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

Chapter 570 Competing in the Central Plains (56)

Two years later

Summer of the fifth year of Yan State 370 (585)
The situation in the world is increasingly developing in a direction that is unfavorable to Yan.

The Turks split into two parts, the East and the West. The Eastern Turks paid tribute to the Sui Kingdom, while the Western Turks hid far away and ran to plunder Sasanian Persia. They did not dare to harass the Central Plains. , Passed through the Xianbei Mountains (Daxing’an Mountains), detoured through the grasslands, arrived in the Central Plains, paid tribute to the Central Plains, and asked the Central Plains to help Goguryeo attack the Kingdom of Yan. Even Chen Shubao, the emperor of the Chen Kingdom in the south, also paid tribute to the Sui Kingdom.

When Chen Shubao ascended the throne, there was a little "little movement". Another clan wanted to usurp the throne, so he brought a weapon and wanted to assassinate Chen Shubao directly at the banquet.

False coup: bells and whistles, all kinds of intrigues.

Real coup d'état: Take weapons and troops and kill straight away!

Obviously, he wanted the coup to succeed by himself, but it was just a dream. At the moment of the assassination, he stabbed the long sword into Chen Shubao's waist, and then was subdued by Chen Shubao's guards.

"We can't let the situation continue like this, otherwise, our country of Yan will really become an isolated country."

Yan Xu felt that the situation was very dangerous. In the past, there were Chen Guo and the Turks to contain the Central Plains, but now, in the vicinity of the Sui Dynasty, only the Yan State remained and did not pay tribute to the Sui Dynasty?
Therefore, Yanxu sent envoys to the State of Chen, intending to join hands with the State of Chen to resist the State of Sui.

Back then, Yan State teamed up with the Eastern Jin Dynasty to defeat Fu Qin, so this time, Yan State will join forces with Chen Guo to defeat Yang Sui.

In the past two years, the reforms of the Sui Dynasty were still deepening, and even the slaves were given land.

However, the reforms of the Sui Dynasty carried too many remnants of the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, various reforms were very arbitrary and unreasonable, and often did not consider the feelings of the people.

The same is true for the various reforms of the Sui Dynasty.

Among Yang Jian's many reforms, half are good and half are bad. Some are beneficial to the country and the people, while others are blind reforms.

For example, the traditional slavery system in the Central Plains, without abolishing the slavery system, allocating land to slaves is essentially just allocating land to the masters of slaves.

The Central Plains slaves are not much different from the land reclamation slaves of Yan State, and even their personal freedom is not as good as the land reclamation slaves.

At the very least, Yan State's "Wildland Reclamation Law" clearly stipulates that land reclamation slaves enjoy the right to life and physical health, and plantations are not allowed to kill or abuse slaves, otherwise they will be punished with high fines, and in severe cases, they may even be imprisoned.

Therefore, don’t think that there was no slavery in the imperial era. Some people think that Yan State is a slavery empire because Yan State has slaves to open up wasteland. Then the Central Plains also has a large number of slaves. Can it be considered that the Central Plains is also a slavery empire?
In fact, even if the so-called democratic republic industrialization era never sets, there are still a large number of slaves.

There has never been an XX system. The so-called XX system is just a term used by later generations to summarize the economic production phenomenon of a certain period.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, who created the probation system, didn't even know that he had created the probation system. He just felt that he had normalized the method of recruiting talents during the period of Emperor Wen Jing.

The Sui Dynasty, which created the imperial examination system, did not know that he had created the imperial examination system. He felt that he had only added some subjects on the basis of the previous Southern and Northern Dynasties.

Ji Fa, who established the slavery dynasty, didn't even know that his dynasty was slavery. He only knew that in the tribal era, people from other tribes were captured every day to work as labor. He just continued the previous practice and did not Create a certain system.

The person who created the parliamentary system did not know that he had created a parliamentary system. He only knew that he had added some rules for meetings on the basis of the internal meetings of family members before, so that everyone would not be noisy and clueless during meetings.

The person who invented gunpowder didn't even know that he invented gunpowder. He thought he was just making alchemy as before.

The pioneers often develop seamlessly on the basis of their predecessors, so they don't feel that they have created xxx. It is often those learners who, when learning each other, will describe the other party's system with xxx nouns, and then directly graft it to For myself, this kind of separation will make the people feel a huge change, because there has never been anything like it before.

The name can be named, not the constant name!
If you can't get rid of the shackles of names and blindly use a certain name to dig into the corners, you will not be able to truly understand the essence of the world.

Just like slavery, it can also be called the whip system, the slave-servant system, the master-servant system, the gratitude system, the democratic republic, or whatever it is. It is just a noun.

Because there are slaves in Yan State, they think that Yan State is a slave system. Because there are no slaves in the Central Plains, they are called slaves.

Yang Jian distributed the land to the slaves, but did not release their free bodies. The final result was that the land belonged to the slaves in name, but actually belonged to the master.

What's more terrible is that because the slaves and servants shared the land, they also had to pay taxes to the court.

The harvest belongs to the masters, but the pressure of taxation has to be borne by themselves.

This is actually the benefit that Yang Jian gave to the gentry tyrants. He naturally knew that what he did was just to make the slaves bear more tax pressure and let the masters enjoy the blessings. With their support, the court's rule can be stable!

As for the people at the bottom?hehe!Dare to rebel?Then kill!In the hundreds of years of the Wuhu Southern and Northern Dynasties, have they killed less?

Whether it is Yang Jian or Dugu Jialuo, they still have not completely separated from the thinking of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, have not yet adapted to the new model of unification, and are still using the cruel methods of the monarchs during the Northern and Southern Dynasties to rule the country.

Some imperial fans of later generations would rather believe that the reform of the ruler is really for the people, and they are unwilling to believe that the reform of the ruler is simply to maintain the rule.

For them, the ruler is like a savior, and everything they do is for the sake of the world.

The ruling class of the Sui Dynasty didn't think there was anything wrong with this, because compared with the Southern and Northern Dynasties, they killed relatively few people and treated the people very kindly.

Isn't it just oppressing slaves?What kind of cruelty is this?In the Southern and Northern Dynasties, slaves and maidservants were used to eat!Compared with before, Da Sui is really too kind!

Yang Jian's rule can be described in one word, that is [Guanzhong Law], what is "Guanzhong Law"?
That is, take Guanzhong as the core, concentrate all the wealth and power in the world in Guanzhong, block all passages in Guanzhong, and then frantically suck blood from Guandong, especially Hebei, and use the blood of Guandong to support Guanzhong.

In this way, the Guanzhong people/Guanlong Group, as beneficiaries/blood-suckers, will support the rule of the Yang family and fight for the Yang family.

And the Kanto region is too huge, even if they want to resist, they will be divided and attacked by the imperial court, and they will be defeated by the imperial court one by one.

If the land of Hebei in Kanto wants to resist, the imperial court will win over Henan to suppress Hebei. If the land of Henan wants to resist, the imperial court can also win over the land of Hebei to suppress Henan.

Moreover, Guanzhong relies on blood-sucking Kanto, which naturally has a stronger military force than a single region in Kanto, and has mountains and rivers. Unless all forces in Kanto unite, they can only be sucked by Guanzhong obediently, and there is no way to resist.

This [Guanzhong Governance Law/Guanlong Group Governance Law] seems to be perfect so far, it can be said to be impeccable.

(End of this chapter)