Han official!

Chapter 2: Mausoleum Town System

"Ah, the local powerful and wealthy oppressed the local people, relying on their power to annex their land and collude with officials. The local people had no way to seek justice, and were forced to commit suicide with their families. Fortunately, Emperor Gaozu was wise and punished the local tyrants with the mausoleum town system."

"Snapped!"

The young man in fine clothes slammed his palm on the reed mat and said indignantly, "If I were the commander of Maoling, I would lead my troops to capture all the powerful and influential people in the world. Then, we will see who dares to oppress us, the common people."

Riding slave?

Zhang Langguan suddenly realized that it was no wonder that this man, dressed in gorgeous clothes and hat, was sitting with the common people in the neighborhood. It turned out that he was a low-level riding slave in the mansion of the powerful.

The gorgeous clothes on this man must be a set of crown and clothes awarded by the powerful and wealthy for his good horse breeding.

Guo Jie's heart skipped a beat, and he felt a deep sense of urgency.

The mausoleum town system was a means of suppressing the powerful and wealthy starting from Emperor Gaozu. Every emperor would build mausoleums and establish mausoleum towns to relocate the powerful and wealthy from the counties and prefectures, and move their entire families to the emperor's mausoleum town.

Solve the biggest problem that led to the fall of the dynasty.

Land annexation.

Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang moved the top local nobles such as Qu, Jing, and Tian, who were deeply rooted in the area, into Changling. No powerful and wealthy people were spared and had to move into the mausoleum with their entire clan.

It was a disguised form of fighting against the local tyrants. The local tyrants, or big landlords, were forcibly moved to the place where the imperial mausoleum was located and a new city was built to prevent the tyrants from annexing the common people's land on a large scale in the counties and prefectures. The large amount of land occupied by the tyrants would also be vacated.

Every ten or twenty years, new powerful people will emerge, and a new emperor will ascend the throne to continue to relocate the powerful people, forming a virtuous cycle of cutting the leeks of the rich one after another.

Tsk tsk.

The superiority of the mausoleum town system was unprecedented. The rich people in the Western Han Dynasty became leeks, being exploited to the last drop of oil.

Not moving?

More excited.

Just wipe out the entire rich family and confiscate all their property!

"I am now the most famous hero in Hanoi County."

Guo Jie sighed deeply and thought to himself, "To put it bluntly, I'm the most notorious leader of a vicious gang in this county. I've already been listed in the wooden tablets of relocation. When Emperor Wu starts relocating the powerful and influential, that will be my death."

He became famous at a young age. When he was young, he committed robbery and crime, minted coins and dug graves, countless times.

He has already committed a lot of blood debts.

Just the act of counterfeiting coins was enough to get him torn into pieces.

What’s more, there are countless similar crimes!

"Don't discuss state affairs recklessly, or you'll bring yourself into trouble."

The cook glared at the people sitting by the horseshoe stove and warned them, "You better take care of yourselves and think about your next meal. If anyone on the bus hears this, they'll all be cut off."

The Da Shuizu was a guard at the Sima Gate in the palace, and was under the command of the Sima Ling of the Public Vehicle.

The Commander of the Imperial Carriages was under the command of the Imperial Guard, who had many imperial guards under his jurisdiction and was in charge of the guards in the palaces. The subordinates of the Imperial Carriages Commander, the Guards, the Three Commanders of the Imperial Guards, and the Three Chancellors.

If officials and common people wrote to the emperor, the letter would be conveyed by the Gongche Sima, and the Dashuizu had the power to detect and arrest thieves.

When everyone heard this, their faces changed instantly, and they poked their heads towards the door of the extraordinary house, fearing that a big soldier would appear at the door in the wind and snow.

Guo Jie looked at the knights, still terrified, and thought to himself, "Most of these soldiers are similar to Cao Cao's school officials or Zhu Baba's Jinyiwei. Well, the Xiuyizhizhi established by Emperor Wu of Han is more like the Jinyiwei. These soldiers are more like the shadowy Dongchang guards."

He was startled. Henei County was not like Chang'an, so he had to be more cautious in the future.

Don't let your mouth cause trouble.

Although the cook was a bit mercenary, he had a good heart. He alerted the outspoken knight and walked towards the next house carrying a clay pot. The aroma of duck stew came from the pot.

Behind him followed a graceful young woman with thin eyebrows and narrow eyes, wearing a low bun and a plain skirt. The plain black background was decorated with red diamond patterns and a red border under the collar, which gave it a unique charm. She must be a beautiful and intelligent woman.

The pretty face of the graceful girl was not made up, and her delicate and fair complexion made her stand out among the withered, dark and thin common people. She was in line with the beauty's appearance of "white skin and red lips".

Everyone was obsessed with staring at the girl who was as beautiful as a lotus.

Only Zhang Langguan was there. He stared at the zhong (a cup of wine) in the girl's hand, swallowed his saliva, and said, "It's cold during the day. Could you please buy some wine? I will pay for it in a few days."

The cook glanced at him and sneered, "The pottery bowl is filled with Dongma wine, a gift for the young man from the neighboring Lingyi. If you want some, take it."

When everyone heard the words "Liaomajiu", they swallowed their saliva violently, and the vinegar rice in the jar lost its taste.

Guo Jie also had his mouth watering. He kept swallowing his saliva as he looked at the horse-brewing wine in the cook's hand, feeling very greedy.

Luoma wine is not wine.

It is a cheese made from cow or goat milk.

Since the pre-Qin period, cow and sheep milk has been a delicacy in the eyes of the upper class. It can be drunk directly as fresh milk or used to make cheese.

The Imperial Household Official had a special order to make cheese, which was why it was called "Luoma Wine".

Guo Jie hadn't tasted sugar for a long time, let alone sweet cheese with a milky aroma. When he heard that the wine in the pottery bell was Luoma wine, he was quite interested: "Sir, can you sell me some?"

The chef treated Guo Jie politely, shaking his head and saying, "Don't blame me, sir. This is a premium food specially provided to the young men of Lingyi. I'm not of high status, so I dare not sell it to you without your permission."

Guo Jie nodded and said nothing more. He could only watch the cook take away the wine that smelled of cheese.

Zhang Langguan, standing by, was somewhat indignant. "The young men of Lingyi are nothing but a bunch of pampered young men, indulging in pleasures and pleasures all day long. They have never killed a single Xiongnu person, so how can they be qualified to drink the wine?"

When Guo Jie heard the kitchen steward and Zhang Langguan constantly mentioning the young man from Lingyi, he learned more about the Lingyi system and became more wary of it.

The emperors of the Han Dynasty used the mausoleum town system to relocate powerful people from all over the country. While consolidating the rule of local counties, they also increased the population of the mausoleum towns, making the mausoleum towns shoulder the two important tasks of strengthening the trunk and weakening the branches and resisting the Huns.

Mausoleums such as Emperor Gaozu's Changling, Emperor Hui's Anling, and Emperor Wen's Baling became gathering places for the powerful and wealthy. No matter whether they were princes or relatives of the emperor, or the old aristocrats who had run counties since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, no one could escape and had to move to the mausoleum with their entire family.

The young men of Lingyi were the descendants of these powerful nobles and wealthy people, and they were also the dandy young men of Wuling in the poem "The young men of Wuling compete to tie their hair, and they spend countless red silks for a song".

No powerful person could escape the mausoleum system.

Not to mention him.

Guo Jie, feeling anxious, stated directly the purpose of his trip to Chang'an: "I wish to become a guest of Princess Pingyang. Could you please tell me about the Princess's daily preferences and rumors? If they are true, I will reward her handsomely."

He took out a few more official half-liang coins and spread them in his palm, which emitted an attractive yellow luster.

Unexpectedly, the other guests in the room laughed at him.

The guards who were warming themselves by the fire also had mocking expressions on their faces, laughing at Guo Jie's arrogance.

Since Emperor Liu Che ascended the throne, Princess Pingyang, who was born of the same mother as him, was honored as the eldest princess and her status was extremely noble.

A man in the post station boasted that he had become a guest of Princess Pingyang.

Nonsense!

There is absolutely no possibility.

"color!"

But Zhang Langguan suddenly cheered loudly, his face excited: "If a man can't eat from five pots, then he should be cooked in five pots!"

"boom!"

At this time, a graceful young woman came in, took out a scroll of wooden tablets, threw it in front of the plain-capped guest, and scolded him, "Zhang Qian! Before you become a man, you must first pay back the money you owe your father for his meals."

(End of this chapter)