Martial Arts: I am in the Ming Cult and I am building a dynasty

This wave may not make everyone in the Guanlong area surrender completely, but at least more than 70% of the hidden dangers can be eradicated.

When Chen Zhibao and Xin Wenli drew their knives, they didn't care about their identities or the consequences.

As the people whose true spirits are entrusted to the Huangji Zhenshi Bell, Chen Zhibao and Xin Wenli are both Yang Zhao's trusted and beloved generals. They are also pure soldiers. If they act recklessly in the Guanlong area, no one except Yang Zhao can stop them.

Especially accompanied by the reports from Chen Zhibao and Xin Wenli.

In the entire Wenhua Hall, many of the top aristocratic families turned extremely pale at this moment. They looked at Chen Zhibao and Xin Wenli in fear and were almost knocked to the ground on the spot by the iron-blooded murderous aura.

Break into the house and exterminate Chen Zhibao's clan.

The murderous maniac Xin Wenli.

In this wave, there were more than 700 families, large and small, that were personally exterminated by Chen Zhibao, almost wiping out more than 60% of the families in the Guanlong area.

Xin Wenli was even more ruthless. He chopped off more than 4,000 heads of his 'comrades' in the army. Almost all of them were outstanding children of aristocratic families who were placed in the army for development, and there were also many death squads that had been accumulated over the years.

Wait until the two of them have finished their reports.

Yang Zhao, who was standing right above the Wenhua Palace, remained silent with a calm look in his eyes.

At the same time, a graceful figure wearing a veil walked into the court, surrounded by several evil people.

The person who came was the leader of the Demon Sect, Queen Yin Zhu Yuyan.

Different from most of Yang Zhao's women, Zhu Yuyan is one of the few women in Yang Zhao's circle who has a strong sense of career. Even when she is in the palace, she will never give up the power of the Demon Sect.

Yang Zhao always lets his women do whatever they want.

With Yang Zhao's support, Zhu Yuyan had already brought the entire Demon Sect under control long ago, no matter in terms of martial arts training, rewards and punishments, expenses, etc.

When it comes to doing serious work, these people from the evil sect are not capable of it.

But when it comes to running underground gangs, supervising the market, thoroughly investigating merchants, roaming the countryside, etc., the dark-side wanderers like the Demon Sect can do it really easily.

After entering the Wenhua Hall.

Zhu Yuyan glanced at those trembling noble families, sneered, and said: "Your Highness, Zhu Yuyan from the Demon Sect reports that on the Silk Road leading to the Western Regions, the road leading to Hanzhong and Sichuan, and the road leading to the northern grasslands, a total of 39 underground gangs, 480 foreign spies, and 1337 black-hearted businessmen have been seized..."

After finishing the report, Zhu Yuyan, along with several people from the Demon Sect, and Chen Zhibao and Xin Wenli, stood aside and left.

Until this time, Yang Zhao repeatedly checked the booklets brought up by the three people.

After a long while, Yang Zhao closed the booklet, his eyes like thunder piercing people's hearts, swept across most of the people in the court, his face uncertain, and said: "Dugu Feng, Yuan Shu, Wei Yuanzhao, come, the three of you take these things away, let the ministers of this palace see what they are like under their rule."

Those who can enter the Wenhua Palace are at least high-ranking officials who govern a county.

At the same time, more than 8% of these senior officials were recommended by various aristocratic families. Some of them were from aristocratic families themselves, and some were disciples and former officials sponsored by aristocratic families.

Dugu Feng, Yuan Shu and Wei Yuanzhao are the top three of the Guanlong aristocratic families.

After getting Yang Zhao's approval, Dugu Feng, Yuan Shu and Wei Yuanzhao quickly took over the documents. After just a quick glance at a few pages, beads of sweat were already dripping down their faces.

"I am guilty and have failed your Highness's expectations. Please punish me."

"I will die..."

Dugu Feng, Yuan Shu and Wei Yuanzhao were absolutely smart people, and even the first two of them had some kind of kinship with the royal family.

But even so, seeing the contents of the document was shocking and heart-wrenching.

And he saw Dugu Feng, Yuan Shu and Wei Yuanzhao bowing down.

Many shrewd officials in the court had already thought of many things, and they followed suit and bowed down.

Even not many people, except for Yin Shishi, Gao Ying, Changsun Wuji and a few others.

In the entire court, more than 90% of the officials bowed deeply and there was silence.

"Well, Dugu Feng, Yuan Shu, Wei Yuanzhao, is this the confidence that you, the noble families, have to openly oppose me, coerce the ministers, and control the king with the will of the court?"

"Good trick, indeed a good trick. Do you really think that the sword in my hand is not effective?"

boom!

Yang Zhao suddenly became furious and kicked over the table in front of him. The murderous intent covered the entire Wenhua Hall like an endless ocean. The terrifying aura was like a dark cloud pressing down on a city, making the hearts of everyone present feel heavy and silent, as if they were standing on the edge of a knife and could be killed at any time.

Fuck, a bunch of bastards, they got killed this time.

Dugu Feng, Yuan Shu, and Wei Yuanzhao knew something bad was going to happen when all the ministers in the court bowed down to them, and they cried out inwardly.

Chapter 514: We are ready to fight to the death, why surrender?

Everyone underestimated Yang Zhao's methods, including Dugu Feng, Yuan Shu, and Wei Yuanzhao.

When Yang Zhao returned to the Sui Dynasty and first entered Guanzhong, he did not behave in a particularly domineering manner.

When Yang Zhao entered Chang'an, he almost exclusively came into conflict with the Li family.

Using the Li family, one of the four great families of the Sui Dynasty, as a cushion, Yang Zhao used all kinds of tricks to defeat the Li family, causing those Guanlong families to recognize Yang Zhao's status.

After Yang Zhao took over Guanlong, he still acted very friendly towards the major families.

The interests of the major families were not deprived too much by Yang Zhao.

Yang Zhao even took out the trade routes he had seized in Longxi, the Western Regions and other places and shared them with the major families, allowing all the major families to reap the benefits.

After feeding all the major families well, Yang Zhao only took away the extremely sensitive private army and military power.

This made the major families in Guanzhong have an extremely good impression of Yang Zhao.

In the eyes of the major families, this is a far more suitable emperor than Yang Jian of the past and Yang Guang of the present. After all, everyone is so noble, and it is good for everyone if we are all well.

Why bother fighting for the interests of the common people?

What's more, outside Guanlong, there are Yang Guang, the Li family, the Guandong families, etc., who are eyeing Yang Zhao covetously. If Yang Zhao wants to maintain internal stability and resist foreign enemies together, he has to rely on the governance of the Guanlong families.

In the eyes of these Guanlong families, military power and the like can be given away at will.

Anyway, Yang Zhao is one of us, he won't use these military powers against us. He even shared the benefits of the Silk Road with everyone.

The Guanlong family has been managing this area for hundreds of years.

Local governance, military forces, gentry and wealthy families, merchants and common people are all our own people.

Yang Zhao's repeated displays of weakness made these people relax their vigilance.

No one expected that Yang Zhao would use the Great Snow Dragon Cavalry, the Zuo Yiwei Army, and even the Demon Sect, a martial arts sect, to govern on behalf of everyone.

It’s not that Yang Zhao doesn’t have the means, he just needs some time to develop after gaining a firm foothold.

During the several years of smooth government service in the Song Dynasty, Yang Zhao developed a very simple and effective method of ideological education and cultural enlightenment for the military.

There is no need for these Great Snow Dragon Cavalry, Zuo Yiwei Army, Demon Sect, etc. to have the talent to govern a county.

All we need to do is to clean out all the parasites in the Guanlong family and maintain the basic stability of the Guanlong area.

The written memorials submitted by Chen Zhibao, Xin Wenli and Zhu Yuyan were not written by the three of them.

There are three people at most, and I just made a summary.

Ninety-nine percent of the content was memorials written by the generals, retired soldiers, and ordinary people in the countryside. The content was simple, but effective.

During the long time that Yang Zhao had been in charge of Guanlong, he had not openly touched the interests of those aristocratic families.

But in secret, they had already used hundreds of thousands of troops and thousands of magic rangers to weave a huge network among the civilians in the Guanlong area.

There is no need for ordinary people and soldiers to have high culture.

All you need to do is to understand the court's policies and record some daily events.

In other words, during this period of time, Yang Zhao fundamentally took away the basic foundation that these Guanlong clans had used to occupy one side, that is, the right to speak.

In this vast ancient society, imperial power has never extended to the countryside since ancient times.

Whether it is the emperor or the court, they need to rely on the local aristocratic families to maintain basic national governance.

Now, people can read and file complaints.

The key is that the Great Snow Dragon Cavalry roams in all directions, and the Zuo Yiwei army suppresses the city. With communication and garrisons, even a peasant in the mountains can bring a petition directly to the Wenhua Hall of the Daxing Palace.

Dugu Feng, Yuan Shu and Wei Yuanzhao understood Yang Zhao's tactics almost instantly after seeing those crude petitions written by the peasants.

Forbearance, acting, concealing the truth, and cutting off the source of the problem.

Although these strategies required great initial effort, the rewards were equally astonishing.

At the same time, Dugu Feng, Yuan Shu and Wei Yuanzhao all felt an extremely miserable cry in their hearts. The hundreds of years of hard work of the aristocratic families in Guanlong were over.

Thinking of this, the three of them felt weak in the knees.

Especially when Yang Zhao's anger was pressed down towards the three people, every word he said was like thunder and lightning, making the three people's hearts jump.

Control the court by leveraging public opinion.

When these words came out of Yang Zhao's mouth, Dugu Feng, Yuan Shu and Wei Yuanzhao couldn't help but feel terrified as if the sky was falling and the earth was splitting, their families were destroyed and they would die.

"Your Highness, I believe that this is the reason to conduct a thorough investigation of the court and clean up the country."

"Your Highness, I think that the aristocratic families are now completely corrupt and are not qualified to accompany the king to govern the country. I have a set of documents for selecting talents through the imperial examinations, which can help your Highness."

"Your Highness, I feel that the imperial court is too generous to the aristocratic families, and that the aristocratic families are too greedy. We should use the seized property to build schools in various places to enlighten the people..."

Are there really stupid people among aristocratic families?

Yes, but very rarely.

Anyone who can truly become the head of a family must have become a very smart person.

Dugu Feng chopped the ground directly with his sword, wanting to investigate the court and measure the world.

Yuan Shu directly threw away the right to recommend talents that had been held for hundreds of years, and wanted to hold the imperial examination, and hand over the right to select talents to Yang Zhao.

Wei Yuanzhao was even more ruthless. He directly exposed the power of academic research and public opinion.

Seeing the performance of Dugu Feng, Yuan Shu and Wei Yuanzhao, those ministers who had originally huddled together and were ready to use their power to overwhelm and threaten Yang Zhao with soft knives were blinded on the spot.

What are you doing?

Lord Dugu, Lord Yuan, Lord Wei, we are ready to fight to the death, why are you surrendering?

It's just a draft? It's invested, but you dare to sell out your ancestral foundation.

Traitor, not worthy of being a human being.

The ministers were all bewildered, and their hearts were in turmoil. They suspected that if they were given a shovel, these three men would probably blow up the ancestral graves of all the families and clans.

There were six great dynasties coexisting in the world, and there were all kinds of excellent systems.

But why can't these excellent systems be implemented everywhere?

It’s because each dynasty has its own hidden dangers, and each region has a huge group of vested interests who stick together to defend it.

Systems and the like have never been a fundamental issue for the growth of a dynasty.

The root of the hindrance to the growth of the dynasty has always been people.

Chapter 515: Rewarding kindness, loyalty and merit, settling the court

Dugu Feng, Yuan Shu and Wei Yuanzhao represent the Dugu clan, the Yuan clan and the Jingzhao Wei clan respectively. They are the top few among the aristocratic families in Guanlong.

These families have already escaped from the lowest and bloodiest stage of primitive capital accumulation.

Not only these three families, but also the Jingzhao Du family, the Jingzhao Gao family, the Houmochen family, the Yu family, etc., are all like this.

Therefore, Yang Zhao’s main target this time is not these top aristocratic families.

What Yang Zhao wanted to wipe out were those small and medium-sized gentry and wealthy families that were entrenched under these top families and in various places, as well as the underground gangs that did evil in the cities.

Dugu Feng, Yuan Shu and Wei Yuanzhao saw it clearly.

Yang Zhao is indeed a wise leader with great talent and vision. He does not mind the existence and continuation of elite family inheritance such as aristocratic families. He can even maintain great goodwill and tolerance towards those well-intentioned aristocratic families.

The most typical examples are the Changsun family and the Yin family.

The Changsun family and the Yin family were also noble families of the Sui Dynasty. They had once accumulated various primitive wealth and prospered, but later fell into silence.

People like Changsun Wuji and Yin Shishi were loyal to Yang Zhao.

Yang Zhao rewarded him with high positions, generous salaries, martial arts inheritance, family wealth, etc., and he was not stingy.

On the contrary, the Dugu clan and the Yuan clan had a good hand of cards, but because they were used to wavering and abusing their power, they played them badly. Even when they held a small meeting, they did not bring Dugu Feng and Yuan Shu.

You know, the Dugu clan and the Yuan clan are relatives of Yang Zhao’s grandmother and mother.