I'm really not King Jing of Zhongshan

Chapter 431
In Tangyi Hou's Mansion, after performing wildly in front of Liu Xun and Chen Wu, Liu Sheng dragged his tired body and got on the carriage back to Weiyang Palace.

It's just that along the way, Liu Sheng was thinking.

How embarrassing it is to think about my current situation...

Although Liu Sheng didn't pay much attention to it, it has to be mentioned incidentally that Maoling, the resting place of Liu Sheng's soul after his death, started construction as early as the first year of Liu Shenggai's first year.

This is normal.

Perhaps for other feudal regimes, it is extremely disrespectful and extremely unlucky to start building imperial mausoleums from the time the king ascended the throne;

But as far as the Han family is concerned, this is indeed a very serious political activity, and it is more related to the national foundation of the Han family.

——Since the day when Emperor Taizu Gao established Han Guozuo and created the Liu Han Sheji for the people of the world, there have always been two opinions about the national foundation of the Han family.

The first way of saying is: in the husband country, agriculture is the foundation of the country, and business is the bottom line;
The second way of saying is: For the world, Guanzhong is the base, and Guandong is the end.

These two statements cannot say which team is wrong, or even which one is more right and more important, which is more 'wrong' and relatively unimportant.

Because the themes emphasized by these two statements are the most important part of the feudal dynasty.

It goes without saying that agriculture is the foundation of the country: food is the most important thing for the people.

Especially during the feudal regime of farming civilization, agricultural production was almost the only mode of production of the dynasty, and the only way to pursue social stability.

And the Han family’s position of taking Guanzhong as the center and Guandong as the end has already become an objective existence even though it has not been put on paper and cannot be admitted personally since the time of Taizu Gao Emperor Liu Bang. fact.

What are the two major disadvantages of farming civilization and feudal dynasty?
One said: natural disasters and man-made disasters;

The second is: land annexation.

The two exist independently, but they complement each other in the course of history.

Natural disasters and man-made disasters naturally include droughts and floods, as well as wars that are enough to force farmers out of production.

This will hit farmers' agricultural production work, or even completely stagnate, and immediately cause an indelible and irreversible huge negative impact on this ordinary farming family.

And a farmer whose agricultural production progress is affected will inevitably embark on the road of selling his land helplessly after a vicious circle of poorer farming, poorer farming, and poorer farming.

This will eventually lead to land annexation, resulting in a large number of social production tools being owned by a small number of people, thereby planning social contradictions.

So, here comes the crux of the problem.

How did Liu Han Sheji deal with these two unavoidable ills in the past dynasties, and even in every farming civilization and feudal dynasty in later generations?

Or to put it another way: For these two bad situations that are bound to occur, what kind of precious wealth did Emperor Gao, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, leave for future generations?
The answer is: by means of forced relocation, in the name of "guarding the spirit of the emperor", and finally achieving the goal of "Guanzhong always crushes the quality of residents in the Guandong" mausoleum system.

The existence of the mausoleum system has greatly curbed the trend of land annexation under the rule of the old Liu family.

The reason is simple: in any feudal era of later generations, the construction of the imperial mausoleum would be a theoretical 'top priority', but in fact it is not a face-saving project of any practical significance.

But in the Han Dynasty, the imperial tombs were not just the imperial tombs.

Whenever the son of Han is the emperor, and in the first year of October after the ascension to the throne, the new emperor's mausoleum will be sited and construction will begin.

The reason for doing this is to use the imperial mausoleum as a guise to cooperate with the mausoleum system established by Emperor Taizu Gao himself, and to force local heroes to move in one crop after another from the counties and counties of the Kanto region like leeks. Guanzhong, in order to achieve the purpose of 'strengthening the base and weakening the end'.

But here, the strong base is weak at the end, the strong base is Guanzhong, and the weak end is Guandong.

The local tycoons in the Kanto region were forcibly moved into Guanzhong by the court in the name of 'you are all elites, so you should guard the spirit of His Majesty today', and they have no ability to resist at all.

——Watching the spirit of the current emperor of the Han family is such a frighteningly great honor. You are a mere merchant and lowly family (the powerful and powerful are all merchants), even if you are not grateful, you still want to refuse?

I'll smash your head!
In the process of the local tyrants in the Kanto region being forced to move into Guanzhong and into the Mausoleum to guard the spirit of the emperor, the social wealth that was originally concentrated in the hands of the tyrants will be redistributed to a certain extent.

Since they were going to move to Guanzhong to guard the spirit and mausoleum of the old Liu family's emperor, the family's local real estate would naturally have to be disposed of.

Moreover, the forced relocation order often comes very suddenly, and it is very deliberate that the relocated person will not stay for too long, and will leave in a hurry to relocate to Guanzhong.

This also means that the relocated rich and powerful households need to calm down quickly as soon as they receive the forced relocation order, and dispose of the real estate in their hands as much as possible within an extreme time interval.

Disposing of real estate in a short period of time is basically equated with a cheap sale.

After all, things like forced relocation cannot be hidden;
As long as you hear that a certain tycoon is about to be forced to move into Guanzhong, then the local industry of this tycoon can basically lower the price without a lower limit.

——Anyway, no matter how low my price is, you have to sell it before you leave for Guanzhong. This is purely a buyer's market.

Moreover, the real estate that cannot be taken away by this kind of relocation, it is better to sell it before departure, if it is not sold, then basically you can only give up by default.

Because after being forced to move to Guanzhong and live in the imperial mausoleum, it is impossible for these powerful and wealthy households to get the hometown where their industries are located.

People are in Guanzhong, and their property is in their hometown in Guandong. It is beyond their reach. Naturally, it is inevitable that the ownership of real estate will be taken by some people in some unseemly ways.

And after moving into Guanzhong, after moving into the imperial mausoleum, these rich and powerful households in the Kanto region will naturally have to pay a considerable sum of money to the local snakes in Guanzhong, "Take me to play with you, at least don't play with me!" 'The protection fee.

Coupled with the oppression of bribing and detaining one's own migration along the way, bribing local officials after arriving at the destination, etc. - a local tyrant in the Kanto region who was forced to move to Guanzhong can keep one-tenth of his wealth after the migration, which is already very easy. It's amazing.

Of course, the main goal of this forced relocation system centered on the mausoleum system is to cut off the intricate personal connections and interest ties created by local tycoons who have been operating in the local area for many years.

After such a series of operations, the wealth of the tyrants was redistributed, and all the relationships and interests that they had managed were abolished, so that the Han family was able to solve it—at least it greatly eased the land annexation, and the threat of the local elite class being too large. The issue of central government over local governments.

In later generations, why would there always be people who say: There have been powerful families in all dynasties, but the Western Han Dynasty has only rich and powerful households who have been harvested one crop after another like leeks?

The answer is: Aristocrats and aristocratic families need to evolve from the prototypes of tycoons and wealthy households through years of accumulation.

In the Western Han Dynasty, the mausoleum system was like a barrier to heaven in the world of cultivating immortals, firmly blocking the passage for the powerful and rich to be promoted to the powerful families.

——A powerful family, a powerful family, at least you have to pass it down for ten or eight generations before you have the nerve to call yourself a 'family', right?

However, under the blow of the mausoleum system of the Han family in all directions and without dead ends, the local tyrants, let alone ten or eight generations - after being forced to move to Guanzhong, if you can't degenerate into an ordinary businessman within three generations, Taizu The name of Emperor Gao Liu Bang had to be written backwards!
It can be said that the reason why the Western Han Dynasty was proud of China's history - the most important reason is that the emperor of the Western Han Dynasty relied on the mausoleum system established by Taizu Liu Bang to tirelessly make the Kanto local tyrants - the local tyrants who had just emerged the embryonic form of the aristocratic family Forced to move into Guanzhong, and personally suppressed with the power of the emperor.

As for the decline of the Western Han Dynasty, although there are different opinions in later generations-some say that foreign relatives exercised power, some say that the harem meddled in politics, some said that treacherous eunuchs disrupted the country, and some said that it was the sole respect for Confucianism, which led to root problems in social values.

But in fact, the foundation of the Western Han Dynasty, and even Liu Han Sheji, was really shaken, and it was irreversibly heading towards destruction, precisely because of a rather inconspicuous line of small characters in the history books.

——In the fourth year of Yongguang in the Han Dynasty, Emperor Liu Shi of the Han Yuan Dynasty planned to build Shouling, and ordered the abolition of the mausoleum system.

The Han Yuan Emperor Liu Xi, who abolished the mausoleum system in one fell swoop on the grounds of "wasting money and food and not conforming to the principles of Confucianism" and completely brought Liu Han Sheji to decline, is the Emperor Zhongzong Xiaoxuan in history: Liu Xun (Liu Bing own) son.

That's right;

It was the corrupt Confucian emperor whom Liu Xun once reprimanded as 'whoever messes with our family must be the crown prince'.

After the mausoleum system was abolished, the Kanto local tyrants naturally no longer had to worry about being forcibly moved into Guanzhong, so they grew savagely without any scruples in an extreme period of time, and soon formed the embryonic form of aristocratic families.

From the fourth year of Yongguang (40 BC) when Emperor Yuan abolished the Lingyi system, to the 25th year (25 AD) when Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiuguang restored the Han Dynasty and rebuilt Liu Han's Gengshi Emperor, it took only 65 years. interval;

But in this short period of 65 years, in the early days of the Western Han Dynasty, the Kanto local tyrants who could not hold their heads up at all, whose clothes could not be made of silk, and who could not ride in a carriage when going out, had grown to the point where Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu wanted ZTE The Han Dynasty needs to rely on their help.

It is no exaggeration to say: the mausoleum system is the foundation of the Western Han Dynasty.

As long as there is a mausoleum system, there will never be any local forces that obstruct the centralization of power within the eyes of Emperor Liu Han.

At least there will not be a group of local tyrants with business status, but they can turn their hands into clouds and rain in the local area, or even a quasi-"noble family".

Nowadays, the importance of the mausoleum system is beyond doubt.

At least at the present stage, the court of the Han family has not been filled with smog by corrupt scholars inside and outside the court. Liu Sheng will not be like Yuan Emperor Liu Xun, who has heard the constant ringing in his ears since he was a child, "The mausoleum system wastes the people and wastes money. No benefit' and the like, issued an imperial edict as soon as he ascended the throne, abolishing this fundamental system that ensured the stability of the dynasty's rule.

For Liu Sheng's mausoleum, Xiangfu and Shaofu are very concerned. Although the theme of the imperial tomb is only a rough outline, the mausoleum is almost completed in just one year.

——The focus of the mausoleum system has never been the imperial mausoleum itself, which often takes the mountain as its body and hollows out a mountain to bury the emperor, but the mausoleum located at the foot of the imperial mausoleum.

From the day the mausoleum was built until the emperor's mausoleum to which the mausoleum belonged was buried, the courts could continuously move in new residents from the Guandong to enrich the population quantity and quality of Guanzhong.

Especially the quality.

Those who can be forcibly moved into Guanzhong must be well-known figures in the Kanto region—at least the rich and powerful.

And Liu Sheng's current embarrassing state may be compared with the perspective of the local tyrants in the Kanto region when they faced the Lingyi system.

In the face of the mausoleum system, the only thing the local tyrants in the Kanto region can do is to obey.

Liu Sheng's current situation is also unconditionally obeying the ancestral system and the way of respect and filial piety.

The Empress Dowager Dou of the East Palace, Liu Sheng needs to be completely unconditional "obedience";
Although the Empress Dowager Jia is her biological mother, she will not cause trouble for herself, but in theory, Liu Sheng can only follow the instructions of her mother, the Empress Dowager Jia.

In addition to Dou's relatives, there is a Wei Qihou Dou Ying who is never worry-free. He usually doesn't cause troubles very much, but he will always jump out when necessary to force the emperor's Fengchang Dou Pengzu on behalf of the Empress Dowager Dou.

Of course, now there is an additional Empress Gillian, and Princess Guantao Taichang behind Empress Gillian...

"Whoo~"

"You are a majestic son of heaven, but you have to be cautious in front of so many people..."

···
"Dou's..."

"It's just because these people are under the protection of the Dou family..."

Thinking like this, Liu Sheng finally opened his eyes slowly, and let out a foul breath as if there were no one else.

Then, ignoring the eunuch Ling Xiaque again, she lay down tiredly in the imperial chariot.

Seeing Liu Sheng lying down, Xia Que skillfully covered Liu Sheng with a thin blanket.

It's just that Liu Sheng's next words made Xia Que want to find a few thick blankets to put on for herself...

"Princess Guantao's residence, you can't live without eyes."

"Go and tell Zhou Ren: Arrange some people to serve Princess Guantao."

"If it can be done, it's best to let these people take care of Princess Guantao..."

···
"At the Jiaofang Palace, don't make any moves for now."

"—After all, he is the heart of the Empress Dowager;"

"Ever since her eyes were completely blackened, the old lady's suspicions have become more and more serious."

"Don't look back and be stimulated again, and do something shocking to the world..."

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"Tomorrow morning, Fengchang may force the palace."

"Send someone to the Eastern Palace to find the Queen Mother..."

"Do not;"

"You go in person and meet the queen mother alone, and ask the queen mother to find out the tone of the empress dowager for me..."

(End of this chapter)