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

Chapter 501 Journey to the West (Twelve)

Three months later
Spring of the seventh year of Duke Yan 280 (497)
Luoyang
Under the order of Emperor Yuanhong, craftsmen from the entire Wei State gathered in Luoyang, and hundreds of thousands of corvee men stayed here to build palaces. Every day, a large number of grain transport convoys transported grain into Luoyang from other places to provide food for these people. Businessmen also took the opportunity to come to Luoyang to make money.

Since the Eight Kings Rebellion, Luoyang has suffered repeated damages and has been dilapidated. Now, Emperor Yuan Hong uses this as his capital to repair the entire city.

Royal Palace
The so-called imperial palace is actually a pile of wooden houses, many of which have not yet been built. This imperial palace can be said to be a waste of time.

Under the guidance of the palace guards, Xu Xiake came all the way to the emperor's study, and saw the emperor Yuan Hong who was reading the Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism.

"Xu Xiake, a wanderer from Yan State, has met His Majesty!" Xu Xiake saluted Emperor Yuan Hong respectfully.

"Mr. Xu, please sit down." Yuan Hong smiled. Others would never believe that this is the emperor who massacred the rebels of the Xianbei nobles not long ago. After all, he looked too gentle.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Xu Xiake saluted again, and then sat on a chair beside him, seeing Emperor Yuan Hong reading a book called "Wang Yun's Learning of Mind".

Yuan Hong suddenly asked Xu Xiake: "I heard that Mister is a descendant of the nobles of the Yan Kingdom. This Wang Yun is also the ancestor of your Yan Kingdom's clan. He should be regarded as the ancestor of the Mister. Could Mister explain this mentality to me?"

Yuan Hong's Chinese is very standard, he doesn't look like Xianbei at all, he is more Han than Han, the last foreigner who is more than Han is Liu Yuan, the founding emperor of the Huns and Han, a man who did not slaughter the city and A foreign emperor who loves Confucianism.

"Hmm..." Xu Xiake didn't expect that the perfect and gentle emperor would be interested in the learning of the mind of their Wang family ancestors, but he didn't know much about the learning of the mind, so he could only shake his head and said, "Caomin doesn't know much about the learning of the mind. Please forgive me, Your Majesty."

"Oh, it's okay." Yuan Hong smiled and continued: "I am very interested in this world, please trouble me to describe some strange stories about the world for me, so as to open my eyes."

This is what Xu Xiake is good at, so he described the anecdotes and strange things he encountered during the decades of travel.

The more Yuan Hong listened, the more interested he became. After listening, he couldn't help sighing: "How big is the world, and how small is our country of Wei."

Like Fu Jian, he has the dream of becoming the lord of China, but he is more rational than Fu Jian, and he will not conquer the world simply by benevolence and righteousness to the enemy.

Benevolence and righteousness are necessary, but you must also know how to adapt. This is Yuan Hong's idea, which is more rational than Fu Jian.

At Yuan Hong's request, Xu Xiake worked as an imperial tutor in the Luoyang Palace for a year, specializing in private tutors for the princes and princesses of the royal family.

one year later
The summer of the eighth year of Duke Yan 280 (498)
Yuan Hong repeatedly hoped that Xu Xiake could stay and continue to teach his sons and daughters, but Xu Xiake was eager to return home, so he still declined the emperor's kindness.

"Teacher, today's winter is my birthday. Can you come to my birthday celebration?" Yuan Ying, Yuan Gong's young daughter, tugged on Xu Xiake's sleeve reluctantly. Short hair", this hairstyle looks like two big black ears on the head, very cute.

"Ok, ok, huh." Xu Xiake bid farewell to Yuan Hong, and then, under the protection of soldiers from the state of Wei, he rode a carriage all the way to Shanhaiguan.

"Teacher, you must remember to come back for my birthday!"

The voice of the little princess could be faintly heard from behind, and Xu Xiake's carriage had gradually drifted away.

When passing by Fangtou, Xu Xiake saw the torture tools invented by his ancestor Wang Jue when he slaughtered and tortured the gentry in Dongjun, and saw a stone tablet not far away, which recorded Murong Chui's glorious achievements, praising Murong Chui's defeat here. Huan Wen, who was invaded by the Southern Barbarians.

From the perspective of the Southern Dynasties, the Northern Dynasties and the Southern Expeditions were Beidi's invasion.

From the perspective of the Northern Dynasties, the Northern Expedition was the invasion of the Southern Barbarians.

Both sides think that they are orthodox and that the other is a barbarian, so everyone is a barbarian.

In fact, this is indeed the case. When the Northern Dynasties marched south, they often burned, killed, looted and slaughtered cities in the territory of Nanbian, reducing the heritage of the Southern Dynasties.

During the Southern Dynasties and Northern Expeditions, they would also burn, kill, loot and slaughter cities in the territory of the Northern Dynasties, reducing the heritage of the Northern Dynasties.

After the Northern Dynasties were sinicized, they gradually stopped slaughtering their own people, and turned to targeting the Southern Dynasties, only slaughtering the people of the Southern Dynasties, so that the people of the Northern Dynasties are identifying with their own country from the bottom of their hearts, and have gradually regarded themselves as people from the Northern Dynasties. It's not that I regard myself as a traditional Han Chinese.

On the contrary, as the division between the north and the south became longer and longer, the people of the Southern Dynasties no longer regarded the Han people in the north as their compatriots. From the perspective of the people of the Southern Dynasties, the Han people in the north were also barbarians. The city is just burning, killing, looting and slaughtering the city, and there will be no mercy just because the other party is Han.

Against such a background, there is nothing wrong with saying that the Southern Dynasties and the Northern Dynasties were all barbarians.

If the Eight Kings Rebellion and the Five Huluanhua are chaotic and evil, then the Southern and Northern Dynasties are lawful and evil.

Compared with the period of the Eight Kings Rebellion and the Five Husbands and China, after entering the confrontation between the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the social order has been relatively stable, and the population has gradually increased.

The lowest population of the Central Plains should have been during Shihu-Ran Min's period, when Jiehu butchered only a few million people left.

Later, during the Murong Yan State and Fu Jian Qin State, the north was relatively stable, and the population continued to grow. It was not until the Battle of Feishui that it decreased a lot. After the Northern Wei Dynasty entered the Central Plains, many people were slaughtered, but Queen Mother Feng was in power. After that, Sinicization and recuperation were carried out, and the population of the Central Plains entered a big growth again.

Compared with the Shihu-Ran Min period, when everyone was in danger and did not dare to plant land, in today's Central Plains, although it is still suffering, the people at least dare to farm to produce food.

After Xu Xiake left Wei, Yuan Hong continued to deepen reforms.

There are many aspects of Yuanhong's reform, such as establishing the Jiupin Zhongzheng system, establishing Taixue, encouraging Buddhism and Confucianism, formulating a new calendar, drawing on the laws of the Southern Dynasties, moving criminals to the northern frontier to open up wasteland, further expanding the scope of the land equalization system, expanding the The scope of the military system.

But the most important thing is to prohibit the international trade of population, mainly to prohibit the sale of population to Yan.

Because Yan State bought too many people from the Central Plains, Yuan Hong wanted to strengthen the national power of Wei State, so he naturally wanted to prohibit the loss of population.

When Emperor Yuan Hong of the Wei State announced the prohibition of international trade in population, the Yan State was instantly fried, and the nobles were excited. Some radicals even demanded to declare war on the Wei State immediately.

However, most people in the parliament did not agree to declare war. The gap in strength is too great, so don't go up and hit the stone with a pebble.

In the end, the Yan State could only accept the reality, and instead shifted the focus of trade from the north to the south, cooperating with the Empress Dowager Liu Chuyu of the Jin State, and trading a large number of people in the Jin State.

(End of this chapter)