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

Chapter 536: The world is right and wrong
Si Gong is located on Mount Li. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty dressed up for a trip today and arrived at Si Gong. He stood on the high hall and overlooked the entire Chang'an with a gloomy expression.

He has done many right things and great things in his life. He thinks that he was a good emperor in the first half of his life, conscientious and diligent, but he has to admit that he has been ignorant and incompetent for thousands of years.

He personally forced the Han prince and the best heir to death, and now he could only look at Chang'an and cry secretly.

How he wished he could see Weining again. Bits and pieces of the past would always come to his mind. With Weining's help, his empire became truly powerful.

But now, the Han Empire, which did not dare foreigners to go south to herd horses, was in turmoil, and a generation of emperors had to humiliate themselves and began to adopt a shrinking policy.

The country is riddled with holes, and it will take a lot of effort to regain its vitality. He may never reach the height of Weining's rule in this life.

Looking at the rolling mountains, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had to admit that he was not as good as Weining in running the country.

The world is full of people, everything is not over, and when you want to speak, you shed tears first.

……

Northeastern region of South Vietnam.

The intelligence agency established by Wei Qing has been initially completed. These are scouts in the army. It is not difficult to complete the identity change. Now they are scattered in every corner of the town, doing business, clearing wasteland, or begging.

In this small town in the northeast of South Vietnam, with the influx of more and more people, the wasteland was gradually developed, one after another.

As the population increased, demand naturally began to rise. Originally, South Vietnamese merchants and individual merchants were reluctant to come to this poor place, but now that they saw the profits, they began to flock to this town.

At this time, Sang Hongyang began to harvest the wealth of merchants in South Vietnam.

If you want to run a shop here, you can, but you need to pay the rent of the house. If you want to settle down and start a business here, you also need to pay for the land purchase.

If someone wants to plant fields here, they can, and Sang Hongyang will sell the reclaimed land to them, but the farmers have to pay rent to Sang Hongyang.

As the population increased, large amounts of wealth continued to flow into Weining's hands, and funds continued to flow in. Weining couldn't help but lament how terrible Sang Hongyang's economic sense and tactics were.

Originally, he only wanted to set up a workshop here to produce weapons and armor, but who knew it would turn out like this now.

Just as Weining said to Zheng Xi, this originally inconspicuous wasteland, after just a few months of development, has almost become comparable to the capital area of ​​South Vietnam. No, it has even surpassed the capital area of ​​South Vietnam.

With such rapid development, even the officials of the South Vietnamese regime could not help but feel ashamed.

They have been developing in South Vietnam for several years, but they have not developed as well as others in a few months. This is the gap between people.

The intelligence of the South Vietnamese and the Han people are not at the same level at all. They have not yet figured out the logic of a country's development, and they still don't know how to govern the country.

Now that we see the level of Han governance in the region, how can we not feel a bit ashamed?
In just a few months, the population of this small northeastern city has exceeded 30,000.

As the population increases, it is inevitable that the good and the good will begin to mix.

The intelligence agency trained by Wei Qing also began to work vigilantly. Many of the Han people who came in were spies from the Detective Department, but they were all caught out.

Sang Hongyang's prediction was good. Chang'an really began to send people to infiltrate the city.

However, the intelligence agencies were operating at high speed, and Weining was not worried about any important information being passed on.

Sang Hongyang found Weining, cupped his fists and said, "Your Highness."

Wei Ning asked Sang Hongyang, "What's wrong?"

Sang Hongyang pondered for a while and said to Weining: "Our population here is increasing, but we have no administrative organization to support it."

"It's rare for criminals to happen here, and merchants' taxes and agricultural taxes all need to be collected by the main administrative agencies." Weining was silent for a moment, looked at Sang Hongyang, and said, "What do you mean? Is there a need for government here?”

Sang Hongyang nodded and said: "We can just give Zhengxi a face and take the initiative to let them set up an official government here to manage the population."

Weining nodded and said, "How are taxes distributed?"

Sang Hongyang said: "We opened up the fields. We collect tenant rents, and we still have to pay taxes from farmers and merchants. After all, we are living under someone else's roof. If we collect taxes, it would be like overstepping our responsibilities."

Just let them collect the land tax and commercial tax, but Weining still collects the rent and distributes the profits reasonably so that the Zhengxi imperial court will not complain.

Wei Ning hummed and said to Sang Hongyang: "Master Sang, please send someone to the Nanyue Palace."

Sang Hongyang cupped his fists and said, "I'll go there in person. There are some things it would be better for me to tell you."

Wei Ning said: "Okay! I'll give you a hard time."

Sang Hongyang smiled and said, "I'll go now."

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Nanyue Palace.

The old Prime Minister found Zheng Xi again, clasped his fists and said, "I see you, Your Majesty."

Zhengxi pressed his hand to signal him not to be polite, and then asked, "Is something wrong?"

The old South Vietnamese clasped their fists and said, "Your Majesty, I discovered that the city in the northeast is developing at an alarming rate."

"I have a suggestion that I would like to discuss with the king."

Zhengxi nodded and said, "Well, if the old Prime Minister has anything to say, just say it directly. There is no need to be polite to this king."

The old Prime Minister of South Vietnam said: "I think we should send officials to that city."

"If our officials don't go there, it will be equivalent to us handing over all control of that town to them, which will inevitably confuse the people in the country."

"I thought we installed a king to govern that place."

Zhengxi nodded. It was true that the old prime minister was the minister of Lao Chi. When she first went to talk to Weining, the focus was only on the military. She really didn't expect the economic governance capabilities of this group of Han people. will be so strong.

Northeastern South Vietnam can develop like this in just a few months. It is time to consider the distribution of economic benefits and other issues.

The old man clasped his fists and said, "Your Majesty, I'll go over there and have a talk."

Just as Zheng Xi was about to nod, he heard someone outside say, "Your Majesty, there is someone from Northeast City asking to see you outside the palace, saying they have something important to discuss."

Zheng Xi glanced at the old prime minister suspiciously and asked him to stay in the palace temporarily, and then said to the outside world: "Go and declare him into the palace."

"Here."

Not long after, Sang Hongyang arrived at the palace of Nanyue under the leadership of several guards. Sang Hongyang clasped his fists and said with neither humility nor arrogance: "I have seen King Zhengxi."

Zhengxi waved his hand and said, "Who is your Excellency?"

Sang Hongyang said: "At the request of our master, come here and ask King Zhengxi to send officials to govern the Northeast City!"

(End of this chapter)