Three Kingdoms

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 occupy 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 tell whether it is true or false, 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 difference between good and bad in governing a country should be judged by the food and clothing that farmers eat." 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. After the Han Dynasty focused on the vast plain areas of Shandong and Jizhou and Yuzhou, agriculture was able to feed more people, 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 show 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 profits, but only talked about justice" and "did not compete with the people for profits, but kept wealth among the people." The so-called small talk of righteousness, 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 reserve granaries...

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 most of the gentry, gentry, and powerful families who remained among the three assistants in Chang'an actually "made their fortunes" in 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 the blood of human beings. The place where money is accessible is where the blood of the Han Dynasty is transferred." Nowadays, the economy and trade in Guanzhong Sanfu 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? 』

If a noble family wants to make money, how much can a whole family of noble people make?

You 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 leader. It was normal to not show off one's appearance before. Who has ever seen his own gloves destroyed before a certain official fell? Unlike the official who was unlucky, the official’s coachman could still continue to be free...

Now that Webster is not guaranteed, it is certainly impossible for these gloves to continue to be popular.

For groups in which government and businessmen collude, what kind of political environment do they like?

Of course, I like an environment with lax supervision and imperfect laws. In such an environment, it is easier for them to obtain more benefits through unfair means.

But it cannot be an extremely chaotic and disorderly environment.

Because in such an environment, they can't even protect themselves, so there is no interest at all.

So how can we make supervision appear on the surface, but in fact not so strict and the law not so perfect?

Of course it means colluding with more officials.

In a place like Sanfu in Guanzhong of the Great Han Dynasty, what local official would be more suitable to serve as a protective umbrella than a prominent family like Wei Duan and Wei Shi?

For someone like Webster, he can only be regarded as a little witch by the Yuan family.

After all, the Yuan family is the fourth generation and the third Duke, and is an official by profession.

For example, three generations of tax collectors, bank managers, etc. are simply weak compared to the Yuan family.

When Fei sneaked into the main pass, these nobles and merchants who colluded with the government and businessmen naturally welcomed him...

Master Tanhu King!

After all, when the Xiliang Army was in Sanfu in Guanzhong, they pried open a warehouse shop and plundered it. During the process, the owner of the manor also smashed the turtle shell and it was unambiguous. It caused great damage to the entire economic environment, which is equivalent to Powerful anti-inflammatory drugs will kill both good and bad cells indiscriminately.

And the nobles and merchants who were able to escape, or rather survive, powerful anti-inflammatory drugs in such a harsh environment, could it really be done by Fei Qian just by talking?

As the economy of Feiqian Guanzhong Sanfu continued to recover and develop, business activities became more and more frequent, and these fibroids that had originally shrunk began to grow, gradually congesting normal channels.

In troubled times, everyone has a hard time.

When Dong Zhuo and Li Guo of Xiliang were in Sanfu, the Fan family was nesting in the wall of their own small dock. Although they were keeping their promises within the dock, they were living in panic and had difficulty eating. Everyone had half food and half food. Wild vegetables fill the stomach at will, and other enjoyments are out of the question.

Things are different now...

If those people headed by Fan felt that Fei Qian was the "Master King" before, then now Fan and others feel that Fei Qian and his gang are enemies.

It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality.

After enjoying the happiness and comfort of the collusion between government and businessmen, who would want to go back and be Kuhaha’s back stick?

Wei Duan didn't want to, and neither did Fan. What's interesting is that even after they heard the news of Wei Duan's arrest, they still didn't believe it, or they were just lucky...

This kind of luck mentality makes them still hold on to various illusions even when the ax is at hand.

It's not true that the hussar will come. At most, it's just a bluff. Is this really a big scare?

At this time, who dares to really take action?

Are you not afraid of chaos in Guanzhong?

Prime Minister Cao is outside the pass, and the Qiaoqi can't even handle it!

The hussars dare not...

What?

Where did the nearly 10,000 cavalry come from?

Don't be kidding, if there are so many cavalry, I will eat them on the spot...

Everyone has selective memory.

These guys have forgotten that after the Hussars entered the Guanzhong Sanfu, they did not rely much on the local gentry and gentry system, but built a new governing system on their own. Even in the process of building this official system, some problems appeared Problems, but I have stumbled to the present moment, and I have grown enough to develop a backbone that can shoulder heavy responsibilities.

Many of these guys still live in the impression of Shandong as a big man back then.

The management system newly established by Fei Qian is naturally not created by Fei Qian's upper lip and lower lip, nor can it be created by changing the left pocket to the right pocket in a day or two. The Agricultural Bachelor in the past step by step The engineering bachelor's education enabled the Inspection Office to accumulate personnel one by one, which gave the current Feiqian political group the confidence to separate from these gentry, country gentry and powerful merchants to implement local operations.

Guys who have forgotten even this, how can they remember that Pang Tong and Xun You had successively ordered the recruitment of reserve troops some time ago, and supplemented the training of a large number of new recruits?

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

And if the troops of the Third Assistant in Guanzhong are not enough, there will still be Zhang Liao's reserve army in Longyou...

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

Now that we are taking action, with Pang Tong and Xun You's ability, of course Bo Tu will use all his strength, and it is impossible to engage in any fueling tactics.

"Governing a country and managing its affairs cannot be accomplished overnight." Pang Tong summarized Fei Zhen, hoping that through such practical cases, the new system promoted by Fei Qian could continue in Fei Zhen, instead of being replaced by emperors and ministers from generation to generation, emperor and courtiers.

"Since ancient times, emperors, generals and ministers have all taken this as their responsibility, and only a handful of them can achieve great success. Why? Governing the country requires not only being aware of everything and distinguishing right from wrong, but also requiring careful consideration and long-term planning. Not only do we need to be strict with ourselves and correct people's hearts, we also need to recruit talented people and open up new avenues of speech. It is not only necessary to be diligent in political affairs and caring for people's livelihood, but also to know people well and appoint talents. 』

Pang Tong said slowly, "Governing a country is not something that can be accomplished overnight. It needs to be accumulated over time to achieve results." Just like a farmer plowing a field, he sows one grain of millet in spring and harvests ten thousand grains in autumn. Therefore, a gentleman should strive for perseverance, and perseverance will lead to success. We also need to have wise strategies to achieve twice the result with half the effort. What is a wise policy? It is said to be adapted to the circumstances of the time, it is said to be adapted to the local conditions, and it is said to be adapted to the conditions of the people. These three are the key to running a country. If you get one of them, you will get twice the result with half the effort. Therefore, a gentleman must change, and change will lead to success. He cannot stick to old rules, nor can he follow what others say and have no definite plan. 』

"Master, it is not easy to create a foundation. I hope you will be careful about it, understand it, realize it, and inherit it." 』

After Pang Tong finished speaking, he and Xun You bowed together, "In this way, the great man is very lucky, and the people of the world are very lucky!" 』

Fei Zhen stood up and bowed deeply in return, "Please remember this!" 』