Chapter 352: The Emperor, the Officials, and the People

Starting from Zijue, the Wang family is very wary of officials, nobles, and heroes. In this era of underdeveloped science and technology, the powerful, nobles, and officials occupied a large number of means of production.

The output of grain is limited, and once it grows strong and occupies a large number of means of production, that is, farmland, the living space of the people will be squeezed.

It's inevitable.

Even in Zijue's later generations, because of the development of science and technology, after the food was sufficient, this squeeze changed from farmland to other aspects of society.

In this era, the common people lost their land, and in order to survive, they could only become tenants of families, powerful families, large families, and nobles. If you encounter some natural and man-made disasters, you can only borrow from the local heroes, nobles, and big families.

If the year is bad, for two or three years in a row, these people will owe a lot of money, and those powerful, noble, and big families will not need to make a move at all, and they will be able to accept a large group of slaves who sell themselves.

If these people are a little more black-hearted, even those people who can barely support themselves will become their slaves.

The heads of the Wang clan in the past dynasties know very well that the people are the cornerstone of the great cadres. Those nobles, heroes, and big officials have never been the foundation of the country.

According to King Haotian, ordinary people are producers, those nobles, heroes, officials, and big families are consumers, and the emperor is the consumer plus the ruler.

Ordinary people farm, produce, and then they can be enjoyed by consumers. From this, it can be seen that the nobles, powerful officials, and the emperor are competing for resources.

Some people say that whether or not the nobles, the powerful, and the officials can be abolished, first of all, this does not conform to the laws of society, and in addition, these nobles, heroes, and officials are also the goals of ordinary people.

Ordinary people don't want to be ordinary people for a lifetime or their children for generations, and Xihuang can also become a noble, strong, and big official, which is human nature and cannot be stopped.

If Wang Jing dares to forcibly stop it, then the world will appear soon, and the world will work hard for a long time, and the prince will have a kind of Xiangning?

In the early stage of the dynasty in history, it would not block the upward channel of the people at the bottom. In the middle and late dynasties, the class solidification will become more and more serious, and in the end, it will completely block the emergence of the people at the bottom.

This is the case with the Huangchao in real history, which failed many times, and in the end, it directly pulled the flag and rebelled.

On the other hand, the imperial court also needs officials, nobles, heroes, and big families to assist in ruling. After all, thousands of miles of beautiful rivers and mountains, hundreds of millions of people, such a large territory, so many people, he can't manage Wang Jing to death.

As for relying on the royal family, there are only a few hundred members of the royal family so far. It is also delusional to want to rely on the clan. The members of the public family do not have the protection of their ancestors, and those who are close to the royal family can still be restrained, and those who are far away from the royal family, many of them are almost as strong as Haoqiang.

Since ancient times, the human heart has been the most difficult to guess. Just like the last time Wang Jing divided the members of the clan, over the years, many clans have become the same as Haoqiang.

After the division of the clans, these clans began to put the interests of their families first.

Wang Jing is naturally clear about this situation. In the past, the royal family and the royal family were close, and that was because the royal family had been taught by word and deed for a long time, all kinds of material supplies, and high moral requirements.

Now that these are gone, how can you still expect the clan to remain the way it used to be?

On the one hand, the imperial court is suppressing the nobles, heroes, and officials, and on the other hand, it is actively forging ahead and wants to expand the living space. Now it seems to be working very well.

Wang Ze cleaned up those noble and wealthy families in Linzi, and directly arrested a large number of people. In the end, more than 50,000 people have been implicated.

Wang Ze didn't care if there were many innocent people among these people, he didn't have that kung fu. Innocent again? Those people who were trapped are innocent and not innocent.

After working hard to grow grain for a year, watering and fertilizing, pulling weeds and catching insects, and finally a bumper harvest, the result was that the grain was sold for money but in exchange for a bunch of bad money?

For those Haoqiang, it is just the money for a meal, but for these people, this is their savings for a year. How many people will be ruined because of this?

Although these powerful relatives and friends did not participate in the minting of bad coins, they also enjoyed the money they earned. In that case, don't blame the court for being harsh.

Why did the ancient emperors like to engage in stalks? That was in ancient times, it was about the clan, one person was an official, and the whole family was a chicken and a dog ascending to heaven.

How is it possible that the family enjoys together when they are enjoyed, and when they are punished, one person is punished? Not fair at all!

What's more, if they don't carry out the strain, there will definitely be children of wealthy families who will take risks, and they will take risks for further opportunities, because they understand that if they succeed, they can be in power, and their family can become a top family, and if they fail, they will only die, but the family will not be implicated.

For those wealthy families, this requires only a very small investment, there is no risk at all, and the returns are very high.

This scene has appeared in the real history, it is the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the clothes are in the south, the king and the horse share the world, the two brothers of Wang Dun in the Langya Wang family, one assisted the Sima family to establish the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the other Wang Dun pulled the flag and rebelled.

In the end, Wang Dun's rebellion failed, and the emperor at that time still had to say that Wang Dun was Wang Dun and the prime minister was the prime minister, and they should not be confused.

In the end, he only cured Wang Dun's crime, and there was no harm to the Langya Wang family, and even Wang Dao was named the prince of Shixing County, with 3,000 households, 9,000 silk horses, and the Taibao.

The heyday of the Eastern Jin Dynasty gate valve has reached the point of appalling.

Wang Jing deliberately did not abolish the crime of Zhulian, which was to suppress the nobles, the powerful and the powerful, and the big families. If these powerful families are not restricted, perhaps in a few decades, these counties will be carved up by more than a dozen nobles, heroes, and big families.

Although Wang Jing was connected, at least he did not kill indiscriminately, but exiled him, although he was thousands of miles away, at least he still had a chance to rise.

Half of the nobles and heroes in Linzi City were captured by Wang Ze, and tens of thousands of people were sent to the Western Regions. Compared with Linzi, Handan is also flooded with bad money.

Before Wang Ze came to Handan, he had already sent people in advance to take over the garrison of Handan City. After Wang Ze arrived, the army immediately took control of the whole city.

Immediately afterwards, Wang Ze directly copied the operation of Linzi City, because Wang Ze moved too fast, and used the army to block the news of Linzi, and the officials, nobles, and Haoqiang of Handan did not have time to receive the news, and they were wiped out by Wang Ze.

(End of chapter)