The First Auxiliary Road from the Imperial Examination

"In the past year, the capital seems to have gained a lot of new vibes." Sheng Xin said hello, and then asked the servant to run errands to reward money, then took a sip of tea, and slowly sighed.

"That's not it!" Sheng Yuan clapped and nodded while lying on the railing, and was about to count the recent changes in Kyoto, but found that there seemed to be a familiar figure among the jugglers.

Hearing her "Hey", Sheng Xin walked over curiously: "What's wrong?"

"I saw someone familiar!"

She pointed to the young man in brocade clothes who threw the purse into the reward plate, and introduced it to her brother: "Here, it's him, Yang Pangui, the only son of Lord Protector."

Sheng Xin listened and looked down curiously.

But I saw the young man my sister mentioned, just after giving the reward, he walked out of the crowd with a fan, and he didn't miss it at all.

"The shot is quite generous, but he doesn't seem to like to watch it much."

"This is called generous?" Sheng Yuan thought about the size of the purse, and thought that it contained at most a dozen taels of silver.

"A dozen taels is not much? It's enough for ordinary people in the suburbs of Beijing to chew for a year!" Sheng Xin shook her head and tapped her head lightly, "Don't you always laugh at your classmates why they don't eat minced meat? Come."

He knew that his sister's small coffers were extremely rich.

Don't talk about the profits of her own Zhuangzi shop, just talk about the rewards from the palace and the good things from the old man.

Since she was a child, she played with a slingshot with pearls and with a gemstone, and was good at eating and using everything; the loose silver she could use every year was as much as thousands of taels; she naturally didn't think it was so generous to reward a dozen or so taels .

"Brother criticizes me, but also according to the context! The one I'm talking about comes from the Duke Huguo's mansion that has been handed down from Chen Chaoyan to the present!" Sheng Yuan felt that he was seeking truth from facts, "Their family was a prominent local family in the Yan Dynasty. In the Chen Dynasty, there was another rich and wealthy aunt who was good at business affairs.

The aunt returned to Ning because she had no heirs, and since then she has lived in Duke Huguo's mansion, and the huge wealth will naturally belong to the mansion.There are rumors that with such wealth, it is not a problem to support his family for more than ten generations.

As far as Da Chu, their family came out of the Yuan Dynasty, the emperor loved Wu Jiwu, and he was very kind to him, and he has always rewarded him constantly.Everyone said that the Duke Huguo's mansion is the richest in Xungui in Beijing!
This Yang Pangui is the only son of the Duke's mansion, so it is not unusual for him to be rich.But his little reward is really nothing compared to the dandy who often throws gold and silver in the theater! "

Seeing her plausible words, Sheng Xin couldn't help nodding: "You're right to say that, but the question is...how did you inquire about other people's affairs so clearly?"

Sheng Yuan immediately raised his head proudly: "This is called professionalism! Since I aspire to be in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, I must practice the ability to censor rumors early."

"..." Does the censor need such ability?Isn't this the ability that an introvert should have? !

Sheng Xin was about to tease her a few words, when he heard a burst of lively music and cheers outside again.

The siblings immediately stretched their necks together.

On the main street outside, there is a group of dancers coming from a distance, dancing gracefully.

These dancers have shining veils, bracelets with bells, and sparkling gems inlaid with danko.

They either hold the lute and yueqin, or hold the zither and harp, or play the bamboo flute, or play the shakuhachi jade flute, or dance the tambourine and ring the bell, or dial the big ruan and the small ruan.

The sounds of different styles of music hovered over the capital like flying phoenixes, attracting passers-by on the street to gradually pile up into a wall to watch.

"Here's another band?" Sheng Yuan stood on tiptoe to look over, only to feel that the team was mighty, and couldn't help but marvel, "I've never seen such a bustling scene in Kyoto."

"Me too!"

The siblings looked at each other, they were extremely curious.

When they got home and introduced it to their parents, the siblings were greeted with their father's ridicule.

"You two brothers, one of you claims to be well-informed, and the other often goes in and out of the palace, but you don't know that this year is the year of returning to the feudal clan? Before the Mid-Autumn Festival, the prince and princess of the feudal clan will return to Beijing for permanent residence, and the prince and princess will return to the feudal clan. It has been sealed for nearly [-] years, and when I return, I will try my best to show my achievements."

Hearing what his father said, Sheng Yuan remembered the relevant knowledge.

Since Emperor Chengyuan ascended the throne, he regarded the vassal strategy carried forward by the Yan and Chen dynasties as a serious problem.

It took him nearly [-] years of work, through various operations, to integrate more than a dozen pieces of feudal land into five pieces.Among them, he gave two pieces to his underage son, and the other three pieces were given to the king with a foreign surname who joined him and was still loyal.

Afterwards, he bestowed fiefdoms on the princesses who had personally taught them to become talents, and then married them in the name of conferring them.

And these three princesses lived up to the teachings of Emperor Chengyuan. After giving birth to the heir to the palace, they began their step-by-step road to power.

It is said that before she was born, these princesses controlled the three major domains.

"After the return of the feudal land to the court, the prince, the princess, and the sons born to the princess will only have food and no seal." Third Master Sheng said, looking at the brothers and sisters, "In the future, there will be more dignitaries in the capital. Many, you like to play outside, so don't provoke them casually."

"When the vassal king returns, will he be hereditary?" Sheng Xin joked casually.

"Otherwise, why do you think the Zheng, Cheng, and Luo families acquiesced to the princess taking power?" Sheng Xiangxun asked, "Each of them may have one or two more princes."

"Although the Duke and Earl ranks are high, they are worthless if they are too many." Sheng Yuan had a feeling that Emperor Cheng Yuan felt that there were too many nobles, and wanted to reduce the gold content of the nobles through the number, and then look for opportunities Please wave!
Of course, the task should probably be left to the prince.

"It's worthless." Sheng Xiangxun nodded in agreement, "Now only the title and no real job are not allowed to go to court or listen to politics. Even if a child joins the army, he has to start as a soldier.

Usually the salary is only a little, and everyone is not allowed to do business, and the only special treatment is to directly recruit places for studying.

If things go on like this, the few hereditary and irreplaceable families may still be able to maintain their facades, but the rest may disappear after a few generations. "

"As soon as you go down, you will naturally have to go up. The imperial court allocates so much salary to the nobles every year. It may not be enough for each mansion to cover the expenses of a house, but it is a heavy burden for the imperial court. There are also land issues that cannot be ignored.

Nobility, aristocratic families, and powerful officials are all keen to annex the land. For a long time, the land is scarce, and the people have no land to grow, and they are afraid that troubles will arise. "

When Sheng Yuan said this, Sheng Xin and Sheng Xiangxun couldn't help looking at her in surprise.

"Little sister, you really don't avoid relatives. We come from the public house, and the grandfather's family is a family... You don't want to use the honorable family to take the knife!"

Since ancient times, imperial power and aristocratic families have been playing games, during which the old aristocratic families fell down, and new aristocratic families rose again, and it went round and round without stopping.

Sheng Xin doesn't think that the younger sister's thinking is wrong, but the problem is that since ancient times, there are very few ministers who are in the early days, let alone a girl?

"Whoever said that relatives should be used for surgery, we can think of a way to benefit others and ourselves, so that those nobles who are gradually dying can be active."

Sheng Yuan rolled his eyes, and another idea came to his mind.