Luo Sheng and Luo Shi looked at the rather tragic news from the Central Plains in their hands, they were a little stunned, both of them fell into silence, Luo Shi opened his mouth, but did not make a sound, because he didn't know what to say.

There was another silence, and Luo Shi muttered: "It shouldn't be like this, there is no need to come to this point at all, how could His Majesty be ......?"

It is difficult for Losen to accept this fact, and it is even more difficult for Losen to accept!

Although Luo Sheng was difficult to accept, after all, he was only the son of Zhaogong, and in the final analysis, he was a guest of the Han Dynasty, and he only had feelings for the Han Dynasty, the main empire of Zhuxia.

Luo Shi is different, he is the unparalleled marquis!

It is a prince of the inner domain.

He was a courtier who accepted the double canonization of the Son of Heaven and the emperor, and was a courtier of the Han Dynasty, and after Liu Dan ascended the throne, he personally wrote congratulations and sent it to Chang'an, swearing to be loyal to the emperor.

The Emperor is his sovereign!

Although Luo's has a flexible moral bottom line, it is only for monarchs who are too outrageous, and Luo's son will not be foolish, such as in the past, when Luo Wengong decisively abandoned King Zhou Li.

This does not mean that Luo's son is an unfaithful person, and Luo's good reputation for thousands of years is because Luo's character is trustworthy.

Just like when Luo Ye accepted Liu Bang's last wish to take care of Liu Ruyi, he gave up the position of auxiliary minister at his fingertips.

You must know that at that time, Luo Xin did not return to Chang'an, and Luo Yi did not know that the future auxiliary minister would still be Luo's son, he would rather give up his prominent position, and even give up the future of making the family prominent in the political arena, and still have to carry out Liu Bang's last wish, which is Luo Yi's loyalty to Liu Bang.

Luo Shi is still very satisfied with Liu Dan's performance since he ascended the throne, but now, Liu Dan directly gave him a slap in the face, which made Luo Shi completely unacceptable.

Luo Shi held the letter in his hand and sighed: "Brother, if the Central Plains is in chaos, what should the Western Regions do to keep it?" ”

It was extremely difficult to gain a foothold in a foreign land, and both the Western Han and Eastern Han failed to establish a civilization and country belonging to the Han people, which was probably related to the policy of the Han Dynasty, and did not think of completely assimilating the Western Regions.

The Tang Dynasty was actually the closest to success, the regime established by the Guiyi Army and the existence of the Khotanese Jin State were all contributions of the Tang Dynasty, if there was no Anshi Rebellion, it would take more than a hundred years, maybe the Tang Dynasty would be able to completely turn the Western Regions into its own.

The attitude of the Han Dynasty towards the Western Regions in this world has changed, and it is no longer a simple garrison, but is ready to gradually encroach on immigrants, and establish the Zhuxia Kingdoms in the Western Regions, the Wusun Kingdom and the Wushuang Marquis State is an attempt.

If you want to establish a solid rule over a region, if you just integrate, it is relatively simple, such as the various khanates of the Mongol Empire, which is converted to the local religion and customs, and uses the local culture to rule, for example, a certain dynasty generally inherits the system of the Ming Dynasty, and then strengthens it with its own characteristics, and the rule is very stable.

But if you don't want to fit in, but want to change the local culture, then it will take three or four generations in a hundred years.

The two generations of Luo Wuji and Luo Shi have been cultivating here for 20 years, and they found that the people in this land of the Western Regions are very wrong, and they have a kind of belief in the gods, even if the Han people from the Central Plains come to this land and give birth to children, they will become Shinto.

If they ask Ji Zhao, Ji Zhao will definitely tell them that this is a kind of world rule, and this is the case with the Western Regions, and the cultural convergence is the charm of the Western Regions.

But this situation has caused a more embarrassing thing, there is no kind of Shinto religion in the Central Plains, there was a state of Chu before, but it was destroyed by the Xiang clan of Chu with the ancestor Ji Zhao.

Therefore, the religion of Shinto and Shinto has been eliminated, and the Eight Masters are not religions in the traditional sense.

Only Su Wang Ji Zhao!

But Ji Zhao's belief in King Su is an ancestral god, and in essence, there is some level close to the Tao, which is integrated into the bloodline of Xia.

To a certain extent, Emperor Suwang is a kind of quite righteous god, a god teaches people not to rely on God, this is unique, this kind of belief that is not enough to pretend to be a god and a ghost, if it weren't for Luo's, no one would have believed it a long time ago.

But neither Ji Zhao nor Luo's was willing to let Emperor Su become an existence of imprisoned thoughts, so the current situation was created.

Luo's has already begun to prepare for the development of a special version of Suwang Shanghuangtian for the Western Regions, but this is bound to be a long process.

In this most time-hungry situation, the emperor issued an edict to make seven or eight out of ten merchants in Guanzhong bankrupt, and this edict is still going to the world, and I don't know how many human tragedies will be caused.

When Pandora's box is opened, it is no longer a tax inspection, but the hands of petty people and treacherous officials, whether it is really tax evasion or a business dealer, it is impossible to survive this storm.

It can even be said that this is the inevitable ending!

Luo Sheng sighed: "Ah Shi, take care of your emotions, the arrow is on the string, I have to send it."

You are a general, and at this time, you must fight this battle even more!

Brother Wei immediately returned to the Central Plains to see what the situation in the world was. ”

Luo Shi took a deep breath, forcibly stabilized his body, and slowly placed the letter on the table.

After Luo Sheng and Luo Shi separated, they rushed all the way from the Western Regions to the Central Plains, and the Western Regions to the four counties of Hexi were all busy scenes, preparing for the big war.

When he crossed the Hexi Corridor and entered Longxi County, he looked back at the Western Regions and thought: "Ah Shi must have started a war with the Dawan Kingdom now, the Western Regions are too far away, and once the Central Dynasty declines in the future, it will definitely not be able to scruple about it." ”

Putting away these complicated thoughts, Luo Sheng was no longer in a hurry as before, but began to check the situation in Guanzhong.

……

In a rather dilapidated thatched house, a little girl asked with big eyes fluttering and fear, "Father, why do those servants come to rob us?" ”

The middle-aged man's face was full of tiredness, and he was about to speak, but suddenly he heard a noisy sound outside the house, and when he opened the window, he saw that it was an official of the government!

Seeing the man, Xu Yan showed a happy look on his face, and shouted loudly, "Wang San, you still have 8,000 yuan left to pay, hurry up and pay the money, otherwise you will be exiled by the Han Dynasty."

Your wife and daughter are so thin-skinned and tender-skinned, I'm afraid they can't withstand the pain of exile, tell you, exiled people, half of the death on the way, pay the money quickly, and still save your life. ”

Hearing this, Wang San roared angrily: "I have always done business as I should, and I have never owed the imperial court commercial taxes, what money do I pay?" It was your people who deliberately framed me to bring me to where I am today.

Open your eyes, O King Su, how can these wicked people stand in peace under the blue sky? ”

Hearing this, the official sneered: "Your cloth village is worth 150,000 yuan, but you only pay taxes according to 80,000 yuan, isn't it your fault?"

We are all acting in accordance with His Majesty's instructions and the laws of the Great Han, are you dissatisfied with Your Majesty? ”

Wang San was so angry that he was about to vomit blood, 150,000 yuan, he didn't know that his cloth village was worth 150,000 yuan, which one would spend 150,000 yuan to buy his own cloth village, which was obviously the government in order to collect more taxes, estimated that the value of his shop was higher, and then checked that the tax he paid was not enough, and then directly swallowed his shop.

In the case of extreme anger, sometimes people will be more rational, Wang San looked up at the sky, as if he felt that the Su King above the nine heavens was watching him, by this time, Wang San had already determined that these officials did not want to give him a way to live.

In that case, do we still have to wait for death?

That's ridiculous.

Wang San and his wife glanced at each other, and they both saw the determination in each other's eyes, especially Wang San's wife, who said decisively: "If you can live today, you will go to Chang'an to meet you, when Emperor Gao overthrew the tyrannical Qin, and now the Han is unkind to me, and I am willing to use my meager strength to eliminate the tyranny. ”

Wang San quickly ran back to the house, took off the hanging sword, and returned to the courtyard.

Seeing that Wang San actually resisted, the officials were a little panicked, but not surprised, after all, the Han people are full of blood, and since the implementation of the policy, there are really many people who have resisted, not to mention the officials, even the officials have been assassinated and seriously injured.

"Wang San, do you really want to resist?"

The official screamed: "Rebelling against the imperial court is the fate of the three Yi clans, your daughter is still so young, can you bear this result?" ”

In the face of this situation, the only way is to grasp the weakness of these people, and it is most effective to threaten with the weakness, which is a typical change of continuous sitting, tried and tested.

Wang San sneered when he heard this: "It is better to live in the world in humiliation than to die proudly."

The gods of King Su are in the heavens, and today I die bravely, and my soul will be brought into the realm of the gods, and you, these filthy people, are destined to be beaten into the Yellow Spring and suffer for eternity. ”

Hearing this, the faces of the officials changed, and they said a little broken: "The Son of Heaven is the son of the Emperor Su who was born in the world, and we are respecting the orders of the Son of Heaven, how can the Emperor Su Wang lower the punishment."

You traitor, you are disrespectful to the Emperor Su, you really deserve to die. ”

Wang San stopped talking nonsense, and stepped forward with a sword, he used to be a soldier of the Han army, but he didn't make any contributions, but in terms of strength alone, compared to these few officials who can only exploit, he naturally doesn't know how strong it is.

In the absence of armor on both sides, Wang San defeated three with one, but with a few quick and ruthless moves, he killed a few people in this courtyard, leaving a few corpses and gurgling blood.

"Let's go, go to Chang'an."

Wang San gasped deeply, the shock brought to him by killing these few officials was great, and without the slightest pause, the two packed their bags and prepared to go to Chang'an.

————

Any policy that is carried out to the bottom must be carried out with the greatest malice to figure out the thinking of the grassroots officials, and formulate a reasonable assessment method; if the policymakers cannot effectively control the grassroots officials, then they should not make any new changes, and this is the core concept of the reform. - "The Transformation of the Han Empire"

(End of chapter)