Chapter 635: Going to court
After the ceremony, the Shaofu sent seals, ribbons, chariots and other ceremonial supplies to Shao Xun's house, including the retinue given by the court - he did not want the retinue, so he declined.
Shao Xun walked into the Tai Chi Hall and participated in the Sunrise Meeting.
Before entering the queue, he made concessions to Wang Yanqian.
Wang Yan insisted on letting him take the seat, and at the same time gestured with his eyes, as if to say: You are not Sima Master, and I am not Sima Fu.
Shao Xun did not persist in the end.
The twenty-nine-year-old general sat at the head of the sixty-one-year-old Taiwei.
The hall was a little solemn for a while, and everyone looked at it with vague eyes.
It was the first time that Liang Gong went to court as an auxiliary minister. Everyone could not figure out the way, so they did not dare to speak randomly.
Wang Yan glanced at his son.
Wang Xuan understood and said: "Your Majesty, since last winter, there has been a lack of rain and snow, and as of this spring, there has been severe drought for several months. The wheat is not growing, the summer seedlings are not showing, and there is a locust plague, which has spread to more than ten counties in the north and south of the river. I invite your majesty. I care about the use of money, the hard work of farming and weaving, and the festival contributions of the disaster-stricken counties."
After saying this, the first reaction of the court officials was not to look at the emperor, but at the general.
Shao Xun did not object.
When the emperor saw him, he felt sour in his heart.
It’s like after someone takes away something you value and loves, that person still plays with it in front of you. Forget about the taste!
So he decided to declare his presence: "Yes. I practice hard work with coarse cloth, eat plain rice and vegetarian meals, and spend the hard times with the people of Li."
"Your Majesty is wise." Wang Xuan Slowly retreat.
Wang Yan took off the white pen from the crown on the side of his ear, scratched out a line on the wat board, and then quietly showed it to Shao Xun.
Shao Xun nodded slightly after reading it.
Except for the canonization ceremony, there is actually nothing major happening today. Shao Xun can attend the court meeting later, or he can go back to Bianliang directly, it doesn't matter.
He stayed mainly to experience the changes brought about by his new identity.
"Your Majesty." Sure enough, just like what Shao Xun saw on the wat board, someone soon came out and said: "Since last year, silk has become cheap, money has become less and less, and both public and private affairs have suffered. . The minister requested that millions of coins be minted in a suitable place in Henan Province for public and private purposes."
Sima Chi remained silent.
He instinctively wanted to object, because the dynasty did not have the habit of minting money, and the old money of Han, Wei, Shu, and Wu was still used.
These coins are of different shapes and weights, which are very inconvenient for daily transactions. With the price of silk declining for two consecutive years—and maybe even lower this year—financial resources are quite insufficient, so it is still necessary to mint money.
But he also wanted to see Shao Xun's attitude.
Shao Xun did not respond.
Sima Chi just stared at him without saying a word, as if he was angry.
Wang Yan glanced around.
The people he swept out came out one after another and asked: "Your Majesty, please cast money."
Shao Xun finally spoke. He knelt down on the table and bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty, I thought we could start casting money."
Sima Chi looked left and right, finally closed his eyes and said: "Yes."
"Your Majesty, it is the duty of a historian to record events and words. In recent years, there have been many incidents and things have been inconsistent, which has led to interruption. I ask the historian to collect old events, record them in a book, and send them to the library every quarter... ..."
"Your Majesty, it is too time-consuming to have a judge to decide the prisoner..."
After the first two cases were played, the ministers came up one after another.
Shao Xun listened quietly.
Most of these things are meaningful, and the court is not full of bastards.
He inexplicably thought that when dynasties came and went, many old bureaucrats stayed on and became officials of the new dynasty. For a time, these old bureaucrats were quite active and worked hard, no longer dull or shirkful, as if they had transformed into talents one by one.
In the end, it depends on the environment.
The founding emperor of the new dynasty cannot tolerate sand in his eyes and is not easily fooled. The cleverness and tricks of the past can no longer be used. Furthermore, the officialdom has undergone purges, the ecology has changed, and the atmosphere has also changed. It has to be rolled up, so it appears to be full of vitality.
That's probably it.
He is sitting here today. It is understandable that many people are eager to perform in order to make progress or to maintain their current status.
Just——Isn’t this too hurtful?
Shao Xun glanced at the emperor and sat leisurely.
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After the court meeting was over, Shao Xun and Wang Yan came out side by side.
Some shameless court officials came forward to salute one after another, and Shao Xun responded one by one.
"How are you today?" Wang Yan looked at Shao Xun and asked with a smile.
“I’m quite impressed.” Shao Xun smiled.
Wang Yan also smiled and said: "After the Kingdom of China, we need to set up a post station between Luobian and Luobian. It is best to have a post station thirty miles away and send official letters quickly."
"I will ask someone to handle this matter." Shao Xun said.
"Why don't you stay in Luoyang or Changchang?" Wang Yan hesitated and asked.
"Pure." Shao Xun only replied this sentence before leaving the palace. Cao Cao left Xuchang and went to Yecheng to build a tyrant in order to escape from the control of the Yingchuan gentry.
Gao Huan left Yecheng and went to Jinyang to build Bafu in order to conduct the war better.
Shao Xun left Xuchang and went to Bianliang to build Bafu. The main purpose was to connect the north and south of the river and at the same time manage his own territory.
Cao, Gao and Shao actually have something in common. They have similar thoughts and ideas, but they don't just love wives.
Wang Yan also vaguely guessed something.
Among the ten counties in the Liang Kingdom, Chen County cleaned up very thoroughly. The He family was exterminated, and most of the Xie family moved south. There were not many left, and they could not make a difference. The only gentry family that can be said to be famous now is the Yuan family, who are still in-laws of the Shao family. The Wang family is a new rich, but their background is extremely poor, not as good as the Xie family and other families who have moved south.
The Liang Kingdom experienced many wars. After the beggar army Wang Ping's troops passed by, they continued to cause nuisance. Many powerful nobles crossed south to the east of the Yangtze River.
The Xiongnu raided Henan, and Liang fell into battlefield twice.
When Yu Chen was appointed as the domestic historian of Liang Dynasty, some people made trouble to clean up the land and household registration, and the situation was up and down. By this time, it had been almost cleared up.
As for Nanton and Xincai, they were places where Shao Xun resettled refugees on a large scale. The Ying family, the largest local gentry, was severely suppressed and most of them crossed south to Jingxiang.
The four counties of Puyang, Wei, Ji, and Dunqiu are places where the Jin and Huns have been at odds for many years. Not to mention the ordinary people, the nobles and powerful nobles could not stand the warnings, food requisitions, and military service, and even were killed every day. It was an unprovoked attack, and everyone who could leave was gone, leaving nothing behind.
The only two counties where there are really strong wealthy families are Runan and Chenliu, but they are far inferior to those more than ten years ago.
Shao Xun moved to Bianliang, probably because he wanted to suppress and clean up the Chenliu family nearby, collect their land and villagers, and support small households to compete with the big families in the arena, and he would be the judge in the middle and reap the benefits. When the time is right, the land and household registration will be cleared, and a truly stable rule will be established.
His ambition is really big!
Wang Yan didn’t know what he felt in his heart. The two years of drought and locust invasion were the peak years for Shao Xun to gather the refugees and laid the foundation for what he is today. In fact, he had taken care of a lot of the ten counties of Liang State a long time ago, and now he just put these "familiar areas" together.
Liang Guo is the result, not the process.
In addition, Shao Taibai's vision is really vicious. He is completely pursuing the roots of the gentry: land and tribe.
When many people hear "gentry", they subconsciously equate them with each other, which is a big mistake.
The nobles whose land tribes have been reduced are lame nobles.
A nobleman without a land tribe is just a dog of the Tian family.
Shao Xun promoted small families and small households. Even if these evolved into new noble clans, they would still be far from the current noble clans in strength.
Wang Yan gets confused every time he thinks about this.
Actually, he has thought about this before, and concluded that in troubled times, damage to the family fortune is unavoidable, but as long as most of it is preserved, it is acceptable without any damage to the bones. Even losing half of the family fortune is not completely unacceptable.
But I accepted it intellectually, but I was still a little unwilling emotionally.
Where to go, we can only take one step at a time.
Shao Xun is unwilling to take shortcuts, so he can do nothing.
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Liang Fen, who was plowing in the west of Luoyang City, soon learned what happened in the capital. He was told by Fu Xuan, the former general Longxiang's palace's west pavilion offering wine, and the Runan country's great farmer, the current general's east pavilion offering wine.
"The appointment of the shogunate of the General's Mansion is almost complete." Fu Xuan said: "Wang Yifu, the commander of the left army, appointed Wenqiao of Taiyuan as a military counselor and minister of wine, and at the same time retained Bian Dun of Jiyin. Assisting Wang Yan. Lu Zidao, the commander of the right army, invited Fan Yangzu to serve as the military counselor, and Lu Qiuchong, the former Yanzhou military counselor, remained in charge. The two of them each recruited a confidant, and both retained an old friend of Liang Gong - Shao Xun, who was originally the military chief of the Yanzhou shogunate.
“Pei Shao, Sima of the Yanzhou shogunate, is the chief historian on the left, and Yu Zimei of Yingchuan is the chief historian on the right.”
“Chen Yougen and Yang Chen are still the left and right Sima.”
“ Yuan Neng, the sister-in-law of Liang Gong and the magistrate of Yancheng, together with Zheng Long, a disciple of Liang Gong and the middle minister of Long Xiang, were the chief bookkeepers. "
"Yang Yu and Dunqiu Jingchan were also the governors of the record office."< br>
"Cao Yin is the governor of the government, Mi Zhi, Liu Anzhi, Yu Liang, Mao Bang and others are joining the army, and Duyang Tuntian Colonel Shao Guang is the supervisor..."
Fu Xuan one by one Counting, Liang Fen listened one by one.
After listening to the end, I feel that it is not much different from what I thought. The only difference is that the proportion of Hebei people has become higher. It is obvious that Liang Gong took Henan as his base and tried to make Hebei his base.
"Is Mr. Liang leaving Beijing in the next few days?" Liang Fen asked.
"It will only happen in ten days." Fu Xuan replied: "The palace city is still being built in Bianliang. In the next year, the shogunate's assistants will probably have to work in the county town."
Speaking of this, Fu Xuan sighed and asked cautiously: "Why doesn't Ming Gong serve as an official? There are only a few scholars in Kansai, and they are leaderless, let alone a climate."
Scholars from all over the country. Among people, the Xizhou scholars were probably the group that supported Shao Xun the most and took the issue of family background the least seriously.
The land of Kansai has been a mixed place of foreign and Han people since the Han Dynasty, and the customs are different. In addition, most of their family foundations were lost to the Huns, and most of their clansmen also began to cooperate with the Huns. Those children who stayed in Guandong suddenly became embarrassed.
Fields, tribes, money, everything you want is nothing. What can you do if you don’t support Mr. Liang?
Fu Xuan hoped that Liang Fen could come out of the mountain and become the leader of the Kansai scholars, leading them to take a share of the troubled times - a snake without a head can't do it.
Liang Fen waved her hand and refused.
Fu Xuan frowned and suddenly said: "Ming Gong, I met the Queen outside Fashili Temple a few days ago. When I stepped forward to salute, I saw bruises on the corners of the Queen's mouth. There are still rumors in the palace, The emperor wants to depose the queen and give her death..."
Liang Fen's face was calm and she didn't say anything, but she had quietly clenched her fists.
After achieving his goal, Fu Xuan said no more and only said: "Yu Zimei is going to Bianliang to become the prime minister. Liang Gonggong is looking for candidates for Sili Xiaowei."
After saying this, Fu Xuan Farewell.
(End of this chapter)