1818: Record of the Strange Flowers of Beiyuan (Part 2)

Beiyuan is a wonderful country.

It is also because of a very dramatic reason that Beiyuan was able to establish a country.

Unlike Dongqing, Zhongzhao, Nansheng, and Xichang countries, although the power of the gentry is great, the royal family has always restrained their growth and tried various methods to weaken it. Beiyuan is different, not only allowing the gentry to sit on the throne, but also foolishly passing a system that is extremely beneficial to the gentry. The official position of the gentry was passed down from generation to generation. In order to ensure the interests of the gentry, they also stipulated that the gentry should not be killed except for treason and regicide.

With such a guarantee, the development of the gentry in Beiyuan can be described as a blowout.

As long as a man of gentry origin can enter the officialdom and obtain an official position after becoming an adult, this leads to the fact that all positions with real power and lucrative positions in the ruling and opposition parties are occupied by the gentry. Terrible.

In order to expand the influence of their families, some gentry families can give birth to children vigorously.

As long as the family can afford it, they will die and live!

Anyway, children will definitely be able to become officials when they grow up, even if they are small officials, qualitative changes will occur if there are too many officials.

With this in mind, after decades of development in Beiyuan, the group of gentry has swelled to a terrifying number.

This also affected the inheritance rights and interests of the direct lineage, so the direct lineage and the concubine lineage were clearly divided.

A concubine must be noble, and a concubine is a little higher than a commoner, but in front of a concubine, he is a slave.

Beiyuan seems to be a dynasty that has been adjusted and accelerated. It has only been a few decades since its establishment, and it has exposed serious land annexation problems. The interest groups headed by the gentry are hard to fill. As for the country's poverty.

There is a very popular saying in Beiyuan——

The emperor is just a broken doll in the hands of the gentry!

Indeed, the gentry headed by the Beiyuan Yi clan took turns in power and coups, and the country of Beiyuan never stopped.

It is heard that there are as many as 20 coups in a year, and the shortest regime is only half a day.

It is equivalent to the fact that the XX forces have just killed the hostile forces, and before they are proud of themselves, their heads are secretly stolen by the latecomers.

The people of Beiyuan are also miserable.

The currency has been changed six times and the unit of measurement four times in five years to find out!

The most deceitful thing is that the XX faction has just promulgated some regulations, and the people below are busy implementing them. After four or five months, no results have been seen, and the AA faction has taken over again. The AA faction overthrew all the previous arrangements in one go, and came up with their own originals.

Beiyuan people: "..."

There are ten thousand words of MMP in my heart, and I want to slap these Sabbies on their faces! ! !

Finally, the Yi family, the largest gentry in Beiyuan, stood out from the various factional battles, and pushed the royal family to add their own dragon robes. Refresh the lower limit.

The first thing the Yi family does when they are in power is to confer titles on each of the direct descendants, hereditary no succession, and the salary is the highest.

Prominent for a while, the scenery is proud.

_(:з)∠)_

As mentioned above, in order to win more right to speak in the court, the gentry lived vigorously and lived to the death. Even if the concubines were later beaten into inferior people, the number of direct descendants was still very large. According to a statistical textual research of a later world record - the patriarch of the Beiyuan XX nobles had a total of 369 wives in his lifetime. Throughout the year, one sleeps a day and four have to wait anxiously.

The numbers about children are even more terrifying.

Four hundred and twelve sons, three hundred and ninety-eight daughters! ! !

_(:з)∠)_In order to increase the so-called first-born children, their main wives can have nine at the same time, and there is no limit to concubines.

Although the Yi family is not so terrifying, there are more than a hundred people in each branch of the Yi family.

In other words, in a place with a small population like Beiyuan, there are more than a hundred hereditary princes suddenly!

Where can the state treasury get the highest salary for each prince?

After paying half a year's salary, I was so poor that I only had pants left.

To appease them,

The new Beiyuan royal family can only find a way to squeeze some oil from the common people.

What?

Lowering the salaries of princes and cutting off their titles?

No, they are all members of the Yi family, and they hold a lot of power. If they get angry, they will lose their heads in the middle of the night.

_(:з)∠)_

Anyway, the people are just ants, what do ants want people to have such a big appetite, cut it!

The money in people's pockets is like a sponge, and water can still come out when squeezed.

Beiyuan is located in the north, only a few months of the year are warm, other days are very cold, the environment is harsh, and it is difficult for crops to survive.

The food produced by the land is small, so in order to stabilize the national conditions, the agricultural tax cannot be high.

Even if the government only collects 20%, the common people have to live frugally throughout the year to support their families.

However, in order to appease the prince, the Yi family repeatedly increased the taxation of the people and added complicated tax items to increase the revenue of the treasury.

When the tax was the heaviest, the government collected 90% of the agricultural tax, and the remaining 10% of the grain tax was exploited layer by layer.

In the territory of Beiyuan, countless people died of freezing and starvation.

During Jiang Pengji's years of war, Beiyuan had not coveted Dongqing's fat.

They had also heard how rich and prosperous Maruzhou was, and they dreamed of taking it for themselves, but Beiyuan was so noisy, where did they get the financial resources to equip the military supplies? Today's soldiers are just poor people who come in for hot porridge. The real hardcover elites are all private soldiers raised by the gentry—so they are the minions of the evil spirits in the common people—Bei Yuan still wants to squeeze out troops to expand and invade her rear?

Jiang Pengji only gave them two words——

hehe!

Before Yi's coming to power, the barren Beiyuan could still muster a decent force of more than a hundred thousand, putting a certain amount of pressure on Jiang Pengji... That's why she asked Qi Guan to stand still and prevent Beiyuan from jumping out to be a troublemaker at this time ... Now that Mrs. Yi has been in power for nearly two years, the whole of Beiyuan is already a crippled doll. Jiang Pengji's 250,000 soldiers really look up to Beiyuan.

Tsk——

Outsiders thought that Jiang Pengji was killing chickens with a sledgehammer, but Qi Guan let her know that she brought so many soldiers to kill all the Beiyuan nobles.

Among the five countries in the world, the combined number of gentry of the other four countries is not as many as that of Beiyuan.

The Beiyuan gentry are also extremely superstitious about blood, and that set of deformed "N kinds of privilege theories of the gentry" is deeply rooted in their bones.

A bunch of cancer! ! !

Really absorbed, she was afraid that she would get cancer.

When Fengzhen told that she had captured more than a hundred refugees from Beiyuan, she looked thoughtful.

Qi Guan stepped aside, "Actually... there were also refugees fleeing to Xuecheng earlier, but I made a decision to expel them."

Jiang Pengji laughed and said, "Can't we expel them?"

Qi Guan gave way, "Give them dry food, and send soldiers to send them away. If they are still stubborn, kill them as an example, or else, kill them all!"

The people fleeing from Beiyuan are indeed pitiful, but 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 from Beiyuan robbed the local people of money and food, murdered, raped and other evil deeds.

These people cannot stay.

For those who did not have time to escape, his wrists were much gentler, mainly to drive away, and not to kill.

Other people would probably be scolded to death, but Qi Guanrang has never worried about these for the sake of the overall situation.

He will not be soft-hearted towards the people of the enemy country and put his own people in danger.

This group of people who fled and crossed the border also did not hesitate.

but--

Feng Zhen said, "It's just... my lord, one of them claims to be your old friend."

Jiang Pengji asked, "What's your name?"

Feng Zhen replied, "Matthew."

Immediately, Jiang Pengji thought of a young man who was somewhat silent but clear-eyed.

The acquaintances in Langya Academy back then were indeed old friends.

"I remember Shaoyin said that the fertile land in Ma Xiu's home was invaded and plundered by bandits and tyrants. In order to avoid disaster, he had to move north from his home..."

There has been no news for many years, and I never thought that I went to Beiyuan to avoid disaster.

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