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

Even if Li Jing had received Yang Zhao's reminder in advance, it still took great courage for him to stand up. After all, Li Jing himself was a descendant of the Longxi Li family.

The appearance of Xin Wenli gave Yang Zhao some surprises.

As Li Jing and Xin Wenli stepped out, Yin Shishi also stepped out and said, "Your Highness, Duke Chu made great contributions in the past, and his son Yang Xuangan is even more loyal and brave now. I, an old minister, also want to fight for Your Highness and fight to the death with that false emperor."

Yin Shishi is the leading figure in the military in Guanlong area today.

Even Yin Shishi stood up, and people like Wei Wentong, Zuo Tiancheng, Shang Shitu, Qu Tutong, and Song Laosheng also came out one after another, each of them full of energy and clamoring for a fight.

In the court, military generals have always been a group of people who are easier to win over and intimidate.

Compared with the cunning civil officials, these military generals all have some major and minor flaws, but once someone takes the lead, their loyalty and bravery cannot be doubted.

With the full support of the military.

Yang Zhao's gaze fell on the ranks of civil officials again.

At this moment, even Dugu Xin, Yuan Shu, Wei Yuanzhao and others were struggling extremely.

If he asked for war at this time, it would lead to a complete break between Yang Guang, the Li family, the Guandong family and others. After the full-scale war broke out in the future, if Guanlong was defeated, his own family would be buried with it.

In the past, Yang Zhao's close ministers, such as Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling, and Du Ruhui, would quietly remind those people from aristocratic families in the court for the sake of the overall situation.

But this time, Zhangsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and others have been excluded by those old men recently. Even the Dugu clan, the Yuan clan, the Jingzhao Wei family and others seem to be indifferent to them.

This allowed Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and others to completely see the true faces of these aristocratic families.

The scene was at a stalemate for a while.

In a sense, after settling the internal conflicts in Guanlong, Yang Zhao completely took sides with the aristocratic families in Guanlong.

At the same time, it is also a contest between the Guanlong aristocratic families, Yang Zhao, and the imperial power.

Chapter 567: The Guanlong Aristocratic Family Wants to Have It All

In the eyes of many people, Yang Xuangan rebelled and surrounded Luoyang just in the name of Yang Zhao, hoping to gain great wealth in the impending chaos.

But only Yang Zhao knew that behind Yang Xuangan's uprising was the conspiracy of Yang Su and Lu Miaozi.

Even the message for help that was sent to Chang'an was not from Yang Xuangan, but from Yang Su.

In the court, Yang Zhao deliberately did not leak any information about this aspect, but only revealed some intentions to rescue Yang Xuangan.

This in itself was also a test by Yang Zhao of the many officials in the court.

Today, the Guanlong area is in an uproar because of the strange phenomenon that occurred when Yang Zhao offered sacrifices to heaven and earth, and the benefits that came from the blessing of national fortune after the establishment of the Yun Dynasty. The aristocratic families in the Guanlong area are extremely cooperative with Yang Zhao and the court's various policies.

But at the same time, it also made the court a mixed bag, making it difficult to distinguish between loyalty and treachery.

Even if it was Yang Zhao, it would be impossible to collect the true spirits of all the people from the Guanlong aristocratic families into the Huangji Zhenshi Bell.

On the one hand, even after the Huangji Zhenshi Bell was promoted to a divine weapon, the number of true spirits it could carry was limited. It was impossible for it to carry the true spirits of everyone indefinitely.

On the other hand, those aristocratic families have been passed down and cultivated for hundreds of years, and the people in the family have long developed the character and thinking of putting family interests first and doing everything for the family. These people will definitely not be willing to become Yang Zhao's vassal families from now on.

People are like this. When there are benefits, everyone is happy.

Only when conflicts and contradictions arise can we see who is loyal and who is treacherous.

The talk of loyalty and treachery may be a bit exaggerated.

But for Yang Zhao, for a monarch, if he could not distinguish who were the loyal, treacherous, and fence-sitters among his courtiers.

Then this monarch is unqualified.

The monarch is the biggest distributor of benefits in such a vast territory. Only by knowing the difference between loyalty and treachery can he reasonably distribute the power and core interests in his hands, so as to ensure that he can mobilize most of the court's power when he needs it.

Because even if it was Yang Zhao, even if it was Yun Chao, it was impossible for them to give their subordinates eternal benefits.

There are always conflicts and contradictions between the monarch and his courtiers.

In the Wenhua Palace.

Yang Zhao's expression did not change at all. Most of the military generals had expressed their opinions, and only the civil officials were still in a stalemate, as if they wanted to delay the matter through silence.

The emergence of the blessing of national fortune made the court officials from these aristocratic families jealous.

The interests of Yang Zhao have not been drained yet, so these court officials who come from aristocratic families do not want to break with Guandong and Central Plains, nor do they want to break with Yang Zhao.

It's impossible to have the best of both worlds, huh.

Faced with this stalemate, Yang Zhao simply closed his eyes and began to rest, as if he wanted to bring the matter to a complete stalemate.

Time passes little by little.

Among the civil servants in the court, there were also some who came from humble backgrounds or were loyal to Yang Zhao. Unfortunately, these people were either unable to enter the Wenhua Palace or were suppressed by their family elders.

This is also the most difficult thing about these aristocratic families in the territory of the Sui Dynasty.

Hundreds of years of monopoly on knowledge, resources, inheritance, land and other aspects have given these aristocratic families an extremely terrifying influence in the court.

Even though Dugu Xin, Yuan Shu and Wei Yuanzhao had surrendered in the past, they had already started to educate a large number of children from poor families, and even began to popularize education among the common people.

But within a hundred years, Yang Zhao's court still needed the support and operation of these aristocratic families.

It takes ten years to educate trees, and a hundred years to educate people.

Even with the wealth of Guanlong area that Yang Zhao had plundered and confiscated, he still wanted to popularize education and cultivate enough talents.

A hundred years is just to lay the foundation.

If we add the secret interference of the aristocratic families, it will take at least two or three hundred years to completely get rid of the constraints of the Guanlong aristocratic families.

Yang Jian and Yang Guang, two generations of Sui emperors, both saw this and had been suppressing the aristocratic families.

Even in the original history that Yang Zhao knew, even after the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan, Li Shimin, Li Zhi, and almost several generations of emperors were fighting with the aristocratic families.

It was not until the reign of Wu Zetian that, after more than a hundred years of suppression, imperial power gained a slight upper hand.

Moreover, it is only a slight advantage.

The real end of the era of aristocratic families was after the fall of the Tang Dynasty and the chaotic Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. It was not until Zhao Kuangyin that a bright future was created for the common people.

During the Song Dynasty, although the policies of the two emperors Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Guangyi led to the dominance of literati, cultural knowledge was eventually spread widely among the people.

From the Han Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, aristocratic families ruled the world for more than a thousand years.

The period from the Two Jin Dynasties to the Sui and Tang Dynasties was simply the time when the aristocratic families were at their peak.

Yang Zhao himself could tolerate the existence of aristocratic families, but he would never allow these families to be out of his control, or even to be indecisive and swayed like fence-sitters.

Especially in the chaotic times that followed, without a solid foundation, Yang Zhao could do nothing.

The strange silence lasted for more than a quarter of an hour in the Wenhua Hall.

When Yang Zhao opened his eyes at the top, those people from the aristocratic families who had suffered so much finally felt relieved and filled with endless joy.

In the end, I won.

Many court officials who came from aristocratic families even smiled involuntarily at this moment.

Only Dugu Xin, Yuan Shu, Wei Yuanzhao and others who were standing in the front row saw the endless coldness in the depths of Yang Zhao's eyes when he opened them.

It is indifference, killing, ruthlessness, a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood, it is the Asura hell.

At this moment, Dugu Xin, Yuan Shu, Wei Yuanzhao and other people from top aristocratic families who had more contact with Yang Zhao suddenly remembered the many times that Yang Zhao had demonstrated his incredible abilities.

This was not a victory, but rather a complete infuriation of the true dragon roaming the sky.

The fleeting warning sign in their hearts made Dugu Xin, Yuan Shu, Wei Yuanzhao and others feel as if their hearts were suddenly tightened.

However, just when these people were about to say something.

Yang Zhao's gaze suddenly dropped, only giving him a slight perspective, but it was like an ancient mountain, pressing down on Dugu Xin, Yuan Shu, Wei Yuanzhao and the others so hard that they couldn't breathe.

It’s over.

Dugu Xin, Yuan Shu, Wei Yuanzhao and others all looked extremely ugly in an instant.

at the same time.

Yang Zhao's voice also echoed in the Wenhua Hall.

"Draft an imperial edict: Order Wei Wentong, Zuo Tiancheng, Shang Shitu, Qu Tutong, and Song Laosheng to return to Guanzhen immediately and activate the Hanzhong Earth Vein Array to connect with the eight rivers of Chang'an..."

Chapter 568: The awakening of the top families is too late

Under Yang Zhao's command, the army could still be effectively controlled, especially the generals who had been trained intensively, like Wei Wentong, Zuo Tiancheng, Shang Shitu, Qu Tutong, and Song Laosheng. After two purges, they had already incorporated their true spirits into the Huangji Zhenshi Bell.

After receiving Yang Zhao's imperial edict, a large group of generals stood up without any delay and headed out of the Wenhua Palace.

When they saw Yang Zhao start to mobilize the army, all the civil officials in Wenhua Hall panicked instantly.

Heads of top aristocratic families such as Dugu Xin, Yuan Shu, and Wei Yuanzhao, who knew Yang Zhao relatively well, ignored the many civil officials who were still murmuring in their hearts and knelt down on the spot.

"Please show mercy, Your Highness, and spare my Dugu family a chance to live."

"Please show mercy, Your Highness. From now on, Jingzhao Wei is willing to be your gatekeeper dog."

"Your Highness, Your Highness, for the sake of Princess Yuan..."

Others didn't know what Yang Zhao meant by mobilizing the army, and many people thought that Yang Zhao was just trying to scare them.

After all, the entire Guanlong area has a total of thirty-six counties and a population of hundreds of millions.

Without the support of the aristocratic families, no matter how great Yang Zhao's prestige and background were, it would be difficult for him to govern the entire Guanlong area by himself.

However, people like Dugu Xin, Yuan Shu, and Wei Yuanzhao knew through their own information that since Yang Zhao established the government, a large number of unidentified people had entered the Guanlong area from the direction of Kunlun Mountain.

It was also because of this that Dugu Xin, Yuan Shu, Wei Yuanzhao and others allowed the large and small aristocratic families in Guanlong to unite together to form a huge alliance, and through this method of control by court officials, to softly confront Yang Zhao.

In the eyes of Dugu Xin, Yuan Shu, Wei Yuanzhao and others, this was just a test.

No matter whether he wins or loses, in the end, he will just get rid of some of the unsocial families to vent Yang Zhao's anger, and then give up some of their interests.

But Dugu Xin, Yuan Shu, Wei Yuanzhao and others never expected that Yang Zhao simply ignored their temptations. In fact, as soon as everyone angered Yang Zhao, Yang Zhao chose the most domineering and cruel way to cleanse the Guanlong area.

That's right, when a series of generals were transferred to the surrounding passes.

Dugu Xin, Yuan Shu, Wei Yuanzhao and others had already felt the horrible crisis of having their families destroyed and their clans wiped out from under their feet.

The local energy of Guanzhong is connected to the eight rivers of Chang'an.

Ordinary people, and even some small and medium-sized aristocratic families, don't know what this means.

But how could Dugu Xin, Yuan Shu, Wei Yuanzhao and others not know that the Emperor Wen Yang Jian relied on this formation to firmly control the Guanzhong area, and even used the power of this formation to kill strong men of the Martial Saint level several times in succession. This is how he gained the recognition of the Guanlong aristocratic families and the foundation of the Sui Dynasty.

Four barriers connected to eight rivers make this a natural and unique formation.

Once it is opened, it means that Yang Zhao is going to be completely deadlocked with the Guanlong aristocratic families, and both sides may have already died.

If Dugu Xin, Yuan Shu, Wei Yuanzhao and others were to unite, they would be able to fight.

But as early as the hundreds of years of chaos in the past, these top aristocratic families in Guanlong were completely defeated by the chaotic times, Zhao Kuangyin, and Yang Jian.

Even though they had a strong foundation, these top Guanlong families did not have the courage to resist.

The home of the once famous Eight Pillars of Guanlong.

The Yuwen family, the Yuan family, the Li family, the Longxi Li family, the Yu family, the Zhao family, the Dugu family, and the Houmochen family.

Over the past hundreds of years, the Yuwen family has been completely destroyed, and all of its former strengths have disappeared. Now, there are only four old ancestors lying in coffins supporting the family, and they have fled to Luoyang in a hurry.

The Li clan, the Zhaojun Li clan, and the Longxi Li clan were also unable to hold on. When the three Li clans joined together, they were still barely powerful.

The Yu family was once very popular, but now they are almost nowhere to be seen.

If it weren't for Dugu Jialuo, the Queen of the Sui Dynasty, and two top sword masters, the Dugu family would probably have been just a third-rate family.

In the Houmochen family, the oldest member is only about a hundred years old, and is almost becoming a rare and protected animal among the aristocratic families in Guanlong.

It can be said that the Eight Pillar States, which had dominated the northern part of the Sui Dynasty for two hundred years, all participated in the struggle against imperial power at their most glorious and prosperous times, and some even directly rebelled to become emperors, which led to their gradual decline.

Dugu Xin, Yuan Shu, Wei Yuanzhao and others dared to swear that they had no intention of opposing Yang Zhao.

At most, it was just a small test, or even to let Yang Zhao see his and others' capital, so as to gain Yang Zhao's attention.

All the civil servants in the court who came from aristocratic families confronted Yang Zhao in silence.

Dugu Xin, Yuan Shu, Wei Yuanzhao and others had discussed it early on. When Yang Zhao became completely impatient, they would join forces to subdue the civil officials in the court, using this as a stepping stone to advance themselves and get one step closer to King Zhao.

But I didn't expect that it would backfire.

His Royal Highness Prince Zhao seemed to be indifferent to government affairs and idle and focused on martial arts on weekdays, but in fact, he was a tyrannical monarch at heart.