Chapter 54 Western Regions Strategy

As the situation in the capital gradually stabilized, Yang Guang's 12 Guards regained control of the capital. The Sixth Palace of the East Palace led the troops and armor into the warehouse, and the soldiers returned to the camp. As before, the officials of the East Palace began to become idle.

That morning, the clouds were covered with red clouds and the sky was gloomy. A rain that had been waiting for for a long time was about to fall. Under the guidance of a eunuch, Yang Yuanqing hurried into Xuanzheng Hall and walked to the steps of the square hall square. The eunuch smiled and said, "General Yang, please wait, our family will report to you."

"Thank you, my father-in-law."

Yang Yuanqing stood under the steps and waited. Soon, the guards came from the steps and shouted: "The emperor has an order to announce Yang Yuanqing's visit!"

Yang Yuanqing quickly sorted out his clothes, walked up the steps quickly, and followed the two eunuchs to the emperor's imperial study.

In the imperial study room, Yang Guang was busy reviewing the backlog of memorials. Today was the second day after he returned to the palace. Things were extremely busy. At this time, an eunuch walked into the room and whispered: "Your Majesty, Yang Yuanqing is here."

"He came in!" Yang Guang was so busy that he couldn't even raise his head, and the memorials sent from all over the place were piled up like hills.

After a moment, Yang Yuanqing walked into the imperial study room and bowed and said, "My minister Yang Yuanqing will meet your Majesty!"

Yang Guang finally put down his pen, looked at Yang Yuanqing with a smile and said, "Where is my Shangfang sword? You can return it to me!"

"Report to Your Majesty, I have already handed it to Fu Baolang just now."

"I originally planned to summon you yesterday, but I have been too busy these two days. Look at these memorials."

Yang Guang pointed to the memorials piled up next to him and smiled bitterly: "Many memorials were from a few months ago. I don't blame them. The territory of the Great Sui Dynasty is vast and the message is not easy to convey. I am on a tour, but I am actually urging local officials to build roads."

Yang Guang said this very well. Last year, Yang Guang visited Hedong and Hebei in northern China. For this reason, hundreds of thousands of people dug out the Taihang Mountains, widening Feihu Xing and Taihang Xing again, greatly facilitating the transportation from Hedong to Hebei.

This year, he inspected Wuyuan County and mobilized hundreds of thousands of people to build a road from Longyou to Wuyuan County. The construction of this wide and flat road shortened the time from Wuyuan County to Chang'an by eight days.

"I'm disturbing Your Majesty!"

"It's nothing. I have to meet officials, and I can't keep reviewing memorials."

Yang Guang leaned gently on the imperial couch, closed his eyes, relaxed his nervous mind, as if he had forgotten Yang Yuanqing. After a long time, he glanced at Yang Yuanqing, and then smiled apologetically: "I forgot, is there anything you want to see me?"

Yang Yuanqing bowed and said, "I beg your Majesty for your agreement and allow me to resign as a civil servant."

Yang Yuanqing now holds two positions, one is the commander of the left and right guards of the East Palace, and the other is the Wensan official Yin Qing Guanglu Dafu. The Sanguan is just a kind of identity and does not care about affairs, but the Yin Qing Guanglu Dafu is a third-rank high-ranking official. Of course, the ranks of the Sanguan and the official are not necessarily symmetrical. Even if the Sanguan is a first-ranking Guanglu Dafu, he may not be able to serve as the prime minister. For example, Yang Lihua's son-in-law Li Min, who served as the Guanglu Dafu, but his official position is only the Minister of Taichang Temple.

To a certain extent, the scattered officials are a manifestation of their qualifications and qualifications. Therefore, Yang Yuanqing was given the scattered officials of Yinqing Guanglu, which caused an uproar among the ministers of the court. For example, Pei Ju's old minister for decades, the position he had reached was only the scattered officials of Yinqing Guanglu. Yang Yuanqing's father Yang Xuangan, who had been in office for twenty years, only received a fourth-rank official, one level lower than his son, which caused general dissatisfaction among the officials of the court. Nearly a hundred officials wrote letters to demand that the emperor revoke Yang Yuanqing's scattered officials.

For example, when Yang Yuanqing was appointed as the chief supervisor of Fengzhou before, although there were a lot of discussions in the court, they were more surprised, but the opponents did not, because it was a military position and did not involve the interests of the officials, while the scattered officials were different. This involved the face and dignity of the officials, so the opponents were fierce.

It was the fierce opposition of the court officials that made Yang Yuanqing feel tremendous pressure, especially Pei Ju also advised Yang Yuanqing to resign as a dismissal official. He believed that the title of an official in this way would not be beneficial to Yang Yuanqing. Instead, he made too many enemies for him. Everyone stared at him, making many things impossible. Once he made a little mistake, it would trigger impeachment from all the civil and military officials of the court.

Yang Yuanqing also accepted Pei Ju's advice and asked Yang Guang to resign from his post as a Wensan official. "I have too little experience and have never served as a Beijing official. Your Majesty has granted him the title of Yin Qing Guanglu Dafu. I am really ashamed."

"Are you really sorry for not being able to take it or is the pressure too much?" Yang Guang said with a smile.

Yang Yuanqing smiled helplessly, "Everything is a little."

Yang Guang pondered for a moment. In fact, he used Yang Yuanqing to test the reaction of the court officials in this way. He implemented a series of large-scale reforms last year, including the army, civil servants, officials, officials, titles and honorary officials. The biggest change was the one involved in the interests of the court officials. The official only changed its name, but in fact his position was not promoted.

However, the scattered officials involve the vital interests of each dynasty official. Therefore, during the reform last year, the reform of the scattered officials caused the most controversy. After nearly a year, the controversy gradually disappeared. Yang Guang wanted to know whether it was the officials who accepted his reform, or were they already indifferent?

So this time Yang Guang used Yang Yuanqing to test him and named him the third-rank Yinqing Guanglu doctor, which caused a strong backlash from all the civil and military officials in the court. This shows that all officials have accepted his reforms last year and have taken his reforms as a new rule.

This result made Yang Guang very satisfied. In fact, even if Yang Yuanqing didn't propose it himself, Yang Guang would find an opportunity to demote him as the Yinqing Guanglu doctor, but it was hard for others to demote him. However, Yang Yuanqing was willing to surrender, so how could his son have a higher position than his father? Just like when Yang Su and Yang Xuangan were both pillars, which attracted criticism from the court, Yang Xuangan had to ask for surrender again. With precedents ahead, Yang Guang found an excuse.

Yang Guang nodded, "Your father is just a regular doctor, but you are a Yinqing Guanglu doctor. Since you proposed it yourself, I will demote you two levels and change you to a fourth-rank Tongyi doctor. However, this Tongyi doctor will have to be at least fifteen years old. There will probably be many people dissatisfied, but I decided not to change it. This time, I will quell the chaos in the capital and expose the conspiracy of the King of Qi to raise a private army. If you make great contributions, I will ban you."

"I thank Your Majesty for your kindness!"

Yang Guang walked to the map with his hands behind his back and looked at the vast Western Regions. In the past few years he ascended the throne, the Turks stabilized in the north, attacked Khitan and Ryukyu in the east, and conquered Linyi in the south. Now his eyes were turned to the west. Now his country is strong, financially strong, and the army is high in morale. The time has come to explore the Western Regions.

Yang Guang looked back at Yang Yuanqing and smiled and said, "In the battle of Dali City, you actually made two great contributions. One of the great contributions was to defeat Xueyantuo's army, defend Dali City, and promote the prestige of the Great Sui country. The other great contribution was that you contacted Qiezi and allowed Qiezi Khan to enter the capital to accept the title of my Great Sui family and become my Great Sui vassal. It was Qiezi's surrender that made me determined to open up the Western Regions."

Yang Yuanqing probably understood that Yang Guang wanted to send himself to the Western Regions, but this was what he hoped that a real man could open up territory for the country and be famous in history. More importantly, only by going out can he have the opportunity to gain military power.

He immediately bowed and said, "I am willing to share your worries for Your Majesty!"

Yang Guang laughed, "Very good, you really do not disappoint me."

He immediately ordered: "Come on my map!"

Immediately, more than a dozen eunuchs carried a huge woodcut map from next door. This was carved by more than a hundred craftsmen according to the Western Regions map drawn by Pei Ju after Pei Ju went to the Western Regions last year. It took half a year to carve it. It was two meters long and one meters wide.

The eunuchs took another huge wooden frame and hung the wooden carving map on it, and everyone retreated.

Yang Guang was already very familiar with this map. He pointed to the map with a wooden pole and said: "The Western Regions are actually composed of three major forces. The Western Turks in the northwest, the Tel tribes in the middle, and the Tuyuhun in the east. Among these three major forces, the Tel tribes were willing to rely on our Great Sui because of Qiezi to get rid of the rule of the Western Turks. Last year, Pei Ju had been ordered to go on a mission to the Western Regions and had contacted the Tiel tribes, but the problem was that Tuyuhun hindered the connection between the Great Sui and the Western Regions.

Tuyuhun not only occupied a large tract of territory in the Western Regions, but also secretly formed an alliance with the Western Turks. I have received the news from the Khan of Qimin. The Khan of the Western Turks and the Khan of Tuyuhun Fuyun formed an alliance in October last year. They agreed to jointly deal with the Great Sui. After defeating the Great Sui, the Tiel tribes of the Western Regions will be owned by the Western Turks, and the Hexi Corridor will be owned by the Tuyuhun."

Speaking of this, Yang Guang couldn't help but sneer, and he pointed the wooden pole to a city west of Qinghai. This is Fuqi City, the capital of Tuyuhun, and said, "So I decided to personally conquer Tuyuhun next year, completely destroy Tuyuhun, and extend the territory of the Great Sui Dynasty thousands of miles westward."

Speaking of this, Yang Guang asked Yang Yuanqing with a smile: "Can you think of what your task is?"

Yang Yuanqing pondered for a moment and said, "I think it is to cut off the Western Turks' support for Tuyuhun."

Yang Guang smiled and said, "I am worthy of being my beloved general. I am indeed far-reaching and strategic."

Yang Guang pointed to a region north of Dunhuang and said: "There are 44 countries in the Western Regions, most of which surrender to Qibi, but there is a key country that surrenders to the Western Turks, which is here!"

Yang Guang focused on the point with a wooden pole, "This small country is called Yiwu Kingdom (Today's Hami, Xinjiang). It is located between the Western Turks and Tuyuhun. It surrendered to the Western Turks. Last year, the alliance between the Western Turks and Tuyuhun was carried out in Yiwu Kingdom. Therefore, if I want to attack Tuyuhun, I must first capture Yiwu Kingdom and cut off the connection between the Western Turks and Tuyuhun. Last year, the Khan of Qimin agreed to jointly attack Yiwu Kingdom with the Great Sui Dynasty. I want to make Yiwu Kingdom the 186th county of the Great Sui Dynasty, Yiwu County, and Yuanqing. I have given this task to you."

Yang Yuanqing bowed solemnly, "I am willing to serve Your Majesty!"

"Okay! I have appointed you as General Zuo Xiaogu and General Manager of the Yumendao Army. Join forces with the Khan of Qimin to attack Yiwu and set out in ten days!"

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