331 Change of dynasty
In the first year of the Great Sui Dynasty, the prince of Liaodong broke through Taiyuan City, broke the Turkic cavalry, killed and burned 70,000 Turkic cavalry, captured 400,000, and personally captured the Turkic Khan.
Li Valve's ancestral land of Taiyuan was destroyed, and the new head of the family, Li Shimin, died in battle, and since then the Central Plains has been reunited.
Because of the loss of 500,000 elite troops of the Turks, coupled with the capture of Shibi Khan, he was pressed to Luoyang and imprisoned, and the northern steppe immediately fell into chaos, and the large and small tribes did not obey the control of the Eastern Turks and rebelled one after another.
The Western Turks also began to beat the water dogs and seize the territory of the Eastern Turks, and this powerful khanate soon disappeared, Wang Zhong sent fine workers deep into the steppe in the name of the imperial court, trying to stir up disputes among the major tribes and give the Central Plains a chance to breathe.
The Great Sui was reunified, the king of Liaodong came to protect his son as the left prime minister, Wang Zhong was the captain, in charge of the world's soldiers and horses, and the two fathers and sons tightly controlled the power of the imperial court, and the first thing to do was to restore the national economy and properly arrange for the people to recuperate.
The Central Plains was in a civil war, although it was finally unified by Wang Zhong, but the country suffered unimaginable disasters, the people were sharply reduced by more than 50%, and too many places were in ruins.
Lai Hu'er listened to Wang Zhong's advice, stopped all wars, even against the Turks, and devoted his main energy to developing the economy and resuming production.
Wang Zhong had already held the power of the state once in the Tianlong World before, and now he is not recovering from his old business, so he is naturally familiar with it.
Coupled with the capture of 400,000 Turkic soldiers and the addition of so much cheap labor, Wang Zhong will naturally use waste and will not waste grain to feed waste.
400,000 Turkic captives were scattered all over the country by Wang Zhong, treating them as slaves, helping the people to farm, helping the imperial court to repair buildings, in short, where there was hard work, these Turkic soldiers ran away.
Of course, Wang Zhong will not exhaust these Turks to death, provide three meals a day, and pay some basic wages every month, and if the work is outstanding, he will also cancel his slave status, allow him to live in the territory of the Great Sui, and enjoy all the treatment of the people of the Great Sui, among which the typical ones even arrange housing, marry wives and children, and settle down!
Under Wang Zhong's axes, the enthusiasm of the Turkic slaves was unprecedentedly high, and they all worked hard to become citizens of the Great Sui.
You must know that these Turks used to live in the steppe, sleeping in the open all day long, and living a precarious life, so they could not serve as soldiers and eat food.
Now Wang Zhong not only arranges work and housing, but also ensures that he is fed and clothed, although he is nominally a slave of the Great Sui, but there is also a visible promotion channel.
To tell the truth, there is more hope than on the grassland, and some of them voluntarily belong to the imperial court and sell Turkic intelligence to facilitate Wang Zhong's detailed work in the grassland.
The reason why the steppe is now chaotic and unable to go south to harass the Great Sui is mostly due to the credit of these Turkic captives.
Under Wang Zhong's management and the enthusiastic work of the Turkic captives, the Great Sui was regaining its national strength at a rapid pace.
In the fifth year of the New Yuan Dynasty of the Great Sui, after five years of recovery and development, the Great Sui finally recovered its vitality, and although the national strength was not as good as during the Kaihuang period, it was much better than the reign of Yang Guang.
The people's support for Lai Hu'er and Wang Zhong has also reached its peak.
For ordinary people, they support whoever can give them a good life, and it doesn't matter which emperor is the emperor at all.
On the court, after five years of development, it has become a hall of words for the family, and there is no need to notify the little emperor of major national events.
In the rivers and lakes, with the implementation of the "ban on martial arts", all disobedience to the imperial court to control the sects has become a thing of the past.
Buddhism has suffered unimaginable blows.
Wang Zhong was very strict with the rules for monks, but all monks must be ordained by the imperial court, and take the imperial court Buddhist examination every five years, and those who pass can continue to be monks, and those who do not have the ordination must return to the world.
At the same time, the temple is not allowed to own land in its name, and all expenses are appropriated by the imperial court and personal donations.
There are also four monks who are empty, only allowed to eat fasting and chant Buddha, not allowed to practice martial arts, all martial arts secrets of Buddhism must be handed over to the imperial court, and private collectors and other complicit rebellion.
Under Wang Zhong's operation, Buddhist monks became more and more patterned, and lost all privileges and power, and could only develop followers through religious beliefs.
Buddhism is unlucky, and the Demon Gate is not comfortable, all the forces in the two factions and six realms are confiscated, nationalized, and the martial arts secrets are handed over to the state.
However, because of Shi Zhixuan, Wang Zhong still left some affection for the Demon Gate, recognized the status of the Holy Gate, justified its name, and allowed the people of the Holy Gate to enter the court through the imperial examination.
The Holy Gate has completely changed from a rat that used to hide in the shadows and play with conspiracies, to a Jianghu sect recognized by the imperial court, and even influenced the court openly.
Wang Zhong himself did not like Confucianism, and wanted to restore the situation of a hundred schools of thought, so he secretly vigorously supported the "Mojia", "Legalist" and "Peasant" doctrines in the Holy Gate.
Of course, in order to attach themselves to the imperial court, the Holy Gate also modified the doctrine of its own sect to better meet the needs of the person in power, that is, Wang Zhong.
When everything is developing for the better, the little emperor who came to Hu'er to take the throne is also slowly growing up, and slowly giving birth to thoughts that should not be there.
In order to take back power, the little emperor secretly contacted the old school that supported the Great Sui, and was later noticed by Shi Zhixuan, headed by the Holy Gate, and directly reported to Wang Zhong.
Wang Zhong and Lai Hu'er combined, feeling that the time was ripe, they went directly to the palace and forced the little emperor to issue an edict of abdication, giving the world Zen to Lai Hu'er.
Yang Jian, the founding emperor of the Great Sui Dynasty, also did the same thing, forcing his own grandson, Emperor Da Zhou, to give way to the world.
Now feng shui takes turns, and just forty years later, the descendants of the Yang family enjoy the same treatment, and they were taken over by Lai Hu'er and Wang Zhong.
Karma, no better!
In accordance with the rules, after resigning three times, he officially accepted Yang Lian's Zen concession, ascended the throne and became the emperor, founded the Great Xia, canonized Wang Zhong as the crown prince, and the rest of the sons were all crowned kings, and rewarded the heroes.
In general, there are not many changes in the court, only from the Great Sui to the Great Xia, mainly a cronie of the Liaodong Palace.
Wang Zhong did not embarrass the Yang clan, and named Yang Lian as the Marquis of Chan, hereditary replacement, as long as Daxia does not die, the Yang family will always enjoy wealth.
After Lai Hu'er became the emperor, he moved directly into the Luoyang Palace, Wang Zhong logically needed to build his own prince team outside the court, but he was not here, and gave this privilege to his cheap son Laixin.
Lai Xin has grown up now, and Wang Zhong has gradually cultivated him as an heir, and has been familiar with government affairs with him over the years.
Although this cheap son is not highly qualified in martial arts, he has some political talents, and he may not be able to become a Ming Jun in the future.
The power structure of Great Xia is very stable, the emperor Lai Hu'er is highly respected, Wang Zhong, the crown prince, is outstanding, and no one disagrees, and Lai Xin, as the emperor's grandson, is calm and sophisticated, and there is no problem with the three generations of the Great Xia Dynasty.
It is also because of this that after Lai Hu'er became the emperor for a few years, he gradually became incapable of political affairs, and he also had the idea of passing on the throne to Wang Zhong.