A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 531 Change (1)

"Daqian is prosperous, how can those people be the opponents of the imperial court? Now they are far from threatening the country of Daqian. The country of Daqian is still stable. According to the current trend, there is no problem for Daqian to continue for another two hundred years." Na Shi Zi said calmly.

"Is this the only way the world can be like this?" Another scholar was unwilling to accept it. After all, as Confucian scholars, they had the ideal of cultivating themselves, governing the country, and bringing peace to the world.

The scholar in blue just now put the chess pieces in his hands into the chessboard and said: "You and I are nothing, so why worry about such important national affairs? There are more than a hundred smart people in the court? How can they be as useful as us?" Have a good time playing chess!"

"That's right, I can't wait for a white man to seek his political position, so what's the point of thinking more!"

In the Western Region, the setting sun is like blood, and the yellow sand is thousands of miles away.

Killing cries resounded throughout the fields, and tens of thousands of troops were fighting. At this moment, an army of about 5,000 people rushed towards them from a distant slope like a flood.

The two armies that were fighting had no time to reorganize their formation. Five thousand cavalry rushed forward, directly cutting one of them in two, and then cooperated with each other to strangle.

"Your Highness, King Wusun has been defeated so hard that he must not have the strength to fight anymore. Why don't we take the opportunity to completely eliminate them?"

"Don't be careless!" Wang Gu looked at the battlefield in the distance. This time he led an army of five thousand, joined the Liang Kingdom Temple Army and the Western Region Protectorate Army, and came to the aid of Zheng Kingdom. After several hard battles, Wusun was finally defeated. The country repulsed.

"Wusun has millions of citizens and 100,000 cavalry. If we really fight hard, even if we defeat them, we won't be able to gain any favor." Wang Gu shook his head and said, "What's more, we still have to rescue Qiuci and Suiye."

Since the imperial court sent an army to march westward two years ago, Wang Gu has been fighting here continuously with the armies of the five countries in the Western Regions. In addition to the Wusun and Dawan people, the Huns also continued to invade the Western Regions. Nowadays, the Western Regions can be said to be full of wars.

Small countries are struggling to survive, while big countries are expanding their strength. Although Daqian is not as powerful in the Western Region, the Western Region is vast and soldiers need to guard separately, and it is impossible to quell the chaos.

Fortunately, after defeating Wusun, if Dawan was defeated, Daqian would have the manpower and time to re-establish stability in the Western Regions.

The war in the Western Region and the interruption of business for two consecutive years have reduced the imperial tax revenue by millions. This trade road was very important to Daqian. From Dunhuang all the way east, the four counties in Hexi and Longyou Guanzhong, half of the taxes paid by these counties every year were due to this trade road.

Without this trade road, the four counties in Hexi and Longyou will soon decline. At the same time, the imperial court lost millions of dollars in income, and the northern border was also unstable, and the imperial court once again fell into a situation of financial shortage.

The court had no money, so things became even more difficult, especially in the North because of the chaos caused by the barbarians, and the Zhenbei Protectorate had completely lost control of the situation.

Twelve tribes of Xiongnu, Fuyu people, Xianbei people and other mixed tribes fought in melee. The military strength of the Zhenbei Protectorate was simply unable to subdue these tribes. At that time, in order to save money and food, the imperial court abolished most of the Zhenbei Protectorate, divided the Huns into twelve tribes, and relaxed the supervision of the Huns. The result was today's situation.

In the past, the Daqian court only wanted to suppress the Xiongnu. As a result, the Xiongnu's power was suppressed, and other grassland tribes took the opportunity to rise. The Xiongnu, which was once a dominant family, has now become a three-point grassland.

Although these barbarians did not dare to invade due to the power of Daqian, some small actions occurred one after another. Nowadays, there are many barbarian tribes on the grassland. If they can be unified, they will be a serious problem for the Daqian court. A heavy rain in Guanzhong relieved the drought in Guanzhong. Strong winds blew through and the clouds moved eastward. Then it started to rain in Guandong. The rain moistened the dry and cracked land in the north.

The rain falls on the mottled walls of Luoyang City, and the moss in the cracks in the walls becomes more green.

Wang Yi stood on the wall of the palace city and looked at the city in front of him from a distance. As the center of the Daqian Empire, this was a well-deserved economic and cultural center. Although it was raining, caravans were still coming and going on the Suzaku Street. Continuously.

Luoyang City, with a population of more than 500,000, is the city where the imperial court collects the most taxes. However, according to family calculations, all kinds of tax revenue in Luoyang City are declining.

Since the fifth year of Jianxing, the imperial court's tax revenue has been slowly declining. Just from the tax revenue, we can see that the imperial court is now worse than ever. But even though they saw it, the royal family had no solution.

This is different from the situation the court encountered before, and even different from the situation in the vassal states during the Xianhuai period. At that time, there were countless wars, levies and expropriations in the vassal states, but as long as the monarch was wise and tyranny was abolished, the country would soon regain its strength, but this was not the case in Daqian.

Although Wang Yi was only the leader of the defense and was talented, he was not stupid, and he did not issue any edicts to oppress the people. Although the princes in the court did not say that they were dedicated to the country, the court was operating normally and there was no problem. Mistakes.

When disasters occur in various places, timely rescue will be provided. If there are nobles, noble families, and powerful people below who have done too much, they will also be cleaned up. But the world has still reached its current situation step by step.

The problem for the court is simple. The population is growing, but the growth of productivity is far less than the growth of population.

The imperial court was constantly moving and immigrating, and exiled officials, noble families, and powerful people who had committed crimes. This step is not wrong, but it can only slow down.

A few days ago, there was a discussion in the court about moving some noble, powerful, and official families to the border areas. But the resistance was so great that the officials who raised the issue gave up hastily.

After all, if it passes, who will be sent? There are no criminal laws, but the whole family is driven to the border? I'm afraid that as long as this decree is passed, the world will suddenly be in chaos. The court will also become a smoky mess, and you will no longer be able to govern the world.

Even the royal family had many objections to this decree.

Faced with this situation, the royal family is also discussing how to reform. The most radical one is to clean up all the noble, powerful, and official families and move them to the border areas.

If these noble, powerful, and official families who control a large amount of land are all cleared out, a large amount of land and rights will be immediately vacated in Daqian. The land alone can allow a large number of people to have acres of land, which can change the current situation in the future. Delayed for hundreds of years.

But after doing this, the imperial court was completely unable to control the world. With a vast territory of thousands of miles and hundreds of millions of people, can it be controlled by the emperor alone? He couldn't do it even if he was exhausted.

Or the royal family and the children of the official family can be enfeoffed to various places to take charge of one place and handle government affairs. But this is no different from the enfeoffment of Zhou Dynasty in the past? In less than a few decades, the world will become the Xianhuai Kingdoms again.

(End of this chapter)