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

Chapter 182

Two years later

Suihe two years
Emperor Liu Ao died on Zhao Hede's bed with black eyes. People in the palace accused Zhao Hede of killing the emperor. Under pressure, Zhao Hede committed suicide.

Such a super stupid emperor who caused anger and resentment unexpectedly died while he was having fun with his concubine. This method of death is unprecedented.

At the same time, according to the order of succession, Liu Xin, the son of Liu Kang, King Dingtao Gong, was welcomed as emperor.

Because Xin and Xin have the same pronunciation, Liu Xin, a master of ancient scriptures and the school captain of Zhongba, immediately changed his name to Xiu in order to avoid the taboo of the emperor's name, that is, Liu Xiu (Liu Xin).

As soon as he came to the throne, the first thing Emperor Liu Xin did was to completely eliminate the influence of Wang's relatives in the court.

Emperor Liu Xin issued an imperial edict, forcing Da Sima Wang Mang to resign, and dismissed all the officials of the Wang family in the court, and appointed and dismissed talents he brought from Dingtao Kingdom to take over.

In the harem, the Empress Dowager Wang Zhengjun was imprisoned. Depressed, Wang Zhengjun wanted to commit suicide many times, but he gave up the idea of ​​suicide under Ban Jieyu's persuasion.

Facing the emperor's sudden attack, Wang Mang was caught off guard, so he could only obediently return his new fiefdom to the new capital. At the same time, he wrote to Wang Tong, the patriarch of the royal family in Liaodong, hoping that Wang Tong would use all the strength of the entire Wang family to regain power for Wang's relatives.

But Wang Tong and Wang Mang obviously have different ideas.

What Wang Mang wanted was to take back the power in his hands, but what Wang Tong wanted was to run away after making money.

Faced with the sudden attack of Emperor Liu Xin, the head of the family, Wang Tong, did not react and did not want to resist. Anyway, the Wang family has made enough money. It is nothing more than temporarily not being able to go to the Chang'an court to be an official.

……

Xinye County

Xindu Township

"The royal family of Liaodong are just short-sighted people!"

Knowing that the family has no interest in regaining power, and only wants to be a local leader in Liaodong with peace of mind, Wang Mang hates iron for being weak.

In Wang Mang's view, as long as the power is regained, the whole world belongs to the Wang family, so is it necessary to make money?
Wang Mang, who has been a great Sima for two years, has just become obsessed with the taste of high position and high power. He has not had time to realize his political ambitions, and has not had time to change the big man into the "Zhou Li Utopia". In the end, he was ruthlessly snatched away by Emperor Liu Xin. With all the power in his hands, the family refused to provide him with any help, which made Wang Mang very desperate.

……

Changle Palace

"I'm the Empress Dowager, can't I even go out for a walk?" The Empress Dowager Wang Zhengjun looked angrily at the maids who stopped her.

"This is His Majesty's order, please forgive me by the Empress Dowager." The maid replied, still not allowing Wang Zhengjun to run around.

"What empress dowager, huh, aren't you just an old woman? Haha!" At this time, Empress Fu came outside Wang Zhengjun's palace and mocked Wang Zhengjun wantonly.

Empress Dowager Fu was also one of the concubines of Emperor Han Yuan, and was Wang Zhengjun's rival in love, and the relationship between the two was not very good.

Empress Dowager Fu has been promoted to Empress Dowager by Emperor Liu Xin, Zhao Feiyan has been promoted to Empress Dowager, Empress Dowager Ding has been promoted to Empress Dowager, plus Empress Dowager Wang Zhengjun, four empress dowagers appeared in the harem at the same time, and all four empress dowagers It has its own Shaofu and Dachangqiu, independent of each other.

"You!" The empress dowager Wang Zhengjun dared not speak out. The current emperor is no longer his son Liu Ao. No one to rely on.

What a cool tea alone!
The power of Wang's relatives all depended on Emperor Liu Ao, and with the death of Emperor Liu Ao on a woman's bed, the power of Wang's relatives also plummeted.

Wang Zhengjun returned to the palace, crying silently. She was a cowardly woman who obeyed the arrangement of her family since she was a child, and then her husband Emperor Hanyuan when she grew up, and then the emperor's son Liu Ao.

The head of the family, Wang Tong, didn't want to get involved in the affairs of the court anymore. He just wanted to slowly digest the 200 billion five baht money he had raised from the treasury over the years and turn it into family strength, so she, Wang Zhengjun, could not get support from the family for the time being.

Now she has nothing to rely on except for Wang Mang, who has always wanted to regain power.

……

one year later
Jianping first year
Weiyang Palace

main hall
boom!
"Where's the money? Where's my money?!"

After ascending the throne, the emperor Liu Xin, after clearing Wang's relatives from the court, couldn't wait to start governing the country. He wanted to govern the country well, otherwise the big man might really perish.

However, when he wanted to deal with state affairs seriously, he found that... no money!
The army has been in arrears for five years, and it has owed a total of 150 billion in military pay. In addition to the pacification of the Qiang rebellion and the Wusun civil strife, another 150 million was spent. The big man owed [-] billion in total military expenses.

The military expenditure must be paid, and if it is not paid, there will be big problems.

Soldiers can endure arrears of payment for several years, but if the arrears are too long, the consequences will be disastrous!
It's just a matter of military spending.

In the Kanto counties, under the Gu-raising model that Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty did not provide disaster relief for decades, there are already 400 million refugees, and the situation is as terrible as that of Emperor Wu's later period.

It is precisely because there are too many refugees and the social crisis is too serious that people hope that a saint will save the world. They hope that this saint has the ability of Huo Guang and the morality of Confucius at the same time.

After all, Huo Guang solved the problems of more than 500 million refugees left by Emperor Wu, and his ability is obvious to all.

And the sage everyone is looking forward to is Wang Mang!

These refugees must be properly settled, otherwise a large-scale rebellion will be triggered at any time.

However, the cost of resettling refugees is also huge. For 400 million refugees, the annual resettlement cost is as high as 100 billion yuan, and it will take several years to complete the resettlement. At least 600 billion yuan will be enough.

Due to the intensification of land mergers, the revenue of the treasury has dropped sharply from 70 billion two years ago to 60 billion today, and the fiscal revenue continues to decline. Fewer and fewer self-cultivated farmers can directly receive taxes from the imperial court.

A large number of self-cultivating farmers were either annexed by the powerful gentry, or became refugees, or turned into corpses, making the tax base of the court smaller and smaller.

There is only less than [-] million yuan left in the national treasury, but hundreds of billions of money are needed to solve these social crises of the big man. Emperor Liu Xin feels very desperate.

"The man's strength is exhausted, Your Majesty, please abdicate and let the virtuous, let the sage Wang Mang ascend the throne!"

A scholar of ancient literature and classics actually persuaded Liu Xin to abdicate in front of Emperor Liu Xin.

Liu Xin was just about to scold the scholar, but found that many scholars were standing beside the scholar, looking at him together.

"A group of bastards have hollowed out the big man and made the world corrupt, but now they want me to abdicate to let the virtuous, and shift the responsibility for the people's poor life to the Han family!" A group of gentry ministers, but there is nothing they can do.

Han Cheng Emperor Liu Ao's fatuous rule for decades has caused corruption in the world and loss of people's hearts.

Everyone was very disappointed with the Han Dynasty, and they wished that the great Han would perish as soon as possible, so that the great sage Wang Mang would come to power and save the world.

The theory of Chuan Guoyi's surname is very fashionable, and scholars have been discussing it for more than ten years.

At the beginning, this theory was only circulated in the circle of scholars, but now, this theory has reached the ears of every common people, and every common people agree with the theory of "Chuan Guoyi Surname" compiled by scholars, thinking that as long as the Chuan Guoyi surname, the world will be saved, and they can return to the good life of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty.

"Qing and others think that the only way to save the world is to pass on the surname of Guoyi?" Emperor Liu Xin was very helpless. He could defeat a relative of the Wang family, but he could not defeat the powerful nobles in the whole world. Sheji.

"Your Majesty, I watch the sky at night. The virtue of Han Dynasty has declined, and the virtue of Xinde is pregnant. For the sake of the common people, please abdicate and let your majesty abdicate to Wang Mang, the prince of the new capital!" The country and country of the great Han were passed on to Wang Mang.

"You are also a member of the Han family, how can you say such rebellious words?!" Liu Xin was very angry, and his chest was heaving.

"Although I am a clan member of the Han Dynasty, I am also a Confucian scholar who wants to save the world. Everything I do is to save the common people in the world!" Liu Xiu (Liu Xin), a clan clan member of the Han Dynasty, continued to persuade: "Please Your Majesty complies with the current situation and welcomes the saint to the throne!"

"Since you all say that passing the name of Guoyi can save the world, well, I will change the name of the country and the surname. That's all right? Will this save the world?" Emperor Liu Xin is still struggling. The big man died in his own hands.

The ministers were astonished. They didn't expect Liu Xin to have such a skill, and the emperor changed the country name and surname in public.

"From today onwards, the Han Dynasty will change its country name to 'Chen Sheng Liu Taiping' Empire, and my surname will be changed to Chen, and I will be called Chen Xin from now on." Emperor Liu Xin said helplessly.

(End of this chapter)