Chapter 17: Wang Mang and Zhaocheng

Wang Mang walked all the way to Chang'an, sending letters one after another to the Quartet.

In the era of Emperor Xiaoxuan, the city of Zhao was opened, so the people of the four countries could enter the Zhao Principality, and there was basically no difference except for the difficulty of being an official and some restrictions.

The opening of the Principality of Zhao is two-way, not only outsiders enter, but the subjects of the Principality of Zhao, except for a few special people, such as Xiang Yu's descendants, others, especially the Luo clan, are also allowed to move freely.

When the Principality of Zhao was just opened, there were not many people who migrated, but with the increase in exchanges, especially the increase in the number of scholars who were studying, they made friends with each other, accepted invitations to go out, and even introduced their sisters to each other to the Luo clan.

The atmosphere of the Han Dynasty is open again, there is no woman's door not out of the door of the two doors, Luo's people do not refuse, naturally there are women who also come to study, hundreds of years of integration and exchange, except for the difference in household registration, there is no difference.

Zhaocheng is a holy place for the elderly, a holy place for people who like purity, but the people of the Luo clan don't just like purity.

After all, even the Luo clan with the stigma has different personalities, let alone ordinary Luo clan people?

Over the past hundred years, the population has naturally continued to flow out, but the Principality of Zhao has been suppressing the number of people, and the more the outflow is, the more children will be born, especially the female clansmen, who have no opportunity to be officials, and most of them are unwilling to leave Zhaocheng.

Moreover, the clansmen who go out cannot use the name of the Luo clan, and it can even be said that they can only leave if they directly take back the Luo clan.

Because Luo himself knows very well that the Principality of Zhao is different!

This is the real place where the prime king droops his eyes, and living here will naturally be affected, but the outside world is different.

If you use a more Xianxia statement, the Zhao Principality is pure air, and the outside world is turbidity, pure air makes people think upward, turbidity makes people think downward, and only a very few people can do "the whole world is turbid and I am clear".

In case these people leave Zhaocheng and do something in the name of Luo's, it will be more than worth the loss.

The Han Dynasty, as the suzerainty of the Zhuxia kingdoms with the most extensive and most populous ruling territory, also occupied almost all the fertile Central Plains land, so it was naturally the first choice for everyone.

For today's fatigue, those scholars who once lived in the Principality of Zhao know best, this group of people is the most determined reformer, and many of them are friends of Wang Mang when he was studying in Zhaocheng.

Wang Mang is a person, aside from ability.

The personal moral cultivation is outrageously high.

And he is the kind of cautious and independent person, even many Luo's sons admire him, from this point of view, Wang Mang has his own unique charm.

A person who can be praised by countless people with considerable skills cannot be a useless waste.

When Wang Mang went to Chang'an, he naturally wrote to these friends of his own, asking them to come to his aid.

He sent no less than a hundred letters from Kanto all the way to the west, including his friends, his disciples, and his favored clansmen, and this connection alone was not comparable to ordinary people.

"Chang'an."

After passing through Luoyang, crossing Yiluo, crossing Cuihan, and then coming to the outside of Chang'an.

This is not the first time Wang Mang has been here.

In fact, he had entered the imperial court a few years earlier, and then resigned and returned to his hometown after only a year.

This time I came here, and it was a restart.

It's that many people want him back, it's that the contradictions in the court are too great!

A well-known sage like Wang Mang does not serve in the imperial court, who will act as a façade?

The more Wang Mang doesn't care about glory and wealth, and the more he doesn't want power, the more the court wants to give it to him, and the more the people of the world want to give it to him!

People all over the world flock to those fat poor, why?

Because they want to profit from it!

This is a whole logical chain, Wang Mang is unwilling to ask for it, which means that he doesn't care about the interests it represents, he doesn't care, so he will be trusted.

Wang Mang recalled the last time he clashed with the emperor because of his lack of strength, and tried to do some things, the more he did them, the more wrong he became, and finally he was seized of the opportunity and could only leave Chang'an gloomily.

This time he will not make the same mistake again, he will strengthen himself quietly, and before he holds the highest power, he will never do things lightly and leave no flaws for anyone.

After Wang Mang entered Chang'an, the Wang clan in Chang'an City went straight up to greet him.

"Young master!"

The clansmen of the Wang clan stepped forward and saluted respectfully, and Wang Mang also returned the salute.

Starting from Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, Liu Ming, as one of the relatives of the family, the Wang family naturally embarked on the road of prominence.

However, the family of relatives has always belonged to its prosperity and prosperity, and its death is also sudden, and if you want to maintain your wealth for a long time, you must either transform into a military meritorious prince, or transform into a scholarly family that has completely risen from the period of Emperor Xiaoxuan.

Wang Mang is the unicorn of the Wang family, and he is the recognized leader of the Wang family for decades to come.

Even if he is not the son of the head of the family, but now in the Wang family, his reputation is second only to a few elders, and among the young and middle-aged generation, there is no one enemy, and he is the next heir with the highest voice in the Wang family.

In order to invite Wang Mang back to Guanzhong from Kanto, not only the imperial court is working hard, but the Wang family is also doing the same, but fortunately, it is a success now.

The current power of the Wang family is because of the existence of the Queen Mother and the Great Sima, both of which are indispensable, but at the moment when Shiqing Shilu has been abolished, once the head of the family dies and there is no suitable person to inherit the position of the Great Sima, the power of the Wang family will be affected.

Wang Mang returned to Chang'an, and with his prestige, it would only take a few years to succeed to the position of Grand Sima and maintain the power of the first family of Wang's Chang'an.

But no one knew that Wang Mang's goal was not only that, the Wang family was also so prosperous back then, but he was finally forced to leave Chang'an!

Because although the Wang family is strong, it cannot be arbitrary, and the opposition is very strong, and it can even be said that if it were not for the queen mother supporting her waist in the palace, the Wang family would have gotten out of the way.

"Everything that can't kill me will make me stronger, the means that once defeated me will no longer be effective, this time I will not make the same mistakes as before, I will defeat all people one by one.

Until I hold the highest power, turn the world into a picture scroll in my hand, and paint on it the peace of the country and the people, and the world is peaceful! ”

This is what Wang Mang thought before he walked into the palace.

He came here to meet the Queen Mother, and now the key to the prosperity of the Wang family is here.

This most noble woman in the world is indispensable to the Wang family, and everyone else, including Da Sima, can be replaced.

This is the status quo of the family of foreign relatives, relying on a woman and becoming rich.

The emperor was also in the Empress Dowager's Weiyang Palace, looking at Wang Mang, whom he didn't like very much, because Wang Mang used to always criticize him, thinking that he was not a holy king.

Of course, the emperor knows that he is not a holy king, but without what you have always said, if I am a holy king, can I still watch the big man slide and not be able to stop it?

After Wang Mang finished saluting the queen mother, he saluted the emperor again, bowed deeply and said: "Your Majesty is safe and blessed, the minister misses Your Majesty very much, and it was Mang's fault that he was too reckless in the past." ”

The emperor looked at Wang Mang in front of him with some surprise.

(End of chapter)