Chapter 60 Wang Jipeng Disrupted Fujian
Wang Jipeng expressed his anger at Shi Jingtang's confusing behavior. He ordered the incoming official Lin En to submit a letter to Shi Jingtang, indicating that he was already the emperor of Fujian and did not need the enthronement of the Later Jin Dynasty.
But Lu Liu had already set out to Fujian and had to receive it a little! Wang Jipeng ignored him completely and pretended to be sick and let his younger brother Wang Jigong do whatever he wanted. Wang Jigong was unwilling to pay attention to Lu Liu, so he handed the task to Liu Yi, the clan of the Secretariat.
Liu Yi was originally just a small Zhongshu She was treated low and she was usually dressed shabby. In order to dress up in front of the messenger, Liu Yi borrowed a gorgeous outfit from his colleagues and dozens of young servants. Then he came to the mansion to warmly entertain Lu San. After the entertainment, Liu Yi naturally returned to his original state.
But one day, Lu San went out shopping and actually met Liu Yi again. At this time, Liu Yi was still in poverty. After Lu San ran into him, he mocked and humiliated him in all kinds of ways. Liu Yi was ashamed and covered his face and ran away. Wang Jipeng was very angry when he learned about this. He was bullied by outsiders on his territory, so of course he had to find his face back.
So, Wang Jipeng in turn sent personnel to humiliate and mock Lu Liu on formal occasions, which made Lu Liu look dirty and embarrassed. The diplomatic envoy of the Central Plains dynasty was often insulted in the small country of Fujian. Lu Liu knew that his diplomatic activity had completely failed in front of the crazy and arrogant Wang Jipeng, so he decided to leave Fujian. If he left late, he might not be able to save his fate.
Regarding Lu San's voluntary request to go home, Wang Jipeng agreed, "Where did you get out of here?" Before leaving, Wang Jipeng did not even write a basic reply to the letter of state, but only asked Lang Zheng Yuanbi, a member of the Ministry of Rites, to follow Lu San to return to the Later Jin Dynasty. The purpose was to inform Shi Jingtang that the State of Min was a formal country and no longer a vassal state. The Later Jin used equal diplomatic etiquette to treat the State of Min.
At this point, the diplomatic relations between the Min Kingdom and the Later Jin Dynasty officially deteriorated. Wang Jipeng's handling of foreign relations was completely inferior to Wang Yanjun. Although Wang Yanjun was also arrogant, he did not provoke the surrounding neighbors and the Central Plains dynasty too much. However, no matter how Wang Jipeng provoked his neighbors, no one took him seriously.
In June of the second year of Tongwen, a wizard said that he saw the white dragon on Luofeng Mountain at night. Wang Jipeng naturally would not look down on him, so he immediately stood a temple on Luofeng Mountain, called Bailong Temple. The Heavenly Master Chen Shouyuan hoped that there would be a place to worship the treasure emperor and kings. Wang Jipeng immediately announced the construction of the Sanqing Hall without saying a word. In just two or three years, Wang Jipeng made a large-scale construction in the Fujian Kingdom and built many palaces and temples, making the construction of the Fujian Kingdom very prosperous.
The problem also came. It costs money to engage in the construction industry, and it is not a small amount of money, and it requires thousands of large sums of money. Although Wang Chao and Wang Shenzhi worked hard and accumulated a large amount of gold, silver and money for the Fujian Kingdom, they could not withstand Wang Yanhan's troubles, and Wang Yanjun was doing it again. By the time of Wang Jipeng, the treasury was already empty and the income was not enough. In addition, Wang Jipeng was not a thrifty person, so the financial situation of Fujian Kingdom soon showed a crisis.
For Wang Jipeng, the financial crisis was a huge event. If you don’t have money, you can’t build a large scale, nor can you enjoy delicacies and delicious food, so you must increase the income of the treasury. His father Wang Yanjun created a position as a national economy envoy, and used the national economy envoy to plunder money and enrich the treasury. Wang Jipeng came up with the idea of plundering money.
The method of coming is more novel and unparalleled.
In June of the second year of Tongwen, Wang Jipeng found the Minister of Personnel who was responsible for the promotion of officials, and sentenced Cai Shoumeng to the third department, and gave Cai Shoumeng an important and top-secret task: He asked Cai Meng to be bolder in selecting officials, change his mind more flexible, and of course, officials with talented and good character should be promoted. For those who do not have talents and have poor character, if they have a strong desire to become officials and are willing to pay a certain amount of money, then they can also give these people a chance to become officials. Wang Jipeng actually wanted Cai Shoumeng to openly sell official positions and titles.
Cai Shoumeng was a relatively honest person and had never done any illegal acts of selling official positions and selling titles. He suddenly heard such words from the emperor, which scared him to death, thinking that Wang Jipeng was going to attack him. But soon, Cai Shoumeng discovered that the emperor was not trying to deal with him, but just wanted to use him. The cunning Wang Jipeng planned to use Cai Shoumeng to secretly sell official positions and titles, and then use this illegal income to enrich the treasury.
Although Cai Shoumeng was unwilling to take the blame for selling official positions and titles for Emperor Wang Jipeng, he was very timid and could not withstand Wang Jipeng's threat and pressure, so he was forced to board Wang Jipeng's pirate ship. Cai Shoumeng did not dare to embezzle the illegal income from selling official positions and titles, and handed over it to Wang Jipeng.
However, Wang Jipeng was quite dissatisfied with Cai Shoumeng's work efficiency and secretly ordered his confidant doctor Chen Ju to take the short documents he issued to the public to sell. As long as you are willing to pay, you will be issued a short document. As long as you sign your name in the short documents, you can become an official in the Fujian State. Of course, the size of the official position depends on the amount of money you pay.
As a result, a craze suddenly appeared in the Fujian Kingdom. As long as you have money, you can buy an official to do it. Selling official positions and titles is just a way for Wang Jipeng to expand the treasury income. Wang Jipeng felt that the speed of making money by this method was a bit slow, so he simply took the initiative to deal with the people directly.
In addition to the grain grown by the people themselves, other agricultural and sideline products, aquatic products, etc., such as fruits, vegetables, fish and dolphins, will be subject to heavy taxes. Whether you are a fruit farmer, vegetable farmer, fisherman or hunter, as long as you have income, you must pay a high amount of tax. In addition, Wang Jipeng also stipulates that adult working people between the ages of sixteen and sixty must pay population tax.
In order to prevent the people from grasping the loopholes in the tax system and evading taxes, Wang Jipeng treated the people with extremely harsh punishment measures. If anyone conceals his age without authorization, the punishment is to hit the back with a stick. If someone conceals the population without authorization, he will be executed directly. If someone fled, the entire clan will be destroyed. In a word, no one can escape the taxes of the Fujian State!
After Wang Jipeng's multi-pronged approach, various means, and new economic measures, Fujian's income has increased significantly. Wang Jipeng solved the domestic financial crisis and began to think about new life problems and the stability of his own throne.
In just ten years, the State of Min has died in internal struggles and coups. Internal strife is easily contagious to ambitious people, and Wang Jipeng could not predict that one day he would be removed by others and ended up with the same fate as Wang Yanhan and Wang Yanjun.
In order to avoid the consequences of his uncle Wang Yanhan and his father Wang Yanjun, and for his own rule in Fujian.
For stability and long-term stability, Wang Jipeng must solve the security of the throne. Therefore, he took a number of measures to ensure the safety of the throne.
His first step was to replace the Imperial Palace Guard. The Imperial Palace Guard was originally Gongchendu and Guanhedu two armies. Wang Yanjun learned the lesson that Wang Yanhan was easily killed and specially selected elite soldiers from the original Guangshou Army to form Gongchendu. The two armies of Guanhedu were stationed in Fuzhou and served as Wang Yanjun's Imperial Palace Guard.
However, during the process of Wang Jipeng and Li Fong launching a coup and attacking Changchun Palace, the soldiers of Gongchendu and Guanhedu did not appear by Wang Yanjun at the most critical moment, resulting in Wang Yanjun being easily killed by Wang Jipeng and Li Fong. As a result, Wang Jipeng had serious doubts about the ability and loyalty of Gongchendu and Guanhedu soldiers. Therefore, Wang Jipeng decided to reorganize the imperial guards again.
The combat capabilities of the two armies of Gongchendu and Guanhedu were not so weak that they could not stand vulnerable. On the night when Wang Jipeng and Li Fang launched the coup, maybe they relaxed their vigilance, or maybe they were not stationed near Changchun Palace. So Wang Yanjun was easily dealt with, so Gongchendu and Guanhedu should not bear all the responsibility.
In Wang Jipeng's view, the emperor was killed. No matter what the reason was, the Imperial Palace Guard must bear all the responsibility, so the Imperial Palace Guard must be replaced. Wang Jipeng began to reselect the Imperial Palace Guard, selected more than 2,000 elite soldiers in the army, and re-established the Imperial Palace Guard, named Chenweidu.
The salary and benefits of the soldiers of Chenweidu are very generous, several times that of the soldiers of Gongchendu and Guanhedu. Wang Jipeng used his money offensive to win people's hearts and made Chenweidu his bodyguard. His main task is to protect his own life and safety.
As for the original soldiers of Gongchendu and Guanhedu, Wang Jipeng did not intend to treat them as dishes. Since even the emperor could not protect them, they could not expect them to do anything big. Therefore, the original soldiers of Gongchendu and Guanhedu soon became the targets of Wang Jipeng's neglect and abandonment.
Wang Jipeng didn't know that his move was equivalent to burying a time bomb in the State of Min. When this time bomb finally erupted with huge destructive lethality, it was the time when the fate of the State of Min ended. Now the time bomb has not yet reached its time, so Wang Jipeng was very satisfied with the establishment of Chenweidu.
Reorganizing the Imperial Palace Guards was just Wang Jipeng's first move to consolidate the throne. However, only thinking about passive defense was obviously unable to fully achieve the goal of consolidating the throne.
Not long after Wang Jipeng formed the Chenwei, he decided to take the initiative to eliminate the potential ambitions who might threaten his throne one by one. After the threat was eliminated, naturally no one could threaten his throne. As for whom the members of the royal family were potential ambitions who might threaten his throne, Wang Jipeng had his way of identifying them. He could seek the help of those genius masters and wizards.
The wizard Lin Xing is a rising star in the religious world. He inherited the special skills of his predecessors Sheng Tao, Xu Yanlin and others well, and could communicate and talk with gods. He was predicted by the unknown and became a god-level wizard trusted by Wang Jipeng.
Because he gained Wang Jipeng's trust, Lin Xing was inevitably a little arrogant and domineering. So Wang Yanwu quickly had a conflict with Wang Jipeng's two uncles, Wang Yanwang.
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Chapter completed!