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

Chapter 432 Competing in the Central Plains ([-])

six years later

Autumn of the fifth year of Yanhou 120 (335 years)
Jin Guo
Kuaiji County

鄮县
County Office
A young man in his 30s is practicing calligraphy. His calligraphy is very peaceful and natural, with euphemistic and subtle strokes.

This person is Wang Xizhi, who just took office as the magistrate of Shan County. He was born in the Wang family of Langya, and his surname is Wang Xizhi. "Zhi" is just a modal particle in his name. Adding modal particles in it makes it appear that his name is very mysterious and mysterious.

Therefore, Wang Xizhi can also be called Wang Xi, and the metaphysical buzzword "zhi" can be omitted.

For example, Wang Miao, if he also joins the metaphysical circle of Da Jin, then he can also be called Wang Miaozhi.

After crossing to the south, there were only hundreds of descendants of the Langya Wang clan. As a descendant of the Langya Wang clan, Wang Xizhi had a good education since he was a child, and he was more self-aware than other Langya Wang clan descendants.

He knew that he would not lead the army to fight, so he came here voluntarily to be a county magistrate, unlike other Langya Wang clan's children who obviously don't know how to fight, but still have to control the military power, for fear that the poor family will threaten the Langya Wang clan's rule if they take control of the military power .

In the Jin Dynasty, there were a lot of children from aristocratic families like Wang Xizhi who liked metaphysics but had no talent for governing the country. But Wang Xizhi's value lies in his humility and self-knowledge. He knew that he could not govern the country, so he gave up the opportunity to govern the country. A truly talented person will not occupy the latrine without shitting.

Although he doesn't have the talent for governing a country, Wang Xizhi thinks he can manage a county, so he attaches great importance to the post of county magistrate of Hu County.

If the other descendants of the Langya Wang family would disdain to be a county magistrate, they would only think that they have the talent to govern the country and secure the country, and that only the Sangong and Jiuqing are worthy of them. The whole Dajin was in a mess.

This is the second month of Wang Xishang's tenure in Shan County. During this one month or so, he has rectified the status quo of the small officials in Shan County who are eating vegetarian meals, dismissed the small officials who only know how to fish and meat the common people, and newly enlisted many people who are famous in the local area. The better people entered the county office as officials.

Moreover, many old cases that have accumulated for more than ten years have been dealt with. Those who have grievances against the local people will be dealt with in a timely manner. Drumming for grievances.

When Wang Xizhi took out the Drum of Wronging Wrongs from the basement, he found that the drum was covered with moss and even vines, and there were cockroach nests inside the drum, densely packed with hundreds of cockroaches inhabiting it.

If these measures were placed in the Han Dynasty, they would have been only basic operations. Even Wang Changsheng, a corrupt official back then, would not have dared to store the grievance drum in the basement.

However, in the Jin Dynasty, such basic operations were commendable. Wang Xizhi only did what the officials of the Han Dynasty did. In the Jin Dynasty, he was a good official that the common people talked about.

While practicing calligraphy, Wang Xizhi also chatted with the county magistrate about the situation in the world.

Politics and women are topics that almost every man can't avoid when chatting, even the royal relatives and family members are no exception.

In the past few years, the biggest thing is undoubtedly the Jiehu regime in the north.

Shi Le, the lord of Jiezhao, defeated Liu Yao, the lord of Zhao, the Xiongnu Han, and captured the Guanzhong area, and defeated Dai, and captured Bingzhou of Dai, forcing Dai to surrender to Jiezhao. Jie Zhao proclaims his minister.

However, Shi Le was not satisfied after unifying the north of the Yellow River, and led his troops to the south again, and captured the three prefectures of Yanyu and Xu in the Great Jin Dynasty.

Poor Zuti spent his whole life trying to regain Yanzhou and Yuzhou, but now he was beaten back by Shi Le, and he beat Xuzhou half more.

The princes and ministers of the state of Jin turned pale when they talked about Jiehu. They were terrified of Jiehu. Facing Jiehu's aggression, they could only rely on the mountains and rivers to defend, and they dared not regain lost ground.

God bless Jinshi!

Shi Le, the master of Jiehu, died suddenly of illness. This man who had been fighting all his life died of illness. A Hu man who was born as a slave, the regime he established occupied more than half of the Central Plains. Such a generation of legends, a fear of Jin The legend has finally come to an end.

Shi Le often compared himself to Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu, thinking that he was the same kind of person as Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu.

Even Zu Ti, the most powerful general among the generals of the Northern Expedition, won fewer victories and lost more during the years of fighting Shi Le. In the end, when Shi Le's main force crossed the Yellow River to attack Wang Jun in Youzhou, he regained Yanzhou and Yuzhou.

However, Zu Ti, who won less and lost more, is already considered the top among the generals of the Jin court, because the other generals of the Jin Dynasty did not even dare to make the Northern Expedition, so there is no victory or defeat.

During Shi Le's reign, following the example of the princes at the end of the Han Dynasty, he set up farming in the Central Plains, resumed production, and repaired water conservancy facilities that were destroyed during the war.

Moreover, the taxation of the Jiezhao regime was lower than that of the Jin court in the south during Shi Le's rule.

The people of the Central Plains, under the rule of the Huren Shi Le, rarely feel a little bit better than being ruled by the Jin Dynasty.

However, the good days of the people in the Central Plains came to an end soon, because Shi Hu launched a coup, killed Shi Le's children and grandchildren, and usurped the ruling power of Jie Zhao.

As Khorne's God's Chosen Shihu, when he first came to power, he increased taxes and corvees, expanded the army on a large scale, built more than a dozen palaces at the same time, and hunted down a large number of folk beauties to enrich the harem, with as many as [-] beauties in the harem.

Whenever the people have a little complaint, they will slaughter the entire county, and use the entire city to sit down.

Moreover, Shihu attacked from all directions, attacking Jin, Liang, Dai, and Duan's Xianbei at the same time, fighting on four fronts, and vowed not to stop until the last drop of blood from the people of the Central Plains was squeezed dry.

Against such a background of people, more and more people in the Central Plains began to flee famine in groups.

The people in Guanzhong fled to Liangzhou, the people south of the Yellow River fled to Dajin, and the people north of the Yellow River fled to the grasslands as nomads.

Tuoba Xianbei, Yuwen Xianbei, Duan Xianbei, and Murong Xianbei all took this opportunity to take in a large number of Han refugees, and let these Han people who fled to the grassland become their own people, grazing and farming for themselves.

The Han people in the Qingzhou area mainly fled to the Donglai area of ​​the Yan State, and were transported to the Spice Islands by the city lord of the Yan State and the guilds.

In the land of Confucius and Mencius, there are gold, silver and jewels everywhere, and beautiful female aborigines everywhere, wine flows in the rivers, silk grows on the trees, corn grows on the weeds, and when it rains, it still grows. There will be fish falling from the sky, salt will be sprayed in the well, any stone on the ground will be gold and jade, pigs, dogs, cattle, sheep and other livestock will be eaten in groups, there will be no corvee and military service, no tax collectors, and no wars and killings .

Rumors and stories about overseas are very popular in Qingzhou. Because the rumors are too outrageous, people who choose to believe are those whose families have been ruined. But those who can barely survive at home will never believe these rumors spread by Yan Guo in Qingzhou.

When those people in Qingzhou who were ruined by the stone tiger had no choice but to believe the rumors and boarded the ship of the Yan Kingdom to the Spice Islands, what awaited them was day after day of land reclamation and planting. Work from sunrise to sunset, and there is basically no rest period in between.

The only good news is that they are also slaves. Han Chinese slaves can hardly starve to death in the plantations, and after they die, they will not be squeezed for oil or made into meals. Fortunately, their bodies can be thrown into the sea to be fed. fish.

Indigenous slaves and Huren slaves not only have to work, but also have no food to eat. They can only eat the corpses of other slaves. After they work and starve to death, their corpses will be used to extract oil, and the remaining flesh and blood after oil extraction are directly cooked. The mature meals were given to other indigenous slaves and Hu slaves.

The State of Yan deliberately cut and separated the slave groups, so that some slaves were treated better than others. In this way, the slaves could not be united, and the slaves with lower treatment would give priority to the slaves with higher treatment as their own. enemy, and then he will regard Yan as his enemy.

In this way, Yan State will attract less hatred and anger from the lower class, and the rule will be more stable.

The Wang family can even turn their own relatives into slaves, and many Wang family members with relatively weak blood ties have become slaves to work in the plantations.

For a ruler like the Wang family who can even enslave members of the same family to squeeze out surplus value, it is naturally impossible to be merciful because of the so-called brotherhood.

Everything is for surplus value, squeeze as much as you can.

After all, if there is no residual value of the bottom people, how can we support the upper class people, so when the bottom people are not enough, naturally some marginal upper class people among the upper class people will become the bottom class people, and then continue to support those more advanced upper class people.

In order to quickly obtain labor force, Yan State not only spread such rumors in Qingzhou, but also spread such rumors in Shan County under Wang Xizhi's jurisdiction.

(End of this chapter)