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

Chapter 71

one year later
Yuan Shuo six years
Wei Qing is the Great General, Wang Changzhi is the Middle General, Zhang Cigong is the Left General, Zhao Xin is the Front General, Su Jian is the Right General, Li Guang is the Rear General, and Li Xi is the Strong Crossbow General. Under the command of Wei Qing, a total of [-] troops were gathered, and the logistics troops were even more numerous.

The final battle between the Han and the Hungarians has begun!

After years of war, no one dared to look down on Wei Qing anymore. Even Li Guang, who mocked Wei Qing as a back door, is now convinced and willing to obey Wei Qing's orders.

In order to carry out this decisive battle, Emperor Liu Che emptied the national treasury and asked the ministers of the court to offer gifts using commemorative coins minted in the palace. Such commemorative coins are only available in the palace, and it costs four dollars to buy one. Ten gold, gifts without commemorative coins, are all regarded as deceitful, and you will be prepared to be ransacked and wiped out.

This naked act of stealing money made the gentry feel distressed, and they kept cursing Liu Che in their hearts, but in order to protect the family, they had to spend a lot of money to buy commemorative coins minted by Emperor Liu Che.

Even Wang Changjiong, a professor of Taixue, had no choice but to apply for a hundred gold from the Liaodong royal family to deal with the emperor's leek cutting at any time.

Emperor Dog, why are you still alive?
The ministers in the court hoped that the emperor Liu Che would die quickly every day, but things backfired. The emperor Liu Che they hated was in good health and looked like he could live for a long time.

Over the years, I don't know how many powerful gentry have been bankrupted by the emperor Liu Che. If Wei Qing's record was not too scary, they were afraid of the Han army's annihilation, and they would have united with the princes to rebel against the court.

Even the royal family of Liaodong is getting more and more difficult.

Because the Emperor Liu Che collected the tax on slaves, the Wang family did not dare to take their servants to the Central Plains. They were afraid of being discovered that the Wang family had kept many slaves in captivity, and they did not dare to sail to Xu Township and Dashi County to do business. Ships are also subject to heavy taxes every year, and doing business is even more miserable. I can only keep a small part of it, and the big part belongs to the imperial court, so I have to worry about being checked out of my family property.

In the past two years, the Wang family has completely cut off trade with the Central Plains, and the imperial court will impose heavy taxes on trading in the Central Plains, so they simply stopped trading.

But Wei's North Korea is much farther away after all, and the cost of sea trade is too high, and the money earned is far less than when it traded with the Central Plains before.

The Wang family made less and less money through trade, but the emperor collected money more and more frequently. In the spring of the sixth year of Yuanshuo, when the Wang family held a family meeting, they found that the Wang family could not make ends meet in the fifth year of Yuanshuo, spending [-] gold , the income is only [-] gold.

If this continues, the Wang family will go bankrupt sooner or later.

However, the Wang family has already concealed 47 mu of land and [-] tenant farmers and serfs, and has paid a lot less tax. Even so, they still cannot make ends meet.

It is conceivable that those tyrants who have been investigated by the audience will be even worse. Not only will they have to be cut off like the Wang family, but they will also have to pay taxes based on the real population of the field.

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Taixue
"The powerful's money is about to be squeezed out, and next, it's time to start squeezing the people's money." In Taixue, Wang Changjiong saw the situation very clearly.

The emperor's determination to expand the territory will not change. Whether it is the powerful or the common people, it is the fuel for His Majesty to open the border. It's just that the powerful gentry have more money and are easier to squeeze, so the emperor cuts him first. When the tyrants can't squeeze out much money, then the emperor will inevitably start cutting the leeks of ordinary people.

At that time, the world will be interesting...

Thinking like this, Wang Changjiong dropped a pawn.

"Teacher, that Sang Hongyang proposed to His Majesty the official salt and iron camp. This incident caused the whole city of Chang'an to stir up an uproar. What do you think?" A student of Taixue was playing chess with Wang Changjiong and asked him for advice. pieces.

"Your Majesty is an eternal sage, and he will understand the trade-offs." Wang Changjiong said as if he hadn't said anything. He would never stand in line until the last moment, and he would never dare to talk nonsense. Whether it was the emperor or the nobles, he didn't want to offend. .

If you offend the emperor, you will die now, if you offend the gentry, you will die in the future, Wang Changjiong has long understood.

"The world is exhausted today, but His Majesty..."

"Shhh - speak carefully!"

Just when the student wanted to complain about Emperor Liu Che's confiscating tens of thousands of acres of land from his family, which made their family's life difficult, Wang Changjiong, who was playing chess with him, immediately reminded him not to talk nonsense.

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Han army tent
"Uncle, give me [-] Qingqi, and I'll hand over the Xiongnu Shan Yuting directly." Huo Qubing was very excited. He has been appointed by the emperor as the captain of Yaoyao, a captain specially set up for him, which shows that the emperor attention to him.

The Xiongnu Shanyu implemented the strategy of "defending the enemy outside the country's gates" and took the initiative to disperse its forces to face the various Han armies going north to the grassland.

Therefore, Huo Qubing asked to lead [-] Qingqi alone, and took advantage of the decisive battle between the main force of the Xiongnu and the main force of Wei Qing, and Shan Yuting was empty of troops, to attack Shan Yuting.

"Hmm..." Wei Qing thought for a while, and felt that this plan was feasible, but he was worried about Huo Qubing's safety, so he warned: "Don't go too far, if you accidentally meet the main force of the Huns on the way, you must run back immediately, don't love to fight! "

After all, Wei Qing straightened Huo Qubing's helmet with his hands, and his eyes were full of relief: "My Qubing has grown up, and I can already be alone."

"Well, don't worry, Uncle!" Huo Qubing nodded in agreement, and then he couldn't wait to go out and prepare to lead eight hundred Qingqi around to attack Shan Yuting.

Just as he walked out of the general's tent, he bumped into Wang Changzhi head-on.

"I met Uncle Wang, I was not careful." Huo Qubing quickly apologized to Wang Changzhi.

"Haha, it's okay." Wang Changzhi had met Huo Qubing several times before, and he had already seen the outstanding military talent of this young man in front of him. He was not inferior to his good brother Wei Qing in the slightest. Lan, and after hearing Huo Qubing and Wei Qing's plan to attack Shan Yuting, he couldn't help reminding: "Xiao Huo, you must be careful."

"Uncle Wang, don't worry!" Huo Qubing was very confident and proud. He looked down on everyone, except the Wei family who were related by blood, and Wang Changzhi and the emperor Liu Che who had a good relationship with the Wei family.

After Huo Qubing left with [-] Qingqi, Wang Changzhi stroked his beard and smiled at Wei Qing: "My dear brother Zhongqing, your nephew is not an ordinary person."

"Brother You'an, you're joking. A newborn calf is not afraid of tigers. His proud personality will lead to disaster sooner or later." Although Wei Qing admired Huo Qubing's military talent, he felt helpless for Huo Qubing's extremely arrogant personality. , this kind of temper, it is easy to offend people.

Now that the Huo family of the Wei family has the emperor hanging down the curtain, it doesn't matter even if they offend others, but what if His Majesty the emperor dies suddenly one day?This kind of offending temperament will make those princes and nobles and powerful gentry groups attack them, alas...

Shaking his head, Wei Qing no longer thought about the future, but discussed the specific battle plan with Wang Changzhi.

After all, they were the main force to fight against the Xiongnu, and they were righteous in the art of war. Huo Qubing's 800 men were only responsible for going around behind and launching sneak attacks, and they were odd in the art of war.

With just fit, with strange victory!
(End of this chapter)