The valley where Taihe Village is located is powdered with jade, and the snow that cannot be seen is boundless, and a little red plum is embellished on it, as if someone takes the ground as a cloth, the snow as a curtain, and the color of blood, and a grass house burning with charcoal fire will isolate the cold.

Yang Guang lifted the kettle on the stove, washed tea, made tea, and divided tea, with skillful movements and elegant demeanor.

He picked up the teacup, looked at the crystal green tea soup, took a sip gently, and said with a smile: "That kid has done an elegant thing, this tea is more elegant than the fusion of Baiwei sencha, the freshness contains sweetness, and the plainness is timeless, just like my life." Don't you say, Pei Gong? ”

Sitting opposite Yang Guang was Pei Ju, who came to Mount Emei to seek a secluded visit, and was caught by Taihejun, even if it was a long, long time, Pei Ju was still trembling, his expression was like seeing a ghost, and his face was full of disbelief!

Yang Guang didn't urge him, and slowly tasted the tea soup.

After a long time, Pei Ju let out a long sigh and looked at Yang Guang seriously, only to find that Yang Guang, who was either high-spirited, domineering, or sad, had changed, and he had more calmness and calmness that he had not had before, and said with a wry smile: "Everyone thought that the Holy Lord was gone, who would have thought that he would be silently fueling the flames behind his back, no wonder Emperor Shengwu has today's glory." ”

"Pei Gong, you are wrong, the grand occasion of the Great Sui today has nothing to do with me. If I had this ability, the Great Sui would not be torn apart. Yang Guang said frankly.

"That's just as well." Falling into the hands of Yang Guang, Pei Ju didn't think that he still had a way to live, so when he thought about it, he was calm, he lifted the teacup and took a sip of tea, and asked, "The saint has always been hidden here?" ”

"Of course not." Yang Guang shook his head and said meaningfully to Pei Ju, "Since you surrendered to Li Yuan, you have been teaching the Pei family's children, but why do you not let the Pei family's juniors become the puppet Tang Dynasty?" ”

Pei Ju smiled bitterly and said: "The general trend is in Sui, Li Tang will be destroyed sooner or later, and with the way Emperor Shengwu does things, he will definitely not spare Li Tang's officials." Wouldn't the words of the criminal minister let the children of the family Shi Tang harm them? ”

Yang Guang smiled coldly, "As far as I know, Pei Gongjiao's skills are all power schemes, and he must know the true identity of Concubine Shu, so he plans to let your children and grandchildren, Sun Shisui, instigate Concubine Shu's son and the crown prince to compete for the next generation of monarchs, and use the blood of my Yang family to seek the road to the rejuvenation of the Pei family, am I right?" ”

Pei Ju was as if he had been struck by lightning, and his face was pale.

At the beginning, he saw Pei Su's family settled in Luoyang, and was named a county prince by Yang Tong, after analyzing the existing title promotion system of the Sui Dynasty, he was keenly aware that Pei Su, the county duke, had little to do with Pei Yun, so he sent loyal servants to squat near Pei Su's house, and through many sneaks into Pei Su's house, through the dialogue between Pei Su and his wife, he learned that Lu Qinghua, the concubine of the Sui Dynasty, was Pei Qinghua, the daughter of Pei Su.

Not long ago, the news that Concubine Shu gave birth to the prince Yang Chong came out, which made Pei Ju even more excited, and the whole person seemed to be dozens of years younger.

Pei Ju, who thinks about it, thinks that anything can happen during Yang Tong's decades of life, and without the support of his relatives, Yang Zheng may not be able to treat this prince as the day Yang Tong dies, and the grandson of the Pei family, who has the secret support of Pei's children, may not be able to rule the world.

If there is that day, the Pei family will be able to see the light of day again, and without the constraints of the Guanlong nobles and the five surnames and seven hopes, wouldn't the Pei family be the number one family in the world? However, before he could act, he became a cicada in the mouth of a praying mantis and fell into the hands of Yang Guang.

"Pei Gong, the previous set doesn't work anymore." Yang Guang said with a smile: "The family and the country are the guidelines for your family to inherit for thousands of years, there is a family before there is a country, under this premise, by the way, for the monarch to share the worries, since you have a family first, then when you act, you will naturally favor your own family, and you will invisibly deprive the people of land, food, rights, etc." In the past, you not only mastered knowledge, money, food, and population, but also mastered public opinion, and you had the final say on whether a person was good or bad, loyal or traitorous. I had no choice but to compromise and seek a balance between the Guanlong nobles, the Kwantung scholars, and the southern scholars, and as a result, I played myself useless. But with the popularization of Sanxue, the promotion of cheap paper books, and the 'disappearance' of the family's gate valve...... The rise of the Hanmen is already an irreversible and mighty trend, and if you Pei want to restore your glory, you can only use your mantis arm as a car...... In my opinion, it's better not to do useless work! ”

The reason why the scholars have a long history is that they monopolize educational resources, and if the Han scholars want to increase their knowledge, they can only go to the clans opened by the major scholars to study, and establish a teacher-student relationship with the various clans, and it is in this way that the major scholars control the talents all over the world and form an incomparably powerful political network. The emperors of all dynasties also knew that these people came first, then the country, and then the king, but there were too few pure Han scholars, so when using these talents, they sought a balance among various political factions, and finally formed a strange circle in which the emperor and the family lords ruled the world together.

When the emperor could not satisfy the tastes of these people, these people would try their best to mess up the world, bet on all the princes, and finally get more in the new dynasty.

But now, the rise of the Han Shi has become a trend, even if the Pei family really supports Yang Chong to the top, so what?

When the power of the Pei clan threatened the imperial power, the first object that Yang Chong wanted to eliminate was the Pei clan, which threatened the imperial power.

In the future, with thousands of poor people, I am afraid that I will not be able to find talents to govern the country?

Pei Ju was silent for a moment, and said indifferently: "Who can say what will happen in the future?" ”

"Since I know that you taught the Pei family's disciples the power and scheming technique, and I also know your intentions, I naturally have a way to make the suspicious Li Yuan kill the Pei family." A hint of fierceness flashed in Yang Guang's eyes.

Pei Ju cares about the inheritance of the Pei family, he Yang Guang cares more about the inheritance of the Great Sui Dynasty, he asked Pei Ju to be arrested, instead of directly blackmailing the Pei family's children, it is to take care of the friendship of monarchs and ministers in the past, after all, when he was in power, Pei Ju did help himself too much, and hoped that he would retreat in the face of difficulties; But if Pei Ju was for the benefit of the Pei family, so that the Great Sui Dynasty, which was finally supported by Yang Tong, was tilted again, he Yang Guang immediately raised the butcher knife against the Pei family.

Pei Ju showed a trace of horror on his face, he didn't care about his life and death, but he was afraid that Pei's life and death would be finished, but he was not a fool, knowing that Yang Guang had captured him, it was not as simple as threatening himself, and he said in a squeaky voice: "Holy Lord, you better state your conditions." ”

Yang Guang glanced at Pei Ju and said, "It's nothing, I'm idle here, and I happened to hear that you are also idle, so I asked you to gather casually." ”

"......" Pei Ju smiled bitterly.

"Have you seen the latest half-moon talk?"

"Looked."

"Since the establishment of the post station, it is a gold-swallowing pixiu on the side, I remember that when my father was alive, some people also proposed to let the idle post station communicate for the people of the world, but my father did not accept it, but why?" Yang Guang asked.

Pei Ju pondered for a while, and then said honestly, "As far as I know, most of the previous twists and turns were general, empty, and there was no practical plan. Emperor Wen believed that the post station itself was a huge hole, and if it was to deliver letters to the people, then the cost of the post station would increase countless times, so it was discarded. And the stamp system of Emperor Shengwu can be said to be a stroke of genius, he can get together the stamp tax exemption for a year, will make the people collect into a fashion, but this alone can not maintain the expenditure, but coupled with the "Half Moon Talk" this popular publication, the situation suddenly reversed, if the post station sells 500,000 copies every half month, then a month is a million copies, the post station will get more than 100,000 yuan, which is an unimaginable huge amount of money, at the same time, the decrees, common sense, and laws on the publication have also flown into thousands of households, It makes the people of the world realize that the starting point of the imperial court is for the good of the people, which also makes the people naturally distinguish the imperial court from corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and plays a role in maintaining the rule of the imperial court. ”

"However, the post station sent letters to the people, but also made it very convenient for exchanges in various places, and if something happened in one place, it would be known to the whole world, and even cause panic in the world."

is worthy of Pei Ju, after entering the role, he analyzed the pros and cons of post station communication in all aspects.

"But after all, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, one more day of walking, one more day of convenience for the people, one more day of income for the imperial court, and natural and man-made disasters are not common, so a mere communication station can not shake the rule of a dynasty. It's a big deal to add a rule that when something happens in a certain place, the post station stops delivering letters from the people, and only takes letters from the court. Yang Guang immediately thought of a countermeasure and took it to heart.

Pei Ju, who realized it later, suddenly realized that he finally understood the reason why Yang Guang caught him, which was nothing more than to combine the rich political experience of the 'Emperor Taishang' and the 'Prime Minister Taishang' to pick up the missing pieces of the policies formulated by Yang Tong, so as to form a perfect system so that the Great Sui Dynasty could continue for a long time.

"What about the banks? What do you think? ”

"The bank can make money make money, the people are profitable, and they will inevitably flock to save money, and when the time comes, not to mention millions of yuan, even ten thousand yuan, and finally collect the wealth of the world in the hands of the imperial court, with this huge wealth in hand, how can the imperial court be trapped by the lack of money? If the people all deposit their surplus money into it, they can also gain insight into the wealth of the people in the world...... It is only necessary to account for the accounts of each county every year, and it is clear at a glance whether the livelihood of each county is developing or regressing; On this basis, it can be inferred whether the officials are conscientious......"

……

Just when Yang Guang and Pei Ju were talking, a bloody battle slowly calmed down in Xuanwu County, Shu County, the wind was like a knife, the wind and snow whimpered, and the snowy earth was covered with a layer of silver, and death and killing were gradually buried in the heavy snow.

The weather was cold and cold, when Dugu Wudu returned to the camp with less than two thousand remnants.

Greeting him was a dead camp, with frozen corpses all over the ground, only the general outline could be seen under the heavy snow, and even many people still maintained their previous posture, Dugu Wu could see that his soldiers had experienced a tragic fight, but they still lost in the end.

When the soldiers who followed Dugu Wudu saw the tragic situation of their comrades, they did not seem to be angry, but only numb and deeply desperate.

"Li Xiaogong, is this going to kill them all?" Dugu Wudu's eyes flashed with anger and despair, he had tried his best to maneuver, but the final result was that the entire army was wiped out, and only 2,000 soldiers were left who fled back here.

But he forgot that this was the path he chose.

'When! While! While! ’

At this time, Li Xiaogong led 5,000 Tang cavalry to kill over, the sound of horses' hooves was like thunder, and the cavalry rushed forward, their goal was very clear, and they killed the handsome banner in the center.

The drums around were loud, and the sound of killing shook the sky, and the Tang army infantry lurking in the camp also killed them.

The ambush quickly broke the will of the remnants to resist, Li Xiaogong led the cavalry to Dugu Wudu, he had already held his breath, and now Li Yuan gave him this opportunity, no matter what, he would not lose this opportunity again. Therefore, he first lured Dugu Wudu to attack Xuanwu City with a precarious situation, and sent a surprise army to conquer his camp, and after the main force of the siege was consumed, he led the cavalry to suddenly kill, caught the opponent by surprise, and annihilated most of the enemy troops outside the city with the advantage of troops, and then chased all the way to here.

Dugu Wudu saw Li Xiaogong personally lead the cavalry to kill himself, he hurriedly raised his sword to meet the battle, Dugu Wudu's martial arts are also very brave, but after all, after killing for a long time, he was already tired, and after fighting dozens of times, he was finally caught by Li Xiaogong and pierced his chest. When the remnants of Dugu Wudu saw that the commander was killed, they all had no intention of fighting, and they all knelt down and surrendered.