Chapter 537: Return to the Central Plains
The huge wealth that the Wang family acquired through overseas ensured the life of the Wang family and maintained the strength of the family. Although it occupies a large amount of territory, this is also the limit of what the Wang family can expand to now.
The population is insufficient, and no matter how many places are occupied, they are only on paper, and these places are like duckweed in the water, which cannot withstand any wind and waves.
One of the more important reasons is that the arrival of the Wang clan will bring more advanced knowledge and technology, which is likely to accelerate the development of these natives, so the Wang clan has always been very restrained.
All kinds of technology are strictly confidential, and books and other knowledge are never allowed to be disseminated.
After the Central Plains was restored to stability, the Wang family began to turn their attention to Zhuxia in order to gain more luck, wanting to increase the family's luck by obtaining a knighthood.
In the city of Guanhai, the temple of the Wang family. Although Daqian has perished, the Wang family has always sacrificed to the temple with the etiquette of the Son of Heaven.
At this time, an internal meeting was being held in the temple, and the participants in the meeting were all the descendants of the Wang family, who took off their usual services, put on the most formal crowns, and sat around.
The people who are qualified to participate in the meeting are all descendants of the head of the family within three generations, about 100 people, but only a dozen people are qualified to speak.
Wang Maode looked at the gathered descendants, suppressed the agitation in his heart, and said directly: "Since the family moved overseas, it has been many years since the family had such a major event.
You have been summoned today because there is a great matter to discuss.
Whether the family wants to return to the Central Plains again. ”
As soon as the words fell, everyone in the entire hall suddenly became excited. Although Guanhai City is very good, they have always been haunted by the Central Plains, and it has always been the land of summers.
There is the tomb of the ancestors of the Wang family, and it is the place where the family has lived for thousands of years. They dreamed of going back there. Although every descendant of the Wang clan had traveled to the land of Zhuxia, they had never stayed there for long.
"Master, are we going back?" Everyone asked excitedly.
"If you can't go back or not, don't you have to discuss it?" The head of the house said with a smile.
"So what else is there to discuss? I'm going back for sure! ”
Wang Maode looked at everyone and was very pleased, and said in a deep voice: "If you go back, you can't go back all at once, you have to discuss it, and at the same time, don't make a big show, the current Sui Dynasty is not a big Qian, we need to have a lot of scruples." ”
"By the way, now this Zhuxia Zi is not a good stubble, let alone a benevolent person, not long ago there was news from Huai'an, the abolished emperor who gave the throne was killed."
"The abolished emperor is only twelve years old, and he is still Yang Jian's own grandson, but how long has it been the third king and two ke, and he was killed."
"Let's be careful, too."
"Understood, master!"
The Wang family has accumulated wealth overseas, but also retained Yu Linwei, after these years of development, Yu Linwei has 5,000 people, but there are still tens of thousands of peasant soldiers, as long as an edict, they will immediately come in armor.
This time when he returned to the Central Plains, he naturally would not come back all at once, and after the discussion of the Wang family, he finally decided to send some people into the Sui State first.
Although the main lineage of the Wang clan did not stay in Zhuxia, the Huai'an Wang clan has always existed. With the help of the power of the Huai'an Wang clan, these people had no accidents and easily entered the Central Plains.
After all, the Sect Lords are hiding the population, it's not too much.
Although the Huai'an Wang family is in decline in the eyes of many people, it is still a first-class wealthy family in Jiangzuo. The Wang clan sent men to Chang'an.
The leader is Wang Xuanze, the eldest son of Wang Maode, the patriarch of the contemporary Wang clan.
Wang Xuanze led a caravan to Chang'an, the city of Daxing, which was rebuilt by the Sui Dynasty. The ancient city of Chang'an was dilapidated and abandoned because of the war. The ancient Chang'an City was Qin Xianyang, which has a history of 900 years.
Due to environmental changes in the city, sewage is not well drained, and groundwater has been polluted.
So in the second year of the emperor's opening, Emperor Yang Jian of the Sui Dynasty ordered the construction of a new city, the new city is in the west of the Bahe River, on the south bank of the Wei River, where the transportation is convenient, the land is flat, and the location is excellent.
Immediately after that, it took a year to build a new city, of course, because of the short time required and the heavy task, Daxing City was only built at the beginning of the palace palace, the imperial city, the palace, the official office, the fangli and the two cities, and the other aqueducts and drainage were also built.
Because of the short time, many things were directly relocated to the original palace.
Although it is a bit of a hurry, after these years of development, the whole Daxing City has become extremely prosperous, and the city is not inferior to Luoyang in the past.
When Wang Xuanze led the caravan here, he saw one of the most magnificent cities in the world.
When coming to Daxing City, the caravan passed through Luoyang, the once glorious Luoyang City has been dilapidated, after decades of war, coupled with population migration, Luoyang City has long been gone.
Even the tombs of the previous emperors of the Wang family have been damaged, and many of the temples for worship and the stone statues of civil and military ministers on the ground have been damaged.
But the mausoleum was not stolen and excavated, there was no gold, silver and jewelry in the tombs of the previous emperors, and there were no tomb robbers.
Along the way, Wang Xuanze had an intuitive understanding of the Sui Dynasty, and the most prominent problem was that the Sui Dynasty changed the three-level system of prefectures, counties and counties into two-level prefectures and counties.
Because of the war of that year, the kings of various places appointed officials on their own, so in order to seal the officials, the prefectures and counties during the Qiantian Dynasty were further subdivided. As a result, when the Sui Dynasty unified the world, it created a situation of 100 states and 4500 counties. The system is in disarray.
So Yang Jian ordered the abolition of the county system and changed it to the state and county system, but as soon as this was changed, there were 200 prefectures and more than 1,000 counties in the country.
You must know that in the heyday of the Great Qian, there were only 21 prefectures, and then there were more than 100 counties below the prefectures, and there were nearly 1,000 counties.
Now the imperial court is directly responsible for the two hundred states, which is equivalent to the current flower planter canceling the province, and the imperial court directly governs the city level. In this case, the workload of the imperial court has directly increased many times.
In this way, the imperial court will need to increase a large number of officials, perhaps more than five times, and because of the division of states and counties below, a large number of officials will also be added.
In this way, the operating costs of the imperial court of the Sui Dynasty were much higher than those of the Great Qian. Of course, this is not without benefits, the state and county system will dismantle the world to pieces, and the local government will no longer have the strength to confront the imperial court.
It can be said that in this way, the power of the imperial court has been greatly improved, and the power of the local government has been greatly weakened. And the number of high-ranking officials is much less.
It can only be said that each has its own advantages and disadvantages.
(End of chapter)