Luo Sheng embarked on the road to the Western Regions, starting from Chang'an to the Western Regions to pass through the four counties of Hexi, as well as the Guanzhong counties west of Chang'an.

As a result, Luo Sheng's view was much more than he expected, because he found a lot of homeless people in the pass.

And it's not a short time to look at it, these homeless people range from old to young.

His housekeeper was also shocked when he saw this, if there were displaced people in Kanto, it would be normal, after all, the Guandong was full of powerful people, even if there was a Lingyi system, the land annexation could not be controlled.

But in Guanzhong, this is the land directly under the royal family, and it is the basic plate of the royal family, and even the princely states do not divide it here, so there are also displaced people?

The housekeeper quickly figured out the origin of these people, and said in a deep voice: "Childe, these people were in the twelfth year of Yuancheng, when there was a big flood in Guanzhong, and the imperial court could only open the embankment on the north side in order to discharge the flood, so they flooded their fertile land houses, and because of the lack of materials issued by the imperial court, the new land was not allocated, and they could only become displaced people. ”

Yuancheng is the era name of Emperor Ding of the Han Dynasty.

Luo Sheng frowned slightly and said: "In the twelfth year of Yuan Cheng, the Han Dynasty, which had not yet experienced the defeat in the southwest, would it not have the ability to provide disaster relief?"

Although Emperor Xiaoding was at fault in his later years, he was not a brutal monarch, so how could he not provide disaster relief? ”

Starting from Emperor Xiaowu, the world gradually began to have disasters, to Emperor Xiaoding, there was some flooding, Guanzhong sent several floods, almost this break, but fortunately, the court still has the ability to provide disaster relief, there is no big chaos.

Unexpectedly, after a little investigation, I found that there were big problems in the follow-up of disaster relief.

Saying that, Luo Sheng glanced at the surrounding terrain a few more times, and said strangely: "Besides, the Weishui tributaries are flooding, but the water flows to a low place, and it is obviously easier to discharge floods on the south side, how can the embankment on the north side be opened?" ”

Luo Sheng's face became gloomy, and he said, "Go and ask the people, whose land is on the south side?" ”

The housekeeper was stunned, of course he understood what Luo Sheng meant, and quickly turned around, and said with a heavy face: "Childe, as you expected, half of it is the land of the eldest princess's family, and the other half is other royal nobles, and the officials did not dare to open the embankment to destroy the fertile land of these powerful people, so they opened the embankment on the north side and destroyed the land of the people."

Luo Sheng closed his eyes slightly when he heard this, infinite anger lingered in his heart, and even green muscles burst out, and the housekeeper asked when he saw this: "Childe, do you want to inform the emperor of these things?"

These people are really pitiful, with only such a small amount of family assets, they have nothing in a big flood.

But do you want to secretly give these powerful people some punishment? ”

Luo Sheng slowly opened his eyes, looked at the housekeeper and shook his head, gritted his teeth and said: "This is a royal matter, just tell the emperor, as for the action, there is no need to make a move."

Send people to check if there are any people who resist, whether there are those who ask for their lives for the people, and whether there are heroes and heroes who are not afraid of power and dare to take action against the powerful and officials, and take these people away and resettle.

Those who hold wages for the people, do not let them freeze to death in the ice and snow!

Those who are obedient will stay here.

Those who can endure injustice still have countless injustices to experience in this life. ”

Hearing this, the housekeeper asked a little unbearably, "Childe, is this too cruel?" ”

Luo Sheng said seriously: "What if you take it away?"

Can you give them a house to live in?

Can you feed and clothe them?

Can they live and work in peace?

Besides, even the Heavenly Realm of King Su would not accept cowardly souls.

If there is no king in this world, then there will never be a savior, and if you want to be happy, you have to rely on yourself.

This is the truth that life determines fate.

Now King Su blesses the brave and gives the souls of the brave the opportunity to ascend to the heavenly realm.

There is also Luo's generation of brave competition, which is already the luck of the people of Zhuxia.

The elimination of cowardly spirits, the inheritance of strong spirits, and the elimination of generations will make the spirit of the people of Zhuxia more and more full and correct.

Besides, the Luo clan has no ability to save them, and the family has done its best to maintain the current scale, if it weren't for the opening up of the Western Regions, Zhaocheng would have exploded.

Don't you understand the family creed, don't do good deeds beyond your ability? ”

The housekeeper said in a cold sweat: "Childe, it's the minister's mistake." ”

Luo Sheng sighed with emotion: "Don't underestimate the people of the world, the Qin Dynasty is so powerful, isn't it still defeated in the hands of farmers, the world thinks that Emperor Gao, King Xiang, and King Zhaosheng are the great heroes of the destruction of the Qin Dynasty, but the family praises King Chen for rising up, how great is that, how much more than a King Chen in this world?"

Don't look too highly at the people of the world, there are still many people who are obedient, and there are also many people who become even worse once they turn around with wealth.

The family has promoted the spark of thought, and now it retains the spark of the brave, and one day, this may be the fire of the prairie fire? ”

The housekeeper nodded thoughtfully, and then suddenly thought of something, and said in shock: "Childe, if Guanzhong is unstable, then the southwest was defeated before, plus the emperor's tax increase this time, Guanzhong ......"

Luo Sheng's face changed.

These things that the butler said are nothing in their entirety, but they are not trivial matters when taken together.

As I said before, the basis of the Han court's rule was small landlords who could serve in the military and pay taxes, in fact, merchants were also one of the bases of rule, because most merchants were small merchants, in the words of later generations, they were called self-employed.

Sang Hongyang personally stared at collecting taxes, it was true that he could receive the big businessman's body, but he couldn't do everything, once he didn't pay attention and relied on the local officials, how could he collect the tax of the big businessman?

Behind the big businessmen are the big powers.

In the end, ordinary businessmen can only suffer a little, in the real history, the order caused a large-scale bankruptcy of merchants, in fact, small and medium-sized merchants bankruptcy, the real big power took the opportunity of the bankruptcy of small and medium-sized merchants, wantonly acquisition, this is a major reason for the local tyrants to sit big.

The most terrifying thing about this incident is that even if you know the cause and effect, you can't solve it.

For example, in the case of the eldest princess, the officials directly took matters into their own hands and destroyed the people's farmland, because even if this matter was taken to the emperor, except for a few emperors who really loved the people like children, most of them were symbolic punishments.

The famous strong order in history is like this, and in the end, the princess was not punished.

After all, one side is his own relatives, and the other side is an abstract people, so what he will choose has actually been determined from the beginning.

Luo's has always been strict with himself and lenient with others.

If one person does one thing, it may be one person's fault, but everyone does it after they become rich, and that is human nature.

Luo's only be a model, but he doesn't strictly ask others to do it, just like the nobles of Bangzhou finally degenerate, Luo's doesn't care.

Because the degenerate aristocracy will eventually be swept into the dustbin of history, Luoche will not persuade him, but will only be this garbage sweeper.

In Luo Sheng's eyes, although Hanting has been established for a hundred years, it is still in the heyday of its rise.

This is even stronger than Bang Zhou, when Bang Zhou was established for 70 years, there was a decline, or relying on the ancestor Luo Wen Gong to greatly extend the national ancestry.

But now I suddenly found that the situation of Dahan was not as good as I imagined, and the signs of various problems gradually appeared.

And I don't even know when these problems appeared, obviously Emperor Xiaowu was still so good, is it just some natural disasters?

You must know that the current natural disasters in Guanzhong are nothing at all, when Bang Zhou occupied Guanzhong a thousand years ago, it was the three rivers that were cut off, and the ecological environment of the entire Guanzhong was greatly changed, and it could not accommodate the capital of a dynasty at all.

Coupled with political reasons, the Zhou royal family had to withdraw from that land and move to Luoyang, between Heluo and Luoyang, to re-establish the capital.

Without a series of droughts, no overwhelming locust plagues, no continuous earthquakes, and most importantly, no major river breaches and diversions, a flood affecting tens of thousands of hectares of farmland was nothing to a dynasty.

"Liu Dan."

Luo Sheng muttered the name, "Is it a good thing that an emperor who is good at martial arts appears in this period?" ”

Luo Sheng didn't know the answer to this question, he was not the ancestor of those who were wise, none of the governing countries reached 90, and the reason why he was able to become the heir of Zhaogong was only because of the eldest son, and the other descendants were also mediocre.

There has never been a shortage of people in this world who have had an epiphany, there has never been a shortage of people who have changed their ways, and it is also not uncommon for people who were once outstanding to become deaf because of some blows.

Emperor Liu Dan likes martial arts now, who can guarantee that he will always be like this?

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Serious land annexation was one of the main reasons for the decline and demise of ancient dynasties, land annexation led to a decrease in the number of free farmers who paid taxes and served for the state, or for the royal family, causing financial difficulties, and finally could not invest in the maintenance of large public works, could not raise military funds in wars, and the country's military administration gradually declined, but this was not the reason for the decline of the Han Dynasty.

The Han Dynasty has a good foundation for the founding of the country, in the 100th year of the founding of the country, the problem of land annexation is not serious, and due to the existence of the flow of feudal system, once the son of heaven and a dynasty of princes, the kingdom may be replaced at any time, but more than three generations will be removed, although the time of the princely state is long, but according to the needs of military deployment, it will also be changed on a large scale, and the princes do not have much demand for land annexation.

Moreover, the Han Dynasty had strict regulations on the size of the feudal state, and the collection of taxes and forced labor would be adjusted according to the size of the feudal state, so the annexation of land within the princely country did not affect the country's mobilization ability and dynastic taxation.

But in this good situation, the royal family is actually attacking its own basic situation, and this incredible man-made disaster, coupled with the frequent patronage of natural disasters, finally caused irreparable results. ——"The History of the Rise and Fall of the Han Dynasty"

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