Dajin royal family

Chapter 549
Because of the expansion of Zhaowang Palace, Taiyuan City has expanded a lot on the original basis. Suzaku Street has replaced several prosperous streets in the past and has become the most "high-standard" street in Taiyuan. This street goes directly to the palace. Yongning on the left The price of land in Hejiafang and Hejiafang on the right soared instantly.

Yongningfang was built together with the Zhaowang Palace. When the Zhaowang Palace was completed, many mansions were built here, the specifications were roughly the same, and they were essentially "official residences". Most of the people who can live in Yongningfang are It was a group of generals who followed Jiang Chengxiao, and Jiang Chengxiao rewarded them with mansions.

Although the mansion in Yongning Fang is not large and not luxurious, it is very particular about its status.Those who can live here are important officials in the court, and ordinary small officials are not qualified to live here.

People in Taiyuan, who knew the inside story, jokingly called Yongningfang "Jiangjunfang" and "Xianguifang".

Compared with Yongningfang, it is different from Jiafang. This is the land that Jiang Chengxiao deliberately let out for the people below to eat.

The Ministry of Industry always needs money, raw materials, and labor to build the Zhaowang Palace. If the court pays for all these, it will be a considerable expense.The land of Hejiafang is the sweetness that the imperial court gave to those merchants, and let them buy land here to earn money.

The price is very simple, [-]% of the materials for the construction of the palace are provided by merchants.This can be regarded as an old rule of inheritance, but in all the large projects of the imperial court, it is inevitable to deal with merchants and let merchants bleed at the same time.

disagree?
That's impossible, there is no merchant who can't get through with money, let alone dare to fight against the court.In other words, you should feel at ease if you can let the imperial court do bloodletting for you, otherwise the imperial court will just find a reason to copy you, that would be real 'bloodletting'.

Therefore, after King Zhao moved into the palace, the land price of Hejiafang soared hundreds of times in an instant.

Who wouldn't want to live closer to the center of power?
Who wouldn't want to go to Yongningfang to meet one or two dignitaries when they have time or not?

Unlike Jiafang, which is to some extent a residence bought by officials, Yongningfang is different from it. It is all owned by King Zhao, and only King Zhao is eligible to allocate it.

Duguzheng, Dou Wei and other Guanzhong aristocrats who were beaten as civilians with the title of "Doctor Yinqing Guanglu" on their heads, had just arrived, so they had to buy a house in Hejiafang with their own money.

At this moment, in Dugu's mansion, a group of nobles from Guanzhong took advantage of the opportunity of visiting at the end of the year to gather in Duguzhen's study to discuss their future.

what future?
Naturally it is status!
Although King Zhao took their land, he didn't touch the money they had accumulated for hundreds of years, which was considered a way out for them.

However, supporting Wei Hong and Li Yuan these years, in fact, their fund consumption is a bit painful for them.

After coming to Taiyuan, no one has no land and no shops, so I can only grit my teeth and eat my money.

They gritted their teeth and passed on their laurels. After all, their laurels were enough for them to eat for hundreds of years, but the problem was that they were unwilling to lose their status.

In the past, they were all-powerful Guanzhong nobles, dignitaries with power in their hands.Following the defeat of Li Yuan and Wei Hong, they were slapped by Jiang Chengxiao and turned into civilians.

If you can't return to the noble class, and don't have the status of nobles in the court, the family is doomed to gradually decline in the future, and even become mud legs and merchants.

This is unacceptable to them!
Thirty percent of the nobles in Guanzhong who surrendered to the Northern Jin Dynasty, the Dugu family and the Dou family belong to the first class of power, the Yuan family, Chen family, Mo family, and Zhao family are in the second class of power, and the remaining small fish and shrimps are all attached to the The men of the six families discuss life.

Dugu scanned the twenty or so patriarchs kneeling in the study, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

I think back then, when they were at their peak, the Dugu family, the Dou family, the Wei family, the Yuwen family, the Li family, the Hou family, the Yu family, etc., which one was taken out was not rich and powerful, and the power was overwhelming.

The world changed, and the Wei family rebelled and was knocked down.Li Yuan was defeated, and the Li family in Longxi was uprooted by the imperial court.Needless to say, Yuwen's family, if that bastard Yuwenshu could have been with them back then, he wouldn't have come to this point.

Thinking of this, Duguzhen felt a little guilty. If he had had a good talk with the Wei family back then, he would never have ended up like this now.

"Everyone, it's been a long time since we got together like this." Dugu forced a smile on his old face, feeling lonely and frustrated.

According to the current general trend of the world, they still lost to the Jiang family.

They escaped from the hands of Emperor Wu and dug out the roots of Emperor Li, but they didn't expect to have King Zhao.

King Zhao, who was dubbed "dog son", "medicine jar" and "short-lived man" by the powerful when he was young, slapped them to death without giving them a chance to react.

"Three or four years." The head of the Yuan family, Yuan Xin, sighed.

After Li Yuan, Wei Hong, Yu Binghong and others rebelled, the power of the Guanzhong nobles was cut into several parts.

Half support Li Yuan, the remaining [-]% support Wei Hong, [-]% support Yu Binghong, and the remaining [-]% are neutral.

With their successive defeats, the power of the Guanzhong nobles was consumed, but this was not a fatal blow.

The Weihe massacre was the deadliest.

Most of the [-]% of the nobles in Guanzhong are neutral. They haven't decided whether to surrender or not, or they are trying to bargain with the Northern Jin Dynasty.

But Jiang Chengxiao didn't give them a chance, and directly cut them across the board after entering the city.

The Patriarch of the Chen family supported Wei Hong. After Li Yuan defeated Wei Hong, he did nothing to them who were also nobles in Guanzhong. Later, he followed the Dugu family and surrendered to the Northern Jin Dynasty.

"Everyone, we don't have time to reminisce about the past, let alone look back on the glory of the past. We should think about how to change the current situation." Chen Chaozong, the head of the Chen family, said.

"How to change?" Zhao Changshou, the Patriarch of the Zhao family, said indignantly, "We have been in Taiyuan for more than a month, and we have not been invited by Jiang Chengxiao once. We have lost manpower and land, so what can we use to negotiate with Jiang Chengxiao!"

The thought of the merchant living next door to him made him sick.

"Brother Zhao, be safe and don't be impatient. If getting angry is useful, everyone might as well be angry." The head of the Mo family, Mo Wei, snorted.

"Enough!" Dou Wei yelled angrily, hating Tie Bucheng and said: "Everyone is in such a situation, and you still have the mood to bicker here, why don't we all go back to Guanzhong tomorrow to retire!"

"Ask you again?" Dou Wei sneered at Zhao Changshou: "What qualifications do you have for Jiang Chengxiao to invite you? How do you want to be invited by him? Please put a knife on your neck!"

Hearing this, Zhao Changshou's cheeks twitched, and he had no words to refute.

Dugu rubbed the center of his brows with a headache, until now, there is still no way to unite.

"Everyone, listen to me."

Following Duguzheng's opening, the study room became quiet.

"Everyone must know what happened in Taiyuan recently. On the surface, it was a thorough investigation into the case of officials forced to buy food. In fact, Jiang Chengxiao ordered the liquidation of the officials involved in the case from the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Households. Jiang Chengxiao's sword was really aimed at Who, everyone must know."

"I want to tell everyone that Jiang Chengxiao is different from Li Yuan and Wei Hong. This time he dared to clean up the Pei family and the Wang family. It is because he has stabilized the Northern Jin Dynasty and left the Shandong gentry, so he can continue to be strong. go down."

"The hundreds of thousands of troops in the Northern Jin Dynasty were only loyal to Jiang Chengxiao, and the Shandong gentry could only bow their knees in front of him. If he dared to attack the Shandong gentry, he would naturally dare to attack us. Even if he finds any reason, the Shandong gentry will first We tear it apart. You all know that Shandong gentry are the biggest opponents of what we want to do."

"Mr. Dugu, what should we do then?" Mo Wei asked.

"But you don't have to worry, the more the Shandong gentry opposes our entry into the dynasty, the more Jiang Chengxiao will find a way to use us to deal with the Shandong gentry. He wants to pacify the world, it is impossible not to use us!" Duguzheng said confidently.

"Then why hasn't he seen us yet?" Zhao Changshou asked.

The corner of Dugu's mouth twitched, "We're going to enter the imperial court, so naturally he has to find a way to clear his place, don't you see?"

Hearing this, everyone's faces immediately became happy.

Dou Wei even admired secretly in his heart, Duguzheng was still very scheming after all, if he hadn't pushed that incident secretly, how could he have caused a lot of trouble in the city.

He had already guessed that Jiang Chengxiao would do this.

Duguzheng continued: "I guess, Jiang Chengxiao should see us soon, but I want to tell everyone, we can't hold it now!"

Everyone shuddered and looked at Duguzheng in puzzlement.

He sighed: "Man is a knife, we are fish. We have to let go of our past glory. I hope that from now on, everyone will not call King Zhao by his name in private. Do you understand?"

Hearing this, everyone knew clearly that Duguzheng was telling them that from now on, they must be loyal to Jiang Chengxiao and not make petty moves in private.

(End of this chapter)