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

Chapter 40 Han Wu Era ([-])

Four years later

The third year of the Yuan Dynasty after the Han Dynasty

New Year
Chang'an Weiyang Palace

"Cough cough~"

Emperor Liu Qi, who was sitting on the couch and looking through the counties and records of various counties and counties, trembled all over, coughed up a mouthful of blood on the bamboo slips, and seemed to be dying soon.

"His Majesty!"

The maids around were startled when they saw this situation.

"Cough cough~"

The emperor coughed up a mouthful of blood again, and waved his hand to dismiss the maid.

Looking into the empty hall, feeling that his life was about to end, Liu Qi couldn't help but recall his life.

When he was young, he was dissolute and fearless, and killed the prince of Wu with a chessboard, which almost caused a catastrophe.

As soon as he came to the throne, he was eager to cut down the vassal, which led to the chaos of the Seven Kingdoms. He also believed Yuan An's nonsense and killed Chao Cuo by mistake. If Zhou Yafu hadn't been there, he might have been succeeded by the rebels "on the side of the Qing emperor".

After more than ten years of recuperation, he recovered from the trauma caused by the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion.

After that, in order to prevent Zhou Yafu and other heroic groups from controlling the young new emperor Liu Che after his death, they forced Zhou Yafu to commit suicide on the groundless charge of collecting armor and preparing to rebel in the underworld.

But now, he is still preparing to do one last thing to pave the way for Liu Che.

"Go...cough cough—go, summon the prince! Cough cough——"

The world before the emperor's eyes is getting darker and darker, and he wants to do one last thing for Liu Che at the last moment of his life.

He wanted to perform the coming-of-age ceremony and crown ceremony for Liu Che, who was only 15 years old, in advance, so that the harem would not be able to control the government on the grounds that the new emperor was young, and avoid the recurrence of the Empress Lv Rebellion.

"Cough-cough-"

"Quick!"

The emperor urged the eunuch who was in a daze.
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Half a month later
In the bedroom, there were only Emperor Liu Qi and Crown Prince Liu Che.

"Zhang Wan, Wang Zang, Dou Ying, Tian Fu, the four of them are the auxiliary ministers I left for you, ahem—"

"Father!"

"The Dahan's Jiangshan Sheji...is handed over to you..."

"My son... will never disappoint my father."

After some entrustment, the emperor Liu Qi stared at the ceiling of the bedroom in a daze. He was cruel to the princes and kings. Even the king of Liang who made great contributions, his kingdom was divided into five, and the rest of the princes and kings who participated in the rebellion were decapitated. Even Zhou Yafu, who made illustrious military exploits in the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion, was still sentenced to death by him on trumped-up charges.

But for the whole big man, for the common people in the world, he, Liu Qi, has a clear conscience!

During his reign, I don't know how many rich and powerful households were moved to Chang'an by him, how many refugees without land regained their fields under his management, and how many Haoyou who wanted to annex Luzuo's fields were stopped by him.

Perhaps, the history books of later generations will give me a fair evaluation.

At the last moment of leaving this world, Liu Qi slowly closed his eyes.

everything is over……

This great monarch passed away, and later generations called him—Emperor Han Jing!

And he and the era of Emperor Wen of Han are collectively called the rule of Wenjing! ——
a month later
Under the watchful eyes of civil servants, military generals and thousands of soldiers, a heroic young man climbed the steps symbolizing the power of the emperor, walked to the high platform, stood under the huge bronze tripod that worshiped heaven and earth, and looked at thousands of people at his feet. Ten thousand subjects.

Clang——

The young man drew out the sword at his waist and pointed it at the sky.

"I, Liu Che, the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty, will inherit the throne today!"

He is only 15 years old, and his burly body looks so small in the cold wind of the high platform, but he is incomparably stalwart.

"Your Majesty's ten thousand years!" "The great man's ten thousand years!"

"Your Majesty's ten thousand years!" "The great man's ten thousand years!"

"Your Majesty's ten thousand years!" "The great man's ten thousand years!"

Under the high platform, hundreds of officials and soldiers knelt down and shouted, and the voice resounded throughout the world.

呲——

The young emperor Liu Che put away his long sword, his eyes were full of stars and the sea, and every step he took had the aura of looking down on the world.
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Six months later
Changan
Weiyang Palace

"Dong Zhongshu pays homage to His Majesty, Your Majesty will live forever!"

"Dongfang Shuo pays homage to His Majesty, Your Majesty will live forever!"

"Li Xi greets His Majesty, Your Majesty will live forever!"

"Wang Changzhi pays homage to His Majesty, Your Majesty will live forever!"

"Zhang Cigong pays homage to His Majesty, Your Majesty will live forever!"

"..."

Dozens of people first saluted the emperor, and then stood upright, waiting for the emperor's inspection.

They are all talents who have been elected to help the young emperor in front of him govern the country.

Some of them had held some unimportant official positions in the Han Central Committee, such as Dong Zhongshu, who was a doctor of Confucianism and was recommended to the emperor.

Some were recommended to the emperor by county magistrates, such as Dongfang Shuo and Li Xi, who were recommended by the governors of Donglai and Liaodong.

Some came from the powerful noble families, such as Wang Changzhi and Zhang Cigong. After the Liaodong royal family they belonged to presented a huge amount of wealth to the prime minister, they were recommended to the emperor by the prime minister.

Since the emperor Liu Bang, the great Han would ask the counties and states all over the world to recommend talents to Chang'an from time to time. If the recommended talents are reused, the recommender will also be rewarded by the emperor.

It's just that these have not yet formed a system. It is only when the emperor is free and thinks that there are not enough talents, he will temporarily order the various counties to recommend talents to the court.

In addition to recommending this way, each county guard can let one of his relatives enter the court to serve, but they are all small officials without much real power, and such people who enter the court through the back door will be looked down upon by others.

And there is another way to obtain an official position is conscripting. The emperor will directly order some people to directly enter the court to serve as officials. This is called Pi.

Therefore, most of the officials in counties and counties are the children of the local powerful gentry.

For example, in Tashi County, Liaodong, Gongcao, Chief Bookkeeper, Tingchao, Chief Recorder's Office, Neifu, Thief Cao, Yicao, Lichao, Prison Cao, Yichao, Jiaoshi, Shichao, Daocao, these county officials The posts are all held by the soldiers of the royal family of Liaodong, and even Shi Cao and Yi Cao of Liaodong County are concurrently held by Wang Chong and Wang Song of the Wang family.

Whenever the emperor ordered the counties all over the world to recommend filial, talented, and virtuous talents to the imperial court, the Liaodong County Mansion first asked all the powerful families in the county to contribute money, and whichever family paid more money would send the children of that family to the imperial court. Recommended to the court.

In the past, both Wang Kang and Wang Taihao were not interested in being an official for the imperial court. The little salary they earned from being an official for a big man was not as much as they enjoyed spending a day in the manor, so they didn't bother to dredge up the affairs of the county government. relation.

However, Wang Tairan, the third-generation patriarch, is very concerned about the fact that his family's children will become officials in the court, and he is no longer satisfied with the level of simply doing business with the powerful people in the Central Plains in the past.

This time, when Wang Tairan learned that the new emperor's young emperor Liu Che wanted to recommend talents from all the prefectures, he dredged up the relationship between Liaodong County and Donglai County early, and was able to send Dongfang Shuo, his own soldiers Li Xi, The eldest son of the fourth generation, Wang Changzhi, and Zhang Long's son, Zhang Cigong, forced themselves into the court of Chang'an.

"From now on, you will all be ministers of my humerus!" In the hall, the young emperor Liu Che, who was sitting on the upper bed, was very interested in these new ministers, and he already wanted to abandon those stubborn old ministers.

If you want to implement the new policy in your mind, you must use new ministers, which has not changed since ancient times
(End of this chapter)