Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 563 Competing in the Central Plains (54)

one year later
The winter of the fourth year of Yan State 360 ​​(574)
The originally peaceful world gradually became turbulent.

After the state of Chen stabilized its internal affairs, it took advantage of the killing of King Lanling of the state of Qi and the intensification of internal struggles in Qi to launch the Northern Expedition and regain the land of Huainan.

Zhou Guo was not idle either. Yu Wenyong, who was pro-government, called together celebrities from Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism to discuss whose truth is more suitable for governing the country.

In the end, because Yu Wenyong, who was the host, pulled the sidelines, Taoism and Buddha failed in the debate.

Therefore, Yu Wenyong made persistent efforts and ordered monks and Taoists all over the country to return to vulgarity and pay taxes to the court, and added Confucian classics to the examination content, and deleted the content of Buddhism and Taoism.

In comparison, the number of Taoist priests is not as large as that of Buddhist monks. Therefore, although Yu Wenyong's order is to let both Taoist priests and monks return to the vulgar, the main thing is to let the monks return to the vulgar.

Those who refuse to return to vulgarity will naturally have another meal of ransacking their homes and beheading them.

This event is called the second extermination of Buddhism. The last time was Taiwu Emperor Tuoba Tao's extermination of Buddhism.

The purpose of Yu Wenyong's "destroying Buddha" is very simple, that is, the country is short of money and population, so through "destroying Buddha" to increase population and taxation, that's all, there is no other meaning.

Can't beat the aristocratic family and the Xianbei nobles, and can't beat you bunch of bunnies?
After the extermination of Buddhism, Yu Wenyong continued to implement the government military system, recruited a large number of Han soldiers into the army, reused Han generals, and implemented more profound Sinicization reforms. He himself also called himself the emperor of the Central Plains and promoted the Central Plains Chinese.

This reform can be regarded as Emperor Xiaowen 2.0. On the basis of Emperor Xiaowen, Sinicization will continue.

While carrying out reforms, it is also preparing for the Eastern Expedition.

"Now the monarch of Qi State is fatuous and brutal, the people in the country are struggling to survive, and internal fighting is fierce. Chen State took the opportunity to conquer the land of Huainan by the Northern Expedition."

"Most of Qi's power will be used to resist Chen and its internal struggles. This is a great time for us to go east!"

"Your Majesty, wait for a good account of the people who have returned to vulgarity, and arrange for them to farm and pay taxes. Next year, I will collect their grain and grass, let them serve corvee and military service, and conquer the world for my Great Zhou!"

Yu Wenyong said so, but in fact he was still a little flustered.

After all, Qi State has always been stronger than Zhou State. In the past, Zhou State could only stop Qi State by relying on the dangers of mountains and rivers. Last time, it managed to accumulate 20 family property and was defeated by King Lanling of Qi State.

After so many years of recovery and the implementation of reforms, they finally accumulated the family fortune of the Eastern Expedition, so naturally they don't have much confidence.

Qi State has 30 soldiers, Zhou State has 20 soldiers, and Chen State has [-] soldiers.

Now that the Eastern Expedition has been decided, it is natural to attract allies, so Yu Wenyong sent envoys to Turkic and Chen Guo, hoping that the two countries can cooperate with Zhou Guo and send troops to attack Qi Guo together.

Turks are now busy forming an alliance with Byzantium (Eastern Rome) and attacking Sasanian Persia, so they ignored Zhou's request.

On the surface, Chen Guo agreed to attack Qi State together, but in fact he was ready to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight. If Qi State lost, he would take the opportunity to take the northern expedition to recover Henan; if Zhou State lost, he would take the opportunity to conquer Bashu from the west. .

Jiankang City

Royal Palace
"If the Zhou captives fight with the captives, there will be losses. At that time, it is the time for us to fight!"

"Your words are very true."

Emperor Chen Xu approved of this strategy very much. When the state of Zhou "exterminated Buddhism", he chose to do the opposite and built many Buddhist temples in the country to attract Buddhist monks from the state of Zhou to go south to the state of Chen. This method increases Chen Guo's reputation.

"Every time you turn against Zhou, things will happen."

At this time, someone came to report: "The prince quarreled with others at the poetry banquet and injured the young master of the Zhang family."

This prince is Chen Shubao, who is now 21 years old. As a prince, he recites poems and fights against each other all day long.

Recently, I fell in love with a beautiful maid named Zhang Lihua who was just sent to me.

He likes to spend a lot of money to buy sky-high price glass from merchants of Yan State, and give it to his beloved women. He takes good care of the business of merchants of Yan State, and Chen Shubao will buy whatever luxury goods such as spices sold by merchants of Yan State. Take it all.

For this reason, the State of Yan spoke very highly of the prince of Chen State, praising him as the "Prince Shengming" and "the reincarnation of Yao, Shun and Yu", and he must be "one emperor of all ages" in the future.

Living in the era of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, when the faint and tyrants were everywhere, the King Yan family was really happy. They could make money as they wanted, which was much easier than in the Han Dynasty.

Back in the Han Dynasty, one had to be sneaky to engage in corruption, and one had to be careful to hide a population of 10,000+.

In the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the foolish monarchs directly sent money to the Wang family to make money!

In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the foolish lords sold their common people directly to the Wang family!
For those who are on horseback, if this is not a good time, the King Yan family really doesn't know what kind of time is a good time!
For Yan Wang's family, the Wuhu Southern and Northern Dynasties are absurd and beautiful!This is the absolute truth!

Yan Xu: "It would be great if the Southern and Northern Dynasties could last forever! In that case, how prosperous and powerful our country of Yan will be!"

"Don't worry about him!" Emperor Chen Xu said lightly. He didn't care what the prince did, and he never had the so-called family education, because he didn't only have this son. There's no need to waste time educating him personally, that would be so tiring, so he just casually ordered: "Give some gifts to the injured nobleman, and take it as an apology from the royal family."

Afterwards, he continued to discuss the recent international situation with that minister, especially the upcoming war between Zhou and Qi.

"If Qi Lu were to fight Zhou Lu decisively, with Yan Yi's style, he would definitely take the opportunity to capture the land of Shandong."

"Qi Lu is now in the reign of a faint king, so I am afraid it will be difficult for him to cope with so many challenges."

"It seems that the land of Bashu cannot be regained, only the land of Henan can be recovered."

When Chen Guo was preparing to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight.

Qi State
Yecheng
"Hahaha!"

"Kill kill kill!"

"Such a fun thing, why did you tell me now?"

Gao Wei, the emperor of Qi, was playing a game. He asked the imperial guards to arrest many ordinary people in Yecheng, and then threw these ordinary people into the pit, and then threw many poisonous snakes and scorpions into the pit. He hugged a beautiful girl and was very excited. Watching the miserable struggle of these innocent people.

The beautiful girl in her arms was named Feng Xiaolian, she was originally just a maid, but a month ago, the emperor accidentally fell in love with her, and now she is a noble concubine, being favored by the emperor.

Gao Wei brought in many civil and military ministers and asked them to play games with him.

The lust inherited from the Gao family's ancestors has become a master in Gao Wei's body.

However, because Gao Wei often sells his own people at low prices and uses the population to buy luxury goods in the Yan Kingdom, the Yan Kingdom has a very high evaluation of Gao Wei, and he respectfully calls him "the emperor of the ancient times", "the holy king" and "the peerless arrogance of heaven". ".

Even the government of Yan State asked the craftsmen to make a jade statue of Gaowei's human head. On a palm-sized jade pendant, Gaowei's human head was engraved, and the four characters "Zhaogu Yidi" were engraved on the back. As a national gift, the jade pendant was given to Emperor Gao Wei of Qi State.

Emperor Gao Wei was very happy, thinking that this was Yan Guo's initiative to show favor, so he asked the soldiers to capture more than 1 young and middle-aged men from the people, and sent these strong men to Yan State as slaves for pioneering wasteland.

For the King Yan family of this era, it was so happy that the enemy even took the initiative to send money, people, and supplies to themselves.

Wuhu Southern and Northern Dynasties, absurd and beautiful!
(End of this chapter)