The game of left-handed versus right-handed among the nobles and ministers in Chang'an City had just begun when it came to an end.
The Huben Guards and the Yulin Guards were stationed in all the offices and granaries of the Shaofu, Neishi and Da Nong Orders.
The ministers, envoys, attendants and doctors in Weiyang Palace went to every official office to work.
These close ministers of the emperor strictly implemented the emperor's regulations on grain transactions.
No matter how powerful you are, and your hands and eyes can reach the sky, you still need to hold the bamboo talisman of household registration in order to buy food, and you can only buy up to five shi at a time.
As a result, everyone had tears in their eyes and was so sad.
The reaction of the entire bureaucratic and aristocratic class was a bit overwhelming.
Since ancient times, cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents.
The hatred for killing my father is irreconcilable!
If only one or two people are against each other, that is called having ulterior motives and plotting against evil.
Ten or twenty chirps are anti-Liu and anti-Han, which is a heinous crime.
Thousands of people shout in unison, which means that righteous teachers have risen up to fight against the tyrant.
Liu Che has a very clear understanding of this.
The lessons of past dynasties told Liu Che that he could suppress the bureaucrats and powerful people, but he could never force them into a corner.
The best way to deal with the powerful bureaucracy is to give them a slap in the face and a sweet date.
Therefore, Liu Che then issued an edict: The princes and two thousand stones, the pillars of the country, assist me in ruling the world. They have done a great job. Praising the meritorious officials and educating them are the virtues of the three generations of ancestors. Although I am not sensitive, I am still willing to emulate them.
He was given to the princes and two thousand stones, and one of his sons was regarded as a scholar, in order to praise his merits and praise his hard work.
As a result, many people's originally injured hearts were somewhat comforted and felt a little better.
The sweet date given by Liu Che is actually a policy that will be announced during the exam this year.
Scholars who are examined and promoted must go to the whole country, to various counties and counties, and become an important part or even a major part of the ruling class.
However, the old bureaucratic aristocratic group will definitely not sit idly by and watch emerging political forces replace them.
If these people started making noise and causing trouble, Liu Che would be a little unable to hold on.
The only way is to bribe them.
Let them participate in this political process and give them some benefits and privileges.
In this way, they will not become obstacles and destroyers of this change.
After the edict was issued, although the noble ministers still had some complaints and dissatisfaction, most of them still recognized the current situation and knew that the emperor would never allow them to destroy the stability of Guanzhong.
Many people even woke up and broke out in a cold sweat. If their plan really succeeded, there might not be much left of Guanzhong's millions of stone grain reserves, and there was no way there would be much left.
The Shaofu and the internal history who lost their grain reserves would inevitably lose control of the grain prices in Guanzhong.
By then, food prices will skyrocket and people's livelihood and economy will be destroyed.
The anxious Weiyang Palace may not be willing to operate on their heads and use the blood of several culprits to apologize to the people.
The top princes and close confidants of the royal family will definitely not suffer this attack.
So, obviously, it is these little shrimps who will take the blame.
"Why bother..." Although many people still find it difficult to let go of the fact that a piece of wealth that was easily obtained has disappeared.
However, think about your head, wealth and life.
There is no doubt that they have shrunk.
And the next piece of gossip made these people quickly put aside the previous dissatisfaction rumors. The emperor convened the Shangshutai and his ministers for several days to study the plan of demarcating a new fiefdom in the Xinhua and Huaihua areas.
It is said that the emperor believed that the thousands of miles of land between Xinhua City and Huaihua City were in urgent need of development and utilization.
But the local population is sparse.
Moreover, it is freezing cold, there are many forests, and it is outside the Great Wall.
There are very few people who are willing to migrate to the local area.
Even if it is a reclamation group, it is difficult to arrange it locally.
Therefore, the emperor set his sights on the vast number of princes who were "the pillars of the country and the heroes of the country".
It was decided to enfeoff thousands of miles of local land, except for the Yaoren territory, to 'meritorious ministers and pillars of the country'.
It is said that even a low-level prince with a settlement of 500 households can get a fief with a radius of ten miles.
The top ten thousand households can even get a feudal kingdom with a radius of hundreds of miles.
All minerals, forests and resources in the feudal country shall be owned by the feudal princes.
As soon as this gossip spread, the entire feudal class immediately experienced an earthquake.
Who would think that their feudal state is too small and has too little land?
As for the area in Xinhua City, the weather is freezing, the climate is harsh, and the level of development is extremely low.
What does it matter?
Who doesn’t like getting a piece of land for free? Who doesn’t want to?
Moreover, all the princes have big families and big businesses.
Who doesn’t have brothers, nephews, relatives or friends to take care of?
A piece of land, no matter how barren it is, no matter how harsh the environment, can always feed people.
in particular……
Although Xinhua is cold and remote, it has high mountains and dense forests.
But it can always feed people!
The big deal is that a family of five can be raised on 100 acres in China, but five people can be raised on 1,000 acres in Xinhua!
Not to mention, the ginseng sold to Chang'an by countries such as Yiren and Zhenfan in recent years has attracted the attention of many people.
The mere fact that ginseng is produced locally makes many people unable to contain their excitement.
And a piece of news "accidentally" leaked by Mo Yuan and the Shaofu ignited the enthusiasm and expectations of countless people. According to the report of the agricultural officials and Mohists sent by the Shaofu and the Mohists to Xinhua:
Although the ground is bitter and cold, it is very fertile and can be used to grow beans.
There is also news from the military that some soldiers picked up gold nuggets during patrol outside Xinhua City.
This shows that there are gold and copper mines in the area.
At this moment, countless people's eyes were red.
Everyone craned their necks, waiting for news from Weiyang Palace.
As for what happened before, everyone immediately forgot about it: a one-time extra income. Can it be compared with land that can be inherited from generation to generation and passed on to future generations?
And amidst these bustling noises, the order sent out from Chang'an City finally arrived in Jiangdu Kingdom.
When the envoy gasped and handed over the edict from the emperor to Liu Lang, the king of Jiangdu, Liu Lang immediately summoned the ministers in Jiangdu to discuss specific arrangements.
The prime minister appointed by Liu Che to Liu Yan was Zhang Shizhi, a former court captain, and the tutor was Feng Tang, a famous and wise minister in the Taizong Dynasty.
Although Zhang Shizhi was not in good health, he was rich in experience. Feng Tang had also been in officialdom for twenty or thirty years.
With these two people, Liu Yan doesn't actually need to have much ability.
Everything in the country was arranged properly by these two people.
It's the same this time.
"The gods have given me a warning, and I should obey the edict!" Liu Yan first expressed his attitude, then looked at the two wise ministers and said: "I will entrust the evacuation matter and the specific arrangements to the Prime Minister and the Prime Minister.
So great!"
Zhang Shizhi and Feng Tang looked at each other and smiled.
They were also used to Liu Yan's behavior.
Relatively speaking, Liu Yan like this is equal to Ming Zhu for the two of them.
Liu Yan was like this. No matter what he did, he would leave everything to his ministers. He would just write letters to Chang'an to complain. It was so difficult to find a master who was cute at the same time.
This is probably the only one in the entire Han Dynasty.
It's just that the emperor's decree made these two people a little confused. Based on a dream, they moved hundreds of thousands of residents to more than a dozen counties west of Guangling. This is really funny!
But the emperor's orders must be implemented if you understand them. Even if you don't understand them, you must implement them.
They had no choice but to go down and organize and mobilize the people to evacuate.
Fortunately, Zhang Shizhi was a former minister who was famous all over the world, and Feng Tang was also a well-known and respected celebrity in the southeast.
The local officials, in front of these two big bosses, did not even dare to complain, except to cooperate with the execution cautiously.
It's just the common people who are in some trouble.
The Chinese people have the strongest sentiments about their homeland among all the ethnic groups in the world.
Many people would rather starve to death in their hometown than go to other places.
The fox dies on the first hill, and the flying bird flies south.
This sentiment is particularly deep among farmers.
Fortunately, Jiangdu Country is originally an area dominated by immigrants.
Since Liu Bi founded the country, most of the residents living here are refugees who migrated from Qilu and even Yanzhao and other places.
Therefore, the mobilization of the people is relatively easy to do.
But this is only relatively speaking.
There are always some people who are unwilling to leave their hometown, and there are also some farmers who will die at home no matter what, and are reluctant to leave their fields and crops.
For such people, Han Dynasty officials directly resorted to methods after persuading them to no avail.
This method was very simple and crude, using county soldiers directly to force people to be tied into the migration carriage.
In just five days, ten of the twelve counties west of Guangling have completed basic migration.
Hundreds of thousands of people, organized and protected by more than 30,000 troops and more than 2,000 officials and gentry at all levels, headed north along the Yangtze River to the Chu State and Huaisi area in the upper reaches.
The counties in the Chu State and Huaisi region also began to mobilize.
Because the King of Chu has not yet decided who it will be, the Chu State actually belongs to the central government.
The prime minister and internal history of Chu State appointed by the imperial court directly cleared out Liu Wu's two palaces, villas and manor, and prepared them as residences for the people who had taken refuge in Jiangdu.
The counties of Huaisi vacated all their military camps and strongholds.
Although according to the edict, these refugees will only take refuge in the Chu and Huaisi areas for one month.
However, hundreds of thousands of refugees, plus officials and gentry, as well as the related army to take care of these people, are a waste of money, and the consumption is huge.
Fortunately, the grain from Shujun and Aocang flowed down the river and began to arrive in Pengcheng.
It relieved the pressure on Chu and Huaisi counties.
But it's just relief.
The sudden influx of a large number of immigrants to any place will inevitably have an impact on the local economy and people's livelihood.
Fortunately now, I have the pressure of the emperor and the great justice of the court.
Both officials and the people below must obey orders honestly.
But, what if... the dream the emperor had did not come true.
This step is not so easy.
Let’s not talk about the loss of the emperor’s prestige. The resentment of hundreds of thousands of people who were forced to migrate and take refuge, as well as the sorrow of the local people in Chu and Huaisi counties, were enough to make the prestige of the Han Dynasty completely disappear in the entire southeast.
live.
In this regard, all the kings of Qilu were paying attention with a kind of spectatorship.
"The emperor of Chang'an is still too impatient about this matter..." King Liu Jianglu of Qi commented.
Putting aside whether the dream the emperor had was really a warning from God, considering it purely from a political perspective, this matter is also extremely dangerous.
You know, Jiangdu Kingdom was originally under the rule of Wu King Liu Bi.
Liu Bi had a huge influence in the old Wu lands. Even if he died, this influence could not be eliminated.
You know, when Liu Bi was here, all the people in Wu were exempted from corvee service.
As for the Chu State, it was another source of disaster.
Although Wu Chu failed, a large number of related interest groups and nobles and officials loyal to Wu Chu were purged.
But there are always some fish that slip through the net.
These people are usually unlikely to cause any problems.
But once the emperor's dream was proven to be false.
Then, it is not impossible that the war in the southeast will resume again.
How does the Emperor of Chang'an rule the world?
The first is strong soldiers and strong horses, and the second is righteousness.
Especially the latter. It is extremely critical.
The hearts of the people in the world belong to the Han Dynasty, and the heroes of the world all recognize the sanctity and legitimacy of Liu's rule.
But if this foundation is lost.
So……
Not to mention Liu Jianglu, even his idiot brothers, such as Liu Xian and Liu Xiongqu, began to become restless again.
An obvious example is that the relocation work of several powerful families who were supposed to be moved to Guanzhong according to the order was suddenly delayed.
Everyone is waiting and watching to see the outcome of this matter. The emperor's dream indicates that in early April, a big storm will hit Jiangdu.
Now, it is already the end of March.
At most, within ten days or so, the matter will be resolved.
At that time, it will be immediately clear whether the Emperor of Chang'an is a true emperor with divine power and orders from Heaven and a long life, or a sinner who wears a crown while wearing a monkey's head and is guilty of crimes committed by Heaven.
If it's the former, of course everyone will immediately say long live and be Chang'an's good baby from now on.
If it's the latter...
I'm afraid it's time to announce the illness immediately and secretly stock up on troops to wait for the opportunity.
In addition to Qilu, Mitsukoshi also stared wide-eyed, waiting for the outcome of this matter.
Don’t talk about the East China Sea Kingdom.
This small country under the wings of the Han Dynasty thought it had heard a big joke when it received the warning from the Han envoy.
However, when they saw that the Han Dynasty had really begun to migrate their people, the Donghai people, who believed in witchcraft and ghosts, immediately followed suit and began to mobilize the people to evacuate.
Although, the execution, mobilization and organization of this regime were completely behind the Han Dynasty.
However, after a few days, many residents near the sea were evacuated.
Especially the nobles and officials quickly fled from all possible dangerous areas.
In this chaotic situation, the order of the entire East China Sea began to become chaotic. Finally, the army with swords and guns appeared, which stabilized the situation and prevented the entire order from collapsing.
The Minyue Kingdom, on the other hand, could not restrain itself and began to become restless.
The Han Dynasty evacuated all its troops and residents in the western part of Jiangdu.
The East China Sea Kingdom also began to be in chaos.
The ambitions of the Minyue people have grown as never before.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Minyue.
Even Liu Bi's two sons who fled to Minyue were ready to make a move, constantly lobbying and inciting the Minyue royal family and nobles to start a war.
However, the Minyue people did not make up their minds in the end.
Because they also believe in ghosts, gods and witchcraft.
If the dream of the Emperor of the Han Dynasty is true, then the Minyue army would be an enemy of the ghosts and gods of heaven and earth.
That is a catastrophe that will destroy the country and the entire clan!
The people of Fujian and Yue do not have the courage.
On the other hand, the Nanyue King Zhao Tuo in the south did not believe this matter at all.
"The little emperor of Chang'an, what are you doing?" Zhao Tuo said to his prime minister Lu Jia: "This is self-destruction of the Great Wall, just like those idiots in Xianyang back then!"
Zhao Tuo was extremely convinced of this.
Ghosts or something?
Zhao Tuo himself didn't believe it.
He has lived too long, has seen too much, and knows too much.
Moreover, most officials under the Qin State system have almost no respect for ghosts and gods.
Zhao Tuo’s idols are Ximen Bao and Li Bing.
It's just that the little emperor of the Han Dynasty seemed to have had a successful warning?
Although Zhao Tuo felt that the incident three years ago was a story of self-promotion and whitewashing by the Han Dynasty.
But what if it's true?
Moreover, looking at the appearance of the Han Dynasty, it does not look like there is a conspiracy.
"Could it be that the emperor of the Han Dynasty could really communicate with the gods?" Zhao Tuo was extremely doubtful about this.
Lu Jia, on the other hand, firmly believed in these things.
There is no way, more people love this tune.
The tribes of Baiyue consulted the witch god even when giving birth to children, farming and building houses.
"Your Majesty, you might as well wait and see what happens..." Lu Jia expressed his opinion: "Wait and see..."
"Wait?" Zhao Tuo bit his lip. He leaned on a cane and said, "If possible, I really don't want to wait!"
Obviously, if we send troops now, we will definitely get a lot of benefits.
In fact, if the storm had not come by then, the entire southeast of the Han Dynasty would have been in chaos. It was unknown that Zhao Tuo would take advantage of the situation, take control of the southeast, and rule across the river from Chang'an.
But the problem is, if that storm comes.
So, among the South Vietnamese soldiers who went out to fight, the Yue people were definitely the first to escape. There is no ethnic group that believes in ghosts and gods more than the Yue people.
And among the remaining people, I'm afraid they can only kneel down and ask for surrender.
Who dares to fight against the emperor who has destiny?
At least in China, there is no such guy with that courage.
But, if you just watch like this.
Once the storm comes...
Zhao Tuo couldn't even imagine the consequences if the dream of the young emperor of Chang'an came true.
At the very least, Zhao Tuo is sure that the tribes and nobles in his country who believe in ghosts and gods will definitely kneel down and lick Chang'an endlessly.
The worship and superstition of ghosts and gods has penetrated into the bones of the Baiyue tribes.
By that time, I am afraid that as long as the little emperor of Chang'an is alive, the South Vietnam Kingdom will only have to surrender and be obedient.
Any order from Chang'an may be regarded as a divine order by the tribes in the country.
God has given the order. As a mortal, how dare you resist?
In this way, the South Vietnam Kingdom may lose all its independence and be slowly annexed by Chang'an.
Just like what the Han Dynasty did to the Wu family in Changsha.
First, control the army, then the officials, and finally, find an excuse to kick out the Zhao family and use the Liu family as king.
Zhao Tuo can recite the entire procedure by heart. (To be continued)
ps: Sorry, the pain in my cervical vertebra yesterday was so uncomfortable that I had no choice but to go for physiotherapy~
