Chapter 51 The Golden Cicada Escapes (1)

Author: Xianren Grass Tofu Milk

Chapter 51 The Golden Cicada Escapes (1)

One year later

The year of the year of Guang of Han

Liaodong

Wangjia Manor

In the study of the owner of the house, Wang Tairan was looking at the letter made of two pieces of fleece paper in his hand.

Although the Wang family in Liaodong advocated frugality over the years, it was only advocated in major aspects, such as in some special circumstances, so that they would not have to use heavy bamboo slips to pass on a letter.

The two sheets of flocculent paper were written by Wei Zifu, the newly enthroned wife in the palace, and Youlian Dongfang Shuo, who was beside the emperor.

Dongfang Shuo was not good at governing the country or fighting, but his mouth was really powerful. Even those old masters in the court could not beat his clever teeth.

Because of this, the Wang family gave the recommended quota to Dongfang Shuo. Anyway, he was just talking nonsense and could not help the Wang family even if he stayed in the Wang family. It would be better to let him go to the Chang'an court to get an official position with his mouth and then use this official position to provide some convenience for the Wang family to seek personal gain.

As for Wei Zifu, after Concubine Tang lost power, the Wang family curled with the new generation of favored concubines in the palace. The purpose was the same, to convey some important information in the palace to the Wang family in Liaodong to facilitate the Wang family to take corresponding measures.

Among the two pieces of paper, Dongfang Shuo's fleece paper reads: The new emperor Liu Che often discusses with him whether it is feasible to normalize the behavior of inspectors and talents into a fixed system.

The method of selecting talents for filial and honest people was found in the reign of Emperor Gao of Han, Liu Bang, but it was only a temporary thing that the emperor would do occasionally when he had time, and never formed a system.

Now, the new emperor Liu Che is preparing to fix this occasionally talent selection method into a system, and it will come every few years.

Wang Tairan didn't care much about this matter. Whether it was the system of investigation or the system of investigation, he didn't care as long as it did not affect the interests of the Wang family in Liaodong.

Therefore, Wang Tairan directly wrote on Dongfang Shuo's fleece paper: We unconditionally support His Majesty's decisions. We think that all His Majesty's proposals are correct. We always insist on two things. Our Liaodong Wang family has only one sun, that is, the Han Emperor Liu Che.

This is actually Wang Tairan's true words. Although he was thinking about bribing officials, annexing the land, and turning the Han's self-cultivating farmers into tenant farmers of the Wang family in Liaodong, he was absolutely loyal to the Han Dynasty, otherwise he would not have let his nephew Wang Changzhi join the army to help the Han court fight against foreign enemies such as the Huns.

The national justice of fighting against the foreign enemies of the Huns was left in history, and our Liaodong Wang family wanted it; we annexed land, colluded with county officials to force the people to go bankrupt and become tenant farmers of the Liaodong Wang family, so as to expand the actual interests of our Liaodong Wang family, and our Liaodong Wang family also wanted it!

We must not only retain a good reputation in later generations, but also enslave tenant farmers to satisfy the extravagant enjoyment of family children; we must not only be loyal to the court to fight against foreign enemies, but also embezzle state assets to nourish our family.

These two things can be done at the same time, and are not contradictory.

After putting down the frit paper from Dongfang Shuo, Wang Tairan took out the frit paper sent by Wei Zifu, and saw it read: When the emperor was sleeping with me, he often said some sleeping words in his sleep, such as if he wanted to keep all the salt and iron in the world as the royal family, or at least let the government run it. He must not let the powerful and powerful gentry run it on his own. Seeing that his expression on his face when he said these sleeping words was very firm, I am afraid it was not just a sleeping word. Your Wang family must make plans in advance. Oh, by the way, I like the gifts your Wang family gave me this year, thank you very much.

When Wang Tairan saw this piece of frosted paper by Wei Zifu, he immediately frowned and became serious. It was not because he had much respect for the emperor's favorite concubine. The Wang family's children had never really cared about these etiquettes in their hearts. All the etiquettes in the Central Plains were just pretended by the Wang family's children in order to facilitate communication with the Central Plains gentry.

It is so serious that the content on the fritted paper is too important. If the emperor really planned to state the salt and iron industry of the richest people in the world, the Wang family in Liaodong would probably be difficult to escape.

When Wang Tairan thought of the many smelters and salt fields of the Wang family to be accepted as state-owned by Emperor Liu Che, Wang Tairan, who was loyal to the Han Dynasty, couldn't help but curse: "The Dog Emperor is really ungrateful. Our powerful gentry governs the country for you and helps fight against foreign enemies. You actually want to take our industry into state-owned, without conscience!"

After scolding, Wang Tairan shook his head and said to himself: "Although you are an unscrupulous emperor, my Liaodong Wang family will still be loyal to the Han Dynasty and you. Who told us that we are so loyal?"

After reading the frosted paper, Wang Tairan replied on the frosted paper: "Thank you for your concern and reminder. If the empress likes those gifts, our Wang family will give you more next year."

After replying, he added a sentence at the end, "Wang Tairan, the head of the Wang family, paid tribute by himself."

As for Dongfang Shuo's flocculation paper, there is no need to pay any tribute. Dongfang Shuo is just a son-in-law of the Wang family. Although he is a genius and deserves attention, it is nothing more than that.

After writing, a loyal Wang family soldier was asked to take a carriage to deliver the letter to Chang'an, and he had to hand it over to Wei Zifu's personal palace maid in Chang'an City.

After dealing with these, Wang Tairan began to think about how to deal with the matter in the two letters.

The system of recommendation is easy to handle. At that time, spend more money to build relationships and recommend the Wang family to the court to be officials. It is nothing more often than before, so it will cost more money.

This money comes from the tenants.

In order for the Wang family to continue to survive in the possible future recommendation system, they can only continue to suffer the tenants who fell into Yueyuan. Let me take the blame for my reputation.

Wang Tairan was very responsible. He voluntarily took the blame for the tenant farmer even more hardships, without regrets. He would not feel that he had suffered a loss or that he was not worth it. He was a real gentleman who dared to act and acted.

Just as he was thinking about this, Wang Tairan remembered another thing.

Wang Changzhi had sent letters before and told him: Wei Zifu's younger brother Wei Qing is a talented talent who is very talented and will shine in the war with the Huns in the future. I hope that my uncle will also give Wei Qing gifts to him and make friends with Wei Qing, who has not grown up yet. As the saying goes, adding icing on the cake is worse than giving timely help. Before Wei Qing, a talent, has developed, he will repay our Liaodong Wang family in the future. When Wei Qing becomes famous in the future, he will disdain to accept gifts from our Wang family.

Wang Tairan didn't take this matter seriously before.

What military genius? Can I have my personal soldier Li Xi and my nephew Wang Changzhi? Haha... I'll blow it!

Because I have never seen it, I don’t believe it, and because I don’t believe it, I don’t want to give it to you.

But considering the terrible reforms that the emperor might carry out in the future, making one more friend would always result in an additional layer of insurance, Wang Tairan added the name of Chang'an City Wei Qingwei Zhongqing to the gift list.

After the gift was handled, Wang Tairan still couldn't think of how to deal with the possible salt and iron official business reform that Emperor Liu Che may carry out in the future.

Just when he was worried, he casually looked through the report sent by the family's children on the table, but found that the report said: Lumingdao lacked silk paper writing, and the bamboo slips were too heavy. He asked to open papermaking technology and use lower-cost paper writing. The manager of Lumingdao Wang Wujiao wrote it himself.

"My cousin is too naive."

Seeing the proposal of opening papermaking, Wang Tairan smiled.

Papermaking was invented by ancestors as early as the time of his ancestor Wang Kang, but the ancestors' legacy said it very clearly. The reason is not allowed to open papermaking at will. If papermaking is opened, then the technology will be stolen by others over time. No matter how confidential it is, there will be negligence. Once papermaking is completely popularized in the world, the people of the world can study at a lower cost. So how can powerful gentry like the Wang family monopolize knowledge?

Isn’t this shooting itself in the foot? So although the Wang family had a papermaking technique long ago during the period of his ancestor Wang Kang, except for some when they couldn’t afford to use flocculated paper decades ago, all the craftsmen involved in the papermaking were used to bury their ancestor Wang Kang for their fear of leaking their technology.

Thinking of this, Wang Tairan immediately replied to "No" on this paper newspaper, but suddenly had an idea.

island?

Didn’t Wang Taiyang and Wang Roujing discover many indigenous islands overseas?

Although they are all wild places and are not worth mentioning. Unless they are really facing the risk of raiding their homes, they will not be able to go to the wild places overseas to suffer, but...

Why can't the Wang family's salt and iron industry be transferred to those overseas islands?

Even if his court could acquire all the powerful salt and iron industries in Liaodong as official business, could it be possible that our overseas industries could also be included in the official business?

When Wang Tairan thought of this, he became more and more excited. He took out the overseas route map that Wang Taiyang had given him before, and carefully considered the feasibility of transferring the assets of the Wang family in Liaodong overseas.

After thinking for a long time, Wang Tairan felt relieved and chuckled: "This plan is better to call... the golden cicada to escape from the shell!"
Chapter completed!