With the end of the Tuyuhun War, the Sui Dynasty had passed Yang Ji's memorials and discussions and decided to merge the three counties of Ganquan, Xihai and Heyuan on the plateau into Liangzhou, and then use Xihai Xingtai Province to take charge of this new area. land. Zhang Xutuo served as the Minister of Xingtai, Mai Tiezhang served as the Minister of the Ministry of War, and the official positions of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Punishment were all recommended by Yang Ji. Regarding these coveted positions, various political factions in the imperial court naturally argued for a long time. Finally, Yang Xiong said, "The plateau is at the beginning of peace, and the war has not stopped. It is best for people with both civil and military skills to serve as officials. If there is a counterattack by the remaining forces of Tuyuhun, it is better to respond in time."
After hearing what Yang Xiong said, everyone stopped arguing. It's not that they are afraid of the "remaining forces of Tuyuhun", but they are afraid of Yang Ji.
On the one hand, Liangzhou is managed by Yang Ji in a watertight manner. As long as he is in Liangzhou for a day, it will be difficult for the power of other factions to penetrate. The plateau is far away from the center, and roads and communications are inconvenient. If he builds a "Tuyuhun remnant" If the "force" kills people sent by other factions, who do you want them to talk to for reason?
This kind of thing sounds ridiculous, but any faction or any aristocratic family has done it. In the end, they usually find a few scapegoats to take the blame and let it go. Since they had done this kind of thing countless times themselves, they were naturally afraid that Yang Ji would do this to the people they recommended.
On the other hand, most of the officials recommended by Yang Ji were outstanding children of the royal family and relatives, and not all of them were from the Wei Wang family. This alone made him win the favor of both factions. Even Yang Guang also believed that Yang Ji It is to train the royal children so that they can become pillars in the future. How can one say that Yang Ji runs a faction? Moreover, Tuyuhun is barren and backward, and the environment is harsh. If the people recommended are incompetent, they will not be able to achieve any political achievements.
Moreover, Yang Ji was now not only the Mu of Liangzhou, but also the Chief Minister of the Hundred Officials. As a result, his Weiwang faction jumped out of Liangzhou and officially transformed from a local faction into a powerful new force in the center. If Yang Ji is angered at this time, he can leave Liangzhou at any time and enter the court as a minister. The emperor even said good things about Yang Ji, such as not being greedy for power. After all, he had "turned his actual duties into empty duties and used himself as a hostage." It is quite unreasonable for you to say that he respects his troops and respects himself.
If he really wanted to do that, he would just make the entire court a mess. The key is that this man is a mad dog. He will beat anyone he catches to death, and he doesn't follow any routine at all. If he is provoked to death, he will definitely come back and hit the target accurately. The other people who said they would suppress Yang Ji together said it nicely, but secretly, weren't they just coveting the seats under each other's butts? When Yang Ji actually bites someone, not only will he not help, but he might even hand him a knife in a "shady way".
At this time, all the major factions have the mentality of "you take advantage of me first". As a result, no one dares to stimulate Yang Ji as clearly and openly as before, and they all seem to be planning to play dirty tricks.
This huge change in the court can be regarded as the major factions facing Yang Ji and officially treating him as a central faction. They all believe that it is best to wait and see what happens before there is no countermeasures and no one comes forward to suppress Yang Ji. It's better, so as not to offend that mad dog.
Everyone has this intention, so even if Yang Ji is impeached, it must be justified and well-founded. However, this is also a rather helpless place, just because Yang Ji has no brothers and sisters, a young son, and no stain on himself.
What if you say he is greedy for power? He was able to leave everything in Liangzhou and stay in the capital without even going to court; as for the actual position of the central committee, he only had one right-back general, but he had grown from the right-back general to the right-back general during the Renshou period. General, during the long period when he became the general of Youwei, he didn't even go to the gate of Youwei's official office once.
For such a person, if you say he is greedy for power, you might as well say he is lustful! But now, not to mention the ever-ambitious Gao Qiu, there are other people who also want to marry their daughters. As long as Yang Ji lets go, many people will happily marry their daughters off as concubines. However, they are just like Yang Guang. In terms of beauty, she lives an ascetic life.
If we want to say that Yang Ji is greedy for money or that Yang Ji is corrupt and takes bribes, it would be better to say that he is greedy for power. Just because the Silk Road can bring him unimaginable income every day, and my mother, Dugu Min, is a money-making maniac. If such a person is said to be corrupt, even he will not believe it, let alone other people.
And the reason why everyone is desperately trying to force him to leave Liangzhou is because of the dividends from the Silk Road? But at this moment, everyone hopes that he will stay in Liangzhou. As long as he does not come to the central government as an official, he will be "Amitabha". If he enters the court as an official, and given Yang Guang's unreasonable trust in him, won't the King Wei clan soon spread all over the world?
All in all, in the eyes of the major factions, Yang Ji is just a living hedgehog. He seems to have flaws everywhere, but there are thorns in front of the flaws, making it difficult for people to attack. But others can't attack, but this bastard can use it. Those thorns on the body sting.
There is no other way. The only thing that can be done now is to talk about the same old thing and use his policy plan as an example.
In the Anren Hall of Daxing Palace, the mountain of memorials was finally reviewed by Yang Guang. He picked up the eucalyptus tea cup "Gudong Gudong" on the table and drank it all. Only then did he feel a little more comfortable, even though he had delegated part of his power to the assembly hall. We discussed how to deal with it, but the world in the Sui Dynasty was too big, and there were many major things that needed to be handled by him in various places every day. As a result, there were naturally a lot of government affairs. Besides, the northern inspection tour was about to begin, so there were naturally a lot more affairs than usual. .
Just as he was about to have lunch, he saw Yang An trotting in from outside in a hurry. He held a sealed secret memorial in his hands, saluted Yang Guang and said: "Sage, the Taoist King sent a secret memorial from Qingzhou."
Yang Guang was stunned for a moment, then he was overjoyed and stepped forward to "seize" the secret memorial.
Yang Guang also pays attention to Yang Jing, his little brother. He knows that Yang Jing has been searching for mineral deposits in Qingzhou in the past few years. Seeing that he did not delay his business and indeed found several small gold mines, he not only did not say that he was not doing his job properly, but also based on his Upon request, dozens of experienced craftsmen were dispatched to assist.
Just a few days ago, Yang Jing reported that he had found a large gold mine in Donglai County, but the gold reserves could not be estimated or confirmed, so he was looking forward to it. Now, he played it to himself in the form of secret music. It seemed that the boy had a clearer answer.
Yang Guang opened the secret memorial and quickly read it with an excited look on his face. He saw that the memorial roughly reported the gold mines in Donglai County, Qingzhou. Yang Jing and the craftsmen agreed that the Luoshan Gold Mine was not a single gold mine, but a chain. The large-scale gold and silver veins distributed along the "Laizhou Bay" have been calculated by everyone.
This is a gold and silver mine with abundant reserves. It is no exaggeration to say that it is unprecedented. If the manpower is enough, it will be easy to smelt tens of thousands of kilograms of gold and silver every year. Of course, this does not mean that so much can be mined now. The main requirement is that the court first establish a complete "gold mining system" in Donglai County. Only when the entire branch line is established will the output increase year by year. (Sui Jin was different from now)
In short, it means investing a lot of money and seeking returns. The most critical point is manpower.
"Haha, Xian Zhen's memorial said that Donglai has abundant mineral reserves. As long as the manpower is better, it is not a problem to produce ten thousand catties of gold per year." Seeing the figure of ten thousand catties per year, Yang Guang was already elated and beaming. .
Yang Guang also knew that mining was difficult, and he also knew that it was impossible to dig out and smelt so much gold and silver at once, but as long as there were enough manpower, he would soon be able to obtain a steady stream of returns.
As for the manpower that Yang Jing is worried about, that is not a problem at all. Just because Yang Ji now has more than 100,000 prisoners and war criminals in his hands.
Yang Ji didn't want to let go of those prisoners and war criminals easily, so he decided to use those prisoners as coolies. However, there were too many prisoners in this battle to destroy the country, and because Tuyuhun had been established for so long, the prisoners had a strong sense of family, country, and nation in their minds. Therefore, the prisoners of Tuyuhun were completely different from the Turkic prisoners, and they could not Think of them as Turks.
Today, Yang Ji wants to desperately enslave these captives and war criminals and squeeze the human resources of these captives and war criminals, but he is also worried that there are not enough supervisory officials and troops, which will lead to these nationally conscious captives and war criminals to concentrate on making trouble and break out a war. Therefore, in order to avoid another war, Yang Ji wrote a letter to Yang Guang, hoping that the imperial court would share the pressure on Liangzhou and let some of the prisoners be used to build the Taihang Eighth Route and the Liaoxi Corridor.
Originally, Yang Guang really planned to use 50,000 prisoners to build a road, but Yang Jing suddenly received such great news... What kind of road would he build? And how can road construction be as painful as mining?
In this case, it is better to let the people of the Sui Dynasty cultivate the easier officialdom. As for the gold and silver produced by the prisoners with their lives, it is the "salary" given to the people.
If all these prisoners are killed by Yang Jing, the entire gold mining system will come out, and the follow-up will be much simpler; at that time, if the manpower is not enough, the worst is to let Yang Ji go to fight again and capture prisoners again.
In this way, the Great Sui Road was built, the court and the people became rich, and the war potential of the foreign races was also consumed...
Tsk, tsk, tsk, think about it, it is a beautiful thing that achieves multiple things with one stone.
"If we can produce ten thousand catties of gold and silver every year, then our Sui Dynasty will be really prosperous." Listening to what Yang Guang said happily, Yang An was stunned, but he was somewhat confused and asked : "Sage, as far as I know, some mines will become useless after being mined for one or two years. Is this true?"
"Whether it's true or false, won't you know it once you try it?" Yang Guang stared at Yang Jing's memorial, without even raising his head, and said nonchalantly: "Anyway, I plan to take the prisoners from Tuyuhun to mine Qingzhou. If the output calculated by Xian Zhen is true, then I, the Sui Dynasty, will make a fortune; if it fails to meet Xian Zhen's estimate, the imperial court will only pay a little food and some tools."
"Even if you get nothing, the sludge is also a good fertilizer. Once these sludge and ash are put into the fields, they can increase food production. So no matter how you say it or how you calculate it, I will give it a try."
At this point, Yang Guang paused and continued: "As for manpower and so on, those are not my people in the Sui Dynasty anyway. Even if they are killed by Xian Zhen, I don't care!"
Yang An: "..."
He understood clearly that the reason why King Wei was so willing to kill and fight was because the saint in front of him taught him well. However, the saint felt that having a murderous King Wei was not enough, so he also wanted King Dao to be a murderer. Teach him to become a murderer. The difference is that the saint plans to let King Wei continue to kill outside, while King Dao will lock up the prisoners captured by King Wei and then kill them in the circle.
However, Yang An was also a warrior, and he had no favorable impressions of foreigners at all; he was very supportive of the saint's decision. After all, no matter how he killed, the foreigners would be the ones who died in the end. Foreigners are no different than animals. Even if the two kings kill all the foreigners around them, they are still doing harm to the people.
"Yes, do you know where King Wei is?" Yang Guang asked Yang An when he saw that the memorial was put away.
If Yang Ji hasn't come back yet, let's bring the prisoners.
Yang An's expression paused, and he cupped his hands and answered: "Sage Qi, there is no news yet."
Yang Guang waved his hand and said, "That's all! We'll wait until he arrives in Daxing. There's no rush for this."
"Here!" Yang An responded, then reminded: "Sage, it's getting late. Later you will convene the Council of the Prime Minister, the Minister of the Three Provinces and Six Ministries, and the Minister of the Nine Temples to discuss matters. Do you want to have lunch first?"
"Yes!" Yang Guang, as the emperor, has a full schedule every day, and it is difficult to take time off. He nodded and told Yang An: "Let's have lunch first, and we will discuss things later."
However, before Yang An could reply, a female official came in from the side door. Qilin saluted and said, "See the saint."
"What's the matter with the queen?" Yang Guang asked out loud when he saw the other party's attire and thought he was someone close to the queen.
"Reporting to the saint, the Queen Dowager Dugu has entered the palace and is about to set up the political hall to wait!" The female official seemed to be afraid that Yang Guang would not pay attention to her. She pondered for a while and then added: "According to the queen, the Queen Dowager has something extremely urgent. Report, this matter is related to the livelihood of tens of thousands of people in our Sui Dynasty, please sage go over there as soon as possible."
"I'll go over there right now!" The Dugu family is undoubtedly Dugu Min. She is both Yang Guang's aunt and sister-in-law. Moreover, Dugu Min is resourceful and well-informed. Among the Yang family, she is also a woman who even Yang Jian is afraid of. It's a bitch, but after Yang Guang became emperor, although she was still as protective as before, she was no longer as unreasonable as before.
Since she made the matter so serious, Yang Guang couldn't help but take it seriously. He got up and walked towards the Zhengzheng Palace.
When Yang Guang and Yang An walked to the Li Zheng Hall, Dugu Min, who was talking to Queen Xiao, quickly stood up and saluted: "See the saint."
Dugu Min is extremely smart and knows what it means to be an emperor and a courtier. When she faces Yang Jian and Empress Dugu who brought her up with Yang Shuang and Yang Ji, she can act coquettishly and ask for privileges without any worries and boldness. ; But for Yang Guang, the eldest nephew, it can't be done. What's more, her son Yang Ji is no longer the powerless child he used to be, so she has never lacked the courtesy of a monarch and his ministers that should be paid attention to now.
Otherwise, it will only annoy people and cause unnecessary trouble.
"Auntie is so polite. The whole family is so polite!" Yang Guang had been annoyed by this aunt before, especially when Yang Ji faced the army of Bujia Khan. There was almost nowhere to hide. At that time, he said it was not annoying. , If you don’t dislike it, it must be fake. But when he became the emperor, he became a loner who was "too cold to be in high places", so he especially needed friends and relatives who had no worries and could talk to him about everything. However, Dugu Min, his aunt who didn't think he was the prince before, was polite and polite to him, which made him feel very disappointed and regretful.
After all, she was not in the court, so Dugumin was not restrained. Although she did not respond to Yang Guang, she directly picked up the plate on the table next to her, walked towards Yang Guang who entered the hall, and said seriously: "Sage, I The reason why I entered the palace this time is because of the things on the plate. You only need to look at it and you will see it clearly..."
"I wonder what's on the plate?" Yang Guang still smiled warmly at first, but when he got closer and took a look at the things on the plate, his expression changed drastically.
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