The big wedding has ended, and it is difficult for Fuquan and Liu Jia, the newcomers who are in the Han Dynasty to have a large age difference, and it is difficult to have a chance to rest, after all, according to etiquette, after marriage, they have to meet their relatives and worship their ancestors.

Therefore, in those days, Fu Quan did not take Liu Jia to the Marquis Mansion to meet the only clan relatives in Beijing, Fu Wan, or went to the palace to visit the other Liu clans in Beijing.

During this period, he also visited Fuquan's former lover Liu Jian, but as Liu Jian became old and decrepit, Fuquan and her did not have any private meetings except for the occasional Liu Jian who came to the house to visit Taotao in the name of visiting relatives.

This time I took Liu Jia to visit Liu Jian, although Fu Quan's face was calm, he was also embarrassed in his heart, and he always had the feeling of seeing Xiao San with his wife.

However, fortunately, with the coldness of these years, the relationship between the two has also faded, Liu Jian has no face for Fuquan in addition to caring for Taotao, so in addition to warmly receiving Liu Jia, the younger generation of the clan, and saying some short words about the family, he just put Fuquan aside, completely ignoring his identity as a hussar general.

In contrast, Fu Quan can only look at his nose, and he pretends to be blind to his nose and endures it, who calls that there is such a relationship between the two, although the relationship is weak, but Fu Quan will not say that he will deal with Liu Jian because of such a trivial matter.

What's more, Liu Jian's move, combined with the skills she taught Liu Jia from time to time in her words, Fu Quan was very suspicious that Liu Jian deliberately showed himself and wanted to take revenge on himself, after all, there is also a lot of joy between the two, but it is not casually weakened by some things in life.

After dealing with all the things in Beijing, Fuquan then ordered the servants to prepare the carriage, and returned to his hometown Langya to worship his ancestors and relatives with the hussar general and the wives and concubines of the Yangdu Marquis' Mansion.

In fact, among the Jingshi, there is a temporary sacrifice hall for the ancestors of the Fu clan in the mansion of Fuwan, and the Fu clan people of the Jingshi in previous years were all here to worship the ancestors.

Otherwise, the ancestral land of the Langya Fu clan is more than 1,000 miles away from Beijing, and it is really necessary to return to the hometown to worship the ancestors every festival.

Although the Han Dynasty ruled the world with filial piety, but this is used in the official career, and the things that should be reduced must also be reduced, and the officials of the Manchu Dynasty are really for the word "filial piety", if they don't do things, the administrative system of the Han Kingdom will actually be over.

Originally, if you take concubines, such as Bian Ying and Du Bai into the house, there will be no trouble to sue your ancestors, at most, you just need to go to the family temple of the Marquis Mansion to say a sacrifice.

However, Liu Jia is different, not to mention that she is the wife of the Ming media, but her identity as a princess, and she can't help Fuquan not follow the rules and return to her hometown to worship her ancestors.

Because there were too many female dependents, it took the group nearly a month to reach the destination, and after arriving at Langya, they were naturally warmly welcomed by the local officials. After all, Fuquan and Liu Jia's identities are not ordinary, although they are some "old husbands and young wives", and the age difference is more than ten years, but one is a hussar general who leans towards the government and the opposition, and the other is the only daughter of the former emperor, the sister of the current emperor, they can't help but not receive meticulous in all aspects, otherwise if they are not well received and known by the emperor, they can still have good results for these courtiers? Not to mention anything else, it is that when you go to the evaluation, a confused evaluation will never be escaped.

In the country of Buqi Houfeng, Fu Quan took Liu Jia to meet all the Fu family elders, these people have some ancestors Yu Yin, all of them are famous scholars and Confucians in Qing and Xu.

It's just that, obviously, Fuquan has lived in Jingshi mostly in his life, and he has no impression of the ancestral land of Langya, so how can he have too much impression of these elders who met when he was a child?

With these elders to force respect and laughter, in addition to worshipping the ancestors together, they also had to visit the door one by one, perfunctory for several days, before Fu Quan breathed a sigh of relief.

This kind of feeling, Fu Quan feels, just like taking his newlywed wife in his previous life to meet those seven aunts and eight aunts who don't often contact each other at all, but suddenly appear as uncomfortable, obviously there is no such close contact, but he still has to pretend to be as close as seeing every day, it is really hypocritical!

After sacrificing to the ancestral temple, it took about half a month of effort, and finally solved the things that should be done, Fuquan and Liu Jia said goodbye to the elders, and then took everyone back to Beijing.

came and went, but it also took more than three months, back and forth, not to say that the female children in the house couldn't stand it, even Fuquan, who often rode horses, was also a little unbearable.

Of course, such a toss is not all useless for Fuquan. After all, in addition to completing the necessary thing to worship his ancestors, he was also observing the strength of the local clans along the way, after all, in the past three years, he continued to promote the Hanmen scholars in the middle and grassroots levels, intentionally or unintentionally, and gave more high-ranking positions in the court to the clans, and the power of the clans in various places has also weakened with the sharp decline in their power in the local government offices.

Since ancient times, the most fundamental reason for the growth of the powerful forces of the world is nothing more than the collusion between officials and businessmen to exploit the localities. Therefore, Fuquan directly uprooted their local roots step by step, and naturally could slowly weaken them into invisibility over time.

As for letting the powerful people of the world control the high-level of the central government, it seems that the major affairs of the country are mostly taken over by the powerful people of the world, and let them put forward suggestions that are beneficial to them, but don't forget that the final decision is still in the hands of the emperor.

And although Emperor Liu Chong is gradually in power now, he still obeys the advice of Fuquan and the three dukes, but now the three companies are Fuquan's uncles, and Taiwei is the old man of Fuquan who everyone in the world thinks.

Therefore, it can be said that from top to bottom, the powerful and powerful of the world have not eaten all of Fuquan, even though they are aware of these and want to resist, but Fuquan controls the soldiers and horses of the world, and there is the former Yuan Shao who led the party to rebel, and the lesson from the past is here, after all, no one dares to really use the sword, and can only let Fuquan slowly boil them like frogs to slaughter them.

After returning to Beijing, the Hussar General's Mansion had accumulated in the past few days and had to deal with the cases, Fuquan was a little more relaxed, and then shifted his attention to continue to deal with the powerful people of the world.

With the observation on the way to Langya before, Fu Quan knew that in the local area, after the powerful people of the world gradually lost control of the government, he could implement the next plan.

This time, Fu Quan is going to put the weakening point on another idea to hit the powerful of the clans in various places, that is, to recover the profits of salt and iron that are now monopolized by the powerful of the clans in various places.

At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty opened up the salt and iron private enterprises, so that the merchants who operated salt and iron were richer than the princes, and later came to the Han Dynasty when Emperor Wu was warned, forced by financial pressure and disgust with the merchants "not living in the urgency of the public", under the auspices of Sang Hongyang, "cage salt and iron", and the salt and iron business was collected by the government and monopolized.

The establishment of this dynasty, because the monopoly of salt and iron with the great families in various places, mastering local resources, and selling privately, so the former Han Dynasty policy salt and iron monopoly has long existed in name only.

Later, because the operation of salt and iron was already a form of coexistence between government and private affairs, and the government sold very little, even negligible, but the people occupied an absolute advantage, so the dynasty directly abolished the monopoly of salt and iron, implemented a tax system, and obtained taxes to support the country through the large amount of salt and iron goods trade of the people.

However, today, the salt and iron taxes collected in various places are decreasing day by day, and it can be said that the salt and iron taxes, which should have accounted for the majority of the imperial court's taxes, are almost only a little soup left in the hands of the imperial court.

The reason why the treasury of this dynasty is so empty and the finances have been in deficit is that in addition to the collapse of the Han Dynasty because of the Hundred Years War between Han and Qiang, the taxes that these courts should receive are increasingly being swallowed by the clans below, which is naturally also the key.

As for the evidence, it is enough to mention only one place, although the state is a bitter cold land on the border, and the land is barren, it does not mean that it should be poor, and even Ji and Yan have to help each other every year in order to get by, after all, the state is a large salt and iron state with a large number of Han Dynasty.

Nine counties of the state, Taiyuan, Yanmen, Wuyuan, Shuofang, Xihe, Shangjun, these six counties produce a lot of salt, especially Taiyuan County, which produces a lot of salt, and also produces iron.

Moreover, the people who can operate salt and iron are not small people, but local clans are powerful, and the imperial court can only appoint special personnel to supervise and collect taxes on them.

However, this is the case, Fu Quan looked through the salt and iron records of the Han Dynasty in previous years, and found that the taxes in various places were pitifully small, and they were getting less and less.

For intermediate reasons, regardless of asking, it must be the tax collectors who supervise and collude with the local clans, damage the public and private interests, and steal the interests of the state for their own use.

In all dynasties, and even in later generations, salt belonged to state-owned resources, and the wealthy families of the Han dynasty were able to monopolize the benefits of salt and iron, and the prosperity of their power can be seen from this.

Thinking about how difficult it is for the emperors of the Later Han Dynasty to rely on less and less taxes, repeatedly support the national war, and continue to suppress the surrounding foreign races, it is no wonder that the emperors who see money as their lives are really getting poorer and poorer. However, even so, the Later Han Dynasty did not collect taxes like the end of the Ming Dynasty, and could only increase the land endowment and perish the country.

Fuquan is now in control of the world, the benefits of salt and iron, the trade is huge, and he implements tuntian in the border land, and now he still invests a lot and returns little, so he naturally can't see the money that should be lost in vain, so he moved the idea of recovering the salt pond.

On the day of the court, Fuquan played the retrieval of the salt and iron official camp, as soon as this remark came out, it immediately attracted fierce opposition from the high-ranking officials of the Manchu dynasty, among them, Yang Biao, who was still Sikong reacted the most, there is no doubt that the Hongnong Yang family, as the top gate valve, must have the interests of the local salt pond in Hongnong or nearby.

As for why Yang Biao is Sikong, it is because the original Sikong Ma Ri was deposed because of last year's disaster, and then Yang Biao, who was replaced by seniority, was the third duke, and as a result, Hongnong Yang is also the second family to complete the third duke of the Han Dynasty after the already declining Runan Yuan family.

In fact, it was originally a disaster, and many courtiers from the powerful family intended to take Cai Yong and replace him with another person with enough military qualifications. However, this was forcibly entered by Fuquan, and the emperor and the queen mother refused, and then resolutely took down Ma Ri, who had done a good job in the vacant position.

The reason is that the royal relatives and nobles of the Han Dynasty have gained power in recent years, and they have already been a little discordant with their own faces, plus Fuquan is a little domineering to the court, and he intends to promote the Hanmen for the sake of politics and suppress the powerful of the world, Ma Ri is the controller of the first-class gate valve of the Han Dynasty, how can he still maintain the intimate relationship with Fuquan before the two?

The Great Confucian is also a human being, and he also has to consider the interests of the family, coupled with the support of other high-ranking officials in the court, so there is no need to think about it, they will unite to deal with Fuquan's actions to weaken them.

Therefore, Ma Ri cannot stay, and Fu Wan, as Fu Quan's uncle, must stay in the position of Sikong, Cai Yong is a military puppet used by Fu Quan to prevaricate the court officials, and because of Cai Yan, he naturally has to stay, so all this naturally became a settlement.

It's just that Fu Quan didn't expect that he took Ma Ri, but let Yang Biao, the fox, come up, although he knew that Yang Biao would definitely be able to be the third duke, but letting him take the position in this situation really caught Fu Quan off guard.

However, Fuquan can't help it, after all, the third duke is not another position, there are only a few courtiers who have qualifications as the third duke, and Yang Biao is also the only one among the four emperors of Liu Chong, the son of heaven, who has not become the third duke. Therefore, even if Fuquan is forcefully stopped, it is impossible to play the signboard of the emperor, and he can only agree to Yang Biao's succession as Sikong if he disobeys the little emperor.

With Yang Biao as the commonplace, the situation of Hongnong Yang's fourth and third dukes was formed, naturally as a member of the family, Yang Biao took over the banner of Ma Ri and continued to unite other high-ranking officials in the court, and there was all kinds of opposition and hostility to Fuquan's various policies that weakened the interests of the family.

Therefore, this is the case that Fu Quan just proposed to take back the salt and iron official camp, and was attacked by the court executives.