sweeping the world

Chapter 456 The world is bustling; the world is bustling

Liu Yan's sense of the aristocratic family is neither bad nor bad, and the one who has objections is the system of Jiupin Zhongzheng System.

In fact, the Jiupin Zhongzheng System was not bad at the beginning of its establishment. The intention was to promote more talents to be used by the court. Unfortunately, no matter how beautiful the system is implemented by people, it will deteriorate.The enlightened people of the older generation passed away one after another, and the new rulers took the road of monopolizing interests, entangled a group of vested interests and cut off the channels for the grassroots to go upward, and the society became rigid.

Once a vassal state in the northwest border, because of Shang Yang's reform to remove the influence of the old forces, Qin gave the grassroots a convenient channel to go up.This example shows that a country is not held solely by those in power, and that prosperity can only be created with one mind.

After the first emperor unified the world, he encountered difficulties. A new batch of military nobles controlled a large amount of land, and the military nobles with a large amount of land also controlled enough population, forcing the first emperor to carry out reforms again, that is, to adopt a centralized system.

The centralization reform has one thing in common with Shang Yang's reform, that is, to eliminate the influence of a class and weaken the power of that class. When the first emperor was still alive, he could use coercion to eliminate any dissatisfaction, but the rewards that the top should have received If it was not realized, it became a big problem that the millions of soldiers who swept Liuhe did not receive the rewards they deserved.

There are some things that are the main cause of the collapse of the Qin Empire.The reason is that the first emperor played a huge joke on millions of soldiers of the Qin army. The soldiers worked hard and did not get rewarded. The land rewards they should have received were delayed again and again. Getting heavier and heavier.The first emperor is still alive, of course he can force everything, but what about after the first emperor is dead?

The high-level officials of the Qin Empire were first persuaded to retreat by the first emperor, and then persecuted and purged by Hu Hai. This caused not only the disappointment of the bottom, but also the feeling of being deceived by the high-level. When the Qin Empire was strong and prosperous, it actually had no generals when it faced rebellions everywhere. , and even the suppression of the rebellion depends on the prisoners. It is the cause planted in the front that will bear fruit in the future.

"Faced with the country falling into a dying situation, the Great Wall Army on the northern front reluctantly went south to quell the rebellion, while the Southern Xinjiang Army cut off its way north and sat back and watched." Liu Yan summoned the ministers in the capital of Linzi that night and held a banquet. When giving hospitality, some words should be said: "It's all just because the reward promised by the king has not been received!"

At the beginning, the crowd didn't quite understand what happened, but Liu Yan's rare long speech was about the history of the pre-Qin period. They listened for a long time, but they were stunned when they heard the last sentence.

Sima Qian, who wrote "Historical Records", said a long time ago that "the world is prosperous, all for profit; the world is crowded, all for profit".This sentence clarifies the truth in the world, can explain the reasons for a person's lifelong struggle, and can also explain the process of the prosperity or decline of any dynasty.

"What Shi Gong (Sima Qian) said is exactly." Sang Yu was one of the stupefied ones just now, and when he came back to his senses he was laughing again: "It is the nature of life to pursue profit in this world." After finishing speaking, he said "haha" for two Voice.

Tonight's Miyagi Banquet was held in a drizzle. The place where the king and his ministers were located was Zhangtai, an environment where the roof was covered with rubble, but the surroundings were empty.

It is cool when there is rain and wind, and it is not a comfortable thing to blow cold wind in winter. Even if the king's every move has no intention, it will be speculated whether there is any deep meaning.With Liu Yan's tirade before, the ministers who were blowing the cold wind were now thinking that the arrangement in such a chilly place must be to make them vigilant.

"Although the world is big, it is small to the big man." Ji Chang raised his wine bottle and drank it down. After putting it down, he said in a loud voice: "The old things of the pre-Qin period must not be repeated with the big man!"

Some people have also figured it out. Although they talked so much in a cryptic way, they only revealed the big stakes in it.No matter how big or small the benefits are, a reshuffle will lead to a redistribution of benefits. When the Han army is about to go south, it is even more targeted to talk about those.

The big man is the big man of the Han people, and the Han country has a new group of vested interests. How to distribute the big pie in the world can only be decided by the big man, so it is inevitable to clean up the old vested interests.

When the king is about to invade the south, he will tell those things, and the smell will definitely lift his spirits.

The banquet in Miyagi was over, and everyone left Miyagi, all of them were in high spirits beyond imagination, and they had to invite each other to a certain place to continue drinking and get drunk all night.

"Your Majesty's meaning is obvious." There are many people opposite Sang Yu, but the administrative level is much worse. He said with a rare serious expression: "The battle of the Southern Expedition was a reshuffle. war."

The south of the Yangtze River and the north of the Yangtze River form two different worlds.

In the north of the Yangtze River, because of the Hu people's rule for decades, and the old story of "crossing south in clothes", there are not many families in the north that can be called aristocratic families, and some can only be regarded as big and powerful.

To the south of the Yangtze River, too many northern aristocratic families migrated there, squeezing the space of the southern native aristocratic families and at the same time allowing everywhere to be included in the interests of the aristocratic families, resulting in the decline of the southern native aristocratic families and a great deal of damage to the interests of the common people.

Because of the birth of the Han Dynasty, a group of new emerging forces are actually developing at a high speed, which is the emerging force group with Liu Yan as the core.Apart from Liu Yan, a group of emerging power groups, not to mention the Hu family, only the Boling Cui family, the Zhaojun Zhang family, the Zhongshan Guo family, and the Taiyuan Wang family survived.

The Cui family of Boling and the Wang family of Taiyuan have already chosen to stand in line. The Cui family has a daughter who became the concubine of the King of Han, and Wang Ji of the Wang family of Taiyuan defected to Han after the Battle of Xuzhou.

The Guo family of Zhongshan and the Zhang family of Zhaojun were still serving Shijie before Shihu withdrew into Bingzhou. When the Han army approached, the Guo family of Zhongshan immediately jumped back. Ran Min and Lu Tai were able to easily conquer the counties of Zhaodi. Get the assistance of the Guo family.The Zhang family of Zhaojun was secretly moving closer to Han, but unlike the Guo family of Zhongshan, they jumped back immediately.

The Central Plains now looks like the Sang family most like a family. Earlier, the children of the Sang family served as officials in various places. Especially after the Han army conquered Wei County, with the return of the Sang family, a big family formed more and more. more obvious.

The Sang family is followed by the Cai family. If the Sang family is the governor of Wei County, then the Cai family definitely has a decisive influence in Dongmou County. Sang Yu is the right prime minister of the Han State, and Cai You is the Han State Both of them held high positions in Zhisu Neishi.

As Ji Chang, the left prime minister of the Han Dynasty, he was born a slave and had no family behind him, and his family was so sparse that there were only two heirs.The population is not the restriction of being unable to develop into an aristocratic family, it is those people who he refuses to get close to, and many of those who have relatives want to be included under his wings.

After Shi Hu provoked a racial vendetta, most of the rich and powerful families in the Han territory were purged, and those who survived faced splitting.Faced with such a situation, the Sang and Cai clans had no choice but to restrain themselves, but Liu Yan's speech tonight opened the door slightly.

"Your Majesty wants to completely cleanse the southern family?" Liu An, the patriarch of the Liu Clan in Pengcheng, has a much bigger background than he imagined. He is a descendant of Han Gaozu's brothers, and he will have a great descendant named Liu Yu.Now Liu An is one of those who want to follow the Sang clan, and asked expectantly: "Then shall we have a chance to participate in the Southern Expedition?"

Sang Yu had a deep impression on Liu An, not because of Liu An's extraordinary talents, but because Liu An wanted to marry Liu Yan for a while. The reason was that there were rumors that Liu Yan was a descendant of Yan Han. Liu Yan never mentioned his background at all, Liu An was disappointed and broke the idea of ​​marriage.

The military merits of the Han Dynasty are the most important. If you want to develop your family, it is the most convenient way to join the army. It is not difficult to join the army. The more difficult thing is how to quickly emerge.

According to the past practice, except when Liu Yan was in his infancy, the group of people who followed earlier rose with the tide, and it was only Ran Min who brought the country into the high position in a short period of time, and the rest of the people did not keep up with the fast lane unless it was If you have great merit, otherwise you will climb up step by step.

At present, they can still maintain the appearance of a family in the Han Dynasty. It is basically a posture of understanding current affairs during the catastrophe. They cannot resist the will of the country to split up. The army opened up above.

Quite a few of the big and powerful families in the North regard the Sang clan as a banner, and after getting closer, they follow the lead of Sang Yu, and a new group is forming.

Because Cui had a daughter and became the concubine of the Han Dynasty, she became another object that some rich and powerful families in the Central Plains could draw close to.

Relatively speaking, Lu Yi, who went north from Jiangxia and became one of the nine ministers of the Han Dynasty, also became a banner, surrounded by many aristocratic descendants from the south.

There are Huan Wen and Xie An in the Jiangnan faction, but they are much weaker than Lu Yi, and Huan Wen and Xie An have also been avoiding attracting more attention.

Even though Ji Chang, who had always wanted to be a lone minister, did not gather a group of people, most people who had turned from commoners to nobles still regarded him as a leader.

Then there is the naturalization faction. It is hard to choose who they can follow. Tuobaxiu, one of the concubines of the Han Dynasty, has become a banner. They are the most low-key group in the Han Kingdom.

The banquets tonight did not only happen in one place, they were all discussing how to get something in the Southern Expedition. Liu Yan who was in Miyagi received the report soon, and he just laughed it off after hearing it.

Where there are people, there are factions, and it is completely impossible to avoid factions.After all, people are social animals, whether it is the similarity of thought or the attraction of interests, it is inevitable to form closeness to each other.

The palace city was deep and secluded, some palace lanterns flickered left and right in the drizzle, and the burning lamp oil in the sleeping hall left a stuffy atmosphere in the air.

In the past, Liu Yan should have gone to bed long ago, but tonight he was teasing with his four-month-old son in his arms, and beside him was his eldest daughter Liu Yin who was playing.

In the summer of this year, Cui Wan gave birth to a fat boy for Liu Yan. His first name was Quzi Shen, and his baby name was Little Pig.

In the beginning of this year, pig means pig, and there is another layer of interpretation that it is called dragon, and the name is Shen. Liu Yan chose this word as if he hoped that his eldest son would be cautious in everything, and there is also a baby name pig that is also eagerly looking forward to it. meaning.

Having said that, the baby name of Liu Che, the first emperor of the ages, was Swallow, so the Cui family couldn't help but be very excited that Liu Yan chose a baby name of Snake for their eldest son. It's a pity that Liu Yan didn't immediately canonize Liu Shen as the Prince.

The Han army is about to go south, and a rather special thing happened, that is, as early as the first year of Yuanshuo, the follow-up of Liu Yanna's interruption of the daughter of the southern family.

"Mr. Xie, take the initiative to revisit the old matter." Cui Wan was embroidering with some sisters, and when she took the initiative to talk about this matter, other people's hands froze.She seemed to be unaware of the surrounding things, and said to Liu Yan who was teasing her son from a distance: "Xie's Daoyun is just young."

For today's people, Xie Daoyun is really young at the age of 12, but to Liu Yan, it is something like a young age.

Liu Yan is about to be middle-aged, and if he accepts a little girl who is not even 13 years old, she would be executed by shooting in modern times. The problem is that now 13 years old is the marriageable age for girls after Jiji.

It was not Xie An, who was an official in the Han Dynasty, nor Xie Shi, who was the governor of the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, but Xie Yi, who was not currently an official, who renegotiated the marriage.

Xie Yi's current responsibility in the Xie family is to teach the children of the family and to cultivate a good generation for the family. Originally, this job should be done by Xie An, but Xie An's fate has gone awry.

"She has a two-year-old brother named Xie Xuan." Liu Yan was indifferent to accepting Xie Daoyun, and was extremely interested in Xie Xuan: "I heard that he is a fat boy with a tiger's head and a tiger's brain."

Xie Daoyun already has a great reputation in the south of the Yangtze River at a young age, but she has many talents in poetry. What really makes her famous is the story of "The Talent of Chanting Xu".

Paying attention to a little guy who is only two years old as a king, Cui Wan and Zhang Lan immediately looked at each other.

Zhang Lan said, "It's just a matter of time to take it and be with him. It's good to have a companion."

Liu Yan hoped that Xie Xuan could be brought to Han. In ancient times, Liu Che trained Huo Shan (Huo Qubing) since he was a child. He absolutely wanted to train another hussar general by himself, but now it seems that it is extremely difficult. It can only be implemented if the south of the Yangtze River is included in the rule.

Many factions in the Han Kingdom are forming, and Liu Yan knows it is inevitable. What he can do is to monitor and not destroy, but also to balance the situation.

It's not easy to be a king, Liu Yan's thoughts can't help but drift away. The small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty used Xie Shi as the governor of the conquest. The main troops were stationed in Shouchun. The history is so similar that they still set up battles at Bagong Mountain, which is different from the history of "Feishui The layout of the Jin army hardly changed at the time of the Battle of Jin.

If there is a difference, it was not Fu Jian, the great emperor of the Qin family who wanted to throw the whip to cut off the water, who launched the Southern Expedition. Withdraw from the battle space?
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Xie Daoyun's birth time and honors are quite confusing, and there are discrepancies in age in the book, so let's do it for the plot.

(End of this chapter)