Shenwu Palace, Chaoyang Palace!

The meeting between Yang Tong and Du Ruhui has the feeling of hating each other, not that Du Ruhui is so powerful against the sky, but that his concept is very compatible with Yang Tong.

Not to mention the overall situation, because as the top strategist of this era, the overall situation is essential! Looking at the big concept and pattern of the world, Yang Gongren, Yang Shidao, Fang Xuanling, Wei Zheng, Wei Yunqi, Liu Zhenghui, Kong Yingda, Li Jing, Yang Shanhui, Yang Yuanhong, Pei Renji, Deng Wei, Li Jing and other outstanding figures are also available. But Du Ruhui's forward-looking is the highest among Yang Tong's strategists, and at present, only Yang Gongren and Fang Xuanling can be with him for a long time.

In terms of figuring out people's hearts, Du Ruhui is also extremely sharp, and all the princes, including Yang Tong, let him speak clearly.

Du Ruhui didn't even eat, so he chatted with Yang Tong until the evening.

For Du Ruhui's arrival, Yang Tong also gave the highest standard of courtesy, and all the martial arts under the command of Yecheng, including Yang Yu and Yang Chanshi, the two royal clansmen, were also invited to receive the wind for Du Ruhui.

"Since ancient times, the monarch chooses the minister, and the minister also chooses the king, Keming's examination of me, can you count it?" Yang Tong looked at Du Ruhui and asked with a smile.

"Your Highness is serious!" Du Ruhui felt the gaze of everyone, and said without a red heart and a heartbeat: "Your Majesty has already had the heart to vote, so he brought his family to Yecheng, but when he encountered bandits, the rest of his wealth was robbed, if it weren't for the kindness of the proprietor of the Yao family's grain store and his help, the child Du Gou would have died of illness!" At that time, the proprietor's career was not going well, and his subordinates became his account keeper in order to repay the grace of his life, and drew up a development plan for him. ”

Everyone praised that this person was eloquent, but when the life-saving benefactor encountered difficulties, he was willing to be a small businessman's account office and give advice to his career, which was really a loving and righteous person! It's really rare.

Du Ruhui then said: "The proprietor's career is thriving, even if his subordinates are not there, he only needs to follow his subordinates' plans to develop, and it doesn't matter whether his subordinates are there or not." At that time, I wanted to directly serve His Royal Highness, but I happened to encounter the imperial examination was approaching, and His Majesty thought, since he has such a little ability, why not enter the government through the scientific examination? Therefore, His Majesty has no intention of teaching. ”

"I totally understand what Keming meant!"

"What do you mean?"

In order to avoid everyone's dissatisfaction with Du Ruhui, Yang Tong said with a smile: "If it were me, I would think I have the ability to do anything, but at this moment, someone introduced this position to me through a relationship!" Speaking of this, Yang Tong said to Yang Yu: "Third brother, do you think I should seek this position with my own ability?" Or is it an introduction? ”

After hearing this, Yang Yu said proudly: "You should seek this position with your own ability." ”

Yang Tong smiled: "This is also what Keming meant. ”

The crowd laughed!

"Thank you, Your Highness, for your understanding!" Du Ruhui said gratefully.

Yang Tong said: "Keming! I've read all your essays carefully, but those few test papers can't finish your thoughts! I have three questions for you here. ”

"Your Highness, please." Du Ruhui smiled slightly, his eyes were full of confidence, which was the confidence brought by his own talent.

"First, if I cross the Yellow River next year, will I be able to pacify the Central Plains?"

"Naturally!" Du Ruhui nodded and said, "With His Royal Highness's current momentum, the majesty of the Great Sui soldiers and horses, the excellent equipment, and the abundance of grain and grass, if you lead the army south next year, there should be no problem." But His Majesty did not advise His Highness to send troops so quickly. ”

"Since I have the ability to level the Central Plains, why can't I go south? And what is the reason? ”

Yang Tong asked some doubts in their hearts,

Du Ru said eloquently: "Your Highness's big game of chess is very big, and it is shocking, and it has begun to be laid out since it entered Jizhou, and now, the whole world pattern has undergone new changes with the strength of the Great Sui." The family that has controlled the destiny of the world for nearly a thousand years is being hit by the most severe impact since the Qin and Han dynasties. ”

Yang Tong nodded slowly, this is also the one he is most proud of, he forcibly used a domain to shake the status of the family, and put the other party to death.

Du Ruhui arched his hand and said: "If the princes of the world want to fight with His Royal Highness, they must follow His Royal Highness and implement various policies for the benefit of the people. Once the people are lost, the princes of all walks of life will become fish without water. This is the 'potential' that conforms to the hearts of the people and the aspirations of the people! ”

Everyone nodded.

In this regard, the "Han Feizi - Meritorious Fame" article explains in detail: "Therefore, there are four people who have made meritorious contributions to fame: one is the time of the day, the second is the people's heart, the third is the skill, and the fourth is the potential." When it is not a day, although Shiyao cannot give birth to an ear in winter; Against the hearts of the people, although Ben and education can not do their best. Therefore, when the heavens are obtained, they do not do anything and are self-sufficient; If you win the hearts of the people, you will not be interested and persuade yourself; Because of skills, you are not in a hurry and self-disease; If you get the position, you will not become famous. ”

It means that if people want to control their destiny and succeed, there are four key elements: one is time, one is people's heart, one is skill, and one is power. Once a man has disobeyed the heavens, even if there are ten yao, he cannot make the earth grow a single ear in winter; violated the people's hearts, although there were fierce generals like Meng Ben and Xia Yu, they could not make the people do their best. If you get the time of day, even if you don't work hard, the tassels will grow on their own; After gaining the hearts of the people, without the supervision of the imperial court, people will also rely on skills to encourage themselves and be diligent and motivated, so power will naturally come.

This is true of people, and so is the nation.

So what is 'potential'?

'Potential' is the human heart, and 'potential' is the resonance in the hearts of most people.

One person's mind is not easy to control, and it is even more difficult for a group of people to unify their minds! But it's easier to do than to control one person. It may sound complicated, but it's actually nothing more than the word 'profit'!

When someone does something that benefits the majority, then those people will embrace that idea.

Yang Tong now represents the interests of the majority, so that the Great Sui can flourish, and some poor people have traveled thousands of miles to the Great Sui.

And the source of a country's foundation is its population: only when there are people can there be food; If you have talent and soldiers, and if you lose people and people's hearts, even if you have great ability, you will not be able to make a career.

In order to retain the population and win back the hearts of the people, the princes of all walks of life can only implement policies and guidelines that conform to the people's will.

Many of you here understand this.

At this time, Du Ruhui said again: "Your Highness has a big start, any policy will damage the interests of the family, if the princes from all walks of life follow this policy, conflicts with the family will be inevitable, if Your Highness sends troops at this time, the princes and the family will inevitably cooperate again under pressure." ”

"Now the family and His Royal Highness are enemies, if the world is dominated, the family will surrender to His Royal Highness as a minister, although the king wants the minister to die, the minister has to die, but the world is initially decided, His Royal Highness will kill at that time, and it will inevitably be turbulent again."

"The foundation of the family is especially strong, and His Royal Highness can't kill it, and then he will have to work hard to fight with the family! If it is successful, it will establish the foundation of eternity, and if it fails, the world will fall into turmoil. And the last thing that the family lacks is patience and time, they will definitely lurk on the day His Highness is alive, but what about after His Highness? Not every generation of kings has the courage to fight against the great families.

"But if His Highness slows down the pace of unifying the world, it will only take three or five years, and the status and strength of the family will be completely consumed by the princes! At that time, it will not only be much easier for His Highness to take the world again, but after the world is reunified, there will be no problems with the big families. Du Ruhui smiled and arched his hand: "This is the words of His Majesty's family, please don't take it to heart." ”

"That's a very good point!" Yang Tong nodded with satisfaction, this is exactly the same as the central idea of the Great Sui, what he pursues is the real 'great chaos and great governance', not like Li Tang in history, who continued to fight with the family for two generations after the war, and in the end, even the world was replaced with the surname 'Wu'.

If you really want to study it carefully, Li Tang can be regarded as the third generation, just like the Sui Dynasty. It's just that because Wu Zetian has the identity of the daughter-in-law of the Li family, people didn't divide Li Tang into the former Tang and the later Tang.

"Second question!" Yang Tong said: "Although the Great Sui bears the false name of the first prince in the world, but the Great Sui has many enemies, in addition to the princes from all walks of life, there are many families, they have been passed down to this day, not to mention hundreds of years, it is not an exaggeration to say that they are deep-rooted, their strength is undoubted. In addition, the policy pursued by my Great Sui is the national policy of first the outside and then the inside, that is to say, once the Turks invade and the war in the north is tight, even if I have already hit the city of Chang'an, I will retreat to fight the Turks! Under the attack of the two phases, the fate of the Great Sui is really worrying. ”

"And Li Yuan's talent is extraordinary, and he has the strong support of the Longzhi magnates, the Kwantung Shi clan, and the Jiangnan Shi clan, and now he has the economic and demographic support of Bashu, and his potential is very great. Why did Keming vote for me in Da Sui, but not for Li Yuan? ”

This is also what Yang Tong is puzzled about, Du Ruhui, a future celebrity, actually ran by himself, it was too easy, it was not that he was cheap, but because although Li Yuan was repeatedly defeated, he was often able to quickly fight with the support of the family. And after the baptism of war again and again, his soldiers have begun to make a qualitative leap.

Although Yang Tong has a large population, he is poor, and he has governed most of Jizhou, Youzhou, Bingzhou, and Yongzhou over the years, and his consumption is very great.

In the era of cold weapons, the population is indeed a war potential, but if you don't have enough financial resources, no matter how much population you have, you can't build a strong army. Therefore, if the two of them are to die, Li Yuan can completely throw away Guanzhong, and then exchange space for time, and use the financial resources of the family to drag Yang Tong's economy down. In the case that there is little difference in the potential of the two sides, Du Ruhui ran to the door by himself, which really surprised Yang Tong.

"As His Majesty said before, His Royal Highness has already controlled the 'general trend' of ninety percent of the world's population, and his potential strength has long surpassed that of the princes, whether it is Li Yuan, or Wang Shichong, Li Mi, Dou Jiande, and Xiao Mi, every step they take in the future will be fatally hindered."

However, His Royal Highness is different, His Royal Highness is based on the people and Han scholars, and has used the past few years to establish the 'potential' that dominates the world, and Wang Shichong, who follows the 'potential', has a thriving career, and Li Yuan's people's hearts are floating when he has stopped, and the people who defect to the Great Sui abound. In this way, Li Yuan and other princes could only take advantage of the situation. In this way, Li Yuan will inevitably have irreconcilable contradictions with the Guanlong Group, the biggest supporter. Whether it is Li Yuan, Li Mi, or Dou Jiande, Xiao Miao, Du Fuwei, Shen Faxing, and Li Zitong, if they want to resist His Royal Highness, they can only suppress the family with iron and blood, follow the example of His Highness, divide the land into households, implement the tax system of apportioning the land into the mu, and the officials and gentry pay the grain in one......"

Du Ruhui smiled bitterly: "Li Yuan and Xiao Mo benefited a lot from the family at the beginning of the incident, but now, their supporters have become their biggest enemies. Without a series of policies of His Highness, the world would still be dominated by big families, but His Highness has already achieved this! If his subordinates defected to Li Yuan, they would be going against the trend. His Majesty just wants to end the troubled times as soon as possible and return peace to the world, and this is something that Li Yuan, Li Mi and others cannot do in a short period of time. ”

Yang Dongqi said: "Why? ”

Du Ruhui said: "There are many factions of Li Yuan and Li Mi! And fighting together is the fundamental scourge of the decline of a dynasty and a family. ”

In fact, in Du Ruhui's eyes, the battle of the world is a contest between the high-level teams of the two forces and a contest of systems.

In the Li Tang Dynasty headed by Li Yuan, there were disputes between the interests of the imperial relatives, the Guanlong group, the Kwantung scholars, and the southern scholars outside the court, and the imperial party, the princelings, and the Jin Wang party within the court. Layers of infighting not only consumed national strength, but also caused every resolution to be delayed again and again, and finally fell behind in place, and the system has changed beyond recognition.

On the side of the Great Sui, Yang Tong is the absolute ruler, his position is stable, no one can shake his position, and within the royal family, there is no dispute between the most complicated heirs. Moreover, there are no interest groups behind the high-level officials, and they are very pure and clean. The domestic and foreign policies are basically decided by Yang Tong and Yang Gongren, Fang Xuanling, Yang Shidao, Wei Zheng, Liu Zhenghui, Kong Yingda, Wei Yunqi, Jiang Xingben, and Li Jing! Moreover, Yang Tong has always been a soul figure, to a certain extent, the officials of the three provinces and six ministries are doing things according to his ideas, everyone has the right direction, and then work together to fill in the gaps! In this way, the efficiency is naturally greatly improved.

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Yang Tong's new policy has been in place for several years, just like the Qin State after the Shang Dynasty reform, and its national strength is thriving. On Li Yuan's side, he still used the dilapidated system, even if there was a little bit of innovation, it was cautious, but in the end it was tampered with beyond recognition. The longer the time drags on, the stronger the Great Sui becomes, and Li Yuan and other princes will be stuck in the internal open and secret struggle.

Unless Li Yuan kills Yang Tong now, the more time passes, the bigger the gap between the two sides, but this is simply impossible, because Li Yuan is now afraid that Yang Tong is scared to death, Yang Tong will not fight him, he is already lucky, how dare he take the initiative to provoke? In this way, it is not surprising that Du Ruhui chose Yang Tong.

"Third question!" Yang Tong looked at Du Ruhui and asked with a smile: "Keming is a disciple of the Jingzhao Du clan, and I happen to be the great enemy of the Du clan. ”

Du Ruhui smiled bitterly: "The head of the Du family is his subordinate uncle Du Yan, but after my father died, my eldest brother was disposed of by the head of the family because he said some resentful words and died. ”

Yang Tong didn't know that in history, Du Yan served under Wang Shichong, although he was Du Ruhui's uncle, but he had always been at odds with Du Ruhan's brothers, so he slandered in front of Wang Shichong, resulting in Du Ruhui's brother being killed, and Du Ruhui's younger brother Du Chuke was also beaten to death row. Later, Li Shimin pacified Wang Shichong. Du Yan, as a high-ranking official of Zheng Guo, was convicted of a capital crime. Du Chuke asked Du Ruhui to rescue him, but Du Ruhui did not do it, and Du Chuke said that people of the same clan killed each other, which was too cruel. So Du Ruhui pleaded with Li Shimin and spared Du Yan.

Speaking of which, Du Ruhui's situation is similar to Wei Yunqi, although Wei Yunqi was born in the Wei family, a famous family in Jingzhao, but he is a side branch, especially with the family head of the family has a bad relationship, because of his talent, he was jealous, and he was finally expelled from the clan.

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