After the ceremony, the Shaofu sent seals, ribbons, chariots and other ceremonial supplies to Shao Xun's house, including the retinue given by the imperial court - he did not want the retinue, so he declined.
Shao Xun walked into the Tai Chi Hall and participated in the Wangri Dynasty Meeting.
Before entering the queue, he gave way to Wang Yanqian.
Wang Yan insisted on letting him take the seat, and at the same time gestured with his eyes, as if to say: You are not Sima Shi, and I am not Sima Fu.
Shao Xun finally did not persist.
The twenty-nine-year-old general sat at the head of the sixty-one-year-old Taiwei.
There was a moment of solemnity in the hall, and everyone looked at him with vague eyes.
It was the first time that Duke Liang went to court as an auxiliary minister. Everyone couldn't figure out the way, so they didn't dare to speak randomly.
Wang Yan glanced at his son.
Wang Xuan understood and said: "Your Majesty, since last winter, there has been a lack of rain and snow, and up to this spring, there has been severe drought for several months. The wheat has not grown, the summer seedlings have not grown well, and there has been a plague of locusts, covering more than ten counties in the north and south of the river. I invite your majesty.
Take care of the use of money, remember the hard work of farming and weaving, and reduce the disaster-stricken counties' festival contributions."
After saying this, the first reaction of the court officials was not to look at the emperor, but at the general.
Shao Xun did not object.
When the emperor saw it, he felt sour in his heart.
It's like having something you value and love stolen away by someone, and that person still plays with it in front of you. Don't mention the feeling!
So he decided to declare his sense of existence: "Yes. I will practice hard work with coarse cloth, eat plain rice and vegetarian meals, and spend the hard times with the people of Li."
"Your Majesty, the Holy Ming." Wang Xuan slowly stepped back.
Wang Yan took off the white pen from the crown on the side of his ear, scratched out a line on the wat board, and then quietly showed it to Shao Xun.
After Shao Xun finished reading, he nodded slightly.
Apart from the canonization ceremony, there is actually nothing major happening today. Shao Xun can attend the court meeting later, or he can go back to Bianliang directly, it doesn't matter.
He stayed mainly to experience the changes brought about by his new identity.
"Your Majesty." Sure enough, just like what Shao Xun saw on the wat board, someone soon came out and said: "Since last year, silk has become cheap, money has become less and less, and both public and private affairs have been harmed. Please cast a hundred coins.
Wan Guan was cast at a strategic location in Henan County for public and private purposes."
Sima Chi remained silent.
He instinctively wanted to object, because the country did not have the habit of minting money, and the old coins of Han, Wei, Shu and Wu were still used.
These coins are of different styles and weights, which are very inconvenient for daily transactions. With the price of silk and silk falling for two consecutive years - and the price may even drop this year - the financial resources are quite insufficient, so it is still necessary to mint money.
of.
But he also wanted to see Shao Xun's attitude.
Shao Xun did not respond.
Sima Chi just stared at him without saying a word, as if he was angry.
Wang Yan glanced around.
The people he swept out came out one after another and asked: "Your Majesty, please cast money."
Shao Xun finally spoke, and he knelt down on the table, bowing his head and saying: "Your Majesty, I thought we could start casting money."
Sima Chi looked left and right, finally closed his eyes and said, "Yes."
"Your Majesty, recording events and sayings is the duty of a historian. In recent years, there have been many incidents and things have been inconsistent, which has led to interruption. I would like to ask a historian to collect old events, record them in a book, and send them to the library every quarter..."
"Your Majesty, it is too time-consuming to have a judge decide the prisoner..."
After playing the first two pieces, the ministers started playing one after another.
Shao Xun listened quietly.
Most of these things are meaningful, and the court is not full of fools.
He inexplicably thought that when the dynasty changed, many old bureaucrats were retained and became officials of the new dynasty. These old bureaucrats were quite active and worked hard for a while, no longer dull or shirkful, as if they had transformed into the world one by one.
Like a talented person.
Ultimately, it depends on the environment.
The founding emperor of the new dynasty could not tolerate sand in his eyes and was not easily fooled. The cleverness and tricks of the past were no longer useful. Furthermore, the officialdom had undergone a purge, the ecology had changed, and the customs had also changed, so he had to be rolled up.
Seems energetic.
That's probably it.
He is sitting here today. It is understandable that many people are eager to perform in order to advance or to maintain their current status.
It’s just—isn’t this too hurtful?
Shao Xun glanced at the emperor and sat leisurely.
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After the court meeting was over, Shao Xun and Wang Yan came out side by side.
Some shameless court officials stepped forward to salute one after another, and Shao Xun responded one by one.
"How are you today?" Wang Yan looked at Shao Xun and asked with a smile.
"I'm quite impressed." Shao Xun smiled.
Wang Yan also laughed and said: "After the Kingdom of China, we need to set up a post station between Luobian and Luobian. It is best to have a post station thirty miles away and send official letters quickly."
"I will ask someone to handle this matter," Shao Xun said.
"Why not stay in Luoyang or become prosperous?" Wang Yan hesitated and asked.
"Pure." Shao Xun only replied this sentence before leaving the palace.
Cao Cao left Xuchang and went to Yecheng to build a hegemony in order to escape from the control of the Yingchuan gentry.
Gao Huan left Yecheng and went to Jinyang to build Bafu in order to conduct the war better.
Shao Xun left Xuchang and went to Bianliang to build Bafu. The main purpose was to connect the north and south of the river and at the same time manage his own territory.
Cao, Gao and Shao actually have something in common. They have similar thoughts and ideas, but they don't just love wives.
Wang Yan also vaguely guessed something.
Among the ten counties of the Liang Kingdom, Chen County was cleaned up very thoroughly. The He family was exterminated, and most of the Xie family moved south. There were not many left, and they could not make a difference. Now the only noble clan that can be said to be famous is the Yuan family.
The family is still an in-law of the Shaw family, and the Wang family is a newly rich person, but their background is extremely poor, not as good as the Xie family and other families who have moved south.
The Liang Kingdom experienced many wars. After the beggar army Wang Ping's troops passed by, they continued to cause nuisance. Many powerful nobles crossed south to the east of the Yangtze River.
The Huns raided Henan, and Liang fell into battlefield twice.
When Yu Chen was appointed as the domestic historian of Liang Dynasty, some people made trouble to clear out the land and household registration of the father-in-law, and the situation was ups and downs. By this time, it had been almost completely cleared up.
As for Nandun and Xincai, that is where Shao Xun resettled refugees on a large scale. The Ying family, the largest local gentry, was severely suppressed and most of them crossed south to Jingxiang.
The four counties of Puyang, Wei, Ji, and Dunqiu were places where the Jin and Huns had been fighting for many years. Not to mention the ordinary people, the powerful nobles could not stand the warnings, food requisitions, and conscripts, and even unprovoked attacks. Those who could leave
They're all gone, except for nothing.
There are really strong powerful families in Runan and Chenliu counties, but they are far inferior to those of more than ten years ago.
Shao Xun moved to Bianliang, probably because he wanted to suppress it nearby, clean up the Chenliu family, collect their fields and villagers, and support small households to compete with the big families in the ring, and he would be the judge and reap the benefits. When the time was ripe, he would clear the land and land.
Household registration, establish a truly stable rule.
His ambition is really big!
Wang Yan didn't know what he was feeling in his heart. The two years of drought and locust invasion were the peak of Shao Xun's efforts to gather the refugees and laid the foundation for what he is today. In fact, he had already dealt with many of the ten counties in Liang State, and now he is just taking care of these "
"Rehmannia" are just put together.
Liang Guo is the result, not the process.
In addition, Shao Taibai's vision is really vicious. He is completely focused on the roots of the gentry: land and tribe.
When many people hear "gentry", they subconsciously equate them with each other, which is a big mistake.
The nobles whose landholdings have been reduced are lame nobles.
A nobleman without a land tribe is just a dog of the Tian family.
Shao Xun promoted small families from small families. Even if these evolved into a new gentry, their strength would be far from the current gentry.
Wang Yan was very confused every time he thought about this.
In fact, he has thought about this before, and concluded that in troubled times, damage to the family fortune is unavoidable, but as long as most of it is preserved without breaking the bones, it is acceptable. Even if half of the family fortune is lost, it is not
Totally unacceptable.
But I accepted it intellectually, but I was still a little unwilling emotionally.
Where to go, we can only take one step at a time.
Shao Xun doesn't want to take shortcuts, so what can he do?
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Liang Fen, who was plowing in the west of Luoyang City, soon learned about what happened in the capital. It was Fu Xuan, a great farmer from the Runan State who was offering wine in the west pavilion of the former General Long Xiang's mansion and now offering wine in the east pavilion of the general's mansion, who told him.
"The post of shogunate in the General's Mansion has almost been decided." Fu Xuan said: "Wang Yifu, the commander of the left army, appointed Wenqiao of Taiyuan as a military counselor and minister of wine, and retained Bian Dun of Jiyin. The two of them assisted Wang Yan. The right army
Si Lu Zidao said that he invited Fan Yangzu to serve as a military counselor and offer wine, and Lu Qiuchong, who was the former Yanzhou military counselor and wine sacrificer, remained in office."
The two military advisers were in charge of government affairs. Each of them recruited a confidant, and both retained an old friend of Liang Gong - Shao Xun, who was originally the military commander of the Yanzhou shogunate.
"Pei Shao, Sima of Yanzhou shogunate, is the chief historian on the left, and Yu Zimei of Yingchuan is the chief historian on the right."
"Chen Yougen, Yang Chen is still the left and right Sima."
"Liang Gong's sister-in-law, Yuan Neng, the magistrate of Yancheng, and Liang Gong's disciple, Longxiang is engaged in the middle court, Zheng Long, and is the chief bookkeeper."
"Yang Yu of the State of Yan, Dunqiu Jingchan became the governor of the Record Office."
"Cao Yin is the governor, Mi Zhi, Liu Anzhi, Yu Liang, Mao Bang and others are joining the army, and Duyang Tuntian Colonel Shao Guang is the supervisor..."
Fu Xuan counted one by one, and Liang Fen listened one by one.
After listening to the end, I feel that it is not much different from what I thought. The only difference is that the proportion of people from Hebei has become higher. It is obvious that Liang Gong takes Henan as his base and tries to make Hebei his own base.
"Is Mr. Liang leaving Beijing in the next few days?" Liang Fen asked.
"It will only happen in ten days." Fu Xuan replied: "The palace city is still being built in Bianliang. In the next year, the shogunate's officials will probably have to work in the county town."
At this point, Fu Xuan sighed and asked cautiously: "Why doesn't Ming Gong serve as an official? There are only a few scholars in Guanxi, and they are leaderless, let alone a climate."
Among the scholars from all over the country, the Xizhou scholars were probably the group that supported Shao Xun the most and took the issue of family background the least seriously.
The land of Guanxi has been mixed with Han and Han people since the Han Dynasty, and the customs are different. In addition, most of their family foundations were lost to the Huns, and most of the tribesmen also began to cooperate with the Huns. Those children who stayed in Guandong were suddenly embarrassed.
Got up.
Land, tribes, money, whatever you want is nothing, what can you do if you don't support Mr. Liang?
Fu Xuan hoped that Liang Fen could come out of the mountain and become the leader of the Kansai scholars, leading them to take a share of the troubled times - a snake can't do it without a head.
Liang Fen waved her hand and refused.
Fu Xuanyi frowned and suddenly said: "Ming Gong, I met the Queen outside the Fashili Temple a few days ago. When I went to salute, I saw bruises on the corners of the Queen's mouth. There are also rumors in the palace that the emperor wants to depose the Queen and...
Give him death..."
Liang Fen's face was calm and she didn't say anything, but her fists were quietly clenched.
After achieving his goal, Fu Xuan said no more, and only said: "Yu Zimei is going to Bianliang to become the prime minister, and Liang Gonggong is looking for a candidate to be the commander-in-chief."
After saying that, Fu Xuan left.
Chapter completed!