Turbulent Times Chapter 875: One peach kills three warriors

Two servants of the fourth rank were killed with sticks, and there was a sudden silence in the hall. Yang Guang looked around the ministers with a cold expression, and said coldly: "Who else speaks of 'evil government'? Feel free to speak out."

The officials were frightened by Yang Guang's aura, and none of them dared to speak out, but those who dared to speak out were thinking about where the problem was and why things didn't follow the script.

Yang Guang glanced intentionally or unintentionally at the representatives of the seven clans and five surnames and other giant families in the palace. After the state capital, there are too many counties and counties, so it is announced that in Jizhou, Yanzhou, Bingzhou, Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Yuzhou, Yangzhou, Jingzhou, Liangzhou, and Yongzhou, there are more than hundreds of thousands of households, and the establishment of supervisory prefectures and governors' offices. Officials include Changshi, Sima and other local officials ranging from fourth rank to second rank, and there are a total of forty-five official positions, which will be selected from the revoked prefectural governors and long historians."

The ministers suddenly exploded, and many people suddenly realized that there were traitors in the powerful family, and that someone or a powerful family had secretly defected to the emperor, so their conspiracy process was leaked last night, causing Lu Youda and Zheng Chengkai's sticks teased the fakes to come true, and they were killed by the sticks.

Just as Wang Junlin expected, after Yang Guang said this workaround on the spot, and the fact that two people had just been shot dead, the atmosphere at the court meeting suddenly changed, and no one dared to speak out for a while If you object, because no one is stupid, you know that at this time, the first forty-five positions will not fall on your own family.

The so-called one peach kills three scholars is the truth, or it can be said that instead of worrying about the few, there is no harmony between the powerful families. years of feud.

"In this way, the chief of the cabinet and all departments cooperate to come up with a plan to monitor the governor's history of the state, and make a preliminary decision on the candidate as soon as possible, so don't let it go!"

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On this day, after the court meeting ended, Yang Guang returned to the imperial study, and instead of rushing to review the memorial, he asked the servant to open a map that can be said to be the largest in the Sui Dynasty today.

This is a map covering the entire Sui Dynasty. It is a large map sewn together with dozens of high-quality white silks. The selected dozens of embroiderers took more than two months to embroider with dexterous little hands one by one. There was a mistake in the middle, so Yang Guang ordered to kill two embroiderers.

The map made out of such a big price and movement is naturally extraordinary, ten steps long and eight steps wide, Yang Guang can directly step on it barefoot and overlook his empire!

Three months ago, on the day when the map was embroidered, Yang Guang summoned the ministers to hold a banquet for appreciating the map. The death incident has long been forgotten by everyone.

At the banquet for appreciating pictures, Yang Guang told the ministers about his great ambition in high spirits and passion. They can all be recorded in the annals of history and have been praised by posterity for thousands of years. If His Majesty can really complete these plans, he will naturally become an emperor through the ages, comparable to Qin Huang Han Wu.

But the problem is that many of the things His Majesty wants to do take a long time and require a lot of military force to complete, but His Majesty is as impatient as ever. If it is completed in ten years, it will be completed in two years, and if it is completed in five years, it will be completed in less than five years It takes one year to complete and requires savings and preparations for ten years to do. He wants to do it after three or four years of preparation. people.

After participating in the map banquet that day, many officials who thought they were talented and ambitious were excited because they had the opportunity to make meritorious service, and were able to become dukes and realize their ambitions. deep worry.

And Wang Junlin finally knew further how Yang Guang left the Great Sui with nine houses and nine empty houses, how countless cultivated fields were barren and uncultivated, and how the Great Sui made the population empty in just ten years. (According to relevant records, in the fifth year of Sui Yang Emperor's great cause (609), there were more than 8.9 million households and 46 million people in China. This was the period with the largest number of household registrations in the Sui Dynasty, and it generally recovered for four years. The number of households in the Eastern Han Dynasty a century ago. In the early days of the Tang Dynasty, in the sixth year of Gaozu Li Yuanwude (623), there were 2.19 million households in China, about 11.19 million people, which was only a quarter of that at the peak of the Sui Dynasty. To.

Among them, many people died in the war at the end of the Sui Dynasty, but a considerable part of them were the people recruited by Yang Guang when he built the Great Wall, the new capital, the Chi Road, the Grand Canal, and conquered foreign countries. Yes, in the end, less than half of the civilian husbands can come back alive, and these people are the main labor force of a family. If they die, it means that the family will fall apart. The family members will either starve to death, or their wives and daughters will become refugees and beggars or become other people's playthings. and goods.

Yang Guang may or may not know the concerns of some sensible people, but he never takes them to heart. What was on his mind was how to make good use of Wang Junlin's sword, to prepare for his future dispatch of troops to take down Goguryeo, and at the same time let Wang Junlin's sword cut off some powerful families that could threaten his imperial career.

It's just that he was influenced by the Queen, Yu Wenshu and others these days, and he was also worried about being backlashed by Wang Junlin's sword, so he decided to adopt a strategy of balancing both worlds.

At this time, Yang Guang was walking from west to east. He stepped on Jincheng County in Yongzhou with his first foot, passed Xianyang, stepped on Daxing City with his second foot, and went northeast with his next foot. Bingzhou, took a look at Taiyuan City, and then crossed to Youzhou next to it.

Although Yang Guang firmly believes in Wang Junlin's loyalty to him, there are some things that must be guarded against, and Wang Junlin's power has indeed developed rapidly in the past few years. Yu Wenshu said that Wang Junlin and Bingzhou Luo Yi secretly colluded Things must be avoided.

But if Wang Junlin is not placed in Youzhou, how can the sword be pointed at Goguryeo?

Moreover, Wang Junlin is different from generals such as Yu Juluo and Shi Wansui. Not only does he have military strategies, he can lead troops to fight, open up territories for the emperor, and he can also command the Blue Yiwei Mansion, which covers intelligence and surveillance. Yamen, to rectify and weaken the powerful family for Yang Guang. In addition, through the removal of the state capital and the reform of the two-level system of counties and counties, as well as his usual words and deeds, Yang Guang gradually discovered that Wang Junlin is quite literary and may be able to govern the people.