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

Chapter 260 Great Confucian Wang Wei (VIII)

eight years later

The sixth year of Yongjian (AD 131)
Longxi County

Didao County

"Sir, the Qiang people are brutal, you can't put yourself in danger." Dong Junya hurriedly dissuaded Wang Wei from going up the city wall to prevent the Qiang people from attacking the city.

"We scholars have read so many sage books, are praised by the people every day, and enjoy the state's salary. If we are unable to stand up for the people when we are in a crisis, wouldn't we be a person who wants to be famous?" Wang Wei shook his head and insisted on going up. city ​​walls.

"Alas..." Dong Junya sighed, which of the current Central Plains scholars is not just trying to gain fame?Each family is rich, but they have compiled various stories of filial piety. Some of the three princes, while shouting the way of saints, are corrupt and annexed land. For example, the Yuan family in Runan is a typical example.

A few years ago, Emperor Liu Hu passed away suddenly during his southern tour, and his posthumous name was Ann.

Although the posthumous name is An, but during Liu Hu's reign, the world was not peaceful at all. The Qiang people occupied three states. In order to regain the lost ground, as many as 20 Han soldiers died on the front line. He will be corrupt, making people in the world miserable. Natural disasters occur almost every year, and more and more victims are displaced. The only good news is that Ban Yong regained the Western Regions.

With the sudden death of the emperor Liu Hu, according to the characteristics of the Han Dynasty, the new relatives, namely Yan's relatives, took the opportunity to take power.

Beixiang Hou Liu Yi is the emperor.

Then Liu Yi died after being the emperor for only seven months, so Yan's relatives planned to deliberately select a weak child from the clan to be the emperor, so that there is no need to worry about the emperor getting rid of their relatives in order to regain power when he grows up .

In the Han Dynasty established by Liu Xiu, the emperor always lived a short life, mainly because his relatives wanted the emperor to have a short life.

Once the emperor grows up, he will regain power, and his relatives will die without a place to bury him. Therefore, in order to prevent the emperor from seizing power when he grows up, he deliberately chooses a child with poor health to be the emperor, so that the probability of the emperor seizing power when he grows up is even higher. small.

After all, the lessons learned by the Dou family and the Deng family are right in front of us, and Yan's relatives naturally have to learn the lesson.

However, Yan's relatives were obviously not very lucky.

Before they could completely control the government, the eunuchs launched a coup and supported the 11-year-old deposed prince Liu Bao as emperor.

Yan's relatives were furious, and directly led hundreds of retainers to attack the palace, and wanted to instigate rebellion against the imperial guards. As a result, the imperial palace guards all stood in the camp of eunuchs, and Yan's relatives were eradicated by the imperial guards.

Because the imperial guards are only loyal to the emperor, they will be loyal to whoever has the emperor. This is why eunuchs and relatives must control the emperor.

Because as long as there is an emperor, he can not only control the righteousness and fame, but also control the powerful force of the Imperial Palace Guards.

Only with the emperor can there be military power, and only with military power can success be achieved!
It is such a logic.

According to the characteristics of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Liu Bao joined forces with the eunuchs to launch a large-scale purge against Yan's relatives, and all officials related to Yan's relatives were either demoted or imprisoned.

The familiar plot is repeated over and over again.

And the Yuan family in Runan, in this battle between the foreign relatives and the eunuch, chose to stand in line with the eunuch, made the right bet, and successfully bet on the winner's side, so the Yuan family in Runan was promoted and reused by the emperor Liu Bao. Jing was promoted to Sikong.

Also betting on the Liaodong Wang family, but because the Liaodong Wang family is too far away from Luoyang, it is difficult to know Luoyang's information in time.

After the relatives of the Yan family came to power, the royal family of Liaodong first sent people to give gifts to the relatives of the Yan family in order to curry favor with the dignitaries of the dynasty. The Wang family hastened their horses again and informed the gift-giving envoy to send the gift to the eunuch.

The Yuan family in Runan and the Wang family in Liaodong have already mastered their team formation skills. In the court hall, you will sing and I will appear on the stage, and it is Runan and Liaodong that will not fail.

However, the central court was busy with [unrestricted fighting] among the eunuchs and relatives, and the local gentry took advantage of the time when the eunuchs and relatives were fighting to the death, corrupted and annexed land.

You eunuchs and relatives are greedy, but our gentry can't be greedy?How unreasonable!

Especially the Liangzhou area, which was not valued by the imperial court, and the officials in Liangzhou were all Kanto gentry.

Adhering to the regional discrimination that even if the people are poor, it is the people of Kansai who are not living, and it is not the regional discrimination that the people of Kanto are not living. After becoming an official in Liangzhou, the scholars of the Guandong have a strong ambition and a great ambition of being greedy and greedy!
If the common people are not greedy enough to rebel, we Guandong gentry will never give up. Our Guandong gentry are so tough, strong, and elegant. Why, you mud legs are not convinced?Who told you that your ancestors were not the founding heroes, nor were they the scriptures of the family?All the hardships we have to suffer in this life have been eaten up by our ancestors. We are born to enjoy it, and you have to accept it if you don’t accept it!

Against this background, the Qiang people in Liangzhou rebelled again, and the Han people in Liangzhou who could not bear the exorbitant taxes also took the opportunity to rebel together.

The whole Liangzhou has become a mess, not only ethnic conflicts, but also class conflicts.

The leaders of the Qiang people and the leaders of the Han uprising army cooperated with each other and attacked the city and territory of Liangzhou together.

And those scholars in Liangzhou who thought they were very strong, after hearing that the Qiang people united with the lower-level Han people to rebel, they ran away with the people's fat and people's anointing that they had collected in Liangzhou over the years, leaving behind some Guanxi warriors who were still loyal to the imperial court. People protect the city.

If the city is saved, it is due to the remote command of the Kanto gentry in Luoyang. If the city cannot be kept, it is the incompetence of the Kansai warriors. The responsibility for the loss of the city is the Kansai warriors!

When Wang Yan came to the city wall, what he saw were tens of thousands of Qiang people under the city wall who were full of hatred, as well as Han people with yellow and emaciated faces.

The imperial court did not deliberately distinguish the ethnicity of the exploited when exploiting. Whether Qiang people or low-level Han people, they were just consumables in the eyes of the imperial court.

The generals guarding the city, one surnamed Ma and the other surnamed Han, were all from small local landlords (little tyrants). There were dozens of tenant farmers in their families, with hundreds of acres of land.

People born as small landlords of this kind, if they were in the former Han Dynasty, actually had a good status. The class consolidation in the former Han Dynasty was not as serious as it is now.

However, in the great Han established by Liu Xiu, who was rising from the gentry, even the small landlords were exploited by the gentry.

"Sir, why are you here? Go back quickly, it's too dangerous here!" the Kansai military general surnamed Ma persuaded. He claimed to be the descendant of General Fubo Ma Yuan.

But claiming this kind of thing, just listen to it, don't take it too seriously, the Langya Wang family also claims to be the descendant of Wang Changjiong, doesn't it?
"Reading is for the common people in the world. If you can't benefit the common people in the world, then no matter how much you read, it will be in vain. As a scholar, how can I retreat at this time?" Wang Wei was very stubborn, standing at the forefront and trying to stop The rebels attacked the city.

"If scholars are like you, how can ordinary people rebel against famine?" The military general surnamed Han shook his head. He had seen too many Guandong scholars, even the Yuan family in Runan. At first he I also thought that scholars have something called "literati character". After getting in touch with them a lot, he discovered that these scholars are not different from ordinary people except that they are more educated. They have all kinds of human nature like ordinary people. Weaknesses, such as greed, etc.

Even the well-reviewed Runan Yuan family, this military general surnamed Han has seen it before, but the Yuan family in Runan is also involved in corruption and land annexation like ordinary scholars, which made this military general surnamed Han feel that he was in vain The moonlight is gone, the house collapsed, he didn't expect that the idol he admired - the Runan Yuan family, was nothing more than that.

When Wang Wei stood on the city wall, all the rebels stopped.

Both the Qiang leader of the rebel army and the leader of the Han uprising army were just ordinary people, struggling to survive the exorbitant taxes of the court.

But after Wang Wei came to Liangzhou, he taught the way of sages every day. Relying on some farming and herding knowledge he secretly learned in Wang's house, he taught the Han people to farm more efficiently and the Qiang people to herd more efficiently.

It took the Wang family hundreds of years to accumulate this knowledge, so it is absolutely not allowed to spread to the outside world. The farming and grazing techniques of the Central Plains people and grassland people are far inferior to the Wang family.

But Wang Wei took advantage of his status as the head of the family, and went back to the family school to secretly learn something, and then spread it to the Han and Qiang people in Liangzhou.

The local Han and Qiang people in Liangzhou have only seen corrupt Guandong scholars. For the first time in more than 100 years, they have felt what a real good official who is wholeheartedly for the people looks like. City, worried about hurting Wang Wei.

"Mr. Wang, we just hate the imperial court and those corrupt officials. We don't want to hurt you. Please leave the city wall. After we capture the city, we will never hurt you."

The leader of the rebel army under the city wall shouted at Wang Wei on the wall.

"I don't want to see the people of Liangzhou kill each other. If you all retreat, I, Wang Wei, will explain your difficulties to the court, let His Majesty know that you are forced to rebel, and ask the court not to punish you. You can continue farming and grazing in the future." Hao also persuaded the rebels under the city wall.

"The imperial court? Shit imperial court! My whole family starved to death because of the imperial court's exorbitant taxes! I will never die with the imperial court!" A leader of the Han rebel army cursed, and then continued to persuade Wang Wei on the city wall: "Your kindness we Keep it in mind, but all the people in the court are dogs, they are all cannibals, we never believe that the court will let us farm and herd with peace of mind, once we stop rebelling and become good citizens, the damn court will definitely They will continue to impose heavy taxes on us and exploit us to the end!"

Huhu——

Standing on the city wall in the cold wind, he naturally understood that what the rebels said was correct. Even if he really wrote a letter, explaining the reasons for the rebellion and asking the court to forgive the rebels, the court would never agree.

But he is a disciple of a sage, and the Confucian concept of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism does not allow him to collude with a group of rebels. Became a traitor.

Wang Hao didn't know what to do either. If the court could reconcile with the rebels, the court would stop exorbitant taxes and the rebels would be honest in farming and grazing. This would naturally be a happy event for everyone.

But this is too unrealistic!
Standing on the city wall, Wang Wei closed his eyes and said to the rebels under the city wall: "The king is the leader of the ministers, and the Han court is my father. , kill me with one arrow!"

"Sir! Please don't force us!" The rebels knelt on the ground, begging Wang Wei to surrender.

In the end, it was the Guanxi military general surnamed Ma who forcibly tied Wang Wei directly, and then sent him outside the city, and asked Dong Junya to stuff Wang Wei into a carriage and forcefully send him back to the Central Plains.

The rebels under the city took the initiative to get out of the way and let the carriage leave. They wished that Wang Ling would not stay in the city, so that they would not have a psychological burden when attacking the city.

"You are going to send me, Wang Hao, in a place of disloyalty and injustice!" Wang Hao was very angry when he was tied up, but there was nothing he could do.

(End of this chapter)