The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 190
In Yinshi, the cock crows.

"Husband! Wake up!"

Yang Tong was sleeping in a daze, but was woken up by a pair of little hands, and Xiao Wu's lazy and distressed voice echoed in Yang Tong's ears.

The couple had a big fight last night, Yang Tong was sleepy at this time, he opened his eyes in a daze, saw that the sky outside was dark, it was no more than four o'clock, he responded with "En En" casually, and continued to sleep.

"Husband! Yang Pushe, Yang Shangshu, Fang Shangshu, Wei Shangshu, Wei Shangshu, Liu Shangshu, Kong Shangshu, Ling Shangshu, Jiang Shangshu, and General Youshen are waiting for you in Chaoyang Palace. Husband, hurry up."

In fact, Yang Tong will wake up in half an hour, and Xiao Wu also wishes her husband could sleep a little longer, but the state affairs are important, no matter how distressed or unbearable, she has to wake Yang Tong up.

Just like what Yang Tong said last night when he comforted himself.

"If you want to reach the peak, you must endure the pain; if you want to be moved, you must enter it; if you want to think about your fate, you must avoid the evil; if you want to be hard to indulge, you must let go of it; There must be a dream; if you want to wear a crown, you must bear its weight..."

If you want to reach a certain height, you must endure the pain of reaching this height. If you want to be moved, you must integrate your emotions into the situation. If you want to live a stable life, you must find ways to avoid danger and disaster. If you want not to indulge, you must If you want to live happily, you must develop your ambitions. If you want to be successful, you must have dreams. If you want to wear the crown of the emperor, you must bear the pressure brought by this position.

On the road of fighting for hegemony, advancing is life and retreating is death, and if one intends to live successfully, one has to endure all of this.You can't say you're tired, you can't say it's bitter, and you can't slack off... because there is no fruit for nothing in this world, since you are the leader of a party's power, why don't you bother to pay for it, and want to sit back and enjoy it?
Yang Tong opened his mouth lazily, got up from the bed in a daze, and let Xiao Wu dress and wash him.

At this moment, he finally understood that so many emperors in ancient times were keen to be foolish emperors, and he finally understood why there were more foolish emperors and fewer wise emperors in ancient times... There are mountains of memorials piled up in front of you every day, even if you have the legend that Mount Tai collapsed before you. You don't change your face and calm down, and you will yell "fucking mud horse". What's more, you don't want people to live, you have to be woken up from your dreams from time to time, no wonder Mingjun died early, it's all exhausted .

Among them, the most typical representative is Yongzheng, who has mixed praises and criticisms. He died of exhaustion while reviewing mountains of memorials.

If it was a peaceful and prosperous age, Yang Tong felt that it would be okay if he was a fool for a few years... But now is a troubled time, and all the princes are working overtime to rectify their own empires. Dong must seize all the time to make Da Sui superior.

Xiao Wu stood far away admiring her masterpiece, only to see that Yang Tong was wearing a bright yellow plain robe and a golden crown on his head, making his figure even more tall and straight, heroic, and his gestures calm and graceful.

After a long while, the obsession in Xiao Wu's beautiful eyes dissipated, and she bowed and said: "The concubine sends your highness respectfully..."

"Concubine Ai is flat..."

Yang Tong understands that Xiao Wu is speaking as a princess at this moment, not a wife, but he doesn't like this kind of rule, and he doesn't like Xiao Wu's ceremonial nature and losing her nature, so he leans forward and hugs her. Jingying whispered in her ear: "Let's work harder tonight and try to give birth to a fat boy next year..."

Xiao Wu's face was on fire, and finally she didn't hold back the dignified "mother's world", showing the delicate appearance of a little daughter, and gave her husband a white look angrily, that moment's demeanor captivated Yang Tong's eyes, Yang Tong laughed loudly, turned around go out.

The side hall of the Chaoyang Hall is now brightly lit, shining like daytime!

In the hall, several mainstays of the Sui Dynasty were discussing something in low voices.

With Yang Tong's arrival, everyone stood up and greeted each other. After Yang Tong took his seat, several people took their seats one after another.

"Everyone, what's the matter?" Seeing the serious expressions of these senior officials, Yang Tong became a little uneasy.Just yesterday I bragged about 'why don't you lose once', but before dawn this morning, the retribution will come?
Yang Gongren said: "Your Highness, the grain supply in Yecheng is increasing steadily, and some grain shops are now full of people."

"How much is the price?" Hearing Xiao Wu's food price increase last night, Yang Tong realized that someone was manipulating the price of food behind the scenes.

"Returning to Your Highness, the food in Yecheng has risen from 46 yuan per bucket of rice in normal times to 75 yuan per bucket of rice yesterday, and it has risen to an exaggerated level of [-] yuan per bucket of rice this morning. It has more than doubled."

Yang Gongren reported the latest price of grain prices, and then talked about his own views: "Food is a peace of mind for the common people, and grain prices are the main standard for high prices of various commodities. Once grain prices get out of control, the prices of other items will also skyrocket. , There will be violent turmoil in the hearts of the people and the army. I suggest that Yecheng, Taiyuan Changping warehouses and various government warehouses be activated to quell the turmoil."

"We are not short of food, and it is necessary to invest in official food at a par price." Yang Tong agreed with Yang Gongren's approach very much, and said: "The price of food has risen too fast and too weird. I don't think this is a random incident. What do you think? ?”

Everyone looked at Yang Gongren again. He is the No.1 under Yang Tong. He has followed Yang Tong since the most difficult time. He has the oldest qualifications and the richest experience. Out of respect, he needs to listen to his opinion first, and Yang Gongren's ability is extraordinary, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is Yang Tong's Xiao He. If he had not worked hard to manage the rear area, governing the three states and the counties in Guannei Road, how could he recover so quickly from the red wilderness and flourish?

Yang Gongren pondered for a while, "Food prices have fluctuated since a month ago, but the increase was not large, and it has always been within a reasonable range. It was not until five days ago that there was a strange surge. Last year, Jizhou, Youzhou and Liaodong They all had a bumper harvest, and the recovered grains couldn’t fit in them. In addition, we implemented the method of “relief with work” in Bingzhou and the nine counties of Guannei Road. When the official storehouse was transferred out, people's food was not requisitioned, and when His Highness went to the north, he didn't even bring food with him. Logically speaking, there shouldn't be a shortage of food. So I suspect that someone is deliberately driving up the price of food."

At this time, Ling Jing, who was in charge of intelligence, cupped his hands and said, "Your Highness, I received information the day before yesterday that someone was spreading rumors in Bingzhou. It spread, and the common people didn’t know the truth, so I thought it was normal for food prices to rise.”

Everyone was silent. If it was for this reason, the increase in food prices would be understandable. It's just that they know that someone deliberately spread rumors, but can the common people understand?

Wei Zheng said slowly: "The rumor started in Bingzhou, and it only took a little more than a day. How come all the grain merchants in Yecheng got the news? Who spread the news to Yecheng?"

Yang Tong said: "The rumor spread so widely and so quickly, it can be seen that this is not an individual act, but a huge hostile force premeditated an action."

Wei Zheng nodded and said, "Then a new question arises again. First of all, what force did it? Second, what is the purpose of messing up the Great Sui?"

Everyone also felt that Wei Zheng's question was justified. Yang Tong asked: "The stability of food prices is of great importance. There must be no ambiguity on the food issue. What does Xuan Cheng think should be done?"

Wei Zhengdao: "First of all, to stabilize grain prices, Changping warehouses and local government warehouses sold grain at the normal price of [-] yuan a bucket of rice to meet the needs of the people in various places, thereby suppressing grain prices; secondly, while swallowing up the population, we , has also been infiltrated very seriously by various forces, taking this opportunity to uproot the intelligence organizations of various forces."

Ling Jing smiled and said: "Leave these problems to us 'Black Ice Terrace' to deal with!"

Black Ice Platform is an intelligence agency named by Yang Tong, and he thinks the name is cool.

"Our official department is responsible for blocking the news."

"Our imperial department is responsible for appeasing the hearts of the people."

Fang Xuanling and Liu Zhenghui each took responsibility.

(End of this chapter)