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

Chapter 526: Jin Dynasty feudal scholar Wen Yanwu, Murong Xu state affairs in Liaodong

The first year of Taikang
The third day of the first lunar month
Bai Zhai rewarded the ministers in the Chaotian Palace:

Clan:

Anping Gongbai was granted the title of King of Anping in the following Jin Dynasty; Guangping Gongbaiyi was granted the title of Guangping King in the Jin Dynasty; Dongwu Gongbailin was granted the title of Dongwu King in the Jin Dynasty, Shanyang Gongbaiji was granted the title of Shanyang King in the Jin Dynasty, Chengping Gong and Baiji were granted the title of Chengping King in the Jin Dynasty; Ping'an Gong was granted the title of King of Anping in the following Jin Dynasty. Bai Canjin was granted the title of King of Ping An;

Qiyang Gongbaikai was renamed Baiwang...

There are eighteen people a day for those who are crowned kings by their clan members.

Heroes:

The three clans, Su An, the auxiliary Duke, Yuan Jian, the Zhen Guo Duke, and Quan Zhong, the Protector of the Guo clan, all started from a young age with the Bai family. Their merits and hard work are unparalleled by others, so they were changed from non-hereditary to hereditary.
Cui Wei, the Duke of Qinghe, was granted the title of Duke of Qing; Zhang Ye, the Duke of Ping, was granted the title of Duke of Ping; Duke Tianqi of Zhongshan was granted the title of Duke of Xingguo; and Duke Baiwu of Jiuyuan was granted the title of Duke of Yuan.

Among the ministers, three were hereditary, four were granted the title of Duke of Jin, thirteen were granted the title of Duke of County, twenty-one were granted the title of County Duke, and the remaining 120 were awarded the title of reward.

The tenth day of the first lunar month
Bai Zhai issued the edict "Abolish the State and Transform the County", abolishing the feudal system of the Jin system and restoring the three-level system of prefectures, counties and counties in the Yan and Han Dynasties.

On the same day, the "Edict to Promote Schools" was issued, stipulating the establishment of prefecture schools, county schools, and county schools in prefectures, and a varying number of colleges according to the number of households in each state and county.

At the same time, the Imperial College was established in the central government. The chief officer was Zuo Mincao, a fifth-rank priest and one of the six cao, who was responsible for managing schools in various states and counties.

However, the three institutions of Baixue, Baizong and Baiyuan are not under the management of the Imperial College. They are directly under the emperor and are at the same level as the Imperial College.

In order to manage local official schools, there are chief historians in prefectures, counties and counties who specialize in managing official schools and are responsible for liaising with the Imperial College.

The tutors in local schools are mainly tutors and students from the three colleges in Qiyang, or famous Confucian scholars recruited.

The Three Studies in Qiyang mainly teach nine classics: "Bai's Spring and Autumn Annals", "The Analects of Confucius", "The Classic of Filial Piety", "Shangshu", "Poetry", "Zhou Li", "Ritual", "Suan Jing", and "Bai Lv" 》.

Local official studies mainly teach three classics: "Bai's Spring and Autumn Annals", "Shang Shu", and "The Classic of Filial Piety"

Not only that, there are also schools directly affiliated with the Doctors' Office, located in various states and counties. They are schools that specialize in teaching medicine and are divided into three disciplines: medicine, acupuncture, and massage.

Of course, these are still in the imperial edict, and how the states and counties will implement them is obviously still open to discussion. At least merging states and Youzhou is difficult to force.

The second year of Taikang
After a year of development, especially the imperial government's allocation of funds to build official schools in various places, Hebei Province has shown a prosperous scene.

The reason why Bai Zhai established official schools extensively was not only to enlighten the people's wisdom, but also to combat the increasingly prosperous private schools in the local area.

Aristocratic families in various places have set up family schools to recruit local people of appropriate age. This will create a situation where most talents come from the aristocratic families, and the court is controlled by the aristocratic families.

Bai Zhai re-enabled conscription and incorporated the Zhongzheng system into the imperial court, in order to compete with the wealthy families for talents and create a way for people from poor families to rise.

The Jin court was in chaos, and behind it could not escape the help of people from poor families.

Since Sima usurped the Han Dynasty, 90% of the official positions in the Jin Dynasty's central court and even local yamen were controlled by wealthy families, and people from poor families had no chance of advancement.

So the Eight Kings recruited many people from poor families who had no aspirations in the country to make suggestions for themselves.

This group of suppressed humble scholars would encourage their leaders to do things that broke common sense no matter how dissatisfied they were with the imperial court.

Strategies were born one after another from their mouths, and major events were realized in their plans. Finally, the Eight Kings Rebellion occurred. It is difficult to say that they did not play a role in this.

May
Just when Bai Zhai was cultivating his literary career and fighting for his military career, a piece of news from Liaodong broke his unchanging life.

The Duke of Liaodong, the leader of the Murong tribe, the Chanyu of Xianbei, the envoy Chijie, the governor You, the military general of Shuyi in Ping Erzhou, the general of chariots and cavalry, and the shepherd of Pingzhou, Murong Xin, who was enshrined by the Jin court, died at the age of sixty-five.

His son Murong Huang succeeded him and served as the governor of Pingzhou as the general of Pingbei, taking charge of the ministry.

Murong Xin was a hero among the Xianbei tribes. When he was young, because of his father Murong Guishe's rebellion, he was valued by the then Yanhan Taiwei Sima Shi and was taken to Luoyang as a hostage to serve as the Sima of the Yueqi Camp.

It experienced Sima usurping the Han Dynasty, and experienced the three dynasties of Sima Zhao, Sima Yan, and Sima Rui, and also experienced the Rebellion of the Eight Kings.

Taking advantage of the chaos, he returned to western Liaoning and inherited his father's position as leader of Murong's tribe.

At that time, there was great chaos in the Central Plains, and western Liaoning was occupied by Wang Jun. The tribes in eastern Liaoning were in conflict, and the Liaodong Protectorate was in name only. Murong Xuan assessed the situation and moved his tribes to Liaodong and set up a large refugee account.

On the one hand, it recruited refugees who were fleeing the chaos in the Central Plains, and on the other hand, it sent troops to occupy various counties and counties in Liaodong while the Jin court had no time to care about the borders.

First, he blocked the relationship between Liaodong and the Central Plains, and then made friends with most of the Tuoba tribe in Xianbei, in the name of helping the Jin court quell the Liaodong rebellion.

He successively attacked and killed more than a hundred Jin court officials, including the prefect of Changli County and the prefect of Liaodong County, and actually took control of Changli County and Liaodong County.

Then he occupied Xuantu County and other counties controlled during the Yanhan period, and expelled the troops of Goguryeo, Korean and other ethnic groups who occupied this area. He was regarded as a savior by the Han people in these places.

When Emperor Huai of the Jin Dynasty, Sima Chi, was in trouble in Pingyang, the Grand Sima Wang Jun followed the emperor's decree and appointed Murong Xin as the regular servant of the scattered cavalry, the champion general, the commander-in-chief of the vanguard, and the great chanyu.

Murong Xuan refused.

During the Jianxing period, Emperor Min of the Jin Dynasty, Sima Ye, sent an envoy to appoint Murong Xin as the general of the town army and the duke of Changli and Liaodong.

When Sima Rui claimed to be the king of Jin, in order to win over Murong Xian, he appointed Murong Xian as a fake knight, a regular servant of Sanqi, the governor of Liaozuo Zayiliu people, general Longxiang, the great Chanyu, and the Duke of Changli. Later, Murong Xin, Liu Kun, Duan Pizhen and others urged Sima Rui to ascend the throne.

After Sima Rui ascended the throne, he reciprocated his love and granted him the title of General Pingbei and Great Chanyu.

Since there were so many refugees who came to Liaodong to escape the war, Murong Xin, who had been bathed in royal status for a long time, developed ambitions in his heart and gradually showed an attitude of being open-minded and accepting talents.

Because Murong Xin emphasized that government orders were clear and the laws and disciplines were strict, it coincided with the war between the Bai Kingdom and Hou Zhao and Duan in Jizhou, and the Central Plains was not peaceful, so more exiled nobles and common people came to surrender with their families and children.

In order to better manage them, Murong Xin learned from the Jin court and set up Qiaojun and Qiaoxian to manage the refugees.

The people from Jizhou returned to Jiyang County, the people from Yuzhou returned to Chengzhou County, the people from Qingzhou returned to Yingqiu County, and the people from Bingzhou returned to Tangguo County.

At the same time, he recruited many talents from the refugees into his shogunate, and established Confucianism to educate the people of various tribes in Liaodong, regardless of Han or Hu.

He even asked the crown prince Murong Huang to lead the aristocratic children to become apprentices. In his spare time when dealing with political affairs, he would also attend classes in person at the school.

Various actions made the sound of poems and songs recited everywhere in Liaodong. In the Liaodong area, which was originally bitter cold, tired and known for its barbarism, a trend of courtesy gradually emerged.

However, Murong Xin's various actions aroused jealousy in Cui Ao, the governor of Pingzhou and the captain of Dongyi appointed by the Jin court. He considered himself a famous person in the south and had a soft heart to gather the exiles, but no one went to join him.

And Murong Xin was just a barbarian. How could he attract talented people to a man who drank blood? He believed that Murong Xin's move was harboring evil intentions and had the ambition to rebel against the imperial court.

So he secretly colluded with Goguryeo, Yuwen Xianbei, Duanbu Xianbei, etc. to discuss the elimination of Murong Xin and divide Murong Xin's land.

Soon, the three forces of Duan Mobo and Yuwenbu sent by Daiguo and Houzhao jointly attacked Murong Xin.

Murong Xuan used a strategy to sow discord between the Yuwen tribe and the other two tribes, so that when Murong Xian attacked the Yuwen tribe, the other two tribes watched from the shore, and Yuwen Xi, the chief general of the Yuwen tribe, escaped alone.

Seeing the disastrous defeat of the Yuwen tribe, the Duan tribe and the Tuoba tribe were no longer willing to fight and asked Murong Xin for peace.

Murong Xian agreed to the three tribes' request for peace.

When Cui Ao learned that the three troops had failed, he and dozens of cavalry abandoned their homes and fled to Goguryeo overnight. Liaodong fell completely into the hands of Murong Xin.

But not long after, Cui Ao, who fled into Goguryeo, instigated the pro-Jin forces in Goguryeo to attack Murong Xin.

But it ended in failure.

Not only that, because this battle greatly damaged the pro-Jin forces in Goguryeo, the remaining forces began to count against the pro-Jin factions, and Cui Ao died in a coup in Goguryeo.

In the second year, Sima Rui sent an envoy to appoint Murong Xin as the military supervisor of Pingzhou, the general of Anbei, and the governor of Pingzhou, and added 2,000 food households.

Soon after, he was appointed envoy Chijie, governor You, pacified the Shuyi military in the two states, general of chariots and cavalry, and shepherd of Pingzhou. He was granted the title of Duke of Liaodong County, with a settlement of 10,000 households. Chang Shi, Chan Yu, etc. remained as before.

Murong Xuan held the iron certificate of alchemy given by the emperor and enjoyed privileges for generations. He was ordered to govern the Haidong area, set up hundreds of officials, set up Pingzhou to guard the governor, and established the Liaodong Principality.

Murong Xin's ability to go from being a hostage of a country to becoming a powerful leader dominating a corner of Liaodong is inseparable from his talents and strategies, but it is also inseparable from the environment.

Now that Murong Xin died, the domestic Han-Hu conflicts that had been suppressed by him suddenly began to break out.

Because Murong Xuan attached great importance to Sinology all the year round and was close to the Han wise men who came to join him, the original Murong clan was dissatisfied.

Now his heir, Murong Hui, was influenced by his father and studied Confucianism at the same time. After he succeeded to the throne, his policies were similar to those of Murong Xin. This disappointed the old Murong nobles who were looking forward to changes.

In the eyes of these old nobles, Liaodong was conquered by the Xianbei people. When the Han people came here, they were just a group of beggars, and they actually rode on the heads of their masters. This was something they could not tolerate.

So in Liaodong, the pro-Han faction and the Murong faction began a fierce battle.

First, many Han officials (consultants during Murong Xin's period) were whipped to death by Murong's nobles on the street in front of everyone.

These young nobles of the Murong family claimed that they were seeking revenge. They relied on Murong Xin's protection to frame their father, causing his father to lose most of his pastures, tribesmen, cattle and sheep.

Now that Murong Xin passed away, he wanted to avenge his father.

When the matter was brought to Murong Huang's side, people from both groups were watching to see how Murong Huang would handle it.

July
Murong Huang personally gave instructions regarding the case of Murong nobles killing important shogunate ministers in the street. He deprived these nobles of their titles, confiscated the pastures and tribesmen that originally belonged to them, and took them into custody.

However, in order to prevent this behavior from happening again, he followed the example of the former Zhao and the later Zhao, placed the chanyu in Taiwan, and took over the Great Chanyu. He proposed the division of Han and Hu, and governed the Hu people according to the rules of the grassland, and governed the counties and counties according to the Han system. .

Murong Huang's handling made the Murong nobles very satisfied, but made the Han people a little disappointed. After all, Murong Huang was still a member of the Murong clan.

First, those Murong nobles were all young people and did not have any titles. That is to say, they had not inherited their father's pasture. Where did the confiscation come from?

Secondly, according to Murong Xin's system, when several young Murong nobles entered prison, they should be dealt with according to the Han system. The murderer would not be punished, and he would never escape the consequences of death.

But Murong Huang directly implemented the division of Han and Hu, and let these people be handed over to Shan Yutai. It is obvious that under the operation of Murong's nobles, they will not suffer any substantial punishment, and will even receive benefits.

In other words, these important ministers of the shogunate during the late emperor's period died so hastily without any disturbance.

(End of this chapter)