Chapter 351 Conflict between aristocratic families and imperial power
Just now, when Yang Ci and Yuan Wei, the two most powerful figures, were quarreling with each other in Yuntai Pavilion, He Jin, the hussar general, chose to remain untouchable.
He wore armor directly, like a great gatekeeper, and guarded the gate of Yuntai Pavilion faithfully, without saying a word the whole time.
"This idiot." When Liu Hong saw He Jin's behavior, he almost spat out a mouthful of blood as if he were a mentally retarded person.
As the emperor of the Han Dynasty, he is rich in the world. What kind of masters do he not have under his command? Besides, there is Xiao Mohe, the most powerful general of the Han Dynasty, in Yuntai Pavilion. Why do I need you, my brother-in-law, to guard the gate?
Besides, with your meager ability to save lives, Xiao Mohe can kill a hundred people, so do you still need to protect him?
Liu Hong was completely helpless. What kind of people were around him? People from aristocratic families could not be trusted. They would only seek benefits for their own family, but had no country or the survival of the Han Dynasty in their hearts.
The foreign relatives don’t seem to be trustworthy now, just take He Jinjin as an example, he has no brain at all.
Liu Hong took a deep breath and suppressed the rage in his heart. Since his relatives and aristocratic families cannot be trusted, the only ones who can be trusted and used now are the Liu family members who are of the same lineage.
"Your Majesty, please retire!" Yang Ci and others said in unison. Since Liu Hong had ordered them to retreat, there was no need for them to stay here. However, before leaving, Yang Ci took a deep look and knelt down on the cloud platform.
Liu Hong, the head of the pavilion, stood up and saluted.
Grand Tutor Yuan Wei and Situ Wang Yun also followed closely behind. Sikong Zhang Ji, who had been a little transparent for a long time, Xiao Mohe, the cavalry general, and Lu Zhi, the minister's order, also followed after seeing these three big bosses leaving.
Behind them, he saluted Liu Hong and left.
Due to the departure of Yang Ci, Wang Yun, Lu Zhi and others, only the emperor Liu Hong, Taichang Liu Yan, Zongzheng Liu Yu, and Henan Yin Hejin who were guarding the door were left in Yuntai Pavilion, as well as those watching from the sidelines.
Listen to Liu Che.
After they left, the maids and eunuchs who were serving them were also dismissed by Liu Hong. In other words, the only ones left in the Yuntai Pavilion at this moment were all relatives of the Liu family, or Liu Hong's own confidants.
Man, now, he can finally say something from his heart.
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In the weather in March, there is still some cold wind in the morning, especially in ancient society, the door is not that sealed, so the cold wind of early spring suddenly blows in and passes through the door.
Under the blowing of the cold wind, the armor leaves on He Jin's body suddenly made a rustling sound, and the long beards under the chins of Liu Yu and Liu Yan also began to fly wantonly under the blowing of the cold wind.<
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Not only that, under the violent blowing of the cold wind, the portraits of the twenty-eight generals of the Han Yuntai hanging on the walls on both sides also made a hunting sound!
Fortunately it is daytime, otherwise people might think it was haunted, and come up with the idea that the ancestors of the Han Dynasty had spirits and could not bear the overthrow of the Han Dynasty, so they roared angrily.
Perhaps what Liu Hong wanted to talk about next was very important, so he changed from his usual frivolous image. Against the backdrop of the portraits of Yuntai heroes, his whole person looked much more solemn.
"Time flies so fast!" Liu Hong suddenly sighed, making the two clan members Liu Yan and Liu Yu instantly confused.
However, Liu Hong didn't seem to notice, as they looked confused and still said to themselves in public: "Since the first year of Yongkang (AD 167), Emperor Xiaohuan died in Luoyang, and I ascended the throne with the support of my relatives.
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"At this time, seventeen years have passed without knowing it."
Liu Hong suddenly sighed, looking back on the past years, his words were full of loneliness, which made Liu Yan and Liu Yu confused for a while, what kind of trouble the emperor was going to do.
They thought that the emperor would say something important to them, but they never expected that the emperor would suddenly say these things. After the two of them looked at each other, they all looked at their noses and noses, and sat down quietly to wait for Liu Hong
The following.
They believe that since Liu Hong suddenly said these words, there must be his own meaning, rather than simply feeling the passage of time.
And that’s true!
I saw Liu Hong continue: "It has been seventeen years since I ascended the throne as Dabao. During this period, I even opened up the party's restrictions, forcing Wang Jingtian to invite himself back to Bingzhou."
"After this, I originally thought I could gain military power, but I never thought that I had fallen into the family's plan, which completely cut off my only ally from myself."
"In order to suppress the aristocratic family and make money from it, I sold my official position, favored eunuchs, and made money at any cost. I have lost count of how many ridiculous things I have done."
"Although I am in the deep palace, I still know how the people in the world insult me. If my prediction is correct, even you loyal clan members will curse me in your heart for being an unprincipled and ignorant king!
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When Liu Hong said this, he suddenly stared at Liu Yu and Liu Yan with a sharp look in his eyes. There was an indescribable sense of banter.
Liu Yan and Liu Yu's expressions changed greatly. These words were not something they could accept casually, so they quickly stood up and left the short table, knelt down and apologized: "Your Majesty, I don't dare!"
However, even though they said this, the eyes of the two people with their heads lowered were twinkling, and it was obvious that they did not mean what they said.
Liu Hong, who was sitting at the top, didn't notice Liu Yu's little move. He just smiled and then waved to the two people who were kneeling to apologize, saying that he didn't care. After all, they were no longer the same person.
, scolding him like this, he has long been immune to it.
At this time, Liu Hong stood up and walked slowly in Yuntai Pavilion, feeling as if he had lost his way: "The evils of the Han Dynasty did not happen overnight. In fact, the current situation was already formed during the reign of Emperor Guangwu."
"Back then, Shizu was able to raise a large army and prosper the Han Dynasty and destroy the reckless people. It is not so much that Shizu had great talents and strategies that made Yuntai generals rush to join him. It is better to say that the great families chose Shizu. This is the fate of the time!"
"Shut up." Liu Yan and Liu Yu, who were kneeling down to plead guilty, felt their hearts tremble when they heard Liu Hong arrange the ancestor Liu Xiu like this. You, Liu Hong, are worthy of competing with the ancestor.
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Although it was the aristocratic family that chose Shizu, if Shizu had not been able to change things, would the family have chosen him? There were many Han clan members who were against Wang Mang at that time.
If you, Liu Hong, had reached that era, probably no aristocratic family would look down on you.
Liu and Yu despised Liu Hong's rebellious words.
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"Ah!"
At the same time, on the pipeline to Luoyang, a young man in his twenties was riding a fast horse and galloping on the pipeline. But at this moment, he suddenly sneezed hard. p>
"Haha, Wen Shu, someone is talking about you." Seeing the young man in front of him sneezing hard, a young man next to him immediately joked.
At this point, the identities of these two people were revealed. The young man called Wen Shu by another young man was none other than Liu Xiu, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty whom Liu Hong had just discussed, and Liu Xiu, the current son of Liu Biao.
And the young man beside him is none other than Deng Yu (Yu), Liu Xiu's contemporary hairpin from the Deng family in Nanyang.
Liu Xiu was puzzled. He didn't know who was talking about him. He could only think of it as the longing of some women. If he knew at this time that the person talking about him was Liu Hong, he didn't know what he would think. p>
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Inside Yuntai Pavilion.
Naturally, Liu Hong didn't know that the protagonist he just mentioned had already come to this world not long ago and was on his way to Luoyang.
At this moment, he was still looking at Liu and Yu and replied: "I knew it when I came to the throne. This world is not so much the world of me, Liu Han, as it is the world of aristocratic families."
When Liu Yan and Liu Yu saw Liu Hong directly pointing out the big man's vital points, they immediately lowered their heads. Are they able to accept these words? By this time, the big man is basically known to all knowledgeable people.
It is tacitly understood that the aristocratic family holds the power of the country.
It’s just that no one said it clearly.
But now, Liu Hong made it clear directly, which made Liu and Yu not know what to say for a moment.
Although Liu Yan and Liu Yu chose to remain silent, it did not mean that Liu Hong would stop talking. On the contrary, he became more interested.
"The case of Shizu Dutian is a counterattack against the family members..."
Liu Hong's so-called "documentation" simply means verifying statistics on cultivated land and household registration.
In the fifteenth year of Jianwu (39), Liu Xiu "instructed the county of Zhaozhou to inspect the acres of cultivated land and the age of the household registration, and also verified that the two thousand stone chief officials were in vain."
It means: ordering all states and counties to inventory the amount of cultivated land and the age of people’s household registration, and to investigate and implement the unfair behavior of officials with the rank of two thousand stones.
This edict is also known as the "Order to Save the Fields".
The reason why Liu Xiu ordered the land to be reclaimed was because most of the cultivated land in the world at that time was not actually occupied by himself, and the household registration and age increased and decreased. The Eastern Han Dynasty government needed to know the exact land and population figures in order to collect taxes and levy.
Corvene.
Of course, this also includes the purpose of restricting the powerful and powerful from annexing land and enslaving the population.
The underlying reason is undoubtedly related to strengthening the imperial power.
Liu Xiu tried to achieve centralization in the economic field through this method.
It is a pity that Liu Xiu underestimated the difficulty of transferring land. When the order to transfer land was promulgated, it was immediately resisted by all aspects of society, and the implementation was very poor.
Not only aristocratic families, but also ordinary people boycotted.
Take the peasants for example. Between the two Han Dynasties, they used violent means of war to seize a large amount of land from the landlords. Many of them even broke free and gained personal liberation.
Now, the Eastern Han government wants to implement land transfer, check land and household registration, try to regain control of them, and put the yoke of military service on them again, which will naturally encounter strong opposition from the farmers.
Judging from the situation of the landlords, they are originally the occupiers of a large amount of land, especially those big landowners. Almost all of them are armed, known as "big surnames" and "soldier commanders", and they have a lot of hidden fields and dependent populations.
Naturally, they do not want to be investigated when the government seizes farmland, so they strongly oppose it.
However, they usually collude with local officials and use methods such as lying to get through. However, local officials are afraid of them, are greedy for bribes, or have interests connected, so they are willing to collude with them.
Finally, judging from the various situations of Dahanzhou County officials, they are not only the executors of Liu Xiu's land transfer order, but most of them are also powerful landowners, or have some kind of relationship with the local wealthy families!
Therefore, they are bound to be unwilling to truthfully measure the land and report the household registration.
The history says: "The governors and governors were mostly deceitful and not pragmatic. They just used the name of farming to gather people in the fields and farm the houses in the countryside."
Of course, the most terrifying thing here is the latter situation, that is, in the name of farmland, not only the farmers’ land is measured, but also the houses and areas are measured as fields, thereby passing the burden on to the common people. p>
It can be said that countless aristocratic families, celebrities and scholars were implicated in the Dutian case, and even high-ranking county officials killed more than 20 people. However, Liu Xiu never expected that his high-pressure policy would not only fail to make Dutian order
Although it was implemented smoothly, what it brought about was armed opposition and resistance in the form of a civil uprising.
"The surnames and military commanders of the commanderies and robbers arose everywhere, attacking the places and killing the officials."
This is the impact of the Dutian case.
Among the "Biongqi" rebel team, "big surnames" and "soldier commanders" belong to one category, while "group thieves" belong to another category.
The former are powerful landlords, and they resist to protect their own vested interests.
The latter are the peasant masses. Their resistance is on the one hand against the government's control, and on the other hand against the officials who use the name of farmland to pass on the burden and do whatever they want.
After all, they had already suffered it once more than ten years ago, so why would they want to suffer it again?
Because of this, the two types of resistance are intertwined, making the resistance extremely powerful and making the nature of the entire incident more complicated.
However, Liu Xiu was Liu Xiu after all. He adopted a combination of suppression and differentiation, encouraged the resisters to expose themselves, and stipulated that "if five people kill one person in total, he will be exempted from his crime." Then he implemented special policies for officials.
To put it mildly, it’s just a compromise.
But throughout the ages, which emperor has never compromised in the face of aristocratic families, Li Shimin chose to compromise, and finally accumulated strength, and by attacking the Turks, he was named Heavenly Khan, and in one fell swoop he got rid of the control of the imperial family by the aristocratic families.
Yang Guang did not compromise, but instead went against the aristocratic family, and ended up directly destroying the huge Sui Dynasty!
However, in any case, Liu Xiu's compromise prevented the war from igniting again, but it also brought a fatal hidden danger, that is, the aristocratic family became prosperous and the Han Dynasty declined.
From then on, throughout the Han Dynasty, land annexation was never curbed, because at that time, if the emperor wanted to restrain the annexation, he would have to fight against the entire family. It can be said that from the beginning of Liu Xiu's establishment of the Han Dynasty, he could already see the end of the Han Dynasty.
Ending.
At this time, Liu Hong still did not stop, but became more energetic: "From then on, the aristocratic family began to slowly control the government, lying on the big man's body to suck the marrow and blood."
"Even my big man's promotion of filial piety and integrity was originally intended to detect useful talents, but with the growth of the aristocratic family, it has now become a capital for the children of the aristocratic family to enter the officialdom."