Lin'an Never Night

Chapter 763 Go and invite your brother-in-law Yang Yuan

On the second day, Yang Yuan met with local officials again in Xuzhou.

These officials are capable. They have served in the local area for many years. Since Yang Yuan has pointed out the direction, these officials have written down clearly how to proceed, what difficulties they will encounter in the process, and how to solve these difficulties.

Yang Yuan flicked the petition they wrote and smiled.

You see, doesn’t everyone know what problems Xuzhou has now?

They actually know very well how to resolve these contradictions and difficulties.

Laziness, inaction and inaction are certainly problems with the officials, but these subordinate officials are responsible for their own affairs. If they really want to, they should do well in the things within their authority. What is the result?
Now, they are afraid that I will settle the score with them, and they are eager to redeem themselves from their crimes, but this is not a long-term solution after all.

After thinking for a while, Yang Yuan came up with a plan. He annotated all the proposals submitted by officials that, based on his opinion, should not be implemented or could be improved.

He then called the officials to the lobby and announced his performance evaluation criteria.

Now, he does not have the ability to launch major changes in the entire Song Dynasty or even in the four routes of Sichuan and Xia, but he still has this ability in Tongchuan Road.

The conditions in Xuzhou are indeed much more difficult than those in some provincial capitals with a high degree of sinicization. This is an objective fact.

Therefore, the officials sent here work harder than officials elsewhere, but it is difficult for them to achieve political achievements.

Without political achievements, one cannot be promoted. Without hope of promotion, one will just start to muddle through. This cycle forms a vicious circle.

Within the scope of his authority, Yang Yuan took the lead in implementing the "roll up" policy in the central Sichuan region.

He clearly stipulated that officials in difficult areas, even if they have no merits, have worked hard. Their hard work here counts as merits.

As long as there are no major faults, the performance evaluation will be promoted by one level according to the deserved standard. After the three-year term is over, he will definitely be transferred to the upper state or central state.

If you achieve outstanding political achievements here, you will be transferred to a higher state to take up a post and will surely be promoted.

People all have desires. We cannot ask others to make selfless contributions without any reward. That is not in line with human nature.

If you put in the effort, you should get something in return.

As soon as Yang Yuan announced this policy, the eyes of those officials who had done everything they could just because of their fear of him suddenly lit up with hope.

The best and most efficient way is to give full play to their subjective initiative.

If you only rely on authoritarian intimidation, they will only be more "inactive". Unless you point out something, they will not make any mistakes.

But if that's the case, will Yang Yuan still be able to handle it?

Doesn't it mean that he himself concurrently holds the posts of officials of all ranks in Xuzhou?

Things are different now. Whether it is the establishment of post stations or the construction of roads, it is easy to move the indigenous people out of the mountains and live as civilians while they are frightened.

In many aspects, officials from all parties worked personally and enthusiastically.

The work these tribal leaders do on a daily basis is actually similar to that of a production team leader.

They maintain the normal operation of their tribe, deal with conflicts and disputes between tribes, arrange personnel allocation for gathering, hunting, planting, and processing industries, and conduct unified external trade.

Because of the extremely backward productivity, although they have absolute ruling power over their tribe, they really have no other places to exercise their power.

This allowed Yang Yuan to move them out of the mountain, and with the support of armed forces, he did not encounter too many obstacles.

After they led their tribesmen out of the mountains, they were responsible for similar tasks as before, except that they lost the judicial power and the right to mobilize troops.

But why did they mobilize troops? To fight with other tribes for territory.

People will die in war. Who would want to fight unless it is absolutely necessary?

Now the Song Dynasty court is responsible for this matter.

Yang Yuan directly left two garrisons in the local area.

On the other hand, there is the judicial power, which indeed weakens the power of the big and small devils.

But on the other hand, they were just scared by Yang Yuan's steel knife.

They trembled all over when they saw those weapons that glowed, emitted smoke, and sounded like thunder.

They didn't even dare to look at those bloodthirsty, brutal soldiers who were even better at jungle warfare than them.

Therefore, they had no choice but to endure this unwillingly.

Moreover, when postal services, transportation, farming, and mining generate huge economic benefits, I believe their resentment will gradually subside.

This is because the rich economic returns they receive as managers of various industries are something they cannot obtain even when they are the boss who has the final say.

A village chief of a primitive tribe and a general manager of a department store, which one do you think he will choose?

Yang Yuan simply pointed out the way for Xuzhou's future construction and development, and set up incentive and reward policies for Xuzhou, and then he let these local officials do it.

During this time, Yang Yuan accompanied Dao Fei and Fan Qing on a tour.

He didn't let Fan Qing continue to hide in the dark. There is a difference between being by one's side and taking care of him in secret.

Fan Qing has a calm temperament and does not fight or compete, but Yang Yuan will not ignore her feelings.

Accompany him, go hiking with him, go fishing with him, sit at the table with him, listen to his sweet words...

Fan Qing's Zen mind was completely filled with honey. She was becoming Wu Youyao day by day and gradually forgot the Buddhist name Fan Qing.

As for Feng Niang and Tae Hee, they were two little followers who followed them around traveling around.

After all, they are just beginning to fall in love and have not yet experienced the sweetness of some things, so their thoughts are not strong.

Being with the people they admire and love every day, they are filled with joy all day long.

The sweetness of love is in all aspects, not just the pleasure of sex.

Even many times, the process of emotional testing, communication, and understanding has a beauty that cannot be replaced by the joy of sex. In particular, Feng Niang and Tai Xi are both daughters of wealthy families. They certainly know how busy Yang Yuan is every day.

But now Yang Yuan accompanies them to travel and enjoy the scenery every day. Isn’t this because of his preference and care for them?

This alone made them satisfied.

Yang Yuan completely delegated the details of reforming Xuzhou to local officials.

A butcher knife, a carrot, and the vacant position of prefect are enough to make them work hard.

The reason why Yang Yuan never went to Wumeng was that he wanted to wait for the Seven Barbarians of Wumeng to come to him for help.

It took time for the news that the three barbarians in Xuzhou were defeated to spread to Wumeng.

It will take time for the influence of the destruction of Wumeng by the Liangshan local soldiers to spread.

Therefore, Yang Yuan fully respected the autonomous power of the Seven Barbarians of Wumeng. If they did not send people to beg, Yang Yuan would not take a single step forward!
……

Yang Liangao successfully ascended the throne and became the emperor of Dali Kingdom.

In order to completely erase the traces of the Duan Dynasty, he changed Dali to Daxing on the day he ascended the throne.

In fact, Yang Liangao wanted to curry favor with Emperor Wen of Sui and change the name of Dali Kingdom to Sui.

But the name "Sui" was too big, and he was worried that it would arouse the jealousy of the Song Dynasty.

So he gave them two names, Liuru and Daxing, and asked his ministers to choose one.

Emperor Wen of Sui, Yang Jian, was the 14th generation grandson of Yang Zhen, Grand Commandant of the Han Dynasty. However, during the Xianbei Dynasty of Northern Zhou, he changed his Xianbei surname to Puluru. He changed back to his ancestral surname after he came to power.

Daxing was the name of the city where Yang Jian established the capital of the Sui Dynasty.

In the end, the ministers chose "Daxing".

Yang Liangao's ambitions are indeed huge, so how could he be limited to just Dali?
It’s a pity that he can’t handle even Dali.

Yang Liangao ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor. He issued an edict ordering all quarters to submit and ordered Prime Minister Gao Zhenshou to return to the court.

As a result, as soon as the edict was issued, opposition was raised from all sides.

Someone from the Gao family once briefly proclaimed himself emperor, but the Gao family had the power to crush all parties in the Dali Kingdom.

Even so, after only two years as emperor, the Gao family returned the throne to the Duan family.

The Yang family is not as powerful as the Gao family.

Not only that, the Gao family is so powerful because they monopolize eight states.

However, the strength of the Yang family is parasitic on other aristocratic forces.

In this case, if Yang family declares themselves emperor, it means that they will have to suck a lot of blood from other tribes.

The reason why the Dali Palace was captured so quickly was because there were followers of the Yang family among the imperial guards.

This incident caused fear among all the tribes, and no one wanted to repeat the mistakes of the Duan family.

The Yang family's temples in the territories of various aristocratic forces began to be resisted and excluded by local governments.

While suppressing the temples controlled by the Yang family, the nobles from all over the country kept in close contact with Tibetan Tantric monks, hoping to have them replace the abbots and chief ministers who were from the Yang family.

The thirty-seven Wuman tribes acted more thoroughly. They directly mobilized their own soldiers, broke into the temple, and killed all the monks controlled by the Yang family.

The thirty-seven Wuman tribes were semi-civilized tribes, and both the Duan Dynasty and religious forces had limited control over them.

Only then did Yang Liangao realize that the Tibetan Tantric Buddhism's unsparing efforts to help him actually had evil intentions.

The Mi Sect does not want to indirectly influence Dali through the Yang family, but wants to replace the Yang family!
Yang Liangao shuddered at the thought of this.

Fortunately, he still had a backup plan, he still had the prime minister and Yang Yuan.

As long as the prime minister returns to the court and Yang Yuan enters the country, he will not worry about the tricks played by the Tantric Buddhism behind the scenes.

However, Prime Minister Gao Zhenshou immediately gave him another blow.

The prime minister is ill in Lijiang, so he cannot travel back to Dali for the time being.

At this time, Duan Zhengxing was sent to Chongsheng Temple by him, and he watched with his own eyes as he was ordained as a monk.

But the one who proclaimed himself emperor was not of the Duan clan, so how could the Duan royal family let this go?

After seeing the situation where local dignitaries boycotted the Yang family, the Duan royal family regained hope.

The Duan royal family immediately sent people to start secret contact with the leaders of one city, nine prefectures, four counties and thirty-seven barbarian tribes.

This was a heavy blow to Yang Liangao, who had lofty ambitions.

When he first ascended the throne, he had planned to use three years to prepare for war and unify Dali, mainly to unify the thirty-seven Wuman tribes which had always been disobedient.

Then he spent another two years uniting the disintegrated Tibetan forces, and then...

But now, he suddenly found that even the one city, nine prefectures and four counties, which he thought he would be able to quickly control once he ascended the throne, were difficult to control.

How could this be?
Obviously... when Duan was the emperor, the missionaries of their Yang family scattered in these areas had great appeal.

Now that the Yang family has become the emperor, shouldn't the powerful leaders in these regions be more obedient?
Why is it the other way around?
Yang Liangao panicked, so after visiting Prime Minister Gao Zhenshou's younger brother Gao Zhenming, he immediately did three things.

The first thing: conferring the title of Prime Minister and "Duke of China" Gao Zhenshou as the King of China.

The second thing: he proposed marriage to Gao Shuyao as the queen of Daxing Kingdom, and specified in advance that the person who would succeed him in the future must be Gao Shuyao's son.

The third thing: send someone on horseback to Song to ask my cousin-in-law Yang Yuan to immediately send troops to Daxing for support.

(End of this chapter)