The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 895 The Man Worth Ten Million Stones (Ticket Request)
The spring pool also adopts the natural style of Jicui Palace, with jagged rocks inside, lush flowers and trees, and then piled up naturally with stones. If it weren't for the roof on the head, it would almost make people think that it was a pool formed by heaven and earth.

The building above the pool is strange and weird, with slanted windows on the entire right wall, through which the light can shine on the flowers and trees inside throughout the day.On the other side is a large skylight. When the skylight is opened, the plants inside can not only get sufficient light, but also allow rainwater to pour down.Right above the spring pool is a dome decorated like a cave. Being in it, it feels like an open-air pool, but it has absolute privacy.

The rockery in the middle of the bathing pool is full of exotic flowers, which divides the pool into two parts. There are several statues of white jade ladies on the hill. The female statues hold a vase-like water bottle at their waists, and streams of hot spring pour out from the steamer. Entering the pool, the sound of water splashing beads and jade makes people feel fresh and clean before bathing, and the dust and customs have disappeared.

By the pool, there are not only blooming peonies and exotic flowers and plants, but also two tall and strong sweet-scented osmanthus trees. Perhaps they grew in the greenhouse, which caused them to mutate, so they are still blooming, and the fragrance is refreshing.Some petals floated on the water, and the gently rippling pool water was like a blanket made of sweet-scented osmanthus.

On the carpet of sweet-scented osmanthus stamens, there are many yellow, red, purple and other colored petals falling from other flower trees and vines.

On the other side, in addition to grapes, cucumber racks, and rotten wood covered with mushrooms and fungus, there is also a vegetable field. In addition to the leeks that Yang Tong knows, there are also some weird wild vegetables.

He has seen the more luxurious and weird royal garden Xiyuan before, Yang Tong was not surprised by this, he was lying on a couch carved out of white marble, resting on a stone pillow, his eyes slightly closed, enjoying the bath very much. In the spring pond.

Carefully combing through the urgent report sent by Yin Hongzhi, brother-in-law Yin did a very good job in the incident of stealing grain. First, he judged that there was something wrong with the White Horse Warehouse based on Shi Yu's abnormality, and then checked to the bottom, revealing that there was something wrong with the grain cellar. The hidden truth, but with the evidence in hand, he did not use the power of the "special envoy" to arrest people immediately, let alone startle the enemy, creating an opportunity for the court to arrest the "internal traitor" lurking in the officialdom.This series of performances is extremely sophisticated and lived up to expectations.

There is nothing to say about Fang Xuanling's coping methods. According to his assumption, the lost grain is very likely to be put into storage. From the county magistrate of the sixth rank to the prefect of the Shangjun of the third rank, he has been promoted to twelve ranks in a row, making Shi Yu invaluable to the Zheng family, and Xingyang is the root of the Zheng family. Although the influence there is profound, if it does not operate for a long time, the Xingyang Zheng family will be annihilated in the long river of history sooner or later, so they are eager to return.

In order to protect Shi Yu, who has a bright future and can be an important pawn for Zheng's return to Xingyang and court, Zheng will definitely find ways to replenish the more than 200 million shi of grain in a short period of time.

Although the five surnames and seven clans and other aristocratic families have far-reaching influence, long-standing inheritance, and luxuriant branches, with the promotion of cheap paper books, three studies, imperial examinations, and family bans, their advantages in educational resources will gradually disappear. What they can now do to the world and the imperial court is to use their accumulated economic strength for thousands of years to push the imperial court to make choices that are beneficial to them. This process is extremely slow, as fast as three to five years, as slow as ten years, or a hundred years.

Therefore, the aristocratic family needs someone in the court. They must use all means to push the pawns who have already become officials to high positions, or spare no money to cultivate promising officials. When they become officials, they will reciprocate the aristocratic family.With the support of these people in the officialdom, only government orders and decisions that benefit the aristocratic family can be passed.

The reverse is also the same, if the imperial court wants to attack the aristocratic family, the best way is to fight with each other with open swords and spears, but anyone with a discerning eye knows that the power of the Sui Dynasty was at its peak, and it was the Li Tang Dynasty that could not survive. They will invest the power and strength hidden under the water on the hopeless Li and Tang courts, so if the Great Sui eradicates the puppet Tang, only those people on the surface can be killed; this also means that the imperial power and the family members On this basis, the best way is nothing more than three. One is to find out the pawns of each family and faction, and promote them to be the spokespersons of the interests of the various families, so as to draw out the forces behind them, further Annihilate the dark forces of the aristocratic families; the second is to use public opinion to demonize the aristocratic families as much as possible, so that the poor and the common people will stay away and isolate them; the third is to reduce the number of people who are closely related to the aristocratic families. Officials, high-ranking officials, when the court uses force to suppress a generation of people with government orders, then poor people will grow up quickly, and it often takes more than ten years or decades to train high-ranking officials, and it will take dozens of nearly a hundred years to reach that point. At that time, the number of people is far less than that of poor people, and the aristocratic families who are shouted and beaten by everyone have lost their advantages and competitiveness.

But this granary is really a headache.

In this era, the main forms of people paying taxes were food and money.Taxes are almost levied by the village head, and the people give the food to the village head, and the village head gathers food in the township, from the township to the county, and then sends it to the county warehouse in accordance with the statistics of the county lieutenant, county magistrate, and county code. The amount issued by the Ministry is either retained in the county, or transported to the joint warehouse, or stored in several top official warehouses.

Counties and counties all over the world have this number of roads. If you want to check the accounts, you only need to check down from the joint warehouse, and follow the five links of counties, counties, townships, villages, and people to pay grain. The hands and feet are done seamlessly, and the clues can be seen through the details of the layers below.

As for the tunnel, it is easy to solve. Just build a wide and deep moat outside Cangcheng. If someone digs a tunnel underground, the water in the moat will kill the rats, so the key to the problem lies in guarding and stealing; The unspoken rules of official warehouses are not unreasonable. The warehouse officials use the old grain from the country to earn the price difference, but what they get back is new grain. The court, warehouse officials, and common people seem to have benefited. There will be a set of clear supervision system, which seems to be able to prevent the loss of food.

But if the restrictions are lifted, these officials will definitely use the huge amount of national grain to fight a price war, and then destroy all the local grain merchants and monopolize the local grain market. In the end, the unlucky people will definitely be the common people. This is a big tiger , must not let go.

According to such a one-by-one comparison, the unspoken rules are easier to control than the clear rules. It seems that it is not bad to turn a blind eye and close one eye when these people gain weight.

This sense of recognition made Yang Tong very uncomfortable. He felt that he was conniving at the criminals, but he couldn't find a way to get the best of both worlds for a while. The only thing he could do now was to prevent warehouse officials and local officials from colluding and stealing.

"Husband, are you asleep?" At this moment, a gentle voice came.

Yang Tong was very surprised, he thought it would be the bold Jiang Fengyi or Shui Tianji who came to take a bath together, but unexpectedly it was the defensive Yin Mingyue.He opened his eyes a little, but saw that she was wrapped in a large white bath towel, her shoulders were exposed, her slender legs were bare, her pretty face was flushed, and she looked very cute.

Yin Mingyue had already soaked in the hot spring when Yang Tong was talking with the three ministers, no matter how daring she was, she didn't want to come to serve her husband under the teasing eyes of the sisters, but who let her get the longest bamboo chip Woolen cloth?
Like a thief, she approached lightly, only to see a white mist in the spring water, and a layer of soft petals on the surface of the water. The petals flowed away with the flowing water, but there were new petals falling gently and beautifully from the tree, like a poem. picturesque.

And her husband was lying on the couch by the pool, enjoying the hot spring water with his eyes slightly closed, and seemed to have fallen asleep, so he breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly stood on tiptoe carefully, trying to slip into the water.

Yang Tong pretended to be waking up from a dream, like a dude who had coveted his maid for a long time and now finally got the chance to steal food, and said in a lewd tone: "Mr. Mingyue, come here..."

Yin Mingyue was educated at a young age, and she is an absolute example of her husband being the god. Even though she knew that her husband was joking with her, even if she refused, she would not make him angry, but she still walked over obediently with a blushing face.

Although the tomcat of Mingyue County was also walking, no matter how long the road was, she would not finish it. When she got close to her husband, she naturally pressed the hem of the towel to prevent the spring from leaking out.

As soon as Yang Tong carefully put a snow foot into the water, Yang Tong got up abruptly and stretched out his hand to pull it. Duke Mingyue fell into his arms with an oops, splashing a lot of water.

The swinging "petal blanket" flicked outwards, and quickly covered her back, covering her delicate body.

"Husband!"

Following Yin Mingyue's coquettish call, Yang Tong tore off the towel wrapping her and threw it on the stone edge,
When Yang Tong saw her cute eyes like a frightened deer, he couldn't wait to reply, so he couldn't wait to kiss her lips.

"The water receded! The water receded!"

Jicui Palace is rippling, but the White Horse Embankment is climaxing/rising one after another. I don’t know who shouted first, and then, there are thunderous cheers on the embankment!
Yin Hongzhi was thinking about the problem of Baimacang, when he suddenly heard everyone's cheers, his body trembled and his spirit was shaken. When he looked up, he saw Xie Yingdeng, Xue Wanbei, Li Zhi and others running over.

"General Xie, has the flood receded?" Yin Hongzhi asked excitedly.

"Retreat! Retreat!" Xie Yingdeng pointed to his feet: "Look, Minister Yin, the water level has dropped!"

Although the military and civilians blocked one gap after another and piled up layers of sandbags, the upper reaches of the Yellow River and its tributaries continued to rain, and the surging river water overflowed the embankment time and time again, but there is still water underfoot , but the stream of mediocrity has disappeared.

Yin Hongzhi had been thinking about the stolen grain from the Baima warehouse, as well as Shi Yu and the Zheng family in Xingyang, so he didn't notice this.

Now that the water level has dropped, one means that the upstream rainfall has weakened, or that some places have stopped, and the other is that the flood peak has passed. Although it is not known whether there will be another flood peak, at least it is safe now, and the danger is developing on the positive side.

Even so, Yin Hongzhi still didn't dare to be careless: "Everyone, don't be careless. Although the water level has dropped now, the water volume in the river is also much smaller, but in case a bigger flood peak suddenly hits, it will be in the empty river. The power generated on the water will be greater than before. Taking advantage of the water level to drop, everyone hastened to take people to patrol, and to remedy the danger as soon as possible."

"Obey!" Xue Wanbei, Li Zhi, Zhang Jin, Wang Sen and the others also knew the truth of ebb and flow, and their hearts tightened suddenly.

They suddenly relaxed their tense heartstrings due to the drop in water level, but they didn't realize that the danger was far from gone, and temporarily forgot what Yin Hongzhi said. At this time, they were ordered to dispatch people to inspect the embankment.

Xie Yingdeng appreciated Yin Hongzhi's rigorous style very much, and praised: "The servant of Yin is prepared for danger in times of peace, and has the style of a general."

Unexpectedly, Yin Hongzhi waited for everyone to walk away, but he smiled happily and said: "God see you, the White Horse Embankment has been saved, and our mission has finally been completed more than half! Hahaha..."

Xie Yingdeng had black lines on his face, and said helplessly, "You literati... you like to do things like the former and the latter!"

Yin Hongzhi shook his head again and again: "General Xie's words are wrong. What do you mean by the former and the latter? I want to strengthen everyone's resolve and sound the alarm. This is just like your marching and fighting. Before capturing and killing the enemy chieftain, who can guarantee that he will win? The danger of the flood is often lurking under the calm of the sea, and if one is negligent, the good situation will fall short."

"During war, soldiers must be vigilant at all times, and as a commander, they must have insight into the situation of the battle, and they must be in control of the situation...Fighting floods is like fighting a war, and the reason is the same..."

Xie Yingdeng nodded in agreement, his gaze suddenly caught sight of Shi Yu, who was dragging his sick body and commanding the peasants in the distance, and said bitterly: "Shi Yu, this bastard, made himself look more like a loyal minister than a loyal minister, extremely disgusting and shameless!" I really want to kick him into the Yellow River."

"You can't mess around." Yin Hongzhi's heart skipped a beat.

"I know this, but I just feel that this person is disgusting." Xie Yingdeng said indignantly: "The Holy One is ambitious and strives for governance, and the court, Chinese and military forces are also single-minded and united, and strive to build the Great Sui into an invincible empire that is proud of the world. But Shi Yu These two bastards, Zeng Zhong, actually stole more than 200 million shi of grain. This amount of grain is enough for the people of the Sui Dynasty to feed for more than a month."

"Hateful is hateful, but you can't ignore his usefulness to the court just because he is hateful." In front of Xie Yingdeng who had participated in the whole process, Yin Hongzhi didn't have to hide anything, "We can't treat a person as friend or enemy. On the surface He stole so much food, but once all these bastards are caught, their illegal wealth will still belong to the court."

Xie Yingdeng nodded and said, "That's right."

"Finding the money is secondary. The key is the Zheng family and other family members. The family members used to be a group of wolves that eat people and don't spit out their bones. Now they are poisonous snakes. Poisonous fangs? The imperial court used to deal with them in the name of collaborating with the enemy, but now these people have turned from light to darkness. It is not easy to wipe them out. If you want to kill the enemy One thousand, self-defeating eight hundred ways to clean up the officialdom, the court will also be severely damaged, and will be known as cruel, so if you want to eradicate the cancer of the aristocratic family, the court will be unscathed, so you can only follow the vine. Catch one accurately. Shi Yu is the imperial court's breakthrough in dealing with this group of poisonous snakes. Once he is firmly fixed on him, the imperial court will be able to destroy all the poisonous snakes with the force of breaking the embankment." Yin Hongzhi said solemnly: " Shi Yu, this bastard, is now a treasure worth tens of millions of shi to the imperial court. What is a mere 200 million shi worth of grain that is temporarily stored in Zheng's hands? If you hate him, kill him. Otherwise, the Holy One will not only dislike you, but will make trouble for you."

Yin Hongzhi knew that warriors acted straightforwardly, so he urged him repeatedly.

"I won't do that!" Xie Yingdeng nodded and said, "I think he's upset, just avoid it."

"That's good." Yin Hongzhi looked westward, and said lightly: "My emergency should have arrived at the court long ago. It stands to reason that there should be a reply, but there is no news yet; or the Holy Majesty has not received it. I don't know what he's doing, which is really worrying."

"Maybe it's raining heavily in Luoyang, just wait a little longer."

"That's it."

(End of this chapter)