Chapter 958: All you can change is yourself

"In any case, I can't accept what you said just now is gone."

Yang Qinyan's expression is a bit strange now. She just tried to eat and talk while like Fang Jie. At this time, because of her excitement, even the soy milk she drank could get stuck in her throat. A beautiful girl, even such a look, had a touching look.

Fang Jie took out a handkerchief from his arms and handed it over: "Actually, you have accepted it long ago, but sometimes it is more difficult to admit it than to accept it."

Yang Qinyan was slightly stunned, subconsciously took Fang Jie's handkerchief and wiped the corner of her mouth. This was absolutely impossible in the past, and she would never use other people's things.

"When the Great Sui Dynasty was still fine, I always believed that the Great Sui Dynasty could last for at least 10,000 years. I also firmly believed that the people of the Great Sui Dynasty were the happiest people in the world, without bullying or injustice. Even now, I still firmly believe that if Li Yuanshan had not caused chaos in the northwest, the people of the Great Sui Dynasty would still be wrapped in the most comfortable life."

She said.

"The contradiction is not in Li Yuanshan."

Fang Jie asked the boss to wrap the leftover scallion pancakes: "Since the founding of the Great Sui Dynasty, emperors including your father have been playing an extremely dangerous game. The name of this game is called the first-hand balance... It is the emperors of the Great Sui Dynasty, which constantly prompted the mutual distrust between court officials. The emperor was addicted to this kind of game and could not extricate himself, because it was the pleasure brought by the use of power and wisdom, which could make people addicted."

"From Yang Jian, the emperors of the Sui Dynasty always followed a principle, that is, they cannot suppress martial arts and literature. This is certainly a lesson learned from the Zheng State in the previous dynasty, but everything has a degree. If it goes beyond it, there will be disadvantages. In Zheng State, the emphasis on civil servants is over military personnel, and the power of civil servants is amazing, while the status of military generals is also shocking. So when Yang Jian raised his troops, the army of Zheng State was not the truly capable military generals but the literati military supervisors."

"From logistics supply to front-line command, all literati were the decision. It would be strange if Zheng State won such a war in the end. Because of this, Yang Jian has always emphasized the importance of military generals since the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, so that later, a general who seemed to have a strong position could not be compared with that of a general who was fighting soldiers. This situation that touched the whole body was caused by your Yang family."

"I have to say that there is no mediocre emperor of the Yang family, and every emperor is so smart that it is awesome. But because of this, every emperor is obsessed with the art of power and strategy. The stability and balance seem to be held by the emperor with one hand. So even if Li Yuanshan did not rebel in the northwest, when your father died of illness and died, the little emperor ascended the throne, conflicts would still erupt. Because the little emperor did not have the ability to achieve balance."

After listening to Fang's explanation quietly, Yang Qinyan said after pondering for a while: "These are just your speculations. If Li Yuanshan had not rebelled against his father, he would have prepared everything for Chengqian!"

"That's right."

Fang Jie nodded: "He has the ability to arrange everything, but he cannot arrange it well. Emperors of the Sui Dynasty have chosen the best prince as their heirs. Your father only has Yang Chengqian, and he has no choice. What's more... how do you know that this chaos was not created by your father who voluntarily?"

"Why!"

Yang Qinyan immediately became excited.

"I just think about it when I'm free..."

Fang Jie looked at Yang Qinyan: "Your father knew that Yang Jian was still alive at the beginning of his ascension, and he needed the purest blood support of your Yang family descendants. He was seriously ill and destined for not long. Yang Jian is no longer the ancestor you raised the family and respected, but a disaster that made every emperor frightened. Your father made a choice. He only wanted Yang Chengqian, the son, and then deliberately forced the Sui Dynasty into chaos and forced Yang Jian to resurrection..."

"The father would not do such an irrational thing!"

Yang Qinyan retorted: "He is the wisest person I have ever met, and no one can be stronger than him."

Fang Jie smiled and said in a gentle tone: "It is precisely because he is smart that he feels that he can change the Great Sui Dynasty and change the Yang family. However, he did not expect Yang Jian to be so cruel and ruthless. I just said, after your father knew that Yang Jian was still alive, especially after his grandfather violated the ancestral teachings left by Yang Jian, he must have changed in his heart. He doesn't want the Yang family, especially his son, to continue with such a fate, so he came up with such an incredible solution."

"Perhaps, from the beginning, Li Yuanshan was planning to rebel in secret, and he knew that he might even know that Li Yuanshan would collude with the Mongolian Yuan people to enter the pass. Of course, this is just my guess. He wanted to make the northwest corner of the Sui Dynasty chaos, but he was seriously ill and Yang Chengqian was still young, which was the most suitable opportunity to release Yang Jian. He wanted to use the northwest corner of the chaos to eradicate Yang Jian's influence on the Yang family."

Fang Jie said slowly: "He thought he had the ability to control the war in the northwest. The northwest was exhausted, and even if it was in chaos, it would not have much impact on the Sui Dynasty. After Yang Jian came out, he had died, and Yang Chengqian was his only son and Yang Jian's only descendant. Your father firmly believed that even if Yang Jian was ruthless, he would not be able to break the bloodline... He believed that Yang Jian would not kill Yang Chengqian, which is why he only had one son."

"He is wrong, he has hope for Yang Jian."

Yang Qinyan was a little stunned when she heard this. She clearly felt that Fang Jie's words were so incredible, but the more she thought about it, the more she felt that Fang Jie's words really made sense.

If Yang Jian was more normal, wouldn’t he develop in the direction explained by Fang?

Yang Jian would not kill Yang Chengqian, and then Yang Jian would quell the rebellion in the northwest for the Great Sui Dynasty. Then what arrangements did his father have, or to remove Yang Jian or force him away... This is the father's idea? So who was the one who got rid of Yang Jian? Is it Wan Xingchen?

If it is the stars...

Yang Qinyan couldn't help but shivered... Could it be that the chaos in the Great Sui Dynasty was caused by his father?

"If this is true, it can only explain two things."

Fang Jie said: "First, your father didn't understand Yang Jian and didn't doubt more. If he thought of what a founding emperor felt after he was resurrected, he might not have done that. How could those who have been emperors have no mind about the throne? Secondly, your father ignored the premise that the Great Sui Dynasty has always been stable, that is, the emperor held this balance. When he died, those court officials who had never trusted each other were the biggest changes."

"To put it simply... your father didn't see through people's hearts."

Fang Jie summarized it.

Yang Qinyan was silent. She didn't know what else she could say. If Fang Jie's speculation was true, then wouldn't the Yang family's fate be blamed for today?

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"You will be too smart and you will be conceited."

Fang Jie and Yang Qinyan walked slowly along the streets of Guyuan City. Yang Qinyan hung her head along the way, watching her toes move step by step, and was stunned.

"Your father may only realize it before he died. It turned out that all this had exceeded control since his plan. I had met him and talked to him in the northwest. From his expression and words at that time, I vaguely felt that he wanted to die in the northwest. His original idea might be to trigger the rebellion in the northwest, and then he led his army to personally fight against the rebellion and died outside. Only by dying outside can Yang Chengqian succeed to the throne without knowing the secret. At this time, only Wan Xingchen knew the secret."

"Wan Xingchen will release Yang Jian, and Yang Jian will lead troops to the northwest to suppress the rebellion. Then, Wan Xingchen will kill Yang Jian. In order to ensure that the war in the Sui Dynasty is imprisoned in the northwest, your father must have asked Wan Xingchen to go south and let Wan Xingchen mount Tonggu Academy. Because your father knows that once the war in the northwest is in chaos, the people of Tonggu Academy will definitely not look at it honestly."

Yang Qinyan had never considered these things. She always thought that after leaving Chang'an City, she had matured and no longer had the joy of being confused all day long like before, but saw through everything sadly. After hearing Fang Jie's words, she suddenly realized that she had never even thought about so many things.

She always thought that it was those damned ministers who harmed the Sui Dynasty, but she never thought that Yang Yi would have such a plan.

"Because... the father is arrogant?"

She murmured.

"The emperors of the Great Sui Dynasty are all conceited, which is a good thing. Because each of them has the ability to play with court officials in their palms and balance the court and the country. If your father is not trying to eradicate the hidden dangers of the Yang family, then maybe the Great Sui Dynasty is just a small mess now and has not touched the root cause."

"But there are always so many unsatisfactory things in this world, and not everything is developed according to the one person's setting. Your father wanted to die in the northwest but eventually had to change because Wan Xingchen had exceeded his expectations. In his plan, Wan Xingchen was the most important move, not Yang Jian."

Fang Jie said as he walked, "So he tried his best to rush back to Chang'an City even if he abandoned more than 100,000 troops and told Yang Chengqian this secret."

"Then Cheng Qian couldn't stand all this and finally chose to break himself."

Yang Qinyan murmured.

"Yang Chengqian has pride."

Fang Jie sincerely praised: "The people in the Yang family are all proud."

"So, is this an unsolvable situation?"

Yang Qinyan asked: "If this was really arranged by his father, then from the beginning of his arrangement... the Great Sui Dynasty would have perished."

"Your father made too big a move."

Fang Jie couldn't help but shook his head: "He wanted to use hundreds of thousands of elite Sui army plus the northwest territories to exchange for the descendants of the Yang family Wuyou... This game is too cruel and he can't control it at all."

Fang Jie wanted to talk about the four words "playing with fire", but he didn't say it out loud.

"You said this just to make me understand that you are going to attack Chang'an City now?"

Yang Qinyan suddenly asked.

Fang Jie was silent, and seemed a little annoyed by the woman's thinking: "I need the understanding of many people because the things I am carrying on my shoulders are too heavy. But I really don't need you to understand me, because whether you understand or not, I will do things according to my own ideas."

"I……"

Yang Qinyan was stunned for a moment: "So it's still so unimportant, it's optional..."

The wounds in the words are understood.

"If you think so yourself, what do others think?"

Fang Jie said: "It depends only on what you are important, and what you are with. If you are with your future, no one is more important than yourself. If you are with the country and the country, you are not important."

This is a bit cold, not as consolation.

Fang explained, not to be comforted.
Chapter completed!