A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 589 Return to the Central Plains

The huge wealth obtained by the Wang family from overseas has ensured the livelihood of the Wang family and maintained the family's strength. Although it occupies a large amount of territory, this is also the limit to which the Wang family can expand now.

The population is insufficient, and no matter how many places they occupy, it is only on paper. These places are like duckweeds in the water and cannot withstand any wind and waves.

A more important reason is that Wang's arrival will bring more advanced knowledge and technology, which is likely to accelerate the development of these natives, so Wang has always been very restrained.

All technologies are kept strictly confidential, and books and other knowledge are never allowed to be spread.

After the Central Plains regained stability, the Wang family began to turn their attention to Zhu Xia in order to obtain more luck, hoping to increase the family's luck by obtaining titles.

In Guanhai City, there is the Wang Ancestral Temple. Although Daqian has been destroyed, the Wang family has always used the emperor's etiquette to worship the ancestral temple.

At this time, an internal meeting was being held in the ancestral temple, and those participating in the meeting were all the direct descendants of the Wang family. They took off their usual clothes, put on the most formal crowns, and sat around.

Those who are qualified to participate in the meeting are all direct descendants of the family head within three generations. There are about a hundred people, but there are only a dozen people who are qualified to speak.

Wang Maode looked at the gathering of direct descendants, suppressed the excitement in his heart, and said directly: "Since the family moved overseas, it has been many years since the family has had such a major event.

I have called you all here today because there is a big matter to discuss.

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone in the entire hall suddenly became excited. Although Guanhai City is very good, their dreams have always been about the Central Plains and the land of Zhuxia.

"Master, are we ready to go back?" everyone asked excitedly.

"We also have to be careful."

Will the family return to the Central Plains again? "

"Whether we want to go back or not, doesn't it have to be discussed?" the head of the family said with a smile.

"The deposed emperor was only twelve years old, and he was Yang Jian's grandson. However, he was killed after being granted the titles of Three Kings and Two Kes for a long time."

Wang Maode looked at everyone and was very pleased, and said in a deep voice: "We can't go back all at once, we have to discuss it, and don't make a big show of it. The current Sui Dynasty is not a big one, and we have a lot to worry about."

"I understand, Master!"

The Wang family has accumulated wealth overseas, and at the same time has retained the Yulin Guard. After years of development, the Yulin Guard has a permanent strength of 5,000 people, but there are still tens of thousands of peasant soldiers. As long as there is an order, they will come immediately in armor. .

There are the tombs of the Wang family's ancestors for generations, and it is the place where the family has lived for thousands of years. They dream of returning there. Although every direct descendant of the Wang family has gone to the land of Zhuxia, they have never stayed there for a long time.

"By the way, this Prince Zhu Xia is not a good person, let alone a kindhearted person. Not long ago, news came from Huai'an that the deposed emperor who abdicated the throne was killed."

"Then what are we discussing? I will definitely go back!"

After returning to the Central Plains this time, naturally they would not all come back at once. After discussion with the Wang family, they finally decided to send some people into the Sui Kingdom first.

Although the main line of the Wang family did not remain in Zhuxia, the Wang family in Huai'an has always existed. With the help of the Wang family in Huai'an, these people easily entered the Central Plains without any surprises.

After all, it is not a big deal for wealthy nobles to hide their population. It is simply not too much. Although the Huai'an Wang family has fallen into decline in the eyes of many people, it is still a first-class wealthy family in Jiangzuo. Wang sent men to Chang'an.

The leader is Wang Xuanze, the eldest son of Wang Maode, the contemporary head of the Wang clan.

Wang Xuanze led a caravan to Chang'an, the city of Daxing rebuilt by the Sui Dynasty. The ancient city of Chang'an was dilapidated and abandoned due to the war. The ancient city of Chang'an was built in Xianyang, Qin Dynasty, and has a history of 900 years.

Due to environmental changes in the city, sewage is not discharged smoothly, which has polluted the groundwater.

So in the second year of Kaihuang, Emperor Yang Jian of the Sui Dynasty ordered the construction of a new city. The new city was west of the Bahe River and on the south bank of the Weihe River. It had convenient transportation, flat land and an excellent location.

Then it took a year to build a new city. Of course, because of the short time required and the heavy tasks, Daxing City only built the palace, the imperial city, the palace, the government office, the square and the two cities at the beginning. There are also aqueducts and drainage channels have been built.

Because of the short time, many things were directly moved from the original palace to this place.

Although it is a little rushed, after these years of development, the entire Daxing City has become extremely prosperous, and the city is not inferior to Luoyang in the past.

When Wang Xuanze led the caravan here, he saw the most magnificent city in the world.

When coming to Daxing City, the caravan passed through Luoyang. The once glorious Luoyang City had been ruined. After decades of war and population migration, Luoyang City had long lost its former glory.

Even the tombs of successive Wang emperors were frequently damaged, and many of the temples for worship and the stone statues of civil and military ministers on the ground were damaged.

However, the tomb was not robbed. There was no gold, silver or jewelry in the tomb of Emperor Qian in the past dynasties, and it did not attract tomb robbers. At that time, Liu Yu specially arranged tomb guards and protected the tomb.

Along the way, Wang Xuanze gained an intuitive understanding of the Sui Dynasty. The most prominent issue was that the Sui Dynasty changed the three-level system of prefectures, counties, and counties into two levels.

Because of the war that year, the kings of various regions appointed officials on their own, so in order to appoint officials, the prefectures and counties during the Qian Dynasty were further subdivided. As a result, when the Sui Dynasty unified the world, there were one hundred states and four to five hundred counties. The system is in disarray.

So Yang Jian ordered the abandonment of the county system and changed it to the state and county system. However, with this change, there were 200 states and more than 1,000 counties across the country.

You must know that in the heyday of the Daqian Dynasty, there were only 21 states, and then there were more than a hundred counties under the states, and there were nearly a thousand counties.

Now the imperial court is directly responsible for two hundred states, which is equivalent to the current flower growers canceling the provinces, and the imperial court directly governs the city level. In this case, the workload of the imperial court directly doubled.

As a result, the court would need to add a large number of officials, perhaps more than five times the number, and due to the division of states and counties below, a large number of officials would also be added.

As a result, the operating costs of the Sui Dynasty's court were much higher than those of the Daqian Dynasty. Of course, this is not without its benefits. The state and county system has torn the world into pieces, and the local governments no longer have the strength to confront the imperial court.

It can be said that in this way, the power of the imperial court has been greatly enhanced, and the power of local governments has been greatly weakened. And the number of senior officials is much smaller.

It can only be said that each has its own advantages and disadvantages.

(End of this chapter)