The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 423 One Year

The horrific assassination of the assassins under Li Mi's rule was finally completely suppressed after nearly four months of purging with the cooperation of the puppet Wei official army and the aristocratic family.

Li Mi also took this opportunity to conduct a census and household registration verification, and vigorously integrated the people under his rule.

In this vigorous assassination incident, it proved that the fierce generals in the open field did not have the slightest advantage in the face of all-out assassination methods. Therefore, Li Mi not only strengthened his own defense force, but also Shan Xiongxin, Xu Shiji, Sun Changle, Wang Bodang, Zhang Tongren, Chen Zhilue and other powerful generals, Li Mi also forcibly increased the number of their personal guards, requiring them to bring at least fifty personal guards with them when they went out.

Knowing this loss, Li Mi had no choice but to swallow it. After receiving Yang Tong's threatening letter, he began to lick his wound silently. This assassination dealt a devastating blow to Li Mi. Zu Junyan had already made his heart ache, but compared to one person, the paralysis of the entire official system made Li Mi even more distressed.

Although Li Mi deliberately concealed this incident, after more than three months of brewing and fermenting, the news inevitably reached the ears of Li Yuan, Wang Shichong, Dou Jiande, Xiao Xian and even Lin Shihong who was farther away.

Everyone knows that since Yang Tong has placed assassins on Li Mi's side, there must be one by his side as well.So after hearing the news, they gave up the war with a tacit understanding and made household registration verification a top priority.Although the soldiers and bandits have turned the land under their rule into a miasma, it is naturally worth the temporary pain in exchange for long-term stability.

Everyone in the aristocratic families is in danger, especially the extermination of the Pei clan in the east led by Pei Shiqing, which makes these aristocratic families full of fear of Yang Tong.

For the sake of face, Li Mi did not publish Yang Tong's threatening letter, but at this time there is no need for evidence to prove it.Because Yang Tong had just been assassinated in the Shenwu Palace in Yecheng, Yinyuanfang was bloodbathed, and then a large-scale assassination occurred under Li Mi's rule. No one would believe that Yang Tong had nothing to do with this incident.

As a result, the voice of Shilin's crusade against Yang Tong was raised again, and even Liu Xuan, a master of Confucian classics, was abused, saying that he was a traitor who helped the evildoers.However, Yang Tong obviously didn't want to bear it any longer this time. All the respectable scholars who criticized him with words and pens all died in various assassinations and accidents, even their immediate family members were not spared.

And the children of the aristocratic family are not those chaste martyrs of the 20th century. They all admit that they are under the bloody butcher's knife, and they all behave honestly with their tails tucked up. , You can talk about everything, but if you talk about Sui and Yang Tong, everyone will leave immediately and won't play with you.

Everyone is not only afraid that there will be Yang Tong's assassin among the prostitutes, but even more afraid that their friends will sell themselves in a blink of an eye.

There are quite a few scholars who died because of being betrayed by their friends. Some people couldn't stand the assassin's torture to extract confessions.Naturally, the confessor does not need to die, but his confession and transcripts will be exposed to the family members of the slain. Therefore, everyone hates traitors more than assassins.

A big family, representing the success of a crazy predator, after generations of washing, finally became the famous family of today!
But no matter how much they wash it, they can't wash away their greedy and plundering nature. It's just that their plundering method has changed from individual crimes to group crimes, and their methods have changed from naked robbery to mutual use and interdependence. , Mutual tolerance and mutual compromise.In the end, a great family that has survived for thousands of years has been achieved.After that, the marriage was used as a link to intertwine each other, forming a situation where the lips were dead and the teeth were cold.

But while they are relying on each other, they are also fighting endlessly internally.After all, everyone wants to be the best in the world.

So the plethora of correspondence has become a powerful weapon to bring down the other party. After years of accumulation, every family has someone else's handle, and every family has a handle that falls into the hands of others. In the end, no one dares to touch anyone, for fear that the other party will come The fish died and the net broke.

What Yang Tong has to do is to spread and expand the inherent distrust among the aristocratic families.As a result, the assassins of the Black Ice Terrace have gradually changed from killing people to collecting evidence of crimes from aristocratic families, and trying their best to steal correspondence from various aristocratic families.

When the letter was delivered to Yang Tong, it also made him see the viciousness and darkness under the appearance of all the pious families!
Those originals—

There is no lack of content about teaming up to betray the emperors of the past dynasties and the interests of the nation; there are even more contents targeting court officials and dark transactions.

If this is announced, it will be difficult for the aristocratic family to live up to it for thousands of years!
In an era when reputation was more important than life, the seriousness was second only to ransacking the family and exterminating the family. Some of the more serious letters were enough to kill them all.

What literary leader?
What famous family?
……

They are all appearances that confuse and deceive people, but they are all dark evil ones in essence.

As for the reason why their ugly faces are not exposed, it is also very simple, because the scapegoat was taken by the failed emperor.

finally--

During the year of the first year of Shengwu, although the Sui Dynasty did not recover an inch of land, it actually gained a lot.

Not to mention the more stable and stronger internal affairs, and the reorganization of the army, the dark letters from the aristocratic family alone are enough to make Yang Tong invincible in the future battles with the aristocratic family.But Yang Tong didn't think it was enough. Not only did he need more letters, he also needed a more mature printing technique to seal these letters without rubbing them, and then compile them into a book under the name of each aristocratic family and announce it to the world!
Once the ferocious nature of the aristocratic family is exposed, they will lose their most powerful weapon and will be vulnerable to a single blow.Only by smoothing out these old aristocratic families whose capital is strong enough to shake the foundation of the country can the emerging class be competitive and have room to survive.

When the emerging classes are at the same level, the country will be in a delicate balance, and new big families will emerge in the future, but that will be one or two hundred years later, as long as the previous generations of emperors in the court firmly grasp the imperial examinations , the right to appoint and dismiss, the right to govern officials, and the Second Ministry of Criminal and Imperial Affairs, then this dynasty can reproduce for at least 200 years.As for the future, Yang Tong can't control it, because he doesn't think that the traverser will not die.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it is February of the second year of Shengwu, early spring.

The garden at the back of the Zhaohui Palace was filled with the fragrance of grass and trees, soft and warm. A little girl was wearing a pink palace dress, like a butterfly, bathed in the bright sunshine of spring, running on the lakeside grass with lush flowers and trees.

Holding a net bag in her hand, she was chasing a colorful butterfly. The butterfly fluttered from left to right, up and down, dancing among the flowers. Although the little girl couldn't catch it, she didn't worry about it. Laughter like silver bells.

Chasing and chasing, she turned around under a peony, and happened to see Yang Tong who came to look for her.

The little girl cheered, ran over quickly, leaped lightly, and threw herself into the half-squatting Yang Tong's arms, hooked his neck, and said softly, "Father! Father, hurry up and grab the middle man!" Butterfly."

Yang Tong hugged her light body, feeling warm in his heart.

This is "he" and Pei Qinghua's daughter, Princess Wu'an, Yang Xifang. Her name is only one word different from her two aunts. It sounds like sisters. The princess disagreed and thought the name was good.

Looking at the butterflies dancing among the flowers, Yang Tong laughed and said, "Why do you want to catch it? Look at it playing and playing freely, how nice it is to be unrestrained! If it is caught, it will be unhappy and unhappy." .”

The child is only five years old, and Yang Tong did not teach her knowledge, but when he was free, he used some small things around him to teach her some rules and habits, because Yang Tong always believed that rules, habits, and upbringing were more important than knowledge. You can be untalented, but you must not be uneducated.He didn't want his daughter to be arrogant and conceited after marrying into her husband's family, causing bad scandals such as disrespecting her parents-in-law, oppressing her husband, oppressing her sister-in-law, extramarital affairs, and seducing monks.

The little guy blinked, tilted his head and thought about it half-understood, then smiled and said, "Like Fang'er being punished to stand?"

"Yeah, was Fang'er happy when she was punished to stand?"

"Unhappy, unhappy, want to cry." The little guy shook his head vigorously.

"The same goes for a butterfly being caught."

"Then Fang'er won't catch it."

Yang Tong looked at the little guy's big, shining eyes, and felt pity in his heart.He raised his hands, carried the little guy on his shoulders, and walked inside.

The little guy was startled by Yang Tong's movements and exclaimed, then he became interested in this unprecedented posture of being carried by someone, he hugged his father's head nervously, and yelled excitedly , the little face is as cute as a red apple.

Yang Tong carried his daughter to the lake. There was a flower pavilion by the lake, surrounded by vines and swaying green trees, quiet and elegant, peaceful and pleasant.

Yang Hui, Yang Zheng, Yang Wan, and Yang Rong were playing in front of the pavilion, and they all inherited the elements of their parents. They were very cute and beautiful.

Xiao Wu and the others sat in the sun, just like ordinary women, while embroidering, they looked at the children on the lawn, worried that they would fall into the water.

"Father Emperor/Tiger King...hug, hug"

When the four children saw their elder sister being carried on the shoulders by their father, they all ran over with a whoosh. The fourth child, Yang Rong, fell headfirst on a gourd, but the kid didn't cry, and got up and continued running.

"Well, not bad, not bad, that's what a man should do." Yang Tong laughed heartily.

The third child, Yang Wan, also fell and cried loudly.

"Ouch, my good baby, be careful." Yang Tong stepped forward a few steps and hugged Yang Wan in his arms.

Xiao Wu snorted and scolded: "A biased ghost."

"Daughters should be pampered and raised. In the future, sons will either inherit the world of the Sui Dynasty or guard one side. They have to cultivate good habits of self-reliance and self-improvement from an early age. I don't want our father and son to be Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty." Yang Tong sat down on the grass. On the bed, holding a daughter in one hand, and a big one hanging on the back, "Fang'er, come and judge, is the father right?"

"That's right!" The little guy hanging on Yang Tong's back raised his pink fist and said excitedly.

"You girl!" Pei Qinghua gave Yang Xifang an angry look, the kid has been taken a bit wild by her father this year.She herself is now called Lu Qinghua with her mother's surname. She is the concubine Shu among the four concubines. She is very satisfied and grateful for her current life.

They looked helpless at Yang Tong who was overwhelmed by a group of children. They obviously loved them and spent a lot of time with them.But I really don't know these little heartless people, one or two always like to go to their father's side.

Yang Tong also loves his son, they are all his darlings. He simply lay on the grass and let the little ones crawl around on him.

"Father, the aunt said that the world is in chaos now, what does the world look like?" Fang'er had already understood a little bit, she climbed on the father's chest, and looked at the father seriously with a pair of big black eyes.

Yang Tong lovingly rubbed the eldest son's pigtails, feeling as if time had passed. When the little princess first arrived in Zhuojun, she asked him the same question, so she smiled and said, "The world is in chaos, because many people have no food to eat. There is no house to live in, and winter is coming, and there is no charcoal fire to warm hands."

"Father, will we have no food and no room to live in?"

"No!" Yang Tong hugged the little one in his arms, and said with a smile: "With the emperor here, you will have food and a house..."

He looked sideways, and the five wives were all looking at him with smiles. An indescribable warmth filled Yang Tong's heart. This is his home and his relatives. He not only has to shoulder the responsibility of the world, but also To protect the family.

"Your Majesty!" A court lady came to the grass and bowed to Yang Tong, who had no image of an emperor, and the queen and four concubines: "The Taibao, Wei Pushe, Yang Pushe, Minister of the Ministry of Officials Fang Xuanling, Minister of the Ministry of War Li Jing and others are asking for an audience at the Chaoyang Hall."

Yang Tong looked at Fang'er helplessly, "Father is busy."

The little guy got up obediently and ran to the side.

"A husband should put the country's affairs first." Xiao Wu and the four daughters rushed over, like pulling carrots, and took the little guys away from Yang Tong's body.

"National affairs, family affairs, world affairs, everything is important." Yang Tong stood up, took off his grass-stained coat, put on clean clothes, and said with a smile, "I have a premonition that the peaceful life is coming to an end. "

(End of this chapter)