Chapter 191: Taiyuan Wang's Family

Taiyuan Mansion, located in the middle of Hedong Road, is a historical city. The pen fun pavilion once belonged to Jizhou in ancient times, and it was one www.biquge.info of the nine states in China. After Qin Shi Huang unified China, he divided the world into 36 counties, set up Taiyuan County, and governed Jinyang. In the Han Dynasty, the country set up thirteen states, and the state assassin department set up Jinyang, which was also the beginning of Taiyuan's state.

Since the Jin Dynasty, until the previous dynasty, Taiyuan was called Jinyang City, which has been more than 700 years. At the beginning of the Dashun Dynasty, in order to distinguish the previous dynasty, the state government system was set up, and it was called Taiyuan Mansion.

Taiyuan Mansion has always been a place where soldiers must fight, since ancient times, there is a saying that "the four stoppers are rushed, and the capital of the five plains is controlled", and it is an important military town in the north in ancient times. Because there are many emperors in history who started from Jinyang, it is considered by the world to be the land of dragon diving, so it is also known as Dragon City.

There was once a feng shui master who said that Zhoushan is the "dragon horn", Longshan and Tianlong Mountain are the "dragon tail", and Jinyang is the center of the dragon, so there is often the appearance of the "true dragon son". The former dynasty was afraid that there would be more people to fight with them for the world, so they set fire to Jinyang City, and then led Fenshui and Jinshui to irrigate the ruins of Jinyang City. Later, because of external troubles, the former dynasty had to build a new Jinyang City in the area of Tangming Town. At that time, in order to nail through the "dragon vein" so that it could never turn over, the whole city only built a T-shaped street, not a cross road. Since then, there has been no real dragon son in Taiyuan, which is why the Taiyuan royal family is declining.

I think that the Taiyuan Wang clan was so famous, and the seven clans of Longxi Li, Zhaojun Li, Qinghe Cui, Boling Cui, Fanyang Lu, Xingyang Zheng and other seven clans were listed as five surnames and seven clan Gaomen. These five surnames and seven clans are united, and even the emperor has to give them a little thin noodles.

How can yesterday's prosperity have become a cloud of smoke, and today's Wang family is just an empty shell, and the people's hearts have long been scattered. The huge mansion has long been divided into several families, and they all nominally listen to the head of the Wang family, but in fact, each room has its own way, and the head of the Wang family is just an empty title.

However, the family is a family in the end, even if the ship is rotten, there are three nails, after the decline of the Wang family's career, they turned to the shopping mall, but they also achieved a lot of achievements. There was no salt tax in the previous dynasty, and only after the establishment of the Great Shun Dynasty, forced by the difficulty of taxation, the sales system was implemented. Salt, wine, tea, etc., were included in the ranks of the sale in order to enrich the national treasury. This made the Taiyuan Wang clan, who was already a little depressed, see hope, and their eyes were extremely vicious, and they suddenly took a fancy to the salt that anyone needed. With the salt money obtained by dredging the joints, and quietly selling illegal salt, he gradually gathered a huge amount of money and became the biggest salt lord in Dashun.

The good times did not last long, and the Wang family's glory again lasted for more than 100 years. Maybe it's because Taiyuan's feng shui is really not enough, and the holy will once again knocked the Wang family into the abyss: the little emperor who has not been in power for a long time actually issued an order to cancel the sale of official salt! This is tantamount to a thunderbolt from the sky, which bombarded the Taiyuan Wang family with a halo in his eyes.

Previously, the little emperor had already rectified the officialdom, and it was rare for the atmosphere in the officialdom to be cleared. But for the Taiyuan Wang, who aims to get the salt money, this is not good news. The head of the Wang family had been talking about the time when business was not doing well, and a bigger blow came suddenly, knocking him out directly: "Does this little emperor really not give people a way to live?" ”

Looking at the mountains of well salt and green salt in stock, the head of the Wang family thought for a long time, was ruthless, gritted his teeth, and stomped his feet, and quietly gathered several other salt lords who were very close to the Wang family to discuss the way out.

These families all agreed, according to the will of the head of the Wang family, while instigating armed salt bandits who sold illegal salt, to cut off the transportation of sea salt along the coast; While plotting to sabotage the little emperor's new policy. Their original intention was that once the little emperor's new policy was destroyed, it would be necessary to return to the previous official salt trade, and they would be able to sit and collect money again. really responded to that sentence, from thrift to luxury, from luxury to thrift. is accustomed to making money every day, who is willing to go back to gnaw on the nest and live a bitter life?

These businessmen, who only have money in their eyes, can control the lives of others and the rise and fall of the country? Lu Chengqi's new policy is good for most people, but it is not good for them, so they have to oppose it. The little tricks he did in secret were just to return to the original official salt system.

They thought they were cautious enough, and they knew that this was a robbery. But people died for money, birds died for food, and they still decided to take risks. They really underestimated the Inspectors, and in less than two months, they had already appeared at Lu Chengqi's imperial table.

Of course, it goes without saying that Lu Chengqi was furious and had sent nearly 50,000 forbidden troops to encircle and suppress these families. The Wang family also had sources in the court, and they got the news first. At this time, the heads of these families on the outskirts of Chang'an City, when they heard the news, had already scattered birds and beasts, went back to their own homes, looked for their own mothers, and begged for more blessings.

If Lu Chengqi didn't put this matter as a court discussion, maybe he could really catch them off guard, just like the previous holy decree, which came quietly. But as soon as it was put on the court discussion, the consequence was that some officials quietly spread the news, so that these families received the news and fled back to their homes long ago.

At this moment, the head of the Wang family, who rushed back to Taiyuan non-stop, urgently convened a family meeting to discuss how to deal with it. As soon as they heard that the emperor had sent a forbidden army, these old guys were so frightened that their legs were weak, and they couldn't even speak smoothly.

One of them was quite calm and said: "I think it's better to hurry up and take the blame, stay in the green mountains, and don't worry about running out of firewood." The little emperor is not a bloodthirsty person, he even spared corrupt officials, does he still care about us? It's a big deal, wouldn't it solve the problem by offering all the hoarded salt to the imperial court? ”

None of the people here spoke, and this method is the best way at present. The head of the Wang family slowly raised his head, he no longer had the appearance of the childlike crane hair before, and now he looked as if he was more than ten years old. The head of the Wang family is called Wang Yuanshi, and he is already sixty-five this year. The ancients did not live long, and people who were over the age of the sixtieth were rare. Only such a family can make Wang Yuanshi maintain it so well.

Wang Yuanshi had previously invited a family of salt sellers and a few private salt leaders to secretly discuss how to undermine the New Deal. Unexpectedly, in just over two months, the matter has been revealed. He had just rushed back to Taiyuan Mansion from Chang'an, just to find the last ray of life.

After listening to the man's words just now, Wang Yuanshi was noncommittal. He knew that the time was urgent, and he didn't know where the forbidden army had arrived now, but he rushed back all the way without changing horses, and he didn't even drink a sip of water, so he held this family meeting. The Wang family is so big, he can't hide his life and death in a word.

At this time, a person smiled and said: "Yuanfeng is too worried, I think the so-called so-called official army, but the ear of the chicken, tile and dog's ear, with 3,000 people with armor in the house, can beat this forbidden army." Besides, there are still 5,000 bows and crossbows in the palace, how can they be compared with the officers and soldiers? I, a person from Taiyuan, have a strong human nature and are accustomed to fighting horses, how can I be afraid of the officers and soldiers? Dashun has no morality, it is better to take this opportunity to raise the anti-flag, and the Quartet will be able to respond. When the time comes, the Dashun Building will fall, and it is not known who will kill the deer! (To be continued.) )