Yang Yan and Yang Ge were naturally happy about Yang Yu's request to go to the Americas. Although there are more than 20 brothers and sisters in total, the one among the three of them is the most qualified to continue the throne. This is not only because all three of them are adults, according to the emperor's current physical condition, there will be no problem in twenty years. There must be many princes who have become adults when the emperor is scattered. It is because their mothers are not only imperial concubines, but also when the emperor has been together before the emperor ascended the throne, so of course they will have more opportunities than other princes.

Yang Yan and Yang Yu are brothers of the same mother, but they are under greater pressure. After all, Yang Yan has no advantage in competing for the support of his mother. Now that Yang Yu leaves, no one knows when he will come back, which means he gives up the qualification to inherit the throne. The two of them naturally breathed a sigh of relief. However, they were as free and easy as Yang Yu's ability to leave, and they were not envious of him. If such a large area of ​​land is well managed, although it cannot be compared with the Central Plains, it is far better than the power that an ordinary prince can achieve.

Like Yang Yu, most of the tens of thousands of people who took the boat to the Americas were volunteering young people, and only a few people were appointed by the court. Although their hometowns were difficult for people, the pioneering and adventurous spirit in the Sui Dynasty at this time was far better than those of later generations. This pioneering and adventurous spirit was the result of a series of brilliant military victory since the founding of the Sui Dynasty. Most of these young people were the second sons, third sons, and fourth sons in their families... They knew that they could not inherit much family business and were more willing to go out to explore. Among the people who voyaged this time, Li Shimin was also listed.

With the experience of the previous voyage, more than half a year later, tens of thousands of people led by Yang Yu arrived smoothly, and the losses suffered during voyage at sea were reduced to the minimum. Only one ship sank and lost more than a dozen manpowers. For a large fleet of tens of thousands of people, this loss can only be considered minor.

When Yang Yu and others arrived in the Americas, more than a thousand people who had left their first voyage had already gained a foothold there. They opened up tens of thousands of acres of fertile land, defeated several embarrassed Tuzhu tribes, and gained friendly relations with more indigenous tribes. They even recruited thousands of indigenous people to work for themselves.

For the Indians on the American continent, these yellow-skinned and dark-eyed people who came from the sea had exquisite clothes, porcelain, food, huge ships, and excellent armor and weapons. Nothing was comparable to them, and naturally they had great attraction. Except for some greedy tribes who wanted to plunder through war, most Indians gave up unrealistic ideas when they saw the excellent weapons of the Sui army and honestly traded various things that they thought were the most precious.

The Sui army naturally would not refuse the Indian transaction. Yang Yong believed that he was not a tyrant and did not intend to exterminate the hundreds of thousands or millions of Indians living on the American continent. Then he naturally had to use means to assimilate. It should be noted that for a long time, the Han people could not surpass the Indians in the Americas. The best way to assimilate was to use their advanced culture and exquisite objects to lure them to make the Indians agree with the Great Sui Dynasty. Of course, Yang Yong did not mind using violent means to make them recognize the tribes that they did not agree with.

Therefore, when the Sui army came ashore, it sent a lot of silk, cotton, porcelain and other items to the Indian tribes they encountered, gaining the favor of many tribes. After using thunder to destroy several tribes, they basically did not encounter much trouble except for the early days of the unacceptable environment and local conditions.

The supplies that Indians could take out to exchange with the Han people were nothing more than animal skins and plant seeds. The Indians wanted to own almost everything brought by the Han people. This unequal exchange method made many Indian tribes very desperate and could no longer trade things. If they wanted to trade with the Han people, they had to obtain them by labor. This is the reason why more than a thousand people in advance could reclaim tens of thousands of acres of fertile land in a short time.

With the arrival of Yang Yu and others, the strength of the Han people in the Americas suddenly increased tenfold. For the Indians who were thousands of people, they could no longer pose a threat to the Han people. Yang Yu and others were relieved to rush around and encircle the most fertile land into their hands. The Indians on the original land were either assimilated or had to give in. Only then did they truly know how big this land was and let them run around, as if it was endless forever.

In the decades since then, the Sui Dynasty did not interrupt its immigration to the Americas. By the time Yang Yong passed away, the number of Han people in the entire American continent had reached more than 500,000. On the contrary, Australia's immigration was much slower. Until Yang Yong's death, the entire Australian population was only more than 100,000.

The court's strategy of advancing east and advancing south has achieved unprecedented success. In terms of the country's territory alone, the Sui Dynasty has far surpassed all dynasties. However, America and Australia are too far apart, and there is an ocean in the middle. There is always an illusory feeling. Only by advancing westward, the land there is connected to the Central Plains. After the world map was released, the desire of the Sui Dynasty to conquer land was simply unstoppable. In the 23rd year of Daye, the army of the Sui Dynasty began to cross the Western Regions and prepared to conquer new land.

The Sui army was unstoppable, and both Bolu and Khorasan were successfully captured by the Sui army. However, when they advanced again, the Sui army soon encountered its opponent - the Persian Empire. At this time, the Boqi Empire was in its heyday. They conquered the late Syria, Turkey, Palestine, Israel, Egypt and the entire Arabian Peninsula region for hundreds of years.

However, the Persian Empire was fighting with Byzantium, and the war between the two sides had lasted for many years. The joining of the Great Sui Dynasty caused the Persian Empire to fall into a situation of two sides. In the 24th year of Daye (626 AD), the army of the Persian Empire returned in a disastrous defeat in the battle to siege the capital of Byzantine. Byzantium took advantage of the situation to counterattack. In addition, the Eastern Sui army entered, the Persian Empire sounded the death knell for itself. In just two years, the powerful Persian Empire was ashes.

However, the destruction of the Persian Empire did not benefit much. Due to the long journey, the Sui army was unable to maintain food, grass and supplies, so they had to withdraw their troops and hand over the land occupied by the Persian Empire. The Muslims, who had been suppressed by the Persians, took advantage of the situation to rise and occupied most of the territory of the former Persian Empire. At this time, the Muslim army was the predecessor of the famous white-clothed food and food in history.

The war with the Persians lasted for two years, with thousands of elite soldiers killed and costing millions of yuan, but it was a wedding dress for others. The fanatical mood of the Sui Dynasty for land expansion finally calmed down. Yang Yong himself also reflected on the land area of ​​the Sui Dynasty. Now the land area of ​​the Sui Dynasty was large enough. Before the original land was consolidated, he hurriedly occupied the new land was just a castle built on a sand castle.

In the past decade, in addition to immigrating to Luzon, America, Australia and other places, the Sui Dynasty basically stopped major military operations and entered a period of peaceful development.

In the 35th year of Daye, Yang Yong was already seventy years old. Due to his proper health, Yang Yong still felt energetic. However, Yuan Xing'er and Yun Mei'er passed away one after another, which made Yang Yong feel lonely. In addition, for more than ten years of Chengping in the Sui Dynasty, the place he occupied was consolidated. Yang Yong regained his ambition and issued an order to advance west again.

With the emperor's order, the war machine of the Great Sui Dynasty started to operate again. Tens of thousands of Sui troops and hundreds of thousands of civilians began to advance westward, and soon the territory of Big and Big Bolu, Khurashan and other abandoned, which had been abandoned, was reintroduced into the arms of the Great Sui Dynasty. Faced with the aggressiveness of the Sui army, the white-clothed and big food mobilized all their strength to resist the Sui army. The two sides launched a battle of tying the throne on the banks of the Helmand River, and each other had a victory or defeat.

At this time, the white-clothed food and food had become a powerful country, with a land area second only to the Great Sui Dynasty. In order to fight against the white-clothed food and food and prevent the captured Khorasan and other places from being lost, Yang Yong adopted a feudal system on the newly captured land, and divided Khorasan and other places to Luo Yi, Shi Wansui and Qu Tutong as fiefs. These three people became the three new princes of the opposite sex. Their territory was no longer ten thousand hectares or twenty thousand hectares of the past, but each of them had a total of tens of thousands of square kilometers.

After the Eight Kings of the Western Jin Dynasty, dynasties believed that the division of princes was the source of disaster. In the feudal society in China for more than a thousand years, there were basically no princes' divisions. The only exception was that the Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, who enfeoffed his sons to the kings and guarded all parties. However, as soon as Zhu Yuanzhang died, his son Zhu Di seized the throne of his nephew, which seemed to confirm the fact that the princes could not be enfeoffed.

This is true for Zhu Yuanzhang to only give his son, not to mention outsiders, but Yang Yong had other ideas. Zhou divided the princes and had a world of eight hundred years, but later dynasties rarely lasted for more than three hundred years. Although centralization has many advantages, it is easy to become rigid. The bigger the country, the more serious this rigidity is, so that in addition to the founding generation and two generations of strength, it basically goes downhill when it reaches the third generation.

Yang Yong naturally did not want the Sui Dynasty to follow this old path. Compared with the dynasties of all dynasties, the territory of the Sui Dynasty was unprecedentedly vast. Khurashan and other places were too far away from the Sui Dynasty. If the front-line generals did not have the power to make arbitrary decisions, they would easily lose it. If they simply gave up these places because they were afraid of chaos, they would be slaughtering their food. It would be better to directly clarify their responsibilities so that they could keep their duties. Moreover, although Luo Yi and the other two obtained fiefs of tens of thousands of square kilometers, they were not the territory of the Sui Dynasty first, and there was no substantial loss to the Sui Dynasty.

In addition to Luo Yi, Shi Wansui, and Qu Tutong, the three princes of the opposite sex, Yang Yong was granted more of his own children. Each prince received tens of thousands of square kilometers of fiefs, among which Yang Yu, the King of Chu, had the largest fief, with a few million square kilometers of land. However, whether it was a prince or a prince of different surnames, their fiefs were far away from the Central Plains. Yang Yong's division of the princes was not to cause national instability, and the Central Plains could never be divided. If the central government, which had mastered most of the resources in later generations, could not even suppress the princes, it was time to perish. Compared to the foreign tribes, Yang Yong would rather die in the Sui Dynasty from his own princes.

In the forty years of Daye, Yang Yong was already 75 years old. The Eastern Palace of the Great Sui Dynasty was still unrecognized, which made the ministers in the court worried. Although he saw that the emperor was very good in spirit and health, his life was rare in seventy years. The ministers were very worried that once the emperor left, he would not have made a crown prince, which led to the throne of the princes. Although the adult princes are far away from the Central Plains, each of them has their own fiefs and troops. Once the princes are slaughtered, it will be a catastrophe for the Great Sui Dynasty.

Under the leadership of the Left Pushe Lu Mulin, the ministers asked the emperor to establish a crown prince again. The ministers were willing to speak with sincerity, and Yang Yong had to consider the matter behind him and agreed to the ministers' request to establish a crown prince. However, they changed the open to secret, and stored the prince's name under the plaque of the Taiji Hall in the form of a secret box. The ministers passed by the heads of the court every day and sent people to protect them day and night. Except for the emperor himself, whoever dared to open it privately, no matter who it was, they were all considered to be rebellious. They also made rules. Only when the emperor suddenly passed away and did not disclose the identity of the crown prince could the left and right Pushe of the Shangshe Province be opened with the six ministers, the queen of the current dynasty and the four great concubines.

Although the emperor announced the position of the prince in the form of a secret box, many people were still dissatisfied, but everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief. The Sui Dynasty finally saved the hidden worries of the princes fighting for the throne. However, everyone's curiosity also adjusted. Many people couldn't help but secretly guess whose name the emperor wrote in the secret box?

Of course, the King of Wei Yang Yan and King of Zhao Yang Ge called the most. Although the other princes were many adults, the emperor never expressed closeness to the prince. Naturally, no one thought that the emperor would choose them. Yang Yan and Yang Ge were even more itchy and had to act more cautiously, for fear that people would catch the handle and sue the emperor. If the name in the box was his own, he would regret it because he accidentally made his father change his mind.

In the forty-three years of Daye, Yang Yong, who was already 78 years old, felt uncomfortable and sent an order to let princes from all over the country enter Beijing. At this time, King Yang Yan of Wei and King Yang of Zhao were almost 60 years old. After receiving the order from his father to return to Beijing, he knew that his father would not be alive for a long time. He was both sad and couldn't help but feel excited. Perhaps it was his turn to become the third emperor of the Sui Dynasty.

In the 44th year of Daye, basically all the princes had entered Beijing. Even King Yang Ge of Chu who was far away in North America rushed back. However, after Sun Simiao's treatment, Yang Yong's illness miraculously cured. However, Yang Yong was no longer ready to be the emperor. The emperor felt too tired after doing it in the past few decades. He ordered the Shangshu Zuo Pushe Lu Mulin to personally take off the secret box that had been stored for several years from under the plaque of the Tai Chi Hall and open it in front of the princes and ministers.

At this time, Lu Mulin was also in his seventies. When he shook the wall and opened the secret box to take out the imperial edicts and read it, he saw a name he never expected. He couldn't help but scream in surprise and almost dropped the imperial edict in his hand to the ground.

There are only four words in the secret box: "King of Chu Yang Yu."

No wonder Lu Mulin was surprised. Since Yang Yu went to America, everyone thought he had withdrawn from the competition for the throne. Unexpectedly, the emperor still liked Yang Yu.

When they heard Yang Yu's name, Yang Yan and Yang Ge looked disappointed. Over the years, they have regarded each other as their opponents. Unexpectedly, the names in the secret box are silent. The third brother who has been away from the Central Plains for twenty years, but they dare not be dissatisfied. Yang Yong was not dead yet, and he looked at him smilingly. No matter how great their dissatisfaction they were, they dared not express it.

In fact, Yang Yong had already made a decision when Yang Yu was willing to go to America. The sky was high and the emperor was far away. With Yang Yu's talent, America would definitely be prosperous. Whether it was Yang Yan, Yang Ge or others who were emperors, America and the Central Plains were at risk of being separated. Only when Yang Yu became the emperor would he support America as always. America was all Yang Yu's old subordinates, and it was impossible to split from the Central Plains.

Of course, if Yang Yu wanted to be the King of America and even ignored Yang Yong's will, then there would naturally be no chance to take over the throne. The division between America and the Central Plains was a foregone conclusion, and even Yang Yong would have no choice. However, in this way, Yang Yu knew that his father chose him as his heir, and he would regret to beat his chest and stamp his feet.

After confirming the heir, Yang Yong did not care about the throne and directly abdicated the throne to Yang Yu. In the 44th year of Daye, the new emperor succeeded to the throne and designated the year name Kaiyuan. However, Yang Yong, as the Supreme Emperor, did not stay in the capital. He took a team of guards to float down on a boat. He wanted to take advantage of his lifetime to visit the country he ruled.

After Yang Yu became emperor, the connection between the Central Plains and America became closer. However, he did not establish his prince in the form of a secret box, but directly established his eldest son who remained in America as the prince. From then on, the Sui Dynasty formed a system, and basically the position of the prince was inherited by the princes enfeoffed in America, so that this land would not be controlled by the Central Plains.

In the tenth year of Kaiyuan, news came from the capital that the Emperor of the Supreme Emperor died in Yangzhou, and the whole country was mourning. Yang Yu went to Yangzhou in person to welcome the Emperor's coffin into the capital, and all the ministers praised the emperor's benevolence and filial piety. The Emperor of the Supreme Emperor did not choose the wrong heir.
Chapter completed!