The Great Han Dynasty: From Feng Lang Juxu to the Eternal Emperor

Chapter 482 The country is in chaos

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty only felt that his head was getting more and more painful. He covered his forehead and said to Liu Huan: "You can figure it out yourself. Qi Bin needs to be used."

Liu Huan nodded and said: "My son, please be careful. Father, please rest first."

Liu Huan left with his hands behind his back, and then said to the eunuchs on his left and right: "Go to the Detective Department and send Qi Bin to prison."

"Here!"

……

Detective Department, Qi Bin couldn't help but gasp when he was thrown into prison not long after he returned from the palace.

He sat in the prison with his eyes closed, thinking about the whole story.

Is the eldest prince trying to show his authority to me?

Without His Majesty's permission, he naturally has no power to jail me. Even if I am jailed now, there is no specific punishment. What does this mean?
It shows that Liu Huan just wanted to intimidate me so that I can be used by him.

But if I really want to find someone to support me, why don't I go to the prince?
It was because he didn't want to take sides and knew that he and the Detective Department were positioned to serve Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty alone, so he ignored Liu Huan.

I have to say that this eldest prince is really narrow-minded and the little tricks he uses are despicable.

Qi Bin originally looked at Liu Huan with admiration, but it seemed that he was overthinking it.

After being imprisoned for three days, Qi Bin was released and was immediately summoned by Liu Huan.

Liu Huan looked at Qi Bin with a smile and said, "I heard that Mr. Qi was imprisoned recently?"

"Don't feel aggrieved. The reason why you do this is to give an explanation to the civil servants of the outer court."

Qi Bin clasped his fists and said respectfully: "I don't dare."

Liu Huan hummed and asked Qi Bin again: "Go on your errands these days. Keep an eye on me at the East Palace and report to me if there is any situation."

Qi Bin clasped his fists and said, "I don't dare because of my humble position. I wonder if this is His Majesty's instruction?"

Liu Huan said with a cold face: "No!"

"But Mr. Qi, the civil servants of the outer court are still impeaching you, and I have suppressed you a lot."

Qi Bin said neither humble nor arrogantly: "Thank you, Your Highness, but I don't need it."

"you?!"

Liu Huan gritted his teeth and stared at Qi Bin, and said coldly: "Okay, okay! Mr. Qi is such a good dog!"

Qi Bin clasped his fists and said, "Does your Highness have anything else to do?"

Liu Huan suppressed his anger and said, "No more! You can leave."

"My minister retire."

Qi Bin stepped out of Weiyang Palace, determined in his heart that people like Liu Huan could not achieve great things.

But what is certain is that once Liu Huan really ascends the throne in the future, he will definitely die for what he did today!

Liu Huan was personally pushing Qi Bin to Weining. Even after practicing outside for so long, he would still float whenever he got a little bit of power.

Such people are destined to fail.

……

The country's four ministers and two assistant ministers were dismissed from office, and serious vacancies began to appear in the six departments. The group of people who were promoted simply did not have enough ability and experience to serve as senior officials.

In less than three months, the country began to fall into chaos.

The tax collection of the Ministry of Household Affairs began to be disorganized, and the treasury had less and less money.

The Ministry of Personnel employs nepotism and promotes many officials who should not have been promoted. This group of officials has no job, and based on the principle that if you don't do things, you will not make mistakes. Everything is a pretext. The Ministry of Rites is fine, the impact is not too big.

The tax revenue that Sang Hongyang had finally stabilized began to fall into chaos again this month, and the tax reduction became more and more serious.

Education in academies across the country, which was supposed to be in charge, was once again controlled by businessmen, and local school instructors and businessmen were in cahoots.

Not to mention the country’s engineering problems after Lu Chongguo stepped down.

Nowadays, almost all major projects in Han Dynasty are contracted by businessmen. Businessmen and bureaucrats collude with each other and embezzle a lot of financial funds.

The entire country has begun to develop rapidly on an uncontrolled path.

The national power of the Han Dynasty seemed to have begun to decline in just half a year. The soldiers in the Ministry of War were slack in training, and frictions often occurred in the northwest.

The most serious incident was undoubtedly that the Han Dynasty's firecrackers were sold to the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Western Regions. After obtaining the ratio of firecrackers and gunpowder, the Sixteenth Western Regions countries also began to vigorously research firearms.

It is not easy for a country to become strong and prosperous. It requires the efforts of generations, but it is very easy to become corrupt. As long as the leader of the country is ignorant, the country will begin to decline in just half a year.

In June of the second year of Taichu, a conflict broke out between the Han Dynasty and the Han Dynasty in the northwest. When a group of merchants were transporting silk into the Western Regions, they were massacred by horse bandits and robbed the goods.

The Silk Road also began to become unsafe.

For this reason, the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Western Regions began to send troops to control the Silk Road. As a result, all the road expenses that should have belonged to the Han Dynasty now went into the pockets of the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Western Regions.

The people in the northwest frontier must be counting on the Silk Road for mutual trade. The Han Dynasty is now completely unable to collect the taxes on road maintenance.

Economic weakness will inevitably lead to friction and war.

The local governor of the Western Regions requested the court to intervene.

The Ministry of Rites first notified the sixteen countries in the Western Regions to return control of the Silk Road, but it did not have much effect.

In fact, the ultimate reason is that the sixteen countries in the Western Regions have also felt that the Han Dynasty's political power is in chaos and that it is in internal chaos.

Now is the best time to invade the Han Dynasty's territory and search for economic benefits.

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Weiyang Palace.

When Liu Huan informed Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty of a series of situations in the northwest, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was furious.

"Why didn't the prince come to write these things?" Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's first reaction was to blame Weining.

Normally, when something happened in the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Western Regions, Weining would immediately express his serious relationship and then give advice, but now there are fewer and fewer people who can advise Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

He seemed to realize that what he said was inappropriate, and said angrily: "Where are the three provinces and six ministries? Are all these ministries dead?"

Only at this moment did Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty realize how useless the bunch of losers he promoted were!
When anything happens outside, their first reaction is not to solve the problem, but to hide it from Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and create a scene for him that the country is still prosperous!

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was furious and immediately summoned the ministries of the three provinces and six ministries. When all these senior officials arrived at the Qilin Hall, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was a little confused.

Almost all the familiar people are gone now, and the only one I really know is Dong Zhongshu.

The imperial court has changed a group of officials, many of whom he has never seen.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty looked at Dong Zhongshu angrily and asked, "You are the chief of Zhongshu Province! Such a big thing happened in the northwest, why are you writing to me now?"

Dong Zhongshu clasped his fists and said in a neither humble nor arrogant tone: "Your Majesty, I thought that your Majesty did not pay attention to this. I have sent many memorials before, but your Majesty has not approved them, so I did not submit a letter."

"you!"

Now he really understands what it means to be a person who has gained the right to be helped by many people, and a person who has lost the right to the right to have little help.

But things are done by oneself, and no matter what, one has to grit his teeth and swallow it!
(End of this chapter)