Soon, Yang Guang's latest decree came from the city of **, 'Although Gao Bing was guilty of deceiving the emperor, if he remembered his old achievements, he would be exempted from death, dismissed all his official positions, demoted him to a commoner, and released him back to his hometown, and ordered him to think about his mistakes behind closed doors and not be allowed to enter the capital for life.'

When the news came out, all officials were immediately excited. Numerous officials, led by Niu Hong, went to Yang Yuanqing's camp to express their gratitude. But just as the officials cheered for Gao Yang's birth, Yang Guang's second decree was issued, but everyone was shocked. "Yang Yuanqing, the chief supervisor of Fengzhou, traded with the Turks without the consent of the court, violated the court's laws and regulations, and removed his position as the chief supervisor of Fengzhou and the governor of Wuyuan County and demoted him to a commoner."

The news of Yang Yuanqing's demotion surprised all the officials and sighed. Everyone knew that Yang Yuanqing annoyed the emperor because of saving Gao Yang. He was originally deeply loved by the holy family, but now he was demoted to the people. This is a pity.

Pei Ju found Yang Yuanqing worriedly at the first time. In the tent, Yang Yuanqing was packing up his own things. The order had already taken effect. He was no longer the chief supervisor of Fengzhou, but became a civilian. Several personal soldiers knelt on the ground and were willing to go back with him.

Yang Yuanqing refused and ordered several personal soldiers: "You are all under the rank of Yitong. At least they are lieutenants in the Fengzhou army. What is the future of being my followers? I have decided. You all go back to Fengzhou. I have nine iron guards to follow you. You can go!"

Several personal soldiers begged hard, but Yang Yuanqing was just not allowed. Helplessly, the personal soldiers had to bid farewell with tears in their eyes. The tent suddenly became deserted, leaving only Yang Yuanqing.

Yang Yuanqing sat down slowly and suddenly lost his official position, making him feel as if he was dreaming. It seemed that all this was not true, but it happened again. He was confused. He didn't even know where he was going?

"Yuan Qing!"

Pei Ju walked in, Yang Yuanqing sat on the box, looked up at him, but didn't say anything. Pei Ju walked forward slowly and comforted him earnestly, "Nothing, wouldn't you just lose your official position? You are still young, with both titles and honorary positions. You still have a chance to come back. How can you be smooth sailing when you are young? I was demoted when I was young. Now I am different from a high-ranking official. You don't have to take it seriously. Although you have lost something, you have gained something, at least you have a reputation. This is extremely important in the officialdom."

Pei Ju held his shoulder and stared into his eyes and said, "You are my grandson-in-law. Take this opportunity to read carefully and prepare for your next comeback."

Yang Yuanqing smiled, but said nothing. Although he lost his official position to save Gao Yang, he won the hearts of all the officials in the court. He calculated this account very clearly. He wanted to save Gao Yang and take favors, and did good deeds without leaving a name for him. That was not his style.

But he didn't want to talk to Pei Ju about this. Although Pei Ju has always looked at him differently and cared for him very much, Yang Yuanqing has always been a little wary of Pei Ju. Pei Ju is too cunning and can talk to him about the Yang family, but it is something that is related to his own secret matters, but he cannot talk to Pei Ju.

Yang Yuanqing stood up and bowed, "Thank you Mr. Pei!"

Pei Ju pulled him down again and asked him with a smile, "Are you planning to go where you want?"

Yang Yuanqing pondered for a moment and said, "The Lord once admired me an imperial village. I have never been to Yanshi County. I want to go there to live in seclusion for a while, but before that, I want to go to Jiangnan first and meet my adopted mother."

"This is not bad, but I think it's better to get married first and then go to seclusion, so that you won't be lonely if you have a wife by your side. What do you think?"

Yang Yuanqing nodded, and at this moment, Gao Feng's voice came from the door, "Is Yuanqing here?"

"Gao Xiang is here!" Pei Ju and Yang Yuanqing quickly stood up.

Gao Yan's thin and old figure appeared at the door of the tent. His body was tied up for too long and he walked a little tremblingly. Yang Yuanqing hurriedly stepped forward to support him, "Duke Gao, why did you come in person? Send someone to say that Yuan Qing will come to the door."

Gao Feng sat down on Yang Yuanqing's box, and he sighed, "I offended the treacherous and slander. Even if I die, it would be fine, but it would be implicated in the fact that Su Prime Minister and Yuanqing lost their official position for me. I feel really sorry!"

"The Gao Prime Minister does not need to be like this. In fact, the fundamental reason why the Supreme Master lets go of Gao Prime is that the Supreme Master finally woke up and was deceived by Zhang Heng. Otherwise, in anger, with my own persuasion, how could he give in and demote me and Su Prime Minister, it was just that he could not let go of his face. As long as he could save Gao Prime Minister, it would be okay if I was not the one I was responsible for."

"Hey! That being said, I still feel guilty!"

Pei Ju felt that Yang Yuanqing had something to say to Gao Yang, but he was beside him, and he seemed unwilling to say it clearly. He felt a little unhappy. Is there any secret that Yuan Qing had for him? He smiled and said, "Gao Xiang must take good care of his health. On his 80th birthday, I will definitely go to celebrate Gao Xiang's birthday."

"Thank you, the envoy Pei, for your good words!"

"Then you talk, I have something to do, let's go first."

Pei Ju left and Gao Feng looked at his back. He wanted to say something, but when he thought that Yang Yuanqing and the Pei family had married, he couldn't say much, and said lightly: "This person is a tumbler in the officialdom!"

Gao Yong was implicitly reminding Yang Yuanqing that Pei Ju was extremely sleek and asked him to be careful. Yang Yuanqing nodded silently. He had experienced it when he overthrew Yu Shiji, including saving Gao Feng just now, and Pei Ju's avoidance of the real and the weak showed his extremely sleek side.

"Yuan Qing, you are right. He always wants to kill me." Gao Yang sighed.

"Gao Gong, in fact, his intention to kill you has faded. Yang Yong's son has been wiped out. He has settled the throne. Gao Gong no longer threatens him. He wants to kill Gao Gong today. I guess it is because of his old grudges, and secondly, Gao Gong has too high prestige among officials. Just like my grandfather, he feels threatened, and has little to do with Yang Yong. I hope that Gao Gong will try to stay in simplicity after returning home and don't have any contact with court officials. I guess he will order people to monitor Gao Gong. As long as Gao Gong is low-key, gradually, everyone will forget each other."

Gao Yang nodded silently, and he felt very moved. The five-year-old child who was "thank you to be a centurion than a scholar" more than ten years ago actually saved his life today. This was something he could never imagine that no matter what, the wonderful life experience was.

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**The sound of the "dong!dong!" on the wooden floor in the city showed the anger of the walking people. Yang Lihua was a little tired of riding a horse in the afternoon. She took a moment of napping. She just woke up and heard about the news that Yang Yuanqing was demoted to a commoner. This news made her very angry and rushed straight to Yang Guang.

The dozen guards guarding the door felt her anger, and no one dared to stop her, so she broke into the imperial study directly.

In the imperial study room, Yang Yuan was reviewing the memorials. He had heard the rushing footsteps. He knew what was going on, so he couldn't help but smile and put down the imperial pen.

Yang Lihua rushed into the imperial study room and said angrily: "Your Majesty, you want to give me an explanation!"

The world is so big that the person who dares to break into the imperial study room in such anger and question the emperor is afraid that there will be no other person except Yang Lihua, including Empress Xiao, who dares not.

The elder sister is like a mother. When Yang Guang was still young, he was governed by the elder sister who had become the queen. Yang Huali was strict with him and loved him, making her the most beloved person in Yang Guang's heart, sometimes even surpassing his mother.

Yang Huali's lifelong integrity and self-discipline made Yang Guang respect him. At this time, Yang Guang was also secretly surprised that he had not seen his elder sister get angry like this for many years.

"Sister, why is this?" Yang Guang asked in discomfort.

"Hmph! You understand in your heart."

Yang Huali sneered and said, "You have to tell me, okay, I would like to ask Your Majesty, what crime did Yang Yuanqing commit? He actually made His Majesty demote him to the end!"

"As the chief supervisor of Fengzhou, he bought cattle and sheep from the Turks without authorization, which violated the court's laws and regulations. Moreover, I did not demote him to the end. I retained his title and honorary position."

At this time, Yang Lihua suddenly realized that her tough attitude might anger the emperor, but instead messed up the matter. She suppressed the anger in her heart and slowed down and said, "Okay! I admit that I was too anxious to speak. Your Majesty did not demote him to the end. But did Your Majesty punish him a little too severely and demoted him to the people just because he bought cattle and sheep from the Turks to entertain the emperor. As the saying goes, if you don't hit the gift-giving person, this dismissal is difficult to accept because of reason."

"I know that the punishment for him is too heavy."

Yang Guang said expressionlessly: "A small county with less than 100,000 people, let it offer food to 500,000 troops. He really has no other way except to buy cattle and sheep from the Turks. Moreover, not only him, but all the border generals, who did not deal with the Turks? I know all these things. The so-called buying cattle and sheep from the Turks without authorization violates the court's laws and regulations is just an excuse. The reason why I punished him was that he was bold and reckless, and he dared to use the past to force me to release Gao Bing. I did not kill him, which was already more tolerant of him."

"What past events did he use to force His Majesty?" Yang Lihua also felt a little uneasy. She knew that forcing the emperor was not a joke. If it was serious, it would be annihilation.

"He rescued me once in Renshou Palace a few years ago. I promised him that he would agree to him in the future. After five years, he actually brought out this old debt. Princess, how can I not be angry?"

Yang Lihua knew what was going on. In the Renshou Palace incident, Yang Yuanqing did save the life of the emperor. It was probably that the emperor had promised him something at that time, but.

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Yang Lihua sighed in her heart. Yuan Qing was really inappropriate. Even if the emperor promised him anything, he could not use this to threaten him. He was still a little younger and did not understand that the king's heart was like a tiger. Fortunately, the emperor was very generous to him. If someone else had changed, he would have killed him with other excuses.

Yang Lihua's tone softened again, "Master, can you give me some face and be more tolerant to him? Alas! I had wanted to promise Jingxun to him, but unexpectedly......"

Yang Guang actually didn't want to demote Yang Yuanqing to the end, but he knew that the emperor's sister would come to plead, and he had to give in to the emperor's sister's face, so he simply belittled Yang Yuanqing a little so that he could make concessions. The reason why Yang Guang asked Yang Yuanqing to come to Yulin County with him was looking for an opportunity to demote Yang Yuanqing. The Gao Yang case happened to be the right time. If there was no Gao Yang case, he would also find other excuses. As for what Yang Yuanqing did, he had plans long ago.

Yang Guang pretended to be pondering for a moment, then nodded and said, "Okay! I will appoint him as the Fenyang Palace Supervisor and repair Fenyang Palace for me. If it is well, I will consider slowly improving him."

Yang Lihua also hopes that Yang Yuanqing will have some setbacks. It is not a good thing to be a young man. Being a Fenyang Palace Supervisor is actually not a good thing. At least he has not been kicked out of the officialdom. He will plead for him if he has the chance in the future and slowly improve him.

"Then thank you, Your Majesty!"

Yang Lihua greeted her with pleasure and stepped down.

Yang Guang and the emperor's sister's footsteps were gone. He had just sat down to review the memorials, but he felt something. When he looked up, he saw Changsun Yang standing in front of him with a strange expression.

Yang Guang is Yang Guang's favorite grandson. He has always brought him by his side and allowed him to enter his imperial study at will. Yang Guang smiled and said, "Yun'er, is there anything wrong?"

But Yang Neng knelt down and kowtowed to Yang Guang and begged: "My grandson begs the emperor and grandfather to spare General Yang Yuanqing."

Yang Guang put down his pen and nodded, "You get up first!"

Yang Qing stood up and stood in front of his grandfather with his hands hanging down. Yang Guang stroked his head and asked lovingly: "Why do you want to plead for him?"

"He saved his father's life and became a son of man, and he should repay his kindness for his father!"

Yang Guang later found out that his eldest son Yang Zhao had been attempted to assassinate. He ordered people to investigate the case, but in the end he found nothing, the case was left unresolved. He forgot about this matter, and never thought that his grandson would always remember it in his heart. This child is good and knows how to repay kindness. Yang Guang likes him even more.

Yang Guang waved his hand and ordered several eunuchs to retreat. Then he said to his grandson slowly: "Yu'er, you are my eldest grandson. I want to teach you some things. I ask you, what should you do if you want to reuse someone but are a little worried about him?"

Yang thought for a while and said, "The grandson will test him and check his true thoughts."

"Not bad! I am worthy of being my eldest grandson, and I said it very well."

Yang Guang stroked his beard and laughed. He liked this smart grandson very much. He asked again: "How will you test it?"

Yang Nai thought about it and shook his head, "I don't know!"

"Well! Know what you know, know what you don't know, my grandson is very honest. Remember, grandfather teaches you an imperial technique, you must keep it in mind."

Yang Qing held Changsun's hand and said slowly: "If you want to reuse someone, but you are a little worried about him, the best way to test is to criticize him severely, or even a punishment, and then look at his performance. If this person can accept the demotion calmly, without complaints, and work diligently, it means that this person is very loyal to you and can be of great use. On the contrary, if this person complains and is dissatisfied, it means that this person is not trustworthy and must not be used."

Yang Qing suddenly realized, "Is the emperor's grandfather talking about Yang Yuanqing?"

Yang Guang stroked his beard and laughed, "I plan to develop Hetao on a large scale, but I don't know if Yang Yuanqing can make me trust it?"

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Chapter completed!