Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

Liu Bei has always been determined, so he didn't sigh too much.

Liu Bei wanted to rely on powerful people before, but the problem was that the Yingchuan nobles and nobles didn't look down on him at all...

Besides, even if the Han Dynasty revived by him is worse, it is still better than sending it to the Jin Dynasty, right?

After sighing, Liu Bei suppressed a smile and said:

If Emperor Xiaowu knew that later generations would jokingly call him such a name, he would probably have his house confiscated.

Brother, please don't make fun of me. Zhang Fei muttered, The army in future generations will be terrifyingly tight.

I'm not sure whether the champion will be reincarnated again.

Nowadays, everyone is used to all kinds of teasing names. This kind of teasing now seems more like a reward, a kind of recognition from future generations.

Don't you see that Li Shimin, the emperor of the ages, was opened and shut by Li Er?

And Zhang Fei remembered that Zhao Yun was nicknamed Yunmei...

Pang Tong first shook his head:

The troubles caused by the powerful are not solved by cruel officials. It is really not a good strategy!

“Money and silk can move people’s hearts, and land can move people’s lives!”

Historical Records only recorded ten cruel officials. However, in the three dynasties of Xiaowen, Xiaojing, Xiaowu, etc., there were more than ten cruel officials?

Then Pang Tong looked at Liu Bei's worried expression and quickly comforted him:

However, cruel officials can also be used as a deterrent. My lord may set up a capable official in Yizhou to guard and punish the powerful officials in Shu.

Liu Bei pondered for a moment and nodded unconsciously.

The good thing about Yizhou is that it is not a big place and the powerful ones are even weaker. Guo Yangliu and Du Zhao can be suppressed with one hand with the current military strength.

Kong Ming suggested:

After March, the busyness in Chengdu will come to an end. Your Majesty may follow Emperor Xiaowu's example and issue the Order to Encourage Learning, asking the people to send those under the age of sixteen to enlightenment.

In Kong Ming's view, as the price of paper becomes cheaper and cheaper, people need to spend less and less money to read and become literate. With more people literate, it will be easier to implement government decrees.

Kong Ming even remembered the experience of going to Jiangzhou to reform the salt production method in the first month. A local father-in-law insisted that there were evil spirits in the fire wells, and the salt cooked in the fire wells was regarded as harmful.

There is still a long way to go to enlighten the people's wisdom.

Liu Bei also thought this was okay, and then saw Zhang Song standing up:

My lord and the military advisor Xiao Taixue's strategy has made great contributions to the future, but both the lord and the military advisor are busy.

I am a native of Shu, and I have the audacity to ask you to take charge of the Little Imperial Academy. I will definitely live up to the hard work of my lord and military advisor.

Liu Bei nodded. Zhang Songzhi sometimes made him feel embarrassed, and he was also from Chengdu, so he was indeed more reliable in handling this matter.

Liu Ba, who was sitting next to him, suddenly felt the pressure. He was originally a new minister from Yizhou. If you do this and I am indifferent, wouldn't it make the lord think that I have an opinion?

At that moment, he had no choice but to say: I would like to work with Zizhong to formulate a taxation method for merchants, so that the old disaster of calculating and complaining will not happen again.

Yes, from Liu Ba's current perspective, Emperor Wu's policy was undoubtedly a bad move, and his reputation was ruined even if he didn't receive the money.

Mi Zhu raised her head from deep thought: Ah?

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The ministers in the Manna Hall were speechless, watching their Majesty, the majestic Lord of the Tang Dynasty, now lying on the couch in the Manna Hall and bursting into laughter.

Is it so funny that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was called Your Majesty Piggy?

In the end, the ministers could only pretend that they didn't see it for the time being, and they didn't know whether it was necessary to dissuade such a thing.

Du Ruhui pondered for a moment and said:

In the eyes of later generations, this merchant tax seems to be extremely important.

Changsun Wuji felt it was obvious:

Keming looks at this map. It's so vast outside the Tang Dynasty. There are many countries in later generations. Different countries have different needs. They must exchange goods and supplies through merchants and official markets.

We can still plan conquests around the Tang Dynasty, but how can we conquer the land of Qin, which is tens of thousands of miles apart?

Is it just that later generations seem to be slightly biased against Confucian scholars?

Fang Xuanling stood up, walked around and shook his head:

What economic strategies do the scholars of Qi and Lu know? They pretend to be pedantic, they read scriptures but don't know how to adapt to changes, they talk about holy words but they don't know how to govern the country. What's the point of prejudice?

As she spoke, Fang Xuanling paused in her steps, and saw that on Yan Liben's drawing, the leader of the Tang Dynasty was rolling with his belly in a lively manner.

Fang Xuanling just pretended not to see it, walked away quickly, and asked casually:

I just don't know what this time travel means?

Du Ruhui still had an impression:

Previously, the screen of light had said that His Majesty traveled through Liu Chan and made people enter the history of Qing Dynasty. I think it must be a strange story for later generations.

Compared with this little piggy majesty, the early Tang Dynasty has complete Han, Wei, Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties for reference.

Therefore, they all have their own opinions on salt and iron, commercial taxation, and Taixue, so they can only guess from the details.

The several ministers tacitly avoided talking about tyranny. It was not difficult to grasp the scale of His Majesty's initial words, but they each had their own thoughts.

[The Eastern Han Dynasty was the golden period for the development of powerful powers. During this period, the suppression of imperial power was lost, and powerful powers began to diversify.

After Liu Xiu abolished the armed forces of the county, local powerful people who owned large amounts of land evolved into the ultimate form of manor landlords.

The most outstanding one was Cui Shi during the reign of Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty. He was the leading literate landowner and even wrote the Four People's Monthly Order to guide other landowners on how to manage their estates.

As you can see from this book, a qualified manor needs to include agriculture, sericulture, textiles, winemaking, pharmaceuticals, horse breeding and other industries.

The military requires angular crossbows, five-soldier training, and combat archery. Arsenal and baggage vehicles are standard equipment. The Wubao that Emperor Wu sometimes had became a standard equipment of the manor during this period.

For a large family like Cui Shi, the manor has the characteristics of agriculture, forestry, fishery and animal husbandry, so it can produce its own products behind closed doors and provide abundant material support to the owner's family, so as to seize political power with peace of mind.

For example, Cui Shi, his grandfather Cui Xiang was a famous scholar, as famous as Ban Gu, his father Cui Yuan was also a scholar, and he was close friends with the great Confucians Ma Rong and Zhang Heng.

His cousin Cui Lie was promoted to Taiwei, and his nephew Cui Jun was a famous figure in the Three Kingdoms. His courtesy name was Zhouping, and he had no relationship with Zhuge Liang.

The Cui family originated from Zhuo County and later moved to Boling County. They became the very famous Boling Cui family, even feared by Erfeng.

Although Erfeng personally suppressed him in the early Tang Dynasty, in the late Tang Dynasty, Bolingcui was publicly recognized as the crown of the gentry, and by the end of the Tang Dynasty, there were sixteen prime ministers.

However, the voice dropped sharply after the Tang Dynasty, probably because it was finally severely damaged after the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and Bolingcui completely declined in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Another kind of tyrant took advantage of the academic style of the founding of the Eastern Han Dynasty and embarked on another path: Confucianism and officialdom in later generations.

To put it simply, he first used his family property to cultivate knowledge, and then cultivated his reputation through education. After cultivating his reputation, he officially entered the official career and took power.

Because the great Confucian scholars at that time could recruit their own disciples, even if a wealthy powerful man could not send his son to Luoyang to study at the Imperial Academy, he would send his son to a local great Confucian scholar to make friends with other powerful powerful men.

The person who took this route most smoothly was the Hongnong Yang family. Although they didn't recognize it themselves, they all knew that it started from Chiquan Hou Yang Xi who was divided into Xiang Yushi.

Yang Xi's great-grandson Yang Chang was the prime minister of Emperor Zhao and the son-in-law of Sima Qian; Yang Chang's great-great-grandson Yang Zhenguan lived in the Eastern Han Dynasty and was known as Confucius of Kansai. His sons Yang Bing, Sun Yangci, and great-grandson Yang Biao were all Taiwei, and there were four generations of Taiwei. , the name of a famous family in Tokyo.

However, things didn't go well later. During the Three Kingdoms period, Yang Xiu and Yang Biao were killed. During the Western Jin Dynasty, Yang Jun and others killed the three clans because of their relatives' monopoly power. During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Yang Liang clan was killed by Huan Xuan and Liu Yulian. The Yang family in Hongnong was cut off.

Looking at these two routes, we can roughly understand that celebrities, powerful people, worldly officials, landlords, etc. promoted each other, and finally combined to form the aristocratic families in the late Han Dynasty, such as Chen, Xun, Yuan, Ma, Cao, Zhong, Du, etc. wait.

Especially at the end of the Han Dynasty, the imperial power was completely sidelined and had zero binding force on the local area. The concept of county authority began to take shape. The local people knew about the powerful families but did not know about the emperor. The Eastern Han Dynasty had in fact been divided and dismembered by the powerful families. 】

Today, everyone in the Chengdu government office felt like a bumpkin again.

This Boling Cui lasted for five hundred years from the Han Dynasty to the end of the Tang Dynasty?

This was Liu Bei's sigh. He just found it unimaginable.

How much wealth can be accumulated in four to five hundred years? How much land was seized? It has survived through wars and turmoil, and has produced more than a dozen prime ministers after dynasty changes.

Zhang Fei despised:

Look at the meaning of the light curtain. After five hundred years, there is still no one who can be a general!

After five years of chaos, China is still surviving, and without thinking of serving the country in troubled times, you are really the blood-sucking insect that Guangmu said!

Fortunately, it was changed to Boling Cui. If it were still Zhuojun Cui, I, Lao Zhang, would be embarrassed!

Pang Tong said with a smile:

If you were still Zhuojun Cui, maybe people would look down on you, Yide.

Zhang Fei said disdainfully: Does he think it's for public use?

When future generations know my name and my loyalty, where does Boling Cui's grave face?

My second brother said it right, even though he is dead, his name can be hung on bamboo and silk!

Pang Tong cupped his hands and felt that although Zhang Fei had not changed his fiery temper after reading the book, his speech did become much more organized.

He also agreed:

Just like Cui Zhouping, he is remembered by future generations because he was a friend of Kong Ming. Who would envy his reputation as a famous scholar?

Kong Ming laughed and shook his head, feeling that he had learned a lot today:

Knowing the dangers of being powerful, I never thought that this powerful person could survive hundreds of years and compete with the Emperor's family for fame.

In other words, in the early Tang Dynasty, we had to be lenient, and it was easy for local powerful people to hide their crimes, otherwise...

The corners of Pang Tong's lips curved up, and he shook his head:

This Bolingcui knows how to humble himself and endure humiliation. It would be a pity not to be born in Jiangdong.

Liu Bei was a little silent when he saw the back:

If we go by what this light curtain says, the Han Dynasty should have perished long ago.

But those powerful men made their fortune by servicing the common people of the Han Dynasty. They have a rich family fortune, but they secretly seek to rise to power...

This is truly a disaster for the dynasty! It is worthy of death and destruction of the entire clan!

No one spoke for a while, only Kong Minggong cupped his hands and said:

In this case, my lord, please do not forget the suffering of the people.

Zhang Fei followed without hesitation:

I, Lao Zhang, have long disliked those high-ranking people!

They fight for their own three princes and nine ministers, and even peek at the throne, but let the people die. How can there be such truth!

For a moment, everyone in the government office looked sideways, but Zhang Fei laughed.

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Ganlu Hall was relatively quiet until Li Shimin burst into laughter:

That generation is a traitor and is causing trouble to the Tang family. They really deserve to be killed!