"Tyrant, a tyrant more cruel than his father!"
In Hongnong, in the Yang's Ancestral Hall, an old man in his fifties looked gloomy. He threw the tea cup in his hand angrily, causing broken porcelain to scatter everywhere. He looked up to the sky and cried sadly: "God, why do you favor such a cruel person so much! "
"Grandpa, don't be sad. Sooner or later, this tyrant will be punished by God just like his father who was a single husband!"
The grandson on the side stepped forward to support the old man and said with grief and anger.
Just at this moment, a burst of hurried footsteps sounded, and several Jinyi guards in Feiyu uniforms walked in quickly under the leadership of Yang Guozhong. Yang Guozhong pointed at the pair of grandfather and grandson with a sneer and said: "Everyone heard it, these two This thief is so treasonous that he dares to curse the king behind his back!"
The leading Jin Yiwei nodded, stretched out his hand and shouted: "Take it!"
"Yang Guozhong! Yang Guozhong!"
After the old man was taken down, he still struggled and glared at Yang Guozhong and cursed: "You coward, my Yang family's thousand-year-old spirit will be destroyed in the hands of you, a boneless coward!"
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"hateful!"
After the news of the Yang family reached Guanzhong, Dugu Zhen, the head of the Dugu family headed by the Guanlong family, said bitterly: "Yang Gao, this little thief, is more cunning than his father. He uses profit to seduce those villains to betray the family and establish a family that only obeys orders." With his new powerful family, use this to deal with us!"
"Uncle Shi said yes!"
Hou Mochen Xiu, a descendant of the Hou Mochen family, nodded and said that the Hou Mochen family and the Dugu family have always been on good terms. After hearing the news this time, the Hou Mochen family was the first to send people to contact the Dugu family.
Dugu Zhen glanced at Hou Mo and Chen Xiu, and said in a deep voice: "Go back and tell your father that all the shops on Chang'an Street that are fighting with the Dou family should stop. Now is not the time for our internal fighting in Guanlong. Regardless of whether it is the Dou family. Or are there others, what they want is just the leader of Guanlong, but Yang Gao'er wants to uproot us and not give us any way to survive!"
"That's what Uncle Shi said, and my father meant the same thing!" Hou Mo Chenxiu nodded in agreement.
Dugu Zhen looked to the east with an eagle expression, and said with murderous intent: "The sky has no eyes, so that such a tyrant can survive in the world! Why didn't he die in Jiangdu like his father who was a single man!"
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No matter how much the Guanlong family denounced Yang Gao, or how much the Guandong family cursed Yang Gao behind his back, Yang Gao himself would not care about these trivial matters. Yang Gao had more important things to do now.
Move the capital!
To be precise, Yang Gao has never regarded Jiangdu as his capital, but the imperial court has been placed in Jiangdu for many years. Over a long period of time, not only the Turkic Tang Army, but also the people under the Sui Dynasty have regarded Jiangdu as the capital of the new Sui Dynasty. Some people even The Sui Dynasty of Yang Gao was called Southern Sui.
This is not a good sign for Yang Gao. Throughout history, there have been very few dynasties that unified the world by conquering the south and the north. In the end, the northern dynasty almost always won the split and confrontation between the north and the south. Not to mention, the Sui Dynasty finally eliminated Nanchen and unified the world, ending the troubled times of the Southern and Northern Dynasties.
Although Jiangdu is prosperous, it is still far away from the capital in Yang Gao's mind, especially after several years of conquests, a large area of land in Youzhou, Hebei was recovered, and the Sui Dynasty's territory expanded significantly towards the north. Considering the implementation of decrees and Due to road problems, Jiangdu was no longer suitable as the center of the imperial court.
Luoyang, the capital of the East, Chengdu, the capital of Shu, as well as Yecheng and Jinling, are all famous cities with royal auras in history. Another one is Yanjing Zhuojun. However, due to the limitations of the times and the The Turkic Jurchens are wreaking havoc, and Yang Gao's current enemy is still the Tang Dynasty headed by Li Yuan and Li Shimin, so Yanjing is not within Yang Gao's consideration.
Perhaps in more than ten years, when Yang Gao destroys Li Tang and the economy in the north recovers, Yang Gao will consider moving his capital north to Yanjing.
Chengdu, Jinling, and Jiangdu actually have the same problem. The confrontation between the north and the south inherently gives the world an illusion of weakness. The best option is to compete for hegemony between the east and the west.
In Yecheng, in the second year of the Elephant Period of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Yang Gao's grandfather, Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, Yang Jian, suppressed Yuchi Jiong, the governor of Xiangzhou who was dissatisfied with him. In order to prevent the resurgence of the anti-Yang forces in Hebei, he ordered the burning of Yecheng.
Although today's Yecheng has been rebuilt several times by Zhu Yuanzhang, Hebei is in chaos, and Zhu Yuanzhang focuses more on restoring military strength and reorganizing his troops. Now Yecheng has only barely recovered by half or two, and it is difficult to restore its former glory.
At the moment, Yang Gao's best choice is Luoyang, the eastern capital. Luoyang is where Yang Gao's father, Yang Guang, made his capital. It has complete palaces and courts, and there is no need to recruit civilians to build new ones.
Luoyang was the capital of many dynasties such as the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the Cao Wei Dynasty. In this era, its political, military, and economic status were among the best.
"Your Majesty, now that the Puppet Tang Dynasty is entrenched in Guanzhong, Hedong is also in the hands of the Puppet Tang Dynasty, and Luoyang is surrounded by enemies on both sides. I am worried that there will be bandit troops to disturb the Holy Master. Your Majesty, please think twice!"
Some courtiers raised the threat of Li Tang, but Yang Gao didn't care: "The traitors of the pseudo-Tang Dynasty have been defeated repeatedly. The old thief Li Yuan has long been discouraged. How could he have the courage to invade the Eastern Capital? What's more, my great Sui general Long Jinghu Fierce, even if the puppet Tang Dynasty invades, it will only add a few more merits to our Sui soldiers!"
With the Sui army's many great victories, Yang Gao's reputation became higher and higher. Now that he had made his own decisions, the other civil and military ministers no longer raised objections.
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"Your Majesty is planning to move the capital to Luoyang?"
Yang Gao had decided to move the capital to Luoyang, and his decree was quickly carried to Jiangdu. Government agencies at all levels in Jiangdu were also preparing to go north.
After hearing his son's report, Pei Ju, who had already semi-retired, narrowed his eyes slightly and said with a smile: "It's your Majesty after all. I know that with your majesty's talent and strategy, sooner or later, you will definitely return to Luoyang."
Pei Xuanji, the eldest son of Pei Ju, who has been promoted to the position of minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, also laughed and said: "My father is still smart, allowing the children of the Wenxi family to stay in their hometown with peace of mind. The Zhang family and the Chen family sold their family properties at a low price and moved to Jiangdu. But it’s a big loss!”
Pei Ju's eyes flashed, and there were some things he didn't dare to say to his son.
In fact, Pei Ju suspected that the reason why Yang Gao had not moved the capital was because he was waiting for the Central Plains family to move south. According to the reports he sent back, those who took over the acquisition of the major family properties were more or less responsible. With the figure of an emperor.
However, he did not dare to say this even to his own son. Presuming the holy will on your own is, to put it more seriously, something that will make you lose your head.
Facing such a scheming and extremely powerful emperor, Pei Ju could only secretly gather his other thoughts.
