Mystery Makes Me Strong

Zhao Han comforted, "I don't blame my uncle for this matter."

"This is a common thing in ancient times. The ministers are precarious, and the emperor is also restless. They are suspicious of each other. Liu Bei and Zhuge are few and far between, and most of them are Sima Cao Shuang."

"Hey, is there a solution?" Wang Ziteng sighed.

His decades of experience in the old officialdom could not solve this problem.

Faced with the emperor's distrust, there are only two ways: either rebel, or retire, and die of illness.

Civil servants can choose to retire, anyway, they will have little influence if they leave the center.

One eunuch and two guards can handle it.

But for a veteran general like him, the only way to go is illness and death.

Because he knows how to train soldiers, how to fight, and how to plot rebellion.

Therefore, it is impossible for the emperor to feel at ease if he is not dead.

Zhao Han sighed, and she thought of Cao Xueqin, Cao Gong was imprisoned by the Manchu Qing, and he didn't know Western thoughts.

They obviously have things from the West, but they don't know the new court system in the West.

If he knew anything about the West, he would know that it is absolutely possible to write about an undefeated family.

That is to restrict the monarch and open up the wisdom of the people.

Instead of coming and going, only becoming a monk is the only way out.

So she said to Wang Ziteng: "Uncle, this matter is like learning from the west. If you want to solve this problem, you should go to the west."

"The West?" Wang Ziteng thought of the opponents this time. Their tactics and tactics are the West, and they are indeed difficult to deal with.

Only he knows how hard it is to fight.

It is all by cutting off the opponent's supplies to win.

If the opponent also has good supplies, he can only retreat.

"Yes, the West has long had a solution to the distrust between the ministers and the emperor. That is, the prince breaks the law and commits the same crime as the people. Whether the monarch or the ministers, they can only abide by the law and rely on the law to restrain each other. As long as you don't break the law , Even if you do something wrong, the monarch can’t kill you, at most deprive you of your official title and turn you into a commoner.”

"Ah, isn't this a rebellion?" Wang Ziteng was startled.

He couldn't understand the meaning of these words.

Isn't it nonsense to make the emperor obey the law?

The emperor's word is the law, and the emperor can do whatever he wants. The only thing that can stop the emperor is public opinion and moral pressure, as well as etiquette and law, plus the potential power of officials... For example, let the emperor fall into the water and change to an obedient one.

But usually, there is really no reliable way to restrain the emperor.

Whoever the emperor wants to deal with is inherently righteous.

This is all due to the cheating place of Confucianism. In order to kneel and lick, throw away all the good things of ancient Confucianism, completely lie at the emperor's feet, let the emperor be high above, say what the emperor wants the minister to die, the minister has to die.

"Rebellion, no. Mencius said a long time ago that the people are the most important, the country is second, and the king is the least. But after all, it has been two thousand years, why hasn't it become a reality?" Zhao Han said seriously.

"That is the world of great harmony proposed by Yasheng, and it is still far away." Wang Ziteng shook his head and said.

"Hehe, if everyone doesn't do it, the world of Great Harmony will always be on the horizon." Zhao Han shook his head accordingly.

Wang Ziteng was silent.

In fact, there have been disputes over the power of the prime minister and the power of the monarch since ancient times.

It's just that the nephew is still too ideal.

Everyone abides by the law. The problem is that officials want the emperor to abide by the law, but they themselves don't want to.

For example, he himself used his power to exonerate his nephew Xue Fan several times.

His influence was also borrowed by his niece Wang Xifeng.

Now it seems that if he doesn't abide by the law, the emperor can naturally not abide by the law.

So he has nothing to complain about.

No one is innocent.

If the officials stood up together to abide by the law, the emperor would have nothing to do.

The problem is that officials can't do that on their own.

It's no wonder that the emperor took advantage of his strength, even if he had no faults, he could kill himself with a glass of poisoned wine.

Of course, after death, you can still get a good posthumous title.

After all, the dead pose no threat to the emperor, so the emperor can show his benevolence.

But the emperor never showed himself to obey the law.

Zhao Han saw what Wang Ziteng was thinking.

Sure enough, it was impossible for Wang Ziteng to accept new ideas.

This is the old bureaucracy.

He attaches great importance to family affection, but he doesn't care about the law, and the same is true for the emperor.

Law is for ordinary people.

She only needs to protect her good sisters and sisters, and protect them. She doesn't need to take care of others.

Thus, a conversation between uncle and nephew ended like this.

Wang Ziteng then went to the table and retired from the post of general on the grounds that he was seriously ill and old.

It is impossible for him to rebel, and he has no way to follow Jia Baoyu's method. Facing the emperor's distrust, he can only show his white belly like those officials who defended themselves in the early Ming Dynasty, showing that he is harmless.

He has no way to resist the court head-on.

Only one month later, there was a report in the imperial history that there was a huge deficit in Ping'an Prefecture, the area under his jurisdiction, and it was found that it was Wang Ziteng's tenure.

The emperor decreed that for the sake of his military exploits, he would only pay back half of the shortfall.

This half is 400,000 taels, which is already a huge number for the Wang family.

By patchwork, I only got 220,000 yuan, and the rest can only be in arrears.

With the emperor's permission, it can be paid off in five years.

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at the same time.

In Jia's house.

"Old ancestor, mother, we should go back to our hometown in Jinling." Zhao Han said to Mother Jia and Mrs. Wang.

"My dear grandson, why is this?" Jia Mu said.

"Uncle has retired with great merit, and we can't stay in the capital for long." Zhao Han hinted.

Jia's mother has a political vision, but she is old and female, and she is greedy for children and grandchildren, indulges in pleasure, and has no spirit of cheering up.

But since Jia Baoyu took the burden, she wouldn't hold back.

On this point, Jia Mu has shown it in the original text.

On the one hand, he was protecting Jia Lian who was able to do things outside, on the other hand, he was thrifty at home, and later distributed his personal money to his children.

Not stingy.

"In this case, you will preside over the relocation of the Second Mansion."

"First, you only need to move away with your close relatives."

Zhao Han knows that even if it is a rebellion, there is no need to worry about being implicated by the nine clans.

Because they don't know how to use the Jia family's name.

Wang Bolun has already been beaten by Jia Rong and reduced to a puppet.

Jinling's hometown naturally has a Rongguo Mansion and a Ningguo Mansion.

half year later.

All the relatives of the Jia family moved to their hometown in Jinling.

It is three thousand miles away from the capital.

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capital.

Inside the harem of the imperial city.

"It seems that the Jia family is sensible and gave up early." The emperor said happily.

"A mere Jia family can be destroyed by the emperor's backhand." The queen complimented.

"It's true that Jia's family is not big, but it's not easy for four kings and eight lords to share the same spirit and move the whole body." The emperor shook his head.

"But they turned back after all."

"That's because they know how to advance and retreat, then Jia Baoyu is still good, let Concubine Degui go to the south of the Yangtze River to visit relatives."

"The emperor is merciful."

…………

The emperor thought it was Jia's abandonment.

How could they have thought that this was a sign that Jia Rong was about to launch.

After returning home.

On the Longjiang River, somewhere in the heart of the river island.

It was originally the place where pirates lived.

Half a month later, it was occupied by a fleet sent by the Rongyao Group, the pirates were wiped out, and many houses were built.

And began to build forts, all of the type of bastion.

It is only a hundred miles away from Jinling City.

Once something happens, it can be rushed over in a day.

As for whether it will be discovered, the whole Dream of Red Mansions is full of bandits, and I haven't seen what the officials can do.

In the middle and late dynasties, the laziness of officials was frightening.

There were religious sects in the Manchu Qing Dynasty who rebelled, and they all entered the imperial city, only to be repelled by the prince.

It is so absurd that the ministers knew it beforehand, but none of them reported it.

In the later dynasties, unless it touched the interests of the ministers themselves, it was difficult, difficult, difficult to expect them to take the initiative to work.

Of course, if it touches their own interests, such as refugees eating local rich people, they will be dispatched immediately, and they don't care how many people are killed.

However, when pirates occupied Jiangxin Island, the prefect of Jinling didn’t get a report, and the government servants directly suppressed it. The advantage is that the pirates pay 200 taels of snowflake silver every month.

In this way, it will be convenient for Lin Daiyu to go home.

Yangzhou and Jinling are very close.

Lin Ruhai is still alive all these years, relying on the new medicine developed by Rongyao Company, he hangs his life and has never died.

Zhao Han chose to return to Jiangnan to serve as the magistrate of a nearby big state, and cover for Jia Rong and the others by the way.

At this time, refugees from the north were everywhere, and bandits were everywhere.

The scale of Rongyao's organizing refugees to go to sea is getting bigger and bigger.

Buyers are everywhere.

From 20 taels per person, it dropped sharply to 3 buckets of rice per person.

It's that outrageous.

There are also people who give away their children for free, just to keep them from starving to death.

Accept them all.

Such is the case with agricultural societies.

cheap labor.

I don't know that labor is the most precious wealth.

Because the most important resource that an agricultural society can develop is land.

There is always not enough food to reach the market enough to meet everyone's needs.

In fact, the land was annexed, and most of the grain was buried in the annexer's granary.

The problem is that the annexers do not fully participate in the market and do not sell much food. This is the fundamental drawback of the small-scale peasant economy:

The annexers possessed a large amount of grain, but most of it was kept off the market and stored in cellars and granaries.

But those who lack food have labor and time, but they cannot rely on labor to exchange for food from the annexer.

You can only use violence to snatch it, so what else do you do?

This is the root cause of the so-called land annexation that led to the collapse of the dynasty. Once the land is divided equally, ordinary people will have land and can produce their own food.

However this is not stable.

What is really stable is the establishment of a commercial mechanism that allows mergers to transfer the anchor of wealth from food to something else.

And food can be put into the market in time and transformed into basic materials for economic circulation.

If you want to establish this kind of commercial circulation, you have to build on the basis of technology, sea, land, and water transportation. In short, you must be able to distribute food as evenly as possible and sell it at a relatively stable price.

In this way, as long as the population does not exceed too much, it can be stable.

The premise is not to go to war.

However, the war came at a time when no one was aware of it.

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capital.

On the first day of March, the Great Court Meeting.

"The minister has a book to play, and the minister has heard that recently, there are people who wantonly trafficked people overseas."

"There are many hidden dangers, one: the loss of population, no one farming land, and insufficient taxation."

"The second is that people from overseas have no ties, and they don't know what they are doing."

"Three outflows of people, all kinds of beggars, damage the dignity of our dynasty."

"The old minister Xia Shangzuo ordered the county governments to strictly investigate the outflow of people and prohibit random going to sea."

At this time, a household doctor said: "According to Liu Yushi's remarks, the refugees can neither go to sea nor have a place to settle down. How can they make a living?"

"Even if you starve to death at home, it's An'an starving to death. It's better than living abroad with no bones left, and it's better than gathering people to rebel." Liu Yushi said sternly.

The doctor was dumbfounded.

Can't justify.

"What Ai Qing said is very true. The decree prohibits the refugees from going to sea at will, and those who violate it will be strictly investigated."

The emperor thought about it, it was indeed so, and immediately issued an order.

Among the ministers, only a few people think it is inappropriate, and most people think it is very good.

Because this allows them to charge higher rents for their land.

If the common people go to sea, who will rent their land with 80%?

Few people know that this is the equivalent of putting a lid on a pressure cooker.

In other words, they know it clearly, but they don't care. They always feel that they can suffer the common people even more, and they are not afraid of infamy, as long as they don't lose money.

However, these people did not expect that their stick hit the vital point of Rongyao Company.

What is the foundation of Rongyao Company?

It is to absorb labor force from the mainland and continue to colonize and reclaim the outer islands.

Now it is expressly prohibited that refugees go to sea, which is extremely destructive.

Because at this time the dynasty still has executive power.

Soon the government servants in various coastal prefectures and counties began to get busy.

Refugees need to pay more money when they go to sea...

In the past, when a refugee boarded a boat, the magistrate was eager to send him away, but now it costs five taels of silver, and some even ask for twenty taels.

Isn't this a scam?

It costs 20 million taels to attract 1 million refugees a year, and Rongyao Company can't afford it at all.

As long as I can get it out, I use it as military expenses, wouldn't it be better to beat you?

Moreover, many officials who wanted to climb up the mountain sent people to guard the pier, drive the refugees away, and prevent them from approaching the pier.

There are still few channels for refugees to go to sea, and there are many people who are afraid of trouble. Being strictly prohibited by the government, they used to be able to flow out more than 100,000 a month, but now they are less than 10,000.

"Fight, we must fight!" Jia Rong said harshly.

"Fighting in the name of Wang Bolun, he has already joined us." Jia Lian followed.

Then they prepared to send two fleets.

A fleet set off first, approaching the capital from the north.

This is to allow the imperial court to transfer troops from the south.

Sure enough, the court was shocked very quickly.

Pirates come ashore.

People are directly plundered everywhere. In the past, they were refugees, but now they are taking away blacksmiths, carpenters, and scholars...

Many ministers were shocked to find that the land near the capital quickly disappeared.

Let alone 80% of them, 10% is gone.

Everyone quickly asked to send troops to serve the king.

The Minister of War said: "The opponent is likely to attack the east and the west, and the guide is to attack the north. Compared with the capital, Jiangnan is richer. Why don't pirates attack Jiangnan?"

Everyone thought it made sense, and then dispatched the Minister of the Ministry of War to Jiangnan, with only two hundred guards with him.