Zhu Biao put away the letter to his father, the emperor and his mother, and then wrote to his princess. The reply was basically to praise her for doing a good job, and then he didn't need to be too polite to the noble lady, and he had to hold it in check. The majesty of the Crown Princess.
At the end of writing, Zhu Biao did not reply to her with any lovesickness poems. Deep love will last forever and love will be broken. Zhu Biao still hopes that he and Chang Luohua can respect each other as guests and support each other through this life, instead of causing earth-shattering things. .
Now that they are newlyweds, Chang Luohua is naturally devoted to Zhu Biao, but in the future, people will inevitably come in one after another in the East Palace. Those who love too deeply will hate even more deeply. It is better to end up with no affection at all. I didn’t give that much hope at the beginning.
Someone fetched the letter written by Zhang, and then ordered it to be sent back to the capital quickly. Liu Jin brought a basin of water to Zhu Biao to wash his feet, and then let him rest. There are always few days of rest. Tomorrow Zhu Biao had to return to camp early in the morning.
In the early morning of the next day, before the sky lit up, the Zhang Mansion was already brightly lit. After Zhu Biao was fully dressed, he walked to the front yard. The Zhang family, including the sleepy children, were waiting there to salute Zhu Biao. He brought breakfast to Zhu Biao, and then gave Liu Jin instructions with red eyes.
If Mrs. Zhang can be called sister by Zhu Biao, she is Liu Jin's biological aunt, so she naturally responds with a smile. Of course, Mrs. Zhang is not stupid, and she naturally respects Liu Jin, the personal eunuch.
After eating, a ray of light bloomed in the sky. Zhu Biao said a few more words to Mrs. Zhang, then got up and went out. Finally, he turned to look at Mrs. Zhang's eldest son and said: "Educate him well and he will be used in the future. "
The people of the Zhang family hurriedly knelt down and thanked him. With these words, this child had a guarantee for his whole life. As long as he was not raised crookedly, he could work for the Crown Prince. This future was very bright.
Zhu Biao smiled, took off the dragon-patterned jade pendant from his waist and asked Liu Jin to hand it to Zhang: "Leave a message for Sister Yu'er to show the love of master and servant back then."
When Madam Zhang heard this, she also understood that His Highness the Crown Prince was saying that he had given everything that was due. From now on, the Zhang family should respect themselves and not do anything wrong based on his name. Madam Zhang said with red eyes, "I thank you, Your Highness."
Zhu Biao took one look at her, mounted his horse, and left with a whip, followed by a large number of people from the brigade. Fortunately, it was early in the morning, and with the guards clearing the road, the brigade left the city smoothly, and officials from Pingyang Prefecture also saw them off at the door.
Zhu Biao nodded to them and rode over. The officials bowed to see them off. Zhu Biao put his mind to rest, and the prosperity of the Zhang family began. As long as the Zhang family did not die and the Zhang family did not do anything excessive, in the end, At least a hundred years of wealth will be there, just like Jia Mu in "A Dream of Red Mansions".
After Zhu led his two thousand cavalry out of the city, he was followed by more than a thousand people. Fei Ju had arranged this just in case. No matter what happened in Pingyang City, three thousand elite armors were enough to protect the prince when he rushed out. city gate.
Zhu Biao led his army back to the camp. After chatting with Zhu Xi and others who greeted him, he arranged for the army to break camp and march directly to Taiyuan Prefecture. He also passed many villages along the way. However, Zhu Biao did not rush to take action and rashly accepted the order to relocate the people. It is easy to provoke a backlash.
What's more, Zhu Biao doesn't have too many people to surround the entire Shanxi. He can't catch the young and strong people fleeing in all directions. What's the use of forcibly moving so many old, weak, sick and disabled people? It's not like inviting back a bunch of ancestors.
Therefore, we still need to be soft first, gathering some people who really want to leave or who can't survive in the local area. With their cooperation, future work will be easier.
Of course, this also requires the support of the government and gentry. Before Zhu Biao entered Shanxi, he asked local officials to call the village elders of each village. At this time, the court had just taken over Shanxi and had not established any management personnel for the villages, so the village elders of each village The clan leader is the one who really manages things.
Of course, there are also the famous families in Shanxi, headed by the Wang family in Taiyuan. Of course, their power has long been far less prominent than in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, but in the eyes of the people and some scholars, the Wang family is still very prestigious.
It's a pity that the era of belonging to aristocratic families has long passed. Since the rise of the imperial examination, the imperial power hangs high above their heads. With Zhu Biao's words, they must behave, otherwise Shanxi will also see blood.
At this point, Zhu Biao had to thank the ancestors of the previous dynasties again. The gradually growing aristocratic families from the late Eastern Han Dynasty to the Wei and Jin Dynasties had long been a factor influencing the change of political power, especially the Nine-Rank Zhongzheng System and the Yin Clan Yin Clan. The implementation of customization brought them to the top.
"The king and his horse share the world" is so majestic, but this is exactly an insult to the emperor. In order to consolidate the imperial power, starting from the Liu Song Dynasty, the rulers began to work hard to weaken the influence of the gentry. The supreme rule of the Song, Qi, Liang, and Chen They actively promoted the "Secrets of the Han Clan" and promoted a large number of Han Clan children, allowing the Han Clan to compete with the noble clans.
However, compared with the Sui Dynasty, the policy of weakening the gentry during the Southern and Northern Dynasties pales into insignificance. After Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty established the Sui Dynasty, in order to strengthen his rule and reduce the influence of the gentry on the court, he created the "imperial examination system". This made Zhu Biao couldn't help but sigh, he was worthy of being an emperor with the posthumous title of Wen, and he was indeed talented in the world.
Later, the Sui Dynasty adopted the "Da Suo Mao Yue" and the law of losing the nationality to seize hundreds of thousands of people from the powerful gentry, and implemented the land equalization law. During the Yangdi period, those tribes and slaves that the nobles could still control were deprived of their ability to receive land.
It can be said that by the Sui Dynasty, the gentry had lost legal protection and economic support, and the wealthy gentry that had been rampant for hundreds of years were already a thing of the past.
So they made a last ditch effort, and the Li family of Longxi replaced the Yang family as their representative. It can be seen from the twenty-four heroes of Lingyan Pavilion canonized by Li Shimin that fifteen of them were from the Guandong gentry.
It's just that they forgot that no matter which family became the emperor, the suppression of the gentry group would never stop. Li Shimin ordered Gao Shilian and others to compile "Clan Chronicles", which is equivalent to the Tang Dynasty version of "Hundred Family Surnames" ", however, Gao Shilian and others obviously did not understand the holy will. They still listed the Cui family and the Lu family of Guandong as the first-class noble families together with the royal family Li family.
Li Shimin was so angry that he jumped up and scolded his mother, completely ignoring the majesty of the emperor: "Me and the Cui family of Shandong... It is rude; relying on wealth is shameless; I don't understand why the world attaches great importance to it?
Since then, the entire Tang Dynasty has been working hard to suppress the gentry, and the improvement of the imperial examination system has allowed the once powerful gentry to gradually transition to the civil service system. However, if you are not careful, the civil service group will become more terrifying and greedy than the gentry.
Zhu Biao rode his horse and looked ahead aimlessly, but thought in his heart that there would always be fools among aristocratic families, and it would be simple for one of them to be able to climb to the top of the civil service.
The two major institutions of imperial examination and officialdom will cultivate the best talents from generation to generation. This will be his biggest help but also his biggest stumbling block.
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