The Overlord of the Red Mansion

Chapter 254: Reverse Family Destruction Plan

In order for the holy teachings to spread, someone must first carry them out.

As the emperor of the holy dynasty, Jia Rong has no shortage of people.

Even if they are people you don't know, you can make them behave well, and it is not necessary for your own people to do the work.

"Draft an imperial decree! Allow widows of wealthy women without sons in Jiangnan and other places to donate money to obtain imperial decrees, with the lowest rank being ninth and the highest being sixth."

"Ninth rank: 300 taels, eighth rank: 500 taels, seventh rank: 1,000 taels, sixth rank: 2,000 taels."

"Anyone who receives the imperial edict can enter the capital without a pass, and can also travel freely within the province. The number of accompanying persons shall not exceed five men and ten women."

“The proceeds from the donations will be left to the local county magistrate for use in building holy churches, purchasing eggs for distribution, and burying widows and childless people.”

"The total number of imperial edicts in each region shall not exceed one ten-thousandth of the tax silver in previous years, and the number of people in a province shall not exceed one hundred. Those who have been awarded official titles through imperial examinations, military examinations, and engineering examinations for meritorious service are not included."

"Anyone who receives the imperial edict must go to the capital once every three years to learn the principles of childbirth, marriage, and funerals, so as to educate the women of the people and praise the holy name!"

"I will set up a special bank to reimburse travel expenses and food and lodging expenses during the period. You can take the official road and stay in the post house!"

Jia Rong gave the widows in Jiangnan who were about to be wiped out a chance.

With the intervention of imperial power, these wealthy widows naturally chose to rely on imperial power to fight against those relatives who had devoured their families.

The clan wants to keep the wealth within the family, but Jia Rong wants them to lose it!
Jia Rong never thought of becoming a good person, nor did he care about the lives of his clan or other people's parents-in-law.

Jia Rong wanted to become a saint, and the widows also wanted to become independent women who took away their men's property and left their clans, and everyone hit it off.

The Grand Secretary of Wenhua Palace, who was born in Jiangnan, sensed the undercurrent hidden in this.

The Grand Secretary quickly shouted, "Your Majesty! This method is absolutely unacceptable! The people will surely complain!"

Women are the property of the family. Women’s money and bodies are also the property of the clan.

Whether it is adopting a child or directly marrying a woman to a relative, it is a normal way to retain assets.

Once a woman runs away with her property, the clan men in the village will definitely take weapons to get it back.

"Your Majesty, please take back your order! Once this order is issued, people everywhere will surely resent it! It will damage the reputation of the Holy Emperor!"

This kind of immoral policy would be condemned by a group of people even in modern society, let alone in the current feudal era.

Especially those old women and men whose sons had just died, they would really call all the aunts and uncles to come and make trouble and besiege the county government office.

In order to prevent his family from being wiped out, Jia Rong came up with another plan to wipe out the entire family in the opposite way.

This is much more exciting than simply playing with women and killing people.

It would directly arouse violent resistance from clan forces, setting local officials and local clans against each other, and the number of deaths would directly exceed the total number of troubles caused by Jia Rong in all these years.

Seeing that someone took the lead in the resistance, the other officials followed suit.

"Your Majesty! Buying and selling official positions is not the way of the king. Now the treasury is full, Your Majesty does not need military funds even if he does not fight a war. Why would you damage your reputation for this silver?"

"Your Majesty! The people have their own justice. If Your Majesty rashly interferes with the marriages and funerals of the people, it will affect the whole body and damage Your Majesty's holy name!"

The people below were all court elites, and they had long seen through Jia Rong's love of fame.

It turns out that the emperor doesn't care about fame, but his life.

Because he had been frightened since childhood, the late emperor would never listen to anyone else's nonsense when it came to safety issues. Even though he was opposed by officials at all levels when he was escaping, he still insisted on going to the south of the Yangtze River.

It doesn't matter if I don't become the emperor, I just have to run away.

Now that Jia Rong was also about to make trouble, everyone tried to persuade him by using the issue of reputation that Jia Rong cared about the most.

They had misjudged Jia Rong.

Jia Rong really wants to become a saint, so he cares about a little bit of reputation.

But he is not the kind of person who cares about his reputation.

Jia Rong sat there and sneered, "You guys only care about the present and not the future! You don't understand my foresight!" "When I developed agriculture and industry, wasn't it you and your teachers who fought to the death against me? Now that you've had a few days of good life, you think you can tell me what to do!"

"I have made up my mind! Tomorrow I will host a banquet in the Holy Palace to entertain the widowed princesses and princesses. On August 3, I will host the ladies of the first, second and third ranks. On the 4th, I will invite the ladies of the fourth and fifth ranks. On the 5th, I will host the ladies of the sixth rank."

"If you don't want to come, I won't force you! I can also take back the title of imperial decree!"

Jia Rong didn't give others any chance to object.

When Wang Zite saw that Jia Rong had made up his mind, he stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, if there is trouble among the people, how should we solve it?"

Jia Rong said directly: "The Ministry of War and the Ministry of Revenue divided each county into four types: small, medium, large, and extra-large according to the number of villages and towns under its jurisdiction. They selected retired soldiers from the frontiers from neighboring counties in the province to serve as county police and put them under the jurisdiction of the county lieutenant."

"Small counties have 10 people, medium counties have 50 people, large counties have 100 people, and very large counties have 500 people."

"These people's salaries were paid by the court, and they were given firearms, which were not allowed to leave the county government unless they were suppressing a rebellion."

All ten thousand officials knew that Jia Rong would rather fight a war than stir up trouble.

The emperor will deal with anyone who opposes.

Although the emperor does not have the final say in the court, the position of the emperor itself means that his words are final.

If the emperor is persuaded or becomes obedient after being frustrated, then he will no longer have the final say.

If persuasion is useless and whoever tries to persuade will lose his official hat, then don't try. This is a one-man show.

Because of the assassins and the emperor's bloodthirsty nature, there was no soil for civil servants to rise to power for three consecutive dynasties.

This time, because of the emperor's laziness in governing, he can achieve great success.

However, civil servants, emperors, and eunuchs all have professions that require longevity, and those with short lives cannot do it.

Throughout the dynasties, Emperor Wu of Han, Emperor Ling of Han, Cao Cao, Huo Guang, Emperor Wanli, Wei Zhongxian, Zhang Juzheng, Li Zhi, Wu Zetian... These people competed more in lifespan than in ability.

The longer Jia Rong lives, the less power the civil servants can gain.

The longer the emperor sits on the throne, the stronger the power of his relatives and eunuchs becomes.

The reason why Jia Rong did not face the power of the eunuchs was mainly because the emperors died again and again, and because of the epidemic and the emperor's own cleanup, there was no problem when it came to Jia Rong's hands.

Jia Rong himself did not like to use eunuchs, so the eunuchs' power was generally very low-key during this dynasty.

Jia Rong also destroyed all his maternal relatives, so they all kept staying away from him.

It has been less than two years, and not only has the civil service changed the prime minister, but the new right prime minister is also considered to be one of the emperor's own men.

In particular, most of the current 10,000 officials were promoted by Jia Rong himself, including the Ministry of Works, the Ministry of War and various military institutions, and the commander of the six battalions of the Embroidered Uniform Guard.

Although there are still many elderly people in the royal family, the royal family of the previous dynasty is now very loyal to Jia Rong, more loyal than they were to the emperor and the emperor emeritus before.

It is precisely because they know that Jia Rong is not an original member of the royal family that they have to be more loyal and make Jia Rong treat them as his own!
be opposed to?
It is impossible to oppose it. The court civil and military officials can oppose Jia Rong, but they, the members of the royal family, must be loyal.

Fortunately, Jia Rong never thought that those royal relatives would rebel. He never considered himself as a member of the Jia family or anyone else's family, so he treated everyone equally.

Jia Rong only had his own plans in mind.

In order to establish the Holy Religion, Jia Rong increased the local military strength to fight against those fierce villagers.

He never thought about being a good emperor, let alone respecting women.

When it comes to humiliating women, Jia Rong has always been a pioneer and a brave warrior.

However, Jia Rong also established a girls' school, appointed female officials, and helped orphans and widows to emerge as women.

What’s even worse is that she treated the maids she had played with as women, giving all the palace maids and servants a chance to dream.

There is no doubt that this man will be the most respectful man to women in the 5,000 years of Chinese history!

(End of this chapter)