At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

"Shi Xie is able to bend and stretch, understands the current situation, knows how to obey the strong, and never resists, so that I don't have enough reasons to wipe out the Shi family. This is the posture of a hero. I am alive, and the Shi family dare not make trouble. If I It's hard to say if the Shi family will have a different heart after he dies."

Someone Guo told Guo Jia about his worries.

"Your Majesty is in the prime of his life, Shi Xie is already 75 years old, so what can he do?"

Guo Jia is not worried about this.

Somebody Guo thinks that’s not the case. He vaguely remembers that Shi Xie is a super long standby player, and he can still work hard at 75 years old. live.

The longer he lives, the more benefits to the Shi family will naturally be, but this is not in the interests of the Wei Empire.

The Wei Empire needed a scholar family without such great authority, not an ultimate local snake like Shi Xie who was able to bend and stretch.

"In short, I don't feel at ease. Even if such an arrangement is made, even if Shi Xie does the same, I still feel uneasy about the Shi family."

Guo Peng looked at Guo Jia: "Feng Xiao, don't you think that the Shi family was suppressed for a while, but the essence remained the same. Now that they have gone to the southernmost border, it looks like an independent kingdom?"

When Guo Peng said this, Guo Jia felt that what Guo Peng said was also reasonable.

Chapter 1366. One thousand 270 Liushifu Lord, will you not accept this emperor's edict?

In any case, no matter how poor or desolate these three counties are, they are not impossible to develop.

According to Guo Peng, growing food will become easy in the warm and humid south.

These places have three crops a year, and it is far easier to accumulate food than the Central Plains.

Moreover, the imperial court obviously had no time to take care of these three counties for a long time.

In order to manage the five counties of Jiaozhou a little further north, the three counties in the south are powerless.

Right now, this is fine, but in a few decades, who knows if the Shi family will once again become the dominant power in the southern kingdom, thus threatening the security of southern Xinjiang?

Will they try their best to redevelop their own strength, rely on the strength of the Han people to enslave the barbarians in the three counties to reclaim land, develop agricultural production, and accumulate strength.

These are all unknowns.

According to Guo Peng's statement that the grain production in the north will be greatly reduced in the next few decades, and that we need to rely on the south for food to tide over the difficulties, southern Xinjiang is really important to the Wei Empire.

Guo Jia doesn't know if what Guo Peng said is true, but since Guo Peng has this idea, he also needs to think along this line of thought.

Considering this, I feel that the threat of the Shi family is really great.

In a few decades, it is hard to say that it will not develop into a hegemony in the southern country, or even develop further south, learn from Zhao Tuo, and come up with a second South Vietnamese regime.

So Guo Jia began to think about how to eliminate and fight to completely disintegrate the power of the Shijia and stabilize southern Xinjiang.

Undoubtedly, the most important problem is to separate Shi Xie, a clear-headed leader, from the Shi family.

Without Shi Xie, a mature, flexible guy, at least half of the threat of the Shi family will be eliminated.

For the remaining half, it is not easy to manage the three counties well, maintain the existence of the power of the scholars and achieve the career of powerful landlords.

As for the Southern Xinjiang hegemony or something, don't even think about it.

So Guo Jia thought about it.

"Your Majesty, I have a suggestion."

"What advice?"

"Let Shi Xie go north to Luoyang to be an official, and the rest of the Shi family will stay in Jiaozhou as the prefect, and Shi Xie will go to Luoyang to be a high-ranking official. In this way, it is a kindness to the Shi family. Can the Shi family say no?"

Guo Jia looked at Guo Peng with a happy face.

"Oh? What position do you want him to hold? The central government positions are all important. Is it possible that you want him to really hold the real power?"

Guo Pengrao looked at Guo Jia with interest.

"Your Majesty's statement is inaccurate. Your Majesty, Shi Xie is 75 years old this year. He is already a long-lived old man. He has served as the prefect of Jiaozhi for decades and has made great achievements in guarding southern Xinjiang. Could it be that the position of the Three Dukes and the Nine Ministers cannot be granted? Shi Xie took the whole family to the Wouldn't it be nice for Luoyang to be a high-ranking official and enjoy a high position?"

Guo Jia spread out his hands, his face full of complacency.

Guo Peng thought about it and laughed.

"Hahahaha! Fengxiao, Fengxiao, after so many years, you are still so bad, so bad to the core! Hahahahahaha!"

In the official system of the Wei Empire, there are still the positions of the Sangong and Jiuqing.

Although the entire political structure has been completely separated from the Sangong Jiuqing, and the Sangong Jiuqing has completely become a soy sauce vase, which is meaningless, but the Sangong Jiuqing already exists in name and is still respected.

To continue to exist, in a sense, Guo Peng left these positions to prepare for some meritorious veterans in the future, so that they can enjoy high positions and reputations, but they will lose their real power and enjoy their old age.

Sangong Jiuqing is a symbol of dignity, not real power.

Now such a position can also be prepared for those local toubob who don't listen to orders, so that they can come to the center and feel the majesty of the heavenly kingdom up close.

Shi Xie was the toubob who didn't listen to orders very much.

To let him take the position of Sangong Jiuqing is to let him take care of the elderly, and at the same time, he is also a hostage in a sense.

Shi Xie came personally as a hostage, and the imperial court let the Shi family survive and develop in the southernmost territory of the empire. This was the court's last favor to the Shi family.

Nine days later, the news was rushed to Tai Shici's residence in Longbian County, Jiaozhi County.

At this time, it was less than 20 days before Tai Shici's request for instructions was sent out, which can be described as extremely fast.

After receiving the emperor's order and hints in various senses, Tai Shici knew what he should do.

So Tai Shici read the emperor's order to Shi Xie in front of everyone.

Although the Shi family did not make a mistake in the subjective sense, it still caused turmoil in Jiaozhou.

The big mistake was that Shi Wu and Shi Yi were rebellious and reckless against the soldiers of the central emperor, causing damage to the king's division, and they actually rebelled.

Originally, the emperor should have ordered the Shi family to be killed for this to maintain the majesty of the emperor, but considering that Shi Xie was very respectful and broke off from the rebels in time, he reluctantly allowed the Shi Xie family to be exonerated and not be implicated.

However, the two branches of Shiyi and Shiwu must be exterminated in order to maintain the majesty of the court.

Shiwu's family is already finished, so it's another matter, Shiyi's family will also be executed, and no one will stay.

Afterwards, the emperor thought of Shi Xie's meritorious deeds. He guarded southern Xinjiang diligently for many years, served the king's master diligently, and never neglected him. Promoted to Jiuqing.

In addition, Shijiashi Wen was appointed as the prefect of Jiuzhen County, Shibin was appointed as the prefect of Rinan County, and then Zhuyazhou in the south of Hepu County was added as Zhuya County, and Shi Zhong was appointed as the prefect of Zhuya County, so as to understand the situation. The sudden upheaval in Jiaozhou.

After the order was announced, Tai Shici looked at Shi Xie who was kneeling in front of him, his face changed greatly, and said with a playful smile: "Mr. Shifu, are you not going to accept the emperor's order?"

Shi Xie trembled all over, raised his head and looked at Tai Shici's playful smile.

After a little bit, Shi Xie was frightened.

He knew that he did not have the freedom and the right to refuse.

If you don't accept it, you will die.

Swallowing with difficulty, Shi Xie knelt on the ground and raised his hands forward, accepting the imperial edict.

"Chen, Shi Xie, thank the emperor Long En!"

Looking at Shi Xie's "moved" appearance, Tai Shici couldn't see the entanglement and pain in front of him.

Give him some time for him to react, but there must be a lot of preparation work right now.

After leaving the county seat, Tai Shici returned to the barracks. With an order, the army entered a state of first-level combat readiness, ready to suppress the rebellion at any time, wipe out disobedient ministers, and carry out Guo Peng's orders by force.

The army is the fundamental driving force for the emperor's order to be conveyed to the end.

The posture of deterrence is very strong, and internal and external preparations have been made.

For Shi Xie and the entire Shi family, this is a fateful choice.

So the heated debate meeting started in Longbian County.

Generally speaking, the number of people who support and the number of people who do not support are split in half.

Because the central army has a large number of people, strong strength, and sufficient logistics, it has demonstrated extremely strong military discipline and deterrence, which makes the scholars feel afraid and afraid.

They realized that even if all the forces of Jiaozhou were gathered, they would not be able to defeat the central government, and they would not be able to achieve the great achievements of Zhao Tuo, the king of Nanyue.

Therefore, almost half of the people were frightened and felt that they should accept the order of the imperial court. It was called "bear the burden of humiliation" and advocated moving south and setting up another home.

However, because the central government wanted to uproot the ancestral property of the Shi family this time, and not even leave the ancestral land, it forcibly drove the Shi family to the southernmost tip of the country, which seriously violated the traditional custom of relocating the land.

Some old scholars were so angry that their beards and hair were stretched out, and their faces turned red, expressing that they would rather die than hand over the ownership of Cangwu's hometown.

In contrast, Shi Xie himself could not stay in Jiaozhou and went to Luoyang to be a senior official of the Jiuqing, but it was not very important.

Chapter 1367 One thousand 270 The greatest support of the Seven Scholars is really gone

The scholars are all arguing endlessly about the fact that the emperor wants to expel the power of the scholars to the southernmost tip of the country.

On the contrary, no one was concerned about whether Shi Xie would stay in Jiaozhou or go to Luoyang to be an official.

The elders of the Shi family are the most unacceptable group to move south.

"My family has gone south to Jiaozhou since Wang Mang's time. So far, there have been six generations, six generations! The six generations of family business have gone through hardships. The earliest two generations of ancestors lived in the deep mountains and old forests. They worked hard and physically and physically to carve out such a large piece of ancestral property for their descendants.

These ancestral properties can be traced back several generations. They are all wasteland and forests, and there is no food at all. Now that they can grow food and live people, the emperor will take it away if he says it?no way!If you want to take it, you can, step over the old corpse! "

A 96-year-old scholar family man leaned on the royal staff granted to him by the imperial court during the reign of Emperor Ling of Han Dynasty, and slammed the ground several times.

He said that he would never leave his hometown. The emperor wanted him to go. Yes, he sat in the ancestral house of his hometown. The emperor could beat him violently. As long as he was beaten until he had no strength to resist or died, he could be taken away. Go south.

In short, as long as he can breathe, he will never leave Cangwu's hometown.

China has had a tradition of honoring and caring for the elderly since the Zhou Dynasty, basically throughout the entire feudal era.

In the pre-Qin period, there was a certain system stipulating how to honor the elderly.

Basically, the elderly will receive certain preferential treatment from the age of 60, and the general corvee and military service has nothing to do with them.

When you are 70 years old, even if you are not an official, you can still enjoy the preferential treatment of an official.

The Han Dynasty ruled the country with filial piety and perfected the feudal ethics system. Since Emperor Wenwen of the Han Dynasty, the old people over [-] years old in the country were given king sticks.

The king's stick is nine feet long, and the head of the stick is decorated with doves and birds. This kind of dove stick is the same as the talisman used by the imperial court, and it is a voucher for preferential treatment and a status symbol.

The old man holding the dove stick can freely enter and leave the official palace, walk in the middle of the road, and do business without collecting taxes. His status and treatment are the same as those of the six hundred stone officials.

When you encounter a lawsuit, you don't need to salute when you enter the government. When you are convicted, you can be exempted from punishment for ordinary crimes. When you are 90 years old, you don't need to be punished even if it is a major crime of rebellion.

Anyone who dares to insult such an old man will be charged with treason, which is equivalent to offending the emperor, and will be beheaded and abandoned in the market as a deterrent.

On weekdays, the old man holding the scepter is also respected in the village. When encountering some civil disputes, the old man holding the scepter is usually the arbitrator, and the villagers trust them.

Therefore, in a certain sense, the old man holding the king's staff still has the authority to assist the grassroots government in governing the local area.

However, in this era, it is lucky to be able to live to 60 years old, and it is rare to live to 70 years old. In some places, there is not a 70-year-old person in an entire township or county.

Therefore, the elders under the Wangzhang system can’t replace the grassroots government, they’re just an addition. If the government has any major event, they can call these elders to explain to them what the court is going to do, and they will go back and tell the villagers and inform each other.

Because the average life expectancy is extremely low, very few people live to this age. This tradition of honoring the elderly will not bring much burden to the government. Instead, it can maintain the entire feudal ethics system, implement it from top to bottom, and stabilize it. The imperial court ruled.

Therefore, honoring the elderly is a typical representative of a policy that benefits but does not cost.

After Guo Peng accepted Liu Jian's abdication to become Emperor Wei, he also announced the recognition of the Han Dynasty's king stick system, and the king stick issued by the Han court was also recognized in the Wei Empire.

He further stipulated that the 60-year-old began to enjoy a certain degree of tax-free preferential treatment, and his family members could enjoy a certain amount of discounts when paying taxes.

The 70-year-old man is given the king's stick, enjoys the status of an official with six hundred shi, and begins to have the authority to uphold justice. He also needs to be respected and valued by the official. Officials cannot be rude to this kind of old man.

The 80-year-old man enjoys the preferential treatment of one thousand shi officials, and the degree of tax exemption is higher. He can also be exempted from military service and corvee service for two descendants in the family. ,salute.

At the age of 90, you will be a renrui. Everyone respects and respects everyone.

Guo Peng stipulated that the elderly over 90 years old in the empire enjoy the treatment of two thousand shi officials, the government will honor them, and his own family property can be exempted from all taxes while he is alive.

Even the emperor, all honorable officials in the entire ruling class, regardless of their status, will take the initiative to get off the car and salute when they see a 90-year-old man.

For this sake, even the rebellion does not need to be convicted. Standing in front of the emperor swaggeringly, the emperor will give him a smile.

This is everything described in the imperial edict promulgated by Guo Peng himself after he ascended the throne.

So this 96-year-old taxi man really has the confidence to say this.

Even if Guo Peng was standing in front of him, he dared to confront Guo Peng face to face, uttered outrageous words, embarrassing Guo Peng, making him unable to do anything, and then he even made a smile on his face.