The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 861 Yang Guang is on the move

The valley where Taihe Village is located is decorated with jade carvings, and the snow field beyond the horizon is adorned with red plums. It seems that someone uses the ground as cloth, snow as a curtain, and blood to convey color. The thatched hut keeps the cold out,

Yang Guang lifted the kettle on the stove, washed tea, made tea, and divided tea, with skillful movements and elegant demeanor.

He picked up the teacup, looked at the crystal green tea soup, took a sip, and said with a smile: "That kid has done something elegant. This tea is more elegant than the blended Baiwei Sencha, and it is refreshing. Contains sweetness, plain yet meaningful, just like my life. Don’t you think so, Mr. Pei?”

The person sitting opposite Yang Guang was Pei Ju who came to Mount Emei to find a quiet place to visit, and was captured by the Taihe army. Even after a long time, Pei Ju was still trembling all over, his expression was like seeing a ghost, full of joy. The face is unbelievable!
Yang Guang didn't urge him, and sipped the tea soup slowly.

After a long time, Pei Ju let out a long sigh and looked at Yang Guang seriously, only to find that Yang Guang, who was either high-spirited, domineering, or frowning, had changed, and he was more calm and calm than before. He said with a wry smile: " Everyone thought that the Holy One was gone, but who would have thought that Er would silently contribute to the flames behind the scenes, and it is no wonder that Emperor Shengwu has the glory he has today."

"Pei Gong, you are wrong. The grand occasion of the Sui Dynasty today has nothing to do with me. If I had this ability, the Sui Dynasty would not be torn apart." Yang Guang said frankly.

"That's true." Falling into the hands of Yang Guang, Pei Ju didn't think he had a way out, so he felt calm when he thought about it. He lifted his teacup and took a sip of tea, and asked, "Your Majesty has been hiding here all this time?"

"Of course not." Yang Guang shook his head, and said to Pei Ju meaningfully, "Since you surrendered to Li Yuan, you have been teaching the younger generation of the Pei family, but you didn't let the younger generation of the Pei family become officials in the puppet Tang Dynasty, why?"

Pei Ju smiled wryly and said: "The general trend is in the Sui Dynasty. Li and Tang will fall sooner or later. With Emperor Shengwu's way of handling things, he will definitely not spare the officials of Li and Tang. If the criminals let the children of the family serve in Tang, wouldn't they be harmed?"

Yang Guang smiled coldly, "As far as I know, what Mr. Pei teaches is all scheming, presumably he knows the true identity of Concubine Shu, so he intends to let your children and grandchildren serve in the Sui Dynasty, and encourage Concubine Shu's son to compete with the crown prince. A generation of monarchs, using the blood of my Yang family to seek the road to the revival of the Pei family, am I right?"

Pei Ju's face was pale as if struck by lightning.

When he saw Pei Yin's family settled in Luoyang and was made county magistrate by Yang Tong, after analyzing the existing title promotion system in the Sui Dynasty, he was acutely aware that Pei Yin, the county magistrate, had little to do with Pei Yun, so he sent a loyal The servant squatted near Pei Yin's house, sneaked into Pei Yin's mansion many times, and through conversations with Pei Yin and his wife, he learned that Lu Qinghua, the concubine of the Sui Dynasty, was Pei Qinghua, Pei Yin's daughter.

Not long ago, the news that Concubine Shu gave birth to Prince Yang Chong made Pei Ju even more excited, as if he was decades younger.

The fanciful Pei Ju thinks that during Yang Tong's lifetime, anything can happen. Without the support of his relatives, Yang Zheng may not be able to treat the prince as the prince until the day Yang Tong dies. With the secret support of Pei's children, the grandson of the Pei family may not be able to rule. world.

If one day, the Pei family can see the light of day again, without the constraints of the Guanlong nobles, five surnames and seven kings, wouldn't the Pei family be the most powerful family in the world?However, before he could act, he became a cicada in the mouth of a mantis and fell into the hands of Yang Guang.

"Pei Gong, the previous method won't work anymore." Yang Guang said with a smile: "Family, country, and world are the principles that have been passed down for thousands of years by your aristocratic families. You must first have a family before you have a country. Under this premise, you can share the worries of the monarch by the way." , since you have a family first, you will naturally favor your own family when you act, and you will invisibly deprive the people of land, food, rights, etc. Before your family, you not only mastered knowledge, money, food, population, but also It is up to you to decide whether a person is good or bad, loyal or traitorous. I had no choice but to compromise and seek a balance among the Guanlong nobles, the Kanto gentry, and the southern gentry. It’s useless to play. But with the popularization of the three schools, the promotion of cheap paper books, the ‘disappearance’ of aristocratic families... The rise of the poor family has become an irreversible and mighty trend. If you want to restore the glory, you can only It's the mantis' arm that is used as a car... In my opinion, it's better not to do useless work!"

The reason why the gentry has a long history is that it has monopolized educational resources. If poor scholars want to increase their knowledge, they can only go to the ancestry schools run by the major gentry to study and establish a teacher-student relationship with each ethnic group. The major gentry use this method , controlled talents all over the world, and formed an extremely powerful political network.The emperors of all dynasties also knew that these people came first from the family to the country and then the king, but there were too few pure poor scholars, so when using these talents, they sought a balance among the various political factions, and finally formed a common situation between the emperor and the family. The vicious circle that ruled the world.

When the emperor can't satisfy these people's tastes, these people will try their best to mess up the world, betting on various princes one after another, and finally gain more in the new dynasty.

But now, the rise of poor people has come, even if Pei really supports Yang Chong, so what?
When the power of the Pei family threatened the imperial power, Yang Chong's first target to eliminate was the Pei family who threatened the imperial power.

In the future, relying on thousands of poor scholars, are you afraid that you will not find talents who can govern the country?
Pei Ju was silent for a moment, then said calmly, "Who can tell what will happen in the future?"

"Since I know that you taught Pei's children scheming and your intentions, I naturally have a way to make the suspicious Li Yuan kill Pei." A stern look flashed in Yang Guang's eyes.

Pei Ju cares about the inheritance of the Pei family, and Yang Guang cares more about the inheritance of the Great Sui Dynasty. He ordered Pei Ju to be arrested instead of directly murdering the children of the Pei family. , Pei Ju has indeed helped him too much, and I hope he will retreat in spite of the difficulties; but if Pei Ju, for the benefit of the Pei family, tilts the Sui Dynasty, which was finally restored by Yang Tong, Yang Guang will immediately tell the Pei family Raise the butcher knife.

Pei Ju showed a trace of panic, he didn't care about his own life or death, but he was afraid that Mrs. Pei would be ruined, but he was not a fool, knowing that Yang Guang would capture him here, it was not as simple as threatening him, so he said in a squeaky voice: "Your Majesty, you should state your conditions."

Yang Guang glanced at Pei Ju and said, "It's nothing. I'm busy here, and I just heard that you were busy too, so I came here to have a casual gathering with you."

"..." Pei Ju smiled wryly.

"Have you read the latest half-month talk?"

"Looked."

"Since the establishment of the post station, it has been a gold-throwing Pixiu. I remember that when my father was alive, some people proposed to let the idle post station communicate for the people of the world, but my father did not accept it. Why?" Yang Guang asked.

Pei Ju pondered for a while, and then said honestly, "As far as I know, most of the previous memorials were general talks, with nothing, and no practical plans. Emperor Wen thought that the station itself was a huge hole. If Delivering letters for the common people will increase the expenses of post stations countless times, so they will be discarded. However, Emperor Shengwu’s stamp system can be said to be a stroke of genius. His method of collecting all the stamps and exempting them from tax for one year will surely make people collect them. But this alone can't maintain the expenditure, but with the addition of "Ban Yue Tan", a highly sought-after publication, the situation suddenly reversed. If the post station sells 50 copies every half month, then there will be a million copies in a month, and the post station will have [-] more copies. This is an unimaginably huge amount of money. At the same time, government orders, common sense, and laws in publications have also flowed into thousands of households, making people in the world realize that the starting point of the imperial court is for the benefit of the people. It makes people naturally distinguish the imperial court from corrupt officials, and maintains the imperial court's rule."

"However, the post station's act of delivering letters to the people has also greatly facilitated the communication between various places. If an accident occurs in one place, it will be known to the whole world, and it will even cause panic in the world."

As expected of Pei Ju, after entering the role, he thoroughly analyzed the pros and cons of post station communication.

"But after all, its advantages outweigh its disadvantages. One more day of travel will bring more convenience to the people, and more benefits to the court. However, natural disasters and man-made disasters are rare, so a mere communication station can't shake the rule of a dynasty. The worst thing is to add a rule It is stipulated that when an accident occurs in a certain place, the post station will stop delivering letters from the people, and only letters from the court will be used." Yang Guang immediately thought of a countermeasure and kept it in mind.

Pei Ju, who was belatedly aware, suddenly realized that he finally understood the reason why Yang Guang arrested him. It was nothing more than wanting to combine the rich political experience of "Tai Shang Huang" and "Tai Shang Xiang" to make up for Yang Tong's policies, so that Form a perfect system so that the Great Sui Dynasty can continue for a long time.

"What about the bank? What do you think?"

"The bank can let money generate money, and the common people will be profitable, so they will flock to save money. At that time, let alone a million guan, even tens of millions of guan, it will be no problem. Finally, the wealth of the world will be collected in the hands of the imperial court. With this With huge wealth in hand, how can the imperial court be troubled by lack of money? If the people put their surplus money into it, they can also know the wealth of the people in the world... Just need to calculate the accounts of each county every year, whether the people's livelihood in each county is developing or regressing , at a glance; based on this, it can be deduced whether the official is doing his duty..."

……

While Yang Guang was talking to Pei Ju, a bloody battle gradually subsided in Xuanwu County, Shu County. It was gradually buried in the heavy snow.

The sky was colder than people's hearts, when Dugu Wu returned to the camp with less than two thousand remnants.

He was greeted by a death camp, with frozen corpses scattered all over the ground, only rough outlines could be seen under the heavy snow, and many people even maintained their postures before they were alive. Dugu Wu could tell that his soldiers had gone through a terrible battle. It was a fierce fight, but in the end he lost.

When the soldiers following Dugu Wudu saw the plight of their comrades-in-arms, they did not have the anger they had before, but only numbness and deep despair.

"Is Li Xiaogong going to kill them all?" Dugu Wudu's eyes flashed with anger and despair. He had tried his best to deal with it, but the final result was that the entire army was wiped out, and only the two were left to escape here. Thousands of soldiers.

But he forgot that this was the path he chose.

'when!when!when! '

At this moment, Li Xiaogong led [-] cavalrymen of the Tang Army to kill them, the sound of horseshoes was like thunder, and the cavalry rushed forward. Their goal was very clear, and they charged towards the handsome flag in the center.

There was loud drumming and the sound of killing shook the sky, and the Tang Army infantry lurking in the camp also came out of it.

The killing of the ambush quickly disintegrated the remnant soldiers' will to resist. Li Xiaogong led the cavalry to kill Dugu Wudu. He held his breath a long time ago. Now that Li Yuan gave him this opportunity, no matter what, he would not lose this opportunity again.Therefore, he first lured Dugu Wudu to attack Xuanwu City with a precarious situation, and sent another group of strange soldiers to conquer its camp. After exhausting the main force of the siege, he led the cavalry to rush out suddenly and killed the opponent by surprise. The superiority wiped out most of the enemy troops outside the city, and then chased them all the way to this point.

Dugu Wudu saw that Li Xiaogong personally led the cavalry to kill himself, he immediately raised his sword to fight, Dugu Wudu's martial arts were also very brave, but after all, he was exhausted after killing for a long time, after dozens of rounds of fighting, finally caught by Li Xiaogong, A spear pierced his chest.When the remnants of Dugu Wudu saw their commander killed, they all had no intention of fighting, and knelt down and surrendered one after another.

(End of this chapter)