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

Chapter 272 Wang Situ ([-])
three days later

Luo Yang
General's House
"Isn't it just that the emperor is dead? Just install another weak and sick one who can be controlled."

Hearing that the little emperor Liu Bing, who was only three years old, passed away, the general Liang Ji didn't care at all, he was just a puppet, and he wasn't a nephew. There are a lot of them, just find a weak and sick child to inherit the throne.

"Then which child should we choose to be emperor? It must be the one who is easy to die and will not live to be an adult at first glance, lest the emperor want to regain power when he grows up." Liang Ji's wife, Sun Shou, said that she was right The reason is because several of the previous relatives were purged by the grown-up emperor and eunuchs.

While speaking, she also tried to wear a golden Huotan coat on her body.

But her figure was too sturdy, and this slim golden Huotan suit obviously couldn't fit in it.

This golden Huotan clothing was a gift from the royal family of Liaodong to General Liang Ji. Through a piece of clothing, he got the position of the prefect of Liaodong.

After the death of the previous Liaodong prefect Wang Huang, there was no prefect in Liaodong for nearly a year. The Wang family resolutely gave this gift to the powerful Liang Ji in order to obtain a prefect position.

This Huotan suit was actually made by the Wang family at a cost of [-] million baht, and it was specially worn by Wang Bian.

After Wang Bianxian passed away, this piece of clothing has been treasured by the Wang family in the Holy Pavilion as a sacred relic of the Wang family.

Now it was taken out by the Wang family and given to Liang Ji.

"This dress is too small, you won't be able to fit it in, uh...let's wear it to Nu Ying." Liang Ji shook his head and persuaded.

Nvying is his sister Liang Nvying.

"Hehe...really?" Sun Shou was a little skeptical, because Liang Ji had messed with the late emperor's concubine more than once, and she was worried that Liang Ji would give this dress to that woman.

Since Liu Bao, Emperor Shun of the Han Dynasty, was killed by Wang Yunqi, according to the characteristics of the Han Dynasty, the relatives of the Liang family took power, and the eunuchs retained by Liu were purged.

The characteristics of the Han Dynasty, when the emperor dies, his relatives will take power, and when his relatives take power, they will purge the eunuchs, and by the way, those gentry who refuse to cooperate, and then after a few years or more than ten years, the emperor will grow up and want to be in charge, and he will unite When the new eunuch eradicates the foreign relatives, the eunuch will regain power and launch a big purge of the foreign relatives, and by the way, purge the gentry who refuse to cooperate, and then wait for the emperor to die, the new foreign relatives will take power, and then enter the next mutual purge reincarnation.

After you sing, I will appear on the stage. The big man has formed a perpetual motion machine in which his relatives and eunuchs take turns in power, but no one knows how long this perpetual motion machine can continue to move.

The central court was busy cleaning each other, and had no time or energy to manage the area, which led to the local gentry taking the opportunity to annex the land.

As the gentry annexed the land, the tax revenue of the imperial court became less and less, and the corruption efficiency of eunuchs and foreign relatives became higher and higher.

The income is less than before, but the expenditure is more than before, so the extra shortfall can only be "suffering the people again".

The gentry reduced the court's income through land annexation, and the eunuchs of foreign relatives increased the court's expenditure through corruption. Under the joint action of the three forces, the Han court formed a vicious financial circle.

Because the eunuchs and relatives competed for power and profit, the central power was unstable, and the local gentry took the opportunity to speed up land annexation. Because the gentry accelerated land annexation, the court received less and less tax. Because the court received less and less tax, it could only Increase the degree of exploitation of the common people, use the hard-earned money of the common people to make up for the shortfall of the court, and because the court keeps suffering the common people, more and more common people become bankrupt and refugees, and because of the increase of bankrupt refugees, the gentry We can continue to speed up land annexation, and because the gentry can continue to speed up land annexation, the tax received by the court will be less, so we can only continue to increase the efforts of the suffering people.

In such a vicious cycle, the eunuchs of foreign relatives also acted as catalysts, helping the cycle to complete faster.

To save the big man, it is easy and easy to say, but it is also difficult to say.

It's easy to say because, as long as all the relatives, eunuchs, and nobles are killed, the wealth of the entire world is redistributed, and the fields are redistributed, the big man can be reborn, thus temporarily ending this vicious circle.

It's difficult because no one dares to do such a thing, and no one has the ability to do such a thing. Everyone can only watch the big man continue to collapse in a vicious circle.

Facing this vicious cycle, Wang Yun wants to use his conscience to save the big man, while Liang Ji wants to continue to accelerate the big man's collapse.

When a country starts to go downhill, occasionally there will be one or two sages like Wang Yun who want to brake, but most of the time there can only be accelerators like Liang Ji who slam on the accelerator.

"Since the big man is going to perish sooner or later, then I, Liang Ji, will intensify it and make it perish faster. This is called following the trend and obeying God's will!"

After the foreign relatives general Liang Ji came to power, he openly had bad relations with the favorite concubines of the late emperor Liu Bao, and even impregnated the favorite concubines of the late emperor in the harem.

And don't even bother to cover up when it's embezzled.

When the royal family of Liaodong was corrupt, at least they would find an excuse to "resist Goguryeo".

Liang Ji, the general of foreign relatives, is more honest. He will not make excuses when he is corrupt. He just moves the wealth from the treasury to his home directly in front of everyone. It can be said to be very bold!
And all those who want to be an official, don't look at your background, don't look at whether you understand Confucian classics, just look at how much money you give.

Secretly corrupting, this is something Liang Ji disdains to do.

"Only rotten Confucians like you Liaodong Wang family and Runan Yuan family can stealthily embezzle. My foreign relatives general Liang Ji is upright, so he will only embezzle openly!"

He thinks he is an upright person, so he asks for bribes from people in the world directly and openly: "If you want to be an official, come and give me money. Officials who don't give money, no matter you are Sangong Jiuqing or the prefect. Dismiss!"

This is Liang Ji!

It's so bold!It's so open and aboveboard!There is no cover-up!

Perhaps the simple and honest ones are people like Liang Ji!

For people like Liang Ji, the nobles also have a headache.

There is really no way for people like Liang Ji to cooperate directly, because he is too honest, and he is directly open about corruption, so that others dare not get too close to him, for fear of tarnishing his reputation.

For example, the Liaodong Wang family did not dare to offend Liang Ji, fearing that Liang Ji would perish together with the Wang family, and could not get too close to Liang Ji. After all, we gentry want fame and only secretly find excuses for corruption. Shameless, you can't cooperate with an upright and corrupt person like Liang Ji, otherwise it will tarnish our family's reputation.

Other families, such as the Yuan family in Runan and the Yang family in Hongnong, also love and hate Liang Ji.

However, after much deliberation, the Wang family still gave a gift to General Liang Ji.

Although reputation is important, it is certainly not as important as land acquisition.

This is the key!

Only when a son of the family became the governor of Liaodong, the Wang family could carry out land annexation in Liaodong unscrupulously.

"For the sake of this divine garment, let Wang Yun, a nine-year-old kid from the Wang family of Liaodong, be the prefect of Liaodong, haha!"

Liang Ji took from Sun Shou the Huotan garment worn by Wang Bian, and he loved it very much. It was the first time he had seen this kind of garment that could not be soaked in water or destroyed by fire.

While he was still studying the wonders of Huotan clothing, a close aide brought official documents from the palace.

All affairs of the imperial court were handled by Liang Ji. The emperor was just a puppet, and the three princes had no real power. Situ was only responsible for stamping Liang Ji on him.

Looking at the content in the official document, Liang Ji couldn't help frowning.

"There is a man named Hua Meng in Jiujiang County, Yangzhou who rebelled. How dare he proclaim himself emperor?!"

"There was also a rebellion in Lujiang County, Yangzhou, and the prefect personally led troops to suppress it. As a result, the prefect was killed by the rebels?"

"There is a rebellion in Danyang County, Yangzhou, and the prefect is dead?"

"There is a rebellion in Guangling County, Xuzhou, and three counties have been captured!"

"Okay, a group of unscrupulous people were suppressed before, but now that the emperor died not long ago, they want to take the opportunity to continue to rebel, right?"

Liang Ji blew his beard and stared, these unscrupulous people simply didn't take Liang Ji seriously.

More than ten years ago, Zhang He, a major rebel in Yangzhou, rebelled, with a maximum number of [-] people, but they were all suppressed by the sage Wang Yangming in the end.

"It's easy to break a thief in the mountains, but it's hard to break a thief in the heart!"

After exterminating these common people who rebelled because they couldn't bear the exorbitant taxes, Wang Yangming expressed such a life experience, and then wrote to the imperial court to recuperate Yangzhou and reduce taxes. After that, he was imprisoned by Emperor Liu Bao.

And now, these remnants of Yangzhou rebels, after more than ten years, continue to rebel with the banner of Hongyan Road!
(End of this chapter)