After the Lantern Festival, Yang Shuang began to focus on reform.

He had to do too much, from land, taxation, imperial examinations, and teaching, he had to remove the dross one by one and create a new look in the Sui Dynasty.

This process is a long and arduous journey. Fortunately, Yang Shuang has the full support of Emperor Sui, and he did not accomplish it overnight. Instead, he slowly planned it and started with land and taxes.

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After the Lantern Festival, the weather slowly began to warm up.

In the territory of Tang State, four armies began to rectify the army and set off again.

Especially Li Jing and Gao Bing of the middle army, they had 200,000 troops to attack Yizhou, making Li Yuan hiding in Yizhou feel in danger.

The only thing that made Li Yuan feel at ease was that the terrain of Yizhou was complex, the entire area was surrounded by complex mountains, and the mountains were extremely steep, and the river network was densely packed, making it absolutely easy to defend and difficult to attack.

So Li Yuan asked Li Xiaogong and Li Xiuning to guard the main passage. Not to mention that the Sui Dynasty had an army of 200,000, it would be difficult to break through their defense even if there were another 200,000. On this terrain, it was not useful if there were too many people.

So Li Jing and Gao Yang had a headache and kept thinking about how to attack, and they had different ideas.

Since seeing the power of gunpowder, Gao Yang has highly praised gunpowder, so when facing the Tang army, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, Gao Yang means to rely on gunpowder to open the way.

However, Li Jing felt that although this method was feasible, it was too wasteful of gunpowder, and gunpowder should be used on the blade. Instead of using gunpowder to blow up mountains and open the road, it is better to build a plank road openly and secretly travel to Chencang. Although Yizhou is full of mountains, there must be hidden passages to reach Yizhou.

Now Li Xiaogong and Li Xiuning have put all their troops on defense, so that Yizhou lacks troops. As long as you can find a secret passage to reach Yizhou, it will be easy to capture Yizhou City.

So the two fell into disagreement.

And in this flash, the first month passed and February entered.

As the world officially recovered, Li Jing and Gao Jin took a step back, and the two methods went hand in hand.

The army continued to attack, and Li Jing also sent secret troops to find a way to secretly cross Yizhou.

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Yang Shuang was about to start with land taxation, but in the first step he encountered difficulties.

Civil and military officials in the court protested because according to Yang Shuang's land tax, the first step was to clear the fertile land in the world and use household tax and land tax to replace the renting and mediocre system.

In addition, the collection of renting and evaluating various miscellaneous taxes will be cancelled, and commercial taxes will be reduced and exempted to promote the development of business.

Of course, paying taxes is not the most infringing on the interests of aristocratic families. According to Yang Shuang's reform, the "class-free households" were directly abolished, requiring all land, whether it is Yongye Field or dichotomy field, to pay taxes according to the area of ​​the land.

Like the current Sui Dynasty, there are many nobles and court officials with titles, who can be divided into five to one hundred hectares of Yongye Field. If a soldier has military meritorious service, he can be divided into sixty to thirty hectares of Yongye Field according to the level. These Yongye Fields do not need to be paid taxes, and they continue from generation to generation, and the consequences can be imagined.

In addition, monks and nuns in temples do not have to pay taxes.

Therefore, as time goes by, officials hold a large amount of land and do not have to pay taxes, which is definitely a big problem for the court.

Therefore, Yang Shuang's Qingzhang Liangtian and the cancelled the exemption of classes directly pushed herself to the opposite of the aristocratic family.

Many officials were talking about it, and even threatened in the mansion that the prince Yang Shuang had just settled in his position for two years and began to be restless again. He wanted to be enemies with the world. Why do he do it?

These officials were watching the fun, and they didn't believe that His Majesty would agree to Yang Shuang's reforms, nor did they believe that His Majesty would accompany him to make trouble!

Once this reform is made, the Sui Dynasty will be in chaos!

But what these officials did not expect was that Emperor Sui did not flatly reject Yang Shuang's reform plan, but instead strongly agreed and asked the Minister of Revenue to start responsible for clearing the fertile land in the world.

At this time, all the officials realized that this was not the prince who wanted to cause trouble, but His Majesty's intention!

As the saying goes, there are policies from above and countermeasures from below. The Minister of Revenue fell directly from the horse and broke his leg and was lying in bed, so he naturally couldn't take responsibility for this matter.

The Minister of Revenue, who was doing specific services, also took sick leave for various reasons.

Which of these imperial officials does not have an astonishing amount of land? Every year, these lands bring them countless wealth. Now they suddenly have to pay taxes. Although the amount of tax is not large, they are afraid that if they set a precedent, the court will gain a lot in the future and will make the wealth they have accumulated to waste.

So it is understandable that the officials of the Ministry of Revenue should take sick leave together.

Faced with the resistance of the Ministry of Revenue officials, Sui Huang and Yang Shuang were not angry. Just when civil and military officials were watching and trying to see what the Sui Huang would do, something that the Sui Emperor did surprised everyone.

Emperor Sui actually established an institution called Dongjishi Factory, referred to as Dongjian Factory, which was under the charge of Wei Zhongxian, and the tasks responsible for Dongjian are also thought-provoking.

Because the Dongchang is only responsible to the emperor and can supervise and arrest subjects without any approval from the yamen, especially those who commit traitors and speak evil deeds and evil deeds.

It can be said that the establishment of the Dongchang directly bypassed the three provinces and six ministries.

Just when the officials were puzzled by His Majesty's intention to establish this East Factory, the first task was carried out on the third day after the establishment of the East Factory, and directly captured the Minister of Revenue. Before the court officials could react, they conducted a sudden trial on the Minister of Revenue, Lord Qian, and obtained evidence of his illegality.

When the civil and military ministers were in the morning court and complained about the Minister of Revenue, the Sui Emperor directly gave up a confession and slapped everyone in the face.

The charges prosecuted by the Dongchang are naturally frighteningly great.

Corruption and abuse of power are all minor crimes. Eighteen crimes are directly examined, which gives civil and military ministers no chance to plead. Whoever dares to plead will be regarded as a member of the party.

The punishment for the Minister of Revenue was directly accused by Qiu Hou and sent Dongchang to raid his mansion, and even the family behind him could not escape.

In the past, King Yang Jun of Qin used to search for corrupt officials to collect silver and complete the tasks assigned by Emperor Sui, but compared with Emperor Sui and Yang Shuang, Yang Jun was really a small fight.

With the fall of the Minister of Revenue, the two Ministers of the Ministry of Revenue were immediately cured, and then they ran back to the Ministry of Revenue to handle official duties.

After all, facing the people of Dongchang walking around in front of the mansion every day and continuing to pretend to be sick is to seek death.

The civil and military ministers of the court were also in danger because they knew that His Majesty was serious.

However, although it has increased the sense of crisis, they are still very resistant to the new tax laws and do not cooperate at all.

According to Yang Shuang's intention, the trial operation will be carried out first in the capital. If it is done well, it will promote the whole world.

But now it seems that not to mention the new tax law, even the Ministry of Revenue will not be able to complete the task of clearing fertile land.

Since the Ministry of Revenue cannot complete it, I will hand over the work. Emperor Sui thought about the Ministry of Revenue very considerately and handed over the task of clearing the fertile land to the East Factory.

Don’t underestimate the East Factory. Although the East Factory has only been established for half a month, its power has been established! The Emperor Sui directly dispatched a thousand imperial guards to the East Factory, all of which are brave elites.

The task of clearing the fertile land was scattered in the capital. Any wealthy family did not cooperate and directly arrested them for the crime of intent to rebel. Those who resisted violently would directly confiscate their homes and place the land as the state.

By applying pressure from tough means, many landlords dare not refuse to obey and obediently clear the fertile land. After all, according to the new tax, the taxes collected per mu are not much, and they are completely acceptable.

Of course, in the early stages, the Dongchang cleaned up all middle- and lower-class landlords, and the middle- and high-level landlords have not taken action yet.

But these people were already panicked.

So in the court, some officials united to impeach Dongchang, believing that Dongchang was defeated and was guilty of His Majesty's trust, and they compiled a lot of evidence of crime.

But Emperor Sui ignored the accusations of these officials at all.

Moreover, the Emperor of Sui was still in the court and shouted righteously: "New taxes are the major plan for the country. If anyone does not cooperate and comes to me, then I will see if you have the ability to fight me!"

The civil and military ministers were silent. At this moment, they fully understood His Majesty's determination.

But still, some people still secretly stumbling and are unwilling to cooperate.

Yang Shuang dared to introduce Dongchang to Emperor Sui because she knew how powerful the Dongchang was. Especially when the emperor's power began to be gradually overturned by the three high-ranking officials, she would value Dongchang even more.

Because Dongchang is just a knife, a sharp butcher knife.

The result was the same as Yang Shuang expected. In just one and a half months, Wei Zhongxian not only began to clear the fertile land in an orderly manner, but also brought generous rewards to the Sui Emperor through the search of his home. The Sui Emperor, who tasted the sweetness, naturally valued Wei Zhongxian and the Dongchang more.

And this trouble took more than two months, and it was already the end of March.

On the other side.

Li Jing and Gao Bing's army were attacking Yizhou. Although the troops were at the advantage, the terrain was steep and so many soldiers could not be spread out at all, so the advantage of large troops was greatly reduced.

Li Xiaogong and Li Xiuning set up checkpoints and troops in a dangerous place, and they really have to be the one who can pass by ten thousand men. Therefore, during this period, Li Jing and Gao Yang's advance speed has been extremely slow.

It is not as strong as the other three armies, and it is expected that all regions will be able to be settled by the end of this year. They will be conquered from the grasslands to the Turks in the north, to the west, to the Yangtze River in the south.

So next, let’s look at Gao Yang and Li Jing.

The two of them have the most troops, and if they are the slowest, wouldn't that be a joke? So they were also a little anxious.

On the other hand, Li Jing sent a team secretly to Chen Cang for a long time, but he still couldn't find a hidden passage to reach Yizhou.

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The speed of the Sui army was stopped, which made Li Yuan feel relieved.

During this period, Li Yuan grew older and became more jealous of his life. Every day he fell asleep, he asked the guards to protect his bedroom tightly.

On this day, Li Yuan urgently recalled Li Xiuning.

During this period, Li Xiuning became much more haggard in order to fight against the Sui army.

"Father, I'm eager to summon my son to come back, what's wrong?" At this time, Li Xiuning and Li Yuan were already separated. In Li Xiuning's opinion, the second brother Li Shimin's rebellion was forced. And the eldest brother's rebellion was even more forced.

The current situation of the Tang Dynasty is 80% because of this father.

He was too greedy for power and his throne, so he suppressed the crown prince and the prince, which made the originally prosperous Tang Dynasty become this situation.

Li Yuan heard the indifference in Li Xiuning's words. In fact, Li Yuan did not regret it? But now that things have come to this point, it is impossible to turn back. The most urgent task is to solve the current dilemma as soon as possible.

So Li Yuan said to Li Xiuning: "Xiuning, my father knows that you have worked hard on the front line. In order to stop the Sui army, I led the way. I have been thinking about it for a long time and have been thinking about ways to solve the difficulties. I heard that some time ago, Shu sent assassins to assassinate Yang Shuang, but unfortunately it failed. In my opinion, it was because the people they sent had problems, so Yang Shuang could not be assassinated."

"Look at the current Sui Dynasty, the sons of the Emperor of Sui, Yang Yong, Yang Guang and Yang Jun, were all dead. Yang Chao was deposed. Yang Shuang was the crown prince, and there were only two sons of Yang Liang and Yang Chao. If Yang Shuang could be killed, the remaining Yang Liang and Yang Chao would be two wastes. Whether they inherited the throne of Sui State, they would lead Sui State to destruction! So Yang Shuang is the key, and he must be killed! This is also the reason why Shu State had to take action!"

Seeing Li Yuan so excited, Li Xiuning immediately understood what he meant, and asked: "Father also wants me to arrange someone to assassinate Yang Shuang? It's impossible! Yang Shuang has been assassinated many times and has long become a frightened bird. There are many masters around her, and it is almost impossible to get close to him! Sending someone will only be an innocent sacrifice!"

Li Yuan nodded and said, "I understand! The ordinary assassins cannot achieve their goals, and Yang Shuang is definitely very cautious. But what about using the beauty trick?"

As soon as this said, Li Xiuning looked at Li Yuan in shock and asked, "Does the father want his son to go to Kyoto and assassinate Yang Shuang with a beauty trick?"

"No, it's okay to change to other women... it's okay!" Li Yuan smiled awkwardly and said.
To be continued...