Chapter 24 Li Yuan’s Worries

Since the last hunt in Luoyang, it has been a year and a half. Li Yuan, who was originally the prefect of Xingyang, was transferred to Loufan County to serve as the prefect of Loufan County after only one year of his life. He was transferred from Kuan Township, which had a dense population and developed agriculture to northern counties with a relatively small population and low grain output. This is undoubtedly a disguised derogation. (　　)

Li Yuan was also a little depressed. He did nothing wrong, nor did he have any shortcomings in his political achievements. He was transferred for no reason. He also asked about the reasons through the relationship between the capital, but the news he received was the meaning of the emperor.

This made Li Yuan secretly shocked. Why did the emperor demote him? Is there any reason for the hidden danger? He naturally thought of the emperor's suppression of the Guanlong group. In recent years, the emperor suppressed the Guanlong group without showing any silence. Originally, more than 80% of the important officials of the court were Guanlong group, but now it has gradually dropped below 50%. On the contrary, the Shandong gentry began to gain power, with children from major families such as Pei, Cui, Zheng, and Wang spread all over the court and local areas.

Li Yuan thought that he was also a member of the Guanlong Group, and his grandfather Li Hu was one of the eight pillars of Guanlong. Did the emperor start suppressing him because of this?

Li Yuan was really uneasy in his heart in the past few months, and his behavior became even more restrained, fearing that Yang Guang would seize the handle and demote him again. It was not until the news of the Fenyang Palace came that he breathed a sigh of relief. At least he had a chance to show his feelings. When Yuwen Kai began to lead craftsmen to survey the terrain, he began to recruit civil servants. Once the imperial edict was issued, he was the first prefect to react and immediately threw 30,000 civil servants into the fortifications of road construction.

The Fenyang Palace Supervisor was Yang Yuanqing, which made Li Yuan secretly happy. At least their relationship was pretty good. Yang Yuanqing would take care of his difficulties and would not give him some unsuccessful tasks.

Li Yuanzong immediately stepped forward and bowed and smiled, "General Yang, it has been a year or two since Luoyang left. I didn't expect that we would see each other again in Loufan County."

Yang Yuanqing also replied with a smile: "I arrived yesterday. I planned to visit Li Envoy tomorrow, but I was ashamed to come here in person."

"Hey! This Fenyang Palace only lasts for three months. If it fails, General Yang will be the first to hold him accountable, and I, Li Yuan, will be the second to be the one who is in charge. I dare not let my heart go!"

Li Yuan spoke very implicitly, and the implication was to tell Yang Yuanqing that they were grasshoppers on the same rope, and their fates were closely related. This was also his purpose of coming to Yang Yuanqing in time today to establish a good cooperative relationship.

Yang Yuanqing smiled. He understood what Li Yuan meant. He only learned a more detailed situation from Feng Deyi on the way. Although the palace supervisor has a heavy responsibility, he has great power. He can mobilize the manpower and material resources of the surrounding five counties. The officials of the five counties also have their own careers in his hands. He can find a reason to impeach the local officials. This kind of impeachment for building a palace is extremely sharp, and nine out of ten bombs were demoted. As a landlord, Li Yuan must try his best to maintain a good relationship with Yang Yuanqing. (")

At this time, Yang Yuanqing suddenly saw Chai Shao behind Li Yuan. Chai Shao was originally the guard of the Crown Prince Yang Zhao, why is he here too?

"General Chai, long time no see."

Yang Yuanqing called "General Chai" to make Chai Shao feel embarrassed. He blushed and bowed to salute, "General Yang, I have been transferred to the military officer of Loufan County."

Li Yuan also laughed and said, "Chai Chanjun is now my son-in-law. It turns out that General Yang knew him."

No wonder Chai Shao became Li Yuan's son-in-law. There is such a reason why he is close to the water. Chai Shao, like most young talents in the Sui Dynasty, also came from a family of generals. His father Chai Shen was the right inner leader of the East Palace when Yang Guang was the crown prince. He was named the Duke of Julu County. He was the general of the Eastern Palace. He is currently the general of the right guard of the right supervisor. He has a high position and is powerful. Therefore, Li Yuan gave his third daughter to Chai Shao. In fact, it is also a marriage of interests between aristocratic families.

"I met him at the Prince's Mansion back then. Congratulations to Prince Li for getting this beautiful son-in-law."

At this time, Li Jiancheng also stepped forward to give Yang Yuanqing a gift, "See General Yang!"

Li Jiancheng did not take up an official position. He worked for his father. He was a servant under the prefect. He was responsible for the persuasion of Loufan County and was also considered his father's personal official.

"I heard that Brother Jiancheng is already a father, congratulations!"

Li Jiancheng gave birth to a son last year, which was a major event for the Li family. All the civil and military officials in the court spread everywhere. Empress Xiao also sent someone to send gifts. Even Yang Yuanqing heard about this in Wuyuan County.

"I also wish General Yang to get married as soon as possible and have a noble son as soon as possible."

"Haha! Thank you, thank you!"

After everyone finished their greetings, Li Yuan stepped forward and whispered: "General Yang, I have a few words. I want to talk to the general in private. Is it convenient?"

"Envoy Li, please!"

As soon as Yang Yuanqing waved his hand, the two of them walked slowly along the construction site road.

"Loofan County has a sparse population. Last year, the Great Wall was built. Two households in Loofan County received one resident, and 50,000 civil servants were produced. In the end, only more than half came back. The vitality was severely damaged. This time, the emperor wanted to build the Feng Fenyang Palace again, and gave Loofan County a quota of 30,000 civil servants. This is the average household and half of them were produced. It is already the limit. I am very worried that the misfortune of building the Great Wall last year would repeat. If that were the case, Loofan County would be over. General Yang, I really hope that 90% of the civil servants would survive in the Fenyang Palace."

Li Yuan sighed. In the past two years, the emperor's grand fortifications have been continuous, and at least 30% of them will die. If half of the civil servants die in the Fenyang Palace this time, there will be no strong men in Loufan County.

Yang Yuanqing was also considering this matter. He heard Feng Deyi say carefully on the road that a large number of people died of construction fortifications. First, the time was too tight, and he had to do ten hours of hard work a day and night. At the same time, the army and officials deducted food. The civilians could only eat one meal, hunger, cold and tired, and were still forced to do heavy work after they became sick, so the death of workers was particularly serious.

"Eunuch Li, I guess there is no way to do it. Just building a road will take at least one month, and then going up the mountain to build a palace. I was still worried that two months were not enough, so I could only try not to deduct food and let the villagers eat enough. If they are sick, they can rest for two days. This would probably be 80% of them that would survive."

Li Yuan smiled bitterly. The food of the civilians was usually distributed with the army of supervisors, and was controlled by the army and could not be managed by the local authorities, otherwise he would not have come to Yang Yuanqing.

"What, is there any difficulty?" Yang Yuanqing saw the bitter smile on Li Yuan's face.

"General Yang, do you still remember Yuan Zhou?"

Yang Yuanqing nodded. He remembered that he was the younger brother of Yuanshou, the Minister of Taifu Temple, and was once the General of the Right Guard. He was killed with He Ruobi in the fourth year of Renshou. For this matter, the Yuan family has always regarded Yang Yuanqing as his mortal enemy, but Yang Yuanqing was favored by the holy family. The Yuan family is no longer as glorious as before. They openly dare not make any noise, but secretly make small moves. For example, the last time Xiahou Yan teased Pei Minqiu, it is said to be related to Yuanshou's two sons.

"What does it have to do with Yuan Zhou?"

As soon as Yang Yuanqing finished speaking, a roar came from the front, "I dared to pretend to be sick to me, drag it down and chop it down, and the heads were displayed!"

A military officer appeared dozens of steps ahead. He was about 34 or 35 years old, with a burly figure, rough eyebrows like a brush, and extremely fierce appearance. He was whipping several civilians with a horse whip.

Li Yuan sighed, "It's him, Yuan Shangying, the son of Yuan Zhou, and General Ying Yanglang, who is responsible for the supervisor of the construction of Fenyang Palace this time."

Although Yang Yuanqing also brought two thousand supervisors, their responsibilities were actually more focused on supervision. Supervisors and staff urged local officials to pay money, provide people, and supplies. The civil servants were responsible for the supervision of the worker. There were more than 6,000 military officials stationed in Loufan County. The Ministry of War transferred 3,000 troops to supervise the worker. Yuan Shang should be a child of the Yuan family, so he got this fat man, and he was fully responsible for supervising the worker.

A man lay on the ground, with his ragged clothes and a sick face, and was dying. He had dozens of civilians kneeling beside him, begging hard.

"Jun Ye, Cao Wulang's disease was found to be damaged last year, but it has not been cured. This time he was conquered again. He really couldn't stand it. He was not pretending to be sick and begging Jun Ye to spare them."

Yuan Shangying was furious and whipped the whip on the head of the civilians, "Who dares to plead with you? I will chop them together!"

More than 20 personal soldiers behind him also beat the civilians with sticks, beating dozens of pleading civilians rolled all over the ground. Two soldiers dragged the feet of the sick civilians into the grass. One personal soldiers grinned, pulled out their knife, raised it high, and chopped it towards the civilians' neck.

At this moment, an arrow shot through the wrist of the personal soldier. The personal soldier screamed and the knife fell to the ground.

The sudden change suddenly shocked Yuan Shangying's personal soldiers. They retreated one after another and surrounded Yuan Shangying. Yuan Shangying was furious at first. When he saw the archer clearly, his pupils suddenly contracted into a line, "It's you, Yang Yuanqing!"

The arrow was not shot by Yang Yuanqing, but Yang Sanlang, the subordinate next to Yang Yuanqing, and if Yang Yuanqing had shot, he would not have survived.

Yang Yuanqing urged him to step forward and smiled faintly: "General Yuan, do you know me?"

Yuan Shangying was once Qianniu Bei, who was beside the King of Qi. He had seen Yang Yuanqing many times. He also knew that Yang Yuanqing had a direct relationship with his father's death, and it can be said that he was also his enemy who killed his father.

"Yang Gongjian, what do you mean?"

Yuan Shangying pointed to his injured personal soldiers and said coldly: "Have I offended you?"

Yang Yuanqing looked back at Li Yuan and pretended to be puzzled: "Premier Li said that someone was killing people here, so he asked me to stop him. Unexpectedly, General Yuan was killing people and acting. It seems that I misunderstood."

A hint of embarrassment suddenly appeared on Li Yuan's face. He did not expect Yang Yuanqing to deal with the problem like this and use violence to stop the violence. He did not expect that Yang Yuanqing would drag him in, making it difficult for him to stay out of the matter.

Although Yuan Shangying was also a garrison in Loufan County, he was directly under the Ministry of War and had nothing to do with him, the prefect. Moreover, they were all Guanlong nobles and had a good relationship in normal times. He originally wanted to use Yang Yuanqing to deal with Yuan Shangying, but unexpectedly, Yang Yuanqing's understatement put him in an embarrassing situation.

At this time, dozens of civilians recognized Li Yuan and immediately stepped forward and knelt in front of him and begged, "Premier Li, save us! Cao Wulang did not pretend to be sick. He was in such a bad health that he could not hold it."

Hundreds of civil servants around him knelt down and cried. These were all civil servants from Loufan County. Li Yuan was their parents' official. Li Yuan had no choice but to step forward and bow to Yuan Shangying and bowed: "General Yuan, give me some face and spare this civil servant!"

Yuan Shang should be a martial artist with a irritable and fierce personality. When he saw Li Yuan and Yang Yuanqing come together, he felt uncomfortable. At this time, Li Yuan begged him, and his eyes turned, why not take this opportunity to give Yang Yuanqing a warning!

He sneered, pointed at his injured personal soldiers, and said viciously: "I will give you face, but who will give me face?"

He pointed to the whip of the man lying in the grass and ordered his subordinates: "Behead him and show his head to the public!"

More than 20 personal soldiers drew their swords and rushed towards the civilians lying in the grass. At this moment, Yang Yuanqing took off his bow and arrow, took the arrow, and shot it away with one arrow. The arrow power was strong. The personal soldiers screamed and pierced their heads, and died on the spot!

No one expected that Yang Yuanqing would dare to kill soldiers. More than 20 personal soldiers were stunned. Even Yuan Shangying was stunned and looked at Yang Yuanqing in disbelief. No one dared to kill the supervisor soldiers.

Yang Yuanqing gave an order to the nine iron guards on both sides, "Kill me!"

Nine guards drew their swords and rushed forward. They all had great martial arts skills and were unstoppable. In an instant, seven or eight Yuan Shangying's personal soldiers were chopped down and screamed.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Yuan Shang turned his horse and fled. The remaining dozen soldiers also ran wildly. Yang Yuanqing looked at his back and sneered, seeing who was trying to show who was the one who was trying to?

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