Emperor Sui Yang

On March [-]th, Yang Ming attended the court meeting.

The difference between a court meeting with a prince and a court meeting without a prince is that the number of people that the officials fear has changed from one to two.

Yu Wenhuaji was conferred the title yesterday. Originally, his injury was still not healed, but Yang Guang couldn't wait any longer. Once his son attended the court meeting, something would go wrong in ennobling Yu Wenhuaji, so Yang Guang didn't see him at all. He was dead, and a decree was promulgated, directly conferring a title on Yu Wenhuaji who was still lying at home, a county magistrate.

With twenty whips, Yang Yue recovered for two months, and Qu Tutong had been whipped for half a month.

At today's court meeting, two things were discussed. One was that Zhang Xutuo was about to leave Beijing, and how to distribute the 600 million shi grain allocated by the emperor to Shandong needed to be clarified. The second was about Lingnan.

Originally, when Feng and Ning went to Beijing, they were ready to negotiate with the emperor. After all, Goguryeo was finished, and the imperial court could spare time to deal with them. Therefore, everyone knew that the problem in Lingnan had to be resolved.

But the first time the two of them met with the emperor, they were overwhelmed. Although Yang Guang didn't say a word of threat, his attitude was very tough, and Lingnan had to be reformed.

People didn't say what will happen if you don't change, because you can guess what will happen.

Today's emperor acts arbitrarily and does what he does without regard to the power of the country and the people. If he dared to recruit millions of troops to fight Goguryeo, why didn't he dare to fight Lingnan?
The two events of today's court meeting are the highlights.

"600 million shi of grain is still disaster relief food, but it can't be given out, it can only be borrowed," Pei Ju said: "Based on the number of households affected by the disaster, each household borrows grain ranging from [-] to [-] shi, and it will be returned within five years. Seriously, the time limit can be appropriately relaxed."

The distribution of grain is under the control of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and Pei Ju's right servant is in charge of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Punishment, and the Ministry of Industry.

In the feudal society of China, only in severe natural disasters would food relief be given, and this relief is not to distribute food to you, but to have a relief place that can take care of your food. That's it.

Relief is done by officials, so disaster relief is also an excellent opportunity for some officials to fill their own pockets.

The military chaos in Shandong is over, but the food shortage in various places is still serious. If Yang Ming hadn't sent warriors down to control the price of food in the same way as a businessman, and loan food to the people, Shandong would still be in chaos.

The rations borrowed by the samurai Xun could not be expected to come back, but the rations lent by the court to the people could not be missing a grain.

The only thing to be gratified about is that the imperial court does not ask the common people for interest in allocating grain this time. How much you borrow is what you repay me. It is not calculated according to the market price, and we only weigh the weight.

Yang Yue frowned and said: "The 600 million shi of grain is His Majesty's love for the people. If it can be put into practice, it can actually solve the problems in Hebei and Shandong. I am afraid that the 600 million shi will fall into the hands of ordinary people. Less than half, I believe that we should send appeasement envoys, grant envoys Chijie, and supervise the grain distribution process."

As soon as he said this, Li Hun sneered suddenly.

Why is he laughing?Many people can understand, because Xuangan annexed land in Shandong, can your uncle and nephew really speak beautiful words?But the things he did behind the scenes became darker and darker.

Yang Ming raised his eyebrows and looked over, and asked, "What are you laughing at?"

Li Hun was taken aback, and quickly lowered his head: "I'm not laughing at anything."

"I heard you laugh, answer, what are you laughing at?" Yang Ming said coldly.

That's all right now, the others are watching the fun, Feng and Ning are here today, it's the first time they've seen what the prince looks like in the court hall.

Li Hunzhi hesitated for a long time, and said: "I think Yang Sili's concerns are overstated. In Shandong and Hebei, there must be no officials who would dare to disobey His Majesty's love for the people. Therefore, 600 million shi of grain, It should come to fruition.”

When Yang Ming was present, he didn't dare to mention Xuangan's matter, after all, Xuangan was his father-in-law.

Yang Ming snorted coldly: "It's important for the state to rely on guesswork? Do you think it can be implemented if it can be implemented?"

"It's the minister who didn't think carefully, what the prince taught me," Li Hun said hastily.

Yang Ming stopped talking, feeling that the Coke was broken, and kept laughing.

Yang Yue continued: "The 600 million shi of grain allocated by His Majesty is 600 million. The loss of transportation cannot be counted in it. The grain is allocated from Xingluo warehouse in Luoyang and distributed to Hebei and Shandong by the canal. Yujuluo and Zhangxu Tuo has proved that the two of them are capable of local governance, and they should be entrusted with fidelity, supervise the distribution of food, and ensure that it is used in the right way."

Yang Guang nodded and said: "I agree with Qing's suggestion, whoever dares to eat my food for the people, I want his head."

"Your Majesty is wise," Niu Hong said, "Yushitai and Silitai should also send officials to inspect Shandong and Hebei. There are still many problems that have not been resolved in the chaos last year. Has anyone taken the opportunity to annex people's land, or hoard it? , as well as those merchants who raised the price of grain, they must be investigated thoroughly, because these people are pouring dirty water on the court, and the civil disorder is also caused by this."

Yang Xuangan was indifferent after hearing this, and was a little worried in his heart. Generally speaking, no one would dare to investigate him, and even if he was found, he could push it to the people below.

But the problem is, Silitai is managed by Yang Yue, it's fine, but Yushitai is now Pei Yun.

Whether Lao Pei's family will do something wrong, he can't say for sure.

Next, Yang Guang canonized Yu Juluo and Zhang Xutuo respectively as comfort envoys in Hebei and Shandong, and entrusted the envoys to hold festivals and have the right to kill officials.

He definitely doesn't want his good intentions to be ruined by the officials below, although Yang Guang knows very well that it is impossible for the below to not be greedy, it is a matter of greedy and greedy, and when you can't feed the officials, don't think about feeding them. common people.

The emperor and the common people don't know how to deal with each other. The reason why Yang Guang is so generous this time is because he is afraid of further troubles.

As for the 600 million shi grains, 400 million were allocated to Hebei. Although the chaos in Hebei is not big this time, if there is a chaos there, it will be much more difficult to deal with than Shandong.

It wasn't until noon that the Ministry of Civil Affairs and Zhang Xutuo came up with a detailed plan, and would send officials back with Zhang Xutuo to be responsible for food allocation.

Until now, Yang Ming hadn't said much except to say something to Li Hun, which made Yu Wenshu feel very guilty, because he was afraid that the crown prince would mention his son's matter.

"The resumption of the Ministry of War, is it over?" Yang Ming said, Yu Wenshu's heart skipped a beat, he was afraid of something, either for my son or me.

Duan Wenzhen nodded and said: "Already finishing the final arrangement, it can be presented to His Majesty and the Crown Prince tomorrow."

"What a coincidence?" Yang Ming pondered for a moment: "I'll go to the Ministry of War tomorrow to have a look."

"Your Highness is respectfully waiting," Duan Wenzhen nodded.

Next, Zhang Xutuo can leave, because there is no place for him here, and Cui Junsu, the servant of the Ministry of Officials, is in charge of seeing him off, so he also leaves.

"Only seven of the prefects of the [-] counties in Lingnan were delegated by the imperial court, and the rest will take care of your local areas, but it will not work in the future." Pei Ju looked at Feng An and said, "The imperial court will directly arrange for the prefects of at least fifteen counties. You have to be mentally prepared."

After Yang Ming heard these words, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart. What Pei Ju said must be what the father meant. With such harsh conditions, the father is forcing Lingnan.

It sounds like there is nothing wrong with it. As the territory of the Great Sui Dynasty, Lingnan has always been engaged in local hereditary, and the court must not tolerate it, but it is not appropriate to change it too quickly.

After all, until the mid-Tang Dynasty in Lingnan, the imperial court still adopted the "release method" for them, that is, implemented a loose policy for some areas and allowed the local tribes to manage local affairs independently. After all, the actual situation of the local area must be considered.

But Pei Ju's method was a bit extreme, and Feng An and Ning Changzhen definitely couldn't accept it.

Yang Ming could tell that neither side was sincere in this negotiation, and my father was probably using force on purpose.

Since it is not a sincere negotiation, then any words from both sides can be ignored, because they are all lies.

what is trueStill on the word "Daye", with Dad's character, I am afraid that he wants to solve the Lingnan problem once and for all.

This is not impossible, because a large part of the Tang Dynasty's tolerance of Lingnan was due to the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty that destroyed the production and people's livelihood structure of the entire society, the population dropped by two-thirds, and the national power was not enough to use force against Lingnan.

But the current Great Sui has this ability, but the disadvantage is that once force is used, it will have to go back for many years.

It was inconvenient for Yang Yue to come forward to refute Pei Ju because they were on one side, but he also figured it out, the emperor wanted to make trouble.

To set an unacceptable condition and instigate Lingnan to take the initiative to resist, and Lai Huer, who is in the south of the Yangtze River, is actually preparing for the use of troops in Lingnan.

So Yang Yue looked at Yang Ming and sent a "dangerous" look.

Yang Ming couldn't think of a solution all at once, so he could only remain silent.

Feng An's face was extremely depressed, and after arguing with Pei Ju for a few words, he stopped talking. He didn't expect that this trip to Beijing would be like this.

The emperor is too ruthless, is this going to uproot us?

On the contrary, Ning Changzhen was quite calm: "If you follow such a method, neither Feng An nor I can change it. Mr. Pei should hire someone else."

Cui Zhongfang was stunned and said: "Mr. Qinjiang can't let go of the pick, the matter in Lingnan still depends on you."

"Rely on us?" Ning Changzhen sneered and said, "I don't have this ability, you really think highly of me."

Wei Jin, Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, said: "Wei Yue, the Duke of Guancheng County, is familiar with Lingnan civil affairs. You can let him go down to help you."

It is said to be helping, but in fact, after going down, it must be Wei Yue who has the final say.

30 years in Hedong and 30 years in Hexi, Wei Yue finally became useful by relying on the situation in Lingnan mastered by his second brother Wei Wei.

"Okay, anyone can be sent, Feng An and I just do it," Ning Chang said with a sigh.

Cui Zhongfang smiled and said, "Mr. Qinjiang, don't get angry. We still have to discuss the specific plan."

"That's right, the matter is important, everyone should be more cautious," Yang Ming finally expressed his opinion: "It can be debated, and the solutions are all discussed."

After all, Yang Ming looked at his father and said:

"My son thinks that this matter should not be rushed, but should be done slowly."

Yang Yue hurriedly agreed: "The minister seconded the proposal."

From this sentence alone, Yang Guang could tell that his son did not want to use force.

Yang Guang nodded with a smile: "The crown prince is very worried. Don't be in a hurry about Lingnan affairs. If you are in a hurry, you will lose something. Let's talk about it slowly."