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"If these people go south, they will deal a fatal blow to the Han Dynasty."

“That’s what we should be focusing on right now.”

Tian Qianqiu said with a heavy face.

Zhang Wei and Zhang Xingmin have always been Han Chinese.

So far, they have not seen Zhang Wei and Zhang Xingmin's intention to betray the Han Dynasty.

As long as the Zhang family has no intention of betraying the Han Dynasty.

They can put this matter aside for now.

Eliminate the hidden dangers outside first.

Anyway, the new emperor is still young and poses no threat to the Zhang family.

The Zhang family will not do anything to the Han people at the moment.

If Zhang Wei really wanted to do something to the big man, they would have taken action long ago.

There has been no movement so far, which means that the other party has never thought of plotting against the Han people.

Now they just need to deal with the Huns calmly.

Of course, they can't put all their troops on the line.

The reason why the Grand Marshal led his troops to the north was probably to weaken the influence of the Zhang family in the court and the army.

During the reign of Emperor Liu Che.

Gave the general great authority.

The general holds a high position.

The Zhang family has produced many young talents over the years.

Their military capabilities are not weak.

Even Zhang Xingmin’s eldest son was among them.

Zhang Xingmin’s eldest son is a rare military commander.

He was also part of the Northern Expedition this time.

The Grand Marshal wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to eliminate all the people from the Zhang family who were left in the army one by one, remove their positions, and weaken their influence in the army.

This is something that everyone at the top knows.

Zhang Wei and Zhang Xingmin naturally knew it too.

But they didn't react at all.

There wasn't even any response plan.

Nor did he allow the Zhang family members in the army to neglect their duties.

Instead, he obeyed military orders and followed the army north.

This operation did make them a little confused, but they had to admire Zhang Wei's vision.

Zhang Wei probably didn't want the Huns to move south.

Only then would he let the Zhang family and the Grand Marshal set out together.

"Here!"

The chief secretary next to him was slightly stunned when he heard Tian Qianqiu say this.

Then I understood.

Then he responded.

It seems that the development of the Zhang family may no longer be able to be stopped.

Even the Prime Minister doesn't want to manage this matter.

This shows that the Zhang family has taken deep roots in the Han Dynasty.

Even if the emperor grows up, he may not be able to do anything for the Zhang family.

To put it bluntly, the Zhang family has now established a firm foothold in the court.

And it is also more stable.

They have developed over the years and even surpassed the Zhang family in the past.

I don’t know how the Zhang family trains their descendants.

They all grew up in the same environment.

Why are other people so much better?
Not only him, even Tian Qianqiu couldn't figure it out.

But he had read the Zhang family's family precepts.

I also know that the Zhang family is very strict with their descendants.

They are not particularly harsh on their descendants, allowing them to develop freely and teaching them according to their aptitude.

In their eyes, there seems to be no distinction between high and low.

As long as you are not particularly lazy, you can make a living and earn a living in this era.

The Zhang family who grew up in such an environment, no matter where they are placed.

No matter what profession they are given.

They can all live well.

Don’t say that people from the Zhang family only know how to enter the court or do business.

As far as he knew, the Zhang family members were both in the court and in farming.

All have strong talents.

Not only that, they are also very accomplished in hydraulics.

According to astronomical calculations, the Zhang family seems to be involved.

These people have now all entered the court.

They occupy a major position in the Han Dynasty.

As long as Zhang Wei and Zhang Xingmin do not make any mistakes, the emperor will not take action against the Zhang family. Instead, he will rely more on them.

This is also the reason why Tian Qianqiu was unwilling to take action against the Zhang family and Zhang Wei.

It's too late to take action now.

Da Sima may also be aware of this situation.

Only then will they let it go.

Taking action against the Zhang family now will only provoke a counterattack from them.

Not worth the candle.

"You don't have to worry about the Zhang family's affairs in the future. If anyone wants to deal with the Zhang family, don't intervene." Tian Qianqiu gave another instruction.

"Here!"

The chief historian next to him nodded.

……

In Zhang Wei's mansion.

Zhang Wei listed the things that needed to be prepared in the next few days on the memorial.

Prepare to present to the emperor.

Let Liu Fuling make the decision.

Although Liu Fuling was young, he still had to develop the ability to govern the country.

At present, Liu Fuling has several doctors around him.

These doctors were there to teach him knowledge and how to govern the country.

These people were carefully selected by Zhang Wei.

They are all great scholars of the time.

He is a very powerful person.

Ever since Dong Zhongshu proposed the idea of ​​Confucianism as the only doctrine.

The status of these people rose rapidly, and since the Han Dynasty was now at peace, there was no crisis.

Confucianism can help the Han Dynasty develop better.

Zhang Wei will not take any action in this regard.

Just let it develop freely.

His main priority now is to develop the Zhang family.

Remove Zhangjia Trading Company from the list of imperial merchants.

Of course, before doing this, he has to find a substitute.

At present, he has found someone who can become the imperial merchant.

The other party's abilities are outstanding.

But he is not from the Zhang family.

Only by allowing people who are not members of the Zhang family to become royal merchants can the royal family feel more at ease.

Since he has decided to build a thousand-year-old family, he cannot be confined to the court.

The previous idea was totally wrong.

The several powerful families that came after basically accumulated their power and prestige through this kind of power succession.

Although they had to enter the court at first, after they were in high positions, they put all their energy into developing their families.

He naturally has to do the same.

The court is just a place for them to display their talents.

It is also a place where power and authority are accumulated.

Over the years, relying on the prestige of the General of Chariots and Cavalry, he sent most of the capable people of the Weiyuan Escort Agency to the military camp.

These people eat and drink well.

Their physical fitness is much better than others.

At least they are better than the Han people recruited by the Han Dynasty.

These are all thugs carefully trained by Zhang Wei.

They were already quite capable before joining the army.

This is the result of Zhang Wei spending more than ten years cultivating.

In recent years.

He sent all these people to the military camp.

But he did not close the escort agency, and it is still constantly injecting fresh blood into it.

These people will become the backbone of the Zhang family.

It may even become one of the important forces to protect the Zhang family.

Of course, in addition to these, Zhang Wei also developed a caravan in the south and established a branch of the Zhang family.

Originally I just wanted to transfer wealth.

Let them set up a transit station here.

Unexpectedly, more than ten years later, the Zhang family members who went to the south had already established a firm foothold there.

And a fairly large ethnic group has formed there.

He has even become the leader of the people around him.

The Zhang family is very powerful and prestigious there. At present, the power of the Zhang family is unprecedentedly strong.

Whether overseas or in the Han territory, the Zhang family is definitely the number one family.

The Han Dynasty did not initially implement the county system. In order to appease old ministers, they implemented the feudal system.

Until Liu Che came to power.

Those princes are no longer content.

In order to prevent these princes from rebelling against the Han Dynasty, the other party adopted the Enfeoffment Order.

After the Enfeoffment Order was issued, the power of the princes was completely dispersed, and they no longer had the strength to confront the Han Dynasty.

Not surprisingly, these princes will eventually disappear in the long river of history.

After Liu Fuling ascended the throne, these princes no longer had the power to resist.

The Han family is the only powerful one.

Under such circumstances, the aristocratic families quietly rose up.

As the Enfeoffment Order was implemented, its drawbacks began to emerge.

The official selection system of the Han Dynasty was still mainly based on the system of recommendation and the system of recommendation.

There is a relationship of extension and favor between all levels.

These people will form an unbreakable connection.

They are united as one in the court.

It directly became a genre.

Such drawbacks have already appeared in the Han Dynasty, but no one is dealing with it.

Although Zhang Wei was aware of this situation, he did not intend to meddle in it.

At present, it is just the embryonic form of a noble family.

Even the Zhang family hasn't thought about developing in this direction yet.

Even if he wanted to make the Zhang family a thousand-year-old family.

But now the Zhang family is still mainly the Kyoto Zhang family.

The scale is not particularly large.

He has also been constantly purchasing clan land over the years.

These lands were awarded by the imperial court. Unless there are any accidents, these lands will belong to their Zhang family forever.

Even if they made a mistake and were convicted of a crime punishable by execution of their entire family, the land would not be taken back by the court.

This is a reward from the imperial court to those who have made contributions.

As long as the nine clans are not implicated, these lands may become one of the opportunities for the Zhang family to make a comeback.

For aristocratic families, this kind of clan land is very important.

This was also a turbulent time for the Han Dynasty.

During Emperor Liu Che's reign, he was indeed somewhat confused in the later years. In addition, the system of state-run salt and iron industries meant that most of the profits were concentrated in the hands of the powerful and landlords.

The people are living in great hardship.

Zhang Wei is now the regent.

Naturally, we have to consider people’s livelihood.

Zhang Wei compared the items collected from the state-run salt and iron businesses in recent years with those in the accounts.

These two items are extremely important to the imperial court and to the Han Dynasty.

It was this system that filled the Han treasury, but it brought hardship to the people at the bottom of society, making them suffer terribly.

Zhang Wei himself studies the bad system brought about by the state-run salt and iron industry?
Then he checked the main officials in charge of the salt and iron government.

These people took advantage of the state-run salt and iron system to amass a large amount of money and even enclosed land.

He directly became a big landlord.

It's not just them.

There is also collusion between officials and businessmen.

The scene was very chaotic.

Zhang Wei took a look at what Huang Shang had done over the years.

There isn't much discrepancy.

Since the state-run salt and iron policy was promulgated, hard times began for the people.

Because salt and iron are among the most common items.

Especially salt.

This is indispensable to everyone.

During the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, the Han Dynasty spent a lot of money on wars in the south and the north, so some people suggested that the salt and iron industries should be run by the government as a means of collecting national revenue.

This move did indeed greatly increase the Han Dynasty's fiscal revenue.

But it also gave some people an opportunity to make money.

Because it is a government-run business.

Many people then began to think about salt and iron.

They levied heavy taxes on salt and iron, making the people below suffer terribly.

As the oppression goes down layer by layer, each level has gained partial benefits, but the people at the bottom are the ones who suffer.

Not only do they have to pay extremely high taxes.

Now we have to spend a lot of money to buy salt.

This also led to hardships in people's lives.

If Zhang Xingmin hadn’t been improving grain varieties in recent years.

If food production continues to increase, the population of the Han Dynasty will never be able to reach this level.

Zhang Wei looked at the memorials submitted by the other party during this period.

This is one of the important memorials submitted by the local government.

It is mentioned in it.

The situation is that "rich officials and wealthy merchants hoard goods and store them for emergency purposes, while frivolous merchants and corrupt officials buy cheap goods and sell them expensively."

In other words.

The local wealthy officials and businessmen knew that this was an order from above, so they stored the goods and waited for sale in an emergency.

Earn the difference.

The local corrupt officials and frivolous merchants would buy up salt and iron in large quantities when the prices were at their lowest, and then sell them at extremely high prices to make huge profits.

After Zhang Wei read the memorials submitted by these counties.

I'm so angry.

Then he immediately asked someone to call Tian Qianqiu over.

Tian Qianqiu was the prime minister of the Han Dynasty.

Should have been responsible for this matter.

But he turned a deaf ear to it.

They don't care about people's livelihood at all.

If anyone is held accountable, Tian Qianqiu will be the first one to escape.

Tian Qianqiu took a step forward and heard someone was going to deal with Zhang Wei.

Now that he was suddenly summoned by Zhang Wei, Tian Qianqiu's heart was beating fast and he felt very nervous.

When Tian Qianqiu arrived at Zhang Wei's residence, his legs were shaking. In order to save his face, he had to force himself to calm down.

Then he followed his entourage into Zhang Wei's study.

After entering Zhang Wei's study, Tian Qianqiu didn't even have the dignity of a prime minister.

The whole person feels very cramped.

And I can't make up my mind.

I didn't even dare to sit down.

Zhang Wei didn't let him sit next to him either.

Instead, he continued to look at the memorials submitted by the counties.

Since Liu Fuling was young, these things had to be handled by their regent ministers.

Originally, Grand Marshal Huo Guang should be responsible for this matter.

Now the Grand Marshal has led his troops northward, intending to stockpile defenses in the north.

The matters here naturally fell on him and Zhang Xingmin.

But he and Zhang Xingmin now have some disagreements. The other party is immersed in improving grain varieties and has no time to take care of the affairs of the court.

And Sang Hongyang was a person who didn't care about anything.

When the other party doesn't care about the matter.

The affairs of the court naturally fell on Zhang Wei alone.

He was busy dealing with matters in Kyoto before.

Not much attention is paid to the affairs of counties.

After finishing the affairs of Kyoto, I turned my attention to the affairs of the counties and found that these things had been piling up for several months.

If these things are not resolved.

There will only be more and more corrupt officials.

Local county officials would also collude with each other and work together.

The fact that they can still submit this case to the emperor shows that they still have some conscience.

Moreover, during Liu Che's reign, harsh laws and severe punishments were implemented.

The public security in Dahan has improved a lot.

But that's about it.

After Zhang Wei finished reading the memorial in his hand.

Only then did he fix his gaze on Tian Qianqiu, who was standing in the middle of the study.

When he saw Tian Qianqiu, Zhang Wei asked in surprise: "When did the Prime Minister come?"

"Sit down quickly!"

When Tian Qianqiu heard Zhang Wei say this, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but twitch.

Zhang Wei didn't mean it, he didn't believe it.

Everyone outside informed the police.

And the steward had already sent him to Zhang Wei's study.

It would be strange if Zhang Wei didn't hear it.

But until now, he still dares not go against Zhang Wei.

All he can do now is to protect himself and turn a blind eye.

If Zhang Wei needs anything, he will definitely cooperate with him, but if he wants to plot against the court, he will have to pretend to be deaf and dumb. (End of this chapter)