Chapter 73: Your Majesty Piggy

[Haoqiang's full name should be Haoqiang landlord.

The real watershed of the Western Han Dynasty was Emperor Wu.

Before the Tui En Order, there were many vassal states, and the emperor only held seventeen counties.

After the Tui En Order, the era of vassal states in the early Han Dynasty ended, and the Han Dynasty entered the era of centralization in the true sense.

One of the keys to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty being able to make great achievements on the throne is the good foundation left by the rule of Wenjing.

In modern times, there is always a misunderstanding of Wenjing, and I always feel that Wen is weak, and it seems that when these two are in power, they just need to do nothing and govern it.

But in fact, it was Emperor Wen of Han who first enabled the cool officials.

What is the reason for enabling Coolers? The big reason is that it is difficult to treat.

The first place in "The Biography of Cool Officials" is the Zhidu enabled by Emperor Wen, and you can get a glimpse of the heroic style at that time from the records.

There are more than 300 people in the Jinan clan, and they are cunning, and 2,000 stones can not be made, so Emperor Jing is worshiping all of them for Jinan Taishou. As for the first evil, the clan exterminated the first evil, and the rest were all chestnut.

Gathering more than 300 households, it has been lawless in the vassal states, making the princes and kings ask for help from the central government to pacify, and the vigor of the strong can be seen.

After the Zhidu, the two emperors of Jingwu successively used the cool officials, and the "Biography of the Cool Officials" has a total of ten people with names and surnames, and the most common words in the record are the words of clan extermination, extermination, killing, Hao's family, Hao's and so on.

It can be said that the struggle between the imperial power and the powerful has officially begun in the time of Emperor Wen.

Why can Haoqiang rise so fast?

The multiple layers of power hierarchy of vassal states are the soil in which they grow.

Frequent natural disasters in the early Han Dynasty were the nutrients for its growth.

For example, in the 23rd year of Emperor Wen's reign alone, there were a total of 26 recorded wind, water, drought, earthquake, hail, famine, locusts, etc., with an average of more than one disaster a year.

As long as ordinary people encounter a disaster year, if they don't get it right, they will go bankrupt, and all that is left is to be annexed by the township heroes. 】

The faces of Liu Bei, Kong Ming and the others were a little solemn, and they didn't even bother to pay attention to Li Erfeng's boasting for the time being.

Only Zhang Fei was there humming and chirping:

"It's only been a few days, why is this going to be a Khan?"

Zhang Fei has been reading a lot recently, so he naturally understands what the title of Khan is.

If you can fight, let Hu people respect the Khan and add a "sky", who doesn't envy it?

Zhang Fei even thought that if he waited for the Central Plains in Beiding, he would also fight Hu Ren, I wonder if he could also make a title?

The cosmic general in the light curtain text sounds good.

Pang Tong was a little envious:

"At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the heroes rose together, which is a good point."

"For example, the prince Sun Hong, when he was young, he was a herdsman on the sea, and he learned at forty, and as a result, he was named a marquis and a prime minister within ten years."

"It is the first precedent for the prime minister to praise the marquis."

For a while, the hall was filled with envious sighs.

In the prosperous era, when you meet Mingjun, you will show your ambitions in your chest, and return to your hometown with the honor of worshipping the marquis.

But it is impossible for anyone who is a scholar not to envy such a life opportunity.

Especially these people who were born in troubled times, and often sighed that they were useless before meeting Liu Bei.

Zhang Fei was disturbed and said loudly:

"Why sigh? As long as we are in Xiang, we will have a great cause, why envy that Gongsun Hong? ”

This is true, Zhang Song looked left and right, the lord he chose was really right!

Kong Ming also shook his head and chuckled: Now with Chengdu as the center, Hanzhong in the north and Jingzhou in the east, why worry about the great cause?

Pang Tong rolled his eyes and remembered one person:

"Yide can know that there was also a person in the early Han Dynasty, who was a marquis in white and blessed with a descendant."

"Huh?" Zhang Fei thought hard, even if he was like Wuyang Hou Fan Xu, he didn't know how many people were fighting in the south and the north.

Pang Tong said slowly:

"His son and grandson, Emperor Xiaozhao, was the prime minister, and his wife was the daughter of Taishi Gong."

As soon as he said this, Zhang Fei faced the No. 1 person in his mind, and his face was even full of disgust:

"What the military advisor said was that Chiquan Hou Yang Xi?"

"The corpse of the sub-feather is obtained, and the warriors of our generation disdain it!"

Pang Tong laughed, patted Zhang Fei's arm and said:

"Yide is really a good ambition, but what he said is true, just like Hongnong Yang's family only respects this Yang Chang as an ancestor, but not Yang Xi."

Liu Bei and Kong Ming smiled and watched the Q&A between Pang Tong and Zhang Fei.

Liu Bei was very pleased: "Yide's reading is quite effective. ”

"After all, there are books nowadays." Kong Ming was also very pleased:

"The books that Yide has read in the past year, if they are recorded in simple sheets, three ox carts may not be able to fit it."

"Printed in a book, it weighs no more than a pound, and it can be carried with you even if you are marching and fighting."

Immediately, Kong Ming raised his head and continued to look at the light curtain, he also wanted to see what difference was the history he was more familiar with in the eyes of future generations?

……

"It's strange for this junior to know, how can Emperor Wen not be decisive and fight in all directions?"

The eldest grandson Wuji slapped a fart while puzzled, and the light curtain was known before, and it was the text that His Majesty said after his death.

Li Shimin's eyes really narrowed a little:

"When I was young, I admired the merits of Han Wu, but now I know that Emperor Wen is rare."

Du Ruhui also shook his head:

"Weak words...... It's hard to agree. ”

"A gentleman also has six arts, and the minister must also ride a horse with Xuan Ling every month to open a bow, so as to strengthen his body and be full of physical strength."

"What does the text have to do with weakness?"

Fang Xuanling also nodded, but did he think that this junior was prejudiced against literati?

[When the Little Pig Emperor was in power, he was even more ruthless with Haoqiang, and there were many cool officials under him.

And successively introduced policies such as salt and iron monopoly, property tax, relocation of tombs, and unified coinage rights to crack down on Haoqiang.

But from a macro point of view, the emperor after the little pig did not have his tough wrist, and took over a Han Empire that had been tossed by Emperor Wu, which accelerated the growth of Haoqiang.

The first is the reckoning order.

The money was first made by Liu Bang in order to emphasize agriculture and suppress business, but it was abandoned during the reign of Empress Lu.

Subsequently, the people of the three emperors of Huiwenjing lived quite comfortably, and commerce began to prosper.

Emperor Wu has many ambitions, and these ambitions need policies to complete, and the implementation of policies requires money, so the calculation has been turned out again.

In the eyes of later generations, the calculation of the edict did not bring much money to the little pig, but greatly destroyed the confidence of the merchants, forcing the wealthy merchants to gradually abandon business and strive to transform into land-owning powerhouses.

The second is the monopoly of salt and iron.

During the reign of Emperor Wu and Emperor Zhao, the Salt and Iron Conference was very famous, and there were several fierce debates between Sang Hongyang, who admired the wealth of the people, and Confucianism, who advocated economic laissez-faire, and it was also a fierce collision between the imperial power representing the central power and the powerful representing the local power.

Sang Hongyang was undoubtedly the representative of the central government, and the more than 60 Confucian scholars who debated with him were from Qufu and other places.

In the end, the salt and iron monopoly was forcibly implemented by Emperor Wu, but after the death of Xiao Zhu, Confucianism, the old Haoqiang and the new bureaucratic landlords rejoined forces to fight back, and finally Sang Hongyang was killed, Huo Guang merged with this opposition force, and the salt and iron monopoly existed in name only, but became a new weapon for local tyrants to oppress the people.

As a result, the Huo Group became a trinity of big bureaucrats, big landlords, and big businessmen, and took the lead in reaching the pinnacle of the powerful clan.

The third important policy is the opening of Taixue.

This policy was accompanied by the exclusive respect for Confucianism, the hand-picked official textbooks of the Han Dynasty, and the training of young people to become reserve officials of the Han Dynasty.

Even His Majesty Little Pig personally issued the "Persuasion Order" to seek wisdom, hoping that this group of scholars would not be ignorant and hurry up to shine for the Han Dynasty.

Taixue in the Western Han Dynasty was relatively normal, but Wang Mang, known as a traverser, saw the value of Taixue and made a small change:

In the Western Han Dynasty, there were only 12 doctors qualified to lecture in Taixue, so it is speculated that the number of students should not exceed 100.

During the period of Wang Mang, according to the records of the Han Book, Qimingtang, Biyong, and Lingtai built tens of thousands of student dormitories for Tai students, and there were supporting markets and granaries, which can be called the prototype of a modern university.

We all know that it was quite difficult to lose production in the agricultural era, so the expansion of Taixue has become the best place for the powerful to connect and consolidate power.

Wang Mang's Taixue talents were numerous, such as Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, such as Deng Yu, Zhu You, Jing Dan, and Geng Chun, who were ranked among the twenty-eight generals of Yuntai.

It is estimated that Wang Mang himself could not have imagined that Taixue failed to train him the famous ministers and generals of the new dynasty, but instead cultivated a group of "anti-thieves".

As for the reason for Wang Mang's overturn, we are also clear: it is both advanced and retro, but it is not in line with the times at that time.

And Liu Xiu doesn't want to have too much friendship with classmates, for example, Deng Yu didn't throw Liu Xiu's face once or twice, but flipped through Deng Yu's background: Oh, Nanyang Hao, it's okay.

One of the reasons why Luoyang, the capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty, is that it is closer to Nanyang, and the basic plate under Liu Xiu is the Nanyang Hao family.

It is also in view of the founding conditions of the Eastern Han Dynasty that the Eastern Han Dynasty failed to solve the problem of land annexation, and the local heroes and powers as a whole are in a state of becoming stronger from generation to generation.

The already weak imperial power had to rely on eunuchs, and finally gradually evolved into a struggle between eunuchs and the powerful in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and a struggle between the old and the new.

The big guys are fighting with their mouths full of oil, and the small people are ruined in the process.

So in the end, "the sky is dead, and the yellow sky should stand", Zhang Jiao vowed to draw a stop to the Eastern Han Dynasty. 】

In the Chengdu Mansion, the main ministers did not move at all, staring at the light curtain and did not dare to relax at all.

This is their Han Dynasty, and they are in this troubled era!

In today's world, almost no one who has read a book will not question himself:

How did this world come to be?

Everyone has a different opinion about the cause of the Yellow Turban, but for them this is the first time in history that this big man is shown to them from the perspective of an outsider more than a thousand years later.

It was as if they had seen a never-ending struggle without gunpowder.

The princes and landlords competed with each other for power and profit, and the emperor tried to implement new policies, but these gradually became the new weapons of the "meat eaters".

After fighting like this for 200 years, who will hear the people crying?

So just like the Daze Township at the end of the Qin Dynasty, the ravaged people who had no strength to cry cut out the hoes in their hands towards those princely generals.

Although Liu Bei had been prepared in his heart, he was speechless for a while.

Kong Ming was silent, this problem is also what they will face later, how to solve it?

This chapter thinks that there are still three or two dry sentences, so it is difficult to give birth.

Chapter 2 is getting late, sorry.

(End of chapter)