Turbulent Times Chapter 1345: The emperor’s northern tour

Yang Tan frowned, obviously very disappointed and dissatisfied with his grandfather's situation at this time, but he still took the wine glass, drank it down, knelt down to Yang Guang, and said loudly: "Grandpa, Sun Er has something to report. The Wagang rebels in East County have already controlled two counties, and the surrounding counties have also been faintly controlled. Now they have threatened the safety of Luoyang and the capital. Now rumors are spreading among the people, and some traitors advocate Li Mina. Grandfather, please mobilize the army to encircle and suppress the rebels in Wagang Village."

After Yang Tan finished speaking impassionedly, he lowered his head and waited for Yang Guang's answer, but there was no reply after a while. Leaning in the arms of the favorite concubine behind him, I don't know if he fell asleep. Yu Shiji sat on his knees and said something to Yang Guang with his ear. Looking at Yang Guang's appearance, he didn't know if he heard what he just said clearly. up.

After a long while, Yang Guang said in a low voice, vaguely: "My son! I have my own opinion on this matter. That Wagang Li Mi is just a clown. I wanted to destroy them, but I just flicked my fingers For the matter, you go to the East Palace and study hard with the teacher I invited you."

Yang Tan was obviously dissatisfied with Yang Guang's answer, and said loudly: "Grandfather, grandson is willing to lead the army to destroy the Nawagang rebels, and bring back the head of Li Mi's traitor to grandfather."

Yang Guang shook his head and said, "You are still young, how can you lead an army to fight?"

Yang Tan anxiously said: "When my grandfather was young, didn't he also lead a large army to go to the south of the Yangtze River to destroy the former Jiangnan Dynasty Chen Guo? What my grandfather can do, my grandson can also do."

Yang Tan's words seemed to bring back fond memories of Yang Guang. After a long while, he suddenly let out a long laugh and said loudly, "What Tan'er said makes some sense, but leading an army is too dangerous."

Beside him, Pei Shiju suddenly stood up and bowed and said: "Your Majesty said a few days ago that he wanted to go out for a walk and tour the world. Why not let His Majesty tour the counties in the north and let His Royal Highness supervise the country in the capital of Luoyang? Can what I have learned in these years be able to stand alone."

When Yang Guang heard this, he was overjoyed immediately, and said: "Pei Aiqing's proposal is very suitable for me. I will pass on the decree. After seven days, I will go on a northern tour, and the prince will stay in the East Palace to supervise the country."

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"The emperor is going to inspect the world again." Yang Guang adopted Pei Shiju's proposal and decided to go north. Liu Ziming, he already knew that Yang Guang might want to go on a northern tour, and he even knew what might happen during the northern tour, but now that history has changed, he can't be sure whether some things that were supposed to happen will happen or not.

Liu Ziming didn't know that there was another reason for the complex look on Wang Junlin's face, so he sighed, "The emperor's inspections usually require local food offerings. If there are dozens or hundreds of people, it's not a problem, but the emperor's inspections are never rare. More than 100,000 people, a hundred officials, a harem, and tens of thousands of soldiers can’t afford food for a single county. I remember that the emperor went to Jiangnan for inspection five years ago. Pingliang, Lingwu, and Wuyuan are sparsely populated counties.”

Du Ruhui sneered and said, "When did the emperor and those people in Luoyang care about the lives of the people? Didn't Ziming know about the incident between Qiu He and Yang Kuo three years ago?"

Liu Ziming sighed and said: "How could I not know that three years ago the emperor visited Yanmen County and Mayi County, and the prefect of Yanmen County Qiu He used all his strength to entertain Yang Guang and his tens of thousands of followers?" For three days, although Yanmen County was almost completely exploited, Qiu He was transferred to the affluent Boling County as the prefect because of his excellent hospitality. Later, Yang Guang visited Mayi County, and the prefect Yang Kuo was a clean official and could not bear to be exploited. The people, who refused to offer delicious food, neglected Yang Guang a little, which made Yang Guang extremely dissatisfied. Although he was not dismissed, he was ordered to learn from Qiu He."

Wang Junlin also sneered and said, "From then on, wherever Yang Guang went, the local officials tried their best to entertain them and did not dare to neglect them. This made Yang Guang's inspections an extremely heavy burden for the people everywhere. But at the same time, it is also a good opportunity for local officials to make a fortune. There is a censor who impeached Qiu He, and the holy driver stayed in Yanmen County for three days. Donating food money, he alone embezzled 100,000 yuan, and other subordinate officials didn't know how much they embezzled? This is a messy account, and no one can figure it out. What's more, Yang Guang suppressed Yushi's impeachment .”

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The three of them lamented the sufferings brought by the emperor's northern tour, and Wang Junlin looked solemn, and then he started to talk about the business: "Ruhui and Ziming can prepare food and grass in the past few days. The emperor's northern tour may cause the Turkic people to There are some changes, and it is likely that we will go south with all our strength, and we will probably dispatch an army at that time."

Du Ruhui and Liu Ziming were startled when they heard the words, the former asked suspiciously: "The prince means that the Turkic people will harm the emperor?"

Wang Junlin nodded, shook his head again, and said: "The spies that Guoer sent to Turkic these days have collected a lot of information on Turkic people. The Turkic people are ready to go south at any time, just waiting for a It is a good opportunity, and now the emperor has gone to the border on the northern tour, perhaps in the eyes of the Turkic people, it is their good opportunity.”

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Half a month later, Sui Emperor Yang Guang's huge inspection team appeared on the vast land of Pingliang County. The inspection team consisted of 140,000 people and stretched for more than 20 miles.

The core of the inspection team is Liuhe City, the emperor's palace. Liuhe City is a huge movable wooden palace city, made by Shaofu Temple Minister He Chou. As the name suggests, it is hexagonal, with a circumference of eight miles. The wall is as high as six feet from the ground. Emperor Yang Guangyi and other court ladies and eunuchs live in it, and 3,000 inner palace soldiers defend the city.

Hundreds of huge wooden wheels are installed under Liuhe City. It cannot walk by itself, and needs thousands of cows to pull it forward slowly and steadily.

Knowing that such a huge Liuhe City is very slow to move, and it takes a lot of people to build roads, but Yang Guang likes this, because in his opinion, only such a car is worthy of it His status as emperor.

From a psychological point of view, when a person attaches great importance to reflecting his identity through external objects, it is actually a manifestation of loss of self-confidence.

However, as he approached the border of Wuyuan County, Yang Guang became more and more interested, because it was not the first time he came to Wuyuan County. Going out of the county and defeating Datou Khan of the Western Turks, this time he returned to the old place, which reminded him of his bravery back then, and some of the lost confidence seemed to come back.