A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 222 In the Five Surnames Village, chaos begins to appear
December

Bai Gonglun died in Baifu at the age of ninety-three.

Bai He succeeded as the head of the family. Suddenly, a vast expanse of white appeared, revealing something magical, which floated in his mind.

【Descent】

Wu Zu (aged fifty-five years): Si’s surname was Bai Shizhen [last words]: Wu’er didn’t expect that, treat your retainers well.

Xiangzu (aged sixty-three): His surname was Bai Shiwu. [Last words]: Come on, Huan'er! Pay attention to the inheritance of the school.

Huan Zu (aged forty-one): Si’s surname was Bai, Huan’s last words: Ji Xia, you are a cheat, you TXX.

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Jing Chengzu (90 years old): Si's surname is Bai's Prefecture. [Last words]: Advance when you should advance, retreat when you should retreat, and avoid being greedy.

Ancestor Huijian (93 years old): Si’s surname is Bai Shilun [last words]: Those with high status are prone to cold, while those with low status are prone to dryness.

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"That's it!" Bai He finally understood the reason why his father said he didn't have to worry about finding the way.

The third year of Taichu
After three years of testing, the imperial court believed that the New Calendar was the most accurate compared to the Six Ancient Calendars, and officially designated it as the official calendar of the Han Dynasty. Officials from all over the country needed to be sent to study the New Calendar in order to guide agricultural times.

The new calendar and its algorithm were also copied continuously by scholars from various places, sent to Chang'an, and stored in the family's book collection for family heritage.
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Taihang Mountain, Wu Xing Village

"Gululu~" A bullock cart stopped at the entrance of the village
"Uncle Yuan, it's me!" A young man in the car greeted the middle-aged man on the tall wooden tower enthusiastically.

The middle-aged man leaned over and looked: "Hey, Xiao Quan, you're back. By the way, will you bring me some wine?"

The powerful man dug out a small wine vat from the bullock cart and shook it at Yuan Hu.

Yuan Hu felt like his mouth was about to drool, "Uncle Yuan, you're on guard, don't think about it, I'll go back and hand it over to aunt!"

"No, I'll give it to your aunt. I'm going to drink it all. Then, tomorrow, tomorrow at noon, we will meet at the entrance of the village and you can just give it to me."

The powerful man smiled and said, "Okay, I'll listen to you."

After that, he drove the bullock cart into the village. Yuan Hu continued to watch with contentment. Suddenly he felt a shaking in the woods. He picked up the bow and arrow hanging next to him. Without hesitation, relying on his intuition, he just nocked the bow and shot.

"Whoops~" The arrow fell flat.

"Won Lai!" Won Ho shouted loudly.

Three young men came out of the mud house nearby: "Uncle Wu, I'm here!"

"Take someone to see it. I should have shot it. What is it? Be careful."

"understood!"

Yuan Lai took his two brothers and slowly entered the woods. After a while, he carried a silly roe deer and said with a smile: "Uncle Wu, it's a roe deer! You can eat meat again today."

Yuan Hu relaxed his vigilance, smiled, and hung up the bow and arrow again. He saw that there was actually a stomach and a Han sword stored under the hung bow and arrow.

Asking the two brothers to send the roe deer back, Yuan Lai climbed up the high tower, looked at the stomach on the ground and drooled, and said to Yuan Hu:
"Fifth Uncle, tell me more about you going out to join the army."

Yuan Hu crossed his arms and ignored him. Yuan Lai rolled his eyes, took out a water bag from his arms, opened the cork, and put it under Yuan Hu's nose.

Yuanhu shrugged his nose, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, coughed slightly, took the water bottle, and took a sip, feeling like he had eaten a mouthful of ice in the dog days of summer.

But he didn't dare to eat more, so he hung it on his waist and patted it, "Well, since you want to listen, I'll tell you!"

Yuan Lai quickly sat cross-legged and raised his ears to listen. After all, Wonho is one of the few people in the village who goes out.

Yuanhu's eyes were always staring outside, alert, but his mouth was telling his own story: "At that time, after I left the village, on the recommendation of the family head, I went directly to the border. At that time, the Han-Hungarian War was at its peak. ,

A year later, I joined the army of the champion General Hou Huo. Don’t you know that General Huo was like a general sent from heaven? In the vast grasslands and deserts, he was able to lead us to the sacred place of worship of the Huns in one fell swoop. .

Not to mention how exciting that battle was, following General Huo to cut down the Huns was as easy as chopping melons and vegetables. Those Huns were like fools, just waiting there to be cut down by us.

Later, I followed him to defeat King Hunxie, King Xiutu, and King Zuoxian. We carved a stone tablet on Langjuxu Mountain, offered sacrifices to the emperor on Guyan Mountain, and drank from Ma Glacier in Beihai.

With him, I have seen the solitary smoke in the desert, seen thousands of horses galloping, witnessed the customs of the Western Regions, and experienced the wind and sand on the plateau. Together with him, I have received awards from the emperor, and we have also been to Chang'an.

However, it seems that his talent was so jealous that he died at the age of only twenty-four. "Speaking of this, Wonho couldn't help but shed tears, as if he was missing those days.

"After that, there were few wars between the Han and the Hungarians. I felt that it was no longer interesting to stay in the army, so I resigned from the army with my reward and wanted to travel around these wonderful mountains and rivers. Then I met your fifth aunt. Just go back to the village."

Thinking of his wife, Yuan Hu also smiled happily.

"Uncle Wu, I have decided, I want to leave the village, and I want to see the world!" Yuan Lai was so excited that he jumped up and said.

"Slow down, kid, wait until the tower collapses!"

Yuan Lai laughed, but his eyes looking into the distance were too bright to be true.

Village center, ancestral hall
"Grandpa Su!" The powerful man saluted an old man respectfully.

Su Zhu nodded: "Does the head of the family have any instructions?" "No, he just asked me to transport a cart of bamboo slips back and store them in the warehouse." The powerful man still said respectfully.

"Hua'er, Ying'er!"

"Grandpa Su!"

"You guys move it in!"

"Yes!"

After giving the instructions, Su Zhu slowly went to inspect the village with his dove stick.

"Xiaohua, look what I brought you from outside?" The powerful man waited for Su Zhu to leave, then approached Bai Hua and took out a long box.

"What!" Bai Hua asked curiously.

The powerful man opened it with a smile. Inside was a delicate wooden hairpin with a small piece of white jade only half the size of a fingernail hanging from it.

"Wow!!!" Bai Hua's eyes sparkled.

"Brother Quan, is this a gift for me?" Bai Hua said happily.

"Of course, I bought it specially at Chaoge. I spent a whole day shopping before I picked this one."

"Thank you, Brother Quan!" Bai Hua held the wooden box and said coquettishly.

"No thanks, no thanks, hehe." The powerful man turned his head and said shyly, looking at the sky.

"Powerful man, where is mine?" Wang Ying said suddenly, pulling the powerful man out of his fantasy.

"No, if you want it, go find Yuan Lai yourself!" the powerful man said angrily.

"How stingy!" After saying that, he ignored the two of them and went to move things on his own.

While they were moving, a boy rushed in, "Xiaoying, I'm here!" It was Yuan Lai who had just finished listening to the story.

"Humph!" Wang Ying ignored him and carried his things into the ancestral hall. Yuan Lai scratched his head and wondered what was going on. He looked at the two people who were in an ambiguous state and became even more ignorant.

Forget it, don't think about it anymore, help move things. Wang Ying moved a few bamboo slips, and Yuan Lai directly picked up more than 20 bamboo slips and slowly entered the ancestral hall.

Wang Ying looked at Yuan Lai, who only worked hard, and became even more angry: "Won't you move less? You'll hit your foot again later. It doesn't hurt!"

Yuan Lai put down the bamboo slips and said with a smile: "It's okay, I'm strong!"

Wang Ying was speechless and continued to move. When Yuan Lai saw this, he quickly said: "I'll do it, I'll do it, you rest!"

Wang Ying was robbed of his job and didn't know what he was doing. When he saw the other two people spreading dog food, he was so angry that his mouth bulged like a toad.

"Hey, Xiaoying, what have you eaten? Give me some!" Yuan Lai suddenly came over and said,

"Go away!!!"

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After moving the bamboo slips, Bai Hua pulled the rope on a wall of the ancestral hall, then closed the door of the ancestral hall and left with his friends.

Not long after, a double stone door suddenly appeared on the extremely smooth wall, and several Confucian scholars walked out of it. Their eyes shone when they saw the bamboo slips.

"It's better to move in and take a good look at it!" one of them said.

A few people each carried twenty or thirty volumes, and they quickly finished moving. As the stone door closed tightly, the ancestral hall fell into silence again.
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At this time, the Han army, which was on an expedition to the Dayuan Kingdom in the Western Regions, under the leadership of Han general Li Guangli, finally defeated the King of Dayuan after several years of hard fighting. The battle report was sent back to Chang'an. The Han Emperor ordered the fields to be established in Luntai and Quli, thus making the Han Dynasty Initial control of the Western Region.

However, the Xiongnu still maintained a large influence in the Western Regions, which led small countries in the Western Regions to choose "two vassals" to protect themselves, that is, to surrender to the Han and Hungarian countries at the same time.

On the other side, after more than ten years of "resting their horses and practicing hunting," the Huns had recovered their strength. In addition, Wei and Huo were dead, so they refused to send the prince to the Han Dynasty as requested by Liu Che, and became the Han Dynasty again. North Korea's border troubles.

The fourth year of Taichu
The Han Emperor issued an edict to conquer the Xiongnu in an attempt to completely solve the Xiongnu problem. However, the consequence of the lack of excellent strategic generals was that several campaigns were unsuccessful, and even led to a major defeat. Generals such as Li Ling and Li Guangli surrendered to the Huns.

Not only that, with the Han emperor's continuous campaigns, large-scale construction projects and the royal family's extravagant spending, not only was the treasury empty, but even the rats in the granaries everywhere were starving and emaciated.

As early as the Yuanfeng period, the national treasury was already running smoothly, but in order to support military expenditures, the Han emperor continued to agree with Prime Minister Zhang Tang's opinions and issued a series of policies and laws to raise military expenditures, such as:
Five baht coins were minted, and it was forbidden for the people of the county to mint money privately. All coins minted before were melted down and cast by the three officials of Shanglin. Money other than those of the three officials of Shanglin was not allowed to circulate in the market. Violators were severely punished and would not be loaned.

The white deer skin coins were introduced, requiring princes from all over the country to exchange cash for white deer skin coins when they came to see him, which were used to line the tribute jade. It is not difficult to obtain white deer skin, and it is extremely easy to make coins. However, the value of a one-foot-square white deer skin coin is artificially set at 400,000 yuan. The purpose is to allow the princes to pay more coins to the court.

An order was issued to levy property tax on all merchants and handicraftsmen based on their assets. Once a whistleblower is reported for concealing property, he is encouraged to guard the border for one year, his property will be confiscated, and half of it will be awarded to the whistleblower, which will greatly increase the court's income.

The salt and iron government camp was managed by salt officials and iron officials. People were prohibited from making iron to cook salt without permission, and those who violated the rules would have their left feet stamped with iron.

It is forbidden for people to make wine, and it is exclusively sold by the government.

Establishing uniform transportation officials to transport items that should be transported to Beijing from various places for sale, thereby increasing the court's income, inhibiting merchants from monopolizing the market, and stabilizing prices.

He sold his official position to get a title, and repeatedly issued edicts such as "buying things to supplement the official position" and "buying sheep to become a man".

However, even so many ways were unable to fill the deficit of the imperial court, resulting in increasing taxes and making life difficult for the people of the world.

(End of this chapter)