When Yu Wenshu was conquering Yang Liang, he couldn't compete with Yang Su in anything. Out of jealousy, he asked his eldest son to send someone to reveal Yang Ji's whereabouts to Yang Liang, hoping that Yang Ji's failure and tragic death would hit Yang Su from the side. the goal of.
Although the conspiracy was unsuccessful, the Yuwen family suffered no loss. Yu Wenhuaji thought that the matter would just go away, but he didn't expect that Yang Guang was caught off guard by the sudden killing.
At this time, looking at what Yang Guang wrote, "General, King Wei was ambushed in Bingzhou, who do you think leaked his whereabouts?" Yu Wenhuaji felt frightened and frightened. He asked his father with a pale face: "Aye, the saint clearly knew that it was us who leaked the secret, so he asked this deliberately. What should we do now?"
"If the sky doesn't fall, what's there to be afraid of?" Yu Wenshu quickly calmed down. In fact, he knew afterward that he had made a very stinky move, and he also knew that this day would come sooner or later, so he I already have a way to deal with it.
He slowly said to Yu Wenhuaji: "You are responsible for this matter."
"Why me? Why me again?" Yu Wenhuaji stared at his father, feeling shocked and angry. He had been dismissed many times from official posts. His personal misdeeds were certainly one reason, but these were insignificant details. The main reason was that He is the one taking the blame for his father.
Now he has finally become the fourth-rank imperial servant, Shaoqing. It can be said that he has a prosperous official career and a proud official career. If this scapegoat is taken again, and the servant Shaoqing, who was recently acquired, is lost, his life may be in danger.
Even he knew this. He didn't believe that his cunning father didn't know it. If his father knew, why would he throw himself into a pit of fire?
How could there be such a deceitful father in this world?
Yu Wenshu could also understand his son's dissatisfaction, and said kindly: "Listen to me first, I..."
"I won't listen, I won't listen." Yu Wenhuaji also fought hard and said, "This time it's a dead end. I won't do anything you say."
"Shut up!" Yu Wenshu slapped the case hard and roared: "Unfilial son, do you want to piss me off to death?"
"Don't you dare!" Yu Wenhuaji's face turned pale with fright, and he knelt down with a "pop", but his angry eyes stared straight at his father, full of anger and unwillingness!
Yu Wenshu sighed slightly and said: "If the saint really wanted to pursue the case, he would not have asked Yang An to deliver the letter at night, but would have gone to court directly. What he wants is an attitude. If we refuse to admit our mistakes, the problem will be It’s serious. Do you understand?”
Yu Wenhuaji said in shock: "Aye means that even if I admit it, I won't be demoted or removed from my post?"
Yu Wenshu avoided Yu Wenji's question, but analyzed it sternly: "During the reign of the late Emperor, Yang Su accepted bribes, was corrupt and perverted the law, took advantage of others, and occupied a large amount of land. There were at least tens of thousands of imperial censors' memorials to impeach him. But he was not punished in any way. What was the reason? The late emperor wanted Yang Su to be like this. He hoped that Yang Su would destroy his reputation and extirpate himself from the people of the world. On the contrary, if Yang Su was honest and upright and highly respected, then the late emperor would not use Yang Su to come. Contain Gao Jiong. In the same way, the sage needs to use me to contain Yang Su. If I were a good person, the sage would not use me or give me a high position. Why is this? Because a high-ranking and powerful person has Qian is powerful and powerful, and if he is supported by all the people, then if this person ascends to a high place and calls out, a crowd of responders will gather; and Gao Jiong is obviously this kind of person, so the late emperor and the saint did not dare to reuse him."
"I love wealth as much as my life, and my actions of corruption and bribery are just trivial matters compared to restraining Yang Su. The saint can only reprimand him a few words or fine him a salary to calm the people's resentment. But Yang Liang's rebellion is to subvert the destiny of the saint's country. It is a big matter, and if we leak the secret to Yang Liang, we will be suspected of colluding with Yang Liang, which is something that no emperor can tolerate."
"If Yang Ji failed because of this and affected Yang Su's great cause of suppressing the rebellion, the saint would never be able to spare us. But this did not happen. The saint was only angry and had no intention of destroying my entire clan. His thoughts are still useful to me. For his sake, the anger gradually faded away. And from the literal analysis of the saint, he wanted to give King Wei a fair and just king with clear rewards and punishments, instead of explaining to Yang Su, nor holding us accountable. So. We must give the saint a step so that he can appease King Wei's anger and give his ministers a satisfactory explanation."
"The saint understands that it is me who is doing something secretly, but I can't pierce this layer of window paper myself. Once he pierces it, it will be difficult for him not to punish me, and the crime of collaborating with the enemy is enough to make me unable to stand up forever, so everyone's best to cherish I know how to pretend to be confused. Since I can't recognize him and the others don't have enough weight, then the only one left is my eldest son."
At this point in the analysis, Yu Wenshu said to Yu Wenhuaji: "If I go down, you, the servant and young minister, will be thrown away sooner or later. If I have no problem, I can pull you back up again after this storm has passed."
Yu Wenhuaji was speechless and speechless. After being sulky for a long time, he got up from the ground and said reluctantly: "But Aye, what will happen if the saint kills me?"
"Don't worry!" Yu Wenshu said firmly: "I will kill a few people to explain to the saint, but you are just a 'drunk gaffe'."
Yu Wenhuaji asked: "Who to kill?"
Yu Wenshu pondered for a while and then said: "I remember that several of your concubines are from Bingzhou, so I said they heard your drunken remarks and then reported the news to your brothers and sisters who serve in Yang Liang's mansion."
"No!" Yu Wenhuaji became furious.
Yu Wenshu expected that he would object, so he did not get angry, but said calmly: "I hope you will become my true heir, not a bastard in the officialdom or a prodigal son in the capital; I originally planned to remove you from office. Within a short period of time, I left the family business to you to take care of it and let you grow in the mall, but you are addicted to women. It seems..."
"Let me think about it." Yu Wenhuaji quickly changed his words. The Yuwen family's huge property had already made him salivate. If he could take charge of this big piece of fat, what would a few women mean?
Yu Wenshu showed a knowing smile. He was not worried about the eldest son making profits from the family business, because it was originally something left to his descendants. If the eldest son had clean hands and feet and did what he did without even him, the father, noticing, that would be a big deal. ability.
He was afraid that his eldest son would be addicted to women, not enterprising, and have no ambition.
Judging from the eldest son's instant change of heart, it seems that his son is not without ambition, but his ambition is obscured by the glitz and glamor of the world. In the future, when his ambition is satisfied again and again, he will be immersed in continuous conquests and continuous success, and then he will have greater ambitions and work hard to achieve new ambitions. Only in this way can he be regarded as his ideal successor to Yu Wenshu.
In fact, he had another purpose in letting his eldest son take the blame, which was to create an illusion that there was no successor and to serve as a cover for him.
I believe that the eldest son will understand his painstaking efforts one day.
Yu Wenshu thought for a while and then said: "After this incident, you will be responsible for taking care of the family business! As for Chengji and Chengzhi, I will teach them personally."
Yuwen Chengji and Yuwen Chengzhi were the eldest and second sons of Yu Wenhuaji. Yuwen Shu liked these two grandsons very much, especially the eldest grandson. They teach themselves to be cowards and losers.
"Here." Yu Wenhuaji responded without thinking.
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Early the next morning, more than a hundred guards escorted more than a hundred ox carts out of the side gate of Prince Wei's Mansion. The carts were loaded with food, wine, copper coins, farm tools, pots and pans, and slowly drove towards the east gate.
"Mr. Lang, let's go." In front of the main entrance, Princess Xiao Ying and Concubine Liu Rumei, who were already sitting in the car, were saying goodbye to their husbands.
Xiao Ying originally planned to treat Pei Shuying to a banquet, but because she owed her husband's family and her maiden family a meal, she had to change the banquet to an outing. However, the outing was also a gathering place for the soldiers of Prince Wei's palace, so as the young mistress, she I bought more than 100 cars as 'meeting gifts', turning an ordinary outing into a grand distribution of 'year-end bonuses'. '
There is nothing that can be done about it. After all, she is no longer a yellow-haired girl of the Xiao family, but the master of the palace. Every move she makes represents the image of the palace and the master's family. Naturally, she cannot be as free and willful as she was when she was a girl. Acted.
But in this way, naturally they can't leave early and come back late. They need to stay at Lishan Farm for a few days before they can come back. The thought of being separated from her husband for a few days makes Xiao Ying feel empty in her heart. However, she also knew that while her husband was learning to be a qualified prince and a qualified frontier official, she should also fulfill the two roles of princess and young mistress, so that her husband could concentrate on national affairs without distraction.
Yang Ji put his head through the car window, kissed Xiao Ying's cold pretty face, and said with a smile: "It's cold, remember to wear more clothes. At night, my hot quilt is missing, so remember to cover it thickly quilt!"
"No nonsense." Xiao Ying's pretty face suddenly turned red. After being together for so long, she still couldn't get used to her husband's crazy words. Just listening to her husband's concern, a sweetness surged in her heart. She hugged her husband's neck, He also kissed him on the cheek.
Yang Ji blew a kiss to Liu Rumei, who was sitting far away, and Liu Rumei couldn't help but chuckle.
He stood up straight and said: "I have arranged two hundred guards outside the city. I will meet you when the time comes. Don't worry about safety."
"There's no need to mobilize so many people, right?" Xiao Ying felt sweet and guilty when she saw that her husband had used so many people for her.
"Guanzhong is no longer the Guanzhong I am familiar with, and the dandies these days are not as moral as the dandies of our time. If a delicate beauty like you is robbed, then I will regret it deeply. Heart?"
Xiao Ying's motorcade was under the banner of Prince Wei's Palace, so naturally no dandy dared to extend its claws to her. What Yang Ji was worried about was actually his political opponents.
Although it is a common rule not to attack the family members of political opponents, no court official pins his hopes on political opponents, so he must be prepared. What's more, warriors from all over the world gather in Guanzhong. If there are political enemies who do bad things in the name of bandits or civilian warriors, then he has no way of investigating them.
After finishing the explanation, Yang Ji said goodbye to his wife and his wife, and asked the groom to drive the carriage towards the convoy that was gathering.
When he returned to his mansion, he sat in the side hall of Xuanwu Hall and carefully wrote down the martial arts regulations and selection methods.
"Sir, the slave is back." As soon as he wrote down a few rules, a beautiful and tall girl walked in.
Standing in front of Yang Ji, this girl was wearing a light cyan shorts, exuding a heroic demeanor, especially her big eyes, which were shining brightly and twinkling like stars, and she was extremely agile in her eyes.
Her name was Liu Xu, and she was one of the maids that Yang Ji obtained from Yang Su. Since her relatives also escaped from slavery because of Yang Ji, she was very loyal to the palace and initially trained the Suzaku Guards in the capital.
Dugumin felt that these ten maids were all loyal and trustworthy, so she divided her maids into groups and asked them to lead a team each. Zhang Chuchen, Liu Rumei, and Murong Xianyue were specially responsible for leading the team. Bing followed Yang Ji, while Liu Xu and others were in the capital, collecting information about Daxing for Yang Ji.
This time Xiao Ying went out for an outing, so she naturally had to bring many maids with her for close protection. Leaving aside Liu Rumei as a concubine, Zhang Chuchen and Murong Xianyue had been with Yang Ji for a long time. Like Yang Ji, they I am somewhat out of touch with life in the capital.
Yang Ji saw that they had nothing to do with him and that they could not help much in the capital, so he simply arranged for them to be given to Xiao Ying. Instead, he called Liu Xu, Lu Siqi, and Xian Yufang, who were familiar with the capital, to wait for orders.
Yesterday, Yang Ji ordered Liuxu to take people to keep an eye on Wang Shichong. At this time, he saw that her whole body was ashen, and her pretty face was covered with dust, like a playful dog that had got into the stove, but she was full of energy and spirit. Yes, he knew she had gained something and said with a smile: "Sit down and talk."
"Thank you, Mr. Liu." Liu Xu was not familiar with Yang Ji and didn't know much about his character. Although she knew that sitting down was against etiquette, she didn't dare to disobey Yang Ji's order, so she had to sit down, but she kept her body straight. Sitting upright with his butt hanging on the chair, he looked ready to get up at any time.
Yang Ji waited for her to sit down, picked up the teapot and poured her a cup. At first Liuxu thought Yang Ji was thirsty, but when she saw that he was pouring it for herself, she immediately stood up and took it with respectful hands.
Seeing her cautious look as if facing a formidable enemy, Yang Ji secretly sighed in his heart. Once servility is deeply rooted in the bone marrow, it will be difficult to correct it. Not to mention Liu Xu, who was not familiar with him, the same was true for Liu Rumei. Even though she was already a concubine, she always placed herself in a humble position.
But Yang Ji couldn't say anything, he could only see people's hearts over time, but the small respect he gave these cronies came from the bottom of his heart. After she took a sip of tea and showed her attitude of listening to the instructions, she said, "How's the inquiry going?"
Liu Xu quickly sat up and said as if he was writing down a running account: "My lord! Wang Shichong first went to Xu Guogong's Mansion yesterday evening, and then to Dugu Mansion in Yiyangfang. He stayed for about half an hour, and then left from the west gate of Yiyangfang. , went to Prince Yuzhang’s Mansion in Wubenfang.”
"Three major forces left in one night. It seems that the energy behind Wang Shichong is not small." Yang Ji thought for a while and asked: "Are there any rumors about Wang Shichong in the capital? For example, which force does he belong to? ? How did he become a member of the Ministry of War?"
"Yes!" Liuxu pondered for a while and replied crisply: "Wang Shichong has a very good relationship with Yu Wenshu. Some people even say that he is one of Yu Wenshu's pretenders."
"Did this rumor appear recently, or has it been around for a long time?"
"It has been around for a long time. It is said that Wang Shichong became the Yuanwai Lang after Yu Wenshu recommended him to the late emperor."
"It seems that Wang Shichong is Yuwenshu's son of a bitch." Yang Ji came to this conclusion and expected that the loopholes in the military examinations were related to Yuwenshu, and Wang Shichong was just a chess piece in Yuwenshu's hands, but what exactly did they want to do? We can only look at it from the perspective of martial arts.
"Sir, when I returned home, I heard that during the morning court session, the saint fucked Yu Wenhuaji to the end. Now he has no official position or title." Liu Xu added.
Yang Ji was surprised: "Is there news so early? Who did you hear it from?"
When Liu Xu saw Yang Ji looking at her, she lowered her head in embarrassment and said in a low voice: "In order to get better information, this slave asked Gongsun, the chief manager, and he asked us to collect the gangsters in the city for our own use, so we With the help of the Xuanwu Guards, we used coercion and inducement to subdue more than 20 small gangs in Pingkang, Yongxing, Wuben and other workshops. There are also more than ten small gangs who also help us find out information and sell information to Us. Next, I plan to integrate these small gangs into one big gang."
Yang Ji also knew about this, but he didn't expect Liuxu to progress so quickly, so he smiled and said, "Then you have to be careful, don't let others take advantage of our scheme and find out our bottom line."
"No!" Seeing that Yang Ji was a little suspicious, Liuxu put the tea cup on the table, stood up hurriedly and said: "We have demonstrated strong force and properly demonstrated our potential in the government. They are under the influence of life." When they are threatened and unable to resist, do they have any other choice? Besides, these small gangs are all small gangsters seeking money. Under coercion and inducement, they do not need us to reveal the details at all, and they will obey our orders. .”
"Okay, okay, let's see how anxious you are." Yang Ji saw that her face turned red with anxiety, and couldn't help but feel a little funny: "Since you have a detailed plan, the next step is to set up a big gang called 'Tianzi Sect' , Tianmen has three chief and deputy chiefs, and nine presbyterians. There are eighteen branch churches with different names. Each hall has three chief and deputy hall masters. But you are a woman and it is not appropriate to come forward. I will send a hundred The Xuanwu Guards are for your deployment, let them integrate these small gangs in front of the stage, and you can direct them from behind."
Yang Ji didn't expect these gangsters to do anything big. He mainly wanted to use these chickens and dogs to get information that he didn't know. He ordered: "Since you also know that these people are gangsters who live for money, so be sure to We can’t reveal our details, it’s best to let the hall leaders do their own thing and not give people the impression of a huge whole, otherwise, the imperial court will send out troops to suppress it.”
"Here." LiuXu responded.
