Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 398 Magna Carta ([-])
One year later

Summer of the 49th year of Marquis Yan (257)

The parliamentary army was defeated by the Xianbei cavalry when they besieged the Wang Family Manor. Only [-] of the tens of thousands fled back to the Sanhan area. For a while, people's hearts fluttered.

Chang'e City

"Chosun City, Lelang City, and Daifang City all withdrew from the alliance."

"Now each city lord has different ideas, and some even want to join Wu and become Sun Wu's vassal."

Wang Xue said in despair.

Since ancient times, the alliance has been a mob, as is the case with the Dongdong alliance, and the 36 city masters alliance.

Many civilizations have moments of glory. You can’t always regard the moment when your civilization is the most powerful as the eternity of your civilization. It is already very lucky to be able to preserve the fire of your own civilization in the moment of decline.

Rather than being unwilling to wake up in the glory of the past, it is better to do a good job in the present.

No matter how strong it was in the past, it is not as strong as it is now.

No matter how brilliant it was in the past, it is not as brilliant as it is now.

"We still have so many civilians. If we can let them join the army, we can still resist Wang Ting's [-] troops."

"Most people are now watching and helping whoever wins."

"So as long as we can stop Wang Ting's [-] troops, then more and more city lords will join us and follow us to overthrow Wang Ting."

"The crux of the problem now is, how do we resist this [-] army?"

Based on the accumulation of the Wang family's hundreds of years overseas, it is not difficult to obtain the strength that can defeat a hundred thousand troops. The key lies in how to obtain it and what needs to be paid.

"Mr. Xun is here." At this moment, Wang Shuang brought a young man with him.

This man's name is Xun Biao, he is the grandson of Xun You, and he has the demeanor of his grandfather.

"Xun Biao has seen Shang Shuling." Xun Biao first saluted Wang Ba, then Wang Shuang and Wang Xue: "I have seen the two young masters."

"Mr. Xun is here to offer advice?" Wang Ba stood up and took Xun Biao's hand, asking him.

"Exactly." Xun Biao said with a smile: "From my point of view, the people of the overseas cities are not willing to accept the rule of the Marquis of Yan. They just want to negotiate terms."

"Condition?" Wang Ba roughly understood what the condition was, but he still asked, "What condition?"

"It's nothing more than self-government and the cancellation of resettlement to open up wasteland." Xun Biao replied: "The guilds want a relatively free space for development, and the common people don't want their children to be forcibly relocated overseas to open up wasteland. They don't want to endure the separation of their children. pain of."

"If we can meet those two needs for them, why wouldn't they help us?"

"Relocating people to open up wasteland has been our policy for hundreds of years, how can we change it at will?" Wang Xue shook his head and said: "Besides, if the people stay where they are without separating families, it is easy to form local powerful forces, which will constitute a serious threat to our rule. Great threat."

"But our current rule is about to be destroyed by the Marquis of Yan, so how can we care about the future?" Xun Biao advised, "No one can tell what will happen in the future. The most important thing is to keep the present."

"Sir, what you said is reasonable." Wang Ba nodded, agreeing with Xun Biao's words, and motioned him to continue.

"My lord!" Xun Biao paused for a moment, and then said his strategy: "All citizens who join the army will be issued with a [Registration Exemption Certificate], and their children and grandchildren will have the right not to be [relocated to open up wasteland]. Then, The people of all lands will surely join the army against the Lord of Yan, and our soldiers will have a steady stream of energy."

"At the same time, for those guilds that contribute more, they can be allowed to enjoy partial autonomy in their own cities."

"In order to raise military expenses, various guilds can also be allowed to spend a lot of money to buy autonomy."

"Under such a temptation, your soldiers, horses, money and food will be as abundant as sea water. What do you have to be afraid of with a mere [-] foreign soldiers?"

woohoo-

After Xun Biao finished speaking, everyone present fell silent.

In order to win the family's civil war, it is really worthwhile to give up some benefits to a group of ruled people they looked down on before?
Wang Bawang Shuang and Wang Xue all asked themselves this question in their hearts.

Give more freedom to guild merchants and ordinary people, so as to get their help, and finally win this family civil war with their help.

This is a fair deal, the parliamentary army wants victory, and the guilds and the people want more freedom.

When Wang Ba was still thinking about the feasibility of this deal, Xun Biao added something on his own: "Send goodwill to the Goguryeo people. As long as they are willing to jump back, we can give them the entire Liaodong."

Wang Shuang and Wang Xue looked at Wang Ba, and naturally knew that even if Wang Ba agreed, it would be impossible to really give the entire Liaodong to the Goguryeo people.

The purpose of raising this condition is just to take advantage of the Goguryeo people. After the war is over, how should the Goguryeo people be slaughtered, or how? As for the land cede promise?Do you still need to keep the promise to you barbarians?

another three days later
The streets of Chang'e City are covered with notices everywhere, and the literate people read out the contents of the notices: From today onwards, anyone who joins the parliamentary army will be issued a [Migration Exemption Certificate], which can be passed down from generation to generation. Those whose descendants do not need to be relocated overseas to risk their lives to open up wasteland; they can also directly purchase this certificate by spending 100 million yuan.

"Is there such a good thing?"

"Qingtian, it's finally here!"

"My child was relocated to Sugarcane Island ten years ago to open up wasteland, and then died of miasma."

The people in Chang'e City didn't believe it at first, but later Wang Ba personally appeared to guarantee that more and more people joined the army enthusiastically.

Ordinary people can't afford [-] yuan, so they can only get their "immigration exemption certificate" by enlisting their family members in the army, while the guilds with a little spare money directly spend money to buy the "immigration exemption certificate".

Just a few months later, Wang Ba already had [-] soldiers and countless money and food in the treasury.

While issuing the [Exemption Certificate], Wang Ba established the [Municipal Council] in the City Lord's Mansion of Chang'e City. The Municipal Council is composed of many representatives of public opinion. As long as you spend 100 million yuan, you can buy a lifetime public opinion representative quota, and spend [-] million yuan to buy a one-year public opinion representative quota.

Except for the city lord who is still appointed by Wang Family Shangshutai, the rest of the city officials are all elected by the public opinion representatives of the [Municipal Council].

If the [Exemption Certificate] is specifically for ordinary people, then this [Public Opinion Representative] is specifically for guilds, and only they can afford the quota of public opinion representatives.

Under the leadership of Chang'e City, the surrounding cities have also begun to issue "immigration exemption certificates". As for the "Public Opinion Representatives", only Chang'e City, Busan City, and Incheon City are implementing it. The rest of the city owners are not willing to give up the appointment and removal of officials right.

Two months later, Wang Ting's 12 troops had already captured Seoul.

The city lord of Seoul asked Wang Ba for help, and Wang Ba immediately brought tens of thousands of soldiers who had just been trained, plus [-] new recruits provided by surrounding cities, and [-] security forces, nearly [-] troops rushed north to help Seoul.

(End of this chapter)