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

Chapter 555 Competing in the Central Plains (52)

one year later
The 350th year of the Yan Kingdom (560 years)
With Chen Baxian ending the civil strife in the Southern Dynasties, all forces have passed through a year in peace.

After several years of civil war in the Southern Dynasties, Chen Guo wanted to recuperate and was not in the mood for the Northern Expedition.

Zhou Guo had just usurped the throne, and there were powerful ministers in the country. The internal struggle was intensified, and he had to digest the newly occupied Bashu, and he had no time to take care of foreign countries.

As for Gao Yang of the Qi State, seeing the Turks running to expand westward and attacking the White Huns in the Western Regions, both Zhou and Chen made peace with him, Yan State had already negotiated peace with him, and Khitan Kumoxi also bowed his head and professed his vassal. The environment, there is no enemy, it is rare for the country to be safe and peaceful.

When the country was stable, Gao Yang began to relax. Without his previous hard work, he knocked a lot of five stone powder every day, and spent twelve hours a day having sex with his concubine.

"I have fought all my life and worked hard for so many years, can't I enjoy it?"

Facing Queen Mother Lou's persuasion, Gao Yang didn't take it seriously. He worked hard for the country of Qi and had no time or energy to enjoy it. Now that the country is peaceful and the people are safe, it's time to enjoy life.

He brought his father Gao Huan's concubines into the harem, and he also brought all the wives and concubines of his brother Gao Cheng into the harem.

Lust is inherited from the Gao family, Gao Huan, Gao Cheng, Gao Yang, all of them are like this.

In the past, brother Gao Cheng raped his wife and cheated on him, now he wants to cheat on him back!

"I hate others to cuckold me the most in my life, but I like to cuckold others the most!"

Empress Dowager Lou persuaded her a lot, and Gao Yang was not happy, so he cursed at his mother: "Don't talk too much, old woman. If you keep talking, I will marry you to the Turkic Khan!"

Her own son actually said such words to herself, and Queen Mother Lou was angry and helpless.

The last person who scolded his biological mother so rebelliously was Liu Ziye, the tyrant of Liu Song in the Southern Dynasty.

In the harem, there was serious palace fighting. Gao Huan doted on Concubine Xue, which aroused the jealousy of other concubines. They sued Concubine Xue for having an affair with the minister.

Gao Yang was naturally very upset, he killed the suspect minister, and then killed Concubine Xue, cut off her head, took the head of his beloved concubine to the banquet, knocked off the bone on Concubine Xue's thigh, and used Aifei's leg bone played the pipa in public.

After the effect of Wushi Powder ended, he realized that he had overdone it. He was so perverted that he used the head of his beloved concubine to fill the wine with the head of his beloved concubine in front of the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs at the banquet. The leg bone plays the pipa.

Under such unrestrained licentiousness, within a few months, Gao Yang indulged in lust and died, and his son Gao Yin came to the throne.

As soon as Gao Yin came to the throne, he carried out reforms, intending to strengthen the autocratic monarchy, abolished powerful officials, selected children from poor families, suppressed the clan, and deprived the clan of military power.

It is obvious what the consequences of doing this kind of thing are.

A large number of aristocratic officials defected to Gao Yan, and most of the clans also supported Gao Yan.

So soon, Gao Yan launched a coup, imprisoned his nephew Gao Yin, and usurped the throne himself.

The nephew's reform wanted to reduce the vassal and strengthen the monarchy, and then the uncle raised troops to the side of the Qing Dynasty, usurped the throne and ascended the throne, and continued the nephew's process of strengthening the monarchy with more wise and gentle means after ascending the throne.

This plot seems familiar, as if it is happening in a certain time and space more than 800 years later. There are too many such things in history, so it is easy to have a sense of déjà vu.

At the same time that Gao Yan launched a coup and proclaimed himself emperor, Chen Baxian, the founding emperor of the Chen Kingdom in the Southern Dynasty, died of illness in the palace, and his nephew Chen Qian came to the throne.

As soon as Chen Qian ascended the throne, all forces in Chen State took the opportunity to rebel, some remnants of warlords took the opportunity to stand on their own, and some Liang Guo clans also separated from each other and wanted to restore the country.

However, in just over a year, Chen Qian quelled all the rebellions. The strength of these rebels had been severely suppressed by Chen Baxian before, so their strength was very weak and they could only rely on the support of the Northern Dynasty.

However, Beichao was busy with internal fighting and could not support them. Naturally, they were quickly put down by Chen Qian.

After suppressing the rebellion, Chen Qian put all her energy on developing people's livelihood and economy.

Liang Guo's powerful economy was in a bad state, and it was taken away by Hou Jing in a wave, and Jiang Zuo was almost completely scrapped.

Chen Qian issued [Chen Guo Wuzhu Coin], which is equivalent to Yan Wuzhu, so as to restore commercial circulation, and the court can also benefit from it.

In the past, the circulation in the market was either Yan five baht or light-weight inferior coins, so commercial profits were made by illegal merchants in Yan State and Southern Dynasties. bottom peasants.

At the same time, they allocated land and houses to refugees and farmers. During the wars in the past few years, many aristocratic families were taken away by Hou Jingyibo, and some were robbed by Yan State, so the land and houses they left in the Southern Dynasties became Chen Qian simply distributed all these fields and houses to the landless refugees.

In addition, he also re-measured the acres of land, cleared the population, and promoted the children of the poor family, ending the history of the poor family's children from the poor family in the Liang Dynasty.

Call on rich and noble families to release the maids and concubines in the family, let these women return to the folk, and have children with local bachelors, so as to restore the population of the Southern Dynasty.

Wealthy families occupy hundreds of women, while ordinary low-level peasants often have brothers to share one wife.

This seriously hindered the population growth of the entire dynasty, so Chen Qian naturally wanted to attack.

In the past few years, more than 20 people in the Southern Dynasties were plundered by the Yan State, more than 30 were sold to the Yan State by human traffickers, and more than 50 were sold to Zhou and Qi. More than 70 million people died of famine and plague. In addition to the loss of the territory north of the Yangtze River and Bashu, the people there were no longer the subjects of the Southern Dynasty, and the ruling population was reduced by 300 million.

In just a few years, the population of the Southern Dynasties dropped from 1500 million to 600 million.

A famous person who has been to the country of Yan suggested that Chen Qian follow the example of the country of Yan and implement monogamy, so that the population will grow faster. Naturally, this suggestion was not agreed.

Although Chen Qian wanted to restore the population and national strength, wouldn't the ruling class not be able to enjoy it openly if the monogamy system was implemented?
The common people don’t have enough to eat and have no daughters-in-law. As a benevolent monarch, I can give them food to eat and give them daughters-in-law as much as possible, but they can’t ask me for it, let alone grab it!

To use a metaphor, the dog is hungry and has no dog food. As a benevolent owner, I can give the dog leftovers, but the dog cannot ask for dog food from me, the owner, let alone grab the owner’s food. The moral ethics of the monarch, the minister, the father, the son, and the son, to violate it is treason!
It is normal for a ruler to have this kind of thinking. Compared with other monarchs, Chen Qian can already be regarded as a benevolent monarch. After all, there are many monarchs in history who treat the common people as cattle and horses. Compared with other monarchs, Chen Qian can be regarded as a person who loves the people child.

After all, most monarchs not only do not give dog food to dogs, but also eat dog meat from dogs. Now there is an owner who is willing to give away leftovers. The dogs should naturally be grateful and shout: Holy King!benevolent!Benevolent government!Son of Heaven!One emperor through the ages!
It can be said that apart from the lack of Liang Guoda in terms of territory, what Chen Guo did was much better than that of Liang Guo. However, the civil war in the last years of Liang Guo really hurt the vitality of the Southern Dynasty. The Southern Dynasty was able to retain the current territory. Well, at that time, the entire Southern Dynasty was about to be divided up by Zhou, Qi, and Yan.

(End of this chapter)