Xuande

Chapter 801 Western Han Clan and Eastern Han Clan

The rebels outside Handan City were actually really easy to deal with, because Xu Huang launched a sneak attack on them, and it was a night attack.

I thought it would not be so easy to attack at night, but the vanguard sent by Xu Huang easily entered the rebel barracks, and then started setting fire smoothly.

According to the feedback of the battle situation later, Xu Huang learned that when the vanguard entered, the guards of the rebel army were huddled together to sleep, the patrol team that should have appeared did not appear, and the watchmen on the high platform seemed to be gambling with their comrades.

As a result, Xu Huang's army began to attack when more fires were burning and the rebels were in chaos.

In the chaos, the rebel army completely collapsed, and the Han army had no tactics, just rushed and fought until dawn, when the battle was over.

After the sky brightened, the flags of the Han army and captured rebels were already everywhere outside the city. After counting the number, Xu Huang learned that more than 2 rebels with a total number of about 1000 were captured. More than 1000 people were killed and burned to death, and less than [-] people escaped.

Watching the battle flags of the Han army flying fiercely on the city wall, Sun Xiang, who had stood for many days and was under great pressure, burst into tears, and then ordered the city gate to be opened to welcome Xu Huang into the city.

After Xu Huang entered the city, he recognized Sun Xiang, and found that Sun Xiang was once a school lieutenant under him. Later, when he reached the age, he went to Luoyang. After that, he didn't hear anything about him, but now he was surprised to find that he was here. .

After learning about Sun Xiang's experience these days, Xu Huang was quite emotional, and patted him on the shoulder, saying that Sun Xiang is a good man.

Immediately afterwards, Xu Huang learned what happened in the city these days, and couldn't help frowning.

"I thought King Zong wouldn't say that. When I heard the news, I thought it was the rebels who said that on purpose to deceive their own people into giving their lives. But I didn't expect it to be true. King Zhao really wanted to make trouble with the court? "

"I was also surprised at the beginning, I couldn't believe it, I didn't know that he was really going to join forces with the rebels until he sent the guards of King Zhao's Mansion to compete with the guards for the control of the city gate, so I hurriedly led people Annihilated his guard."

Sun Xiang said in a low voice: "Afterwards, I sent people to surround Zhao Wang's mansion to prevent them from communicating inside and outside. There were great opinions in the city about this. Many officials and big families put pressure on me to withdraw my troops, but I didn't. Some people can't sit still and want to assassinate me."

"It seems that the traitors are not only outside the city, but there are also many inside the city."

Xu Huang sneered, and then decided to visit that King Zhao himself.

Before visiting King Zhao, Xu Huang saw Zhao Guoxiang Fuqian with a pale complexion and sunken eyes. Seeing the haggard appearance of this world-famous Confucian, Xu Huang couldn't bear it.

"You look so haggard, how many days have you not had a good rest? You are a county and a country, so you should take a good rest."

"I failed to stop the rebellion and killed so many people. This is the reason for my incompetence. Now, how can I have the face to talk about sleeping?"

Fuqian sighed and said, "I'm old and useless, and I can't do anything. Afterwards, I will submit a form to His Majesty to plead guilty. I also ask the general not to hide anything. What mistakes did I make?" , the general said bluntly, once the responsibility is fulfilled, I will fully bear it.”

Xu Huang felt helpless.

This matter is really not something that Fuqian, an official at the level of the prime minister, can undertake, because the incident in Handan City involves a Zongwang.

Xu Huang is clear that the Dutian Order not only involves officials, but also the clansmen of the Han Dynasty. Even the land and properties of the former little emperor Liu Xie, who acquired a lot of land, have to be declared for Dutian and taxation. Of course , Liu Xie was not very touched by these, so he accepted it easily.

But these long-standing Zongwangs are different.

They own a large amount of land and claim to be the clan of the Han Dynasty. They never think that they have to pay taxes.

And in terms of status, as clan members, they have special status and special status. No matter how noble they think their status is, ordinary officials dare not seriously oppose them.

Even the officials who took orders from the imperial court were somewhat scruples when facing King Zong, but Liu Bei specifically instructed in this operation that even King Zong would also accept the investigation of Dutian Order.

Liu Bang's genes are indeed very strong. Up to now, the group of Han family clansmen has become very large, and there are many real heroes among them. It can be said that there are talented people from generation to generation.

However, this ratio is a bit small. Compared with outstanding people, the number of insects is obviously larger.

After Liu Bei came to power, he made a thorough investigation of the Han family clan groups, and learned that most of the Han clan clan groups are the same as before he made his fortune. Being tight, they are not considered rich in any case, and the number of ordinary small landlords is very small.

This is actually quite normal. Since Emperor Wu of the Han extended the grace decree, there have been more and more clansmen of the Han family, the territory has become smaller and smaller, and the interests have become less and less divided. Naturally, various class differentiation.

The Tweeting Order was indeed a good move, which greatly reduced the burden on the imperial court and removed a lot of burdens for the imperial court. This point was not learned by the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang loved his children so much that Zhu Yuanzhang The descendants of the family reproduce too quickly, which has caused a huge burden on the country's finances.

There was no such thing as the Han Empire, and there were many things where the clan members of the Han family became ordinary people and suffered a lot, just like the days that Liu Bei lived in those years, the court never said that they would give him even a little bit of favor for this clan member of the Han family. service pension.

The sons of the eldest sons of the clansmen of the Han Dynasty inherited the largest property, and the children born to concubines were not treated so well. They could only get a little soup. Most of the clansmen of the Han Dynasty are also normal people. It is not easy for ordinary people to live a good life. Where does the entrepreneurial talent come from?
As a result, more and more clansmen of the Han family became like everyone else, or even worse than everyone else. Their lives became worse and worse, and in the end they were even worse than ordinary people. Not a few died of poverty and illness.

For these people, the Han imperial family did not have any compassion, and no one said that they would help these relatively poor Han family clan groups. It is normal to let freedom and resign themselves to fate.

Therefore, the clan group of the Han Dynasty is a very large group so far, and the number of serious people has already reached tens of thousands. On the limited so a little bit.

For example, the great kings.

The Zongwang of the Eastern Han Dynasty was basically the descendant of Liu Xiu, and had no relationship with the Han family clan inherited from the Western Han Dynasty, and the impoverished Han clan clan group was basically the clan group of the Western Han Dynasty. The number of clan groups in the Western Han Dynasty was much larger than that in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The current kings of the Han family can be traced back several generations, basically all can be traced back to Liu Xiu.

Liu Xiu also has his reasons for doing this, because the marquis can still go up in name, and the king can only be the emperor if he goes up. There are more and more, so it is necessary to strictly limit the candidates and number of princes, so as to better defend the imperial power.

Others cannot be kings, and it is most suitable for princes to be kings. In this way, when the royal family has no heirs, they can choose a suitable candidate from among the offspring to inherit the throne, so this rule is so set up.

But the current situation is different.

Because Liu Bei is not strictly a clan member of the Eastern Han Dynasty, but a clan member of the Western Han Dynasty.

His ascension essentially meant that the top clan dignitaries of the Eastern Han Dynasty inherited from Liu Xiu's blood lost a large amount of imperial power, and the large amount of imperial power was transferred to the pure Western Han clan, and Liu Xiu's branch had lost its status and power.

This is not a good thing for most Eastern Han clansmen.

According to the rules of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu Bei should make his sons princes, and these princes who have been passed down for more than 100 years are likely to lose their status as princes.

So they will also worry whether Liu Bei will use various reasons to attack them.

At present, the Eastern Han clan members who are not too worried are Liu Yu, Liu Xie and a few others, but they are not princes themselves, so most Eastern Han clan kings hold a nervous and wait-and-see attitude towards Liu Bei's superior position .

When many policies do not involve the Zongwang group, they feel a little more at ease, but when the policy involves the Zongwang group, the situation is different.

Moreover, there is also some news circulating within the Zongwang group of the Eastern Han Dynasty. It is learned that Liu Bei was offended by a Zongwang of the Eastern Han Dynasty before, and his senses may not be very good for the Zongwang group of the Eastern Han Dynasty, so they are very nervous. Restrictions and suppression have clearly increased the antagonism and mutual suspicion between them.

If the slave restriction order has not fully touched the core interests of the Zongwang group, then the Dutian Order has really touched their core interests.

It seems that Liu Bei is really going to do something to Liu Xiu's descendants.

Like normal landlords and powerful landlords, the Zongwang groups of the Eastern Han Dynasty often had a relatively large amount of land wealth.

The royal family's political suppression of them was exchanged for economic tolerance, and economic tolerance was exchanged for their substantial expansion of land wealth, especially for some kings who were good at managing money or relatively greedy.

The number of fields owned by these Zongwangs is not less than that of the super lands in those places, and their status is even higher. It is even more impossible for anyone to talk to them about taxation and other issues.

But it’s different now, Liu Bei wants to talk to them about taxation, not only to talk, but also to collect taxes in a serious manner, or a stepped tax rate, the larger the amount of land, the higher the tax rate for the excess part, the highest actually has to be Forty-five percent, this is taking a knife to chop off their meat and eat it.

After the Zongwang group learned about this, their attitudes were relatively consistent, that is, panic and anger, but the degree was different. Some people were not so angry, while others were so angry that they were about to explode.

Zhao Wang Liu She is the kind of person who is about to explode with anger.

He thought from the bottom of his heart that Liu Bei, a shabby Western Han royal family, deliberately tried to seize the great imperial power of their Eastern Han royal family, and finally bullied children and old ladies, and took the imperial power into his hands. That was pure cheekiness and despicableness. Shameless, completely lacking the appearance of a capable minister who ruled the world before.

In his view, Liu Bei's distant family members of the Western Han Dynasty and the orthodox clan of the Eastern Han Dynasty are no longer the same kind of people. Being able to serve them with these serious clan royals is already a gift, so how dare you risk the power of the world? Why not come to usurp the throne?

how dare you?
It's okay to usurp the throne, but we have made so many moths before and after. We have endured a slave restriction order very hard, and now we still have to save the land?
Du Tian?

Do you know what Du Tian is?
Do you know what Dutian means?
Do you also deserve Dutian?
At that time, when Fuqian came to Prince Zhao's mansion with Dutian Order to convey the order to Liu She, Liu She almost died of anger. He pointed at Fuqian's nose and asked Fuqian to get out of Prince Zhao's mansion. Fuqian was not angry, but Still neither humble nor overbearing conveyed the imperial order, saying that soon manpower would be organized to save the land and calculate the tax, so that Liu Amnesty would be ready.

Liu She's face turned blue from anger, and he could not tolerate Fuqian's "offense" and Liu Bei's "calculation" no matter what.

So he negotiated in private with some well-connected officials and powerful clan forces, and learned that they also resisted the Dutian Order very much, and prepared to carry out the "Story of Guangwu Time" to start a war and resolutely resist Liu Bei's shameless order. , Let Liu Bei confess, knowing how big a mistake he made.

So Liu She thought for a moment, then decided to join in, and then sent someone to contact the other Zongwangs in Jizhou to see if they had any ideas.

In fact, Liu She has more considerations in this matter. He thinks that Liu Bei belongs to the clan of the Western Han Dynasty. In essence, he is not a group of people with the noble clan of the Eastern Han Dynasty. It is hard to say that he can urinate in the same pot. Liu Bei It is hard to say that what they are doing now is not a revenge against the clan group of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

If the retaliation is successful this time, it is hard to say that there will be no next time. If there is a next time, will it be more severe and severe each time, and in the end, they will even be deposed as the clan kings?
Without these inheritances, how can they live a good life?

This is the most essential worry, and it is also the fundamental reason why Liu She and other Eastern Han clan groups cannot bear it. With such worries, Liu She feels that if the resistance succeeds this time, they must seriously erect Rebelling against the flag, calling on the world to break with Liu Bei, regain the great imperial power from Liu Bei, and let the good life of the Zongwang group of the Eastern Han Dynasty continue.

Otherwise, let Liu Bei, the remnant of the Western Han clan, ascend to the throne and rule the world, who knows what other tricks will make their lives worse than death.

Before, there was no response to the news sent by Liu She. The other kings seemed not very impressed with Liu She's proposal, but Liu She felt that he was already ready to attack Handan when the rebels assembled. When it was in the city, it initiated the "cooperation from the inside to the outside" of Handan City.

But he counted and counted, but he didn't count that Sun Xiang, the captain of Zhao Guojun's national soldiers, was a capable person and a loyal subordinate to Liu Bei. He led more than 2000 county soldiers and learned in advance that the rebels were about to attack Handan. So he acted quickly, took control of the entire Handan City, and defeated the team he sent to assist the rebels.

Afterwards, he surrounded Zhao Wangfu with the crime of disrespect, and trapped him. Although no other military operations were launched against Zhao Wangfu after that, the siege of each guard was enough to make Liu She fall into extreme panic. .

(End of this chapter)