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

Chapter 258 Great Confucian Wang Wei ([-])

12 years later
Yanguang two years (AD 123)
Longxi County

The 60-year-old Wang Wei came to Liangzhou again. There was a deserted Gobi at his feet, and there were many refugees who had been relocated by the imperial court in front of him.

"mother--"

"Give me something to eat, please."

"My child, who stole my child! Ahhhhhhhhh—"

Refugees set off from Guanzhong in groups to reclaim wasteland and live in places with water sources in Liangzhou.

They were originally from Liangzhou. The Qiang people rebelled more than ten years ago, and the imperial court directly abandoned Liangzhou and moved them to Guanzhong to live under the fence.

On some barren land in Guanzhong, a few pieces of farmland have just been reclaimed with great difficulty, and they can barely support themselves.

As a result, two years ago, the imperial court finally suppressed all the Qiang people who participated in the rebellion, and Liangzhou, which had been occupied for more than ten years, was recovered again, so the imperial court moved them back to Liangzhou to enrich the population.

After migrating here, and then migrating back, many Han people died on the way of migration.

Liangzhou originally had nearly 200 million people, but as a result, more than 30 died in the Qiang rebellion, more than 40 died in the famine caused by the imperial court's exorbitant taxes, and more than 60 died on the way back and forth. The entire Liangzhou now has a population of just over 60.

Since the rations had to be prepared by themselves, the court had no money to distribute rations, so people continued to die on the way of migration.

At night, they have to worry about other refugees stealing their children and eating them.

From time to time, some unbearable refugees directly rebelled, but officers and soldiers nearby would come to suppress them immediately.

Although the imperial court cannot meet their ration needs, it can meet their iron fist needs.

People who starve to death on the road are left alone, but if someone says they want to rebel, then someone will take care of them.

"The common people are so innocent, oh..."

Wang Wei couldn't stand it any longer, and took out half of his rations to distribute to the refugees present.

"Sir, no!" A young man on the side hurriedly dissuaded him.

This young man was born handsome, named Dong Junya, and he was a powerful son from Lunshi County, Yingchuan County. There were about [-] tenant farmers in his family and hundreds of acres of land. The family could barely afford elementary school books and could read and write. , although the children in the family are not considered scholars, they are also children from poor families who can understand words.

His father was the chief secretary of the county. When Wang Yu passed by Yingchuan and taught Confucian classics in Yingchuan, many people came to listen. Dong Junya seized this opportunity to listen.

Wang Wei advocated that there should be no discrimination in teaching, no matter whether they were nobles or powerful, even the lowest level old peasants could come to listen to his sermons on Confucian classics.

Although the elementary school books used for literacy can be bought even by rich peasants, only ordinary people can’t afford them, but those real Confucian classics are either worth thousands of gold, or they are passed down from other people’s ancestors. It is impossible to come into contact with these Confucian classics.

But if you don't have access to Confucian classics, it means that you can't be an official through the inspection system.

Because Confucian classics is the threshold of the investigation system.

First of all, you have to understand Confucian classics to be eligible to become the target group of the procuratorial system. After becoming the target group of the procuratorial system, the prefect will then choose a procuratorial system with a superior family background from among the many targets to become an official in the court.

In other words, if you don't know Confucian classics, you can't even enter the door of the investigation system, let alone give money and the like.

First of all, you have to understand Confucian classics and enter the Confucian threshold, and then you can rely on giving money or using your own family background to let the prefect check and control yourself.

Otherwise, you won't be able to find a way just by sending money.

However, Confucianism is not so easy to obtain.

Even if a rich merchant family bought some Confucian classics books with money, someone had to explain them to them. Otherwise, they would not be able to understand the meaning of the above sentences even if they only had books. Besides, if you are willing to buy them, others may not be willing to sell them.

After all, not everyone has the guts and luck of the Liaodong Wang family to obtain Confucian classics through robbery.

But there are only so many great Confucians who can explain Confucian classics, and they are all very busy.

Therefore, when Wang Wei passed by Yingchuan to give a free lecture on Confucian classics, there was a huge crowd of people in an instant. No matter what they said, they still crowded over, just to have a capital to show off in the future, and when they met others in the future, they could proudly boast: I once listened to Confucian classics under the seat of a great Confucian.

Two years ago, Empress Dowager Deng passed away. According to the characteristics of the Han Dynasty, the emperor joined forces with the eunuchs to launch a big purge against Deng's relatives.

Everyone is used to this classic plot.

Except for the relatives of the Wang family who are more chicken thieves, they ran away in time after earning the money and let others take the blame, thus saving the family. The other relatives were too greedy and wanted to keep the power in their hands forever. The fate of the dead.

The eunuch Cai Lun once killed the emperor's biological mother. In the past, the Empress Dowager Deng was protecting her, so the emperor could only endure it. With the downfall of Deng's relatives, Cai Lun knew that he would be executed by the emperor Liu Hu in power. In order to prevent the emperor Liu Hu To torture himself, Cai Lun, the paper-making improver, chose to commit suicide by taking poison, and did not give Emperor Liu Hu the opportunity to torture himself.

Emperor Liu Hu was furious when he heard that Cai Lun committed suicide by taking poison: "I originally wanted to divide Cai Lun's body into five horses, so it's really cheap for you!"

The situation in the court was changing, and most of the officials who had a good relationship with Deng's relatives were demoted. Even the great Confucian Wang Wei, who had just become a Situ, was deposed as a Situ by Emperor Liu Hu because he was the teacher of Confucian classics for Deng's children. , abolished as civilians.

Wang Wei didn't care about the position of Situ as the third prince, he devoted himself to teaching Confucian classics, if the Deng family hadn't let him be Situ in order to build a memorial arch, he would have traveled all over the world long ago.

In order to show their loyalty to the scholars of the world and let them understand that the Deng family is unswervingly standing on the position of the nobles, the Deng family vigorously promoted those famous Confucian scholars, especially the great Confucians like Wang Wei. Ranked among the three princes, regardless of whether the other party knows how to govern the country, he forcibly gives the other party an official position to express his political stance.

Once the emperor and the courtiers, the new power center will have a new ruling model.

When Deng's relatives were in power, the imperial court relocated the people from Liangzhou to Guanzhong. Now that it was Emperor Liu Hu's turn to take power, he ordered that the people who had migrated to Guanzhong and finally settled down be relocated back to Liangzhou.

Changes in the power center of the imperial court lead to policy changes day and night, and the final result is that the common people suffer twice and suffer twice!

"Why not?" Wang Wei, a 60-year-old white-haired man, asked the young man who came to Liangzhou with him.

He only wanted to come to Liangzhou after he heard that the imperial court had recovered Liangzhou, and taught the way of saints to the Han people and Qiang people in Liangzhou. Even if Liangzhou was not safe, he would not hesitate.

If I don't enter the underworld, who will enter the underworld?

"There are too many refugees, and your food is limited. If you distribute food, only a small number of people can get rations. Most people can't get it. Those who can't get food Because of this, I will resent you, think you are unfair, and even hurt you." Dong Junya, a young man, already has insight into human nature at a young age.

In this world, black and white are turned upside down like this. Those who sincerely save the people are made things difficult, and those who are heartless are praised by scholars.

At this time, many Han cavalry came from afar.

"The officers and soldiers are coming, run away!" When the Han people saw the big Han officers and soldiers, they ran away in fright. In their eyes, these officers and soldiers were the same demons as the Qiang barbarians.

However, this group of Han soldiers did not kill them, but passed them directly, ignored them, and rushed towards Wang Wei.

"teacher!"

The leading general waved at Wang Wei.

"Xuan Liao?" Wang Wei looked at the general who was waving at him. It was Shi Banyong Ban Xuan Liao, the newly appointed governor of the Western Regions, who was going to the Western Regions to rebuild the rule of the Han in the Western Regions.

However, this reconstruction is different. The former Protectorate of the Western Regions actually governed the Western Regions and counted the population of the countries in the Western Regions. Just surrender to the big man, and don't care about the rest.

"Ban Yong, I have met the teacher." Ban Yong dismounted and said respectfully. He came here to visit his Confucian classics teacher Wang Wei after he heard that Wang Wei was in Liangzhou.

The people around didn't know Ban Yong, but saw that Ban Yong didn't kill them like ordinary Han generals, so they gradually lost their fear.

(End of this chapter)