The Six Thieves of the Northern Song Dynasty (I)
On October 9th, the Fangla Uprising broke out! About the reasons for this uprising. For example, the heavy exploitation of the conscription in Jiangnan was too ruthless, and the Song Dynasty authorities only had fun, ignored the government and politics, and only thought about Huashigang all day long, etc., these are all right. In more detail, the responsibility will be confirmed on a few special people - Zhao Ji, Cai Jing, Tong Guan, Liang Shicheng, as well as Wang Hao, Li Yan, Zhu Mian...
They're finally on the scene! The famous "six thieves" in the history of the Song Dynasty gathered together! These 6 people are generally on a par, like their role in the course of history? That's not right!
Cai Jing, Tong Guan, and Liang Shicheng, these 3 people are the first generation to start their own businesses, they started from scratch, fought their way out of conspiracy traps, bullets and bullets, stepped on countless competitors, and climbed to the top of the empire! They are characterized by intelligence, reason, and knowledge. Without these 3 basic things, they would have already become a stepping stone for others and become cups! And these 3 characteristics also determine their harmfulness. Even if they can toss again, there is a bottom line! They know what to do and what not to do. They understand that the empire is a ship, and if it messes around desperately, it will take them into the whirlpool together, and everyone will drown...
But Wang Huang, Li Yan, and Zhu Mian are different, they all belong to the rich second generation. Success comes too quickly and easily, and the high-ranking officials, gold and silver beauties, who cannot be won by others who struggle for a lifetime, are almost within their reach! Standing at the top of the empire, as far as the eye can see, every land and every person is tossed by them, and they are free to do their woe. Success after success, no responsibility again and again, make them believe that it doesn't matter what they do, there are no consequences to what they do... So they went around every corner of the empire and made all kinds of mess, and the Fangla Rebellion was just one of them. So before talking about the details of the uprising, it is necessary to introduce these rich second generations clearly...
All of them are hated by ten thousand people! The worst harm is also the role of scourge several provinces! In addition to the 6 thieves, Yang Jian was the first. The reason for this arrangement. To be honest, I was a little wronged, but there was no way, who let him die early, and the apprentice was too brave?
Yang Jian, the eunuch in charge of the Imperial Garden. Through the construction of super palaces such as Gen Yue, this was the most important government work at that time. Although Tong Guan, Liang Shicheng and others all intervened, the eunuchs who were in charge of this kind of thing were even more red and purple, and their hands and eyes were all over the sky!
Yang Jian only relied on building a house and repairing a garden, and he could sit on an equal footing with the "hidden phase" Liang Shicheng in the official position, and reach the height of the festival. But Eunuch Yang is also very smart and knows how to advance and retreat, so he didn't trouble Liang Yinxiang, who was holding the national sigil...
He has other hobbies. Since ancient times. The eunuch's favorite thing is money! As a eunuch who has no wife, no children, and even a disabled body, and has abandoned his ancestors, what else is true in this world except money? So Yang Jian became the most capable and daring person to make money at that time!
What is the most profitable thing for a person with power? Answer: Land! Since ancient times, land has been the government's greatest and most degraded asset!
Eunuch Yang was involved in land trading, and he set up a department called "Xicheng Office", which specially sent people down to various prefectures and counties to gather the people. Check the deed! The people everywhere are very cooperative, and the government wants to verify it, so why don't they trot home to get it? After the results were taken, the people of Xicheng began to ask, "Where did this land come from?" and replied, "Okay, left by my father." Where did your father get it?" "Grandpa left it"... And so on, until you ask about your grandfather and grandfather!
"It's too old, huh! Prove it! Prove that it was your grandfather who gave your grandfather to your grandfather "The people collapsed...
The above is called ancestral collapse. In the face of questioning, there is also an answer "This is what I bought" and "Okay." Who did you buy it from""Tomura head armor""Okay, look for armor." Armor! Where did you buy it" "Nishimura Head B" "Okay, look for B." Second! Where did you buy it from"... And so on. It can be pushed to the back of A, B, C, D, pente, hexaxin, and non decay! And so the people collapsed again ...
The result of the collapse is a rent increase and a tax increase, as long as it is settled, even if there are natural and man-made disasters and no revenue in the future, don't think about escaping debts! This method began to be promoted in Ruzhou and spread to major rich areas such as Jingdong, Jingxi, Huaixi, and Huaibei. How? Pretty ruthless, right? No! This is just one of Yang Jian's various ways to use land to circle money! Strictly speaking, it's still a very complicated and stupid one!
Later, Eunuch Yang figured out that instead of tossing like this, it was better to make something out of nothing! The Xicheng Institute surveyed the abandoned embankments, abandoned weirs, barren mountains, retreats, silt beaches and other ownerless areas across the country, and forced the nearby farmers to farm! As long as he planted it, he immediately became a lifelong tenant of Eunuch Yang, paying him rent endlessly and from generation to generation. Later, he was so greedy that he didn't even let go of making a living on the water, and the famous Liang Shanbo was encircled by Eunuch Yang, and every fishing boat became his industry. It is estimated that the three brothers surnamed Ruan were stimulated by him to rob their homes?
Yang Jian's brilliant career in money circles ended in 1021, when he died. But his spirit endures, and another outstanding money tuberculosis eunuch appeared, doing more than him!
Li Yan among the 6 thieves appears! This is the last member of the 3 swordsmen of the Northern Song Dynasty eunuchs (Tong Guan, Liang Shicheng, Li Yan), and the most murderous. He took over the money business of his master Yang Jian, but the operation method was so advanced that even the Xicheng Institute lost its meaning! You don't have to check any title deeds at all, why bother with that? Eunuch Li sent someone to stand directly on the land of Optimistic Lu, and then loudly announced that "this is an ownerless wasteland" It's as simple as that! Whoever disagrees will die!
The most ruthless time, he sent people to gather all the land deeds in Lushan County, and in front of the owner of the deed, they were all burned! The land of the whole county has become "public land", and all of them have become public land? The public land is not taxed, so what about the original tax? This involves the pockets of His Majesty the Emperor. Li Yan thought for a while, "That's it, Lushan County is already mine, and I can't embarrass them anymore." apportioned the original taxes to neighboring states and counties" Under this kind of great shift, it not only ensured that the emperor's pocket did not shrink, but also ensured that his own pocket was full... What a perfect harmony it is!
History says that the lives of the residents of the "wasteland" favored by Li Yan have become like this - "the fields that cannot be farmed, the cattle cannot be cultivated, the wealth is wasted, the people are exhausted and starved to death, or they are hanged in the yoke" The above is the behavior of the second generation of Li, and the practice is not concealed, and there is not even a little self-shame and fear of sin! This is the behavior of the typical "second generation", they don't feel that they have done anything wrong at all, and they don't think that there is any bullshit law at all!
As of now, I believe everyone has gritted their teeth and hated Li Yan, right? Don't be busy just yet! He is only the last of the 6 thieves, and even in the business he is good at, there are people who are stronger than him! Because his territory is in the northwest. However, after the Anshi Rebellion, the south of the Yangtze River has risen rapidly economically, and it is no exaggeration to say that the prosperity of Kaifeng City, since the beginning of Song Taizu, has been supported by the south of the Yangtze River!
And the one who ranks above Li Yan is the one who made Jiangnan a hell on earth - Zhu Chong's son Zhu Mian!
As a self-made man, Zhu Chong is very measured. He was kind and charitable after just a little money, known as the soup soup in the disaster year, the cold day Shebu, and was very famous in the southeast. Until he entered Beijing with Cai Jing. But even so, he is very low-key, and has been obediently hiding behind Cai Jing and others. Very down-to-earth to earn black money...
But this is not the case with the second generation of Zhu! After a thorough analysis of his life, you will understand the extent of the richest second generation in the world at that time!
Zhu Mian's life circle is divided into two, one in the old base area in Jiangnan. One is in the capital of Kaifeng. In the capital, Zhu Mian is synonymous with happiness, which does not mean that he is very happy, but that he is the happiness of the entire Kaifeng officialdom. Wherever he goes, money will be drowned, and the money he pays to the ranks of officials every year will definitely exceed Zhao Ji's salary. In addition, he is also a channel, through him. Even the secrets in the depths of the palace can be understood for the first time! Because he can enter and leave the palace at any time, wander around every corner of the palace, and don't even need to avoid concubines. For what? Because he is the representative of the Flower Stone Gang! He had the duty and duty to inspect the emperor's house. See where you still need to embellish!
Zhu Erdai did a very serious job in this work and was often rewarded. For example, one day he suddenly embroidered a golden hand on the shoulder of his robe, and others asked what it was? Zhu Mian said very reverently, just now here was touched by His Majesty's royal hand... Again, he suddenly had a piece of yellow silk wrapped around his arm, and he didn't move. Even if you greet someone, you can't raise it. People ask you are paralyzed in middle age? Answer: Just now, this part of this arm was stroked again by His Majesty...
Is this him behaving very wealthy, very happy, and a little cute in Kaifeng City? But after returning to Jiangnan, it was a different face. The performance is that all his humility and cuteness in the capital have been restored a hundred times over!
First of all, money, most people think that the Zhu family's money is taken out of the treasury. They can ask for a price for the stones, and they will exchange the stones for gold and move them home. That's true, but it's not comprehensive. The wealth has reached the level of the Zhu family, and the gold and silver are all rubbish! They want something at the level of the emperor - land!
After playing to the fullest, it's all about land! Zhujiatian's property crosses counties and towns, and it is impossible to measure it with such a scale unit as a state and county, and the annual rent collected is more than 100,000 stones!
Next up is real estate! The Zhu family is a supplier of royal gardens, will the place where they live be poor? First of all, the big "Jiadi Famous Garden, half of Wu County" This Wu County does not only refer to a boundary, this is a synonym, is a symbol of the south of the Yangtze River. Zhujia Garden reaches half of the Jiangnan!
And then there's the right. Zhu Mian's official rank is very ordinary, and now he is the Suizhou Observation Envoy and the Qingyuan Army Undertaking Propaganda Envoy. Two years later, the results of the northern Yanyun front appeared, Zhao Ji was happy for a while, the whole world celebrated, the officials of the Song Dynasty were collectively promoted, and Zhu Mian was promoted to the envoy of the Ningyuan Army Festival and the envoy of Liquanguan. This is all a false title, does the festival make it powerful? Liquan Temple? As soon as I heard it, it was a Taoist temple, just an extra salary!
This is Zhu Mian's official status in Kaifeng City, but back to the south of the Yangtze River, he is a different person. His power is far more direct than Zhao Ji! Note: It's not bigger than Zhao Ji, but more direct!
The entire Jiangnan government is his staff! Like the officials at the county guard, many of them are from his cronies. Everywhere he went, even the retired rulers had to go out to greet him personally. His brothers and nephews are all daughters of the royal clan, his big and small wives have official titles, and more than 150 people in his family have the titles of military attachés of the eighth, ninth and tenth grades, and these people are just slaves who carry water for him to farm the land and clean the yard!
He himself always has to do the little things he has to do twice a month, annoying! On the first and fifteenth days of every month, senior provincial and municipal officials in the Jiangnan region gather at Zhu's house to accept his name... At this time, Zhu Mian was still quite depressed, because he had to hang up the portrait of the emperor, which was considered to be a review for Zhao Ji...
But who gave him the power to hang the portrait of the emperor in his house?
In this way, south of the Yangtze River, the official orders of the Song Dynasty have almost no deterrent effect, and it is the Zhu family who is really in power, which is even known in Kaifeng City! After a long time, in order to express their recognition, everyone gave the Zhu family the nickname "Southeast Small Imperial Court"
Steadily occupy South China and divide half of the sky, so powerful, Zhu Mian has to rank after another person in the list of villains in the Northern Song Dynasty, that is, the popular ruler Wang Huang of the Song Dynasty!
Wang Hao's original name was Wang Fu, and the reason why he changed his name was because the emperor liked him? Well, Wang Huang is also a historical celebrity, famous throughout the country in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and he is a man who stands up to the sky... Great eunuch! Wang Huang of the Song Dynasty was a handsome and unrepeatable handsome man, he was blonde and blue-eyed, with a powdery face and a long body, just like a Caucasian who crossed the ocean from Europe to the Song Dynasty. How could Zhao Ji ignore such a person? It looks even more special than the various rare birds and beasts he raised in Genyue.
A careful investigation of the history of Wang Huang's development can be concentrated into two words - hold and dismantle!
The first time he praised him in the officialdom was called He Zhizhong, who was the second phase when Zhao Ji first ascended the throne. He Zhizhong saw that he was his son's classmate, and he was very happy, so he recommended him to be the school secretary and Zuo Si...
This is a great favor, a small jinshi, not even the top three, just become a pavilion staff, and work part-time in the Zhiyuan Academy, what a high starting point! Think about Wang Anshi and Su Shi decades ago, if they wanted to enter the pavilion, they had to pass the exam, and Fan Zhongyan had to go to other places to be a magistrate for many years if he wanted to enter the Imperial Academy...
He Zhizhong's grace, even he himself thinks it is too high, so he often talks about it, and often tells colleagues, relatives and friends about something, to show off how generous and benevolent he is. One day, he also said it again while chatting with his dear colleague Cai Jing. This time, he didn't wait for the praise of the eyes of recognition, but a piece of music handed over by Cai Jing. When I opened it, He Zhizhong almost died of anger! That is actually Wang Huang's impeachment of his "twenty evil deeds", this is Wang Huang's first demolition in the officialdom, as for the reason? It's because he's hugging the other thigh and kicking the stumbling block for that thigh! (To be continued......)