Beiyuan is a very strange country.
Beiyuan was able to build a country for a very dramatic reason.
Unlike Dongqing, Zhongzhao, Nansheng, and Xichang, although the power of the gentry is great, the royal family has always restrained their growth, and they have also thought of various ways to weaken them. Beiyuan was different, not only allowed the gentry to sit on the throne, but also foolishly passed a system that was extremely beneficial to the gentry. In order to ensure the interests of the gentry, they also stipulated that the gentry should not be killed except for treason and slaying the monarch.
With such a guarantee, the development of the nobility in Beiyuan can be described as a blowout explosion.
As long as a man from a noble family can enter the officialdom and obtain an official position after he has become an adult, this leads to the fact that the positions with real power and oil and water are occupied by the nobility, and the royal family has become a human-shaped stamping machine, and the political voice is weak. Terrible.
In order to expand the influence of their own families, some noble families may have children.
As long as the family can afford it, they will die!
Anyway, children will definitely be able to become officials when they grow up, even if they are small officials, the number of them can change qualitatively.
With this idea in mind, after decades of development in Beiyuan, the group of nobles swelled to a terrible number.
This also affected the inheritance rights and interests of the direct line, so the direct line and the concubine were clearly divided.
The direct descendant must be noble, and the descendant is a little taller than the commoners, but in front of the direct descendant is a servant slave.
Beiyuan seems to have adjusted a dynasty that has accelerated and twisted. After only a few decades of establishment, serious land acquisition problems have been exposed. The interest groups headed by gentry are unable to satisfy their desires. As for the poor country.
There is a very popular saying in Beiyuan
The emperor is just a broken doll arbitrarily manipulated in the hands of the nobility!
Indeed, the nobles headed by the Beiyuan Yi clan took turns ruling and coup d'etat, and the country of Beiyuan never stopped.
I heard that there were as many as 20 coups in a year, and the shortest regime was maintained for only half a day.
It is equivalent to the fact that the xx forces have just killed the hostile forces, and they were secretly robbed by the latecomers for a few hours before they were complacent.
The people of Beiyuan are also miserable.
In five years, the currency has been changed six times, and the unit of measure has been changed four times.
The most pitiful thing is that the xx faction has just promulgated the decree, and the people below are busy to implement it. Four or five months have passed without seeing the effect, and the aa faction has come to the top again. The aa faction overthrew all the predecessor's arrangements in one fell swoop, and came up with its own originality.
The people of Beiyuan: "..."
There are 10,000 MMPs in my heart that I want to slap on these Shabi faces! ! !
Finally, the Yi clan, the largest noble clan in Beiyuan, stood out from the various factional battles and pushed the royal family to add their own robes. The people finally breathed a sigh of relief and hoped that the new emperor would be smarter.
The first thing the Yi family did when he ascended the throne was to add a title to each direct line, which was not hereditary, and the salary was the highest.
Prominent moment, the scenery is proud.
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As mentioned above, in order to gain more right to speak in the court, the nobility had to live and die, and even if the concubine was later labeled as a lower-class person, the number of direct descendants was still huge. According to a later world record statistics and research, the patriarch of the Beiyuan xx aristocracy has a total of 369 wives in his life. At the end of the year, one sleeps a day and there are four waiting.
The numbers on children are even more frightening.
Four hundred and twelve sons, three hundred and ninety-eight daughters! ! !
:з In order to increase the so-called direct children, their main wives can have nine at the same time, and the number of concubines is unlimited.
Although the Yi family is not so terrifying, there are more than 100 members of the Yi family.
In other words, in a place with a small population like Beiyuan, more than 100 hereditary and irreplaceable princes suddenly increased!
The highest salary of each princely title, where can the treasury get it
After paying half a year's salary, I was so poor that only my pants were left.
In order to appease them, the new Beiyuan royal family can only find a way to squeeze some more oil and water from the people.
What
Lower the king's salaries and cut their titles
No, they are all members of the Yi family, and they hold great power. If they get angry, they will lose their heads in the middle of the night.
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Anyway, the people are just ants, what are the ants wanting to do with such a big appetite, cut it!
The money in the pockets of the common people is like a sponge, and water can still be released by squeezing it.
Beiyuan's terrain is northerly, only a few months of the year are warm, other days are very cold, the environment is harsh, and it is not easy for crops to survive.
The food produced by the land is small. In order to stabilize the national conditions, the agricultural tax cannot be high.
Even if the government only receives 20%, the common people have to live frugally for a whole year to support their family.
However, in order to appease the king, the Yi family repeatedly raised the taxes of the common people and added complicated tax items to increase the revenue of the treasury.
When the tax is heaviest, the government collects 90% of the agricultural tax, and the remaining 10% of the grain tax has to be exploited layer by layer.
In Beiyuan territory, countless people died of freezing and starvation.
During the years of Jiang Pengji's wars, it was not that Beiyuan did not covet the fat of Dongqing.
They have also heard how rich and prosperous Maruzhou is, and they dreamed of taking it for themselves, but Beiyuan is so noisy, where did the money and equipment come from? Today's soldiers are just poor people who came in to mix hot porridge. The real hardcover elites are all private soldiers raised by the nobility, so Beiyuan, the minions of evil spirits in the mouths of the common people, still wants to squeeze out the force to expand and invade her rear
Jiang Pengji only gave them two words
Ha ha!
Before Yi's came to power, the barren Bei Yuan was still able to gather a decent force of hundreds of thousands, which would put a certain pressure on Jiang Pengji... This is why she asked Qi Guan to keep the troops still to prevent Bei Yuan from jumping out at this time and being a slut... Now that the Yi family has been in power for nearly two years, the entire Beiyuan is already a crippled baby. Jiang Pengjila's 250,000 soldiers and horses really look down on Beiyuan.
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Outsiders thought that Jiang Pengji was using a bull's knife to kill chickens, but Qi Guan let her know that she brought so many soldiers to kill the Beiyuan nobility.
Of the five kingdoms in the world, the sum of the number of nobles of the other four countries is not as large as that of Beiyuan.
The Beiyuan gentry were especially superstitious about their bloodline, and that set of deformed "N kinds of privilege theory of the gentry" went deep into the bone marrow.
A bunch of cancers! ! !
Really absorbed, she was afraid of cancer.
When Fengzhen told her that more than 100 Beiyuan refugees had been arrested, she looked thoughtful.
Guan Qi gave way, "Actually... There were also refugees who fled to Xuecheng before, but I made a decision to expel them."
Jiang Pengji smiled and said, "Can't you expel it?"
Guan Qi gave way, "Give dry food and send soldiers to send it away. If you are still stubborn, kill the chickens to warn the monkeys. If you can't do it, kill them all!"
Although the people fleeing from Beiyuan are pitiful, they cannot be allowed to flee into their own territory and threaten the lives of the people in the territory.
When Qi Guanrang arrived at the border, he heard that many refugees in Beiyuan robbed local people of money and food, murdered, raped and other evil acts.
These people cannot stay.
For those who didn't have time to escape, his wrists were much gentler, driving away as the master, and killing them if they couldn't.
If he were someone else, he would probably be scolded to death, but Qi Guanrang never cared about this for the sake of the overall situation.
He will not do anything if he is soft-hearted towards the people of the enemy country and puts his own people in danger.
This group of people who have fled and crossed the border are also not soft-hearted.
but
Feng Zhen said, "It's just... lord, one of them claims to be your old friend."
Jiang Pengji asked, "What's it called?"
Feng Zhen replied, "Ma Xiu."
A somewhat silent but clear-eyed boy immediately appeared in Jiang Pengji's mind.
The acquaintances in Langya Academy back then were indeed old friends.
"I remember Shaoyin said that the fertile fields in Ma Xiu's house were plundered and plundered by tyrants and tyrants. In order to avoid disaster, he had to go north from home..."
There has been no news for many years, and I never thought that I would go to Beiyuan to avoid disaster.