A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 403: The Emperor’s Officials Dominate the People
Starting from Zijue, the Wang family has been wary of officials, nobles, and powerful men.In this era of underdeveloped science and technology, powerful people, nobles, and officials occupy a large amount of the means of production.

The output of food is limited. Once the powerful become powerful and occupy a large amount of means of production, that is, farmland, the living space of the people will be squeezed.

This is inevitable.

Even in Zijue's later generations, after the development of science and technology made food abundant, this squeeze changed from farmland to other aspects of society.

In this era, people lost their land and had to become tenants of aristocratic families, powerful families, wealthy families, and nobles in order to survive.If we encounter some natural or man-made disasters, we will have no choice but to borrow money from local powerful people, nobles, and wealthy families.

If the years are bad, for two or three years in a row, these people will owe a lot of money. Those powerful, noble, and wealthy people can accept a large group of prostituted slaves without having to take any action.

If these people are more evil-minded, even the people who can barely support themselves will become their slaves.

The heads of the Wang family in the past dynasties know very well that the common people are the cornerstone of Daqian.Those nobles, powerful people, and wealthy officials have never been the foundation of the country.

According to King Haotianwen, ordinary people are producers, nobles, powerful officials, and wealthy households are consumers, and the emperor is both a consumer and a ruler.

Ordinary people farm and produce, and then only consumers like them can enjoy it.It can be seen from this that the nobles, powerful officials, wealthy officials and the emperor are competing for resources.

Some people say that whether nobles, powerful people, and officials can be abolished, first of all, this is not in line with social laws. In addition, these noble people, powerful people, and big officials are also the goals of ordinary people.

Ordinary people do not want to be ordinary people for the rest of their lives or for generations to come. Similarly, Xihuang can become a noble, powerful, and wealthy official. This is human nature and cannot be stopped.

If Wang Jing dares to forcibly stop it, then the world will soon appear. The world has been working hard for a long time. Does the prince and general Xiang Ning have the guts?

In the early stages of dynasties in history, they would not block the upward path of people at the bottom.In the middle and late dynasties, class solidification will become more and more serious, and in the end it will completely block the opportunity for the people at the bottom to get ahead.

This was the case for Huang Chao in real history. He failed in many attempts, and in the end he directly rebelled.

On the other hand, the court also needs officials, nobles, powerful people, and wealthy families to assist in its rule.After all, there are thousands of miles of vast rivers and mountains, hundreds of millions of people, such a large territory, and so many people that even Wang Jing cannot manage even if he is exhausted.

As for relying on royal personnel, there are only a few hundred members of the royal family so far.It is also delusional to want to rely on the public clan.The members of the public family do not have the protection of their ancestors, and those who are close to the royal family can still be restrained. However, many of those who are far from the royal family are almost as powerful as powerful ones.

Since ancient times, people's hearts have been the most difficult to predict.Just like the last time Wang Jing enfeoffed members of the clan, over the years, many clans have become like powerful men.

After the feudal clans were enfeoffed, these clans began to put the interests of their respective families first.

Wang Jing was naturally aware of this situation.In the past, the public family and the royal family were close to each other. This was because the royal family had a long history of teaching by words and deeds, supplying various materials, and having high moral requirements.Now that all of this is gone, how can we still demand that the public family remain as it was before?
On the one hand, the imperial court now suppresses nobles, powerful men, and officials; on the other hand, it actively forges ahead and wants to expand its living space.Now it seems to be working very well.

Wang Ze dealt with those noble and wealthy families in Linzi, and directly arrested a large number of people.In the end, the number of people involved exceeded [-].

Wang Ze didn't care whether there were many innocent people among these people, he didn't have the time.What about being innocent?The people who were framed were innocent.

After working hard to grow food for a year, watering and fertilizing, pulling weeds and catching insects, we finally had a good harvest, but ended up selling the food for money, only to get a lot of bad money?

For those powerful people, it is just the money for a meal, but for these common people, it is their savings for a year.How many people will lose their families because of this?
Although these powerful relatives and friends did not participate in minting bad coins, they still enjoyed the money they earned.In this case, don't blame the court for being harsh.

Why did ancient emperors like to involve themselves?In ancient times, clans were emphasized. If one person was an official, the whole family would ascend to heaven.

When enjoying, the family enjoys together, and when being punished, one person is punished. How is this possible?Not fair at all!
What's more, if there is no implication, there will definitely be children from wealthy families who will take risks. They will take risks for further opportunities, because they understand that if they succeed, they will have power over the whole government, and their family will also You can become a top family, but if you fail, you will only die, but the family will not be implicated.

For those wealthy families, this requires only a minimal investment, no risk at all, and the returns are very high.

This scene happened in real history. It was during the Eastern Jin Dynasty. When the emperor traveled south, the king and the horse shared the world. The king of the Langya Wang family led the two brothers Wang Dun. One of them assisted the Sima family to establish the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the other Wang Dun rebelled.

In the end, Wang Dun's rebellion failed. The emperor at that time also said that Wang Dun was Wang Dun and the prime minister was the prime minister, and they should not be confused with each other.

In the end, Wang Dun's crime was only cured, without any harm to the Wang family of Langya. Wang Dao was even granted the title of Duke of Shixing County, with a settlement of [-] households, [-] pieces of silk, and the title of Taibao.

The prosperity of the Eastern Jin Dynasty has reached an appalling level.

Wang Jing deliberately did not abolish the crime of association, just to suppress the nobles, powerful and wealthy families.If these powerful families are not restricted, perhaps in a few decades, these counties will be divided up by more than a dozen noble, powerful, and wealthy families.

Although Wang Jing was implicated, at least he did not kill him indiscriminately, but exiled him. Although he was thousands of miles away, at least he still had a chance to rise.

Half of the nobles and heroes in Linzi City were captured by Wang Ze, and tens of thousands of them were sent to the Western Regions. At the same time, before the affairs in Linzi City were finished, Wang Ze hurriedly led his army to Handan.Compared with Linzi, bad money is also rampant here in Handan.

Before Wang Ze came to Handan, he had already sent people in advance to take over the garrison of Handan City.After Wang Ze arrived, the army immediately took control of the entire city.

Immediately afterwards, Wang Ze directly repeated the operations of Linzi City. Because Wang Ze moved too quickly and used an army to block the news from Linzi, the officials, nobles, and powerful people in Handan had not had time to receive the news, and they were all killed by Wang Ze. .

(End of this chapter)