A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 567 The end of everything, the spring of opening up for the nobility

The imperial court's ability to recruit peasants and soldiers shocked everyone. The powerful, noble, and official families were all shocked.

You must know that the peasant soldiers hired by the royal family are just fake in the eyes of many people. They think that they are rewards from the royal family to the ministers who have made meritorious service, and they do not pay too much attention to the strength of the peasant soldiers, but the reality is that they are severely punished. a lesson.

Next, part of the imperial court's border troops and peasant soldiers gathered together, and then began to attack and conquer from all directions.

The Daqian army continued to defeat the rebels through large and small battles. At the same time, powerful and noble rebels from all over the country were also defeated.

It's just that things in the world cannot be solved by force alone. Although the peasant uprisings have been suppressed now, if those people are not given a way to survive, these desperate people will soon rise up again.

At that time, the imperial army will rush back and forth to continuously defeat the rebels. As soon as one army was defeated on this side, another one appeared on the other side. As long as the army left, another one would appear soon.

In the end, the imperial soldiers and horses were exhausted and exhausted, and were finally defeated by the endless rebel army.

Because many powerful people who opposed the imperial court joined the rebel army, the strength of the original rebel army began to increase rapidly, at least it was no longer the ragtag group it had been before. Some rebels have even gathered thousands of soldiers.

There are fewer and fewer pure rebels among them, and the vast majority of the rebels have been seized of power by the powerful and noble people who joined them.

Under such circumstances, it was no longer appropriate to continue to implement the reform, so Wang Yan ordered to suspend the implementation of the new law. At the same time, he began to send officials to appease the people and re-grant acres of land to the people.

The imperial court abolished commodity price limits and abolished land redistribution. Allow merchants to continue selling goods, appease the people, and allocate acres of land to the people.

With the end of the reform, many powerful, noble, and official families began to support the imperial court.

Yanzhou, Yuzhou, Qingzhou, Jizhou, these densely populated states were quickly eliminated under the sweep of Daqian's army.

After these prefectures and counties wiped out the rebels, the court immediately sent people to restore order.

The Daqian court was dissatisfied with the emperor's suspension of reforms and the abolition of previous policies. The reform-minded officials felt that perhaps their reforms were wrong, but those noble and powerful official families were the cancer.

They should be severely attacked and eliminated.

Wang Yan watched these people arguing calmly and said calmly: "It is right to attack the powerful, but if it comes at the cost of chaos in the world, countless casualties of the people, rampant plague, no roosters crowing for thousands of miles, and bones exposed in the wild, then this price is too high. Big!”

"Why do we attack powerful people?"

"For the people to live and work in peace and contentment, for the prosperity of Zhuxia civilization, and for the prosperity of Daqian!"

"But what now? How many more people will die if we continue?"

"Now that the world is in chaos and the Great Qian's vitality is severely damaged, do you think those barbarians will take the opportunity to attack? Can the civilization of Zhuxia be preserved in this chaos?"

"Can Daqianjiangshan Sheji be preserved?"

"Is Your Majesty going to compromise with those people?" A group of reformist scholars cried bitterly.

"Compromise? No!" Wang Yan shook his head: "Suppressing the powerful has always been a national policy of Daqian, but this time we are too impatient to suppress the powerful, and the method used is incorrect!"

"We suppress powerful people in order to allow the people to live a stable life and allow Daqian to continue to prosper, but now the suppression of powerful people has deviated from this purpose!"

"Now the world is on fire, and countless people have died. The number of people who died in the war is far higher than the people who died under the oppression of the powerful. This reform has lost its meaning!" "In the past, I agreed with your reform because I wanted to Reform in a peaceful way so that the people will not be oppressed and let Daqian continue to be glorious. What will happen if the world continues now?" Wang Yan sighed.

"Ambitionists will be overjoyed. They will do everything possible to provoke a war and then profit from it. When they are strong enough, they will compete for the top spot!"

"There are countless casualties among the people, mountains of corpses piled up, and rivers of blood. How many of the hundreds of millions of people will be left in the end?"

"The current reform method is too radical, or it can be said that we have underestimated the backlash from the world's powerful, noble, and official families and have not made enough preparations. We have failed this time, so we should be prepared next time and continue. !”

Wang Yan's attitude determined the direction of the court and the reform was terminated.

Immediately afterwards, the imperial army began to fight against the rebel armies from various places. Many rebel armies were joined by strong men, but even so, they were no match for the imperial army.

One after another, the rebel armies were defeated by the imperial army, and the situation in the world gradually stabilized.

At this time, urgent news came from the north that the Xiongnu and Xianbei invaded.

The Xiongnu raised 200,000 troops and the Xianbei raised 300,000 troops. They invaded from Beidi County and Shuofang County respectively.

Fortunately, the imperial court never relaxed the border, and the soldiers of the pioneering nobles barely kept the Xiongnu and Xianbei out of the Great Wall. However, basically all the land outside the Great Wall was lost, and a lot of land was also lost in the Hetao area.

However, there were still many small groups of Hu people who crossed mountains and ridges or took rugged trails to enter the land of Zhuxia. The imperial court could only postpone its action and then send troops to deal with those Hu people.

Daqian's army was mobilized back and began to capture the Hu people. Without the suppression of the imperial army, those rebels began to resurrect.

Many powerful people, nobles, and noble families saw the Hu invaders and felt that this was a good opportunity to overthrow the imperial court in one fell swoop, so they joined the rebel army one after another.

The rebel army, which had been greatly weakened, quickly recovered and became stronger than before. The world, which was about to be peaceful, seemed to be at war again in the next second.

These rebels are already qualitatively different from the mob at the beginning.

After seeing this situation, Wang Yan had no choice but to give an order to the pioneering nobles in the south, ordering them to raise troops to suppress the rebels.

Wang Yan knew very well that the rebel army had been controlled by powerful people and transformed into a rebel army.

After receiving the imperial edict, the pioneering nobles in the south were overjoyed. With the imperial edict, the original order limiting the size of their troops was naturally cancelled. The reins that were originally on their heads were suddenly loosened.

These pioneering nobles recruited soldiers, and then led the army to cooperate with the imperial army and began to exterminate the rebels.

Although the strength of these powerful rebels has improved a lot, they are no match for the army of pioneering nobles who have been fighting barbarians all year round.

With the help of the army of pioneering nobles, the imperial court once again wiped out these rebels. At the same time, a large number of powerful people and nobles were also eliminated, and the pioneering nobles also took the opportunity to begin transporting a large number of prisoners back to their fiefdoms.

It can be said that although the imperial court pacified the world, tens of millions of people in Daqian were killed or injured in this turmoil. And more importantly, the rise of the pioneering nobility.

(End of this chapter)