Chapter 3 Ups and Downs (Three times) A pair of bare hands quietly stretched out and gathered the memorials on the ground together. "Don't clean it up!" Yang Guangda shouted. The moment he saw the owner of the hands, all the resentment in his heart turned into a feeling of grievance.
Going up, he kicked the memorials that the other party had gathered together again, and while kicking, he shouted an order, "You are not allowed to pick, I order you not to pick, stop, these are all waste!"
The owner of the hand refused to obey the order, squatted on the ground, moved forward a few steps, and gathered the scattered memorials again.
"I told you not to clean it up!" Yang Guang roared and kicked the memorial away again. The owner of the hand picked him up again and kicked him again. She picked him up again, kicked him again, and cleaned him up again... Finally, Yang Guang and the owner of the hand were both
Tired, the two of them sat on the carpet panting, looking at each other and smiling bitterly.
"Who, who called you?" Yang Guang turned around and looked around, looking for the next target to vent his anger. The eunuchs immediately shivered with fright, and pressed their heads against the wall of the imperial tent like frightened mice.
"Your Majesty, don't blame them. If it was a state matter, I shouldn't have come. But my husband was so angry that it was a family matter, so I had to come!" The owner of the hand replied gently, as if the person sitting in front of him was
A child who is angry
Yang Guang has always respected and loved his wife Xiao. His wife was born in the south. Regardless of her bloodline, character, appearance, or intelligence, she is one of the most talented people in the world. Over the years, there have been days of great success and days of trepidation.
Well, the two of them have always supported each other through the days when they were pretending to be frugal in the Jin Palace to win the heir. Mrs. Xiao never complained about the hardships of life. When she entered the imperial palace, Mrs. Xiao also did not forget her wife because she was too happy.
duty
"Alas!" Yang Guang sighed helplessly, reaching out to push away the memorial beside him. He didn't want his wife to see the contents of certain memorials. Some local officials who were as stupid as pigs, in order to show their loyalty, based on the rumors among the people,
He made a lot of "unfavorable advice"
Empress Xiao smiled and moved her body. She used her hands and feet to gather the surrounding memorials to her side. She picked them up one by one and placed them in piles. She tried her best not to let her eyes glance at the memorials. Her involvement in the affairs of the harem would be criticized.
, her husband is already very annoyed, and she doesn’t want to add another layer of trouble to him.
"Alas!" Yang Guang sighed again, turned sideways, and gathered the memorials near his arm into a pile.
"Come here, Your Majesty!" Empress Xiao gently urged her hands to move faster, clearing the carpet between them.
The couple smiled at each other, both seeing love in each other's eyes. The two tired bodies slowly came closer, closer, and finally leaned together, forming support for each other.
"Your Majesty, why are you so angry?" Empress Xiao put the memorial at her feet and comforted her in a low voice.
"They are making up rumors based on rumors!" Yang Guang straightened his body and tried to make his wife as comfortable as possible. "I can tolerate it if they make other rumors. There are some things that I can't do at all, but they seem to have seen it all with their own eyes.
It’s clear and logical!”
"Rumors stop with the wise! Your Majesty, ignore them. As time goes by, they will naturally subside!" Queen Xiao stretched her shoulders and used all her tenderness to feel the solidity around her.
"They said I was a slut, a liar, obsessed with beauty and neglecting government affairs, and..." Yang Guang shook his head helplessly, "And because I was greedy for Zhang Lihua's beauty, I killed Gao Ying!"
"Pfft!" Queen Xiao couldn't help but laugh out loud, "Well, there is no real evidence for these things. Even if His Majesty really likes a woman, it is His Majesty's private matter. What does it have to do with them!"
She had a beautiful smile. Although she was no longer young, it still made people feel that the tent was brightened for an instant, and then everyone's vision slowly returned to normal.
"Are you not angry at all?" Yang Guang asked in surprise.
"Zhang Lihua has been dead for more than 20 years. Even if she was not dead then, she is still over sixty now, an old lady with chicken skin and gray hair. Why am I arguing with her for no reason? As for these sisters in the palace, Your Majesty is obsessed with it.
No one knows who I don’t like better than me, so why listen to outsiders’ gossip!” Empress Xiao looked at the flowing clouds outside the window and replied quietly.
My husband is not a lustful person. If you insist that he is addicted to beauty, he may be the most addicted to himself. He said he liked the scenery of Jiangnan, so he took her to Yangzhou. He said he couldn't get used to living in Chang'an, so he took him to Luoyang.
I didn’t want to be separated from him for too long, so I went on an expedition to Goryeo and had him stay with me. Maybe this was a bit too indulgent, but civil couples still pay attention to love and affection. The emperor of the Sui Dynasty was gentler to the queen. Could it be that
Does it have to be a crime?
"Although you are a woman, you are much smarter than those officials!" Yang Guang praised with a wry smile, stretched out his legs, used the tip of his boots to pull back the memorial that he had just tried to push away, unfolded it, and pushed it to his wife
Under his nose was a memorial written by a minor official from the Confucian family in Qufu. This person kept saying that he did not believe the rumors among the people, but he advised the emperor to work diligently and love the people, stay away from the harem, and set a moral example for the people of the world. Obviously, this person had it deep in his heart.
Take all those rumors as fact
"This is His Majesty's private matter. They are far away, so naturally they can't see clearly. For the sake of their loyalty, Your Majesty, please don't pursue it!" Queen Xiao glanced at the memorial as quickly as possible and suggested with a smile.
"How am I going to pursue this? If I demote him, all the scholars in the world will think that I don't know what to do but keep this stupid guy. I don't know how he will cause trouble for me in a few days!" Yang Guang threw the memorial into the air again and looked at it.
It slowly fell and floated to the corner of the tent. "If I really go back to the harem less often and go to court more often to make the rebels stop, I would be willing to agree to it. But I am afraid that I will do this."
The rebels are still ungrateful!"
"If there is a rebellion, it is natural to suppress it and suppress it without the troops of the imperial court. How could the thief put down his weapons on his own?" Queen Xiao shook her head, smiling, probably because she felt that some officials' ideas were too wishful thinking, and there was a flash in her eyes.
A bit sarcastic
"I said the same thing, but some people just want to put unrelated things together. To tell the truth, even if it is a state matter, some people are far less knowledgeable than you!" Yang Guang also shook his head and moved the memorial he had just compiled over.
Spread one by one on the ground
"Look at them. Look at the officials of the Sui Dynasty. They don't worry about the bandits and bandits everywhere, but what are they worrying about? Look at this, look at this..." His
Pointing with his fingers, he showed each of them to his wife carefully. "Look, it's such a big pile. There's another pile over there. Some of them are about serious business. They have first-grade official positions and top-ranking nobles. They spend all their time pestering a fifth-grade general."
I don’t know if they have too little free time, or they feel that the days of being an official are too long and they need to go home and rest for a while!”
Empress Xiao didn't want to get involved in politics, but she didn't want her husband to continue to be irritated, so she had to follow Yang Guang's fingers and scan the memorials on the ground. After scanning, her curiosity was immediately aroused. The memorials were spread out in front of her.
There were more than a dozen of them. Except for one that asked the court for relief from local floods, and one that said that banditry was serious and the government's campaign failed, the rest were all centered around whether or not a fifth-grade general named Li Xu should be rewarded.
"Has this General Li offended many people?" Queen Xiao looked sideways at her husband and asked in surprise.
"He has only been a general for less than three months. Who can he have the opportunity to offend?" Yang Guang replied dejectedly that he felt ashamed that the civil and military officials of the Sui Dynasty had embarrassed him in front of his wife.
"He, is he from the Li family in Qinghe or the Li family in Longyou?" Queen Xiao is worthy of the blood of Emperor Wu's family of the Southern Qi Dynasty. The second sentence is close to the point.
"It would be great if he came from the Li family in Qinghe or the Li family in Longyou. At least there would be someone to take care of it for him!" Yang Guang continued to shake his head and smiled bitterly. It is difficult to be an official if there is no one in the court. He has heard this proverb before, and now it seems that it is really true.
Good words of wisdom
"Then what extraordinary thing did he do?" Queen Xiao continued to ask.
"When the army retreated last year, he went in the opposite direction and rescued Xue Shixiong at the Mazhai Water. A few years ago, I sent him to the Mazhai Water and successfully brought back Yu Wenshu and an army of 300,000 people! I just wanted to reward him, but I couldn't.
He suddenly became a heinous person in the mouths of the ministers!"
"Your Majesty said that, I understand a little bit!" Queen Xiao's eyes turned, and her eyes were as smart as water.
"What do you understand? Tell me!" Yang Guang asked while packing up the open memorials.
"This person has achieved so many merits that the ministers are complaining, so they should be careful not to favor him exclusively!" Empress Xiao specially used a word to describe a woman to describe the thoughts of the ministers. The word was used so appropriately that she hid in the corner of the tent.
Several of the eunuchs couldn't help but laugh out loud.
"Get out of here!" Yang Guang raised his head and scolded his wife with a smile. This sentence was too relieving. All of them looked upright and aboveboard, but in fact they were not as open-minded as a group of jealous women.
"No one is allowed to spread what I said today, otherwise, don't blame me for being rude!" He added loudly to the backs of the eunuchs. He turned around, stretched out his arms to hold his wife in his arms, smiled and asked
Said: "Then what do you think I should do?"
"No, no one will speak for him!" Queen Xiao looked around alertly and found no signs of courtiers around her. She softened and lay comfortably in her husband's arms. "He was born in a humble background.
The humerus ministers around you must not like him, but these people have never been in harmony, so they won't all unite to deal with a young boy!"
"If they all impeach one person, I really won't be too embarrassed. At least I will give him a false position and let him go home to wait for his vacancy. This will satisfy the officials and save myself trouble!" Yang Guang picked out several other memorials.
, unfolded in front of his wife's eyes, "Look, these are the ones praising him. They almost praise him as the reincarnation of his grandson. If Wu Qi reincarnates and I don't reuse him, I will be ignorant of talents and stupid!"
"Is this person really that powerful?" Empress Xiao couldn't believe the words in the memorial. She sat up straighter and looked at Pei Ju, Pei Yun, Wang Anzhi, Yang Jingde...a lot of civil servants she was familiar with and unfamiliar with.
While trying their best to prove Li Xu’s contribution,
These civil servants almost unanimously believed that Li Xu made the first contribution in both Eastern Expeditions, especially the last one. Without him, it would have been impossible for the 300,000-strong army to return west safely.
"I understand, this is taking advantage of the opportunity to share favors!" Empress Xiao smiled and said a special term for women in the harem.
Note: Empress Xiao, also known as Concubine Xiao in folklore, was the daughter of Xiao Kui, Emperor Wen of Liang Dynasty, and the wife of Emperor Yang Guang of Sui Dynasty. After Liang died, Xiao Kui defected to the Northern Zhou Dynasty and gave birth to this daughter.
He returned to the Tang Dynasty and was placed in the capital. According to official historical records, Yang Guang and the Xiao family had a deep relationship, which resulted in Yang Guang accepting very few concubines, which was completely different from the playboy emperor in unofficial history.
When he was young, he gave birth to Yang Zhao. According to a woman’s childbearing age, she was over sixty when she returned to the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, it is pure nonsense to say that Li Shimin accepted her into the harem.
