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

Chapter 137 Zhaoxuan Prosperity ([-])

another year later
Yuanping first year
After another seven years of recuperation, the country once again reduced more than 100 million refugees, leaving less than 300 million in the Kanto counties that originally had more than 200 million refugees.

These 200 million refugees were mainly distributed in the Central Plains, especially Nanyang County, Runan County, Yingchuan County, Henan County, Hanoi County, Huaiyang Country, Chenliu County, Dongjun County, and Dingtao Country.

Yingchuan County and Henan County have especially many refugees, with hundreds of thousands of people.

The powerful and powerful families in Yingchuan County were ransacked and exterminated by the refugees during the great turmoil in the last period of Emperor Wu.

But in just over ten years, some small tyrants in Yingchuan County sucked the resources left by the dead big tycoons and successfully rose.

The previous tyrant fell, and a new tyrant appeared in Yingchuan. Although the new tyrant hadn't had time to create a background for himself in the court, he had already begun to act arrogantly.

In order to govern the emerging tyrants in Yingchuan County, the imperial court sent Zhao Guanghan to Yingchuan County as the prefect.

In the troubled times, not only some tyrants from Yingchuan County, but also the Wang family from Langya County shuffled and rose up.

Previously, the Langya Wang family was just a very weak small landlord family, and any county chief could bully the Wang family.

The greatest power of the Langya Wang family is nothing more than controlling the cowards in a township.

However, during the great turmoil among the refugees in the late period of Emperor Wudi, the original great powers in Langya County were exterminated by the army of refugees.

Therefore, the Langya Wang family, such a small landlord family, managed to escape the calamity of the refugees, and rose up like the Lu family in Liaodong. Ya was the head of the county, and even the local county magistrate colluded with the Langya Wang family.

There are so many such emerging powerful families in the world, and Henan County, which has more than 30 refugees, is no exception.

The generation process of a standard gentry family, taking the ranger (underworld) as an example:
[A ranger, relying on being a thug for Haoqiang, helping Haoqiang collect usury loans, squeeze the people, get some rewards from Haoqiang, become a middle class with a little spare money, and get the first pot of gold to become a family.

More than ten years later, during the famine years, I was lucky enough to save food in advance, and exchanged some fields from other self-cultivating farmers, and became a rich farmer with more fields.

Decades later, with good luck, my family's fields often had good harvests, and I saved some money and food, and the people in the same county were famine again, so I took the opportunity to buy some fields at a low price and became a small landlord.

Decades later, he merged many fields back and forth and became a big landlord, that is, a powerful man. After he had a sufficient economic foundation, he began to train the children of the family to become officials and cultivate scholars who were well-educated in Confucianism.

Decades later, among the dozens of family members trained, one finally became a talent and became a county magistrate. The family barely touched the threshold of the gentry circle.

Decades later, more and more officials were trained with money. Although there were no high-ranking officials, they were quite famous in the gentry circle because of their large number.

Decades later, there was finally a family whose children became Sangong Jiuqing or the prefect of a county. The children of other families also served as county magistrates for generations, and recommended other scholars to be officials, forming old disciples.At this time, an ordinary gentry family was formed.

In a few decades or hundreds of years, four consecutive generations of family members have served as three princes, so there will be four generations and three princes, and the recommended disciples and old officials have spread all over the world, then this noble family will further become a noble family. 】

This is a process that is going on all over the world. Some families are lucky and continue to follow this process model to the next stage. Some families are unlucky and fail at a certain stage, so they overthrow it and start over. Start over from the first stage.

With the passage of time, under this kind of competition like raising Gu, after hundreds or thousands of years, sooner or later, there will be many unstoppable aristocratic families.

In the process of forming such an aristocratic family, if there is a slight mistake or misfortune in the process, such as the defendant's order or calculation order went bankrupt, or offended the court officials, or stood on the wrong team in the court battle, or encountered The army of refugees is eyeing your manor, or there are traitors in the family, or your fields are suffering from famine, etc.

Then, the process of raising and upgrading Gu will be interrupted, or even start over.

After 1000 years, who would have imagined that the ancestor of a family revered by the world is actually just a ranger who violently collects usury?
The Langya Wang family is obviously undergoing this upgrade process, and has just been upgraded to the stage of a middle-class landlord. A few decades ago, when Emperor Wen came to the throne, the head of the Langya Wang family was just a ranger, serving as a thug for other landlords in the county. the Ranger.

Everyone is working hard, the Huns are working hard to rob, the imperial court is working hard to recuperate, the powerful are working hard to upgrade to a family, and the people are working hard to survive.

Everyone is working hard, it is really a good era of burning passion and hard work.

In such a good era, hard work is naturally indispensable to the tyrants of Henan County.

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Hanam-gun

Chaoge County

"Let go of me! Let go of me! Woooooooo—"

Several rangers are dragging a girl, and the girl is crying.

There was a natural disaster last year, in order for the family to survive, the girl's father borrowed a loan from a powerful usury, but he couldn't repay it this year. As for the family's field, he had already sold it to the powerful to repay the interest, and now the interest has been repaid. The principal has not been repaid, so the rangers who acted as thugs for Hao Qiang dragged the girl to Hao Qiang's house as a slave, which was regarded as repayment of the debt.

"Let go of that girl!"

At this time, another ranger from Yushu Linfeng came. This ranger is different from ordinary rangers. The average ranger is the thug of powerful people, but this ranger is a real chivalrous.

The person who came was the emperor's great-grandson Liu Bingji who had just turned 16.

As a rare ranger who actually has a chivalrous heart, he has traveled around the counties in Guanzhong for many years.

He has been in a casino and seen all kinds of beings in the casino;
I also walked through the countryside and saw the farmers working hard, but they still didn't have enough food and clothing;

I have also seen land annexation with my own eyes, and watched those people in the famine desperately selling their sons and daughters to sell good land;

I have also seen many so-called rangers who claim to be rangers, but in fact they are just the dogs of the powerful, helping the powerful to collect usury;
I have also seen many slaves who were directly killed by the master after being tired of being played with by the master, and the corpses were directly thrown on the street;
It is clear that the law of the great man stipulates that even the master cannot torture and kill his slaves, but the regulations are one thing, whether they obey is another matter, and whether they will not be punished is another matter;

It's the same as hiding armor. The law stipulates that it can't be done and whether it is actually done are two different things. The father of the slave who complained was beaten to death;

He has also seen some scholars who are studying, reciting "The Analects of Confucius" in their left hand, and beating their servants with a whip in their right hand. Every time they recite a word of the sage, they beat the servants to celebrate that they have memorized them. The blood and flesh are bloody, but the scholars are still muttering about benevolence and righteousness, and moral education.

Over the years, he has seen too many dark sides of society and too many tragedies in the world. He, Liu Bingji, understands the true meaning of the four words people's livelihood and suffering better than any royal relative.

No one understands the suffering of people's livelihood better than him.

(End of this chapter)