Dajin royal family

Chapter 641 Zhaohuang Era ([-])

This is not to show off his martial arts, but all the aristocratic families are behind it!

Since he became emperor, he has weakened the aristocratic family time and time again. First, he sent all the older generation of officials of the aristocratic family back for retirement, followed by abolishing the poll tax, abolishing the "tax-free privilege of the powerful", and preventing the people from becoming tenants from the powerful family. It was once again that the tenants entered the mu, and later he used his brains on the imperial examinations. Anyone in the family who ran a cheap business was not allowed to become an official or participate in the imperial examinations.

The aristocratic family used power for personal gain and used business to amass wealth.

In the second year of Emperor Zhaohuang, he built academies all over the country, hired great Confucianists from the wild as lecturers, and the imperial court distributed his salary. As long as his children were willing to study, they could go to the academies to attend lectures for free.He even used money from the emperor's internal treasury to subsidize outstanding peasant children.

Let knowledge flow to the lower classes.

Even, he raised the salary of the Ministry of Industry arbitrarily, and regained the "Mo" and "Nong".In the imperial examination, scholars are selected by different subjects.

Craftsmen are no longer low-class industries, and they are no longer the "extraordinary skills" passed on by word of mouth. They have a unified title: "technicians"!
Those with advanced skills hang loose official positions in the court, eat court salaries, and study weapons and tools.

Now, there are many "technical personnel" in the DPRK and China who have been awarded titles for inventing new weapons and agricultural tools.

After a series of combined punches, the family's interests were infinitely reduced.

In the past two years, Jiang Chengxiao showed his last face and promulgated the "Abolition of Slavery Order", which forbids anyone to keep domestic slaves and tenants in any form. Once found, he will be punished as treason.

At that time, Yu Shinan and others strongly refused, but they were mercilessly attacked by Jiang Chengxiao, and they were all sent back. It was not until the seventh year of Emperor Zhaohuang that they completed a major exchange of all the central officials.

Not to mention, at least [-]% of the "Zhaohuang Law" released and repaired by Jiang Chengxiao in recent years is to forcibly attack the aristocratic family in the form of decrees.

But Jiang Chengxiao knew very well that he couldn't keep persecuting the family like this, otherwise there would be trouble sooner or later.

Therefore, this time he conquered Tubo and Tuyuhun, he sent a new signal to the aristocratic family.

The people of the enemy country can be slaves!
Whether it is to capture or buy, as long as it is a slave who is enthroned in the imperial court, it can be used.

In other words, Jiang Chengxiao changed the fate of becoming a domestic slave and tenant from a person of the Jin Dynasty to a person of the enemy.

This can be regarded as a little compensation from him to the family.

At the same time, the land conquered by Tubo and the land in the Western Regions of Tuyuhun could be sold to those aristocratic families and handed over to immigrants from the Jin Dynasty.

In order to prevent the Hu people from turning their backs on the land of the Jin family, Jiang Chengxiao also stipulated that those Hu slaves are not allowed to set foot on the land of Jin.

But on the other hand, if the aristocratic family owns their own land and slaves in Tubo and Tuyuhun, it is their business how they want to play. As long as there is no rebellion involved, the court will not care.

In other words, the family understood what the emperor meant.

Go ahead, don't treat Tubo people and Tuyuhun people as human beings, torture them however you want, exploit them however you want.

Although they knew that places like Tubo and Tuyuhun might not be suitable for farming, they couldn't stand the preferential policies of the imperial court and the local suppression of the Jin Dynasty!

What's more, the empire has been developing the Hetao area with all its strength in the past few years, building cities everywhere to open up wasteland. In the future, those slaves can be placed outside, taught them the skills of farming, and then sent to fertile land for exploitation!

It is precisely because of this that it is impossible for the aristocratic family to give up on the item of "slave" in the conquest of Tubo and Tuyuhun this time!
Instead of going against the empire and playing small tricks in private, it is better to go to Tubo and Tuyuhun to capture slaves and reclaim wasteland openly!
For the reclamation of wasteland outside the empire's mainland, the emperor asked Sinong Temple and the Ministry of War to cooperate very early on.

The first test field is Liaodong and other areas. The current model has gradually stabilized, and it is completely possible to follow suit.

The aristocratic families are not fools either. Over the years, the generals of the empire have repeatedly crusaded against the grassland tribes, and the slaves they captured were either used to build the Great Wall, to build the Chi Road, or to dig the Grand Canal.

The one you use is cool, and you don't have to worry about it.

Those who are disobedient, sick, and rebellious will be killed directly and no one will care.

It can be said that what the emperor is doing now is not much different from what the first emperor did, but the people who use it are no longer the people of the Jin family, but have become Turks, Tubo people, Tuyuhun people, Goguryeo people and so on.

The generals have meritorious service in war, the imperial court requires slaves to serve corvee, the common people can concentrate on production without corvée, the emperor unites the hearts of the people, the empire strengthens, following foreign wars, capturing slaves, forming a closed cycle.

This set of models, from the time when Jiang Chengxiao ascended the throne, he first used Goguryeo slaves for experiments, and after a little bit of perfection, he began to promote it in some areas.

This time, even if Tubo and Tuyuhun didn't come to seek death, sooner or later he would send people to crusade against Tubo and Tuyuhun, and even the 36 countries in the Western Regions and the Turks.

For nothing else, just to develop national power, encroach on the land externally, transfer objects of exploitation and slavery by the aristocratic family internally, and reduce the burden on the people.

Let the generals be able to fight and keep the army strong.

What's more, he plans to immigrate on a large scale in the future, which requires the slaves to cultivate the land outside, and when the people of the Jin Dynasty arrive, they can immediately start farming with traditional crafts.

Everything is proceeding in an orderly manner in his plan. He thinks very clearly that it is unrealistic to completely cut off the family in his generation, so he wants to divert the attention of the family and let them take shelter under the sword of the empire. To exploit and enslave the people of the enemy country.

Let the family become the vanguard of the empire's reclamation in foreign lands!

Don't doubt the lower limit of the aristocratic family. Now they all understand that with the strength of the emperor, it is impossible for them to raise their heads in Jiang Chengxiao's dynasty. In this case, it is better to cooperate with the empire and expand the world outside.

What's more, the Hebei Wen clan, who first cooperated with the emperor, has now reclaimed a large amount of land in the Liaodong area, and the labor force used is all Goguryeo people, completely trying to "obtain the greatest benefit at the least cost".

How can this make people not jealous!

The land is not fertile enough?

It doesn't matter, the "farmyard manure" produced by the "Research Institute" of the Ministry of Industry can be gradually improved.

Insufficient labor force?
It doesn't matter, just pay the price and buy slaves from the empire.

As for farm tools, cattle, horses, sheep, etc., there is no need to worry. The army of the empire can be activated at any time. As long as a sufficient price is paid, the knives and swords of the empire will snatch these things from the prairie barbarians for them.

It is precisely because of the success of the Liaodong model that the aristocratic family has seen new hope of making a fortune. This time the empire conquered Tubo and Tuyuhun, and the aristocratic family fully supported it.

They are all waiting for the victory to buy slave fields and prepare to cultivate them!

The generals are still waiting for the emperor's military exploits to be rewarded.

It can be said that Jiang Chengxiao is following his own ideas, using the powerful and aristocratic families to grab benefits for the empire outside and carry out colonization.

Under such circumstances, how could Jiang Chengxiao stop just as he said.

He transferred the family's domestic 'manor economy' to the outside, so he will show the family the effect!
Therefore, Wei Xuancheng and Shangguan Di told him to stop, they were simply joking.

Now the generals of the empire, with the money and food supported by the family, are plundering the slave land with their swords in their hands. It is impossible for anyone to stop it.

The people of the same family in the country are not allowed to touch because of the laws of the empire, so the barbarians outside will be fat in the mouths of the aristocratic families.

Whoever prevents the development of the empire and prevents the aristocratic family from developing the manor economy in the outer enclosure will be crushed to pieces.

Jiang Chengxiao was angry because the two idiots Wei Xuancheng and Shangguan Di didn't understand him at all.

Can't see clearly the general trend of the empire's external development.

Gathering in seven years, the empire's army will change from a small fight in foreign wars to a gluttonous mouth!
Although Empress Changsun didn't know what her husband was planning, she was definitely not a stupid woman. Facing her husband's strength, she persuaded in a low voice: "Your Majesty, the censors act impartially, you can't directly refute."

Hearing this, Jiang Chengxiao immediately understood what his wife meant.

"The empress is right. The censors are performing their duties in their positions. I should discuss more with the ministers. The empress should get up quickly."

Negotiate?

Hey, he doesn't need to say more about the dispositions of the aristocratic families, and he doesn't need to open his mouth. The Yushi Yamen will definitely be drowned in saliva this time.

Thinking about it carefully, Jiang Chengxiao felt that he was not calm enough this time, and that he should have asked other officials to smear Yushi Yamen severely in the court.

It's still my wife who is smart, and wakes up the dreamer with a single word.

Empress Changsun smiled slightly, she knew that her husband understood what she meant.

The husband and wife looked at each other and smiled, saying nothing.

The historian hiding in the dark brushed his pen to record everything that happened today.

"Book of Jin·Biography of Empress Taizong Zhaowen's Changsun's Family": "Every emperor is angry with the government, and Empress Zhaowen persuades him to change."

The next day, during the imperial court, fierce disputes erupted among the officials over whether they all agreed to surrender to Tubo.

[-]% of the officials expressed their opposition, [-]% of the officials did not participate, and the remaining [-]% ​​agreed.

The result is obvious, the empire refused to make peace with Tubo!
The aristocratic families who had already started buying slaves tasted the sweetness and fully supported the empire's foreign wars. In order to be able to buy a large number of slaves and land, the aristocratic families voluntarily provided money and food to support the empire's attack on Tubo and Tuyuhun.

Once the colonial chariot is launched, unless the empire is destroyed instantly, its attractive interests will urge the families to scramble to board the chariot and help the empire expand abroad.

All of this was preordained, but Jiang Chengxiao made it ahead of schedule.

(End of this chapter)