The World of Yellow Sky

Chapter 831 The Counterattack of the Conservatives
In the first year of Zhangwu (196), on October [-], the weather has gradually turned cold.

Outside the palace city, there are hundreds of officials everywhere.

Sun Jing frowned, he was standing a little far away from everyone.

He really didn't want to get involved in the dispute, and it was hard for him to get used to being disturbed by the court.

Not long after Yangzhou was pacified, he wrote a letter requesting to stay in his hometown to guard. Although he was detained several times, Liu Xie saw that he had decided to go, so he agreed to his request and named him the governor of Kuaiji.

Kuaiji County is adjacent to Wu County, and its main town is also close to Kuaiji County.

If Sun Jian is described as fire, then Sun Jing is water.

As Sun Jian's younger brother, Sun Jing and Sun Jian have very different personalities.

However, although the two have very different personalities, they are not in an incompatible relationship. They have always supported each other to move forward.

The reason why Sun Jing is here is precisely because of Sun Jian's death.

Liu Xie sent envoys to recruit Sun Jing again. This time Sun Jing did not refuse. He was ordered to recruit three thousand soldiers from Kuaiji County and Wu County, and led the recruits all the way to the north.

He was named the post-general. He was already a general before. This time, he was added a level, and no one objected.

Huangfusong's reputation had always been number one in the army, but after Bingwei entered Luo, Sun Jian replaced him.

Apart from Huangfusong, Yuan Shu's reputation in the army can be ranked second, and the person with the third most prestigious reputation is none other than Sun Jing.

And because of the pacification of Yangzhou, Sun Jing's prestige in Jiangdong reached its peak.

No one questioned whether Sun Jing was qualified to serve as the rear general.

Not long after Sun Jing arrived in Yuzhou with his troops, the Han court opened the prelude to the reform.

Sun Jing can be said to be watching the continuous progress of the reform.

The reforms at the beginning were mild, but now they are becoming more and more intense.

At the beginning, the reform did not touch the interests of the aristocratic family.

Whether it is strengthening the army, or strengthening the power of the state pastor, allowing powerful families from all over the country to recruit village heroes under the supervision of officials, it is actually beneficial to the powerful families.

The recruitment of refugees to cultivate wasteland and farming, and the implementation of the farming system did not infringe on their interests too much.

However, with the progress of the reform and the expansion of the army's enrollment, the Han court's finances have become unaffordable. Just a while ago, Liu Chong proposed a tax increase.

In the period of Emperor Ling, taxes were raised many times, and there were not many people in the court who opposed it.

Because the tax increase is not on their heads, but on the heads of the ordinary people, and they don't need to pay much tax at all.

There are no officials who don't have eyesight enough to dare to put those exorbitant taxes on their heads.

But this time the tax increase is different. This time the tax increase is directly added to their heads.

Compared with tax increases, what makes them even more unacceptable is that the imperial court actually wants to re-clear the land.

Compared with tax increases, they are more afraid of re-clearing the land.

The embroidered clothes messenger has always existed, and everyone knows it more or less.

It was just because there was no formal organization of the previous incident, Liu Xie used Habayashi Guard as a cover, and did not put it on the table.

Therefore, the Embroidered Clothes Emissary did not have the privilege of taking people at will, and because of the threat of the Eagle Wolf Guard, all the powerful families in the Han court also tolerated the Embroidered Clothes Emissary.

However, during the reform in August, Liu Xie issued an edict to reset the Embroidered Clothes Envoy.

This time, Liu Chong is planning to let the embroidered clothes envoys participate in the land battle in Qing Dynasty.

The virtues of the Embroidered Clothes Emissary are well known to the powerful families in the Han court.

Today's Embroidered Clothes Envoys under Wang Yue's management are completely different from other government offices. They don't need any seniority or family background to be promoted, they only need the emperor's edict.

Whether it is Sangong or Jiuqing, even Shang Shutai can't control the embroidered clothes messenger.

The identity of the embroidered clothes envoys is similar to that of the eunuchs in the court. They are all the emperor's domestic slaves and only obey the emperor's orders.

Their official ranks are not linked to the officials in the court at all, and they have their own independent system.

All the expenses of the embroidered clothes emissary are paid from the palace, and the money is directly paid by the emperor instead of from the treasury.

Clearing the land, even the people from the central government can use some means to change the result, but if the embroidered clothes envoys also send people to supervise, then they are a little helpless.

You must know that the Eagle Wolf Guard's intelligence network was completely wiped out by the embroidered clothes emissary in just a few days. Anyone with a discerning eye can see how much energy this requires.

No one can guarantee that among the servants of their own clan, or among the acquaintances, there is no spying or pointing out by the embroidered messenger.

The scene where everyone was in danger when the Embroidered Clothes Envoy was first established reappeared in the Han court.

But it's no use objecting either.

Those who presided over the reform were Taiwei Liu Chong and Situ Wangyun.

Zhang Xi, as Sikong, is actually just making up the numbers and doesn't have much authority. He also keeps silent on the reform.

Conservatives who oppose the reform are far less powerful in the court than the reformists.

The emperor personally issued an edict to reset the embroidered clothes envoy, and state pastors from all over the country also announced their support.

The first thing that reform needs is military power, and the emperor now controls a full [-] forbidden troops.

These [-] forbidden troops are the emperor's hole card, the emperor's reliance.

The other people who hold military power are the state pastors of the states.

The Han court now controls the seven states of Yuzhou, Qingzhou, Yanzhou, Xuzhou, Yangzhou, Jingzhou, and Jiaozhou.

Since Sun Jian's death, the position of Yuzhou State Shepherd has been vacant without a decision, and it is in the hands of Liu Xie.

Liu Biao, the shepherd of Jingzhou, and Liu Yao, the shepherd of Yangzhou, are both clans. Liu Yao became the shepherd of Yangzhou because of Liu Chong's recommendation. He was originally on the same front as Liu Chong. They are the most staunch royalists.

They have always been on the side of the emperor in matters of reform.

Xuzhou Mu Taoqian is old, and at the end of last year, he submitted his resignation and wanted to return to his hometown for honor, but the emperor issued an edict to keep him, so he is still in office now.

He has no interest in quarrels above the court, and neither supports nor opposes the reform.

Yanzhou Mu Yuan Shu was a supporter of the reform. After the defeat of the Northern Expedition, Yuan Shu's temperament changed drastically. He was no longer as polite and modest as before, but more like the Yuan Shu before he challenged Dong.

Yuan Shu was fighting hard in Yanzhou, putting all his focus on the military, and handed over all the civil affairs to Biejia Luqian.

Originally four generations and three princes, the Yuan family had a very high reputation, but because Yuan Shao established himself as the emperor, his reputation suffered a lot.

The important figures of the main branch of the Yuan family were also killed by Dong Zhuo, so the Yuan family is now controlled by Yuan Shu.

Because of these reasons, Yuan Shi even supported the reform party.

Jiaozhou pastor Xie doesn't care about reforms or changes, and fights for the land, even if he comes to Jiaozhou to fight for the land.

Jiaozhou is different from other prefectures and counties. It is hard to say whether the embroidered envoys in Jiaozhou have two hands.

Generally speaking, there is no good end for those who are the first bird, Shi Xie is very aware of this, so he also kept silent like Tao Qian.

Qingzhou Mu Cao Cao, like Tao Qian and Shi Xie, did not express any opinions of his own.

Facing the disputes in the court, he kept silent all the time, and he did it quite decisively, and thanked the guests behind closed doors. The reasons he used were either inspecting the military camp or inspecting the counties.

Anyway, the powerful lobbyists of the Qingzhou aristocratic family can't see their state shepherd.

So a strange thing happened, and many ministers in the court objected.

But among the state pastors who hold the real power, three of them stood up for it, and the three of them remained silent, and none of them expressed any objection.

In order to change the law, Liu Xie appointed many ministers who fled from Sili. The reform did not cause too much damage to the interests of these people, and even benefited them. Therefore, these ministers are the backbone of the reform.

Liu Xie personally stepped down to carry out reforms, and issued an edict, saying that when the country is already alive and dead, extraordinary laws should be implemented at extraordinary times.

The implementation of the reform should have been a dispute between the ministers, but the emperor himself was a little helpless.

During the reforms of various countries in the past dynasties, the monarch did not end up on his own because there were many reasons to consider.

If the monarch implements reforms by himself, it is easy to intensify conflicts in many cases.

The reform will definitely touch the interests of the conservatives. If the ministers are allowed to implement the reform, there is still room for buffering.

But if the monarch ends up in person, it may be that the tip of the needle is facing the wheat, causing the expansion of the contradiction.

There is also the issue of the loss of prestige after the failure of the reform, not to mention the issue of the former and the later. It is hard to say whether it is possible to preserve itself.

Faced with raging anger, the worst case may even provoke a rebellion and a coup d'état, and it will be difficult to end.

However, the current situation is that Liu Xie personally went off to implement the reform, and he didn't care about the fame before and after, and he didn't care about the failure.

If the law does not change, according to the current process, the day when the Ming army marches south will be the day when it will be destroyed.

The reform was successful, and the Han Dynasty still had a glimmer of life.

Liu Xie did not fail to play the cards according to the routine, and indeed caught all the powerful families by surprise, which also accelerated the process of reform a lot.

Ming Ting's threats, Liu Xie's personal end, the strength of the reform faction in the DPRK and China,

The reforms are constantly advancing. After the conservatives in the Han court have retreated steadily, this time when it comes to fundamental interests, they finally no longer back down.

The court has been arguing for half a month because of this matter, but there is no result.

Conservatives don't want to make concessions, because they know very well that once the opening is opened, it will be like opening Pandora's box, and these so-called regulations implemented during special periods will become routine.

After all, the reformists are all from aristocratic families. Although they are on the side of the reform for some reason, the reform this time seems to be too radical.

The tax increase this time is really a bit heavy. The tax is collected according to the amount of land, which greatly increases the land tax.

If this reform is successfully implemented, they will lose a lot of benefits every year, which is unacceptable to them.

Even if the threat of Ming Ting is close at hand and they may go south at any time, the conservatives still resist the reform.

The Ming court did not mobilize troops for a long time, which caused other voices to appear in the Han court.

Some people think that the Ming army will not have the ability to go south for at least a few years in the short term, so they chose to rule by temporarily paddling the river.

Except for the Ming army's attack on Jingzhou last year when the Battle of Weijun, that is, when the Battle of Fanyang just broke out, there was no follow-up attack.

After the Battle of Fanyang, the Ming army built a line of defense on the north bank of the Yellow River and stationed there, and then focused on Hebei, without any intention of going south.

From May of the sixth year of Chuping to October of the first year of Zhangwu, in more than a year, the Ming army did not even go south to harass them once.

The information announcement sent by the embroidered clothes envoy shows that the Ming army seems to be fighting the nomadic tribes in the northern grasslands, and has also established three provinces in northern Xinjiang.

The Southern Border and the Western Regions of the Ming Dynasty were not peaceful, and both the Southern Border and the Western Regions were engaged in a war. At the beginning of the year, the Ming Court officially declared war on the two countries of Yilou and Woju in the northeast, and recruited Goguryeo and Puyu. armies to fight together.

Newspapers in Youzhou have been publishing news about the recruitment of crew and sailors for several months. It seems that the recruits are all ocean-going sailors, and their goal seems to be the Wa country in the east.

In the second year of Emperor Guangwu Jianwu Zhongyuan, the Japanese envoys came to Han to worship, and Emperor Guangwu bestowed gold seals on the envoys.

Most of the officials in the Han court knew that there was another big island to the east of North Korea, which was where the Wa Kingdom was located, and to get to the Wa Kingdom, one had to travel across the ocean.

This information is very imaginative, it seems that Ming Ting intends to start a war against Wa.

All kinds of signs showed that Ming Ting's focus did not seem to be on them, so many people in Han Ting felt a little lucky.

Some people think that Ming Ting is not as powerful as imagined, but just a strong outside.

Some people think that Ming Ting retreated in the face of difficulties. Seeing the reinforcement of the Yellow River defense line and various passes, it feels tricky and is accumulating strength.

Others believe that although the Ming court was powerful, its forces had to be dispersed due to its expansion and territory expansion, which made it lose its ability to advance and could only maintain this situation.

Anyway, all kinds of voices want to delay the process of the reform and want the reform to be more gentle.

The sky was twilight, and the palace lanterns were still on. Sun Jing stood with her arms tied, examining the standing officials.

The reason why he entered Beijing in response to the edict was firstly because of Sun Jian, and secondly because the country had reached a crisis of survival.

It turned out that when Sun Jian was there, the country didn't really need him.

But now the country had to reform, he decided to accept the imperial edict to support the emperor.

Looking at the officials who were arguing, Sun Jing was silent in her heart. In his opinion, those who were lucky were simply stupid and hopeless.

country, country.

Although there is a family first, and then a country.

However, if the country does not exist, how can the family survive?

Under the nest, have the eggs finished?
If the skin does not exist, how can the hair be attached?
Sun Jing shook her head helplessly, but he saw a familiar yet unfamiliar person in the crowd.

That person was standing beside Liu Chong, and the two seemed to be talking about something at this moment, but they were so far apart that Sun Jing couldn't understand the content of the conversation at all.

　I'm a little busy today, and I have some personal matters to deal with, so there is only one update. I hope you will understand.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)