Emperor Sui Yang

Chapter 414 Father and Son Talking Hearts
The current Wang Wei is in Hedong County, and he has just been appointed as the prefect not long ago.

Dou Qing, the original governor of Hedong, was kept hostage by Yang Ming and his family for seven or eight years. He couldn't stand it anymore, so he asked the emperor to change his place, so Yang Guang asked him to go to Bohai County as the prefect to make up for Gao Shengdao's vacancy.

Bohai is not as good as Hedong. Dou Qing is not happy, so he has not taken office so far.

Putting this kind of matter on someone else's body has long been blamed, but Dou Qing is fine, because his mother is Yang Guang's biological aunt.

As a result, after the canonization ceremony was over, Dou Qing regretted that there is no king in Hedong?The King of Hedong, Yang Rui, is now the King of Qin, so why did he leave?

Therefore, at the court meeting, it was Dou Kang, Dou Qing's elder brother Chen Guogong, who strongly recommended Wang Wei to serve in Yiwu County.

Yang Guang also knew what Dou Kang was planning. After all, he was his relative, so he could take care of him if he could, so he agreed that Wang Wei would go to Yiwu, and Dou Qing would stay in Hedong.

This place in Hedong is very strange. It has terrible mineral resources such as salt, iron, copper, and gold, and is extremely rich in water resources.

It belongs to Shanxi. As we all know, Shanxi is a large coal mining province in the country. Almost all prefecture-level cities in the province have heinous coal resources. However, only Hedong, which is Yuncheng in Shanxi, is not.
It is a place with the worst coal resources in Shanxi, so it is often ridiculed as "spotless" and "clean".

After the court meeting ended, Yang Ming took the initiative to stay.

Yang Guang beckoned to his son and signaled to come with me, so the father and son went to Liangyi Hall where Yang Guang handled government affairs daily.

"Pei Yun went to Hebei this time, went straight to Qinghe County, and killed the Cui family by surprise," Yang Guang said with a smile:
"His latest report sent to Menxia Province said that according to a rough estimate, the Qinghe Cui family is only in one county of Qinghe County, and the concealed household registration population is estimated to be 20. If other places are included, it should be more than [-]. [-]."

You can still laugh at such a harsh fact. Yang Ming thinks this number is a bit conservative.
He smiled wryly and said: "All families in the world are like this, it is even more difficult to change the status quo."

Yang Guang smiled and nodded: "This is the helplessness of being an emperor. There are some things you really want to change, but you are always powerless. If you don't correct the phenomenon of the rich and powerful families controlling the place in time, it will become a country within a country in the long run. Thus emptying the imperial court."

Yang Ming said: "Is there any proper solution in my father's heart?"

"No," Yang Guang shook his head and said, "I can't be too obvious about the family's heart, for fear of being backlashed. The best way is to let them consume each other. How do you think they can consume each other?"

Yang Ming pondered for a moment, and said: "The Guanzhong family is a whole, and they are monolithic. If they want to consume it, they must rely on external forces. Now that two canals have been built one after another, it is time for the Jiangnan and Shandong clans to show their strength."

"That's right," Yang Guang said with a smile, "When you proposed to me to get an official with ten subjects, I guessed that you had already seen the root of the problem, so I will tell you these words today."

Before Yang Jian died, he gave his son Yang Guang the truth, including the future policy direction of abandoning the Guanzhong standard.

However, Yang Guang felt that Yang Ming had already seen the problem, so he handed over the truth in advance, so that his son could cooperate with him to complete this arduous task.

"It has been more than 30 years since the division of China into the North and the South, and it has been less than [-] years since the founding of the Great Sui Dynasty." Yang Guang got up, paced back and forth in the hall slowly, and said:
"Your grandfather, Emperor Gaozu, it is so difficult to rule the world. If something goes wrong, it will be divided. Now that I inherit the great rule, the first thing to do is to return to the north and the south, build Luoyang, and build the canal. This is the reason."

Then, Yang Guang looked at his son and said slowly: "There is only one way to return to the south of Shandong, and that is to let them enter the center, participate in state affairs, and then use scientific examinations to select poor scholars and give them official positions. This is called teaching people." In the future, once a person has something to do, he will not think about it in his mind. From now on, you should try to protect people from these two places."

"My son understands," Yang Ming said, "Since that's the case, will father always live in Luoyang in recent years?"

"This is where you are smart," Yang Guang nodded and said, "Luoyang is located in the center of Guanzhong and Shandong Jiangnan. Only this place is convenient for the three families to participate at the same time. Unaccustomed."

This acclimatization is not just about the soil and water, but also includes various human factors such as local cultural customs, behavior habits and so on.

With the completion of the Grand Canal, Shandong and Jiangnan will quickly merge with Luoyang, but they will not merge with Guanzhong. In order to compete for Luoyang's resources, conflicts between local forces will become more prominent.

It is a good thing now, but in the long run, it is a disaster.

Therefore, every policy has advantages and disadvantages. It depends on whether the timing is appropriate. Li Longji just changed the government military system to the recruitment system, but An Lushan reversed it. This shows that this policy was out of date at the time.

Historically, the conflict between Shandong and Guanzhong in the Tang Dynasty was mainly due to the conflict of interests between the aristocratic families, and the ascending channel of the Shandong gentry was blocked.

Yang Ming continued: "We must treat the scientific research as a top priority every year."

Yang Guang said in a deep voice: "It's easy to say but hard to do. At present, no matter the capital or the locality, there are not so many positions, and it is not so easy to move. Fortunately, this time in Hebei's chaos, I have the opportunity to make room for the nobles in Hebei." Come out with some positions, but it is limited after all.”

Yang Ming was shocked, and couldn't help but gasp. If the chaos in Hebei was also in his father's prediction, then Yang Guang is not an ordinary person.

It is not clear whether the construction period of the canal was six months to facilitate his travel south from Zhuojun by boat, or whether he deliberately forced Hebei to provide a short but justifiable passage for the Hebei gentry.

If this is the case, Yang Guang is simply born to be an emperor, ruthless and absolute.

Because more than [-]% of the local prefects in the Sui Dynasty came from Guanzhong, it was not easy to break Guanzhong's monopoly on local officials.

The way to force Hebei is called "no breaking, no establishing". That's why Chen Junbin and Cui Hongjun are fine, but Yang Wanshi was escorted to Beijing.

Yang Ming didn't want to think about it anymore. He didn't want to become an emperor who regarded all people as straw dogs. Hundreds of thousands of lives were just paving a way for a few people to enter the center. Thinking about it, he felt scared.

Yang Guang looked at his son with an ugly face curiously, and asked:
"what happened to you?"

Yang Ming shook his head: "My son is fine, so does the emperor plan to reopen schools in various places? Give the humble gentry a chance."

"Abolishing it is easy, but re-establishing it is difficult," Yang Guang said, "Your grandfather built the school back then to provide opportunities for local aristocratic families to become officials, but who are the students in the school? How many of them are from local aristocratic families?" ? It can’t solve the problem of the origin of the local chief official, and reopening the school is just a joke.”

Yang Ming deeply agrees, and the facts are true. The local schools during Kaihuang years have been completely reduced to the concentration of the second generation of officials. Few of them really study, and the ones they cultivate are all a group of people who can inherit their father's career.

At this time, Yang Ming suddenly said:
"My son hopes that Yang You can study with Yang Rui, and I hope that the father will allow it."

Yang Guang was taken aback, then frowned and said, "Why do you suddenly have this thought?"

Yang Ming didn't hide anything, and directly told Wei Ying's private appointment to meet him, as well as Wei Ying's worries.

Yang Guang was indeed taboo against Yang Ming meeting Wei Ying in private, but he was even more taboo about Yang Ming not keeping it from him.

But when his son told the truth, Yang Guang felt relieved and said:

"Women are like this, with short-sightedness. You and your elder brother are blood brothers from the same mother. How could you harm your own nephew? She is too suspicious, or she is bewitched by others."

In Yang Guang's mind, killing Yang Yong's son was not considered cruel, because he was a bunch of concubines, and he didn't think Yang Yan and Yang Ke were his nephews from the bottom of his heart.

Han Wang Yang Liang rebelled, but Yang Guang only killed his concubine Yang Yu, and his prostitute Yang Hao lived well and was raised in the palace.

Yang Ming knew that Yang Guang was also worried in his heart, so he chose to be honest and clear, so that his father could dispel his suspicions.

"The elder brother died young, Yang You and Yang Rui were the same age, but the two brothers rarely meet each other. My minister thought that they should be together since childhood, and the brothers are harmonious so that in the future, we will be able to take care of our great Sui Jiangshan community."

Yang Guang nodded reassuringly: "I am very pleased that you have this idea, but I will not agree. Yang Rui is the eldest son of the prince, and he is the most honorable among my grandchildren. It is not suitable to be classmates with others, no matter how old he is. Later, it can be considered, but not now, let Yang You and Yang Jin go to be disciples of that Wang Tong."

Yang Ming asked curiously, "Isn't Father dislikes Wang Tong?"

"Whether you like it or not, it's all for others to see," Yang Guang said with a smile:
"Remember, don't let people guess what you really think in your heart. Pei Ju has always been arrogant, but he only values ​​Wang Tong. We can see that he still has strengths. There is also Wei Zheng, who is also from a famous family. In the future, some offended As for human affairs, you let him do it, and when things calm down, let him do it, how long he can live depends entirely on how long he can help you."

Yang Ming nodded under great pressure. Being the emperor's son is really not an easy task. Every second is calculated.

No wonder many emperors in history were lustful, because only this most primitive desire can relax their nerves.

During the period, Yang Ming asked about the candidate for Prince Xianma. Yang Guang couldn't make up his mind for a while, saying that he would choose slowly.

When Yang Ming mentioned Wang Shao, Yang Guang scoffed at it, and directly denied it, thinking that the other party was someone who was trying to gain fame.

After leaving Liangyi Hall, Yang Ming felt his whole nerves were tense.

So he left the palace and went to Prince Qin's mansion, because only Gao Yue's fresh and delicious body could calm him down.

It's not a carnal indulgence, it's just a way to ease the mood.

(End of this chapter)