Ball Ball Cultivation

"In your previous life, you married the Fourth Prince, always outshining me and often showing off in front of me.

I hate you!

I am prettier than you, smarter than you, and loved more by my parents and relatives than you. Why should you marry better than me?

The Fourth Prince, that idiot, fell deeply in love with me after I seduced him a little. Even if you die, he won't know that you like him.

This is the loving couple that I envied in my previous life. Nothing more than this!

Haha, Han Xue, that lowly woman, a peasant, wants to be the queen who is high and mighty!

Every year, Gu Zhao would hold a grand birthday banquet for you, and I would go to the palace to wish you a happy birthday and kneel down to pay my respects to you!

Now Han Xue is poisoned and comatose, waiting to die in the imperial mausoleum! The bastard Gu Ting she gave birth to will no longer lead the Han family army to search for the Wang, Xie and other noble families!

Qiuyue, the maid who grew up with Han Xue, didn't set any rules or enforce strict discipline, so these lowly people would only get an inch in!

I promised her to marry into the Wang family's side branch, and Qiuyue agreed to poison Han Xue. That brat will only be in a worse situation!

Haha, you all will die a miserable death. I will ascend to the throne, control the government, and become the most noble and powerful woman."

The Fourth Prince was forced to listen to the horrifying plans that followed, and his face turned pale with fear.

Gu Zhao: "You still want to protect her? She killed your destined wife. She killed my mother and poisoned my wife and children.

The plan to burn Yangcheng resulted in the deaths of 200,000 Han soldiers, the Tatars' invasion of the palace, and indirectly the death of Concubine Chen!

When talking about Concubine Chen's death, Gu Zhao deliberately lowered his voice and spoke close to the Fourth Prince's ear.

Concubine Chen was aloof and strong-willed. When the palace was broken into, she was unwilling to submit to the Tatars, so she was the first to hang herself to preserve her innocence.

When the Fourth Prince heard the news, he was bewildered and collapsed to the ground. He had to be supported by Gu Zhao before he could leave Wang Chenxi's yard.

After recovering from his shock, the Fourth Prince asked hoarsely, "Did she kill my mother? How could she do so many evil things? What happened to my destined wife?"

Gu Zhao took a steady look at his fourth brother and said in a difficult voice, "Big brother went with Han Chou to build the road. You should know what his departure means."

Of course the Fourth Prince knew that it was just a matter of giving up the competition and submitting to the Second Prince.

"After he left, a voice claiming to be the guardian spirit of the Dayong Dragon Vein told me that Wang Chenxi was the variable that caused all this. I need to put things right.

I had a dream in which there were no Tatars invading the south, no massacre in the palace, no 200,000 Han family soldiers dying in vain, and no father, emperor, and mother, empress, dying young.

I followed the instructions in my dream and found the poison that would make my father confirm that I had fallen victim to witchcraft.

Give it to Wang Chenxi. I want to know what our original fate would have been without her as a variable. "

The Fourth Prince murmured, "How could this happen? My mother would not die from humiliation. The Chen family would not be exterminated by the Tatars."

He hit his chest hard and said, "I am still protecting the enemy who killed my father and mother." As he said this, two lines of tears flowed down his face.

Gu Zhao came here to win over the Fourth Prince. It would be best if he could deal with the remaining aristocratic family forces.

Originally, the eldest prince was the most suitable, but the Wang family behind him did not give him any power, and the fourth prince still had the remaining guards of the Chen family, and was completely in his hands.

Han Chou also gave him a lot of suggestions on how to bring together the aristocratic families. He had done it once in his dream, but this time it was more direct and faster.

Some of the things that the noble families had in public had to be retained, but all the hidden property had to be confiscated, especially the fields and hidden land, which had to be taken back and redistributed to the poor and could be used to collect taxes.

The court had no food to support the border troops, which was the key to the death of 200,000 Han family soldiers!

It is imperative to take advantage of the opportunity to severely damage the aristocratic families and implement a system in which the aristocratic families pay taxes.

As for the business empire established by Han Xue, Han Chou did not elaborate, but only mentioned it to Gu Zhao.

There is no need to restrict the aristocratic families. When necessary, action should be taken without arousing public anger. There is no need to worry about economic chaos, knowledge gaps, and lack of talent.

In a word, I will tell you in detail when Xiaoxue comes back.

After all, only one in ten senior officials in the imperial court remains. Tens of thousands of Tatar troops are stationed in the palace, capturing and threatening ministers, and only then will the ministers' relatives fund the Tatar troops.

Officials who disobey will be killed if caught.

Obedient officials were kept as hostages in the palace, and their families were required to deliver supplies to the palace every day. The officials were also allowed to taste the food first. If any food was found to be poisonous, a group of people would be killed to vent their anger, and all the relatives of the poisoner would be poisoned first.

In troubled times, severe punishments are used. The Tatars had a total of 30,000 troops defending the imperial city for more than a month, killing countless people in the imperial city. If the Tatar reinforcements from Gu Zhaoxian had not arrived, the Tatars would most likely have occupied the entire northwest using the imperial city as a boundary.

Among the officials, those whose families could not afford to sacrifice their lives, or those who were not afraid of power and had a stubborn temper, had been killed by the Tatars as a warning to others.

There are still a few of those who are sycophants alive, and Gu Zhao doesn't want to activate them now.

Now those who are executing the emperor's orders are all his confidants and members of the Han family army. They are more useful than those ministers. After all, they are able to enforce the emperor's orders and will not drag their feet on any decree.

Bringing together the aristocratic families is the most difficult task. Now that the eldest prince has run away, the fourth prince will take over.

Sort out the family assets and collect as much land as possible.

It is now obvious that the wealthy families are enclosing land, and the poor people near the capital still have a way to survive.

Within a hundred years, in the later period of the dynasty, land annexation became more serious, and the poor were forced into a state of no means of survival. Apart from revolting, the only way to survive was to join the aristocratic families. The aristocratic families at that time were more difficult to shake than they are now.

Half a month later, Han Chou arranged the construction of three roads. Qiuqiu saw that this causal line disappeared, which meant that Wang Chenxi was dead.

Qiuqiu gave flying talismans to Han Chou and Gu Hong, asking them to speed up the road construction project.

The mission is completed, you can go back anytime!

Gu Hong: "The road passes through Pan County and Ji County, with seventeen villages along the way. I divided it into seventeen sections based on the number of people working on the road. Each person is assigned eighty meters of road. If we build one meter a day, it will take at least eighty days to complete."

Han Chou: "The convenient tools will be in place soon, and the project will be completed in forty days at most. Otherwise, there won't be enough money." Now the wages are paid on a daily basis.

Gu Hong: "There's no shortage of food here, so let them bring their own rations. The wages will be lower."

Han Chou: "Okay."

"Do you know where to buy those antique jades? I need to deal with a batch."

After half a month of getting along, he also obtained the legendary talisman, which was said to be given by the guardian spirit of Dayong. After everything was put right, the guardian spirit would fall into sleep, so he was so anxious.

He will work hard to build roads and bridges, do good deeds and accumulate virtue, and become an immortal through his merits.

The Fourth Prince's family liquidation work was not going smoothly. If it were not for the 30,000 Han family soldiers leading him, he would have died many times. As expected, when the hard approach didn't work, he had to resort to the soft approach.

The aristocratic families suffered heavy losses and were unable to openly oppose or exercise economic control.