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

Chapter 86 Liaodong officialdom ([-])

another three months later

A major event comparable to the former emperor Liu Qi's slashing of feudal clans caused shock in the world.

Emperor Liu Che announced to the world that the imperial court will implement the official operation of salt and iron. All privately operated salt and iron industries must hand over their properties to the imperial court within one year. The second round of visitors will be sent to visit counties and counties all over the world.

However, this time the visit was not to check the tenant farmers, but to check the salt and iron industry. The salt and iron industry found out must be handed over to the imperial court for management within one year, otherwise they will be punished as treason and the whole clan will be exterminated!

Although the official positions of these visitors are very low, only six hundred shi, the same as the county magistrate, but they are the emperor's cronies and envoys of the emperor, even the eunuchs with two thousand shi have to be courteous to them.

This is normal, the eunuchs in the palace are not even worth a hundred shi, but when they go to the local area, they can still order those county magistrates who are six hundred shi.

In fact, power is not equal to salary.

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Liaodong County
"Your Majesty, do we really want to hand over our family's decades or even hundreds of years of hard work to the court?" Liaodong County Governor Cao asked with a frown.

Daocao is an official responsible for managing county roads, ports, post stations, traffic bridges and other facilities.

Officials and officials are separated. There are only three officials in a county, namely the prefect (county guard), the county magistrate, and the county lieutenant. The rest are officials.

Officials can only be appointed by the Chang'an court, officials can be recruited by local governors, low-level officials can be promoted to senior officials through Chalian, and even have the opportunity to become officials through the Chang'an court's Chalian.

After the implementation of the prosecution system, it can be divided into three categories.

The first category is for the people of the world to promote filial piety, each county has two places every year, this category directly becomes an official; the second category is also for the people of the world, there is no specific quota, and there is no fixed number In time, the court of Chang'an will temporarily promote virtuous people when they want to promote them. This category depends on the emperor's mood;

There is no need to say more about filial piety and honesty. Those who can be promoted are powerful nobles. After the filial piety is over, they make up a story of filial piety to fool the court and ordinary people. Feeling at ease, he also took the initiative to help him make up a story of "Longevity Gives Peach", and then spent a few months under the hands of Da Si Nong, one of the nine officials of the Chang'an court, and then was assigned by the Chang'an court to Dashi County as a six hundred Stone county magistrate.

"Changsheng Rangtao Tashi County Chronicle"

"Wang Changsheng, courtesy name Yi Meng, was born in Liaodong Ta clan. His father, Wang Tairan, and his mother, Xu Caiwei, were from a poor family. Even though he was hungry, he gave his peaches to his mother. The eunuch felt filial piety, so he promoted filial piety and honesty."

When Wang Changsheng was a child, his family was very poor, and he often didn’t have enough to eat. When he was about to starve to death, he gave the peaches he was reluctant to eat to his mother Xu Caiwei. The governor of Liaodong was very moved by his filial piety, so he recommended him to be an official in the court .

This is naturally impossible. After all, Wang Changsheng was able to be promoted to Xiaolian at the beginning, mainly because of the money from the Wang family. Secondly, he himself has indeed read the Four Books and Five Classics since he was a child, and he is quite knowledgeable.

Unlike Wang Changsheng, who directly became an official with filial piety and honesty, Cao's family in Liaodong County is an ordinary powerful family, not very powerful, and does not have so much capital to stun the prefect with money like the Wang family, so it is just Put him alone in this county as an official.

Although his family is just an ordinary poor family, because of the special geographical location, there happened to be a natural mine near his family, so their family developed iron smelting.

At this moment, the imperial court is going to take all the salt and iron in the world into official camps, and he is very worried.

"Which bastard proposed to His Majesty the Yantie official camp? Damn it!" Cang Cao of Liaodong County Mansion also cursed at the side. He was in charge of managing the warehouse of the county mansion.

"I heard it's that Sang Hongyang." The thief Cao also gritted his teeth. His family has a small salt farm, although it's not big, but he is reluctant to hand it over to the court.

As for the court's compensation, hehe, that's a joke.

It is a common practice for the imperial court to take ten points from the gentry, and then take one point out of the ten and return it to the gentry as compensation.

In the last mausoleum relocation order, I don’t know how many big families with more than 300 million yuan were forcibly moved to Chang’an, and the compensation they received from the court was only 20 yuan.

Abandoning the millions of dollars of family business accumulated over the past few decades, the exchange is only 20 yuan in compensation. This kind of compensation, whoever wants it, will get it.

"This Sang Hongyang deserves to die!" The county jailer also cursed.

With their interests at stake, they could no longer pretend to be respectful, and even directly scolded the court ministers in public.

But the prefect Wang Changzhi, the county magistrate Zhang Shou, and the county lieutenant Li Yao didn't say a word, they just quietly watched the county officials complaining.

During this year, Wang Changzhi married Wang Miaochun to Zhang Shou's son, Wang Yanrong to Li Yao's younger brother, Wang Hanyan to Zhang Shou, and Wang Lingxue to Li Yao. wife.

At the same time, some relatively weak and powerful noble families in various counties in Liaodong also married their daughters to the Wang family as concubines.

Even Wang Changzhi married Li Yao's sister, and Wang Chang'an took Zhang Shou's daughter as his wife.

Under such a mutual marriage, almost one-third of the families in Liaodong are related to the Wang family by marriage.

This also led to a messy seniority relationship between them.

Zhang Shou's daughter married Wang Changzhi, so Wang Changzhi is Zhang Shou's son-in-law, but Wang Changzhi's cousin married Zhang Shou, so Wang Changzhi is also Zhang Shou's eldest brother-in-law, but Li Yao's brother also married Zhang Shou's other daughter, so Li Yao can also be regarded as Zhang Shou's son-in-law, but Zhang Shou's father also married Li Yao's sister, so Li Yao is also Zhang Shou's uncle, and Li Yao also married Wang Changzhi's son-in-law. Cousin, so Wang Changzhi is also Li Yao's uncle, but Wang Changzhi also married Li Yao's younger sister, so Li Yao is also Wang Changzhi's uncle.

In short, the relationship between them is very chaotic, and even they themselves can't tell their seniority, so they usually call each other by their official positions.

The gentry in Liaodong who were married to the Wang family acquiesced to Wang Changzhi's admission to the Wang family's children when they promoted Xiaolian, and in return, Wang Changzhi pretended not to know about their local fish and meat.

"Gentlemen, everyone can't protect themselves now, but our Liaodong gentry must unite, and we must not report each other or fight in the same room." Wang Changzhi was too lazy to say that there are dozens of Liaodong tyrants, but only eight have platoons, and the rest They are all small fish and shrimps, and they belong to the bottom of the poor family, so they are not worth mentioning at all.

The eight Liaodong gentry are ranked according to their strength, and they are:
The Wang family in Dashi County, the Zhang family in Wen County, the Li family in Fang County, the Lu family in Xiangping County, the Guo family in Pingguo County, the Lu family in Ping County in Xi’an, the Chen family in Liaoyang County, and the Zhong family in Wuli County.

The Wang family has the prefect Wang Changzhi, the Zhang family has the prefect Zhang Shou, the Li family has the county lieutenant Li Yao, the Lu family has the magistrate of Xiangping County Luwan, the Guo family has the magistrate of Pingguo County Guo Jing, and the Lu family has the county magistrate of Xi’an Ping County. Ling Luwei, the Chen family has Chen Shimei, the magistrate of Liaoyang County, and the Zhong family has Zhonghui, the magistrate of Wulu County.

The affairs of the entire Liaodong are basically decided by the eight major families.

(End of this chapter)