Hengdao Sixteen Kingdoms

Chapter 400 Wenzhi
While fighting outsiders, Liang Guo was busy with his own affairs.

We went to prefectures and prefectures and snatched out a large amount of land and population from the powerful nobles. Many previously unclear lands were all taken back to the government.

Grain production in various places has increased a lot, ranging from [-] to [-]%, while in some cases it has doubled.

The powerful people also spit out a lot of people. If there is less land, it will not be able to feed so many people.

The number of registered residences registered by the government is also rising sharply.

You don’t know it by looking at it, but you will be shocked when you see it. Just one Taishan Zang family has shaded more than 5000 households, and the Bao family has sheltered more than 500 households...

Fenggao, Bo, Chi, Lu, Feicheng, Sheqiu, Gang, Chai and other counties under Taishan County belong to the Liang Kingdom in name, but in fact they already belong to their family territory...

It's no wonder why they are so resistant to innovation.

Wang Meng was ruthless and uprooted the powerful men in Yanzhou.

While the Zang family and Bao family can only be regarded as powerful, the real big fish Cui family, Zheng family, Liu family, etc. are even more terrifying.

Just like Bingzhou Sanxue, they already had the strength to separate themselves and actively participated in the battle between Fu and Yao.

Cui, Zheng, Liu and other great gentry were deeply bound to the Liang Kingdom. They had higher pursuits in their official careers, knew how to tolerate and compromise, and gave up some land interests to make both sides comfortable.

The second step of the innovation is beginning to bear fruit.

The Liang Dynasty court formed a pattern in which Chang Wei controlled the chancellery from the inside, and Wang Meng supervised the town officials from the outside.

Internally and externally, Liang Guo was on the track of vigorous development.

The third step is to restore the five-baht money system. Li Yue feels that the time has not yet come.

Now is the time to consolidate the results of the second step. Restoring the five-baht currency requires the support of a large amount of copper mines. The people have just started to eat, and the national treasury has just gained some confidence and does not have the strength to do this.

The private trade in cloth and silk can still be maintained.

Cloth becoming currency also has certain benefits. Encouraging people to weave cloth during their leisure time is also developing production.

What Liang Guo needs most now is resting with the people and allowing them to adapt to the new law.

However, the people can rest, but the government cannot.

Li Yue expanded the scale of the Honglu Division, adding one Qing and one Shaoqing, and divided them into five levels from bottom to top: envoy, official, Lang, envoy, and Cheng, with each level having three levels above, middle and below.

Select a large number of disciples from the Shangwu Hall and distribute them to various places.

Guide thoughts and public opinions through storytelling.

During the Battle of Shouchun, no matter how miserable Jiangdong was, the people of the Central Plains still had expectations for them. The concept of Zhengshuo that had lasted for hundreds of years could not be changed in a moment.

At least it cannot be easily reversed by Liang Guo, who was only a few years old.

Li Yue also specially wrote several scripts for this purpose, such as the Oath of Luoshui, Regicide on the Street, the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, the Disaster of Yongjia, and the Rebellion of Su Jun's Ancestor Agreement, which mainly aimed to characterize the history of the Sima family and let the people know the history of the Sima family. How did Jiangshan come from?

The seven scripts, including Fenglang Juxu, Su Wu Muyang, Three Links to the Western Regions, and Thirteen Heroes Returning to Yumen, are meant to reshape the martial spirit of the people.

Li Yue personally felt that the damage caused by the Sima family was not only the loss of the Northern Kingdom, but also a heavy setback to the spiritual level of China.

Since King You of Zhou, no country has fallen to the hands of the Yi and Di. The Sima family is considered to be the first of its kind in history.

Although King You of Zhou died at the hands of the Dog Rong, he quickly drove away the enemy and restored his territory. The Sima family settled on the left side of the Yangtze River and kept talking about the Northern Expedition, but it was just a show.

In addition to these, Li Yue also added a lot of stories from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, such as the battle between the eighteen princes and Dong Zhuo, Guan Yu riding a thousand miles alone, burning Red Cliff, seven captures and seven verticals, six expeditions from Qishan, etc.

Enrich people's cultural life and indirectly shape their correct cognitive outlook.Li Yue was very busy, and only produced a skeleton for each script, leaving Honglusi to fill in the details.

Before announcing it to the public, Li Yue took his personal guards to listen to it first to prevent anyone from misreading the story.

"...Shi Le personally led four thousand Hu cavalry to pursue him to Ningping City in Ku County. 20 Jin people scurried away, trampling on each other... The Taiwei Wang Yan knelt at Shi Le's knees and shied away the blame, saying that he had no ambition to pursue an official career, and even persuaded him to do so. Shi Le proclaimed himself emperor. Shi Le said that I had traveled all over the country for so many years and had never seen such a shameless way, so he ordered the princes and ministers who were captured to be pushed to the wall and crushed to death..."

The guards around him all had red faces and clenched fists.

"Kill well! Kill well!"

Several guards couldn't bear it anymore and shouted out.

Almost everyone looked indignant.

Li Yue felt really aggrieved after hearing this. The Taiyuan Wang family, as long as their surname is Wang, all have high-ranking officials and generous salaries. They usually fight for power and gain, and enjoy the wealth and support of the people. When it comes time to use them, the mud cannot hold up the wall.

Comparing the two Han and Three Kingdoms, we can clearly see the decline of the Jin Dynasty across the board.

Not just soldiers, but also common people and scholars...

In the two Han Dynasties, one Han was against the five barbarians, and now they have completely turned against each other...

Scholars from the Two Han and Three Kingdoms came out, including Zhang Qian and Ban Gu, Huangfu Gui and Duan Jiong, Zhou Yu, Zhuge Liang, and Xun Yu. By the time of the Jin Dynasty, Yang Hu, Du Yu, and Wang Jun were still there to support the founding of the country, but later they plummeted. .

"It's acceptable, but some more details need to be added, such as how the barbarians massacred the unarmed people, and how Wang Yan and others knelt down to beg for mercy. It is not necessary to follow the history books completely." Li Yue said to the crowd.

Storytelling is not about history. As long as the general direction is correct, the rest depends on artistic processing.

Thinking of this, Li Yue's heart moved. Chen Shou of the Jin Dynasty compiled the "Three Kingdoms", but no one compiled the history books from the founding of the Western Jin Dynasty to the present.

Honglusi is at the civilian level, and the Sima family still needs to be identified at the official level, so that they will be infamy for thousands of years, as well as Han Zhao, Jie Zhao, Ran Wei, etc.

Li Yue immediately recruited Xin Can. Although his character was not very good, his knowledge was good and he was quite old. He had experienced everything from the Rebellion of the Eight Kings to Yiguan Nandu.

Although his butt is slightly tilted towards Jiangdong, he is not the only one to compile the history. He will select many knowledgeable people to complete it together.

"Your Highness wants to write the history of Jin?" Xin Can looked surprised.

"What doubts does Mr. Xin have?" Li Yue said with a smile.

Xin Can hesitated and said: "I don't have any doubts, but...the imperial court...no...Jiangdong still exists, so it's hard to make a conclusion."

"It doesn't matter, you first cultivate the former Jin, Han Zhao, Jie Zhao, and Ran Wei, be more careful, and then go to Jiangdong after you finish the Northern Kingdom!" Li Yue said solemnly.

There can only be one Zhengshuo in the world.

Unification is the destiny of history. The Sixteen Kingdoms, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and those who do not take the initiative to unify the world will not go far.

The Sui Dynasty was short-lived because Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty took too big a step and was too embarrassed to do it. He did the business of several dynasties by himself...

Xin Can was stunned for a moment, and then his face lit up with joy. This was a good opportunity to leave his name in history, and he would naturally not let it go. "Wherever Your Highness hits, I will keep my history books!"

Li Yue immediately set up a literature museum, and Qiu Wei was about to start the examination, which was just in time to attract children from aristocratic families.

In addition to the literature hall, Li Yue also opened a recruitment hall and issued a recruitment order.

These days, many capable people are hiding in the mountains and swamps, passively hiding from the world, disdainful of the Sima family, and even less contemptuous of the Hu Dynasty in the north.

Wang Meng is one of the leaders.

(End of this chapter)