Chapter 557: Emperor Wu
In the history of this world, basically every large-scale uprising and rebellion, the leaders of those organizations will use the banner of "equalizing the land and exempting the tax", and will not be fulfilled every time. Even the dynasty that seized the world will successfully change this slogan and begin to follow the previous tax system. At most, they will be a little more relaxed in the law and will not be too ruthless in the people.
After several generations of emperors, the taxes in the court will increase year by year. In the end, land annexation, corrupt officials are rampant, and the people are unable to sustain them. In the end, they take risks and keep uprisings.
Since ancient times, all dynasties have been like this. After you finish your singing and I will appear, similar situations have been staged one after another. I don’t know how many people have said that reading history can help you know the rise and fall, but their dynasty still embarked on the old path of the destruction of their predecessors.
When you look at the history of this world, you can see that the process of every dynasty from prosperity to demise is almost surprisingly similar, and no dynasty can break out of this cycle.
It was not until Li Xiake came to this world that he could break out of the cycle, because he could really implement his policy and really dare to do so without any worries.
Unlike some dynasties, they do one thing, even if the emperor wants to do something equal to the land and exempt food, all the princes and ministers will not agree to him.
The big guys worked hard to overthrow the previous dynasty. Isn’t it just for wealth and glory? What does wealth and glory depend on? Isn’t it just land and countryside? If this really makes the people equal land, what do they eat and drink?
Even the emperor is a vested interest. Once he stands in his dominance, he begins to reject such slogans from the bottom of his heart. After all, this is just a means to deceive the people at the beginning, and no one will take it seriously.
But Li Xiake took it seriously!
Although he never said any slogan of equalizing the land and freeing grain from beginning to end, nor did he say anything about world harmony, for Li Xiake, he had to do such a thing as measuring the land.
"Your Majesty, the way of the country lies in the fields. If the farmer has his own fields, where will the scholars in the world be placed? Where will the civil and military officials be placed? If the land in the world is handed over to the public, I am afraid that the country will be unstable and the people will be separated from their ambitions and virtues!"
When Li Xiake announced the average land, an old prime minister shook the door in the hall and cried: "Your Majesty, please think twice, I hope to take back my life and restore the old system!"
Li Xiake Gao was on the dragon throne and sneered: "All civil and military officials in the court? I fought alone in this world. What achievements did the civil and military officials in the court have? It is already a strange story for me to ask for a salary with me while licking my face. You even told me to restore the old system? I founded the country alone, how could the old system come from?"
The prime minister was speechless.
He established a dynasty with his own strength. Even if he read through history books, he had never seen anything as strange as this dynasty.
That dynasty change was not a river of blood or a hero? Which dynasty was established was not the result of a group of people working together to conquer the world?
There has never been a single person, and there is no one who can conquer the world. Everyone knows that this is an impossible thing, but in this dynasty, it happened so strangely and incredibly!
Li Xiake really used his own strength to drive away the soldiers of the Jin Horde who invaded the Central Plains, killed Long Chenghai, the commander of the rebel army, and forced the old subordinates of the Southern Dynasties to surrender, thus establishing a new dynasty, with the country's name being the Great Han.
The Han Dynasty formed now, except for a limited number of people such as Long Chun, Lu Tianlin, Zhou Yuanqing, etc., the rest of the officials were all made no contribution. Some were old subordinates of the Rebel Army, and some were officials of the former subordinates of the Southern Dynasty, who were themselves Li Xiake's opponents. Now Li Xiake is broad-minded and has not blamed him for his past, so that they can continue to be officials in the court. To be honest, these people are a little ashamed.
But this time Li Xiake wants to equalize the land, which is the basis for moving these people. Even if they know they have no confidence, they still have to argue with reason. Although this "reason" is not very tenable, if they are a high-ranking official, they cannot enjoy wealth and wealth and have no fertile land, is this still called an official?
"Where did you go when the Golden Horde invaded the south? Where did you go when their soldiers killed the people of the Central Plains?"
Li Xiake looked at the civil and military officials in the court: "Now I want to give equal land to the people, but you have stood up and opposed it. Is this the way of sages you learned? If the Taoist sages are all selfish, then what qualifications are the sages qualified to be called sages and sages?"
All the officials at the scene were speechless.
At first they thought Li Xiake was a martial artist. Although he was so skillful in martial arts, he might not know how to govern the country. However, after joining Li Xiake, they found that Li Xiake was extremely smart and was more familiar with the affairs of the court than any of them. He was very familiar with the emperor as an emperor, as if he had been an emperor for many years before, and even some of the rules of the court were better than these ministers, which was beyond their understanding.
Now they are opposing Li Xiake's policy of equalizing the land for the people, and Li Xiake's heart is directly seen through by Li Xiake. Now that he is ridiculed on the spot, everyone is red and dare not say anything.
The temporary prime minister in the middle of the hall was embarrassed on the spot, his face turned red and pale, and he was out of control and did not know how to step down.
Li Xiake waved his hand and asked him to retreat: "My words are the will. You will not be allowed to refute in the future! Whatever I say in the future, you will do as you do, you will be rewarded, if you do something bad, you will be punished!"
He said lightly: "I have the final say in this world, and there is no room for you guys to talk!"
Seeing that Li Xiake was angry, all the civil and military officials were frightened and dared not say much.
It is strange that since these officials surrendered to Li Xiake, although Li Xiake did not implement tyranny and had never killed officials for no reason, these officials were afraid of Li Xiake from the bottom of their hearts. This fear even penetrated their souls, and even maintained this awe of Li Xiake in their dreams.
How could they know the power of Li Xiake, the master of martial arts. The reason why these officials remained in awe of Li Xiake was the result of the use of Li Xiake's spiritual power.
After obtaining the spiritual secret strategy of Jinding Snow Mountain, Li Xiake's spiritual cultivation has been greatly improved, and now he has begun to subtly influence the hearts of these officials.
According to historical records, the emperor came from the south and had the greatest force in the world. He rode alone and recovered the rivers and mountains, drove the Jin Hordes to the north of the desert, killed the war god Tengri and the capital, let the mountains and rivers and the rebels drift away, letting the body, mind and mountains and rivers go.
Later, Chenghai was in a state of incompetence, and the emperor was angry and worked with Longchun, Lian Yunxu, and Lu Tianlin. Zhou Shan moved, Zhou Yuanqing and five others entered the capital, killed Chenghai on the long street, and went straight into the palace. On that day, he sat in the palace and proclaimed himself emperor.
The emperor was irritable, but he was extremely smart. He relied on the words of the saints, reformed the imperial examinations, divided the world, established village chiefs, divided the land equally, all the people were all convinced, developed water conservancy, attached importance to agriculture and commerce, and the empire flourished.
The entire history book has a very high evaluation of Li Xiake. After a thousand years, he did not say that he was bad, but only one thing was criticized by later generations, that is, "he recklessly, do not listen to others' words, treats officials as nothing, observes the old system like dirt, insults court officials, and likes to fight."
It is for this reason that he was later honored as Emperor Wu of Han, also known as Emperor Wu of Han.
Chapter completed!