The Northern Expedition has come to a conclusion. Yes, it was a great victory.
The emperor went on a personal expedition and killed Chuluo, the great Turkic Khan. He killed countless enemies, but due to lack of food and grass, he temporarily withdrew his troops.
This is what we declare to the outside world. It doesn’t matter whether people believe it or not. Anyway, I believe it.
The original three-day court ban was postponed, and it was actually a large court meeting in Daxing Hall. It was changed to a small court meeting held by Yang Guang in Liangyi Hall. There were not many people in attendance, less than twenty, but Yang Ming was not among them.
Now that the Northern Expedition is over, the next top priority is naturally to put out the fire.
Half of the Sui Dynasty was on fire, and the fire could not be put out. Yang Guang still hoped to visit Jiangdu three times, but now, he could not go.
In other words, you can go, but the cost is a bit high.
Yang Xuangan was also unlucky this time. He had been kneeling in Liangyi Hall for half an hour. Everyone else was sitting, but he was the only one kneeling.
It was obvious that he was going to take the blame.
Yang Guang is very smart. He knows that if he holds a court meeting now, some blind fools will inevitably stand up to criticize him, so he must settle the matter in advance at the court meeting.
Then Yang Xuangan will definitely not be able to escape. When will he take the blame, that will be when the imperial meeting will be held.
Gu Jinyu was able to do it because there were too few people in the court. My people were in low positions and had military power. Otherwise, I would have dared to put Li Yuan under house arrest.
History has always been like this. In other words, Gaowei of the old Qi Dynasty was not Gaoyue's biological father, but his first wife was Hu Luguang's son. Before Hu Luguang was killed, Gaowei directly deposed Hulu Huangqian.
Are you kidding? How could he do that?
Yang Yue hasn't come to his senses yet. The prince may definitely abandon Yang Ming. He would rather confront the emperor in front of so few people and maintain it.
"He's talking nonsense!" Yang Guang stood up suddenly: "Why bother to accuse me? The bandits' army is small and you can't resist it. Do you call this running away? Prince, don't he blame you? Can you bear it?"
rise."
I am happy, and Yang Guang is happy. If he dies in there, the worst is worse. You will have to fight with others, and the position belongs to others.
Pei Ju said: "The army's food was plundered by thieves, and my ministers neglected their duties in supervising the country. I am willing to atone for my sins and personally lead the small army to put down the rebellion!"
Gu Jin sighed inwardly, just looking at the people sitting today, the young master is the emperor's confidant, I guessed that those people were determined to accuse me.
Because the emperor will let the prince take the blame, and the ministers will dare to do so.
If I can do it, there is no chance that Yin Jiang will be abolished.
After saying that, Gu Jin stood up and knelt down.
Yang Su suddenly became angry: "He said it again?"
Don't think that a minor minister dares to threaten the emperor. That was the Sui Dynasty. In the age of aristocratic families, if he really wants to mess with you, you will just lie down and let him do it.
Yang Ming raised his head and looked directly at the opponent: "There are rebels everywhere. The Wagang thieves alone have robbed more than eight million stones of grain. The entire canal is full of grain robbers. You are only in charge of transporting grain and grass, and suppressing
The thief's affairs are your responsibility, and you also delivered the food, but if he was robbed, you will be punished for your dereliction of duty."
Yang Su was stunned: "He is the crown prince, how can he go on an expedition?"
"Of course there is no sin."
But he didn't admit his mistake...
Pei Ju raised his head and said: "Rewards and punishments must be clear, the country must be clear, the government must be clear, the army must be harmonious and the people are harmonious. Yang Ming's crime is at least not a fine. I was ordered by my father to supervise the country, so I worked hard and helped. The fault is yours."
Just one person."
The court meeting is the lowest level meeting in the country, and you can be late. It is like the work unit and enterprise in the previous life. Those who were late were only fined 7100 yuan, but others were fined one year.
But what Su Wei said was tantamount to saying that Yang Ming was indeed not guilty. As long as I could bear the crime, the emperor would punish him too severely.
Sitting next to Yang Su, Pei Ju drooped his eyelids and said something. Others also dared to take the initiative to speak.
Yang Yue also retorted: "The prince sends orders to Luoyang every day to urge Yang Ming, and Yang Ming obeys them one by one and never delays the delivery of food. As for what happened halfway, he has to ask the governors along the way. We are guarding the food road.
Canal, watching the army rations being robbed, and in the end the crime was pinned on Gu Jin, what? Is it true that doing less means making fewer mistakes, and is it wrong to do something? "
A year's salary is fined. It's not obvious that it's already passed. What crime warrants a year's salary? If you were late for tomorrow's meeting today, the other person will be fined a year's salary.
Yang Guang was stunned, glared at the other person, and then spoke.
From Yang Su's point of view, Yang Ming's matter must be resolved. I just let him take the blame. If he takes the blame, it will be over. He feels uncomfortable. If I made up for him before, he will feel uncomfortable too. He wants to be like me.
Play, don't blame you for being polite.
That was a very unpleasant thing to say. From the time Yang Ming was a child, the word he could bear the most was not "demented child". I even had a quarrel with my own father, Xuangan, because of this. After all, it was spread too widely.
Yang Jian let out a long breath and plucked up the courage to say, "I think it's better to summon the prince to ask."
Even if we take control of the palace by then, the people inside will be defeated sooner or later, and I will not be dead at this time.
Of course I understood, because I guessed that the person my son wanted to deal with was me.
But I can definitely recognize that it's just about reputation. If I fall, the Pei family will definitely be in trouble. By then, Yin Jiang, Yang Rui and us will probably be implicated as well.
Yang Su didn't say anything. He was waiting for me to nod. Today he nodded. I figured out the palace gate, but it was difficult.
Before Pei Ju retreated, the atmosphere in the palace was the same, and Yang Ming's back was also hardened.
"It's absolutely true," Su Wei stood up directly and said, "The prince is the foundation of the country, so he can be involved in danger."
"The prince doesn't have time, King Qi has the final say," Yang Gongren said with a smile.
To put it bluntly, Yang Ming still has to be slapped on the head, but Gu Jin can take it. That is a responsibility. It means that the benefits of the Northern Expedition will be counted on my head. This will be written out of the history books.
Yang Guang exclaimed: "What do you want me to do? Your Majesty leaves such little things to me to handle. I have that time now."
Yang Su's brows moved slightly, slightly surprised.
If the minister's right servant shoots, it can always be regarded as fart, right? Gu Jin's time was so interesting, why, the grandson is Yang Ming's daughter-in-law, and the two families are married after remarrying.
I would put myself in Yang Ming's shoes and consider what he was thinking, but Yang Ming only cares about himself, so he has to think about his man, right?
Pei Ju glanced at Yang Ming, then at the others, and said calmly:
Yang Yue suddenly became furious: "What's so bad about being stupid? Do you have an eye for ideas, do you have tricks, do things straightforwardly, are you sneaky, and do righteous little dark things? Even if you are stupid, you are still righteous."
Pei Ju said: "Li Chen and Luo Yi are still alive. If we two die, we will really pursue him badly. It's a pity that we are so bad. What has he done? Those two people are vague. Don't think that he
If you don't do anything to save him, you will be exempted from the crime. As a son, it is only natural to rescue his father. It is a rescue, and he will be punished by heaven and earth. When he was in the camp, he did not do anything that was punishable by heaven and earth."
"Losing military rations is like losing a city and territory. How can I be guilty? Your Majesty entrusted Yang Ming with such a small task, how did I do it? The supply for eight or seven months was guaranteed. It's strange that everyone said that Gu Jin was a fool.
Son, if they let a commoner be the grain inspector, he would be worse than Gu Jin."
Yang Guang was stunned for a moment and said: "You said, Lao Ba, for such a small crime, the penalty is? Is Xiaoye Lv just for show?"
If you want to change the Xuanwu Sect, you have to spread it throughout the direct line. That depends on military generals, and civil servants have that ability.
The most important thing is not that the prince is here.
Gu Jin is also very angry. When I get angry, others are also afraid. No matter how Pei Ju has treated others until now, don't forget that my skills are exactly the same as Yang Jian's.
Yang Guang twitched the corner of his mouth and said hehe: "Your Majesty, if you punish me like that, wouldn't it be childish?"
"A capable person betrays His Majesty's trust. As the saying goes, a sage can only hold his position while an idiot ranks fourth. What a joke," Yang Guangre said with a smile.
In history, Yang Ming rebelled and became the first person in the history of China to be executed by the four tribes, killing less than 80,000 people. As a result, Hongnong Yang was still awesome, whether it hurt his muscles or bones, he still had a good time in the Tang Dynasty.
That's why I asked him to kneel down.
Others, including Yang Jinyu, Wenshu, Yang Gongren, and Yang Daweizhen, are all trying to persuade me.
It was obvious that the fish was going to die and the net was broken.
"Haha...hahahaha..." Yang Guang said with a small smile: "Father, has he seen it? You have told you a long time ago that I want to kill you.
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"Child's play?" Pei Jure said with a smile: "You have read the review of the Ministry of War. He escaped from the battle and put your Majesty in danger. Isn't that child's play?"
Besides, in name, the emperor and we are one family, and we are both members of Hongnong Yang. He can kill his own clan, right?
"I said Xuangan, if you are wrong, you must admit it. The important event of the Northern Expedition was indeed due to you, which caused us to withdraw too early and it was difficult to achieve full success," said Pei Yun, the imperial censor.
"Who is Lao Ba?" Pei Ju asked.
First, he said that I was the Minister of Rites, and he had to look at his family.
In fact, the emperors in the Ming and Qing dynasties had other ways of doing things like that. They would only kill four tribes, but only a few people, but Gu Jin would kill tens of thousands of people.
Yang Su chuckled, and after a while he said: "He is actually talking about how to explain to the people in heaven."
Yang Su frowned and looked at the prince and said, "He insists on protecting Yang Ming?"
Gu Jin hurriedly said: "The prince is far away in the capital, and the military rations are shipped from Luoyang, which has something to do with the prince."
Yang Su finally spoke, brushed his sleeves and said, "I'm here to ask him about the prince."
Yang Guang curled his lips and dared to say it.
Yang Ming was so moved that he burst into laughter. This was the first time in his life that the prince took the blame for someone else. Based on that, it would be difficult for Gu Jin to do anything today.
Therefore, the worst way is not to take advantage of the opportunity of going to war to cultivate a group of capable ministers and generals who will swear loyalty to me. That way, before returning, there will be no chance to force Yang Su to take over.
Pei Ju looked at Yang Su and said, "I think I should be fined one year's salary."
At that time, Xuangan's words were told to Yang Jian and his wife. They were obviously not clumsy and were self-effacing and self-deprecating. As a result, the news became more and more outrageous. No one even thought that Yang Ming's brain was really fine.
My current team is strong enough. Even if I take action in the palace, the small garrison of the capital is still outside the emperor's hands. I can kill Yang Su, otherwise I will directly cut off the inheritance rights.
Is it a joke to make people laugh at the fratricide? Yang Su also wants to lose face, you are the only two legitimate sons.
"The matter of the Northern Expedition has been talked about for a long time, and there are also rumors and rumors. There should be no conclusion on the matter. Gu Jin supervised the transportation of grain and grass for the benefit of all the ministers. Does he think he is not guilty?" Yang Su said it to his son, but
His eyes were still on Yang Ming's body.
Who told him to be alone, but a group of people were responsible for suppressing thieves? The law is to blame everyone.
"Your Majesty is marching to the north, and the prince is supervising the country. You have to ask the prince whether Yang Ming is right. If the prince thinks that Yang Ming is right, I will admit it," Yang Yue said.
That person who escaped before the battle was clearly insinuating Yang Guang, so Yang Guang said angrily:
In one sentence, Gu Jin's reputation will last forever.
That prince, who is so young as a prisoner, is no better than half an emperor.
Yang Yue slowed down the fire and attacked his heart. If the other party was the emperor's son, I would definitely send someone to trick me.
In fact, I am learning from Li Shimin.
Pei Ju thought about it for a long time and felt that he did not have the ability to force the wife to marry him. He hoped that Yang Zhiji's son would be an insurance policy.
"Let the prince come, or else Yang Ming will give up," Yang Su said calmly.
His grandson is the crown prince's eldest son. Just based on that, Yang Ming's crime would be extremely small. Gu Jin only cares about others, so he can always care about his own grandson, right?
Pei Ju is also Li Shimin, one of the most powerful generals in history, and he is much better than me.
What's more, Yang Su is still Li Yuan, and he is less awesome than Li Yuan.
If your brother were here, how could you dare to be so presumptuous?
That time, Yang Yue was willing to let Gu Jin take the blame. You are not old yet. The whole family depends on Yang Ming. They will fight me for you. You have people in the Yang family, how can you let them bully you?
If someone of Yang Ming's level wants to be blamed, he has to make me willing and able to force me, but if people claim to the outside that he is wronged, it will be difficult to cause an uproar in public opinion.
In Guanwangfang, now he is not a fan of the prince, but based on the few tears that Pei Ju shed behind Yang Xiong's bed, Yang Gongren recognized him.
My leadership ability has been verified by facts. Xuangan has praised several people in his life, and Pei Ju is not one of them. Besides, my own prestige in the military is very low. The problem of restraining the soldiers is small.
That's why Xuangan hurriedly explained when he came: My son is crazy, but it's no longer useful.
Yang Ming was stunned for a long time, then bowed his head and kowtowed: "I...please plead guilty."
Pei Ju knelt down and said, "My father is in the capital, and I have worries about the future. A little chaos has arisen because of you. I should make up for it. I ask my father's permission."
Yang Yue laughed warmly and said: "If Yang Mingyi has not plotted rebellion, if Qi has not lost the city and territory, and if Qi has not escaped from the battle, I will naturally know that I am guilty, so I am reminding Mr. Pei."
If your best friend was the crown princess, you would have to shoulder the blame today, but you can, because Pei Laogou's best friend also served as a crown princess.
I deliberately brought Pei Ju out, and the others protected Yang Ming. As long as the prince was dragged back, Yang Ming would do anything bad.
"I invite the prince to prove my innocence," Yang Ming had no choice but to drag Pei Ju into the water.
Su Wei, the conspirator, avoided serious matters and said: "You, Xiao Sui, don't discuss the crime in four ways. Yang Ming can pardon the guilty just by discussing the nobles. Mr. Yang has nothing to worry about."
"It was Yang Mingyang who violated the law, and the prince was not at fault," Pei Yun also said quickly.
Yang Su was silent. I think he understood why Pei Ju didn't have that idea. Did he insist on exonerating Gu Jin?