Chapter 272 Wang Situ (2)

Author: Xianren Grass Tofu Milk

Chapter 272 Wang Situ (2)

Three days later

Luoyang

General's Mansion

"Isn't it just that the emperor died? Just establish another person with weak and sickness and control."

I heard that the young emperor Liu Bing, who was only three years old, died. General Liang Ji didn't care at all. He was just a puppet, and he was not a nephew. He died if he died. There were not many other people in the Han Dynasty. He was caught by the royal relatives, and he could just find a weak and sickly child to inherit the throne.

"So which child should be the emperor? You must be the kind of person who is prone to death and will not live to adulthood at first sight, so as not to want the emperor to regain power when he grows up." Liang Ji's wife Sun Shou said. She had reason to say this, because several of the families of foreign relatives were purged by the emperor and eunuchs when they grew up.

While she was talking, she also tried to wear a golden hot-clad coat on her body.

But her body is too tough, and this slim golden hot chalk coat is obviously not allowed to be worn.

This golden hot-clad coat was a gift given to General Liang Ji by the Wang family in Liaodong. Through a piece of clothing, he received the position of the prefect of Liaodong.

After the death of the last Liaodong prefect Wang Huang, there was no prefect in Liaodong for nearly a year. The Wang family decisively gave this gift to the powerful Liang Ji in order to obtain a prefect position.

This hot-clad coat was actually a piece of clothing made by the Wang family for 100 million yuan in costing 100 million yuan. It was specially worn by Wang Yan.

After Wang Ye passed away, this dress was treasured by the Wang family in the Holy Pavilion as a holy relic of the Wang family.

Now the Wang family has taken it out and given it to Liang Ji.

"This dress is too small, you can't wear it in, um... let's wear it for Nu Ying." Liang Ji shook his head and persuaded.

Nuying is his sister Liang Nuying.

"Haha... is that right?" Sun Shou was a little suspicious, because Liang Ji had already had a mess with the concubine of the late emperor more than once, and she was worried that Liang Ji would give the dress to the woman.

Since Emperor Shun of Han Liu Bao died of Wang Yun, according to the characteristics of the Han Dynasty, the relatives of the Liang family took great power and carried out a great purge on the eunuchs left by Liu Bao.

The characteristics of the Han Dynasty: when the emperor dies, his relatives will take power. When the foreign relatives are in power, he will purge the eunuchs, and then purge the gentry who refuses to cooperate. Then in a few years or more, when the emperor grows up and wants to take power, he will join forces with new eunuchs to eliminate the foreign relatives, and the eunuchs will regain power and launch a great purge on the foreign relatives, and at the same time, he will clean up the gentry who refuses to cooperate. Then, once the emperor dies, the new foreign relatives will gain power and enter the next cycle of mutual great purge.

After you finished singing, I made a show. The Han Dynasty had formed a perpetual motion machine in which foreign relatives and eunuchs took turns to take power. However, no one knew how long this perpetual motion machine could move.

The central court was busy purges each other, and had no time or energy to manage the local area, which led to the local gentry taking the opportunity to annex the land.

As the aristocrats annexed land, the court's tax revenue became less and less, and the efficiency of corruption among eunuchs and relatives became higher and higher.

The income is less than before, and the expenditure is more than before. So much deficit part can only be [suffered by the people].

The gentry reduced the income of the court through land annexation, and the relatives and eunuchs increased the expenditure of the court through corruption. Under the joint action of the three forces, the Han court formed a vicious financial cycle.

Because eunuchs and relatives compete for power and profit, the central government's power was unstable, and local gentry took the opportunity to speed up land annexation. Because the gentry accelerated land annexation, the court received less and less taxes. Because the gentry received less and less taxes, they could only increase the exploitation of the people and use the hard-earned money of the people to make up for the court's deficit. Because the court kept suffering the people, more and more people went bankrupt and became refugees. Because the bankruptcy and refugees became more and more, the gentry could continue to speed up land annexation. Because the gentry could continue to speed up land annexation, the court received less taxes, so they could only continue to increase the efforts of the people to suffer.

In such a vicious cycle, foreign relatives and eunuchs also act as catalysts to help the cycle be completed faster.

It is easy to say it is easy to say it, and difficult to say it is difficult.

It is easy to say that as long as all the relatives, eunuchs and gentry were killed, the wealth of the whole world was redistributed, and the land was re-divided, and the Han Dynasty could resurrect and temporarily end this vicious cycle.

It is difficult because no one dares to do such things, and no one has the ability to do such things. Everyone can only watch the big man continue to collapse in a vicious cycle.

Faced with this vicious cycle, Wang Yun wanted to use his conscience to save the great man, while Liang Ji wanted to continue to accelerate the great man into collapse.

When a country begins to go downhill, occasionally one or two saints like Wang Yun who want to brake, but in most cases, only acceleraters like Liang Ji who step on the accelerator can appear.

"Since the Han Dynasty is about to perish sooner or later, I, Liang Ji, will become more powerful and make it extinct faster. This is called following the trend and following the will of heaven!"

After Liang Ji, the senior relative of the foreign relative, took power, he openly had bad relationships with the favorite concubines of the late emperor Liu Bao, and even made the favorite concubines of the late emperor in the harem pregnant.

And he is even too lazy to cover up when embezzling.

When the Wang family in Liaodong was corrupt, they would at least find an excuse to "resist Goguryeo".

Liang Ji, the general of the foreign relative, is more honest. He doesn’t make excuses when embezzling, but just moves the wealth in the treasury to his own home in front of everyone. It’s very generous!

Moreover, all those who want to be officials do not depend on your background or whether you understand the classics or not, it depends on how much money you give.

Secretly corrupt is something Liang Ji disdains to do.

"Only corrupt scholars like the Wang family in Liaodong and Yuan family in Runan can be secretly corrupt. My relative, Liang Ji, is open and honest, so he will only be openly corrupt!"

He thought he was an open and honest person, so he asked the people of the world for bribes openly: "If you want to be an official, come and give me money. Officials who don't give money, whether you are the Three Dukes and Nine Ministers or the Prefectural County Magistrate, will all be removed from office!"

This is Liang Ji!

It's so generous! It's so open and upright! There's no slight hiding!

Perhaps the simple and honest person is someone like Liang Ji!

The gentry also had a headache for people like Liang Ji.

People like Liang Ji really can't cooperate directly because he is too honest and openly embezzled, making others dare not get too close to him, for fear of tarnishing his reputation.

For example, the Wang family in Liaodong did not dare to offend Liang Ji, for fear that Liang Ji would die with the Wang family willfully, and could not get too close to Liang Ji. After all, our gentry wants fame and will only secretly make excuses to embezzle. Our gentry wants shame. We cannot cooperate with you, Liang Ji, who are openly corrupt, otherwise it will ruin our family's reputation.

Other families, such as the Yuan family in Runan and Yang family in Hongnong, also loved and hated Liang Ji.

However, after thinking about it over and over again, the Wang family still gave gifts to General Liang Ji.

Although reputation is important, it is certainly not as important as land annexation.

This is the key!

Only when a family member became the prefect of Liaodong could the Wang family unscrupulously carry out land annexation in Liaodong.

"For the sake of this divine suit, let Wang Yun, the nine-year-old little brat in the Wang family in Liaodong be the prefect of Liaodong, haha!"

Liang Ji took the hot-clad coat that Wang Fei wore from Sun Shou and loved it very much. This kind of clothes that could not be soaked with water and burned with fire was the first time he had seen him in his life.

Just as he was still studying the wonders of the pyroscopic veins, a confidant brought the official documents from the palace.

All major and small matters in the court were handled by Liang Ji. The emperor was just a puppet. The three dukes had no real power. Situ was only responsible for stamping Liang Ji.

Looking at the contents in the official document, Liang Ji couldn't help frowning.

"There is a man named Hua Meng, a rebel in Jiujiang County, Yangzhou. How dare he be called emperor?"

"Some people rebel in Lujiang County, Yangzhou. The prefect personally led the troops to suppress it, but the prefect was beaten to death by the rebels?"

"Someone rebelled in Danyang County, Yangzhou, and the prefect died?"

"Someone rebelled in Guangling County, Xuzhou, and three county towns have been captured!"

"Okay, a group of unruly people have been suppressed before. Now, seeing that the emperor has passed away, I want to take the opportunity to continue rebelling, right?"

Liang Ji stared at him with a beard and glared. These troublemakers didn't even take him seriously.

More than ten years ago, the great rebel Zhang He in Yangzhou rebelled, with the highest number of people reaching 100,000, but they were all suppressed by the saint Wang Yangming.

"It is easy to break the thief in the mountains, but it is difficult to break the thief in the heart!"

After destroying these people who rebelled because they could not bear the heavy taxes, Wang Yangming expressed his life experience, and then wrote to the court to recuperate and reduce taxes to Yangzhou. Later, he was imprisoned by Emperor Liu Bao.

Now, these remnants of Yangzhou rebels have held high the banner of Hongyandao and continued to rebel after more than ten years!

(End of this chapter)
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