Chapter 26: Convincing Li Jing

Li Jing's residence is on the north side of the General Administration. It is a five-acre official house. His wife and children are not brought in the capital. Due to the lack of people to take care of his daily life, Li Jing also married a concubine in Youzhou. In the huge official house, only Li Jing, his concubine, two maids, five or six servants lived, which seemed empty. The Holy Hall was empty.

As night fell, Yang Yuanqing came to Li Jing's mansion. An old servant who was guarding the door rushed in to report. After a moment, Li Jing came out.

"I'm planning to go to the General Administration!"

Li Jing smiled and said, "It should be Sima going to see him off to the general manager. How can the general manager say goodbye to Sima?"

Yang Yuanqing also smiled and said, "There are still a few things that have not been arranged and I am uneasy, so I came. If Uncle Shi must talk about official rules, then go back with me."

Yang Yuanqing called Shi Shu, which meant that he was not coming for business. Li Jing smiled happily and said, "Since you come, you can rest assured. Since you are here, you will go to my study to have a drink."

Li Jing's biggest hobby was drinking. In the past, he was not lucky. He drank his sorrows and often got drunk. Therefore, he was nicknamed "Wine Pharmacist". Although he served as Sima of Youzhou, he was busy with affairs and no longer drank indiscriminately like before, he could not change his habit of drinking a drink for nothing.

The two sat down in the study. Li Jing's concubine Wei brought them a few plates of wine and dishes, and warmed up another pot of wine. Li Jing poured Yang Yuanqing a glass of wine. He sighed slightly, "Galleon's defeat makes people lose their interest in drinking."

Yang Yuanqing picked up the wine glass, stared at the hops floating in the glass, and asked lightly: "Who does Uncle Shi think the biggest threat to the Sui Dynasty?"

Li Jing was stunned. He did not expect Yang Yuanqing to ask this question. He also considered this question and said, "Everyone is very clear about the Guanlong nobles."

"Why are the Guanlong nobles the greatest threat to the Sui Dynasty? Does Uncle Shi know?"

Li Jing nodded, he looked up at the roof and slowly said, "In fact, the root of the army is still in the mutiny of the six towns. Guanlong had placed soldiers from Wuchuan Town. At the end of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the army of the six towns rebelled again, and the world was in chaos. The army of the six towns belonged to Erzhu Rong and Hebayue, the two largest warlords of the Northern Dynasties. At the beginning of the third year of Yongxi, Hebayue, the leader of the Wuchuan Army of Guanlong, was murdered. His army had no leader. Several generals wanted to be the leader, but no one obeyed each other. Finally, we reached a consensus to welcome the general of Wancheng, Yuwen Tai, as the head commander. In fact, Yuwen Tai was only the nominal head commander, and the Wuchuan Army was still divided into six generals.

Yuwen Tai knew this well, so he followed the eight officials of the Northern Wei Dynasty and appointed the Eight Pillar Kingdoms. He took one of them as the commander of the entire army, and the other was to Yuan Xin, a clan of the Northern Wei Dynasty. This was a void name. The other six pillars gave six generals in charge of military power, Dugu Xin, Li Hu, Zhao Gui, Li Bi, Yu Jin, Hou Mo Chen Chong, and two generals in the Six Pillar Kingdoms each. These are the twelve generals, and Yang Zhong was one of them. These eight pillars and twelve Kaifu generals formed the Guanlong nobles, all of which were military households in Wuchuan Town among the six towns."

Yang Yuanqing drank a glass of wine silently. History has its own origins. If he did not understand the history of the Northern Dynasties, he would not understand the continuation of the Sui and Tang Dynasties. The strength of the Guanlong nobles lies in the fact that they were on par with Yuwen Tai from the beginning, which was the product of interest compromise. Otherwise, Yuwen Tai was only twenty-nine years old at that time, so what kind of virtue did he have to command the Wuchuan army?

Yuwen Tai's reform of the military system was nothing more than restoring the military clan tribal system at the beginning of the founding of the Northern Wei Dynasty. All soldiers followed the master's surname and re-hunized the military household system that had already been Chineseized.

If we use a popular metaphor, it is like a hereditary board of directors in later generations, consisting of eight major directors and twelve small directors. Yuwen Tai was just the first chairman. Yuwen Tai's fourth son Yuwen Yong served as the second chairman. The company expanded unprecedentedly and the chairman became Emperor Wu of Zhou. However, this second chairman wanted to change the rules and change the clan government system into a monarch government system and seize the military power of other directors. As a result, the directors mutiny collectively, overthrew Chairman Yuwen and elected a new chairman. This is Yang Jian, and the company name was also changed from Northern Zhou to Sui.

However, Chairman Yang is more courageous. After six years of taking office, he dissolved the board of directors and all the directors became senior executives. Although the board of directors does not exist, the funds and connections of Sui's company are still in the hands of the directors. Yang Guang, the second chairman, was even more ruthless and wanted to drive all the directors and executives out of the company and completely dig out their roots.

The directors' roots lie in the army. When Yuwen Tai compromised his interests, the clan military system implemented was the capital initially invested by the directors. The Battle of Goryeo was to completely eliminate these primitive capitals. In this way, can the directors tolerate it?

Therefore, Chairman Yang was overthrown by the directors and Chairman Li was elected. The company name was changed from Sui to Tang. In the early Tang Dynasty, Chairman Li fully restored the status of directors. It was not until decades later that the sudden emergence of a female chairman was once again disbanded the board of directors.

China's history is actually a process of continuous differentiation, compromise and integration of various interests, which repeat itself over and over again.

Yang Yuanqing sighed and said, "Did Uncle Shi feel that the Great Sui Dynasty is retracing the old path of Northern Zhou again?"

Li Jing nodded and sighed, "The Lord is too anxious, but it's no wonder that the Lord's descendants are weak, and one of his three sons dies, one of them is abolished, and one of them is a child. He is afraid that his grandson will not be able to suppress the Guanlong nobles. The Sui Dynasty was finally usurped by the Guanlong nobles, so he was eager to completely abolish the Guanlong nobles in his own hands, but he was afraid that he would be eager to achieve success, but he would not be able to achieve speed."

Yang Yuanqing understood Li Jing's meaning. Zhu Yuanzhang did this in history, and Liu Bang did it. This should have been done by the founding emperor, but now it is done by the second generation. Yang Yuanqing poured Li Jing a glass of wine and asked again: "How does Uncle Shi think Li Shude?"

"Li Yuan?" Li Jing asked.

Yang Yuanqing smiled and said, "The emperor said he was honest and honest, timid and cowardly. What does Uncle Shi think?"

Li Jing sneered, "This man looks loyal on the outside, but in fact he is very deceitful. On the surface, he is timid and cowardly, but in fact he is ambitious. In this battle in Liaodong, there are many fugitive troops. He secretly gathered many powerful men, you don't know!"

Yang Yuanqing was puzzled and asked, "The gate of Youzhou City has been closed for more than two months, but he has not stepped out of the city. How can he gather strength?"

"Where is Li Jiancheng? Have you seen him?"

Yang Yuanqing thought about it and did not see Li Jiancheng. Could it be that Jiancheng did it? He glanced at Li Jing, "How could Uncle Shi know?"

Li Jing said: "My brother's son is also on the ranks of escape. He fled to Liaodong with the chief of the Right Guard Sun Deshun and the attendant Liu Hongji of the Right Guard Liu. As a result, he met Li Sisang in Peiping County and played with Li Sisang and threw a heartburn agent on the road. Song Haozhuozhuang. Li Sisang hurt the throne and asked the people. Later, my nephew left Li Sisang for excuses and told me about this matter. I went to check the account book of the Zhuo County government. There was no record of these five hundred elites. I knew that this was actually Li Sisang's heart muscle!?

Only then did Yang Yuanqing realize that Li Yuan had already taken action. He pondered for a moment and said, "Jing Xiangyang, Yuan Risheng, went to the Western Regions and wanted to be king. Does Uncle Shi still remember this prophecy?"

"There was a lot of controversy at that time, and it was said that it was done by Yuan."

Li Jing was suddenly shocked and stared at Yang Yuanqing with wide eyes, "What do you mean is this actually what Li Yuan did?"

Yang Yuanqing nodded, "I said that what Yuan did was just because I needed to deal with the Yuan family at that time. In fact, I knew very well that this was actually what Li Yuan did, and wanted to provoke the struggle between me and the Yuan family."

Li Jing said nothing for a while and finally sighed: "Yesterday, Li Yuan came to me and hoped that I could be his second son Shimin's army. Actually, I have seen that child, and it is indeed very good. He can become a great talent, but I just think that Li Yuan has something else to do, so I didn't agree."

"Uncle Shi is right. Li Yuan is ambitious. He used his son's name to seek a teacher and used Uncle Shi for him. He also found me just now. I hope I can convince Uncle Shi."

"Do you want me to go?" Li Jing stared at Yang Yuanqing.

Yang Yuanqing shook his head, "I came here to advise Uncle Shi not to agree. The situation in the Sui Dynasty is unclear now, and Uncle Shi tied himself to a certain force too early, which is definitely not a wise move."

"I thought so too, so I didn't agree."

"I hope Uncle Shi will follow me and I will bring Uncle Shi to Youzhou for this purpose."

Li Jing was stunned. He looked at Yang Yuanqing in surprise, "Can you be a virtuous nephew..."

Yang Yuanqing smiled bitterly, "The cunning rabbit still has three caves, let alone others. If the Sui Dynasty loses its deer and the world is in chaos, what should I do? Shouldn't I consider it?"

Li Jing nodded silently. He could understand Yang Yuanqing's retreat. He looked at Yang Yuanqing and said, "The greatest favor I, Li Jing, in my life, comes from your grandfather. If it was really like you said, the day when Sui lost his deer, I will help you, which can be regarded as my explanation to your grandfather."

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Li Jing repaired a letter and ordered his servants to send them to the prefect's office. In the letter, Li Yuan's request to make Li Shimin take Li Jing as his teacher. "Although General Yang repeatedly persuaded him, Jingsheng was lazy and might mislead his future. In Youzhou, there were famous places and famous gentry. Within three steps, there must be talented people. Why not join another famous teacher to gain a future...'

Yang Yuanqing returned to his mansion. It was already the end of September. The cool breeze was blowing, and there was no more heat and dry air in the air. The epidemic gradually subsided. Thinking of returning to Beijing tomorrow, Yang Yuanqing also began to miss his wife and children.

He quickly walked into the mansion, but saw a maid running towards him in a panic, "Master, Miss A Lian is sick."

Yang Yuanqing was shocked and was about to leave tomorrow. Why was he sick at this time? He quickly walked back to his dormitory and saw that in the water room on the first floor, A Lian kept bent down and retching.

"What's going on? Where is it uncomfortable?"

"I don't know, I just want to vomit, but I can't spit out anything."

Yang Yuanqing suddenly thought of something and touched her lower abdomen with his hand. Could it be...

Half an hour later, an old doctor prescribed a diagnosis: ‘Happy pulse!’

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