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

Chapter 252 Abandoned County and Transformed into Township ([-])

Six months later
The infant emperor Liu Long, who was less than one year old, died, and Liu Hu, the son of Liu Qing, the filial king of Qinghe, took the throne.

According to the practice of the Han Dynasty, every queen mother will have a relative who will be a general, such as Wei, Huo, Wang, Yin, Ma, and Dou, and the current Deng is no exception.

Although Deng Zhi publicly stated that he was not virtuous enough to be a general, he asked everyone to hire someone else, and he only temporarily accommodated him as a chariot general.

But everyone can see that General Deng Zhi of Chariots and Cavalry is just going through the process with three words and three concessions, and he will be further promoted to a general in a short time.

Empress Dowager Deng Sui came to the court to listen to the government. Deng Zhi controlled the government with the General Chariot and the Three Divisions of Yitong.

However, today, there is an unusual matter that needs to be discussed by the ministers.

The general knew that sooner or later he would give up his position to the Deng family, so he deliberately excused his illness from attending the court meeting, so as not to embarrass the chariot general Deng Zhi.

"There are five things in the court meeting today."

"First, the countries in the Western Regions rebelled, and the soldiers of the Han army who were the guardians of the Western Regions were besieged by the rebels from the Western Regions. Liang Qi sent envoys to Luoyang to ask for help, and asked the court to take them in."

"Secondly, locust plagues occurred in Jizhou and Bingzhou, and millions of people are living in famine."

"Thirdly, Goguryeo has been repelled, but Liaodong prefect Wang Huang claimed that Goguryeo has massacred in Liaodong. The population of Liaodong has dropped from [-] to [-], and it is no longer suitable for a single county. Lelang County will be merged, so that the two counties can take care of each other and jointly resist Goguryeo."

"Fourth, it's still a matter of Liaodong. The governor of Liaodong, Wang Huang, hopes that the court will levy [Liao pay]. Starting this year, the court will allocate 20 billion military expenditures to Liaodong every year. Only in this way can the Koguryo issue be completely resolved."

"Fifth, the adults of more than a dozen tribes in Xianbei sent envoys to profess their vassals to my big man, but the request is that my big man will open the customs market to Xianbei, trade with Xianbei, and trade salt, iron, tea, etc."

(At this time, Xianbei was still an internally dispersed and self-governing nation. There was no co-owner for the time being. The nation was divided into more than 100 different tribes. The rulers of each tribe called themselves "adults". Among them, more than a dozen Xianbei tribes All the [adults] want to surrender to the big man.)
After the chariot general Deng Zhi finished speaking to everyone, he added: "Let's start with the first thing first. Regarding the matter of receiving the Han soldiers from the Western Regions, please speak freely."

Afterwards, a group of ministers discussed and began to express their opinions.

"Liang Bowei has only a few thousand people, and now he is besieged by tens of thousands of rebels from the Western Regions. We cannot just sit back and watch our soldiers die in vain."

"Nowadays, there are too many places where my big man spends his money. The Western Regions are not an important place. We should give up the Western Regions."

"We can conscript the Qiang people in the Hexi area as servants, and let them go to the Western Regions to support our Han soldiers, and we don't have to pay the Qiang people. This way, we can have soldiers without spending money, and we can kill two birds with one stone."

"I think……"

"In this case, let's enlist the Qiang people to go to the Western Regions to meet our Han generals." Finally, Deng Zhi, the chariot general, said, and glanced at the ministers to see if they had any opinions: "Your lords can Any objections?"

"I have no objection." The ministers replied.

Everyone has long been used to the prostitution of Qiang people, and although the Qiang people rebelled several times because of being prostituted for nothing, they were easily suppressed by the big man, so gradually the Central Plains people did not take the Qiang people seriously , so all the ministers continued to prostitute Qiang people in accordance with the inertial thinking.

"Then the second thing is that there is a great famine in Jizhou and Bingzhou, and you can speak freely." The chariot general Deng Zhi continued.

"We should allocate money to relieve the disaster area, otherwise it may cause civil uprising." A scholar in Jizhou said so.

"Then how much should be allocated?"

"It is estimated that there are more than 200 million victims, at least 50 billion should be allocated?"

"50 billion? If you really allocate 50 billion to your Jizhou, I am afraid that none of the [-] million will actually reach the victims!"

"Everyone in Jizhou is clean and honest, how can you corrupt people's innocence out of thin air?"

"Our Bingzhou is also a disaster area, and Bingzhou also needs to allocate money!"

"Then how much will Bingzhou allocate?"

"Jizhou needs 50 billion, and there are fewer disaster victims in Bingzhou, so 30 billion is enough."

"The total population of Bingzhou is not even 100 million. What do we need 30 billion?"

"What do you mean? I hope that the imperial court will allocate money to relieve the disaster, and I want the victims to survive, but you have repeatedly blocked it. Are you hard-hearted and want the people to starve to death?"

"I'm just concerned that the money is going into somebody's pocket."

"May I ask who you mean by some of the people?"

"Some people know it in their own minds! Hmph—"

"Doctor Bao, I heard some gossip in Luoyang that you used imperial money to redeem your daughter's oiran. Is there such a thing? If there is such a thing, why do you have the nerve to accuse us here? What about Bingzhou?"

"you!"

"Okay, okay, don't quarrel!" General Deng Zhi hurriedly dissuaded the quarreling ministers. Nowadays, almost everyone is corrupt, so don't say anything, just say it. Being able to criticize each other will only hurt both sides at that time, so he persuaded the ministers: "Such unwarranted accusations should not be said in court from now on, and don't say anything that is not conducive to unity."

Finally, Deng Zhi made an arrangement: "Allow 20 billion disaster relief funds to Jizhou and 1000 million disaster relief funds to Bingzhou."

As soon as this remark came out, the scholars in Jizhou all smiled, while the scholar in Bingzhou was full of resentment, but there was nothing he could do.

No way, who said that Jizhou belongs to the Kanto region, and Bingzhou belongs to the Kansai region?

Since Emperor Guangwu unified the world, the atmosphere of Kanto looking down on Kanxi began to form.

This is because:

[For one thing, the Kanto area followed Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu to rule the world very early on. In their mentality, it was probably "My ancestors were the heroes who followed Guangwu Emperor to found the country. My ancestors have already suffered all the hardships I have to suffer in this life. , now it's our turn to enjoy the enjoyment of our descendants, and your Kansai area was once an obstacle when Emperor Guangwu unified the world. , still want to fight for power with us? What are you thinking? The descendants of a group of sinners who hindered the unification of Emperor Guangwu! Hmph!";
Secondly, the tyrants in the Kanto region have been slowly transforming into gentry with cultural heritage since the founding of the country. With the first-mover advantage, they have now transformed into gentry, so naturally they want to close the door to prevent the tyrants in Kansai Also became a gentry, even if there is a lucky one among the Kansai tyrants who became a gentry, they are also those who defy the trend and force their way into the car, and naturally they will be excluded by all means. 】

Looking at the angry Bingzhou scholar, Deng Zhi shook his head and ignored him.

The Great Han Dynasty Hall is the court hall of the Kanto people, why do you come up to join in the fun as a Kansai person?Do you have to humiliate yourself?
In the hall of the Great Han Dynasty, among every one hundred officials, 95 were from Kanto, and only five were from Kansai. Since the imperial capital moved from Chang’an to Luoyang, Kansai (Bingzhou, Liangzhou, Yizhou, and The Guanzhong part to the west of Chang'an City) is not taken seriously.

Most of these areas were unified at the end. They surrendered too late and lost the value of the united front, so they were deliberately suppressed by the court.

"Then let's start with the third matter, the abolition of counties in Liaodong County and the merger with Lelang County." The chariot general Deng Zhi interrupted the complacency of the Kwantung scholars and continued to discuss the next thing .

(End of this chapter)