Yang Guang was walking back and forth in the imperial study with his hands behind his back. Although he was influenced by Zhang Qiu Taiyi, he decided to strengthen the army's protection of the power center to change the celestial phenomena of the damaged Ziwei center. ≤3≤Jiangge≤Xiao≤Say,

But Yu Shiji's suggestion reached his heart. He had been implementing the major reforms of the army for three years, and the outline was gradually clear. If the army that came to Hu'er was divided again, it would inevitably cause unnecessary trouble and affect his military system reform.

Yang Guang's military reform idea was very clear. The local area disbanded Yingyang Mansion, and used the ten major guards to control all directions. He was directly under the jurisdiction of the court, and the guards were appointed by him. This solved the control of the wealthy and gentry over the local guards.

In addition, the home office controlled by the Guanlong nobles was disbanded and the Xiaoguo Army Mansion was established to protect the capital.

The three Goguryeo battles allowed Yang Guang to successfully complete the military restructuring and completely eliminated the two major cancers of Guanlong nobles and local gentry, which had great significance for the control of the army.

Therefore, Yu Shiji knew very well how important the army was to Yang Guang. He tried his best to disband the front army that Lai Hu'er, so he used the army's restructuring as an excuse and finally hit Yang Guang's key point.

Yang Guang pondered for a moment and finally made up his mind, "As far as you say, disband the front army who came to protect the other person!"

Yu Shiji took the opportunity to speak out again: "I have repeatedly thought about it. In order to safeguard Your Majesty's credibility, I suggest that the rewards for this Goguryeo Battle should be given to them so that they can return to their hometown without complaints."

Yang Guang glanced at Yu Shiji strangely. The person who tried his best to persuade him not to give the army was Yu Shiji. Now he actually changed his words and advised him to fulfill his promise. What is the reason?

Yu Shiji felt a little guilty and quickly explained: "I advised Your Majesty not to consider the reward for the time being because this army has not yet made up for such a deal. Now that Your Majesty has decided to disband them, the reward can be fulfilled. This will minimize the dissatisfaction of the soldiers with the dissolution and safeguard Your Majesty's credibility. You are not selfish. Please give your Majesty a clear guide!"

In fact, Yang Guang didn't care about the small amount of rewards. The treasury in the court was still relatively abundant. He also considered that the case of Lai Hu'er was still undecided, so he did not consider the rewards for military merits. Since the army decided to disband, the rewards were fulfilled before disbanding, in order to prevent unstable military morale.

Yang Guang nodded, "I will leave this matter to Yu Qing. Let the Ministry of War draft a reward plan for Yu Qing review, and finally show it to me. It will be implemented together with the disbandment of the army!"

"I obey the order!"

At this time, a eunuch was reporting outside, "Report to Your Majesty, Mr. Xiao has urgent matters to ask for a meeting!"

"Supreme him in!"

Yang Guang said to Yu Shiji again: "What I said just now should be implemented as soon as possible, and the disbandment of the army cannot be delayed."

In fact, there is no need for Yang Guang's instructions, and Yu Shiji will not delay, otherwise Yuwen Shu and others will inevitably come to encourage the emperor, and there will be a change again at that time.

"I obey the order!" Yu Shiji bowed and hurriedly retreated.

At the door, they just met Xiao Yu who walked in. Their faces sank at the same time, they ignored each other and passed by each other. The conflict between them has become public and there is no at least concealment.

Yang Guang saw it and smiled faintly. The way of the emperor was to control the situation, and the deeper the conflict between Yu Shiji and Xiao Yu, the better. Otherwise, a good man like Su Wei would give up all his power to Yu Shiji. That was not something Yang Guang was willing to do.

Xiao Yu is the younger brother of Empress Xiao, about fifty years old. He is tall and elegant and steady. He is from the nobles of Xiliang. He is loyal, upright, smart and capable. He is highly valued and trusted by Yang Guang. However, sometimes his advice would anger Yang Guang. He wanted to kill him several times, but he was rescued by Empress Xiao in time.

Xiao Yu was an honest official and hated Yu Shiji, who had no bottom line in corruption and bribery, and almost ignored him. In the past two years, they escalated the conflicts over the military reform. Yu Shiji formulated a radical reform plan to please Yang Guang, but was firmly opposed by Xiao Yu. He believed that the radical reform would cause serious consequences, especially the wealthy and gentry secretly established private troops.

Xiao Yu saw it thoroughly. The world was full of chaos and bandits. If the wealthy and gentry lost the protection of their soldiers, in order to protect themselves, they would definitely form private troops and would not rely on those unreliable mutual guards. This is actually the reappearance of chaos in the late Han Dynasty. Instead of letting the wealthy and gentry establish private troops, it is better to maintain the existence of local military palaces.

It’s a pity that Yang Guang was stubborn and did not listen to Xiao Yu’s advice at all. In addition, Yu Shiji was fueling the fire, which made Xiao Yu fail to oppose the reform of the army. Xiao Yu fell into deep melancholy during this period.

Xiao Yu stepped forward and bowed to salute, "Your Majesty, I just came from Tianjin Bridge and met a group of old men who came to Beijing to file a lawsuit against the emperor."

Yang Guang had just heard of this and asked the Censor Liu Zhi to inquire. He sat up and asked, "Where did you come from? Why did you complain?"

"Your Majesty is a group of rural farmers from Taiyuan who sued Duke Tang and sued him for occupying the land of the people."

Xiao Yu presented the complaint to Yang Guang, "This is their complaint, please check it out."

After reading the complaint with a gloomy face, he became more and more angry and said to the eunuch who was serving Bimo next to him: "Go and pass on my orders quickly and summon Li Yuan, the remaining guard in Taiyuan, to see me!"

The eunuch ran out, Xiao Yu was startled and quickly advised: "Your Majesty, the villagers' grudges are often exaggerated. Weichen thinks that the Duke of Tang may have some inappropriate behavior, but it is definitely not as serious as forcibly occupying the land. Those farmers told Weichen that they were forcibly buying land, and forcibly buying and occupying the land is different."

Yang Guang snorted coldly, "He is the best person to pretend to be a generous elder. Do he think I can't see through him? When I asked him to be the prefect of Mayi County, he had a lot of complaints, just because he thought Mayi County was poor and sparsely populated. When I asked him to be the only one who stayed in Taiyuan, his nature gradually became exposed. He liked wine and money, and occupied land. Such a person would be a disaster for him to rule Taiyuan."

Xiao Yu sighed in his heart. In fact, he understood Li Yuan’s difficulties in his heart. He was afraid that the emperor would suspect that he had a different intention, so he imitated the ancients and used his greed for money and wine to destroy his reputation. Why is that?

"I have nothing else to do, I will take my leave first!"

"Go!"

Xiao Yu bowed and slowly retreated.

At this time, Yang Guang looked at the complaint of Taiyuan Township farmers again and slowly fell into deep thought.

Yang Guang and Li Yuan are actually cousins. Their mother is sister. Li Yuan is a few years older than Yang Guang. They have been studying together since childhood.

Yang Guang is extremely smart and can never forget everything he reads. He is extroverted and unrestrained, while Li Yuan is a little dull, honest and honest, and introverted. The two are completely different types of people.

But Yang Guang has always disliked Li Yuan and always thought he was a hypocrite. He was seeking fame all day long. He was obviously a lustful person, but he pretended not to be close to women. He was obviously a greedy person, but he deliberately pretended not to like drinking at a banquet.

When the court officials praised Li Yuan as a generous elder, Yang Guang looked at him coldly, so when Li Yuan gradually showed different pasts in Taiyuan, Yang Guang was not surprised. He knew that this was Li Yuan's nature, but it was gradually manifested in the face of power.

After all, Yang Guang looked down on Li Yuan from the bottom of his heart. With a heroic grandfather like Li Hu, he was so cowardly. He actually gained the bottom of the Guanlong nobles, and even a talent in the family could not be produced.

Yang Guang pondered for a long time and took out a bunch of brocade books from the box beside him. He slowly spread the brocade books on the table, which were prophecies circulating in Luoyang this month.

‘The peaches and plums will win the world, the queen surrounds Yangzhou and turns into the garden. Don’t talk, who will promise?’

Although Zhang Qiu Taiyi did not admit that the prophecy was related to the strange appearance of Ziwei, Yang Guang always felt that the two were more or less related.

This prophecy did not appear this time, as early as thirty years ago. His father dreamed of plum trees blooming and flooding the city. Peaches and plums also appeared in the palace, and the prophecy of winning the world was a prosperous era. Maybe it was not necessary to take it to heart, but now the world is unstable, and this prophecy appears again, which forced Yang Guang to be alert.

The meaning of the prophecy is very simple. Li replaced Yang's family, and the time happened when he went on a tour to Yangzhou.

Yang Guang has been thinking about this matter repeatedly these days. There are four major families in the world: one is the Li family of Zhaojun, the other is the Li family of Hedong gentry, the Li family of Longxi, and the other is the Li Bi family of the two major pillar states in the Western Wei Dynasty and the Li Hu family.

Yang Guang used the method of exclusion to identify them one by one. The Li family in Zhao County was weak and had insufficient military strength, so they could be eliminated. The Li Bi family was not strong, and Li Mi was born, but he fled to Wagang and fell into the grass. How could the bandits win the world? Yang Guang eliminated the Li Bi family again.

Now there are two names in front of him, one is Li Yuan, the left-behind Taiyuan, and the other is Li Hun, the general of the Right Guard. But the names of these two people have the meaning of water, which fulfilled the dream of the emperor's flood siege thirty years ago. Yang Guang was almost certain that the prophecy was one of these two people.

One is the Guanlong nobles, the other is the largest aristocrat in Longxi. Both families have military origins. In addition, Li Hun's nephew is the nickname of Li Min, who is called Hong'er, which seems to have fulfilled his father's dream of siegeing the city thirty years ago. So who does this prophecy refer to?

At this time, the eunuch reported outside the door, "Your Majesty, the Duke of Tang has arrived, waiting to see him outside the hall."

"Let him in!"

After a moment, Li Yuan hurried into the imperial study room, crawled down and knelt down to apologize, "I am guilty of being guilty of the holy grace, and I deserve to die!"

Although Li Yuan had changed into a new official uniform, he still had a strong smell of alcohol after entering the house, which made Yang Guang's brows frown. He could see that Li Yuan's face was pale and he had not yet died of alcohol. It was obviously the result of forced sobering up, which made Yang Guang very unhappy.

‘Wow!’ Yang Guang threw the complaint in front of Li Yuan and said coldly: “Explain to me why these rural farmers want to go to Beijing to file a lawsuit?”

Li Yuan stuttered after a while: "Your Majesty, I did not occupy the land, but I bought it slightly below the market price. Some of my behaviors are indeed inappropriate, but they went to Beijing to file a lawsuit, which was a bit of a big deal. I suspect that someone was secretly instructing me, and I have offended many people in recent years."

"Don't shirk responsibility. I know clearly what you did in Taiyuan!"

Yang Guang stared at him and angrily said, "Is the salary I give you not enough to support your family? Is it that the land left by your ancestors too little?"

Li Yuan lowered his head with shame, "I know the crime!"

"Hmph! I'm asking you why you do such a greedy and abuse of power. You can't give me a reason. Don't blame me for not thinking about my mother's affection."

Li Yuan sighed, "Your Majesty, although the ancestors left some land, the family was divided for three generations, and the family was poor. My father died early and could not buy land. The land under the name of me was only thirty hectares, so I could only leave it for my eldest son. But I have five sons, so I always want to leave some property for the other four sons. I am nearly fifty years old and have not had a few years of career, so I am a little anxious."

"So you forced to buy shops and land. I heard that you still accept bribes, your parents are not polite to the people, but compete for profit with the people. You are very pleased with me!"

Li Yuan shed tears and said, "I have let down the holy grace, but I know my guilt!"

Yang Guang sneered in his heart, and it was reasonable to make money for his son. He knew who Li Yuan was since he was a child, he was hypocritical, loyal and traitorous, but Li Yuan showed his true face until he was fifty years old, which was really difficult for him.

Yang Guang slapped the table heavily, "I will consider how to punish you, but now you must handle this matter well. The land should be returned and the compensation should be compensated. If I hear that you are corrupt and abused, don't blame me for not thinking about family affection and cutting off your head!"

Li Yuan was so scared that he trembled all over and kowtowed and cried, "I will definitely change my mind and never dare to do anything that is not moral."

Yang Guang could not bear Li Yuan's pungent smell of alcohol. He waved his hand and said, "Get back!"

Li Yuan kowtowed a few times and slowly retreated. Yang Guang shook his head in disgust, "Can a cowardly and incompetent person fight for his own world?"
Chapter completed!