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

Chapter 613 The Republic and the Emperor ([-])

The winter of the 617th year of the Yan Kingdom ([-])
Yandu/Xindu
It has been two years since the Yan-Sui war ended, and during these two years, the country of Yan has been recuperating.

Yang Guang could not care about the life and death of the Sui Dynasty, and he could go to Jiangdu to kill him, but Yan Xu couldn't do that. He couldn't just watch the country of Yan collapse. He wanted to do his best to restore the people's livelihood and economy of the country.

Yan State's army shrank from an astonishing size of 18 to 1 in an instant.

Yan Xu leads by example, calling on the nobles not to be greedy for fine wine, and calling on the wealthy businessmen not to be addicted to alcohol, hoping that everyone can learn from herself.

Wine making needs to consume a lot of food, so reducing the consumption of wine can reduce the waste of food and save more food to help the victims.

At the same time, all plantations that can grow food should try their best to grow food, and don't plant too many spices and fruits.

Spices and fruits are more profitable, but they are not necessary, and these things are of little use in the most difficult times of the country.

Yan Xu didn't promulgate a ban on alcohol, he understands human nature, you can't ban this kind of thing, you can only use slogans to advocate drinking less, you can't directly ban it with administrative orders.

However, after two years of implementation of Yan Xu's recuperation policy, he himself died this winter.

Many elderly people can't resist winter, and Yan Xu, who is already in her 80s, is the same.

Throughout Yan Xu's life, he joined the army when he was young and wiped out Hou Jing's rebels. When he was young, he participated in the situation in the Central Plains and took the opportunity to seize Shandong and other places. In his middle age, he established many vassal states in the Central Plains. Make Yan State the Chinese orthodoxy in the minds of scholars in the Central Plains. When they were old, they set up anti-Sui siege nets to curb the expansion of the Sui Empire, and finally collapsed the Sui Empire. The country is heading for collapse like the Sui Empire.

Knowing how to fight and also know how to recuperate, a monarch like this, even in China's 5000-year history, can be ranked among the top [-] generation wise monarchs.

All the nobles held a funeral for Yan Xu and buried Yan Xu in Tianchi, Changbai Mountain.

"Your achievements are known all over the world, your name has been passed down through the ages, and your glory will never die."

There were even priests of the Holy Cult who personally prayed for Yan Xu.

Most of the nobles in the Yan Kingdom believed in the holy religion subtly.

"Your soul will return to the embrace of God (Saint Kang/Ancestor Kang), rest in peace!"

The ancestor Wang Kang, with the passage of time, has been gradually mythologized and has become the supreme god in the myths and stories of the Yan Kingdom, comparable to the Nuwa in the Central Plains.

The nobles of the Yan Kingdom also often call themselves descendants of gods. They are no longer the Wang family, but the gods, a family composed of descendants of gods.

What does it mean to turn everything into a god?Maybe this is it!

Before Yan Xu died, he appointed Nangong Wenya as his heir to the nobility, and at the same time nominated Nangong Wenya as the candidate for Yanjun.

In order to reduce the loan interest, the noble council once again made concessions to the guilds, allowing the civilian council to nominate a candidate for Lord Yan, and to vote for the candidate, but that's all. , to nominate a Yanjun candidate from the nobles, who does not have the right to be elected, but already has the right to vote.

This is the biggest concession that the nobles of the Yan Kingdom can make!
Correspondingly, the guilds should also exempt the loan interest from the imperial court. The imperial court only needs to repay the principal of the war loan, not the interest.

Both sides took a step back. The guild with money but no power bought part of the power with money, and the court of Yan Kingdom with power but no money exchanged power for a little money.

It can be said that everyone takes what they need and enjoys it.

Before Yan Xu died, in order to appease the nobles and prevent them from being dissatisfied with this concession, he weakened his monarchy again and allowed the nobles to nominate three candidates.

The final result is that King Yan can nominate one candidate, the guild can nominate one candidate, and the noble council can nominate three candidates, making a total of five Lord Yan candidates.

Yan Wenya/Nangong Wenya were only candidates nominated by Yan Xu before his death, and there were four other candidates who participated in Yan Jun's election.

The parliamentary system of the Yan Kingdom is also constantly changing and developing, and it is not static.

In order to unite the guilds and nobles, Yan Xu imitated his father, Yan Ji, and continued to delegate power, weakening the power of the monarch, and giving more power to the nobles and guilds.

"If the country can't be saved, what's the point of concentrating all the power? It's just a poor and sad king of subjugation!"

Yan Xu doesn't think there's anything wrong with doing this, everything is for the country, for the unity of all classes, and for the country of Yan not to break out of civil war like in the Central Plains.

If the Yan State is destroyed, then even if Lord Yan has concentrated all the power, what's the point?

I would rather be a puppet monarch than a subjugated emperor!

There is nothing wrong with concentrating power itself, but it is a mistake to concentrate power, regardless of the actual situation of internal and external troubles, leading to the demise of the country.

This is true of King Zhou of Shang and Yang Guang.

What is wrong is not the centralization of power, but the situation of internal and external troubles, even if a civil war breaks out, it is necessary to forcibly centralize power, which will lead to the separation of all social classes, and eventually lead to large-scale internal strife.

The guilds have the right to vote, and they can elect their favorite nobleman to become the new Yanjun, but they only have the right to vote, not to be elected. They can only elect one person from the nobles to be Yanjun, and cannot elect Yanjun from other people. Jun.

The candidate for Lord Yan nominated by the guilds was Yan Ming, a nobleman from Hurricane Island. Yan Ming, the nobleman of Hurricane Island, will be nominated to be Lord Yan.

Yan Ming is an aristocrat who likes to do business and open up wasteland. His daughter "Jane" has a beautiful body. She is only eight or nine years old, and she is already juicy and has an excellent temperament.

Since it was the first time that he had the right to participate in the election of Lord Yan, almost all the civilian representatives of the guild voted for Yanming.

The nobles' council is very scattered, the nobles are not united, they have their own candidates, they are hesitating between the three candidates nominated by themselves and the candidate Nangong Wenya nominated by Yan Xu, in the end, the votes of the nobles were rejected They were distributed among the four candidates, so that among the four candidates, even Nangong Wenya, who got the most votes, was still just one vote short of Yan Ming.

170 The five nobles failed to compete for the 72 guild representatives in the voting. Their 175 votes were too scattered.

It is not the first time for the nobles to be disunited. Decades ago, when the noble council had only two candidates to nominate, their votes had already begun to disperse. However, at that time, Yan Xu became the leader with an absolute majority. Yan Jun, so most people have no opinion.

Both Yan Ji and Yan Xu's father and son became monarchs through the election of the noble council, and Yan Xu's reforms before his death made the guild representatives of the common people's council eligible to participate in this power game.

(End of this chapter)