Volume 31 enters the capital as deep as the sea] Chapter 17 The king's heart is unpredictable

Chapter 17 The heart of the king is unpredictable

"Your Majesty, I heard that the cattle and sheep that Yang Yuanqing supplied to the Holy Driver this time were all obtained by him from the Turks, with a total of 120,000 heads."

Yang Guang laughed, "What's this?" He must have exchanged tea or something with the Turkic jiāo, isn't it a normal trade? Besides, Wuyuan County doesn't even have a population of 100,000, and I have an army of 500,000, how can he offer food, Yuwen Aiqing, you are a bit of a soldier. ”

"Your Majesty, it's not that the ministers are all soldiers, the court has regulations, as a border general, he can't trade with the Turks without authorization, if he goes to Jiāo through a merchant to change, it's okay, the minister has nothing to say, but he didn't do that, but directly sent people to trade with the Turks, he changed to cattle and sheep so smoothly, and the minister suspected that he had collusion with the Turks."

Yang Guang shook his head, "Yuwen Aiqing, this matter is not what you think, maybe his approach is a little inappropriate, but it is understandable, how can these side generals not fight with the Turks?" Some of the rules of the imperial court are also set by civil officials, they don't know the truth, if Yang Yuanqing colludes with the Turks, this hat is a bit too big, impossible, I know him. ”

Yuwenshu wanted to say more, but Yang Guang waved his hand and didn't want to listen anymore, Yuwenshu gritted his teeth and threw out his killer idea, "But Your Majesty, Yang Yuanqing would rather trade with the Turks in violation of the law than take money from the military and civilians of Fengzhou, is he buying people's hearts?" ”

Yang Guang's face changed, and he slapped the table heavily, "Yuwenshu, if you dare to talk nonsense, I won't spare you, step back!" ”

Yuwenshu hated Yang Yuanqing in his heart, and he finally grabbed Yang Yuanqing's handle and sued him in front of the emperor, but he didn't expect the emperor to be so partial to Yang Yuanqing, and almost turned his face with him, he hated it in his heart, but he had no choice but to retreat.

But just as the black cat barked, although it had no effect, it still made people aware of the existence of the black cat, and Yuwenshu's last sentence, 'Is he buying people's hearts?' It was engraved in Yang Guang's heart.

Yang Guang was shocked to realize that Yang Yuanqing had been in Fengzhou for almost ten years, and no manager could stay in a certain place for ten years, although Yang Yuanqing had not been in charge for a long time, but after all, he had been in Fengzhou for nearly ten years, and I believed that he had feelings for Fengzhou, so he couldn't bear to add food tax to the military and civilians of Fengzhou.

Yang Guang paced slowly in the room with his hands behind his back, and one of the very important reasons why he came to Wuyuan County to inspect was to prepare to follow the example of the Han Dynasty and develop the Hetao on a large scale, as Wei Siyun said in the song, the Hetao would become a major strategy to contain the Turks.

Frankly speaking, he was ready to continue to let Yang Yuanqing stay in the Hetao, the battle of Dali City left an extremely deep impression on Yang Guang, 100,000 powerful Xue Yantuo people could not capture the Dali City defended by 6,000 people, and the whole army was almost annihilated, with Yang Yuanqing in the Hetao, the Turks did not dare to cross a single step over the Yīn Mountain.

But if he really settles on a large scale to develop the Hetao, and finally lets Yang Yuanqing pass through a plain with a population of one million, will he have ambitions? Just like Yu Wenshu's worries, he is buying people's hearts.

Yang Guang fell into a long period of contemplation, and he didn't know how long it took, when a eunuch's voice interrupted Yang Guang's contemplation, "Your Majesty, there is information from the Ministry of Rites." ”

"Bring it on!"

A eunuch presented a folded piece of paper with a gold plate, Yang Guang opened the note expressionlessly, which should be some information about Yang Xuangan, Yang Su has been dead for two years, but he still has influence in the court, which makes Yang Guang quite jealous of the Yang family, and sent people to keep an eye on Yang Xuangan's every move.

Of course, Yang Guang's intention was not to suspect that Yang Xuangan wanted to rebel or anything like that, he just wanted to seize some of Yang Xuangan's handles and use them as an excuse to remove him when necessary.

Yang Guang would regularly receive a report on Yang Xuangan, but it was usually a trivial matter, which could not constitute a reason to remove him, Yang Xuangan was quite cautious, and after a long time, Yang Guang was not very interested in this report.

He just opened it casually and glanced at the content of the report, but when he saw the content of the report clearly, his pupils suddenly contracted into a line, and only one sentence was written in it, 'Yang Yuanqing greeted Xuangan, and the two sides talked about the relationship between father and son. ’

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Yang Yuanqing's camp tent is located in the north of the city, which is composed of nearly 100 large tents, Yang Yuanqing, Wei Siyun and some more important officials live in it, and there are more than 1,000 soldiers.

As soon as Yang Yuanqing returned to the tent, he saw a person standing at the entrance of his tent from afar, and slowly approached, and he recognized the person waiting for him, who was Cui Zhi, the tea supervisor.

Cui Zhi had been waiting for Yang Yuanqing for a long time, and when he saw that Yang Yuanqing had finally returned, he hurriedly stepped forward and saluted, "See Manager Yang!"

Yang Yuanqing suddenly thought of Yu Wenhua's caravan, and it was estimated that there was news, so he waved his hand and smiled: "Cui Yuanjun asks the tent to speak." ”

Yang Yuanqing's tent was very simple, with a table and a blanket, a wooden box in the corner of the tent, his sī belongings, and an arms rack with his halberd and bow and arrows.

The lights in the tent were bright, Yang Yuanqing took off his heavy armor when he entered the tent, and he was relaxed, he asked Cui Zhi with a smile, "But the news of the Hanhai caravan?" ”

Cui Zhi nodded, "They came to batch tea early this morning and bought five hundred quintals of tea." ”

"Are you sure it's the Hanhai Caravan?"

"That's right, it's really them, and I went to their caravan to confirm it."

Yang Yuanqing pondered for a moment, and then asked, "Since you went to their caravan, how many mules and horses do they have?" ”

"Back to Chief Yang, there are about three or four hundred mules and horses, as well as dozens of camels, a total of more than fifty people."

Yang Yuanqing's brows furrowed, the information that Fat Yu gave him to investigate was thousands of mules and horses, more than 400 camels, and more than 300 people, which was obviously a lot less.

"What about the car? Is there a big car? ”

"The cart didn't see it."

Yang Yuanqing probably understood a little in his heart, it was obvious that the Hanhai caravan was separated, the forbidden goods were transported by another part of the people, and the tea was just a cover.

He smiled and said, "Thank you Cui Yuanjun for coming to report the news, please Cui Yuanjun must keep it secret for me." ”

"General Yang, don't worry, I won't say much, I'm leaving!"

Cui Zhi bowed his hand and left, Yang Yuanqing pondered for a moment and ordered: "Call Yang Si and Yang Wu!" ”

After a while, Yang Shilang and Yang Wulang walked into the big tent and bowed down, "Is Childe looking for us?" ”

"Jiāo will give you one thing, bring a few brothers to keep an eye on the Hanhai caravan for me....."

Yang Yuanqing whispered a few words to them, and the two of them took the order to leave, Yang Yuanqing looked at their backs that disappeared into the night, and said to himself with a smile: "Yuwenshu, I am very willing to accompany you!" ”

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Three days later, Yang Guang's holy car finally arrived at Dali City on the bank of the North Yellow River.

The endless peach orchard aroused the great interest of Yang Guang and the officials, and thousands of peach vines emerged together, and the tender green branches formed a sea of light green, which was spectacular.

Yang Guang stood on the NV wall of the ** city, looking at the endless peach, his eyes were full of admiration, he smiled at Queen Xiao: "We also have more than 100 peach, Zitong also said that it is very spectacular, but compared to the peach forest here, our peach is really a drop in the ocean." ”

Empress Xiao did not approve of her husband's words, and said with a smile: "The words of the saint are unfair, our peaches are just for ornamentation, so they are scarce, here is to make wine, of course, we specialize in planting peach, our West Inner Garden also has thousands of trees and thousands of huā, if all the peach, the concubine thinks it is more spectacular than this." ”

"Huh! Zitong has a point, but there are still too few peach forests here. ”

Yang Guang turned around and smiled at Yang Yuanqing who was standing aside: "Yang Aiqing, I will give you two years to plant three hundred miles of peach forest for me." ”

Yang Yuanqing smiled bitterly and said: "Your Majesty, Pu Tao consumes a lot of water, at least hundreds of ditches have to be dug in the three hundred miles of Pu Tao Forest, and there are not many people who can grow Pu Tao.....

"Then you're rejecting my offer?" Yang Guang interrupted him and looked at him with a smile.

Yang Yuanqing hurriedly said: "The minister doesn't dare, the minister just has a plan, if His Majesty agrees, the minister thinks it can be done."

"What plan, you say?"

"Your Majesty, at present, almost all the land in the Hetao area is owned by the government, mainly in the form of equal land distribution to immigrants, the minister suggested that a part of the land be sold to the rich families of the world, and these rich people should be allowed to come to the Hetao to plant peach wine, and the minister thought that within three years, the peach wine could enter the ordinary people's homes."

"Let's all plant peaches, what about the grain?" Yang Guangshen asked suddenly.

"Your Majesty, Pu Tao is just a sideline, grain is the main business, the minister will take grain planting as an additional condition, planting an acre of Pu Tao must be matched with an acre of grain, and in the future Hetao development, Pu Tao is only a small part of it, most of them are still growing grain, the minister just wants to make Hetao the origin of Da Sui Pu Tao wine, no longer need to travel thousands of miles from the Western Regions to transport wine."

Yang Guang nodded, "You can write an excerpt to me, if there is no big problem, I can agree!" ”

"Your Majesty!"

Shi Xiang, the general of the right guard, rushed to report, "The front is all Pu Taolin, and the ** city cannot move forward, do you allow the armor to open up a road?" ”

"Not necessarily! It is a pity that such a magnificent peach forest was ruined, and I rode forward. ”

Yang Guang and the hundred officials all changed horses, and tens of thousands of soldiers were closely guarded, and they went along the middle avenue of Putaoyuan to the vast city of Dali......

As soon as Yang Yuanqing turned over and got on his horse, a personal soldier galloped over, grabbed his horse and reported in a low voice: "General, Yang Si has sent news that the two caravans have converged south of Xiling Ferry and are about to cross the river, and Yuwen Zhiji has been found in the caravan. ”

Yang Yuanqing was overjoyed, he immediately turned around and beckoned to Pei Xingyan, Pei Xingyan urged him to immediately step forward and salute, "General, please command!" ”

Yang Yuanqing whispered to him: "You take a thousand brothers to capture this caravan, and you must get all the stolen goods!" ”

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