A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 586: Time flies by and a hundred years pass by

The world was in chaos for twenty years, and it took Liu Yu twelve years to rule the world. At this time, Liu Yu had just turned forty and was in his prime, and Liu Song was also at the peak of his powers.

Because Liu Song came from the common people, he could be said to be the real emperor of common people, and the first emperor born from common people since the Three Emperors and Five Emperors. Liu Yu knew the sufferings of the people and the oppression of the people by powerful families, nobles, and classics families.

When it was gaining momentum, it even encountered situations where wealthy families wanted to influence its will. Therefore, it was very wary of wealthy families. After the founding of the country, it directly set the "Han Su Master Secret Order". Directly keep out those wealthy families who have learned classics and scholars.

After the new political situation developed, during the next period of recuperation and the northern defense of the Xianbei Xiongnu, Liu Song's power gradually stabilized.

Because the Wang family belonged to the royal family of the previous dynasty, they kept a low profile in the Liu Song Dynasty. Although they were rewarded by the Marquis of Huai'an, the Wang family did not feel arrogant.

The prefect of Huai'an City still asked the imperial court to appoint him. At the same time, he did not encroach on the two thousand households granted food by the imperial court and acted in full accordance with the rules.

As for the guards of the Marquis of Huai'an, they were reduced from 200 to 50, which can be said to be very low-key.

The person who held the title of Marquis of Huai'an was not the head of the Wang family. After Wang Jing's death, his second son succeeded him as the Marquis of Huai'an. The eldest son inherited the position of the head of the family and then went to Ryukyu.

The Wang family did not intervene in the politics of the Liu Song Dynasty, but kept a cold eye on it, recording the history of the Liu Song Dynasty and the civil situation of the Liu Song Dynasty.

The Wang family moved 90% of their power to the Da Liuqiu Island. Wang Jing, who had been in power for twenty years, built a sea-viewing city on the Da Qian court with the help of the last strength of the Da Qian court.

These barbarians need to come to Guanhai City to pay tribute every year. After the Yulin Guards came here, they began to enfeoff the land. Not many of them are still organized, mainly because the Wang family cannot afford to support 30,000 Yulin Guards.

After decades of development, Guanhai City now has a population of 200,000 people, most of whom are branch members of the Wang family.

The Yulin Guards were reduced to 5,000 people, and the remaining people became peasant soldiers. However, because there were fewer overseas people and more land, each family of peasant soldiers was directly allocated 600 acres of land.

Even if one has the long-distance navigation technology, it is extremely difficult to attack Guanhai City.

The Wang family is now the king of the sea, controlling ocean navigation and the only power on the sea. No barbarian from any city-state tribe around them dares to show off their power.

The Wang family is superior to everyone else in all aspects such as farming technology, culture, medical care, education, agriculture, and handicrafts.

The Wang family's rule at sea was similar to the tribute system of the Yin and Shang Dynasties.

Guanhai City was built on the Da Liuqiu Island, and all the city-states and tribes on the sea would come to pay tribute and conduct transactions. Even the ships they were traveling on were built by the Wang family to transport and connect the islands.

Over the years, other people on the island have blended in, moving from the era of slash-and-burn farming into the civilized era.

Each of these people has one or two people in each family who do not work in farming and mulberry fields, but work hard on their bones and muscles and practice martial arts diligently. Once a war breaks out, they will immediately arm themselves.

At the same time, through the navy, Wang controlled the Ryukyu Islands and the Fuso Islands. Except for two islands on the Fuso Islands that are directly controlled by the Wang family, the remaining islands exist as city-state tribes.

What's more, the Wang family also has the sacred weapon Wind Control Banner in hand. If the war is really unfavorable, a typhoon can wipe out your entire army.

Outside Guanhai City, the rice fields are undulating. Over the years, the climate has been warm and humid, and the food production has increased year by year. In addition, the Wang family has been using the navy to hunt giant kun, using fish bones to make fertilizer, and also mining The struvite on some islands is used as fertilizer, and the yield here has reached an astonishing four and a half to five stone per mu.

The sufficient food can easily feed these subjects who follow the Wang family. Although the Wang family discovered fertilizer a long time ago, due to production problems, it could not be supplied to the whole country and could only be used in small quantities. However, after the collapse of the Great Qian, the Wang family suddenly discovered that the fertilizer they had developed before could feed millions of people. One hundred thousand or hundreds of people is more than enough.

After filling your stomach, people will have time to think about other things. Only after we have a material foundation can we continue to develop various technologies.

While the Wang family was focusing on farming and developing technology, the Central Plains was once again experiencing its heyday.

Liu Yu unified the world, and then he treated the people lightly with little tax and recuperated. In the past twenty years, the national power of Liu Song rose to several levels. After several battles, the barbarians in the north were defeated one after another, and they even dared not invade the border again.

In the twenty-sixth year of Yongchu, Liu Yu died at the age of sixty-six. His posthumous title was Wu, and he was called Emperor Gaozu Wu of the Song Dynasty. His son Liu Yifu came to the throne.

But Liu Yifu was not the material to be the emperor, and he was the son born only after Liu Yu ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor. He had never lived among the people and had no idea of ​​the sufferings of the people. He also liked hunting and ignored the government.

Under this circumstance, the Liu Song Dynasty quickly deteriorated, and was then abolished by the ministers of civil and military affairs, and his third brother Liu Yilong was made emperor.

This Liu Yilong is completely different from Liu Yifu. He first controlled the palace and the army, then cut off the powerful ministers step by step, and finally achieved monopoly of power.

Liu Yilong changed Yuan Dynasty to Yuanjia, and then began to work hard to govern, and the national power of Liu Song Dynasty became more and more prosperous. It's just that it's still far behind the heyday of Daqian.

As spring goes and autumn comes, the years are like a song.

The majestic Chang'an City is like the blazing sun, shining on the entire land of Zhuxia.

After moving the capital here, the city of Chang'an grew rapidly. The fertile Guanzhong Plain nurtured a large number of people, and was surrounded by eight rivers including Jingwei and Jingwei, which continuously nourished this land.

The reopening of trade routes in the Western Regions made Chang'an City more prosperous.

After the founding of the Liu Song Dynasty, Emperor Wu established the throne, and Emperor Wen ruled the country, the Liu Song Dynasty had been prosperous for more than a hundred years, but how can there be a banquet that never ends in this world? Has there ever been an undefeated country?

After experiencing its peak, Liu Song began to decline.

Although during the founding period of the Liu Song Dynasty, Han Su was appointed and the Han family was in charge of the secrets, but after these humble families prospered, they soon grew into high-ranking families and wealthy families.

These people became new wealthy families, and then started on the same path as the previous wealthy families, and walked it all over again.

Within a little more than a hundred years of the Liu and Song dynasties, there were already rich people whose land was connected by vast stretches of land and had no worries about food and clothing, while the poor had almost no place to stand and had no choice but to sell themselves and become domestic slaves of wealthy families.

Various conflicts began to break out one after another, and Liu Song's strength began to decline.

Fortunately, the grasslands in the north also entered decline. After the Xianbei people defeated the Huns and dominated the grasslands, civil strife began.

On the grasslands, the position of khan has never been alternating between father and son. After unifying the grasslands, the Great Khan of the Xianbei people wanted to alternate between father and son like in the Central Plains. As a result, turmoil soon broke out.

(End of this chapter)