Turbulent Times Chapter 731: Return to the capital
Yang Su thought for a while, sighed, and said, "Perhaps this suspended animation is an opportunity for me to escape, and if I die, the Yang family can survive. The emperor wanted to show the world. I will not treat Yang Shi poorly in time. So tell the capital that I was assassinated!"
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Gao Ying was burned to death, news of Yang Hao's surrender and Yang Su's assassination spread to the capital one after another. While Yang Guang was shocked, he was suddenly elated. He was still having a headache on how to reward Yang Su for his great achievements, and then reduce Yang Su's power, but he didn't expect Yang Su to be assassinated in a daze after the Bingzhou Rebellion was put down. This was definitely a surprise for him.
For this reason, Yang Guang specially drank a few glasses of wine, and he decided not to deal with the government affairs tonight, but to read a book in the Ziwei Palace in the inner palace to relax for a while.
Ziwei Hall is the place where Yang Guang handles government affairs in the inner palace, that is, his inner study, and sometimes meets ministers here. Sitting on the couch with a belt decorated with iron, he was concentrating on reading a book. On the imperial case in front of him, there was a Historical Records and a Hanshu.
Yang Guang likes to read history. He has been reading history books since he was a child, so that he knows the rise and fall of dynasties like the palm of his hand. He was fascinated by the skill and boldness of building the Great Wall and Qin Zhidao.
And Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty opened up the territory, attacked Dawan, the Xiongnu, and Weigai at home, leaving a illustrious martial arts in the long river of history, which also made Yang Guang yearn for it. As early as when he was the prince, he was thinking about it. For his future martial arts and martial arts, he also wants to leave a splendid mark in history.
At this time, Empress Xiao walked into his study with a bowl of ginseng tea: "Your Majesty, it's rare to relax tonight, so go to bed early!"
Empress Xiao put the ginseng tea on the table, and said with a smile: "Guo Liangdi is eight months pregnant, Your Majesty should go and see her, I hope she will give birth to your Majesty's son."
Yang Guang held his wife's white jade hand and said with a smile, "I hope you will give me a few more sons."
Empress Xiao Huang blushed, leaned on Yang Guang, and said quietly: "I would like to, but this concubine is already a grandmother, how can I be born again? How about I give my majesty a few more young people?" My concubine, let Your Majesty have more heirs."
Yang Guang sighed slightly and said, "As the Son of Heaven, I must be praised by future generations like Emperor Qin and Han Wu. Only mothers can create the Great Sui Dynasty, I already have two sons and a daughter, Guo Liangdi is eight months pregnant, and many grandchildren, that's enough, there is no need to have more concubines."
Xiao's heart was moved, and there was a kind of indescribable happiness. He and Yang Guang had been married for more than 20 years. The confidant said in front of the father that her husband was licentious, but the father refuted him with one sentence, "If my son is licentious, why are there only two sons and one daughter, and they are all born to the regular wife?" ’ left the informant speechless.
But Empress Xiao is still a little worried. After all, her husband is the emperor, and the emperor's heirs are weak, which will destabilize the society, and she is also to blame.
"Your Majesty is the king of a country, how can he only have two sons and one daughter, Fangling King has ten sons and four daughters, His Majesty's heirs are weak, and there are many ministers and concubines!"
The king of Fangling is the former prince Yang Yong. Yang Guang felt a little uncomfortable when he mentioned him, so he said lightly: "The king of Fangling is too feminine and addicted to lust. When he was a prince, he was dissolute. Shu, such a person cannot support the Great Sui Dynasty."
Empress Xiao doesn't really care about Yang Yong. The matter of the prince.
One of the two sons is going to be established as the crown prince. According to her original intention, the eldest son Yang Zhao should be the heir. However, Yang Zhao is too fat and sick. , looks quite like her father, and it might be a good choice to make him his son, both of them are her sons, no matter who she chooses as the East Palace, she will support her, and more importantly, she has seen her husband working day and night with her own eyes. State affairs, Zhao'er's body, can he bear it?
"Your Majesty, how do you consider who should be the crown prince of the Eastern Palace?"
Yang Guang knew what Empress Xiao meant. In fact, he had been hesitant about this matter. As an emperor, the eldest son did not have the appearance of a dragon and martial arts, his appearance was not good, and his body could not cope with the heavy state affairs. This was also what Yang Guang was worried about. The thing is, although Yang Guang himself also wanted to make his second son Yang Hao the crown prince, it doesn't mean that he doesn't value the eldest son. He attaches great importance to the eldest son. , and the character of the eldest son is better than that of the second son. Although Yang Hao is handsome and powerful, how could Yang Guang not know about his poor conduct.
Yang Guang sighed, "Let's put aside the establishment of the East Palace! I want to see it again."
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Wang Junlin did not tell Wang Long, Yu Wenhua and the truth that Yang Su was not dead, but left Taiyuan City immediately before Yang Su's army sealed off Taiyuan City.
With him leaving Taiyuan for the capital, in addition to Shen Guang, Shan Xiongxin, Chunqiu Laonu and other people who originally followed him to Bingzhou, there were also three members of Luo Guishou's family, Xiao Fenger, Zheng Shengqiu and other Nanhua Association in Bingzhou Experts, when Gao Ying killed Xiao Mahe, he destroyed most of the Nanhua Society's forces in Bingzhou. The remaining people were not many, but they were all experts. Zheng Shengqiu contacted and gathered together, and they will defect to Chen Danying, the saint of the Nanhua Society in the capital.
In addition, Wang Junlin sent someone to send a letter to Luo Yi, asking him to continue hiding in the valley, and wait for the army brought by Yang Su to withdraw before returning to Hedong County to prevent being besieged and killed by Yang Su's generals. At that time, Wang Junlin will ask Luo Yi for credit, and recommend Luo Yi to Yang Guang as the general of Bingzhou Zhonglang.
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"Finally back to Daxing City!"
Wang Junlin stared hurriedly, but saw the outline of a city wall looming in the afterglow of the setting sun on the distant plain in front of him, like a long black dragon swimming in the twilight.
Wang Junlin knew that Daxing City was originally the Chang'an City of the Tang Dynasty in history, but it was not the original Chang'an City of the Han Dynasty (Note).
Note: After Yang Jian, Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty established the Sui Dynasty, his capital was originally located in Chang'an City of the Han Dynasty. But at that time, Chang'an was dilapidated and small, with serious water pollution, so it was decided to build another new city on the southeast **** of Longshouyuan. From the second year of Emperor Kaihuang (582) of Emperor Gaozu of the Sui Dynasty, under the auspices of Yu Wenkai, the palace city and imperial city were built in only about 9 months. Yu Wenkai, chief designer of Sui Daxing, carefully designed Daxing City. The construction of Daxing Palace in the second year of Emperor Kaihuang (AD 582) opened the prelude to the construction of Daxing City. In the ninth year of Daye Emperor Yangdi in Sui Dynasty (AD 613), part of the city wall of Waiguo City began to be built. In the third year of Emperor Kaihuang (583), the Sui Dynasty moved to the new capital, because Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty was granted the title of Duke of Daxing[1] in his early years, so the city was named after "Daxing". After Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty succeeded to the throne, he dug the North-South Grand Canal one after another to connect Daxing City by waterway. In the ninth year of Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty (613), more than 100,000 people were employed to build the outer city outside the palace city and the imperial city, and the overall layout of the city was basically formed so far. The Tang Dynasty continued to establish its capital here and changed its name to Chang'an.