Chapter five hundred and seventy-six: the decree arrives
Everything is ready in Zheng Rong, but he only lacks the east wind, but he is quite energetic.
He didn't care about offending people at all. When the Zheng family came to this point, they could only use their ruthlessness to burn their boats and fight to the death.
To a certain extent, Qin Shaoyou chose Zheng Rong and was also attracted by this point. Not everyone was willing to work hard. Zheng Rong was different. He carries too many family glory and wants to revive the family business, he can only move forward.
Everything seems to be on the right track.
The taxes, army, and government affairs of the five towns were almost in the hands of Qin Shaoyou, and the enemies to be dealt with were the powerful men of all sizes. After these people learned about the new policy, they were in an uproar. Almost every law in the new policy was about to dig out their roots, and no one could accept it.
Without slaves and land, are there any tyrants or powerful people?
So it took not long before many people came to ask for help. This is the most basic way for the powerful families. When encountering any problems, the first thing they do is to use various relationships and use all their connections to ask for help, and then put pressure on them.
Any government official will often be defeated by such requests at the beginning. After all, they are all local tribes and have a wide connection. The relatives of his relatives may be your second uncle, or the relatives of which relatives happen to be your immediate superior. There are so many wealthy families in the five towns, and the relationship is complicated. If a family is like this, every family will follow it. In a few days, the pressure from the Zheng family will follow.
Even some uncles and uncles from the tribes far away in Luoyang came over and advised Zheng Rong to understand the way of harmony and not to act excessively, which aroused the disgust of many people.
What they said makes sense.
Even a wealthy family like the Zheng family must not offend others. If so, it would be like standing opposites of many wealthy families and losing their hearts. Although the family is big and the business is great, how can they take care of you when the Zheng family needs to use relationships in the future?
These uncles were also very thoughtful, and many "distant relatives" and disciples and old officials came to the door one after another. The attack on both sides made Zheng Rong very anxious.
Things were obviously not as easy as I thought.
Those big families knew the pros and cons, so they almost resisted the new policy. Therefore, once they were done, the pressure was overwhelming.
Countless letters from all over the place were also coming in a constant stream, all falling on Zheng Rong's desk.
It can be said that the so-called new policy is the most difficult one. After all, everyone is human, and people have emotions. You can ignore others, but if your old boss came to ask you for mercy, would you remain indifferent? Your children and in-laws came to cry and complain, saying that the whole family had no way out. Please open your side, can you stick to your own position? Your old friends when you were young come to talk about your past friendship, and say that you are desperate, are you still getting down on your face?
Zheng Rong is undoubtedly in pain now. He comes from such a big family, so he knows the difficulties of the other party. Even if the Zheng family encounters such a new policy one day, I am afraid that his performance will not be much better than them.
Zheng Rong did not even look at these letters and greetings in the end.
He understood the pros and cons of it too well. The Zheng family had no choice. Now that the Zheng family has to be reborn, everything he has to do now is for the Zheng family. He has no choice but to bet on Qin Shaoyou. There is no doubt that Qin Shaoyou's attention to the new policy is concerned.
If you can't even do this, you will have no effect. What will the Zheng family who has lost too much effect next?
His face was still Gujing Wubo, without any expression, but these letters and prayers were burned by him.
Immediately afterwards, on the basis of the laws formulated in the meeting hall, the government orders of the Five Military Government also came out. None of these government orders were to ensure the implementation of the new policy, conceal the land and kill the unmerciless, and those who raise private slaves in the family were killed without mercy. The Five Military Government recruited a large number of people, built bridges and roads, and set up grain officials in the market to stabilize the price of grain. No grain price could pass by 30% of the grain price in the past year, otherwise it would be unmerciless.
Zheng Rong's methods were very ruthless and decisive. After a few days of investigating the population and land, he personally asked the Five Military Barracks for assistance, and led a team of officers and soldiers to directly investigate the Wang family in Weizhou.
The Wang family in Weizhou is the largest clan in Weizhou. In short, they are considered to be one of the Wang family in Taiyuan, which is of seven families and five surnames. Therefore, they have a wide connection and even had marriages with the Zheng family before. However, when a team of vicious officers and soldiers appeared in front of the Wang family's mansion, the private soldiers of the Wang family surrounded the place with tension and wanted to confront the officers and soldiers in the fifth barracks. Originally, the Wang family meant to scare these officers and soldiers, but who knew that the order from Zheng Rong was that the Wang family was bold and obstructed the population investigation, raised private soldiers, and had ill-behavior.
When this order came out, countless officers and soldiers began to clear out the private soldiers of the Wang family. Finally, the wolves and tigers rushed into the mansion, and countless people were captured. Because the inner house was more severe, more than a dozen people were damaged by the five military camps and still could not attack. Zheng Rong did not hesitate to assist the Shence Army temporarily stationed in Weizhou.
More than a dozen cannons roared together.
The Wang family in Weizhou has since been destroyed.
Everyone understood at once.
This new head of the Five Army Office, the head of the Zheng family, and the attendant of the current dynasty, was such a cruel character who was not favorable to the public.
When news of the Wang family came out, all the people who were still watching fell into despair.
The reason why Wang Mang's new policy failed was because his new policy almost offended everyone. He voluntarily stood opposite to all the powerful people. Even if you are the emperor, it would be hard to applause, so the world rebelled, and the powerful people resisted one after another. There were countless local officials, because the vast majority of officials were born into powerful people and the officials and army was invincible. Because most of the military officers were also powerful people.
But now, the situation is very different. Although Zheng Rong is not the emperor, the power he leans against is the opposite of the powerful, so he can obtain continuous support. If you want to unite and raise the price of grain and cause turmoil. Then I will transfer grain from Henan to calm the price of grain. If you want to resist, then your highness's army can be launched at any time and be a treason for you. Next is to confiscate your family and exterminate the clan. If you want to use it to the court to complain, then you can sue it. It is useless to sue it.
There is no way to fight back, and there is no way to make trouble, and there is not even a place to seek justice. With the precedent of the Wang family, everyone has only cursed.
But what's the use of scolding? While you scolded him, countless people in Henan Prefecture applauded Zheng Rong, and Zheng Rong did not lose a piece of meat for this.
Now it seems that there is no other way than to submit.
Although there are still some people who are struggling dyingly, most of them seem to be honest.
Countless people were re-examined. This was the biggest problem with Wang Mang's new policy, because slaves obtained "stimulating eang". Logically speaking, this is a blessing, but the real situation is not the case at all, because for these slaves who lost their dependent family, they were just slaves and regarded as cows and sheep. However, since they were the owners of cows and sheep, they still had the obligation to support them, who would be willing to starve their cattle and sheep to death? However, once countless people broke free, the Wang Mang Dynasty at that time found that these people had nowhere to make a living. As a result, it can be imagined that these people became refugees and eventually became the main force against Wang Mang.
Obviously, in addition to cracking down on the powerful, how to solve the food and clothing problems of these people is the top priority.
Everything is difficult at the beginning. In fact, it is not that these people do not have the ability to support themselves. But suddenly so many people become free people, but they are at a loss. After all, they have no land and no capital to maintain their own survival. Therefore, for the Five Military Palaces, the most important thing is to make proper resettlement. To some extent, it is just to teach them to overcome the first difficulty and let them gradually integrate into a new life. After they get familiar with it, they will gradually have a certain understanding, and that will be fine.
Shence Mansion has helped a lot about this matter. Wang Ju searched for many commercial banks in Henan Mansion, hoping that these commercial banks will take this opportunity to buy some industries in various prefectures and counties. Major commercial banks also have some of the same meanings. After all, the materials there are cheaper, whether it is wood, stone, or even ore.
With these, people need to be recruited, which can barely be considered as a result of many karma.
In addition, the Shence Mansion invested a lot of money, and built water conservancy everywhere, digging canals, building bridges and roads, and the labor required was also quite a lot of labor, which finally did not make the situation worse.
The new policy has come to this point, and although it has not been accomplished, it has begun to achieve some results.
At this time, Zheng Rong was certainly hated by thousands of people, but at least he won the favor of Qin Shaoyou.
Qin Shaoyou has decided to go to Luoyang and Weizhou, after all, it is not a place to stay for a long time.
Besides, the situation here is gradually stabilizing, and there is no need for Qin Shaoyou here.
He was extremely satisfied with the two candidates to guard the place, both Zheng Rong and Wang Fangyi. These two people, both literary and military, are indeed talented. As long as they go on this direction, they will not take long to integrate with Henan Prefecture.
Of course, yelling and scolding is indispensable, but Qin Shaoyou does not care about it. In this world, whenever there is anything, there are always some people who are happy and sad. There is never any perfect plan. Since there are always people who scold, then let the landlords and wealthy people scold them.
The Shence army set out and crossed the Yellow River with Qin Shaoyou. When he arrived in Luoyang, before Qin Shaoyou had stopped, someone hurried to report: "Your Highness, I have an imperial edict to Luoyang Palace."
The imperial edict is here
Qin Shaoyou's eyes flashed.
To a certain extent, he knew that Chang'an would definitely react to Zheng Tong's "slander" and Zheng Rong's "defection". Wei Shi had to face this problem. If he had no reaction and let countless rumors continue, it would cause irreparable harm to Wei Shi.
But I don’t know what is written in this imperial edict?
Qin Shaoyou rushed to Luoyang Palace with curiosity.
Immediately afterwards, he met Wu Zetian in Xuanzheng Hall. Wu Zetian was more than a month earlier than Qin Shaoyou and now he has arrived at Luoyang Palace. He has long recovered his spirits.
She is old, and although she has great ambitions, her energy is limited.
In a certain way, this is almost always taken care of by Qin Shaoyou in Chengdu and Luoyang.
Anyway, as the prime minister around Wu Zetian, Yang Zaisi always does nothing.
The king and his minister have a lot of spare time and occasionally play chess to play life. This is also the reason why Yang Zaisi is quite depressed. The emperor cannot be without people, and his qualifications are too high, so it is obvious that he cannot be wronged and go to Shence Mansion to do things. However, almost all the rights here are concentrated in Shence Mansion and the newly built Five Military Mansions, and Yang Zaisi has almost no room for wielding.
He was quite envious of Zheng Rong's luck. Of course, he knew that he would never be the second Zheng Rong. The reason why Zheng Rong was entrusted with important tasks was that he had no way out. The only way was to do it. The second was that he was the head of the Zheng family. Many things that Yang Zaisi could not do, but Zheng Rong could do.
However, today, Yang Zaisi seemed quite happy. He arrived half an hour ago, waiting for Qin Shaoyou outside the hall. When he saw Qin Shaoyou coming, he hurriedly stepped forward to congratulate: "Congratulations to Your Highness, congratulations to Your Highness."
Qin Shaoyou was excited, but was infected by Yang Zaisi's attitude and couldn't help but say, "Where does the joy come from?"
Yang Zaisi kept it a secret and said, "Your Highness will know when you enter the palace."
Qin Shaoyou said: "Can the imperial envoy be inside?"
"It's gone." Yang Zaisi smiled and said, "This imperial envoy was originally ordered by Wei to come to greet the emperor. He also sent a lot of spiritual medicines, asking about his well-being and caring. However, he couldn't wait for His Highness, so he left the enthronement and returned home."
Yang Zaisi blinked in a narrow-minded manner: "I guess the imperial envoy named Wei is inconvenient to stay for a long time. He stayed in Luoyang, and was frightened."
Qin Shaoyou couldn't help but smile. Wei actually sent a Wei family to visit Wu Zetian and came to bring orders to him. From this, it can be seen that Empress Wei now wants to maintain a filial wife, but this method seems to be a bit late.
The problem with Wei's family is that after Zheng Tong is used, everything she does is just to cover up the truth in the eyes of others. Of course, she has to do these things, just like the world is talking about. If she is indifferent, the world will only say that Empress Wei still does not repent, which is really heartbreaking. But if she acts like filial at this time, everyone thinks that she is trying to cover up the truth and is false.
In any case, it was too late for Wesser to wash this stain.
Qin Shaoyou smiled. Of course he knew that Wei could not just do this, so what was the imperial edict related to him?
"Then, I will go in and see how the evil woman in the Daming Palace will deal with me."
Qin Shaoyou walked into Xuanzheng Hall and saw Wu Zetian. Wu Zetian obviously had been with him for a long time. The king and his minister met again, and Gu Zhu smiled. After they had been together for a long time, they had tacit understanding. Besides, Qin Shaoyou was both a monarch and a relative, so Qin Shaoyou was about to salute, but Wu Zetian said, "No need to be polite. Why, the matter of Weizhou has been dealt with. That Zheng Tong is quite interesting. I was shocked when I caused such a thing. The Zheng family is different from the past today. That Zheng
Rong is a cautious person with talent, but he also has his own selfishness. In their hearts, the people from these great clans always have the idea of family and country, with family in front and country behind. But now, if he is really willing to do his best, he can share a lot of your burden. You always want to learn from Zhuge Kongming and do everything yourself. This may not be a good thing. Now that the family is big, it is time to let some people stand alone. Look at me, when I am the emperor, I will enjoy the fruits and never care about trivial matters."
Qin Shaoyou had to smile bitterly and said, "Your Majesty is saying."
Wu Zetian said: "Okay, I am really too nagging. I know you understand some things, but I have to say a few words in a while. Oh, I'm old, that's the case when people are old. Okay, let's talk about the serious business. Come and take a look at the decree of Wei. It's very interesting."
As she spoke, Shangguan Wan'er, who was standing beside her, took the edict on the desk and went to Qin Shaoyou's hand.
Qin Shaoyou and Shangguan Wan'er looked at each other. Seeing that Shangguan Wan'er was thinner than before, but he didn't ask much, he simply took the memorial and opened it.
Five thousand is delivered. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!