sweeping the world

Chapter 454

Whether it's "the fortune of a gentleman, beheaded for five generations" or "wealth only lasts three generations", it is all about the decline or disaster caused by the wrong education method of the offspring.

Yu Yi didn't want to make too much noise when he went north this time. He just wanted to quietly take his family's grandchildren to the Han Dynasty to watch the achievements of some of his ancestors.When he met people from many families on the bank of the Yangtze River, he felt very bad at that moment. He didn't want to go with them but couldn't erase some friendships.

The world has been in turmoil since the Yongjia Rebellion. In recent years, the fortunes of the Hu people have declined again and again, and the descendants of the Han family have a tendency to become the rulers of the Central Plains. For many aristocratic families south of the Yangtze River, the mood is very complicated.

There are many reasons for the decline of the descendants of the Han family, not entirely due to the long-term civil strife, but also the social system going astray. For example, the emergence of the Jiupin Zhongzheng System has solidified the upper class. It is not necessary to work hard if you are born in a well-defined family. It means that the high-ranking officials will be rich and honored forever, and the bottom-level officials will hardly be able to get promoted no matter how hard they work.In this way, if you can get everything you want without hard work, you won’t take it seriously. If you don’t take it seriously, you won’t work hard to acquire knowledge. A country led by a group of pigs can only develop into a pigsty.

Those aristocratic families south of the Yangtze River are in a complicated mood because the rise of the Han Dynasty has become unstoppable. They are depressed that gaining an advantage in the Central Plains has nothing to do with them, and they cannot compete for interests.What is more worthy of their worries is that the country and the newly rising Han state cannot actually coexist, and one side will definitely destroy or annex the other.

The Jin army could not defeat the Hu people. When the Hu people faced the Han army, they were defeated again and again. Anyone can do simple conversion problems. So it is worth paying attention to how to ensure that the interests are not infringed. A nice idea.

"Those people are stupid." It has been half a month since Yu Yi came to Langya, and today he brought his family descendants to the place where the first emperor used to carve stones. The waves hitting the rocks: "They don't have the household registration of the Han Dynasty, so why should they take the land deed to go to the government to claim the land back?"

There were quite a few people standing around Yu Yi, all of whom were the heads of some families or the speakers. They received news not long ago that the Han State did not recognize the legitimacy of those land deeds.

"That's right." Xu Lian, the head of the Xu family in Wu County, said along the way: "The land deed is not issued by the Han government."

There are quite a few people who took title deeds to the government of the Han Dynasty and wanted to claim back the land. As far as they know, none of them achieved their goal. Some people continued to mess around, and some wanted to pay for it. Ownership of an inch of land.

The handling of the Han Dynasty made quite a few people feel uneasy. They urgently needed to find out what the Han Dynasty meant, so they made this trip to the north.

"It's not impossible to obtain land." Zhang Quan, the head of the Zhang family from Jiangxia, said meaningfully: "Many of the families that went north first obtained land."

It’s about the many southern families who went north in the second year of Yuanshuo. Most of them were the children of the families who were in their prime of life. Most of them entered the army to serve, some had no income, and some became officials or small officials in a certain place after the assessment. .

Zhang Quan said that someone acquired land, specifically referring to the group of people who joined the army. Those who were selected to join the army had at least five acres of land, and they would receive corresponding rewards for their meritorious service.

Five acres of land is pitifully small for people who can be called aristocratic families. Which family that can be called aristocratic does not hold a large amount of land in its hands. Zhang Quan specifically mentioned that because he thought he had found a way to develop in the Han Dynasty. road.

"Military merit is the most important in Han." Yu Yi didn't know what he thought of, and said with emotion: "Any powerful country attaches great importance to military merit."

One family knows one family's affairs. It is useless to have military merits in the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and it is useless for someone in a family without rank to make meritorious deeds. It can even be said that full of knowledge is no fart in the face of a good tire. Yu Yi will feel it. That is very clear that the country he is in does not even have the shadow of a powerful country.

Families who can have the status of aristocratic families in the south of the Yangtze River, without exception, have an ancestor who held an official position or title when Chen Qun formulated the Jiupin Zhongzheng System, and thus became the beneficiaries of the Jiupin Zhongzheng System.

Since they are the beneficiaries and vested interests, they hope that the system can be maintained no matter what.

I don't know who spoke first, but everyone's topic turned to the system of the Han Dynasty. After talking about it, it became more and more chaotic. The reason was because of the system of the Han Dynasty itself.

The Han Dynasty seems to have adopted the Sangong Jiuqing system, but is this Sangong Jiuqing system the one in the pre-Qin period, or the one in the Western Han or Eastern Han?

"Looking at the national policy of the Han State, it is undoubtedly the pre-Qin system." Xu Lian did not wait for anyone to refute, and immediately continued: "The strict implementation of the [-]th rank has created a group of military nobles, and their number is the largest in the Han State."

Judging from the system of rising by defeating the enemy, the number of nobles in the army is the largest. They are the military foundation of the Han Dynasty. Isn't it the most influential group of people?According to the usual way of understanding, if a group has enough voice and influence, it can determine the direction of the country. When the military has the voice, it will form an independent country.

The Sangong Jiuqing system in the Western Han Dynasty still has a bit of a shadow of the Communist Party, but it is much lighter than that of the Qin Empire.In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Sangong Jiuqing system, because Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty was helped by the family and the powerful, he finally ascended to the throne. The shadow of **.

To say that the Qin Empire and the Western Han Dynasty were the first era of the Chinese Miao people, it was also an important period for the development and expansion of the Chinese Miao people. The Qin Empire first laid down the outline of a territory, and then the Western Han Dynasty continued to expand. The influence is far greater than that of any period, and it is not only military expansion, but also the idea of ​​great unification.

The idea of ​​great unification has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people since the first emperor swept Liuhe. It is precisely the thought of great unification that guarantees the basic habitat of the Chinese Miao descendants. It also guarantees the countless heroes who want to conquer the lost land when there is a shortage in Jin Ou. the integrity of the country.

The aristocratic family who read more books than ordinary people knows a little better than anyone else that if the Han Dynasty had not appeared, the imperial court south of the Yangtze River could coexist with the Hu people. After the Han Dynasty, there would be a final contest. A kind of competition where you die or I die, all because no one can accommodate the other.

While others were talking loudly, Yu Yi stared at the Langya stone carvings in a daze.

The words on the stone inscriptions are flying like dragons and phoenixes, representing the pride of a former empire.Because of the maintenance of the Han Dynasty, the paint color of the writing on it has also been repainted, so that people can clearly see what is on it.

"Illuminated by the sun and moon, and carried by boats." A kind of reminiscence arose in Yu Yi's heart, fully feeling the arrogance of a powerful empire, and he couldn't help reading out the content: "Within Liuhe, the land of the emperor. The quicksand in the west, To the south is to the north. To the east is the East China Sea, and to the north is the Great Xia. Wherever people go, there is no one who does not refuse."

There is a military song of the Han army that was adapted from "Langya Terrace Carved Stone". In the Battle of Yuzhou, the Jin army led by Chu Po once fought against the Han army, but the Han army sang a battle song and collapsed the Jin army before fighting. , although the news was blocked, all well-informed people south of the Yangtze River knew about it.

"There is another sentence in the battle song of the Han army, 'Is there any king in the world, and the king's ministers on the shore of the land', what a domineering expression it must be." Xi Min, Wang Xizhi's wife and younger brother, was also on the trip to the north, and he was dazed by it. Yu Yi said: "Yugong, since the Central Plains was shaken, countless capable people have tried to do the above, but none of them can do it. Do you think the King of Han can do it?"

"The vendetta in the Central Plains is serious, and there are millions of casualties." Yu Yi and Xi Yin are still very familiar with each other, and they are also aware of Xi Yin's political stance, so he said in a speculative tone: "It stands to reason that the Han country after the catastrophe should cultivate health and well-being. Rest for a while."

Xi Yin immediately said: "There is news from the channel that the Han army organized the Northern Expedition, with Ran Min as the commander. The Han army has already attacked Xiangguo, and Shi Hu fled again without a fight."

The northward march of the Han army shows that the center of the Han country does not seem to want to rest with the people at all, so it is impossible to guess the thinking of the Han country according to common sense.Since the Han army can still go north, can the Han army also go south?
"Shihu's running north does not mean that Shijie has no power to fight back against the Han army." Yu Yi is a person who has fought against Shijie's Zhao army more than once, and he has also seen the Han army and Shijie's Zhao army with his own eyes. It is relatively fair to say: "Shijie's national strength is weak, and most of the terrain in the Central Plains cannot make the most of the cavalry. Shihu's retreat to Bingzhou is to accumulate strength, and retreating to the grassland may also have the intention of luring the Han army to go north. "

When the news of Shi Hu's escape from Xiangguo without a fight spread to the south of the Yangtze River, all the aristocratic families lost their voices at that moment. They didn't believe the news at all, thinking it was a rumor.

Numerous aristocratic families sent people to the north of the Yangtze River. Not only did they confirm the accuracy of the news that Shi Hu fled from Xiangguo without a fight, but they also learned that the harm caused by the ethnic vendetta to the Han territory was not as serious as imagined.

What is enough to make many aristocratic families in the south of the Yangtze River worry is that they have never obtained any advantage in the competition with the Hu people, but a country that has been established for less than four years has always gained an advantage in the competition with the Hu people.

For most of the aristocratic families south of the Yangtze River, there is only one most important thing at present, whether the Han Dynasty will continue to go north, or enter a period of stability, and how long will they have to make their own preparations.

"I hope the Han army can continue to go north." Xi Yin said with a very complicated expression: "But it is reported that the Han army going north is only Ran Min's part, and a large number of Han troops are moving south."

The current actions of the Han army are very large. A large number of soldiers have returned to the countryside or lived on the spot. After a period of rest, the field corps moved south one after another.

Huan Wen had a wife who was born as a princess of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He was transferred from the northern line to Yuzhou and it was difficult to keep it secret.

"Someone has already seen Yuanzi appearing in Xuchang." Yu Yi confirmed Xi Yin's guess, and said, "This time he is doing what he wanted, but he may not be very happy."

In the past, when Huan Wen was still an official in the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, he suggested more than once that the small court sent troops to the Li family to become Han, and advocated that the Northern Expedition should start with the destruction of Li's Cheng Han. Unfortunately, only Yu Yi agreed, and everyone else thought Huan Wen The suggestion is simply nonsense.

"After Cheng Guo was succeeded by Li Shi, the government was in chaos. He first attacked Shijie, then invaded our country, and recently sent troops to Han." Xi Yin shook his head and said, "There is such a person in charge of the country."

Speaking of which, most people in the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty have already started to conquer Li's Chenghan, that is, Li Shi is enough to die, and some of the civil and military personnel of Li's Chenghan were purged and took refuge in the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. It made the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty understand that there is no more suitable time to destroy Li Chenghan than the current stage.

The small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty intends to send troops to the Li family to become the Han, provided that there is no change in the Han.Before confirming whether it was possible for the Han Dynasty to go south, the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty could only stare helplessly, and did not dare to withdraw its troops from along the Yangtze River.

Later, the news that Huan Wen would lead the Han army to attack Li's Cheng Han spread to the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. They had mixed feelings. Han will not invade Jin.

"No." Yu Yi said clearly: "Yuanzi is just a general, unable to command hundreds of thousands of Han troops. The large-scale transfer of Han troops to the south will not be just to conquer Chengguo."

Xi Yin was not surprised, and said in agreement: "Yin has stated this matter to the father-in-law many times, and the father-in-law has already begun to organize the army to prepare for war."

The figure of Chu Po appeared in Yu Yi's mind. Since Chu Po's intention to cooperate with him was rejected again, the Yu family was not only marginalized, but even the Jin army and several private soldiers from aristocratic families came to Yu's family. Signs of a shift in traditional spheres of influence.He had a very high opinion of Chu Po in the past, but some of Chu Po's recent actions have fully demonstrated what it means to be "unbelievable under a great name", and he couldn't help shaking his head with a mocking expression.

It is not a secret that Chu Po is targeting Yu's clan. Seeing Yu Yi's face full of sarcasm, Xi Min said persuasively: "In the end, we are our own people, so we can't make a mess before the national war."

The patriarch Chu's family and the Xie's are now political allies, Xi's family is in the same camp as Wang Xizhi's, and some other aristocratic families are in the same camp.

Xi Min had many tasks on his way north this time, and monitoring Yu Yi was one of them.Among his luggage were many letters of credence and awards stamped by Chu Suanzi, including letters of credence to be presented to Liu Yan, as well as canonizations of some Central Plains families, at least for those who went to Shijie after the Han Dynasty. The letters of credence to be submitted by the Zhao Kingdom, Murong Yan Kingdom, and Zhang Liang Kingdom, and even the Fu clan currently active in Longxi and Northland have a share.

Yu Yi looked at Xi Yin with deep meaning, and waited for Xi Yin to turn his gaze to another place, a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.

(End of this chapter)