May of the sixth year of Jiande (577 AD). Emperor Wu of Zhou's army returned to the dynasty, this time the Qi State perished, the Great Zhou has unified the north, the population, the land have doubled, the strength has increased greatly, the Chen Dynasty in the south has formed an overwhelming advantage, however, due to the protracted war, the fatigue of the soldiers, and the newly acquired land of Qi still needs to be consolidated, Emperor Wu of Zhou decided to rest and recuperate.

After a big war, the treasury of the Great Zhou Dynasty has been empty, but the meritorious soldiers can not be less, Qi has salt profits, in the past in the Zhou, Chen, Qi three kingdoms, Qi is the richest, but under the arrogance and indulgence of the queen of Qi, the Qi country has been adjusted by the people's livelihood, in order to win the hearts of the people, Emperor Wu of Zhou ordered the people to reduce taxes, for the people who suffered from the military disaster to rescue, although from the Qi treasury to get a lot of materials, to do these two major things at the same time but not enough.

Emperor Wu of Zhou's eyes refocused on the Buddhism of Qi, Buddhism in Qi was more prosperous than before the destruction of Buddha in the Great Zhou, the entire Qi land, the population was about 20 million, and the Buddhists had exceeded 2 million, these people did not produce, occupied a large number of fields, evaded state taxes, melted a large number of copper coins to cast Buddha statues, made the quality of the currency chaotic, the copper coins were reduced, and the countries were not allowed to use silk cloth instead of copper coins to circulate.

Before Emperor Wu of Zhou destroyed the Buddha, he summoned famous Buddhists from all over the world to Chang'an and announced the reason for destroying the Buddha, which caused great resentment among the Buddhists, and the monk Huiyuan directly threatened Emperor Wu of Zhou: "Your Majesty is now relying on the power of the king to be at ease, and destroying the Three Treasures is an evil opinion." Ah-nose hell is not simple and cheap, how can Your Majesty not be afraid. ”

Emperor Wu of Zhou replied: "But if the people are happy, I will not give up the sufferings of hell." "The heart of destroying the Buddha is unwavering.

Under the emperor's order, hundreds of thousands of Zhou troops began to demolish the temple, drove the Buddhists home to return to the world, and confiscated the money in the temple, and remelted the bronze Bodhisattva into copper coins, and rewarded them to the soldiers who had made meritorious contributions to the war.

Yang Jian also followed Emperor Wu of Zhou to return to the court, Yang Tian because of Yang Jian's contribution to the destruction of Qi, one step to the sky, was named Boping Hou, however, Yang Tian is too young, Boping Hou is just a false title, except for a good sound, there is no use to Yang Tian for the time being.

In the blink of an eye, another year has passed, Yang Tian is already twelve years old, his figure has grown a lot taller, and his strength is much greater than before, although his martial arts are not as good as Yuan Wei, but he can already have merit and defense with Yuan Wei, he can stalemate for more than half an hour, and it takes a lot of strength for Yuan Wei to defeat him.

Snow sugar sold well in this year, accumulating more than 100,000 yuan of money for Yang Tian, however, Yang Tian has been careful and did not use this money, although Sun Qing produced snow sugar in Suizhou, the places where snow sugar was sold were usually Anzhou and other places closer to the Southern Dynasty, and everyone thought that the snow sugar was transported from overseas by the Southern Dynasty.

In May of this year, after a year of recuperation, the Great Zhou had recovered, and Emperor Wu of Zhou, Yuwen Yong, began to prepare to lead his army to attack the Turks in five ways, completely eradicate the troubles in the north, and prepare for the capture of the Southern Dynasty.

On this day, Yang Jian went down to the court very early, and Yang Tian saw that he seemed to be worried about Zhong Zhong, and hurriedly asked, "Father, I don't know what to worry about?"

Yang Jian looked at this son who was becoming more and more heroic, but sighed: "The emperor is sick. “

Yang Tian said disapprerovingly: "The emperor is in the prime of life, so what does it matter if he is a little sick."

Yang Jian shook his head: "This is the time to prepare to attack the Turks, if the emperor is a minor illness, he will not quit the court, I am worried about my father, the emperor may not be able to hide this time, the previous war Qi, the emperor is already a serious illness, and he has hurt his vitality."

Yang Tian's heart jumped suddenly, the emperor was going to die, wouldn't it be that the opportunity of the Yang family was coming. Since Yang Tian knew his identity, although he knew that history was Sui replacing Zhou, he couldn't see any chance.

The current emperor is only thirty-six years old now, younger than his father, and eloquent, it can be said that most of the Ming monarchs in later generations have passed and are all the same, forbearance for 12 years to punish the power of the minister Yuwen Hu, it took five years to unify the north, and has been bold to destroy the Buddha, before and after the liberation of nearly four million laborers, now only one year to destroy Qi, the people of Qi have returned to their hearts.

Yang Tian sometimes even suspected that because of his arrival, history had changed, and he would inevitably suffer from gains and losses, and secretly hated that he didn't study history seriously at the beginning, but he hated that he didn't have a prescription to read, and he had nowhere to learn now if he wanted to.

Today, Yang Jian's unintentional words made Yang Tian suddenly enlightened, this emperor who has just reached middle age is afraid that he will die soon, otherwise if he is allowed to sit in the world for another three or five years, he will already destroy the Chen State in the south, even if Yang Jian can later win the Great Zhou Dynasty, it will not be the turn of the Sui Dynasty to carry out a unified war.

Yang Tian's face showed joy: "Father, why worry, if the emperor dies, the prince will sit in the world in the future, won't our Yang family go to the next level." ”

Yang Jian reprimanded: "Nonsense, how can you have such a heart, if you are not my Yang Jian's son, I will immediately punish you for the crime of cursing the king." ”

Yang Tian didn't think so, just now it was clear that you said that the emperor was dying, and it wasn't me who said it, so he had to say: "Is my father worried that the prince will not be angry?" ”

Yang Jian's heart moved, he didn't expect his son to see his thoughts, although the prince is his son-in-law, in fact, Yang Jian is also very disgusted with the prince, he doesn't learn and has no skills, he is suspicious, he is unkind, if the prince takes over, although the Yang family is rising, it may not be a good thing, if you are not careful, there may be a big disaster, but of course Yang Jian will not say this kind of thing to Yang Tian. Instead, he said: "You are still young, don't be blind to the affairs of the court." ”

Yang Tian had to retreat and return to his courtyard, but he couldn't calm down, how long does Emperor Wu have to live, and when will his father be able to seize the Great Zhou world? Yang Tian's heart was faintly excited, and he had the pleasure of participating in history.

When Dugu saw Yang Jian, he immediately sent out a different look from his husband, and hurriedly asked what happened.

Yang Jian usually consults with the Dugu clan about the difficulties in the court, so he did not hide it and told his worries about the prince.

Dugu said with a smile: "The husband is too careful, if the prince succeeds to the throne, as long as we know how to be obscure, what are we worried about, not to mention that the prince has to guard against far more people than the Suiguo Mansion." ”

Yang Jian nodded and said: "Yes, the word Tao Hui sounds easy, but it is difficult to do, Tao is a sword box, you must put your edge, like a sword, into a set, and hide it in the box, this is called Tao Hui." ”

Dugu laughed: "This is not enough, if it is just a little more restrained and humble, it is like putting the sword in the sheath temporarily, that's it!" People still see that there is actually a sword in the tao and the sheath, and there is a sharp edge! That's really not what Tao meant. Tao's true meaning is to hide the edge, completely conceal it, so that people can't see the sword, and can't see Tao, it's empty, this is the spirit of Tao! ”

Yang Jian was overjoyed: "If you have a wife like this, why worry about it." ”