Chapter 94: Restore the Han surname

A few days later, Yang Yong's reprimand documents had arrived in Yecheng. Yang Su was furious when he received Yang Yong's reprimand documents. He threw the reprimand documents to the ground and cursed: "Ignorance child, I, Yang Su, are you willing to be criticized for his Yang family. How dare you bully me?"

In Yang Su's opinion, hundreds of thousands of residents in Yecheng must have hidden many rebels. Sooner or later, it is a big problem. Only by killing one group and moving one group can Yecheng be stabilized. He thought that this move was all for Yang Jian, but he didn't expect that Yang Yong would not appreciate it, but instead criticized himself, and of course he was angry.

When Yang Su's second brother Yang Yue heard this, he quickly picked up the official document from the ground. After reading it, he advised Yang Su: "Brother, Lord Tombao is the legitimate son of the Prime Minister, and now he is the boss of the eldest brother. Since he does not agree to the relocation of the residents of Yecheng, why not bow your head and apologize to Lord Tombao."

When Yang Yue was a child, he was naughty and playful. When he was climbing a tree, he accidentally penetrated the testicles under him by the branches, and almost became a useless person. Yang Sulian was quite pity for this younger brother and usually obeyed his plans.

"I want me to bow my head and admit my mistake?" Yang Su shook his head. If it weren't for the Yang Yue who advised him, someone else might be driven out by Yang Su immediately: "I am not wrong, why should I bow my head to a child? I have already submitted this matter to the court. It depends on whether the Prime Minister protects his son or will obey my good words."

Yang Yue sighed inwardly, his elder brother considered himself high. As the general manager of Yecheng, Yang Su, of course, the more people under his jurisdiction, the better. It is indeed not selfish to propose to relocate the frontier. It is not a selfish idea. It is not a matter of people's hearts now, and people's hometowns are difficult to leave, and their lives may be threatened by foreign races at any time when they arrive at the border. If it is really forced to be implemented in Yecheng, it will undoubtedly be certain that it will cause unrest. For the court that urgently needs rest, it may not be a good thing. The court may very well agree with Yang Yong's suggestion and will not implement his elder brother's plan.

Yecheng and Luoyang were only two or three days away. Yang Yong inspected the border and won two great victories against Gao Baoning and Goguryeo. When he returned to Luoyang this time, officials from all over the country sent people to congratulate him, but only Yang Su ignored him at all. The reprimand documents sent to Yang Su were even more scattered. Yang Su neither distinguished nor admitted his mistakes. Only when Yang Yong truly understood Yang Su's domineering arrogance.

If Yang Yong had not had the right to deal with a general manager, he would have ordered Yang Su to be dismissed immediately. Now he can only wait for news from Chang'an to see who Chang'an will support.

A few days later, Yang Yong received an imperial edict from the Prime Minister to support Yang Yong's suggestions to maintain stability in Qi. The memorial of Yang Su moving to Yecheng residents was rejected. However, Yang Jian said a few words lightly in the prime minister's edict. Although Yang Su was impatient, he was determined to serve the public and told Yang Yong not to be too scruple with Yang Su and to gently expose Yang Su's incident of bypassing the Tokyo Tumura Priest House, which disappointed Yang Yong.

However, the next prime minister's office's edict shocked the entire Great Zhou. In early December, the prime minister's office issued an edict to abolish all the surnames given to Han people in the past and to restore their original surnames. The Xianbei people and the Han people no longer have a distinction between high and inferiority, but are both citizens of the Great Zhou.

Since the fourth year of Jianxing (316 AD), the Western Jin Dynasty was destroyed and the Jin Dynasty moved south, the north completely became the Hu people. The Han people who used to issue the slogan "Those who violated the powerful Han people will be punished even if they are far away" suddenly suffered many disasters and lived a life worse than pigs and dogs. They were even called two-legged sheep by the Hu people and became their food. It was not until the Han hero Ran Min launched a Jedi counterattack, launched an army to resist, and massacred nearly one million Hu people, and the Han people escaped the fate of being eaten and extinct.

Although Ran Min was finally killed, the Hu people also saw the resistance of the Han people. The Han people's status was slightly higher, but they still lived at the bottom, providing food for various warring Hu regimes, and were cruelly exploited. Later, due to frequent wars, the Xianbei people lacked their own military strength and needed the Han people to join the army. The Han people fought for the Xianbei regime and began to form various military families. In order to maintain their own rule, Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty fully sinicized the capital in the second year of Yanxing (472), including moving the capital, reforming the official system, banning Hu language and Hu patrol, changing the Xianbei surname to the Han surname, prohibiting intermarriage with the same clan, and ritual, music and criminal law, and the status of the Han people was truly improved.

After the Northern Wei split, the Great Zhou continued the policy of sinicization, but the Xianbei people still occupied most of the power in the court. Today, the Han people can finally be on an equal footing with the Xianbei people. With this prime minister's edict, the Han people in the north were cheered and cheered up. Praising the Prime Minister's wisdom, the power of the Xianbei people was further weakened.

Compared with this edict, Yang Yong attached more importance to a family letter from Dugu. The letter mentioned that Yang Ying thought his name was not good and changed his name to Yang Guang. Guang was the big house of the hall. Duan Yukai's note in "Shuowen": The hall said that the hall had no four walls... The one that covered the upper part was called a house, and there was no four walls and there was a large covering on it. The one that was known as broad, broad, broad, profound, and lofty ambitions. The one that was broad... It was indeed ten times better than the word "English" who simply praised the appearance.

Not only did Dugu not care about his second son's name as Yang Guang, he was very happy. He praised Yang Guang in the letter. After reading the letter Dugu gave him, Yang Yong was stunned, with various thoughts surging in his heart.

After getting along in the past few years, Yang Ying is just a follower behind him, which makes Yang Yong almost forget this younger brother who poses the greatest threat to his status. He believes that history may have changed. As long as he is careful, Yang Ying will no longer pose too much threat to him. But what should come is still coming. Although it is just a small change in name, the impact of this name is more shocking than when Yang Yong first learned about Yang Jian's identity. Facing the throne of the emperor, he is as close as a father and son, let alone just a brother.

This time, Yang Jian was lightly despised the impeachment of Yang Su, and gave a very bad start to the officials in Qi. They could cross the tsunami house and face the court directly without taking any responsibility. Yang Yong's power was equivalent to being greatly restrained. This is not because Yang Jian was afraid that his son's power was too great. Perhaps Yang Jian would not distrust his son yet, but just a simple defense.

Since neither father nor son trusted him, and An Ran hoped that he would give up Yang Guang's idea of ​​seizing the throne in the future, even if Yang Guang was still young and could not think of these, the counselors around him would do everything possible to plan for Yang Guang. The merit of following the dragon has always been the greatest contribution pursued by feudal ministers.

It is unlikely that he would influence Yang Guang even if he wanted to be the crown prince. After he was appointed as the crown prince, he could only stay in the Eastern Palace peacefully, and even Chang'an could not leave. However, Yang Guang would be named Prince, and he could use his own territory to lead troops to war and make unparalleled contributions. These are all things that Yang Yong could not have.

If he performed too well in the East Palace, Yang Jian felt threatening. If he performed poorly, Yang Jian would be dissatisfied again. He was embarrassed and could only slowly watch Yang Guang accumulates huge reputation until he finally replaced him. He seemed to see Yang Guang lifting up a bright red steel knife to him, and he couldn't help but shiver.

"Sir, Sir..."

Li Gang came to Yang Yong and shouted several times before Yang Yong woke up: "What's the matter?"

"Sir, the Prime Minister's edict to restore the Han surname has been issued throughout the city, and the entire Luoyang City is full of joy. Can you hold some celebrations in Luoyang to increase the support of the people for the Zuifu? After all, more than 90% of the residents in Luoyang are Han people."

"Celebration?" Yang Yong was stunned. The celebrations during this period were too single, so he could only row dry boats, set up some colorful boats, play gongs and drums, or light lanterns at night and other events. Yang Yong was not very interested in such celebrations. It was just that the people had a rare entertainment. If the government was really held, the enthusiasm would be very high. He nodded: "Okay, then this matter will be left to your Wen Ji."

Li Gang said in embarrassment: "Sir, it's just that the year is over, and the annual salary of officials at all levels will be paid soon. Now there are not much left in the Luoyang treasury, and even the salary of officials is insufficient. If you celebrate it in large quantities, you may not be able to pay the salary of officials at the end of the year."

As the saying goes, the end of the year is not only that the people need to pay off their debts by the end of the year, but also the court is sad. Yang Yong suddenly remembered the TV series he watched in his previous life. During the Jiajing period, due to the financial deficits of the Ming Dynasty every year, some officials in the Qingshui Yamen in the capital could not get enough salary at the end of the year, and the whole family was cut off, and even went to the imperial city to collect wages together.

To be an official for thousands of miles is just for wealth. Although not everyone is like this, the salaries of officials are undoubtedly the basis for stability of the court. After a great war this year, the financial deficit in Qidi was serious, and it is already good to be able to last until now.

Although Yang Yong's fight against Gao Baoning this time, it was full of cattle, sheep, horses and other things, and it was still difficult to cash in. The end of the year is coming soon and I can't count on it for the time being.

"You estimate how much money you need, just withdraw it directly from the account of Tzunaifu." Yang Yong rubbed his forehead with headache. Others who are officials are making a fortune, but he only has to pay from his pocket. Although the country of Dazhou is now owned, this feeling is still very strange.

Li Gang breathed a sigh of relief: "Yes."

Li Gang knew that Yang Yong had to spend a lot of money every year in recent years, not for his own enjoyment, but for subsidies to those students and his loyal subordinates. Sometimes he could fill some deficiencies, and many of them were handled by Li Gang himself. Sometimes he wondered how Yang Yong got so much money. But Yang Yong didn't say it, and he was not inconvenient to ask in detail. He treated it as something Yang Jian and his wife gave their son privately, and received Yang Yong's promise, and Li Gang left with satisfaction.

Although Yang Yong can get more than 100,000 guan of sugar every year, he also needs to use more money. He promised Luo Yi that he would pay out his own money for 10,000 guan a year. Although the adopted orphans have become officials and have lost a large burden, they still need subsidies to some poor people.

The warehouse is solid and polite. For some poor officials, if they live a bad life, it is difficult to avoid them from corruption and accepting bribes. Once they open a hole, they will become greedy. Although they are in good living conditions, they may not be corruption, but with subsidies, most people will always be restrained from reaching out. Yang Yong does not want the people he trained to be beheaded for corruption in the future.

Subtracting from these, Yang Yong's annual income of more than 100,000 chunks of money still has a lot of surplus, so he can squeeze out Li Gang. However, facing the huge hole in Qidi, his money can't be filled even if he has ten times more. He is quite distressed. Seeing that he may fight the Turks again next year, Qidi's treasury may make it worse.

Although it was not his responsibility to be empty in Qi's treasury, as the tomb priest, he had to solve this problem. Yang Yong temporarily put aside the issue of Yang Ying's name change and thought about how to increase the finances in Qi's territory.

Increase the people's land tax is the most undesirable method. You should make a decision in other places. Yang Yong had no idea about it in the mansion and had to call Yang Shi: "Take a few people with you, let's change into plainclothes and walk around the city."

"Yes." Yang Shi quickly summoned more than ten people and hugged Yang Yong out of the mansion.

Although the construction of Luoyang Palace was a waste of money for the Great Zhou Dynasty, it is undeniable that the use of more than one million civilians and soldiers to build a city will undoubtedly stimulate the prosperity of the city immediately. Although the construction of Luoyang Palace has been stopped, the residents in the city have more than doubled compared to two years ago, and have become a big city with more than 100,000 people again.

At this time, the prime minister's edict to restore the Han surname was just posted. The pedestrians on the street were all happy, and many people were talking loudly to each other to convey their joy.

This was the first time that Yang Yong had actually conducted a private visit in Luoyang City. He kept watching from both sides. After the Luoyang Palace was stopped, although many people left, there were a large number of barren farmland outside the city and many job opportunities in the city. Many people stayed in Luoyang. Almost 60 to 70% of the population in Luoyang was like this. The streets were filled with people with various accents.

Yang Yong nodded in his eyes. Luoyang is a major water and land transportation road after all. The city has not been built yet and is so prosperous. If it were completed, I don’t know what would happen. Yang Yong still had a slight impression of Luoyang. Later, after Yang Guang’s vigorous construction, Luoyang was called the Eastern Capital, with a population of one million, and Wang Shichong was even called the emperor accordingly.
Chapter completed!