After Crown Princess Wei Ying was imprisoned, Yang Ming had no idea what was going on in the East Palace.
But Pei Yun knew that because Pei Yun was also the young minister of Dali Temple and was responsible for investigating the scandal between Wei Ying and Yang Xian, Yang Ming's question was actually an insinuation to find out how the investigation was going.
Of course it's not very good. It can be said that he has no clue. Pei Yun guessed what Yang Ming wanted to hear and said distressedly:
"The Crown Princess is imprisoned, and the courtiers are all well aware of it, but no one dares to talk about it in private. Your Majesty's order to us is also to investigate secretly, but it has been so long, and the Ministry of Punishment and Dali Temple have not yet done anything.
If we have any clues, where did the rumor first come from? We still have no clue.”
Yang Ming asked: "Has His Majesty ever questioned you?"
"I did it a few times some time ago, but I haven't asked any more recently," Pei Yun said.
Yang Ming smiled and said: "Pei Gong is a smart man and good at figuring out His Majesty's thoughts. What do you think will happen if this affair is dragged out to the end?"
"Most likely it will be settled," Pei Yun said honestly: "Your Majesty seems to no longer want to pursue the case, so we and the Ministry of Punishment will just go through the motions and wait until the limelight is completely over, then we will stop investigating. After all, the dignity of the royal family is involved.
, we were also on tenterhooks when we investigated it.”
Yang Ming nodded.
Dad stopped pursuing the matter, just to make the matter go away. It seemed that Yang Jian had escaped another disaster.
Although Yang Yue's move was very risky, it had great results. It broke up the alliance between Yang Jian and Wei Ying, which was beneficial to Yang Ming.
In the early morning of the next day, in addition to the official promulgation of the Law of Great Industry at the court meeting and the eldest son Cheng going directly north from Fuqi City to the Turkic Royal Court, Yang Guang conferred the title of Guanglu Doctor on Gao Jiong in front of the ministers.
Yu Wenshu and the others, who had denounced Gao Qiao at the court meeting the day before yesterday, immediately changed their faces and congratulated Gao Qiao with smiling faces.
When Gao Jiong began to flatter the emperor, everyone had to be careful.
Because other people's flattery is not valuable enough, only Gao Jiong's flattery can make the emperor feel happy. From today on, Gao Jiong will support whatever Yang Guang says.
This year's spring outing is about to begin, and the court meeting has begun to discuss who will host it this time.
Those who have always hosted spring outings have always been members of the royal family. Others do not have this qualification, because spring outings are a large-scale annual blind date party for large families. The royal family has to control the scene, because family marriages have far-reaching influence. Some combinations of boys and girls are likely to
It affects the structure of the court.
This is why it is so important for young people's blind dates to be held in the court.
Currently there are only a few people to choose from, Empress Xiao, Yang Lihua, Yang Ming, Yang Jian and Yang Xiong.
The canal project was about to start, and Yang Guang was worried that the third son Yang Ming would cause trouble, so he deliberately sent Yang Ming away. Moreover, the third son had a clear mind and knew which families could marry and which ones could not.
"Let King Qin handle this matter," Yang Guang finally made the decision.
Yang Ming is also willing to go out and relax. It is actually very hard to attend the court meeting every day. There is no time to calm down when fighting with this and that. It is actually good to take a vacation.
Others also want him to leave, because Yang Ming's presence in the government will make many people feel depressed.
This year's spring outing took place in mid-March, and the weather was still a bit cold, but the cold weather couldn't stop the young people's restless hearts.
Yang Ming did not go to the court meeting the next day. The reason was that he did not need to discuss the spring outing. It was just an excuse to ask for leave.
He originally planned to take Yang Yinjiang and Pei Shuying with him, but they were not willing to go because they were already married and became mothers and did not want to show their faces. Chen Shuyi still frequently dealt with their old Chen family, not to mention Shen Wuhua
She is also back, so Chen Shuyi is often not at home.
Then only Yan Xiaotang is left.
After Gao Yue composed the Sui Emperor's patrol song, her merits were fulfilled and she had returned to the palace from Jinyang Tower. After hearing about this, she hoped that Yang Ming could take her with him.
Yang Ming agreed.
This year's spring outing will be the largest since the founding of the Sui Dynasty, because the southern aristocratic families have completely come in.
If only a small number of aristocratic families who had good relations with Yang Guang had the opportunity to participate in the spring outing before, then this year, the South will undoubtedly replace the Guanzhong tycoons as the protagonists, because many of them are coming to Guanzhong for the first time, and there are even some
Barbarian.
Yang Guang's brilliant strategy led to the great integration of the north and the south in the second year after the opening of the canal, which was undoubtedly of great benefit to the unification of the entire country.
The situation in which the North is strong and the South is weak is gradually easing. The North has power and the South has money, and each gets what it needs.
Marriage is the best fusion.
The people in the north are suffering, but this does not affect the aristocratic children of the big families rushing to Guanzhong in bright clothes and angry horses.
For the security of the spring outing, Yang Ming arranged for Yang Xuanting to be responsible for the security, and transferred 10,000 people from the Youhou Guards, while Yang Ming himself would bring his troops and arrive at the last moment.
This year's spring outing is still in the Zhongnan Mountain area. It is quite close to the spring outing that Yang Ming participated in. This time the camp is a little more southerly.
There are eight major families in the south. Among them, the surnames of overseas Chinese are in Guojiang, with Wang, Xie, Yuan, and Xiao being the largest. In the southeast, there are Wu surnames, with Zhu, Zhang, Gu, and Lu being the largest.
The northern clans all have county surnames. In the area east of Shandong's Weishan and Hangu Pass, Wang, Cui, Lu, Li and Zheng are the most powerful. In Guanzhong, Wei, Pei, Liu, Xue, Yang, Du and Li are the most powerful.
In the northern part of Shanxi and Hebei, the surnames are Lu, Yuan, Changsun, Yuwen, Dugu, Yu, Lu, Yuan and Dou.
These were the vested interest groups that truly controlled the local areas during the Sui Dynasty. They had the final say whether the world was in chaos or not.
It is not easy to control the marriage between these people, because each family has its own calculations, and they will only consider their own interests and not the thoughts of the royal family.
What Yang Ming wants to do is to make their efforts in vain.
On March 11, Yang Ming's convoy set off. When it arrived at the northern foot of Zhongnan Mountain, Xuanting would lead an army to meet him and guide Yang Ming to his station.
Yang Xuanting was very happy to take over this good job, because he could take the opportunity to sleep with a few more beauties from the south of the Yangtze River. After all, Hongnong Yang was the head of the family, and he looked down on the southern aristocratic family in his heart.
Xuanting's first wife was born in the Yuan clan of Luoyang, but Xuanting was a male chauvinist and his wife could not control him. He also inherited the lustful nature of the old Yang family. As soon as he arrived at the camp, he had already set his sights on several rich ladies from wealthy families.
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The spring outing camp this time spans twenty miles from east to west and fifteen miles from north to south. It is full of tents and is extremely lively.
Yang Ming's station is located in the center of the country, next to a clear river.
As soon as he arrived, all the family leaders came to greet them and Yang Ming also met them in the big tent.
There are many familiar faces and even more new ones.
Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui, as Yang Ming's translators, accompanied them on both sides. Because Yang Ming could not understand many local dialects, Fang and Du had limited knowledge and did not understand them well. Fortunately, they could not understand either.
I led several translators.
The person in charge sent by the Lanling Xiao family this time has a big enough name. The chief officer of the Provincial Shangyi Bureau in the palace is Shangyi Fengyu, Xiao Jing.
Yu Shiji was in charge of the internal affairs department in the palace, so Xiao Jing was a subordinate of Yu Shiji. However, Yu Shiji did not dare to take care of him at all, because Xiao Jing was Empress Xiao's brother and Yang Ming's fourth uncle.
Shangyi serves the emperor, and is mainly responsible for the emperor's crown attire. It is purely for casual errands, so Xiao Jing has time to come to the camp to take charge of family affairs.
"Give your uncle a seat first," Yang Ming waved to Xu Jing beside him, who immediately brought a wooden pillar and asked Xiao Jing to sit down.
The rank is not high and the treatment is good. This is called a good background.
"It's hard for my uncle to find time to take charge of clan affairs despite his busy schedule. This matter should have been handled by others," Yang Ming said with a smile.
Although her relationship with Yang Ming was unfamiliar, Xiao Jing felt that it was very shameful for him to give face like this in front of so many people, so she smiled and said:
"It's the queen's order. I have to come."
"That's it," Yang Ming smiled and nodded. Yang Ming could still understand the dialect of his mother's family. After all, his mother still speaks the dialect of her hometown until now, and his father, Yang Guang, always said the same.
The more you listen, the more naturally you will speak.
Yang Guang's language talent is amazing. He can speak Xianbei, Guanzhong, Wu, and Henan dialects, and even understands a little Turkic dialect.
A large part of the reason why southern women are so popular is that they speak nicely and are soft and waxy, as if they are tickling their ears.
Unlike some places, no matter how good-looking you are, you will be ruined as soon as you open your mouth.
In the big tent, those standing in front were all Guanzhong's tycoons. The Hongnong Yang family was also a big shot this time, Yang Su, Yang Yue's biological brother, Wannian County Magistrate Yang Yue, and Fang Xuanling's father-in-law.
What happened this year? All the big families seem to value this spring outing very much.
"Give me a seat for Duke Cangshan," Yang Ming said again.
Yang Yue is Yang Yinjiang's biological uncle and a relative of Yang Ming, so of course he has to be given face.
Yang Yue thanked him with a smile and sat down slowly.
Jingzhao Weishi, good fellow, Wei Yue personally took action, the youngest son of Xiaoyao Gong Wei Hong, the biological brother of Wei Chong, a free man, with nothing else to do except eating, sleeping and playing every day.
This old boy is also ill-fated. He offended Yang Jian and will never get ahead in this life. Among Wei Hong's sons, he is the only one still alive. I heard that the five brothers who died gave him a lot of property, so
This guy is very rich.
All six brothers have titles, Wei Yue is the Duke of Guancheng County.
"Give me a seat," Yang Ming said. This person is too senior. He is now the talker of Xiaoyao Gongfang, so he can't help but give him face.
As for the person in charge of the old Yang family's visit this time in the Sui Dynasty, Yang Ming was stunned. The other party's camp was far away from here, so he arrived late.
Yang Ming personally came out of the tent to greet:
"Uncle Four is losing weight."
Yang Xiu, king of Shu, who had been imprisoned in the palace for six years, was finally able to come out for free after many attempts by his eldest sister Yang Lihua.
Yang Xiu is no longer the king of Shu, but a commoner. He smiled bitterly and shook his head:
"I feel ashamed that I cannot deserve the King of Qin's personal welcome."
"One family does not speak the same language. You are my fourth uncle and I am your nephew. This will never change." Yang Ming directly took Yang Xiu's arm and entered the tent.
His mood at this time was very complicated.
This year's spring outing is not easy, all kinds of gods and goddesses are out.