Chapter 516: Back to the Light, the sun is thinning
In the twentieth year of Qianning, Wang Yan finally pacified the world, and the powerful rebels in various places perished after five years of rebellion. After re-pacifying the world, Wang Yan began to deal with the problems behind.
The reform has completely failed, but Wang Yan has not completely canceled the new law, and even the scholars of the reform faction have not been deliberately suppressed.
It's just that a group of officials who are not capable enough to cause local turmoil have been taken down. In addition, a large number of county and county officials have been removed from their posts and investigated. The officials and clerks below were even more arrested.
This time the law change failed, and they had a share of the credit, how could Wang Yan let it go. Although many have died in the peasant uprising, there are still many lucky ones who survive, but the next thing that awaits them is imprisonment.
The world has been in turmoil for several years, and not only the people have suffered heavy casualties, but even many powerful and powerful nobles have also suffered heavy casualties.
What is ironic is that the situation in which there were many people and people in a narrow area and the people had no place to stand has changed, and because of this turmoil, states and counties across the country have large vacant acres of land.
Many acres of land have been overgrown with weeds, and the owners of these lands have died in the confusion that existed.
The contradiction between man and land in the Great Cadre was temporarily resolved in this way.
The imperial court did not kill all the prisoners, but only killed some of the leaders who did all the bad things, as well as the heroes.
The imperial court had the captives identify each other, and the worst of them were beheaded, while the rest were punished with hard labor, some were sent to open mines, and some were exiled to the Ryukyus, Liaodong, and Fuso.
Basically, never coming back.
After the rebellion was put down, everything was left to be rebuilt, and the order of the imperial court to check the acres of land was quickly implemented, and this time no one dared to disobey the yang and the yin.
The imperial court did not implement the law change and equalize the fields, but after combing the acres of fields, the vacated fields were distributed to the people.
At the same time, local governments also began to lead the people to resume production. As a result of this turmoil, although there were heavy casualties, all kinds of contradictions were temporarily resolved.
The world is in ruins, and the world seems to be back on track.
However, the potential problems of the great cadres have not been solved, but have been suppressed for the time being.
When peace was restored in the world, the imperial court also needed to reward the meritorious soldiers, and at the same time reward the frontier pioneers.
These pioneer aristocrats helped the royal family to calm the world and should be rewarded, even if the royal family knew that these pioneer aristocrats would be too big to lose, but the reward for military merit was the foundation of the country.
If there is no reward for meritorious deeds, how can the great cadres and soldiers fight to the death again? These pioneer nobles are willing to fight for the country, so they naturally have to be rewarded.
The imperial court's reward was to increase their fiefdom, from the original twenty li and thirty li to fifty li.
At the same time, he rewarded them with some gold, silver, and slaves.
Through this war, the pioneer nobles gained a lot of benefits, and the fiefdom became larger, and at the same time, they also gained a large number of slaves. During the war in the Central Plains, many people left their hometowns and migrated to the south in order to escape the war.
Many of them came to the territory of the pioneer nobles, and through the war, the pioneer nobles gained a large number of prisoners. These people took the captives to the fiefdoms, and the court did not bother.
These pioneer aristocrats have always lacked population, and this time the Great Cadres were in turmoil, and they gained a large number of people from the Great Cadres.
Many people have directly increased the population of their frontier territories by half.
With land and population, it can be expected that the strength of the developing nobility will increase rapidly in the future.
As for saying that these pioneer nobles will not be able to lose their heads in the future, that is also a matter for the future. Even if the strength of the pioneer nobles has swelled, it is only hundreds of thousands of people, and the soldiers are only a few thousand, how can they be the opponents of the imperial court.
The imperial court had too many ways to handle these pioneering nobles. Whether it was the economy, food, or even weapons and armor, these pioneer nobles needed to rely on the imperial court.
There are so many means of restraint, if one day in the future, Daqian is destroyed by these pioneering nobles, then it can only be said that the destiny of heaven is like this.
When they have the upper hand, they are defeated and lost, which also shows that the destiny of the great cadres has been exhausted.
The war reduced a large number of people, left a lot of land vacant, and allowed the people to have land to cultivate.
A large number of powerful and noble, noble, and eunuch families also disappeared in this turmoil, and the destructiveness of the war terrified everyone.
In the following ten years, the Daqian court regained stability. However, after years of campaigning, the overall strength of the cadres has dropped by several grades.
A large number of people died, and a large number of Haoqiang, noble, and official families were wiped out. The world is broken, but ironically, after this war with heavy casualties, the imperial court completed the 'spiritual reform' presided over by Qianzhongzong and Chao Cuo more than 100 years ago.
The common people have land to cultivate, the powerful and noble, the official family and the family keep to themselves, and the great cadres began to prosper after 20 years in Qianning.
Although the price of ZTE this time is very heavy.
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Twenty years after Qianning, Da Qian seems to have experienced a reincarnation, and everything starts again. The war turned the cadres into white ground, and then the people who had experienced the war came out of the war and began to resume construction.
The Daqian Dynasty also seems to have been back on track since this year. But the contradiction has not been resolved, but has become deeper and deeper.
In fact, this problem was not solved until the fall of the feudal dynasty, which is also a reason for the dynastic cyclical law.
The pioneer aristocracy around Daqian also began to grow, and the control of the imperial court was weakening.
Qianning Zhongxing, which was admired by ancient literati and scholars, actually consumed a large number of people, and after killing and injuring hundreds of people, heroes, nobles and official eunuchs, it was like a moment of respite for the great cadres who were sitting in the crater of a volcano.
If Wang Yan can take this opportunity to continue to implement the reforms, perhaps he can bring about a world that we have never seen before.
Of course, history has no ifs.
Just like many times, we look at the reforms in history that are not perfect, and even have shortcomings. So did the ancients not know about the shortcomings? I don't think so, but the environmental conditions at that time were not perfect.
So those in power need to learn to make trade-offs.
The regulations of Luo Mang's reform of the law are all very advanced in our modern eyes, but why did such an advanced system cause chaos and turmoil among the people?
The answer is that the times do not allow it, and until today, we live in an era of incomparably abundant materials, but some of the regulations in the Luo Mang Reform Law still can't be done.
What cannot be done in modern times when science and technology and materials are so developed, it cannot be done in ancient times when science and technology are primitive and materials are not abundant. โโGeneral History of China: The History of the Rise and Fall of the Qian Dynasty
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