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

Chapter 583 Competing in the Central Plains (66)

four months later
Spring of the second year of Yan State 380 (592)
New Year
The Great Court Meeting is being held, but Yang Jian can't be happy about it.

First came the news of the fall of Danzhou Island, and secondly, the spies finally found out the traitor, and that traitor was actually his prince!
How could he not be angry that his own son actually betrayed Da Sui?
"Yanlu is rampant, colluding with ugly people wantonly, harassing us towards the border, if we don't destroy them, there will be endless troubles!"

Yang Jian's determination to destroy the country of Yan became more and more firm, but before that, he needed to calm down the civil strife and recuperate.

He is not a tyrant, so naturally he can't do the kind of continuous wars that make the world's people miserable, so after the last time he fought against Chen Guo, he has been recuperating and cleaning up all kinds of traitors in the country.

During the reform in the first month of this year, he officially announced that the Yicang will be taken over as a government operation, and that people from all over the country will need to hand in grain to the warehouse during the harvest year.

"Don't worry, when the disaster year comes, I will naturally open a warehouse to release grain!" Yang Jian said flickeringly.

In fact, he didn't plan to open a warehouse to release grain at all. He was going to store the grain as the grain for the next war of annihilating the country in the future.

As for the people at the bottom?Occasionally, it is not a big problem to starve to death some people. As long as they do not resort to militarism and kill too many people in an instant, they will naturally not rebel.

It’s just tricking the people to hand over the food, but tens of thousands of people starve to death every year. This is actually a prosperous country and a peaceful and prosperous world. There will not be too many civil uprisings. People, then there will be big troubles.

For this era, tens of thousands of people starve to death every year is regarded as the rule of the world. If people don’t starve to death, and even have buns to eat, it will be a super prosperous world!

Therefore, the rule of Wenjing is regarded as the rule of the world, and the period of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty is considered the prosperous age.

Although there were famines during the reign of Wenjing and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the difference is that the cannibalism of Wenjing was only in a small area, and it only happened occasionally, while in the late period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, it was all over the country famine.

The interior of the Sui Dynasty was very unstable, because it had just been unified, and there were still many restoration forces inside, just like the Qin Dynasty during the period of just unified.

Almost every year, there will be rebellions, although the scale is small, only a few thousand people.

Looking at the current situation of the Sui Dynasty, and thinking of the Crown Prince's collusion with the Yan State, he became even more depressed.

"It's better to abolish the crown prince and make King Jin the crown prince." Dugu Jia Luo who was on the side took the opportunity to say.

"I also intended to do so a long time ago." Yang Jian made up his mind. After all, he was his own son. He didn't want to kill him. He only planned to abolish Yang Yong's crown prince and let Yang Yong spend the rest of his life as a happy but rich and powerful vassal king.

another year later
Yang Jian gave Prince Yong one last chance, wanting to see if Yang Yong would change his mind, but Yang Yong let him down.

In the end, Yang Jian adopted the suggestion of Minister Yang Su, and chose "Li Xian" in the entanglement of "Li Xian" or "Li Chang".

Depose the eldest son Yang Yong as the crown prince, and canonize the wise Jin Wang Yang Guang as the crown prince.

At the same time, half a year after Yang Guang was canonized as the crown prince, the Sui Dynasty formally annexed the vassal state of Liang, and put the natal family of Princess Xiao directly under the jurisdiction.

Although the clans belonging to the Liang State in the Sui Dynasty lost their country, they became the relatives of the Great Sui Dynasty.

Time flies, five years have passed

Winter of the eighth year of Yan State 380 (598)
The State of Yan did not dare to take the initiative to attack the hinterland of the Central Plains, and the Central Plains was also busy recuperating, preparing for the next war of annihilating the country. The two sides unexpectedly developed peacefully for a period of time without signing an armistice agreement.

In this year, there was a famine in Hebei, and people were eating each other. The officials wrote to ask to open warehouses for disaster relief, but Emperor Yang Jian refused, and asked the local officials to organize the famine people to go to other counties to eat food.

"Let them find food for themselves, don't always think about eating food from the imperial court, the imperial court is not their parents!"

Tens of thousands died of starvation, and the remaining tens of thousands finally arrived in Henan, where they begged for a living.

But there are also some hungry people who choose to enter Shandong and ask to become the people of Yan.

Naturally, Yan Guo would not refuse anyone who came, and they would all be arrested and sold to overseas plantations as land reclamation slaves.

"My food must be saved and expanded to expand the territory. It cannot be wasted on these small people. When there is a large-scale famine, we will provide relief. Don't worry about this small-scale famine. In the Sui Dynasty, we should try our best to save food and store up the granaries. fully!"

Although Yang Jian was reluctant to provide disaster relief, he was not a tyrant, so he ordered that the people in the disaster-stricken area be exempted from taxes for three years, so that the people in the disaster-stricken area could rely on their own strength to resume production and find the meaning of life again.

Compared with Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Yang Jian was obviously more rational. He knew that if there was a major famine, no matter how reluctant he was, he had to open warehouses to relieve the disaster, instead of forcibly expropriating the people's rations during the famine.

Yang Jian doesn't think it's evil for him not to provide disaster relief, because it depends on who he compares with.

The era before Yang Jian was the Five Hu, Southern and Northern Dynasties. What kind of era was the Five Hu, Southern and Northern Dynasties? It was an era when there was a famine and taxes were increased.

The well-known tyrant empress Zhao Tianwang Shihu said: The reason why the common people can't eat enough is because there are too many people. As long as everyone is killed, there will naturally be no famine.

Sima Yao, the famous Emperor Xiaowu of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, said: I heard that the people in the Sanwu area have rebelled because of the famine in recent years?Very well, give them one more tax!Let's see if they dare to rebel in the future!

The world-famous loving father Liu Song Xiaowu Emperor Liu Jun said: I just added a few hundred million tax and corvee, how dare the common people compose nursery rhymes to insult and satirize me?Kill all the people in the city!This kind of people who have no king and no father are not worthy of being my people!
Li Shou, the emperor of Cheng Han, who is quite artistic and literary, said: The life of the common people is too ordinary, and it seems that I am very useless. Give me a lot of troubles for the people. I want to see their people living in poverty.
The above-mentioned monarchs were not even exceptions in the Wuhu Southern and Northern Dynasties, but abounded.

Compared with them, Yang Jian chose to refuse relief in the face of famine, but finally exempted the people in the disaster area from paying taxes for three years. How commendable it is.

It's not that Yang Jian is so good, but that the era before him was too outrageous.

Sure enough, the people of the Central Plains, who had experienced the Southern and Northern Dynasties, expressed that they were used to it. They had already expected the court’s refusal to provide disaster relief. After all, in the hundreds of years before that, the word disaster relief appeared frequently. Too low. In that era, many people lived in famine all their lives, but never heard the word disaster relief.

"Although His Majesty is reluctant to give relief to us, he did not increase our taxes, and even exempted us from taxes for three years. Compared with the previous Wuhu Southern and Northern Dynasties, we who lived in the Great Sui Dynasty are really very happy. !"

Yang Jian is indeed a sage Khan and a wise king!
(End of this chapter)