Chapter 3253: Extension

Chapter 3252 Inheritance

In Chang'an, for the people, they could not feel much turmoil at all, and the situation gradually calmed down. As the cavalry troops entered the school grounds near Chang'an, the movement gradually spread, and in Jingzhao Ripples arose in Yin and other Sanfu areas.

In the main hall of the Hussar General's Mansion, Fei Zhen was sitting on the front seat, with Pang Tong and Xun You on the left and right.

For future generations, teenage children may still be considered "just children" by most people, but today's grown-ups are already old enough to bear heavy family responsibilities.

"A gentleman should be the pillar of the country." 』

Pang Tong said slowly, "In the past, under Lushan Mountain, my lord and a certain person had this discussion..."

Hearing this, even Xun You, who could control his expression extremely well, couldn't help but show a bit of envy in his eyes.

Lushan, that is a magical place.

Feizhen also thought about it, maybe she would have to go there if she had to wait for a few years or something...

"Scholars, farmers, industry and merchants, merchants are at the bottom," Pang Tong said, "This is wrong, very wrong." It is not Guanzi's fault, but the fallacy of later generations. 』

Xun You also nodded and said, "Guanzi was born in poverty and worked as a merchant since childhood. How did he come to say that he was a merchant at the end of Shang Dynasty?" He said that the four peoples, the scholars, farmers, industry and merchants, are the pillars of the country. This is in line with what the Lord said. The four people are also pillars. If the four people are high and low, doesn't it mean that the pillars are high and low? Is this strange? 』

Feizhen nodded, "All the four peoples are the same, no matter how high or low they are." 』

Pang Tong pinched his beard and said, "The men of the past put virtue, knowledge, and talent first, so they could hold high positions and win the hearts of the people." However, among today's scholars, there are many unscrupulous people who do not value moral conduct, but focus on power and tactics. They seize the top position among the four people, either by means of flattery, slander, bribes, or power. Power, taking advantage of others, deceiving the world and stealing fame. His actions are inappropriate, his words are untrue, his heart is not right, and his ambition is bad. However, many people in the world are blind and cannot distinguish between authenticity and falsehood, so these scholars are able to occupy high positions, and the true scholars are not allowed to hold their positions. 』

Feizhen said: "This is a thief, how can he be called a scholar?" 』

Xun You laughed softly and said, "Are all the thieves in the world tattooed?" 』

"This..." Feizhen began to think.

"Sir, among the four peoples in the world, who is the most popular?" Pang Tong asked.

"Farmer." ” Feizhen replied.

Pang Tong nodded and said, "If this is the case, why do farmers in the world have no voice but only their crops?" 』

"This..." Feizhen thought for a moment, "Uncle Shi is saying that when you are in power, you should not ignore it just because you are silent?" 』

Pang Tong put his hands on his hands and smiled, "Of course!" 』

Feizhen said: "My father once said that the good and bad in governing a country should be judged by the food and clothing that the farmers have." It is not a good law to keep the people well fed. 』

Xun You nodded and said, "The words are different, but the reason is the same." 』

Sons of the gentry such as Pang Tong and Xun You were undoubtedly intellectuals who recognized Fei Qian's New Deal and were willing to carry it forward. However, in a land like Guanzhong, it was not only the old gentry who actively and secretly violated the Hussar's new system. Old Shandong , as well as the big merchants who were closely connected with these old gentry systems.

Because under the New Deal system, there will be far fewer dark corners where government officials and businessmen collude, which makes them very uncomfortable and uncomfortable.

The original reason for the collusion between officials and businessmen was that the system of the former Qin Dynasty did not leave a place for businessmen.

Under the military system of "farming war", the status of merchants was indeed at the bottom, and due to the limitations of the production technology of the Qin Dynasty at that time, most of the output was not redundant. This was also the case until the early Han Dynasty. It was only after the Han Dynasty that the area of ​​land was focused on Shandong, that is, vast plain areas like Jizhou and Yuzhou, that more people could be fed by agriculture, reaching 60 million people at its peak.

The development of Chinese society cannot be separated from businessmen.

China is not a country with the same environment and the same temperature in the north and south, so the output will inevitably be very different. This did not have much difference during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but once the country is unified, this kind of The differences between east, west, north and south must arouse the attention of the country's rulers.

But obviously, and unfortunately, the rulers of the subsequent feudal dynasties did not, or were deceived...

Pang Tong and Xun You now wanted to use Fei Qian's new system and this time's purge of Chang'an to tell Feizhen some correct ideas.

There are many reasons why rulers do not have this knowledge.

For example, at the beginning of the dynasty, those who lifted the table and climbed up may not have enough knowledge and experience in governing the country, and often had to rely on these traditional bureaucratic noble families. In the middle and late dynasty, the huge bureaucracy colluded with each other, making it difficult for government orders to leave the Forbidden City.

And what’s interesting is that this behavior of superficially despising merchants and secretly colluding with them reached its peak in the Ming Dynasty...

What?

Big braids?

The Big Braid Dynasty was a dynasty with system regression, returning directly from the semi-civilized late Ming Dynasty to the slave system.

Don’t worry about what later generations will advocate the barking of female dogs, or what territorial states and other reasons will be used to show that the big braid is not a slave country but the pinnacle of the feudal dynasty. But in fact, no matter how you brag about the peak, just one big braid is really a step forward. No attempt was made to walk outside.

Western Region? The Han people said, I have been here.

Mongolia? Huo Qubing sneered, I have killed countless of your ancestors.

Goryeo? Emperor Sui Yang coughed.

Snowy land? The Tang people cursed and said that those bird people in Tubo were nothing.

Even the Yuan Dynasty tried to conquer the Eastern Japanese, which frightened the Eastern Japanese and quickly kneeled down to lick them. How long did it take for the big pigtails to remain in power before the Eastern Japanese recognized it?

Is the peak behind closed doors considered the peak of football?

It’s just a mess at home.

Because the core of the big braid knows that with just their few braided people, it is difficult to control Youzhou, let alone the whole of China. In the end, they have to make peace with the remnants of the Ming Dynasty bureaucrats, let the literati put some powder on their faces, and prove that they have never been From the beginning, I wanted to replace the Ming Dynasty and become the orthodoxy, instead of just snatching away like bandits...

Many people say that the reason why the Ming Dynasty could not survive in the later period was due to the cycle of land annexation. However, history is a spiral pattern. Each spiral is similar, but there are also differences. In the final analysis, the problem of the Ming Dynasty was indeed a land problem, but it was not entirely a land problem. There was one part of it that could not be ignored, which was the merchant problem.

Speaking of merchants in the Ming Dynasty, the most common understanding in later generations is that the status of merchants in the Ming Dynasty was low, mainly based on the laws and regulations from Zhu Yuanzhang. This man's attitude towards businessmen can be regarded as strange among emperors. He once explicitly stipulated that businessmen who are not engaged in production and specialize in unfinished business can be arrested directly without reason...

But were the merchants of the Ming Dynasty really so miserable?

No, but from the bright side, it turned to gray and black.

In fact, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the merchant class made a crazy counterattack. Well-known business gangs in various places rose rapidly, and businessmen's power occupied the government and the public like locusts, but the court had nothing to do with these officials and businessmen whose interests were closely colluded.

The most direct path to collusion between government and business is the integration of government and business. During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, it almost reached the point of "no officials, no business". Most of the main members of the Donglin Party are from small and medium-sized business families. At the same time, three-quarters of Jinshi and Juren families have a business background. Behind the party struggles are countless conflicts of interests, large and small, and in these party struggles, almost all officials are poaching the Ming Dynasty.

almost.

After all, there are always some individuals, but these individual officials basically "will not die well."

A "strange phenomenon" in the late Ming Dynasty was that the Ming Dynasty could not levy taxes other than agricultural taxes, otherwise it would be firmly opposed by the Donglin Party, and such a boycott was almost 100% successful...

This policy of "loving the people as sons" contains too many things. The taxes in the Ming Dynasty were too heavy for agriculture, but for commerce, they were almost nothing. In the Ming Dynasty, there were almost no commercial tariffs in other areas except along the canal and near Beijing and Nanjing. Most of the time in the Ming Dynasty, the total annual income from all industrial and commercial taxes was only more than 3 million taels, of which the city shipping tax was only 40,000 taels. During the Song Dynasty, these commercial taxes could already exceed 70 million taels of silver. Even based on the official exchange rate, it was still 70 million taels of silver.

During the Wanli period, in the "struggle" against the mining tax inspectors, the Donglin Party members performed particularly well, and officials at all levels continued to write letters. These Donglin Party members directly questioned the emperor: "The emperor loves pearls and jade, and people also love food and clothing." The imperial cabinet threatened whether to hold office or not. Before joining the cabinet, they wrote a letter asking Shenzong to withdraw the mining supervisor. He said that he "did not talk about profit, only talked about justice" and "did not compete with the people for profit, but kept wealth among the people." The so-called small talk of great justice. It has become the best cover for these guys to cover up their dirty work.

It's a pity that at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the government didn't have much money in its pockets, but it still suffered from tax evasion. Tax evasion is even encouraged by officials, who think that all they need to do is collect something to pay taxes. Once an official dares to offend the interests of businessmen, he will become the target of public criticism and become a negative example of competing with the people for profit. Those officials and businessmen who worked together to empty out the country even ignored the rise and fall of the country, stole and sold military supplies, and emptied the granary reserves...

This is why capital and authority should be placed under the sun, because these two guys are born with various molds and viruses. As long as the environment is slightly dark and humid, mold will immediately spread.

The key is that this kind of mold is impossible to kill. Even if a small-scale sterile space is built, as long as the doors and windows are opened...

The Chinese dynasty tried to kill them for thousands of years but failed to kill them all, so it is very important to bask in the sun regularly.

Wanting to end it once and for all, it means why he killed so many people and why he is still not clean. I sincerely hope that he can also eat a meal for a lifetime.

Pang Tong explained to Feizhen that in fact, most of the gentry, gentry, and powerful families who remained among the three auxiliaries of Chang'an had "made their fortunes" during the forty years of Xiqiang. This is true for the Fan family, the Chen family, and some guys from Hedong and Longxi.

The Han Dynasty originally attacked the Xiqiang, and the country lost all its money. Emperor Huanling was reduced to the point where he had to sell his three sons. But for the Xiqiang people, they said they did not get any benefits. For the ordinary grassroots farmers of the Han Dynasty, It was also exhausting, so where did all the money go?

"There is nothing in the world that cannot be used, but the use may not be in the right way." Pang Tong said, "The use of money and the master's method are just like human blood. The place where money is accessible is where the blood of the Han Dynasty is transferred." Nowadays, in Guanzhong Sanfu, the economy and trade are increasingly prosperous, but commercial taxes have not increased much... Haha, naturally the bloodline is blocked and the circulation is not smooth..."

Xun You also nodded and said: "Wei Shi has confessed that he colluded with Fan... Not only during the Husband's period, but also in the Xiqiang affairs in the past, there was a lot of corruption... Although times have changed, how can the crime be exempted by time? Of? 』

The gentry wants to make money, how much can the gentry family make?

They still need to use various white gloves, black gloves, gray gloves, and green gloves to do things...

Among Wei Duan's glove series, Fan is undoubtedly the biggest one. It is normal that they did not show their strength before. Who has ever seen that before a certain official fell, their own gloves were destroyed first? There is no official who is unlucky, and the official's driver can continue to be free...

Now that the Wei family is not safe, of course, it is impossible to let these gloves continue to be prosperous.

For the group of officials and businessmen who collude, what kind of political environment do they like?

Of course, they like an environment with lax supervision and imperfect laws. In such an environment, they may be more likely to obtain more benefits through improper means.

But it cannot be an extremely chaotic and disorderly environment.

Because in such an environment, even they cannot protect themselves, there is no question of benefits or not.

So how can we make the supervision appear to be there, but not so strict in reality, and the laws are not so perfect?

Of course, it is to collude with more officials.

In a place like the Three Auxiliary Districts of Guanzhong in the Han Dynasty, what local official would be more suitable as a protective umbrella than a famous family like Wei Duan and the Wei family?

The Wei family is nothing more than a small witch in the Yuan family.

After all, the Yuan family has three generations of officials and is a professional official.

Compared with the Yuan family, people like the tax collectors and money bank managers for three generations are simply weak.

When Fei Qian entered Guanzhong, these nobles and merchants who colluded with officials and businessmen were naturally welcomed...

The King's Master!

After all, when the Xiliang Army was in the Three Auxiliary Districts of Guanzhong, they really pried open every store and store and looted them. They smashed the turtle shells of the manor owners without hesitation, which caused great damage to the entire economic environment. It was like a powerful anti-inflammatory drug, killing all good and bad cells.

And the nobles and merchants who could avoid or survive the powerful anti-inflammatory drugs in such a harsh environment, were they really something that Fei Qian could deal with with just a few words?

As Fei Qian's economy in Guanzhong Sanfu continued to recover and develop, commercial activities became more and more frequent, and these originally atrophic fibroids began to grow, gradually blocking the normal channels.

In troubled times, everyone suffered.

When Dong Zhuo, Li Guo and others from Xiliang were in Sanfu, Fan Shi was hiding in his own small fortress. Although he had a say in the fortress, he lived in fear and had difficulty in eating. Everyone filled their stomachs with half grain and half wild vegetables, and there was no other enjoyment.

It's different now...

If the people headed by Fan Shi thought that Fei Qian was the "king's teacher" before, then now Fan Shi and others think that Fei Qian and his group are enemies.

It's easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it's hard to go from luxury to frugality.

After enjoying the happiness and comfort of collusion between officials and businessmen, who would want to go back to being a miserable back stick?

Wei Duan didn't want to, and neither did Fan. What's interesting is that even after they heard the news that Wei Duan was arrested, they still didn't believe it, or they were just hoping for the best...

This kind of luck mentality made them still hold all kinds of fantasies even when the sword and axe were about to be cut.

The cavalry won't really come, at most they are just threatening, am I scared?

At this time, who dares to really take action?

Aren't the cavalry afraid of the chaos in Guanzhong?

Prime Minister Cao is just outside the pass, and the cavalry can't handle it!

The cavalry doesn't dare...

What?

Where did the nearly 10,000 cavalry come from?

Don't be ridiculous, if there are so many cavalry, I will perform eating on the spot...

People have selective memory.

These guys forgot that when the cavalry entered the three auxiliary provinces of Guanzhong, they did not rely much on the local gentry system, but built a new governing system on their own. Even if there were some problems in the process of building this official system, they have stumbled to the present, and they have grown a backbone that can shoulder heavy responsibilities.

Many of these guys still live in the impression of Shandong during the Han Dynasty.

This newly established management system by Fei Qian is naturally not something that can be generated by Fei Qian's lip service, nor can it be increased by changing from the left pocket to the right pocket in a day or two. The gradual accumulation of personnel from the agricultural bachelor, engineering bachelor, education and inspection department in the past has enabled the current Fei Qian political group to have the confidence to break away from these aristocratic families, gentry, and merchants to promote local operations.

These guys who even forgot this, how could they remember that Pang Tong and Xun You had successively ordered the recruitment of reserve soldiers and supplemented a large number of new recruits for training some time ago?

At the same time, Tian Yu also brought back a lot of mixed soldiers and horses of Han and Qiang people from Longyou.

And if the troops of the three auxiliary forces in Guanzhong are really insufficient, there is also Zhang Liao's reserve army in Longyou...

However, Zhang Liao's troops will not move easily. After all, the area that Zhang Liao has to watch is very large, and it is really impossible without cavalry.

Since they had started, with the abilities of Pang Tong and Xun You, they would certainly use all their strength to fight the rabbit, and it was impossible for them to use any tactics of adding fuel to the fire.

"Governing a country is not something that can be done overnight." Pang Tong made a summary for Fei Zhen, hoping that through such a practical case, the new system promoted by Fei Qian could be continued in Fei Zhen, and it would not be a case of a new emperor and new ministers.

‘Since ancient times, emperors and generals have all taken this as their responsibility, but only a handful of them have been able to accomplish great things. Why? To govern a country, one must not only be able to discern the slightest details and distinguish right from wrong, but also think deeply and plan for the long term. Not only must one be strict with oneself and correct one’s heart, but one must also recruit talented people and open up channels for speech. Not only must one be diligent in government affairs and care about people’s livelihood, but one must also know how to appoint people to positions and appoint talented people to positions. ’

Pang Tong said slowly, ‘Governing a country is not something that can be accomplished overnight. It takes time and effort to see results. Just like a farmer plowing a field, planting a grain of millet in spring and harvesting ten thousand grains in autumn. Therefore, a gentleman should be persistent, and persistence will lead to success. It also requires a wise strategy to achieve twice the result with half the effort. What is a wise strategy? It is to act according to the times, to act according to the place, and to act according to the people. These three are the key to governing a country. If you get one of them, you can achieve twice the result with half the effort. Therefore, a gentleman should strive for change, and change will lead to success. One should not stick to the old rules, nor should one follow the crowd without any fixed plan. '

'It is not easy for the Lord to establish a foundation. I hope you will be cautious, understand, understand, and inherit it. '

After Pang Tong finished speaking, he bowed together with Xun You, 'In this way, the Han Dynasty is very lucky, and the people of the world are very lucky! '

Fei Zhen straightened his hat, stood up and bowed deeply in return, 'Zhen should remember it! '