Chapter 540: The Real Late Han Dynasty

Gongsun Zhan is from a famous family in western Liaoning.

The Gongsun family is not a powerful place, it is a family of two thousand stones.

It's just that because he is a concubine, he is not allowed to be reused in the family, and he is just a small official in the county when he is a minister.

To be able to achieve today's achievements is completely dependent on one's own struggle.

Therefore, he is completely different from Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu's brothers, who almost completely rely on the Yuan family's family situation.

The brothers of the Yuan family are more concerned about how the Yuan family is, but Gongsun Chan is thinking about what he should do.

Because he was not treated by the Gongsun family since he was a child, Gongsun Chan would not do anything for the Gongsun family.

Li Yunze's appearance made him see another bright road.

If you do a good job, you can't say that you can get the help of the immortals, and you may be able to replace the big man.

If it doesn't work, then brush up some good impressions with the immortal chief, and it is not impossible to follow the immortal chief to cultivate and seek immortality in the future.

If it really doesn't work, then with the blessing of the immortal, the dominant side can always be.

And no matter which one it is, the first thing you have to do is let the immortal chief see that he is worth investing.

Li Yunze's actions also inspired Gongsun Zhan, and Liu Bei, who can be valued by Li Yunze, is also an extraordinary person. He also made an investment in Liu Bei.

The scale of investment is not large, 300 white horses and a batch of military horses and grass.

The materials in the Han world are actually very rich.

Not to mention the Western Han Dynasty, let's just say that the Eastern Han Dynasty also has 200 years of accumulation, and the total amount of wealth and materials is very large.

However, the only reason why the Yellow Turban Rebellion still broke out despite having a lot of wealth and materials was the unfair distribution.

Liu Xiu, who did not hesitate to fight the world all over again, but also fought with the family gate valve to the end, finally lost the war.

By the end of the Han Dynasty, the entire Han Dynasty was not so much the emperor's, but rather the division and occupation of the families and local tyrants in various places.

The Eastern Han Dynasty did not have a imperial examination, and the recommendation system was implemented, that is, whoever wanted to become a celebrity must be recommended.

Like this kind of idealistic thing, it is natural to come close to the people of your own family, your relatives and friends.

You recommend my sons and nephews, and I recommend your uncles and brothers, and help each other to be officials together.

Over time, the fourth generation and three dukes of a family came out like this.

Not only did they hold great power in the court, but they were also like local emperors.

The local county guard and the minister of the court are brothers, uncles and relatives of the same family, helping each other to encroach on the fields, forcing the people in the land without a cone to become serfs, and then encroaching on all kinds of materials of the imperial court, sucking the blood of the Han to fatten their own families.

This kind of thing has developed to the extreme, which is the disaster of the party during the period of Emperor Huan and Emperor Ling.

The turbans said that the disaster of the party was the persecution of the eunuchs and doctors, which was purely nonsense with their eyes open and desperately splashing dirty water.

Emperor Huan and Emperor Ling didn't eat too many brain fragments, and the family gate lords were dominating the local area, resulting in the imperial court not being able to collect even the most basic taxes.

There's no money in the treasury!

The emperor is not blind, how can he not see it.

Because the people who paid taxes to the Han Dynasty no longer existed, they were basically reduced to the powerful serfs of various families, so naturally there was no tax at all.

This kind of thing can be understood as long as the eunuchs are sent out to take a look and ask questions.

Therefore, in order to prevent the Han Dynasty from being destroyed by the family gatekeepers, Emperor Huan and Emperor Ling launched two party disasters in succession, and tried their best to fight the scholars.

This has nothing to do with the eunuchs, they are just the emperor's tools to fight these lawless scholars.

Which of those doctors who were imprisoned did not have a lot of money? Which one is not a hometown with countless fertile fields and herds of serfs?

The turbans insulted Emperor Huan and Emperor Ling for selling official positions, not because they had a sense of justice, but because the official position was taken by the emperor, they couldn't get it.

And why did the emperor sell his official beard?

Of course, because they were forced to be in a hurry, the court could not collect taxes, so they could only attack the interests of the turbans.

Don't believe the so-called history books written by the big turbans.

What scholars are unyielding, what is wrongfully imprisoned, what emperor is mediocre.

It's all nonsense, the real black hands are these pen-trickers.

It's a pity that the family gate valve is deep-rooted, and Emperor Huan and Emperor Ling tried their best but failed to win, and after his death, he was maliciously named Huan and Ling.

As for the Yellow Turban Rebellion, it's even simpler.

The harvest is not good during natural disasters, but the food that the family gate lords have to collect is not less.

The serfs could not afford to pay and were either beaten to death or starved to death.

Those who didn't want to be beaten to death and starved to death, at the instigation of the Zhang Jiao brothers, picked up knives, guns, sticks, and dung rakes.

Then, naturally, it swept the world.

It is said that if it were not for the end of the Han Dynasty, the Yellow Turban Rebellion would have been successful whether it was in the late Tang Dynasty, the late Song Dynasty or the late Ming Dynasty.

It's a pity that the military strength of the Han Dynasty at the end of the Han Dynasty was too strong.

The Han Dynasty is not short of food or materials, but these things are in the hands of the family lords and local tycoons.

If you want to take something from them, you either want to make them think that you are worth investing in, such as Liu Bei, Cao Cao and even the Sun brothers, who essentially accepted multiple rounds of angel investment before gradually making a fortune.

Either that's the most straightforward way, and the money buys it.

Among them, the value of gold and silver has long been recognized, and it is a real hard currency in the eyes of the Maison Gate Valve.

Because copper coins or something, they can mint them themselves.

And silk silk can also be planted and silkwormed to weave.

Only gold and silver are truly rare.

Liu Bei left the coalition camp with 300 white horses, Guan Zhang and the men he brought with him, and went straight to Hanoi.

Along the way, at many family lords and local tyrants, they used the gold given by Li Yunze to buy a large number of grain, grass, military materials, and manpower.

That's right, there are very few people who are registered to pay taxes.

The vast majority of the people have become slaves of the family's gate lords, and they are their private property.

For example, when Xuzhou tycoon Mi Zhu invested in Liu Bei, he gave 8,000 slaves in one lump sum.

And these slaves are soldiers, and they are also the population that has been embezzled by the family lords.

In the final description of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, when the Shu Kingdom fell, there were only 900,000 people in the country. At the time of the fall of the state of Wu, there were only two million men, women, and children in the whole country.

If you think about it with a normal IQ, you know that this is impossible.

Although there is a war on the border, there has been peace and tranquility on the inside for decades, and it has multiplied for generations.

These are only registered people who have to pay taxes.

And the slaves occupied by the family lords and local magnates are not counted.

Falling into the hands of the family lords, the people can't even do it, they are just slaves.

The reason why Li Yunze was reluctant to take the initiative to provide investment to Gongsun Chan before was that Gongsun Chan was born in a family.

He is disgusted with the family from the bottom of his heart.

Liu Bei is not counted, not even a local hero.

He is the most typical down-and-out king's grandson, the kind whose ancestors were wide hundreds of years ago.

After all, the King Jing of Zhongshan, who he talked about all day long, was the brother of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, which was almost three hundred years old.

This King of Zhongshan is a famous super Dumas, and there are more than 100 sons on record alone.

I haven't counted the daughters, and I haven't counted those who haven't been recognized.

In contrast, his younger brother Liu Che is not good, after all, he is busy expanding his territory all day long, where can he have time to pass on the lineage.

But the turbans poured dirty water on Liu Che, saying that he had insulted the nomadic tribes in the bitter cold land and not given him a way to live, and that he was a tyrant and a faint king without mercy.

On the contrary, he praised Liu Sheng, the king of Zhongshan, because such waste is most suitable for the turbans to control the power, so as to develop their family into a family of gate valves.

Therefore, Li Yunze is also disgusted with the big turban, because these people have no bottom line at all.

If you want to refresh your moral bottom line, you just need to listen to what the turbans are screaming.

Here, Cao Cao is explaining and apologizing to Zhang Miao.

Zhang Miao wanted to take Chenliu's soldiers directly back to Chenliu to suppress the bandits, but when he returned to his camp, he found that his soldiers and horses had been swallowed by his friend Cao Cao!

He was so angry in his heart, I treat you as a good brother, that's how you treat me?

Cao Cao couldn't help it, he didn't expect Zhang Miao to come back alive.

In desperation, he could only apologize again and again, and then patted his chest to reassure, these county soldiers were still Zhang Miao's, he was just worried about the camp roar, and helped manage it for a while.

Zhang Miao accepted this explanation, after all, he was a very good friend.

It's just that this estrangement can't be eliminated anymore.

Li Yunze's matter caused an uproar among the Kwantung coalition forces.

The princes from all walks of life had different thoughts, especially after Gongsun Zan and Zhang Miao were convincing and led their troops away, the heroes naturally took a wait-and-see attitude.

At this time, all the pressure was concentrated on Yuan Shao's body.

The alliance leader of the alliance originally intended to take this opportunity to establish the transcendent status of the Yuan family, and to enter the imperial court to control the world.

But Li Yunze's appearance was like Mount Tai traversing in front of him.

I can't even pass the Tiger Prison Pass, so why talk about entering the court.

Before, his idea was to fool the heroes to go to war, and benefit himself as the leader of the alliance to reap. even left his main force in Hebei to recruit troops and horses to expand his strength.

But now, the heroes are all cautious and don't come out again, if he, the leader of the alliance, doesn't want the coalition to disband and return in vain, then he must continue.

It's impossible to count on the heroes, and before they figure out the details of Li Yunze, they won't come out again except for drinking and having fun.

At this time, Yuan Shao could only go on his own.

At this time, Yuan Shao was not the arrogant mentality of contempt for the world during the Guandu period, self-respecting, and couldn't listen to any kind of persuasion, his thoughts at this time were very normal.

Until he couldn't defeat the Tiger Prison Pass simply by relying on his own strength, he directly sent Xu You as a messenger to pass the letter to Guanxia.

The content of the letter is very simple, that is, to greet Li Yunze directly, 'Didn't you say that you are an immortal who has known for 500 years before and 500 years later?' In that case, then come out and prove yourself in front of the world! ’

'Prove yourself, and the heroes will naturally be willing to listen to you and sweep away the hus. ’

If it can't be proven, then where did it come from, and where did it go, and don't get involved in this matter again. ’

(End of chapter)