The entire Chang'an, the entire Daxing Palace is shrouded in haze, and the uneasiness has spread to the palace, this time it is different from Yang Tong's burning of the palace city, Yang Tong only rode into Beijing last time to deter Li Yuan, and now it is a war to destroy the country, and the situation is completely different.

As Yang Tong expected, Chang'an carried out forced conscription, and men between the ages of 14 and 55 had to join the army to assist in defense. Although the recruitment of troops did not go well, Li Tang was stunned and forcibly formed an army of 150,000 in Chang'an.

The rain for several days in a row has made Chang'an a little cooler, less dry, and refreshed.

In the evening, Chang'an was shrouded in thick dark clouds, and heavy rain was coming.

The majestic, magnificent, atmospheric, solemn and solemn Chang'an is a little more ethereal and unpredictable in the rain.

In a bedroom in Dugu Mansion, Dugu was lying on the bed, and the whole person seemed to be much older in an instant, and the white head on his head was so dazzling.

A few days ago, Dugu was a little uncomfortable, and he took leave to recuperate at home, he was old, and it was not easy to recover from illness, and then there was a series of news of fiascos, Dugu's small illness became a major illness, he was not anxious about Li Tang's future and fate, he didn't care about Li Tang's life or death, what he cared about was Dugu's family! At the same time, he also had a deep hatred for Li Yuan, hated him for being incompetent, hated him for being in a good situation, and was repeatedly beaten by the Sui Dynasty so that he couldn't raise his head.

Thinking that before Li Yuan raised the army, the Dugu family did not hesitate to marry their daughter to Li Shimin, who had a married husband, in order to appease Li Yuan's heart.

Thinking that after Li Yuan raised an army, the Dugu family used up nearly sixty percent of the money and food to support Li Tang.

Thinking that Li Yuan had been repeatedly beaten, he and many Guanlong nobles gave their wholehearted support.

But as a result, what did you get?

Gray, dog-like.

But all this was brought on by him, and for the benefit of the Dugu family, he did not hesitate to betray another nephew, Yang Guang, but in the end, the bamboo basket was empty. An irrepressible sense of anger, despair, and remorse arises.

Why did he support Li Yuan, a nephew, and oppose another nephew?

None of them.

Interest ear.

This interest is not only the interests of the Dugu family, but also the interests of the entire Guanlong elite group.

The Guanlong group is a military aristocratic group formed by Yuwentai on the basis of the military system of the government and the military group formed on the basis of the military system in the north of the six towns that moved from the Hetao area to Guanzhong and the forces of the local wealthy clans in Guanlong in order to compete with the Gao clan of the Eastern Wei Dynasty.

Among them, Yuwentai is the head of the Eight Pillars. The other pillar state was limited in power because it was the imperial family of the Northern Wei Dynasty, so it was actually a six-pillar state. Each of the six pillars of the country has two generals, and each general has two Kaifu Yi and three divisions. Each Kaifu led an army, a total of 24 armies, which is the government soldier system. For the sake of common interests, these pillars, generals, and Kaifu advocated military merits, supported each other, and married each other, forming a political group from the end of the Northern Wei Dynasty to the present.

In the chaotic era of the division between the North and the South, this political interest group, which emerged out of thin air, became the main force that ended the division between the North and the South by 400 to 500 because of its talented people and strong cohesion.

Later generations of historians have high praise for it: "Wei and Zhou Zhao its foundation, Sui and Tang inherited its unification, with its martial arts and cultural governance, restrained the east and west, mixed the north and the south, ended the 400 years of division of the Wei and Jin dynasties, and opened the Sui and Tang dynasties in the middle and ancient times." ”

In other words, the Guanlong Group promoted the rise and succession of the Western Wei, Northern Zhou, Sui, and Tang dynasties. They first gathered under the banner of Yuwentai and founded the Western Wei Dynasty together; Later, they supported the descendants of Yuwentai to establish the Northern Zhou Dynasty to replace the Western Wei Dynasty, so as to obtain more benefits, and then they were not satisfied with the status quo, and supported Yang Jian to establish the Sui Dynasty to replace the Northern Zhou.

Yang Jian, Emperor Wen of Sui, who was born in the Guanlong Group, took advantage of the reign of Emperor Young of the Northern Zhou Dynasty and the ownerless artifact to win the support of the Guanlong Group and finally won the throne.

But after ascending the throne, Yang Jian was deeply wary of the Guanlong Group, on the one hand, the Guanlong Group was intertwined and powerful, and he was afraid that someone would attack his old tricks, support others to usurp the party and seize power, and once again launch a coup d'état of dynasty change; On the other hand, it is to restrict gate politics, promote more vigorous Han Shi into the political arena, release the private productive forces, and promote the reform and development of the country.

In the early years of the emperor's reign, Yang Jian took a major move: the implementation of the monarch's direct jurisdiction over the government and military system. This directly deprived the Guanlong aristocracy of the military foundation on which it depended. However, the Guanlong group continued to control the military power in another way, that is, by using the convenience of the power in its own hands to place its children, protégés, fake sons, former officials, and generals into the 700,000 janitarian guards founded by Yang Jian, and controlled this army from top to bottom. Because of this, Yang Jian did not dare to anger the Guanlong elite group too much, so he compromised them, which also made the power of the Guanlong elite group go to its peak.

After Yang Guang succeeded to the throne, he inherited his father's will and continued to crack down on the Guanlong Group with greater efforts. He founded the Jinshi Branch, which was a sign of the formal establishment of the imperial examination system, and was an official selection and allocation system that adapted to the historical trend.

Then, Yang Guang deprived the Guanlong group of the privilege of hereditary titles. He once issued an edict, "There must be no examination and promotion, and those whose moral functions are outstanding must be promoted." And the original king, county king, state duke, county duke, county duke, marquis, earl, son, male nine titles, "only the king, duke, marquis and other three titles, the rest and abolished." This not only reduces the redundant bureaucratic layers and saves expenses, but it seriously violates the vested political interests of the Guanlong group. In order to get the strong support of the Guanlong Group, after Li Yuan ascended the throne, he canonized more than 100 national dukes in one go, and there were thousands of county dukes, county dukes, marquis, uncles, sons, and men, and after meeting the requirements of the Guanlong Group, this won everyone's full support.

And what about Yang Guang?

On the basis of changing the nine lords to the third lords, the economic interests of the aristocratic families represented by the Guanlong group were further attacked. Its main measure is to "bracket households", that is, to check the household registration, search out the population that the family has omitted and not reported, and send them back to their hometowns or naturalize on the spot, so as to increase the country's financial endowment and military resources. Although all dynasties tried to compete for hukou from the family, only the Sui dynasty was the most thorough.

As an auxiliary means of supporting households, Yang Guang also introduced a policy of light taxation and rectification of the rule of officials, attracting small peasants who had been hiding under the protection of the family to evade heavy taxes and harsh officials into the arms of the imperial court. Later generations praised and said: "The law of light taxation is set up, and the floating guests are all attributed to the households, and the prosperity of the Sui Dynasty is really due to Si." ”

In this way, the two emperors of the Sui Dynasty and Wenwu used a series of means to carry out a fatal blow to the Guanlong group, so that the original military, economic, and political privileges of the Guanlong group were completely deprived, and future generations could not pass on the family inheritance. In this way, their rule over the Great Sui Dynasty naturally shifted from support to opposition and hatred, and they did everything possible to regain their original rights.

Therefore, the Guanlong Group headed by Duguquan and Dou Wei launched Li Yuan as the spokesperson for interests, why is it Li Yuan and not others?

This again involves the struggle for rights within the Guanlong Group. Because the Guanlong group was divided into two factions after the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, one faction was headed by the Yuan family, and the other faction was headed by the Dugu family, after the fall of the Yuan family, the Dou family took over the leadership of the Yuan faction, and this faction was renamed the Dou faction. But whether it is the Dou faction or the Dugu faction, they can indeed work together externally, but internally, they are also fighting endlessly for the position of leader, and as a result, no one of the two factions can suppress anyone, and no one can obey them, so they simply launch a person that everyone agrees with. As a result, Li Yuan entered the sight of the two factions, first of all, Li Yuan himself is also an important branch in the Guanlong Group; Secondly, Li Yuan is Dugu's nephew and Dou's son-in-law, and Dugu's naturally has no opinion on his nephew; Dou felt that his son-in-law was in power, and he could blow the wind on the pillow in the future, and he would be able to suppress Dugu's head, so he had no opinion. Therefore, Li Yuan has become a balance between the interests of the two factions, and everyone is happy with his ascension.

But whether it is the Dou faction or the Dugu faction, after the purge of the Sui Dynasty's civil and military emperors, especially after Yang Guang's repeated attacks, the originally strong Guanlong magnates began to weaken. It's just that the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and the weakness of the Guanlong magnates is only a period when the relative power is overwhelming the world and the 700,000 forbidden soldiers are in the palm of their hands.

In the past, Guanlong magnates, land and industry were all over the world, but after Yang Guang's suppression, they all retracted back to Guanlong's nest, and there was still a strong force in the Guanlong area, more than eighty percent of Guanlong's fertile land was occupied by Guanlong magnates, and all kinds of money-making businesses were also monopolized by them, which was also one of the reasons why Yang Guang was in a hurry to move the capital to Luoyang, he was worried that he would wake up the next day and inexplicably become a prisoner of the Guanlong group.

The reason why Li Yuan was able to quickly take root in Guanlong was closely related to the full support of the Guanlong magnates, who not only supported Li Yuan morally, but also contributed money, food and troops to help the defeated Li Yuan recover to his peak again and again.

If Yang Tong had not been born, with the support of Guanlong's magnates, Li Tang would have been able to sweep the world and establish a powerful dynasty as in history, but it is a pity that Li Tang was repeatedly defeated by the Sui army, the people's hearts were scattered, and now even the core of the Guanlong nobles has been lost.

This also means that the Guan Long Group's tried and tested method of betting is not brilliant and failed to bet here in Li Yuan.

And Yang Tong, the player who won, no longer plays according to the inherent routine of the Guanlong Group, I have a clear distinction between friends and enemies, and I do not give the Guanlong Group a chance to bet on both sides, so the fate of the Guanlong Group that failed to invest is undoubtedly perish.

Now they only have two ways to increase, one is to stay in Guanzhong and wait for Yang Tong to clean up; The second is to encourage Li Yuan to escape and move towards an unknown future, the future of this road is uncertain, but there is still a little hope, but the Guanlong Group that has lost Guanlong, is it still the Guanlong Group?

As the helmsman of the Dugu family, Dugu has lost the accumulation of several generations of family life, and the discomfort, self-blame, pain, and remorse in his heart can be imagined.

"The head of the house." Looking at Dugu Cheng's increasingly old and waiting to die, Dugu Cheng couldn't help but shed tears in his eyes, although he didn't want to affect the recuperation of the head of the family, but there were some things that had to be agreed by the head of the house, and he also knew that the head of the house was very concerned about things outside the city.

"How's it going out there?"

"Since Chang'an was trapped, people's hearts have been scattered!" Dugu Cheng was silent for a while, and then said: "In the past few days, there has been a nursery rhyme in the city, the content is: Open the door to welcome the King of Sui and Qin, the King of Qin will not grab grain when he comes, knock down the fields of the family, and the serfs will turn over and sing. ”

Dugu smiled miserably and said: "What a sentence that directly points to the hearts of the people's 'down with the world's fields', this sentence is more powerful than 'the worries of the world first, and the joy of the world after the world', and more powerful than what 'education-based for a century-old plan', amazing!" ”

Dugu Cheng understands the meaning of Dugu and knows the power of this sentence.

Because the people have the land to solve the problem of food and clothing, after solving the problem of food and clothing, they can study and enter the office, and then they can have the worries of the world first, and the joy of the world after the world's worries! That is to say, 'Down with the Shijia Juntian' will definitely touch the hearts of the low-level people in Chang'an, with this sentence, who is willing to resist the Sui army? Who wants to fight with the Sui army who 'brought down the land of the family'? Once the Sui army entered the city, the scene of welcoming the road would be staged.

"What about Li Yuan? What's the reaction? After a long time, Dugu asked again. He called the emperor by his name, which shows that his disrespect is extreme.

"The news of moving the capital has spread all over Chang'an City!" Dugu Cheng said: "Although the saint has not yet expressed his position, I think this is the rumor he released, if everyone does not object, he will really announce the move south." If everyone opposes it, I am afraid that he will also move south, because the situation is like this, and staying in Chang'an is only a dead end. ”

"What a person to entrust!"

Dugu's voice revealed a strong sense of resentment and remorse, and said angrily: "After Li Yuan entered Guanzhong, he first became blind and arrogant, and started an all-out war, resulting in the loss of the annexed state; He didn't find a way to win a big battle to unite people's hearts, but he negotiated with the Sui Dynasty again and again, and signed countless terms that humiliated the country. Such a court that does not want to make progress, survives secretly, and survives, how many days can it support in the south? ”

Dugu Cheng was silent for a moment and said, "Maybe he wants to try his courage and make a comeback!" At least the crown prince has such considerations. ”

"All day long he only knows how to fight for power and profit, and he will play balance all day long, and even his sons have become his tools to consolidate the throne. I don't see any hope of him making a comeback. In vain, my Dugu family supports him so much, and if we knew this, we should have supported Yang Tong. ”

Dugu hated blood in his heart, which was a huge mistake for him as the head of the family, because he failed to bet and brought ruin to the Dugu family; He hated himself for being blind, and even more hated Li Yuan for being incompetent, talentless, and immoral.

However, how can there be regret medicine in the world that can be bought? How many heroes in the troubled times have lost their fortunes and lives because of a little mistake, what is the point of a mere Dugu family?

"The head of the house! Now where should I go from here? Want to negotiate terms with Yang Tong? Dugu Cheng heard what the head of the family meant.

"Negotiate conditions?" Dugu laughed at himself, "The entire Guanlong is from the Sui Dynasty, the land is, the wealth is, and the population is too, what qualifications does our Dugu family have to negotiate terms with others?" ”

Dugu Cheng was silent for a moment, and said in a calm tone: "But I thought... We still have the capital to negotiate conditions..."

"Capital? What capital? Dugu couldn't think of a way to rack his brains these days, and when he saw his nephew so determined, his spirit was greatly boosted.

Lonely Cheng said cautiously: "Bringing down Li Tang, who leaks on all sides, is our capital." We can take advantage of our position to exchange Li Tang's core secrets for the survival of the Dugu family! ”

Dugu's cloudy eyes lit up, he really forgot about this biggest 'capital', thanks to Dugucheng's reminder.

Just as he was about to say yes, the housekeeper's report came: "Family master, Dou Xiangguo asks to see!" ”

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