The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 288 The Jin court is full of flaws

Sometimes, Liu Tai in the north really hoped that the Jin court would cause more trouble, because only if the Jin court caused trouble would he have a chance.

After all, many times the enemies in novels are extremely resourceful, have thousands of miles of plans, are tenacious, and distort the entire world just to correct an obsession in their hearts.

But in reality, when two sides often compete, it is not necessarily the one who does something shocking, but often the opponent who makes the mistake first.

This made Liu Tai sometimes couldn't help but wonder whether it was necessary for him to plan thousands of miles to deal with them.

Sometimes, Liu Tai would even pray to Jin Ting to ask if you could stop making mistakes so quickly, which made him want to attack Jin Ting, but he had to endure it because of Yongji Qu.

I can only mutter silently in my heart: "This is the other side's plan to consume its own war potential. This is the other side's plan to consume its own war potential..."

The reason Liu Tai had such an idea was that when he was doing large-scale spring plowing, the Jin court heard that Sima Rui had issued an edict to exempt the northern civilians who had become slaves or guests of the wealthy families in the Yangzhou area from their status as slaves. He was incorporated into the military register and political reforms were led by Sima Rui's cronies Liu Wei and Dai Yuan.

"Can we still let people stop? Where is the reform of the spring plowing season? Do you, the Jin Dynasty, not pay attention to spring plowing?"

Liu Tai didn't understand what Jin Ting was going to do, but seeing that he and Jiankang were at least two months behind in information circulation speed, Liu Tai knew very well that Jin Ting promulgated this policy almost right after the New Year. It didn't take long.

Therefore, Liu Tai did not understand what Jin Ting was going to do?

At least from Liu Tai's perspective, the combination of Sima Rui and the Langya Wang family can't be said to be very good, but at least it's not too big.

At least as long as Sima Rui doesn't do anything, it won't be easy even if he wants to go south.

After all, my policy is not good for the wealthy families, so the wealthy families will definitely resist when I march south.

Not to mention that they are united, but as long as they are united a little, and then take the route of strengthening the walls and clearing the country, and stick to the route of waiting for help, it will definitely not be easy to take down one city after another.

Therefore, Liu Tai did not dare to underestimate the combination of Sima Rui and the Langya Wang family. They planned to build the Yongji Canal. They fought for the organization and operation efficiency of the entire political system. At least, this was definitely something that the Jin court could not compare with.

Now that he is looking at the policies promulgated by Sima Rui, at least Liu Tai understands that Sima Rui wants to take meat from the wealthy families.

The problem is that you, Sima Rui, have no army and no reputation. In fact, the foundation of the Qianlian country itself was supported by aristocratic families.

The policy you can use must be to borrow the strength of aristocratic families, and then by borrowing strength again and again, you can master your own armed forces and cultivate your own political group, and then take control of power.

How can there be someone like you who carries out political reforms, only to unconditionally attack the entire scholar class who supports you?

What is this, cutting off one’s own foundation? Is the position you are sitting in really so stable? I don’t understand, Liu Tai really doesn’t understand.

Is the system promulgated by Sima Rui a good system? It is naturally a good system, especially the guest system. In Liu Tai’s opinion, it is somewhat of a prototype of the Hakka household registration system. It can be said that Sima Rui’s group can propose such a system. You really put your heart into it.

The general environment of this whole system is that due to the Yongjia Rebellion, people migrated south, and many good people from the north fled to the south. This was not bad for the aristocratic families. They relied on the reputation they had accumulated in the past and supported the Jin court with the help of Sima Rui. Found a place to stay.

But the people who crossed over to the south together were not so good.

They really didn't bring anything except people.

In order to survive, it was natural to seek refuge among aristocratic families in the north or wealthy families in the south.

Under such circumstances, hiding the population was naturally the most popular during this period.

Under Wang Dao's governance, he understood that the northern nobles wanted to gain a foothold in the south. They did not ask for much support from the southern aristocratic families, but at least they could not be hostile to him.

Therefore, they took this matter as the common benefit of the southern gentry and the northern gentry, and everyone worked together to hide the population.

In the early days, Director Wang's policy of completely leaning towards aristocratic families allowed Sima Rui to gain a firm foothold in Jiangnan.

The policy now promulgated by Sima Rui has naturally shaken the interests of the family. Of course, it only involves interests, not the foundation.

But you must know that there is Liu Taizai in the north who is more harsh on the aristocratic family, and the slight loss of interests can be tolerated.

For these nobles, they are also afraid. They are afraid that Sima Rui will watch Liu Tai ask for anything from the northern aristocratic family. The northern aristocratic family will not struggle, thinking that the family is easy to bully. If you don't resist Sima Rui, Sima Rui will really think that he is you. Pinch.

Liu Tai did not estimate his own status, but Liu Tai knew very well that if he wanted to get the nobles to hand over their interests with an edict, only Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty could do it.

As for himself, he is just setting new rules as a winner. Otherwise, even if he is given the position of emperor, he will not know who he should trust to implement his policies.

Therefore, when Liu Tai received the news from Sima Rui, he felt helpless. If your sister has any tricks, can you wait until I build the Yongji Canal?

Don't make yourself feel itchy while I am building the Yongji Canal by performing one risqué operation after another.

I have already invested so much sunk cost in the Yongji Canal. It is impossible that the Yongji Canal is just a little short of it. In the end, I will put down the Yongji Canal project first, and then go to conquer the Jin Dynasty!

Liu Tai has always thought that he would have a headache when facing a master like Zu Ti who could not see any obvious flaws.

But now, Liu Tai felt that Sima Rui, a good guy like Sima Rui who he felt was obviously full of flaws but was stuck in time, felt embarrassed.

There is even some doubt that Sima Rui wants to test his strategic determination, right? !

No matter how he said it, at least Liu Tai felt that he should wait and see before talking. He just hoped to pray to God whether the tolerance of Jin Ting's family could be a little higher.

Or for the sake of spring plowing around the corner, don't start a fight. How about you hold on until the Yongji Canal is built and then fight again!

"Your Majesty, I have brought you your favorite longan and lotus seed soup. Honey is added to it. Have a try!"

At this time, Wang Wei asked someone to bring longan and lotus seed soup to Liu Tai and said.

When Liu Tai heard Wang Wei's words, he took the longan and lotus seed soup from the waiter and drank it quickly, then put it on a tray for the waiter to send down. Then Liu Tai said to Wang Wei: "Why are you here today?"

Wang Wei said to Liu Tai, "According to the imperial doctor's diagnosis, I am pregnant again, but it is not convenient for me to serve the king these days!" "Oh?!" Liu Tai said slightly reproachfully after hearing Wang Wei's words, "Then why are you still here today? Here, you should have a good rest in Kunning Palace."

"I'm afraid of spoiling your Majesty's interest. You should pay more attention to the two girls Xi and Wen when you have time!" Wang Wei smiled at Liu Tai, "I don't want to be known as jealous."

"I know, I know!" After Liu Tai heard Wang Wei's words, he waved to Wang Wei and said, "You make the arrangements!"

Because compared to Liu Cong and Liu Yao, who want to gather all the beauties in the world under his command and have fun every night, and wish they could die on their belly, Liu Tai is another type.

Basically, after having Wang Wei, he stopped looking for women. It wasn't that Liu Tai didn't want to look for her. It was just that all he wanted was to dominate the world. Now that he only occupied Hebei, how could he relax his vigilance and live his life? Then play music and dance to the rhythm of life.

But the court officials felt that it was unreasonable to see Liu Tai's behavior. If Wang Wei had not given birth to a son as his heir, the court officials were afraid that they would open a harem to Liu Taiguang and carry on the family line.

After all, although Liu Tai was young, he had no descendants to inherit Liu Tai's career, which made the courtiers feel too insecure.

They even feel that this is not enough. After all, Wang Wei only gives birth to one child a year, and she also has a daughter. How can this be enough?

So Liu Tai took in two more women as concubines, one was Xi Xuan, the daughter of Xi Jian, and the other was Wen Guang, the daughter of Wen Qiao.

Due to political considerations, Liu Tai and Xi Jianshui voluntarily surrendered as representatives of their own noble clans, while Wen Qiao was a representative of the noble clans who surrendered to him as an old minister of the Jin court. Therefore, accepting their daughter was somewhat of a comfort to both noble families.

As for where I sleep every day, I usually leave it to Wang Wei to take care of the arrangements.

However, I usually spend about half of the days with Wang Wei every month, and the remaining days are equally divided with Xi Xuan and Wen Guang.

Now that Wang Wei is pregnant, although Wang Wei still arranges it, the number of days she sleeps with her will be divided.

To a certain extent, where and who you sleep with on any given day are all political activities. Of course, you can do whatever you want regardless of it, and naturally no one can stop you.

But Liu Tai understood very well that the stability of his harem would stabilize the situation in the court, and the best way to stabilize the harem was to let Wang Wei, a legitimate princess, take charge and set the rules.

If she takes power in the harem, the entire harem will not be in chaos, and naturally she must respect Wang Wei's rights.

Soon, under Wang Wei's arrangement, she went to Xi Xuan's place today. Xi Xuan was a little surprised to see Liu Tai's arrival. Her voice was as sweet as a clear spring flowing, and she said, "The king is resting at his concubine's place today? Princess, can you?" Do you know?"

"Xiao Xuan'er, without the arrangement of the princess, how could I dare to enter this room today!" Liu Tai calmly laughed at himself.

"Your Majesty, you are joking. Your Majesty, you are unparalleled in this world. If you don't cherish the princess and sister, how can you respect her so much!" Xi Xuan couldn't help but sigh with a little emotion when she heard Liu Tai's words.

To be honest, Xi Xuan originally thought that she had arrived at Liu Tai's harem, and what followed was all kinds of infighting. I am afraid that all the conspiracies and tricks within the royal family that she read in the villain's book will be used. .

In the end, there was nothing. Liu Tai's harem was completely left to Wang Wei. Wang Wei could do whatever Liu Tai said, unlike the King of Han who ruled in Hebei.

But just like that, I also have a lot of free time. Not to mention, I have more time to practice calligraphy. Compared with when I was at home, there doesn't seem to be much difference.

Liu Tai also came over, looked at Xi Xuan's handwriting, and sighed:

"Xiao Xuan'er, your writing is calm, smooth, and majestic. It's really hard to imagine that this was written by a woman."

"What's wrong with the woman!" After hearing Liu Tai's words, Xi Xuan said with a bit of reluctance, "Your Majesty, don't underestimate my calligraphy just because I am a woman. Even my brother They all boast about my handwriting!"

"How could I!" Liu Tai heard Xiao Xi Xuan's words, went over and put his hands around Xi Xuan's waist, and sighed slightly, "It's a pity that you became my concubine, otherwise you would have traveled thousands of miles , meet all kinds of people, and then put your thoughts on paper, I am afraid that you will really be able to stand out in the field of calligraphy, and it will not be difficult even if you are famous in history."

"Your Majesty, your Majesty, who do you think has the best calligraphy among us?" Xi Xuan asked somewhat curiously.

"Xiao Xuan'er, you are testing me!" Liu Tai said and shook his head, "It doesn't make sense who has the best calligraphy now. When I conquer Jin Ting, you will naturally know who is the best in calligraphy in the world!"

"Oh?" Xi Xuan was more or less surprised when she heard Liu Tai's words.

Because Xi Xuan naturally understood. Listening to Liu Tai's tone, it was obvious that there was someone in the Jin court who was unparalleled in calligraphy, but who had such talent and dared to claim to be the first in calligraphy? Even the king said it was somewhat unquestionable. Feeling.

However, Xi Xuan suddenly became smart because she felt Liu Tai's hands climbing up dishonestly.

Xi Xuan couldn't help but blush with embarrassment, and said in a jingling voice, "Your Majesty, it's not dark yet, and I still have to practice my calligraphy."

"It's okay. Concentration is the most important thing when writing. I'm here to train you to practice concentration. I believe that from now on you will have a straight heart, a straight hand, and a straight handwriting!" Liu Tai shamelessly continued to tease, "Xiao Xuan'er, I believe you can!"

Xi Xuan felt the warmth blowing on her ears and felt that her whole body had softened a bit. She wanted to continue writing, but she felt that her hand holding the pen could no longer hold the pen. She just blushed and said, "Your Majesty. , you are so bad."

Liu Tai smiled and did not answer, but had an in-depth exchange with Xi Xuan.

The next day, Liu Tai got up as usual, looked at Xi Xuan who was sleeping, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, the quilt will really weaken the will, and if there is a warm fragrance and warm jade in the quilt, it will be even more intoxicating.

However, workers are not entitled to rest. Since it’s time, they have to get up and work!

After washing and eating, Liu Tai came to the Interior Department and saw that everyone was already at work.

Seeing Liu Tai coming, a group of people also stood up and saluted Liu Tai and said, "I have met the king!"

"Did anything happen today?" Liu Tai couldn't help but ask everyone.

"Your Majesty, many Jinshi have returned since March, but most of them have no business. Should we arrange for them to conduct inspections first?" Chu Hui stood up and asked.

"Yes!" Liu Tai nodded and said, "Let them pay more attention to the grassroots level. If there is anything illegal, they can report it. If there is anything unclear, they can record it. Their daily diary should be used as a reference for their performance."

"I obey the order." Chu Hui replied to Liu Tai.

(End of this chapter)