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Chapter 47 Dancing on the tip of the knife

Yang Jian was in a very serious mood. He was hit by a continuous blow the day after he was ordered to assist in the administration. He originally thought that his third brother Yang Hui had a brotherly relationship with him, so he sent his second son Yang Ying to call him to discuss matters. Unexpectedly, Yang Hui refused to come, but instead left a cold sentence: "Duke Sui Guo may not be able to save it, and he still wants to do the genocide."

Yang Jian immediately died of this third brother. As for the second brother, after he broke up with the Yuchi family, Yang Erlang regarded Yang Jian as a revenge after his wife's collusion, and he just passed away a few days ago. Fortunately, there was another nephew Yang Xiong who had grown up, and Yang Xiong, contrary to his father, always respected him as his uncle, but was willing to help him. Yang Jian didn't know whether it was a good or a bad thing to lose this second brother.

In addition to Yang Xiong, there was another Wulang in the Yang family who was loyal to him, his elder brother. After he returned to the palace, he immediately issued three instructions: First, he would not send a mourning secretly; second, martial law, there would be no entry in the inner palace, and there would be no way out in the outer city, and there would be no way to pass; third, he promoted his fifth brother Yang Shuang to Sima Shang Doctor, assisted Dou Rongding in garrisoning the capital, and his nephew Yang Xiong was the deputy commander of the imperial guards, and he jointly controlled the imperial guards with Yu Zhi.

However, the second blow came soon, Yuan Zhou replied that his third sister-in-law, Princess Shunyang, had already sent out five fast horses and left the capital, and reported to the various powerful figures ahead and the four imperial uncles outside the capital. Now it is impossible to recover, and the secret of the death immediately became an empty word.

Yang Jian returned home unhappily. On the way, he met Yuan Xie and poured a basin of cold water on him. Yuan Xie not only congratulated Yang Jian as the prime minister without any words, but instead said: "The public has no party support, it is like a wall of earth standing in a flood, which is a great danger."

Yuan Xie is his old classmate, and his relationship has always been very close and has been hit hard. Thinking of the powerful force of all parties in the Great Zhou Dynasty opposing him, Yang Jian felt exhausted and almost wanted to quit.

Yang Shuang rushed in and shouted, "Brother, good news, good news."

Yang Shuang was ordered to win over Li Delin, Gao Yang and the others. Now that he is back, Yang Jian is immediately excited: "How is it?"

"Gao Jin said he would be driven, and if a major event fails, he will never refuse to exterminate the clan. Li Delin said that he would be taken care of and sacrifice his life to accompany the gentleman."

"Okay, okay, please come and meet." Although these two people are not very officials, they are knowledgeable and have a high reputation. With their effectiveness, they are far better than Yang Hui and Yuan Xie's blows against him.

The two of them were soon ordered to come. Yang Jian appointed Gao Jian as the chief minister of the Prime Minister's Office, taking charge of the affairs of the Prime Minister's Office, while Li Delin was appointed by Yang Jian as the subordinate of the government, planning all-out affairs to the outside world.

With Gao Bing and Li Delin, Yang Jian was immediately in a state of water. Yang Jian's biggest advantage was that he obtained the emperor's will and was named for righteousness, but this name of righteousness was not without threats. The establishment of the Great Zhou Kingdom was still short, and the first three emperors were all brothers. For example, today's son was young, and the uncles and cousins ​​of Emperor Tianyuan all had excuses to establish themselves as emperors. If the foreign king colluded with local soldiers and generals, they could immediately re-establish the emperor.

The Zhao king's goal can be ignored in the capital for the time being, and the other four kings can be considered. Yang Jian adopted Li Delin's strategy and sent an imperial envoy to recall the four kings separately in the name of the marriage of the daughter of the daughter. He must arrive before the news of Emperor Tianyuan's great demise reached. As long as the four kings set out on the way, they would not even be able to regret it even if they received the news.

In order not to make the four kings suspicious, Yang Jian specially found four young men to serve as imperial envoys, Changsun Sheng, Cui Peng, Li Hun, Du Qingxin, and Changsun Sheng, needless to say, brave and resourceful. Cui Peng and Changsun Sheng are about the same age, strong and martial arts, and they are the guards who are kneeling down and begging in front of the palace. Li Hun and Du Qingxin, both of them are both eloquent, and they are Li Mu and Wei Shikang's relatives. They use them to win over Li Mu and Wei Shikang.

After the four people left, it was useless to block the death of Emperor Xuan again, and Yang Jian no longer concealed it. Three days later, Yang Jian began to mourn Emperor Xuan. Emperor Jing, who was eight years old, moved to Tiantai Palace, respecting Empress Dowager Ashina as the Empress Dowager, Yang Lihua as the Empress Dowager, and Emperor Jing's biological mother was the Empress Dowager, and Chen Yueyi, Yuan Leshang, and Yuchi Fanchi went to the temple to practice.

In order to temporarily win over the foreign kings of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Emperor Jing's second uncle, King Chan, was named Shangzhu Kingdom, the right prime minister, the third uncle, King Qin Zhi, the Shangzhu Kingdom, and Yang Jian, the fake Huang Cheng's left prime minister, and was always informed of military affairs between China and foreign countries.

This time, the conferred worship was completely designed by Gao Bing and Li Delin. Yuwen's family has sixteen princes. Many people who are accustomed to fighting and have both civil and military skills are here to choose Yuwen Pian. Yuwen Zhi's two young men came out to serve, which is naturally a cover. They are not only young, but also stupid as a pig. I can't. At that time, Emperor Wu would not know that the prince was not a good person, but he did not establish another prince. However, the other two sons were even more incompetent. Now they were chosen, but to match Yang Jian's two green leaves.

After the scattered court, the ministers left Tiantai Palace, but saw the left prime minister's guards solemnly listed in the courtyard. They were obviously going to send Yang Jian to the Prime Minister's Mansion. All the officials were stunned on the spot. In the future, whether to go to the emperor's Tiantai Palace or the Prime Minister's Mansion to work, choose the wrong step, not only will it miss your future, but it may also lose your life.

Everyone whispered. Yang Jian signaled Li Delin, wanting him to come forward to persuade him, but Li Delin shook his head slightly. Some of them were highly respected, while others were famous all over the world. They were all ministers who would tremble with one foot when they stomped their feet. Li Delin used to be just a doctor, so how could he be qualified to persuade him?

Seeing this, Yang Jian's guard captain and the sergeant Lu Ben, the sergeant of Siwu, commanded the soldiers to gather all the ministers and ministers in the court, and said loudly: "Let's go! Those who want wealth and honor will follow me to the East Palace."

If Lu Ben's attitude is normal, anyone would accuse him of being rude, but at this moment everyone is taking this trick. Regardless of whether everyone wants it or not, they are thinking in their hearts: "Hmph, if something happens to Pu Liurujian in the future, we will endure humiliation and bear the burden under the force of his guards, and we are not really supporting him."

The East Palace is the Prime Minister's Mansion. It was built by Emperor Wu for the crown prince Yuwen Yun. Unexpectedly, as soon as the palace was completed, Emperor Wu returned westward. Yuwen Yun took over the throne, so he naturally did not live in the East Palace, but moved directly into the palace (later renamed Tiantai), and gave the East Palace to his son Yuwen Chan. A year later, Emperor Xuan passed the throne to Yuwen Chan, and changed the East Palace to Zhengyang Palace to let the little emperor live. But another year, Emperor Xuan also returned westward. The little emperor Yuwen Chan hurriedly entered the Tiantai official and emptyed the Zhengyang Palace, which happened to become Yang Jian's Prime Minister's Mansion.

When they arrived at the palace gate, the royal guards of Zhengyang Palace stopped him. How could the ministers enter the imperial palace? Isn’t this a rebellion? Lu Ben was furious and pushed the guards away, putting their swords directly on the neck of the guard leader. As a result, a group of guards immediately scattered. Yang Jian successfully entered the Eastern Palace, followed by the mighty officials.

Sitting on the bed in the main hall, the congratulations, chants and flatteries of the officials suddenly surged like a tide. Yang Jian looked calm. He knew very well that there was no way out now, and he would either exterminate the clan or become the emperor.

In order to show the virtue of the new emperor, the first order of prime minister Yang Jian ordered was to implement a general amnesty nationwide and ordered the suspension of the Luoyang Palace under construction. The Luoyang Palace began to be built when Emperor Tianyuan ascended the end. It took two years to complete and it took millions of people to use. Moreover, the county soldiers of each state had to withdraw forty-five days of corvee labor every year, which consumed a lot of manpower and material resources. Every day, hundreds of people were exhausted. As soon as the news of the suspension of construction of the Luoyang Palace came out, the people in the world were immediately thrilled. Not only were the millions of people able to survive, but the soldiers stopped corvee labor, and even the people also lost a heavy tax.

After all the officials retreated, the Prime Minister's Office held a small meeting, and all the middle-aged and young generals participated in the military academies: Yuwen Shu, Yu Qingze, Han Qinhu, He Ruobi, Yuan Zhou, Yuan Yu, Yuan Xie. Yuan Xiaoju, Changsun Chi, Changsun Hong, Changsun Ping, Lu Zhi, Wang Yi, Dou Rongding, Wang Shiji, Yang Su, Yang Xiong, Li Xun, Li Che and dozens of others.

They are all people that Yang Jian needs to win over. These people are the elite children of various aristocratic families. If they win over these people, they will also win over the aristocratic families behind these people.

Looking at these dozens of generals, Yang Jian's face was solemn and solemn: "Everyone, since the beginning of the Yellow Turban Rebellion in the late Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms were in power, the Wei and Jin Dynasties alternated, the sixteen countries fought bloody battles, the Southern and Northern Dynasties confronted each other, and the chaos was particularly chaotic for four hundred years. During this period, the countries fought each other endlessly. Not only were the people suffering, but the nobles and nobles also flowed into blood, and it was inevitable that the disaster would be caused by the day and night. Han people, Xianbei people, Xiongnu, Jie people, Qiang people, and Di people. I think of our ancestors, who did not suffer from the pain of chaos and which clan would not suffer from the pain of casualties..."

Speaking of this, Yang Jian couldn't help but sigh, and everyone agreed. Over the past four hundred years, the Han people's forces first retreated. The Hu people, Xianbei, Jie, Qiang, and Di tribes took advantage of the situation, and the Hu people first gained the upper hand, treating the Han people as pigs, dogs, slaves, and two-legged sheep that could be cooked. However, under the Jedi counterattack of the Han people, millions of Hu people also fell into the Han people's counterattack.

Although Ran Min failed later and the Xianbei people finally won victory, a large number of Hu people were killed, and the decline of Hu people was inevitable. After the Eastern Wei Dynasty, the Xianbei people had to rely on a large number of Han people to join the army to maintain their rule. The Han people gradually grew higher and no longer ranked with pigs and dogs. Today, the Great Zhou Dynasty was the Xianbei and Han people ruled together. The Xianbei people married the princess to the outstanding generals of the Han people and gave the Han people surnames. On the other hand, the Xianbei people sinicized themselves. In the past, the Wei royal family changed their surnames Yuan, and Changsun and other names that looked more like Han people. By the time of Emperor Tianyuan, they even returned to the Wei and Jin dynasties.

Nowadays, half of the people here are Han people and half Xianbei people. They are deeply moved by Yang Jian's words. With the division between the Eastern Wei and Western Wei, the two sides have been attacking each other. Whether it is Han people or Xianbei people, countless children of each family have died on the battlefield.

Yang Jian's voice said loudly: "This situation of division and war should end. China should return to the track of unification. This is not only the will of heaven, but also the call of thousands of households. Our Emperor Wu of the dynasty has mastered the heart of heaven and observed the public's opinion for two years, laying a firm foundation for the unification of the Jiuzhou. Now the Southern Dynasty is still here. You are both strategic and civil and military, which is the essence of our dynasty's military. Recovering Jiangnan, the task of unifying China will be placed in front of you. The history of four hundred years of turmoil will end in your hands. Since the Three Kingdoms, there have been many generals and ministers, but who can unify China, welcome the peaceful and prosperous times, establish unification achievements, and achieve immortal names. Today I would like to ask you all: do you have such ambitions."

Everyone heard this and cheered, the young people were full of enthusiasm, and who would not want to make a name for themselves, and Yang Jian's words hit their minds.

Yang Jian smiled on his face: "Very good. Everyone has such ambitions. I am willing to store food and grass for you, prepare cars and build ships, and let you create heroic achievements. This period may take several months or years. Why will it take several years? Now that the emperor is young, many people in the Great Zhou Dynasty have too much selfishness. In order to gain greater power, they may rebel against the country and provoke wars. If there are such people, you should know what to do, that is, to resolutely defeat those people's selfishness. What do you think?"

"The Prime Minister has a far-sighted vision, and we will never let the Prime Minister down." Everyone answered in unison.

Yang Jian was secretly proud of himself. In the future, whether it was Yuchi Jiong, Sima Xiaonan and other generals, or the kings provoking war, he could have a charge of destroying the unification of the Jiuzhou and obstructing everyone from making achievements. Those young generals who were aroused by him to keep their reputations for eternity and make unparalleled achievements will be united by him and suppress their rebellion.

In the past, the Eastern Palace and the Prime Minister's Mansion, Yang Jian is busy dealing with various political affairs. Li Delin and Gao Yang are next to him make suggestions from time to time, and sometimes they will have fierce arguments with Yang Jian.

Yang Xiong walked in: "Prime Minister, after receiving the messenger, Xuanlong Army will return to Beijing tomorrow."

Yang Jian was excited. These days, he seemed to be dancing on the tip of a knife, and he had to look forward to every step he took, fearing that he would cause turmoil across the country. Now he finally heard a good news: "I will send my order, and all officials will go to the city gate to greet him tomorrow."

Yang Xiong quickly responded: "Yes."
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