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

Chapter 177 Wang Mang's New Deal ([-])

Changan
General's House
"After I die, the position of General will be passed on to Wang Fengbang."

The dying Wang Hongnian was lying on the sickbed, arranging the funeral.

Wang Mang served respectfully and took good care of Wang Hongnian.

"Jujun, thank you for taking care of me these days." When he was dying, Wang Hongnian looked at his nephew with relief.

"Granduncle is my grandfather, Wang Mang, this is what I, Wang Mang, should do." Wang Mang said humbly.

"Ahem!" Wang Hongnian coughed up a mouthful of blood. He was over 80 years old and his health was really failing.

"Uncle!" Wang Mang soaked the towel in hot water, and then wiped the cold sweat off Wang Hongnian's forehead.

"Queen Dowager, please arrange an official position for Ju Jun, he deserves it." Wang Hongnian said to the Queen Mother Wang Zhengjun who was beside him.

"The government understands." The Queen Mother Wang Zhengjun nodded, and when she heard that her uncle Wang Hongnian was dying, she also came to visit.

"Uh!--"

Suddenly, Wang Hongnian's eyes widened and he died of illness.

The last fifth-generation descendant of the Wang family passed away. As for Wang Ling, she passed away two years ago.

"uncle!"

"Uncle!"

Wang Zhengjun and Wang Mang shouted.

Wang Hongnian, the pillar of the Wang family and the Great Sima General of the Han Dynasty, died of illness in the General's Mansion in Yangshuo three years ago. Because his son died young, his nephew, Wang Fengbang, the Taishou of Liaodong, succeeded him as the General.

At the same time, Wang Zhi, the grandson of Wang Hongnian, succeeded him as the prefect of Liaodong.

Wang Zhi is six or seven years older than Wang Mang. He is Wang Mang's elder brother and the oldest of the seven generations of the Wang family.

However, since Wang Mang's lineage is a collateral line of surname change, the blood relationship with the Wang family is actually very weak. The blood of the Wang family in Emperor Liu Ao's body is purer than the blood of the Wang family in Wang Mang's body.

"Uncle entrusted me to take care of you. Since that's the case, from now on you can go to the palace to be a servant of the Yellow Gate. You are also an official of six hundred shi." Wang Zhengjun is not familiar with Wang Mang. When she entered the palace as the crown prince, Wang Mang hadn't even been born yet, if it wasn't for Wang Hongnian's deathbed entrustment, she wouldn't have known there was such a figure as Wang Mang in the family.

"Mang doesn't want to be an official. He just wants to be a filial piety for his uncle and grandfather for three years." Wang Mang spoke in a weeping voice, still shedding sad tears, wiping them from time to time, as if he was still grieving over the death of the great general Wang Hongnian.

"..." The Empress Dowager Wang Zhengjun didn't know whether Wang Mang's words were true or false, sincere or false, and said to her, "Our Wang family is not that pedantic, and we don't have to observe filial piety for three years. If we don't engage in these formalisms, filial piety is enough, so If you really want to keep filial piety for your uncle, you only need to keep filial piety for seven days, and after seven days, you will return to Chang'an to serve in the palace."

"Yes, my nephew understands." Wang Mang replied weeping.

……

five months later
The rebel army of Shen Tusheng and others swept across the Central Plains, and had successively conquered nine counties including Yingchuan, Nanyang, Runan, Peiguo, Dingtao, Chenliu, Puyang, Dongjun, and Huainan, and established their capital in Wancheng County, Nanyang County. Established the Swan Goose Paradise and called himself the Swan Goose Heavenly Emperor. In the heaven, set up the Swan Goose Salvation Queen, the Swan Goose Salvation Master, the Swan Goose Salvation General, the Swan Goose Salvation Guardian General, the Swan Goose Salvation Car Cavalry General, the Swan Goose Salvation Hussar General, and the Swan Goose Salvation General.

The adoptive sons adopted by Shen Tusheng are honored as the sons of the emperor who saved the world from Hongyan, or the emperor for short.

Countless refugees who could not eat enough to eat joined Shentu Sheng's army, followed Shentu Sheng to conquer cities, kill prefects and county officials, and open government granaries.

The powerful gentry in the nine counties were bloodbathed by the rebel army. Countless manors were breached, many sons of the gentry were slaughtered, and the ladies and ladies of the scholarly families became the playthings of the rebels and were ravaged to death.

In particular, the powerful gentry in Yingchuan County were killed by the rebels until not a single fly remained.

The Swan Goose Heaven claims to have millions of heavenly soldiers, and they want to attack Chang'an in Guanzhong and destroy Liu Han in one fell swoop.

As soon as this happened, the whole world was in an uproar, and the capital was shaken!
……

Changan
Weiyang Palace

"Where is the general?!" Emperor Liu Ao was very angry.

"Your Majesty, the great general is here." Wang Mang, the servant of the Huangmen, said humbly and respectfully from the side.

Da da da--

General Wang Fengbang walked into the hall, knelt at the feet of Emperor Liu Ao and respectfully said, "My lord, Wang Fengbang, see Your Majesty!"

"Huh!" Emperor Liu Ao snorted coldly, and then asked the Great General Wang Fengbang, "General, didn't you say that my Han country is peaceful and the people are safe? Why are all nine counties captured by a group of rebels now?!"

"Your Majesty, please punish me for my dereliction of duty." Great General Wang Fengbang did not dare to defend himself. The Wang family only wanted to make money, and did not care about the lives of the people at all, and did not consider real disaster relief, so that the rebels could so easily Absorbed refugees to strengthen his own strength, actually occupied nine counties, and established the Swan Goose Heaven.

"Trash!" Emperor Liu Ao scolded angrily, but he didn't really punish Wang Fengbang. After all, he was his own uncle and his mother Wang Zhengjun's brother, so he took it lightly, and after venting his anger with a few curses, , Asked the Great General Wang Fengbang of the Great Sima: "Does the Great General have a good plan to destroy the rebels now?"

Hearing these words, Wang Fengbang was overjoyed, he had saved his life, but after much thought, he couldn't think of a way to quickly wipe out the rebels.

It is easy to wipe out the rebels, but it is difficult to quickly wipe out the rebels.

At this time, Wang Mang, the servant of the Huangmen, suggested to the emperor: "Why don't you abolish Shi Limu? You can get one side to be stable!"

"Huh?" Emperor Liu Ao was surprised, looked at Wang Mang, Wang Fengbang also looked at his nephew Wang Mang, and finally Emperor Liu Ao asked Wang Mang, "What do you mean by abolishing history and establishing animal husbandry?"

Wang Mang replied respectfully: "The so-called abolishing the history and establishing the animal husbandry means abolishing the governor, changing the establishment of the state animal husbandry, and letting the local state animal husbandry recruit village braves by themselves. In this way, the rebel army can be pacified and the world will be stable."

"What is the state shepherd?" Emperor Liu Ao continued to ask.

"The shepherd of the state is also the head of the state." Wang Mang replied.

"What is the patriarch?" Emperor Liu Ao asked again.

"Mu, the herdsmen on behalf of the sky, the head, the ruler and the power, the head of the pastor, the one who shepherds and manages the people for the heavens is in power and the commander." Wang Mang is worthy of studying ancient Chinese classics, and he was able to temporarily find the "patriarch" from the ancient Chinese classics. "The word, and then corresponding to the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty, created the official position of "state animal husbandry".

"Can the rebellion be quelled by abolishing history and establishing animal husbandry?" Emperor Liu Ao looked at Wang Mang coldly.

"Abolishing history and establishing animal husbandry, the local state herdsman recruited village braves to resist the rebels, so that the rebels could not run around and expand their territory. Then my big man dispatched elite soldiers from Guanzhong to wipe out the rebels. The rebels were the elites of the middle and the state, and then there were the state herdsmen and the village braves. , it must die." Wang Mang came here with eloquence, and what he said made sense.

"What you said is indeed reasonable." Liu Ao also felt that Wang Mang's words were correct, so he issued an edict to abolish the governors of the thirteen states and change the establishment of state pastors. As a general of chariots and cavalry, he led [-] elite cavalry in Guanzhong to rush to the counties of Guandong to wipe out the "million" rebels.

And this Wang Jian, he is the great-grandson of Wang Changsheng, the brother of Wang Mang, who is two years older than Wang Mang.

(End of this chapter)