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

Chapter 473 Jingkou sells wine ([-])

Spring of the eighth year of Duke Yan 210 (428)
New Year
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"We are legitimate businessmen, how can you arrest us and confiscate our goods!"

"Is there any law of the king, is there any law of heaven!"

Merchants from Yan State and Song State were suddenly arrested, and all their goods were confiscated by the Song State Court.

"Your Majesty's decree that fine wine will harm the country and the people. From today onwards, it is forbidden to buy and sell fine wine in the Song Dynasty. Once discovered, all will be confiscated and the whole family will be exiled to Jiaozhou, Guangzhou."

"Officials who colluded with traders who bought and sold wine, the men were beheaded, and the women were demoted to official prostitutes."

After cleaning up the political enemies on the surface and basically stabilizing the government, Song Emperor Liu Yilong began his reforms to govern the country.

First of all, the [Nine Ranks Zhongzheng System] has been improved, and all officials who decide the rank must take an exam. Those who fail the exam, regardless of their reputation, family background, ability and virtue, cannot be designated as a rank.

Secondly, the "slave tax" and "concubine tax" are collected. Anyone who raises slaves and concubines at home needs to pay additional taxes. More women can marry ordinary people, thereby increasing the fertility rate and increasing the number of people who farm and pay taxes.

Then, immigrants are encouraged to open up wasteland. All the people who open up wasteland in the miasma in the south will not have to pay taxes for ten years, and will not be required to perform corvee and military service during the period of opening up wasteland.

Then, the population is used as one of the indicators for the evaluation of officials. During the official's tenure, the increase of the local population is the achievement of the government, and the decrease of the local population will be held accountable.

Then, the sale of population is prohibited. People can be bought from abroad, but the population of Song State cannot be sold abroad.

Finally, the trade of fine wine is prohibited, and anyone who buys and sells fine wine will be punished severely.

Liu Yilong's reform measures were all implemented by poor officials, and the grand occasion of the aristocratic family in the Jin Dynasty no longer existed.

They began to germinate in the former Han Dynasty, developed in the later Han Dynasty, became strong in the Yuan Dynasty and the Western Jin Dynasty, reached their peak in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and began to be weakened and suppressed by the imperial power after the Liu Song Dynasty.

Soldiers of Liu Song Dynasty arrested traders in Jingkou and searched for wine. In just one month, 1053 illegal traders were arrested, 823658 cans of wine were confiscated, 142368 people were rescued, 4268 catties of gold, 62586 catties of silver, and countless copper coins were recovered. Luxury goods such as glass seized are piled up like mountains.

Among the illegal traders, there were 113 merchants from Yan State and 940 merchants from Song State.

Large quantities of agar wine were shipped to the docks and thrown into the sea.

Many illegal traders were escorted to the temporary execution platform at the wharf. Under the watchful eyes of countless Song people, these illegal traders were beheaded, and their heads were thrown directly into the sea to feed the fish.

Since Yan State traded with the Central Plains, it has never suffered such a huge loss.

another three months later

Yandu
Countless businessmen from the Yan State Guild jointly signed a letter requesting the parliament to immediately declare war on Liu Song, and the arrogant and conceited emperor of the Central Plains must be taught a lesson.

Sima Dewen, Sima Yuanxian, representatives of the Wang clan of Langya, and representatives of the Xie clan of Chenjun also stood up. They expressed their willingness to fully support Yan State in its war against Liu Song. As long as Yan State helps them restore the country, no matter what They are willing to give as much population as Yan State wants.

It is the idea of ​​the Sima family in the Jin Dynasty to prefer to Youbang (Yan Wang's family) and not to slaves (Liu Song Han's family).

Yandu luxury residential area

Sima Dewen Villa
"Your Majesty, the opportunity for my Great Jin to restore the country is finally coming. Liu's rebels have usurped our Great Jin. Now their relationship with Yan has broken down. If Yan and Wei join forces to pinch Liu, the world will be peaceful!"

Sima Dewen's queen said excitedly.

At this time, Sima Dewen looked at the daughter of the Xie family beside him, and saw that Concubine Xie was also full of excitement.

Because of the monogamy system in Yan State, Concubine Xie is nominally an unmarried woman.

However, Xie's daughter continued to stay by Sima Dewen's side as an unmarried woman and became his de facto favorite concubine.

"If the Kingdom of Yan can help us eradicate the traitors in Dajin, then all the aristocratic families of the Jin Kingdom will be willing to lead the way, vowing to eradicate the traitors and give Dajin a bright future!"

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On the other side, Sima Yuanxian Villa
"If the State of Yan really wants to send troops to attack Liu Song, then the State of Wei will also take the opportunity to go south, and the traitors of the Liu family will perish. At that time, Sima Dewen will probably be the emperor!"

Sima Yuanxian paced back and forth with a frown, fearing that he would not become emperor after the restoration of the country, and was already conceiving a plan to kill Sima Dewen.

The Sima family has a classic infighting. Before the country was restored, they began to think of ways to eradicate their rivals for the throne.

"We still need to contact the Wang family of Langya and the Xie family of Chenjun, and get the help of these two wealthy families, so that we will be safe." The counselor at the side reminded him.

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Yan Palace
"Zhuqing, haven't the discussions come to a conclusion yet?" Yan Gonglan, who is 63 years old, feels gradually powerless. If it was 40 years ago, she would be very excited to persuade Jiuqing and the parliament to go to war with Liu Song, but now, she really I don't have the energy.

"Liu Song is a big country in the Central Plains. Going to war against them is too important a matter. I'm afraid we can't make the decision. We have to convene a parliament and let all the nobles decide together, so as not to be unable to bear the responsibility in time."

"If we really want to go to war, we still need to contact Wei Guo, and use Wei Guo to contain Liu Song's main force. We, Yan Guo, must not lose our own strength."

Yan Gonglan nodded and said, "This matter can only be decided by everyone."

half a year later
Yandu
The old and young of the Jin Dynasty and the merchants of the Yan State Guild were still clamoring for war against Liu Song.

In order to guide people's sentiments, Sima Dewen's favorite concubine Xie's daughter also cleverly thought of a way, that is, to spend money to start a private newspaper to publicize the necessity of war to the people of Yan State.

Previously, there was only an official newspaper in Yan State, and the content was very monotonous. It was nothing more than introducing major domestic and international events.

Today, the Xie family's daughter uses the funds transported by the Xie family to the country of Yan to establish the first private newspaper [Jin Bao].

The first article of [Jin Bao] is to promote that the Sima royal family is the orthodox in the Central Plains, Liu Song is just a slave who usurped the throne, and Yan Guo, as a loyal minister of the Jin Dynasty, should expel the slaves for the Jin Dynasty and restore the Jin family.

At first, when the government of Yandu heard that the people had run a newspaper without authorization to guide the people, they were very vigilant and directly shut down the "Jin Newspaper" founded by Xie's daughter, prohibiting non-governmental organizations from competing with the government of Yan for the right to speak out in public opinion.

However, after Xie’s daughter kept in touch with the old and young of the Jin Dynasty, and promised that she would never publish articles that would harm or be detrimental to Yan State, Yan Gonglan agreed to the private establishment of a newspaper in order to increase financial revenue. .

Starting from this precedent, private people can also start newspapers, but they need to go through double audits by Shangshutai and Yushitai, and pay huge taxes.

Since there is no printing technology, the [Jin Newspaper] founded by Xie's daughter relies entirely on handwritten transcriptions by scholars, which is very costly and inefficient.

Fortunately, the nature of [Jin Bao] is the same as that of [Official News]. It is essentially for publicity, not for making money, so the Sima royal family doesn't care about the cost, as long as more nobles and guilds of the Yan Kingdom are interested in the Jin Dynasty. Just be nice.

(End of this chapter)