Yang Ji returned in triumph and immediately arrested the governor Wang Shilang in Binzhou Prefecture, officers and officials in Xinping City, a large number of generals in the Binzhou Army Camp, and then the army arrested Xintai and other county magistrates in Xiangle County... All kinds of news seemed to have grown wings, and spread throughout Binzhou within three days, causing a sensation throughout the territory.
The so-called outsiders watching the excitement, the news that corrupt officials and military scum were arrested, made the people of Binzhou extremely excited. Every household was discussing the matter. Once they heard that an official had been arrested, it immediately became a matter of great interest to the people. They are all expecting the court to convict these bastards of murder. As for the scum in the military, they feel that they have little to do with them.
The experts were watching the door. They knew that their mission was to rectify the army, and Yang Ji not only captured General Doulu Kuan, General Wang Sheng of the left, and General Liang Hong of the right, but also many generals of Lang, Zhonglang, Xiaowei, and brigade. The commander-in-chief and the team are upright, which shows that the Binzhou Army has become corrupt in a down-to-earth manner.
Since the military's anti-corruption efforts are so strong and so many people have been arrested in the Binzhou Army, and the officialdom of Binzhou where the army is located must also be related to the scum of the Binzhou Army headed by Doulu Kuan, the collapse of the officialdom of Binzhou is actually It is the follow-up work of Yang Ji's anti-corruption campaign in the Binzhou army.
There are two main theories regarding Yang Ji’s anti-corruption campaign across the military and arrest of officials beyond his authority: The first theory is that the purge of the Binzhou Army itself was within the emperor’s plan, and that the vigorous anti-corruption campaign during the Renshou years was just a matter of arresting officials. To arrest the main culprit, but the main culprit's accomplices were still at large, the imperial court was not ruthless enough at that time. But this time, the emperor took advantage of Yang Ji's rectification of the Binzhou Army to continue the second step of purges, and caught all the criminals in Binzhou officialdom who were lucky enough to escape.
Another theory is that local magistrate Wang Shilang, Doulu Kuan and other generals of the Binzhou Army collected tolls. Once the passing caravans did not pay the tolls, they notified the Qiaoshan bandits who had already colluded with them, and asked the Qiaoshan bandits to kill these disobedient caravans. They killed and robbed all the caravans, and then divided the property equally.
After King Wei killed the Qiaoshan bandits, he obtained a large amount of criminal evidence, so he carried out a comprehensive purge of the Binzhou army and Binzhou government. This statement is well-founded because Wang Shilang's family generals were among the Qiaoshan bandits. Arrested in the lair.
In addition, some people are saying that Wang Shilang, Doulu Kuan, and the Qiaoshan bandits are ambitious. They plan to raise troops instead of moving the capital to the imperial court, so they collude and collude.
But no matter which statement it was, Yang Ji didn't have time to stand up and explain. After he stabilized the situation in the army, he ordered Yang Qing to lead a group of clan members to temporarily take charge of the Binzhou Army. Zhao Hongan, Xin Shijie, Yu Zan, Tang Shizong, Jiang Cheng and other generals assisted from the side, and the vacated school captain and generals below , jointly recommended by the soldiers of the headquarters, and the generals above the captain were temporarily replaced by Liu Changgong, Fang Er and other "royal secret guards" sent by Yang Guang.
After arranging the follow-up matters, he escorted the prisoners, prisoners, a large amount of criminal evidence and accounts to Daxing City.
At noon, outside the Binzhou Army camp, a thousand "old and weak" soldiers from the Fifth Battalion of the Left Army were on horseback guarding a long line of prison cars; they were speeding south along the official road. At this time, a soldier rushed to Yang Ji, bowed and said: "Please give me your orders, Your Majesty!"
Yang Ji handed him a thick oilcloth bag and said: "Inside is the preliminary version of the Liangzhou Army's selection process. A fast horse has just been sent from the capital. You should take it to Yang Qing immediately and ask him to eliminate the old soldiers according to law." Weak, tempering elite soldiers. You tell him: As long as he does it to satisfy the saint and me, he will probably be the general of Binzhou."
"I obey my command!" The soldier took the oilcloth bag, turned around and ran towards the military camp.
Yang Ji continued to move forward. He has already wiped out all the bad apples in the Binzhou army, and brought up the junior officers again. The army can operate in an orderly manner on a daily basis. Although the officers and soldiers are relatively chaotic, on the whole, it is a good situation of order in chaos. The mutiny The possibility is equal to zero.
The Binzhou Army has such a good foundation, which is exactly the stage for Yang Qing and many clan members to display their talents; ten days and a half later, he will come back to test the results. If they can't even do this "little thing" well, then he can't There's a solution.
Although they are a bit suspected of trying to encourage others, compared to their father and son, this group of brothers, nephews, nephews, grandsons, and grandnephews can be considered happy.
Now, he needs to escort a group of criminals to Daxing City and explain to Yang Guang the sinister idea of the master behind Liu Jia Lun to control the army.
He still doesn't know who the master behind Liu Jialun is, but there is so much money, food and materials in the village, and these materials have to pass through Binzhou and then be transported to the mountains. He doesn't believe that Wang Shilang and Doulu Kuan know nothing about it, let alone If you don’t believe it, they don’t know which caravan brought it up.
But the most important thing now is to deliver the witnesses safely to the capital first, and then investigate them one by one. If they are exposed too early, it will be useless.
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At the same time, the large square outside Wenhanxuan of Dongshi Bixing was crowded with people. They were all scholars wearing white scholar uniforms and white scarves. In addition, there were many powerful servants in green robes.
But it was Wen Hanxuan who published a book "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" "authored" by King Wei; the reason for causing such a big sensation was none other than Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty.
Yang Guang's love of reading was an open secret among aristocratic families and dignitaries. He didn't know what had happened to him, but he actually talked about "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" at the court meeting ten days ago.
That day happened to be the ceremonial New Year's Eve ceremony. This kind of ceremony required setting up incense burners and incense tables. Then, under the leadership of the supervisory censor, the civil and military officials took their places in Daxing Hall according to rank. When everyone was ready, the emperor came out. Sitting on the throne, the officials sang praises and bowed before the ceremony. Officials of the ninth rank and above, as well as officials with empty posts, must attend as long as they are in Beijing.
Since official matters were not discussed at this kind of meeting, Yang Guang talked about education and the importance of reading, and finally recommended "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" "written" by Yang Ji to everyone.
After several days of preparation, the book became popular before it was printed. First it was spread by word of mouth among officials, then spread to the Imperial College and Pingkangfang brothel, and then became known throughout the city.
With the hot momentum brought by Yang Guang, Dugu Min, a big profiteer, asked her workshop to print "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms". After the first volume was sold, word-of-mouth quickly fermented.
Every official has a copy, so I won’t say more. Scholars who were not short of money first circulated it to each other, but it was not enough, so they brought their money, looked at the Dongshi Bixing Wenhan seal on the back cover, and went to the bookstore to buy the book according to the picture. I bought the first volume and then the second volume.
The term "Linjiang Immortal", as well as stories such as the three sworn brothers in Taoyuan, Meng De's sword presentation, the three heroes' battle with Lu Bu, etc., are widely circulated in the capital's literary circles, Guozixue, and brothel restaurants, and everyone talks about it.
As time goes by, the popularity of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" has slowly moved from the "high-level" to the common people, and has rapidly dropped to the common people in a visible and visible way.
"Everyone, everyone! Please line up in an orderly manner." In the square in front of Wenhanxuan, several servants transferred from the palace to help greeted the many customers with a smile.
In the bookshelf in front of the door, there are tens of thousands of books. In addition to the third volume of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", there are also "Book of Changes", "Shang Shu", "The Book of Songs", "Zhou Rites", "Rituals", "Book of Rites" and other thirteen classics, "Chu Ci", "Han Fu", "Sancao Poetry Collection", "Travel Notes"...
The shopkeeper stood in front of the steps, looking at the sales in full swing outside, with a smile on his old face. This sales boom has been going on for a few days. As soon as the second volume of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was released the day before yesterday, these customers were like crazy. Usually, in addition to buying the second volume of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", they would also buy some books needed for the exam, so he moved out all the books in the inventory today, hoping that these people would empty out the inventory.
Since the introduction of movable type printing to the world, all kinds of good and bad books have flooded the market. The demand for exam-related books among the people in the capital has slowly declined. The problem caused by this is that the price of books has dropped.
Seeing the fierce competition in the book market, Dugu Min gradually gave up the "business" of reference books such as the Thirteen Classics, focusing on poetry collections, essays, and travel notes. Most of her "content" came from the secretarial province's more than 70,000 categories and hundreds of thousands of books. Volume collection of books.
Yang Jian and Yang Guang worked hard to collect books, hoping that after compilation, these books would benefit the world, let the poor families in the world impact the nobles and nobles, and be conducive to the rule of the world. Therefore, when Dugu Min asked for borrowing books for printing, Yang Guang agreed. , in addition to smelting, sword-making, armor-making and other technical skills that are not suitable for leakage, many social science books are borrowed.
This resulted in Wen Hanxuan, who was backed by the Secretariat Department, having no shortage of content. Every time he printed some rare books, they were always sold out.
A dark-faced young man in strange clothes, with a strong Bashu accent, raised his hands and asked a Zhongshu scribe: "Senior, who is the King Wei you are talking about?"
The surrounding area suddenly fell silent, and everyone looked at the young man who asked the question with a strange look.
The young man felt something was wrong in the atmosphere and realized that "King Wei" was a big shot that he did not know. He quickly raised his hand and explained: "Junior Cuàn Ke is from Ningzhou, Nanning Prefecture. He has just arrived and doesn't know much about Guanzhong."
Nanning Prefecture is a large prefecture with a vast territory. In addition to the whole of Yunnan, it also includes the central and western regions of Guizhou. It is divided into 16 prefectures such as Ning, Gong, Xie, Pan, Yin, and Kun. Its governance is Ning Zhouwei County.
As early as the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the "Da Xing" and "Yi Shuai" groups known as Nanzhong or Nanning Prefecture developed rapidly, and as a result of merging with each other, only the Cuan family "Da Xing" group remained. During the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Cuan clan split into two forces, known as the "Two Cuan Barbarians", namely the "Dong Cuan" entrenched in the north and east of Nanning Prefecture, and the "Xi Cuan" entrenched in the central and western part of Nanning Prefecture.
In the early days of the founding of the Emperor, Cuàn Wán, the powerful leader of Xitu, was recruited and appointed as the governor of Kunzhou. However, in the sixteenth year of the founding of the Emperor, in order to realize his country-building ambition of unifying the entire territory, he rebelled against the Sui Dynasty and led a large number of troops. Attack the pro-Sui Dong Cuan. Yang Jian immediately appointed Shi Wansui as the commander-in-chief of the march to quell the rebellion. Shi Wansui led tens of thousands of Sui troops and the remnants of the Dong Cuan troops to fight for thousands of miles. He defeated more than 30 tribes of the Western Cuan Yi tribe and captured more than 20,000 people. The barbarians were greatly frightened. Cuanyi once again asked to surrender and presented countless bright jewels to express his willingness to obey the restrictions.
Shi Wansui said that Cuan's prestige was too great and he could not be killed or released. He suggested that he be escorted to the capital and put under house arrest. This would make the Xicuan group leaderless and split up on its own, which would be beneficial to the Sui Dynasty's rule over Nanning Prefecture. Yang Jian felt that this idea was quite reasonable. Okay, so I allowed him to play. However, Cuanyi had different ambitions and was unwilling to be a big fat pig in Beijing, so he bribed Shi Wansui with a lot of gold and treasure.
Shi Wansui was originally the one who suggested arresting Cuan Yan and entering the capital, but Cuan Yan gave him too much, so he released the father and son. At that time, Yang Xiu was the general manager of Yizhou. When he learned that Shi Wansui had accepted bribes, he sent someone to blame him. Shi Wansui sank all the huge sums of money at the bottom of the river. Yang Xiu had no evidence and had to give up.
However, in the second year, Cuan Yifu rebelled again. Yang Xiu once again impeached Shi Wansui for accepting bribes and allowing thieves, causing border troubles, and showing no integrity as a minister. Yang Jian ordered a strict investigation into the matter, and found it to be true. He demoted Shi Wansui to a civilian position, and ordered Zhou Fashang to suppress the rebellion again. Zhou Fashang led his army to push "Xicuan" to the ground again, and then obeyed the emperor's order and beheaded Cuan Yu and his son Cuan Hongda in public display. Afterwards, Yang Jian abolished the military Nanning Prefecture General Office and firmly occupied Nanning. Northern and eastern parts of the state.
As for the central and western regions, Yang Jian treated them like a piece of meat and bones and threw them to the leaderless barbarians, letting them fight, fight, and annex each other. Whenever a strong man was about to make an appearance, the Sui army's frontier troops went to help kill one. As a result, the central and western parts of Nanning Prefecture fell into a situation where multiple powers were coexisting. No one could do anything about anyone, and eventually they all paid tribute to the Sui Dynasty.
As for "Dong Cuan", it is close to Yizhou on three sides, has a high degree of Chineseization, and is relatively docile. The nobles of each tribe are proud to speak Chinese, know Chinese rituals, and be able to learn Chinese. In addition, the Sui Dynasty "helped" them many times After defeating Xicuan, he was very close to the Sui Dynasty. The current chief of "Dongcuan" was named Cuan Lun. He was appointed as the governor of Ningzhou. He was deeply respected by Yang Shicheng and praised him many times.
Cuan Lun had no ambitions. Since he had no desires and no fears, he went to the court every year with confidence to participate in the court meetings. After returning, while handling Ningzhou's government affairs, he worked hard to mediate the disputes between Cuan and Han businessmen. The disputes between Han and Cuan became the most important communication bridge.
And this Cuan Ke is the eldest grandson of Cuan Lun.
Cuan Ke led a team to Guanzhong this time, firstly, to participate in the capital relocation ceremony on behalf of his elderly and frail grandfather, and to gain more knowledge; secondly, he and a dozen other cousins were ordered by his grandfather to enter Guozixue for further studies.
After everyone heard Cuan Ke's explanation, they felt relieved!
After all, the reputation of King Wei Yang Ji was mainly spread in the north. Cuan Ke came from Nanning Prefecture where there was little information. It was normal for him to not know who King Wei was.
The middle-aged scholar who was questioned said with a smile: "King Wei's name is Yang Ji. He is my prince of the Sui Dynasty. He seems to be only twenty-one years old this year. In the second year of Renshou, he was appointed as the governor of Liangzhou. Renshou He took office three years ago. Since then, he has embarked on the War of the God of War with outstanding military achievements. In the past few years, King Wei defeated the Turkic army many times and led his army into the Turkic hinterland many times... directly or indirectly killing one or two people. Millions of Turks and Tuyuhun people.”
Cuan Ke and his companions were speechless.
Their Dong Cuan combined did not have one or two million people; but this King Wei actually killed so many people, it was really too fierce.
"A true hero!" Cuan Ke listened leisurely and fascinated, and suddenly raised his hands and asked: "Senior, our ancestors said that a person who specializes in one field and is good at it is already a remarkable achievement, and King Wei has such great achievements in the military. The achievement must be a strong general who focuses on the way of killing; but after reading two volumes of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, this junior feels that the writing is so old that it cannot be written by someone who has studied classics and history for a long time. Can he have such literary talent?"
The middle-aged scholar pondered for a long time and said with a smile: "The King of Wei was both civil and military, and he was also knowledgeable in military affairs. It cannot be judged by common sense. The poems he wrote are all excellent works handed down from generation to generation, but the ones that are most widely circulated are those used by Meng Xue. I don’t know if you have the Three Character Classic.”
Cuan Ke and his companions were shocked when they heard this.
"Yes, yes."
"It turns out that Yang Ji, who wrote the Three Character Classic, was King Wei!"
"This is a great scholar!"
"..."
The "Mencius" printed by Wen Hanxuan included the "Thousand-Character Classic", the "Three-Character Classic", and more than a dozen catchy poems; it is inevitable that rural teachers with low levels of education do not know the allusions and cannot convey each allusion to children. The moral thoughts in it are included, along with explanations and various allusions and stories, which makes "Mencius" become "three-dimensional" rather than a "flat" that achieves nothing.
As time goes by, "Mencius" has become well-known throughout the country and is used throughout the world. As for Yang Ji, who wrote the "Three Character Classic", although many people in remote areas have never seen him or know his achievements, those who are literate know the name "Yang Ji" to some extent.
"The day before yesterday, Dr. Guozixue, a doctor of literature, said that King Wei was like an ancient sage. His recent works "Shi Shuo" and "Horse Shuo" were full of both theory and theory, and were touching. He asked us to recite the full text and write a sentimental article each afterward. If someone can't write it well, they must rewrite it until the doctor is satisfied." At this time, a fair-faced young man said with a grimace.
Everyone: "..."
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Looking at the bustling scene in front of the bookshelf, Li Jiancheng and Wang Tong each held a copy of the third volume of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in their hands, with extremely complicated expressions.
They had already returned with the gray-faced Eastern Confucian, but when Yang Ji made a bet with Wang Xiaotong, they believed that Yang Ji could not solve the twenty questions of "Ji Gu Suan Jing", so they all bet on Wang Xiaotong's side. After making a big bet, not only did they lose all the money they brought, but everyone also owed a lot of debt. Among them, Li Jiancheng and Wang Tong, who firmly believed that Wang Xiaotong's problem was difficult to solve, suffered the worst losses.
After they came back, they really wanted to let go of the debt, but they didn't dare.
"The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is like a thunderbolt, extraordinary. If it continues like this, I'm afraid there will be a big boom." Li Jiancheng looked quite relaxed.
"Yes, the current King of Wei is both civilized and military, possesses both political integrity and talent, and he has also ascended to the throne of arithmetic master in the name of his uncle. He is really famous all over the world." Wang Tong was both envious and envious of Yang Ji's achievements. Jealousy, and a bit depressed.
Wang Xiaotong, who was stepped down by Yang Ji, was Wang Tong's clan uncle. Seeing that he had made extraordinary achievements in arithmetic, the Taiyuan Wang family devoted all their efforts to making him a "personality" who was proficient in arithmetic.
After Wang Xiaotong became a master of arithmetic, he slowly lost himself and lost his humble desire to learn. He believed that his achievements in arithmetic were unprecedented and unparalleled. He spent his days belittling Zu Chongzhi, looking down on his peers, and looking down on younger students. However, because the contemporary mathematics community cannot defeat him and cannot solve his problems, many mathematics scholars can only allow him to be humiliated.
As the saying goes, the higher you stand, the more painful you fall. When the news that he made many inappropriate remarks at Liangzhou University and that 20 questions were solved by Yang Ji came back to Daxing, a round of cynicism and verbal criticism was inevitable; but the arrogant Wang Xiaotong, It has become a frog in the well in people's eyes, and became popular because of its "black and red". In the end, even the Taiyuan Wang family, who desperately advocated for him, was ridiculed.
After Wang Tong finished speaking, he couldn't help but ask: "Isn't King Wei back? With his trouble-making style, he shouldn't be so quiet? Where did he go?"
"Didn't it be said in the newspaper? King Wei, as the Right Guard General, went to Binzhou to rectify the military affairs of the Binzhou Army. A few days ago, he annihilated the Qiaoshan bandits. After that, he followed the clues and arrested a large number of lawbreakers and colluded with bandits. Important military and political officials." After Li Jiancheng finished speaking, he asked curiously: "These things have already spread throughout the capital. Have you been burying your head in documents and studying Confucianism these days?"
Wang Tong's face darkened, and he said gloomily: "I've been so anxious to raise money to pay off my debts these days. How can I have the time to bury my head in my documents and study Confucianism? By the way, have you raised the money?"
Li Jiancheng smiled and said: "I wrote a letter about my gambling loss to Aye who was serving in Guanzhou far away. Although Aye scolded me in the letter, after finishing the scolding, he finally accepted this huge debt and let him I draw it from home."
"..." When Wang Tong heard this, he immediately lost his desire to talk.
Although he is a descendant of the Wang family in Taiyuan, the Wang family is a big family with a big business. Some people are very rich, but some people have a very difficult life. Wang Tong's family is more than well off and better than the upper class. Insufficient mid-level standards.
It is really difficult for him to repay the huge gambling debt he owes.
But he gambled on his own, so who can blame him?
Wang Tong originally thought that Li Jiancheng, who had lost more miserably, would have a harder time than him, but unexpectedly, he solved the problem with just one letter.
Comparing people to each other is really irritating.
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