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Chapter 1356 Cardinal's Palace

When Wang Yan swung his butcher knife, the wealthy families in Bingzhou felt their foreheads turn black and they were in danger of being annihilated.

Yang Liang's rebellion was a great opportunity. The crime of rebellion had already been committed, so it was very convenient to expand the scope of the case. He could do anything that was related to it.

The wealthy and powerful families have deep roots and if you pull out a radish, you will bring out a lot of mud.

Wang Yan had a large army at his disposal and was not afraid of anything, no matter how big the family was, he even took down the Gaoping Li family.

The Li family is the descendant of Li Ling of the Han Dynasty. Li Ling rebelled against the Han Dynasty, and his descendants moved inland with the Wei Dynasty. It has been hundreds of years since then, and they are truly a big-name family in Bingzhou.

When Yang Guang was here before, he had dealings with the Li family. This time when Yang Liang rebelled, the Li family certainly did not participate, but their family's side branches got involved, so in line with the purpose of expansion and in line with the resolute implementation of Yang Guang's instructions to crack down on the wealthy families in Bingzhou, it was logical to expand to the main branch of the Li family.

Even the Li family was not spared, let alone other families. People were imprisoned every day, people were beheaded every day, the mansions of wealthy families were ransacked every day, and the common people were allocated some land every day. The confiscated properties, treasures, and supplies were also enormous.

As the temporary supreme leader, Wang Yan has the power to deal with various things such as land.

Since Yang Guang came to power, Wang Yan's position has not been adjusted, and he is still the Minister of Agriculture. Perhaps to show trust, or perhaps to facilitate work, after suppressing the rebellion, Yang Guang immediately issued an order to make him the Minister of Bingzhou Xingtai, in charge of Bingzhou's military and political affairs.

The Xingtai Shangshu is roughly equivalent to a branch of the Shangshu Province. It has a complete Shangshu Province configuration and can be fully responsible for local affairs, while military affairs are added. In short, it allows Wang Yan to handle Bingzhou affairs reasonably, legally, efficiently and quickly.

However, the affairs of Bingzhou are not just the affairs of Bingzhou, but the affairs of the whole world.

Wang Yan was too ruthless, he really killed people. However, Wang Yan didn't kill many people, but this was even more excessive. He sent people to Luoyang to work, doing heavy and strenuous work, and allowed supervisors to whip them with whips, and they didn't have enough food or warm clothes. If the supervisor dared to accept someone's request, once he was caught, he would be with those who were sentenced as prisoners by Wang Yan.

This is quite humiliating.

After all, they are all well-known and powerful. Why not just kill them? Why torture them like this?
They thought it was torture, that it was Wang Yan's rebellion and revenge after being excluded by the wealthy and powerful for a long time, and that Wang Yan had become a madman and a pervert. But they just didn't want to think about how they had harmed the people in the past.

This is normal. People don’t think about how they can harm others, but only think about how others can harm them.

The wealthy and powerful always ask those who are bullied by them to reflect on themselves, but they themselves don’t reflect on themselves. This is not good, very bad.

So Wang Yan asked them to reflect on themselves, to harden their minds and to work hard, hoping that they would gain something on the day they died of exhaustion.

As for the lackeys of the wealthy families, Wang Yan also had high hopes for them and sent them to accompany their masters...

The crackdown was carried out on such a large scale that the wealthy families in other places were unwilling to accept it. Even the wealthy families in the south who had always supported Yang Guang jumped up and down.

They did not dare to scold Yang Guang, but scolded Wang Yan, cursing him to death. For a time, Wang Yan was regarded as a powerful official, a treacherous traitor, and a man who had confused the emperor's mind and whose crimes were unforgivable, so they all asked to kill Wang Yan.

To be honest, Wang Yan does bear some responsibility for this matter, because he really didn't need to expand it to such a large extent.

Except for those who must die, those who can be killed or not will definitely not be killed, and those who can be arrested or not will definitely not be arrested. As long as some heavyweights are killed, there will be an explanation to Yang Guang, and everyone will be fooled and the purpose of striking at the big families in Bingzhou will be achieved, and Wang Yan will not offend too many people.

Even Yang Guang might not have expected that Wang Yanzhen would be so ferocious when he became a wealthy and powerful family.

Yang Guang couldn't help but curse Wang Yan inwardly. The bastard had told him to take it slow, but he ended up swinging the knife so ruthlessly that he was a little scared.

Therefore, amidst the opposition from the wealthy families and ministers who understood the importance of mutual dependence and united in a rare and unprecedented way, Yang Guang had no choice but to stop Wang Yan's actions in Bingzhou.

He also issued an imperial edict to reprimand Wang Yan, fined Wang Yan's salary, took away Wang Yan's military power, and temporarily appointed him as the Minister of Bingzhou to finish the matter, which was considered an explanation to the wealthy officials.

Relatively speaking, Yang Su was much less of a worry, but compared with what Wang Yan did in Bingzhou, Yang Guang was still very dissatisfied.

It did not take Yang Su too much time to put down the rebellion. The reason was roughly the same as that of Bingzhou. It would not be easy to rebel without the support of the wealthy families, their provision of large amounts of manpower and material resources, and their unity in doing great things together.

The wealthy local residents also understand the truth, and most of them are also waiting and watching.

Yang Su was indeed a veteran of many battles. After fighting several battles and breaking through several dangerous areas, the army entered the territory. The advantage of Shu is its danger. Once the danger is broken, Yang Xiu's rebellion will naturally be over.

The choice of the local wealthy families was basically the same as that of the wealthy families in Bingzhou. Seeing that the end was coming, they came out to show their loyalty.

At this time, Wang Yan had already started killing in Bingzhou.

Of course Yang Su also had to deal with local affairs, and he and Wang Yan had the same responsibilities.

So Yang Su also cursed Wang Yan harshly because Wang Yan had done something too extreme.

If he didn't agree with Wang Yan, Yang Guang would be dissatisfied with him. If he agreed with Wang Yan, the wealthy would be dissatisfied with him. So he weighed the pros and cons and finally decided to make both sides unhappy.

That is to say, on the basis of killing those who had to be killed, some who could be killed or not were killed, and those who could be captured or not were captured. They followed Wang Yan's operation and sent the arrested people and a large number of lackeys to build Luoyang.

This way both parties are given an explanation and the matter is not completely resolved.

If Yang Guang blamed him, it was not easy for Yang Su, who was born in the Hongnong Yang family, to achieve this. If the big families blamed him, he could push it to Wang Yan, saying that it was all Wang Yan's fault for being so high-profile. He didn't intend to make it so big, otherwise he would let Wang Yan come over to communicate with you?
So he offended both sides, but it was all within the range of tolerance. At the same time, he also received many benefits in the territory. For Yang Su, it was a good situation in which everyone was happy.

He also thought that he had helped Yang Guang a lot in his rise to power, and that he was still very useful, and Yang Guang would not say anything. If Wang Yan was really put in the position of prime minister, according to Wang Yan's style of doing things in Bingzhou, he dared not imagine how spectacular the scene of war smoke all over the Sui Dynasty would be...

It was just as Yang Su thought. Knowing that Yang Su was not a loyal and good minister, and was far inferior to Wang Yan, Yang Guang did not blame him. But he roughly achieved his goal. In fact, he originally wanted Wang Yan to do what Yang Su did, but he did not want Wang Yan to do too much and sweep away most of the big families in Bingzhou, which raised his expectations and made him dislike Yang Su.

However, Yang Guang did not get angry. He had no time to care about Yang Su, but was busy making various reforms. He had been thinking about what his empire would look like for countless days and nights. In the past, there were many things he could not stand and felt were unreasonable, and he had long been thinking about disguising his empire.

Now that he has finally got what he wanted and has secured his position, he naturally can't wait to make adjustments according to his own wishes.

For example, Wang Yan's previous plan to increase commercial taxes in order to make the big households bleed more and the country earn more money, after several months of discussion, finally came up with a relatively complete commercial tax plan that was based on different tax systems for different industries and was divided into different levels.

Taxes are collected twice a year, once after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month and once in July, according to the figures recorded in the account books. If the account books are falsified and found out, that is another story.

This was a good policy. The court could spend the money it collected on various construction projects. Yang Guang also listened to Wang Yan's advice and was willing to relax labor service and give lenient treatment to those who served. This greatly eased many conflicts.

At the same time, to collect taxes, people who can do math and read account books are needed, which provides a large number of tax officer positions. Wang Yan proposed to give these positions to the poor. Those who rely on the rich can be dealt with, but those who do not rely on them and hold on to the power of tax collection are a heavy blow to the rich.

Tax officials who performed well could also be appointed to other positions, which was considered a side path to upward mobility. At the same time, they helped the poor to fight against the wealthy. Although they could not fight against the wealthy, their presence in the officialdom was already a great force.

As for the salary and benefits of the many additional tax positions, this is not a problem for the current Sui Dynasty. Not to mention that these people are originally for collecting taxes, taxes are new income, and the current finances of the Sui Dynasty are extremely rich.

Maritime trade has been developing for many years, and the Maritime Customs Office will first take a slashing of the goods shipped back from overseas. All the wealthy and powerful families in the entire Sui Dynasty have invested heavily. The combined power of these families is not as strong as the whole country of the Sui Dynasty, but outside of China, they can sweep everywhere.

The wealth accumulated over the years is also huge. With such an accumulation, as long as it is slowly transformed, the Sui Dynasty can do a lot.

For example, when Yang Guang built Luoyang, what he lacked was not money, but food, and also immeasurable manpower.

That is why Wang Yan strongly advised Yang Guang not to rush for success and to take longer to build Luoyang City. The benefits of building Luoyang City this time can be said to be Yang Guang's experiment on the role of infrastructure.

He sent a large number of people to record various situations for later research, to study the principles and the economic circulation that Wang Yan had proposed long ago.

Even though the ministers opposed it, Yang Guang still pushed forward the increase in commercial taxes. He also applied what he learned flexibly, saying that whoever disagreed would be sent to govern in their hometown. He also compromised with the ministers, that is, not letting Wang Yan be responsible for collecting commercial taxes.

So this matter was implemented.

It seems that every leader of Wang Yan has passively mastered the skill of 'releasing Wang Yan', and the key is that it really works.

Wang Yan does nothing. His existence is a big bug that no one can fix...

In addition to implementing the collection of commercial taxes, Yang Guang also began to build the Grand Canal. The excellent financial situation gave Yang Guang the confidence to squander. As long as there was enough food and the construction period was extended so that the people would not be exhausted to death, there would be only benefits and no disadvantages.

Yang Guang followed Wang Yan's suggestion, but because of the construction of Luoyang, the Grand Canal was planned along the entire line, but not all of it was started. Only a small section of the river was selected, and the construction period was one year. Yang Guang needed to learn more quickly whether the things Wang Yan told him were reliable.

In addition, as recorded in history books, Yang Guang adjusted the administrative structure and reorganized the army. The previous twelve prefectures became sixteen guards, the General of Cavalry was changed to General of Eagle, and so on.

At the same time, he also accepted Wang Yan's proposal to establish a purely military organization to manage all the troops in the world, command all the wars in the world, separate civil and military affairs, and concentrate military power...

"I once said that when I ascend the throne, I will allow you to be the Grand Marshal of the Army. You have made great contributions over the years, and even destroyed the Turks. If it weren't for your father's disapproval, you would have been the Duke of Wu. However, the times are different now, and I can't make a decision on my own. So I will allow you to be the Grand Marshal of the Army first. You should organize your work well, and I will give you a higher title after you destroy Goguryeo in the future."

Yang Guang's dog had a friendly smile on his face and said only nice things to Wang Yan who was sitting beside him drinking tea and eating cakes.

Wang Yan cupped his hands and said, "I will do whatever your Majesty says. It's all up to your Majesty's orders."

"it is good!"

Yang Guang clapped his hands happily. "Earlier, you told me that you wanted to separate the military and politics. After discussion, we have already made some progress. After much thought, I think that the position of managing the army of the whole country must belong to you, Ziyan. Only you can make me trust you. Only you can suppress those arrogant soldiers and accomplish this."

"If Your Majesty had not trusted me and given me the opportunity to make a breakthrough, I would not be the minister I am today." Wang Yan still flattered Yang Guang, "May I ask Your Majesty, what are the specific rules?"

"Some people have been selected. You will know the rules when the time comes. I will set up a separate department for military affairs. I will name it the Cardinal Office. What do you think, Ziyan?"

"Your Majesty is truly amazing. I need to study for another eighty years to have the literary talent of Your Majesty."

"You can live another eighty years?" Yang Guang laughed happily, "You are just a flatterer. I haven't said anything about what you did in Bingzhou."

"I just wanted to do a good job for your majesty. With a large army suppressing the enemy, who dares to disobey? I didn't expect that this group of birdmen had such a wide network of connections and would stir up such a huge commotion and even want to kill me? Thanks to your majesty for protecting me, otherwise, I would have lost my life in vain."

"It's good that you know. You told me to take it slow, but you just picked up the knife and killed me. Be more cautious in the future and don't be impatient."

"Yes, I will obey your command. But your majesty, these people are too bad, and we must not let them have an easy life. Instead of letting me lead the troops, it is better to let me collect business taxes, capture every family, and send them to labor sooner or later."

"By then, the whole world will rebel. How will you and I, the king and his subjects, deal with it? It is better to manage the army first and then fight later. Don't worry, I am in my prime and there is still time. You and I, the king and his subjects, will work together and kill them all sooner or later. We will not have to bear their wrath."

Yang Guang let out a sigh of relief. It was obvious that he had suffered a lot since he came to power and had accumulated a lot of resentment.

He waved his hand and said, "The most urgent task is to organize the military affairs, wait a few years, and wipe out the four barbarians. Then, with the power of a great victory, we will see which family or surname dares to make trouble."

"Yes, Your Majesty, I will go through fire and water and never turn back."

"Why die? If you die, who will work for me? Go, go. The announcement will be made at the court meeting tomorrow. Do your best and don't let me down."

Wang Yan cupped his hands, bowed politely and left...

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