Zhang Kuan's face was filled with vicissitudes of life. There was begging, even begging, on Zhang Kuan's face. He hoped that Zhang Xiaowu would think that Zhang Biao was just wronged, and he hoped that his son was just being deceived. At this moment, Zhang Kuan is not the Prime Minister Zuo.
, but a father, an old father in his seventies.
The masterminds who plotted the rebellion were all the backbones of the Zhang Party, and Zhang Kuan, the leader of the Zhang Party, obviously could not be said to be unaware. He just did not expect that his son was the mastermind behind it. How could a smart man like Zhang Kuan be unaware of the undercurrents?
Some people took the opportunity to cause trouble, but Zhang Kuan was really weak these days. The seventy-three-year-old man had been an official for more than fifty years, and it was indeed time for him to rest.
For so many years, he has always been the leader of the Zhang Party. However, he knew that he was too old and he needed to train his son Zhang Biao to be the party leader. But Zhang Biao was a man who was obsessed with learning and seemed to have no idea.
He has no fighting spirit and no enterprising spirit, and gradually becomes the leader of Qingliu.
At this time, after Emperor Dade suddenly promulgated the tax law reform, Zhang Biao was recommended by many scholars and noble disciples to become the leader of the resistance to the tax law. Zhang Kuan believed that Zhang Biao could use this opportunity to oppose the tax law, and then
Zhang Kuan established his new leadership position in the Zhang Party, so Zhang Kuan pretended to be ill on the one hand, and secretly
In everyone's perception, Zhang Biao is a literary leader who does not care about government affairs, does not like party disputes, and loves poetry and poetry to promote young people. He will be a great leader a hundred years later and a pillar of the Qing Dynasty. Like this
How could people conspire to kill the emperor, and how could they organize such a secret and huge plan.
Zhang Kuan never thought that Zhang Biao would mobilize the army to carry out an armed coup. What he didn't expect was that his son would bribe Li Canglan. He never thought that Zhang Xiaowu would turn things around on his own and defeat Li Canglan's rebellion in a single challenge.
military.
"Perhaps there is some misunderstanding." Zhang Kuan said.
Zhang Xiaowu's eyes were firm and his attitude did not change at all. He just nodded and smiled and said: "Prime Minister Zuo, do you know what happened to the Marquis Liyang Mansion?"
Zhang Kuan said angrily: "Are you threatening me?"
Zhang Xiaowu smiled lightly and said: "I am not threatening you, I am informing you that someone is planning to kill your grandson, and someone is even seducing your daughter. If you want the reputation of the Zhang family not to be damaged, and if you want the title of Earl of Hengshui to last forever, you must
It is necessary for the left prime minister to exterminate relatives with righteousness."
Zhang Kuan said: "I want to see your Majesty."
Zhang Xiaowu refused directly: "You can't see your majesty, left prime minister. Do you think your son is trying to subvert the imperial power? Are you qualified to see your majesty? Your son wants to kill your grandson. You are such a failure as a human being.
, how can you still have the nerve to see the emperor? When you see the emperor, what if the emperor
Angry, I ordered the imperial officer to kill you with a stick on the spot. Where did you put your face? I respect you for being loyal to the country for more than fifty years and assisting three generations of emperors in handling government affairs. But you can't pray after making such a big mistake.
Preservation. Zuo Xiang, if you give up, you will gain. If you don't give up, you will lose."
Zhang Kuan suddenly took two steps back, staggered, vomited a mouthful of blood, and fell backwards. The servants of the Zhang family quickly caught Zhang Kuan, and someone immediately shouted: "The master has fainted. The master has fainted."
It's over." The servants moved him in with all their hands.
At this time, Zhang Xiaowu raised his hand and ordered: "Xia Ming, lead the team into the Hengshui Uncle's Mansion. Remember not to kill anyone or disturb the female family members of the Hengshui Uncle's Mansion."
"Here."
Xia Ming shouted loudly: "The rest of you, follow me into the mansion to arrest the prince Zhang Biao."
The so-called crown prince title can only be held by earls, princes, and princes. Zhang Biao, as the eldest son of Hengshui Bo Zhang Kuan, has been called crown prince for more than 40 years. Now this is the last time he is called crown prince. When everyone came to Zhang Biao's study
At that moment, flames shot into the sky, and Zhang Biao burned himself in his study, and his book "Confucian Classics" was also burned.
When Zhang Xiaowu came, the fire in the study had been extinguished, and there was only a corpse that was burned beyond recognition. It was impossible to confirm that this was Zhang Biao. Zhang Xiaowu took a look at it lightly, and then announced that the corpse was Zhang Biao, and then he was alone with Zhang Kuan.
He whispered in his ear: "Congratulations, Prime Minister Zuo, the prince must have escaped. You can tell him that I will not hunt him down anymore and let him be an ordinary person from now on. This makes the scholar business angry. It is the so-called scholar rebellion."
Years are running out, and now the hasty rebellion is bound to fail. Left Prime Minister, you are also tired. Please resign tomorrow."
Zhang Kuan took a few heavy breaths and said: "The imperial court cannot move without me, Zhang Kuan."
Zhang Xiaowu said with a smile: "No, your students have grown up and don't need you to suppress them anymore. They secretly showed me that they can take your place."
Zhang Kuan's eyes widened in disbelief, but Zhang Xiaowu smiled easily and left with his men.
The uncle's house in Hengshui was closed from the next day and did not accept any guests. On the fifth day of the lunar month, Zhang Kuan handed over a memorial, asking him to resign and take care of himself in old age, and the emperor agreed to do so.
The liquidation of Zhang Biao and Zhao Bu's rebellion is still going on, but the King of Jin disappears, and Zhao Bu is also arrested, and then more than a hundred officials are involved in it. Zhang Xiaowu is not a great emperor, so it is natural for those who rebel
The decision was to kill without mercy, and Zhang Xiaowu urgently needed their assets to fill the national treasury. Within six days from New Year's Day to the fifth day of the first lunar month, the city of Longdu was filled with blood, and nearly 10,000 people were massacred. Among them, especially
Those who directly participated in the rebellion were all killed, and their whole families were executed. These people in Saibei have always believed in eradicating the roots. If they want to be killed, they will be killed.
Every day, people were executed on the streets, but their bodies were quickly taken outside the city and buried casually.
Zhang Xiaowu also sorted out this rebellion case. Six months ago, Xiang Rui, the Minister of Household Affairs at that time, submitted a list of the cultivated area of the country to Emperor Dade. Emperor Dade found that the cultivated land of the people was 200 less than that of Emperor Taigan.
Ten thousand acres, which is 5 million acres less than in the early years of Emperor Taiqian. Furthermore, after consulting the history of the Holy Han Dynasty, it is found that the current cultivated land area is 30 million acres less than the peak area during the reign of Emperor Shengshun.
During the reign of Emperor Shengshun, the Lingnan region had not yet been fully developed. After more than a hundred years of opening up and expansion, even at the expense of expelling the southern barbarians, which caused conflicts between the Han people and the southern barbarians, the land area of the country not only did not increase, but became larger than that of Emperor Shengshun.
The area has been reduced by 20 million acres, which is really unbelievable.
So Emperor Dade ordered Xiang Rui to find out the reason, but Xiang Rui didn't need to inquire at all and directly told Emperor Dade that the decrease in land area was just because the land that paid taxes directly to the country was reduced, not a real decrease. So Emperor Dade ordered
Xiang Rui carried out land tax reform, the focus of which was to eliminate the tax-free land for nobles and force farmers in the name of nobles to re-establish their land in various government offices, thereby increasing the country's cultivated land area and land tax revenue.