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

Chapter 471 Competing in the Central Plains (32)

one year later
Spring of the 419th year of Marquis Yan ([-])
New Year
New Year
Jiankang
The grand king conferring ceremony is underway. Since the Great Jin Dynasty usurped the world, it is the first time to confer the feudal princes and kings with foreign surnames.

Even Huan Wen, the powerful minister, stopped at the first process of the three processes of usurping the throne.

And Liu Yu has entered the third process, and the next step is to abdicate and ascend the throne.

For more than a year, there has been civil strife in Guanzhong.

Although Liu Yizhen was only 12 years old, he was very capable of harming people. During his rule in Guanzhong, he often led soldiers to rob his own people and the wives and daughters of the people in Guanzhong.

In this era, ordinary people probably cannot afford to marry a daughter-in-law. After all, the total number of women is limited. The upper class is crazy about concubines, and the lower class naturally does not have enough women to be daughter-in-laws.

A person like Liu Yu, who can read and write, has to become a military officer before marrying and having children.

Therefore, among the people, most of the people share their wives with brothers or neighbors, and neighbors in the neighborhood will give each other daughters as wives.

In other words, my family is a neighbor to yours. I send my daughter to your family as a wife, and you send your daughter to my family as a wife. Then my three sons will be your daughter’s husband together. The daughter is the common wife of the three brothers in my family, and my daughter is treated the same in your family.

The system of monogamy and multiple concubines is also an important reason for the slow population growth in the Central Plains.

Women's resources are monopolized by the upper class, and the lower class can only share the same daughter-in-law with three or four men, so the fertility rate is naturally very low.

People of later generations think that under the system of monogamy and multiple concubines, a man who has many concubines can increase the fertility rate. This is a typical misunderstanding, because they only see the increase in the fertility rate of the upper class, but not the lower class The fertility rate has dropped dramatically, and the lower class is not taken into account at all when calculating the fertility rate.

The system of monogamy and multiple concubines can only allow the upper-level rulers to enjoy the blessings of being equal to each other, while the lower-level people can only sadly share their wives.

Thinking that as long as the system of monogamy and multiple concubines is implemented, you can let yourself embrace left and right, completely substituting yourself into the ruling class, and ignoring the vast majority of people at the bottom who are always at risk of losing their children and grandchildren.

Therefore, the monogamous system of Yan State may not be considered very good, but at present, it is definitely more considerate of the people at the bottom than the monogamous polygamous system of the Central Plains, and it can also make the country more stable and stable.

The so-called good governance is not only reflected in reducing taxes and corvees for the people, but also in some daily details, such as a small marriage system in Yan State, which is a kind of good governance.

The progress of Yan State is not only in external objects such as gunpowder, water carts, glass, and smelting technology, but also in the details of daily life.

The people in Guanzhong were already miserable, but under the plunder of Liu Yu's second son Liu Yizhen, it was even worse. The peasant uprising army spread all over Guanzhong.

However, Helian Bobo, the emperor of the Xia Kingdom of the Xiongnu, was not a fuel-efficient lamp. He slaughtered Chang'an City on the first day he entered Guanzhong.

People in this era are not the worst, only worse. When your wife and mother are dragged into the barracks by the rebels and played with, you think it is already miserable, and the next ruler will directly turn your whole family into flesh.

In contrast, you can be a wasteland slave in Yan State, at least you will not starve to death, at most you will be tired from working non-stop.

Although he lost Guanzhong, Liu Yu has no energy to regain the lost ground for the time being. Compared with the Northern Expedition, the most urgent task now is to eradicate potential opponents and lay a solid foundation for his usurpation.

A few months later, Emperor Sima Dezong was killed by Liu Yu, and Sima Dewen ascended the throne.

Jiankang Palace
"Liu Yu has the intention to usurp the throne, and the ancestors and the country are about to perish in my hands, woo woo woo—" Emperor Sima Dewen knelt under the spirit tablet of the ancestral temple, crying loudly at the ancestors of the Jin family.

Most of the ministers of the DPRK and China who were loyal to the Jin Dynasty were killed or demoted, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were all Liu Yu's minions.

"Your Majesty, why don't you go north to Wei State and use Wei soldiers to eliminate the country's thieves!" The queen who was born in the Langya Wang family suggested.

"To go to Wei State, you need to pass through Xuzhou and Qingzhou. It is too threatening and easy to be intercepted by Liu Yu's generals." Emperor Sima Dewen lamented.

"The concubine thinks that it is better to vote for Yan than to vote for Wei. In the past, many clans of our Jin Dynasty fled to Yan Kingdom. When your Majesty went to Yan Kingdom, we can take care of each other with those clans. Besides, the Marquis of Yan is still a prince of my Jin Dynasty in name. If we can use Yan soldiers to eradicate the national traitor Liu Yu, we will naturally be able to preserve our country!" The imperial concubine, who was born in the Xie family of Chenjun, suggested this.

"Yan country?" Sima Dewen thought for a while, and felt that this suggestion was feasible, so he asked, "How to get to Yan country?"

"The concubine's family has already secretly contacted Yan Guo, and they have their own boats to help us go to sea." Xie's daughter replied.

It turns out that although the Wang family of Langya and the Xie family of Chenjun cooperated with Liu Yu on the surface, they secretly transferred their family assets to the country of Yan. Exterminated by Liu Yu.

The Langya Wang family used 30 serfs to buy ten large mansions in Yandu (Northern Capital), plus forty ordinary mansions, enough to accommodate all the Langya Wang family's children.

There is really nothing that can be exported in the Central Plains. Luxuries, Yan State can produce it by itself, grain, Yan State-owned fisheries and plantations, cloth, Yan State has a large number of wool textile workshops, gold and silver, and the Que Island Islands (Japanese Islands) of Yan State. There are many gold mines, silver mines, copper coins, and Yan Kingdom has a large number of copper mines in the Spice Islands.

The only thing left in the Central Plains that can really interest the King Yan family is the population.

A few months later, just as Liu Yu was about to abdicate Sima Dewen, he learned the shocking news... Emperor Sima Dewen mysteriously disappeared!

Da Sima Mansion
"According to reliable sources, His Majesty may have escaped from Jiankang City by taking advantage of our opportunity to suppress the rebels outside, and crossed the sea by boat to the Kingdom of Yan." Fu Liang carefully reported.

"Yan Guo..." Liu Yu's voice was low and his face was ugly. This kind of thing happened at the critical moment of usurping the throne, which really made him feel bad.

"Yan Guo has repeatedly accepted our Jiangzuo fugitives, and openly lured the people along the coast to migrate, cooperated with the bandits and rangers in our country to conduct population trade, and sold fine wine to our Jiangzuo every year, so that the lives of our people were ruined by the fine wine. There are countless people, and now, they openly hijack me to become the emperor."

Liu Yu seemed to have made up his mind, and announced to the staff: "The emperor has been hijacked by Yan, and the country cannot live without a king. We should ask Yan for the emperor. If they refuse to give it, we can only establish a new king." .”

Now that the emperor has run away, just re-establish an emperor and let the new emperor abdicate.

"Your Majesty Yingming!"

All the aides responded respectfully, and then they each started to prepare for the emperor from the Yan Kingdom, and by the way, the procedures for establishing a new emperor, and at the same time preparing for the procedure for the new emperor to abdicate.

(End of this chapter)