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

Chapter 508 Huang Zongxi ([-])

one year later
Spring of the second year of Duke Yan 310 (522)
Chang'e City

"Do you have to buy this?"

Chairman Huang of the Competing Guild was very helpless. He managed to bring down the rival Peony Guild with great difficulty, and even killed Lin Zhi, a lunatic who liked to make trouble.

He thought he could finally control Chang'e City and become the master of Chang'e City, but what he didn't expect was just his wishful thinking.

The court of Yan State once again let the guilds understand that they are just money bags of the court, although they are usually very powerful in front of ordinary people, it is just that the court of Yan State is too lazy to take care of them.

But once the court is short of money, their piggy banks will suffer.

A few months ago, Goguryeo broke through the capital of the Wuji people. Wuji's envoy traveled through the forest and swamp, escaped the pursuit of the Goguryeo people, and came to the country of Yan, asking Yan to rescue Wuji who was being gradually eroded.

Since the annexation of Fuyu, Goguryeo did not rush south to find trouble with Yan, but continued to erode Wuji to the north, wanting to continue to improve its own strength, and did not want to fight Yan directly before it was absolutely sure.

After more than 20 years of encroachment, the land and population of Wuji have shrunk by more than half, and now only the northernmost swamp area remains.

In order to prevent the Goguryeo people from cannibalizing their younger brothers unscrupulously, Yan Gonglian (the granddaughter of Yan Gonglu), who had just ascended the throne, decided to launch the Northern Expedition to weaken the strength of the Goguryeo people.

And because the trauma caused by the black plague has not fully recovered, Yan Lian decided to issue [Saint Coupons]. All the people of Yan Kingdom can only prove that they have enough respect for the saints and prove that they are benevolent, righteous, polite, wise and trustworthy by purchasing the [Saint Coupons]. If you don’t buy it, you will be treason against the saint, you must be arrested and sent to the Spice Islands to open up wasteland.

"If you don't buy a saint ticket, you are disloyal, unrighteous, benevolent and filial!"

"If you buy a coupon for a saint, after you die, your soul can see the saint and be praised by the saint as a gentleman with noble morals."

And in order to make money from the guild, the [Sage Coupon] was also classified into seven levels: "Zhou Tianzi", "Princes", "Qing Da Fu", "Scholar", "National", "Savage" and "Slave". Those who are wealthy must purchase higher-level saint coupons, and buying lower-tier saint coupons is invalid.

A guild tycoon at the level of President Huang must buy a saint coupon of the "Tianzi Zhou" level, and the price is ridiculously high.

Although Yan Lian was only a 16-year-old girl, she made such a big commotion as soon as she took the stage, scooping up all social strata, quite like Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, no matter the rich or the poor, all of them were scooped up once.

"Why, don't you have a saint in your heart? Are you a rebellious person who insults saints like that Lin Zhi who deceived the public?" The official who sold saint coupons threatened President Huang coldly.

In front of the authority of the imperial court, you rich businessmen are nothing but piggy banks. You don’t usually have time to talk to you, so I let you fish and meat people, and we can pay dividends by the way. Now that you are short of money, it’s time to smash your piggy banks.

Didn't Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che often do this kind of thing?
Why, he Liu Che can do it, but our country of Yan can't do it?
"If you don't buy a saint coupon, you look down on the saint, and if you look down on the saint, you are disloyal, unrighteous, benevolent, and filial!"

"To deal with unfaithful, unrighteous, benevolent and unfilial rampant people, we must fight hard. Only in this way can we maintain the dignity of the saint, and only in this way can we be worthy of the saint!"

In order to better sell saint coupons, the government also asked Confucian scholars to promote saint coupons everywhere.

"If you have a saint in your heart, you will take the initiative to buy saint coupons, or even buy a few more, so that you can repay the saint's kindness."

"And those who don't buy saint coupons are all barbarians with low morals and no benevolence, justice, propriety, wisdom and trust."

"If you don't buy it, you are not a Chinese person. If a person does not have a saint coupon in his family, it means that this person is of Hu people's blood."

"The barbarians are afraid of authority but not virtue. To deal with the hateful barbarians, we must punch hard!"

Under the propaganda of officials and Confucian scholars, no matter whether they can afford it or not, the people of Yan State have to buy it with all their might, and those who don’t buy it will be arrested and imprisoned on the spot.

"My grandson has just turned one year old, do I want to buy it too?" Chairman Huang asked, his grandson just turned one year old, it was supposed to be a happy day, but it happened to the court of Yan Kingdom.

"That's natural. The sage said that there is no distinction between teaching and learning. Even a one-year-old baby can go to the sage to experience benevolence and righteousness, so of course you have to buy it." Just read more books."

The streets were lined up with people who came to buy saint coupons, the sky was gray, and next to it was the execution platform where Lin Zhi beheaded a year ago, and there were even bloodstains on the wooden platform that hadn't dried up.

Five bahts of gold, five bahts of silver, and five bahts of copper are constantly being squeezed out.

Among them, the silver five baht is a silver currency that was only issued ten years ago, and it belongs to the currency between the gold five baht and the copper five baht.

……

Three months later
Yandu
Yan Palace
"How is it? How many coupons have you sold?" The young girl Yan Lian was trying on her new clothes in front of the glass mirror, with a map of Goguryeo area hanging beside her.
A female pet serving her next to her said respectfully: "It's sold..."

At this time, Da Changqiu came in and reported: "Your Majesty, Jiuqing has something urgent, I want you to discuss it immediately."

"uh-huh?"

"What can those bad old men do?"

Wearing a long dress that dragged the floor, Yan Lian came to the Jiuqing Council Hall, but saw that the faces of the nine officials were anxious.

"Everyone, what made you panic?" Yan Lian was still in the mood to tease.

"Your Majesty, the Chang'e City's Chase Guild has colluded with Goguryeo and separatized Chang'e City. The situation is extremely urgent!"

"If other guild cities follow suit, it will be even worse."

"These people who have no king and no father actually collude with the barbarians, don't they have any shame in their hearts?"

"What should we do now? Iron blood suppression? Or negotiate with them?"

"I really shouldn't let Goguryeo develop and grow, alas..."

"At that time, the Fuyu Kingdom wanted to rebel and prevent Goguryeo from developing and growing. Today, it is the Fuyu Kingdom that is colluding with the guild, and there will be no difference."

"Is it possible to borrow troops from Wei State or Liang State, and use foreign troops to suppress the rebels?"

After hearing these words from Jiuqing, Yan Lian did not panic. When the Saint Coupon was launched, she expected that today would come, but she didn't care.

If you are against it, you can go against it, and if you are worried about the rebellion of the troubled people, you will not dare to oppress the troubled people, so what kind of ruler should you be?
So she said with a faint smile: "It's just a mob, but you gentlemen are so flustered, it's really out of style."

(End of this chapter)