[Volume 15: Stormy River East Road] Chapter 59: Darkness
At night, Yang Yuanqing returned to the dormitory from the study room, scalded his feet with boiling water and was about to rest. He glanced at him and suddenly found the ivory box on the table. He was stunned. He took the box and opened it. It was the pair he bought for his aunt during the day.
bracelet.
"This is taken by my uncle. He refused to take it anyway. He said it was too expensive and he couldn't afford it."
Pei Minqiu walked out of the inner room, combed her long hair, and explained to her husband: "Last month, the shopkeeper Gao also showed me this pair of bracelets, which cost 1.5 million yuan, saying that they were leaking from the palace.
, I originally wanted to buy it for your aunt, but Chuchen said that he would talk about it when his mother came, so I had to ask Manager Gao to keep it for me for the time being, but I didn't expect you to buy it back. It seems that he is really destined to do it."
Yang Yuanqing frowned, and his uncle refused to ask for it. This was a bit difficult. Pei Minqiu picked up the bracelet from the box, looked at it carefully for a while, and said to Yang Yuanqing: "I asked Fangxin in the afternoon, this is indeed a palace.
The thing inside is Queen Dugu’s beloved thing, one of her three jewelry pieces that were not buried with her. The late emperor stayed for a souvenir and somehow spread it. This is a priceless treasure.”
Yang Yuanqing pondered for a while and asked, "Does my uncle know this is Queen Dugu's bracelet?"
"He knew, I told him in the afternoon."
Yang Yuanqing was silent. He knew why his uncle wanted it. It was his wife who put pressure on him and told him that this was Queen Dugu’s bracelet. Do he still dare to ask for it?
Yang Yuanqing sighed in his heart, "You can't blame your wife for this, you can only say it's too coincidental. The thing she planned to give to her aunt was bought and given to her aunt. This made it difficult for her to be a human being, and she didn't hide it from her.
I told myself frankly that this is a kind of trust between husband and wife.
Pei Minqiu saw that her husband had already understood what he meant, so she squatted down and held her husband's hand and apologized: "Husband, I am really sorry for this matter. I shouldn't have told my uncle that this is Queen Dugu's bracelet, and my uncle refused to ask for it.
The bracelet is my fault.”
Yang Yuanqing gently stroked his wife's smooth forehead and said softly: "If you want to blame him, blame the shopkeeper Gao. You asked him to collect the things he had taken, but he sold them to me. This is clearly a challenge to our husband and wife. I will find him tomorrow.
Go to the account.”
Pei Minqiu waved his hands repeatedly, "This has nothing to do with Manager Gao. He is determined to please you. Don't blame him. It's because I'm too young. I will give the bracelet to my uncle tomorrow. If he doesn't want it, I will send someone to give it to my aunt.
.”
Yang Yuanqing shook his head, "Forget it, my uncle refuses to ask for it. I think it's not because you put pressure on me. Queen Dugu's things, my aunt's fortune is not necessarily a good thing to hold. I can understand my uncle's worries, and this pair of bracelets
My aunt can't wear it either, and the things of the Great Sui Queen can only be passed on to the new Great Sui Queen."
Yang Yuanqing took his wife's hand, put two bracelets on his wife, and smiled and said, "Even if I give it to you next year, it will be our tenth year of marriage, this is my gift to you. My aunt, you will take care of you.
I bought two other pieces of jewelry, and four long-lived locks, and each of my uncle's four grandsons."
Pei Minqiu buried her face deep into her husband's arms, and she was both happy and moved. Although her husband had already become the King of Chu, he still remembered that he had been married for almost ten years.
The next morning, Cheng Yaojin came to Jinyang Palace. This was his first time to come to Jinyang Palace. He didn't know the way and temporarily caught an old eunuch who left the palace to do business to lead the way. He looked around and couldn't help it.
He grinned and said, "This Jinyang Palace is good. When I become the emperor one day, I will build such a palace to enjoy it."
The old eunuch who was rising up the road ahead turned green. Where did he come from? He actually wanted to be the emperor.
"This general, you can't speak nonsense, you have to be beheaded."
"Well! You old eunuch, no wonder there are no birds below you, so timid. You think the manager will take my words to heart. He just thinks I am farting. To be honest, even if I really let me be the emperor
, I don’t want to! Of course, I don’t want to cut a bird and become an eunuch.”
The old eunuch has been a eunuch in the Northern Zhou Palace since he was eight years old. He has been a eunuch for forty years and has never seen such a rude person. He was so angry that his face turned from green to white, and his face turned gloomy and silent.
He walked all the way to Ziwei Pavilion, "This is Ziwei Pavilion, you can go in by yourself!"
The old eunuch glared at him fiercely, turned around and left. Cheng Yaojin looked at his back and shook his head. He couldn't afford to make a joke at all. How did he get through this life?
He turned around and walked to the gate of Ziwei Pavilion and saluted the guards, "He is the general Cheng Yaojin of Xiaya, come in and see you on the order of General Manager Yang. Please report to me."
Yang Yuanqing was sitting in the official room to handle the court affairs. Next to him was Pei Qingsong, a new secretary, who was a new Jinshi. Although his talkative triggered a large number of scholars with more than 20,000 people, Yang Yuanqing also
Instead of being convicted for his words, he admired his superiority to ordinary people's vision and specially promoted him to join the army in the Records Office to replace Shen Chun who went to Dunhuang County.
Yang Yuanqing handed him several approved memorials and ordered: "These can be transferred to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Works, Li Chun, asked me to build the Yan'an Floating Bridge.
look."
Pei Qingsong walked out of the room and quickly took a memorial and handed it to Yang Yuanqing, "Master, is this the one?"
Yang Yuanqing took it and looked at it, "It's it, I'll take a good look, you go down first!"
Pei Qingsong bowed and retreated. Yang Yuanqing was very interested in Li Chun's suggestion. Because the court wanted to use the Yellow River water transportation to build a floating bridge to completely hinder the water transportation, he did not advocate building a floating bridge, but Li Chun suggested using iron chains to repair the floating bridge first.
The boat will then use the method of pile driving in the dry winter to build a wooden bridge in the river that is dozens of steps long. The boat can pass under the wooden bridge without affecting the water transportation. This will save the pain of ferry between Yan'an County and Lishi County.
It can be very convenient for communication.
Li Chun mainly considers facilitating exchanges between the people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, but what Yang Yuanqing saw was its strategic value. A floating bridge connects Yan'an County and Lishi County. If there is something wrong with Yan'an County, the Sui army in Lishi County can use it most.
Fast support, you can build a few more floating bridges, so that the six counties in Guanbei can be connected with Hedong. This will have great strategic significance for the control of the six counties in Guanbei, and will not affect water transportation. Yang Yuanqing's heart
Very excited, he raised his pen and criticized: "Appoint Ziweige to discuss this matter immediately."
He put down his pen and the guards outside the door reported, "Report to the general manager, General Cheng, who asked for a visit."
"Let him in!"
Yang Yuanqing put the memorial on the bridge to the side, and he had another major event now.
After a moment, Cheng Yaojin quickly walked into the official room. Although he was careless in front of others, he never dared to be rude in front of Yang Yuan. He stepped forward, knelt down on one knee and said, "I will see Cheng Yaojin in the end.
Manager!"
"stand up!"
Cheng Yaojin stood up, Yang Yuanqing looked at him with a smile and asked, "What did that person do yesterday? Was he beat him up or break one of his legs?"
Cheng Yaojin blushed and scratched his head and said, "After all, he is a cousin. He admitted that he had not been imprisoned, so my wife spared him and gave him two hundred yuan to send him a letter back."
Yang Yuanqing laughed in silence and said, "I found that for you, your wife is more effective than me."
Cheng Yaojin knew that Yang Yuanqing was teasing him, so he had to smile bitterly and said, "Aren't you just afraid of being upset? She coaxed my mother around. Every time I say something to her, my mother would scold me, and
She is already pregnant, so I hope she will give birth to a son for me, and I am too lazy to argue with her."
Yang Yuanqing nodded, "I am also very happy to see your changes. I told the princess last night to ask her to care more about your wife and mother and make her suffer any difficulties. Even if you tell the princess, she will definitely help her solve it."
Cheng Yaojin was moved and bowed and said, "Thank you, the general manager for your concern!"
"Okay! When will you go back?" Yang Yuanqingran said.
"The last general asked General Qin for five days off. The matter has been resolved and he plans to go back tomorrow."
"Come with me, I have a task to you."
Yang Yuanqing stood up and walked towards the next battle room. Cheng Yaojin followed him and found that there was a tray in the room, two meters wide and two meters long, exactly the same as the sand table on the Central Army's large tent.
Yang Yuanqing's expression was very serious. He picked up the wooden pole and looked at Cheng Yaojin and said, "What I told you now is related to whether our Hebei Battle will be successful in the end, so listen carefully to me. Don't laugh, otherwise you
It's about to lose your head."
Even if the old eunuch told Cheng Yaojin that he would be beheaded ten thousand times, he would not take it any in his heart. However, Yang Yuanqing only told him once, and he remembered that his black face was so tense that it was so irritating.
There was no careless smile on his face, his eyes staring at Yang Yuanqing's wooden pole with unusually sharp eyes, and his ears were straight.
Yang Yuanqing pointed at Lingqiu County with a wooden pole, "Now you and General Qin's 20,000 cavalry troops are stationed in Lingqiu County. I'll ask you, what are you doing now?"
Cheng Yaojin thought for a while and said carefully: "I am training and waiting for the order to attack Shanggu County."
"Very good. Do you know when to attack Shanggu County?" Yang Yuanqing asked, staring at the eyes.
Cheng Yaojin bit his lip and dared not say it. Yang Yuanqing smiled and said, "You can tell the truth, I won't blame you."
"Yes! At the end, I will hear that it will be next spring, and all my brothers know that it will be next spring."
"That's true. What I told the prime ministers in the Political Affairs Hall was next spring. Even Li Yuan and other important officials of the Tang Dynasty knew that he would fight Hebei next spring. I also mentioned this in the settlement agreement signed with the Tang Dynasty.
, I think Hebei should know it too, but I want to tell you clearly that it is just my strategy to repair the plank road in the open. The battle in Hebei will not be launched until next spring, but will start now!"
Yang Yuanqing laughed and stared at him and said, "Do you understand?"
Cheng Yaojin's eyes showed shock, and he said, "What the general manager means is that all the news about attacking Hebei next spring is fake, is it to confuse the enemy?"
Yang Yuanqing nodded, "That's right, now only you and me know this top secret news. What do you think?"
"The most will...the most will sew the mouth up, and I will never tell my wife."
Yang Yuanqing laughed loudly, he patted Cheng Yaojin on the shoulder and said meaningfully: "You don't have the chance to tell your wife. If you leave Jinyang Palace, you will go back to Yanmen County directly. Time no longer allows you to set off tomorrow."
"The general understands that the general will grow old immediately..."
"Okay! Let me tell you the task you and General Qin want to complete. This task is related to the success or failure of the entire Hebei Battle."