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

Chapter 160

one year later
manna three years spring

Changan
too womb

"Wow wow-"

Wang Zhengjun gave birth to a baby.

"Your Highness! It's a baby boy!"

The maid happily reported to Prince Liu Xun.

Prince Liu Shi was even happier. When he entered the palace, he first looked at the pale Wang Zhengjun, and then at the baby boy in the arms of a court lady.

"Zhengjun, are you okay?" Crown Prince Liu Xi liked Wang Zhengjun very much, because Wang Zhengjun was gentle and elegant, well-educated and reasonable, with a bit of cowardice in his character, and he looked like he needed a man's protection very much, which was pitiful.

"Ow~"

A little white tiger was lying beside the bed, with a beautiful "king" symbol on its forehead.

Wang Zhengjun stroked the cute and fluffy paws of the little tiger. She liked this big cat very much.

It may be the reason why the tiger has the word "king" on its forehead, so the Wang family generally likes tigers and thinks it is a divine beast of the Wang family.

Looking at the little tiger, Prince Liu Shi was a little scared: "Mr. Zheng, can you not raise the tiger?"

"It doesn't bite." Wang Zhengjun was reluctant to leave the little tiger.

……

two years later
Ganlu five years autumn

"Yeah!"

Liu Ao, a little boy who just turned three years old, stood by the bed, looked at his critically ill grandfather Liu Xun, and called him.

"Ao'er, how old are you?" When he was dying, Liu Xun caressed his grandson very much.

"Three~" Liu Ao, a kid who just learned to walk, stretched out three fingers.

"My Ao'er is really smart." Liu Xun smiled, holding Liu Ao's little hand tightly, pampering him infinitely in his heart.

Liu Xun really likes this grandson. Two years ago, in order to celebrate this grandson, he also reduced the world's tax for one year, and reduced the calculated tax from 120 yuan to [-] yuan.

"Go out and play." Liu Xun sent Liu Ao away.

"Okay~" Liu Ao stared at Emperor Liu Xun with innocent and lovely eyes, and then ran out to play with the eunuchs and court ladies.

Prince Liu Xun waited outside the palace for a long time, and when he saw Liu Ao coming out of the palace, he immediately took him away.

"Ugh……"

Looking at the figure of Prince Liu Xi, Liu Xun was filled with emotion.

My son is good in everything, but he has a soft ear, he is easy to listen to slander, he likes Confucianism and moral education, and hates legalist cruel officials.

At the beginning, I once taught him: "The Han family has its own system, which is based on the overlord's way, but it is purely a moral education, and it uses Zhou politics! Moreover, the vulgar Confucianism is out of date, so the past is not the present, which makes people dazzled by the name and reality. If you don’t know what to keep, what’s the point of appointing!”

But the prince Liu Xi didn't listen to it at that time, so he couldn't help saying: "The prince is also the one who messes up my family!"

However, even if the prince is not good in every way, he, Liu Xun, cannot change the prince.

Firstly, the other princes are mediocre, not as good as Liu Shi; secondly, his love for Xu Pingjun made him unable to let go of Liu Shi; thirdly, the former Emperor Wu wanted to change the prince, but was exploited by someone who wanted to, and eventually turned into a witchcraft Hundreds of thousands of people have died from witchcraft. There are such precedents. Liu Xun was worried that changing the prince would cause a second disaster similar to the witchcraft, so he dared not change.

There are three factors, but the third is the main reason.

When he was critically ill, Liu Xun was still worried about state affairs, and checked the accounting books sent by the accounting officials in various counties and countries this year.

It is still the same. It records how many farmlands, how many cattle, how many young and middle-aged people, how many old people, how many women and children, how many people are disabled, and what natural disasters happened in these years and how many people died. How many fields were flooded, how much money was spent on disaster relief, and so on.

"Yingchuan County..."

Emperor Liu Xun was checking Yingchuan's accounting books, but found that many things were wrong.

For example, he remembered that the last time he looked at Yingchuan County's accounting books, it clearly stated that it had a population of 2103 million. But this year, how could Yingchuan County only have a population of 6 million left?

Where did more than 7 people in Yingchuan County go?

Annexed by a powerful?Or was it concealed by the local county officials?Or both?
In recent years, the country has lived peacefully and the people have been safe. There have been no refugees, and no one has starved to death. They have also absorbed refugees from the Huns into the Central Plains. It stands to reason that the population should increase, but why did it decrease instead?

In the past two or three years, because his health has deteriorated, he can no longer supervise the officials every day as before to prevent them from cheating.

So, gradually, those local officials who didn't dare to collude with tyrants and cheat, took advantage of Emperor Liu Xun's failing health, and started to engage in these shady tricks again.

This is indeed the case under the imperial power system. Once Mingjun's health fails, all the ghosts and ghosts will come out again, and the dirty things will be revived.

Yingchuan County, as one of the largest counties in the Central Plains, is particularly prone to produce powerful gentry, so it is also particularly difficult to govern.

When Emperor Wu first ascended the throne, he cleaned up a wave of powerful gentry in Yingchuan. As a result, in the middle and later periods, a new wave of powerful gentry appeared in Yingchuan, and the refugees cleaned up a wave of powerful gentry in Yingchuan. The wave of new powerful gentry, waited until Zhao Guanghan cleaned up another wave of powerful gentry, and as a result, more than ten years later, a new powerful gentry rose in Yingchuan. These new powerful gentry simply did not forget their original intentions. Colluded with the county magistrate and prefect to carry out land annexation.

Although the new tyrants and the old tyrants have different names and different families, they do the same things, that is, colluding with officials, annexing land, training scholars, raising private soldiers, marrying each other, and recommending each other.

Even if they know that they will be beheaded if they are found out, they still have to work hard to annex land as moths. In order to grow their family, they really work too hard and struggle too much.

Emperor Liu Xun was about to cry to death.

No matter what means and system he uses, he cannot completely solve the problem of land annexation by these powerful gentry once and for all.

After a group of tyrants die, the new tyrants will do exactly the same thing as the old ones.

"Yingchuan... oh..."

"Cough-cough-"

Emperor Liu Xun coughed, he wanted to continue to curb land annexation, but his body did not allow him to do so.

After reading the accounting books of Yingchuan County, Emperor Liu Xun continued to check the records of other counties, but found that almost every county had problems, and the large logarithmic problems only appeared in the past two or three years.

"It seems that you all think that I can't do it anymore, so you can't help it anymore?" Emperor Liu Xun sneered. He wanted to use his last breath to take away another group of powerful nobles at the last moment of his life. Pave the way for his own prince Liu Shi.

Although he knew that this would have little effect, even if a group of tyrants were taken away by him before he died, new tyrants would still emerge in a few years, and under the pure moral education of his prince Liu Shi, these new tyrants The rising tyrants will develop extremely fast, even so fast that they can suck the blood of the entire big man dry.

But he has no choice, he is not a god, he is just a person, a person with stronger abilities than ordinary people, but he is still a human being, unable to do things beyond human beings.

He continued to check the counties of other counties, and found that the population of Liaodong County had not decreased but increased over the years, and it was the most special county among many counties.

The population of other counties is constantly decreasing, and it can be seen at a glance that they may have been annexed by some tyrants. How can the population of Liaodong continue to increase?
Is there no power in Liaodong?Is the Liaodong prefect good at governance?
Or both?
With such doubts, Emperor Liu Xun also liked the current Liaodong prefect Wang Hongyin, thinking that he might be a good official who was loyal to the court and served the country and the people.

The population of other counties is decreasing, but the population of Liaodong County is increasing.

"The royal family of Liaodong, the loyalty of my great man!" Emperor Liu Xun exclaimed, and then continued to check the situation in other counties.

Sudden……

He felt a myocardial infarction, then clutched his chest where his heart was in pain, and finally passed away.

Liu Xun, the emperor who brought prosperity to the Han Dynasty, died of overwork because of working day and night on state affairs!
Posthumous title, Xiaoxuan, also known as Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty!
The period he lived in was the period when the national power of the Han Dynasty was at its peak, and it was also the period when the people were the happiest.

Shortly after

The crown prince Liu Shi ascended the throne, the great man... ushered in a new era!
(End of this chapter)