The prefect of six counties finally signed the "One State and Six County Joint Defense and Mutual Aid Plan" late at night. There were no personnel changes involving the government in the plan. Yang Yuanqing did not interfere. He just took away the control of the military power of each county and established the
The joint defense command post, through concentrated training and centralized supply of military food, divided the relationship between the soldiers and governments of each county, making the six counties in the north of Guanzhou a sphere of influence.
In the next month, the six county governments used labor-for-relief to mobilize 50,000 civilians to build Chiling City in the Chiling Mining Area. After the construction, 10,000 troops will be stationed in the city. This circumference is ten miles long.
The military city will also hang a sign of "Common Defense Command Post". The twenty-mile wilderness around it has become the training place for the six counties and counties. Chiling City has actually become the base camp for Yang Yuanqing to control the six counties.
Although the prefect of the six counties did not want the court to know about the agreement they signed with Yang Yuanqing, there was no airtight wall in the world. The matter was leaked through a certain channel and then spread to Chang'an. Wen Sheng, the deputy guard of Chang'an, reported urgently.
Emperor Yang Guang of Sui.
In the imperial study of Xuanzheng Hall, Yang Guang summoned Yu Shiji, Yuwen Shu and Fan Zigai to discuss the matter urgently.
Yang Guang fell ill these days and had a serious cold. He kept resting in the palace. This matter was of great importance, so he forced his illness to hold a meeting.
Yang Guang was not very angry and his face was pale. Although he was extremely angry, his face was not revealed, but his face was just a heavy face.
"Tell me! How should we deal with this?"
Yang Guang's eyes were no longer sharp, but the coldness of his eyes kept showing still made the three people present a little nervous.
"I'll say a few words first."
Yuwen Shu bowed slightly and said, "Your Majesty, Yang Yuanqing's intention is very obvious. He wants to expand his power and control the periphery of Fengzhou. This time, he suppressed the rebellion bandits. I think the court cannot agree with it, and once the court agrees,
He will gain a slight diligence and continue to expand southward, making the entire pass into his sphere of influence. I think the garrison is actually control. If you want to break Yang Yuanqing's plan, you must start with the garrison. I suggest the establishment of the pass in the garrison."
Yang Guang nodded and asked Yu Shiji again, "What do you think Yu Aiqing?"
Yu Shiji bowed and said, "I think that he is acting against Sui in the name of Sui, which is even more harmful. I believe that the court should publicly declare him a rebellion and believe that he is a rebellion to prevent him from continuing to bewitch people's hearts. This time
He signed an agreement with the prefects of six counties to expand his power to the northern part of the pass. The ministers also advocated a severe counterattack. In addition to military entry, the six prefects must be severely punished and replaced them all. He did not recognize the agreement they signed, and only the court had a tough attitude.
Only then can you show the prefects of other counties."
"What is Fan Shangshu's opinion?"
Yang Guang's eyes turned to Fan Zigai. The reason why he asked Fan Zigai to discuss with him was that he knew that Yuwen Shu and Yu Shiji had personal grudges with Yang Yuanqing, and their opinions were mixed with their own selfish thoughts, and Fan Zigai
He is relatively neutral and has no interest disputes with Yang Yuanqing.
Fan Zigai is indeed not as biased as Yuwen Shu and Yu Shiji. Moreover, Fan Zigai has served as the chief executive of Liangzhou for many years and is well aware of the importance of the border. More importantly, Fan Zigai's goal in the officialdom is not Yang Yuanqing, but
Yuwen Shu and Yu Shiji.
"Your Majesty, I want to know whether the court has been prepared to turn against Yang Yuanqing in a full rebellion, including its defense against Guanlong and its defense against the Turks. I am most worried about the Turks. Once Yang Yuanqing rebelled publicly, he is very likely to collude with the Turks to make a big move.
When invading, how is the court ready to defend against the Turks? In addition, there are also possible crises within the court, and these must be considered clearly."
Fan Zigai's concerns made Yang Guang's face change. He realized that if Yang Yuanqing rebelled, unlike the Yuan family and Yang Xuangan, the consequences were very serious. It would not only cause chaos in the court, but also involve the Turks. This was his Yang Guangjue.
The consequences that you don't want to see.
"Then Fan Aiqing talks about your plan, I want to know."
Fan Zigai quickly glanced at Yuwen Shu and Yu Shiji from the corner of his eyes. Seeing that both of them were calm and unhappy, he smiled slightly and said, "Actually, the direction of General Yuwen and Minister Yu is correct, but
Considering the problem is a bit simple, the means are too fierce, and it is easy to force Yang Yuanqing to rebel. Since Yang Yuanqing also knows how to use the method of building a plank road openly and crossing Chen Cang secretly, why can't we use it? What I mean is that on the surface, it is still maintaining the status quo, but the force behind it is
.”
Fan Zigai stabbed Yuwen Shu and Yu Shiji without saying a word. Yuwen Shu was about to refute Fan Zigai, but Yang Guang waved his hand to stop the conversation, and said unhappily: "Yuwen Aiqing, I know you hate him deeply.
Yang Yuanqing, I hate him too, but now is not the time to talk about personal grudges, I must consider the threat of the Turks."
Yuwen Shu had no choice but to keep silent. He felt very angry and asked Yu Shiji to see him, but Yu Shiji seemed to have seen nothing and smiled without saying anything.
Yu Shiji also realized that Yang Guang did not dare to really use force against Yang Yuanqing, but he yelled fiercely, but neither he nor Yuwen Shu could see this, but Fan Zigai saw that, not only took the opportunity to step on it.
They kicked and used the Turks to make steps for Yang Guang. At this point, Fan Zigai was better than both of them. Yu Shiji suddenly became alert to Fan Zigai, and he found that Fan Zigai would be him
A major threat in the officialdom.
Yu Shiji also hurriedly said: "Just just said that our attitude is not a response. I also know that this move will lead to the overall situation. I advocate that the attitude should be firm, but the means should be hidden. If you have a firm attitude, you cannot give Yang Yuanqing any
Lucky, move quickly, block his next path, and the hidden means to avoid intensification of conflicts and make him retreat. Since Yang Yuanqing is an excuse to infiltrate bandits, we can also send troops to the name of bandit suppression.
The other six prefects can be replaced with other excuses, especially the prefect of Lingwu County Wei Siyun, who has served in Fengzhou for a long time, so he must first be replaced."
Yuwen Shu also realized his mistake, but he wanted to change his words and could no longer start. Moreover, he was too full to say that he could not come back for a while, so he could only stand aside in regret and remained silent.
Yang Guang really dared not force the rebellion of Yang Yuanqing now. Yang Xuangan did not catch him. Yuan Hongsi fled to the Western Regions again. The anti-Sui forces in the south were ready to move. The rebellion in the north was in full swing. The power of the Guanlong nobles had not yet been eliminated. The Shandong gentry began to be dissatisfied again.
Especially the financial tightness, taxes were sharply reduced by 70%, which made Yang Guang very worried, and he fell ill because of this.
In this severe form, he would undoubtedly force his opponent to rebel against Yang Yuanqing, so as long as Yang Yuanqing does not do too much, he will not send troops to attack for the moment. This time, Yang Yuanqing will expand his power to the south.
Although it is not a very serious problem, Yang Guang did not want him to succeed easily like this. More importantly, he should stop him from continuing to expand southward.
Yu Shiji's plan was not too fast or slow, just as he wanted, Yang Guang nodded, "Yu Aiqing said it makes sense, I know what to do."
One hour later, Yang Guang issued two orders, and issued an order to grant Qu Tutong the ambassador to the inner road of the pass, leading an army of 50,000 to the inner road of the pass, and issued an order to move Wei Siyun, the prefect of Lingwu County, to be the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, and to change it to
He served as the prefect of Boling County Qiu He as the prefect of Lingwu County.
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It was already the end of October, and the cold began to come from the north. The northwest wind swept across Mobei and Hetao Plain, the trees withered and the grass withered and yellow. The cold winter is coming.
In a fort city twenty miles west of Jiuyuan County, thousands of blacksmiths were busy working hard.
The fort city is a unique civil defense fortification in Wuyuan County. When the Turks invaded, it was given temporary shelter to the people. There are hundreds of large and small fort cities in Wuyuan County, and the large fort city can accommodate them.
Ten thousand people, the small fort city can accommodate at least thousands of people. This fort city twenty miles west of Jiuyuan County is called Chencangbao. It is named after it is close to Chencang Village. It is a large fort city with a circumference of
Bali has always been idle, but at this time, this Chencang Fort became the smelting center of Fengzhou Army.
Here is about twenty miles away from the South Yellow River. There is an artificial canal that directly leads to the Yellow River. Millions of kilograms of iron ore and copper ore transported from Chiling Mine are piled up on the docks south of the fortress city, and also transported from Yulin County.
The carbonite was also piled up on the west side of the pier, and the black carbonite was piled up like mountains. People kept transporting trucks of ore and carbonite into the fort city with ox carts.
That morning, Yang Yuanqing and more than a dozen officials inspected the smelting progress in the fort city. Since Yang Shidao left Wuyuan County, Yang Yuanqing has also served as the prefect of Wuyuan County. Of course, he was just named and handed over the specific government affairs to the county.
Cheng Cui Junsu.
Today, as the prefect, he led officials to inspect the Smelting Fort City. There are fifty smelting furnaces, 1,200 craftsmen, and hundreds of civilians responsible for carrying items in the entire Fort City.
The smelting of Wuyuan County is different from that of the mainland. It is not made of wood, but carbon is used as fuel. There are a large amount of storage nearby Wuyuan.
Generally, the carbohydrate in Fugu Town, Yulin County is used. The carbohydrate is shallow buried, has large reserves, good quality, and has extremely high calorific value. It can be used to make high-quality tinplate, and then the blacksmith can further forge it into jing steel.
It can create excellent armor and weapons.
The official in charge of smelting was Zhang Qian. He was originally a military officer from the Fengzhou General Administration. He worked as a junior official in the Shaofu Temple of the imperial court for several years and was very familiar with casting and smelting, so he was responsible for the casting and smelting.
forging.
Today, Yang Yuanqing was not here to visit the smelting process. He had seen it many times. He came to the warehouse to check the copper ingots.
The warehouse is located in the north of the fort city, with dozens of huge stone houses. When everyone walked past the stone houses, they could see the neatly placed pig iron ingots in the warehouse.
"Maintain, this warehouse is!"
Zhang Qian took Yang Yuanqing and other officials into a smaller warehouse. The warehouse was bright and there were also neatly placed thick copper ingots. A copper ingot weighed about 30 kilograms, which was enough to cover thousands of yuan.
many.
Yang Yuanqing knocked the copper ingot with a dagger, and the copper ingot made a crisp metal sound. He smiled at the officials and said, "Guess, what am I going to do with these copper ingots?"