In the middle of winter, Xizhou is still full of greenery, but Guanzhong is already covered with ice and snow. In Daxing City, where there has just been a heavy snowfall, the sky and the earth are completely white.
In the Wanchun Hall, Yang Jian was sitting upright with a big horse and a golden sword, holding a thick memorial. He was looking at it intently, but his two thick gray eyebrows were frowned from time to time, which showed that he was not in a calm mood at this time. .
Yang Guang, the prince of the prison, was sitting upright, concentrating; the erect left servant of the minister, Zuo Pushe, was silent and twirling his beard; the white and fat right servant of the minister, Su Wei, stared at the beams of Wanchun Palace, as if I am very interested in studying whether there is any floating dust on it.
Yang Da from Nayan of the Province of Menxia, Niu Hong from the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Li Yuantong from the Ministry of Punishments, Wei Chong from the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Xue Zhou from the Dali Temple, and Xue Daoheng from the Internal Affairs Bureau were holding white porcelain teacups and gently sipping the fragrant yellow tea. Tea soup.
Only Xiao Jue, the Inspector of the Ministry of War, and Duan Wenzhen, the minister of the Ministry of War, were at the bottom, paying attention to the changes in Yang Jian's expression.
Outside the window, there is a cold wind and snowflakes flying; inside the hall, where the fireplace is burning with charcoal fire, it is warm as spring and quiet.
After a long time, Yang Jian put down the memorial in his hand and let out a long breath. He looked around, pointed at several memorials on his desk, and said in a deep voice: "These are all memorials related to Liangzhou, with many themes and complex contents. It is not appropriate to talk in general terms, we will solve it one by one. Now let’s talk about the impeachment of Zhang Jun, the governor of Taozhou and the commander-in-chief of the march. What do you think?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Xiao Jue said: "As a governor, Zhang Jun committed suicide. He first sold 250,000 shi of stored grain in the official warehouse to Tuyuhun, the enemy. During his tenure, he purchased grain from Weizhou and Lanzhou private citizens at low prices every spring and autumn. grain, and then sold it from Taozhou to Tuyuhun, who was in short supply of food, and obtained huge profits several times higher than the normal price. This act of collaborating with the enemy and treason was unforgivable, and it was the only crime; Zhang Jun, as the commander-in-chief of the march in Taozhou, indulged three thousand The troops of the direct line captured Xiang Qiang. They extorted, plundered, and committed all kinds of evil, which led to the collapse of military discipline and chaos in Taozhou. This is the second crime! The evidence of the two crimes is conclusive and the impact is extremely bad. I believe that they should be handed over to Dali Temple for trial to set the record straight. .”
As the arms race between the Sui Dynasty and Tuyuhun unfolded, the imperial court closed all access to Tuyuhun and did not allow one or two irons, one foot of cloth, one or two irons, or one meter of rice to enter Tuyuhun.
At the same time, the Sixth Department of the Liangzhou Governor's Office also launched vigorous operations. On the one hand, they resettled the people day and night in Tingzhou and Hehuang areas, distributed farmland to each household, and provided work for relief. They also actively responded to the imperial policy. Investigate land annexation cases and rectify officialdom. On the other hand, Liangzhou's military, mainly composed of soldiers, took inventory of military rations from each state. This inventory turned out the big tiger Zhang Jun, the governor of Taozhou and the commander-in-chief of the march.
Zhang Jun often had business dealings with Tuyuhun due to geographical reasons. He took advantage of his position and sold the grain stored in Taozhou's official warehouses and military warehouses to Tuyuhun for many years, using the country's grain for personal gain.
In fact, it was not a big deal to resell to Tuyuhun in the past. After all, there were so many people doing this. It was just to sell them out when the price of grain was high. During the harvest season, the price of grain would plummet due to the new grain coming on the market. At this time Then buy back the same amount to replenish it and earn the price difference. The imperial court has always turned a blind eye to this kind of thing. As long as the other party replenishes the stored grain in full, not only will the imperial court not suffer any loss, but it will be able to renovate the stored grain due to these lawless people.
However, Zhang Jun did not make up for it in time and was caught at the critical moment. He also knew that a military confrontation required military rations. In order to fill this huge hole as soon as possible, he used all means to collect grain, which caused complaints in Taozhou and chickens. The flying dog jumps, and the crime adds to the crime.
"Father!" Yang Guang bowed to Yang Jian and said in a deep voice: "Zhang Jun's crime lies in his contempt for the rule of law. He was corrupt, violated the law, and acted recklessly, which damaged the image of Sui officials and generals among the people. His crime is unforgivable. But in Everyone in the sitting room actually knows that there are serious reselling situations in official warehouses and free warehouses all over the world. Although they made up for it with new food afterwards, the court adopted a laissez-faire attitude towards their criminal facts. This kind of tacit approval and connivance This attitude also caused more officials to resell grain, so the court was also responsible."
Having said this, Yang Guang glanced at Yang Jian and continued: "The law is equivalent to the moral bottom line and moral defense line of a person or an official. Its existence can let people know what is right and what is wrong. What can and cannot be done. Good laws and fair judicial officials can turn evil people into good people. But on top of the bad incident of grain reselling, the court and legal and judicial officials all compromised with local officials. This opened a hole in this moral defense line. When the imperial court compromised with the first person because it saw that this kind of behavior could keep the grain in the official warehouse always fresh, people around it mistakenly thought that as long as new grain was replenished in time, It is not a crime to buy food, so he started to resell it; over time, the law will become a piece of paper. But in the face of such a law, even upright officials will naturally feel guilty when they see people around them committing crimes but not being severely punished by the law. Will step by step towards the abyss of sin."
"Zhang Jun shorted Taozhou's official and military rations because we, the Sui Dynasty, were on the active side. If Tuyuhun was the one who was aggressive, but our soldiers had no food to eat, the consequences could be imagined."
Wanchun Hall fell silent again. Only when Yang Jian closed his eyes and meditated, he subconsciously tapped his fingers on the table of the desk. After a while, he asked Yang Su, "What do Zuo Pushe think of the prince's words?"
"Return to the saint!" Yang Su saluted and said slowly: "Although Zhang Jun has made great achievements, his merits are merits and his faults are faults. His actions of reselling official and military rations have had a bad impact. I agree with the prince's opinion and should You were interrogated by the Dali specialty store and dealt with strictly according to the law, but because of his previous military exploits, his fault was ignored. As for the widespread reselling of stored grain, many localities and local officials were involved, and at this time the local officials themselves Because of the land annexation, everyone is frightened. If we check the grain reserves again, I am afraid someone will take risks and cause chaos in some places. I thought I would give them a chance to atone for their sins."
Yang Jian frowned and asked, "How can I be given a chance?"
Yang Su quickly replied: "The imperial court used Zhang Jun's case to spread the word about a thorough investigation of grain storage in the world. We will wait until next year's spring grain is on the market to investigate. If the quantity matches, and the year of the grain matches the storage time, praise it; if the year does not match, it will be praised." Although they are not severely punished, they must be reprimanded. When there are opportunities for promotion, this category of people will not be considered. However, if the number is insufficient, they will naturally be severely punished in accordance with the law. In this way, rewards and punishments are clearly defined and a three-pronged approach will surely achieve the goal of correcting the situation, The role of killing chickens to scare monkeys.”
"Then let's arrange it like this!" Yang Jian pondered for a while and asked again: "Taozhou is at a strategic location. It is related to the arms race between the Sui Dynasty and Tuyuhun. At the same time, it also has resettlement of immigrants, reclamation of fertile land, work-for-relief, etc. When things need to be done, people in Taozhou, from governors to governors of marches, to officials and subordinates, will all be severely punished. Can you recommend a suitable candidate?"
Su Wei suggested: "Sage, I really appreciate the arms race strategy proposed by King Wei. This tactic of subduing the enemy's troops without fighting can defeat Tuyuhun without spending a single soldier. It is indeed very clever! But it's true! Because this genius idea is not only relevant to the current situation, but can also provide reference experience for other places and other times, Wei Chen believes that it would be safer to send an experienced and prudent person to preside over Taozhou."
Yang Jian was silent.
The shameless conspiracy of the arms race was proposed by Yang Ji. There are not many historical records to learn about the key points during the period. Only he himself understood the mystery. He even made the final decision on when and how to fight. , this very flexible and free style has always been disliked by "mature and prudent people". As for Taozhou, which is a very critical link, if the people sent to oppose him at every turn, will the best results be achieved?
Yang Jian looked at Yang Guang and Yang Su and asked, "Prince, what do you think of Zuo Pushe?"
"As my father said just now! Taozhou is particularly important at the moment, but in addition to the many things my father said, there are also repeated Party Xiangqiang to appease and supervise. I think it is impossible for one person to take care of all these matters. Disturbing military, political, official, and civilian matters."
Yang Guang's thoughts were consistent with Yang Jian's. He fully supported the arms race, but he was also afraid that someone would cause trouble, so he suggested: "The best way is to separate the military and political affairs. Send mature and responsible people to serve as Taozhou governor, chief historian, etc." No objection, but it is necessary to send another enterprising general to serve as state commander and army commander. In this way, military and political affairs can run in parallel without interfering with each other, and the arms race will not be affected."
"I will reconsider!"
"I will reconsider!"
"..."
Yang Su, Xiao Jue, and Duan Wenzhen, the three representatives of the Sui military, expressed their support for Yang Guang's suggestion.
Yang Jian thought for a moment and then said: "In that case, I will make Fang Gongyi the governor of Taozhou."
"The saint is wise." Fang Gongyi is cautious in his words and is from Luoyang, Henan. His father, Fang Mo, was the official minister of the Northern Qi Dynasty. He has a profound personality, has a sense of situation, and is good at politics. During the reign of Emperor Kaihuang, Su Wei, who was the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel at that time, was elected as the magistrate of Xinfeng County. His political achievements were the best among the three assistants. Yang Jian rewarded him with 400 bolts of silk. Fang Gongyi distributed all the rewards to the poor. Soon, another three hundred stones of rice were rewarded, and Gongyi once again used it to help the poor, and he was willing to stay in poverty. On the first day of every month, Yang Jian summoned the county magistrates of Yongzhou to the palace to inquire about government affairs. Every time he saw Fang Gongyi, he asked him for strategies for governing the people.
Later, Su Wei recommended him again, and he was promoted to the Sima of Zezhou under unusual circumstances. He had outstanding political achievements and was rewarded with a hundred pieces of silk and a BMW. However, just as he was rising, he was involved in the dispute between Su Wei and He Tuo. He Tuo said that Fang Gongyi was a remnant of Yuchi Jiong and should not be an official in the court, but Su Wei and Lu Kai colluded with each other and deliberately concealed this.
Fang Gongyi thus became a victim of the dispute between Su and He.
But everyone knew that he was unjustly accused. Now that they saw Yang Jian appointing this good official who had been dismissed for many years, everyone expressed their support.
"As for the commander-in-chief of Taozhou's march?" Yang Jian frowned and thought for a while, then said with a smile: "Let Dugu Sheng be appointed. This is King Wei's uncle, and he must support his nephew's policies."
Everyone thinks it is good.
The emperor set the tone, and naturally no one could refute it.
Although they are all ministers of the DPRK, they only have the right to make suggestions in customizing laws. It is still up to Yang Jian to decide how to deal with them.
After solving a series of problems brought by Zhang Jun, Yang Jian picked up another memorial and looked at it. His expression became happy. He raised the memorial in his hand and said with a smile: "If you only read this memorial, King Wei's The boy has the talent of a prime minister."
As soon as these words came out, the whole palace was shocked!
Although Yang Jian has always been willing to reuse young ministers, he has always maintained a cautious attitude. While reusing them, he also kept hammering them, fearing that the young ministers would go too smoothly and develop arrogance. Even in addition to the appointments in the royal family, Lao Cheng's stable ministers will also be arranged to serve as assistant officers.
In everyone's mind, although Yang Ji achieved amazing military achievements, he was just a general on horseback who was good at conquering and fighting. There were many such people in the Sui Dynasty, and most of these people People are fun-loving, restless people, and have never cared much about government affairs. Asking them to listen to politics is undoubtedly an irritation; and running a country is countless times more complicated and difficult than running an army.
In the Sui Dynasty, although famous generals and ministers emerged in large numbers, the talents of the prime ministers and assistants who were able to run the army and the country were extremely rare. Yang Jian, who was good at employing people, praised a young man who was not as good as a weakling. It was unprecedented and unheard of!
Everyone immediately focused their attention on the memorial in Yang Jian's hand. Apart from asking for money, does it have other contents?
I don’t blame everyone for thinking so.
In these days, these big shots were fed up with the Liangzhou Chaoji envoys who came to Beijing to report on their duties. Others wanted to brag about the prefectures under their jurisdiction and show off their achievements. However, the Liangzhou envoys headed by Yu Shinan were just the opposite. One or two They all describe Liangzhou states as very poor and backward, and they exaggerate a miserable picture, giving people the impression that Liangzhou is not a place for people to live.
Then, the conversation changed.
Please ask the court to reduce taxes, ask the court to provide money and food, ask the court to send more weapons and equipment... What's even more outrageous is that you even need iron drills, shovels, hammers, sickles, plowshares, rakes, hatchets, and kitchen knives.
But the imperial court really couldn't refuse these "poor people" because Liangzhou had just accepted more than 200,000 immigrants. These people would not produce anything in a short period of time. Everything had to be supplied by the government, even if it was used as a substitute for work. Relief methods can be used to build straight roads, build cities, and open up wasteland... thus saving labor expenses, but the daily consumption of nearly one million people is also an astonishing amount. If you don't give Liangzhou money and food, are these people going to starve and rebel?
Definitely not.
what to do?
Give me money and food!
After meeting the basic living necessities, the next step is tools. Since it is a work-for-relief program, the government must provide them with tools. If there are no tools, how can they work?
This request is reasonable, but since the imperial court does not have tools or agricultural tools, it can only pay for Liangzhou to buy them himself, which is another huge sum of money.
After all this, we started to ask for weapons, equipment and military rations. After all, there are only eleven states in Liangzhou, eight of which border with foreign races. How can we fight without good weapons?
After finally sending away the General Manager of Liangzhou represented by Yu Shinan, the envoys from various states came again.
"Father, although young people should be encouraged to do their work to cultivate their confidence, they should not be given too much praise to prevent them from being boastful and proud!" Yang Guangxin said: The inextricable knot between Vajra Nu and the three major sects of Guanlong has always been It makes people jealous. The more you praise, the more jealous you become.
Yang Jian was stunned for a moment, and then he understood what Yang Guang meant, and secretly thought that he was indeed getting carried away. If he praised like this, wouldn't he put our Vajra slave on the fire?
It's almost equivalent to flattery.
Alas, it's all because that boy is too ambitious.
He coughed lightly and handed the memorial in his hand to Yang Su: "Please circulate it around to see what bad ideas our King Wei, who likes to cause trouble, has come up with for the Sui Dynasty."
"..." Yang Guang smiled bitterly when he heard this. You are so fake, you might as well not say anything.
Yang Su stepped forward, took the memorial from Yang Jian and read it carefully. After reading it, he passed the memorial to Su Wei and thought carefully about its contents.
The Wanchun Hall fell into silence again.
After Su Wei read it, he handed the memorial to Yang Da...
After everyone had finished reading one by one, Yang Su, who had come back to his senses, sighed softly and said sadly: "I used to think that young people are short-sighted, impatient, and cannot calmly consider the overall situation when encountering problems. In the end, we old bones are needed." Keep the rudder steady so that it will take less detours and make fewer mistakes. Now after reading this memorial from King Wei, I realize that I am really old. Such fantastic ideas are enough to make the Sui Dynasty stable and the country strong. The people will be rich, and many military disasters will be reduced!"
Xue Zhou, the minister of Dali Temple, was shocked and looked at Yang Su in surprise. He admitted that Yang Ji's method of dealing with the Western Region countries, Xue Yantuo, the Qibi tribe, the Great Lakes tribe and other foreign tribes was very clever, but how could he make his heart change? The arrogant Yang Su said these words?
This is a huge compliment!
But when he thought about it for a moment, he couldn't help but feel horrified!
After the arms race, Yang Ji put forward the concept of economic warfare based on this memorial. On the one hand, he dumped the products of the Sui Dynasty to the Western Regions and used the money from the Western Regions to support the craftsmen and craftsmen of the Sui Dynasty; on the other hand, he They also encouraged merchants to enter the Western Regions and purchase large quantities of special products such as jade, wine, and furs from the Western Regions.
The ultimate goal was to make the Western Regions dependent on the Sui Dynasty and inseparable from the Sui Dynasty.
Although I don’t know how Yang Ji will do it, if this thing is done, he can strangle the lifeblood of the countries in the Western Region and control it!
This tactic of killing invisible people is applicable to the surrounding alien races.
If this strategy is successful, the Sui Dynasty will be able to devour the surrounding foreign races without spending a single soldier in less than thirty years!
In addition, it is also suggested that the Sui Dynasty sell the eliminated weapons to foreign races. The reason is very simple, but very reasonable and convincing.
Yang Ji believed that if the Turks and other foreign tribes could not obtain weapons from outside the country, they would find ways to develop mining and smelting industries, which would make them stronger. If the Sui Dynasty opened an opening for them, they would have a way to obtain weapons. , On the contrary, it can eliminate their self-reliance and always be dependent on Sui Dynasty.
This kind of fantastic idea is really incredible. I really don't know how he came up with it.
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