In the afterglow of the setting sun, the warm spring breeze stirred the wicker branches that had just sprouted green buds, the sparrows danced and sang happily, and the sparkling river under the shade of the trees meandered through the smoke-filled villages, slowly flowing into the distance.
Everything is so quiet and picturesque.
However, the silence of this moment was broken by a few crisp children's voices, which made the picture of the field a little more vibrant.
"Brother Yuande, you haven't finished your homework and you sneaked out to play again. Be careful I tell Aunt Shun." The speaker was a seven or eight-year-old girl with two sky-high buns and ordinary cotton clothes. However, He was born with pink jade bracelets and a pair of dark eyes that kept turning, with an occasional hint of cunning in his eyes.
"Wanru, do you have the nose of a puppy? You looked for me right after I came out." In front of the girl, a ten-year-old boy frowned angrily and said in annoyance: "The homework assigned by the teacher How boring. Besides, you have to balance work and rest, otherwise you will become a nerd. Old man Yuan always said that if you are useless, you are a scholar."
The boy is also very handsome, but his eyebrows are not feminine, but honest and cute.
"Okay, not only did you refuse to admit your mistake, but you also spoke nonsense. I must tell Aunt Shun and let her spank you hard." The girl named Wanru pinched her waist with one hand and reprimanded loudly.
"Don't talk nonsense, I didn't." The boy, like a cat whose tail was stepped on, quickly denied it. Seeing that the girl was still reluctant, he quickly said: "Okay, okay, Wanru, as long as you don't complain, I touched her today." I¡¯ll give you half of the bird¡¯s eggs.¡±
"No, I also want the car that Uncle Li Bing gave you." Wanru was not satisfied, and the lion opened her mouth.
"Wanru, you are too greedy." Yuan De was furious and was about to say something else when he suddenly saw a person coming behind the girl. He immediately stopped talking and his eyes wandered. He wanted to run away but didn't dare, with an anxious look on his face.
After grabbing her brother's sore foot, Wanru's fighting spirit was high, "If you don't want to give it to me, forget it. I will not only tell Aunt Shun about your failure to study hard, but I will also tell my father."
"Shut up." Looking at the person getting closer and closer, Yuande didn't care about anything else. He quickly ran forward and covered Wanru's mouth, whispering: "I will give you whatever you want, but you can't Complain."
Wanru smiled happily and was about to agree when suddenly a gentle voice came from behind her, "You two little guys, why don't you learn what you are doing here? Wanru, what are you going to sue Yuande for?"
"Ah, Daddy, why are you here?" Wanru blinked twice, and the panic on her face flashed away. After a pause, she suddenly turned around and looked at the man in white who came in front of her with a look of joy. The young man said bluntly: "Taoist Master Yuan said we should balance work with rest, so my brother and I came out together to get some fresh air, and we will go back in a while."
"Little clever guy, you know how to be lazy." The young man glanced at Wanru with feigned anger, then looked at Yuande and said: "Yuande, it's good to combine work and rest, but you have to complete the teacher's homework on time. Without knowledge, you will not be able to do it." People look down upon you.¡±
"Don't worry, baby, don't worry, dad."
"Dad, my brother and I haven't been to Luoyang City for a month. If you are free today, please take us to play. I want to eat Luoyang's roast chicken and watch a movie."
The young man didn¡¯t say anything, so Wanru hugged his legs like candy and shook them vigorously, "Okay, okay?"
"It's up to you, it's up to you." The young man smiled helplessly: "Let's go see your Aunt Hua first, and then go to the city, okay?"
"Yeah." Wanru suddenly jumped up with joy, hung around the young man's neck like a koala, and secretly made a face at Yuande, making the latter quite helpless.
This young man is the current emperor of the Sui Empire.
Ten years ago, as a last resort, Gao Xing shattered his Dantian, turning the true energy in his body into rootless water, and then dispersed all his kung fu. Sun Simiao, Yuan Tiangang, Ling Suhua and Xiao Shiyun worked together to dissolve the strange true energy in his body. gas.
It took another half a year for Gao Xing's body to slowly improve. The broken meridians in his body were healed. However, his Dantian was broken and the repair speed was extremely slow. It was no longer possible for him to cultivate his true energy, and his martial arts was even worse than before. However, his body was in " With the nourishment of the "Secret of Immortality", the true energy is far superior to that of ordinary people, and even without the true energy, the fighting ability is still very powerful.
But as a result, the Eighteenth Level of the "Secret of Immortality" cannot be fully cultivated, and he may never know whether he can become an immortal in his lifetime.
Ten years later, there are not many traces on the happy face, and it is still free and easy. Only the deep eyes occasionally show the feeling of vicissitudes of life.
In the past ten years, too many major events and changes have taken place on the mainland, and they are all related to him.
Li Yuan rebelled from the Northern Zhou Dynasty and proclaimed himself the king of Tang Dynasty. Yang Jian controlled the government, coerced the emperor to order the princes, and fought against Li Yuan. The Northern Zhou Dynasty existed in name only.
Sima Fu of Chen State was unable to retreat and worked hard to govern. However, Qi State became increasingly powerful and the gap between the two became wider and wider, which made Sima Fu frightened.
Xiao Kui of Liang State surrendered to Qi State and became Hubei Province of Qi State. Xiao Kui served as the governor and gained administrative power.
In 581 AD, Gao Gao planned to move the capital to Luoyang, spending huge sums of money to build a new capital, covering an area of ??2,000 miles, and recruiting 2 million migrant workers. It took five years to complete.
Gao Gao did not want the people to suffer. The two million migrant workers were all disciples of Buddhism who had returned to the secular world. Although Zhixuan died, the Buddhist arrogance had to be suppressed. Gao Gao did not want to commit more crimes, so he just let them work, and took care of enough food and drink on weekdays. With pocket change to spend, these people do quite comfortably.
In 582, Hexing abolished the national title Qi, promulgated a constitution, established the country as the Great Sui Empire, and determined the national emblem, national flag, national anthem, National Day, and national functions and powers.
In the same year, Gao Gao abolished the old coins, implemented a new currency system, and established the Sui Empire National Bank, with Wang Yan as president.
In August, Gao Gao and Yuan Tiangang perfected the calendar and determined the year, month, day, hour, minute and second. The first clock was born in Lu Ping's hands.
In September, I am happy to unify the measurement units again.
In October, Gao Gao implemented the imperial examination system, but in addition to a subset of classics and history, the content of the examination also involved the study of things to achieve knowledge.
At the end of the year, Gao Gao abolished the decision to merge counties, abolish states and counties, and establish provinces and cities. To the north of the Yellow River are Northeast China, Hebei, and Shanxi, and to the south are Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu, Hubei, and Hunan, a total of eight provinces.
In the first month of 583, Gao Gao decided to build the first railway in the Sui Empire. It ran from Yingzhou City in Northeast China in the north to Huaizhou City in Jiangsu Province in the south, with the capital Luoyang as the hub. Three years later, the railway was opened to traffic. It was only a short distance from Huaizhou City to Yingzhou City. Four days.
In February, Gao Gao promulgated a decree to build primary schools in various cities and counties, ordering all school-age children to go to school, and implementing compulsory education. At the same time, he established Xinghua University on a thousand acres of land outside Luoyang City, established middle schools in various places, and improved the education system.
At the end of the year, Gao Gao transformed the Yecheng Imperial Palace into a Hero's Tomb to display the memorial tablets of the fallen soldiers who had followed him over the years. He erected a stele and inscriptions in front of the palace gate for the people to pay their respects and worship.
In the summer of 584, Qin Qiong once again led his army to sweep away the Turks. The disintegrated Turks were already vulnerable. Qin Qiong effortlessly defeated the Turks, and the Turks surrendered. At this point, the north was peaceful.
In the summer of the same year, Gao Gao set up the Guanwai Province in the north, carried out extensive construction work, and built ten cities on the grassland. Jinshan City in Dujin Mountain was the provincial capital to frighten the foreign countries outside the Great Wall and strengthen their control over the grassland so that the Turks would not dare to rebel.
In October 585, the first railway was opened for trial operation, and the whole country rejoiced.
By the end of 585, the new capital of Luoyang was built and the court moved south from Jinyang.
In the first month of 586, he was happy to abolish the "Northern Qi Code", abolish slavery, and break the hierarchical barriers between scholars, farmers, industry and commerce.
At the same time, Gao Xing promulgated the Administrative Law, abolished the three-province and six-department system, established a new parliamentary prime minister system, and formed an administrative system that is top-down, tightly controlled, and highly efficient.
In February, Gao Gao and the parliament revised the Constitution and expanded the content of the constitution. Gao Xing promulgated the Civil Code to determine the rights and obligations of citizens. At the same time, he promulgated the Criminal Law and Commercial Law to make national administration more standardized and ensure the people's rights and obligations. rights and interests.
In March, Gao Xing promulgated military law, once again restructured the army, and established a more reasonable promotion and assessment system, so that the military appearance could be reorganized and the best combat effectiveness could be exerted.
In April, Gao Gao ordered a nationwide census to measure land and prepare to reform the land system.
In September, oil fields were discovered in Shandong Province.
In October, crude oil was successfully separated, and gasoline, diesel and kerosene appeared.
In December, the highways connecting the provinces of the Sui Empire were basically completed, making travel more convenient.
In March 587, the first large-scale thermal generator was born. Gao Gao planned to build thermal power plants across the country and lay tap water pipelines at the same time.
In October, the first internal combustion engine car was born, named "Chunfeng" after Li Chunfeng, a disciple of Yuan Tiangang.
On the eighth day of March in 588, Commander-in-Chief of the Navy Wang Linping and Commander-in-Chief Chen led a 150,000-strong waterway army. They were divided into two routes, one for Hezhou City and the other for Jiangling City. Their troops were directed towards Jiankang City.
On the same day, Dugu Yongye led his army south from Jinshan City, Fu ambushed his troops out of Luoyang, and Xiao Mohe entered Zhou Dynasty from Jinyang. The three armies totaled 200,000 and attacked Yuwen Yun with great momentum.
After ten years of savings, the national power of the Sui Empire has increased dozens or hundreds of times. Not to mention the Zhou Dynasty that is now in chaos, even at its peak when Yu Wenyong was alive, it will never be able to stop the power of the Sui Empire. I am not happy at all about this. worry.
The world will soon be unified, but there are still some shortcomings in his heart.
Amidst the complicated thoughts, Gao Xing brought Yuan De and Wanru to a farmhouse and pushed the door open. The gentle eyes of Wu Shun and Zhang Rong suddenly glanced at them. When they saw Wanru and Yuan Ru in Gao Xing's arms and behind them, they were hiding. The eyebrows of all virtues were raised upside down.
"Mom, I know you miss daddy, so my brother and I went specially to greet daddy."
"Spit."
Seeing Wanru smiling slyly like a fox, Zhang Rong couldn't help but glare at her angrily, but she couldn't get angry.
"Husband, you are here."
At this moment, Lu Hanyue opened the curtain and walked out, holding a one or two-year-old child in his arms. When he saw the happiness, he waved his arms happily.
"Well, I haven't been here for a few days, so I came to see you and the children." Gao Xing smiled and took the little one in Lu Hanyue's arms. While teasing her, she said, "Wanru is greedy. Let's take her for a walk in the city."
"Husband, you see she is more naughty than the boy. She needs to be disciplined more, otherwise she will not be able to marry in the future." Zhang Rong frowned slightly.
¡°She¡¯s still young and playful, and she¡¯s not doing anything bad.¡± Gao Xing smiled and shook his head.
Zhang Rong and Lu Hanyue were from the world and did not like the atmosphere of the court. Wu Shun had a weak character and had the best relationship with Zhang Rong. The three of them had been living in seclusion over the years, which made Yuande and Wanru less tainted with some dandy habits.
Yang Lihua has always been talented. After Wu Zhao, she was glad to allow her to go to the officialdom to experience. She has been doing it with gusto over the years. Now she is pregnant and is recuperating in the palace.
Yuwen Qianjin and Zhang Lihua were good at music. They hit it off so much that they went to Xinghua University to teach music and lived a very leisurely life.
There is only Xiao Shiyun in the deep palace. Although she is a queen, she is sometimes very restrictive and often complains to Gao Gao.
After chatting with the three girls Zhang Rong for a while, their happy expressions suddenly brightened, and they asked in a low voice: "Rong'er, is Poppy Flower getting better?"
Zhang Rong shook her head, a hint of disappointment flashed in her happy eyes. Wu Shun quickly comforted her: "Husband, don't worry, Poppy Flower will definitely wake up."
"Yes, husband."
"Ten years, ten years have passed" With a sigh, Gao Gao walked into a spacious and quiet room, looking at the sleeping beauty on the bed, a flash of pity flashed in his eyes.
"Poppy flower, it's been ten years, I didn't blame the fairy, why don't you still want to wake up?"