Another path in the 4571644 year

3 silver dollars and 360 coins were the only available funds for Wei Dongsheng, and each penny was useful for a penny, and he didn't even dare to buy an extra copy of the newspaper. Previously, even in the poorest sixth generation, Wei Dongsheng could sit still and have a net profit of more than 100 silver dollars per year of the Xiao Wei family's commercial bank. If he is not careful, Wei Dongsheng will go hungry.

The poorer you are, the less you can be free.

If a lot of time is forced to waste on food, clothing, shelter and transportation, and you are so tired that you want to collapse in bed after work, how can you have the energy to study further?

Of course, this is not difficult for Wei Dongsheng.

Wei Dongsheng VI has accumulated countless experiences, as if the founding emperor has traveled to a new troubled era, as if a self-made rich man has returned to old age. Even if there is no golden finger for the protagonist of the traverser to know the future trend, they can easily solve problems such as clothing, food, housing and transportation.

However, Wei Dongsheng's target is not a prince or a billionaire.

The 10th reincarnation is a lesson.

The "Tenth World" reincarnated in the tenth generation was to divide the Weixia Empire into ten classes according to their social status; The "experience" of each life of reincarnation is precisely to hope that Wei Dongsheng can personally experience the world in the eyes of the ten classes. In the same way, in the Weixia Empire, how the emperor viewed it, how the vassal kings viewed it, how the cabinet officials viewed it, how the local officials viewed it, how the industry elite viewed it, how the successful people viewed it, and how the middle class viewed it, different institutions must have different cognitions. Only by being familiar with the thoughts and thoughts of the ten major classes can Wei Dongsheng see the true face of the Wei Xia Empire.

Perhaps, this is the true meaning of the 10th rebirth.

In that case, it is worth taking a moment to learn about the living environment of the Seventh Generation.

Eighteen years ago, Wei Dongsheng died at Weihe College in Qingdao Prefecture, Lu Domain; Eighteen years later, Wei Dongsheng landed in a residential area not far from Weihe College in Qingdao Prefecture, Lu Domain.

Speaking of the recent situation of Weihe Academy, it is necessary to briefly summarize the changes in the system of the Lu Fan in recent years.

In 1631, Wei Shunhui succeeded him as king of the Lu domain, and the cabinet coerced him into signing a peace treaty with the Wu domain. Wei Shunhui succumbed at that time, but regarded the incident as a great shame, and when the throne was slightly stabilized, he began to fight with the cabinet, and the contradiction between the royal power and the cabinet became more and more intense.

During the Luyu Republic, Fan Bike implemented the "Examination Law", requiring officials at all levels to "do everything full-time and complete it within a limit; Supervision at all levels, each with its own responsibility". When Wei Shunhui's father Wei Daoqian was restored, the authority of the cabinet was relatively strong, and Wei Fan continued the "Examination Law", with the ministries monitoring the localities, the six provinces monitoring the ministries, and the cabinet monitoring the six provinces, transferring most of the power of the royal family to the cabinet.

Wei Shunhui hated this political reform the most, and repeatedly wanted to break through the restrictions of the "Examination Law" and appoint foreign relatives and close ministers to supervise the six provincial ministries.

Naturally, the cabinet would not let Wei Shunhui succeed, and repeatedly vetoed Wei Shunhui's appointment.

The stalemate until 1635, Wei Shun would simply tear his face, not suburbs, no temples, no courts, no criticism, no talks.

The cabinet system originated from Wei Dongsheng, and after more than 300 years of inheritance, it has become more and more mature, and the cabinet practice needs to be recognized by the royal power (imperial power) and the cabinet. If a minister is elected by the group and the vassal king approves it, he can enter the cabinet; If the vassal king wants to promote a minister, he can only be officially elected by the majority of the cabinet before he can officially join the cabinet, and almost every cabinet minister is born from the mutual compromise between the royal power and the cabinet. Wei Shun hated the regent of the cabinet, and said that if the cabinet refused to allow the officials he appointed to join the cabinet, he would never again approve the election of officials elected by the masses.

The cabinet suddenly lost its fresh blood replenishment.

Initially, the matter had less impact. However, as time went on, when the elderly cabinet ministers died of illness and could not replenish the cabinet in time, the cabinet gradually realized that the crisis was coming. If all the existing cabinet ministers die of old age and illness, how can the cabinet operate? Even, when all the ministers died of illness, and when four or five ministers were absent, the bureaucracy began to sink into the quagmire.

Will the Cabinet give in?

The answer is no.

Just in time for the advent of the Xiaoice climate, natural and man-made disasters quickly became a weapon of struggle between the royal power and the cabinet.

Beginning in 1638, the Lu clan suddenly suffered many disasters and difficulties, this month there was a drought in Jiafu, the next month in Yifu locust plague, the next month in Cfu wind disaster, and another month Ding Fu drought. At the same time, industry and commerce suddenly withered, taxes and silver fell sharply, expenses soared, revenues plummeted, and the financial crisis of the Lu clan became more and more severe. At the beginning, the small court of the Lu clan would be rescued in times of disaster, and it really looked like a son who loved the people; When the treasury of the Lu domain gradually emptied, the cabinet suddenly made a mistake and asked the vassal king Wei Shunhui to contribute generously. It's a pity, don't say that Wei Shunhui can really pity the people, even if he really wants to rescue the disaster, how can he conjure up tens of millions of silver dollars and a huge amount of grain?

As a result, Lu Fan suffered many disasters and difficulties.

When a certain government encounters a natural disaster, the court is powerless to save it, and the hungry people gather together for disaster; The imperial court sent troops to suppress the civil unrest, but as a result, the more and more the soldiers were owed, and the soldiers were angry; The feudal kings imposed taxes on an emergency basis, and as a result, they offended the wealthy merchants of the world and transferred their wealth to other feudal states.

The soldiers have no heart to fight, and the hungry people are as fierce as fire.

In April 1644, a group of hungry people invaded the royal capital of Jinan, and Wei Shunhui was stoned to death as he escaped into a dry well.

In June 1644, Lu Fan urgently reorganized the cabinet in Qingdao Prefecture, and all the famous ministers who were not approved by Wei Shunhui were selected. The new cabinet immediately became full of vitality, efficiently inviting 30,000 foot cavalry from its ally Wu Fan to quickly quell the weakly organized hungry people and thieves. Later, the cabinet borrowed money from the Wu domain to solve the current embarrassment with the sovereignty guarantee of the Lu domain, and then borrowed money from the Nanyang vassal states to purchase grain.

The cabinet of the Lu Domain was successfully restored to power, and Wei Shunhui became a famous faint king or faint king of the Wei Xia Empire.

It is normal to encounter homeless people to make trouble, and it is not uncommon for homeless people to attack the royal capital, but they can't escape until they escape, and Wei Shunhui's absolute IQ is limited. You must know that under the feudal order, there are nobles or families in each feudal country, and fleeing for their lives in an emergency is a life-saving knowledge that every feudal king must learn. For example, Wei Shunzong, the king of the Zhao domain, was almost surrounded by the nobles, but he was still able to escape to the Wei domain on his own; For example, Wei Shunhui's uncle, in the face of the elite light cavalry sent by Fan Bike, he was still able to escape safely to the royal jurisdiction. On the other hand, Wei Shunhui was so stupid that he couldn't imagine that he was surrounded and killed in the royal capital by a group of hungry people who lacked light horses.

But would Wei Shun really be so stupid?

This matter is probably debatable.

If Wei Shun would really be so stupid, how could the cabinet be suppressed by him for thirteen years?

Some of Wei Shunhui's cronies, who had fled to its vassal state, angrily accused them of all this as a cabinet conspiracy, and that the civil unrest of 1644 was full of suspicions.

First of all, the natural disasters in the early provinces were not as severe as imagined, but the imperial court controlled by the cabinet was desperately extravagant or corrupt. It is said that the so-called flood in a certain province was actually just a small river overflowing because it was blocked downstream, and hundreds of fields were lost at most, but the cabinet allocated 5 million stone of grain to the local area for emergency relief. Of course, this batch of grain was not really distributed to the people, but was transferred to the Jin Domain, the Zhou Domain, and the Tang Domain, which were more severe in natural disasters, and smuggled and resold them, and the people who handled them made a lot of money. Later, the cabinet of the real disaster-stricken prefectures and counties used the excuse that the national treasury was empty and delayed disaster relief, and indirectly forced the local hungry people to rebel.

Secondly, the fighting power of this hungry people is not strong. Although they have been defeated repeatedly on the surface, the actual losses of these troops are minimal, and it is suspected that they deliberately indulged this hungry people to attack the royal capital. As for the descendants sent by Wei Shunhui, why were they also wiped out? The answer is also very simple, according to some soldiers who were lucky enough to escape, the day before the battle, the warehouse where gunpowder was stored suddenly exploded, and all the gunpowder supplied by the logistics was damp and unusable.

Again, a minister in the palace broke the news that not long after the descendants of the troops went out, Wei Shunhui was indirectly controlled by the cabinet in the palace. It was not until the hungry people attacked the gate of the royal capital that Wei Shunhui was late to learn the bad news that the descendants of the army had been destroyed. Wei Shun knew that this hungry and chaotic party was full of suspicions, so naturally he would not be stupid and stupid to defend Jinan Mansion, and immediately wanted to ride out of the palace alone and flee to the nearby Zhao Domain. Unexpectedly, the palace gate guards were quietly replaced by the cabinet, and the guards shot Wei Shunhui back with arrows.

Again, this starving democracy is a plague-stricken people, hastily assembled into an army, unfamiliar with and unproficient in artillery tactics. However, this hungry and chaotic party strangely had an elite artillery team, which was more powerful than Wei Shunhui's descendants. Even, perhaps still afraid that the hungry people lacked combat effectiveness, when the hungry people attacked the gate of the royal capital and hesitated to parade, someone secretly opened the city gate and let them burn the palace. If it weren't for this, how could Jinan Mansion, which had a well-established fortress system, suddenly fall?

In the end, some people said that the hungry people did not catch Wei Shunhui, and in fact Wei Shunhui also wanted to negotiate with the leader of the hungry people in good faith. However, a small group of private soldiers who seemed to know that they were elite soldiers, dressed in the robes of the hungry people, went straight to the palace, and couldn't help but push Wei Shunhui into a dry well and stone him to death.

Wait a minute.

The fall of Jinan Mansion and the death of Wei Shunhui are full of suspicions.

It's a pity that the hungry people and the rebels were all slaughtered by the mercenaries of the Wu Domain and the troops of the Lu Domain, and there is no reliable evidence; Wei Shunhui's former ministers were also arrested and wanted by the cabinet on various charges, all of whom were very corrupt officials with moral indebtedness, and some gossip could not affect the political situation of the Lu clan at all.

In July 1644, the cabinet elected Wei Shunhui's eight-year-old eldest son, Wei Shengqing, as the king of the Lu domain.

Unlike previous successions, the cabinet took the opportunity to carry out major political reforms, requiring the puppet vassal king Wei Shengqing to fully accept the constraints of the cabinet. The cabinet changed the cabinet system in a more high-profile manner, and the vassal king still had the right to nominate an official to the cabinet, but the final result must depend on the election of a majority of the cabinet; An official elected by the cabinet enlargement group can be added to the cabinet without the approval of the vassal king; All military forces of the feudal kingdom continued to be nominally loyal to the feudal king, but the cabinet restricted the feudal king from establishing private guards, and all generals had to be approved by the cabinet.

In other words, the vassal king has become a rubber stamp puppet, and the cabinet has since become the real supreme authority of the Lu domain.