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

Chapter 172

Changan
night tour palace

This is the palace built by Emperor Liu Ao's order. It was only half completed, and he couldn't help bringing many concubines in to play.

The palace is decorated with all kinds of beautiful gemstones, and the emperor Liu Ao is blindfolded catching people among Yingying and Yanyan.

"Your Majesty~"

"Your Majesty, my concubine is here~"

The concubines were giggling and hiding from the emperor Liu Ao's capture in silk and satin.

Emperor Liu Ao secretly moved the blindfolded silk, glanced at the concubines around him, and then hugged Wei Jieyu among them.

"Haha, I caught you."

Emperor Liu Ao held Wei Jieyu in his arms, kissed her snow-white and smooth neck, and smiled cheaply at her: "Well, if you are caught, you will be punished."

"Your Majesty, you are lying. Just now, my concubine saw you sneaking glances at you." Wei Jieyu muttered.

"Haha!" Emperor Liu Ao was about to take off Wei Jieyu's silk clothes, when suddenly...

"Your Majesty, it's not good!" A Huangmen hurried over with sweat on his forehead.

"You bastard, don't you see that I'm busy?" Emperor Liu Ao was furious: "Tell me, what's the matter?"

"Near Nanshan...someone rebelled! It was a man named Xiezong who said he wanted to punish the tyrants and the innocent!" Huangmen swallowed and said.

"What?" Liu Ao turned pale with shock: "Let Jing Zhaoyin dispatch troops to suppress it, and if he can't suppress it, he will be executed!"

"No." Huang Men agreed, and hurriedly retreated.

At this time, Ban Jieyu persuaded from the side: "Your Majesty has not been in court for a long time, and he spends all day playing with his concubines in the palace. I heard that the ancient saints were always accompanied by famous officials, and only foolish emperors like Jie and Zhou spent their days in lust. Your Majesty should follow the example of Yao and Shun, not Jie and Zhou."

Although she was a concubine, she was forcibly taken by the emperor Liu Ao to the palace for a night tour, but she was well-read in poetry and books, and she didn't want to be scolded as a concubine in the history books of later generations.

Emperor Liu Ao looked at Ban Jieyu, remained silent for a long time, and finally said to him: "What you said is true."

Afterwards, Emperor Liu Ao packed his clothes, dismissed the concubines in the palace, and returned to Weiyang Palace to handle state affairs.

But when he saw the memorials from various places, he dealt with a few seriously at the beginning.

For example, someone reported that the prefect of Yingchuan County colluded with local tyrants and seized the land of the people; another example was reported that the governor of Yangzhou colluded with local tyrants in Yangzhou to plunder the Yangtze River dam, destroy the embankment and flood the fields, and engage in land annexation; The new king was unwilling to surrender to the big Han, and claimed that the Western Regions belonged to the people of the Western Regions, and the people of the Western Regions wanted to stand up against the Han court.

Etc., etc.

After dealing with several state affairs in a row, Emperor Liu Ao's 3-minute enthusiasm passed. Looking at the remaining memorials and the accounting books submitted by the officials of various counties and countries, he instantly felt a headache.

Open any accounting book at random, it happens to belong to Liaodong County.

The contents of Liaodong County's accounting report are roughly as follows: Liaodong County has experienced many fires, floods, earthquakes, and droughts in recent years, resulting in a total population reduction of 30. Now Liaodong County's population has dropped from 39 to 9. The tax of [-] people can be handed over to the court.

"If you die, you will die. It's just a group of people. What's the big deal? It's so annoying to report such trivial things to me in a memorial."

"I am the Son of Heaven. I was born to be a master of human beings. I was born to come to the world to enjoy myself. How can I waste my time dealing with these trivial matters? It's just ridiculous!"

Emperor Liu Ao was very impatient, and he didn't bother to investigate whether the sudden death of 30 people in Liaodong was true or not, so he just threw aside the memorial presented by Liaodong County.

Afterwards, after Qinzheng's 3-minute enthusiasm passed, he left the hall and continued to play with the concubines again.

"It's better to play games with my concubines to be happy. Let the general deal with state affairs and so on."

……

Liaodong County
"Your Majesty, we have reported the death of 30 people, in case His Majesty finds out something strange..." Liaodong Commander and Zhang Family Patriarch worried.

"Do you think His Majesty will read our memorials? Those memorials are not all handled by the generals in the end. After the processing is over, the death of 30 people in Liaodong will be considered a conclusion." The new Liaodong prefect Wang Fengbang laughed. .

He has been fighting the aborigines in Mahan for decades, and now he is over 40 years old. He took over his father Wang Hongyin's team and continued to serve as the governor of Liaodong for the Wang family.

"But what if His Majesty reads it..." Jun Cheng was still not at ease.

"If Your Majesty read it and really intends to investigate us in Liaodong, we will say that the chief planner sent the wrong memorial, and then we will kill the chief planner to silence him, and finally resubmit a new real plan." Wang Fengbang sneered.

The rest of the officials also nodded after hearing this. They also realized the stupidity of Emperor Liu Ao, so they dared to do this kind of thing, eating the tax of nearly 30 people in Liaodong in one go. In the age of such a mediocre king, they would definitely not dare to do such a thing.

There were only 39 people in Liaodong. Later, nearly 37 people were relocated by the Wang family, and [-] were secretly absorbed by other powerful nobles in Liaodong as slaves, leaving the actual population of Liaodong only [-].

At the same time, Liaodong County was bold enough to report that 30 people died due to natural disasters. Of the 30 miles, 28 were used to smooth out the population merged by the Wang family and other families, and [-] were used to pay taxes to the four major families.

That is to say, among the 39 people in Liaodong, only 28 people are still people who can directly receive taxes from the court, [-] people have become slaves of the four major families, and [-] people have paid their taxes In the hands of the four major families.

The imperial court could not receive taxes from these 28 people, because according to the imperial court's statistics, these 28 people had already died due to various natural disasters.

But these 28 people are still paying taxes in fact, but they don't know that the taxes they pay are not handed over to the court, but to the four major families.

For the tax of 28 people, the Wang family gets the tax of [-] people, and the Zhang family, Li family, and Lu family each get the tax of [-] people.

Seventy percent belonged to the four major families, and the third floor belonged to the imperial court.

As for the people?They only have zero percent!
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General's House
"Your Majesty doesn't want to deal with these tedious matters, so let me transport all these memorials to your residence, General, and let you handle them."

Huangmen brought many eunuchs to the General's Mansion, and their carriages were filled with memorials and accounting books from various counties and states.

"Your Majesty also said that in the future, such matters will be handled by you, the General. Your Majesty is very busy and has no time to deal with state affairs."

Huangmen smiled at Da Sima and General Wang Hongnian, he saw that in the future the general will be the genius, the general will be the law, and only the good general will be rich and prosperous.

"Your Majesty, you must share your worries for His Majesty!"

Wang Hongnian smiled slightly, feeling very happy in his heart.

After waiting for Huangmen to leave, Wang Hongnian began to deal with state affairs, and directly replied on the accounting book of 30 deaths reported by Liaodong County: Approved.

In this way, the fact that 30 people died in Liaodong can be regarded as a conclusion. When counting the population in the future, it can be said that there are only 9 people in Liaodong County.

At the same time, Wang Hongnian was still dealing with disaster relief.

There is a total of 500 million yuan in the treasury.

Among them, 500 million yuan was reserved for the emperor to repair the palace, and the remaining [-] million yuan was all allocated to Liaodong County for "disaster relief" in Liaodong County.

The so-called "disaster relief" is said to be to relieve the people affected by natural disasters in Liaodong, but in fact the "disaster relief money" of 500 million yuan is all from the Wang family.

The disaster relief went to the Wang family's home in Liaodong.

(End of this chapter)