Chapter 281: Abolishing the county and changing it to the township (Sixth)

Author: Xianren Grass Tofu Milk

Chapter 280: Abolishing the county and changing it to the township (VI)

Liaodong County Government

"You guys, General Liang has fallen."

The new Liaodong prefect Wang Guang said.

A year ago, considering that Wang Yun seemed to be transformed into Confucianism and was no longer suitable to be a prefect, the family chief spent another 100 million yuan and asked General Liang Ji to transfer the corrupt scholar Wang Yun to Luoyang to become an official, so that Wang Yun could increase his reputation to the Wang family in Luoyang, and not stay in Liaodong to help him.

At the same time, Wang Guang, who earned (greedy) one billion yuan for his family, became the new prefect of Liaodong.

In the past few years as the prefect of Liaodong, Wang Yun felt that his belief had collapsed. The family council kept forcing him to issue various policies to Liaodong in the name of the prefect that were conducive to land annexation of the three major families.

But over time, he got used to it and joined the corruption campaign.

But the family council was still worried. In order to prevent the Wang Yun incident from happening for the second time, he was still sent to Luoyang.

"Brother is greedy in Liaodong, I am greedy in Luoyang. You and I will combine your swords together to make the family rich and grow stronger!" Before leaving, Wang Yun said to Wang Guang like this.

Corruption is the mission of the Wang family and a way for the Wang family to increase their fiscal revenue.

However, Wang Yun and Wang Guang are still a little different.

Although Wang Yun was also greedy, he still recognized Confucian classics in his heart, believing that as long as Confucianism can be carried forward, he might have a chance to save the world.

Wang Guang was much simpler. He simply regarded Confucian classics as a tool for his corruption and was just a stepping stone to make money.

Wang Guang left all the money he received from corruption in Liangzhou this time to the family parliament without leaving any penny, and he will continue to struggle at the forefront of corruption and sacrifice his life for the family to increase fiscal revenue.

Just for the Wang family, Wang Guang is a truly selfless saint.

[Tianmu Forced Extension Order] was also issued by the Liaodong prefect Wang Guang. He was issued in the name of the prefect's office and the court, not in the name of the three major families. There is still a difference here.

Although no matter who is released in his name, Tianmu will only become one of the three major families in the end.

"Now the court is busy with foreign relatives and eunuchs purge each other. If we don't take the opportunity to speed up land annexation, then when will we?"

"If God doesn't take it, he will be blamed."

"God has given us the opportunity to merge land. If we don't merge land, wouldn't we be sorry to God?"

When Emperor Liu Zhi secretly killed the general Liang Ji with five small eunuchs, Liaodong was not idle either. While completely annexing all the remaining land in Liaodong (except Wenchengli and Donglai areas), he hurriedly wrote a fu that angrily denounced the relatives of Liang Ji, the general.

【Suppress Liang Ji】

In this fu, the Wang family in Liaodong strongly criticized Liang Ji as a treacherous minister who was a corruption, despised the imperial power, slaughtered the people, had no human nature, was unfaithful, unkind and unfilial, and was inferior to beasts. At the same time, he praised Emperor Liu Zhixiong for his talent and strategy, wise and powerful, and was comparable to Emperor Gaozu (the emperor), and was the eternal emperor of the vast China!

Although the Wang family often gave gifts to Liang Ji in recent years, with the help of Liang Ji, the merger of Liaodong County and Donglai County and the abolishment of counties and townships were completed, and with the help of Liang Ji, he also obtained the position of Liaodong Prefect.

But this did not prevent the Liaodong Wang family from justly denying Liang Ji, who was already dead, was a treacherous minister who was a disaster to the country and the people!

His Majesty the Emperor is the only sun in our Liaodong Wang family!

Our Liaodong Wang family is only loyal to His Majesty the Emperor!

"According to the characteristics of our great Han Dynasty, since the relatives of the foreign lands have fallen, the eunuchs are in power. We in Liaodong have to give gifts to the eunuchs." The county magistrate next to him touched his beard and smiled. He was the head of the Zhang family, who was over fifty years old. He had been a county magistrate in Liaodong for fifty years, because he was already the county magistrate of Liaodong when he was six years old.

"Five eunuchs were granted marquis, each of which gave 10 million yuan, a total of 50 million yuan, which should be enough." The prefect Wang Guang said with a smile.

"We have to add some beauties and rare treasures." The Sixiang County Magistrate added that he was the head of the Li family.

Although the current Sixiang County is called county, its actual area is about the same size as that of a state in the Central Plains, and the imperial court's household registration population is only 3,000.

All three thousand people are in Wenchengli (formerly Wencheng County), and there is no way to see even a self-cultivated farmer or even tenant farmers in the entire Sixiang County area outside Wenchengli. The rest are pastures.

The former Liaodong region has dropped from 500,000 people more than a hundred years ago to 100,000 people.

Even the population of 100,000 is still declining, and seven or eight thousand people are transported overseas every year.

A large number of people migrated out of Liaodong, resulting in large areas of wasteland in Liaodong without anyone to cultivate.

For these uncultivated wastelands, the three major families cannot give them to the people, but are directly transformed into pastures for grazing.

As for the people, they can only wait to be moved overseas and clear the land overseas.

Because selling wool is more profitable than selling grain, the Zhang family and the Li family are also trying to find ways to force the people in their ruling areas away, allowing them to be moved away by the Wang family, and then the land is free to be grazed.

"It's a pity that Liang Ji's more than 3 billion yuan, tsk tsk." A child of the Zhang family said in such a pity in the prefect's mansion.

After Liang Ji, the general of the foreign relative, was executed, the eunuchs seized countless property from his mansion, and sold them at half price, and sold them for more than 3 billion yuan.

"This is sold at a low price. The real property is probably 7 billion, which is worthy of Liang Ji!" The prefect Wang Guang was also very envious, envious of Emperor Liu Zhi for seizing so much wealth from Liang Ji's house.

After Emperor Liu Zhi confiscated Liang Ji's home, he directly announced that the world's taxes were reduced by half for one year.

Everyone in the world said: Liang Ji is over, and the emperor is full.

What does it mean to sell more than 3 billion yuan of corruption money at a low price?

It can be compared with the tax revenue of the court.

Today's great man has only 6 billion in total tax revenue per year.

The original value of Liang Ji's property was 7 billion.

Even the three major families in Liaodong have only sucked billions of blood from the court every year by relying on [Resisting Goguryeo]. After more than 50 years, they have only sucked blood for more than 50 billion. In addition, the families of the three major families have embezzled billions of billions in the past few decades, and the total number is only 60 billion.

Even if the more than 20 billion embezzled by the Wang family in the former Han Dynasty were added, the total was only more than 80 billion.

A mere relative of the foreign relative, Liang Ji, embezzled the stolen money he embezzled for decades, was equivalent to the taxes he had paid for the Han Dynasty in one year, and was also equivalent to one tenth of the total amount of corruption in the three major families in Liaodong over hundreds of years.

"It's a pity that my Wang family was unable to participate in the counterattack against Liang Ji, otherwise they might be able to take the opportunity to get the hot-clad coat and spider silk soft armor back." Wang Guang sighed like this, and then continued to discuss the plan for the entire Liaodong County with the Zhang and Li families.

Liaodong County can now be roughly divided into two parts, namely Sixiang County and Donglai County.

Donglai County is actually Donglai County merged directly, and has not been annexed by the three major families. It is a virgin land that is about to be merged.

Sixiang County is the result of the merger of three major families.

Sixiang County includes: all eighteen counties in the original Liaodong County (18), all eighteen counties in the original Lelang County (18), Gaojuli County in the original Xuantu County (1), and eight counties east of Shanhaiguan in the original Liaoxi County (8), a total of forty-five counties (45). Forty-five counties were gradually demoted over hundreds of years, and then they were continuously merged, and finally merged into one county.

A small county in the Central Plains usually has 10 counties, a large county generally has 20 counties, and a very small number of particularly wealthy counties may have 30 counties.
Chapter completed!