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

Chapter 574 Competing in the Central Plains (59)

one year later
Spring of the seventh year of Yan State 370 (587)
Daxing City

Because the size of the previous Chang'an City was too small, and the various infrastructures were too backward, the facilities of the Han Dynasty were still used. Therefore, the Sui Dynasty rebuilt a larger city near Chang'an City-Daxing City, and named it Daxing City. For the imperial capital.

In recent years, the Sui State's reforms have deepened.

For example, the expropriation system that had existed since the Han Dynasty was abolished, the power of local governors to enlist officials was withdrawn, and it was changed to a unified appointment and dismissal by the central bureaucracy.

This undoubtedly further strengthened the autocratic monarchy and made the Central Plains take a big step on the road of autocratic monarchy.

At the same time, the power of local governors to recruit soldiers was taken back, and military generals appointed by the central government took charge of the security of a certain area.

On the one hand, it can save military expenditures, and on the other hand, it can prevent local separatism.

But the negative effect of this is that once a local civil uprising occurs, it can grow rapidly, and if an enemy country invades, it can quickly sweep a large area, because the hinterland of the Central Plains is empty.

At the same time, the administrative plan was changed, and the third level of the prefecture, county and county was changed to the second level of the prefecture and county. Everything seems to have returned to the pre-Han period. There were only two levels in the pre-Han period, but the first-level administrative district was called a county.

The purpose of this change is also very simple, because there are too many states, and many states are only the size of a county, which duplicates the functions of the county, resulting in too many officials, forming redundant officials, and increasing the financial expenditure of the court. The county was changed to a county directly under the state.

The administrative region of the Central Plains has changed from three levels to two levels, while the administrative region of Yan State has changed from two levels to one level, which is even flatter than that of the Central Plains.

In the country of Yan, there is only the administrative level of [city], the villages are self-governed by the people, and above the [city] is directly the central government.

The advantage of popular self-government is that there is no need to appoint officials, and the local people understand their actual needs better than the officials sent by the central government. The power is relatively small, so that Hongyan Dao can spread freely in the countryside of Yan State, but the court of Yan State is powerless in comparison.

The Sui Dynasty developed steadily on the surface, but in fact it was undercurrent.

The restoration forces of the Yuwen family, the restoration forces of the Gao family, all the tributary states want to rebel, the two kingdoms of Yan and Chen have united, and so on.

The restoration of the Yuwen family is the most threatening. After all, Yang Jian’s regime is usurped by the Yuwen family, so the purge of the Yuwen family is the most cruel. He took out the genealogy of the Yuwen family, and according to the genealogy, all the descendants of Yuwentai were killed. None left.

In addition, many problems also occurred in the process of promoting the land equalization system. For example, the imperial court said that each man was allocated [-] mu of land, but in reality, each man was allocated less than [-] acres of land. Mu, however, after they divided the fields, they had to pay taxes to the court according to the standard of [-] mu.

This is like, a person's income is obviously only 5000, but the court thinks that his income is 50000, so the 10 income is taken away at a tax rate of 5000%.

In the Sui Dynasty, there were already many problems during the period of the founding emperor Yang Jian. It is hard to imagine what will happen in the future.

King Jin's Mansion

King Yang Guang of Jin, dressed in plain clothes, led his slaves and maidservants to recite Confucian classics.

In the eyes of outsiders, Jin Wang Yang Guang looks suave and suave, believes in the way of saints, and is sympathetic to the servants and common people. The most important thing is that he only favors Concubine Xiao.

Of course, all of the above are Yang Guang in the eyes of outsiders at present.

Actually...

In the eyes of outsiders, Jin Wang Yang Guang, wise and benevolent, is more suitable as the heir to the empire than the lustful and luxurious prince Yang Yong.

The Guanlong Group is very concerned about the purity of blood, and is worried that if they marry outsiders, especially with the Kanto gentry, the Kanto gentry will become members of an interest group and eat cakes with them.

The total amount of cakes is limited. If the Guandong gentry eat more, the Guanlong Group will have to eat less. This is definitely not acceptable.

Therefore, in the eyes of Dugu Jialuo, the prince Yang Yong's behavior of doting on his concubine's room is a naked behavior of betraying Guanzhong.

On the contrary, Jin Wang Yang Guang, since he obeyed his parents' request and married the princess of Sui Liang, he exclusively favored Concubine Xiao and only had children with Concubine Xiao.

In order to establish the personality of filial piety to parents, he also led the slaves to recite Confucian classics every day.

Whenever the prince Yang Yong went to play in Fengyue, Jin Wang Yang Guang went to the palace to serve his mother, cook for his mother, make soup for his mother, and tell his mother his understanding of Confucian classics.

Gradually, Dugu Jialuo became more and more satisfied with Jin Wang Yang Guang, and became more and more dissatisfied with Prince Yang Yong.

While Yang Guang was reciting the Confucian classics, a servant walked over lightly and whispered in Yang Guang's ear, "The prince and Mr. Li went to play in the brothel."

"En." Yang Guang nodded, then put down the Confucian scriptures in his hand, with a look of disdain in his eyes, but soon, the look of disdain flashed by.

He got into the carriage, entered the palace, still dressed in plain clothes, and came to serve his mother Dugu Jialuo again.

"Ah Chen is here?"

"Yes, mother."

"come in."

"My child understands."

Yang Guang resolutely entered Queen Dugu's bedroom, and asked Lian Yingli to kneel down to Dugu Jialuo again.

"You are still filial, Ah Cheng, your eldest brother, and ran away again... Oh, forget it, let's not talk about it." Dugu Jialuo is a mother with a strong desire to control, and sent someone to watch every move of her children, So she knew everything about Yang Yong going to Fengyue and Yang Guang reciting Confucian classics in the mansion every day.

"Nowadays, there are internal and external troubles in my Sui Dynasty. There are various forces inside who want to usurp the throne, and barbarians outside are watching. At this critical moment, your elder brother is not prepared for danger in times of peace, but runs to have fun every day, and does not know how to share the worries of your father. Dugu Jialuo was still complaining that his eldest son was unreliable, and praised Yang Guang by the way: "It's still my family's brother who has a conscience."

"Brother has the demeanor of a hermit, and he doesn't want to be polluted by the same stream, so he hides in the city. This is the lotus that emerges from the mud and is not stained." Yang Guang praised the prince's nobleness on the surface, but in fact he secretly dismissed the prince as only suitable for being a celebrity. Fit to be an emperor.

Yang Guang stood behind Dugu Jialuo, dismissed the maid next to him, and massaged the queen's shoulders himself.

"Ah Cheng's technique is getting better and better." Dugu Jialuo became more and more satisfied with Yang Guang.

"I learned it from the Brahmin master not long ago." Yang Guang smiled softly. He visited the Brahmin master and learned one-hand yoga and massage.

After Buddhism spread to the Central Plains, the poisoned Brahmins also spread to the Central Plains. Some poisoned Brahmin mages even built temples in the Central Plains.

However, people in the Central Plains couldn't tell the difference between Buddhism and Brahmanism, and even thought that Brahmanism was a small branch of Buddhism, so they regarded Brahman masters as eminent Buddhist monks.

Not only the Central Plains people do not understand the difference between Brahmans and Buddhism, even the disciples of the localized Buddhisms do not know the difference between themselves and Brahmins, and they really think that Brahmans are their own sect.

Then, a very strange thing happened. The Buddhists and Brahmins who had been beating each other to death, did not fight after they came to the Central Plains, and even began to merge and absorb each other's thoughts.

Chatting and chatting, the mother and son chatted about the recent international situation.

In response to the [Anti-Sui Alliance], Yang Jian also recruited some allies to form the [Great Sui Alliance], including Western Turks, Tuyuhun, and Goguryeo.

(End of this chapter)