Chapter 30: The Depressed Current

Yang Guang's inspection team has arrived in Mayi County and will arrive at the Fenyang Palace construction site in two days. In the evening, a vast team of vehicles camped beside the road.

The soldiers were busy camping and tents appeared in the wilderness. The roadsides that were originally calm became extremely lively. At this time, several fast horses rushed from the south, and immediately there were several officials in low-quality uniforms. Several officials rushed to the city of **. A eunuch had already greeted him and complained to the leader: "Envoy Liu, why did you come now? The Emperor asked yesterday."

"The road is too far, we have tried our best."

The leading official handed over the yellow silk cloth bag on his back to the eunuch, stuffed another piece of silver, and whispered: "If the emperor asks, please say a few good words for us."

"I understand!" The eunuch rushed into ** City with a yellow silk bag.

In the imperial study, Yang Guang was discussing the problem of severe drought in Henan with several important officials. He had received urgent memorials from the prefects of several counties, requesting to open warehouses and release grain to provide relief to the victims. The serious disaster made Yang Guang very worried.

Niu Hong replied: "Your Majesty, I suggest that all localities place charity warehouses first to ensure that people starve to death do not occur, and then slowly provide disaster relief on a monthly basis, so that the victims can be left in their hometown and will not flood into the capital in large quantities."

Pei Yun has been an official in the local area for a long time and has a deep understanding of the local situation. He also came forward and said: "Your Majesty, opening a warehouse and releasing grain will inevitably lead to corruption. I agree with Niu Shangshu's opinion and release the charity warehouse first. The official warehouse should not release grain easily. Before releasing grain, the inspectors of Silitai must be present to supervise local disaster relief."

Yang Guang nodded, "The suggestions of both my dear friends are very pertinent. I can consider them. In addition, I want to send a respected old minister to inspect the disaster area in Henan to comfort the victims for me. Who do you think is more suitable?"

Pei Ju and Pei Yun quickly exchanged a glance. This was an opportunity. Pei Ju stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, former Prime Minister Su Wei has visited the local area many times to appease the victims and supervise the officials' affairs. He is respected and experienced. Although he is dismissed at home, he always wants to serve His Majesty. I recommend him as the Henan appeasement envoy to inspect the disaster area for His Majesty. The latest chapter of the Holy Temple"

Su Wei is an alliance between the Pei brothers in the court. Su Wei was dismissed, causing the Pei brothers to lose a great help. They have been waiting for the opportunity to speak for Su Wei and let him get up again. This disaster happened to be an opportunity.

In fact, Yang Guang dismissed Su Wei more because of his attitude of killing Gao Yang. He was also planning to use him in time. Since Pei Ju recommended Su Wei as the Henan Pacifier, Yang Guang would follow the flow and do this favor.

"Okay! I agree to this plan and appoint Su Wei as Henan Pacifier and go to the disaster area to inspect the situation immediately."

Yang Guang walked a few steps behind his back. At this time, he was more concerned about the situation in the capital. He had received an emergency report from the capital yesterday. There was a serious riot in Fengdu City and heavy casualties, which made his heart aroused.

"My dear friends, there has been serious riots in the capital. Yesterday, I have issued a military order to martial law and distribute 500,000 stones of grain to stabilize the price of grain. However, there are too many refugees in the capital. I have a headache about how to resettle these refugees. I want to discuss with you."

At this time, Pei Ju came forward and said, "Your Majesty, I think that resettlement of disaster victims is not only the responsibility of the government, but the wealthy people in the civilians also have the responsibility to share the worries of the government. I know that there are many wealthy families in the capital, and most of them have surplus grain. Your Majesty can issue a mandatory order to order the wealthy families to participate in the relief porridge. Each family will provide at least three days of disaster relief, and will send a censor to supervise it. In addition, the relief porridge area can be placed outside the city to guide the refugees out of the city, and set up tents outside the city for them to live in, so that the city can be safe."

Pei Ju can be said to have understood Yang Guang's thoughts. He knew that Yang Guang was actually reluctant to open Hanjia Cang to release grain, so he discussed with them. Pei Ju agreed with him and proposed a plan to participate in disaster relief by wealthy families.

This plan really made Yang Guanglong very happy. He said happily: "Pei Aiqing's words are in line with my wishes. If one side is in trouble, how can you rely on the government as you support them? This plan is very good, I have adopted it."

At this moment, an eunuch said at the door: "Your Majesty, the memorial of Censor Wei has arrived."

Yang Guang nodded and said to the ministers: "Dear friends, all the suggestions are very good. You can write memorials separately, more detailed and more comprehensive. I will be able to execute them after reviewing them. Everyone should hurry up as soon as possible!"

All the ministers bowed and retreated one after another. A eunuch presented the memorial of the censor Wei Deyu.

This time, Yang Guang's northern tour handed over the heavy responsibility of guarding the capital to King Yang Qing of Qi, which actually tested him to a certain extent. Yang Guang also secretly ordered the censor Wei Deyu to observe Yang Qing and write memorials to report to him regularly.

So far, Yang Hung's performance has disappointed Yang Guang. He forcibly robbed the women of the people, invaded the property of private households, and indulged his subordinates in extortion. He was notorious and did not have the demeanor that a prince should have. Especially this riot broke out in the capital, which disappointed Yang Guang to the extreme.

Yang Guang opened Wei Deyu's memorial and read it in detail. Wei Deyu mainly explained the riot in Fengdu City. The memorial was very clear. The reason for the riot was caused by untimely prevention and ineffective disaster relief. At the beginning of the 300,000 refugees entering Beijing, Jingzhao Prefecture ignored it and let it go. There was no resettlement measures. After the number of refugees increased, the army was not sent to control it, and there were no disaster relief measures, which led to the inability to survive. Finally, a large-scale grain grabbing incident broke out.

Although Wei Deyu did not directly point out that Yang Hing should bear the responsibility, the meaning was already obvious. Yang Hing guarded the capital, and Jingzhao Yin was the Yin of Jingzhao. He was not responsible for anyone. Especially when Wei Deyu finally wrote that the day before the Fengdu tragedy broke out, Yang Hing took twenty-four concubines to visit the mountain and did not return that night. This was undoubtedly the last straw that overwhelmed Yang Hing.

Yang Guang sighed and put down the memorial. If what Yang Hung did before was disappointed, then the Fengdu incident made Yang Guang despair with his son. Can such a person be the third generation of Sui Dynasty?

Yang Guang walked out of the imperial study room with his hands behind his back and unknowingly came to the next study room, where tens of thousands of books and pictures were stored.

When he walked into the room, he saw his eldest grandson Yang Neng at his desk, writing with all his heart. He did not notice that his grandfather had come behind him. A thick stack of books was placed next to his desk. These were books he had read. Yang Guang looked at his grandson's tender back lovingly, and remembered his eldest son who had passed away for almost two years. The corners of his eyes couldn't help but feel a little wet.

Yang Guang did not disturb Changsun, but quietly retreated and returned to the imperial study room. He stood in front of the window and pondered for a long time. Finally, he made up his mind and turned around and whispered: "Transfer my order and order Yang Yuanqing to see me!"

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It has been two days since Yang Yuanqing returned from Jinyang Palace. Although he did not catch the evidence that the King of Qi had privately taken the military armor of Jinyang Palace, he already understood that the King of Qi was secretly training the private army. He used to train the dead soldiers, but now he has been upgraded from the dead soldiers to the private army.

Training private army has been an extremely dangerous move since ancient times. No emperor would tolerate his son training private army. This situation usually occurs in the late years of the emperor.

But Yang Guang is only forty years old this year. If he only considers his life span, he can be the emperor for at least twenty years. When Yang Ming trained private troops in his father's prime, he was either too stupid to live or he had ambitions.

No matter from that point, Yang Yuanqing knew that Yang Ming’s doomsday was coming, and he could do evil in heaven, but he could not survive his own evil.

As Emperor Yang Guang of Sui was about to arrive, Yang Yuanqing also accelerated the progress. In the past few days, due to the adoption of Li Chun's plan, no bricks were laid for the time being, and a large amount of wood and stone began to be transported to the mountain one after another. This was also a huge project. More than 200,000 civilians stretched for ten miles, and used rolling wood, prying rods and ropes to pull them, shouting trumpets, and transporting huge rocks weighing ten thousand pounds to the mountain bit by bit.

Li Yuan also returned to the construction site of Fenyang Palace, and the Yuan Shangying incident gradually subsided. Although Li Yuan wrote a letter to Yuanshou, explaining in detail the causes and consequences of Yuanshou being killed, he also knew in his heart that no matter how he explained it, there would be cracks between him and Yuanshou and it could not be compensated.

This result made Li Yuan quite depressed and helpless, but through this incident, he had personally experienced Yang Yuanqing's decisiveness and ruthlessness.

Although Li Yuan was quite dissatisfied with Yang Yuanqing, his face was not revealed and he tried his best to persuade himself not to take this matter to heart. After all, after Yang Yuanqing killed Yuan Shangying, the treatment of the civil servants greatly improved. So far, it has only been more than a dozen civil servants who have died in nearly half a month. This has never happened in various projects of the Great Sui Dynasty, and Li Yuan also felt a little grateful to Yang Yuanqing.

"General Yang, if you follow this progress, I think Fenyang Palace can complete it in at most two and a half months."

Li Yuan and Yang Yuanqing walked slowly on the construction site side by side. Yang Yuanqing smiled and said, "Actually, these civilians also hope to finish the repairs earlier and go home earlier. As long as they are given a full meal, they will naturally work hard. In fact, they don't need so many supervisors at all."

Li Yuan sighed, "That's because General Yang is not greedy for this wealth, but Yuan Shangying finally got this fat man. How can they not be greedy? Everyone understands the truth, but it is not the case if they really do it. First, they have to make money by deducting food, and secondly, they have to make money by making money by ransom. In order to get ransom, the army has tried to torture these civilians and torture them to death. The family sells land and houses to redeem their relatives, or torture them to death, and waits for the family to use money to redeem the body. If these civilians live well, how can the army get rich? So at least 50% of the people will die of death at one time. This is the reason. There are not many people who are really exhausted and sick."

Yang Yuanqing nodded. He only now understood the dark side of it. No wonder so many people died in one project. He always felt a little strange. Yang Guang did not care about the people's strength, but the black hole that really devoured the people's husband was the army.

At this moment, a soldier rushed from behind, "General Yang!"

Yang Yuanqing stopped the horse and turned around and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Someone is looking for him in the camp, and he comes from the capital, saying that he is General Yang's old man."

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