Joy of Life: I am a Han Dynasty succubus, and I rebel from the beginning

After Liu Qi became emperor, apart from the initial excitement, he later felt a huge pressure.

Emperor Wen Liu Heng developed the economy to unprecedented prosperity, established the system of recommendation and promotion, and developed a bureaucratic system that was loyal to the emperor throughout the world.

Such ability is so profound that it can be called a writer.

Liu Qi knew very well that the best he could do was to practice frugality like his father and maintain the Han Dynasty's policy of 40% tax.

But in this way, he is just a king who maintains the status quo and cannot be given a good title at all.

This is not what Liu Qi wants.

It happened that at this time, the Minister of Finance of the Cabinet, Versace, submitted a letter of resignation and returned home.

The aristocratic families in the north who were no longer suppressed by Emperor Wen also began to stir, and a large number of soldiers gathered together during the period of succession of the Han Dynasty.

According to reports from nobles with military merit stationed in their fiefdoms, Qi had been weakened many times. Although it was impossible to recover to the point where it had a million soldiers, it would still have no problem using 300,000 soldiers.

When Liu Qi saw these memorials, he not only did not feel any sense of crisis or panic, but instead burst into laughter.

"Hahahaha... I know what I should do. I've changed everything. Everything."

The first generation of military and civilian aristocrats are now in their sixties and seventies. They occupy official positions in the court, but they cannot accomplish anything significant.

Isn't this just occupying the toilet without taking a shit?

We, the emperors of the Han Dynasty, all traveled among the people and observed their sufferings after we were able to take power.

Why don't you, the military nobles, abide by these fine traditional virtues?

Do you think your achievements are greater than those of Emperor Gao and Emperor Wen?
Liu Qi's first decree of administration was quickly issued.

"At the age of 35, Emperor Gao conquered the country. At the age of 50, Emperor Wen succeeded him. At the age of 50, Emperor Wen also followed the path of Emperor Gao."

"Go deep into the people, see their sufferings, and purge the corrupt officials."

"But I heard that no meritorious official volunteered to help. Not to mention organizing the methods of governing the people and the court, there are very few who even returned to their fiefdoms to guard the borders and defend against the enemy."

"I am very worried! Could it be that the meritorious officials have forgotten that everything in the Han Dynasty came from the people because of their wealth and glory? Could it be that the ministers are so greedy for power that they are this far?"

Liu Qi first brought up Emperor Gao and Emperor Wen, openly mocking and secretly mocking the first generation of military aristocrats who were still in the court.

This made the heroes who had followed Emperor Gao to conquer the world very angry!
Not to mention that they are meritorious officials who have worked together with the country, they are also the emperor's teachers.

The new emperor is so mean and ungrateful!

The aging and frail Tang King, Fatty Lu, was so angry that he trembled all over and fell seriously ill.

Emperor Gao made his brothers sick with anger. For a time, all the ministers were outraged and almost wanted to blame Liu Qi for being the emperor.

Liu Qi, sitting high in the palace, was not in a hurry. He issued a summons to shut up all the nobles with military merits.

"The King of Tang is a respected elder. Today, he did not understand my summons and is ill in bed. However, I will not change any of my summons. I can only grant the King of Tang an additional fief of 30,000 households as compensation!"

The summons was short but contained a lot of information, and everyone fell silent.

The new emperor could not tolerate these meritorious officials taking advantage of their seniority and was ready to dismiss them all or send them back to their fiefdoms.

But Liu Qi was not stupid. He specially conferred the title of King of Tang on the childless man, with a fief of 30,000 households.

The fiefs of nobles with military merit were all in Northern Qi, and they could increase their fiefs at will, almost snatching food from the mouths of aristocratic families.

There is no other way except to provoke conflict.

If the nobles with military merit wanted to get the newly added fiefs completely, they could only hold their noses and follow Liu Qi to destroy the Northern Qi.

At Zhang Mansion, Zhang Liang stroked his white hair and beard, his eyes dimming.

"The Han Dynasty has experienced two kingly emperors, Emperor Gao and Emperor Wen. Is it finally about to welcome its first tyrannical emperor?"

Zhang Buzhi, who accepted Versace's offer to become the Minister of Revenue, looked puzzled, and did not quite understand the difference between the kingly way and the hegemonic way.

Zhang Liang looked at his eldest son and sighed helplessly.

"To put it simply, the kingly way is to make the ministers do things willingly, while the tyrannical way is to use a whip to force the ministers to do things."

"There is actually not much difference between the two. It's just a pity that in front of a tyrannical emperor, the ministers must be prepared to become chess pieces at any time."

Zhang Liang looked at his eldest son who was almost forty years old and felt a little disappointed.

If the military nobles continued to degenerate, they would probably no longer be able to control the official positions of the Han Dynasty. The pragmatic atmosphere of the Han Dynasty was imprinted by Emperor Gaozu, and the capable were given the positions.

Zhang Buyi was confused and couldn't understand why his father was dissatisfied again.

However, he still followed his father's instructions and reported the billions of silver and grain in the national treasury to Liu Qi, secretly cheering Liu Qi on.

After fifty years of accumulation by Emperor Gao, Empress Sangwen, and Emperor Wen.

The Han Dynasty had plenty of money and food.

Liu Qi was overjoyed to see that Zhang Buzhi was so tactful, and immediately ordered to add another thousand households to Zhang's mansion.

Of course, these later-added fiefs could only be completely controlled by the military nobles after the conquest of Northern Qi.

But this does not prevent the military nobles from being enthusiastic, especially the second and third generation military nobles.

These people inherited the titles of their ancestors and faced tremendous pressure to exploit the hundreds of households in their fiefdoms every ten years if they did nothing.

They desperately want to start a war and inherit the glory of their ancestors, and absolutely cannot become a figurehead prince.

The war machine of the Han Dynasty finally started to move. Liu Qi directly handed over the 200,000 troops in the border counties to Han Xin's son, King Zhao Han Cheng, for overall planning.

It is equipped with thousands of artillery pieces, more than a hundred thousand muskets, and countless engineering equipment.

Liu Qi spoke proudly to the guards on his left and right.

"I don't know how to lose this war. How can a group of primitive people armed with iron weapons fight against me, the Han people?"

Things turned out just as the officials in the court had expected.

The Han Dynasty's 200,000 border troops were unstoppable and captured the Northern Qi's Nanling County and Langya County. The entire Northern Qi was in danger, with only three counties left to defend.

Just as Liu Qi gathered the first generation of military nobles who were sick at home and showed off proudly.

The urgent information was delivered to Liu Qi over thousands of miles, with horses constantly changing at various major post stations.

Liu Qi was stunned, and his hands holding the intelligence were shaking slightly.

"King Zhao was defeated in Hancheng? Thirty thousand soldiers were injured, and all kinds of firearms and supplies were directly handed over to the Northern Qi clans."

Han Xin, Xiao He, and Zhang Liang looked at each other and drank in tacit understanding without saying much.

This failure was within their expectations.

Today, the Han border troops have no famous generals to lead them, especially without the support of various firearms.

From Liu Qi to the Han army soldiers below, they were all extremely arrogant and wanted to destroy Northern Qi within three months.

Let the aristocratic families of Qi see what made Han the dominant kingdom of the Han Dynasty!
It’s a pity that Liu Qi overlooked one point.

Since Emperor Gaozu carried out reforms and popularized the technology of the three major workshops, Mie Qing used the power of firearms.

The State of Qi was not a fool. After trying every possible means, it also developed firearms.

At the beginning, Nanling County and Langya County were lost to the Han army, which was just a sign of weakness to the enemy and throwing the old, weak, sick and disabled tenants into the battlefield.

Taking advantage of the Han army's rapid march, the army's communications were poor and they were not very familiar with the terrain of Qi.

The vanguard force of 30,000 people was directly wiped out by the artillery soldiers carefully trained by the aristocratic families, who were fired by thousands of artillery shells.

Liu Qi's face flushed red, and his chest heaved with anger, but he quickly calmed himself down and spoke in a heavy tone.

"The army was defeated. This is my fault! The death of 30,000 soldiers was caused by my underestimation of the Northern Qi clans."

"I should have died, but the Han Dynasty has no suitable successor yet, so I can only cut my hair to apologize."

"The court will award triple compensation to the families of the fallen soldiers, and those families who cannot take care of themselves can go to the royal estate."

"Butler Hong Zhu, who is in charge of the royal estate, will take care of everything."

The ministers showed a hint of surprise in their eyes, no matter how much they complained about Liu Qi.

But there is no doubt that Liu Qi was born to be an emperor. He was brave enough to take responsibility and able to handle relationships after failure.

After Liu Qi finished talking about these arrangements, he looked at this group of old ministers.

"I am responsible for this matter, but do you, the ministers, have any responsibility? You are all derelict in your duty!" (End of this chapter)