In the blink of an eye, the New Year has passed, and it is the twenty-fourth year of the summer calendar.

After the New Year, after some planning and sorting out by the Xia State Council, the administrative area of the Xia State in Liaodong continued to expand westward for hundreds of miles, adding a total of four counties with a large area.

The two cities of Yongding City (Hailan Pao) and Yangwu City (the confluence of the Shilka River and the Heilongjiang River), which were originally located in the upper reaches of the water, have become the county towns of Yongding County and Yangwu County respectively, and have changed from the original military management to the official territory of the Xia Kingdom.

Yongding City governed a large area on both sides of the river around Hailan Pao in later generations, while Yangwu City not only had to manage the surrounding hundreds of miles of land, but also managed Xuanwei City and Shepherd City further west, which can be said to be the largest county under the jurisdiction of Xia Kingdom.

To the south of Wanshui, after the Xia army advanced the overall front to the Great Xing'an Mountains, all the tribes east of the Great Xing'an Mountains, including the Wuluo Houren, were all packed up and obeyed, and now it has completely become the territory of the Xia Kingdom, and the people are mainly Han people.

The indigenous tribes that used to live here have already migrated to the more hinterland to enjoy their blessings.

So Wang Ze set up Shanglin County on both sides of the north flow of the difficult water, where the rich forest resources made Wang Ze breathtaking, but more than half of them were protected as forest parks, not only cutting down is strictly prohibited, but also grazing and hunting are prohibited.

The upper reaches of Liaoshui to the upper reaches of Luanshui were merged into the original Khitan hometown and Kumoxi's hometown to be established as Xiping County, where the people are mainly grazing Han people, and in later generations, because of the serious desertification of overgrazing, Wang Ze resolutely did not allow this situation to occur again.

Among the people who moved to the four new counties, except for the original citizens of the Xia Kingdom, who voluntarily relocated to a small half, Yongding County and Shanglin County were dominated by the new Sanqi people.

With the addition of three million new citizens and the establishment of a number of new counties, the strength of the Xia State further increased, and although many people began to advise Wang Ze to attack the Turks and the Northern Zhou as soon as possible, Wang Ze knew that it would take time for the Xia Kingdom's own social stability to further mature.

In this context, he just continued to send more fine works to infiltrate the Northern Zhou and other places, and while he was immersed in the development of the Xia Kingdom, he began to carry out further surveying and mapping of the Americas, Nanyang, and even Australia in later generations, and when the national strength became stronger, it would become the land of the Han people.

Wang Ze had nothing to do to farm and develop national strength, and then he lived a shameless and impatient life with his three wives, but the power struggle within the Northern Zhou Dynasty became more and more fierce at this time.

Under the toss of Emperor Yuwenyun of Zhou Xuan, the Northern Zhou Dynasty made the entire Guanlong Xianbei military aristocratic group more and more dissatisfied with his performance, and the conspirators gradually weaved a net, and all kinds of secret transactions continued, and the rule of the Yuwen clan was already shaky.

Compared with his father, Yu Wenyun is completely an imbecile, he just doesn't care about political affairs, and he also killed all the ministers left by his father Yu Wenyong, such as Yu Wenxian and Wang Rail, and there are not a few other Northern Zhou clans and ministers who are persecuted.

When Yu Wenyong was alive, many of the ministers left behind were excluded from the power layer by Yu Wenyun, and instead reused Zheng Yi and Liu Fang, two fortunate ministers, which led to the extremely dissatisfied courtiers who were excluded, and more people joined the ranks of the conspirators.

Among the series of transactions, the most successful is undoubtedly Yang Jian.

Originally, Yang Jian had been suspicious of Yu Wenxian and Wang Rail, both of whom had strongly suggested to Yu Wenyong to kill Yang Jian, although Yu Wenyong was also more suspicious of Yang Jian, but he didn't believe in the number of lives, and once said, 'Since it is a number of lives, no matter what, you can't avoid it!' ’。

So several disasters were fortunately avoided by Yang Jian, and after Yu Wenyun ascended the throne, Yu Wenxian and Wang Liang were killed successively, it cannot be said that there was no role played by Yang Jian, after killing these two main counterbalances Yang Jian's forces, Yang Jian, who was the head of the country, was promoted to three levels within a year, and his power was heavier.

After Yuwenyun inherited the throne of the emperor, he almost never dealt with political affairs, and after the self-proclaimed Tianyuan Emperor, he was busy collecting honey in the ten thousand flowers day and night, plus Yuwenyun was good at Taoism and Buddha, and also took lead and mercury, so he died of indulgence in the middle of March of the twenty-fourth year of the summer calendar, at the age of twenty-two.

Of course, such a statement is given in the history books, according to the news from Wang Ze's detailed work arranged in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, in fact, Yu Wenyun's death may be inseparable from Yang Jian.

Although Yang Jian's power increased rapidly at the beginning, under the deliberate reminder of many people, Yu Wenyun began to become more and more wary of Yang Jian.

Several times, Yu Wenyun set up dozens of sword and axe men in the palace, and then summoned Yang Jian into the palace, and he was ready to immediately summon the knife and axe hands to kill Yang Jian as soon as he found something wrong with Yang Jian.

But Yu Wenyun is only twenty-two years old after all, and where is Yang Jian's opponent of this scheming and calculating man, Yang Jian has long known that Yu Wenyun is dissatisfied with himself, after entering the palace, he is still respectful, and there is no problem with Yu Wenyun's answer, Yu Wenyun has no choice but to release Yang Jian out of the palace.

Soon, in order to protect himself, Yang Jian took the initiative to ask to go out of Bozhou at the suggestion of Wei Xiaokuan, so that Yu Wenyun's suspicions were finally eased slightly.

But after a person is suspicious of another person, it is difficult to reduce it anymore, under the provocation of some well-intentioned people, Yu Wenyun began to be suspicious of Yang Jian again, he has scolded Yang Jian many times, and even pointed to Yang Lihua's nose and said that Yang Jian's whole family must be killed. 600

Under such circumstances, if Yang Jian really waited for death, it would not be the later Emperor Wen of Sui.

Yang Jian, as the son of Yang Zhong, one of the Eight Pillars of the Western Wei Dynasty, was closely integrated with the Guanlong Xianbei military aristocratic group, and even if he was not in Chang'an, he could still have many backhands to use.

So soon Yu Wenyun died, and he died of indulgence, which was very in line with his behavior and character, and even if he died, the Northern Zhou Dynasty government and the opposition would be ashamed to talk about him, and the people of the Northern Zhou Dynasty would sneer at this young emperor who died violently.

As early as when Yang Jian was in Bozhou, he had the intention of rebellion under Pang Huang's suggestion, which was also a habit of the Guanlong Xianbei military aristocratic group to establish political power, conspiracy was almost everywhere, and anyone had the possibility of rebellion, even if it was a close relative.

With the help of Yang Jian's allies such as Li Delin, and the support of his daughter Empress Dowager Yang Lihua, Emperor Yu Wenyan, who was only seven years old, named Yang Jian as the prime minister and the fake emperor on April 8, and supervised the Chinese and foreign military.

After taking charge of the administrative, personnel and military powers of the Later Zhou Dynasty, Yang Jian finally controlled the government as a foreign relative, and the power in his hands was even greater.

Since ancient times, the ministers were only one step away from the position of the emperor, and they were also only one step away from death, although Yang Jian had mastered the government of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, but if he wanted to usurp the throne, he had to face the clans of the Yuwen clan that led the army in various places.

The Northern Zhou clan is divided into two parts, one is in the Beijing clan and the other is outside the Beijing.

There are mainly two people in the Jingnei clan, including Zhou Xuanwang Yuwenyun's younger brother fifteen-year-old Han Wang Yuwenzan, and Yongzhou Muyu Wenxian, the two people closest to Chang'an City were the first to be used by Yang Jian.

To deal with Yuwenzan, Yang Jian took advantage of his weakness of being young and crazy and full of five poisons, and on the surface, he was allowed to be the right prime minister, which seemed to be greater than the official position of Yang Jian, the left prime minister, but in fact, all the power was still in Yang Jian's own hands, and Yuwenzan was actually just a fictitious position.

After using his official position to confuse Yuwenzan, Yang Jian asked Liu Fang to deal with him with his lustful weakness, and after Liu Fang and Yuwenzan got closer, he gradually encouraged Yuwenzan to rise to the ambition of becoming the emperor, and finally Yang Jian got the conclusive evidence of Yuwenzan's rebellion.

On 17 May, Yang Jian killed Yu Wenzan on charges of treason.

To deal with the elder Yongzhou Mu Yu Wenxian, Yang Jian used Yang Xiong, the elder brother of Wu Zetian's grandfather Yang Da, to deal with him, and appointed his cousin and nephew to restrain him in Yongzhou, and finally killed Yu Wenxian on June 4 for defamation and conspiracy.

There are only two people in the Northern Zhou Jing clan, and they have no actual military power, so Yang Jian is not only justified in killing, but he is not even afraid that they will rise up to resist, but it is not so easy to deal with the clans outside Beijing, after all, these are the generals who assisted Yu Wenyong in attacking and destroying the Northern Qi Dynasty, and they all have a large number of troops in their hands.

Soon, with the help of Changsun Sheng, Yang Jian thought of a good idea, that is, in the name of marrying the Turkic princess, he summoned the five kings of Zhao, Chen, Yue, Dai, and Teng into Beijing, and warned the kings that Yuwenxian was plotting against him.

In order to weaken the guardiness of these clansmen and buy the hearts of the people of the world with benevolence and virtue, Yang Jian instigated the imperial court on July 15 to summon them to the honor of entering the court and going to the palace with a sword.

But Yang Jian had already killed Yuwenzan and Yuwenxian, how could these clans not know about Yang Jian's ambitions.

So soon, Zhao Wang Yu Wen Zhao, who had the highest prestige, and Yue Wang Yu Wen Sheng, who was known for his Wen Tao Wu strategy, took the opportunity of setting up a banquet to entertain Yang Jian, and set up a Hongmen banquet in an attempt to kill Yang Jian.

However, these two people don't understand after all, under the toss of Yuwenyun for more than two years, the Guanlong Xianbei military aristocratic group has long been disappointed in the Northern Zhou clan, Yang Jian not only has the huge network left by his father Yang Zhong, but also has won over the elders headed by Yu Ji.

You must know that Yu Ji is Yuwentai's son-in-law and one of the patriarchs of the Eight Pillars of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and even he began to stand on Yang Jian's side, and the fate of Yuwen's family can be imagined.

Soon the king of Zhao and the king of Yue were killed, and the killing of these two clan kings made the Northern Zhou Yuwen clan no longer have the ability to resist Yang Jian, so in the autumn and winter from October to December, Yang Jian successively killed the other three kings and their families for the crime of treason.

After all these Northern Zhou clans were killed, Yang Jian's ambition to usurp the throne was undoubtedly revealed, but killing the Yuwen clan did not mean that Yang Jian's opponents disappeared.

At this time, Sima Xiaonan, the governor of Yunzhou, Wang Qian, the father-in-law of Emperor Zhou Jing, the governor of Yizhou, Chi Yuan, the governor of Xiangzhou, and the nephew of Yuwentai all rebelled against Yang Jian.

In particular, Wei Chi Hui received the assistance of his nephew Wei Chi Boqin, who was the general manager of the Qingzhou March, and had the banner of Yu Wenjian, who was supported by other opponents, so he had the strongest strength in his hands and had become Yang Jian's most powerful opponent.