The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 612
Seeing Yang Qinfang and Yin Mingyue looking at the two telescopes without stopping, Yang Tong couldn't help laughing. For the two of them, the telescope is an unimaginable treasure. It’s just a matter of pushing. Since glass can be mass-produced, it’s just a casual thing to polish convex and concave lenses. The reason why Sui people didn’t think of using glass in this way is mainly because human thinking is limited by knowledge. After being liberated, they will only passively accept and accept new things, instead of exerting human subjective initiative to dig out and analyze the cause and effect.Take printing as an example. People use seals every day, but they never thought of printing books in this way.

Looking back carefully, Yang Tong realized that he had done a lot of things, such as glass, plows, paper, books, printing, ink, refined salt... and castrated pig farming, which can bring cheap and delicious pork into thousands of households. Households, to supplement the energy needed by the human body. The widespread appearance of pork made the people of the Sui Dynasty stronger and gave birth to children with stronger resistance and a larger population. Territory has laid a solid foundation.As for cement, it is also under the research of Kaitian Academy. If this material appears, it will be a leap forward for this era.

After sorting it out in this way, Yang Tong found that he had unknowingly promoted the development of technology and society artificially, and many things had developed by leaps and bounds. Will Da Sui advance hundreds or thousands of times because of his appearance? What about completing the transition?This is not something he wants to think about, because he only has a few decades to live, and he is still an emperor, so there are too many things to think about. Among them, the only thing that can be done is to leave a seed to guide the pioneering thinking of skilled craftsmen, thinking about what the predecessors dared not think about, or would not think about.As for how far it can develop in the future, it depends on how future generations do it.

As various new items enter thousands of households, this also creates huge profit margins for commerce. At present, most of these items are sold by supply and marketing cooperatives, and are brought to the Western Regions, Turks, Goguryeo and other countries by the Ministry of Commerce belonging to the royal family. , so as to achieve the purpose of capturing the wealth of various countries for the Sui Dynasty, but Yang Tong knew that the "iron rice bowl" of the supply and marketing cooperatives would be replaced by the free economy sooner or later. With the development and prosperity of commerce in the future, there would be more and more problems. The legal system must also gradually catch up, but at that time, the role of the imperial court is to monitor, regulate prices, and control product quality issues. The product can be liberalized, because the imperial court is always a manager, not a commercial player. Participants, even if there is a rise of big business in the future, Yang Tong will never allow any industry to have a complete monopoly, but this is something to consider after the unification of the world. Right now, Yang Tong needs these things to bring him a steady stream of benefits. Wealth, to achieve the goal of making the country strong and the people rich.

In terms of agriculture in the Sui Dynasty, with the input of a large number of cattle and poor horses, there is no need for Yang Tong to promote it anymore, because the Ministry of Industry has learned to actively research and improve various agricultural tools after tasting the sweetness. This is an ideological release. Yang Tong is happy to see it succeed.

Most of the time, I want to distinguish the Kaitian Institute in charge of the sky. It not only specializes in farming tools, but also in the direction of weapons and equipment... Although it will not break the shackles of the times in the end, it is still a cold weapon combat mode, but if you open Tianyuan can make bows and arrows less labor-saving, have a longer range, sharper weapons, and stronger armor, which is already an overall improvement.

Then we also divided the direction of people's livelihood, and designed some exquisite and practical items, such as tables and chairs that have already appeared, which are very practical, more comfortable and healthier than kneeling.This distinction will be gradually enriched with the further development of Kaitian Academy's research, and will further enrich the needs of the common people.

In Yang Tong's plan, apart from military items, technologies related to people's livelihood will not be kept too secret after they come out. After all, as far as the court is concerned, it is the common people who can benefit from these daily technologies. What the court has to do is to set prices and tax.

These technologies were researched by the imperial court as the main body. The more industries earn more in the future, the more taxes need to be paid. This is also a means to limit the expansion of wealthy businessmen. This is the most primitive means. But enough for this day and age.

When Yang Qinfang and Yin Mingyue changed from looking aimlessly to aiming in the same direction and started gossiping, Yang Tong shook his head in disdain.Back then, when he was in college, his dormitory had a high-definition telescope. On summer nights, even the classmates from the next dormitory would come and aim at the female dormitory building of the Music and Dance Academy dozens of meters away, rushing to watch the girls Dancing and playing lingerie shows are full of details and beauty.

After instructing the two to keep the secret, Yang Tong left Qianyang Palace.The big battle will come soon, and he still has too many things to deal with.

When he arrived at the Xuanzheng Hall, the court, Chinese, and military forces were already gathered together, the prefects of various counties, and various generals were lined up, and the hall was full of quarrels.What they are discussing today is not other things, but who to fight this year?How to fight again?

The Great Sui Dynasty had already sharpened their swords and prepared to defeat all enemies in one go, but whether to go straight to the south or to move to the west has become a topic of endless debate.First of all, Li Mi in the south has already ascended the throne as emperor on the first day of the Lunar New Year. Like Li Yuan back then, he not only enfeoffed all his officials, but also gave Jiangnan the Shen family, Wang family, Xie family, Lu family, Gu family, etc. What is the purpose of waiting for the Jiangnan gentry to send various Dukes, Dukes of the County, Lords of the County, Marquises of the County, Bosses of the County, Sons of the County, and Men of the County?Naturally, all these people were tied to the chariots of Wei State, forcing them to share weal and woe with Wei State. Now Li Mi spread all kinds of official positions and titles to the world, purely telling Yang Tong that these Jiangnan gentry were already the subjects of Wei State Alright, you just kill it.With such a conspiracy by Li Mi, these Jiangnan aristocratic families can't accept it.

This is Li Mi's big effort to solve the problem of internal discord. At the same time, he also checked the population. They also reluctantly gave their servants to Li Mi. They were afraid that after the arrival of the Sui army, they would use Li Mi's edict to massacre themselves.They don't want to die now, so they can only work with Li Mi. If Li Mi wins, maybe they can really become the founding heroes of the country.

Externally, Li Mi also made a big move. He secretly formed an alliance with Li Tang to fight against the Sui Dynasty. At the same time, he recruited Meng Haigong, who had surrendered to him, to lead his troops to the north. Meet Li Mi.Li Mi was furious and ordered the army to send out a crusade. Although he was stopped by his officials, Li Mi was very angry and sent someone to see if Meng Haigong was really sick or fake.

First, Meng Haigong was afraid that Li Mi would confiscate the military power, and then kill the donkey; second, he was afraid that Li Mi in front would be annihilated by the Sui Dynasty, which would cause him to withstand the attack of the Sui Dynasty; Prevarication...But Li Mi is not a fool on the one hand, and on the other hand he is also afraid that when he was at war with the Sui Dynasty, Meng Haigong stabbed him from the back, and he really sent troops to go there in annoyance, intending to wipe out Meng Haigong with a thunderbolt. "Rebellious ministers and thieves", Meng Haigong was unwilling to sit still and sent troops to confront the Wei army. The two sides were on the verge of breaking out...

Upon hearing this news, the Sui government and the public were ecstatic. Some people thought that the Sui should take advantage of the civil strife in the south to send troops, and took Li Mi and Meng Haigong in one go.As for Li Tang, he was in poverty and turmoil, and his national strength was extremely weak. He only needed to send a partial division to harass him.

However, the military headed by Li Jing agreed that taking advantage of his illness to kill him, first go west and then south, and after killing Li Yuan, they would send troops to Li Mi and Lin Shihong from the west and north, leaving Meng Haigong and Feng An to the end.

This proposition has the support of many officials.They believe that the Sui Dynasty enriched the frontier defenses of Hexi, Guanzhong, and Jingzhou. Five or six of the eleven armies of the Sui Dynasty were used to defend Li Tang. Sui has accumulated so much power, isn't what he is waiting for to annihilate Li Tang?Now that Li Tang is weak, it is the opportunity of the Sui Dynasty. It should not change course hastily. The key is that Li Tang has never been a peaceful character. What about Nanyang and Nanjun?

Seeing a group of ministers arguing and getting red-faced, Yang Tong shook his head speechlessly. This year's decision to focus on Li Mi, Lin Shihong, Meng Haigong, and Feng Anzhi was the result of his decision with the important ministers. The reason why he put on a stance to destroy Li Yuan , or in order to achieve strategic deception, the fewer people who do this kind of thing, the better.However, Yang Tong didn't stop them seeing everyone's efforts. It's better to let them continue to argue. After all kinds of reasons are spread, Li Mi will be more convinced that Da Sui beat Li Yuan, and maybe he really got involved with Meng Haigong. In this case , it provides all kinds of convenience for the next war, and it would be great if both of them suffer losses.

After some quarrels to no avail, Li Jing, Minister of the Ministry of War, who was pushed out by Yang Tong to be a 'caretaker' raised his hoarse voice and roared loudly: "Li Mi can fight anytime he wants, but Li Yuan is not like this. If you lose Jing Xiang , He has Bashu as his base, and Bashu is surrounded by high mountains, but within it, water and land transportation is convenient, the land is fertile, and there is no hunger from drought or flood. Land of Abundance'. There are only a few places that can pass through such a place with mountains and rivers on the outside and the accumulation of Tianfu on the inside. As long as we guard a few passes, it will be difficult for our army to attack. If our army is in a stalemate here No problem, not only did Li Yuan retreat and develop, but Li Mi could also take the opportunity to unify the south. Li Yuan is now under his rule, making people angry. If we don't take this opportunity to destroy the puppet Tang, do we really have to wait for him to catch his breath and calm down? Are you deploying defenses in Bashu?"

What I have to say is that Li Yuan has not stopped in the past few days since the end of the year. First, he rectified the military system, then took back many royal fields, disposed of a group of local tyrants with bad reputation, and distributed these fields to meritorious soldiers. , these measures worked well.At the same time, with Xiangyang as the center, he confiscated all the Buddhist land and properties into the national treasury, and then distributed the shiny monks among the various armies. This also caused a lot of turmoil in Li Tang... I don't have much time, so all his reform measures are very aggressive, which aroused strong dissatisfaction from Buddhism and local tyrants.

At first glance, what Li Yuan did was almost the same as that of Yang Tong, but Yang Tong was carrying out radical reforms at home while eliminating foreign aggression. Li Yuan was not doing that now, and he had little national power and time to use, and He had too many constraints, and with the strength of the Li Tang court and his personal prestige, it was difficult for him to keep pace with the Sui Dynasty, so the turmoil in his realm naturally began... Although Li Jing is a "teacher", but what he advocates The "take advantage of his illness to kill him" is not to make trouble for no reason, but it is really operable, and all of them are supported by the majority of people.

Wei Zheng said: "Li Shangshu's words are wrong, not to mention that Li Yuan's water control defense line was very serious against us in the Sui Dynasty. There are heavy troops stationed in Chongling, Xiangyang, Fangling, Xicheng and other border counties, and it is difficult to take them down for a while. Moreover, Li Shangshu also said just now that the roads to Bashu are difficult, the mountains are difficult to cross, and they are easy to defend and difficult to attack. Let's form a single rope, expedition to the Central Plains in the north, and Jingxiang to the west. Do we really want to fight on two fronts? In my opinion, the puppet Tang Dynasty is too busy to take care of itself now, and can't spare the energy to support Li Mi, Lin Shihong and others, so we should concentrate our strength and annihilate them , and finally calmly deal with Li Yuan, who is in danger of four fortresses."

"Wei Shangshu's words are wrong!" Li Jing retorted: "Occupying a place is not as simple as you think. Whether the local gentry accept it, whether the people support it, whether the officials are loyal, and how to solve the army's food are all big problems. Back then, Yang Xuangan occupied the Central Plains. Most of the people in the Central Plains are willing to accept him? No. Didn’t it end in a crushing defeat in the end? There is also the Jingxiang area attached by envoy Xiao. At present, the Sui Dynasty is only occupying the territory, but in terms of people’s hearts , have not been sincerely controlled. Without two or three years of hard work, it will be difficult to achieve the unification of the hearts of the people. There are also people in the Central Plains to the east of Hulao Pass. In fact, they agree with Wagang. If the Wagang Army Still, we're definitely not as easy as we were before."

Wei Zheng pondered for a moment and said, "So, Li Mi actually made a mistake in leaving the Central Plains?"

"On the contrary!" Li Jing smiled: "Although Zhai Rang is a person who is easy to get rich, but he is righteous. The principle he believes in is to eat with meat and spend with money. warehouse, and then distributed food to the poor people, so the people in the Central Plains under his control were very supportive of the Wagang Army in Zhai Rang's period. The powerful and Kanto gentry couldn't make a good climate, so after Zhai Rang died, he turned to the gentry in an all-round way, and gradually drifted away from the people who missed Zhai Rang. As a result, he couldn't stay in the Central Plains, so he had to go far to the south of the Yangtze River. To avoid the soldiers of the Great Sui Dynasty, on the other hand, we sought the support of the southern gentry. But things went against our wishes. The southern gentry were extremely xenophobic and regarded him as an invader. They felt that what Li Mi brought was only war, so there was no support from the surname before. Now Although the gentry in the south were forced to support by conspiracy, the force is not king after all. This kind of contradiction and estrangement will break out sooner or later. In terms of terrain, the water network in the south of the Yangtze River is criss-cross, and it may not be easier to fight than in Bashu. In addition, the dispute between Li Mi and Meng Haigong Unstoppable, swords drawn, but if the soldiers of the Sui Dynasty arrive, they will surely make the two of them share the same hatred and fight against the Sui Dynasty. This will indirectly help Li Mi, and Li Yuan will also get a respite. Li Yuan, who is full of complaints, is the best choice."

"Besides, our dynasty has been planning for a long time to annihilate the puppet Tang Dynasty. There are food and grass in all the passes bordering the puppet Tang Dynasty, and there have been many years of infiltration and management in it. After dispelling the great enemy of life and death, follow the example of the previous emperor in the battle of destroying Chen, and go down the river to rule the world."

Yang Tong listened to the two 'teachers' arguing, with good reasons, acting as if they were real, pretending to be amused, and said: "It's not the way to go on like this, Li Shangshu, Wei Shangshu List out the reasons for each of them, and discuss them one by one after Shangyuan, as for who to attack, wait until Fang Shangshu returns from his envoy."

"Here!"

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