Yang Ning finally failed to resist the nature of a seven-year-old child, and when he returned, he had a gray rabbit in his arms, which was a small gift from an old farmer, and he was only half a month old.

Looking at his son holding the rabbit in his arms like a baby, Yang Yuanqing liked his current childlike innocence very much, he touched his son's head lovingly and smiled: "I was seen by my sister, but it was gone." ”

"I won't let her see it, and I can't let my mother see it."

Yang Ning raised his head and asked his father, "Daddy, the little rabbit likes to eat turnips, right?" ”

Yang Yuanqing smiled and shook his head, "This rabbit is too small, it is estimated that it can't gnaw on radishes, you can feed it with tender vegetable leaves, it likes it just as much, and the rabbit is afraid of cold at night, you have to make a nest for it, pad some soft linen cloth and the like." ”

"Hmmm! I'm going to make a small box out of wood and make a nest for it, that is.... I'm afraid that my mother won't allow me to raise it. ”

Yang Ning looked at his father as if asking for help, Yang Yuanqing smiled, "I will persuade your mother to agree, but you can't waste your studies." ”

"I won't!"

Yang Ning suddenly became excited, and he picked up the little rabbit and put it on his face.

Before the group returned to the palace, Yang Yuanqing ordered his son to be sent back to the palace first, and he himself took hundreds of cavalry and continued to drive north of the city.

Pei Ju's life is very regular, he gets up with Chaoxia every day, practices the sword in the backyard for half an hour, then washes, eats some breakfast, rests for two hours as he likes, or goes out to chat with someone, or fishes in the back garden of Fuzhong, after lunch, take a nap, it is his time to read and think.

At this time, Pei Ju was wearing a fisherman's robe. Wearing a hat, he was sitting on a big rock in the back garden fishing, Pei Ju also gradually liked fishing after retiring, in his words, fishing is his time to think.

When fishing, he likes to dress up as an old fisherman, and he doesn't sit on the water's edge when there is a fishing pavilion. I want to sit on a few big rocks to feel the nature, and today I was lucky, and I caught two carp and three silver carp in just over half an hour.

Although Pei Ju is no longer in the court, he still pays attention to every move of the court. The Wang family was purged, the Wang brothers were cut to civilian positions, their sons and nephews were killed for moonshine, and the manor and shop were confiscated by the government. More than two dozen royal parties were also degraded or dismissed, and they were purged from the imperial court.

What happened to the Wang family was already expected by Pei Ju. This is also the main reason why he took the initiative to retire, at the beginning of the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, Pei and Wang occupied almost all important official positions, and Yang Yuanqing could only endure it at first.

But with the gradual expansion of the Sui Dynasty, the Wang family and the Pei family needed to vacate the throne. Be kind, and go down on your own. Just like the Pei family, if you don't know how to be interested, you can only clean, just like the Wang family, in the power struggle, Yang Yuanqing is absolutely ruthless, this is the spirit that a founder should have. We must be open-minded and inclusive. Make the best use of their talents, but also be ruthless, ruthless, and eradicate dissidents.

Pei Ju is very eager now, and he wants to know when Yang Yuanqing is going to ascend the throne?

At this time, the fishing rod suddenly moved, and a fish was hooked, Pei Ju was just about to pull the rod, but the housekeeper hurriedly ran over and shouted nervously: "Master! His Royal Highness the King of Chu has come down. ”

Pei Ju was stunned, Yang Yuanqing came, and he immediately asked, "Is anyone accompanied?" ”

"Gorou comes along."

Wulang is Pei Qingsong, Pei Ju nodded, "Please come here, His Royal Highness the King of Chu." ”

The housekeeper felt a little inappropriate, but the master had an order, he didn't dare to disobey, so he had to go to the front yard, Pei Ju sat down slowly, but he was thinking about Yang Yuanqing's intentions in his heart, if he didn't guess wrong, Yang Yuanqing came for the next move, Pei Ju faintly felt that Yang Yuanqing seemed to be a little indecisive recently.

At this time, Pei Ju suddenly found that the fish he had just caught had run away, "Cheap you guy!" Pei Ju scolded with a smile.

In the distance, Yang Yuanqing was walking briskly under the leadership of the housekeeper, and he followed Pei Qingsong until he got closer, Yang Yuanqing found that the old man sitting by the river wearing a coat and a hat was not the person who cleaned the pond, but Pei Ju himself, Pei Ju's dress made Pei Qingsong also startled, it didn't rain or snow, why did the head of the family dress like this?

Yang Yuanqing waved his hand and ordered Pei Qingsong to stop, he walked forward quickly, bowed and saluted: "Yuanqing see grandfather!" ”

Pei Ju smiled and said, "Yuanqing, come and see the fish I caught." ”

Yang Yuanqing stepped forward happily, picked up the fish basket in the water, looked at it, and said with a smile: "The harvest is good, there are already five." ”

"Hey! If you don't come, Article 6 has already taken the bait. ”

Pei Ju sighed, took a small stool and handed it to him, Yang Yuanqing sat down beside Pei Ju, looked at the water and said: "There is a big drought this year, and the water has been cut off in many places, and my grandfather's pond is not bad." ”

Pei Ju shook his head and said: "It's been reduced by half, there is a spring under the pond, and the pond on your palace is the same vein of water, there is almost no water source during the day, and only at night there is a little water replenishment, so as not to dry up, this year's big drought!" ”

"This year's drought is indeed serious, Hedong, Hebei, Guanzhong, Zhongyuan, Longyou have all suffered a major drought, is the most serious disaster in the past six years, in the morning I inspected the farmland outside the city, the reduction of production is a foregone conclusion, if the drought is effective, half of the harvest can be saved."

"How much grain does the imperial court have?" Pei Ju asked quietly, he knew that Yang Yuanqing was here to ask him for advice, and he was not polite, and went straight to the key point.

"After getting the war compensation of about 500,000 stone of grain from the Tang Dynasty, the grain storage can reach 1 million stone."

"It's not a little, but have you taken into account the possible outbreak of hunger in the six counties of Qingzhou?"

Pei Ju is worthy of being an old Xiangguo for more than ten years, his eyes are old and spicy, and he sees the potential crisis at a glance, which makes Yang Yuanqing have to admire, Jiang is still old and spicy.

"Now it is the problem of hungry people in Qingzhou, which makes the lack of food quite a headache, so I specially came to ask my grandfather if there is any good advice." Yang Yuanqing sighed a little helplessly.

Pei Ju stared at the float on the water, and said slowly: "There are no ways, such as trading with the grassland, using cloth or tea in exchange for Turkic cattle and sheep, but this can only solve the temporary shortage of food, if you want to get a lot of food, you have to rely on foreign wars to plunder, and this has been done since ancient times." ”

Yang Yuanqing perked up and hurriedly said: "Recently, I have also been thinking about attacking the Tang Dynasty, either attacking Guannei or Jingxiang, this time the Sui army recaptured Huining County, and I found that the Sui army could completely capture Guannei, or Hexi." ”

"Capture Hexi? Do you want to cut off the source of the Tang Army's war horses? Pei Ju asked.

Yang Yuanqing nodded, "This attack on Huining County, on the one hand, is to seize the mineral deposits, on the other hand, it is also to prepare for the next step to seize Hexi, most of the Tang Dynasty's war horses come from Hexi, and the occupation of Hexi will also cut off the source of the Tang Dynasty's war horses." ”

Pei Ju sighed, "Yuanqing, your biggest problem is that it is too smooth, I always think that the Tang Dynasty is a soft persimmon, let you pinch it, but have you thought about it, your battle line has extended from the coast of the Yellow Sea to the Hexi Corridor, how many troops do you have to maintain such a long front?" Then there are your enemies, Tang, Dou Jiande, Goryeo, Eastern and Western Turks, as well as the ill-intentioned Li Mi and Wang Shichong, can be said to be surrounded by enemies on all sides, but your eyes are only on the Tang Army, will other people's families stand by and wait for you to clean up the Tang Dynasty before dealing with them? ”

Yang Yuanqing was silent for a long time, in fact, he seized Huining County and ignited the flames of war to Guannei, there were already objections in Ziwei Pavilion, thinking that the battle line was too long, and it was only because Huining County had huge copper and silver mine interests that the opposition was suppressed.

But Pei Ju's warning was tantamount to an alarm bell ringing in his ears, and he was silent for a moment and then said: "But grandfather also said that starting a war is the fastest way to get food. ”

Pei Ju shook his head, "You misunderstood what I meant, how much grain can you plunder in the war against the Tang Dynasty, it will cause a more serious famine, if you fight Qingzhou, what you get is a huge burden, the gains outweigh the losses, I mean the plundering war, I mean the outside world." ”

"Externally!"

Yang Yuanqing suddenly understood what Pei Ju meant, "Grandfather means Goryeo?" ”

Pei Ju laughed, Yang Yuanqing was really powerful, and he guessed his thoughts at a glance, "Actually, I am also thinking about a solution to solve the shortage of food, there is only so much food in the world, take away the grain of the Tang Dynasty, then the Tang Dynasty people will have to starve to death, starting a civil war is not the way to solve the food problem, only externally, either Turkic, or Goryeo, but the Turks have just established a new khan, they also need a war to establish the authority of the new khan, you fight the Turks, right in their arms, they will try their best to deal with it, a war down, Whether you win or lose, you will have to pay a heavy price, and the most terrible thing is that the army has not returned, but Taiyuan has been lost, so I am in no way in favor of fighting the Turks. ”

Yang Yuanqing nodded silently, yesterday he and Cui Junsu also talked deeply about the Turks, the Turks have destroyed the Utu Department, Jieli Khan ascended the throne, and the strength is gradually becoming stronger, sooner or later it will become the biggest threat to the north of the Sui Dynasty, at this time, they can only try to maintain friendship with the Turks, once they turn their faces with the Turks, forming a north-south attack of the Southern Tang Dynasty and the Northern Turks, and the Great Sui is in danger.

"We have discussed the relationship with the Turks, it is not wise to start a war with the Turks now, according to my grandfather's wishes, it is most advantageous to attack Goryeo, but Yang Guangsan's expedition to Goryeo finally led to the death of the country, and Goryeo is not so easy to capture."

Pei Ju squinted and laughed, "You didn't plan to destroy Goryeo, did you?" You just want food, but in fact, you only need one person to get it, and it is easy to seize the grain of Goryeo. ”

"Who is it?"

Pei Ju smiled faintly, "This person is now in Xiao Miao's hands." ”

Yang Yuanqing suddenly understood what Pei Ju meant, he was worthy of his old plan, and at the critical moment, he still had to rely on the old minister......

[Yesterday I killed the sixth, and today I retreated to the seventh, and it is estimated that the seventh will not be able to keep it, and I hope that the book friends who have a vote in their hands will vote for the guaranteed monthly ticket to Lao Gao, and the first ten will be kept for a few days, Lao Gao, please beg! ] 】