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Chapter 1062: Political Discussion in the Imperial Study (Part )

Li Yan controls the absolute violence machine of the Northern Turks, but he cannot act recklessly without caring about anything.

The grasslands are close to primitive society, and most people still think and act like animals; while the Central Plains have left that stage and entered a certain degree of civilization. Things here cannot be separated from violence, but violence alone is not enough.

The An-Shi Rebellion dealt a heavy blow to the Tang Dynasty, but An Lushan and Shi Siming did not have a good ending, and the Hebei military interest groups they represented were completely wiped out. The Huang Chao Uprising ended more than two hundred years of the Tang Empire and aristocratic families, but Huang Chao himself died in the Langhu Valley in Laiwu, Shandong.

These two events destroyed the country, brought disaster to the people, and ultimately resulted in a situation where both sides were destroyed.

The entire Chinese land sank again, and the disaster of the Five Barbarians reappeared.

Destruction is easy but construction is difficult. If you break the old pattern but cannot build a new one to support the whole world and rebuild a new order, then don't break it for the time being, otherwise you will repeat Yang Guang's mistakes.

The Tang Dynasty is not a grassland, and we cannot act recklessly without any scruples.

Li Yan is now confident that he can easily break or even destroy a dynasty system like the Sui and Tang dynasties, but he does not have the ability, skill, or patience to build a new order while breaking their old pattern.

The management of the military and political system, the establishment of power at all levels, the reshaping of values ​​and cultural systems, as well as the numerous trivial government affairs involved made Li Yan feel uncomfortable and disgusted from the bottom of his heart.

It is easy to conquer a country, but difficult to rule it.

Conquering the world is not as simple as killing and revenge on the battlefield, defeating the enemy and achieving victory.

What happens behind the battlefield is more troublesome and more important.

This is also the fundamental reason why Li Yan kept Li Shimin.
In this regard, Tian Khan's ability and patience far exceed his own. When things are really messed up, he can still call upon this great god.

Li Shimin was able to create the prosperous Zhenguan era, and with his patience, ability and prestige, he was able to clean up the mess.

Therefore, Li Yan must not act recklessly. With Li Shimin's presence to support him, Li Yan can try to carefully use local forces to break through the barriers and attempt to achieve his goal. If Li Shimin really died, Li Yan would not dare to act recklessly.

The well-being of tens of millions of people is not a testing ground for testing one's governance capabilities.

However, after the last game and the understanding during this period, Li Yan also came to a conclusion that it is basically impossible to solve the problem of the aristocratic families who have survived hundreds of years of cruel and harsh extreme living environment by relying on some means of struggle and mediation strategies in a peaceful environment.

At least it cannot be resolved peacefully through one's own political means.

When Li Yan came to this conclusion, the first person he thought of was Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty. It is estimated that the talented emperor with great ambitions and aspirations higher than the sky had also come to the same conclusion!

It is not difficult to understand that after he created the imperial examination system, built the canal, and launched the three expeditions to Goguryeo, he would return to Jiangdu regardless of everything, indulge in wine and sex all day long, sit in the southeast and look northwest, watching the ups and downs of the world with a smile.

If he really stayed in Dongdu, he might not see who would be the next person to fall into the trap?

So he gave up the main battlefields of Chang'an and Luoyang and retreated to Jiangdu, which was in a safe place. When he saw Li Yuan raising an army in Jinyang, it took him only three months to enter Guanzhong and six months to enter Chang'an, he knew that the next one to repeat the same mistake would be the Li family.

When Yang Guang finally left, he must have done so with an open mind.

Li Yan felt sorry for Yang Guang for a while. The Xuanwu Gate Incident and the later Wu replaced Li Xing, as well as Xuanzong's first bright and then dark reign, the Anshi Rebellion, the Huang Chao Uprising, and the Li imperial power and the aristocratic families' struggle for more than 200 years and their coexistence and death, all illustrate the history.

Yang Guang's choice and approach were correct. There was no other way but to rely on force to resolve the aristocratic politics.

Li Yan thought about it countless times and this is the only way. Although he already has absolute power, he still needs to consider in detail how to use it.

Fortunately, the aristocratic families' hundreds of years of experience made them only manage internal affairs, strengthen their power in the court, and tightly restrain the imperial power. They never thought that they would use external force to sound their death knell in another way that they could not imagine.

Well.
Thinking of this, Li Yan frowned again. He couldn't be too careless.

The power of the nobles was unfathomable. Yang Guang's case was a lesson not far away. The destruction of both sides also brought great harm and losses to the nobles, and the lesson was painful. They might not have thought of this move, but they could not have dreamed that the power of the entire Turkic was in their hands.

I am a contestant, and I have bribed the referee, referee, witness, organizer, co-organizer, and all the units are my people. I am taking an open-book exam, and I will definitely pass, it just depends on my score!
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty?" A loud call sounded in my ears.

"Uh, what is it?"

Li Yan was stunned, and then he came to his senses and saw that Changsun Wuji, Cen Wenben and other ministers were looking at him with strange expressions. He realized that his thoughts were flying and he was lost in thought. A long time had passed. "Oh, when I saw this picture, I was suddenly moved by the scene and thought of some scenes from my travels in the West. I was a little absent-minded."

"My Lords, let us now get back to the subject."

Li Yan shook his head, came to the map that seemed very strange to everyone, and introduced: "Everyone, this map is actually very simple."

"Look, the straight line at the bottom represents time. It starts with the early years of Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, with one node each year. It ends in the 14th year of Daye, when Emperor Gaozu entered Guanzhong and established the first year of Wude of the Tang Dynasty, a total of 38 years."

Several important officials gathered around curiously and came forward to take a look, and Ma Zhou even counted them carefully.

Sure enough, on the straight line below, there are dozens of densely packed dots, representing the 38-year history of the Sui Dynasty.

Seeing that everyone understood, Li Yan pointed to the vertical line on the left and said, "This line represents the quantity value. You can understand it as the total amount of money and grain that the national treasury receives each year."

Everyone quickly shifted their gazes to see that there were also twenty dots on the left line, but each dot was no longer marked with a time, but with a traditional Chinese capital number. Five million guan was a node, and the top reached ten million guan.

Changsun Wuji was very smart. He frowned and thought for a while but still didn't understand what it meant. He asked curiously, "Your Majesty, what does this year and money mean?"

"Look everyone, this picture is about the middle range, and there are two lines in it, one blue and one red."

Li Yan pointed to the area in the middle and explained: "These two lines are also made up of dots. The position of each dot must refer to the left and bottom, representing the state treasury situation at that time. The blue line represents the income of the state treasury over the years, and the red line represents the expenditure of the state treasury in the corresponding year."

"Everyone, take a look. This is the treasury revenue of the Sui Dynasty in the first year of Daye."

Li Yan pointed at one of the blue dots and dragged it down in a straight line. The ministers followed it closely, afraid of missing any information and not understanding what the emperor wanted to express.

Sure enough, at the bottom of this point is the first year of Daye.

Li Yan then asked all the ministers to move horizontally along this point to the far left, and everyone saw that the corresponding number on the left was 70 million strings of cash.

Ma Zhou was younger and had a very flexible mind. His eyes lit up and he understood the meaning instantly. He said excitedly, "Your Majesty, does this mean that in the first year of Sui Daye, the total revenue of the national treasury was 70 million guan?"

"good."

Li Yan nodded in appreciation: "This chart is about looking at every point. Each blue point corresponds to the treasury revenue of the Sui Dynasty that year."

"Mr. Xiao, you are the younger brother of Empress Xiao of the Sui Dynasty and a minister to Emperor Yang. You have the most seniority here and are most familiar with the previous dynasty. You should also be most familiar with the treasury expenditures during the reigns of Emperor Wen and Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty."

"I got these data from someone who investigated the data of the previous dynasty. There shouldn't be any big discrepancies, right?"

Xiao Yu was old and slow to react, but after the two's explanation, he roughly understood the meaning of the map. He hurried forward and followed the blue lines to find a few years that were more impressive to him. Finally, he nodded and said, "Your Majesty is wise, the numbers are probably correct."

At this point, Xiao Yu seemed to be reminded of the past. He walked forward and stretched out his trembling fingers, following the blue line. From the 40 million strings of cash in the early years of Kaihuang to the seventeenth year of Kaihuang, the blue line was like a parabola rising from the ground and rushed to the top of the mountain.

It then remained stagnant for several years until the fourth year of Renshou, when it began to decline slightly.

Until the Daye period, the blue line continued to move downward. Xiao Yu understood that this was accompanied by the construction of the Grand Canal and the construction of the Eastern Capital, as well as the three expeditions to Goguryeo. Until the late Daye period, this line was like a cannonball, piercing down without looking back.

From then on, it never rose again, and in the 14th year of Daye, the Sui Dynasty fell.

The final data also stopped at 5 million strings of cash, which means that in the last year of the Sui Dynasty, the entire treasury's income was only 5 million strings of cash.

Seeing this, Changsun Wuji and Cen Wenben also became excited. In the past, everyone analyzed the fall of the Sui Dynasty from the perspective of military, politics, and situation, but never explained it with numbers.

Now, the emperor has drawn a visual picture of the treasury's revenue and expenditure, making it easy for people to find the patterns in it.

Several important officials realized that the rise and fall of a country could actually be explained from this perspective. A few simple lines could actually show the development and decline of a dynasty. Isn't this more reliable than analyzing the overall situation?
If this is the case, this perspective is extremely important for governing the world. It can dispel the fog and allow people to discover the state of the dynasty in advance.

(End of this chapter)