Prison Dragon

If being stupid can be regarded as a compliment, then Yang You felt that he might have been canonized in the realm of being stupid.

"I'm tired, Ao Chen." Yang You's voice was full of exhaustion, "I really can't interfere with your affairs."

If this is the sweet dream you wove for me, at this moment, I wake up from the dream.

Ao Chen smiled faintly, "It's okay."

With Yang You's hair wrapped around his little finger, he touched Yang You's face with the back of his hand, his eyes turned from anger to dead silence, as if he already knew the ending, "This is the choice you all will make."

"Are you going to die?" Yang You asked looking at the five-clawed golden dragon embroidered on the bed curtain.

"Dragon God Aochen died 800 years ago, what is in front of you now is just a remnant soul full of hatred and unwillingness."

The desperation of the void surged into Yang You's heart in an instant, as if his heart had been cut into pieces, and a dead silence formed the eyes of him and Ao Chen looking at each other.

He wanted to cry, so he let out a soft whimper, and swallowed it back by himself.

"It's good to end like this." Ao Chen said, he looked at Yang You with long and melancholy eyes, but he was extremely gentle, "At least you are a good person, and you will also be a good emperor."

Yang You felt that he must have heard wrong, because Ao Chen was actually congratulating him.

He said, "May Your Majesty's country last forever and last forever."

Yang You wanted to reach out and grab something, but Ao Chen disappeared too quickly, like a puff of smoke, easily disappeared into the air, leaving nothing behind.

A gust of cool wind blew over, snatching the last whisper from Yang You's lips.

"Sorry……"

As if sinking into an abyss, Yang You couldn't bear the heavy pressure, and the emotions accumulated in his chest had nowhere to vent, and he couldn't breathe, all turned into dirty blood, which he spat out and splashed on the bright yellow bed curtain , little by little.

Even so, life still has to go on, he is the emperor, and he has the responsibility of the emperor on his shoulders.

That is to say, from that day on, Ao Chen never appeared again, just like Yang You never had him in his life.

Yang You often thought of him, but never dared to step into the lake again.

In the first ten days and a half months, Yang You felt depressed when he thought of Ao Chen, and the unspeakable sadness and depression accompanied him closely.

When the emotions faded, he gradually became indifferent, and it was at this time that Yang You could jump out of his sight and look at Ao Chen from another angle.

Is Ao Chen wrong?

He was a victim from beginning to end, and he was just closing deals with the emperors.He didn't understand how much sincerity and affection Ao Chen put into it, but in the end nothing was left behind.

Ao Chen is downright pathetic.

Yang Yoo is downright ridiculous.

Could it be that Ao Chen is pitiful, so he can use inferior means to use himself?As long as he thinks of the past, asking for warmth and relying on each other, he will feel chills all over his body.

But there was another voice in my heart saying that apart from doing this, Ao Chen had no way to save himself.The saw-saw between the two sides tore his heart to the point of blood.

In the end, Yang You had to force himself to deal with political affairs every day without leaving any gaps. He must use up all his brain power so that he would not think of Ao Chen in the spare time.

"Your Majesty?" Yang Yuchun held up a cup of clear dew, "Your Majesty has been tiring all day, and it's time to rest."

Yang You regained consciousness from his meditation, and saw that Yang Yuchun stayed alone for a while, and then remembered that he was summoned into the palace by himself, and they wanted to discuss the situation of border defense next year.

In fact, Yang You had already made up his mind that he wanted to take Cui Jue to Shandong.The remaining candidates have not yet been finalized.

"Liu Hui and I recommended Liu Heng. He wants Liu Heng to be the general of Guide Zhonglang and take over the military affairs of Longxi. What do you think?" Yang You asked.

Yang Yuchun said: "Liu Hui's heart is not suspicious, but Mrs. Liu has to guard against it. Liu Heng is a useful person, but he can practice and practice, but he must always send someone to watch him. This kid is a wolf. If he doesn't manage well, he will bite. .”

Yang You smiled, "You're right. I asked Pang Chao to be the governor of Shangzhou first. Liu Heng is still young, so don't worry."

The two studied the map for a long time, and initially wrote a list. Yang You wrote it down and folded it for the court to discuss.

Yang You couldn't help but think of the map painted on the ground, every place was sucking Ao Chen's dragon spirit.

Why did it start again?He couldn't help sighing.

But Yang Yuchun thought he was uncomfortable, walked over and patted his back lightly, "I heard from Ruifang that His Majesty has been worried and tired recently, and has vomited a lot of blood, so he should pay attention to his body."

Yang You waved his hand, indicating that it's okay, "The imperial doctor said, it's stagnation in the chest, it's fine if you spit it out, don't worry."

"Your Majesty," Yang Yuchun frowned, looking at Yang You's pale face, he couldn't help raising his hand to touch his face.

Yang You turned sideways subconsciously.

Yang Yuchun's hand was stuck in the air, then slowly lowered, and finally lowered his head and frowned and said: "I know."

What do you know?Yang You really wanted to ask, but he didn't dare to ask. He was afraid to touch any topic related to emotion, so he could only pretend to be considerate and nodded, "You should also step back and rest earlier. Going to battle."

Yang Yuchun walked out step by step and turned his head three times. Yang You sat on the chair and fell into deep thought again when he didn't speak.

Taking advantage of the locust plague to find out the number of affected fields, Yang You happened to order the whole country to re-check and measure the land. He must take advantage of the opportunity of the civil uprising in the north that wiped out many aristocratic families, and let the wealthy families spit out all the encroached fields.

In the past, there were many miscellaneous taxes in Qi State, and there were countless miscellaneous taxes. In many places, the taxes were not paid in full, and they were in arrears for years.

Yang You has already ordered to exempt the taxes owed by Yongkang 23 years ago. There is still a big financial gap. Shangluo led the people to draw up the regulations of the new tax law while he was ill. above.

The more fields, the more taxes, which can effectively restrain the emergence of land mergers.

As soon as this method came out, Yang You had already expected that it would cause an uproar. Fortunately, he promoted many young men to serve in the court this year, most of them were from poor families, and the resistance would be much smaller.

He is obviously still an emperor who has not been on the throne for a long time, but he feels in a daze that he has already wasted his life on the throne, and he is constantly aging from the inside out.

Fortunately, the state of Qi is improving day by day, and even officials who were silent in the past are gradually standing up to express their political opinions.

It took more than half a year for the results of Qingzhang's land to come out. During this period, Liu Po ​​passed away. Yang Lun was afraid that he would be liquidated if he lost his father-in-law's protection, so he ran to Yang You and cried for several days. In the end, Yang Xiu led him went back.

But Shang Luo's health was deteriorating, Yang You went to court every day to ask him about his condition, but he was not very optimistic.

He already had a vague premonition that he would completely lose his teacher and his most loyal support here.

On the day of Shangluo's death, the weather was fine, it was already early summer, and the brown branches had just shed their flowers and ushered in new buds.

At night, news came from the Shang mansion that Shang Luo asked Yang You to bring a cricket to the mansion to fight insects.

There are no crickets in this season, and he hasn't done the business of raising birds and fighting crickets for a long time.

Yang You dug out the white porcelain jar that had been deposited for a long time, Ruifang wove a big pea-green cricket out of grass and put it inside, and brought it to Shangluo.

Shang Luo was lying on the bed, wearing a formal court dress, he was tidied up, he didn't look like someone who had been bedridden for a long time.

But Yang You still asked the old and decayed smell from the air, the smell of the wood piled in the corner, the smell of soil, and the smell of death.

Yang You put the jar by Shangluo's hand, and the merchants left enough space for the two of them.

Shang Luo grasped Yang You's hand with the remaining strength, and said earnestly and earnestly like a father telling his son when he was dying, "For now, I only have two things to ask your majesty. A lot of pity. Secondly, the heir of the country has not been determined, and I hope that your Majesty will draw up the country's foundation as soon as possible, so that the world can feel at ease."

Yang You's tears were all spilled out. The colleagues who used to be in Taichang Temple are now important ministers, kneeling on the ground and weeping bitterly.

Seeing them crying together, Shang Luo burst out laughing, and said freely: "When a man lives in the world, when he meets a confidant, he entrusts the righteousness of the monarch and his ministers to the outside, and bears the kindness of flesh and blood on the inside. It's so comforting to meet His Majesty in this life, but it's a pity that I can't see His Majesty's achievements..."

Yang You leaned against the bed with his head down, and finally couldn't help howling.

In the summer of the second year of Guangde, two old ministers passed away one after another, and all the officials mourned together. Yang You personally observed the mourning for the two for three days to tell the world.

One month later, Cui He celebrated his birthday with a banquet for all the officials, including Yang You himself.

The inspector under Yang Xiu has been completely remodeled, leaving only the purpose of spying on border affairs, and the inspector has also been renamed the Dark Army Department. It can't be turned around, but it's much better than before.

At least the women in the capital will not use his name to stop their children from crying at night.

Yang Xiu was indeed an unwelcome person at this kind of party, and he also enjoyed himself. He found a quiet place to sit, and happened to meet Liu Hui who was running away from drinking.

Liu Hui is an important minister of the emperor, and he is young. His younger brother will also be among the first-class military officers in the future, so he is naturally the object of curry favor.

His clothes were disheveled as he escaped drinking and struggled, which made Yang Xiu laugh again and again.

In fact, Liu Hui didn't have a good impression of Yang Xiu. Yang You and Yang Xiu seemed to have reached some private cooperation very early on. Many of Yang You's actions in Yizhou were concealed by Yang Xiu. Well, he can't say anything either.

What's more, Yang Xiu did restrain himself under Yang You's advice, so he was able to talk to Yang Xiu calmly.

Yang Xiu said with a smile: "Liu Lang is so hot that it makes people jealous."

Liu Hui tidied up her clothes and said helplessly, "My lord's idleness and wild cranes also make people jealous."

He said with a sigh, "I see that your Majesty has lost a lot of weight recently, and he has been thinking about it all day long. When he arrived at Cui's mansion today, he couldn't help but look down when he saw Cui Xiang's official uniform. I think it was because of the business minister's trouble. The prince should also persuade him. His Majesty."

"Your Majesty hurts himself for a long time, who can persuade him? The only way is to wait for him to figure it out." Yang Xiu said, "In fact, the death of the Shang Prime Minister may not be a good thing."

Liu Hui raised her head in surprise, and there was indeed approval in her eyes.

Yang Xiu said with a smile: "Although Prime Minister Shang has worked hard for the country, you and I both know that what His Majesty wants is to cut off the family. Before that, Prime Minister Shang had a lot of complaints about His Majesty's actions in the north. If Prime Minister Shang is still alive, after the new law is implemented Sooner or later, they will face each other for this matter. Now that the Shang Prime Minister passed away early, it has avoided the conflict between the monarch and his ministers, and saved their friendship."