After Yang Guang, who was in Luoyang, received the letter from his third son, he immediately summoned Pei Ju.
Yang Guang would basically discuss with Pei Ju on external matters, because he didn't understand, but Pei Ju understood.
"This barbarian idiot actually wants me to give him a princess to marry?" Yang Guang handed his son's letter to Pei Ju, and then sneered: "Who gave him the courage to talk to me like this?"
At the end of this letter from home, there is Yang Ming's suggestion, which probably means that as long as Yang Guang is willing, he can find any woman to be his princess.
Pei Ju smiled and said: "The King of Qin really knows the general situation. I think the King of Qin's suggestion is completely feasible."
"The third child is fooling around. Gaochang is a small country, but it is only a corner of Hexi. What qualifications does it have to marry the Sui Dynasty?" Yang Guang said in a deep voice.
Pei Ju's rank was too high now, and his seat was very close to Yang Guang, only two or three meters away. Only a few ministers in the court were qualified to discuss matters with the emperor in such a close state.
This was deliberately arranged by Yang Guang in order to create his own respect for certain ministers and make them think that the emperor favored them.
Pei Ju smiled and said: "Among the countries in the Western Regions, only Tuyuhun and I, the Sui Dynasty, used to have a marriage relationship. Now that Tuyuhun has been destroyed, Princess Guanghua has lost her role. She did not want to return to the country, so she was settled in Fuqi City by Changsun Cheng. So, we,
We need to send another marriage princess to disturb this pool of water in the Western Region, so who among the countries in the Western Region do you think is the most qualified?"
Princess Guanghua was the daughter of the Sui Dynasty clan. In the 16th year of the founding of the Emperor, she was named the consort princess by Yang Jian. She married Murong Shifu of Tuyuhun. After Murong Shifu's death, she married Shifu again according to the inheritance system of Tuyuhun.
His younger brother Murong Fuyun.
Now that Murong Fuyun was killed by Yang Ming, she became a widow, and her sons were also killed by the Sui army. After such a life change, she definitely didn't want to come back.
After Yang Guang pondered for a moment, he said: "When it comes to marriage, the Western Turks are naturally the most suitable at the moment, but I cannot take the initiative to give them a princess, otherwise they will think that I am trying to please them."
"This is exactly the reason," Pei Ju said with a smile: "We can't take the initiative, but what can we do to make the Western Turks take the initiative?"
"I understand," Yang Guang is a top-notch smart person. When Pei Ju hinted like this, he immediately figured it out.
This is the power of Pei Ju. He would not directly express his thoughts, but would induce the emperor to guess. In this way, the emperor would feel that he was very smart. On the contrary, if he directly explained his plan, the emperor would feel that he was smart.
Pei Ju is too smart.
Some emperors were able to accept that their ministers were smarter than themselves, but among these emperors, there was absolutely no Yang Guang.
In the current Western Region, Tuyuhun has been annexed by the Sui Dynasty, and its territory has expanded two thousand miles westward, which has made the countries in the Western Region nervous. The best way at this time is to sow discord and not let them unite.
The Western Turks are the country with the largest territory and the strongest military in the Western Regions. If it cannibalizes the countries in the Western Regions step by step, it will be detrimental to the Sui Dynasty.
Therefore, what Pei Ju wanted to do was to make peace with Gaochang State first. As soon as this was started, other countries would think that they could also make peace with the Sui Dynasty, so they gave up submitting to the Western Turks and frequently fawned over the Sui Dynasty.
And the Western Turks will feel that I haven't made peace with the Sui Dynasty yet, why do you Gaochang? In this way, if the Sui Dynasty uses troops against Gaochang in the future, the Western Turks will not intervene.
In order to prove their status as a big brother in the Western Regions, the Western Turks would certainly beg the Sui Dynasty to give them a princess.
It has to be said that Pei Ju finally understood the concept of combining vertical and horizontal lines.
Yang Guang smiled and said: "Did you say hello to Lao San in advance, otherwise he wouldn't have made such a suggestion in the letter."
The greeting was real, but I didn't teach him about pretending to be a princess, but Pei Ju knew that he had to help Yang Ming, otherwise it would appear that Yang Ming was smarter than Yang Guang.
"I did have some hints," Pei Ju said with a smile.
Yang Guang laughed: "Let me tell you, the third child doesn't have so many conspiracies and tricks in his belly. What do you think Shiju should do next?"
Pei Ju smiled and said: "While King Gaochang is in Beijing right now, it is the best time for us to send troops to Yin Wu. As for the choice of the princess, your majesty can leave it to King Qin to make arrangements."
"Leave it to Lao San to attack and destroy Yin Wu. This kid still knows how to use soldiers." After that, Yang Guang called Xiao Yu, the minister of internal history, and asked him to draft an imperial edict to confer the title of princess.
The princess's name is Huarong, which means that Guan Yu defeated Huarong, implying that he will deal with King Gaochang in the future. As for who will be the Huarong princess, it will be decided by Yang Ming.
After the imperial edict is drawn up, it will be sent to the capital as soon as possible. Yang Ming will receive it within five days at most.
As for the capital, something happened right now.
Wei Zheng almost died.
This guy was really lucky. After taking a few bites of dinner on the eighth day of the first lunar month, Wei Zheng felt something didn't taste right and told the jailer.
The jailer was dumbfounded at the time, and hurriedly took the corn and biscuits that night and gave them to the pedestrian in the prison who was responsible for drug testing. The pedestrian was Wu Zuo.
The full name is Wu Zuoxingren.
The poison test is very simple, just find a chicken and let it eat it. If the chicken appears abnormal, it is poisonous.
As a result, before anything happened to the chicken, Wei Zheng started to suffer from vomiting and diarrhea. The warden hurriedly reported it, so the Imperial Medical Office sent someone over. At the moment, we don’t know what kind of poison Wei Zheng had. Even if we knew, there was only one way to detoxify it.
One is to drink water, keep drinking water.
Then Wei Zheng was given water and excreted continuously. After a night, he was finally rescued, but he was still in a state of collapse.
And this chicken died successfully.
At the moment, Wei Zheng was not only being watched by the King of Qin, but the Yushitai also informed the Ministry of Punishment, saying that it was His Majesty's decree that no one was allowed to approach Wei Zheng.
Yushitai also sent special personnel to the prison to take care of it.
So as soon as this incident came out, the officials in the Penal Department Prison were frightened.
Yang Ming was also alarmed, but he could not go to check the situation because the people at Yushitai refused to let him go. The emperor said that no one was allowed to approach Wei Zheng, including Yang Ming.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "What is going on?" Yang Ming said with an ugly face.
The person who informed Yang Ming was named Liu, but he was not given a name. He was called Lao Liu. He was a follower of Du Yan. Du Yan could not escape now, so he asked Lao Liu to come over and tell Yang Ming some specific situations.
Old Liu said: "Back to Your Highness, Dali Temple, the Ministry of Punishment, and the Yushitai have sent people to investigate who poisoned them. There is no result yet. All the officials in the prison of the Ministry of Punishment have also been controlled, and the truth has come to light.
It should only be a matter of a day or two.”
Yang Ming said angrily: "I reminded Du Yan over and over again that he must have taken care of me. What did he do?"
"Back to Your Highness, the head of the family is also very helpless," Old Liu Zhan said tremblingly: "He can't always run to the prison, it will make people suspicious, and the people we arranged in the prison department have all been sent away by the Yushitai.
, except for the people at Yushitai and the jailer who specially delivers food to Wei Zheng, no one else can get close to Wei Zheng."
Yang Ming frowned and said: "Who is in the Yushitai prison?"
"This is Chen Xiaoyi, the imperial censor," Old Liu said.
Yang Ming suddenly frowned. There was absolutely nothing wrong with Chen Xiaoyi. He had a very upright character and was very loyal. He would never dare to neglect his father's will.
So who could still attack Wei Zheng under such strict supervision?
The cook shouldn't do this, it would be a loss of his own job.
At the court meeting the next day, Yang Ming pretended not to know anything. It was not until someone from the Yushitai took the initiative to report the matter that he pretended to be surprised and said in surprise:
"Who is the murderer? Has it been found out?"
The two censors on the censor's desk shook their heads at the same time. The remaining two censors were still in the Penal Department Prison.
"Still checking," Huang Fenglin said with a lonely look.
Logically speaking, the investigation does not belong to the Yushitai, but this time, the Yushitai has been ordered to take care of Wei Zheng, so they have to take charge of the investigation, because if something goes wrong, the Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment are not willing to follow you.
Take the blame, after all you changed the jailers, but something happened.
Yang Ming asked again: "How is Wei Zheng?"
"Still recovering, the condition is not bad, there should be no serious problems," Huang Fenglin replied.
Yang Ming nodded. When something happened to Wei Zheng, many people would associate it with him and Yang Jian. After all, it was the two of them that Wei Zheng was scolding.
But on Yang Ming's side, the suspicion was very light, because if he wanted to kill Wei Zheng, he didn't have to throw him into the Criminal Department, he could just kill him outside.
But now Wei Zheng is a very important figure, and many people have already seen it, otherwise he would not be so valued by the emperor.
So aside from Yang Ming, the most suspicious person is definitely Yang Jian.
This is boring, because all the people in Sui Dynasty, once the prince is involved, they will definitely find a way to avoid the suspicion of dragging the prince and let others take the blame.
Because the emperor did not want to see such a result, the people below would naturally not show such a result.
Most of the innocent injustices in history are scapegoats.
In other words, even if Yang Jian sent someone to do it, when the murder finally happened, the murderer would definitely have nothing to do with Yang Jian.
This is the implicit privilege of being the emperor's son. It is illegal to kill someone, but I'm sorry, what evidence do you have to prove that I killed the person?
Yang Ming is almost certain that this scandal will not have a real result, and his father will not let Yang Jian be involved.
After the court meeting, King Guan Yang Xiong invited Yang Ming and Lu Chu to a banquet at King Guan's Mansion.
This is normal social interaction.
Lu Chu has quite a lot of power now, and Yang Xiong even wants to compete with him.
It is indeed necessary to maintain the private friendship with ministers, and banquets are a way to bring them closer together.
People not only have official duties, but also personal relationships.
In fact, Yang Ming really wanted to experience the kind of informal banquet that Yang Yinjiang once said, but unfortunately, everyone thought he was very decent, so the banquets he attended were all serious.
A serious banquet is actually quite boring. Just watching some dancers dancing will cause visual fatigue if you watch it too much.
So during the banquet, Yang Ming hinted: "King Guan should have often gone to Yue Gong's Mansion before, right? I heard that the entertainment gadgets he had there were very interesting."
Who is Yang Xiong? He immediately understood what Yang Ming was talking about.
I have it, and I have what Yang Su has, but the quality is not as high as Yang Su’s.
Yang Xiong turned his head and ordered those around him to follow him, and then a group of dancers entered the hall.
Yang Ming has seen a lot
Does he like this? Lu Chu has a plan in mind, and I will arrange the next one.