Chapter 76: Punishing civil strife (IV)

Author: Xianren Grass Tofu Milk

Chapter 76: Punishing civil strife (IV)

Spring of the second year of Yuanshou

February

Weiyang Palace

Bang!

A wine master hit Wang Changzhi's forehead, making his head bloody, but he didn't dare to scream, but he just knelt on the ground and endured silently.

"Wang Changzhi! I originally planned to let you be the second Wei Qing of the Great Han Dynasty, but why did you tell me that I would resign and return to my hometown?"

Emperor Liu Che was very angry. He was originally very happy because he suppressed the rebellion of the King of Huainan last year and changed the Huainan Kingdom to Jiujiang County. The Chang'an court's direct jurisdiction was a large area, which was a rich place like Huainan.

However, he was happy to continue to reward Wang Changzhi, but the other party told him that when he went to Huainan, he saw the people eating each other, so he felt guilty and had a heart attack. He didn't want to fight again and wanted to resign and go home.

"Do you know what Je is saying? Do you know? Ah? A bastard!" The emperor kicked Wang Changzhi on the back, kicking Wang Changzhi over the ground, and scolded him with a grudge: "Do you think I don't know what you are thinking? You are just afraid that the master will be shocked, and you are afraid that I will kill you, right?"

"Is it true that in your heart that I am such a mean and ungrateful emperor?"

"Get out! Get back to your Liaodong immediately. Never come to Chang'an. Let me see you again, and I will kill you!"

A general who was second only to Wei Qing and Huo Qubing and was even more powerful than Li Guang, refused to continue to fight for him. Emperor Liu Che was both disappointed and angry.

"Your Majesty... I'm farewell." Wang Changzhi's forehead was bleeding, but he dared not complain at all. Although he was in his thirties, he was already a general of the chariot and cavalry of the Han Dynasty. He was also named the Liaodong Marquis and had a total of 1,500 households.

The fief of 1,500 households means that the self-cultivated farmers who have been farmed in this thousand,500 households will directly hand over the head tax to Wang Changzhi, rather than to the court.

On average, each household had three to five self-cultivated farmers, and in this way, five or six thousand people became Wang Changzhi's tax residents.

Moreover, since Wang Changzhi was born in Dashi County, all of these 1,500 households were the people of Dashi County. If the entire Dashi County was not counted as the population of more than 20,000 hidden by the Wang family in Liaodong, it would actually be more than 10,000.

Today, almost half of the people in the county are Wang Changzhi's tax residents.

What's more, Li Xi, who joined the army with Wang Changzhi, and Zhang Cigong also obtained the fief of Dashi County. They each had five hundred households, with a total of one thousand households.

Adding the fiefs of the two of them, more than half of the population of the entire Dashi County are all tax residents of the Wang family.

While the emperor eliminated the old powerful people by raiding the house, he also used military merits to create a new powerful person who was loyal to the emperor himself. When the new emperor ascended the throne, he would search the houses of the previous dynasty to enrich the national treasury, and then continued to create a new new powerful person who was loyal to the emperor himself through military merits. This repeated cycle has formed an alternative class upward channel.

"Wait, you're back!"

Just as Wang Changzhi respectfully withdrew from the palace, the emperor called him again.

"Don't you have a cousin who joins the army? What's the name Wang Chang?"

"Wang Changyu, whose courtesy name is Huanyi, was originally a Sima in the army. In the battle of Huainan, he was promoted to lieutenant due to his military merits." Wang Changzhi answered truthfully.

"Hmph! Call him here, I want to test his military talent, you can get out." The more the emperor looked at Wang Changzhi, the more distressed he felt. Such a general was in his thirties and was about to resign and go home, but he didn't want to force him to stop him. He really loved talents. For mediocre people who had no talent, he could kill someone without even blinking his eyes, but he would not be stingy with rewards for real talents.

"No!" Wang Changzhi respectfully withdrew from the palace. Before leaving, he reminded the emperor: "Although my cousin Changyu is well-read in military books, he can only talk about military affairs on paper and does not know how to be flexible and flexible. Your Majesty cannot be used."

He only hopes that his cousin will be an ordinary lieutenant in the army, so that when other people in the family will join the army in the future, they can also ask Wang Changyu for help, but they must not be valued by the emperor. After all, he knows that his cousin Wang Changyu is not real talent and knowledge, and can only be fierce and fierce. It is okay to be a vanguard officer who charges the battle, but it is absolutely impossible to be the general commander. If he loses the battle, with the emperor's temper, he may be beheaded.

"Do you think I can't tell the difference between talent and mediocre talent? Get out of here!"

"promise!"

...

"The general of the chariot and cavalry, Wang You'an, was unable to bear to massacre the city, and severely punished the soldiers who wanted to massacre the city. Such a general who was kind and kind to the people would be difficult to find even the entire Han Dynasty."

"Now, I heard that General Cheqi and Cavalry suffered from heart disease because he witnessed the tragic situation of people eating each other in Shouchun City. Such compassion is nothing more than that even the Saint Confucius and Mencius will be like this again."

"General Cheqi and Cavalry would rather resign than be rich and prosperous than continue to fight. Oh my God, my great man has another saint coming to the world."

"I must record the benevolent and righteous actions of General Wang You'an of the Cheqi General, and be admired and learned by later generations."

The Grand Historian Sima Tan kept sighing and wrote Wang You'an's deeds into the "Book of the Grand Historian (Records of the Grand Historian)". He reminded Sima Qian on the side: "After the death of his father, you must continue to write this book. This is the responsibility of our historians. The real history is recorded in writing and passed on from generation to generation to pay homage to future generations."

"The boy understands." Sima Qian's family is a family of historians, recording history for the court for generations.

After saying that, Sima Qian saw his father telling the biography of Wang Changzhi, the general of the chariot and cavalry.

"Biography of Wang Changzhi"

"Wang Changzhi, whose courtesy name is You'an, was named Wang Kang. Wang Kang was a wanderer from the Da clan in Liaodong. He was attached to the Han Dynasty during the reign of Emperor Gaozu. His father Wang Tairan was a powerful citizen of the Da clan. He heard that he loved the people and knew that he was far and wide.

Changzhi was a wise man, and he knew the army and promoted it to Liaodong. At first, he was a fellow disciple, who was good at riding and shooting, but was defeated by Wei Qing. When the rebellion of Minyue, the emperor sent Wang Hui and Li Xi to conquer it. Changzhi led the army to Feihu. The troops were anxious, and Changzhi advised the soldiers with military tactics, attacked Yu Shan, the commander of Minyue, and killed his generals, and then defeated the enemy.

...

He told Huainan that the emperor sent a Duke to fight him. The Duke besieged seven months ago and broke Shouchun. The soldiers wanted to plunder the city, but the Duke could not bear to slaughter them, so he was angry and beheaded the soldiers. Seeing the people eating each other, the Duke cried and returned to his army. He was also worried, so he retired and returned to his official position."

This biography records eight major events in which Wang Changzhi resigned from the battle of Wei Qing during the Qimenlang period of Shanglinyuan Imperial Guards, to the Battle of Minyue, the Battle of Longcheng, the Battle of Hetao, the Battle of Shuofang, the Battle of Monan, the Battle of Huainan, and resigned from his post and returned home.

Since Wang Changzhi is not dead yet, this biography has not been written yet. If Wang Changzhi has new deeds in the future, Sima Qian and his son will naturally continue to add it later.

Sima Qian and his son were very satisfied with this biography, but if the person involved Wang Changzhi was asked to see it in person, he would only sneer.

Because there are too many mistakes here.

First of all, his ancestor Wang Kang was not a raider, but a bandit leader in the Central Plains. He was beaten away by Zhang Han at the end of the Qin Dynasty and then fled to Dashi County, Liaodong, and became a slave owner, enslaved local natives and fled Central Plains refugees, turning them into serfs.

Secondly, this biography leaked his grandfather Wang Liang, but except for the Wang family, outsiders did not know Wang Liang who died in the mountains, so it was normal for him to leak it.

In the end, his father was not Wang Tairan. Wang Tairan was his uncle and Wang Taihao was his father. However, few people from Central Plains had seen Wang Taihao, so they all mistakenly thought that Wang Tairan, the current head of the Wang family, was Wang Changzhi's father. Even Sima Qian and his son had such a misunderstanding, so such a mistake occurred in the biographies.

Also, he was not recommended to the court by the Liaodong County Government because of his virtuousness and filial piety, but by the Wang family, he stuffed a lot of money to the Liaodong County Governor at that time.

Moreover, he did not stop slaughtering the city because he could not bear it. As for the fact that he suffered from heart disease when he saw people eating each other and cried for the dead people, it was even more nonsense.

However, although this biography is full of mistakes, if Wang Changzhi himself reads it, even if he sneered in his heart, he would agree with it. After all, it would be a good idea to make himself famous for a lifetime?
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