12dz Chapter 296
Chapter 296
Duke Zhou was afraid of rumors, and Wang Mang was respectful and modest before he usurped the throne.
Many people in history are good at pretending. Of course, most of them pretend to be poor. What if everyone knows that you are rich?
Then pretend to be simple.
[The representative figure here is Wang Mang. ]
Daqin
Qin Shi Huang shook his head. He thought that the dynasties that followed were extremely interesting. What on earth had they learned to come up with such a method?
This kind of picture should be very big.
"Or maybe he's just extremely stingy."
Wang Mang came from a very powerful family. He was the nephew of the Empress of Emperor Yuan of Han. The Wang family was a top-tier foreign-relative family at the time, with five marquises in the family.
[My uncle served as Grand Marshal and assisted the emperor.]
[In such a powerful family, the younger generations would have long since become wealthy and extravagant, but Wang Mang lived a very frugal life because his father and brother died young.]
[However, under these circumstances, he did not deliberately curry favor with his uncles. Instead, he devoted himself to learning, treated scholars with great respect, and was extremely filial to his uncles.]
[So one of his uncles, before his death, wrote a petition asking Queen Mother Wang Zhengjun to take better care of Wang Mang, and another uncle asked to give Wang Mang a portion of his fiefdom.]
After Wang Mang became an official, his disposition remained unchanged. He sold his carriage and distributed the proceeds to his retainers.
[The most famous incident was when Wang Mang forced his own son to commit suicide. At that time, his second son, Wang Huo, killed a servant in the family. When Wang Mang found out, he cursed him loudly and forced him to commit suicide.]
All these things combined to make Wang Mang's reputation spread far and wide. Finally, he could no longer pretend and forced the emperor to abdicate, and he became the emperor.
[After he became emperor, he was very interesting. He planned to restore the well-field system and abolished the five-zhu coins, intending to use shell coins...]
Qi Cheng shook his head when he saw this. Unofficial history said that this person was a time traveler. Could he have traveled from the Western Zhou Dynasty? Otherwise, why would he have the brains to restore the well-field system?
To turn private property into public property, his reputation is not enough. He needs at least tens of millions of helpers who share the same ideas as him.
big man
Liu Che took a deep breath. This was a plot to usurp the throne. No wonder the Han Dynasty was split into two. This was the work of a foreign relative. It looked like he really had to find a way to control it.
Also, the Wang family should have some capital now, so I have to solve the future problems first.
"Your Majesty, after observing the sky for so long, I feel that the Han Dynasty does have problems in its handling of its relatives by marriage. I think it would be better to establish a law to prohibit relatives by marriage from holding high positions."
Liu Che shook his head. It didn't matter the size of the official position, but what the person in the palace thought. If she couldn't distinguish right from wrong, even a small official could have great power.
"The harem is not allowed to interfere in government affairs! All empress dowagers must live in the inner palace and are forbidden to rule from behind the curtain, even if the emperor is only a few years old."
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Wang Mang's ambitions were grand, so he pretended to be very simple. However, it's unclear what this Ming Dynasty relative was up to. His mind was probably already filled with money.
[He is Zhou Kui, the father-in-law of Zhu Youjian.]
[Of course, Zhou Kui himself had a serious problem, but the bigger problem was actually Zhu Yuanzhang's request. He may not have carefully considered what kind of relatives the Ming Dynasty should choose.]
Zhu Yuanzhang: Why is it my fault again?
Zhou Kui was a very stingy person. His family owned a lot of land and businesses, but he always pretended to be broke and would often ask Emperor Chongzhen for money.
【Emperor Chongzhen was truly poor.】
Later, during a period of extreme poverty, the Ming Dynasty was forced to ask ministers and nobles for donations. The Empress, knowing her father's character, sent five thousand taels of silver.
[In the end, Zhou Kui only donated 3,000 taels, and secretly intercepted 2,000 taels for himself.]
These parasites probably didn't consider what would happen if the Ming Dynasty fell. When Li Zicheng entered Beijing, all their money would be taken away.
Tang Dynasty
Li Shimin smiled and said, three thousand taels of silver, this is just to give away a beggar. Besides, what's wrong with that Emperor Chongzhen? He didn't even get angry.
Not to mention the Queen's family, even the family of any concubine in the palace has more than three thousand taels of silver.
Moreover, he really couldn't understand the Ming Dynasty's strategy. At that time, princes and princesses were all married to aristocratic families.
Combining with ordinary families would not be of much help to the country.
Ming Dynasty
Zhu Di was so angry that he was about to die. Judging from the relatives introduced by Tianmu, they were of no help at all except for causing trouble. He must change this.
We cannot have someone like Wang Mang who plots to usurp the throne, nor can we have someone like Zhou Kui, who is dragging his trousers down so hard that they are about to be pulled off.
"What can you do?"
Several ministers lowered their heads. To put it bluntly, this was the emperor's family affair. If they spoke too much, they might offend someone in the palace.
When the pillow talk starts, it will probably blow your head off.
There is no other way. The emperor can't just chop himself off like this.
Looking at the ministers below, Zhu Di scolded them a few times and asked them to go home and think of a solution. He would let the lower-level officials come up with a solution in three days.
If someone really has a good idea, he will not be stingy with the official position.
Qing Dynasty
Emperor Qianlong laughed heartily while touching the teacup with the blue dragon pattern in his hand. These two emperors were truly useless. They couldn't even tell that the people below them were pretending to be poor.
How can you be an emperor? Find a place to hang yourself.
"Heshen, there's no such thing as pretending to be poor in our Qing Dynasty, right? Do you know why? It's because I can see through everything, and these little tricks don't bother me."
"It's better to be more magnificent to please me."
Heshen nodded slightly. In fact, he knew in his heart that there seemed to be few people in the Qing Dynasty who pretended to be poor, but there were more than one or two of these Eight Banners descendants who pretended to be rich.
They can't even afford to eat at home, and they have to spend all day in the teahouse. Most of them have become useless now. The few who still want to rely on military merits have to pretend to like carrying caged birds.
Otherwise, you won’t be able to talk to the big shots.
After Qi Cheng finished reading the article, he remembered a clip he had seen, so he quickly pulled it out from his tablet and started reading it.
A low-ranking officer of the Eight Banners could only drink cornmeal porridge in the morning, but for the sake of face, he would wipe his mouth with pig skin before going out, so that people would think he had eaten meat in the morning.
Heshen thought that the TV was a bit too much, and then he heard a bang. The teacup that was in the emperor's hand just now was now shattered into pieces.