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

Chapter 497 Competing in the Central Plains (37)

One month later

Jiankang
The corpses of Xiao Daocheng's rebels were all under the city wall, and Sima Xiu had spent a month with Xiao Daocheng to defend the city.

During this month, Sima Xiu first made Liu Song Emperor Liu Yu his adoptive son, and himself became Liu Song's Supreme Emperor. At the same time, he made Liu Chuyu Liu Yu's foster mother and Liu Song's empress dowager.

At the same time, Liu Xiu made herself and Liu Chuyu's son Crown Prince Sima Jing the emperor's younger brother, ready to let her son ascend the throne of Liu Song Emperor at any time.

The crown prince of the Jin emperor went to Liu Song to become the emperor's younger brother, and he also wanted to inherit Liu Song's throne.

Empress Liu Chuyu of Jin was also the Empress Dowager of Liu Song.

While seizing power, he also promoted the big family and suppressed the children of the poor family. In this way, he won the support of the big family.

Although in this way, the following generations of emperors will become puppet emperors, but is it important?

It's enough to win, it's enough to be an emperor, at least it's better to be a puppet emperor than a commoner.

A hunter, he just killed a mouse, and he was going to eat the mouse to fill his stomach, and then a wise man persuaded him: "The meat of the mouse is not good, and it is easy to get sick if you eat it. How can you be so stupid? You should go to the Hunt wild boars, wild boars are better than mice.

The hunter shook his head and replied: The problem is that I failed to hunt wild boars, so it would be nice to have mice to eat. How can I expect so much?Your requirements are too high, and it must taste delicious. I am self-aware, so my requirements are low, as long as I can fill my stomach. Eating mice is at least much better than starving to death!

In such a troubled world, it is good to be able to establish a political power. As for whether future generations will become puppet emperors, it is relatively unimportant. After all, if you lose, then you will not even be able to establish political power, and future generations will even become puppet emperors. None of the qualifications.

Winning is the key!

As for the future?

If there is no present, where is the future?
You think that those who make big things need to plan for the long-term future, but I think I can't even support the present, so what else can I plan for the future, just plan for the present.

Sima Xiu eliminated a large number of poor officials in the court, and recruited a large number of children from aristocratic families to serve as officials and dawdle. Through this method, he obtained military support from the aristocratic families.

During the Liu and Song Dynasties, land cuts were implemented many times to check the population of the fields, restrain the land mergers of wealthy families, and try to promote people with lower status to become officials.

Sima Xiu, on the other hand, did the opposite, forbidding the investigation of the population of the fields, allowing aristocratic families to merge land at will, and trying to promote people with higher status to become officials.

Some people think this is stupid, and they don't know how to suppress the elites of the gentry, but Sima Xiu thinks that this is the best way at the moment, because it is enough to win.

Those who win are qualified to talk about the future, and those who lose have become urns.

When considering how the future will develop, you should first consider whether you can win now.

Jiankang City could not be attacked for a long time, and more and more aristocratic families supported Sima Xiu as time went by.

"If this drags on, I, Xiao Daocheng, will definitely become the target of public criticism." Xiao Daocheng thought hard for a long time, and finally decided to go to Yizhou to separate himself. If you are lucky, when Jiangzuo is in turmoil in the future, it is not impossible to take the opportunity to go east and retake Jiangzuo.

Immediately, Xiao Daocheng withdrew his troops and headed all the way to Chengdu, Yizhou. After three months of marching, he finally arrived in Chengdu, where he supported a Liu Song clan Liu Zhun as emperor.

At the same time, when Xiao Daocheng supported Liu Zhun to become emperor in Chengdu, Sima Xiu forced the bear child emperor Liu Yuchan to give up to his crown prince Sima Jing.

Sima Jing, the crown prince of the Jin Dynasty and the younger brother of the Liu Song Emperor, changed his surname to Liu and was called "Liu Jing".

Since the Liu Song clan had been almost slaughtered by Song Ming Emperor Liu Yu in advance, there was only one clan vassal who rose up against Sima Xiu and Xiao Daocheng.

Liu Xie, the king of Nanhai, who was only nine years old, became emperor in Panyu County, Nanhai County, Guangzhou, with the support of the governor of Guangzhou.

In an instant, three Song Kingdoms appeared in the world at the same time, namely Jiankang Song Kingdom, Chengdu Song Kingdom, and Panyu Song Kingdom.

According to the geographical division of the Han Dynasty, the Jiankang Song State occupied Yangzhou, the Chengdu Song State occupied Yizhou, and the Panyu Song State occupied Jiaozhou.

As for Jingzhou, which was sandwiched between the three Song states, some places lined up with Jiankang, some places lined up with Panyu, some places lined up with Chengdu, and some places stood up for themselves. The entire Southern Dynasty was a mess.

However, in the face of this great opportunity, the Wei State in the north was indifferent, mainly because there were too many Han rebels in the country, and the Rouran people often cooperated with the Heda people to invade the Gaochang area of ​​Wei State.

Khitan and Kumoxi, who were originally proclaimed ministers, also took advantage of the fire to loot, and kept going south to plunder.

Wei's geographical location with enemies on all sides determined that he could not wholeheartedly attack the Southern Dynasty.

Resting and recuperating, restoring people's livelihood and economy, and alleviating the contradiction between Han and Hu are still the national policy of Wei State in this period.

another year later
The summer of the ninth year of Duke Yan 260 (479 years)
Liu Jing, the emperor of the Song Dynasty in Jiankang, changed the name of the country to "Jin", and the power of the court was still in the hands of the Supreme Emperor Sima Xiu.

Chengdu Song Dynasty Emperor Liu Zhunchan was located in Qi Wang Xiao Daocheng, Xiao Daocheng established Qi.

Zhang Youzhi, the governor of Guangzhou in Panyu, believed in the Tao of Heavenly Master (Five Dou of Rice/Zhengyi), so he followed the trend and forced Liu Xie, a young emperor who had been on the throne for a year, to take the throne. Canonized 36 gods of heaven, 72 gods of earth, [-] human gods, and posthumously conferred titles of Taiqing, Shangqing, and Yuqing as "Xiandi/Xiantian/Xianzhu". Princesses and noble ladies are also collectively referred to as "fairies/fairies", gentry patriarchs are called "immortal masters", ordinary soldiers are also renamed "heavenly soldiers/immortal soldiers", Yushui (Pearl River) is renamed "Tianhe", Panyu City It was renamed "Tiandi City", the Governor's Mansion was renamed "Tiangong", the South China Sea was renamed "Chaos Sea", the roads and bridges were also renamed "Tiandao", "Tianlu", "Flyover Bridge" and "Tianliang", and the nine-rank Zhongzheng official was renamed "Land". At the same time, Guangzhou Changshi and Nanhai Taishou were also canonized as the Duke of the East, and his wife was the Queen Mother of the West. The back garden of his home was renamed Pantao Garden.

A religious country has been established in this way. All the people in the "heaven world" have to pray to the gods every month. Whether they are devout to the gods is also an important assessment when they are ranked at the ninth rank.

Ninth-rank officials, their official positions are naturally changed to different names of gods and immortals. People who are rated as immortals are called immortals, and ordinary people who are not rated as ordinary people are called mortals.

As the saying goes, immortals and mortals are different, and intermarriage between immortals and mortals is not allowed.

Officials with fixed ranks go to the people to inspect the people's conditions. This behavior is called "going down to the earth". It is tantamount to "failing to cross the catastrophe" and being arrested by the government. This behavior is called "God's punishment/God's punishment".

Babies are not called babies, but "Taotai", children are not called children, but "spiritual children", and if they are children of aristocratic families, they are called "Xiantong".

(End of this chapter)