Chapter 353: The Transformation of the Noble and Powerful

Wang Ze's movements were very fast, and a large number of nobles, heroes, and big officials were exiled from their homes.

In Linzi and Handan alone, more than 100,000 people were eventually exiled to the Western Regions. The vast majority of these nobles, heroes, and officials are literate.

It can bring more Daqian culture to the Western Regions, so that Daqian can occupy the mainstream in the Western Regions. At the same time, Wang Jing continued to encourage the people to go to the Western Regions.

The climate of this era was mild, the rain was abundant, and the natural environment of the Western Regions was far less harsh than that of later generations. Even with the current productive forces, there is no problem in feeding five or six million people, and if you count Wusun, Dawan and the grasslands, it can be expanded to 10 million people.

According to his idea, there should be at least two million people in the Western Regions, and only a sufficient number of cadres here can completely turn this place into the land of Zhuxia.

When the population of migration is small, it is not that the Western Regions are integrated into the Great Qian, but that the Qianren are assimilated by the Western Regions.

In this way, they surpassed the people of the Western Regions in terms of economic, cultural, military, and numerical superiority, and finally integrated the Western Regions into their residence. This assimilation is a bit gentler and easier to identify, with the only drawback being that it lasts for a long time and requires the efforts of successive generations.

Wang Jing is not worried, the Wang family collapsed from Yin Shang to Zijue, according to which it has been almost seven hundred years, he is confident that the Western Regions will become what he wants, even if his generation can't do it, but his son, his grandson's area, will definitely be able to do it.

Time is always rushing. Wang Ze inspected the world and disposed of a large number of nobles, powerful people, and large officials who dared to mint private money, and confiscated their homes, exiled, and confiscated their land.

After decades of prosperity, Daqian has also reached its peak, with the protection of the early days of the dynasty, even natural disasters are not many, but this kind of protection is going to pass after all, without protection, natural disasters have returned to normal frequency.

Time entered the thirty-second year of the Mandate of Heaven, and all kinds of natural disasters began to appear in various parts of the world, for these natural disasters, the Great Qian Imperial Court had long been prepared, and the establishment of Chang Ping was to deal with this situation.

If there is a natural disaster in that county, the local county will open the standing position and distribute food to the people to tide over the disaster so that the people can live. Wang Jing specially issued an edict to exempt these counties from paying taxes for two years to ensure that the people could survive natural disasters.

However, there will always be some rumors quietly circulating in the countryside, saying that the Wang family's destiny is approaching, so there will be various natural disasters. Wang Jing knew very well that this was a dissatisfaction and secret instigation in some places.

For these rumors, the vast majority of people don't believe it, after all, the imperial court has always made them live very well, even if there is a natural disaster, they will open a warehouse and release grain. Therefore, the people are doing well.

Daqian ruled the country by law, and Ting Wei Wei Xiang was even more proficient in criminal law, and also served as the imperial historian. He used the law to bind hundreds of officials, purge officials, and picket lawless officials, and he strictly enforced the law, but he was not fierce.

Under his rule, officials in Guanzhong, Luoyang, and the Central Plains did not dare to cross the thunder pond by half a step.

Because of the heavy rain and flooding in the river basin, Prime Minister Zhang Liang wrote to the emperor: "The land of Xiangfan and Jianghan has experienced two floods in three years, and the people cannot pay taxes on time. ”

Wang Jing agreed.

In addition, money and grain have been allocated, cash-for-work has been implemented, and river embankments have been repaired to prevent further flooding. originally thought that he could make the people's lives better, but the result was completely different from what he thought.

The flood flooded, the boats and vehicles could not pass, and even the gallop road was washed away, I don't know how many people were swept away by the flood, and the imperial court did not know, it was completely dependent on the local officials to report, so there were too many operations in it, and even the grain could be operated.

Even if there is some problem, it can be blamed on the flood, the flood is overflowing, and it is washed away by the flood, and the court has no clue if it wants to investigate. As a result, many heroes, local officials, large households, etc. began to join forces.

Those officials united with the local heroes and officials to embezzle the grain used for disaster relief, and then used some moldy old grain for disaster relief, and even directly said that the grain in the government treasury was washed away.

At the same time, the people are still forced to pay taxes, the people have to sell their farmland to survive, and even the implementation of the cash-for-work repair of river embankments is only for show.

The embankment was simply repaired with mud and a wall on the outside, which seemed to be fine on the surface, but once the flood returned, the embankment would be washed away. Then they used grain to force the people to sell themselves into slavery and hide the population on a large scale.

Fortunately, Wang Jing sent a large number of embroidered envoys to monitor the world and found clues.

Haoqiang, officials, and local magnates trampled on the blood and bones of the people, devoured their flesh and blood, and corrupted the foundation and heritage of the great cadres.

After Wang Jing knew this, he only felt chills all over his body. The edict immediately ordered Wei Xiang to investigate the matter strictly and give him full autonomy.

Wei Xiang began to vigorously crack down on these powerful people, officials and big families who brought disaster to the country and the people, and strictly investigated those who dared to commit these crimes.

Many people pleaded with Wei Xiang, and even bribed them heavily, but the person who pleaded was severely reprimanded by Wei Xiang, and the bribe person was even punished by him.

Wang Jing praised Wei Xiang very much, and Wei Xiang also won a high reputation. It's just that what people didn't expect was that someone dared to risk the world's disapproval and send someone to assassinate him.

Wang Jing was furious, and personally sent dozens of Yulin guards to protect his left and right, and added the guard to the Marquis of Puyang, and 1,000 households.

Wei Xiang was grateful and cracked down on those lawless heroes and officials. Powerful people in various places were punished and suppressed. In this glorious Qian, the imperial court can suppress them with one hand.

The imperial court suppressed the illegal heroes, officials, and big households, and it was the imperial court that benefited the most, but there were still a large number of nobles and heroes who followed the buttocks of the imperial court.

After all, the fields and shops will not run, and after the imperial court raids the house, it can only be sold for sale. Then these things were pocketed by the local nobles, heroes, etc.

After years of suppression by the imperial court, many nobles, heroes, and big families knew the bottom line of the imperial court, and then learned other ways to survive.

For example, separation. The imperial court set the number of acres of land for a family, and these people had many children, and they could master more fertile land by dividing the family.

In addition to the sons-in-law, there are also a large number of concubines in the families of Xungui and Haoqiang, and even after the son-in-law inherits the family property, other sons-in-law will be sent out.

These things, which were confiscated by the imperial court, eventually fell into the hands of these people. Wang Jing doesn't care about this situation, after all, these people are doing things according to the rules, can you still let them buy it?

This has always been the result that the imperial court wants, forcing those nobles, heroes, and big families to split up.

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