Chapter 30 is the undercurrent

Yang Guang's inspection team had already arrived in Mayi County, and would arrive at the construction site of Fenyang Palace in two days.

The soldiers were busy encamping, tents appeared in the wilderness, and the originally calm galloping road became lively on both sides, at this time, several fast horses galloped from the south, and immediately there were several officials in low-grade uniforms, several officials ran to the bottom of the city, and a eunuch had already greeted him, and complained to the leader: "Liu Yuanjun, why did you come now, the saint asked yesterday." ”

"It's too far, and we've done our best."

The leading official gave the eunuch the yellow silk cloth bag on his back, stuffed another piece of silver, and whispered: "If the saint asks, please say a few kind words for us." ”

"I see!" The eunuch rushed into the ** city with a yellow silk bag.

In the imperial study, Yang Guang was discussing the problem of the great drought in Henan with several important ministers, and he had already received urgent requests for help from several county guards, requesting to open a warehouse to release grain and help the victims, and the serious disaster situation made Yang Guang very worried.

Niu Hong said: "Your Majesty, the minister suggested that all localities first release Yicang to ensure that the situation of starvation does not occur, and then slowly provide disaster relief on a monthly basis, so that the victims can stay in their hometowns and not flood into the capital in large numbers." ”

Pei Yun has been a local official for a long time, and he has a deep understanding of the local situation, and he also stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, there will inevitably be corruption incidents when opening a warehouse to release grain. ”

Yang Guang nodded, "The suggestions of the two Aiqing are very pertinent, I can consider it, in addition, I want to send a respected old minister to inspect the disaster area in Henan to appease the victims for me, who do you think is more suitable?" ”

Pei Ju and Pei Yun quickly changed their eyes, this was an opportunity, Pei Ju stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, the former Prime Minister Su Wei has repeatedly patrolled the place, pacified the victims, supervised the situation of the officials, is highly respected and experienced, although he is now deposed at home, he always thinks about serving His Majesty, and the minister recommends him as a pacification envoy in Henan to inspect the disaster area for His Majesty." ”

Su Wei is the Pei brothers' alliance in the court, Su Wei was dismissed, so that the Pei brothers lost a big help, they have been waiting for the opportunity to speak for Su Wei, let him rise again, this disaster is just an opportunity.

In fact, Yang Guang's dismissal of Su Wei was more because he wanted to kill Gao Gong, and he was also ready to use him in due course.

"Alright! I agreed to this plan and appointed Su Wei as the pacification envoy of Henan, and immediately went to the disaster area to inspect the situation. ”

Yang Guang walked a few steps with his hands behind his back, at this time he was more concerned about the situation in the capital, he had already received an urgent report from the capital yesterday, there was a serious sāoluàn in Fengdu, and there were heavy casualties, which made his heart tug up.

"Ladies and gentlemen, there is a serious sāoluàn in the capital, I have ordered the army to be under martial law yesterday, and put 500,000 stone of grain to stabilize the price of grain, but there are too many displaced people in the capital, how to settle these displaced people, I have a headache, I want to discuss it with you Aiqing."

At this time, Pei Ju stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the resettlement of the victims is not only the responsibility of the government, but also the responsibility of the rich people to share the worries of the government, the minister knows that there are many rich households in the capital, and most of them have surplus grain, Your Majesty can make a mandatory decree to order the rich households to participate in the porridge relief, each family will provide disaster relief for at least three days, and send the imperial history to supervise, and the porridge relief land can be placed outside the city, guide the displaced people out of the city, and set up tents outside the city for them to live in, so as to ensure that the city is safe." ”

Pei Ju can be said to understand Yang Guang's thoughts, he knows that Yang Guang is actually reluctant to open Hanjiacang to release grain, so he discussed with them, Pei Ju did what he liked, and proposed this plan for the participation of wealthy private households in disaster relief.

This plan really made Yang Guanglong Yan happy, and he said happily: "Pei Aiqing's words are deeply in line with my intentions, one party is in difficulty, when all parties support, how can you count on the government, this plan is very good, I have adopted it." ”

At this moment, a eunuch said in Mén: "Your Majesty, Wei Yushi's recital has arrived." ”

Yang Guang nodded, and said to the ministers: "All Aiqing's suggestions are very good, you can write them separately, a little more detailed and comprehensive, and you can implement them after I approve them, everyone should hurry up as soon as possible!" ”

The ministers saluted and retreated, and a eunuch presented the recital of the Imperial Shi Wei Deyu.

This time Yang Guang toured the north, and gave the heavy responsibility of guarding the capital to Yang Hui, the king of Qi, in fact, it was also a test for him to a certain extent, and Yang Guang also secretly ordered Yu Shi Wei Deyu to observe Yang Huang and report to him regularly.

So far, Yang Guang's performance has made Yang Guang very disappointed, robbing the people, robbing the people's real estate, indulging in the extortion of his subordinates, notorious, and there is no bearing that a prince should have, especially this time the outbreak of sāoluàn in the capital made Yang Guang extremely disappointed.

Yang Guang opened Wei Deyu's recital and read it in detail, Wei Deyu mainly described the sāoluàn of Fengdu in detail, and it was very clear that the reason for the sāoluàn was that the prevention was not timely and the disaster relief was not effective, at the beginning of the 300,000 displaced people entering Beijing, Jingzhao Mansion ignored it, let it go, without any resettlement measures, and after the displaced people were more and more, they did not send the army to control it, and there were no disaster relief measures, resulting in the inability of the displaced people to survive, and finally a large-scale grain rush occurred.

Although Wei Deyu did not directly point out that Yang Yin should be held responsible, the meaning has been obvious, Yang Yun guards the capital, and Jing Zhaoyin, he is not responsible for who is responsible, especially Wei Deyu wrote at the end that the day before the Fengdu tragedy broke out, Yang Jun took twenty-four concubines to visit Bishan and did not return that night, which was undoubtedly the last straw that overwhelmed Yang Yong.

Yang Guang sighed and put down the twists and turns, if what Yang Jian did in the past disappointed him, then the Fengdu incident made Yang Guang desperate for his son, such a person, can he be the third of Sui?

Yang Guang walked out of the imperial study with his hands behind his back, and unconsciously came to the library next door, where tens of thousands of books and drawings were stored.

Walking into the room, I saw that in front of the window, his eldest grandson Yang Qi was engrossed in writing at the desk, and did not notice that his grandfather had arrived behind him, and there was a thick stack of books next to his desk, which was the book he had read, Yang Guang looked at his grandson's immature back lovingly, and remembered his eldest son who had passed away for almost two years, and the corners of his eyes couldn't help but be a little moist.

Yang Guang did not disturb the eldest grandson, and quietly retreated, returning to the imperial study, he stood in front of the window and pondered for a long time, finally, he made up his mind, so he turned around and whispered: "Spread my will, and quickly order Yang Yuanqing to come to see me!" ”

It had been two days since Yang Yuanqing returned from Jinyang Palace, and although he had not caught any evidence that King Qi had taken the armor of Jinyang Palace, he had already understood that King Qi had been secretly training the Sī army, which had previously been trained by the dead soldiers, and had now been upgraded from the dead soldiers to the Sī army.

Training the sī army has been an extremely dangerous move since ancient times, and no emperor would tolerate his son training the sī army, usually in the twilight of the emperor's life.

But Yang Guang is only forty years old this year, and if you only consider life expectancy, he can still be emperor for at least twenty years, and Yang Yun trained the sī army in the prime of his father's reign, either because he was stupid and tired of life, or he was already ambitious.

No matter from that point, Yang Yuanqing knows that the end of Yang Yong is coming, and it is especially possible to do evil in heaven, and it is impossible to live for self-inflicted evil.

Due to the imminent arrival of Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty, Yang Yuanqing also accelerated the progress, these days due to the adoption of Li Chūn's plan, temporarily not paved bricks, a large number of wood and stone began to move to the mountain one after another, this is also a huge project, more than 200,000 people stretched for ten miles, using rolling wood and pry bāng and ropes to pull, shouting the trumpet, the pieces of 10,000 catties of boulders to the mountain little by little.

Li Yuan also returned to the construction site of Fenyang Palace, and the Yuan Shangying incident gradually subsided, although Li Yuan wrote a letter to Yuan Shou, detailing the causes and consequences of Yuan Shangying's killing, but he also knew in his heart that no matter how he explained, there would be a rift between him and Yuan Shou, and it could not be repaired.

This result made Li Yuan quite frustrated and helpless, but through this incident, he personally experienced Yang Yuanqing's decisiveness and ruthlessness.

Although Li Yuan was also quite dissatisfied with Yang Yuanqing in his heart, he did not show it on his face, and tried his best to persuade himself not to take this matter to heart, after all, after Yang Yuanqing killed Yuan Shangying, the treatment of the people was greatly improved, and so far it has been nearly half a month, and the people have only died a dozen people, which has never been seen in various projects in the Great Sui, and it also makes Li Yuan have a trace of feelings towards Yang Yuanqing.

"General Yang, if we follow this progress, I think Fenyang Palace will be able to complete it in two and a half months at most."

Li Yuan and Yang Yuanqing walked slowly on the construction site side by side, Yang Yuanqing smiled and said: "In fact, these people also hope to finish the repair as soon as possible and go home earlier, as long as they are fed, they will naturally work hard, in fact, there is no need for so many overseers." ”

Li Yuan sighed, "That's because General Yang is not greedy for this wealth, but Yuan Shangying is these officers, and it is easy to get this féi difference, can they not be greedy?" In order to get ransom, the army will change its methods to torture these people, and they will be tortured to death, and the family will sell their fields and houses to redeem their relatives, or torture them to death, and wait for the family to take the money to ransom the corpses. Therefore, at least more than fifty percent of people will die in a fortification, and the reason is here, there are not many people who really die of exhaustion and disease. ”

Yang Yuanqing nodded, he only now understands the shady scene here, no wonder so many people die in a project, he has always felt a little strange, Yang Guang is not sympathetic to the people's strength, but the black dòng that really devours the people is the army.

At this moment, a soldier rushed from behind, "General Yang! ”

Yang Yuanqing stopped his horse, turned around and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"Someone in the camp is looking for him, coming from the capital, saying that he is General Yang's old man."