A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 411 Enfeoffment and Restructuring
Wang Ze established a state in Suiye City as the State of Zhao, and Wang Yu established a state in the Ili Valley as the State of Tang.From then on, there were five vassal states in the Western Regions: Liang, Zheng, Wei, Zhao, and Tang.

Wang Ze and Wang Yu brought 30 nobles and powerful people from the Central Plains who were exiled to the Western Regions. Some of these people were assigned to Zheng and Wei, and [-]% of them were equally divided between Zhao and Tang.

With the arrival of these Gan people, the population ratio of Gan people in Yili Valley and Suiye City immediately increased.

About one-third of the Ili Valley occupied by the Tang State was rich in water and grass and fertile land. In the past, the Hu people's crude planting methods and grazing could feed hundreds of thousands of people. But in the hands of the Gan people, the same land and pasture could feed hundreds of thousands of people. A population of 10 is not a problem.

The water system around Suiye City is developed and the land is fertile, which is also conducive to farming. It only takes a few years for Zhao and Tang to gain a firm foothold.

The five countries in the Western Regions watch and help each other, and the Western Regions can be said to be as stable as Mount Tai.

In order to open up the Western Regions, the imperial court received a large amount of money and carried out a huge project of moving hundreds of thousands of people thousands of miles. This was a big move for any dynasty in ancient times.

The Luoyang court harvested a large amount of money, grain, grass, and land from house raids, but these things were spent in the blink of an eye.

Although the nobles, powerful men, and officials who were exiled in the Western Regions did not need to be given much, they had to be provided with food. The imperial court wanted these people to enrich the Western Regions, not to starve them to death.

In addition to the exiled population, there were also [-] people who migrated there, including a large number of family members of the elite cavalry, and some people recruited by the imperial court to go to the Western Regions.

These people are required by the court to provide money and food. After these people arrive in the Western Regions, they will divide the land. Seriously speaking, they are the foundation of the current Daqian in the Western Regions.

Since the imperial court established its intention to develop the Western Regions, it has encouraged people to go to the Western Regions every year. However, not many people have been willing to move to the Western Regions. On average, there are about one or two thousand households a year, and more people are willing to go to the four counties in Hexi.

In particular, the Silk Road has become more and more famous in recent years. The caravans traveling to and from the Western Regions have brought a large number of Western commodities, such as silver, gold, war horses, leather, grape wine, gems, jade, spices, etc.

These commodities made more and more people aware of the wealth of the Western Regions.

But the Western Region is thousands of miles away after all, and the people prefer to go to the four counties in Hexi.After more than ten years of governance, the four counties in Hexi have become more prosperous. Coupled with the construction of Chidao, the connection between Hexi and the Central Plains has become closer.

The caravans traveling through Hexi also brought a lot of income to the local people, making many people live relatively richly.

In the 35th year of Daqian Tianming, the eldest son of Princess Dawan, the concubine of King Wei, was six years old.King Wei Wangfu granted Yucheng City of Dayuan Kingdom to his eldest son and made him the lord of Eastern Dayuan Kingdom.The area around Yucheng City was divided into the Eastern Dayuan Kingdom.

The population of Dongdawan country is one hundred thousand. The last time the war broke out in Dawan City, these people were greatly shocked. These Dawan people did not dare to resist.In addition, the leader of the East Dayuan Kingdom is also the son of Princess Dayuan, so the people of the Dayuan Kingdom do not have much resistance to him.

After naming his eldest son as the Lord of the Eastern Dayuan Kingdom, the Lord of the Dayuan Kingdom in Guishan City was very angry, but because of the military power of Daqian, he did not dare to complain at all, but secretly instructed the merchants to increase taxes and increase the price of the Dayuan Pegasus. .

The Kingdom of Dayuan was conquered last time and King Dayuan was killed.The King of Dayuan, who was established by the three kings of the Western Regions, has taken control of the political affairs of the Dayuan Kingdom after several years of rule. He was very dissatisfied with Daqian's interference in the political affairs of the Dayuan Kingdom. Now that he has become more powerful, he began to want to exclude the power of Daqian.

If there was only Wei State, Dawan State might have to make some small moves, but since Suiye City was established, King Zhao specially sent envoys from the northeast to Dawan Guishan City to tell King Zhao of Daqian to establish a kingdom in Suiye City. Tell the Lord of Dawan the good news.After hearing the news about the founding of King Daqian Zhao, the leader of Dawan immediately broke out in a cold sweat on his back, and then quickly sent someone to greet the envoy warmly.

Suiye City is about five or six hundred miles northeast of Dawan, and Shulewei is southeast of Dawan. The two countries can be said to be connected by the same spirit. If the two families attack together, Guishan City will be destroyed. I'm afraid it's going to be cold.

After the establishment of Broken Leaf City, it gave him a chilling feeling on his back.

The price of Dawan Tianma increased, and Dawan tariffs increased. After being sold to the Central Plains, the price of Dawan Horse more than doubled.The price of Dawan horses was originally very high, but now it has more than doubled, which directly makes the imperial court's already scarce money even more embarrassing.

Wang Jing had no choice but to mint more copper coins, and at the same time issued an order to the kings of the Western Regions, asking them to teach Dayuan a lesson.

"Tell the kings of the Western Regions to kill the leader of the Dawan Kingdom, establish a new one, and massacre the nobles in the Dawan Kingdom who are hostile to Daqian!"

The kings of the Western Regions will implement the imperial edicts seriously. I believe that the political situation in Dawan will not change much in the next ten years.

Everyone in the court had no reaction to Wang Jing's casual treatment of the life of a Yi Di king.In their view, the life of the leader of the Yi Di Kingdom was not much different from that of a grasshopper.

Soon the edict was issued and then sent to the Western Regions.

The imperial court's control over the kings of the Western Regions is still very high. The Wang family's black bird pattern can be passed down for three generations, and will disappear after three generations. In order to prevent the decline in control of the Western Regions, the Western Regions countries do not replace the father after the death of the son, but adopt Each generation of the imperial court enfeoffed.

It is equivalent to the countries in the Western Region being under the jurisdiction of the royal family.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, the Wang family once divided states into feudal states, and the Wang family branched off, but they also returned to the family a few generations later.

As for whether the children of the Wang family who were enfeoffed would be willing to come back, there must be many who are unwilling.Just like the kings of the Western Regions are now being enfeoffed, do these people want rights?
No, they just want to do something for their family, Da Qian, and Zhu Xia.

Just like all the heirs of the Wang family want to be buried on the banks of the Huai River and the Nanshan Mountain after their death, they want to be closer to their ancestors, but the only thing that can really be buried there is for the family, the Daqian, and the Zhuxia. A descendant of a family with outstanding achievements.

There is even a tacit understanding among the heads of the Wang family in the past dynasties. As the head of the family, he must set an example and cannot bury his own cemetery in Huai River Nanshan.

The royal family and the court set their sights on the Western Regions. In addition to part of the reason for pioneering, part of the reason was that the benefits brought by the Silk Road in the Western Regions were getting higher and higher.

The revenue from the Silk Road has long exceeded the combined revenue from the Central Plains to Lingnan, southern Yunnan, Liaodong, and southern Fujian.

The income from just one Silk Road now accounts for [-]% of Daqian's tax revenue.It can be said that it is the money bag of the imperial court, and the imperial court will naturally not allow any problems in the Western Regions.

(End of this chapter)