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

Chapter 289

another two months later

Liaodong
Wencheng City

Liaodong County
"I have seen the Fujun."

The children of the three families of Wang, Zhang and Li who were officials in the county mansion saluted Cao Song, the new governor of Liaodong.

Since Emperor Huan of the Han promulgated the "Three Mutual Laws", the three major families in Liaodong can no longer directly control Liaodong, and have to allow outsiders to enter Liaodong as prefects.

But being a prefect in Liaodong is not a good job.

The first Liaodong prefect had to check the population of the fields as soon as he took office, and accidentally drowned while taking a boat the next day.

The second prefect wanted to remove the children of the three major families from the Liaodong County Mansion, and then enlisted some poor families to enter the Liaodong County Mansion. However, a month later, Goguryeo invaded, and there were only [-] soldiers in Liaodong County. It is impossible to send troops to help the prefect resist Goguryeo. In this way, the second Liaodong prefect was killed by Goguryeo rebels just one month after taking office.

The third Liaodong prefect was smart, superficially obedient, and polite to the three major families, but secretly investigated the three major families' criminal evidence over the years. Known by the three major families, he was killed by the oiran when he was having fun with the oiran three days later when he visited the flower building, and then the oiran confessed all the crimes in front of everyone, admitting that she hated it since she was a child He was an official, that's why he wanted to kill the prefect, and committed suicide in fear of crime after he finished speaking.

The fourth eunuch wanted to embezzle corruption right after he took office, and he refused to distribute the embezzled money to the three major families, wanting to take it all by himself, so it didn’t take long for the people arranged by the three major families to besiege the eunuch’s mansion in groups. He loudly scolded the new prefect as a beast. Amid the strong opposition from the local people, the fourth prefect was arrested and imprisoned for corruption, and was killed in prison not long afterward.

In just 14 years, Liaodong changed seven prefects, all of whom died of various reasons. Liaodong prefect has become a high-risk occupation, and now no one dares to take the post of Liaodong prefect.

It takes half a year for Luoyang to go back and forth to Liaodong, and the appointment of a new prefect also takes time for the court to choose. Therefore, in the past 14 years, the total time the prefect has been in office is less than three months, and most of the time is vacant or on the road.

It wasn't until Cao Song, the eighth governor of Liaodong, came to Liaodong that everything changed.

Cao Song, the new prefect, just came to Liaodong. First, he went not to the county mansion, but to the Wang Family Manor. In the snowy weather, he knelt outside the Wang Family Manor and begged the Liaodong Wang Family to see him.

Cao Song knelt for a day and a night, and his whole body was covered with ice and snow. It was not until the next morning that Wang Guang, Wang Jiaxin's family minister, came out of the manor, met Cao Song, and recognized Cao Song as the new governor of Liaodong.

Only then did Cao Song dare to go to the county mansion to take office with peace of mind.

"The matter of Liaodong still requires the gentlemen." Cao Song was polite to the children of the three major families, with smiles all over his face.

Although he is the prefect, the children of the three major families in the county mansion are theoretically his subordinates, and they should all listen to him.

However, the actual situation is the other way around. As the prefect of Liaodong, Cao Song has to obey the words of the county magistrate.

Because the head of the county is a descendant of the Liaodong royal family.

He is also a good person, knowing what to do and what not to do, so when he took office, he delegated the power of the prefect to the children of the three major families, and became an honorary prefect with no real power, because he knew that only in this way can he be safe and secure. Live to the end of term.

He has a son named Cao Cao, who has just turned 19 years old this year and has no written name yet, but he already has all kinds of styles of the second generation. Yuan Shao of his family was accused by many people for stealing the bride.

In Liaodong, the Wang family is the sky, and the Zhang and Li families are the land!
The law is the law of the Wang family!

God, it is the heaven of the Wang family!

Court?what is that?
Three mutual law?never heard of that!

Prefect?A servant!
"Your Majesty, please don't worry, we will help you wholeheartedly." Seeing how well-behaved the new Liaodong prefect was, the children of the three major families in the county all smiled heartily.

If Cao Song was the same as the previous seven prefects, he really took his prefect seriously, and would use the power of the prefect to suppress the three major families.

Then, the three major families don't mind letting Liaodong have an extra noble corpse.

Seeing that the children of the three major families said so, Cao Song was also relieved, and he was also worried that he would die in an accident.

Afterwards, Cao Song casually looked at the Liaodong accounting book submitted by the master book.

According to the above records, the entire Sixiang County of Liaodong County has a total population of [-].

Yes, five hundred people, not five hundred households.

In the huge Sixiang County of Liaodong County, there are only [-] ordinary people in total.

Not only is the population small, but the acres of land are also small. The entire Sixiang County of Liaodong County has a total of only [-] mu of land.

Although the population and acres are small, the actual area of ​​Sixiang County is very large. It takes half a month to travel from the Sixiang County Government Office to the Wang Family Manor by horse-drawn carriage.

It takes half a month to travel by horse-drawn carriage to a county from one end to the other, which is almost equivalent to the distance of a state in the Central Plains. There are only [-] ordinary people and [-] mu of land in total.

"terrible."

Cao Song sighed in his heart, the annexation of the land of the Liaodong royal family is too terrifying, on the surface not even a county has been annexed, but in fact almost a county has been annexed.

In terms of reputation, after so many years of protecting the scholars, the reputation of the Liaodong royal family has increased a lot. Now the Liaodong royal family has ranked third among the noble families in the world, second only to the Yuan family in Runan and the Yang family in Hongnong.

In terms of strength, the royal family of Liaodong is far superior to other noble families.

Although it must be nonsense to know that there are only [-] people in Sixiang County, Liaodong County, Cao Song agrees with his face.

"I didn't expect Liaodong to be so dilapidated. If it weren't for the Donglai counties with a population of several 10, I really don't know how such a small number of people would resist the invasion of Goguryeo." Cao Song said very seriously, as if it was the same thing .

"Yes, there are only [-] people in Sixiang County, but it is too difficult to resist the invasion of Goguryeo's [-] troops." The county master sighed and said, "The imperial court only allocates one billion yuan to us every year. It's not enough at all, it can't stop Goguryeo like a scourge."

The princess book described Goguryeo as very powerful and powerful, as if as long as the imperial court gave a little less money, the whole territory of Liaodong would fall into the hands of barbarians.

"What do you mean?" Cao Song, the prefect of Liaodong, respected the princess very much. If outsiders saw it, they would definitely wonder who was the prefect.

"If the imperial court can increase the [Liao Pay] from one billion yuan per year to two billion yuan per year, I think it will be easier for us in Liaodong to defend against Goguryeo, so that we won't be in danger of being overwhelmed." Said the princess.

"Your words are true." Cao Song agreed. He had nothing to disagree with the words of the Wang family's children. The previous seven eunuchs who did not agree had already turned into noble corpses.

(End of this chapter)