Chapter 24: The Four Expeditions to Goryeo
"Don't be nervous. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info" Zuo Xiaoyou gently stroked Shang Xiuxun's back and said softly: "I believe in you." ā
The sentence 'I believe in you' almost made Shang Xiuxun's tears fall: "Husband...... Concubinage...... The concubine is ......"
"Alright, don't say anything." Zuo Xiaoyou smiled slightly and said, "Get up and freshen up!" Go with your husband to breakfast. ā
"Hmm." Shang Xiuxun was extremely moved by the gentleness and trust of Zuo Xiaoyou, if she had changed to another man, if she hadn't seen Luohong, she would definitely beat her up indiscriminately, and then leave her. But instead of being angry, Zuo Xiaoyou chose to believe that she was innocent, how could she not dare to move?
In fact, the reason why Zuo Xiaoyou believes in Shang Xiuxun is because he is already an old driver and knows the difference between a woman's first time and the Nth time. Last night, Shang Xiuxun's shyness was completely like a first-time experience, in this era of no repair, it is impossible for Shang Xiuxun to know that she is not a virgin and pretend to be a virgin, and with his understanding of Shang Xiuxun, she does not have such scheming.
Then there is only one possibility, combined with Shang Xiuxun grew up in Pegasus Ranch since he was a child, often getting on and off the horse, all kinds of bumps, but also practicing martial arts, all kinds of big splits or something, if he bumps or falls off the horse, it may cause the rupture of that layer of plastic wrap, this situation has many cases in modern times, combined with Shang Xiuxun's reaction, he will believe that Shang Xiuxun is innocent. And his trust also won Shang Xiuxun's incomparable touch and love, and this transaction was not a loss.
On the third day after Zuo Xiaoyou got married, Yang Guang also received a secret report, and the content of the secret report was the words that Zuo Xiaoyou said when he toasted to the guests, which was recorded in great detail and there was no omission.
"The country is peaceful, and the people are happy......" After reading this secret report, Yang Guang looked up at the roof beam of the study and sighed lightly: "Why don't I want to be a Ming Jun!" ā
After a long time, when I came back to my senses, my eyes became more firm than ever: "I have the assistance of a virtuous son-in-law, what else is there to be afraid of!" ā
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A few days later, Yang Guang announced that the world's industry, agriculture and commerce are tax-exempt for three years, and the royal family came forward to open a five-year compulsory education of the Royal Academy, anywhere in the country, any family, as long as there are children who have reached the age of five, they can enter the Royal Academy to receive five years of compulsory education, if they can successfully graduate, they will be issued a graduation certificate, with a graduation certificate, you can easily find a job suitable for yourself in all walks of life in the country, if you are outstanding, you will even enter the official career, and enter the ladder to the peak of life.
As soon as this decree was issued, the whole world was in an uproar. The people at the bottom of the world cheered, but the gate lords of the Shi clan were furious. Yang Guang did this, but he directly cut the root of these family valves! What is the inheritance of the Saga gate valve? Isn't it culture after all! As long as they have culture, they can stand above the grassroots people and make a fortune. But as soon as Yang Guang's royal school came out, the children of the grassroots people in the world could receive free education, and if a large number of available talents were cultivated, the royal family would have a steady stream of talents to replenish, thus replacing the court that had been controlled by the scholars and the gate lords.
And once the scholar gate valve loses the control of the court, the imperial power will become supreme, if these family gate valves are honest, it is okay, but as long as there is a little displeasure for the royal family, it is very likely to be worn small shoes, and the whole clan will be affected.
Thinking of this possibility, immediately after the promulgation of the holy decree, countless family lords stood up to strongly oppose it, and even used very fierce incitement methods to try to force Yang Guang to withdraw his fate.
But at this time, the propaganda of the Great Sui Weekly began to exert its authority, strongly denouncing the despicable purpose of the family gate lords for their own selfishness, contempt for the emperor's order, and trying to trample the people under their feet permanently. At the same time, many typical cases have also been published in newspapers, and this time it is no longer a weekly newspaper, but it has been printed more intensively, and it has been changed to a daily newspaper, and new cases are presented to the people of the world every day. When the people saw the contents of the newspaper, they were furious at the despicable methods of the family.
Those people who were instigated instantly turned their guns and turned to the family gate valves who instigated the incident, and those people who were not incited naturally stood up and worked hard for their own future and the future of their children and grandchildren.
Speaking of the character of the Chinese people, there are three things that are most important in this life, one is the house, the other is the silver, and the last one is the child.
Needless to say, how can you live without a house? Needless to say, what kind of food and clothing do not need silver? And the last child is terrible, why do Chinese people pay attention to the future of children? Because children also carry their future, an excellent child is enough to change the fate of parents who are not good enough.
To put it mildly, if you have a strong child, even if you farm at home, you can help the family grow a few acres of land and let the family eat a few more bites. In the big picture, if children can get the opportunity to be educated, they have a great hope of getting more wealth, status, and a better future than farming at home. In this way, not only the parents will benefit, but also the future grandchildren.
Now that Yang Guang has launched the five-year compulsory education, it is to provide an opportunity for the people at the bottom of the world to climb up, but the family valve wants to destroy this opportunity, how can the people not be angry?
In this way, the people of the whole world rioted, and the target was directly aimed at the family gate. In the past, those gentlemen who played with insects and walked dogs on the street were beaten as Buddhas as soon as they went out, and if it weren't for the government officials to maintain order, it is estimated that they would be directly killed. And those who thought they were virtuous and respected in the past were also drowned out by the spittle of the people, and they were afraid and angry, but there was nothing they could do.
Of course, they were lucky, some local people surrounded the courtyard gate of the family in anger, protested loudly, and even took the lead in breaking in, carrying out inhumane smashing and looting, so that these family gate valves suffered heavy losses.
When Zuo Xiaoyou learned of these circumstances, he couldn't help but sigh: "The power of propaganda is really terrifying!" ā
The wave of such a popular rebellion lasted for a whole month, and after a month of fermentation, the family finally couldn't stand it anymore and surrendered to Yang Guang one after another, saying that they were willing to support Yang Guang's policy and would fully cooperate.
After getting such a result, Yang Guang laughed, and then the Dasui Daily began to publicize the people's activities and achieved victory, the family has already expressed its support, and in the future, all the children of the people in the world can receive five years of compulsory education, and then advise the people to go back to do what they should do, and not let the country's thriving momentum stop.
Under the propaganda of public opinion, the people cheered their victory, and at the same time responded to the call to return to their jobs and continue to make their own contributions to the prosperity of the Great Sui.
This time the opposition of the family, as well as the people's riots, in the end the biggest benefit is the royal family, now the royal family represented by Yang Guang has controlled the mouthpiece of the entire world, and the royal family will issue a decree in the future, not afraid of the civil and military officials under their hands, if you dare to disobey the yang, the Dasui Daily will let you know why the flowers are so red.
Of course, there are pros and cons to centralizing power, if it is the centralization of power and the accessibility of government decrees, it will be of great benefit to the country and the people, but once you meet the faint monarch, then centralization is not a good thing, but it can easily lead to the disintegration of the country.
Zuo Xiaoyou knows that absolute power will only breed absolute corruption, so he knows that there should be some necessary restrictions on the royal family, and only in this way can he timely stifle the trend of deterioration in the cradle when he encounters a faint monarch.
Of course, how to limit is also a problem, if the supervisory committee is formed, then these supervisory members must focus on selection, once the selection is not careful, by some selfish guys, it is also easy to have problems.
However, this kind of thing will not be considered for the time being, at least Yang Guang is doing a good job now, and he is watching from the side of this world, for him, an old monster who has the world in his heart but is immortal, he is the best restriction for the royal family. If one day in the future he decides to break up, he will only consider the follow-up policy on this issue.
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Time is like a white horse and a dog, fleeting, in the blink of an eye, four years have passed. At that time, Zuo Xiaoyou suggested that the five years for Da Sui to recuperate with all his strength had also arrived.
In the past five years, the heavens have been beautiful, the whole territory of the Great Sui has been in good weather, the people have a bumper harvest every year, and have stored incredible grain, which has led to too much stock of the people, and the grain and vegetables in the warehouse and cellar have grown hair, but fortunately, these things can be used to feed the pigs. Since a few years ago, Zuo Xiaoyou launched a series of ways to eat pork, pork is no longer something for lowly people to eat, and many people with money and status have also begun to eat pork, so there are more and more people raising pigs in the world, resulting in the people at the bottom of the table can also eat a mouthful of meat every once in a while.
Compared to the days when there was not enough to eat five years ago, the life of the people now is like being in heaven. And with sufficient food, the people are idle and have nothing to do to give birth to children, anyway, there is enough food, and they can be fed after birth, so that in the past five years, the population of the Great Sui has skyrocketed by more than 20 million, and the total population of the country has exceeded 60 million, close to 70 million, ushering in the best prosperous dynasty in history.
Of course, the biggest gain in the past five years has been the infrastructure construction of the Great Sui, which is now all paved with cement, wide and long, enough to accommodate ten horse-drawn carriages in parallel. The houses where the people lived, and even the newly built city walls, were all covered with cement, making them stronger than ever, and the safety was greatly improved.
People's livelihood, economy and other aspects also go hand in hand, and the improvement of people's quality of life is the best proof.
But in addition to the domestic economy, people's livelihood and other aspects, in fact, the combat effectiveness of the Great Sui army has also been greatly improved. According to the training method provided by Zuo Xiaoyou, now the soldiers of the Great Sui are all like wolves and tigers, and the orders are forbidden, and their minds are full of firm thoughts of going to the soup for the country, the people, and the Yang royal family, and seeing death as home.
Three years ago, Lu Miaozi successfully developed a powerful and easy-to-operate ten-hand crossbow, the shooting range of the ten-hand crossbow reached a hundred steps away, and it was a continuous fire, and the cavalry wanted to rush over, basically died without a place to be buried.
These ten-hand crossbows are now equipped with 100,000 troops, of which 20,000 defend the imperial city, and 80,000 are scattered throughout the frontier. Every year when Yang Guang received this battle report, he would be happy to close his mouth, and then reward the frontier soldiers in a big way, so that the morale of the frontier soldiers was even higher.
And last year, Lu Miaozi finally developed the siege cannon, a magic weapon, although the explosive power of the cannonball is not enough, but in this era of cold weapons, the siege cannon is simply an artifact.
When Yang Guang saw the siege cannon bombarding the city gate in the imperial city, a pair of eyes turned green, and it is said that Yang Guang laughed wildly for seven or eight minutes at that time, and roared loudly in his mouth: "Goguryeo, your time of death has arrived!" ā
Although it is not easy to make siege cannons, after vigorous manufacturing, more than 200 siege cannons were produced in a year, and these siege cannons were installed at the head of Yangzhou City. Yang Guang installed fifty gates for the imperial city, and the rest were sent to the front line, just waiting for Yang Guang to give an order, he was going to blast through the national gate of Goguryeo, and he was ashamed of the failure of the three expeditions.
"It's a pity!" Zuo Xiaoyou sighed very much: "I still haven't got the rubber tires out, otherwise it will be much more convenient in terms of transportation." ā
Rubber is a good thing, just a variety of rubber trees or something, but because the conditions are too simple in all aspects, it is too difficult to make rubber tires. Zuo Xiaoyou is very nostalgic for the industrial age of later generations, although industry has destroyed the environment a lot, but compared to the benefits that industry brings to human beings, this environmental damage is nothing. Besides, if the environment is destroyed, it can be re-governed in the future, but if we don't engage in industry, human beings can only live forever in the era of cold weapons, relying on the sky for food.
Although rubber tires have not been made, the industry has entered a preliminary stage of development. Everything takes time, but it is enough to deal with a small Goguryeo at the moment.
In February of this year, Zuo Xiaoyou was Zhao went to Daxing City to face the saint, and Yang Guang only asked Zuo Xiaoyou one sentence: "Virtuous son-in-law, what are the odds of winning this crusade against Goguryeo?" ā
Zuo Xiaoyou smiled faintly, and only replied with two words: "Ten percent!" ā
Yang Guang was determined in his heart, and then sent an edict to the world: "I want to drive the royal conquest and exterminate Goguryeo!" ā
At the same time, Goguryeo's spies in Dasui panicked and hurriedly transmitted the news back to Goguryeo, and Goguryeo heard the news that Dasui was going to crusade against them, and the whole country was terrified.