Thousand-year-old family: its rise began with Shang Yang’s reforms

Chapter 271 The traditional skills of the old Liu family

The powerful men in Hedong County looked at each other in confusion.

Chen Tuo was appointed Minister of Taxation Temple.
This is not a matter of whether they still want to implement the plan, but whether they can save a dog's life from this man.

Wang Jun sneered: "Could it be that the world is just what Mr. Chen says?"

"The emperor can't make you and me surrender, so why should we surrender to a little Chen family?"

"Even if Chen is extremely capable, can he still cross the distance between Guandu and Hedong to annihilate you and me?"

"Even the emperor can't do such a thing!"

Li Qing blinked and then said the same: "Brother Wang is right!"

"What if Chen Tuo is a dragon crossing the river?"

"A strong dragon will not overwhelm a local snake!"

"What's more, aren't you and I also the powerful dragons of Hedong? Are we still afraid of him, the Chen family? Doesn't that make the world look down on my noble family of Hedong?"

When the remaining people saw what these two leaders said, they suddenly felt endless courage in their hearts.

The patriarchs of the two major families have said this, so they must be confident that they can deal with the Chen family!

If the sky falls, there will be someone tall to hold it up, and now in Hedong County, these two are the tallest people.

So they all clapped their chests and expressed their opinions: "Since Clan Chief Li and Clan Chief Wang have said so, then we must fully cooperate! We must let the people of the Chen family know what it means to be powerful!"

After everyone left, Li Qing looked at Wang Jun and asked softly: "Is what Brother Wang just said true?"

"Do you really want to fight against the Chen family?"

Wang Jun's expression remained unchanged and he said firmly: "That's right! We must fight against the Chen family!"

"This world belongs to the emperor! It belongs to aristocratic families like us! The Chen family belongs to an aristocratic family, doesn't it mean that we, too, don't?"

"If people from the Chen family dare to come to Hedong, I will let them know that Hedong's surname is Wang!"

Li Qing cupped his hands with a half-smile, and said with a smile: "Okay, okay, then Li will completely rely on Brother Wang."

Wang Jun proudly raised his hands and looked into the distance with countless pride and confidence in his eyes.

Autumn October of the second year of the Yuan Dynasty.

The autumn wind is blowing, and this autumn is coming to an end.

After the establishment of the Taxation Temple, the emperor said nothing about this very important institution. The Shaoqing of the Taxation Temple and the managers of the Taxation Temple institutions in various places were almost all elected by Chen Tuo.

Disciples of the Chen family account for almost 40% of the tax eunuchs!
What an astonishing amount this is?

People all over the world, especially the Confucians, began to criticize this with words and writings. They believed that Chen Tuo was using his power for personal gain and benefiting the Chen family.

After all, why does the Taxation Temple look like a fat errand, and all such errands are given to Chen?
What does Chen want to do?
Suddenly, many prominent families in the world were also making trouble.

Only three groups did not cause trouble.

1. Senior personnel in the court.

2. Guizhou is the first place in the world.

3. Emperor.

Logically speaking, the high-ranking officials in the court and the emperor are the ones who should make the most noise. After all, for the emperor, this threatens his imperial power. For the high-ranking officials, the people under them have no food to eat, and their own interests are also at risk. will be damaged.

Can.
In the end, it was these two groups that were the quietest.

As for Qianshou?

The head of Guizhou doesn't care how many people from which family or power occupy the court. They only care about whether their lives are gradually getting better.

As long as their lives are getting better, they don't care about the above.

They would even happily and secretly set up immortality tablets for some people - this was the most simple desire of the ancient disciples of Zhuhua and Xia for a long time.

I long for such rulers and management to live forever, so that they can live such a happy and stable life forever.

This is people's simplest wish, and it can also truly reflect a person's rule.

Some people can still be loved by young people nearly a hundred years after their death. People hope that they can live and come back again;
Some people's reputations are completely ruined decades after their death. People discover the mask they hid under the sheepskin and discover that they made their lives even more miserable.

The former is like Emperor Wen and Emperor Jing, and the latter is like Xuanzong and Tianqi.

Two hundred years after Emperor Wen's death, the leaders of Guizhou in Kyoto still trusted the royal family again because of Emperor Wen's kindness and were willing to follow Emperor Liu's footsteps.

Emperor Xuanzong and Emperor Tianqi were not even dead yet, and the people's scoldings were already coming one after another, making the people of the world want them to die.

This was the case among the people at this time.

People quietly set up longevity tablets for Chen and Emperor Wen, and worshiped them very devoutly day and night, hoping that God would bless them with immortality.

Under such circumstances, with the emperor, high-ranking officials, and heads of Guizhou remaining silent, and with the real aristocratic families seeming to be in great commotion, but in fact there was not even a trace of splash, the Fushu Temple was the first time that the whole world was The tax census has officially begun.

The Chen family's disciples held the emperor's edict in their hands and the taxation temple officials' orders, and began to travel to various parts of the world.

then
A strange situation occurred.

Hadong County

A certain disciple of the Chen family had just arrived in Hedong County and was treated and welcomed warmly but indifferently.

All the wealthy families in Hedong came to the inn where he lived, and they welcomed him with enthusiasm but indifference. Even the two wealthy families, such as the two heads of the Wang family and the Li family, did not even come in person, but sent their family members to The eldest son comes.

The two gentlemen said nothing, but they couldn't fault anything in terms of etiquette. They were enthusiastic, respectful, and polite, but they didn't know anything about it.

The heads of other small families were somewhat provocative.

The experiences of the other children of the Chen family were also very similar, almost as if they were carved from the same mold.

but.
night.

It was a dark and windy night, and the stars in the sky hung like candles on the starry sky.

Most of the Chen family's children went out to do this kind of thing for the first time. They were a little sleepy, but their minds were getting clearer and clearer, and some couldn't sleep.

At midnight, all the Chen family's children heard a knock on the door, and the servants, servants, and guards who accompanied them whispered: "Sir, the head of the xx family wants to see you."

Hadong County Inn

Chen Yun looked at Wang Jun sitting in front of him with a gentle look on his face: "What the head of the Wang family said, I..."

Before he finished speaking, the servant walked in again with a respectful look on his face: "Sir, the head of the Li family wants to see you."

The head of the Li family?

Chen Yun's expression remained unchanged: "Please."

There was a slight change on Wang Jun's face. He chuckled and looked at Li Qing who was walking towards him: "I didn't expect Brother Li to be here too."

He had just sat down, but his butt hadn't even settled yet.

A flash of surprise flashed across Li Qing's face, and he suppressed it instantly. He smiled and said, "Brother Wang is here too, isn't he?"

The two looked at each other and smiled, saying nothing.

This happened all over the world, and all Chen's children learned the same thing at the same time.

Don't believe a word of what the powerful people say.

In the spring of the third year of the Yuan Dynasty.

When spring gradually arrived, people discovered a problem.

Local politics seem to have become a little clearer.
County governors from all over the country have also discovered one thing. After the attack by the Tax Temple and the strong efforts of the Chen family's children in the first half of last year, the taxes that can be collected this year seem to be a little more.
Even if more than half of these taxes have to be collected to the court.
The remaining 40% is even more than the previous 10%!

What's happening here?
Even more surprised than them were the group of courtiers in the court who had been dancing happily before. They suddenly discovered something.

After this vigorous tax reform, the number of Chen's children in the tax temple has actually decreased!
Yes, reduce. It didn't decrease slowly, but suddenly.

Almost all the Chen family's descendants in the Tax Temple have disappeared, leaving only one Minister of the Tax Temple and one Young Minister of the Tax Temple. Among the many local counties and counties, there are only two or three people who serve as "local ministers of the Tax Temple". Temple Cheng".

But neither the emperor nor the real high-level officials were surprised at all.

Because they know what happened before.

The Taxation Temple has just been established. Such a huge organization, especially one aimed at the world's wealthy families and wealthy businessmen, is simply a huge long sword, or even a huge "fat gap". Everyone wants to make a fortune from it.

Especially when the system has not yet been fully developed, it is even more convenient for those "hands" to reach out.

Therefore, the "ghost fox" of the Chen family used his identity to call on most of the Chen family's children to come and serve in the Tax Temple, and then travel around the world.

What they do is not to "make a fortune" as those little ants think, but to prevent someone from "making a fortune".

When the system gradually improves, when things gradually resolve, and when the world's tax system begins to operate steadily, these people will pat their sleeves and return to the Chen family again.

Some people didn't even leave their names.

certainly--

Many of the Chen family's children died in this great purge, and four young children died in this tax purge.

As mentioned before, the truly powerful and powerful clans all have brains. They know that they cannot bear the wrath of the Chen family, so they might as well cut off their flesh and leave school in order to preserve themselves.

but.
Some unscrupulous people in poor and remote areas cannot control that much. They only know that the interests in their hands have disappeared!

So they have to use their brains! But they have no brains.

So, after the Chen family's children still refused to give in despite threats and inducements, the governor of a county and the local wealthy family took action.

Four young disciples died in the fire, along with more than a dozen loyal guards and people sent by the imperial court.

what's the result?
The result was an edict.

In the winter of the second year of the Yuan Dynasty, it was the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month.

The emperor issued an edict: Guiyang County was rebellious, and ordered the mighty General Han Xin, Wu'an General Chen De, and Colonel Zhou Yafu to lead 200,000 troops to suppress the rebellion.

Yes.

Simple and crude, no temptations, no excuses.

Just send troops directly.

and--

It was led by Han Xin, Chen De, the current generals of the Han Dynasty, and Zhou Yafu, the famous general and prime minister in the future, and they led 200,000 troops.

This quantity, this lineup.

Even if the Xiongnu come back now, these three people with an army of 200,000 can slap them a few times and kick them back to the grassland. Of course, the greater possibility is that the Xiongnu Khan will become jealous when he sees these three people. Zhanzhan, afraid to speak.

So, in the summer of the third year of Houyuan, the results of this war, which was not a war at all, came out.

All the rebels in Guiyang County were arrested.

Remember these two words.

all.

They were all arrested, ranging from county guards and county magistrates to wealthy family heads, and even young men who had not yet grown up.

A total of thirteen thousand seven hundred and thirty people.

The mighty general Han Xin reported to the imperial court and asked the emperor how to deal with these rebellions.

Half a month later, the emperor's edict arrived at the county.

There was only one very simple word in the emperor's edict.

"kill"

The murderous aura soared into the sky, and the murderous aura was high.

Even from the perspective of a battle-hardened man like Han Xin, he was a little frightened.

In the three years since I took the throne, I have almost never ordered the killing of anyone, but today I directly ordered the killing of more than 13,000 people? There are even old, young, women and children among them?

He was a little scared.

Therefore, Han Xin did something he would never have done when he was young.

He wrote again, asking the emperor to report.

What does this killing mean? Is it everyone or the culprit?

The emperor's edict came faster than the last time. Last time it took half a month, but this time it only took eight days.

Yes.

eight days.

The person who came to report lost nine horses to death and traveled all night on the road, changing four or five messengers along the way.

The emperor's edict is still very simple.

"Every rebel will be killed."

It was still a simple eight words, and it still filled the sky with murderous intent.

When Han Xin received this edict, he very carefully put it into his sleeve, preparing to keep it as a family heirloom treasure. If the emperor turned against him one day, he would have proof.

In the third year of the Yuan Dynasty, Xia.

The rain kept falling.

But even the heavy rain could not wash away the blood on the ground in the past few days. Blood, heads, and corpses kept appearing, but unexpectedly there was no panic or rebellion in this county.

Even most of the people in the county wear plain clothes.

Some elderly people over sixty years old even came to the execution ground wearing sackcloth and mourning, but there was no sympathy on their faces, only anger and hatred. They wore sackcloth and wore mourning not for these people, but for the four dead Chen The descendants of the family.

Originally, everyone had to wear sackcloth and mourning, but this was their own initiative.

But these old men stopped.

They disagreed with this matter, saying that it was not polite and not a good thing for them.

But they turned around, put on their mourning clothes, and wept in front of the graves of Chen's four disciples.

Because they are over sixty years old, in this era, all criminal laws for people over sixty years old are useless to them unless they rise up and commit rebellion.

So they were willing to risk being punished by the emperor to mourn these four children of the Chen family.

but.
Will the emperor blame them?

Chang'an City

Sitting opposite Liu Heng was Chen Bi, who looked helpless.

Because today the emperor was crying at the desk in front of him, crying so painfully that his heart was broken, as if those who died were not the children of the Chen family, but his biological sons.

"I can't stand up to Mrs. Chen! The big man can't stand up to Mrs. Chen! Mrs. Liu can't stand up to Mrs. Chen!"

"How should I go to see Emperor Gao!"

The cries are lingering, and I am afraid they will not stop for three days.

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