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

Chapter 87 The Han Wu Era ([-])

Mobei Shan Yuting

"The Han army captured me in Longcheng, Hetao, and Hexi. Now everyone is saying that losing Yanzhi Mountain will make my women colorless, and losing Qilian Mountain will make me invincible."

"We didn't even dare to go back to Monan, so we could only hide in the bitter cold of Mobei to avoid the sharp edge of the Han army."

"Ben Shanyu has decided that we Huns must cheer up. Although we can no longer beat the Han army head-on, as long as we can anger the Han emperor, make him lose his mind, and send the main force of the Han army deep into Mobei, then we will If we can take the opportunity to cut off the retreat of the Han army and let the main force of the Han army starve to death after getting lost in Mobei, it is best to starve to death the three of Wei Qinghuo Qubing and Wang Changzhi of the Han army."

"But how can we anger the emperor of the Han people?"

"The envoy of Zuo Xianwang sent a plan, that is, we will take the initiative to launch a large-scale counterattack against the Han army. With the current state of confidence of the Han emperor, he will definitely send the main force of the Han army to Mobei to die."

"As long as we can annihilate the main force of the Han army in one fell swoop, then we can take back Hetao, Hexi, and Longcheng in the future."

Yi Zhixie was very angry. Since he came to the throne, the wars between the Han and the Huns have been extremely frequent, and the Huns have lost more than they have won, especially Wei Qinghuo and Wang Changzhi, who are the nightmare of countless Huns.
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a few months later
The Xiongnu Chanyu and the Xiongnu Zuo Xianwang used the entire power of the Huns to launch a large-scale plunder on the border of the Han Dynasty. Seven or eight counties were ravaged by the Huns at the same time. Tens of thousands of Han people were captured by the Huns, and dozens of people were slaughtered. Ten thousand.

When the news reached Weiyang Palace in Chang'an, Emperor Liu Che was furious.

"I want to kill these Huns! All! Kill! All!"

After winning battles for many years, Emperor Liu Che gradually became lost in the joy of victory, was dazzled by the victory, and became more and more arbitrary.

He used to be able to listen to other people's opinions, but now he is gradually unable to accept criticism from others.

People will always change because of changes in reality.

"We have spent countless battles, and the national treasury is empty. We should rest and recuperate." A minister advised.

"Come on, drag this deceitful person out and punish him for forty sticks!" Emperor Liu Che snorted coldly.

"No, Your Majesty!" The admonisher didn't expect that he would be punished for just admonishing him, and he was frightened out of his wits.

As the minister was dragged out for punishment, Emperor Liu Che showed a slight smile, and then said to the ministers: "The Xiongnu plundered our borders and killed my people. I am the Lord of the Han Dynasty. I will destroy the Xiongnu and protect my people."

All the ministers trembled and didn't dare to speak. The one who advised them just now was beaten, and they didn't want to be beaten.

"No money in the treasury? Humph! What a joke!"

"My big man has a lot of rich people, but these rich people just don't want to pay for the country. They would rather use the money to enjoy luxury than pay a little money for the big man to destroy the Huns."

"Not long ago, a businessman named Bu Shi donated all his family property to the imperial court to support the imperial court in annihilating the Xiongnu. I am very pleased, because my big man still has loyal and powerful merchants."

"But! I am also very disappointed, because the big man only has one divination style. I want to know why the other powerful merchants of the big man can't learn the divination style, and they don't have to donate all, even if they only donate half of their family property. Support The imperial court completely wiped out the Xiongnu, which is beneficial to everyone, but why does no one donate except Bu Shi?"

"Why, stop talking?"

Emperor Liu Che sneered at those trembling ministers. Now that his prestige is in full swing, he no longer needs to be as polite as when he first took the throne.

"Your Majesty, the old minister's family is poor, but in order to fight against the Huns, the old minister, the old minister...is willing to donate all his family property, a total of one hundred gold." A courtier was so frightened that he donated money immediately.

"Your Majesty, I am also willing to contribute to the fight against the Xiongnu. I donate half of my family property, a total of seventy gold."

"Your Majesty, the veteran's family is poor, but in order to fight against the Huns, the veteran is willing to sell the house and donate the money from the sale to the court."

"Your Majesty, I am willing to donate all my salary to help my great man destroy the Xiongnu."

"Your Majesty, my minister..."

All the ministers were so frightened that they broke out in a cold sweat, and hurriedly donated money to save their lives, for fear of being dragged out by the emperor and punished to make an example to others.

"Heh! You are all loyal ministers of the great man!" The emperor Liu Che calmed down a little by holding a court meeting and adding some money to the national treasury. Ten thousand gold, but he said that the family is poor, and the whole family property is only one hundred gold.

"Retreat!"

After retiring from the court, Emperor Liu Che thought of another good policy for governing the country proposed by Zhang Tang, "Shu Mian Policy".

"Originally, I didn't intend to implement this national policy. After all, you are also a part of the big man, and I don't want to go too far, but you are too hateful. You enjoy the peace brought by the court's fight against the Huns, but you are unwilling to contribute money and effort to fight against the Huns , only caring about your own enjoyment, and not caring about the country of the great man!"

"You guys are shameless, so don't blame me!"
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In just one year, three major events in succession shocked the world.

First, the emperor announced the official salt and iron camp, which made the people of the powerful and powerful people in the world panic.

Afterwards, the Huns invaded the border on a large scale, and the emperor was furious. He wanted to gather the most elite troops of the Han Dynasty to expedition to Mobei, and wiped out the Huns in one fell swoop.

In the end, because the treasury ran out of money again and again, in order not to affect the plan of the expedition to Mobei, the emperor issued a counting order to the world according to the "Shunmen Policy" presented by Zhang Tang.

The so-called counting order is actually the collection of property taxes.

People all over the world are required to pay property taxes to the imperial court according to their own property. The more property in the family, the more they pay, and they have to pay it every year.

For example, a wealthy businessman with a fortune of one thousand gold has to pay property tax of twenty gold every year until he goes bankrupt.

As soon as this calculation order came out, the whole world was shaken, and all powerful noble families and wealthy businessmen were in panic.

Since Emperor Liu Che ascended the throne, their life has become more and more difficult every day.

If you raise maids and servants at home, you will be taxed; if you have a lot of tenant farmers, you will be taxed extra; The salt and iron industry was forcibly taken over by the government, and now, they still have to collect property taxes.

That is to say, even if they do nothing, sell all the maids and servants, all the vehicles, boats, cattle and horses, all the houses and fields, and hand over all the salt and iron industries, they will not do business, just want to take the leftovers. It is not enough to spend the money to be a rich man and enjoy his old age with peace of mind.

Originally thought that the two emperors, Wen and Jing, were ruthless enough to move the mausoleum and the other to cut down the vassal. Now Emperor Liu Che let them understand that there are more ruthless ones!

The world's powerful gentry can be said to be in dire straits, and they pray every day for the emperor Liu Che to die quickly.

(End of this chapter)