At night, Yang Yuanqing finished washing up, put on a loose Zen suit and walked into the inner room. In the inner room, Pei Minqiu was sitting in front of the bronze mirror to remove makeup, carefully removing the flower ornaments from his forehead. ([] )

Yang Yuanqing walked forward, held his wife's thin shoulders, smiled and pulled out the jade hairpin from her hair, put it in front of her nose and sniffed it. Pei Minqiu turned around and smiled, "Did you smell something, husband?"

“It seems to have the smell of osmanthus oil.”

Pei Minqiu asked in surprise: "Why did you make progress in smelling fragrance? Is it because you smell too much of Goryeo osmanthus oil?"

Her eyes showed a hint of teasing, and she looked at her husband with anger and eyes fluttered. She was actually asking her husband if she had brought a concubine back?

Pei Minqiu is the Princess of Chu in public, with a broad mind and trying to show her mother's demeanor. However, when the couple is alone at night, she will also have the idea of ​​an ordinary woman, worried about whether her husband is having sex outside.

Yang Yuanqing heard the sourness in his wife's tone and smiled, "With your stunning princess at home, how can I like the Goryeo woman?"

"Tu!" Pei Minqiu rarely hears her husband praise her beauty. She is happy in her heart, but pretends to be coquettish: "It seems that you have been with the slick Cheng Yaojin for a long time and have become the same as him. I don't like it."

After pausing, she asked again with a smile: "Don't change the topic, tell me first, how many oily Korean osmanthus has you smelled?"

Yang Yuanqing sat down at the Xiudun beside his wife and yawned, "Didn't I tell you? I have a beautiful wife at home, how can Goryeo women like it?"

"Hey!" Pei Minqiu sighed long. "Forget it, you won't admit it even if you ask. Anyway, as long as you don't bring it back, I will pretend that I don't know anything."

Pei Minqiu smiled on her shoulders, which were covered with black waterfall, and stood up and took her husband's hand to walk towards the inner room. She lowered the curtain. A maid quietly entered the room and blew out the lamp in the outer room. However, a low laugh came from the inner room, which scared the maid quickly retreated and closed the door.

The night gradually deepened, and a bright moon hung in the sky, spreading the light to the world.

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The next morning, Yang Yuanqing sat in front of the bronze mirror, and Pei Minqiu carefully combed her husband's hair. She had a night of love. Pei Minqiu's eyes were filled with endless love and tenderness for her husband.

"My husband has left Taiyuan for more than a month, and it has accumulated a lot of things!"

"Yeah!" Yang Yuanqing agreed carelessly, "I guess a lot of headaches are waiting for me. To be honest, I really don't want to go to court today."

"Then let's take a break at home! You were only back yesterday, so it's normal to rest for two or three days." Pei Minqiu whispered her husband.

Yang Yuanqing smiled bitterly. He wanted to rest, but how could he stop a lot of troubles in the court?

Pei Minqiu saw that her husband stopped talking, so she didn't persuade her. At this time, she remembered something and said quickly: "I remember my husband told me that I would like to remind you before Qiu Examination, it seems that someone is coming to participate in the imperial examination."

A sentence reminded Yang Yuanqing that he had promised Huangfu Xu that giving his son a future should fall on the imperial examination this fall.

"You don't say it. I forgot about this. Thank you for your good wife to remind me."

Yang Yuanqing smiled and patted his wife's hand to show his gratitude, and asked again: "How much is the rice price in Taiyuan now?"

Pei Minqiu wanted to ask who was coming to participate in the imperial examination. After Yang Yuanqing interrupted, she let go of the matter and said, "I asked the housekeeper the day before yesterday and said that it had increased to ninety cents of rice a while ago, but in the past few days it dropped to sixty cents of rice a day, which is not ridiculously expensive."

Yang Yuanqing remembered that when he left, he had 40 coins of rice, and now he had 60 coins of rice, which increased by 50%. The price in the year of disaster was acceptable, which shows that disaster relief has had a very obvious effect. The key is food. As long as he has food in his hands, he can control the situation in the Sui Dynasty.

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Half an hour later, Yang Yuanqing walked into Ziwei Pavilion. As soon as he entered the gate, he felt a strange feeling. He felt that the Ziwei Pavilion was particularly quiet. The person who had run and delivered documents was gone. The corridor was deserted and the two sides of Yang Yuanqing once had the illusion that today was a resting place, but today was obviously not a resting place. Could it be that he had come early today?

Yang Yuanqing walked up the second floor and happened to meet a staircase who was holding a stack of documents. The employed person was shocked and quickly bowed and bowed, "Your Highness!"

"Yeah!" Yang Yuanqing agreed and asked again: "Have you all the prime ministers arrived?"

"Only Master Su is here, and the other prime ministers went to inspect the construction of farmland and water conservancy. Lu prime minister and Cui Zhan took sick leave today."

Cui Zhanshi is the crown prince secretary Cui Hongyuan. The crown prince secretary has nothing to do, he is just a free position, while Lu Yu is the Minister of Justice. When Yang Yuanqing heard that they had taken sick leave at the same time, he couldn't help but sneer. This is really a coincidence that they got sick when they first went to court. Who are they giving eye drops to?

Yang Yuanqing looked gloomy and walked directly into his official room. Pei Qingsong, an officer in the journal room, hurried forward to salute, "See Your Highness!"

Currently, his record-keeping was Pei Qingsong and Zhang Liang. Xiao Feng, the former record-keeping officer, served as the prefect of Liang County and was in charge of the most important county in the Central Plains. Yang Yuanqing nodded and saw that Zhang Liang's seat was empty, so he asked, "Where is Zhang Zhengjun?"

"Zhang Chanjun went to the Ministry of War to get the documents and will be back soon."

Yang Yuanqing nodded and walked into the room. Pei Qingsong followed in. He looked a little nervous and wanted to speak but stopped. Yang Yuanqing glanced at him, "Is there anything wrong?"

Pei Qingqing pointed to the desk in the house, "Your Highness, there are two books on the desk, which is more important. Your Highness will take a look first!"

He bowed and stepped down. Yang Yuanqing walked to the table and sat down. Seeing two memorials placed side by side at the table, he picked up one and was stunned. This was actually Yang Shidao's resignation letter. He opened another one, and his face changed suddenly. This was actually Cui Junsu's resignation letter.

Yesterday, Yang Yuanqing heard Du Ruhui say that Yang Shidao had the intention to resign. He wanted to talk to him today, but he didn't expect Cui Junsu to resign. Cui Junsu followed him for many years and was Yang Yuanqing's confidant second only to Du Ruhui. He also wanted to resign, which immediately made Yang Yuanqing a little anxious.

He opened Cui Junsu's resignation memorial and wrote at the beginning: "The county magistrate is corrupt and has a great crime. He should be governed by the country's law. If the law is not enough to punish his evil, he can be severely punished, but he cannot be punished outside the law. A county is a minor evil, and he will be punished with the honor of his country. However, if he does not kill, he can be kept in history and will make his descendants warn himself. Your Highness is the founding lord, and you should think about the foundation of all generations. Every word and action is imitated by the descendants. Your Highness follows the law, and your descendants dare not violate it. Your Highness is unruly, and your descendants will be subject to it ten times as much as possible. No matter how big or small, I hope your Highness will think deeply."

Yang Yuanqing sighed and opened Yang Shidao's memorial, 'The king has power, the minister has power, the king has great affairs, the prime minister takes care of the country, the king takes charge of the world, the prime minister asks all officials, a county is evil, a prefecture should ask, a censor investigates it, a Ministry of Justice arrests, a Dali to examine it, and a prime minister judges it, and a prime minister punishes it. Later, the emperor presents it to the king, and can be killed or demoted, and the king takes care of it. This is the common sense of the operation of the court... "

Yang Yuanqing closed the memorial, walked slowly to the window with his hands behind his back, staring at the floating white clouds in the distance. Cui Junsu and Yang Shidao's persuasion sounded like two alarm bells, and it rang heavily in Yang Yuanqing's heart.

Regarding the same small matter, Cui Junsu*du and Yang Shidao said that the decentralization of power was small, but the impact was significant.

Yang Yuanqing today killed the county magistrate. In a hundred years, his descendants will follow his example to kill the prefect, or even the prime minister. If the country rules are empty, then the power and the nobles will be unable to be bound by it. This is the root of the country's defeat.

Of course, Yang Yuanqing also knew very well that the root of the defeat of the Sui Dynasty. After all, it was caused by Yang Guang's dictatorship. Without any restraints on power, he would become crazy. He knew this deeply.

That's why he was committed to the separation of power of the king and the prime minister, and to use the prime minister to check and balance the power of the king. This was not only for himself, but also for the long-term stability of the dynasty he founded.

He must not lose the two loyal and upright ministers Cui Junsu and Yang Shidao.

At this time, Pei Qingsong reported outside the door, "Your Highness, Prime Minister Su is asking for a visit."

It happened to be right, and Yang Yuanqing was about to find him, so he nodded, "Send him in."

The door opened, Su Wei walked in, bowed and bowed, "The old minister met His Highness the King of Chu."

"Georg Su is exempted from gifts, please sit down!"

"Thank you Your Highness, King Chu."

Su Wei sat down, Yang Yuanqing ordered the tea boy to serve tea again. Su Wei picked up the tea cup and then smiled and said, "I heard that Your Highness has done a good deal in Goryeo, which is exciting!"

Yang Yuanqing smiled, "The Prime Minister is really interesting to talk. What does it mean to do a good deal? Could it be that we are doing a business without money?"

The two of them laughed tacitly. At this time, Su Wei saw two memorials on the table, and the smile on his face disappeared. After pondering for a moment, he sighed: "A small matter has attracted the storm of Ziwei Pavilion. There are four prime ministers who want to resign, which is caught off guard and even more deeply sigh."

"These are actually two things, I'm right!" Yang Yuanqing seemed very calm and said lightly.

"There are indeed two things. One is that Yang Shidao and Cui Junsu are angry that His Highness kills the county magistrate without permission. The other is that Lu Yu and Cui Hongyuan are dissatisfied with His Highness's desire to investigate the grain of the charity warehouse. One thing is public and admirable, while the other is private and despised."

Su Wei was cunning. He seized the opportunity of the four prime ministers resigning and stomped on Lu and Cui. He wanted to stop the two men directly.

The reason why Yang Yuanqing wanted to find Su Wei was to ask Su Wei to help him find a way to deal with Lu Cui and the others. Lu and Cui dared to threaten themselves by resigning. Yang Yuanqing was extremely dissatisfied, but Yang Yuanqing also knew that he still had to use famous families to maintain stability in Hebei at this time.

He pondered for a moment and said, "Hebei has just decided to do a large-scale cleaning of the Hebei officialdom. However, if you let it go, it will make the interests of the Hebei officialdom more deeply rooted. I wonder if Mr. Su has any good suggestions, so that he can not hurt his muscles and bones, but also sort out the Hebei officialdom?"

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Chapter completed!