Yang Ji had many identities: at home, he was his mother's son, his wife's husband, his son's father, and the personal guard master of his slaves; in Liangzhou, he was the "lord" of the Wei royal family, the military god and the god of war between the eyebrows of soldiers and civilians. A state pastor who is devoted to the people. In the eyes of children from poor families, he was the "savior" who promoted martial arts, imperial examinations and paper books, established libraries, and resumed schools. In the eyes of Yang Guang and the children of the royal family, Yang Ji is the representative of the royal family and the emperor's "spokesperson". He is not only a strong shield against the open and secret arrows of the noble family, but also the "world-destroying" divine blade. In the eyes of the aristocratic family, Yang Ji is a bastard who is full of evil, ferocious, vicious, and commits all kinds of evil. He should be cut into pieces and executed late. In addition to these, he is also a king of poets, a calligrapher, a musician, a god of war, and a god of death. , thugs and other tags.
Yang Ji is very clear about his many identities; he knows what occasions, when, and what identities he should use to speak and do things; but in the capital and the court, he is such a brainless, one-to-one person. He is a fool of the two.
But Yang Ji thought the role of the fool was very good. Just because as the emperor, even if Yang Guang was very dissatisfied with a certain courtier or a certain faction, he could not openly express his dissatisfaction like him, and among the smart civil and military officials, who dared to be as unscrupulous as him? speak?
There was a He Ruobi who was a fool in the past, but that guy was not pretending, but a real fool; otherwise, he would not have rushed to the throne with his teeth and claws at the court meeting, patted the imperial case and roared at Yang Jian: "I conquered the Great Sui Dynasty. If it weren't for me, He Ruobi, how could you, Yang Jian, sit here and dominate?" Otherwise, He Ruobi would not have finished writing the anti-poetry at the inauguration ceremony of Renshou Palace, and still treated him as such. In front of all the ministers of the court, he provoked Yang Jian - "I'm just unhappy with you for attacking Yang Jian. I'm just preparing to rebel against the Sui Dynasty. What can you, a traitor and a female minister, do to me? If you have the guts, Just kill me!"
Yang Ji learned from history and learned from He Ruobi's experience and lessons, and became a "simple but not stupid" and "simple but not stupid" person. Therefore, although he now has enemies all over the world and political enemies in the court, they only have political opinions. , a struggle for interests, rather than personal grudges; let alone offending the emperor who controls the world.
It is true that each of them wants to bring down and kill the other, but every important minister in the court does not exist in isolation. There is a faction behind each important minister. This also leads to the fact that the foundation of each important minister is stable and no one can do anything about it. No one.
Why wasn't Yang Su afraid of being impeached by others? Even if others impeach him, he not only does not get angry, but often uses it as a spur. As long as he is wrong, he will admit it and even express his gratitude to the other party.
The reason is not that Yang Su is generous and generous, but that he is deeply rooted and has luxuriant branches. He is not afraid of impeachment at all; and even if the Yushi Yanguan is impeached, his "branches and leaves" will stand up and speak for him without him having to step forward. Help him solve the problem, so Yang Su himself was happy and generous, taking the opportunity to show his wise side of recognizing mistakes and correcting them.
In the same way, the same is true for Su Wei and other important court officials, who are not afraid of impeachment.
Compared with them, officials from poor families who have no power to rely on are very miserable. Once they are impeached, and it is true, they will usually be finished.
Now Yang Ji not only has the power of the royal family to rely on and the trust of the emperor, but he is also a faction of his own, so he is not afraid of impeachment by others. As long as he has not committed an unforgivable crime, it will definitely be very difficult for others to bring him down and kill him.
Of course, you can also use very extreme assassination methods like He Ruobi, but the ruling court has its own unspoken rules, and each faction does not allow anyone to violate the normal rules of political struggle; after all, everyone and each faction has its own political opponents. , Your relatives and friends, if you assassinate your political opponents, others can also assassinate you. In this case, wouldn't it be a mess?
And even if He Ruobi wrote a "confession", no one came forward to intercede: first, He Ruobi had offended too many people; second, the He Ruobi family had committed numerous crimes, and no one dared to come forward in the face of mountains of ironclad evidence; third, He Ruobi's assassination of Yang Ji broke the official taboo, and everyone wanted to kill the chicken to scare the monkey, and correct the rules of political struggle and the atmosphere of officials.
"Lang Jun, why did you bring back the seals?" When Yang Ji returned from the palace to the back house of the palace, Xiao Ying saw at a glance that Yang Ji was holding two seal boxes in his hands, and her beautiful eyes were full of surprise. .
These two familiar seal boxes are clearly the seals of the Minister of War and the General of the Right Guard. When they were in Liangzhou, the whole family thought that after Yang Ji became the minister, he would no longer be able to serve as the Minister of Military Affairs and the General of the Right Guard, so Yang Ji followed the rules of the court and handed these two seals to Yang Zhao. , and asked him to transfer it to the court. However, Yang Guang seemed to have forgotten the matter afterwards, and never formally issued an order to take back these two positions. Therefore, although Yang Ji did not have a seal in his hand, he was still the Minister of Military Affairs of the School and the General of the Right Guard.
Now, Yang Ji actually got the seal back. It can be seen that Yang Guang did not forget, but did not want to get rid of Yang Ji's two positions.
Yang Ji handed the seal to Zhang Chuchen next to him and asked her to put it in the study. Then he sat down and sighed: "The saint insists on giving it to me, what can I do? I don't want it, and he still won't agree. Yeah! Are you angry?"
"Pfft." After hearing the last sentence, Pei Shuying couldn't hold it back and burst out laughing. This girl took her son to her parents' house, and she felt a little depressed when she came back. The reason was that her parents' house began to become unauthentic. According to reports, Her father, Pei Ju, said that the Hedong gentry had serious differences in their treatment of Yang Ji. Most of the Hedong gentry wanted Pei Ju to draw a clear line between them and Yang Ji on behalf of the Hedong faction. Even if they were not enemies of them, they could not act like them. There is such closeness and tacit understanding now, and the same is true within the Pei family.
Pei Yun, the second-in-command of the Pei family, has always been lukewarm towards Yang Ji. This is certainly because Yang Ji is not his son-in-law, but it is also related to Yang Ji's prejudice. He believes that the Pei family is the Pei family and the Hedong sect is the Hedong sect. , Yang Ji is Yang Ji, and the lineage of King Wei is the lineage of King Wei; the Pei family must consider the issue from the standpoint of the Hedong faction. They must fight when it is time to fight, and they must oppose when it is time to oppose. The Pei family cannot just because Yang Ji is The son-in-law should keep in full sync with him and the Wei Wang clan. Otherwise, the Pei family and the Hedong faction will be tired of them sooner or later.
Pei Ju believed that Yang Ji was the son-in-law of the Pei family and had long been inseparable from the Pei family. They should not be separated so clearly and could not be separated. More importantly, the Pei family's goal was to unify the Hedong and Shandong gentry and become the leader of the northern gentry. However, The Five Surnames and Seven Sects would never agree, so if the Pei family wanted to achieve this goal, they must borrow the power of the emperor and the royal family, the Wei Wang family, and the southern noble families headed by the Xiao family.
As Yang Ji is the leader of the royal family, the leader of the Wei family, the leader of the poor family, and the son-in-law of the Xiao and Pei families, he is also fighting on behalf of the emperor against the powerful Guanlong nobles. The Pei family should follow the general trend and do their best to cooperate with Yang Ji. Taking advantage of the emperor's opportunity to let Yang Ji deal with the Guanlong nobles, he could gain huge political resources for the Pei family and the Hedong nobles. If the Pei family is too clear-cut and alienates Yang Ji, the Xiao family, who is also a noble family, will definitely like to see it.
In the end, neither of them could convince the other and almost started to quarrel.
Of course Pei Shuying didn't want her natal family and her husband to be so unfamiliar or even hostile, but as a woman, a woman who married Yang Ji and became the Yang family, who had the right to interfere with her natal family's decisions?
She didn't want the two sides to go into confrontation but couldn't solve it; and she told Yang Ji that not only could it not be solved, Yang Ji also thought that this was extremely normal and asked her not to take it to heart, so the only thing she could do now was All he did was make the Pei family angry. He even felt that the Pei family, who enjoyed the Silk Road, had no conscience and was too indifferent. On the day he came back, he angrily suggested that Yang Ji send a group of horse thieves to deal with the Pei family's caravan. As long as the Pei family's real profits suffered huge losses, other The branch will definitely no longer support Pei Yun who is trying to "turn against each other".
Yang Ji was both moved and a little bit amused by this originally smart little wife who had become stupid during her pregnancy. He could have managed the Pei family's caravan, but the Pei family was not stupid, so how could he not know that it was him? If he really did this, the Hedong faction headed by Pei would really turn against him.
It is true that sooner or later he will drift away from the Pei family because of reforms and support for the rise of humble families, but for his current situation, the later this day comes, the better.
It's just that the weird girl in front of him is sulking at her parents' family. Yang Ji can't persuade her, so he can only talk about it in the future.
"Mr. Lang, is this a false position again?" Xiao Ying asked softly as she sat opposite her husband.
"This time, both of them are working in real positions." Yang Ji picked up the tea cup that Pei Shuying poured out, took a sip, and said, "The saint has great respect for me.
The military system was comprehensively reformed. First, the former Eight Guards and Four Prefectures were added to Twelve Guards and Four Prefectures. From now on, the left and right guards were renamed left and right guards. I, the right guard general, also became the right guard general. "
"Then, the saint merged the 14th Battalion of the Beijing Army into the Twelfth Army. Each of the merged Twelve Armies had a military title. The original Wannian Army was called the Shenqi Army, the Chang'an Army was called the Drum Flag Army, and the Fuping Army was called Xuange. The Liquan Army is the Jingyue Army, the Tongzhou Army is the Yulin Army, the Ningzhou Army is the Zhewei Army, the Huazhou Army is the Cavalry Army, the Qizhou Army is the Yandao Army, the Binzhou Army is the Swaggering Army, and the Xilinzhou Army They are the Yuanyou Army, the Jingzhou Army is the Tianji Army, and the Yizhou Army is the Tianjie Army. In addition to the soldiers of the original guard, each of the newly established Twelve Guards is in charge of an army of Beijing soldiers."
"But when I got here, the saint did something special again. In addition to letting me take charge of the Yan Dao Army in charge of the right Yiwei, he also gave me the Jing Yue Army of the left Yiwei. In other words, I am now the de facto General Zuo Yiwei, if nothing goes wrong, the seal of inspection from General Zuo Yiwei will be sent to your house soon."
After hearing these words, Xiao Ying, Pei Shuying, and Liu Rumei were all shocked. The Twelve Army (formerly the Fourteenth Battalion of Guanzhong) was the most basic armed force of the Sui Dynasty; before the Xiaoguo Army was born, they were the core of the Sui Dynasty. , the most fixed and elite standing army, responsible for the important tasks of guarding and conquest. In the process of rectifying the Beijing army, the saint carried out drastic reforms of this army, turning the strength of the Twelfth Army from an inflated 700,000 to an actual 300,000; after the army eliminated the old and the weak and checked the vacancies, its combat effectiveness Instead of decreasing, it increases.
In the original Twelve Guards Mansion, the left and right guards were also in charge of the "internal army" responsible for the security of the palace. Therefore, the generals, generals, and generals of the two guards were all the emperor's trusted generals. This also resulted in the two guards not only having a high status The highest, and the actual number of troops is also the largest among the twelve guards.
According to Yang Ji, the powers of the renamed Left and Right Yiwei are the same as before, but he is also in charge of both guards. So the total strength of the two guards and the Beijing army that he will actually control in the future will be 100,000, right?
However, Xiao Ying, Pei Shuying, and Liu Rumei were not happy about the incredible power their husbands had gained. They know that ups and downs, ups and downs, ups and downs are the normal state of officialdom; Yang Ji is now not only the prince, the shepherd of Liangzhou, and the minister, but he is also a highly sought after military god and war god in the military and among the people. Name, the emperor suddenly granted him the real power of the Yiwei generals, and the heavy military power. Not only was it not a good thing for their family, it also made them deeply uneasy.
The uneasiness in their hearts does not stem from the criticism of court officials, nor from factional disputes, but from the emperor, from "the great achievements shake the master."
"Qiu Shui Qiuyue, you go and guard outside. No outsiders are allowed to come near." Xiao Ying asked Qiu Shui Qiuyue, who was on standby, to exit the inner hall and guard outside. Then she said to Yang Ji worriedly: "Mr. Lang, this power is really too great!"
"Yes, Mr. Lang, I can't take this power. It's better to resign." Pei Shuying also said.
Yang Ji said: "I know you are worried that my authority will be too great, which will attract criticism from the courtiers and suspicion from the saints. But if I resign, will the courtiers stop criticizing me? Will the courtiers let me go?"
"Of course not, the criticism will never stop. I know that if you don't advance in the officialdom, you will retreat. If Lang Jun gives up everything, he will only be a slave to others. I just think about Lang Jun's power. It's too heavy, it's really disturbing!" Xiao Ying looked at Yang Ji leisurely and suggested expectantly: "Why don't you continue to leave the daily affairs of the left and right guards to the generals at all levels as before? I consciously devalued these two positions."
Yang Ji secretly smiled bitterly in his heart. If they knew that Yang Guang planned to let him lead the reform of the army and become a veritable minister, they would be even more uneasy. Facing a pair of beautiful eyes full of concern and worry, he could only say: "In terms of military power, no emperor who has accomplished anything can never let go; and the saint not only led troops and fought in battles, but also experienced Yang Liang's experience. Rebellion, he now attaches great importance to military power, and after passing the military reform, almost all the generals and generals of the 12th Beijing Army are his trusted generals."
Having said this, Yang Ji lowered his voice and said, "The saint now leaves the left and right guards to me. First of all, the saint is very confident and not afraid of anyone. Especially after the military reform was successful and the Xiaoguo Army was established, he felt that no one He is his opponent. He thinks that even if I rebel against him one day,
He can also put me down as easily as he put down Yang Liang; secondly, he trusts me very much and believes that I will not betray him. "
"It's true!" Xiao Ying silently thought about Yang Ji's words. Her tense heart finally relaxed and her mind returned. She thought seriously for a while and then said: "In military terms, Lang Jun is a saint to deal with Guan. The sharp blade of the Long nobles has indeed not yet reached the stage of making the saints suspicious and jealous, and Lang Jun has not dealt with the world's noble families, including the Guanlong nobles. This is probably seen by the saints."
The conflicts between Yang Ji and the Guanlong nobles, Shandong gentry and other political factions were irreconcilable. The Pei family's attitude changed dramatically after Yang Ji became the minister. Since the Pei family is like this, her natal Xiao family Thinking about it, it's similar; if things continue like this, Yang Ji will slowly become a "lonely person" again.
What's more, the combined power of the entire royal family cannot completely suppress the Guanlong nobles. How could the emperor do something stupid like destroying the Great Wall at a critical moment?
These realizations, coupled with the "two major points" mentioned by Yang Ji, finally made Xiao Ying completely relieved.
"That's right!" Yang Ji whispered: "The saint can control me, believes in me, and needs me more. Besides, my political enemies are all over the world, he will not be suspicious of me. If I don't dare to do anything, please go to me." Ci, the saint is not only disappointed in me, but also becomes more suspicious and suspicious of me!"
Having said this, Yang Ji asked with a smile: "You three ladies, haven't you noticed the recent personnel changes in the court?"
"Mr. Lang said, could it be that the King of Shu has returned?" Pei Shuying blurted out.
"A Ying is right! Seeing that the royal family is not strong enough to fight against the world's aristocratic families, the saint asked Brother Shu Wang to come back to help me take some of the pressure." Yang Ji said: "So Brother Shu Wang, the Zongzheng Temple Minister, is just his comeback. When he takes a break, he will either go out to serve as a state shepherd or a general of a certain guard. But no matter what important position he holds in the future, he will share a lot of pressure on my shoulders; and the pressure I am talking about, in addition to The noble families in the world mentioned by the sage also include the sage himself.”
Yang Ji and Yang Guang are in different positions and naturally look at problems differently; for Yang Ji, once Yang Xiu becomes a state pastor or a general with real power, the first thing to help him reduce the pressure is not the family members, but the family members. Yes, it comes from Yang Guang himself.
If Yang Liang really couldn't see anyone, he would definitely suggest Yang Guang to get Yang Liang out too.
All this is not because Yang Ji is suspicious and self-oppressed, but he does not want to and will not rebel against Yang Guang. At the same time, he also believes that Yang Guang will not kill him. He even wants to return to the kind of outspoken and talk about everything. days, but everything is impossible.
Just because when officialdom reaches a certain height, a sense of crisis will naturally and uncontrollably arise, prompting people to take some necessary precautions and precautions. And the preparations people make cautiously because of the crisis can actually prevent accidents. When good things happen, it is good for everyone; if a high official is like He Ruobi, who is arrogant, arrogant, and ignorant of advancement and retreat, the consequences can be imagined.
"Sir, where is Liangzhou Mu? Is he gone?" Liu Rumei asked next to him.
After hearing this, Xiao Ying and Pei Shuying also looked at Yang Ji with worried and nervous eyes. The capital is a place where people kill without blood and without using knives. Even women like them have to be careful, speak and act cautiously when attending banquets that they have to go to. How can such a tense life be as happy as Liangzhou?
"Liangzhou Mu is still me." Yang Ji said.
The three girls immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
At this moment, Zhang Chuchen came back and said to Yang Ji, "Sir, my consort Wei Yuanzhao is handing me a greeting card outside the mansion. Are you seeing me?"
Wei Yuanzhao was born in Yunggongfang of the Wei family in Jingzhao. He was the grandson of Wei Xiaokuan and the third son of Mr. Wei. He dabbled in classics and history and was a filial friend. During the reign of Emperor Kaihuang, he married Princess Fengning Yang Jinghui, the granddaughter of Yang Jian and the daughter of Yang Yong, and Yang Guang. After he ascended the throne, his niece's title of princess was not removed, so Wei Yuanzhao is still the consort.
Not long ago, Wei Yuanzhao was nominated by the Ministry of Officials. If nothing else happens, he will probably be sent to Ganquan County as the prefect. However, Yang Guang has always been very cautious about the appointment of officials in Liangzhou. He is worried about the officials. The Ministry took the opportunity to go to the "pure land" of Liangzhou to force some family members with impure motives into
As a descendant of Yang Ji, he gave Yang Ji the right to make decisions. Therefore, whether Wei Yuanzhao can become the governor, in addition to whether he has the ability, also depends on Yang Ji's approval. He came to visit today, obviously hoping to get Yang Ji's approval.
"This person is most likely to be the future governor of Ganquan County. He is different from the others. He must be met!" Yang Ji looked at the clothes on his body and then ordered to Zhang Chuchen: "Chuchen, you have someone Lead him into the living room of the front hall, and I will change my clothes and go there."
After Yang Ji came back from the palace, he didn't have time to change his clothes. He was still wearing court clothes. Such clothes were not suitable for meeting guests at home.
"Here!" Zhang Chuchen responded and left.
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[This chapter comes from my heart: When I was about 12 years old, I didn’t have much experience, so I asked a relative’s child who couldn’t go to college and couldn’t find a job to come to me with the idea of helping relatives. I work in a company; in fact, I didn’t treat her badly, but she didn’t have employee awareness, and she didn’t position her position well. Not only did she not do anything, but she asked for a high salary, and she even told other people that she was my relative. Daosi and pointing fingers made everyone very unhappy. I told her a few times, but she gave up. In the end, the two families couldn't even become relatives. After that, I no longer dared to ask for relatives or friends. 】
