The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 405
Just like the conversation between Yang Shanhui and Li Jing, Yang Tong took this opportunity to implement the general merit system. In the future, the capable will go up and the mediocre will go down, and the survival of the fittest. People supervise, even if the generals have different ambitions, they dare not speak out. If they dare not speak out, they dare not do it. At most, they just leave the army with their confidants.In this way, military power is firmly in the hands of the court.

Once this decree is in place, not to mention the middle and low-level generals, even if the leader of the army wants to rebel, I am afraid that not many people will follow them.For ordinary soldiers and low-level generals, they can only get food and clothing by following the generals, but if they hang out with the emperor, they might be able to fly to the sky and become a general and a prince someday.

"Military officer exits!" Du Ruhui, the Minister of Military Affairs who served as the master of ceremonies, raised his voice and shouted loudly.

These generals who have been selected as benchmarks will naturally not accept the challenge from the beginning to the end. Only after competing for the strongest corresponding to the number of positions among the ten thousand people will these generals come out to be the champions , to accept the winner's challenge.

The 190 Yingyanglang generals in front of him are all strong men who have climbed up with military merits, and their abilities are at the top of generals of the same level.If someone can defeat them with personal martial arts and army commanding ability in the challenge, then it is also worth granting the corresponding official position.

The martial arts competition process is quite fierce, and accidental casualties will inevitably occur, so life and death certificates must be signed before the competition.

The participants in the battle were all brave people. After Du Ruhui issued the order, no one hesitated at all, and no one left the field. A large group of people, organized by soldiers, formed a queue of [-] and began to sign the life and death certificate.

Three o'clock in the afternoon!

The life and death certificates have been signed, and the warriors are eager to try amidst the rumbling drums, preparing for a battle to gain both fame and fortune, but no one is in a hurry to appear, because according to the previous martial arts rules, the person who wins the first battle will become the winner. Master, you have to win three people in a row to advance.

Yang Tong also wanted to use the rules of later generations to draw numbers, but those rules were not acceptable, because the martial arts of warriors vary in strength. If a warrior who was originally very good would meet fierce people like Qin Qiong and Luo Shixin as soon as he entered the field , that would be a tragedy.If this person happened to be a Confucian general in the style of Li Jing and Su Ding, it would be Yang Tong and the court who lost.

Therefore, Yang Tong simply handed over the initiative to the warriors participating in the martial arts, and they decided when to appear and whom to challenge!It's bad luck to choose a fierce man, and it's because of their own bad vision, so they can't blame the court.But in this way, no one played at the beginning of the game, and everyone was waiting for others to play, so that they could observe for themselves and see the strength of others by the way.

"Your Majesty, why is no one playing?" Xiao Wu participated for the first time, and she did not expect this result.

"According to the past, it's still very early!" Yang Tong glanced at Murong Ke in the stands, and said softly, "But Tuyuhun has also signed up, and these people should come out to provoke soon."

"This is my Tai Sui martial arts competition, why did Tuyuhun sign up?" Xiao Wu frowned, feeling very surprised.

"Tuyuhun has great ambitions. Seeing that my Great Sui was torn apart, he seemed to disregard Great Sui. They had ulterior motives. They didn't really participate in my enthronement ceremony, but came to provoke and show off their power."

Yang Tong saw that no one came on stage for a while, and even Murong Ke seemed to be a lot more honest, so he chatted with Xiao Wu: "Tuyuhun was originally a branch of the Murong tribe of Xianbei. In the valley of the upper reaches of the Yellow River, from the Eastern Jin Dynasty to the North and the South, Tuyuhun took advantage of the endless wars in the Central Plains and controlled the vast area today. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the north of the Yangtze River was controlled by the Northern Wei Dynasty, and the south of the Yangtze River was controlled by the Southern Dynasty. The economically developed Southern Dynasty had to go to the Western Regions, Rou However, we can only enter the Western Regions from Bashu through Tuyuhun, reach Gaochang in the north, then turn eastward, and finally reach Rouran."

"Tuyuhun attaches great importance to this economic lifeline, and has opened up many new channels to reconnect the Southern Dynasties and the Western Regions. In order to maintain smooth flow, the Tuyuhun people do not take on tasks such as guiding directions, providing translation, and armed escorts, but also actively mediate. They trafficked Qinghai Cong and other special products from the Western Hu merchants to the Southern Dynasties, and then sold the Central Plains specialties such as silk, cotton cloth, porcelain, ironware, tea, and paper to the Hu merchants, earning a huge difference. They prospered because of the passage of the Silk Road Wealthy and strong, become a tyrant in the Northwest."

"However, our Great Sui Dynasty ruled the world and changed all this. When the emperor's grandfather visited Hexi, the kings of the Western Regions came to Zhangye one after another. After that, the Silk Road returned to the normal route. As a result, all merchants After walking through the convenient and smooth Hexi Corridor, the hub function of Tuyuhun, which has a harsh environment, has disappeared. The biggest reliance of Tuyuhun has also gradually declined. Looking at the prosperity of the Hexi Corridor, thinking about the scene from prosperity to decline, Tuyuhun Busa Bo Khan Fuyun was jealous and hated, so he ordered the army to attack Hexi disguised as horse bandits, intercepted and killed merchants along the way, and even formed an alliance with the Western Turks, preparing to deal with our Great Sui Dynasty."

"In order to get rid of Tuyuhun and smooth the Silk Road, the emperor's grandfather personally led 20 elite soldiers to conquest Tuyuhun. He concentrated his superior forces and adopted the tactics of chasing and encircling Tuyuhun several times. Tuyuhun was almost extinct. Sabo Khan finally fled to Dangxiang. The four thousand miles from east to west and two thousand miles from north to south belonged to the Sui Dynasty. , Busabo Khan restored the Tuyuhun Khanate.”

Speaking of this, Yang Tong said with a smile: "With the recovery of the two prefectures of Yongliang and Liangzhou, the Silk Road will be restarted again. Once the Silk Road is unblocked, it will bring huge profits to us in the Sui Dynasty and the countries in the Western Regions. Therefore, the countries in the Western Regions They all held an attitude of support and welcome, and Tuyuhun was jealous and unhappy, trying to repeat the old tricks and destroy the Silk Road."

Xiao Wu said angrily: "It's really healed, and the scar is forgotten."

Yang Tong nodded, and was about to answer, but saw a person from the crowd rushing towards the competition venue, and looked intently, it turned out to be a Tuyuhun warrior.

"Haha, everyone said that Tai Sui is so powerful, but in my opinion, it is nothing more than that. My name is Murong Cheng, and I am from Tuyuhun. I wanted to learn the skills of the heroes of Da Sui today, but your cowardly and cowardly attitude really makes me feel uncomfortable. disappointment!"

Murong Chengqun ridiculed that his kung fu is quite good, just this one sentence blows up the warriors of the Sui Dynasty and the audience on the stands.Martial arts has also risen from the domestic samurai competition to the height of national dignity, and many people started to curse.

A burly warrior took a war horse from the surrounding soldiers, rode the horse to the school field, slashed his head with a big knife in his hand, and roared full of momentum: "Hu dog, die."

"Husband, how is this person?" Xiao Wu asked nervously.

Yang Tong shook his head and sighed: "Courage is commendable, but ability is poor..."

Murong Cheng was the candidate who came from Tuyuhun to Da Sui to demonstrate and provoke. Naturally, his skills are not bad, and he is a character honed from the battlefield. Exquisite riding skills, lightly avoiding the opponent's blade, when the two horses staggered, the knife directly passed the opponent's neck.

Dou Da's head soared into the sky, and the noise of drumming was suffocating.

Only Murong Ke and the Tuyuhun gang were left laughing wildly.

"It's too much." Xiao Wu's face turned red with anger. In troubled times, the most unworthy thing is human life, and no one is afraid of death.

Yang Tong's eyes were cold. Although life and death certificates had been put in place, it was just to prevent accidents. Martial arts generally do not kill people, at most they are disabled.And he also saw that Murong Cheng's martial arts were much stronger than that man's, but he was merciless in his attacks and killed the enemy with one move.It can be seen that these Tuyuhun people didn't have the slightest worries at all. They had the intention to kill people and establish their prestige from the very beginning, which made Yang Tong extremely angry.

Just about to instruct Feng Li, Li Zhengbao, and Xin Liaoer to fight against the arrogance of the other party, they saw a young general holding a horse spear, galloping towards him, before he arrived, he said loudly: "Jingzhao Yuzhan is here, Don't be arrogant, Hu Gou."

Before the words were finished, Ma Yang had already stabbed out, and Murong Cheng swung his saber to block it. He swung Yu Zhan's spear away with a single saber, and then slashed towards Yu Zhan as quickly as a saber slashed through the wind.

Yu Zhan's martial arts skills are not weak, which is nothing compared to Qin Qiong, Luo Shixin, and Yu Chigong, but he can also be ranked among the fourth-ranked military generals in the Sui Dynasty.

Murong Cheng's saber technique was fierce, as fast as a gust of wind, but Yu Zhan was not weak. He retracted the lance to block the opponent's slash, and then stabbed the opponent's throat like a spirit snake spitting out a letter.

Murong Cheng was shocked, he hurriedly lowered his body, but was a little late, a shocking wound was drawn on his cheek by the lance, which immediately aroused Murong Cheng's fierceness, he roared and reined in the horse, turned around and fought Yu Zhan again , but before he could turn the horse's head completely, he saw Yu Zhan suddenly turned his body to one side, and the horse spear in his hand shot out like lightning, piercing the opponent's chest.

Luo Shixin, who was guarding behind Yang Tong, saw Yu Zhan's successful move, but shook his head in disappointment: "If this move can be improved a bit, it will be able to penetrate the enemy's throat at this moment. Just a random swipe left and right will make him Ma Qian is facing the next enemy, he is using too much force now, if there is a second enemy attacking, I am afraid that he will be on the spot with hatred."

"This is my land in the Sui Dynasty. He has nothing to worry about. Naturally, he doesn't have to worry about the second enemy. His mistake is that he is inexperienced in facing the enemy, but this man's bravery can be included in the fourth-level general system of the Sui Dynasty, and he is young. Promising, with great room for growth." Yang Tong gave a fair comment.

Everyone's cheeks twitched fiercely. You yourself are only twenty years old. To say that a person of the same age is 'young and promising' is too...too old-fashioned...

After the audience fell into a brief silence, there was suddenly thunderous cheers.

Murong Cheng's ability is actually no worse than Yu Zhan's, but Yu Zhan's exquisite moves are far superior to his opponents. This unlucky guy also suffers from a loss of knowledge. He is used to the fighting style of foreign peoples who use strength and speed to win. He hadn't reached the level of defeating ten times with one force. When he met a skilled warrior like Yu Zhan, even if he didn't die, he was restrained so much that he couldn't hold his head up.

"You bastard!" Murong Ke stood up angrily when he saw that his warrior was instantly knocked off by a young player shortly after he came out on the stage.

His seat was not far from Yang Tong, his movement immediately caught Yang Tong's gaze, and he said calmly, "Don't play if you can't afford to lose."

"You..." Murong Ke pointed at Yang Tong, speechless for a while.

A fierce light flashed in Yang Tong's eyes: "If you howl a little bit more fucking, I will kill you right now."

Murong Ke looked at Yang Tong's fierce gaze, subconsciously withdrew his finger, and there was a bit of fear in his gaze.

Yang Shanhui, Li Jing, and Du Ruhui glanced at each other, but they all remained silent.

Yang Tong is handsome, talented, capable of writing and martial arts, and has a detached temperament, which is simply the best interpretation of "Moshang is like jade, and a gentleman is unparalleled in the world". They have nothing to criticize about Yang Tong, but there is only one thing they really love. I can't stand it from the beginning to the end: Yang Tong scolds his mother and swears when he gets angry, and he is nine times more vicious than a local hooligan, which makes his beautiful image disappear all of a sudden.It is precisely because of the pity that everyone finds it annoying and unbearable.

Xiao Wu's beautiful eyes never leave Yang Tong's side face for a moment, and her eyes are full of admiration and admiration.

Cursing people are so handsome!

(End of this chapter)