Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 110 Changjiong Official Records ([-])
Five years later

The first year of Tianhan
Chang'an Weiyang Palace

"Are you researching all of these?"

The emperor held two bamboo slips in his hand, and there were many hemp papers beside the bamboo slips.

"Yes."

Wang Changjiong replied respectfully.

"Your "24 Solar Terms" and "Zhoubi Suanjing" are quite good. With these two, it will be more convenient for me when I am a Hannong." Emperor Liu Che roughly understood the content, so he admired Wang Changjiong very much.

The 24 solar terms were used by common people as early as the pre-Qin period, but the 24 solar terms at that time were still loose, and the solar terms used in each place were different.

Some places have only twelve solar terms, while others have more than 50 solar terms.

Although the Wang family is located in Liaodong, they mix the solar terms of Liaodong and Jiaodong.

Over the years, in order not to offend others, Wang Changjiong has never dared to express his political opinions, but it is not enough to dawdle like this, not to mention that he will not be promoted in his life, and it is also boring.

Therefore, when he was bored, apart from playing chess with his students, Wang Changjiong spent the rest of his time studying some academic issues.

After this kind of academic problem is researched, it will not offend anyone. After presenting it, it will not only please the emperor, but also get a good reputation, which will last forever.

After more than ten years of research, Wang Changjiong came up with two achievements, that is, "24 solar terms" which is more reasonable after sorting out the solar terms of various parts of the world, and "Zhou Bi Suan Jing" about weights and measures calculations, which records how to calculate various shapes length, area, weight, etc.

"I'm going to promote you to Yantiejian, second only to Da Si Nong Sang Hongyang, how about it?" Emperor Liu Che smiled.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Wang Changjiong thanked the emperor.

Yantie Supervisor is a new official position that appeared after Yantie’s official operation. It belongs to Da Sinong, one of the nine ministers. For Jiuqing.

The specific duties of the Yantiejian are literally, to monitor the history of salt and iron in various counties and states in the world.

After the salt and iron official camp, each county has a salt history and an iron history. They are responsible for the management of the official salt and iron smelting of the county, and they are directly under the Central Nine Ministers. Even local officials have no right to interfere.

In other words, even Wang Changzhi, the prefect of Liaodong, had no right to directly interfere with the management of the salt and iron industry by Liaodong Salt History and Tie Shi.

Of course, any system, no matter how perfect it is, only exists in theory.

No matter what kind of system, it must be implemented by people in essence, so the specific effect is determined by the people who implement the system, not by the system itself.

Therefore, in theory, Wang Changzhi, the prefect of Liaodong, has no right to interfere with the salt and iron industry in Liaodong, but in theory, the people cannot rebel, so it can only be in theory.

The two departments of Yanshi and Tieshi in Liaodong have long cooperated with the four major families in Liaodong.

The four major families in Liaodong each donated some of the land they acquired from the common people to officials of the two departments of Yanshi and Tieshi, and some even married with them to form an alliance of interests.

The history of salt and iron in Liaodong often deliberately underreported some profits from selling salt and iron, and then shared the actual excess salt and iron profits with the four major families.

At the same time, Liaodong Salt History and Iron History often sold private salt and iron for the four major families under the banner of official management.

People in Liaodong thought they were buying salt from the government, but in fact they were buying private salt from the four major families.

The government helped the powerful gentry to sell private salt. This kind of beheading has been done in Liaodong for seven or eight years.

Although Yanshi and Tieshi have long been corrupted by the four major families, just in case, it would be good to have more Yantie supervisors in the central government, so that if Liaodong's Yanshi and Tieshi departments accidentally appear If a traitor wants to report the actual situation, he must first report it to Wang Changjiong, the supervisor of Yantie, and pass through Wang Changjiong first.

This is tantamount to providing insurance for the four major families in Liaodong to sell private salt and private iron, so that they can expand the scale of private salt and private iron sales more recklessly in the future.

After thanking the emperor, Wang Changjiong had just left the palace when he bumped into Prince Liu Shi outside.

"Your Majesty, Wang Changjiong, I have met His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." Wang Changjiong hurriedly saluted the Crown Prince Liu Ju.

"Mr. Guangming, you don't need to be too polite." The prince replied politely.

Because of Wei Qing's relationship, the Wang family and the crown prince Liu Ju can barely be regarded as a camp.

The relationship between the Wang family and the Wei family is good, and part of the blood of the Wei family flows in the prince's body; the Wang family agrees to cancel the Yantie official camp, and the prince also agrees to cancel the Yantie official camp; the Wang family agrees to cancel the governor system, and the prince also agrees to cancel the governor system; The crown prince also agreed to cancel the lawsuit and count the migration to the mausoleum.

Therefore, the Wang family should support the prince no matter whether it is public or private, and everyone thinks that the Wang family will support the prince.

"It would be great if this crown prince Liu Ju can successfully become the next emperor, so that our royal family can safely and boldly annex land, instead of being restrained like now, we must be careful every time we annex land."

Wang Changjiong looked at the prince and thought in his heart.

Over the past few decades, under the high-handed rule of Emperor Liu Che, the Wang family has acquired a total of [-] mu of land, an average of less than [-] mu per year. This efficiency is really too low.

In the previous Emperor Jing's period, the Wang family acquired tens of thousands of mu of fertile land in just a few years, and almost every year tens of thousands of mu of fertile land.

Everyone in the Wang family missed the late emperor Liu Qi, and wished that the emperor Liu Che would die quickly so that Emperor Jing Liu Qi could be resurrected as emperor.

"Who will be the next emperor is not something that our royal family can participate in. Our royal family should be quiet and just do land mergers honestly."

Shaking his head, Wang Changjiong shook off the unrealistic thoughts in his mind.

He originally wanted the Wang family to be completely tied to the prince's chariot, to become the prince's henchman, and to support the prince's successful ascension to the throne.

In this way, the Wang family is also one of the many Conglong heroes, and will be able to gain more power in the future.

But such thoughts only appeared for a moment.

The former head of the family, Wang Tairan, has repeatedly told the children of the family: "Our children of the Wang family must not forget our original aspirations and keep our mission in mind. To engage in land annexation is the original aspiration and mission of our Wang family. We must not deviate from our original aspiration and mission to participate in the intrigues in the court. No matter who is the emperor, our royal family will support him, be loyal to him, and concentrate on land annexation."

"Mr. Guangming, what's the matter?" Prince Liu Ju wanted to win over the Wang family of Liaodong to become his henchman, so he asked Wang Changjiong kindly when he saw Wang Changjiong frowning and thinking about something.

"I think of some family matters, and I'll make His Royal Highness laugh at you." Since he intends not to participate in the battle for the throne, and only wants to concentrate on land annexation, Wang Changjiong doesn't intend to have too much contact with the crown prince Liu Ju, so as not to accidentally get involved with the Wang family, so Wei Wei With a smile, he cupped his hands and saluted, and then he said goodbye to the prince: "I'm busy with business, so I'll take my leave first, please forgive me, His Royal Highness."

"Eh..." Prince Liu Ju originally thought that with the relationship between the Wang family and the Wei family, he could easily win Wang Changjiong into his own. Who knew that Wang Changjiong seemed not interested in being a hero of the dragon, which made him very curious: Don't the Wang family want to gain power in the new emperor era?
Although he couldn't figure it out, Liu Ju was embarrassed to force Wang Changjiong to stay, so he still smiled and said, "Mr. Guangming, please go ahead."

(End of this chapter)