually joined the army for the bookkeeper's office, which is very unexpected!

Su Wei pondered for a moment, and then asked cautiously: "Has the chief manager considered the candidate for the Inner History Squire?" ”

The Inner History Squire is also an extremely critical position, it is not only the deputy of the Inner History Order, but also it has the right to decide which folds must be submitted to the royal approval, and which ones can be passed as long as the cabinet discusses.

Yang Yuanqing nodded, "The person who serves as the waiter of the inner history must be upright and upright, without favoritism, I consider letting Zhang Shu join the army of Xing Cao, and Wei Zheng is the waiter of the Huangmen of the province, in charge of reviewing the decree and refutation, there is only one person in the two positions, and there is no second person." ”

Yang Yuanqing thought about it for a long time, these two positions are located at both ends of the cabinet, one is to manage in, the other is to manage out, any military affairs must first be reviewed by the internal history of the squire, verify its importance, consider whether to hand it over to himself for approval, and all approved decrees must be finally reviewed by the Huangmen squire to see whether they are legal and compliant, whether they exceed their powers, it can be said that these two positions do not care about specific decisions, only care about the rules, and are the gatekeepers for Yang Yuanqing to grasp the power.

Su Cheng immediately understood Yang Yuanqing's train of thought, whether it was Zhang Shu or Wei Zheng, or Zhang Liang, these winters all belonged to the Fengzhou faction, so Yang Yuanqing would inevitably consider the interests of the Shandong Shi clan when considering the cabinet.

Su Wei suddenly became a little nervous, would the cabinet members not have their own share?

Yang Yuanqing glanced at Su Wei, he could feel Su Wei's nervousness, so he smiled slightly: "The cabinet members will consider five people first, and then expand to seven people appropriately, I am mainly in charge of the army, I will not participate in the cabinet, Su Ge is always a political minister, I plan to let the cabinet elder serve as the right servant of the Shangshu and the secretary of the Ministry of Works, Pei Gong as the left servant of the Shangshu and the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Du Ruhui is the secretary of the household department, Cui Junsu is the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, Wang Xu is the secretary of the criminal department, and the secretary of the military department is temporarily the right of my substitute, the five of you form a cabinet, collectively referred to as Xiangguo, but it will not be called the cabinet in the future." , called Ziwei Pavilion, and then set up the position of the consul pen, that is, the leader of the Xiangguo, which is held by five Xiangguo in turn, each of whom holds the pen for ten days, I don't know what Su Ge thinks? ”

Su Wei is flying in his mind, Ziwei Pavilion five-phase Pei Ju, Su Wei, Du Ruhui, Cui Junsu, Wang Xu, Pei Ju represents Wenxi Pei's family, Wang Xu is Taiyuan Wang's family, Cui Junsu is Qinghe Cui's family, Du Ruhui represents the interests of the Guanlongshi clan, and after it is expanded to seven phases in the future, there may be Fanyang Lu clan and Bohai Gao clan, so what kind of faction are you?

Su Wei was puzzled, he glanced at Yang Yuanqing, just as Yang Yuanqing was looking at him with a smile, Su Wei suddenly understood that he was actually Yang Yuanqing's shadow in the cabinet, and he represented Yang Yuanqing's interests.

Su Wei was so excited in his heart that he knelt down, "The old minister is willing to serve the governor!" ”

Yang Yuanqing hurriedly helped him up and said with a smile: "Su Ge, please get up, Yuanqing doesn't dare to be!" ”

At this moment, there was a rush of footsteps outside the door, and someone shouted outside the door, "Chief, Jiangdu urgent information!" ”

……… In! ”

The door opened, a personal soldier walked in quickly, and presented a red letter tube, Yang Yuanqing had a bad feeling in his heart, he opened the letter tube, took out the letter and read it for a while, his face was pale, he slowly sat down, and handed the letter to Su Wei.

Su Wei looked at it once, and immediately fell to his knees and cried loudly, "Your Majesty! ”

Yu Wenhua and launched a mutiny in Jiangdu, forcing the news of the death of the Great Sui Emperor Yang Guang finally reached Taiyuan, and the whole city cried, although Yang Guang was unpopular, but he was the Great Sui Emperor after all, and the news of his death still made countless people feel sad.

Yang Yuanqing ordered all counties in Hedong to mourn for three days, and the soldiers and civilians were wrapped in plains to mourn the death of the Great Sui Emperor, and three days later, Shen Guang finally arrived in Taiyuan.

In the Jinyang Palace, hundreds of civil and military officials from the counties of Hedong, Changshi and Taiyuan gathered in the Jinyang Palace, in the Jinyang Palace, the acting king Yang Yugao sat on the royal couch, Pei Ju and Su Wei stood beside him, Yang Yuanqing sat aside, the two sides of the hall were full of burly guards, holding various weapons, dozens of eunuchs and palace maids stood behind the acting king Yang Yu.

In the middle of the main hall, hundreds of ministers stood in three rows, quietly listening to Shen Guang tell the detailed process of Yang Guang being forced to death by Yu Culture, which made everyone sigh, and finally Shen Guang said sadly: "Your Majesty knows that you can't escape, so you entrusted me to bring the jade seal talisman to Taiyuan, and there is also a testament." ”

He knelt down on one knee and lifted the jade box high, Yang Yuanqing stood up and put the jade box in front of Yang Yu, the acting king, Yang Yu's eyes were red from crying, he opened the jade box, took out a copy of the edict inside, and handed it to Su Wei.

Su Wei opened the edict, tears suddenly welled up, and he shouted to everyone: "It's Your Majesty's edict." ”

He read aloud in a trembling voice: "The rebellion of the Great Sui, I have also passed!" Recall the prosperity of the emperor, and then look at the great cause withering, I am painful in my heart, no face to see the first emperor, and then the Great Sui will eventually inherit, or the eldest grandson Yan Wang, or the second grandson Yue Wang, or the third grandson of the king, the third grandson of Ran Hui, can inherit the unification, but the world is changeable, the fate is difficult to determine, I hereby issue an edict, to the Great Sui to pass on the jade seal of the country as a letter, the three grandsons of the jade seal can inherit the unification, I hope that you will assist the new emperor, do not live up to my hopes, under the nine springs, you can also look at the eyes, hereby issue an edict, tell the world! ”

The ministers in the hall knelt down, all mourning and crying, Yang Yuanqing wiped away his tears and said to everyone: "Ministers, the country cannot be without a king for a day, there is a decree in the saint, and those who get the jade seal can live in the great unification, and we will serve the holy will and set up the king as the emperor." ”

Everyone said in unison: "Just as the chief said!" ”

Yang Yuanqing sat down on behalf of the king Yang Yu, Yang Yu looked at Yang Yuanqing pleadingly, as if telling him that he did not want to be the emperor, Yang Yuanqing stared at Yang Yu, shook his head slightly, and pressed his shoulders tightly.

Pei Ju and Su Wei also followed Yang Yuanqing down the jade steps, standing behind Yang Yuanqing, Yang Yuanqing led everyone to kneel down, and said loudly: "Long live my emperor, long live!" ”

"Long live my emperor, long live!"

Yang Yu's tears were left again, this time it was not sadness, but helplessness and despair, he finally said in a trembling voice: "Everyone, Aiqing is free of courtesy!" ”

On August 25, the twelfth year of the great cause, the acting king Yang Yu held the jade seal in Taiyuan to ascend the throne, he issued an edict to amnesty the world, changed the year name to the succession, and posthumously praised the first emperor Yang Guang as the Ming Emperor, the temple name Emperor Wu, the empress Xiao as the mother dowager, the father of the prince Yang Zhao as the emperor of virtue, and the mother Wei as the queen mother of Jingde.

Yang Yu immediately gave Yang Yuanqing the yellow money, held the festival, entrusted the governor of the military and Shangshu orders inside and outside the capital, and was crowned the king of Chu and the regent prime minister for state affairs.

Yang Yuanqing immediately changed the Qifeng Pavilion of Jinyang Palace to Ziwei Pavilion, and ordered Pei Ju, Su Wei, Du Ruhui, Cui Junsu, and Wang Xu to enter the cabinet as ministers.

Yang Xuansheng was named Nayan and the governor of Lingzhou, and was crowned the Duke of Shaanxi, Pei Renji was named the internal history of the order and the governor of Fengzhou, and the Duke of Jiangguo, both of whom were not officials in the court, Zhang Shu was the servant of the internal history, in charge of the affairs of the province of internal history, and Wei Zheng was the waiter of the Yellow Gate, who was in charge of the affairs of the lower province.

Wei Lun, Zhang Liang, and Jia Zhengyi are the people of Neishishe, Pei Jin and Wei Shiming are Shangshu and left and right, Xie Sili is the squire of the military department, in charge of military affairs, and Wang Su is Jing Zhaoyi, and all the ministers have their own rewards.

Just when Yang Yuanqing supported Yang Yu to ascend the throne, Luoyang and Chang'an also received the news of Yang Guang's death at the same time, at this time the Wagang army attacked Luoyang, has been withdrawn, Wang Shichong and Duan Da, Lu Chu, Huangfu Wuyi and others who hold military power support Yang Tong, the king of Yue, as the emperor, amnesty to the world, changed the name of Huangtai.

Li Yuan, the king of Tang in Chang'an, heard the news of Yang Guang's death, wept and fell to the ground, three days later, at the request of the ministers, Li Yuan was forced to reluctantly ascend the throne in the Taiji Hall of Daxing Palace, changed the name of the country to Tang, the year name Wude, and established the prince as the prince, the second son Li Shimin as the king of Qin, Feng Shangshu Ling, the third son Li Xuanba as the king of Zhao, and the fourth son Wuji as the king of Qi.

At this time, the people of the world called Taiyuan Sui Emperor Yang Yu as the Northern Sui, Luoyang Sui Emperor Yang Tong as the Southern Sui, and Chang'an Li Yuan as the Western Tang Dynasty, with these three emperors as orthodox, and the rest of Dou Jiande, Li Mi, Xue Ju, Li Rail, Yu Wenhua, Song Jingang, Xiao Mi, Lin Shihong and others are all traitors.

An era of competition for supremacy has begun!