Soon after, Li Jiancheng, under the leadership of Luo Shixin, walked to the big tent of the Chinese army.

Yang Tong seemed to be a hospitable host, alone at the door, as if he had been waiting for a long time, he saw Li Jiancheng and greeted with a smile: "Brother Jiancheng, please." ”

"Wait for a long time, sin and sin!"

Li Jiancheng saw Yang Tong using a private name, and his heavy mood was much more relaxed, so that the atmosphere of the conversation was the best, and there was no pressure on both sides.

Yang Tong joked with a smile: "It's getting more and more attractive!" It's just a little haggard. ”

Li Jiancheng is now Chinese New Year's Eve one, it is a good year for Youzuo, he is thin and tall, and his handsome face is slightly dark. It's just that he looks tired, and there is indescribable tiredness in his eyes.

"You didn't hurt it?" Li Jiancheng said angrily.

"It's not me, it's the damn world." Yang Tong argued.

The two laughed together, as if they were confidants reuniting after a long absence, who would have thought that this was a pair of great enemies.

"Xiao Gong!" Yang Tong and Xiao Yu met again, this is also a relative, it was Yang Guang and Xiao Hou who led the big with one hand and cultivated the enemy for the Great Sui with the other.

In the military tent, there are only Yang Tong, Du Ruhui and Luo Shixin on the main position. Li Tang is Li Jiancheng, Xiao Yu, and Li Daozong.

"Presumably Brother Jiancheng is also anxious to bring back good news to Chang'an, so let's talk straight to the point." After everyone sat down, Yang Tong spoke directly.

"That's fine." Yang Tong's proposal was exactly what Li Jiancheng intended, and he asked a very puzzled question in his heart: "My Tang Dynasty only has Chang'an left in Guanzhong, and the main force of the Tang army is also defeated in Liangzhou, even if reinforcements arrive, it is not the opponent of the Sui army, why did Ren Jin let me go of the Tang Dynasty?" ”

"First of all, the gate valve system, which originated in the Han Dynasty and flourished because of Cao Wei's 'Nine Products Zhongzheng System'. Since the Yongjia Rebellion, the Southern and Northern Dynasties have changed one after another, and there has never been a good beginning and an end, and the Northern Wei Dynasty is considered to be a long time, but it was only a hundred years and was divided by Zhou Qi. Behind this, it is the gate valve system that is doing the trick. ”

"Emperor Xiaowen also wanted to reform, but unfortunately went astray, so that the wind of the gate valve was not weak but strong, Yuwentai built the Longmen valve, and finally established the country, but the Northern Zhou Dynasty was still destroyed in the hands of the gate valve."

"My Great Sui was transferred to the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and the old system was not destroyed in a bloody and violent way, so that the various interest groups represented by the Guanlong nobles were still very strong. These people, only have family interests in their hearts, never consider the world, let alone care about the life or death of the people, they not only control the local government, so that the government decree can not leave the capital, but also monopolize knowledge, block the road of Han Shi advancement, so that Han Shi has no hope of promotion. When the resentment of the Han scholars accumulates to a certain point, it will inevitably erupt, which is the biggest problem that existed at the beginning of the founding of the Great Sui Dynasty. Emperor Wu tried his best to give Han Shi a chance. However, the strong power of the family made him have to compromise, and in the end, a very small number of Han scholars who passed the imperial examination could only serve as low-grade petty officials, and under the hopelessness of promotion, they took refuge in the wealthy families, but became advocates of the supremacy of the family. ”

"In the past, the Guanlong nobles were not satisfied with the benefits given to them by the Northern Zhou, so they introduced Emperor Wen to replace the Northern Zhou with the Sui Dynasty. But my Great Sui Dynasty not only failed to meet the demands of the Guanlong nobles, but instead did things that harmed their interests, so they pushed your Li family out to fight for the world. ”

"Your Li family has relied on the Guanlong magnates to come to this point, but your Li family has also paid seventy or eighty percent of the official positions to return to his Guanlong magnates. Therefore, even if your Li family finally gets the world, I am afraid that the fate of your Li family dynasty will be the same as my Great Sui, and it will not be able to stabilize for two or three generations. ”

Of course, Yang Tong is not the only one who knows this truth, and the high-ranking officials of all parties understand it in their hearts, but only Yang Tong and the civil and military forces under his command dare to say it clearly; Although Li Jiancheng and Li Daozong knew it in their hearts, they would never dare to say it in front of Xiao Yu, the leader of the southern clan, because their Li family needed these clans to fight the country and dare not offend them, this is the most fundamental difference between Yang Tong and the actual forces, because he has never relied on the clan, and no matter how much the clan hates him, there is no way to make trouble in the current Great Sui.

In fact, the new dynasty established by Wang Mang was quickly extinguished, but it was the first time since the Xia Shang Zhou Dynasty to shake the foundation of the family, think about it carefully, many of Yang Tong's current policies are similar to the new policies implemented by Wang Mang, but unfortunately, Wang Mang did not have Yang Dong's skills and strength, and finally short-lived in the family's counterattack.

Yang Tong's path is somewhat similar to Wang Mang's, they all want to break the system of the family and the world, and establish a system that is conducive to the development of the times. And to a certain extent, Yang Tong has succeeded, looking at Jizhou, Youzhou, Bingzhou, and Yongbei, every place is like iron in the people's hearts, as long as this system is there, Li Tang is ten times the strength of the army is difficult to attack.

As a smart person, how could Li Jiancheng not see the harm of the family's door valve? But he is not the king of Tang, even if he is the king of Tang, he can't play Yang Dong's trick, because Li Tang has been stereotyped since the day of the incident, and he can't and has no ability to put class contradictions on the table as a weapon like Yang Tong, if that's the case, without Yang Dong fighting, Li Tang himself will be finished.

"There is no cancer in the world than the gate valve, and the poison of the gate valve is none other than Guan Long! But as long as it is poisonous, it should be removed, and only in this way can it be regarded as a real chaos. ”

After Yang Tong finished his conclusion, he looked at Li Jiancheng indifferently, and said with a smile: "If I unify the world too quickly, the southern family that has a family first and a country later will definitely lower me." If I become my own person, I hate these tumors, what reason do I have to dance the sharp butcher's knife? ”

Du Ruhui smiled knowingly, this was one of his propositions to Yang Tong.

Li Jiancheng said with a black line: "This is the reason why you let Li Tang go?" ”

"Guan Long's magnates are outsiders in foreign wars, and insiders are insiders. I need the Guanlong magnates led by the Li family to fight to death the Kwantung clan, the southern clan, and the Bashu clan! Wait until you kill most of the family, and then go to clean up a clean Bashu and Jingyang. ”

"Wei Wentong, Wang Wanchang, Liu Badao, Sun Anzu, Gao Tuda, Zhang Jincheng, Liu Yuanjin, Guo Zihe, Meng Haigong, Lu Mingyue, Xu Yuanlang, Zhai Rang, Meng Rang, Xue Ju, Liang Shidu ......" Yang Tong said the names of dozens of dead rebel leaders in one breath, and then said: "If they didn't mess up the world, if they didn't kill the families in various places, the Jizhou, Youzhou, Bingzhou, Yongzhou, and half of Liangzhou I got would not be so clean, and various reforms would be difficult." Although they were the gravediggers of the old Sui, they were the pioneers of the 'elimination of the gate valve system', and I want to thank them. ”

Yang Tong continued: "They are the first batch of chess pieces to be sacrificed in this big game of chess, and you Li Tang and Wang Shichong, Li Mi, Dou Jiande, Xiao Mi, Du Fuwei, Lin Shihong, Shen Faxing, and Li Zitong are also my chess pieces. This game of chess is not over yet, how can I be willing to cut off my arm? ”

"Chess pieces?" Li Jiancheng laughed astringently: "It turns out that the heroes of the world, in the eyes of Renjin, are just chess pieces? ”

"The world is changing, who is the chess player and who is the chess piece? Who knows? Whether it is a chess piece or a chess player, they are all pioneers who promote the normal development of the times! What makes me more successful than Wang Mang is that I not only penetrated the New Deal into the marrow and soul of more than 20 million people, but also created a relatively complete system, even if the dynasty that killed me burned books, it would not be able to burn all the books hidden in millions of families. As long as the destruction is not complete, there will be people who will continue to do so. Say, what are you looking for me? ”

"We need time for this chess piece to evacuate, and I hope that the Holy Hand of the country will have a few days of grace. How is it? Li Jiancheng said angrily.

Xiao Yu saw that Li Jiancheng's tone was very impulsive, and his heart chuckled, for fear that Yang Tong, who was not very good-tempered, would be angry, and was about to explain, but Yang Tong said indifferently: "Give you two more days." Three days later, you left Lantian to go out of Wuguan. ”

Xiao Yu was stunned.

When did Yang Tong speak so well?

"What about your conditions? I don't think you're unconditional. ”

"Except for the ones I said outside Chang'an City. And one more, you must not force the people and the soldiers to move south. ”

Li Jiancheng pondered, the Sui Dynasty implemented the Juntian system, and the Tang Dynasty had no way to implement it, the people and soldiers would definitely not move south with them, and the tenant farmers and serfs of the big families would not leave, losing nearly 10 million people in Guanzhong, which would cause extremely serious losses to Li Tang. But after thinking about it, he found that he had no bargaining capital, if he annoyed Yang Tong, he broke Chang'an, it would be really a general trend, so he nodded with some difficulty: "Yes." ”

"That's it!" Yang Tong smiled and said to Xiao Yu: "I have a private matter and Chengfan to say, Xiao Gong will go back first." ”

"This!" Xiao Yu hesitated.

"It's not a big deal, it's news about Xiuning. Xiao Gong can wait outside for a while. Yang Tong understood Xiao Yu's worries and smiled generously.

"Whoa."

Xiao Yu retreated under the leadership of Du Ruhui and Luo Shixin

When the three of them walked away, Yang Tong said to Li Jiancheng and Li Daozong: "Xiuning is pregnant, you are going to be an uncle!" ”

"Really?" Li Jiancheng was overjoyed, Li Xiuning's recent situation was also something he cared about, even if Yang Tong didn't say it, he would ask.

"When Xiuning and I went on an expedition to Goguryeo, I became pregnant with this child. It is the biggest battle of the expedition to Goguryeo, surprise! ”

"Haha!" Li Jiancheng laughed happily and said excitedly: "This child is amazing, he fought the world with his father and mother before he was born, and expanded the territory. ”

Li Jiancheng has a lustful father and many sisters, and it is not the first time to be an uncle, but Li Xiuning is the only sister with the same father and mother as him, and her children are naturally different from others. It makes him feel like he is an uncle for the first time, silly and straightforward.

"Congratulations brother-in-law!" Li Daozong likes to congratulate, Li Xiuning is among his peers, and his popularity is quite good.

"Renjin, I can't eat the child's full moon wine." Li Jiancheng was full of regret, he took off a piece of jade jade from his waist and said: "I have nothing to give as an uncle, this jade pendant is a gift for my nephew." ”

"Thank you!" Yang Tong cautiously took the jade pendant from Li Jiancheng's hand and put it away.

"I have that here." Li Daozong also sent a congratulatory gift.

"Thank you Seung-beom!" Yang Tong patted Li Daozong's shoulder, looked into his eyes and said, "The military god of the Li family is by no means a filial brother, it can only be you Li Daozong." ”

"Brother-in-law has won the prize!" Li Daozong blushed. Li Xiaogong laid down Bashu and half of Jingzhou for Li Tang, he was the first general of the Tang Dynasty, and he was the idol that Li Daozong looked up to, he really didn't think that he could surpass Li Xiaogong.

"Trust my eyes!" Yang Tong glanced at Li Jiancheng meaningfully, and said with a smile: "I think the level of people is only higher than Gao Xiaoji. ”

How shrewd is Li Jiancheng? knew that Yang Tong was talking to himself: his brother's future is limitless, and he must be wooed, fought for, and cherished.

He bowed slightly to Yang Tong to show his understanding.

He really has no doubts about the level of Yang Dong's appearance.

Even if Li Daozong did not reach the level that Yang Tong said, the heavy identity of the clan alone was enough to make him pay attention to it. He smiled and said: "When Fenglingdu met, Ren Jin asked me not to go to the Xuanwu Gate when I was in danger, what now?" ”

Yang Tong thought to himself: You ask me, who do I ask? However, he still said: "I don't know if your new kingdom will have a Xuanwu Gate, but if the danger is imminent and you have to take a shortcut, you must be careful." ”

Isn't that nonsense? When in danger, who doesn't take a shortcut and run away? Who dares not to be careful?

"What about me?" Li Daozong asked

"Don't be careful." Yang Tong had a magic expression on his face

"Jealous?"

"Yes!"

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