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

Chapter 50 Han Wu Era ([-])

"it is good!"

"Haha! Wang Hui and Li Xi are worthy of being the talents I valued most. They wiped out tens of thousands of troops from Fujian and Vietnam in one battle!"

"There is also this Wang Changzhi, who is also a good handsome and brave talent. He dared to break into the enemy's camp alone, scaring the Minyue coach Yu Shan and fleeing directly, causing tens of thousands of Minyue soldiers to surrender directly to me. !"

"Heavy rewards! All heavy rewards!"

Inside the Weiyang Palace in Chang'an City

Since Emperor Liu Che ascended the throne, he has rarely had such a happy moment.

At this moment, he is bohemian and has no image of an emperor. He sits directly on the steps of the main hall without fear of getting dirty at all, looking excitedly at the battle report on the Fujian and Yue front lines in his hand.

After reading these battle reports, Emperor Liu Che picked up another memorial sent by Wang Hui.

The main content is that Yu Shan, the commander of Minyue, fled back to Wangcheng, directly killed the king of Minyue, made himself king, and paid tribute to the great Han to seek peace.

In the memorial, Wang Hui suggested that Liu Che agree to Yu Shan’s peace proposal, because the main enemy of the Han Dynasty is the Xiongnu in the north, and they should concentrate their energy on dealing with the Xiongnu. As for the southern countries, as long as they are willing to surrender, there is no need to go too far. Expeditions, forcibly attacking and destroying the country, although it can be done, but it consumes too much money and troops.

"The one who knows me is Wang Huiye."

In fact, Liu Che also had the same idea in his heart. The main purpose of attacking Minyue was to deter the southern countries and let them be obediently vassals when the Han counterattacked the Huns. In addition, the Huns sent envoys not long ago to ask for peace, so Liu Che also wanted to Wang Hui and others hurried back to Chang'an to discuss the matter together.

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Six months later
Chang'an Weiyang Palace Main Hall

Wang Hui, Li Xi and others had already returned to Chang'an, and Emperor Liu Che called all the ministers to discuss whether to accept the Xiongnu's marriage request.

According to the usual practice, there is no need to discuss this kind of matter at all, and both Emperor Wen and Emperor Jing directly agree.

Now the emperor actually convened a court meeting specifically for this matter, and he wanted to discuss with the ministers whether to agree to the Xiongnu's marriage request.

"Make peace with the Huns, the Huns want to plunder our Han border, and if we don't make peace with the Huns, the Huns still want to plunder our Han border, so why do we still want to make peace with the Huns? What's the point of making peace?"

At the court meeting, Wang Hui stood in the center and angrily reprimanded the ministers who agreed with the marriage. His meaning was actually equivalent to what the emperor Liu Che had in mind.

"Taihang Ling's words are wrong. In the past, before the marriage, the Xiongnu plundered ten times a year. After the marriage, the Xiongnu only plundered seven or eight times a year. What does it mean that the marriage is useless?" He also said to the emperor Liu Che above: "Now that the Huns are married, Your Majesty should follow the ancestral system and must not listen to slander."

"Your Majesty, please follow the ancestral system!"

The rest of the ministers also persuaded the emperor to agree to the marriage.

"Hmph!" Wang Hui knew that he couldn't argue with so many mouths alone, so he snorted coldly and didn't bother to say more.

The emperor Liu Che was sitting on the collapsed bed, his heart was burning with anger, his hands were clutching the corners of his clothes, wishing he could kill all the officials under him, but in the end he suppressed the anger in his heart, forced a smile on his face and said to the ministers: "Marriage is the national policy of the Han Dynasty. Naturally, I will not change the system without authorization, so I will choose one of the maids, give her the title of princess, and marry her to the Xiongnu."

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

The ministers were very happy to get the answer they wanted, and they all said compliments.

However, all the ministers complimented Liu Che on the surface, but they sneered in their hearts: "You Liu Che has only been emperor for a few years, and you dare to violate the ancestral system and change the policy of pro-nationality without authorization. In the future, you, a mere Han emperor, dare to do anything. I can’t even imagine, are you still planning to check the acres? Are you going to turn our tenant farmers back into self-cultivating farmers? Are you going to ban us from continuing to sell salt and iron? It’s so bold! In order to prevent you from doing these deviant and absurd things in the future, you must Stop you from the source! You must not let the precedent of changing the ancestral system without authorization!"

Ministers such as Han Anguo didn't care whether the marriage was meaningful or not, but they didn't want the emperor to set a precedent for changing the ancestral system casually. Today they can use the excuse that the marriage is meaningless to change the marriage system, but can they use other reasons tomorrow? What about checking their fields and acres?

During the period of the Second Emperor Wen Jing, powerful gentry were often forced to migrate to Chang'an, which was called Shouling.

Who really wants to give you Shouling with the surname Liu?With this time, why don't you go home and have a few children with the concubines?
The family moved to Chang'an Shouling. As a result, the land that took decades to annex in the hometown was redistributed by the emperor to the local "evil" people who had no farmland. As a result, I don't know how many Haoyou families Efforts were wasted.

Many Haomin families were tormented by the second emperor Wen Jing to make their "people" miserable, so they didn't want the new emperor Liu Che to like to toss them good "people" like the second emperor Wen Jing.

You can be your emperor with peace of mind, we can enslave our tenant farmers with peace of mind, and help you manage the big man by the way, everyone can keep the water in the well, why change the ancestral system to torment us?

All the ministers in the court think that they have successfully suppressed the young emperor in front of them. The tossing of the powerful gentry in the Wenjing era will no longer occur. Everyone can continue to enslave the tenant farmers in peace and happiness. The better days are coming soon.

In their view, since the fields belong to them, the imperial court should not have collected a single penny of tax. The investigation of the fields is even more distrustful of their loyalty. The emperor doesn't trust their loyal ministers anymore. Why are the ministers still loyal? Yu court?
The field is ours. It is unreasonable that the tenants can keep the third floor for themselves. It is my family's field. I give the tenants the opportunity to farm and work. The tenants should give us money to express our gratitude. Why are you so shameless? How about leaving three layers for dinner?This world is really irrational!

At Emperor Liu Che's place, he successfully upheld the righteous act of marriage and suppressed the evil reform that opposed the marriage, and all the ministers were satisfied.

But the young emperor Liu Che could only suppress the anger in his chest, pretending to be calm and said: "Scatter the court!"

"Congratulations, Your Majesty!"

The ministers once again thanked the emperor, as long as the emperor did not infringe their interests, they were willing to say compliments to the emperor every day.

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When he returned to Changle Palace and entered Wei Zifu's bedroom, the favored Wei Zifu took off his court clothes and asked him with concern: "Why is Your Majesty so unhappy?"

"All the ministers in the court can be killed, but I can't kill them!" This is not the first time that Liu Che has been embarrassed in front of the ministers. He can only feel happy when he returns to the palace and is with Wei Zifu. He just said in front of his beloved After finishing speaking in anger, he hurriedly sighed again: "I'm the one who got angry, how can I tell you about the bad things in the court here."

After that, he hugged Wei Zifu again and said with a sly smile: "Let's not talk about those annoying things today, let's have a good chat."

"His Majesty……"

Wei Zifu wrapped his hands around Liu Che's neck, another day of tumultuous clouds and rain...

(End of this chapter)