Emperor Yang Guang of Sui met the next day and began to reward all officials. He was promoted to all the generals who were responsible for the king, the guards of various places, Yingyanglang generals, etc., and the last time, cloth and jewelry expanded the vassal state and increased their salary. On the one hand, he expressed his gratitude to these generals who were responsible for the king. On the other hand, he was also because of the chaos in the world, rebels were everywhere, and people were impetuous and wanted to stabilize the thoughts of the officials and military generals in the court through big rewards.

Luo Cheng, who had the greatest contribution, was named Duke Youguo. With Duke, he was given the position of Prime Minister and became the prime minister. He was the same as the position of the left and right servants in the court. The positions of the three provincial governors were equivalent to those of the six ministers. At this age, he could be said to be a hero in front of the palace, rising to prominence, with a high position and a powerful minister.

In the court, no matter the nobles, nobles, nobles, nobles, and scholars in the court, they looked at Luo Zhaoyun with a little jealousy, but they were less jealous, and they were more praise, admiration, and appreciation.

During the Yanmen siege, Luo Zhaoyun's three strategies for defeating the enemy had spread. The rescued civil officials and military generals in the court were somewhat grateful for his actions of serving the king. Otherwise, if they were defeated, they would all be buried with them.

Even the treacherous ministers such as Yu Shiji, Pei Yun, Feng Deyi did not refute this time. If they stood up and opposed it, they would not only offend Luo Cheng, who had military power, but also give people a kind of gratitude to repay the enemy. They glanced at Yuwen Shu and thought that this old man had a grudge with the Luo family and he should oppose it.

However, after Yuwen Shu had a private talk with Luo Zhaoyun that day, he no longer targeted the Luo family. He was avoiding the edge. He had learned through the family forces that rebels were everywhere. He was involved in the Central Plains such as Hebei, Henan, Qilu, etc., and many people in the villages and towns fled. In addition to the granaries and some official grains, the national treasury was already ineffective.

The wealth of the imperial court and the treasury was full, so it was not enough to have a few granaries. Now the people fled on a large scale due to famine, military service, etc., and became bandits, and local taxes were difficult to collect. Although there were many family members, they were not within the scope of taxation. These noble families had a lot of property, land, slaves, money, gold, etc., but they would not be used for the imperial court. Therefore, the prosperous situation of the Great Sui Dynasty had been broken, and it was riddled with holes.

Yuwen Shu knew very well that he had no past arrogance and arrogance, and he did not want to offend the Luo family to death. After all, his life was not long, and his three sons had to continue to be officials in the court. With the talents of the three, they were not as good as Luo Cheng, so it was unwise to continue to be enemies. Therefore, he would rather give all the shops in the ten counties north of the Yellow River to the Luo family, and not calculate the grudges with the Yuwen family.

Of course, this is his old fox's self-protection strategy. Once he kills the other party, he will definitely make efforts in secret. If he is not sure, he will not impeach and do the right thing.

Next, Yang Guang asked about some major events in Luoyang and the world this year, and asked the left-behind Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs Fan Zigai to report.

Fan Zigai stood up and revealed the number of grain and money taxes for the autumn harvest that year, which was actually reduced by one third compared to the forward. The grain was only five million stones, and the money was only three million coins, which was getting less and less.

In the past ten years, too many treasuries were squandered, and the accumulation of the treasury in the twenty years of Kaihuang would be ruined by Emperor Yang of Sui.

After listening to this, Yang Guang's face became worse and worse, and the treasury became empty. What should he do to appease the morale of the army and maintain the operation of the country in the future?

His eyes swept to the nobles of the court. This was a huge group, including the largest Guanlong nobles, as well as the nobles in Hedong, Runan, Jiangzuo, Luzhong, Luoyang and other places. Their families had gold and money storage, and a large number of fiefs, which cut off the taxes of the court in many ways.

Most noble families were doing business, and because of their power, they did not pay taxes. Tenants in the fiefdom, renting and tutoring were paid to the nobles. The main sources of taxes in the imperial court were ordinary people from all over the country. Although the Sui Dynasty emphasized light taxes and low taxes, they were often superficial and secretly added clauses, which made it difficult for the people to withstand. Nine out of ten villages were empty, and the county magistrates in various places were also in a hurry and had to suppress the rebels. The taxes could not be collected at all.

Yang Guang has always wanted to crack down on these aristocrats, let them spit out their property and rush into the treasury, but unfortunately the effect is not great. He originally wanted to use the help of suppressing foreign countries to add the halo of the Saint Khan to himself. After returning to the court, he implemented a series of reforms to continue to suppress the aristocrats, seize property and land, and also gather his own centralization in political decision-making.

When fighting a foreign war, Yang Guang actually had the idea of ​​concentrating all kinds of power in his hands, but the battle in Liaodong was smashed, which made him very worried and almost all the bets.

The trap of Yanmen also wiped out the ambitions of Emperor Yang Guang of Sui. At this moment, even he himself could not figure out his own ideas. Should he just live by himself and give up, or should he be angry and strong and reverse the trend of decline? Yang Guang himself was also confused.

"I want to announce a great joy." Yang Guang did not intend to think about these bad things, but used the joyful events to dilute his sorrow.

The ministers held their arms and looked up at Yang Guang, not knowing where the joy came from.

"My beloved daughter, Princess Ruyi, has a very good character and virtuous character. She was earlier than General Luo Cheng's friendship. I had agreed to the two of them two years ago, but I had never had time to get married late. Today, I want to announce the marriage and hold a grand wedding on the fifteenth of this month to celebrate the whole city." Yang Guang said with a smile.

The ministers suddenly realized and congratulated Luo Cheng one after another, and the latter raised his hand to thank him.

Many Chinese civil and military ministers in the court had a good impression of Luo Cheng. Su Wei, Fan Zigai, Chen Xu and others all agreed and gave him enough face.

After the court meeting, Wang Shichong kindly grabbed Luo Zhaoyun's incident and said, "General Luo, you and I will fall into this situation at first sight, so I must have a few drinks."

Luo Zhaoyun didn't want to break up with him for the time being, and smiled and said, "Please choose a time for the county magistrate Wang. One day we will get together and have a drink and chat."

In fact, Luo Zhaoyun also wanted to have an understanding of Wang Shichong, know himself and his enemy, and once he became hostile in the future, he would also know the character and human nature of this person and formulate countermeasures.

"It's too boring to go to the mansion to have a drink, so I'd rather go to the flower building to have a drink. I'll book the most luxurious restaurant in Luoyang City and invite General Luo to enjoy his face to the banquet?" Wang Shichong's face was full of smiles, as if Luo Cheng was a brother he hadn't seen for many years.

Luo Zhaoyun nodded slightly and agreed that he could eat anywhere. He was so worried that the other party would harm him now. The two had no conflict of interest yet.

"Then let's just say that." Wang Shichong left with a smile. Some officials along the way were cold and flickering, as if they didn't like this official who boasted about Hu Han's bloody blood.
Chapter completed!