I am the king of the dead

"Husband, why hasn't the Ming army arrived in Samarkand yet?" Ashinayi asked the question he had always wanted to ask. Ashinayi didn't understand Turkic Teqin Ashinahehuo's daughter when she was a child. Study sinology.

When she was a child, Ashinayi's grandfather kept saying that when Daming was coming, he would tell her about the nine surnames of Zhaowu in the Tang Dynasty, and about the past of the Western Regions Governor's Mansion, which was the Persian Governor's Mansion.

As a secret agent, Ashina Hehuo also often looked towards the east. In their view, Ming Dynasty and Tang Dynasty should be the same. When they were at their peak, the Western Regions would inevitably be reopened.

The Turkic people, especially the Turkic people with the nine surnames of Zhaowu back then, their culture is incompatible with the Uzis, Persians, and Huis who advocate Sharia law.

Just from the naming method of the name, there is a big difference.

Ashinayi and Ashinahehuo, their surnames come first and last, and their names are not mixed with so many strange words, such as stones, trees, true meaning, and so on.

As the old people die from generation to generation, the stories passed down by word of mouth will change in the end, and until the end, no one will remember these stories.

Wang Fu's expression became complicated. Ashinayi asked why Daming hadn't reopened the Western Regions, not when Daming would reopen the Western Regions.

Ashinayi's question seems to be asking when the Han Dynasty began to lose its pioneering spirit.

In the minds of Turkic people like the Ashina clan, Daming would probably never come to Samarkand, let alone become king here, because the Han people hadn't re-opened the Western Regions for a long, long time.

Wang Fu said helplessly: "Actually, the reasons are very simple. There are only three reasons. The first one is to recite scriptures, the second one is to collect rent, and the third one is to release usury."

Ashinayi didn't understand, she was quite surprised and asked: "Are there a lot of Han people who read scriptures? Didn't it mean that scholar-bureaucrats are always talking about their own words and not talking?"

Wang Fuman said with a smile: "What the scholars and bureaucrats recite is not Buddhist scriptures, but Confucian scriptures, just like your sentence, if you don't talk about strange powers, you just recite scriptures."

"Because of the three generations of advocating the ancient law, the Confucian classics more than 2000 years ago are no longer suitable for the current Ming Dynasty, but the scholar-bureaucrats still hold on to the Confucian classics that should have been buried long ago."

"It can't solve the problem, and I still recite it every day. The Buddha will not save people who have no fate. Fortunately, Daming has now recited the scriptures of Emperor Zhenwu. From the current point of view, this scripture can still be recited for a long time."

Wang Fu tried his best to explain it in words that Ashinayi could understand, because chanting scriptures is widespread in the Western Regions.

For example, the Tubo Dynasty, the lifelong enemy of the Tang Dynasty, the Xueyu Empire, and heavy cavalry are invincible. The former Tubo Dynasty broke through Chang'an!

In the first year of Zong Guangde in the Tang Dynasty, shortly after the Anshi Rebellion, the national power was empty, the new emperor ascended the throne, and he had no prestige. When the power in Chang'an was being handed over, Tubo sent 20 troops to break through the Dazhen Pass, and successively broke through Lan, Kuo, He, and Shan. , Tao, Min, Qin, Cheng, Wei and other states, and took Hexi, Longyou and other places, and finally broke through Chang'an.

The Tubo soldiers plundered Chang'an's treasury and city, burned their houses, and Chang'an was desolately empty. They also plundered the city's sergeants, women, and workers, and returned to the country.

Tang Daizong used the veteran Guo Ziyi. At the age of 67, Guo Ziyi regained Chang'an again, abolished the false emperor Li Chenghong established by Tubo, and welcomed Tang Daizong back.

Why did the Tubo Dynasty decline, so far it can no longer be aggressive in the Western Regions?
Chanting.

Learning from the Hui people's integration of government affairs and religion, they glued government officials, affairs officials and religion together, and then formed serfdom, and eventually abolished martial arts, and they no longer have the ability to run rampant in the Western Regions.

Tubo recited Buddhist scriptures, Ming Dynasty recited Confucian scriptures, and the Golden Horde Khanate, Timur Khanate, and Eastern Chagatai Khanate recited the Koran.

As long as you start chanting sutras and chatting endlessly, you will fall into an endless loop of debating sutras.

Ashinayi understood the specific meaning of the chanting, and she asked curiously, "What about rent collection?"

Wang Fu thought for a while and said: "It's easy to collect rent. For example, when you slaughter the sheep that your family grazes, I will take two-thirds of them as special service, Etuoke, and Taiji. Would you like it?" ?”

"Of course I don't like it." Ashinayi shook his head violently and said, two-thirds, even if he took away the sheep dung, Ashinayi had to think about whether to draw his sword to face each other.

This is also the reason why many powerful people in the Kang Kingdom supported Wang Fu. In the past, if they wanted to collect rent, they could only rely on robbing. The big tribes robbed the small tribes, and the small tribes robbed the small households.

But after Wang Fu came, the elites didn't have to rob, and they could get more high taxes than in the past, so they naturally supported it.

Wang Fu smiled and continued to ask: "But Teqin, Etuoke, and Taiji have bows and crossbows in their hands, and you are unarmed, should you give them or not?"

Ashinayi said suspiciously: "I still have to give it to survive, but isn't this robbery? As a kingdom of heaven and a state of etiquette, would Daming allow robbery?"

Wang Fu continued to say with a sense of loss: "Yes, it is robbing, using a cover-up to set up a name, using the method of chanting sutras, to argue for this clever name, and telling the people, rob your food, rob your women, rob your money. Money is reasonable, not only reasonable, but you also need to be grateful to Dade."

"However, it is obvious that it can be robbed, so why not know how to rob it, but still chant scriptures?"

Wang Fu was a little disappointed. The basic logic of rent collection was that the means of production were highly concentrated and privatized, which led to the people’s livelihood being displaced. Often this time was the time when the centripetal force of the Central Plains dynasty was weakest.

The most typical ones are the Kaiyuan years of the Splendid Tang Dynasty where Du Fu lived and the Tianbao years when cruel officials were everywhere arresting people at night. After the Anshi Rebellion, the people were devastated.
The abolition of the Fubing system means that the land equalization system is completely bankrupt, and the widespread land annexation leads to refugees everywhere.

When the flags of An Lushan and Shi Siming were raised, there were bandits everywhere in the Tang Dynasty. After the Anshi Rebellion was quelled in the Tang Dynasty, the Jiedushi began to support their own troops, and the situation of the separatism of the feudal towns was formally formed.

Was it the ambitions of An Lushan and Shi Siming that led to the separatism of the Tang Dynasty?
An Lushan, Shi Siming, He De and He Neng were able to overthrow the Tang Dynasty.

It was Datang himself who abolished martial arts, abolished the mansion and soldiers to equalize the land, and no longer suppressed mergers. The land, the largest means of production, is rapidly concentrating, refugees are everywhere, and people's livelihood is sighing. In the hands of extravagant families, it finally led to the chaos of the separatist rule of the feudal town.

This is the evil result of [rent collection]. Wang Fu can understand why His Majesty refuses to let Daming's wealthy households collect rent. While Wang Fu highly supports His Majesty's decision, he is also following in His Majesty's footsteps in Samarkand. .

Wang Fu always remembered that he was a courtier of Ming Dynasty, but he never mentioned it to anyone.

When Ashinayi heard her husband's question, she also asked in puzzlement: "Yes, they can obviously grab it, so why make up a reason?"

Wang Fu stroked Ashinayi's hair and said, "Because those who can only rob will lose their fortunes, lending loan sharks can make people heavily in debt."

"This is the third thing I want to talk about. Putting loan sharks is like rolling a donkey. If you pay three cents, you will not only go bankrupt, but you will also have to work to pay back the money in the future."

"It's a matter of course to pay off debts. This is the reason for the unknown robbery. There are not as many cheaters as there are obvious robberies."

Wang Fu explained the reason why Ming Dynasty did not come to Samarkand for a long time. His Majesty the Emperor of Ming Dynasty is using the "Zhenwu Jing" to solve or alleviate these three fatal ills. Open the Western Regions.

The reopening of the Western Regions is a symbol of Ming's pioneering recovery, the starting point for Ming to set sail again, and the key to Ming's greatness again. It is by no means as simple as occupying one city and one place.

The three major ills that Zhenwujing needs to solve: chanting scriptures, making a big deal of political correctness without reforming the past; Respite.

Whether the ship of Ming Dynasty can turn around successfully depends not only on whether His Majesty, the captain, has issued this order, but also depends on the monarch, ministers, and people.
"Kang Guogong! He Shuo brought a lot of cowardly Xue Jun to the Advisory Courtyard!" A pier Yuanhou rushed in outside the door, and said in a panic.

Wang Fu frowned and said, "I ordered you to marquis the mountain for Samarkand. From today on, all the marquises of Samarkand will be at your command, and immediately arrange that all nights will not be hidden, not publicized, not allowed to wait." rescue."

"If there is a change, retreat immediately!"

The marquis of Yuantai Yuan shouted in horror: "Duke Kang, aren't you going to rescue you?!"

Wang Fu said without fear: "A military order is like a mountain, and those who disobey it will be killed! Take Ashinayi and Wang Yongzhen first."

"Yes!" Although the puppet Yuanhou was not happy, he still resolutely carried out the order.

The Yuanhou of the pier tower are responsible for catching students, sentry reports, guarding the sentry posts, supervising sentry posts, claw detection, report reports, messengers, pier platforms, sitting ponds, calling the police, and leaving the mountains. Liaoshan is the person in charge of not accepting at night. .

Wang Fu keenly sensed that something was abnormal, so he began to arrange funeral affairs.

Some of the documents in the Advisory Courtyard were taken away by the evacuated Ye Bushou, but Wang Fu opened the gate of the Advisory Councilary Courtyard by himself, sat alone in the lobby, stared at the dome without saying a word.

He Shuo brought more than a hundred cowardly men to the Advisory Courtyard, and shouted to Wang Fu who was sitting in the hall: "By the king's order! Search the Advisory Courtyard and Kang Guogong's mansion, and immediately arrest King Kang and bring him back to the case." On trial!"

Wang Fu stood up and looked around. It has been seven years since he entered the west. He was in this small courtyard, watching Kang Guo grow from nothing, and finally came to this time.

"Thanks to the king for not giving me a glass of poisoned wine to send me on the road, take it." Wang Fu stretched out his hand, signaling the cowardly Xue Dahan to put on the shackles.

Wang Fu did not choose to resist, because Daming had just stationed troops in Luntai City, and the reopening of the Western Regions was progressing steadily. Once Wang Fu rebelled, it was likely to disrupt Daming's pace of reopening the Western Regions.

Between his own life and Daming's interests, Wang Fu chose the latter. This is the fate of being a pier and Yuanhou who will not be accepted at night. Wang Fu already had this awareness when he joined the pier's Yuanhou. .

The cowardly men of the Xue Army began to search the Advisory Courtyard without squinting. After finishing everything in an orderly manner, the large boxes were moved out of the Advisory Courtyard.

Wang Fu raised his hand and blinked. He noticed some abnormalities. These cowardly Xue Jun strong men came here without shackles at all, and the search was not like rummaging through boxes and cabinets, but putting them into boxes by category and starting to load the cars.

It is not so much a copying, it is better to say that it is moving.

Is there such a gentle person who copied the house?
"Xie Kang Guogong, please, Kang Guogong!" He Shuo led Wang Fu into the car, which was indeed a prison car.

He Shuo said in a very low voice and very fast: "You have wronged Duke Kang, don't blame Duke Kang."

Wang Fuman was puzzled and boarded the prison cart. The prison cart was very well made and exquisite. With his head exposed, he could just see the surroundings. There was a cushion on the neck of the prison cart, so there was nothing uncomfortable about it. .

"Heshuo Wanhu, where are we going!" Wang Fu asked loudly.

He Shuo got on his horse and shouted loudly: "Walk the street, and then send Kang Guogong to the cell!"

He flicked his horsewhip and shouted loudly, "Go!"

Wang Fu was arrested!
Under the deliberate intention of the Xue army, the news immediately spread throughout Samarkand as if it had grown wings. Wherever the car that imprisoned Wang Fu went, it was full of civilians, with fear in their eyes, not knowing what to do. Well, I can only kneel on the ground and kowtow non-stop.

It was the first time for Wang Fu to parade through the streets from this perspective, and it was a novelty, but he could only shake his head when he saw the people who went out of business to see him off.

Samarkand is the only way to go on the road of business. It has been delayed for so long, and I don't know how much business will be delayed.

The common people followed Wang Fu's prison cart to the halfway up the mountain in the east city. Only then did the cowardly soldiers set up a fence and the crossbow was pushed out, preventing the excited common people from going up the mountain.

"Is this a prison cell?" Wang Fu asked in a daze as he stood on the prison van and looked at the rather magnificent castle in front of him.

Of course he knew where this was and this place was renovated by him. Wang Fu was sure that the castle was not a prison cell.

He Shuo pointed to the two big characters at the entrance of the castle and said, "Isn't it? Isn't it written? Prison room, are these two characters spelled wrong?"

"The words are correct." Wang Fu shook his head.

The castle's moat alone is more than four feet long. The city wall has three floors, and there are many turrets on it. The top of the city wall is full of ballistas. Behind the city gate, there is a straight road leading to the white buildings in the middle.

On both sides of the avenue, there are green trees and luxuriant grass, and there are two lakes with flowing water flowing quietly. In the lake water, there are rockery piled up with Taihu Lake stones on the left and right, and the flowing water is gurgling.

You must know that in Samarkand, wasting water is an extremely shameful act.

What is out of place with this castle is that the word 'prison' is written on the gate of the castle.

This is the castle of Shahru, the fourth son of Timur. Among the more than 30 castles in Samarkand, it is the best castle except Lan Palace.

After Wala captured Samarkand, the castle has been under renovation. It was originally intended for Yexian's eldest son Bo Luo, but Bo Luo died early, and the castle has been under repair.

Until today, it has become Wang Fu's 'cell'.

Wang Fu got out of the prison cart, got on his horse, and rode along the avenue towards the cell.

The stone castle built along the mountain has a new look and shines in the sun.

"The wall of the Sanzhangfang is the newly built counselor's compound, and Xue Jun will move the documents there later." He Shuolema pointed his whip at the newly completed house behind the thick square wall. .

The square wall separates the internal and external layout of this "prison room". The inside is Kang Guogong's mansion, and the outside is the government affairs compound and the auditorium of the Advisory Council.

Wang Fu got off his horse, grabbed the whip and said, "This cell is a bit unique."