Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 171

Founded two years
General Wang Hongnian, the great Sima, publicly accused Prime Minister Kuang Heng of colluding with Shi Xian, harming the court, embezzling and accepting bribes, heinous.

In order to protect themselves, Kuang Heng's subordinate officials handed over the evidence of Kuang Heng's corruption and bribery.

Scholars also attacked Kuang Heng one after another, demanding that the imperial court cut Kuang Heng to serve as an example to others, and return the world to a bright future.

In the end, Prime Minister Kuang Heng was beheaded, and Wang Tong, grandson of Wang Hongyin and eldest son of Wang Fengbang, became prime minister.

At the same time, the censor voluntarily resigned from his old age and returned to his hometown very wisely, and Wang Bao, the grandson of Wang Ling and Wang Fengshang's son, served as the censor.

In addition, Wang Hongyin, the prefect of Liaodong, passed away last year, and the county magistrates of several counties in Liaodong also died of illness in the past two or three years.

Now that the Wang family is in power, they directly appointed Wang Fengbang, the son of Wang Hongyin, as the prefect of Liaodong, and appointed the children of the four major families in Liaodong as county magistrates.

As for the position of head of the Wang family, it was passed on to Wang Fengbang.

After Wang Fengbang took office as the prefect of Liaodong, he handed over the affairs of Incheon to his eldest son, Wang Xing, and Wang Xing served as the prefect of Mahan and Incheon.

From the seventh generation of the Wang family, women in the Wang family also began to use the character generation, and the character generation is no longer inserted in the middle of the name, but is distinguished by radicals. For example, Wang Tong, the son of Wang Fengbang, and Wang Yan, the daughter of Wang Fengbang, are both single. Next generation.

The fifth generation of Wang Jiahong's descendants, now only Wang Hongnian and Wang Ling are left.

The playful and lustful emperor Liu Ao just wanted to play with his concubines in the harem, and the state affairs were handled by the great general Wang Hongnian alone.

In terms of seniority, Wang Hongnian is equivalent to the uncle of the emperor Liu Ao, who is two generations older than Liu Ao.

Changan
Weiyang Palace

main hall
Da da da--

A small yellow door came and said to the ministers in the hall: "Your Majesty has something to do today. The affairs of the court will be handled by the general. The ministers will discuss state affairs with the general."

"Your Majesty!"

The ministers are already used to it. Since Emperor Liu Ao came to the throne, he has only been in court for the first one or two years. After the eunuch group was overthrown, he stopped going to court at all, and all affairs were handed over to the general.

And the so-called busyness of the emperor Liu Ao was just busy traveling with his concubines.

"Ministers, please play if you have something to do, and leave the court if there is nothing to do." Wang Hongnian said to all the ministers.

"Refugees are everywhere in the counties of the Kanto region. Please allocate 20 million yuan (20 billion) for disaster relief." A minister said.

"Da Sinoong, how much money is left in the treasury this year?" Wang Hongnian asked Da Sinoong, one of the nine ministers.

"There is only 500 million yuan left in the national treasury." Da Si Nong replied truthfully.

"Why so few?" Wang Hongnian frowned.

Disaster relief needs to spend 20 billion yuan a year, but there is only 500 million yuan left in the treasury, and the disaster relief cannot be completed in one year. It would cost at least 100 billion yuan. How can we provide disaster relief with such a small amount of money?How to migrate to farmland?

"Your Majesty spent 7000 million yuan to build the palace, and to increase the salary of the concubines in the palace. An additional 6000 million yuan was spent every year. In the past two years, the Xiqiang rebellion and the suppression of the Western Qiang army cost as much as 2000 million yuan. Last year, it was reduced. Ruixue, His Majesty asked all the counties and states to build auspicious platforms to pray to the heavens, which cost another 3000 million yuan. This year, to pay the officials, another [-] million and [-] million yuan was spent. Moreover, His Majesty's palace has not yet been completed, and it will be continued this year and next year. Xiu, then spend money, probably..."

"Okay, there's no need to say anything."

Seeing that the big sinong was going to settle accounts with the emperor Liu Aoxiu's palace, Wang Hongnian hurriedly stopped him and interrupted the other party directly, so that the emperor would not be unhappy when he knew about it, and asked all the ministers: "Now the disaster relief needs to cost 20 billion yuan. , but there is only 500 million yuan left in the national treasury, everyone, think about how to relieve the disaster this year."

"Should we increase taxes on the common people, and then make the common people suffer more? First collect the disaster relief funds, and wait for the victims to be resettled properly, and then the imperial court will lighten the levies and taxes?" A minister suggested.

"What if this causes a civil uprising?" Another minister said.

"The tax increase by the court is for disaster relief and for the common people in the world. The people should understand the difficulties of the court. If the people don't understand, then it is a rebellion!" The man just now said righteously.

"As long as the benevolent government and moral education are implemented, the victims will not starve to death, and the people will not rebel, and there is no need to waste money from the treasury." An official who was dumbfounded by reading sage books said.

"Send officials to teach the way of saints to the people who have nothing to eat. If the people have saints in their hearts, they will know how to be grateful to the court, so that the problem of refugees and refugees can be solved." Another minister suggested this, and he was very serious when he suggested. , it doesn't seem like you're joking, but you really think so.

"Give the people benevolence and righteousness, and the people will have benevolence and righteousness in their hearts, and the atmosphere of the world will be benevolent and righteous, and there will be no bad things. Give the people money, and the people will tend to benefit, and the atmosphere of the world will be corrupted, and then there will be bad things. Bad situation. So we should not allocate funds for disaster relief, this will corrupt the atmosphere of benevolence and righteousness, and make the people greedy for money and profit."

"We should teach the people and tell them: Therefore, when Heaven will send a great mission to man, he must first suffer from his will, exhaust his muscles and bones, starve his body and skin, empty his body, and disturb his actions. Benefit what you can’t do.”

"In this way, the people will hone their minds in the plight of the famine, and thus become a gentleman with noble morals, and the world will also usher in the rule of the saint king in the period of the three generations of saints in ancient times."

"The world has ushered in the rule of the Holy King, so naturally no people will starve to death. Why do we need to rely on the money in the treasury to lure the people?"

"Yes, yes, sage kings govern the world with benevolence and righteousness. They never need money. They treat money like dung. They are all people with high morals, so the world can be governed well. Now we are here to discuss whether money is enough. Where is the thing that an honest gentleman should do, an honest gentleman should not discuss these money, lest he be confused by the interests of money."

"As long as benevolent government is implemented, the people will not starve to death. This is what a sage should do. Relying on money to do things, what is the difference between this and those corrupt officials? This will make the people of the world cunning, which is not what a sage should do. General, please stop talking about spending money to relieve disasters, it will damage the name of the sage."

Scholars and ministers, when you say something, they are very serious when they speak, and they don't look like they are joking.

Hearing the unnatural remarks of the scholars, the corner of Da Sima General Wang Hongnian's mouth twitched.

Although he is in the same camp as the scholars, he is not yet a fool for reading sage books.

As the saying goes, it is better to have no books than to believe in books.

(End of this chapter)