The assassins' horrific assassination under Li Mi's rule was finally completely suppressed after nearly four months of purges with the cooperation of the puppet Wei government army and the family.

Li Mi also took this opportunity to conduct a census and verify household registration, and vigorously integrated the people under his rule.

In this vigorous assassination incident, it proved that the fierce generals on the battlefield in the open place did not have the slightest advantage in the face of all-encompassing assassination methods, so Li Mi not only strengthened his own protective strength, but even Shan Xiongxin, Xu Shiji, Sun Changle, Wang Bodang, Zhang Tongren, Chen Zhiluo, Li Junxian and other fierce generals, Li Mi also forcibly strengthened the number of their personal soldiers, requiring them to bring at least 50 personal guards when they went out.

Li Mi knew this loss, he could only swallow it helplessly, after receiving Yang Tong's threatening letter, he began to lick his wounds silently, this assassination, the blow to Li Mi was almost devastating, the loss of Zu Junyan among the high-level civil and military ministers had made him heartbroken, but compared to one person, the paralysis of the entire official system made Li Mi even more anxious.

Although Li Mi had the intention to conceal this incident, after more than three months of brewing and fermentation, the news inevitably reached the ears of Li Yuan, Wang Shichong, Dou Jiande, Xiao Miao, and even further Lin Shihong.

Everyone knows that since Yang Tong has planted assassins on Li Mi's side, then there must be assassins by his side. So after hearing the news, I had a tacit understanding to give up the war and take household registration verification as a top priority. Although the soldiers and bandits have turned the land under their rule into a miasma, the temporary pain in exchange for long-term stability is naturally worth it.

The world's family members are in danger, especially the extermination of the Pei clan in the east led by Pei Shiqing, which makes these families full of fear of Yang Tong.

For the sake of face, Li Mi did not release Yang Tong's threatening letter, but at this time, there was no need for evidence to prove it. Because Yang Tong had just been assassinated in Yecheng Shenwu Palace, the bloodbath in Yinyuanfang, and a large-scale assassination operation occurred under Li Mi's rule, no one would believe that Yang Tong had nothing to do with this incident.

As a result, Shilin's crusade against Yang Tong set off again, and even Liu Xuan, a master of scripture, was insulted, saying that he was a traitor who aided and abetted him. However, Yang Tong obviously didn't want to endure it anymore this time, and all the well-known scholars who criticized him verbally and penally died in all kinds of assassinations and accidents, including their immediate family members.

And the children of the family are not those chaste martyrs in the 20th century, they all admit that they are under the bloody butcher's knife, all of them honestly clamp their tails and behave as people, and they don't even dare to scold people publicly.

Everyone is not only afraid that there is Yang Tong's assassin among the female prostitutes, but they are even more afraid that their friends will sell them in the blink of an eye.

There were many scholars who died because they were betrayed by their friends, and some of them could not stand the torture of the assassins to extract confessions. Naturally, the confessor does not have to die, but his confession and transcripts will be exposed to the families of the killed, and because of this, everyone hates traitors more than assassins.

A great family, representing the success of a crazy predator, after generations of pulp, finally became the famous family it is today!

However, no matter how much they wash, they cannot wash away the essence of their greed and plunder, but the way they plunder has changed from individual crimes to group crimes, and the means have also changed from naked forcible seizures to mutual use, interdependence, mutual tolerance, and mutual compromise. In the end, it will be a great family that will not fall for thousands of years. After that, the marriage is used as a link to intertwine each other, forming a situation where the lips are dead and the teeth are cold.

But in addition to relying on each other, they are also fighting internally. After all, everyone wants to be the first in the world.

After years of accumulation, every family has someone else's handle, and every family has a handle in the hands of others, and no one dares to touch anyone, for fear that the other party will come to a dead end.

And what Yang Tong has to do is to spread and expand the innate distrust between the families. Since then, the Black Ice Assassins have gradually changed from killing people to collecting evidence of the crimes of the great families, and trying their best to steal the correspondence of various families.

When the letter was delivered to Yang Tong, it also made him see the viciousness and darkness under the appearance of a sanctimonious family!

Those originals—

There is no shortage of content that has jointly betrayed the emperors of previous dynasties and betrayed the interests of the nation; There is even more content aimed at court officials and dark transactions.

If this is announced, it will be difficult for the family to not leave a stink for thousands of years!

In an era when fame was more important than life, the severity was second only to the extermination of the family, and some of the more powerful letters were enough to kill the nine clans.

What literary leader?

What famous family?

[.] ……

It's all about confusing and obscuring people's eyes, and their essence is a dark evildoer.

As for the reason why their ugly faces are not exposed, it is also very simple, because the black cauldron was carried by the failed emperor.

Eventually—

In the first year of Shengwu, although the Great Sui did not recover an inch of land, it actually gained a lot.

Not to mention the internal stability and solidity, as well as the reorganization of the army, the dark letters of the family alone are enough to make Yang Tong invincible in the future battle with the family. But Yang Tong is not enough, he not only wants more letters, but also needs more mature printing technology to seal these letters, and then in the name of each family, they will be assembled into a book and published in the world!

Once the hideous nature of the family is exposed, it will lose its most powerful weapon, and it will be vulnerable at that time. As long as these old families, whose capital is strong enough to shake the foundation of the country, are wiped out, the new class will be competitive and have room for survival.

When the new class is at the same level, the country will be in a delicate balance, and there will be new great families to stand out in the future, but that will be a matter of one or two hundred years later, as long as the previous generations of emperors of the imperial court put the imperial examination, the right to appoint and dismiss, the right to govern officials, and the two departments of criminal punishment, then this dynasty can reproduce for at least three hundred years. As for the future, Yang Tong couldn't control it, because he didn't think that the traverser wouldn't die.

.........

Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it is February of the second year of Shengwu and February of early spring.

The back garden of the Chaohui Palace is full of fragrant grass and trees, soft and warm, a little girl wearing a pink palace dress, like a butterfly, bathed in the bright spring sunshine, running on the lakeside grass with flowers and trees.

With a net in her hand, she chased a colorful butterfly, which danced left and right, up and down, among the flowers, and although the little girl could not catch it, she did not bother, but instead of spilling strings of silver bells of laughter.

After chasing, she took a turn under a peony and happened to see Yang Tong who came to look for her.

The little girl cheered, ran over quickly, jumped slightly, and threw herself into the arms of Yang Tong, who was half-squatting, hooked his neck, and said in a milky voice: "Father!" Father, hurry up and catch the butterfly. ”

Yang Tong hugged her light body, and his heart was warm.

This is 'him' and Pei Qinghua's daughter Yang Xifang, Princess Wu'an, the name is only one word different from her two aunts, it sounds like sisters, Yang Tong and Pei Qinghua were originally going to change, but Princess Nanyang and the little princess disagreed, thinking that the name was good,

Looking at the butterflies dancing among the flowers, Yang Tong smiled and said, "Why do you want to catch it?" You see how good it is to play freely and freely! If it is caught, then it will not be happy and unhappy. ”

The child is only five years old, Yang Tong did not teach, but when he was free, with the help of some small things around her, he taught her some rules and habits, because Yang Tong always believed that rules, habits, and education were more important than learning. He doesn't want his daughter to be arrogant and arrogant after marrying into her husband's family, and make bad scandals such as disrespecting her in-laws, bullying her husband, oppressing concubines, having extramarital affairs, and seducing monks.

The little guy blinked, tilted his head and thought about it as if he didn't understand, and said with a smile: "Like Fang'er being punished?" ”

"Yes, was Fang'er happy and happy when she was punished?"

"Unhappy, unhappy, want to cry." The little one shook his head vigorously.

"It's the same with butterflies being caught."

"Then Fang'er won't catch it."

Yang Tong looked at the little guy's big sparkling eyes, and pity welled up in his heart. With a lift of his hands, he put the little one on his shoulders and walked inside.

The little guy was first startled by Yang Tong's movements, exclaimed, and then became interested in this unprecedented posture of being carried, holding his father's head a little nervously, shouting excitedly in his mouth, and his little face was as cute as a red apple.

Yang Tong carried his daughter to the lake, there is a flower pavilion by the lake, surrounded by vines and green trees, quiet and elegant, quiet and sweet.

Yang Hui, Yang Zheng, Yang Wan, and Yang Rong were playing in front of the pavilion, all of them inherited the factors of their parents, and they looked very cute.

Xiao Wu and the others sat in the sun, like ordinary women, embroidering while looking at the children on the lawn, worried that they would fall into the water.

"Father/Tiger King...... Hug, hug"

The four children saw that their sister was carried on their father's shoulders, and they all ran over, and the fourth Yang Rong fell an upside-down gourd, but the kid didn't cry, got up and continued to run.

"Well, yes, that's how a manly man should be." Yang Tong laughed heartily.

The third Yang Wan also fell, crying.

"Ouch, my good baby, be careful." Yang Tong stepped forward a few steps and hugged Yang Wan in his arms.

Xiao Wu snorted and scolded, "Eccentric ghost." ”

"Daughters have to be pampered, and the sons will either inherit the Great Sui world in the future, or they will guard the side, and they must cultivate good habits of self-reliance and self-improvement since they were young, I don't want our father and son to be Emperor Yang of Sui." Yang Tong sat on the grass with one butt, holding a daughter in one hand, and a big one hanging on his back, "Fang'er, you come to comment, is what my father said right?" ”

"That's right!" The little guy hanging on Yang Tong's back raised his pink little fist and said excitedly.

"You girl!" Pei Qinghua glanced at Yang Xifang angrily, the little ghost was taken a little wild by her father this year. She herself is now with her mother's surname, renamed Lu Qinghua, and she is the concubine among the four concubines, and she is very satisfied and grateful for her current life.

They looked at Yang Tong, who was overwhelmed by a group of children, and they were very helpless, they obviously felt sorry for them and spent a lot of time with them. But these really don't know these little conscienceless, one or two always like to get to their father's side.

Yang Tong also loves his son, he is his sweetheart, he simply lay on the grass and let a few little guys crawl around on him.

"Father, my mother said that the world is in chaos now, what is the chaos in the world?" Fang'er already understood a little bit about things, she crawled on her father's chest, and looked at her father very seriously with a pair of big black eyes.

Yang Tong rubbed his eldest son's pigtails lovingly, there was a feeling of staggered time, when the little princess first arrived in Zhuo County, she also asked him so, so she said with a smile: "The world is in chaos, that is, many people have no food to eat, no house to live in, and when winter comes, there is no charcoal fire to warm their hands." ”

"Father, won't we not have food and a house to live in?"

"No!" Yang Tong held one in one hand, I don't know whose little guy was holding it in his arms, and said with a smile: "With your father here, you will have food to eat and a house to live in......"

He looked sideways, his five wives were all looking at him with a smile, and Yang Tong's heart swelled up - an indescribable warmth, this is his home and his relatives, he not only has to bear the world on his shoulders, but also to protect his family.

"Holy!" A palace maid came to the grass and bowed to Yang Tong, who had no image of an emperor, and the four concubines of the first queen and said: "Taibao, Wei Servant, Yang Servant, Xuanling, Shangshu of the Ministry of Officials, Li Jing of the Ministry of War, and others are asking to see each other in Chaoyang Palace. ”

Yang Tong looked at Fang'er helplessly, "Father has something." ”

The little one got up obediently and ran to the side.

"The husband should put state affairs first." Xiao Wu and the four girls hurried over, like pulling a carrot, and took a few little guys away from Yang Tong.

"National affairs, family affairs, world affairs, everything is important." Yang Tong stood up, took off his grass-green coat, put on clean clothes, and said with a smile: "I have a premonition that my peaceful life is coming to an end. ”