The seven hundred and fifty-eighth chapter, the turning point of the empire (1)
"Chen Xi actually went to Neon..."
Liu Che took the report sent back from North Korea and felt a little pain in his head.︾,
"Can you please stop causing trouble for me..." Liu Che shook his head, put down the report, and ordered those around him: "Don't let the East Palace know about this matter!"
"No!" Everyone on the left and right bowed.
Liu Che rubbed his temples. Judging from the time, Chen Xi might have arrived in Neon by now.
Therefore, I can only pray to God to bless this guy and prevent any accidents from happening to him.
otherwise……
Liu Che felt that he might not be able to live peacefully this summer!
"Ever since Queen Mother Bo's birthday, I seem to have had bad luck..." Liu Che sighed.
Recent events, one after another.
Since Liu Che came to the throne, some of the bad sides of some of the policies he implemented began to gradually appear.
Originally, this was nothing.
Any policy has advantages and disadvantages.
Nothing in this world can be perfect.
If the rulers want to take care of the middle class and common people, they must sacrifice the interests of the big landowners and the nobility.
vice versa.
China's problem has never been about the policy itself, but about the people who implemented it and the emperor's determination to promote the policy.
As long as the emperor's will is firm, the chosen executors will be effective.
Some noises are just the buzzing of flies.
In China, the most taboo thing in the process of policy implementation is that people below are doing things. As a result, the emperor became shaken as soon as he heard other people's rumors. Then, he was endlessly torn between supporting and not supporting.
Once such a situation occurs.
No matter what kind of policy, it is impossible to achieve any results.
It may even be worse than not implementing the policy at all!
Liu Che, of course, would not make such a mistake.
Liu Che never pretended to have seen the slightest discussion or noise.
However, Liu Che is not a saint, nor is he a computer AI. He is also a human being, and he will make mistakes as a human being.
"I'm still too soft-hearted..." Liu Che stroked his forehead, feeling a little regretful in his heart.
"I have known for a long time that none of these scumbags in Qilu are good. I wish I had dealt with them earlier..."
All the kings of Qi and Lu were the descendants of Liu Fei, King Hui of Qi.
During the reign of Emperor Taizong, because he wanted to appease the Qi State, he made each of these brothers kings.
They were named King of Qi, King of Jinan, King of Jiaodong, King of Zichuan, and King of Jiaoxi. These five brothers transformed the formerly huge Qi Kingdom into five kingdoms of different sizes.
However, like their father Liu Fei, they are the kind of heartless scum who only care about their own pleasure and don't care about the life and death of others.
Except that King Liu Jianglu of Qi and Liu Xiongqu, King of Jiaodong, are a little more reliable, and they also talk about being a prime minister.
The other three scumbags can only be said to be Jie and Zhou generals.
Especially after Liu Che came to the throne, he temporarily adopted a policy of appeasing the princes and kings and turned a blind eye to the related issues of princes and kings breaking the law.
So, these guys immediately jumped up and down.
In the past few years, the archives of Shangshutai have been filled with reports on Qilu issues from the Xiuyi Guards, Yushi, and Poetry Collection Groups.
These guys are extravagant and lustful. In the feudal country, they do everything they can to break the bones and suck out the marrow, crazily squeezing and enslaving their own people.
This year's gold rush in Huaihua triggered a mass exodus of the people in the feudal country of these guys.
Liu Che originally thought that these guys should learn a lesson and be kind to the people, right?
After all, if you continue like this and all the people are gone, who will farm, pay taxes and serve you?
However, Liu Che's idea was completely wrong!
Not only did these guys fail to learn their lesson, but instead, the people fled in large numbers.
In order to maintain their own luxury, they passed on the burden of the fleeing people to others.
Especially Jinan King Liu Biguang, who was still not satisfied after controlling most of the land in Jinan.
Every year, a large number of civilians were allocated to build palaces and cemeteries for himself. He even wanted to build his Jinan Palace to be as magnificent as the Qi Palace in Linzi.
In the past, the people of Jinan Kingdom had a heavy burden.
But because Jinan has abundant water resources and fertile land, it can still be afforded by gritting one's teeth.
However, this year, at least seven to eight thousand people from the Kingdom of Jinan fled to North Korea and Huaihua.
However, as in previous years, he continued to allocate more people to build palaces and tombs for himself.
The number of civilian husbands he recruited was even more than last year!
He conscripted a full 10,000 people!
According to the system, as the King of Jinan, he can only recruit up to 3,000 people to serve him for free for one month every year...
There were a total of 7,000 extra civilians, which was a disaster for the Kingdom of Jinan.
The anger among the people is burning brightly.
But Liu Piguang didn't know it yet.
Or even if he knew it, he might not take it seriously.
In his opinion, the common people were probably born to be submissive and act like cattle and horses for him. As long as Chang'an remained silent, he could sit back and relax...
It's a pity that he forgot.
When the emperor is angry, the boat will be filled with blood; when an ordinary man is angry, the blood will be splashed three feet!
Since the Spring and Autumn Period, assassinations of kings and chariots have occurred more than once or twice.
Seventy years ago, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang rose up and overthrew the arrogant Qin Dynasty.
Therefore, the people who could no longer bear Liu Piguang's oppression decisively adopted what they thought was the most direct method to assassinate him!
On May 29th, several hunters who could no longer tolerate Liu Biguang took their own hunting bows and arrows and ambush Liu Biguang on his way out for a tour, imitating Zhang Liang and assassinating Qin Shihuang.
The result was, of course, as tragic as Zhang Liang's original one.
The small civilian bows used by hunters are still suitable for shooting rabbits and pheasants.
But it was a bit too much to assassinate a vassal king who was sitting in a sturdy king's carriage and being protected by a group of people.
The arrows they shot didn't even touch Liu Piguang's hair.
Then, they were killed by Liu Piguang's palace guards.
After Liu Piguang was assassinated, he was horrified. Like all rulers who were assassinated, he chose the stupidest method to search the country, and even mobilized the army to search for suspicious people from house to house.
And his decision, like throwing a torch into a pile of dry wood, immediately detonated the entire Jinan Kingdom.
On the fourth day of June, in a small mountain village in Zhangqiu County, Jinan, the whole village appeared and united to resist the officials sent by Liu Biguang to hunt down the so-called 'assassins'. Immediately, riots spread like a prairie fire, spreading throughout Zhang Qiu.
An outbreak occurred in Qiu County.
Today's Chinese farmers are not those farmers in later dynasties who only know how to farm.
Under the guidance of Liu Bang's policy of "no conscription for non-religious people", bows, arrows, swords and guns were as indispensable necessities as farm tools in many people's homes.
Although Qilu is not as exaggerated as the north.
But basically every three households have a male who has received military training and knows how to use weapons to fight. There are also veterans who have served in the army in every village pavilion.
And these people have long hated Liu Biguang to the point of death.
Following the Zhangqiu uprising, all anti-Liu Piguang people in Jinan flocked to Zhangqiu. They brought their own weapons and equipment to participate in the uprising.
As a result, the uprising could no longer be contained,
In just two days, Zhangqiu County was captured by the rebels.
The rioting peasants killed the county magistrate and county lieutenant appointed by Liu Piguang, opened the prison, and released the innocent people who were imprisoned.
Then, they elected Wang Anda, a native of Zhangqiu, as their leader, and listed Liu Piguang's six major crimes, including making the people break the law, not following the king's laws, and having an affair with Wu Ni.
Put an end to tyranny.
Obviously, they, like most peasant uprisings in Chinese history, believed that the bad ones were the officials below and that the emperor was great and upright.
The great and upright emperor will definitely put things right after knowing our situation.
To be honest, when Liu Che learned the news, he was furious at first, and then a little proud.
Unfortunately, this matter is not as simple as simple farmers think.
They rioted with force, resisted the government, captured county towns, killed officials, and released criminals.
This is an unforgivable sin no matter which dynasty it is in!
In the eyes of the rulers, no matter what your reasons are, it is always wrong to resist with force.
Today, the people of Jinan can pick up a guy and defeat Liu Piguang. Tomorrow, do you want to attack us?
The rabbit dies and the fox grieves when something harms its own kind.
Although the things Liu Piguang did were despised by many people.
However, the ruling and opposition parties quickly formed a unified opinion: this trend cannot last forever, and this matter cannot be tolerated!
How dare you resist the government?
Firm punishment must be given!
Some people even wrote a letter requesting that troops from Qi State, Chengyang, Jiaodong, and Jiaoxi be sent immediately to suppress them.
For these people, no matter what difficulties and problems they may have, they can just stay at home and die of hunger or exhaustion. Why should they go out and cause chaos in the world?
In this incident, only the Mohists and a small number of Confucian scholars were the ones who really sat on the side of the people.
The Legalists, the Huang-Lao Sect, and most of the princes demanded that such things be severely punished and even directly suppressed by force.
This matter therefore became Liu Che's biggest test after he came to power.
Should he listen to the voice of the people and punish Jinan King Liu Piguang and make decisions for the people, or should he comply with the voice of the entire aristocratic bureaucracy and use the stance of a feudal emperor to deal with the people who dare to resist.
Neither of these two options is easy to decide.
From his true heart, Liu Che certainly hopes to support the people.
But the problem is that this will definitely offend the nobles and bureaucracy, especially the princes and kings of the Liu family.
And if we work with the bureaucrats and nobles to suppress this uprising.
Not to mention that Liu Che would definitely feel as uncomfortable as eating a fly.
What's even more frightening is that the image he has established in the hearts of people all over the world for a long time is about to collapse.
The image of the holy king who used to shout every day, "I am the father and mother of the people and the king of the world" will soon become stinky and become the biggest laughing stock.
I don’t know how many people would say: Please let me take jujube pills first.
Moreover, the impact of this incident goes beyond that.
Following the calls from the government and the public brought about by this incident, some Confucian scholars and bureaucrats once again sang the old tune of "forbidding civilians to carry weapons."
As we all know, the Han family has always supported and encouraged people to hold bows and crossbows.
Since Liu Bang, the attitude of the emperors of all dynasties on this issue has been very clear.
If the people do not master military skills, they cannot be allowed to go to the battlefield, because that is murder.
Before joining the army, every soldier of the Han army's field legion had received at least three years of military training.
This policy ensured the combat effectiveness of the Han army.
But it also brought about another problem.
There are a proliferation of civilian weapons, and a large number of farmers and ordinary people have mastered many basic military skills.
This makes it possible that once a conflict occurs and a disagreement occurs, blood will be spilled.
There are countless security cases arising from disputes every year.
What's more serious is that because of the proliferation of civilian weapons, the officials and nobles are also a little worried.
There are many things that you don’t dare to do too much.
Otherwise, once the common people are offended, they will sneak into your home with weapons in the middle of the night, cut off your head, and then run away.
What can you do?
In the Kanto region, more than a hundred officials die every year in various murders and assassinations.
Therefore, there have always been people in the civil service circles who advocated banning civilians from holding weapons, or even imitating Qin Shihuang's practice of destroying civilian weapons all over the world.
However, the princes and the royal family firmly opposed this approach.
Therefore, these voices naturally cannot create any momentum.
But now, thanks to the incident in Jinan, these people have jumped out again.
And it has received support from many people.
Liu Che scoffed at this issue.
"The head is like a chicken, it crows again after being cut off... The common people are never afraid of death..."
"Even the high-pressure policy of the Meng Yuan Dynasty, which stipulated that every four households could only have one kitchen knife, could not stop the people who couldn't survive from killing the emperor's family... How could the trick of the First Emperor be of any use?"
But Liu Che could not ignore these voices and had to respond.
In addition to this matter, there is another matter that Liu Che must deal with.
The hero of the old Liu family is involved in another scandal...
Qu Nihou Chen Ping's grandson, Chen He, was reported to have robbed his wife...
Well, in the past there was Xiao He's son who colluded with others to murder his love rival, and later there was Zhang Liang's son and his gay friends who murdered the official who discovered his homosexuality.
Then there is Chen Ping's grandson, who robs a man's wife, which is in line with the usual behavior of these rice bugs.
But how to deal with this matter has also become a test for Liu Che.
When Zanhou and Liuhou are both defeated, and Qu Nihou is also defeated, the heroes and princes may not feel too comfortable in their hearts.
After all, Liu Bang formed an alliance with these heroes by punishing the white horse: making the river like a belt, Mount Tai like a strong mountain, and the country eternal peace.
It’s not even sixty years yet!
The top ten heroes are all gg.
Isn't Liu Bang's face burning and painful?
Compared with these two troublesome headaches, Chen Yu's problem can only be said to be a small problem, and it does not even need to be thought about at all. (To be continued.)
ps: This chapter took a day to write!
Because it is very important, it is a link between past and future.
Originally, my idea was probably before the battle against the Huns.
But after thinking about it for a long time, I moved it to now, although it feels a bit stiff (I wrote five to six thousand words about the riots in Jinan during the day, but deleted them all because I felt that it was just watering down).
However, if you do this, you can basically determine the future protagonist's governing ideas and the characteristics of the empire.
In addition, there should be more later, but it is probably after 12 o'clock. If you can't wait, just go to bed first~
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