Time flies, and it is already at the end of the first month of the third year of Daye. It has been more than two months since Yang Ji returned to Zhangye. At this time, the imperial court officially issued an order to change prefectures and counties into prefectures and counties, and all states in the world were officially named after counties.

Liangzhou prefecture: Ganzhou was renamed Zhangye County, Liangzhou was renamed Wuwei County, Lanzhou was renamed Jincheng County, Shanzhou was renamed Xiping County, Kuozhou was renamed Raohe County, Hezhou was renamed Wuhan County, and Taozhou was renamed

Lintao County, Huizhou was renamed Huining County, Guazhou was renamed Dunhuang County, Yizhou was renamed Yiwu County, Tingzhou was renamed Beiting County, Xizhou was renamed Xizhou County, Shanshan, and Qiemo's name

constant.

The above fourteen counties are the territory under the jurisdiction of Liangzhou Supervisory State.

Regarding this change, except for the complaints of county officials from various places who were demoted and had their salaries cut, officials and ordinary people at other levels had no special opinions; most people did not know the significance and impact of the name change on the Sui Dynasty officialdom, and

The most games played in the court consisted of a few complaints behind the scenes, saying that the emperor had enough to eat and had nothing to do.

In the past two months, there was no fluctuation in Liangzhou, but far away in the officialdom of Luoyang in the east, a violent "fight" took place. First, the Guanlong nobles launched a fierce offensive against Yang Su's children on various charges.

, Yang Su's children suffered a huge defeat in the court. Officials from the three divisions and government servants all arrived in front of the Duke of Chu's mansion. Yang Su's old troops collectively lost their voices, and the voices that spoke ill of the Yang family spread all over the world.

But just when everyone in the Duke of Chu's mansion was panicking and thinking that a disaster was imminent, the emperor and the queen suddenly arrived at the Duke of Chu's mansion, repelled the officials and government servants from the three departments who surrounded the Duke's mansion, entered the mansion to appease the Yang family's children, and awarded Yang Xuangan

The post of Minister of the Ministry of Rites was granted to Yang Wensi, and the post of Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs was given to Yang Wensi. However, Yang Yue was dismissed from the post of the Internal History Order because he left his post without authorization during his official duties.

I thought this would be the end of the road, but unexpectedly, the powerful "Integrity Department", led by the so-called "Three Dogs" Xiao Yu, Yang Gongren, Yu Wenhuaji, suddenly started to "hurt people".

Targeting countless unofficial officials such as San, Xun, Jue and others. Just like what happened in Liangzhou, after there is evidence of crime, they will find the perpetrator, especially when the case is over and the Integrity Department will return the finance to the perpetrator.

There is a precedent. After the first "crab eater" appears, there will be a second sufferer and a third sufferer.

Those arrested idle officials cannot be said to be heinous people, but their butts are definitely not clean. As long as they are not clean, and as long as the government really wants to investigate, they will follow the stench and chase them to the end.

In the past, no one dared to take care of this huge number of "parasites". The people were afraid of bloody revenge, so they endured it silently. Now that the court dares to attack this group, it is different. The people have a backbone.

They came to complain one after another.

When the accumulated grievances of the people broke out, the terrifying power was beyond control. Even if it was a great cause, the noble families in Luoyang would not dare to stand up and say a good word for the criminal clan members at this time.

There are many smart people in the aristocratic families. Of course they can see that Yang Guang wants to provoke conflicts between the aristocratic families and the people. If he continues to investigate them one by one, Yang Guang will not only be able to break the deadlock in which the aristocratic families control the world and the officialdom, but also

Winning the unimaginable popularity of the people, the capital and the states and counties were like Liangzhou under the control of Yang Ji, and the aristocratic families no longer had absolute control.

Of course, Yang Guang also knows that aristocratic families have great business and powerful families often have dozens or hundreds of branches. They form intricate networks of relationships with other families in the military, officialdom, and local areas.

Just one "family" has the power to shake the world's stability; as for the smaller ones, there are more than a dozen branches, and they are also the overlords of one or two counties.

If he shouts slogans to attack the aristocratic families and causes the aristocratic families in the world to unite, then the Sui Dynasty will be destroyed. Therefore, his attack does not target any aristocratic family, nor does he mention the word "targeting the aristocratic family", but discusses the matter and targets it.

The objects are only the idle official himself and the small family of the idle official.

In fact, there will be overt and covert fights among the family members because of their interests. If the "Integrity Department" beats their children, maybe for the sake of the family's unity, prestige, and reputation, everyone can work together to help the persecuted children to seek justice.

But once conclusive evidence comes out, the family often evolves into two factions: support and opposition. After the discussion, they are often burdened by the family's reputation and are forced to give up on those poor abandoned children.

Ultimately, what to do?

They gritted their teeth and announced that there was a scum in the family, which brought shame to the family. They thanked the government for helping to eliminate the scum in the family, and then said that they would be expelled from the family and would not be allowed to live in the name of their ancestors for generations to come.

I hope everyone in the world will oversee it.

These methods are the old tricks used by aristocratic families for hundreds of years, and they are almost always detrimental. Some good-hearted people who do not know that they are hateful and do not know the suffering of others, instead of sympathizing with the weak, not only do not condemn them, they will sing praises.

, saying that such-and-such family has good tutoring and strict family tradition, which is worthy of imitation by the world.

What's more, some people think that a big tree has dead branches. What's wrong with a large family with a lot of branches and a few scum?

What's the matter if a son of a high-ranking family tramples your little crops with his horse?

A child from a high-ranking family occasionally takes a fancy to you, a commoner's daughter, and plays with her a few times. That is your honor and a gift to you. Why don't you appreciate it?

People...

But the aristocratic family's scheme is now somewhat unmanageable, because Yang Ji broke the rules. During the Renshou period, he changed the name of the Cui family to the "scum", returned to official positions, and continued to do evil.

” was exposed. Then, he successively announced the same problem existing in the Zhang Jin family, Yuan family and other families.

During the Great Purge of Liangzhou, Liangzhou captured a large number of prisoners. Some of them had the experience of changing their names and becoming officials again after committing crimes. After Yang Ji's repeated revelations, it also made the family members more and more famous.

The method of operation is no longer respected by others, and has even been despised. Even if there are still some people who admire and advocate it, it is no longer the mainstream consciousness of society. So now the family members have cleaned up their houses, said the clichés, and added "

I hope everyone in the world will oversee it."

However, no matter how hard the aristocratic families try to restore their image, those idle officials taken down by the Department of Integrity are, after all, from their families and their children. These people have ruined not only their own reputations, but also the reputation of their families.

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In this age where morality is paramount, reputation represents integrity. If you have a good reputation, you can travel around the world with your head held high; if your reputation is bad, it will be difficult to move forward.

Fortunately, Yang Guang was not Yang Ji, and the extent of the attack, as well as the breadth of the forces involved, were far beyond what Liangzhou could match. He did not publish the list of guilty officials to the world.

It only means that the offending officials are punished in accordance with the law, their property is destroyed, and their positions, honors, and titles are taken away, so that they and their descendants no longer enjoy the unlimited support of the court.

This operation is mainly conducted by the Integrity Department in the Council Hall, and the three censors work together. The former is a newly established department, and the latter is at a critical moment of transformation, and the experienced censor Zhang Heng is launching a sprint to the prime minister.

, so every official in these two departments breathed a sigh of relief and wanted to win a big victory.

Coupled with the fact that the Long nobles were fighting against the Yang family as a cover, this storm action came very suddenly and very quickly.

After Yang Guang decided to deal with idle officials, he ordered Henan Prefecture and Jingzhao Prefecture to secretly collect evidence. It was precisely because the two directly-governed prefectures had made sufficient preparations in the early stage and cooperated fully that this scene only took more than two months.

In a short period of time, more than 12,000 idle officials were captured.

Among them, the Guanzhong area alone has more than 9,000 people. Firstly, there are many idle officials in Guanlong; secondly, after the capital was moved eastward, these idle officials seemed to have broken free from heavy shackles and began to become unscrupulous and unaware of the

The knife was already hanging above their heads.

As more than 12,000 prisoners were dismissed based on solid evidence, a large amount of land, money and food were distributed to the people, and the reputation of Yang Guang and the imperial court also skyrocketed.

Yes, it’s a huge increase!

This is not fame achieved with a sword or a gun, but the real support gained from benefiting the people and making decisions for the people.

Although Yang Guang's purges caused further dissatisfaction among the aristocratic families, especially the Guanlong nobles, what they gained in return was the support of a large number of people.

Whether this deal is a good deal can only be verified with time. However, judging from the example of Liangzhou, Yang Guang's actions of putting people first are undoubtedly correct. But the Guanzhong area and the Luoyang area are different from Liangzhou. And Yang Guang

The purpose is to break

The aristocratic family has controlled the world for hundreds of years in a solid state. Now it is just a trial and exploration of the heartland with Liangzhou's good medicine. If he wants to go further, the resistance he will face is far stronger than now. The further he goes,

It will be more difficult.

However, Yang Guang did not stop because of this. After purging a group of people, he asked the Integrity Department to carry out the battle to the end and continue to thoroughly investigate the still huge and bloated group of idle officials. On the one hand, he vowed to eliminate redundant officials and redundant staff;

On the one hand, it is really profitable.

The group of idle officials had been raised by the Northern Wei, Western Wei, Northern Zhou, and Sui Dynasties for more than a hundred years. They had become fat pigs with fat heads and big ears. After killing one, they would get unimaginable wealth. This time he killed one at a time.

In addition to returning the portion to the victim, the state treasury also received nearly tens of millions of dollars, rare treasures, land deeds, and land properties.

This shocking huge harvest also made Yang Guang feel that Yang Ji was absolutely right. There is no business method in the world faster than stealing money from Ming. Those corrupt officials mainly made their money through corruption or plundering the people.

Yang Guang simply adhered to the principles of "slaughter the pigs when they are fattened" and "remove harm for the people", and robbed them openly, without any psychological barriers.

This windfall also provided for the training expenses, weapons and equipment, and military salaries of the Xiaoguo Army, which did not cost the national treasury a penny at all.

Yang Guang became restless once he had money.

He considered that there would be a bloody battle between the Sui Dynasty and Goguryeo in the future. If the Sui Dynasty wanted to destroy Goguryeo, it would not only have to send a large number of troops, but also send enough food and supplies to the front line.

The Western Liaoning Corridor is extremely difficult to navigate. During the rainy season, large troops and supplies cannot pass.

The failure of Yang Liang and Gao Jiong on land that year was because the Liaoxi Corridor was far away, rugged and difficult to travel, the climate was bitterly cold, and the rain was constant, which prevented them from sending food and grass to the front line. The soldiers who arrived in Liaoxi were not only hit by a storm, but

The supply difficulties also prevented the sick soldiers from receiving effective treatment, and the plague slowly spread throughout the army. Eventually, this massive expedition was carried out and all the soldiers were lost before the war started.

If the problem of transportation difficulties cannot be overcome, it will be very difficult for the Sui Dynasty to launch an expedition to Goguryeo in the future. Therefore, it is imperative to build a flat, wide, and strong official road on the Western Liaoning Corridor.

Moreover, the Sui Dynasty had Mozhou County and Liaoxi County (Liaozhou) on the east side of the Liaoxi Corridor. If the imperial court wanted to strengthen its control over these places and strengthen communication on both sides of the corridor, the Liaoxi Corridor must also have a convenient official road, otherwise

A war suddenly broke out over there, and Youzhou couldn't respond in time.

Therefore, whether it is for war reasons or for territorial control, the court must fix this.

After Yang Guang had this idea, he approved the large-scale project of the Liaoxi Corridor. The entire official road direction, road surface, and checkpoints along the way were fully handed over to the Ministry of Industry to design, and then contracted in sections.

The responsibilities of the imperial court and local governments are the same as when building river transportation. Officials assigned by the imperial court are responsible for supervision, and local governments are responsible for cooperating with the construction unit. They wait until the inspection and acceptance are passed before giving money.

And the more than 12,000 idle officials who were enjoying themselves, as well as those arrested for being involved in the case, became free labor for mining stones and baking road bricks. It didn't matter whether the other party was old or not. Prisoners these days were used as laborers.

Death is a common occurrence; how can there be any human feelings or humanity?

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In the afternoon over Zhangye City, the sky was filled with overcast clouds. After a depressing buildup, sleet and sleet began to fall from the sky.

On the official road outside the city, a cavalry force of less than fifty people was galloping on the white land, crushing the frost and snow on the ground, and galloped towards the south city gate.

The attire of this group of cavalry is different from that of the soldiers guarding the city. They wear relatively crude leather armor, with long and narrow horizontal knives hung on the horse's neck. Their entire faces are tightly wrapped in cloth, and only a pair of breathtaking pair of eyes are exposed from their entire bodies.

, with bloodshot eyes and murderous intent, one can tell at a glance that he is a veteran of hundreds of battles at the border!

At the gate of the city, the defenders were just about to stop them, but the speed of the cavalry was so fast that they rushed in front of them in an instant. The soldier who bore the brunt of the attack turned pale with fright, but it was too late to hide.

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Just when he closed his eyes in fear and waited for death, the knight at the front picked up the reins of the horse and clamped the horse's belly with his legs. The galloping horse screamed and jumped over the soldier's head. The knights behind quickly separated.
To be continued...