A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 491: The feudal system of the emperor of Jin, the return of Luoyang Epidemic King

Ankang 2nd year
New Year
With the help of Queen Mother Sima, Sima Yan forced the five-year-old emperor Liu Gong to hand over the imperial seal to him, and built a concession stand to express his acceptance of the concession and ascend the throne as emperor.

The country was named Jin, Luoyang was changed to Luoyang, the capital was still Luoyang, and the second year of Ankang was changed to the first year of Taishi.

Liu Gong was granted the title of King of Chenliu, and he was granted the title of King of Chenliu, with a population of 10,000 households, but his palace was arranged in Yecheng.

He was also given the right to use the emperor's banner, prepare the five o'clock auxiliary chariots, and conduct the Han Dynasty's righteous and solemn rituals. The ritual and music system of offering sacrifices to heaven and earth in the suburbs was inherited from the Han system.

The strange thing is that after Sima Yan proclaimed himself emperor, the world was quiet, as if nothing had happened. There was no turmoil, no rebellion, and only sporadic sounds of arresting traitors.

The first year of Taishi
March
Sima Yan made his concubine Yang Yan the queen, and also made Sima Zhong, the former prince of the Jin Dynasty, the crown prince.

Sima Zhong was not the eldest son of Sima Yan, but the second son. However, the eldest son died young, so Sima Zhong became the legitimate eldest son.

September
Sima Yan began to reward meritorious ministers. Those with minor merits were granted the title of marquis, and those with greater merits were given the title of duke.

He regarded the duke as a title with the same nature as the marquis, but higher than the marquis, and used it to reward meritorious officials who were attached to the Sima clan.

Among them were Grand Sima Shibao, Chariot and Cavalry General Chen Qian, Shangshu Ling He Qiao, Zhongshu Ling He Shao, Situ Jia Chong, Sikong Xunyi, Shizhong Xunxu,

More than 20 people, including Taibao Wang Xiang, Taiwei He Zeng, Hou General Wang Shen, Zhenbei General Wei Guan, and Zhenxi General Yang Hu, were all granted the title of public official.

Then, he inherited the rewards from the former Han Dynasty, canonized Bai Yu as the King of Bai, and Bai Biao as the Duke of Bai, to win over the most important force, the Bai Kingdom.

What surprised Sima Yan was that Bai didn't say a word, as if he was just a passerby. He just sent someone to take over the seal without explaining anything to the world.

But Sima Yan obviously couldn't take care of Bai, and he had to deal with other problems that were coming one after another.

In order to prevent the aristocratic families from losing their tail, he also believed that the reason why Yanhan was destroyed by him was because the royal family was isolated and helpless. Not only did it not receive the support of the princes and kings, but it also treated the princes and kings like prisoners.

Therefore, he named all the descendants of his ancestor Sima Yi and his descendants as kings, so that in the Sima clan, there were twenty-seven people who were named kings at the same time, and all of them made the county their country.

And it can also allow the feudal king to fight against the increasingly powerful aristocratic families.

In order to prevent the governor from uniting with local aristocratic families and relying on state and county soldiers to cause chaos.

Sima Yan began to reduce the number of state and county soldiers step by step. He planned to retain necessary state and county soldiers in key areas such as the border, and would not set up any county soldiers in the counties in the hinterland.

The intention was to suppress the local area with the royal soldiers of the Sima clan.

He made a small state with 20,000 households in the city, and established three armies of upper, middle and lower troops with 5,000 soldiers; 10,000 households in the city became a secondary state, with an upper and lower army with 3,000 soldiers; and 5,000 households became a small state. There are 1,500 soldiers.

Sima Yan's uncles Sima Qian, Sima Lun, and Sima Liang were named King of Pingyuan, King of Langxie, and King of Fufeng respectively, and his younger brother Sima You was named King of Qi. They were all great powers.

The other heroes also have their own rewards and punishments, either as marquis or as duke.

The princes were so widely enfeoffed by Sima Yan, which greatly weakened the sanctity and mystery of the Bai family, and affected the prestige of the Bai family in the scholarly community.

However, although Sima Yan formulated the feudal system, he did not actually allow the various clans, princes and kings to enfeoff, and they all still stayed in Luoyang temporarily, so the kingdom's army stipulated in the system has not yet been established.

Sima Yan's Imperial Army (Chinese Army) is still the largest and most elite army in the world.

Moreover, Sima Yan also abandoned the prime minister system, re-established the three ministers, used Shangshutai and Zhongshutai to implement his will, and completely abolished the Jiuqing system.

Under the chancellery, six ministers were divided into thirty-five ministers, serving as the highest administrative agency in the country.

He also changed the Zhongshu Desk to the Zhongshu Province, and established the Zhongshu Ling and Zhongshu Supervisors, who also served as the highest officials of the Zhongshu Province.

Therefore, the Shangshutai essentially took over the rights of the Prime Minister, and the Eight Dukes, except for Situ, basically became empty titles to see Sima Yan's pampering of honorable ministers and relatives.

The second year of Taishi
September
The Yellow River burst its banks and flooded the four prefectures of Qing, Xu, Yan, and Henan. People were displaced and had no food to eat.

Sima Yan immediately ordered the garrison to block the breach and open the granary to provide relief to the victims.

He also sent censors from the Censorship Station to the local areas to strictly supervise the whereabouts of food.

December

The floods in the four states have basically subsided, and the Jin court founded by Sima Yan exuded the glory of Zhu Xia Zhengshuo in the eyes of the world for the first time.

In the third year of Taishi
Due to the need to stabilize the court and gradually realize the policies previously promised to various families, Sima Yan had no time to take care of Jiangdong and had to launch a soft offensive against him.

And issued five edicts to rest with the people:
"The first is to rectify one's body, the second is to work hard for the people, the third is to care for the orphans and widows, the fourth is to maintain one's livelihood, and the fifth is to deal with personnel matters."

That is to say, we should implement a relatively loose, open, frugal and pragmatic governance strategy.

He believes that in the late Yanhan period, especially starting from Emperor Yuan, in order to pacify the barbarians and conquer Jiangdong, the emperor shifted the powerful material burden to the people in order to satisfy his own selfish desires.

However, Jiangdong was still unjust, and conflicts continued year after year. In order to resist the attacks of Soochow, soldiers were constantly recruited to join the effort, making the Han-Wu border a veritable flesh-and-blood defense line.

The long-term war has added a sense of fear and exhaustion to the people's psychology in addition to their bleak livelihood.

Although there was a moment of rest, Yan Han spent most of his time in battle.

This has also caused the entire world's politics to become increasingly harsh, and the social atmosphere to become corrupt. The people cannot see the hope of unifying the world.

Sima Yan saw this situation and issued this edict.

March
Sima Yan revised the "Nine-Rank Officials Law", abolished the Zhongzheng Mansion and the Zhongzheng Order, and made Situ responsible for all things evaluated. And the sources of the great and small officers were handed over to the local authorities, but they followed the practice that they must be officials who hold positions in the central government and have high moral standing, and are finally appointed by the central government.

It is equivalent to depriving part of the right to select officials from the court and returning it to the aristocratic family.

The sixth year of Taishi
Sun Xiu, the commander-in-chief of Xiakou and former general of Wu State, was defeated in the domestic political struggle and led his troops to surrender to Jin State.

Sima Yan worshiped him as General of Hussars, Kaifu Yitong and the Third Division, and was granted the title Duke of Kuaiji.

Encouraged by Sun Xiu, Wu State continued to have generals leading troops to surrender.

Taishi ten years
Wu Guowei's northern general Yan Cong, Yangwei general Yan Zheng, and partial general Zhu Mai crossed the river and surrendered. Sima Yan rewarded them one by one.

June
In order to dredge the Yellow River waterway, Sima Yan agreed to the petition of the minister who was good at water conservancy, cut through the Shaannan Mountains, blocked the Yellow River, and made the Yellow River flow eastward into the Luoshui River to make water transportation smooth.

In the same year, the reign name was changed to "Xianning".

The first year of Xianning
Sima Yan followed his grandfather Sima Yi as Emperor Xuan, his temple title was Gaozu, his uncle Sima Shi was Shizong, and his father Sima Zhao was Taizu.

April
A major epidemic broke out in Luoyang, killing most of the city's population.

Sima Yan had no choice but to ask for help from Bai Yu of the Bai Mansion, and asked the Bai Kingdom Physician Mansion, which had the largest number of doctors in the world, to mobilize to assist Luoyang.

Bai Yu agreed.

April 25
The Baiguo Medical Office sent a team of hundreds of doctors, medical students, etc. to Luo.

At the same time, doctors from all over the country heard the news and came to Luoyang one after another to assist the Imperial Hospital and Luoyang folk doctors in suppressing the epidemic.

October
The epidemic in Luoyang was completely eliminated.

October 20

Under the organization of the White House, nearly a thousand doctors held an epidemic debate meeting in Luoyang. The White House compiled the remarks made at the meeting and compiled it into a book called the "Epidemic Book".

He also recruited a large number of scholars to copy and distribute it to doctors who left Luoyang, so that it could be spread throughout the world.

From then on, the world rarely appeared, and it was just a matter of half the city dying due to the plague.

The Bai family's influence, which had been declining before, is showing signs of revival.

But Sima Yan had no choice but to reward the Baiguo doctors who came to Luo in large quantities to show his generosity.

They secretly used inducements to retain many people in the team and organized them into Taiyuan Hospital.

It has greatly improved the medical level of Tai Hospital and benefited me.

November

Sima Yan made great contributions to suppressing the epidemic with white label and was worshiped as Dazai. And allowed Bai Yu to return to the country.

Dazai's original name was Taishi, but Sima Yan changed it to Dazai in order to avoid Sima Shi's name.

The second year of Xianning
New Year
Bai Yu, who had been under house arrest in Luoyang for more than ten years, finally returned to his loyal Bai country.

The people of the Bai Kingdom lined the streets to welcome him, and they all wanted to see the face of the White King who had been away from the country for many years.

Bai Yu did not disappoint them. He changed to a high-speed car outside the gate of Chaoge City and was able to let the people see him.

Seeing the old Bai Yu, who was nearly ninety years old, waving to him tremblingly, all the people in the Bai Kingdom burst into tears.

"Your Majesty, you have suffered!" An old man in the crowd couldn't help but fell on the ground and cried loudly.

This was like a fuse, igniting the atmosphere of the whole place. People fell on the ground and cried bitterly, regardless of old or young, high or low.

Seeing the scene where people were crying everywhere, Bai Yu couldn't help but shed tears and forced Bai Yan beside him to help him up.

He walked tremblingly to the side of the car, and said loudly to the people on both sides in his not-so-loud voice:

"Don't cry, people of the Bai Kingdom. As long as the Bai Kingdom is still there, everyone can live a prosperous life. What does this king's hardship mean?

The reason why I can return home safely from Luoyang is only because of you. It is precisely because you have frightened those who have the intention to harm me in the country that I can return home safely.

People, we are Bai people, we must be strong, we must be the most important backbone of the world.

I remember when our ancestors faced King Wu of Zhou, King Wu said: Get up, you must hold up the backbone of the Zhou people.

Today, here, I also want to say to you: Get up, you must hold up the backbone of Zhu Xia. "

Under Bai Yu's impassioned speech, the people around him stood up one after another, roaring like a tsunami:
"The Bai Kingdom will last for tens of thousands of years, and the Zhuxia Kingdom will last for tens of thousands of years!!!"

Such high-pitched shouts continued until Bai Yu's high-speed car entered the White House, and then dissipated over Chaoge.

With Bai Yu's return, Bai's long-standing resistance to the imperial court was finally alleviated, and Bai Yan was finally able to shift from appeasing domestic sentiment to other aspects.

(End of this chapter)