"Your Majesty, the food is ready." At this time, Qiu Shui came in with a group of muscular girls, and timely resolved Pei Shuying's embarrassment.
"Okay!" Yang Ji said with a smile: "From noon to now, I haven't eaten all the grains of rice, and I have also worked hard to take the arithmetic exam, and now I am hungry."
Xiao Ying said with concern: "Then use more food."
Yang Ji sat at the dining table in the hall and said, "Sit down and have something with me."
"Mr. Lang, I'm not hungry." Xiao Ying shook her head and said to Liu Rumei and Pei Shuying: "You can eat with me!"
Pei Shuying laughed: "I'm so heartbroken that I can't eat."
Yang Ji paused on his front for a moment, picked up the chopsticks, and said with a smile: "Shuying, it's better to eat more. After all, you still have to grow up."
"..." Pei Shuying didn't know what was going on. She always felt that there was something in her husband's words, but she couldn't figure it out if she thought about it carefully. Could it be that the husband thought she was too thin?
Even though Pei Shuyinglan has a good heart and a delicate mind, she doesn't know what her husband is thinking at this moment.
Yang Ji ate silently with chopsticks, but he didn't eat much. It was already eleven or twelve o'clock in the evening, and it was easy to accumulate food after eating.
After looking at Xiao Ying and Liu Rumei, who had inexplicable and turbulent expressions, and then at the charming Pei Shuying, I felt that the gap suddenly appeared.
Pei Shuying has a dignified appearance and natural beauty. She is a graceful and elegant oval-faced beauty. If her figure were plumper, her beauty would be even more beautiful. But because she is still young, she is still a little thin, not as plump as Xiao Ying and Liu Rumei, and this girl doesn't like to eat very much and eats only vegetarian food.
How can this gain weight?
Yang Ji was seven-tenths full, rinsed his mouth, picked up a cup of fragrant tea from Liu Rumei, and said, "We really need to hurry up and make our formal attire."
Xiao Ying's heart moved slightly, she raised her eyes and asked, "Lang Jun, are we going back to Beijing?"
"Well!" Yang Ji took a sip of tea, put down the tea cup, and said, "The new capital is about to be completed. We will definitely go back to participate in the day when the capital is moved."
"So fast?" Xiao Ying asked in surprise.
Yang Ji said with a smile: "Luoyang New City is half the size of Daxing City, and the national power of our Sui Dynasty is far greater than before. Luoyang City's progress is faster than Daxing City. There is no surprise."
The project of Luoyang New City is huge, but the manpower is very sufficient. In addition to using labor and hiring civilian husbands, there are also Yang Liang's hundreds of thousands of war criminals, and Yang Ji has sent more than 40,000 prisoners one after another. In addition, the Xiyuan excavation, Peripheral and basic projects with no technical content, such as Luoshui dredging and Luoshui embankment, were outsourced, so the overall progress of Luoyang New City was extremely fast.
To be honest, in his previous life, Yang Ji also believed that the feudal dynasty only squeezed the people's power and did nothing but prostitution for free. However, after the Sui Dynasty, he realized that all dynasties cared about the people and people's livelihood. In peacetime, no matter what kind of project it was, the court would Sufficient money and food were allocated; however, due to insufficient supervision and other reasons, the money and food allocated by the court were not implemented in place. In the end, officials and supervisors were enriched, civilians were killed, and the court was hacked.
Because of this, Yang Ji also seriously considered this matter when he started construction in Luoyang. He had heard before that a large number of people would die in every project. After understanding it, he realized that first, the construction period was tight, and the "contractor" wanted to pursue progress and To please the superiors, the people were forced to do hard work day and night. At the same time, the officials at all levels who were responsible for supervising the work arbitrarily deducted food. The people could only eat one meal. They were hungry, cold, tired, and even after falling ill, they were still forced to do heavy work. Therefore, the death rate of workers Very serious.
Secondly, it is difficult for local officials to get funds for a major project. Can they not be greedy? Their approach is nothing more than two methods: one is to deprive the people of their rations and annex the money issued by the court. Their explanation to the people is that the court has not given them money. If you don't work, your whole family will suffer, so for the people to To survive, I can only work in the cold and hunger until I die. If I am exhausted, my family can at least survive. As a result, the court has provided enough money, but due to insufficient supervision and so on, I have become rich. Those responsible for overseeing the project ultimately fell to the court and the emperor to bear all the infamy.
The second is to ask for ransom money. In order to get a lot of money, the supervisors tortured the husbands in different ways and almost tortured them to death. Then they notified the families of the husbands to sell their fields and houses to redeem their relatives; or they simply tortured them to death. When the family takes the money to ransom the corpse, how will the overseers make a fortune if the civilian husband is alive and well? So this is the reason why civilian husbands died so much.
Over the years, Yang Ji has also carried out many large projects in Liangzhou, but due to the supervision in place, no civilians have died from exhaustion. As long as the civilians have enough to eat and receive the rewards promised by the court, they will work hard, and they will continue to work hard. No supervisor is needed.
It was because of these reasons that Yang Ji reminded Yang Guang at the beginning of the construction of the new capital, and exposed all the money-making methods and methods used by officials to deceive and hide during the project.
Yang Guang is indeed impatient, but he is smarter than many people, and he also knows that the root of a country is the people's hearts and livelihood, but he was born with a golden key. He was the Duke of Yanmen County when he was born. He has been aloof for a long time, making him He knew very little about the lower level, and also knew a lot about the criminal methods of many officials. Once Yang Ji reminded him, he realized the hidden dangers.
The imperial court has provided money and food, but you are greedy and don't say anything about it. Instead, you pretend to be a coward and force the common people to death under the banner of the imperial court.
Oh, the imperial court has a lot of money, but not only did you eat up all of it, you even took away the money and lives of the common people, and in the end I was left to take the blame.
Why?
I paid for it with money and food, so why should I take this huge blame?
Therefore, once Yang Ji reminded Yang Guang, he would be taking the blame and the country would be in turmoil. He did not hesitate to adopt the project plan implemented by Yang Ji in Liangzhou. Not only did he increase supervision, he also deliberately made supervisors at all levels behave like before. They were corrupt, and then they killed, ransacked and ransacked their homes.
In this way, batch after batch was killed and one house after another was plundered. In the end, no one dared to be greedy.
Because they received the money and food promised by the imperial court, they not only worked harder and completed the prescribed projects one by one with almost no prompting, but also because the imperial court killed batches of greedy overseers, they supported the imperial court even more than before. As a result, not only did the construction of Luoyang New City not cause major casualties, but the construction progress was even worse than that of Daxing City.
Yang Guang killed corrupt officials, gained fame, and gained real benefits from ransacking their homes. He suddenly seemed to have found the key to becoming emperor. He longed for corrupt officials to show up so that he could kill and confiscate their homes happily, so this year he In addition to building the new capital of Luoyang and digging canals, they also ordered the widening and leveling of the Eighth Route of Taihang. Then, another group was killed and a group confiscated.
Bingzhou and Jizhou used to be Yang Liang's territory. After he rebelled, they became the hardest-hit areas of the civil war. The people were extremely disgusted by the fire that Yang Su Gaobiling burned, and the court was extremely disgusted and did not recognize Yang Guang and the court in their hearts. However, during the Taihang Baxing project, Yang Guang killed a large number of the most hated corrupt officials and local bullies who were in close contact with the people. The people applauded and applauded, and they actually recognized the imperial court and Yang Guang. They felt that Yang Guang He is an emperor and a holy king who truly cares about the people.
They believed that the reason why so many people died in the war was mainly due to the traitorous king Yang Liang. If they hadn't been plotting rebellion, taking bribes and bending the law, Emperor Daye, who was "for the sake of the people," wouldn't have turned against them. In the end, the common people and husbands spontaneously made several ugly umbrellas and entrusted the imperial censor to give them to Yang Guang.
But these ugly Umbrellas gave Yang Guang a great sense of accomplishment and felt they were more precious than any other rare treasures; the crooked names written by the common people and their husbands on the cloth strips also made Yang Guang more precious than anyone else. The calligraphy of a famous calligrapher must be beautiful.
Ever since, Yang Guang opened an official road in Bingzhou. This official road starts from Jiangzhou in the south and goes north along the Fen River to Yunzhou in the north of Bingzhou. Once completed, the time from Jiangzhou to Yunzhou will be shortened by five days.
But what makes Yang Guang regretful is that the officials in the places where the official road passes are actually shrewd.
After all, after he has been working on it for so many months, officials at all levels know that any project approved by the imperial court is a huge death trap. Anyone who dares to take a fucking bribe will have their family ruined and their reputation ruined.
The cost of corruption is too great, and it is really hard to be greedy and cannot afford to be greedy. Each one of them became an upright and good official who loved the people as their own children.
Since Bingzhou could not be collected, Yang Guang then built an official road in Yongzhou. This official road started from Yongzhou in Guanzhong, entered Fuzhou, and went north along the Luoshui River (there are two Luoshui rivers), passing through Yanzhou and Xiazhou. , directly to Fengzhou in the north. Once completed, the journey will be shortened by five or six days. In the future, whether it is doing business or moving troops north, it will be very convenient. At the same time, it will also strengthen the court's control over the north.
This road was built not long ago, and it really gave Yang Guang a lot of money.
Because Yongzhou (Dazhou) is the traditional territory of the Guanlong nobles, and these people have been extremely arrogant since Yuwentai. Not only do they think that the Sui Dynasty would not be able to survive without them, but they also think that Yang Guang has the same temperament as Yang Jian. As long as they didn't go too far during the project, Yang Guang would turn a blind eye, so on this road, local officials and local powerful people took action one after another.
The result is beyond doubt!
They were all captured by Yang Guang.
Yang Guang and Yang Ji communicated with each other in private, so Yang Ji knew everything about it.
Yang Ji quite recognized Yang Guang's actions in the past few months. As long as Yang Guang always maintains this attitude of being one with the people, and as long as all the project funds he carries out are fully paid, instead of being pocketed by officials, then the people will support the court, and even if the world is in chaos in the future, Yang Guang will People's support will not be lost.
If those rebellious officials and traitors had the support of the people, they would be a temporary disaster at most and would not be able to shake the foundation of the Sui Dynasty at all. Even if the imperial court was caught off guard at first, in the middle and later stages, it could rely on strong public support and popularity to clean up the rebellious officials and traitors.
"When will we go back?" Xiao Ying asked.
"It's hard to say!" Yang Ji thought for a while and said, "Before moving the capital, the saint should inform us, but formal attire is also a very time-consuming task, so it is always right to prepare it first."
Xiao Ying nodded and said softly: "Mr. Lang's words are absolutely correct."
The four of them chatted for a while. Liu Rumei and Pei Shuying saw their husband yawning again and again, so they exited the lobby and returned to their rooms in a tacit understanding.
Yang Ji and Xiao Ying put down the tea in their hands and returned to the master bedroom on the second floor, sitting side by side in front of the bed and talking.
At this time, Qiu Shui Qiuyue came over with foot-washing water: "Your Majesty, your Majesty, please rest after washing your feet."
Yang Ji took off his shoes and socks, soaked in medicinal soup, and said to Xiao Ying who was standing aside: "Madam, you should take a bath for a while and sleep."
Xiao Ying said softly: "Lang Jun goes clubbing first, and I will do it later..."
"The water will get cold later, and it will be a waste of time." Yang Ji found it interesting to see his wife as shy as a spring flower and an autumn moon.
The four of them have done a lot of ridiculous things. They are accustomed to taking baths together and sleeping together, but they have never done something as common as soaking their feet together.
Xiao Ying glanced at Yang Ji with a mixture of anger and shame, but without saying anything else, she took off her shoes and socks.
Yang Ji looked down and saw a pair of snow-white jade feet on the ground. The toes were like lying silkworms, so cute. The red nails painted with impatiens juice made the soles of the feet look like jade, and he couldn't help but be even more infatuated.
Xiao Ying noticed that her husband's eyes were on her feet, and she couldn't help but blush with embarrassment, her cheeks burning.
Yang Ji chuckled and moved his eyes away from Xiao Ying's white and tender jade feet, which were as white as glass and her ten jade toes were like bamboo shoots. He said to himself that he had never paid much attention to it before, but he never thought that A Ying's toes were also so delicate and cute. What a beauty. There are beautiful treasures "girls" everywhere, waiting to be discovered one by one.
When Xiao Ying saw her husband's scorching eyes leaving, she quickly put a pair of jade feet, which were as white as crystal and as smooth as jade, into a basin and covered them with petals from the medicinal soup. Changing the subject, he said: "Mr. Lang, are you done with the Confucian scholar's debate? I think after today, Lang Jun won't be worried about the Eastern Confucian scholar."
Over the years, her husband's energy of running around and fighting in various places made her feel very distressed.
Days like this have actually been like this since they got married. The husband is busy with state affairs and war, which is what a man does, but it also allows the couple to spend less time together and more time apart!
Although she also firmly believed that her husband would return safely and victoriously, how could she not be worried as a wife? On days when her husband is in contact, she often wakes up from nightmares.
When I came back from the dream, my towel was already stained with tears.
In the eyes of outsiders, her husband is a foolish young man who likes to toss, and this is also true. However, Xiao Ying knows that her husband likes a comfortable life more than anyone else, and he dislikes struggle more than anyone else.
His struggle was actually out of necessity.
There is no way to retreat, we can only fight to the end.
only……
After finally living a peaceful life for a few days, those damn scholars came to make trouble again, which is really annoying and hateful.
"Madam, I have something to tell you. When I was solving problems, those Eastern scholars thought that I couldn't solve Wang Xiaotong's twenty problems, so they all placed bets. Some people who like gambling didn't bring enough money because they thought I couldn't solve it. , they wrote the receipts and bet with me. As expected, they all lost. In the future, we can have people come to collect debts with the receipts." Yang Ji said: "Originally, I planned to donate it all to Liangzhou University, but everyone has calculated it. After collecting the gold and silver beads and estimating the value of the jade pendant, it was getting late. I brought back all the documents that were too late to continue counting."
"These are all at Zhu Can's place. Tomorrow, I will ask him to give them to you. After you have finished counting, you can only report half of the number. We will intercept the other half."
Xiao Ying looked at her husband speechlessly and asked, "Mr. Lang, is this appropriate?"
"It's appropriate, why isn't it appropriate?" Yang Ji scratched Xiao Ying's soles with his toes and said lazily: "This is the bet I won. Donating it is a favor, not donating it is a duty."
"It's itchy!" Xiao Ying retracted her feet with a chuckle and said, "But you have already promised!"
"So I donated all the real money. The amount on the receipt was actually more, but no one knew it. This kind of ill-gotten wealth is obtained in a proper way. We take half of it, which is not excessive; donating half of it is a big deal." Spend."
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