Full text without ads Chapter 54 Western Region Strategy
As the situation in the capital gradually stabilized, Yang Guang's Twelve Guards regained control of the capital. Donggong Liu led his troops into the treasury, and the soldiers returned to camp. As before, the officials of the Donggong began to relax.
This morning, the clouds were thick, the sky was gloomy, and the rain that people had been looking forward to for a long time was about to fall. Under the guidance of a eunuch, Yang Yuanqing hurriedly walked into the Xuanzheng Hall and walked to the steps of the side hall square.
, the eunuch smiled and said: "General Yang, please wait a moment, we will report it for you."
"Thank you, father-in-law."
Yang Yuanqing stood at the foot of the steps waiting. Not long after, a guard came from the steps and shouted: "The Holy One has decreed that Yang Yuanqing is here to see you!"
Yang Yuanqing quickly straightened his clothes, walked quickly up the steps, and followed the two eunuchs towards the emperor's study room.
In the imperial study, Yang Guang was busy reviewing the backlog of memorials. Today was the second day after he returned to the palace, and things were extremely busy. At this time, a eunuch walked into the room and reported in a low voice: "Your Majesty, Yang Yuanqing is here."
"Announce him to come in!" Yang Guang was so busy that he couldn't even lift his head. Memorials sent from all over the place piled up like a hill beside him.
After a while, Yang Yuanqing walked into the imperial study, bowed and saluted: "Your Majesty, Yang Yuanqing, is here to see you!"
Yang Guang finally put down his ink pen, glanced at Yang Yuanqing and said with a smile: "Where is my Shang Fang sword? You can return it to me!"
"Reporting to Your Majesty, I just handed it over to Fu Baolang."
"I originally planned to summon you yesterday, but I have been too busy these two days. Please take a look at these memorials."
Yang Guang pointed to the pile of memorials next to him and said with a wry smile: "Many of the memorials were from a few months ago. I don't blame them. It is true that the Sui Dynasty had a vast territory and it was not fast to deliver the news. I was out on patrol, in fact, it was for
Urge local officials to build roads.”
Yang Guang's words are quite right. Last year, Yang Guang visited Hedong and Hebei. For this purpose, hundreds of thousands of people dug into the Taihang Mountains and widened Feihuxing and Taihangxing again, which greatly facilitated the transportation from Hedong to Hebei.
This year, he inspected Wuyuan County and specially mobilized hundreds of thousands of people to build a Chi Road from Longyou to Wuyuan County. The construction of this wide and smooth Chi Road shortened the time from Wuyuan County to Chang'an by eight days.
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"I'm disturbing your majesty!"
"It's okay. I also have to meet with officials, so I can't keep reviewing memorials."
Yang Guang leaned gently on the imperial couch, closed his eyes, relaxed his nervous mind, and seemed to have forgotten Yang Yuanqing. After a long time, he glanced at Yang Yuanqing, and then smiled apologetically: "I forgot, please see me."
What's the matter?"
Yang Yuanqing bowed and said: "I beg your Majesty to agree to allow me to resign as a civil servant. No advertisements in the entire text."
Yang Yuanqing now holds two positions, one is the leader of the left and right guards of the East Palace, and the other is doctor Yinqing Guanglu, a literary official. A casual official is just a status and does not do anything, but doctor Yinqing Guanglu is from the third grade.
Of course, for high-ranking officials, the ranks of casual and official officials are not necessarily symmetrical. Even if a casual official is a first-grade Guanglu doctor, he may not be able to serve as the prime minister. For example, Yang Lihua's son-in-law Li Min served as Guanglu doctor, but his position
The official is just the minister of Taichang Temple.
To a certain extent, being a casual official is a reflection of official qualifications and seniority, so Yang Yuanqing was granted a casual official position by Dr. Yinqing Guanglu, which caused an uproar among the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty. For example, Pei Ju, a veteran minister for decades,
The official position he got was only Yinqing Guanglu doctor, and Yang Yuanqing's father Yang Xuangan, after serving as an official for twenty years, only got a fourth-grade official, one level lower than his son. This caused
There was widespread dissatisfaction among the court officials, and nearly a hundred court officials wrote a letter asking the Holy Father to revoke Yang Yuanqing's dismissal from office.
For example, when Yang Yuanqing was appointed Fengzhou Governor, although there was a lot of discussion in the court, they were more surprised than the opponents, because it was a military position and did not involve the interests of court officials. However, it was different for casual officials.
It involves the face and dignity of the officials, so the opponents are fierce.
It was the fierce opposition from the court officials that made Yang Yuanqing feel tremendous pressure. In particular, Pei Ju also persuaded Yang Yuanqing to resign as an official. He believed that such an appointment by the Holy Emperor would not be beneficial to Yang Yuanqing. Instead, it would make him too many enemies and attract everyone's attention.
Everyone is staring at him, making it impossible for him to accomplish many things. Once he makes the slightest mistake, it will trigger the impeachment of the entire court.
Yang Yuanqing also accepted Pei Ju's advice and asked to see Yang Guang to resign from his position as a civil official. "I have too little qualifications and have never served as a capital official. Your Majesty has granted you the title of Doctor Yinqing Guanglu. I am really ashamed to be worthy of it."
"Are you really too embarrassed to deserve it, or are you too stressed?" Yang Guang said with a slight smile.
Yang Yuanqing smiled helplessly, "A little bit."
Yang Guang pondered again for a moment. In fact, he named Yang Yuanqing Yinqing Guanglu Doctor more because he used Yang Yuanqing to test the reaction of the officials. Last year, he implemented a series of large-scale reforms, including the military, civil servants, and official officials.
Among the casual officials, titles and honorary officers, the biggest changes, and the ones that involve the greatest interests of court officials are the casual officials. Officials only have their names changed, but in fact their positions are not promoted or demoted.
However, the dispersion of officials involves the vital interests of every official. Therefore, during the reform last year, the reform of dispersion of officials caused the most controversy. After nearly a year, this kind of controversy gradually disappeared. Yang Guang wanted to know what was going on.
Did all the officials accept his reforms, or were they all indifferent?
So this time Yang Guang used Yang Yuanqing as a test and made him a third-grade Yinqing Guanglu doctor. As a result, it aroused a strong backlash from the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty. This shows that the officials have accepted his reforms last year.
has made his reforms the new rules.
This result made Yang Guang very satisfied. In fact, even if Yang Yuanqing did not bring it up himself, Yang Guang would find an opportunity to demote his position as a doctor of Yinqing Guanglu. It would be difficult for others to be demoted, but only Yang Yuanqing could be demoted. How could he have a son?
Why is his position higher than that of his father? Just like when Yang Su and Yang Xuangan were both Zhuguo, which attracted criticism from the whole court, Yang Xuangan had to ask to be demoted. There was a precedent, and Yang Guang could find an excuse.
Yang Guang nodded, "Your father is only a senior doctor, but you are a senior doctor of Yinqing Guanglu. It's really inappropriate. Since you brought it up yourself, I will demote you by two levels and change your title to a senior fourth-grade doctor."
, but this Tongyi doctor must have at least fifteen years of experience. It is estimated that many people will still be dissatisfied, but I have decided not to change it. This time, I will calm down the chaos in the capital and expose the conspiracy of the King of Qi to raise a private army. You will do it immediately.
If you have done a great job, I will grant you another title."
"I thank your Majesty for your kindness!"
Yang Guang walked to the map with his hands behind his back and looked at the vast Western Region. In the past few years since he took the throne, he had stabilized the Turks in the north, attacked the Khitan and Ryukyu in the east, and conquered Linyi in the south. Now he has set his sights on the west.
Now that the country is strong, has abundant financial resources, and the morale of the army is high, the time has come to explore the Western Regions.
Yang Guang looked back at Yang Yuanqing and smiled slightly: "In the battle in Dali City, you actually made two major contributions. One of the major contributions was to defeat Xue Yantuo's army, defend Dali City, and promote the prestige of the Sui Dynasty.
The credit is that you contacted Qibi and made Qibi Khan come to Beijing to accept the canonization of our Great Sui Dynasty and become a vassal of our Great Sui Dynasty. It was Qibi's surrender that made me determined to open up the Western Regions."
Yang Yuanqing probably understood that Yang Guang wanted to send him as an envoy to the Western Regions, but this was also what he expected. A man would open up new territories for the country and be remembered in history. More importantly, only by going out could he have the opportunity to take control of the military.
He immediately bowed and said: "I am willing to share your worries for Your Majesty!"
Yang Guang laughed and said, "Very good, you have indeed lived up to my expectations."
He immediately ordered: "Bring up my map!"
Immediately, a dozen eunuchs brought over a huge woodcut map from next door. It took more than a hundred craftsmen half a year to carve it after Pei Ju went to the Western Regions last year based on the geographical map of the Western Regions drawn by Pei Ju. It was two feet long.
One foot wide.
The eunuchs fetched another huge wooden frame, hung the carved wooden map on the wooden frame, and everyone retreated.
Yang Guang was extremely familiar with this map. He pointed at the map with a wooden pole and said: "The Western Region is actually composed of three major forces. The Western Turks are in the northwest, the Teller tribes are in the middle, and the Tuyuhun is in the east. Here
Among the three major forces, the Tiele tribes were willing to rely on us during the Sui Dynasty because of Qibi, in order to get rid of the rule of the Western Turks. Last year, Pei Ju had been sent to the Western Regions as an envoy and had contacted the Tiele tribes, but the problem was that Tuyuhun blocked it.
Contact between the Sui Dynasty and the Western Regions.
Tuyuhun not only occupied a large area of territory in the Western Region, but also secretly formed an alliance with the Western Turks. I have received news from Qimin Khan that the Western Turks Chuluo Khan and Tuyuhun Fuyun Khan formed an alliance in October last year. They agreed to jointly deal with it.
During the Great Sui Dynasty, after the victory over the Great Sui Dynasty, the Tiele tribes in the Western Region were owned by the Western Turks, while the Hexi Corridor was owned by Tuyuhun."
Speaking of this, Yang Guang couldn't help but sneer, and he pointed the wooden pole to a city in the west of Qinghai. This is Fuqi City, the capital of Tuyuhun, and said: "So I decided to personally conquer Tuyuhun next year and completely destroy Tuyuhun."
, extending the territory of the Sui Dynasty to the west for thousands of miles."
Having said this, Yang Guang smiled and asked Yang Yuanqing: "Can you think of what your mission is?"
Yang Yuanqing thought for a moment and said: "I thought it was to cut off the Western Turks' support to Tuyuhun."
Yang Guang put his hands on his hands and laughed, "He is indeed my favorite general. He has far-sighted vision and a very strategic mind."
Yang Guang pointed to an area north of Dunhuang and said: "There are a total of forty-four countries in the Western Region, most of which are surrendered to Qibi, but there is a key country that is surrendered to the Western Turks, and that is here!"
Yang Guang nodded heavily with a wooden stick, "This small country is called Yiwu Country (today's Xinjiang Hami). It is located exactly between the Western Turks and Tuyuhun. It surrenders to the Western Turks. Last year, the Western Turks and Tuyuhun formed an alliance.
The Yiwu Kingdom is advancing, so if I want to attack Tuyuhun, I must first capture the Yiwu Kingdom and cut off the connection between the Western Turks and Tuyuhun. Last year, Qimin Khan had agreed to jointly attack the Yiwu Kingdom with the Sui Dynasty. I want to let the Yiwu Kingdom
I leave this task to you to become the 186th county of the Sui Dynasty, Yiwu County and Yuanqing."
Yang Yuanqing saluted solemnly, "I am willing to serve your Majesty!"
"Okay! I will appoint you as General Zuo Xiaowei and Commander-in-Chief of the Yumen Road March. You will join forces with Qimin Khan to attack the country of Yiwu. We will set off in ten days!"
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