A thousand-year-old family begins with one fighting against ten thousand.

And so, the Han Dynasty moved forward step by step under the control of eunuchs.

This also shows that the Han Dynasty is still accumulating resources in preparation for its next expansion.

After all, it took the Han Dynasty many years of accumulation to barely fill this vast land.

Given the current size of the Han Dynasty, any further expansion would require an enormous amount of resources and population.

In addition, the benefits of the Yellow River management project will be enough to increase the population of the entire Han Dynasty by tens of millions in a short period of time.

When the population of the Han Dynasty reaches saturation, it will inevitably cause the common problems of feudal kings: insufficient land per capita, chaos throughout the land, and a complete reshuffling of power.

At that time, we will have to expand outwards.

The surplus population was migrated to the newly occupied lands, where it was assimilated and then expanded, then assimilated again and expanded again.

This is the path that the Wei family planned for the Han Dynasty.

Only with enough land and population can there be enough ethnic fortune for them.

In the seventeenth year of Emperor Jing of Han's reign, Emperor Jing of Han passed away.

During the years he reigned as emperor, he did not accomplish anything particularly remarkable. The only thing worth recording in history was initiating the eunuch's rule.

Gentleness brings peace to the people, and profound virtue brings peace and integrity.

This is a neutral posthumous title. Compared to the exaggerated posthumous title of Emperor Yuan he received in history, this posthumous title is more accurate.

After all, the political environment is different, and in this respect, the current Han Dynasty is still able to adhere to the truth.

Although he initiated the era of eunuch rule, the power struggle remained confined to the capital, and the local people continued to live in peace and prosperity.

Even if it wasn't his achievement, it was still under his rule.

Therefore, the posthumous title of "Jing" is quite appropriate for him.

His son, Liu Ao, was posthumously honored as Emperor Cheng of Han.

In reality, they are simply not a good match.

Success is achieved when the people are at peace and the government is in order; success is achieved when the people are punished and the government is in order to overcome them; success is achieved when the ministers assist the people and help them to overcome their difficulties.

Able to appease the people, establish policies, ensure public obedience to the law, and complete tasks thoroughly. This is a very positive assessment, signifying a successful and accomplished ruler who maintains the status quo.

It can be considered a beautiful posthumous title.

However, in reality, during Liu Ao's reign, he indulged in wine and women, favored the Zhao Feiyan sisters, and allowed his relatives to seize power.

During his reign, land annexation became increasingly serious, peasant uprisings broke out frequently, and the Western Han Dynasty declined more rapidly.

They should be given a less desirable posthumous title, or even a derogatory one.

It was after Liu Ao that Emperor Cheng's posthumous title of honor turned into a derogatory one.

This led to the downfall of Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty, lowering the overall historical standard for the title and turning what should have been a top-tier posthumous title into a meaningless one.

You could say you don't want it, but you also want it. After all, with Emperor Taizong of Han and Emperor Taizong of Tang as examples, anyone who can obtain this title is definitely a top-ranking emperor in history.

However, it would be a bit disgusting to accept this title, since it was ruined by a certain Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty, who made it lose all its prestige.

It's like chicken ribs—it's a pity to throw it away, but it has no flavor when you eat it.

Emperor Taizong of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di, was quite disgusted by this. You should know that in order to prove his legitimacy, he had arranged his posthumous title in advance.

He reluctantly gave himself the posthumous title of Emperor Taizong Wen, precisely because of the meaning that the title represented.

It would be perfect if that person from the Song Dynasty weren't there.

With the intervention of the Wei family, Liu Ao's posthumous title in the future was Emperor Huang of Han.

This posthumous title fully reflects Liu Ao's governance throughout his life, and he was subsequently referred to as Emperor Huang of Han.

After Emperor Huang of Han ascended the throne, he immediately conscripted a large amount of manpower, material resources, and financial resources to build the Xiaoyou Palace, the Flying Palace, and the Yunlei Palace for his own debauchery.

He originally intended to directly conscript laborers, but this was directly rejected by Wei Lun, the current head of the Wei family.

To conscript laborers, money had to be taken from the emperor's private treasury to pay their wages.

Other expenses can be covered by the national treasury, but only a portion of the national treasury can be used.

The rest cannot be touched.

Wei Lun's actions infuriated Emperor Huang of Han. Although his father had warned him, he had never witnessed just how terrifying the Wei family's power truly was.

seeing is believing.

He thought his father was a coward. He was the emperor, so why should he be afraid of the Wei family?

Could it be that the Wei family would dare to murder the emperor and rebel?!

So Emperor Huang of Han began to bypass the Wei family and forcibly conscript people, only to find that no one listened to him.

Empress's relatives, eunuchs, important officials in the court, and ministers entrusted with the care of the young emperor.

They all agreed that building these palaces was permissible, but only a portion of the national treasury's funds could be used; he would also need to use money from his private coffers to subsidize the people.

Not a single one of the court officials listened to him.

This greatly displeased Emperor Huang of Han, so he went to his mother to complain.

Wang Zhengjun felt this was a good opportunity; powerful ministers take turns, and this year it's her turn.

So she began to deceive Emperor Huang of Han, and vigorously appointed members of the Wang clan.

However, unlike the empress dowagers of the early Han Dynasty, Wang Zhengjun did not harbor hostility towards the Wei family.

She had already seen through the Wei family's political leanings; in fact, they didn't care whether the Empress Dowager held absolute power.

All they cared about was how the power of the maternal relatives would harm the people.

Therefore, Wang Zhengjun did not show favor to the Wei family, but ordered the Wang family's forces to treat the people well and maintain political integrity.

Upon seeing the Wang family's actions, the Wei family immediately understood the Empress Dowager's meaning.

They tacitly accepted this.

It is better to let a tyrannical emperor, who understands the hardships of the common people, take power than to let a tyrannical emperor hold the reins of government.

Even if this was because the Wei family had to treat the common people well.

They don't care.

With the support of Empress Dowager Wang Zhengjun and Emperor Huangdi, the Wang family's power gradually increased, and it was during this period that the Wang family achieved the grand occasion of having nine marquises.

Even the Wei family didn't have such a grand occasion, except that the value of one marquis from the Wei family was equivalent to that of nine marquises from the Wei family.

When Wang Mang was young, he discovered that the world was not quite the same as the history he knew.

Because this added a family he had never heard of before: the Wei family of Yanhou.

As a liberal arts student at a prestigious university, even if he wasn't a history major, he at least knew that this family didn't exist in the original history.

If such a large family existed, having existed since shortly after the founding of the Western Han Dynasty and whose members held high positions and wielded immense power, it is impossible that later generations would be completely unaware of it.

Another possibility is that the family was later wiped out.

To prevent this family from rising again and to prevent other families from following its example, a number of emperors in a later dynasty joined forces to erase all of this family's history.

Official histories, unofficial histories, and local folk legends were all completely wiped out.

The probability of this happening is obviously very low.

Considering his own situation, Wang Mang wondered if the ancestors of the Wei family were also time travelers, just like him.

That makes sense.

After transmigrating, this person gained the cheat ability of having superhuman strength and then established the Wei family based on the merits he made during the Siege of Baideng.

Later, through their understanding of history, they passed this secret down through generations, ensuring that each generation of the family would enjoy both honor and disgrace.