Two ministers of the fourth rank were beaten to death with a cane, and there was a sudden silence in the palace. Yang Guang looked around the ministers with a cold expression, and said coldly: "Who else speaks of 'bad government'? Feel free to go out and speak freely."
The officials were frightened by Yang Guang's momentum and did not dare to speak out. However, those who dared to speak out were thinking about what the problem was and why things did not develop according to the script.
Yang Guang's eyes glanced at the representatives of the seven sects and five surnames in the palace intentionally or unintentionally. Seeing that they had no intention of standing up, the sneer on his face couldn't help but get worse, but he suddenly said: "I think about it, after the state capital is abolished,
, there were too many counties, so it was announced that in large states with more than hundreds of thousands of households, such as Jizhou, Yanzhou, Bingzhou, Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Yuzhou, Yangzhou, Jingzhou, Liangzhou and Yongzhou, supervisory prefectures and governor's offices would be established, with auxiliary officials and chiefs.
Shi, Sima and other important local ministers ranging from fourth to second rank, with a total of forty-five official positions, will be selected from the revoked provincial governors and long history."
The officials immediately exploded, and many people suddenly understood that there was a traitor within the powerful family. Someone or a powerful family had secretly taken refuge with the emperor, so their conspiracy process was leaked last night, which led to Lu Youda and
Zheng Chengkai's rod made falsehood come true, and he was killed alive by the rod.
Just as Wang Junlin expected, after Yang Guang said this workaround on the spot, coupled with the fact that he had just killed two people with a stick, the atmosphere of the court meeting suddenly changed. For a while, no one dared to speak out against it.
Because no one is stupid, they know that at this time, the forty-five positions will not fall on their own family.
This is the saying that a peach kills three people. In other words, it is not a matter of scarcity but of inequality. There is no harmonious relationship among aristocratic families. There are many people who have grudges against each other. Some even have been entangled in their deaths for hundreds of years.
hatred.
"In this way, the cabinet chief and all ministries and departments will work together to come up with a plan for supervising the appointment of governors in the state, and make preliminary decisions on the candidates as soon as possible. Don't be lazy!"
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On this day, after the court meeting, Yang Guang returned to the imperial study. Instead of rushing to review the memorial, he asked the chamberlain to open a map that could be said to be the largest map in the Sui Dynasty.
This is a map covering the entire Sui Dynasty. It is a large map sewn together with dozens of fine white silks. The mountains, rivers, states, prefectures, and counties on it are not drawn on them, but carefully selected numbers.
It took ten embroiderers more than two months to embroider it stitch by stitch with their dexterous little hands. However, an error occurred in the middle. For this reason, Yang Guang ordered the two embroiderers to be executed with a cane.
The map created with such a huge cost and movement is naturally extraordinary. It is ten paces long and eight paces wide. Yang Guang can directly step on it with bare feet and overlook his empire!
Three months ago, on the day when the map was embroidered, Yang Guang summoned the ministers to hold a banquet to appreciate the map. The ministers all praised it, but the two embroiderers who were only seventeen years old died with a cane for this map.
Has long been forgotten by everyone.
At the picture appreciation banquet, Yang Guang was in high spirits and passionately told the ministers about his great ambitions. It was also on this day that all the ministers realized that his majesty's ambitions were so... ambitious and vigorous, and every plan could be carried out.
It has entered the annals of history and been praised by future generations for thousands of years. If His Majesty can really complete these plans, he will naturally become an emperor through the ages, comparable to the Qin Emperor and the Han Dynasty.
But the problem is that many of the things His Majesty wants to do take a long time and require militancy to complete, but His Majesty is as impatient as ever. He wants to complete something that has been completed in ten years in two years, and only wants to complete it in less than one year if it is completed in five years.
To complete something that required ten years of savings and preparation, he planned to do it in three or four years. In this way, more money and food would be spent, more civilians would be recruited, and more people would die.
On that day, after attending the map banquet, many officials who thought they were talented and ambitious were excited and excited because they had the opportunity to perform meritorious services, be crowned princes, and display their ambitions. However, some officials looked ugly, with deep worries in their eyes.
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And Wang Junlin finally learned more about how Yang Guang made ten houses empty in the Sui Dynasty, how countless cultivated fields were deserted and uncultivated, and how the population in the Sui Dynasty was reduced drastically in just ten years.
One-quarter (according to relevant records, in the fifth year of Emperor Yang’s reign (609)), China had more than 8.9 million households and more than 46 million people. This was the period when the number of registered residents in the Sui Dynasty was the largest, and the population has generally recovered to what it was four centuries ago.
The number of household registrations during the Eastern Han Dynasty. By the early days of the Tang Dynasty, in the sixth year of Emperor Li Yuan's Wude reign (623), there were 2.19 million households in China, or about 11.19 million people, which was less than a quarter of the number at the peak of the Sui Dynasty.
Among them, many people died in the wars in the late Sui Dynasty, but a considerable number of them were civilians recruited by Yang Guang when he built the Great Wall, built the new capital, built the Chi Road, built the Grand Canal, and conquered foreign races and foreign countries. Each time he was recruited, millions were recruited. In the end
Less than half of the civilian husbands can come back alive, but these people are the main labor force of a family. Death means that a family will fall apart. The family will either starve to death, or the wife and daughter will become homeless and beggars or become other people's playthings and goods.
Yang Guang may or may not know about the worries of some understanding people, but he never takes it to heart. Even at this time, he asked people to take out the map and wanted to finally determine a place for Wang Junlin.
It is also how to make good use of Wang Junlin's sword to prepare for his future troops to conquer Goguryeo, and at the same time, let Wang Junlin's sword kill for him some powerful families who threaten his empire.
However, due to the influence of the Queen, Yu Wenshu and others these days, he was also worried about being backlashed by Wang Junlin's sword, so he decided to adopt a two-pronged strategy.
At this time, Yang Guang was walking from west to east. His first foot was in Jincheng County of Yongzhou, passing through Xianyang. His second foot was in Daxing City. His next foot was in the northeast direction, and he was in Bingzhou.
Taiyuan City took a look and then crossed to Youzhou next to it.
Although Yang Guang firmly believes in Wang Junlin's loyalty to him, there are some things that must be guarded against. Moreover, Wang Junlin's power has indeed developed rapidly in the past few years. Yu Wenshu's secret collusion between Wang Junlin and Bingzhou Luo Yi cannot be ignored.
Defend.
But if Wang Junlin is not placed in Youzhou, how can we point this sword at Goguryeo?
Moreover, Wang Junlin is different from generals such as Yu Juluo and Shi Wansui. Not only does he have military strategy, he can lead troops to fight and open up territories for the emperor, he can also command powerful yamen like the Blue Yi Guards that cover intelligence and supervision, and replace
Yang Guang rectified and weakened the powerful families. In addition, through the removal of the prefecture and the change of the two-level system of counties and counties, as well as his usual words and deeds, Yang Guang gradually discovered that Wang Junlin was quite civilized and might be able to govern the people.