His Majesty once married me

Before Qi Yunheng finished speaking, Ouyang changed his face and interrupted: "Which idiot came up with this stupid idea, the Luoxi Rebellion has just passed 100 years? Why don't you remember all of them?! "

"What is the relationship between the Luoxi Rebellion and today's events?" Qi Yunheng asked in surprise.

The Yuexi Rebellion was a riot that occurred at the end of the reign of the founding emperor of the previous dynasty. It is said that the root cause was the dispute between the people of Luoxi and the local officials. Some were not handled well, so that the disputes intensified, and eventually turned into a riot covering the entire western Liaoning.

It is said that the second emperor of Chengguo, that is, Emperor Kanglong, was praised by the previous emperor because he quelled the exposure, and was able to inherit the throne and ascended the throne as emperor.

"During the founding of the previous dynasty, we used the method of promoting population." Ouyang said coldly, "But it only takes ten months for a child to be born, but it takes more than ten years to grow up. Get bigger, go to work in the fields, and serve in the army. Before these children can shed blood and sweat for the country and the court like their parents, they have to grow up first, they have to dress and eat first, and they have to consume their parents' generation first The fruits of labor. However, during this period, the land is still the same land, there are still a few people who can work, and the food produced will not increase. If the imperial court does not increase the population, the same one mu of land may only need To raise a child, but after the birth of the population, one acre of land needs to support two, three, or even five or six large living people! Can the food for five people be the same as the food for one person? The resulting gap, the hole formed in the end, who will fill it, and what will be used to fill it?!"

"In the beginning, the officials of the previous dynasty were like these idiots under your command. They exempted taxes and distributed money. It’s too much. It’s just that the tax can no longer be reduced or exempted, and the money and silk can no longer be distributed, but it’s impossible for the born child to be stuffed back into their mother’s belly! Moreover, it takes time for the government’s decree to be conveyed to the people. By the time the people in the countryside know that no matter how much they give birth, there is no benefit to be gained, the family has already given birth to a large number of children."

"When the population-increasing policy was first implemented, no one noticed anything, but after more than ten years, the baby grew to half its size, and the land that could have fed a family of three had to be doubled or even tripled. The people who were able to have enough food and clothing immediately became unable to even have enough to eat, and the people who were considered well-to-do also became barely able to make ends meet." Ouyang took a deep breath, calmed down his emotions, and continued, " There is very little land suitable for cultivation in Luoxi, no matter how much you open up wasteland, it will not help. You also know that when people are hungry, they can do anything. However, the local officials did not realize the root of the chaos. The deteriorating law and order were treated as troublemakers from poor lands and waters, and food was not considered at all. As a result, more and more people were hungry, and everyone took risks together, resulting in riots."

"How did Chongyan know this matter so clearly?" Qi Yunheng asked doubtfully.

"How do you think the Ou family's hereditary title came from?" Although Ouyang used interrogative sentences, he didn't expect to get an answer from Qi Yunheng, and then revealed the truth, "It's completely from Luoxi people. Heads piled up."

Qi Yunheng suddenly took a deep breath and was unable to speak for a long time.

Ouyang didn't speak any more.

Even the famous faint emperors of the past dynasties have never done the stupid thing of bestowing a hereditary title on a concubine just because they dote on her family. Emperor Kanglong Zhao He is not stupid. Of course, the position of Uncle Qingyang of the Ou family cannot be a noble concubine Thanks to Ou Hibiscus.

But that part of the past is not a good memory, such a credit, it is worth noting.

When Ouyang led his troops to suppress it, it was as easy as cutting vegetables and melons. He and his soldiers felt something was wrong just by killing.

Their opponents have no armor and no weapons, but they are less afraid of death and more daring than them.

Ouyang also captured prisoners and interrogated them back then, but the answer he got was only one word——

hungry.

According to the confessions of the captured mobs: the taste of starvation is too uncomfortable. In contrast, death is a kind of relief.

Therefore, they would rather die in battle than starve to death.

After learning this, Ouyang also thought about asking for help from the court, sending a batch of food to feed the hungry people, and naturally there would be no mobs.

But when he got in touch with Zhaohe, Ouyang knew that because of the population-increasing policy at the beginning of the founding of the country, the whole country in Chengguo was starving for food, and even the most affluent Mesopotamia could not produce rich food. Relief around.Fortunately, most of the other places are still self-sufficient, and they are not hungry enough to cause riots like Losey.

In desperation, Ouyang could only raise the butcher's knife again, and send the hungry mobs to the underworld, so that the population of the Luoxi land could be restored to the level that the land could support.

After Zhao He succeeded to the throne, the first decree issued was to increase military service and corvee service in various places.

Although this decree caused complaints from the people and Zhaohe himself was criticized, but it also transferred the young and strong from all over the land, so that they were under the unified control of the country and the court. It was bloody and cruel but effective. Avoiding the recurrence of Losey Rebellion.

But such a decree also caused the prestige of the Chengguo court among the people to plummet, and planted the root of disaster for the successor.

And this kind of dirty work, Ouyang doesn't want to do it again, even if he is given a hereditary king, it won't work!

"All in all, this kind of national policy that is more deceitful than talking on paper must never be implemented." Ouyang said in a deep voice, "The matter of having children should not be in the hands of the emperor in the first place. It is God's job! Fight with God If you work, you will be punished! Besides, those idiots in the court only want to give birth, but they don’t know that after the child is born, they need to raise them—of course, few of those guys have ever raised children Yes, it’s normal not to know.”

"Chongyan is wrong." Qi Yunheng coughed lightly, "Except for Zhu Bian, everyone else has sons and daughters, full of descendants."

"Having sons and daughters is not the same thing as having raised children. You have to know that the mother who gave birth to the child is the mother of the child, and the one who raises the child is the servant girl and the nanny. As for them themselves, have they ever fed them once and carried them for a day?" Ouyang rolled his eyes and snorted coldly, "You can find anyone to ask, and see how many of these officials know how many meters their children can eat for a meal, and how many feet of cloth it takes to make a piece of clothing! "

"No need to ask." Qi Yunheng smiled wryly and touched his nose, "I don't know."

Affected by this topic, although Qi Yunheng and Ouyang's moods are different, they both feel a little depressed.

Qi Yunheng also lost the interest in taking Ouyang to Taihua Palace to have fun, and directly washed and rested here in the Summer Palace.

When the two lay on the bed, Ouyang remembered why he didn't go to the Dachaohui today, and asked casually: "This is what happened at the Dachaohui today, didn't you quarrel about Wang Taifu?"

"No." Qi Yunheng said, "Maybe that old bastard Wang Ji finally figured it out, or was awakened by someone, and finally realized that with his current status, he is not suitable to be a tutor or teach a prince. .”

Wang Ji's granddaughter is the current queen.If the empress gave birth to a legitimate son, he would be the great-grandfather of the next emperor, and he should avoid suspicion and give way; Making wedding clothes for others is not worth the loss.

No matter how you think about it, it is more reliable to have a granddaughter who is an emperor who is related to him by blood, but Wang Ji just got into the horns and didn't take the existence of his granddaughter to heart at all.

When he saw a group of officials recommending Wang Ji at the memorial, Qi Yunheng felt puzzled: Do you think that your granddaughter will not have children if you serve as a tutor to the concubine prince?

I thought that Wang Ji was not so stupid and would definitely resign on his own initiative, so Qi Yunheng accepted the recommendation smoothly.

I never thought that Wang Ji would accept his employment without even saying a word of self-effacement. On the contrary, Qi Yunheng was in a dilemma. Not yet, but it's good for him to know about such a thing, how can he put it on the surface and let everyone know?

The difference between concubine and concubine is an important part of the human world, just like the emperor should be superior, and the common people should bow their heads and bow down.

Shaking this order is tantamount to shaking the emperor's position.

It's fine if the queen can't give birth to a child, but once the child is born and the child grows up healthy and healthy, then even if the child is not as smart or as brave as other brothers, he must be It must be the undisputed number one heir.

Today's Qi Yunheng doesn't need such an undisputed heir, and he doesn't want the heir's mother to be Wang.

For the daughter of the Wang family, being a queen is very good, but being a queen mother...is not so reassuring.

To put it bluntly, the queen's family can be cleaned up as soon as it is cleaned up; the mother's family is not something that can be done if you want to.

Fortunately, those brats of his are not easy to save fuel. In just one month, something happened, which created an opportunity for him to drive Wang Ji out of the palace, and made him want to get rid of the mouse. At this time, there is no need to hurt the jade bottle of the queen.

"That old man may have been crushed so hard by Yan Yongchang back then that his head was crushed." Hearing what Qi Yunheng said, Ouyang also echoed.

When Wang Ji was fighting with Yan Yongchang, although Qi Yunheng and Ouyang were young, they saw all the ins and outs of the incident, and they also felt ashamed of Wang Ji's wholehearted desire to defeat Yan Yongchang. Not incomprehensible.

It's just that understanding is understanding, and they are not Wang Ji's parents, so where is the obligation to help him get what he wants and make his wishes come true? !

"Yan Yongchang is indeed more farsighted than Wang Ji." Qi Yunheng commented.