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

Chapter 407 Three Returns to Jin (Part [-])

Five years later

Yan Hou 66 years (276 years)
Yan Palace
"Jun Hou hasn't shown up for several months, I have something urgent." A minister came to the palace to meet Wang Ba.

However, since Wang Ba was assassinated by an assassin a few months ago, he has not shown up. All the procedures that require the signature and seal of the Marquis of Yan are carried out by Wang Xue, the lord of Sugarcane City and Shang Shuling.

It is equivalent to possessing the power of Marquis Yan, the power of Shang Shuling, and his own territory.

now
Yanhou Palace
"Uh uh uh--"

Wang Ba was sealed in the secret room and had been hungry for a long time.

Life has been full of ups and downs, and I thought that defeating Wang Ting would usher in a bright future.

As a result, the Salt and Iron Conference was only half successful, and was later assassinated by radical "Confucianism" scholars and radical "anti-Confucianism" nobles.

The "Confucian school" resented that his reform of Confucianism was not thorough enough. Confucianization was not absolute, but it was definitely not Confucianization, so they wanted to assassinate him.

Want to have both sides, the result is that both sides are dissatisfied.

Finally, two months ago, he was injured by an assassin and almost died on the spot.

Since then, he has been cultivating in the palace, but the sisters Wang Shuang and Wang Xue wanted to take the opportunity to seize power and put him under house arrest in the deep palace.

At this moment, Wang Ba understood what it means to be a lonely family. When he sits in a high position, he will inevitably face all kinds of intrigues. No one is trustworthy. This is why the people in power in the Central Plains like to call themselves widowed and lonely.

squeak--

The door of the secret room was opened, and a middle-aged woman with a lingering charm walked in. It was Wang Xue.

"Sister Xue, let me live. I can follow the example of the Three Sovereigns and Five Sovereigns. I will give you the seat of Zen. I just want to make me a rich man for the rest of my life." Wang Ba humbly begged his cousin.

The three of them have played with each other since they were young, but now they have come to this point because of the struggle for power.

Seeing Wang Ba's haggard look, Wang Xue said pitifully, "Brother, why don't you agree earlier?"

another month later

Wang Ba abdicated to let the virtuous, and gave up the position of Marquis of Yan to his cousin Wang Xue.

This incident only caused a little commotion in Liaodong, and other places did not pay attention.

The overseas cities don't care who the new Marquis of Yan is, as long as the new Marquis of Yan is still a child of the clan and will not infringe their interests.

People who are going through this now, naturally they would not have imagined that their deeds would become legends hundreds of years later.

Sometimes this is the case. The person concerned does not feel that he is in an era of change. He just feels that what happens every day is not much different from before, and he is living day after day.

This is "just because you are in this mountain, you don't know the true face of Lushan Mountain".

From the perspective of onlookers, people of later generations will feel that this is an era of great changes, but for the people of today, their days every year are not much different from the previous year. Can't feel any changes.

Compared with the abdication of the Marquis of Yan, what people of Yan are more interested in is the legendary story of the Taoyuan guild's "spice riches".

This matter had to be talked about half a year ago, when the Taoyuan Guild took over the overseas land reclamation business of many city lords.

That is to say, the city provides the Taoyuan Guild with population, land reclamation tools, herbs to resist miasma, etc. The Taoyuan Guild will allocate these materials and go to the South China Sea Islands to cultivate plantations. Will be able to receive profit dividends.

In the past, this kind of work was undertaken by the government of the State of Yan. After all, the government of the State of Yan used to have relatively great power to directly allocate various materials, human and financial resources.

But now this kind of thing has become that the government of Yan State opens the way, the guild follows up, and the city owners provide manpower, material and financial resources in the rear. In the end, the government of Yan State can collect taxes on the plantation, the city owner can get the plantation, and the guild can share dividends .

Only the people who have the [Exemption Certificate] can stay in the land of Yan and continue to live, and the rest of the people will be packaged by the city lords and handed over to various guilds.

However, even if you have the [Exemption Levy], you can only guarantee that you will not be forced to relocate, but you cannot guarantee that you will not be relocated. If the family goes bankrupt, is forced to become a refugee, and is finally sold as a slave, then no solution anymore.

The guild autonomous cities are also not stable. Some city owners were unwilling to keep their promises and disbanded the city council. Although some city owners kept their promises, they were unwilling to allow the city council to intervene in the center of power.

Breaking a contract is a very common thing. Wang Ba once promised to give the entire Liaodong to Goguryeo in order to win Goguryeo to support him in the civil war.

But after Wang Ba seized the position of Marquis Yan, he killed those Goguryeo people who followed him in the battle, and refused to hand over Liaodong.

The various contradictory behaviors of the nobles of the Yan Kingdom naturally aroused the resentment of the surrounding forces and the domestic people.

Among the guilds, some Taoyuan guilds are growing after their power is guaranteed, and some are resisting the rule of the aristocracy.

In the process of reclaiming the plantations, the Taoyuan Guild made a lot of money by reselling luxury goods such as spices, which aroused the idea of ​​many poor people in the country of Yan going to the sea to make money.

The atmosphere of extravagance and enjoyment in the Central Plains continued to pervade, and the demand for luxury goods by the gentry was unprecedentedly huge.

Coupled with Sima Yan's national policy of recuperation, the economy of the Central Plains gradually recovered. Those cities that were destroyed in the late Han Dynasty were repaired again, and the originally withered urban economy began to sprout again.

For now, Sima Yan can be regarded as a wise monarch. In the past few years in power, he first further abolished the local counties and counties. On average, a county has only [-] soldiers. In the Yuan Zhao period, due to frequent wars, even though the population was smaller, the number of soldiers in the county rose to [-].

Today, in order to save the consumption of the army and save more supplies to support the people, under Sima Yan's vigorous disarmament, each county in the Jin Dynasty has an average of only one hundred county soldiers.

Such a small number of county and county soldiers can only protect the personal safety of the officials, and they can't even wipe out the bandits.

Therefore, the task of exterminating the bandits was completed by the local gentry tyrants, and the local gentry relied on their own servants to resist the bandits and bandits.

Not only the county and county soldiers were abolished, but even the standing soldiers were abolished. During the Yuan Zhao period, there were hundreds of thousands of troops at every turn.

Under Sima Yan's national policy of recuperation and rest, the Jin Dynasty had only [-] standing soldiers and only [-] imperial guards.

The total strength of the entire empire is only 13.

The rations saved by the abolition of the army were given to pregnant women by the Jin court.

In order to encourage childbearing, Sima Yan ordered that all pregnant women can go to the local government to receive a ration of five buckets of rice for free every month. At the same time, during pregnancy, husbands can be exempted from taxes, so that husbands can take care of their wives with peace of mind.

At the same time, in order to encourage the people to have more children, Sima Yan changed the tax collection model.

In the past, the poll tax was collected on the basis of Ding, and the so-called Ding refers to adult males.

Sima Yan changed the taxation model from male taxation in the Han Dynasty to combined household taxation.

That is, when a family has a male, a male tax is charged.

When a family has two males, the first male receives one male tax, and the second male only receives one-half of the male tax.

When there are three males in a family, the first male receives one male tax, the second male only receives one half of the male tax, and the third male only receives one quarter of the male tax.

By analogy, the fourth male only receives one-eighth of the male tax, the fifth male only receives one-sixteenth of the female tax, and no tax is collected from the sixth male.

Under such a tax system, the more children are born, the less tax each family member pays on average, so the people in the Jin Dynasty were very motivated to give birth.

The people of the Central Plains have suffered 100 years of war since the end of the Han Dynasty, and the population has decreased too much. That's why the rulers at the end of the Han Dynasty wished that the people would die quickly, so as to reduce the pressure on the population. However, Sima Yan, the emperor of the Jin Dynasty, formulated various A policy of benefiting the people that encourages the people to have children, so that there will be enough people to farm.

It is rare for the people of the Central Plains to feel a little bit of benevolent government, and finally feel a little alive, and they are no longer the walking dead they used to be.

It's just that no one knows how long the Great Jin Emperor Sima Yan will last in such a state of being a wise monarch. After all, there are many rulers who were formerly bright and then faint.

(End of this chapter)