Yang Ning was unable to resist the nature of a seven-year-old child in the end. When he came back, there was a little gray rabbit with shrugged hair in his arms. This was a small gift given to him by an old farmer, and it was only half a month after he was born.

Looking at his son holding the rabbit in his arms like a treasure, Yang Yuanqing liked his current childlike innocence. He touched his son's head with love and smiled: "I saw it, but it was gone."

"I won't let her see, nor can I let my mother see."

Yang Ning raised his head and asked his father, "Dad, the little rabbit likes to eat carrots, right?"

Yang Yuanqing smiled and shook his head, "This rabbit is too small and probably can't even chew the radish. You can feed it with tender vegetable leaves. It also likes it. Moreover, the rabbit is afraid of the cold at night, so you have to make a nest for it and put some fine linen cloth on it."

"Well! I plan to make a small box with wood and make a nest for it, just... I'm afraid that my mother won't let me raise it."

Yang Ning looked at his father as if he was asking for help. Yang Yuanqing smiled, "I will convince your mother to agree, but you can't waste your studies."

"I won't!"

Yang Ning suddenly became excited. He picked up the rabbit and put it on his face.

The group returned to the palace. Yang Yuanqing ordered people to send his son back to the mansion first. He himself took hundreds of cavalry and continued to sail to the north of the city. Soon, he stopped in front of a large mansion, which was Pei Ju's mansion.

Pei Ju's life is very regular. He gets up with Chaoxia every day, practices swords in the backyard for half an hour, then washes, eats breakfast, rests for two hours as he wants, or goes out to chat with someone, or fishes in the back garden of the mansion. After lunch, taking a short nap is the time for him to read and think.

At this time, Pei Ju was wearing a fisherman's straw raincoat and a hat, and was sitting on a big rock in the back garden fishing. Pei Ju gradually fell in love with fishing after retiring from office. In his words, fishing was the time for him to think.

When fishing, he likes to dress up as an old fisherman. He obviously has a fishing pavilion by the water, but he doesn't sit, and wants to sit on a few big rocks to feel nature. He is lucky today, and he caught two carp and three-tailed silver carp in just over half an hour.

Although Pei Ju was no longer in court, he was still concerned about the court's every move. The Wang family was purged, the Wang brothers were demoted to the people, the sons and nephews were killed for personal drinking, the manor and shop were confiscated by the government, and more than 20 royal parties were demoted or exempted, and the court was purged.

The experience of the Wang family was long as Pei Ju expected, and this was also the main reason why he voluntarily retired from the officialdom. At the beginning of the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, the two parties of Pei and Wang occupied almost all important official positions, and Yang Yuanqing could only bear it at the beginning.

But as the Sui Dynasty gradually expanded, the Wang family and the Pei family needed to leverage and be more tactful. Just go down by yourself, just like the Pei family, if you don’t know the tactful, you can only cleanse it, just like the Wang family. In the struggle for power, Yang Yuanqing was absolutely cruel and ruthless. This is the spirit that a founder should have. He should not only be open-minded, embrace all rivers, and make full use of his talents. He should also be cruel, cruel and ruthless, and eliminate dissidents.

Pei Ju is very eager now, he just wants to know when Yang Yuanqing will ascend the throne?

At this time, the fishing rod suddenly moved and a fish was hooked. Pei Ju was about to pull the rod, but the housekeeper hurried over and shouted nervously: "Master! The King of Chu is coming down."

Pei Ju was stunned. Yang Yuanqing came. He immediately asked, "Who is there anyone accompanying you?"

"Goro comes with you."

Wulang is Pei Qingsong, Pei Ju nodded, "Please come here with His Highness the King of Chu."

The housekeeper felt something was wrong, but the master had an order, so he didn't dare to refuse to obey, so he had to go to the front yard. Pei Ju sat down slowly, but was considering Yang Yuanqing's intention. If he was not wrong, Yang Yuanqing came for the next move. Pei Ju vaguely felt that Yang Yuanqing seemed a little undecided recently.

At this time, Pei Ju suddenly realized that the fish he had just caught had run away, "It's a good thing to be a good guy!" Pei Ju smiled and scolded.

In the distance, Yang Yuanqing was walking quickly under the guidance of the housekeeper. Pei Qingsong was following him until he got closer. Yang Yuanqing realized that the old man wearing a straw raincoat and a hat was not the servant who cleaned the pond, but Pei Ju himself. Pei Ju's outfit shocked Pei Qingsong. If it doesn't rain or snow, why does the head of the family dress like this?

Yang Yuanqing waved his hand and ordered Pei Qingsong to stop. He walked forward quickly and bowed and said, "Yuanqing meets grandfather!"

Pei Ju smiled and said, "Yuanqing, come and see the fish I caught."

Yang Yuanqing happily stepped forward, picked up the fish basket in the water and looked at it, and smiled and said, "The harvest is good, there are already five."

"Hey! If you don't come, the sixth item will be taken."

Pei Ju sighed and took a small stool and handed it to him. Yang Yuanqing sat down beside Pei Ju, staring at the water surface and said, "This year, the drought has been severe, and many places have been cut off from water. Grandfather's pond is not bad."

Pei Ju stroked his beard and shook his head and said, "It has been reduced by half. There is a spring under the pond. It is the same as the pond on your palace. There is almost no water source during the day. Only a little water can be replenished at night so that it will not dry up. This year it will be a severe drought!"

"This year, the drought is indeed serious. Hedong, Hebei, Guanzhong, Central Plains and Longyou all encountered severe droughts, which is the worst disaster in Daye in six years. In the morning, I inspected the farmland outside the city, and the reduction of yield is a foregone conclusion. If the drought resistance is effective, half of the harvest can be saved."

"How much grain does the imperial court have?" Pei Ju asked without saying a word. He knew that Yang Yuanqing was here to ask him for advice, so he was not polite and went straight to the key point.

"After receiving war compensation of about 500,000 stones of grain in the Tang Dynasty, one million stones of grain can be saved."

"It's not too small, but have you considered the possible outbreak of hunger people in the six counties of Qingzhou?"

Pei Ju is worthy of being an old prime minister for more than ten years. He has a mature look and sees a potential crisis at a glance, which makes Yang Yuanqing admire him. Jiang is still old.

"Now it is the problem of hungry people in Qingzhou, which makes food shortage and makes people feel a headache, so I came to ask my grandfather for any good suggestions." Yang Yuanqing sighed helplessly.

Pei Ju looked at the float on the water and said slowly: "There is no way. For example, you can trade with the grassland and use light cloth goods or tea to exchange for the cattle and sheep of the Turks. However, this can only solve the temporary shortage of food. If you want to obtain a large amount of food, you have to rely on foreign wars to plunder. This has been done this since ancient times."

Yang Yuanqing was excited and hurriedly said: "I have also been considering attacking the Tang Dynasty recently, either attacking the inner and Jingxiang. This time the Sui army regained Huining County. I found that the Sui army could completely capture the inner and outer and Hexi."

"Seizing Hexi? Are you trying to cut off the source of the Tang army's war horses?" Pei Ju asked.

Yang Yuanqing nodded, "This time attack on Huining County was indeed intended to seize minerals, but on the other hand, it was also to prepare for the next step of seizing Hexi. Most of the war horses of the Tang Dynasty came from Hexi. The occupation of Hexi also cut off the source of the war horses of the Tang Dynasty."

Pei Ju sighed, "Yuan Qing, your biggest problem is that it went too far. You always thought that the Tang Dynasty was a soft persimmon, and you could pinch it, but have you ever thought about it? Your front line has continued from the shore of the Yellow Sea to the Hexi Corridor. How many troops do you have to maintain such a long front line? Then there are your enemies, Tang, Dou Jiande, Goryeo, East and West Turks, and Li Mi and Wang Shichong, who have ulterior motives, can be said to be surrounded by enemies on all sides, but your eyes are only staring at the Tang army. Will others stand by and wait until you finish the Tang Dynasty before dealing with them?"

Yang Yuanqing was silent for a while. In fact, he captured Huining County and burned the war into the pass. There were already objections in Ziwei Pavilion, believing that the front line was too long. It was only because Huining County had huge copper and silver mine interests that it suppressed the opposition.

But Pei Ju's warning was like a wake-up call ringing in his ears. He was silent for a moment and said, "But grandfather also said that starting a war is the fastest way to obtain food."

Pei Ju shook his head, "You misunderstood what I mean. How much food can you plunder in the Tang Dynasty war will cause more serious famine. If you attack Qingzhou, you will get a huge burden, and the gain will not be worth the loss. The plunder war I meant to be external."

"foreign!"

Yang Yuanqing suddenly understood Pei Ju’s meaning, “Did grandfather refer to Goryeo?”

Pei Ju stroked her beard and laughed. Yang Yuanqing was indeed powerful. She guessed her own thoughts at a glance. "Actually, I am also considering a solution to the lack of food. There is only so much food in the world. If you take away the food from the Tang Dynasty, then the people of the Tang Dynasty will starve to death. Launching a civil war is not the way to solve the food problem. Only to the outside world, either the Turks or Goryeo, but the Turks have just established the new Khan, and they also need a war to establish the authority of the new Khan. If you fight the Turks, they will work hard to deal with it. After a war, no matter you win or lose, you will have to pay a heavy price. The most terrible thing is that the army has not returned, but Taiyuan has been lost, so I will never agree to fight the Turks."

Yang Yuanqing nodded silently. Yesterday he and Cui Junsu also talked deeply about the Turks. The Turks had destroyed the Wutu tribe, Jie Li Khan ascended the throne, and his strength gradually became stronger. Sooner or later, it would become the biggest threat to the north of the Sui Dynasty. At this time, they could only try their best to maintain friendship with the Turks. Once they turned against each other with the Turks, they formed the Southern Tang Dynasty and the Northern Turks' attacks in the north and south, and the Sui Dynasty was in danger.

"We have discussed the relationship with the Turks. It is not wise to go to war with the Turks now. According to my grandfather's wishes, it is most advantageous to attack Goryeo, but Yang Guang's three campaigns to Goryeo ended up losing the country. Goryeo was not so easy to capture."

Pei Ju squinted her eyes and smiled, "You are not planning to destroy Goryeo, aren't you? You just want food. In fact, you only need to get one person and seize Goryeo's food, which is easy."

"Who is it?"

Pei Ju smiled faintly, "This person is now in Xiao Xian's hands."

Yang Yuanqing suddenly understood what Pei Ju meant. He deserved to be a scheming person. At the critical moment, he still has to rely on his old ministers!

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