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

Chapter 283 The Curse of the Party ([-])

a year and a half later

Spring of the eighth year of Yanxi (AD 165)
Luo Yang
Nangong
boom!
"Humph!"

Emperor Liu Zhi looked at the memorial in his hand angrily.

"When I was controlled by the domineering general Liang Ji, you didn't help me. I managed to overthrow my relatives with the help of eunuchs. Now you come to ask me for an official. Don't talk about me. Picking peaches is not as good as you. It just doesn't make sense!"

Under Liang Ji's control, Liu Zhi endured for many years, and after finally overthrowing Liang Ji, he completely let go of himself and wanted to enjoy the life that he didn't dare to enjoy before.

His body is not working well, so he himself feels that he will not live long.

Of course, it was precisely because of his poor health that he was made emperor by General Liang Ji. If he was in good health, it would be impossible for him to become emperor.

After overthrowing Liang Ji, he generously rewarded the eunuchs, collected a large number of beauties to the harem, and enjoyed himself every day.

However, such a life of enjoyment only lasted for two or three years, and the world became chaotic.

The Xianbei invaded the south every year, the refugees from the Southern Huns flooded into Youzhou, the Qiang rebelled again on a large scale, and the starving people in Qingxuyang and Yangzhou who could not eat enough to eat rebelled again under the instigation of Hongyan Dao.

After so many troubles, the court is not reassuring.

The gentry ministers hated eunuchs more than their relatives.

Scholars kept going up and asked him to learn from the ancient sage kings, not to reuse those eunuchs, but to reuse the virtuous ministers of the gentry, so that he can be called a wise king.

At first, he didn't want to break up with this group of gentry, so he demoted a few eunuchs, and revoked the marquis of those eunuchs, hoping to show goodwill to the gentry, so that everyone can build a good man together, and don't fight each other La!
However, the gentry were still dissatisfied, and continued to go to court, asking the emperor to dismiss all the remaining eunuchs. It is best to kill all the eunuchs directly, so that the big man can live in peace and prosperity.

Eunuchs and relatives are all villains, only our gentry are virtuous officials, Your Majesty wants to be close to virtuous officials and be far from villains!

"Damn it, a group of parasites who don't pay taxes and then suck the blood of the big man are ashamed to say that they are virtuous ministers, a group of things that dared to rebel against taxes at the beginning of Emperor Guangwu's founding, and have the nerve to let my relatives and virtuous ministers , Yuan villain! Damn it! If you are considered worthy ministers, then I will be an emperor through the ages!"

In the eyes of Emperor Liu Zhi, if the eunuchs are villains, then nine out of ten of the gentry are rebels, and these gentry had a precedent of rebelling against taxes as early as Emperor Guangwu [Dutian Case Bi]. It is much more dangerous than eunuchs.

"If I don't give you a little color, you really treat my imperial power as a display? Emperor Guangwu can rule you, so why can't I rule you?" Emperor Liu Zhi looked at the scholars' Shangshu viciously, and was ready to go all out. Break up with the soldiers.

"Your Majesty, this servant thinks that the imperial court must deal heavy blows to these scholars and arrest them. It is best to kill a few scholars to make an example to others. Only in this way, the remaining scholars will be honest and dare not continue to chatter! "The eunuch on the side also suggested through gritted teeth.

You are noble, you are pure, you scholars are virtuous ministers, we eunuchs are all villains, what have we eunuchs done to you?Thinking about getting rid of us eunuchs every day?If you scholars don't give us a way to survive, then we will never show mercy!
The eunuch cursed the scholars in his heart.

The scholars were worried that the eunuchs, a new force, would compete with them for corruption. Every day, they thought that apart from the eunuchs, the eunuchs also hated the gentry for not allowing them to have the power of corruption, so they wanted to get rid of the gentry.

The cake is so big, the more greedy the eunuchs, the less greedy the gentry, this is an irreconcilable contradiction.

"What you said is very reasonable. These scholars who are not afraid of imperial power are no longer ordinary scholars. We must deal with them hard!" Emperor Liu Zhi sneered.

At this time, another eunuch continued to suggest: "The gentry married each other, served as officials on each other's territory, protected each other, controlled the power of local officials, and refused to pay taxes while annexing land, so that the court collected more and more taxes. Difficult, the financial hole is getting bigger and bigger."

"That's why I think that, on the basis of [local people are not allowed to be officials in the local area] stipulated during the Hedi period, it should be stipulated that families with marriages are not allowed to be officials in the household registration of the other family, and at the same time people from Jiazhou are officials in Yizhou If a person from State B is an official in State C, then a person from State C must avoid the three states of A, B, and C, and the same is true for counties."

"As long as this is the case, the nobles in the world will no longer be able to protect each other, and they will no longer be able to collude with each other."

The eunuch thought about this idea for a long time, but before the gentry were more arrogant, he didn't dare to make this suggestion. Now that the gentry had completely annoyed the emperor, he dared to propose it.

"Hmm... your suggestion is good. I think it's better to call it... "Three Mutual Laws." Emperor Liu Zhi pondered for a long time, thinking about the feasibility of this official avoidance system, and finally agreed with a smile.

At this time, another eunuch sent the latest memorial.

Emperor Liu Zhi took a look and found that it was related to Liangzhou.

"good very good!"

"Duan Jiming is worthy of being the pillar of the country!"

The content in it is roughly that Duan Jiong, the captain of the Qiang guard, defeated the main force of the Qiang people, and the remaining Qiang people went into deep mountains and old forests to hide.

Regardless of the danger, Duan Jiong continued to chase and kill the Qiang people. Even if the Qiang people hid in the ends of the earth, Duan Jiong would find them and kill them all.

"Big reward! Big reward for Duan Jiming!"

Emperor Liu Zhi was very happy and planned to reward Duan Jiong.

At this time, the eunuch struck while the iron was hot: "Duan Jiming, a general who has served the country like this, is often slandered by the scholars. The slaves really feel sorry for him."

"Hmph!" Emperor Liu Zhi became more and more dissatisfied with the scholars: "I must arrest them!"

In Liangzhou, there were three generals responsible for exterminating the Qiang people, namely Huangfugui, Zhang Huan, and Duan Jiong.

Although all three of them were born in the Kansai region, and they were all famous for pacifying the Qiang rebellion, they had conflicts with each other, and their acting styles were also different.

Huangfugui and Zhang Huan stood in line with the gentry, and for the rebellious Qiang people, they also focused on appeasement and supplemented by extermination. Their views are:

[The Qiang people are just the collective name for all the tribes in the snowy plateau. Unless the Han can conquer the snowy plateau, the Qiang people will never be killed. In a few years, the surplus population from the tribes on the snow-covered plateau will continue to migrate to the Hehuang area to become "Qiang people". Qiang people, then appease the Qiang people and use the existing Qiang people to resist the quasi-Qiang people on the snowy plateau. 】

It can be said that Zhang Huan has initially formed the prototype of the theory of "National Beehive". The snowy plateau is a national beehive. Because of the limited land carrying capacity, redundant populations that cannot be supported will continue to multiply and migrate to the Liangzhou area.

However, Duan Jiong stood on the side of the imperial power and eunuchs. Regarding the Qiang people who rebelled, he advocated killing the Qiang people to extinction. His concept is:
[At the beginning, Wang Jian, one of the 28 generals in Yuntai, could kill the Wuhuan to extinction, so why couldn't I, Duan Jiong, kill the Qiang people to extinction?As long as the Qiang people are killed to extinction, won't there be no Qiang people rebelling? 】

However, he may not know much about the real history of Wuhuan's extinction.

Even Wang Bian failed to kill the Wuhuan people to extinction. The remaining Wuhuan people just joined the Xianbei and became the Xianbei people, and now the grassland has been occupied by the Southern Huns and Xianbei people, and the threat of the Xianbei people It is far greater than Wuhuan.

So 70 years ago, when Wang Bian killed Wuhuan to extinction, it actually did more harm than good to the big man.

Moreover, the Wang family’s massacre of Wuhuan has lasted for more than 100 years, and the repeated massacres for nearly 100 years only killed the Wuhuan people, but failed to kill the Wuhuan people. The remaining Wuhuan people Now they are Xianbei people.

Therefore, Duan Jiong wants to completely solve the Qiang problem by only relying on the slaughter of a few wars. It is theoretically possible, but it is too difficult, too long, and the cost is too high. The area will be used for sustainable fishing, learning from the Wang family's approach to overseas aborigines.

However, it is clear that the current Han court is unable to suppress even the hungry rebels in the Central Plains, and it is even more impossible to go to the snow-covered plateau to sustainably exhaust the local aborigines.

Not only that, but the higher the military achievements of Duan Jiong, the more the gentry slandered him.

Because Duan Jiong is a member of the eunuch camp, every time he makes a military exploit, the eunuchs behind him will have more authority.

Duan Jiong's fighting increased the eunuch's authority, which was absolutely intolerable to the gentry.

But it’s not that Duan Jiong doesn’t want to join the gentry camp, it’s that the gentry look down on the Kansai warriors. Even Zhang Huan and Huangfugui managed to integrate into the Kanto gentry circle by relying on their proficiency in Confucian classics. Even so, they were only on the edge of the gentry circle. That's all.

Duan Jiong's research on Confucian classics is far inferior to that of Zhang Huanhuangfu, and he is a pure Kansai warrior. Under such circumstances, it is extremely difficult to integrate into the gentry circle.

What should I do if I can't integrate into the gentry circle and don't want to be mediocre for the rest of my life?

Then there is only one way, and that is to join the emerging eunuch forces and rely on the promotion of eunuchs to get rid of the future of a mediocre life.

The power of the eunuchs needs a general who can fight to increase their authority by making military exploits, and Duan Jiong also needs to rely on the power of the eunuchs to make himself a successful official career. The two sides just take what they need from each other.

(End of this chapter)