A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 568: Return to glory and return to the sun

In the 20th year of Qianning, Wang Yan finally pacified the world, and powerful rebels from all over the country perished after five years of rebellion. After re-pacifying the world, Wang Yan began to deal with the remaining problems.

The reform had completely failed, but Wang Yan did not completely cancel the new law, and even the reformists were not deliberately suppressed.

It's just that a group of reform officials who were incompetent and caused local unrest were captured. In addition, a large number of county officials have been dismissed from their posts and investigated. Even more junior staff and clerks below were arrested.

This time the reform failed, they had a share of the credit, how could Wang Yan let it go. Although many people have died in the peasant uprising, there are still many lucky people who survived, but what awaits them next is prison.

The world has been in chaos for several years. Not only the common people suffered heavy casualties, but also many powerful nobles suffered heavy casualties.

What is ironic is that the original situation of large numbers of people and small land, with no place for the people to stand on has changed. Due to the turmoil, states and counties across the country have large areas of vacant land.

Many acres of land are already overgrown with weeds, and the owners of these lands have died in the previous chaos.

The conflict between man and land in Daqian was temporarily resolved in this way.

The imperial court did not kill all the prisoners, but only some of the leaders and powerful men who had done all the bad things.

The imperial court asked the prisoners to identify each other, and killed the most guilty ones, while the rest were punished with hard labor. Some were sent to mines, and some were exiled to Ryukyu, Liaodong, and Fuso.

Basically you can never come back.

After the rebellion was put down, everything was ready for improvement. The court's order to inspect the land was quickly implemented, and this time no one dared to disobey it.

The imperial court did not implement reforms to equalize the fields. Instead, it sorted out the acres and distributed the vacated fields to the people.

At the same time, local governments also began to lead people to resume production. After this turmoil in Daqian, although there were heavy casualties, various conflicts were temporarily resolved.

The world is in dire straits waiting for prosperity, and the world seems to be back on track.

But Daqian's potential problems were not solved, but were temporarily suppressed.

When peace is restored to the world, the court still needs to reward the soldiers who have made meritorious service, and at the same time, reward the pioneering nobles on the border.

These pioneering nobles helped the royal family to pacify the world and should be rewarded. Even though the royal family knew that these pioneering nobles would be defeated because of this, rewards for their military exploits were the foundation of a country.

If there is no reward for meritorious deeds, how can a large number of soldiers fight to the death again? These pioneering nobles were willing to fight for their country, so naturally they should be rewarded.

The imperial court's reward was to increase their territory, from the original twenty miles and thirty miles in radius to fifty miles in radius.

At the same time, they were rewarded with some gold, silver, and slaves.

Through this war, the pioneering nobles gained a lot of benefits, their territory became larger, and they also obtained a large number of slaves. During the war in the Central Plains, many people left their hometowns and migrated south to avoid the war.

Many of them came to the territory of the pioneering nobles, and through the war, the pioneering nobles gained a large number of prisoners. These people took the prisoners to the fiefdom, but the court did not inquire.

These pioneering nobles have always been short of population. This time during the Daqian turmoil, they gained a large number of people from Daqian.

The population of many people's developed territories was directly increased by half.

With land and population, it can be expected that the strength of the pioneering nobles will increase rapidly in the future. As for whether these pioneering nobles will lose their tail in the future, that is a matter for the future. Even if the pioneering nobles expanded in strength, they would only have hundreds of thousands of people and only a few thousand soldiers, so how could they be the opponents of the imperial court.

The court had too many ways to deal with these pioneering nobles. Whether it is economy, food, or even weapons and armor, these pioneering nobles need to rely on the court.

There are so many restrictive means. If one day in the future, Daqian is destroyed by these pioneering nobles, it can only be said to be destiny.

If you are defeated when you have all the advantages, it also means that your destiny has been exhausted.

The war reduced a large number of people, leaving a lot of land vacant and allowing people to have land for farming.

A large number of powerful, noble, and official families also disappeared in this turmoil. The destructiveness of the war frightened everyone.

Over the next dozen years, stability returned to the Daqian court. However, after years of fighting, Daqian's overall strength has dropped by several levels.

A large number of people died, and a large number of powerful, distinguished, and official families were wiped out. The world is in ruins, but ironically, after this war with heavy casualties, the imperial court completed the "Jianling Reform" presided over by Qian Zhongzong and Chao Cuo more than a hundred years ago.

The common people had land to cultivate, the powerful nobles, and the noble families stayed in their own right. Twenty years after Daqian was in Qianning, it began to revive.

Although the price of this reform for ZTE was heavy.

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Twenty years after Qianning, Daqian seemed to have experienced a reincarnation and everything started again. The war turned Dagan into a wasteland, and then the people who had experienced the war came out of the war and began to restore construction.

The Daqian Dynasty also seemed to be back on track starting from this year. However, the contradiction has not been resolved, but has become deeper and deeper.

In fact, this problem was not solved until the demise of the feudal dynasty. This is also a reason for the periodic law of dynasties.

The pioneering nobles around Daqian also began to grow in size, and the court's control was weakening.

The Zhongxing of Qianning, which was highly praised by ancient literati, actually consumed a large number of people. After killing and injuring countless people, powerful men, nobles, and noble families, Daqian, who was originally sitting in the crater of a volcano, got a moment of respite.

If Wang Yan can take this opportunity to continue to implement reforms, perhaps he can bring about a world we have never seen before.

Of course there are no ifs in history.

Just like many times, we see that reforms in history are not perfect, and even have shortcomings. So did the ancients not know about shortcomings? I don't think so, but the environmental conditions at the time were not perfect.

So those in power need to learn to make choices.

The regulations of Luo Mang's reform are very advanced in our modern eyes, but why did such an advanced system cause chaos and turmoil in the Qiang Dynasty, and the people revolted?

The answer is that the times do not allow it. To this day, we live in an era of extremely abundant materials, but some of the regulations in the Luo Mang Reform still cannot be achieved.

What is impossible to do in modern times when science and technology and materials are so advanced, it was even less possible in ancient times when technology was primitive and materials were scarce. ——"General History of China: The Rise and Fall of the Qian Dynasty"

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