Yiyang, a giant eagle swoops down from the clouds. On the mountains it swept over, a large black and oppressive steel forest suddenly appeared, 10,000 Xiaoguo troops and 5,000 Xuanjia troops lined up in a long line from the straight official road to crush over, the sharp blades reflected the sun, a 'Sui' character flag hunted in the autumn wind, like the thunder of the horse's cry resounded through the world, but it gave people a sense of silence and solemnity.

After leaving Runan, after two days of marching, Yang Tong's team had arrived at Yiyang County, Yiyang County.

And along the way, Yang Tong has seen the withering of people's livelihood brought about by the war, and he has also seen many beautiful mountains and rivers, but they are not as shocking as this official road.

People who are not in the Great Sui can never imagine how the official road of this era is developed, and during the period of Emperor Wu Yang Guang, there were many official documents sent to Luoyang from all over Luoyang and from all over the country.

According to records, the materials sent to the imperial capital by just one county are hundreds of thousands of copies every year, and it is estimated that in the Great Sui Dynasty, where the official roads extend in all directions, once the decree is issued, it can be implemented throughout the country in more than two months, and the development of official roads has promoted the economic development to a certain extent, and also consolidated the rule of the Great Sui Dynasty over the localities.

The official road of the Great Sui Dynasty inherited from the previous dynasty, the period of the two emperors of Wenwu and Wu, they continued to expand on the original basis, forming a huge transportation network centered on Luoyang and Daxing, there are Donglai - Luoyang - Daxing - the east and west arteries of the Western Regions, there are official roads from Daxing Luoyang to Bashu, there are official roads from Daxing Luoyang to Lingnan, there are official roads from Daxing to the grassland area, and there is an official road from Zhangye, extending to Juyanze in the north, and then passing through Daqing Mountain, the southern foot of Yinshan Mountain, and directly reaching the eastern Liaodong region.

Luoyang, as the actual national capital, political, military, economic and cultural center in the Yangguang period, extends the road lines into a network, forming a dense road traffic network, and pedestrians can reach any place along the "official road", and it is very convenient to travel. The imperial court also attached great importance to the maintenance of these land transportation. In order to facilitate drainage, the diameter of the roadbed on both sides of the official road is 1 foot 5, or the drainage ditch is dug. In addition, a stone monument is erected in a conspicuous position every other distance to mark the road mileage, county boundary, and county boundary. The official road that Yang Tong is walking on, north to Luoyang, south to Jiuzhen (the middle of the Yue Dragon), can be called one of the many major arteries connecting the north and the south.

The transportation in all directions was originally built by the two emperors of civil and military affairs to make it easy to rule the world, and it was indeed possible to use this transportation network to control the world, but such a good hand was broken by Yang Guang, who was in a hurry. It can be said that convenient transportation is the greatest reliance on the prosperity of the Great Sui Emperor, but now, it has been used by the rebels and has become a channel to drain the blood of Sui and Korea. And these profiteers who profit from the transportation network will be the biggest enemies of Yang Tong's unification of the world. But on the other hand, it was also because of the existence of many great enemies that Yang Tong was given the opportunity to ascend the throne as emperor and get rid of the old system.

When the emperor inspected the world, he naturally had the power to deter Xiaoxiao, so Yang Tong brought the most elite army of the Great Sui.

The two carriages walked in the middle of the procession, and there were several eagles flying on the top to perch, and the carriage was surrounded by Shura Guards, and outside, it was naturally the Xuanjia Army, and on both sides of the official road, the scouts were constantly coming and going.

Yang Tong sat in the carriage in front of him, not that he liked to sit on this thing, let alone enjoy life, but that even if he went out on patrol, he couldn't neglect government affairs, sitting on horseback, obviously couldn't approve the note sent by the letter eagle.

As for the other one, it was Concubine Hui Xiao Yuexian who was sitting. This is a few of Wei Fengwu and her sisters. They felt that with a large army, there would not be much danger on the southern tour, and Xiao Yuexian could not only take care of Yang Tong's daily life, but also help him pacify the people in the south, Yang Tong had no way to refuse his wife's kindness, so he had to bring it.

Yang Tong understood Wei Fengwu's intention to do this, it was nothing more than that the emperor only had two sons, the heirs were thin, the family was not prosperous, and it was easy to make the society unstable, and she was more worried that the child would not grow up, after all, under the conditions of this era, it was not uncommon for the prince to die young, and Yang Guang had a son named Yang Ming who died young. However, Yang Tong didn't care too much, Sun Simiao said that several children were very healthy, what was there to worry about, and he was still very young, and some had time to give birth. What's more, more sons will make the society stable? Quite the opposite.

Outside the carriage, Yin Mingyue wore a hideous bronze face armor, I couldn't see what her expression was, holding a horse lance, on horseback, her posture was matched with the bronze mask, like a Shura, with a different kind of seductive meaning.

She looked up at the sun in the sky, rode her horse to the window of the carriage, and reported: "Holy Lord, it's time for dinner......

Yang Tong closed the song in his hand and said, "Send the order down and let the whole army rest for half a day." Overnight in Yiyang County. ”

"Whoa!"

When Yin Mingyue went to command, Yang Tong also got out of the carriage, and it felt as comfortable as riding a horse in this carriage, not to mention the bumps, and the vision was not wide, and when he looked around, he found that the scenery of the place where he stopped was good.

Now that the time has reached the end of August, the autumn mood is getting stronger, and the maple leaves in this area are all over the mountain, mixed with dark green pine needles and yellowed plane leaves, dyeing both sides of the official road into a colorful autumn picture.

The eagle chirping in the ears and the horses chirping Xiao Xiao feel a bit of paradise.

moved his muscles and bones, looked at the carriage behind, but saw Xiao Yuexian coming to meet.

In order to facilitate her movements, Xiao Yuexian wore a slightly wide red autumn skirt, a light yellow cardigan on her upper body, black hair like clouds, her eyes were like a pool of clear water, her pretty face was as white as fat, and she carried a thin wicker basket on her arm, which contained two food boxes. Receiving Yang Tong's promise to her father, the anxiety and sorrow in her heart were swept away, and her mood became clearer. At this time, seeing Yang Tong staring at her, her face was dyed with a touch of sunset, and her heart swelled with sweetness.

"Husband!" Xiao Yuexian stepped forward and saluted.

"Let's go sit down there!" Yang Tong walked up from her, took the basket, and walked straight to the pavilion on the side of the road for pedestrians to rest, where the Shura Guard had cleaned it and laid a mat on a stone bench.

"Good!" Yang Tong's careful care flowed into Xiao Yuexian's heart and followed silently.

The lunch of the two is very simple, during the march, there is no way to pay attention to it, Xiao Yuexian is also willing to eat similar dry food, which also makes Yang Tong feel a little more good, although the royal family is not short of delicacies, but he still hopes that his wife and children will have the quality of diligence and thrift.

However, her appetite is small, she is full after eating a piece of cake, but she does not eat a slice of jerky, which makes Yang Tong feel strange, "I was told once, changed to a vegetarian diet?" ”

Xiao Yuexian was speechless to this person who couldn't chat, and she said a little shyly: "The mutton has a smell when it's cold, I don't like it very much." ”

Yang Tong smiled, this girl was too thin-skinned, so she changed the topic: "Will you be too tired to travel this way?" ”

"Since I was a child, I have loved to climb mountains and watch the scenery, and I can walk thirty or forty miles a day, and I don't feel tired at all by riding in a horse-drawn carriage. Looking at the beautiful mountains and ruined villages through the car window, I was very touching. ”

"How do you feel?"

"On my way to Luoyang, I also passed through some places, the villages on the roadside were as dilapidated, and the people I occasionally saw were like walking corpses, with no hope of life; This time, I felt that although the people were poor, they all had smiles on their faces and hope for life. ”

"It's a reincarnation."

"Isn't the theory of reincarnation unique to Buddhism?"

"I'm just quoting this statement, it doesn't mean that I believe in Buddhism. I prefer the native path to the Buddha. ”

"Because the husband is a Taoist child?" Xiao Yuexian also knew that Yang Tong was a disciple of Zhang Qiu Taiyi, and he was also a Taoist lineage.

"Not really!" Yang Tong looked at Xiao Yuexian's beautiful face, and said with a smile: "The dispute between Buddhism and Taoism has been going on for a long time, and the reason why I can't have a good impression of Buddhism is that 'Buddha in the prosperous world, the way in troubled times'." ”

Xiao Yuexian looked dazed: "What do you mean by this?" ”

Yang Tong snorted coldly: "To put it simply, the Taoist priest will go down the mountain to save the world every time there is trouble, and the monk will only close the mountain gate to avoid trouble, and the monk does not care about the world; In the prosperous era, the Taoist priest will retreat to the deep mountains, and the monks will open the mountain gate to collect money. ”

Xiao Yuexian pondered for a while, and then suddenly became enlightened: "The husband said that he has exhausted the style of Buddhism and Taoism. ”“

"The essence of Taoism is too profound, it's not that the scholars can't comprehend it, but the scholars are all in the advanced class of scholars, and the Taoists who develop in the 'scholar' class, Taoists are not short of money and don't care about money."

"The Buddha came from a foreign land, and was rejected by the local sect in the early days, unable to gain a foothold in the court and the upper class, so they set their sights on the common people, and their ideas of 'benevolence' and 'patience' were quickly accepted by the suffering people, and the more difficult the people, the more they hoped that the 'superiors' would have a heart of benevolence and charity. Patience is the Buddha's stunt, this means to make the poor people mistakenly think that there is no hope of living a good life in this life, so they hope for the next life, and firmly believe that those who enjoy glory and wealth will be cows, horses and animals in the next life... The Buddha is rooted in the bottom, and the people do not have more money to worship the Buddha, so the Buddha is very short of money. So the Buddhists spread the land and tried every means to get money. So when it comes to making money and making a living, even the best businessmen can't play Buddha, because Buddhists can use the teachings of atonement, reincarnation, etc., to turn all the merchants' money into their money. ”

"Is there one?"

"I don't know about others, but your ancestor Emperor Wu of Liang was indeed deceived by the Buddha and emptied the treasury, causing the Liang Kingdom to collapse and finally lose the country. Are you convinced? ”

"......" Xiao Yuexian immediately became dumbfounded, Yang Tong was right, in fact, Xiao Yan had a chance to dominate the world, but because of his belief in Buddhism, he not only exhausted the treasury and overhauled the temple, but he also abdicated as a monk several times, and finally collapsed the Liang State.

A little smile appeared in Yang Tong's eyes, "Even a country has been deceived and deceived to death by the Buddha, how many people in this world have been deceived by the Buddha and ruined?" ”

"But" Xiao Yuexian stared at a pair of bewildered beautiful eyes, her mind was messy, and she felt that what Yang Tong said was right, and it didn't feel right.

"Before Emperor Wu of Liang came into contact with Buddha, the Liang Kingdom was thriving, swallowing thousands of miles like a tiger; But when he came into contact with the Buddha, the Liang Kingdom collapsed...... Why? ”

"Because of the Buddha?"

"Or else?"

"The same person, such a big difference, whose fault is it?"

"The Buddha's fault." Xiao Yuexian blinked her eyes wide, and her face was cute

"Poof!" It's so cute, Yang Tong couldn't help but kiss her on the face.

Xiao Yuexian was startled, the white jade-like face seemed to be coated with a thick layer of rouge, and there was a hidden luster under the red cloud, a pair of beautiful eyes were like rippling water, and she glanced around sneakily, but saw that there was no figure around, so she breathed a sigh of relief, and said slightly: "Husband! Someone! ”

Yang Tong blinked and said jokingly: "Does it mean that no one is okay?" ”

"You're such a nuisance!"

"No one now!" As soon as he finished speaking, Yang Tong covered his lips and kissed.

Xiao Yuexian's mind roared, she was both shy and flustered, and at a loss, she wanted to push away the obstructing lotus root, and finally put it weakly on Lang Jun's chest.

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