The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 442 Special Envoy Li Mi
Early the next morning, a group of preparatory officials were sent to Xingluo City from the opposite bank by a five-toothed boat.

For the imperial court, the county school has been opened since the 13th year of Daye. Up to now, the first batch of county school students have been recognized by the Tsinghua Academy and the Academy. However, most of them are assigned to various counties as small officials to accumulate experience in governing. According to Yang Tong’s idea, county schools will be set up in the future. Tsinghua Academy to study, but only one Tsinghua Academy is obviously not enough, at least one university should be set up in Zhuojun, Daxing, Luoyang, Jiangdu, Xiangyang, and Shujun for further studies by students from all over the world.

It took him five years to complete the rural school and the county school, and it would take at least ten years or even longer to fully establish the entire education system.

The group of students who graduated from the county school in front of me is enough to cope with the current situation. There are more than 8000 students who have graduated from the county school. It sounds like a lot, but there are engineering, agriculture, business , law, military, and scholars of purely academic research. This kind of people's congresses are all those who join the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Ministry of Industry, Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Punishment, Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Science, and Ministry of War to manage a place. There are only 800 people around.

For Yang Tong, these people are enough to fill the shortage of officials in the Central Plains, but if it is enlarged to the whole country, it is far from enough.

"Your Majesty, children from aristocratic families are indispensable. We can first recruit a group of children from small and medium-sized aristocratic families to use for me...and then assign them to irrelevant places..." Seeing Yang Tong worrying about grassroots talents, Fang Xuan, who was sitting under him, Ling couldn't help but suggest.

This time the Central Plains War!In addition to Yang Gongren, Wei Yunqi, Kong Yingda, Liu Zhenghui, Jiang Xingben, and Qi Siqing who were in Yecheng in Sanpushe Jiubu Shangshu, Yang Shanhui in Youpushe and Li Jing, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, went to Jiangjun and Guanzhong respectively to preside over the war.

Fang Xuanling, Secretary of the Ministry of Officials, Yang Shidao, Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Wei Zheng, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, Pei Renji, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, Ling Jing, Minister of the Ministry of Commerce, and Du Ruhui, Minister of the Ministry of War, all accompanied you to the expedition.

"The aristocratic family must use it, but it's definitely not now." Yang Tong put down the official document and rubbed his temples: "Our Great Sui Dynasty represents the interests of poor families and ordinary people. This is the foundation of our foothold and the foundation of our world. Before, this mouth must not be loosened. In order to ensure the absolute credibility of the government, and at the same time establish the majesty of the law, people dare not touch it lightly!"

Governing the country according to law is the core rule and the soul of Yang Tong's forces. The reason why they can have a strong cohesion in Jizhou, Youzhou, Bingzhou, Yongliang and even the Western Regions is because Yang Tong's government has a strong influence among the people. Credibility, this is the bottom line that cannot be touched.

Aristocratic families cannot be destroyed, even if these big aristocratic families collapse now, there will be more in the future.Yang Tong also allows them to exist, but they must be bound by the law. For big families like Qiwang, Dugu, and Dou, who can shake the foundation of the country, Yang Tong will never compromise, otherwise, what he did before Everything will lose all meaning. In the future, even if he wins the whole world, it will still be an unbroken vicious circle. How is it different from the period of Emperor Wen and Wu?
"It's just that the Central Plains has always been dominated by the Kanto family. It may not be easy for our people to gain a firm foothold." Wei Zheng sighed.

Under normal circumstances, Wei Zheng would not express his opinion lightly. After five years of promotion and implementation, the investment cost of the legal system is more astonishing than that of the rule of virtue, but the achievements are equally astonishing. Even Wei Zheng did not expect such an effect. To put it bluntly, as long as Yang Tong is still alive, even if the Central Plains is not won in this battle, but the princes of the world do not have a million troops and 20 years of struggle, it is absolutely impossible to occupy Yang Tong's territory.

"It's okay! We still have the imperial examination..." Yang Tong leaned back on the chair, tapped his fingers lightly on the armrest, and said with a smile: "Now the situation is becoming clearer. From the number of students participating in the scientific examination every day, It can be seen from the quality that the power of the Sui Dynasty is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. If the world is unified in this battle, we can also select some civilian military officers from the army.

"There are also the unsung heroes of the Black Ice Terrace. They are all literate and capable. They have devoted their blood and sweat to the unification of the Sui Dynasty. I will not treat them badly. When the world is peaceful, they will be able to live under the sun. "

"Your Majesty is wise! Soldiers of the Black Ice Terrace should not live in the shadows for the rest of their lives." Ling Jing saluted.

"Report to Your Majesty!" At this moment, a guard rushed from outside, presented a letter with both hands, and saluted: "The Xingyang Army captured a passenger ship from Chenliu on the canal, and there was a scribe on board. Said that there is something to see the Holy Majesty, and let us deliver this letter to the Holy Majesty."

Yang Tong took out the letter and looked at it, and asked, "Where is the man?"

"Returning to the Holy Lord, he has been taken to the military camp five miles away, and he is guarded by Brother Xiaoguo."

"Bring him to me."

"Here."

After the soldiers retreated, Yang Tong asked Fang Xuanling with a smile, "Xuanling, Li Mi sent his minister to ask Fang Xuanzao to see him. Who is this person from? What is his relationship with you?"

The Fang family is quite famous in Qi County. From the Sixteen Kingdoms to the present, for more than 200 years, the Fang family in Licheng, Qi County has been in politics. The prefect of the Song Dynasty, his grandfather started from the governor of the state, and also became the prefect.

When it came to Fang Xuanling's father, Fang Yanqian, he married a daughter of the Li family in Longxi, a top gentry, and gave birth to his only son, Fang Xuanling.When he was young, he became an official in the Northern Qi Dynasty and served as the king of Guangning, Bo. After the fall of the Northern Qi Dynasty, he worked with his relatives and old friends to restore the Northern Qi Dynasty, but failed.Finally, he was conscripted into an official position by the Northern Zhou Dynasty. In the Sui Dynasty, he served as a censor in Beijing and moved to Daxing with his wife.

"He is the brother of the Weichen family!" Fang Xuanling bowed and sighed: "It's just that he is different from Weichen Tao, he has always disapproved of the Great Sui Dynasty, and wants to assist the heroes in the old land of the Northern Qi Dynasty to build a new empire .”

Yang Tong nodded, expressing his understanding.

The Great Sui Dynasty was the continuation of the Northern Zhou Dynasty established by the forces of Guanlong. Families like the Fang family mainly served the Northern Qi Dynasty. However, because Emperor Wen was not in the right position and needed the support of the Guanlong Group, more than [-]% of the officials in the court came from Guanlong. The Long forces, especially the army, were almost all controlled by the Guan Long forces.

Although Yang Guangda vigorously supported the Shandong gentry against the Guanlong Group, and did not hesitate to let two of the five nobles appear with the surname Pei, Yang Guang's accession to the throne was short after all, making the aristocratic families in the former Northern Qi Dynasty quite weak in the court, like the king of Taiyuan. Basically none of the Zheng family of Xingyang, the Lu family of Fanyang, the Cui family of Qinghe, and the Cui family of Boling had served as high-ranking officials in the court.

On the other hand, some aristocratic families who used to be loyal to the Northern Qi were bloodbathed following the fall of the Northern Qi Dynasty. All the famous and famous families in the Northern Qi's hometown suffered heavy losses and failed to recover for decades.Everyone spread among the people and became local tyrants.

Wang Bo, Shan Xiongxin, Xu Shiji, Zhai Rang, Wang Bodang, Huang Junhan, Qin Qiong, and Cheng Yaojin are the representatives of the old forces of Northern Qi. Although the place is powerful and powerful, but the family background is there, they have no power, but they also have wealth and power. They learn to ride and shoot when they urinate, and this horse is practiced by everyone.

It's just that the distrust of the emperor and the exclusion of the Guanlong Group almost made these old Northern Qi families and noble families have no place in the imperial court and local government.This also made the aristocratic families in the hometown of the Northern Qi Dynasty generally dissatisfied with the Sui Dynasty.

Not long after the founding of the Sui Dynasty, the old forces of the Northern Qi Dynasty did not regard the Sui Dynasty as their mother country, and did not have any sense of belonging to the Sui Dynasty, and because they were not treated fairly, their dissatisfaction further expanded, so when they became the biggest victims of the Three Expeditions to Goguryeo At that time, they rebelled immediately, making the old land of Northern Qi the most troubled place in the world.

Fang Xuanling and Fang Xuanzao have outstanding talents, but the paths of the two brothers are completely different.

The former may not have looked down on the Sui Dynasty before, so he resigned to find the master of the Ming Dynasty, but maybe he also looked down on Wang Bo, Zhai Rang, Xu Yuanlang, Lu Mingyue and others, and heard that Yang Tong was a maverick. He re-entered the DPRK and took the initiative to come to this side.But Fang Xuanzao's choice was more drastic. He participated in the Yang Xuangan Rebellion and was forced to flee after his failure. After hearing that the military adviser Li Mi had established a foothold in Wagang, he rushed to join him. Li Mi also knew that he was talented and treated him with confidantism.

About half an hour later, there was a sound of footsteps outside, and the guard reported at the door, "Report to Your Majesty, the person has been brought here!"

"Bring him in!"

The door opened, and an elegant middle-aged scribe came in from the outside. He couldn't help but look up at the most dazzling lord, and saw a man wearing a black imperial robe, a purple gold crown facing the sky, and black jade hair. The heroic man sat on the throne, quickly bowed and gave a long salute, "His Minister Wei ordered Fang Xuanzao to meet the Holy One!"

Li Mi's King of Wei was conferred by Yang Tan, and he has always called himself King of Wei since then, neither respecting the Sui Dynasty nor opposing the Sui Dynasty.Yang Tong had not ascended the throne at that time, so during that period of time, Yang Tan represented the orthodoxy of the Sui Dynasty, and Yang Tong did not care about the false name of "Wei Wang": "So it is Mr. Fang, please sit down."

"Your Majesty destroyed the foreign enemies one after another outside the territory, greatly invigorating the majesty of our clan, and my subordinates are completely convinced! Today I can see the beauty of the sky, and it is truly unparalleled in the world, like a dragon and a phoenix among the people." Yang Tong's contribution to the clan, no one with insight can understand. Will obliterate, Fang Xuanzao is no exception.

As soon as he entered the door, he was overwhelmed by Yang Tong's calm and prestige. When he was in Daxing City, he was lucky enough to meet Yang Zhao several times. He thought Yang Tong was exactly like his father.However, after seeing the real person, he realized that Yang Tong was more like Yang Guang back then, not in terms of appearance, but with the imperial aura that Li Mi couldn't match.

Li Mi also has the appearance of a hero, but compared with Yang Tong who is like the ancient king, he can only be regarded as the hero of a domain, but Yang Tong is so powerful that he dominates the world. This makes Fang Xuanzao very frightened. Who is Yang Tong?

Yang Tong interrupted his train of thought, and said, "I read your letter from Mr. Wei, Mr. said that he was ordered by the King of Wei to discuss important matters with me, but I don't know what Mr. mean when he said important matters?"

Fang Xuanzao's letter actually didn't say anything, he just used it to test Yang Tong's attitude, if Yang Tong put himself aside and ignored it, it meant that Yang Tong disdain to have any contact with Li Mi, and he didn't need to. Too much lip service.If he interviewed him normally, it meant that he could sit down and talk about everything.

Judging from the current situation, Yang Tong didn't care about the fact that Li Mi acted as a traitor in the name of the King of the Sui Dynasty and Wei Dynasty. It can be seen that Yang Tong is not a pedantic king who seeks fame, but a pragmatic person who governs the country and values ​​profits. The strength that makes him tempted, then, is easier to talk about than those pious "gentlemen".

Of course, the benefits I promised must make the other party tempted enough.Otherwise, there is nothing to talk about.

As far as he knows, Yang Tong has always been a character with a big mouth.

(End of this chapter)