In May of the sixth year of Jiande (577 AD), Emperor Wu of Zhou's army was restored to the throne. When Qi was destroyed, the Great Zhou had unified the north, and his population and land had doubled, and his strength had greatly increased. It had formed an overwhelming advantage over the Chen Dynasty in the south. However, due to the long-term war and the exhaustion of soldiers, and the newly acquired land of Qi still needed to be consolidated, Emperor Wu of Zhou decided to rest and rest.

After a great war, the treasury of the Great Zhou Dynasty was empty, but the soldiers who made meritorious rewards were not limited. Qi had salt benefits. In the past, among the three kingdoms of Zhou, Chen and Qi, Qi was the richest. However, under the arrogance and extravagance of the late Qi ruler, Qi had already adjusted its people's livelihood. In order to win the hearts of the people, Emperor Wu of Zhou ordered tax cuts to be reduced by the people in Qi and to provide assistance to the people who suffered military disasters. Although he obtained a lot of material from the treasury of Qi, it was not enough to do these two major tasks at the same time.

Emperor Wu of Zhou re-directed his eyes at the Buddhists of Qi. Buddhism in Qi was more prosperous than before the Great Zhou destroyed Buddhism. The population of Qi was about 20 million, while Buddhists had exceeded 2 million. These people did not work for production, occupied a large amount of land, evaded state taxes, and melted a large amount of copper coins to cast Buddha statues, causing chaos in the quality of the coins and reduced copper coins. No countries were allowed to use silk cloth instead of copper coins to circulate.

Before Emperor Wu of Zhou destroyed the Buddha, he summoned famous Buddhists from all over the world to Chang'an and announced the reason for destroying the Buddha. This move aroused great anger among Buddhists. The monk Huiyuan directly threatened Emperor Wu of Zhou: "Your Majesty is now free to destroy the Three Jewels by relying on the power of the king. This is a wrong view. The Avici Hell is not limited to the noble and humble, so why should Your Majesty be afraid?"

Emperor Wu of Zhou replied: "If only the people are happy, I will never give up on the sufferings of hell." The desire to destroy Buddha was unshakable.

At the emperor's order, tens of thousands of Zhou troops began to demolish the temple, drove Buddhists home to return to secular life, confiscated the money in the temple, melted the copper-cast Bodhisattva into copper coins, and rewarded them to the soldiers who made contributions to the defeated Qi.

Yang Jian also followed Emperor Wu of Zhou to return to the court. Yang Tian became the title of Boping Marquis because of Yang Jian's contribution to the destruction of Qi. However, Yang Tian was too young and Boping Marquis was just a false title. Apart from being nicer, it was of no use to Yang Tian for the time being.

Another year passed in a blink of an eye. Yang Tian was already twelve years old. He had grown much taller and his strength was much greater than before. Although his martial arts were not as good as Yuan Wei, he could already have a merit and defend against Yuan Wei and could have a stalemate for more than half an hour. It would take a lot of effort to defeat him.

Snow sugar was sold well this year, saving more than 100,000 pounds of money for Yang Tian. However, Yang Tian has been careful and did not use the money. Although Sun Qing produced snow sugar in Suizhou, the places where snow sugar were sold were usually closer to Anzhou and other places in the Southern Dynasties. Everyone thought snow sugar was shipped from overseas by the Southern Dynasties.

In May of this year, after a year of rest and rest, the Great Zhou Dynasty had already returned. Emperor Wu of Zhou Yuwen Yong began to prepare to lead his army to attack the Turks in five ways, completely eradicate the problems in the north, and prepare for the capture of the Southern Dynasty.

On that day, Yang Jian went to court very early. When Yang Tian saw his seemingly worried Zhongzhong, he hurriedly asked, "My father, don't you know what to worry about?"

Yang Jian looked at the increasingly heroic son, but sighed: "The Emperor is sick."

Yang Tian said disapprovingly: "The emperor is in full swing in the spring and autumn, and he is in his prime. What's the point of having a minor illness?"

Yang Jian shook his head: "This is the time to prepare to attack the Turks. If the emperor had a minor illness, he would not stop the court. For his father, he was worried that the emperor might not be able to escape this time. The emperor had already suffered a serious illness and injured his vitality when he attacked Qi the previous time."

Yang Tian's heart was thundering. When the emperor was about to die, wouldn't it be that the opportunity for the Yang family was coming? Since Yang Tian knew his identity, although he knew that history was the Sui Dynasty replaced Zhou, he could not see any opportunity.

The current emperor is only 36 years old now, younger than his father, and more powerful and wise. It can be said that he is even better than most wise rulers in later generations. He endured the powerful minister Yuwen Hu for twelve years, and took five years to unify the north. He also had great courage to destroy Buddhism and liberated nearly four million laborers. Now that Qi has been destroyed for only one year, the people of Qi have returned to their hearts.

Yang Tian sometimes even suspects that history has changed because of his arrival, and he is worried about gains and losses. He secretly regrets that he did not study history seriously at the beginning, but that he only regrets that he has little prescriptions. Now he wants to learn but has no place to learn.

Today, Yang Jian's unintentional words made Yang Tian suddenly enlightened. This middle-aged emperor might be dead soon. Otherwise, if he had been allowed to take over the world for another three to five years, he would have long destroyed the Chen Kingdom in the south. Even if Yang Jian could later win the Great Zhou world, it would not be the Sui Dynasty's turn to fight the unification war.

Yang Tian looked happy: "Why do you have to worry about your father? If the emperor dies and the prince will be in the world in the future, will our Yang family be further improved?"

Yang Jian rebuked: "Nonsense, how could you have such a concern? If you were not my Yang Jian's son, I would immediately punish you for cursing the king."

Yang Tian didn't agree. It was obvious that you said that the emperor was about to die, but I was not what I said, so he had to say, "Do you, Dad, worry about the prince's failure?"

Yang Jian's heart moved, but he didn't expect that his son would see his thoughts. Although the prince was his son-in-law, Yang Jian was also very disgusted with the prince. He was ignorant, suspicious, and had little kindness. If the prince took over the throne, although the Yang family rose, it might not be a good thing. If you are not careful, there might be a big disaster. But Yang Jian would certainly not say this to Yang Tian. Instead, he said: "You are still young, don't care about the court affairs."

Yang Tian had to retreat and return to his yard, but he couldn't calm down. How long does Emperor Wu live? When will his father seize the Great Zhou world? Yang Tian felt faintly excited. He felt a sense of pleasure in participating in history.

When Dugu saw Yang Jian, he immediately made her husband look strange and asked what happened.

Yang Jian would discuss with Dugu when he had any difficulties in the court, so he did not hide it and told him about his troubles to the prince.

Dugu said with a smile: "My husband is too concerned. If the prince succeeds to the throne, as long as we know how to hide our humbleness, what's the worry? What's more, the prince should be guarded against more than just follow the Duke's Mansion."

Yang Jian nodded and said, "Yes, the word "hiding" sounds easy, but it is difficult to do. Hiding is a sword box. You must put your sharpness in the trap like a sword, and hide it in the box. This is called hiding."

Dugu laughed: "This is not enough. If you just restrain yourself and be more humble, it is like putting a sword into the sheath temporarily, that's all! People still see: In Tao, there is actually a sword in the sheath, and there is a sharp edge! This is really not Tao's true intention. Tao's true intention is to hide the sharp edge, completely, so that people can't see the sword or Tao, and it's empty. This is Tao's spirit!"
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