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

Chapter 253 Abandoned County and Transformed into Township ([-])

Facing this issue, the court was silent. After all, there were no people from Lelang County in the court, and it was impossible for people from Liaodong County to object. People from other counties had nothing to do with this matter and did not want to participate.

"Since everyone has no objection, let's merge directly according to Wang Taishou's plan. The five counties in Liaodong will be downgraded to townships, then merged into Wuxing County, and Wuxing County will be merged with Lelang County. After the merger, it will be named Liaodong County. Jinxiang was established, and at the same time eighteen counties in Lelang County were downgraded to eighteen townships, and then these eighteen townships were merged into three counties. All officials in Lelang County were transferred back to Luoyang, and new Lang officials were dispatched from Luoyang Inaugurated as magistrates of three counties."

Deng Zhi's son is a student of the great Confucian Wang Yan, who studied Confucian classics under the great Confucian Wang Yan, so as long as it does not infringe the interests of the Deng family, Deng Zhi naturally has no reason not to agree to this small request of the Wang family.

The magistrates of the three counties are naturally also descendants of the Wang family.

The good man did it to the end, and simply let the children of the Liao family become county magistrates, so that when he gave the Deng family children to the great Confucian Wang Hao, Wang Hao could only bite the bullet and had to agree, after all, he wanted to repay the favor.

Although it is stipulated that they cannot be officials in the local area, if the three major families are from Wuxing County and not from the three counties of North Korea, they can naturally be officials in the three counties of North Korea.

Afterwards, Deng Zhi began to let the courtiers start discussing the fourth matter: "Then, let's discuss about the 20 billion [Liao pay]."

As soon as this was said, someone jumped out to object:

"What is Goguryeo? It needs 20 billion military expenditures to solve it? And it's still every year?"

"Since Liaodong repelled Goguryeo only with the strength of Liaodong County soldiers and reinforcements from several other counties, it means that there is nothing terrible about Goguryeo."

Although the rest of the people didn't want to become enemies with the Wang family, so they kept silent, but they actually agreed with what this person said in their hearts.

Seeing the reactions of the ministers, Deng Zhi immediately vetoed the 20 billion [Liao Salary], and directly started discussing the next matter.

"Then, the next thing is Xianbei..."

……

Three months later
Liaodong County
boom!
The tea bottle was thrown to the ground, and the hot tea was spilled all over the floor.

"Your Majesty calm down."

A group of Liaodong officials persuaded Wang Huang one after another.

"Our three major families guard Liaodong for the imperial court, but the imperial court is reluctant to even give military expenses. If our three major families hadn't dispatched private soldiers for the invasion of Goguryeo, Liaodong would have been gone long ago!" Prefect Wang Huang was very annoyed because he failed to ask for [Liao pay].

With the merger of Liaodong County and Lelang County, and the merger of the five counties of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth into Wuxing County, and the complete destruction of the Lu family, the three families of Wang, Zhang and Li carried out a new round of partitioning of Liaodong.

The eighteen cities of North Korea are naturally all within the sphere of influence of the Wang family, and only the Wang family can carry out land annexation there.

And Wuxing County (the whole of Liaodong County + Xuantu County + Liaoxi County, now finally reduced to a county) has been re-planned. The three families of Wang, Zhang and Li divided up the entire Liaodong. I don't even want to give a fraction to the imperial court. In the past, the four major families were divided into seven levels, and the imperial court was divided into three levels. From now on, the three major families are divided into nine levels, and the imperial court is only allocated one level.

[Wang family: Dashi, Pingguo, Xi'anping, Fanhan, Wuci, Wen, Anshi, Xinchang, Jujiu, Xiangping, Fang, and the eighteen cities in the original Lelang County]

【Zhang Family: Gaojuli, Gaoxian, Houcheng, Liaoyang, Wangping, Xiandu, Liaotu, Wuyou】

[Li Family: Qili, Jiaoli, Yihe, Bintu, Yangle, Linyu, Liucheng, Wencheng]

After nearly 300 years of hard work by the Wang family, the entire Liaodong County area was finally downgraded to a county-level administrative region. It is relatively less likely to attract the attention of the imperial power just by annexing a county.

The statistical population of Liaodong was reduced from 50 to 25, while the actual population of Liaodong was reduced from [-] to [-].

This is mainly due to the Wang family's unremitting efforts to relocate the population of Liaodong overseas.

Although the three major families can speed up land annexation by abolishing counties and changing townships, this still cannot satisfy them.

We want land annexation, we want fame, we want population, we want official positions, and we want money!
"The imperial court dare not give us [Liao pay], then we will give the imperial court some Goguryeo shock!" The Patriarch of the Zhang family sneered.

"Oh? What kind of shock method?" Wang Huang asked, he had roughly guessed what the Zhang family was mainly talking about.

The head of the Zhang family is the direct descendant of Zhang Yuliang, one of the 28 generals of Yuntai. With the reputation of the descendants of the 28 generals of Yuntai, he has also won several officials of six hundred shi. , always deliver important news about Luo Yang to the family.

"Instigate Goguryeo to plunder Lelang County, and let the court know that without us in Liaodong to guard Goguryeo, they can only watch Goguryeo act recklessly, and there is nothing they can do about it."

"The imperial court must realize the importance of our Liaodong, so that the imperial court will be willing to send money to our Liaodong!"

The head of the Zhang family came up with a poisonous plan.

"Then how should we encourage Goguryeo to plunder the original Lelang County area?" asked the Patriarch of the Li family.

"Pretend to be invincible, and let the Goguryeo people enter the original Lelang County area to plunder." The head of the Zhang family said.

"This is a great plan!" The Patriarch of the Li family laughed happily.

"We still need to be careful to prevent the Goguryeo people from biting back, so that they only dare to go to the original Lelang area, and dare not attack us in Liaodong." Wang Huang, the prefect of Liaodong, added with a smile.

"Naturally." The head of the Zhang family stroked his beard and smiled.

……

another three months later

Tens of thousands of Goguryeo invaded again, and the target of the invasion was still Liaodong County, but the three Korean counties of Liaodong County (formerly Lelang County area).

Wang Huang, the prefect of Liaodong, mobilized [-] county soldiers to resist, but was defeated. He could only hide in the three wealthiest cities for defense, and let the Goguryeo people plunder other cities and villages.

……

another six months later

Luo Yang
Nangong
"Everyone, Liaodong is in danger!" Deng Zhi urgently held a court meeting to let everyone discuss Liaodong's invasion by Goguryeo.

"It's all because there is no military expenditure, so there is no money to recruit county soldiers, and no money to deploy a city defense system, so Liaodong has today's disaster!" A family member of the Li family in Liaodong sighed in the court hall. He was just a A petty official of six hundred shi, but still dare to speak out.

"If you want me to say, just give up Liaodong, so you can save money, wouldn't it be great?" A son of the Zhang family in Liaodong is also an official in the Luoyang court, and at this moment he is deliberately eccentric.

The reason for using this method of yin and yang is because a few months ago, because the Han court prostituted the Qiang people again, the Qiang people rebelled directly, and the scale of the rebellion was huge. The entire Liangzhou and Bingzhou were occupied by the Qiang people, and even Guanzhong The area is also occupied by the Qiang people, and there are still thousands of Qiang people who are attacking Hanzhong County and want to enter Yizhou. Then some ministers suggested to abandon Liangzhou directly and retreat to Guanzhong, so that there is no need to spend money to defend Liangzhou further away Yes, you can save money for the court.

Corruption in the officialdom and the army of the Han Dynasty was too serious. The Guandong scholars who took office in Liangzhou only wanted to make money and run away. They were not interested in governing the place well, nor were they interested in reconciling the conflicts between the Han and Qiang.

There are even Kwantung military officers in Liangzhou deliberately keeping the Qiang people from being wiped out, so that the imperial court can only send money to Liangzhou to suppress the rebellion of the Qiang people.

"You Guandong gentry were greedy in the Liangzhou battlefield, but our three major families couldn't be greedy in the Liaodong battlefield? It's simply unreasonable! It's not fair! It's not equal!"

(End of this chapter)