Chapter 442 Everyone is looking for allies
Wang Mang promoted Wang Tian, but it attracted opposition from the gentry all over the world. Wars broke out everywhere. After fifteen years, the Xin Dynasty was overthrown. Wang Mang died and his country was destroyed, becoming the target of insult and condemnation by Confucians of all generations.
Anyone who dares to say a good thing about Wang Mang will be regarded as a traitor and everyone will be punished.
In fact, if you study Wang Mang's life carefully, you will find that he was able to successfully replace the Han Dynasty and ascend the throne to emperor. It is not that Wang Mang is so sinister and cunning that he deceives everyone in the world. On the contrary, Wang Mang's ascendance to the throne really has the taste of everyone's expectations.
He came from a family of relatives and a wealthy family of Wang, but Wang Mang was frugal and studious, and his reputation was reached. Everyone in the world was convinced and regarded him as a sage of the world.
It happened that the emperors of the Western Han Dynasty were incompetent, and the powerful had risen together, annexed the land, and the people were displaced and in distress.
Wang Mang used this public grievance and strong prestige to replace the Western Han Dynasty in a bloodless manner and ascend the throne and become emperor.
When he became emperor, Wang Mang would start to solve the land problem, curb annexation, and take care of the poor people... Therefore, he introduced the most important reform of the Wangtian system. It was precisely because Wangtian completely angered the scholars and they joined forces to oppose it that the new dynasty was ruined.
But to be fair, these wealthy families have also seen problems, and the Wang family is a top wealthy family.
Wang Mang’s ability to be emperor is inseparable from the support of the aristocratic family.
He rose up with aristocratic family and died because of aristocratic family!
This is Wang Mang's tragedy.
Wang Mang can condense the mental journey of reformers of all generations and solve the consequences.
First of all, if you want to reform, you must climb to a sufficiently high position within the system. In this process, you must win over powerful people, win over all the power to support yourself, many benefits, and promise to take care of their interests... After painstaking management, you have climbed to a sufficient position and gained authority.
Reforms will begin at this time.
But at this point, reformers often find that the target they want to reform is the group of people who support themselves!
If you don’t use your sword to them, there will be no way to start the reform. The people are extremely disappointed and the people are in agitation.
If you attack them, it will be like destroying the Great Wall and cutting off your own foundation.
Once these people who support you turn against you, the attack power is far beyond what outsiders can achieve. Under such a powerful offensive, the Xin Dynasty will be able to cooperate with the inside and outside and be destroyed.
This is true for Wang Mang and Wang Anshi. He has been highly praised by scholars for decades. Once he takes power, he will be collectively opposed by the scholars, and he will be dismissed twice and the people will die.
What about Zhang Juzheng? This is the case. He was a bachelor of Xu Jie, pretending to be a grandson in the court, and accumulating strength. After he overthrew Gao Gong and became the chief minister, he suddenly looked back and wanted to reform the scholar group represented by his teacher Xu Jie. There was no way. Zhang Juzheng could only contact the eunuchs and the harem and form an iron triangle. His methods were obviously higher than Wang Anshi. Therefore, he pushed the whip method and the Ming Dynasty also improved.
But in the end, Zhang Juzheng still had the fate of losing his power.
The reform he hoped to do was accomplished by a foreign emperor. The emperor who was widely loved by time travel women had a group of one million people and could not abandon the gentry and civil servants, so his reform could be continued.
Chai Rong asked Ye Hua if he could succeed in reform and would he follow Wang Mang’s old path again?
Ye Hua believes that Chai Rong still has a chance.
First of all, only six years after the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the scholar group did not thrive to compete with the imperial power.
Secondly, the martial artist group is still there, and this martial artist group has been upgraded and has strong vitality and can compete with civil servants.
In other words, Chai Rong has a good card to deal with civil servants.
"If Your Majesty is willing to push, I think there is still a chance to succeed. If you miss the most precious time, it will be a huge challenge to push again."
Chai Rong pondered for a while and said bitterly: "After I inherited the Grand Principality, I thought that the most important thing was to use foreign troops to wipe out the world and unify the country. But now, I realized that solving the internal troubles of the Great Zhou is a real difficult thing!"
Chai Rong rubbed his hands and gritted his teeth and said, "Do it, no matter how difficult it is! If I don't set the rules, my descendants will have countless troubles, and they will not be able to do it at that time."
Looking at the past dynasties, establishing foundations and setting rules is enough to affect hundreds of years... And there is only one chance. If you make good decisions, you can create a prosperous era of three hundred years. If you make bad decisions, you will be depressed and be depressed. If you lose your country and your family will be in vain.
"Your Majesty, I think two goals should be set."
"Tell me more specifically."
"Your Majesty, the highest goal is to make all land belong to the court. The people only have the power to farm, but not the power to buy and sell. Every twenty or thirty years, the court re-divides the land to ensure that the plunderers have their own land!"
As soon as these words were said, Chai Rong's face turned dark. How difficult it would be to collect all the land!
"Ye Qing, what is the goal of low?"
Ye Hua couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. The so-called No. wise monarch of the Five Dynasties is also small, and his pursuit is a bit low! Ye Hua had no choice but to say: "The goal of lowering is to clear the land of the cemetery, implement equal land, and gentry pays food together! Serve! There must be no exceptions!"
Chai Rong's mouth twitched. This lower target is actually not low at all, and it is even very difficult!
Let’s first explain the land of Zhangba. I’m afraid that few of them can figure out how much land there is in all dynasties.
Gentlemen and officials are treated preferentially and are exempt from taxes, which is also a rule that has been continued throughout the ages.
Not only the gentry, but the Li Tang royal family even exempted the temple from taxes, making the monks fat and oily. Chai Rong destroyed the Buddha, and in addition to molten Buddha statues and casting copper coins.
It is to destroy the temple economy and require the land under the temple to pay the land tax.
It is very difficult to get scholars to pay food, and they can serve, which is even more difficult. It is time to reach the sky!
"Ye Qing, can you give a discount...for example, you only pay food and don't serve?"
Ye Hua shrugged, "Your Majesty, let's not talk about the distance, but how many people are needed to govern the Yellow River? Can the court successfully mobilize all the people by implementing the distribution of land? No! Why? Because there are many wealthy gentry who own more land and more wealth, but do not serve the court. A fishing net broke a hole, and when the net was closed, there was no fish."
"If Your Majesty makes the gentry exception, he cannot mobilize the people completely for free. He cannot mobilize the Yellow River and cannot be repaired, so he can only spend money to hire workers... How much money can the treasury give?"
"Stop talking!"
Chai Rong waved his hand roughly, "Since you have to do it, you can't get a discount! I want to ask you now, can the warrior accept these items?"
This is the real key!
Chai Rong had to rely on military men to reform the gentry.
If even the warriors cannot accept it, how can we talk about reform?
Ye Hua pondered: "Your Majesty, you should ask the King of Wei for this matter. Maybe he can give a more accurate answer!"
Chai Rong had a calm face and immediately issued an order to invite Fu Yanqing!
...
In the palace, the monarch and ministers discussed the next action, and outside the palace were also actively running.
Pei Yu died. In accordance with Chai Rong's will, his body was thrown outside the city. The servants returned to their simple home with empty thin-skinned coffins... Pei Yu died. In order to advise the emperor, he died in the palace!
There is no need for too much exaggeration. If the minister dies, it means asking for the people. It is a foolish ruler who is injustice and killing loyal ministers!
And there is even more explosive news. It turned out that Pei Yu was carrying a coffin to death, and his wife was waiting at home. After noon, her husband did not come back, so Mrs. Pei swallowed the prepared poison and died!
At that time, before the news of Pei Yu's death was revealed, Mrs. Pei was able to die for the throne, which was a heroic spirit!
The coffin prepared by Pei Yu was not wasted, and it happened to be given to his wife.
If civil officials were afraid of having a funeral for Pei Yu, they would have no worries about it.
Someone knocked on Fan Zhi’s door.
After being warned by Ye Hua, Fan Zhi had closed the door for many days and had no guests, but there were more and more people outside, all of whom were disciples, relatives and friends, and Xianggong Fan could not hide!
"Oh, you want to kill me!" Fan Zhi lamented and pushed open the door of the mansion.
These people were overjoyed, "Mr. Fan is indeed Gao Yi. We have asked someone to invite Master Feng. There are two princesses, which is enough to comfort the heroic spirit!"
Chapter completed!