Chapter 71: The Wolf's House (3)

Author: Xianren Grass Tofu Milk

Chapter 71: The Wolf's House (3)

One year later

The sixth year of Yuanshuo

Wei Qing was the general, Wang Changzhi was the lieutenant general, Zhang Cigong was the left general, Zhao Xin was the front general, Su Jian was the right general, Li Guang was the rear general, Li Xi was the powerful crossbow general, he led six armies and was commanded by the general Wei Qing, gathering a total of 100,000 troops, and countless logistics forces. The main force of the 100,000 Han army took direct Shanyuting to the south of the Huns.

The final battle between the Han and the Hungarians has begun!

After years of war, no one dared to look down on Wei Qing anymore. Even Li Guang, who mocked Wei Qing as a backdoor, was now convinced and willing to obey Wei Qing's orders.

In order to carry out this final battle, Emperor Liu Che hollowed out the national treasury and asked the ministers in the court to use commemorative coins minted in the palace to present gifts. Such commemorative coins are only available in the palace. If you want to buy one, you will have to spend forty gold. Gifts without commemorative coins are considered as deceiving the emperor and being deceived, and then you have to be scouted and destroyed.

This naked act of robbing money made the aristocrats feel deeply distressed and cursed Liu Che in his heart. However, in order to save the family, he had to spend a lot of money to buy commemorative coins minted by Emperor Liu Che.

Even the Imperial Academy professor Wang Changjiong had no choice but to apply for 100 gold funds from the Wang family in Liaodong to deal with the emperor's leek cutting at any time.

Dog Emperor, why are you still not dead?

The ministers in the court were looking forward to Emperor Liu Che to die quickly every day, but things went against their wishes. The emperor Liu Che they hated was healthy and seemed to be able to live for a long time.

In recent years, I don’t know how many powerful and powerful gentry have been cut by Emperor Liu Che to bankruptcy. If Wei Qing’s record was not too scary, they would have been afraid that the Han army would have exterminated the tribes, so they would have joined forces with the princes to rebel the court.

Even the Wang family in Liaodong is getting harder and harder.

Because Emperor Liu Che collected slave taxes, the Wang family did not dare to take slave maids to the Central Plains again. They were afraid of being discovered that the Wang family had many slave maids in captivity, and they did not dare to drive a boat to Xuxiang and Dashi County to do business. Because they had cars and boats, they would be taxed every year, and they were even more miserable in doing business. They could only keep a small head, and the big head belonged to the court, so they had to worry about being investigated for their property.

In the past two years, the Wang family has completely cut off trade with the Central Plains. The court will pay heavy taxes to trade in the Central Plains, so it simply stops trade. All the trade of the Wang family has turned to the Wei Dynasty, which does not collect taxes.

But the Wei family North Korea is much farther away after all, and the cost of maritime trade is too high, so the money you earn is far less than what you earn when you trade with the Central Plains before.

The Wang family made less and less money through trade, but the emperor collected money more and more frequently. In the spring of the sixth year of Yuanshuo, when the Wang family held a family meeting, he found that the Wang family had already lost money in the fifth year of Yuanshuo, spending 1,500 gold, and earning only 1,200 gold.

If this continues, it will be a matter of time before the Wang family goes bankrupt.

However, the Wang family had concealed 470,000 acres of land and 20,000 tenants and serfs, and had paid a lot of taxes. Even so, they still couldn't make ends meet.

It can be imagined that the powerful people who were found by the envoys would be even worse. They not only had to be cut off leeks like the Wang family, but also had to pay taxes according to the real population of the land.

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Imperial College

"The wealthy's money is almost exhausted. Next, it's time to start squeezing the people's money." Wang Changjiong saw the situation very clearly in the Imperial Academy.

The talented and wise emperor's determination to expand territory will not change. Whether it is the powerful or the people, they are the fuel for His Majesty to open the border. However, the powerful and powerful gentry have more money and are easier to squeeze, so the emperor will start to take the action first. When the powerful can no longer squeeze much money, then the emperor will inevitably start to cut off the leeks of ordinary people.

By then, the world will be interesting...

Thinking of this, Wang Changjiong fell a chess piece.

"Teacher, Sang Hongyang proposed to His Majesty the official camp of salt and iron to His Majesty. This incident caused a stir in the entire Chang'an City. What do you think?" A student from the Imperial Academy was playing chess with Wang Changjiong and asked him for advice. After saying that, he also left a piece.

"Your Majesty is a saint of eternal age, and he will understand the choices." Wang Changjiong said the same as he didn't say anything. Until the last moment, he would never stand in a row and would never dare to speak nonsense. He did not want to offend him, neither the emperor nor the gentry.

If you offend the emperor, you will die now, if you offend the aristocrats, you will die in the future, Wang Changjiu had already understood.

"If you are tired today, your Majesty..."

"Shhh-be careful!"

When the student was about to complain that Emperor Liu Che had collected tens of thousands of acres of land from his family as state-owned, causing their people to live in poverty, Wang Changjiong, who was playing chess with him, immediately reminded him not to talk nonsense.

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Han army tent

"Uncle, give me eight hundred light cavalry, I will directly take over the Xiongnu Shanyu Court." Huo Qubing was very excited. He had been appointed by the emperor as the captain of the Piao Yao, a captain who was set up separately for him, which shows the emperor's importance to him.

The Xiongnu Khan implemented the strategy of "defending the enemy outside the country", and took the initiative to disperse troops to fight against various Han troops on the grassland north.

Therefore, Huo Qubing requested to lead 800 light cavalry alone, and took advantage of the decisive battle between the main force of the Huns and Wei Qing, and the Shanyuting was empty in the opportunity to attack Shanyuting.

"Well..." Wei Qing thought for a moment and thought that this plan was feasible, but he was worried about Huo Qubing's safety, so he reminded: "Don't go too far. If you accidentally meet the main force of the Huns halfway, you must run back immediately and don't fight!"

After saying that, Wei Qing also straightened Huo Qubing's helmet with his hands, and his eyes were filled with relief: "My family, Qubing, has grown up and can stand alone."

"Well, uncle, don't worry!" Huo Qubing nodded and agreed, and then couldn't wait to go out to command 800 light cavalry to sneak attack Shanyuting.

Just as he walked out of the general's tent, he ran into Wang Changzhi head-on.

"I have met Uncle Wang, but I was accidentally." Huo Qubing quickly apologized to Wang Changzhi.

"Haha, it's okay." Wang Changzhi had seen Huo Qubing's child several times before. He had long seen the outstanding military talent of the young man in front of him, and was no less than his good brother Wei Qing, and even better than his younger brother. After hearing Huo Qubing and Wei Qing's plan to attack Shanyu Ting, he couldn't help but remind him: "Xiao Huo, be careful."

"Uncle Wang, don't worry!" Huo Qubing was very confident and proud. He looked down on anyone, except for the Wei family who was related to blood, as well as Wang Changzhi and Emperor Liu Che who had a good relationship with the Wei family.

After Huo Qubing left with the eight hundred light cavalry, Wang Changzhi stroked his beard and smiled at Wei Qing: "Brother Zhongqing, your nephew is not an ordinary person."

"Brother You'an is joking. A newborn calf is not afraid of a tiger. His arrogant temperament will sooner or later cause a big disaster." Although Wei Qing also praised Huo Qubing's military talent, he was also helpless about Huo Qubing's extremely proud personality. This kind of temperament can easily offend people.

Now that the Emperor's Huo family has an emperor behind his back, it doesn't matter even if he offends others, but what if His Majesty the Emperor suddenly dies? This offending nature will make those officials, nobles, powerful and powerful gentry attack them, alas...

Shaking his head, Wei Qing no longer thought about the future, but discussed a specific combat plan with Wang Changzhi.

After all, they were the main force in fighting the Huns, the master of military tactics. Huo Qubing's 800 people were only responsible for sneak attacks in the back, and they were the strange in military tactics.

With the right combination, with the strange victory!
Chapter completed!