As the situation in the capital gradually stabilized, Yang Guang's twelve guards regained control of the capital, and the six soldiers of the East Palace were put into storage, and the soldiers returned to the camp

This morning, the clouds are thick, the sky is gloomy, a rain that has been looking forward to for a long time is about to fall, Yang Yuanqing under the guidance of a eunuch, hurriedly walked into the Xuanzheng Palace, walked to the front of the steps of the side hall square, the eunuch smiled: "General Yang, please wait, our family will report for you"

"Thank you, father-in-law"

Yang Yuanqing stood at the foot of the steps and waited, and after a while, the guards shouted on the steps: "There is a decree on the saint, announce Yang Yuanqing's visit"

Yang Yuanqingxun tidied up his clothes, walked up the steps quickly, and followed the two eunuchs towards the emperor's imperial room

In the Yuteng room, Yang Guang was busy reviewing the backlog of folds, this is his second death back to the palace, things are extremely busy, at this time, a eunuch walked into the room and whispered: "Your Majesty, Yang Yuanqing is here"

"Announce him in" Yang Guang was so busy that he couldn't even raise his head, and the folds sent from all over the world around him were piled up like a hill

After a while, Yang Yuanqing walked into the Yuteng room, bowed down and saluted: "Minister Yang Yuanqing see Your Majesty"

Yang Guang finally put down the pen, glanced at Yang Yuanqing and said with a smile: "Where is my Shang Fang sword?" You can give it back to me."

"Back to Your Majesty, I have already handed it over to Fu Baolang just now"

"I was going to summon you yesterday, but I'm too busy, look at these twists and turns."

Yang Guang pointed to the mountains of twists and turns next to him, and said with a wry smile: "Many of them are a few months ago, and I don't blame them, it's really the vast territory of the Great Sui, and it's not fast to pass on news, and I'm out on patrol, in fact, it's also to urge the magistrates to build roads."

Yang Guang said this sentence is good, last year Yang Guangbei toured Hedong Hebei, for which hundreds of thousands of people dug Taihang Mountain, the Flying Fox and Taihang Shan widened again, greatly facilitating the traffic from Hedong to Hebei

This year, he inspected Wuyuan County, and specially mobilized hundreds of thousands of people to build a gallop road from Longyou to Wuyuan County, and the construction of this wide and smooth gallop road shortened the time from Wuyuan County to Chang'an

"Wechen has disturbed Your Majesty"

"It's nothing, I also have to meet with officials, and I can't keep reviewing the recitals"

Yang Guang gently leaned on the couch, closed his eyes, relaxed his nervous mind, and seemed to forget Yang Yuanqing, after a long time, he glanced at Yang Yuanqing, and then smiled apologetically: "I forgot, do you have anything to do with seeing me?" ”

Yang Yuanqing bowed and said: "Weichen begs His Majesty to agree and allow the minister to resign as a civil official."

Yang Yuanqing now holds two positions, one is the left and right guards of the East Palace, and the other is the Wensan official Yinqing Guanglu Doctor, the scattered official is just an identity, and he doesn't care about things, but the Yinqing Guanglu Doctor is a high-ranking official from the third grade, of course, the rank of the loose official and the official is not necessarily symmetrical, even if the loose official is a Guanglu doctor of the first grade, he may not be able to serve as the prime minister, such as Yang Lihua's son-in-law Li Min, he served as the Guanglu doctor, but his official is only Taichang Siqing

To a certain extent, the scattered official is a manifestation of official qualifications and qualifications, so Yang Yuanqing got the loose official of the Yinqing Guanglu doctor, which caused an uproar among the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, like Pei Ju's old minister for decades, and the position he got to was only the Yinqing Guanglu doctor, and Yang Yuanqing's father, Yang Xuangan, has been out of office for 20 years, and he only got a Zhengyi doctor of the fourth grade, which is one level lower than his son, which caused the general dissatisfaction of the court officials, and nearly 100 court officials rose to ask the saint to revoke Yang Yuanqing's loose officials

Like Yang Yuanqing was the former governor of Fengzhou, although there was a lot of discussion in the court, most of them were surprised, but the opponents did not, because it was a position in the army, and it did not involve the interests of the court officials, while the loose officials were different, which involved the face and dignity of the court officials, so the opponents were fierce

It was the fierce opposition of the court officials that made Yang Yuanqing feel tremendous pressure, especially Pei Ju also persuaded Yang Yuanqing to resign from the disbanding of the official, he thought that the saint was not good for Yang Yuanqing to be crowned like this, but he made too many enemies, and all the eyes of the people were staring at him, so that he could not do a lot of things, and once he made a slight mistake, it would trigger the impeachment of the Manchu Dynasty civil and military

Yang Yuanqing also accepted Pei Ju's advice and asked to see Yang Guang resign from the post of Wensan official, "The minister's qualifications are too shallow, and he has never served as a Beijing official.

"Is it really ashamed, or is it too stressful?" Yang Guang smiled slightly

Yang Yuanqing smiled helplessly, "There is a little bit"

Yang Guang pondered for a moment again, in fact, he named Yang Yuanqing Yinqing Qingguanglu Doctor like this, mostly using Yang Yuanqing to test the reaction of the court officials, he implemented a series of large-scale reforms last year, including the army, civil officials, career officials, loose officials, titles and honors, which have changed the most, and at the same time involve the biggest interests of the court officials is the scattered officials, the official is only the name change, but in fact, the position has not been promoted

However, the dispersion of officials involves the vital interests of every court official, so during the reform last year, the reform of dispersion caused the greatest controversy, after nearly a year, this controversy gradually disappeared, Yang Guang wondered, is it the hundred officials who accepted his reform, or the hundred officials have been indifferent?

So this time, Yang Guang used Yang Yuanqing as a test and named him the Yinqing Guanglu doctor from the third grade, which caused a strong backlash from the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military forces, which shows that the officials have accepted his reform last year and have taken his reform as a rule

This result made Yang Guang very satisfied, in fact, even if Yang Yuanqing didn't bring it up himself, Yang Guang would find an opportunity to demote his position as a doctor of Yinqing Guanglu, and it was not easy to lower if he didn't enter, but Yang Yuanqing was easy to demote, how could there be a reason why his son's position was higher than that of his father? Just like when Yang Su and Yang Xuangan were both Zhuguo, which attracted criticism from the Manchu Dynasty, Yang Xuangan had to ask for a self-demotion, there was a precedent in advance, and Yang Guang could find an excuse

Yang Guang nodded, "Your father is just a doctor, but you are a doctor of Yinqing Guanglu is really inappropriate, since you proposed it yourself, I will demote you by two levels, and change you to a general doctor from the fourth grade, but this general doctor will also have at least fifteen years of qualifications, it is estimated that there will still be a lot of dissatisfaction, but I decided not to change, this time to quell the chaos in the capital, expose the conspiracy of the king of Qi to raise a private army, you have made a great contribution, I will seal you separately"

"Thank you for your kindness"

Yang Guang walked to the map with his hands behind his back, looking at the vast land of the Western Regions, he ascended the throne in the past few years, stabilized the Turks in the north, attacked the Khitan and Ryukyu in the east, conquered Linyi in the south, and now his eyes are on the west, now the national strength is strong, the financial resources are abundant, the morale of the army is high, and the time has come to open up the Western Regions

Yang Guang glanced back at Yang Yuanqing, and said with a slight smile: "In the battle of Dali City, you actually made two major contributions, one of the great merits is to defeat Xue Yantuo's army, defend Dali City, and raise the prestige of my Great Sui State, and the other great credit is that you contacted the Kham, and made the Khan of the Khambi enter Beijing to accept the canonization of my Great Sui and become my Great Sui vassal domain, it is the submission of the Khambi that made me determined to open up the Western Regions."

Yang Yuanqing probably already understood that Yang Guang wanted him to send an envoy to the Western Regions, but this was also what he was looking forward to, the eldest husband could open up territory for the country and go down in history, and the important thing was that only by going out could he have the opportunity to grasp military power

He immediately bowed down and said, "I am willing to share your worries for Your Majesty."

Yang Guang laughed, "Very good, you really live up to my expectations"

He immediately ordered, "Bring me my map."

Immediately, more than a dozen eunuchs carried a huge woodcut map from next door, which was carved by more than 100 craftsmen according to the geographical map of the Western Regions drawn by Pei Ju after Pei Ju went to the Western Regions last year, which was two zhang long and one zhang wide

The eunuchs took a huge wooden frame, hung the carved map on the wooden frame, and all the entrances withdrew

Yang Guang is already very familiar with this map, he pointed to the map with a wooden pole and said: "The Western Regions is actually composed of three major forces, the northwest is the Western Turks, the middle is the Teller tribes, and the east is Tuyuhun, among these three major forces, the Teller tribes are willing to rely on our Great Sui because of the Kham, in order to get rid of the rule of the Western Turks, last year Pei Ju has been ordered to send an envoy to the Western Regions, has contacted the Tiele tribes, but the problem is that Tuyuhun has hindered the connection between the Great Sui and the Western Regions

Tuyuhun not only occupies a large territory in the Western Regions, but also secretly allied with the Western Turks, I have received news from the Qimin Khan, the Western Turks Luo Khan and Tuyuhun Fuyun Khan formed an alliance in October last year, they agreed to jointly deal with the Great Sui, after the victory over the Great Sui, the Western Regions Tiele tribes belong to the Western Turks, and the Hexi Corridor belongs to the Tuyuhun"

Speaking of this, Yang Guang couldn't help but sneer, and he pointed to a city in the west of Qinghai, which was the capital of Tuyuhun, and said: "So I decided to conquer Tuyuhun next year, completely destroy Tuyuhun, and extend the territory of the Great Sui to the west for thousands of miles."

Speaking of this, Yang Guang asked Yang Yuanqing with a smile: "Can you think of what your task is?" ”

Yang Yuanqing pondered for a moment and said: "The minister thought that it was to cut off the Western Turks' support for Tuyuhun."

Yang Guang stroked his palms and laughed, "He is worthy of being my favorite general, and he is really far-sighted and very strategic."

Yang Guang pointed to a region north of Dunhuang and said: "There are a total of forty-four countries in the Western Regions, most of which are subject to the Kham, but there is one key country that is subject to the Western Turks, and that is here."

Yang Guang emphasised the point with a wooden pole, "This small country is called Yiwu country and Hami, it is located between the Western Turks and Tuyuhun, it is subject to the Western Turks, last year's alliance between the Western Turks and Tuyuhun was carried out in the Yiwu country, so if I want to attack Tuyuhun, I must first capture the Yiwu country and cut off the connection between the Western Turks and Tuyuhun, last year the Qimin Khan has promised to jointly attack the Yiwu country with the Great Sui, I want to make the Yiwu country the hundredth county of the Great Sui, Yiwu County, Yuanqing, I handed over this task to you"

Yang Yuanqing solemnly saluted, "The minister is willing to serve His Majesty"

"Hao I have crowned you as the general of Zuo Xiaowei and the head of the Yumen Road march, and he will jointly attack the Yiwu country with the Qimin Khan, and set off after ten deaths"

To be continued