sinovels Chapter 256 The first year of Guangxing
Chapter 256 The first year of Guangxing
In the 11th year of Shunde, Li An, the king of Hengshui, occupied the east of Runing, enclosed the land and established the country, and established himself as king, called Jinchuan.In the same year, he sent troops to attack Runing to attack Li Mu, occupied Runing in the spring of the 12th year of Shunde, cut off Li Mu's head and hung it on the city wall for more than a month.
Before Li An was firmly established in Runing, Huang Fu led the Red Lotus Sect to attack from the south, and the army besieged the city for two months, draining Li An alive.
Li An sent someone to seek help from Xiangshan King Li Mao, but the envoy was killed by a mysterious force on the way. The news did not reach the city in time, and Huang Fu's army entered the city. Li An abandoned the city and was defeated. .Huang Fu entered Runing and ascended the throne in the southern suburbs of Runing.
In the autumn of the 12th year of Shunde, Wei Tingxu served in Pingcang as the emperor, and his country name was Boling, the capital of Cangding, which was changed to Yuan Guangxing.
So far, the former Great Yu has been divided into four big countries and six small countries, and Cang monopolizes seven counties.In the first year of Guangxing, Wei Tingxu led his troops to attack Huang Fu. In the next year, Huang Fu was defeated and fled to Yi County.Zhen Wenjun led his troops to pursue for three hundred miles and killed Huang Fu in the northern suburb of Yi County.In June, the Cang army went north to recover two counties.
In the winter of the second year of Guangxing, the world was initially determined, and the emperor bestowed awards on all officials and generals, and released them.At the beginning of the founding of the country, there were only three public offices and six departments in the center, and the number of officials was reduced. At the beginning of the founding of the country, the number of officials in the court and central government was no more than 500.
The brand-new empire built by Wei Tingxu himself no longer repeats Yu's old path, the extremely complex and bloated structure of interlocking interests is no longer there, and the light and transparent center can be easily operated with only a small amount of tax.
In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Wei Tingxu abolished the mountain and sea tax and salt tax, and returned industries such as salt mine fishery that were originally operated by the central government to the private sector.The tax is set at one-fortieth, which is lower than one-thirtieth of Yushi.The corvee was also reduced from 20 days per year in the previous dynasty to [-] days per year, and even the commercial levy on Wanxiang Road was temporarily suspended.
Driven by a series of good trade policies and the rolling wealth brought by the road of universal direction, Cang's economy prospered rapidly. The capital city, Boling, Jiuqu, and three cities, had hundreds of flowers and thousands of flowers. In the third year of Guangxing, the total population of the country recovered to 270. Ten thousand households.
At that time, Cang Kingdom was still surrounded by powerful enemies, and there was a constant tussle with the four kingdoms of Xuan, Ming, Rao, and Meng.
Cang's economy prospered under the impetus of the powerful center headed by Wei Tingxu. All nations came to the DPRK and brought countless advanced ideas and technologies.
Wei Tingxu doesn't take these four small countries seriously, but the other country should not be underestimated.
That is Changge, a great country in the south that rose rapidly in the second year of Guangxing.
The Changge country occupies the four counties of Zhanjing, Julu, Huaiyang, and Nanya, and even includes Sudu into its territory.The generals of the Changge Kingdom have many advisers everywhere, farmers and businesses develop together, and they also occupy the key points of the commercial corridor of the Wanxiang Road.If it weren't for the close relationship between the King of Changge Kingdom and the Emperor Dacang, if Cang wanted to enjoy the sweetness of the Wanxiang Road, he would still need to fight for it.
How the Changge Kingdom was born depends on the first year of Guangxing.
In the first month of the first year of Guangxing, the cold wind was like a knife, especially in the small town of Nanling, which was very cold every winter.
When Wei Tingxu returned to Boling, he happened to pass by Nanling.
Nanling was the fief for Empress Dowager Geng and Gong'er back then, and they haven't seen each other for many years. The clever Gong'er back then was already the slim Nanling Marquis Li Rong, but he didn't like to talk much.Living in Nanling can be regarded as having enough food and clothing. Her biggest hobby is reading and playing the piano. There are two maids serving her, and she never smiles.
Wei Tingxu came to Nanling and asked her how she was doing recently, but she didn't say a word and didn't answer her, she didn't even play the piano, and wanted to leave.
Wei Tingxu sat down and asked her why she didn't play, Li Rong sneered and said, "Seeing that you feel disgusted, I don't want to play anymore."
As soon as these words came out, the guards around the pavilion immediately came up to take her down, Li Rong didn't blink, she was very indifferent, she was waiting for this day.
Wei Tingxu waved his hand to make everyone retreat, leaving only her and Li Rong.
Li Rong glanced at her legs, and slowly reached for the dagger hidden in her waist.
"I forgot to remind you, even if the guards leave, my hidden guards will be everywhere in the yard. When you draw out your dagger, you will be shot into pieces."
Li Rong paused for a while with his hands hanging around his waist, trying to find even the slightest flaw on Wei Tingxu's face.It's a pity that she didn't find it until the end. She scratched her waist with her fingers and sat down.
"What exactly do you want?"
Wei Tingxu smiled at her: "Just drop in to see you."
Li Rong didn't appreciate it at all, showing a smirk, and asked, "Does it look good?" Before Wei Tingxu could respond, she changed her face again, "It's been a long time, when I think of you, there is always only a little blur Seeing you now makes me more sure of one thing."
Li Rong suddenly raised her voice: "You are a typical treacherous minister in the history books, the kind of treacherous minister who is punished by everyone and will be stigmatized for thousands of years! But now you are going to be the emperor, and when you ascend the throne, the common people will not know about it hundreds of years later. How many bad things you have done today, will the history books record your glorious deeds? Tell me, are the so-called virtuous monarchs recorded in those history books just like you, but in fact their hands are covered with the blood of innocent people, A villain who ascended to the throne of God by stepping on a dead body? Are those holy masters who are praised by later generations as shameless as you?!"
Li Rong was trapped in the small Nanling and grew up alone.She has been watched all the time when she was growing up, and there are several pairs of eyes staring at her no matter what she does, even when she is taking a bath and bathing, there are people sitting next to her.
No one wanted to talk to her, and she slowly became silent.
Her personality is also slowly changing, and she wants to tell Wei Tingxu a lot, one year, three years, five years... After so many years, she finally waited for Wei Tingxu to come, and finally she was able to put away the resentment in her heart cursed out.
She was sure that she would definitely be able to scold Wei Tingxu speechlessly this time.
Faced with Li Rong's accusation, Wei Tingxu's smile remained undiminished, and after hearing her accusation, he asked back: "Assisting a foolish king, is it loyalty or treachery?"
Li Rong didn't expect her to say that, and was taken aback for a moment.She really hadn't thought about this question.
"To overthrow a decaying empire, is it loyal or traitorous? To collude with a ruined empire, is it loyal or traitorous? To save 1000 lives and let them continue to suffer, or to kill 1 people to reap eternal benefits, which one would you choose?" ?”
Wei Tingxu stood up, brushing his long sleeves in front of him.Li Rong opened her mouth, but couldn't really speak.
Li Rong actually knew how to answer, but her answer just happened to refute the previous accusation, her own accusation.
Watching Wei Tingxu leaving, Li Rong was so angry that a blush of annoyance appeared on her face.
"I don't like Wei Tingxu."
As the sun set, the wind blew up along the river bank, but Li Rong refused to go home, and sat there to eat the wind.
"I don't like it either." Xiao Xiao stood behind her, staring at the back of her head, with a mischievous smile on his lips, "Hey, I heard your baby name is Gong'er?"
Li Rong didn't speak.
"is that true?"
"I forgot."
"Can you forget this kind of thing?"
"After the death of the imperial grandmother, no one called me that again."
Xiao Xiao didn't expect such a good topic to be talked about by himself, he coughed dryly and didn't know what to say next.
It was rare for Li Rong to take the initiative to speak.
"How long are you going to stay in Nanling?"
"I'm stationed here, when will I leave after fighting the Ming army. But I'm not sure, I always feel that Wei Tingxu asked me to stay in Pingcang, staying in her territory is to restrain my mother."
"Who is your mother?"
"Zhen Wenjun, do you know? The female general, the most powerful one."
"Oh. The one from Wei Tingxu's family."
"...I really don't like Wei Tingxu, really."
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In the autumn of 12 in Shunde, Wei Tingxu finally reached this step, reaching the unfinished peak of his father Wei Lun.
When she was wearing a dress, standing on the high stone steps of the Chonghua Hall with the sun and the moon on her shoulders, and greeted the hundreds of officials on the huge square in front of the hall bowing their heads and shouting "Long Live", no one could see clearly the twelve halls hanging down. What kind of expression does the Empress look like after wearing the crown?
In the new establishment of the country, a thousand wastes are waiting to be rejuvenated, and everything is kept simple.
There was no extravagance in Wei Tingxu's enthronement ceremony. After the ceremony, she personally counted the treasury together with Shang Shuling to ensure that the money in the treasury was not misused and embezzled.From the first day of her ascension to the throne in the first year of Guangxing, she put forward a strict anti-corruption law together with Amnesty. From the Sangong to the local prefect, as long as they corrupt more than a hundred taels of silver, they will not be pardoned.
She has experienced the decline and fall of the Great Yu, and she knows what the foundation of a country is, and she will never repeat the same mistakes.
Of course, she can only guarantee that when she is alive, the people of Dacang can live and work in peace and contentment, and there is a strong army to ensure the safety of the border.As for what the country will become after her death, and whether it will be defeated by some unscrupulous person after many years, she doesn't know, and she can't control it.
"What I can do is to open this end well, lay a good foundation for the prosperity of the empire, and make Qiongyu's high-rise buildings fall more slowly." Wei Tingxu has been heading for a month in a row, with a little wind and cold, let himself rest today It also allowed the ministers who got up early for a whole month to sleep well and recuperate.She walked with Changsun Wu on the Tianjing corridor leading to the imperial garden, looking at the flowers on both sides, her words were sober and relaxed.
Changsun Wu smiled, and wanted to say something joking, but the person in front of him was no longer his childhood sweetheart, but the emperor of the kingdom of ten thousand chariots.Although Chang Sun Wu was a great general and duke, he handed over the military power to the center early. Last month, he submitted a memorial to the emperor to return to the fief for the elderly. Wei Tingxu has not responded directly to him.
"Zhanying can say whatever she wants." Wei Tingxu didn't have to go up, he was wearing light casual clothes, even if he coughed, he couldn't slow her down.
Chang Sun Wu shook his head, but still didn't say anything.
Do you want to say that every emperor wants to live forever, and the word 'death' is the most taboo, but I don't avoid it at all.Long live has been heard a lot, but whether it can really be long live, I know very well.
Wei Tingxu went through what he wanted to say in his mind, but didn't speak, and stared into the eyes of Chang Sun Wu.
The eldest Sun Wu Yinli lowered his eyes and did not look directly at her.
"If you want to go back to Dongchun, go back." Wei Tingxu took a quick step and walked towards the imperial garden.
"Thank you, Your Majesty." The elder Sun Wu bowed down to thank him, and when he got up, Wei Tingxu and his attendants had already walked away.
Chang Sun Wu got up and went out. A group of female officials came from a distance. He recognized at a glance that they were the newly promoted female officials who were inscribed on this year's King Kong List.As they walked, they talked about Confucian classics and the way of governing the country, and their faces were red when they talked about the fierce dispute.
Chang Sun Wu stood aside and listened for a long while, and his insights were indeed extraordinary, completely different from those who relied on family power to secure high officials back then.Listening to their accents, they are not ordinary people. Most of them were admitted to the center from small local counties by virtue of their own abilities.
Soon a group of male officials also joined the discussion, and no one was convinced. They planned to stay up all night to write a memorial, and submit it to the emperor next morning.The emperor Bao Yuan Lude followed her admonitions like a stream, and once the memorial was submitted to her, the high and low would be judged.
The young newly promoted officials are ambitious and dedicated to the country. Although they are still a little immature, they are likable.
Sun Wu, the eldest son, was happy to listen and didn't want to leave.
But he had to go.
The eldest grandson's family and the Wei family are family friends, and since his grandfather's grandfather's grandfather's generation, the two families have been very close.It is said that the elder Sun's family was the counselor of the Wei family, and the two families followed the Taizu to lay down the great power of Da Yu.Knowing that they won’t be able to save their lives after winning the country, the two families went through the difficulties hand in hand, knowing that each other is in a relationship with each other. After that, the interests of generations have been linked and cooperated seamlessly until the establishment of this brand new empire.
In fact, it’s okay, most people make contributions in the first half of their lives only for the safety and happiness of their children and grandchildren in the second half of their lives.Although he may not have any children and grandchildren, he is also one of the majority.The momentary fear of life and death on the battlefield often appears in his dreams. Now that he has his own fiefdom, as long as the descendants of the eldest grandson's family have the right to be exempted from taxes and corvee, he is very satisfied.
Isn't it for the day when Guotai and Minan are disarmed and returned to the fields?Chang Sun Wu felt that he was not at a loss.
It's just that there is one less friend and one more monarch.
The grandson Wu returned to the fief, and Ah Liao had also remodeled the Qingyuan to make it more comfortable and spacious. He followed the Wanxiang Road away from the struggle in the Central Plains, and went to visit the mountains and rivers.
Ah Liao knew that Da Cang had just announced that everything was pending, and she needed to stay and continue to help Wei Tingxu.But she also promised Ah Zheng and the others, and she didn't ask about the center after that time in Ming County, and it was three years later that her promise has been dragged on and has not been fulfilled.Ladies naturally wouldn't say much about her, but she felt uncomfortable in her heart.
Wei Tingxu didn't give her any position, only a duke, and didn't reward her too much. I hope she can understand Da Cang's current financial situation.But I gave an IOU in private, as long as she asks, Wei Tingxu's private money bank will always be open to her for any amount at any time.And she doesn't have to worry about anything anymore, Wei Tingxu has already experienced the pain of losing a close friend once, and she doesn't want to experience it again.
She let Ah Liao leave Da Cang without any worries, and travel around the world.
Before leaving, Ah Liao was full of emotions, for Wei Tingxu who finally ascended the throne, and for himself who finally realized his ideal.
The eldest grandson's family left Boling completely, which also made the officials who were about to move with a handful of memorials in their hands calm down a bit.
The former head of the Senate and now the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, Wei He, is the hand of the ministers. Wei Tingxu knows what he advocates without hearing it, and it is nothing more than checks and balances.Except those with the surname "Wei" all seize power, otherwise the history of Yushi will definitely repeat itself.This is not a tragedy, but a law of history.
Wei He didn't need to ask, Wei Tingxu personally planned the coup d'etat that year, and she understood the importance of it better than anyone else.
She didn't respond to Wei He for a long time, and Wei He was very measured and didn't mention it.It wasn't until the Changsun family handed over the military power that Wei He united with the ministers to Shangshu. The target of impeachment this time was Zhen Wenjun, the general who held the world's soldiers and horses.
The existence of Zhen Wenjun is a great threat to the imperial power. If she wants to seize the throne, she may tear Da Cang apart at any time.
What Wei He meant was to let her hand over all military power like the Changsun family, stay away from the central government and not care about the affairs of the court, make her the empress, live in the harem, and only care about the world.
Wei Tingxu didn't give Wei He any response, Wei He has been putting pressure on her more or less quickly, and the pressure quickly disappeared.
Wei Tingxu is a very elusive emperor. Wei He is over 60 years old. Over the past [-] years, he has seen countless people.Now that the empire is being built, it is time for him to unsheath his sharp sword.
He has seen countless people, ranging from the peerless counselors of a generation of emperors, down to market peddlers and pawns. These people will leave clues about what they think and do. Only this empress has kept him in the dark for so many years.
He can't even tell what kind of food Wei Tingxu likes to eat, what kind of aromatherapy he likes to use.
It seems that the relationship between Wei Tingxu and Zhen Wenjun is ambiguous. Sometimes they get close like acting, and sometimes they stay apart, which is even more unreasonable.When he found out that Wei Tingxu had spies placed beside Zhen Wenjun to monitor her every move, he was even more surprised.Are these two together or not?
The emperor built a small courtyard in the palace to enjoy the coolness, named Zhuojun Mansion, which is known to everyone.
The emperor is going to host a banquet at Zhuojun's mansion to reward General Zhen for his triumphant return.
Zhen Wenjun raised his troops to destroy Rao, wiped out the small country closest to Cang, and returned with a big victory.
On the way back to Boling, she received a letter from Wei Tingxu, inviting her to return to Beijing and come to Zhuojun Mansion.
Only her.
Of course, the triumphant army will hold a banquet in another place to clean up the dust, and the private contract between her and Wei Tingxu in Zhuo Jun's mansion belongs to the two of them only.
It has been two months since he set off to attack Rao, and Zhen Wenjun suffered another back injury, and the pain was unbearable. After conquering the main force, there were still some remaining evils, so she asked Lin Mu to command the army, and went to Boling with Bu Jie and some wounded. Walk.
On the way back, step-by-step congratulations to Zhen Wenjun, now she is a general with one person under one person and over ten thousand people, holding a heavy soldier in her hand, and she is the most important minister in Cang.
Zhen Wenjun held the wine pot and poured wine for Bu Jie, but smiled and said nothing.
After Bu Jie talked for himself, he naturally talked about military power.He didn't go to see Zhen Wenjun, although the last time he mentioned this matter, Zhen Wenjun looked at him to stop him from talking, but he is Zhen Wenjun's counselor, taking her salary to be protected by her, it is his duty to plan for the king.Whether Zhen Wenjun likes to listen or not, he is responsible for Zhen Wenjun's interests and even his life.
"After the fall of the Li Dynasty, the general should have seen it more clearly than Wen Sheng. Wei Tingxu has now ascended to the throne, which is what everyone has expected. She is a nine-in-one combination of culture and force, and she is good at governing the country with wealth and poverty. , Some people are born to be generals, some are born to be counselors, and she is born to be an emperor."
Zhen Wenjun filled the wine bottle in front of Bujie with wine, and then filled it up for himself.
"But even she is still unable to escape the curse that emperors have been unable to escape since ancient times." Under the shaking oil lamp, Bu Jie's eyes did not blink, as if what he said was not ordinary words, but his heart and lungs, " She needs to explain to the officials, and needs the balance of the entire center, otherwise why would she destroy Da Yu? What she wants is a brand new empire that can be controlled by her, a dynasty that no one can shake. The Changsun family has left Yes, General, you have to think about it carefully."
Zhen Wenjun didn't speak, and still drank at his own pace.
A thousand cups are not drunk.
He found that Zhen Wenjun sitting in front of him was no longer familiar, and was no longer the little girl whose emotions were written on her face and could be understood at a glance.
Bu Jie was overjoyed, with tears in his eyes, and finally said: "Wen Sheng and the general have been together for twenty years. The ups and downs and ups and downs that the general has experienced in these years, Wen Sheng has been lucky to experience with the general. Someone once understood generals, and Wen Sheng should be one of them. Wen Sheng knew that what a general wants is never glory, wealth, or military power, let alone being the queen of a country in a cage. The general has been pursuing, and what he pursued all his life is nothing but Not to be bound by others. What the general wants is this freedom. If the general surrenders his military power today, what Wei He wants next is that the general will sacrifice his head to prevent future troubles. Will the general give it or not? Take a step back and say Today, the general is willing to give up himself for the emperor, and become the so-called decoration of maintaining the stability of the country in the mouth of the government and the public, but the general should know that it is not uncommon for the kings of the past to show love. What's more, what the emperor cherishes is the current general .The general breaks his wings and breaks the emperor's obsession with the general. Wen Sheng only hopes that the general will think about the state of mind when Sudu broke the game. Are you really willing to give up what you want in this life?"
"Do you know that what you said just now is enough to convict you of treason?"
"Wen Sheng is not afraid of death, he only wishes that the dragon will throw himself into the sea and the tiger will run into the mountains, and let him gallop in the world!"