A dazzling ray of light slipped in from the lattice of the window and shone on a large bed made of precious wood carved with flowers, birds, fish and insects.

"Come." Yang Yong shouted out.

Two guards came in: "See Your Highness."

"This... where is this clear water?" Yang Yong asked a little embarrassedly. All along, whenever he got up, the two girls would call Qingshui and wash Yang Yong. Now both of them are lying on the bed, and Yang Yong didn't even know where Qingshui was.

The two guards looked at the inner room strangely, and one guard reacted: "Have a moment." He hurried out. After a while, one guard brought the hot water that had been burnt with porcelain basin. The other guard held a towel made of silk in his hand and put it in the basin for a soaking, and then wiped it for Yang Yong.

"I will do it myself." Yang Yong hurriedly stopped the guards from continuing to serve, and was always unaccustomed to letting a big man wipe his face. He couldn't help but sigh that he was too depraved before. Since becoming the prince, he had to serve two girls in small matters such as washing his face and dressing. Today, there were no two, so he almost couldn't even find water.

After washing up, Yang Yong felt that his spirit was much more comfortable than before. He took off the long sword and bow and arrow hanging on the wall and came to the yard to practice martial arts. Although Yang Yong's two-year career as a prince, although Yang Yong's time to practice martial arts was reduced compared to before, he still did not abandon his martial arts.

"Your Highness!" Seeing the prince leaving the wing room, the East Palace guards waiting on the periphery salute one after another. Although they were in the governor's mansion, the East Palace guards still did not dare to relax. In the courtyard where the prince lived, at least a team of fifty guards remained awake at all times. The guards took turns at night, and at this time there was dew on their heads and shoulders.

"Well, thank you for your hard work." Yang Yong patted his shoulders every time he passed by a guard, and he showed encouragement. This was a pure show in later generations, but these guards were inexplicably moved. He thought to himself that it was worthwhile to be taken so seriously by the prince, even if he died for the prince.

After practicing a sword technique and shooting more than twenty arrows in a row, Yang Yong had a hot sweat before he stopped. He put his weapons aside and sat down in the yard.

It is the end of September of the third year of Kaihuang, and Qingzhou is not far from the sea. Yang Yong can already feel the coolness of the wind blowing from the sea level, and his mind is clear. The lyrics sung by Miss Wang’s family yesterday really scared him. Now, when he thinks about the reaction at that time, he just feels funny.

Later generations, Yang Tian, ​​a little citizen, was often filled with humiliation and righteous indignation for the century-long humiliation and righteousness that his nation had suffered, and hated the corrupt officials of the country to the core. Now he has become the crown prince of the Sui Dynasty, but he is at ease to enjoy the various glory brought by the imperial power. It turns out that he is also a selfish person.

But are you willing to do this? I have gained thousands of years of experience to change my personal destiny. In the end, I become emperor and be victorious for the rest of my life, even if the flood is overwhelming after death?

Thinking of what he did over the years, Yang Yong felt a cold sweat flowing out. No, the emperor needs to do it, but at least he needs to change something in this era. Otherwise, as an emperor, his father Yang Jian has done well enough, and Li Shimin in later generations has done better. They each created the Kaihuang prosperous era, and the other created the Zhenguan rule.

However, whether it is the prosperous era of Kaihuang or the governance of Zhenguan, it is just a brief glory. After the glory, the Chinese nation still cannot escape the fate of the alternation of rise and fall. After a thousand years, it fell into darkness for three hundred years, almost causing the Chinese nation, which has always been ahead of the world, to fall to the fate of dying like the other three ancient civilizations.

Perhaps God could not bear to see such a great civilization that was humiliated by the future generations, so that he would use his own hands to make things right so that excellent civilizations would not interrupt their own process due to barbarism. If he is an emperor, at least he would allow future generations to have a system that is ahead of the barbaric national forces around him to retain, so that this system can be constantly renewed internally, eliminate corruption and backward things on its own, and keep the latest blood.

But can you do it yourself? In fact, it is difficult to say it is difficult, and it is not difficult. First of all, as an emperor, don’t want to be worshipped by one family forever and adopt the policy of fooling the people. This policy of fooling the people may allow the dynasty to be stable for a period of time, but once it is subject to external forces, it will collapse.

Secondly, the emperor's power must also be restricted. When the emperor is useless, it will not cause too much loss. Third, the power of the entire ruling group must be restricted to prevent the entire ruling group from corruption. Fourth, it is necessary to ensure that the best talents can enter the ruling group smoothly to replace the old blood. Fifth...

There is no fifth place. In fact, the dynasty can basically do the best to achieve the first four points. Even if this dynasty is destroyed, it will most likely not perish from a barbaric nation far inferior to itself, but will gain rebirth through its own transformation.

It is not difficult to achieve the first and fourth points. I would not have thought that the Yang family could always do the emperor, and naturally would not fool the people. Instead, I would encourage strengthening education. As long as the education comes, the plan to allow outstanding talents to enter the ruling group can be completed through the imperial examinations, and break the current monopoly of high-ranking sects over officials.

The second and third points are the second and third points. Even if you have thousands of years of knowledge, can you resist the temptation of "exporting to become a constitution, and the universe is arbitrary" and put shackles on yourself? If you don't put shackles on yourself, how can you expect future generations to follow? As for preventing the entire ruling class from decaying, even if you can't find a way to stop it in a thousand years, why can you do it?

There must be a way, but I haven't found it yet. At least many methods from later generations are worth learning from. Yang Yong kept comforting himself. Could it be that yesterday was God's dissatisfaction with his past being so stunned that he used Miss Wang to warn him?

People must have awe. The people respect officials, and officials respect greater officials. When the emperor comes to the emperor, they can only respect the heavens. Otherwise, once people lose their awe, they will be lawless, just like themselves in later generations. Although they do not believe in ghosts and gods, they will still feel scared in gloomy and terrifying places. It is a kind of awe of the unknown, and they do not know whether there is anything looking at themselves in the darkness.

Since I can travel thousands of years to come here in this life, I naturally believe that there is really a God here. So can I restrict the entire ruling class by respecting the heaven, the earth, and the ghosts and gods? Maybe I can try it. Not to mention now, even a thousand years later, aren’t there still officials burning incense and worshiping Buddha and asking people to see their lives? Now officials almost believe in the ghosts and gods of heaven and earth, but because there is no system, they keep burning incense and worshiping Buddha in their spare time, but when they really do it, they are another set.

This kind of practice of respecting the heaven, the earth, and the ghosts and gods can only be spread through religion. The existing Buddhist sects cannot bear such a mission and must establish a new religion. As soon as the idea of ​​establishing a new religion came out, Yang Yong was shocked. Even if he is the emperor in the future, this is still a huge project. Perhaps the Taoist sect can be selected for improvement?

Yang Yong sat in the yard thinking randomly, his face changed and his expression changed. He was happy for a while, and then he became depressed. The guards only dared to watch from a distance, for fear of disturbing the prince's thoughts.

A quick footstep approached Yang Yong. When he got closer, he saw Yang Yong being immersed in thought and stopped hesitantly. However, he still alarmed Yang Yong. Yang Yong did not look back and asked directly: "What's the matter?"

Lu Mulin's voice sounded: "Your Highness, Miss Wang's visit."

"Wang Family? Which Wang Family, is it the Langya Wang Family yesterday?" Yang Yong was very surprised and turned his head to Lu Mulin, as if he wanted to see the truth from Lu Mulin's face. He seemed to have refused yesterday. Could it be that the Wang family didn't understand, how could the lady of the Wang family come here today?

"That's right." Lu Mulin replied affirmatively.

"No, let her go back." Perhaps Miss Wang's family is very beautiful, but Yang Yong no longer has the idea of ​​possessing a beautiful woman when he sees a beautiful woman. This time, two girls, Yun Meier and Xing'er, were at least given the tacit approval of Yuan Qing'er. Moreover, the two girls have served him for several years, and they can be considered a deep relationship. If they inexplicably take a Miss Wang back, not only Yuan Qing'er may be angry, but his mother's reaction is even more considerate.

"Yes." Lu Mulin immediately turned around and walked out. He was not by Yang Yong's side during the birthday party yesterday. He didn't know what happened yesterday, nor did he see Miss Wang's appearance. Seeing that the prince had no intention of Miss Wang, he naturally would not hesitate.

"Slow down, go back." Yang Yong suddenly called out to Lu Mulin.

"Your Highness, could you let Miss Wang come in?" Lu Mulin turned around, saw the prince's face hesitation, and asked tentatively.

"No, you put your tone more tactful when you refuse, it means that I am too busy and can't take time."

"Yes." Lu Mulin was confused. His Highness was the prince. He said that it was natural for anyone to meet or not, so why bother to give me this sentence?

A dynasty cannot have clan power, but it will definitely pose a threat to the royal family if it is too strong. The current emperor Yang Jian can also see this clearly. As early as the first year of Kaihuang, Yang Jian ordered the revocation of the power of local officials to appoint their own officials. Officials of rank must be appointed by the Ministry of Personnel, and local officials in prefectures, counties and places must be appointed as officials in different places, and must be transferred once every three years. These are all restrictions on the high-sected ranks. In the future, the implementation of imperial examinations instead of recommendations is a time to remove the firewood from the high-sected ranks.

For Yang Yong, limiting high-gate and large-scale valves is certain, but he knew that no matter what, high-gate and large-scale valves could not be cancelled. Even if the recommendation of the aristocratic family was cancelled, it would only weaken the aristocratic family, but could not be eliminated. If you defeat a family, you will definitely have other aristocratic families to defeat other aristocratic families. Although Yang Yong did not need to marry Miss Wang, he did not have to offend the Wang family. If the lady Wang family could not come down from Taiwan and left in shame, it would not be Yang Yong's original intention.

Wang Ying sat in the carriage, with two red clouds flying from her fair face. She took the initiative to come to her door. Although the other party was the prince, she was still shy and she was a little uneasy. Judging from the words written by the prince, she was undoubtedly a passionate person. She just left yesterday and ignored her. How would she treat herself today?

Her two twin girls looked at her lady's appearance and burst into laughter: "Miss, don't worry, with the lady's talent, the prince will definitely welcome her when she hears that the lady comes."

"Damn girl, what am I worried about?" Wang Ying's face was tender, and her face couldn't be stopped when she was smiled by her girl. The blush just now suddenly filled her face. However, after two girls joked, Wang Ying's nervous mood suddenly dissipated a lot.

After a while, Wang Fu, the third steward of the royal family, who led the team, hurried to the side of the carriage and whispered: "Miss, His Highness, just now, His Highness sent someone to inform the old servant, Your Highness is busy today, Wuxia received the lady, what should I do?"

Wang Fu's words reached the carriage. Wang Ying's blushing face suddenly faded and turned pale. A feeling of being humiliated filled her whole heart and fell backwards.

"Miss, Miss." The two girls were shocked and shook Wang Ying's body desperately. Wang Fu was shocked outside the carriage but did not dare to lift the curtain to check.

"Let's go back." Wang Ying spit out these words with difficulty.

"When I go back, what should I do if the master's instructions?" Both girls looked embarrassed. The Wang family governed the family with filial piety. Wang Xiang, who was included in "Twenty-Four Filial piety", was the ancestor who founded the Wang family in Langya. Filial piety was the foundation of the Wang family. If someone in the family was unfilial, it would be the ending of the corpse at the bottom of the river.

Now all the Wang family know that the patriarch intends to betroth his daughter to the current crown prince, which is in line with the interests of most people in the clan and has been unanimously agreed. If he goes back like this, even if Wang Meng does not blame his daughter, the saliva of other tribes can drown Wang Ying.

Yes, what to do? Wang Ying's hands and feet were cold, and she felt that she was being pushed into a situation where she could not move forward or retreat. The humiliation just now was still there. Do she have to stay? She usually buys poetry and books, and reads many books like "The Biography of the Wild Girls". She also vaguely felt that even if her father wanted to marry the prince himself, the prince would be his husband. Since he was his husband, there would naturally be no humiliation.

No matter how smart Wang Ying is, she is just a girl who has never left the Wang family. Most of her knowledge is obtained from books, so how can she deal with such complicated things?

Twenty miles northwest of Qingzhou Prefecture, there is a village with more than 200 households. Nearly half of the villagers in this village are tenants of the Lu family in Qingzhou. Naturally, most of the fertile land is owned by the Lu family. Only some sporadic or poor land belongs to the villagers. The largest and best green brick house in this village is the house built by the Lu family in the village. Although most of the people in the village are not named Lu, this place is still named Lujia Village.

Lujia Village is ten miles away from the official road and five or six miles away from the nearest village. There are few outsiders in the village. In addition to the busy life of Lu family sending people to pick up grain every year when paying rent, the villagers basically cannot see people from other villages. The village lives a self-sufficient life. Even if there are some small conflicts in normal times, as long as the village is speaking a word, it can basically calm down, and even the police are rarely sent to a police force.

However, since more than ten days ago, I heard that the Crown Prince of the current dynasty had arrived in Qingzhou, the village seemed to be a little different. There were a total of ten servants from Qingzhou Prefecture, and Su Xing lived in the village without leaving. Every day, these servants walked around the village with bright weapons, which made people frightened.

There are so many people living in the village, and it is still a trivial matter to pay grain and money. What if these people live for a long time and have a policeman fall in love with the wife of that family or steal their livestock, they even want to sue but have no place to sue. In fact, since the Kaihuang Dynasty, the government has been much better in treating the people, and the servants will not act too recklessly. However, the people's fear of officials is deeply rooted in the roots, and the common people stay away from officials most of the time.

For a moment, the whole village became cautious. Some young wives with a slightly beautiful appearance were strictly restricted by their own men. Even children did not dare to play unscrupulously as before. Everyone always felt that it was not a good thing for so many servants to live in the village. Many people couldn't help but secretly ask the village for the reason. The news they received surprised them. Some people assassinated the prince. These servants squatted in the village to arrest the assassin.

The villagers are simple and their lives have been much better than before in recent years. The county officials praised the emperor for his wisdom and a rare saint. They believed that those who assassinated the prince were naturally ruthless. For a moment, even the troubles brought to them by the servants were ignored. They only hoped that the court could find the assassin who assassinated the prince assassinated the prince as soon as possible and tear them to pieces. But they had a question in their hearts, how could the assassin come to their own village?

There are actually many such examples. The entire Qingzhou Prefecture is basically closely monitored by the government. All the mansions related to the Lu family are divided into two levels: light and dark. In addition to the open servants, there are also secretly hidden soldiers in the palace several miles away. Once the traces of the assassin are found, the nearby soldiers will immediately dispatch and arrest the assassin.

The courtyard belonging to Lujia Village is just an ordinary second-entry courtyard, with less than ten rooms in total. Usually, there are only one distant relative of the Lu family and more than ten servants to take care of them. Many rooms are empty and will only be fully occupied when the Lu family comes down when the rent is collected. Although this courtyard is the best house in the village, it is simply inconspicuous compared with other courtyards of the Lu family.

Now that the rented grain has just been collected, the Lu family yard is at the time when there are the fewest people. Many rooms should be empty, but today the empty left room was heard. A thick voice roared: "I can't stand it. I live in the local kiln every day. When will it be? I want to go out for activities."
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