Li Yuan is thirty-four years old this year, three years older than Yang Guang. He is Yang Guang's cousin.
Yes, Yang Guang's eldest son Yang Zhao is already sixteen years old, but Yang Guang is only thirty-one years old.
Li Yuan's title of Tang Guogong was Xi's, and like Wei Yuancheng, he had the honor of his ancestors.
His father, Li Bing, was already the general of the Zhu Kingdom and the prince Shaobao during the Northern Zhou Dynasty. Li Yuan ranked fourth in the family. However, because the first three brothers died early, he inherited the title and is currently the governor of Xingyang. Prefect.
Xingyang is a county. The prefect of Xingyang is equivalent to the prefecture-level city secretary, while Li Jing's Hedong county magistrate is equivalent to the prefecture-level city mayor. It seems that the difference between the two is only one level, but in fact it is much different.
The local administration of the Sui Dynasty was a three-level system of prefectures, counties and counties. (In the early days of Yang Jian's reign, the system was a three-tier system, and later it was changed to a two-tier system of prefectures and counties. Yang Guang changed it to a two-tier system of prefectures and counties. In this book, the three-tier system of prefectures, counties, and counties is uniformly used during Yang Jian's period)
The three levels of prefectures, counties, and counties are divided into nine levels: upper upper, upper middle, upper lower, middle upper, middle middle, middle lower, lower upper, lower middle, and lower lower.
The upper state, such as Jizhou where Zhao Xuan was originally located, had a very large jurisdiction, similar to a province in later generations, while the lower state, such as Xiongzhou where Yu Wen Jingli was located, had only three counties.
Shangshang County, such as Jiangdu County, has jurisdiction over the Huainan and Jiangbei areas of Jiangsu Province, Zhenjiang, Danyang, and Jurong, and Tianchang, Quanjiao, and Chuzhou in Anhui Province. It is almost equivalent to a province.
For example, Yang Ming's Hedong County was a Shangxia County with ten counties under its jurisdiction, while Li Yuan's Xingyang County was a Zhongshang County with eight counties under its jurisdiction.
In the Sui Dynasty, county governors were directly appointed by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, but in fact they were recommended by the Ministry of Civil Affairs and then decided by Yang Jian.
Li Yuan's current official position is not large, because he had previously served as a backup for Yang Jian, and spent his best youth in the palace.
If you ask Li Yuan what was the most painful time in his life, it would definitely be when he was working as a backup for Yang Jian. He was conscientious and could not tolerate any mistakes, and he often stayed up late and worked overtime.
Officials like Li Yuan who have been transferred from the top leadership to local offices can be promoted as fast as a rocket.
When Li Yuan returns to Beijing this time, as long as he can meet his aunt Dugu Jialuo, he will definitely be mentioned in the rankings.
After Yang Ming sat down, he first honestly recounted what he saw and heard in the Wei Mansion during the day, including secretly taking a look at Wei's appearance.
After listening to this, Yang Guang and his wife burst into laughter.
"The same goes for Xi'er. How could the Queen Mother match him with an ugly woman?" Yang Guang smiled and looked at Yang Ming: "This is Jiancheng, the eldest son of the Duke of Tang Dynasty. He will temporarily live in the house during this period. You, Zhao'er and Xi'er will be with him." So close."
Then, Li Jiancheng, who was only eleven years old, stood up and saluted Yang Ming:
"Jian Jiancheng has met Yang's brother."
Yang Ming hurriedly smiled and said: "Brother, don't be polite, just stay in my yard."
"This will disturb Your Highness," Li Yuan said with a smile.
Yang Ming said no, no, no.
Li Yuan's mother, Dugu Shi, is the fourth daughter of Dugu Xin, and Dugu Jialuo is the seventh daughter. They are biological sisters.
Yang Guang and Li Yuan were both born in old Chang'an, so the cousins had played together when they were young. They were very close and there was no distinction between them.
Because when their brothers were young, Yang Jian was still the Prime Minister of Otsuka in the Northern Zhou Dynasty and had not proclaimed himself emperor. For Li Yuan, Yang Jian was his uncle.
However, after the founding of the Sui Dynasty, the gap between the two families suddenly widened. Over time, the cousins gradually used honorific titles, but privately they were still the same as before, as if they were a family.
Yang Guang seemed to have other things to discuss with Li Yuan, so Yang Ming knowingly took Jiancheng's little hand and left.
Yang Ming is one year older than Jiancheng, but half a head taller.
This boy has a tiger-like head and a big, round eyes, and he has been looking at the interior of the palace.
When he returned to Yang Ming's yard, the boy began to look at Chen Shuyi again. He looked up and down without hesitation at all, and actually said directly:
"Brother Yang, can you let her warm my bed tonight?"
You're thinking shit!
Yang Ming lightly kicked
On the other person's butt: "If you don't learn well at a young age, you can sleep by yourself at night and there will be a maid to serve you."
Li Jiancheng pouted, with an angry look on his face.
Yang Ming heard last year that Shimin's baby was also born. He should be only two years old now. If he doesn't take advantage of this moment to take advantage of the two brothers, he will have no chance in the future.
"Where is Shimin, still in Xingyang?" Yang Ming asked Nuan Dong and the others to prepare some food, then pinched Li Jiancheng's crotch and said with a smile.
Yang Jiancheng sat on a chair with his legs dangling in the air, nodded and said: "My younger brother has just learned to walk and is taken care of by his mother in Xingyang."
Yang Ming asked again: "Where is your sister?"
"My sister is also in Xingyang," Li Jiancheng replied.
In the Sui Dynasty, the status of the eldest son was naturally higher than that of other brothers and sisters. Therefore, those who were usually taken out to meet friends and guests were also the eldest sons and were regarded as the key targets for training.
In fact, Lao Yang's family has many similarities with Lao Li's family.
Yang Jian once boasted that his five sons were born from one mother and would never kill each other.
Li Yuan also boasted about the same thing, saying that his four sons Jiancheng, Shimin, Xuanba, and Yuanji were all brothers from the same mother, so there would be no problems.
As a result, it's really hard for brothers to fight.
But there is one difference. Yang Jian only had five sons, while Li Yuan had twenty-two in history, but only four were direct children, and the rest could not compare with these four.
Yang Ming's courtyard is a triple courtyard, called Qingshan House, with twelve rooms. He placed Li Jiancheng in a vacant house and assigned him two maids to serve him. He would eat three meals a day with Yang Ming.
In fact, Li Yuan had a mansion in Daxing, but since it was unoccupied for a long time and the dust became heavier, Yang Guang let Li Yuan and his son live in the palace.
Although historically, the Old Li family would rebel in the future and successfully invade Daxing, occupying the Guanzhong area and eyeing the Central Plains.
But that was only after the war broke out all over the Sui Dynasty. If in this life, Yang Ming could correct some places and play some beneficial effects after his father came to power, maybe there would be no great chaos in the late Sui Dynasty.
Yang Ming watched Li Jiancheng climb the tree, then looked at the well in the garden, thinking that if Li Jiancheng accidentally fell into the well...
But soon, he abandoned this evil idea in his mind.
He is only eleven years old, still a child, and has good values. How could he have such thoughts? It shouldn't be true.
If we really encounter each other on the battlefield in the future, will we fight to the death with fairness and justice, relying on our familiarity with the direction of history to drown a child in advance? This is not something Yang Ming would do.
On this day, Chen Shuyi brought back a man named Zhou Zhongmo.
This man is the son of Zhou Luohu, but he is a concubine. He is the same age as Comrade Yang Guang this year and is thirty-one years old.
The Sui Dynasty defeated Chen Dynasty in the eighth year of the founding of the emperor, twelve years ago. The Zhou Zhongmo in front of him had participated in the water battle that year. After Chen Shubao was captured, he and his father Zhou Luohu surrendered to the Sui Dynasty.
At that time, Zhou Luohu led his army to guard the waterway around Baxia, blocking Qin Wangjun's army from crossing the river. However, Jiankang was unable to do anything, and He Ruobi and Han captured his hometown. If he did not surrender at that time, he would definitely be attacked from the east and west. .
The situation is over, and it is not the general's fault.
After surrendering to the Sui Dynasty, Zhou Luohu was recommended by Yang Guang and appointed governor of Youzhou. Now his mother has passed away and he is in mourning at home.
