Sanqing Dao: "The history books call this period of time "the prosperous era of Wenjing." ””

"Shengshi?" Shen Bujiao's eyes couldn't help but widen, looking incredulous, "That's it?" They have traveled a lot of places all the way, they are really poor and die of poverty, and they may not be able to survive by selling their sons and daughters, the rich and the rich are flowing oil, and the granaries are full, and the daily leftovers can feed several families.

She sighed sincerely: "What is written in the book, Zhumen's wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road, which is really not blown. ”

Rong Qi pursed his lips and was very disdainful, "What about the prosperous era? Look at the wars of the past few hundred years, first from the Warring States to the unification of the Qin Dynasty, the uprisings in various places at the end of the Qin Dynasty, and the struggle of Liu Bang and Xiang Yu for the world, how many people have died in just one hundred years?"

In the early decades of the Western Han Dynasty, we were close to the Xiongnu, encouraged production, lightly paid for the meager endowment, recuperated and recuperated, and reduced the burden on the peasants, so that we have the situation we see now. ”

Shen Bujiao nodded again and again, thinking of the unification and collapse of the Qin Dynasty, but it was only a short ten years, and the people of the world had not had time to settle down, and the war swept in again.

Sanqing said calmly: "The prosperous era of Wenjing is not the prosperous era of the common people, it is the prosperous era of the ruling group, the nobles and wealthy families under the protection of the policy, a large number of self-cultivated land, those peasants lose the land they rely on for survival, they can only sell themselves as slaves, and the landlord's land is endless!"

The most famous emperor of the Western Han Dynasty is none other than Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, and Liu Che, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, a period of history in between, Shen Bujiao is not very interested, but he has experienced it personally, they have not stayed in the prosperous Chang'an City, but all the way north.

Shen Bujiao's group of people does not have any means of transportation, only their own two legs can be relied on, although the body will not be tired, but the heart is tired, and it is impossible to keep rushing to the north, they have no specific goals, sometimes they make up their minds to go to a famous city, but before they arrive, the wheel of history has been mercilessly run over, and the times have changed.

That city is not the one they want to go to, for example, they want to go to Chang'an, the capital of the Western Han Dynasty, and when they get there, they find that the Western Han Dynasty has perished, and the timeline turns to the Eastern Han Dynasty, which is very numb.

As we all know, the Eastern Han Dynasty was at war most of the time, do you say that Chang'an in the prosperous era and Chang'an in the smoke of gunpowder can be the same? I don't know how many years have passed in the meantime, and the city is no longer the city it used to be.

When they reached the northwest, Sanqing summarized the news they had heard and told everyone that the wheel of time had shifted to the time when Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, was emperor.

Now they were gathering in an inn, listening to the conversation of merchants coming and going, Shen Bujiao asked Sanqing at that time, "Why don't you sit in the teahouse?"

Sanqing smiled at her, "In this period, tea was only available to nobles, and even in the Tang Dynasty, it was also a treatment that scholars could have, do you think this is the country of Futong!"

Shen Bujiao scratched his head, feeling very embarrassed.

What are the merchants talking about? It's not the "Tui En Edict" promulgated by Emperor Liu Che of the Han Dynasty some time ago!

Since the establishment of the Han Dynasty, every emperor has been doing this, why! Because the power of the princes is getting bigger and bigger, and the land is also increasing, as the supreme ruler of the emperor, of course he is worried!

What if one of the princes wants this chair under his ass one day?

If the princes are strong, then his strength is weak! How similar is this to the situation in the Zhou Dynasty?

Do you want to become a mascot in the future? Of course not!

So the ruler thought of a way to let the princes and kings divide their fiefs among their sons, and the sons in turn divided their sons, so that the territory would not be smaller and smaller!

The idea is great, but it is not so easy to implement, the emperor crackled the abacus, can he be a stupid person who can become a prince!

Of course he didn't want to!

So he rose up to resist, first the king of Huainan and the king of Jibei rebelled, and then during the reign of Emperor Jing of Han, the seven kingdoms of Wu and Chu resisted with armed rebellion, and Emperor Jing of Han was a powerful one, quickly quelled the rebellion and weakened the power of the princes and kings.

But this doesn't solve the problem fundamentally, because this is a long-term project, and you can't weaken the power of all the princes to a little bit in one fell swoop!

Then aren't you forcing all the princes to unite and rebel? So boil the frog in warm water, Emperor Jing of Han said that he had done everything he could, and the next heavy task would be handed over to the next one!

Then Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che appeared, when he first ascended the throne, there were still some vassal states with thousands of miles of land, fertile land, and military power, so he naturally didn't want to obey the orders of the Son of Heaven, and repeatedly disobeyed the central government's decrees.

In this way, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is even more unhappy, I am still the emperor, so that you can't be called, do you have the intention of rebellion?

The old Liu family is the one who has the throne to inherit, and the same inheritance is also responsible, and the ancestral cutting of the domain has been mentioned again, but Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty changed his name, not called the cutting domain, it is called the Tui En Order, what is the Tui En Order?

That is, the princes push their personal favors to divide their children as princes, and pay attention to the children, not the descendants of the descendants.

In the past, the titles and fiefs of the princes and kings were inherited by the eldest son alone, and the descendants of other concubines could not get the size of the land.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty learned the lessons of his ancestors, and promulgated the Tui'en Decree, which stipulated that in addition to letting the eldest son inherit the throne, the rest of the concubines would be feudal in the original country, and the newly feudal princes would no longer be governed by the kingdom, but would be directly managed by the counties, and their status was equivalent to that of the counties.

This method is much more clever than his ancestors, and there are several more layers of entanglement of interests, not only the contradiction between the central government and the princes, but also the struggle between the son-in-law and the concubine for land, with the temptation of interests, the contradiction between the two parties quickly shifted.

My son-in-law was thinking, isn't this the land left to me by my father? How can I give it to you concubines? Then my land will not be less? Although I inherited my father's throne, my land has not reached the standard of a "king" at all!

It's okay to say that if there are fewer concubines, the less land the concubine can get, so he is naturally unhappy and unhappy!

The concubine felt that this was my chance to come out! Who would want to live by relying on others to make their own decisions!

You must know that in front of the concubine, the concubine has always had no status, and his status in the family is a little stronger than that of the slave!

In the Han Dynasty, as the inheritance system of the eldest son who has been inherited in the Western Zhou Dynasty, the status of the concubine is supreme, and the concubine is not enough!