Compared to being a little confused and slightly changed the script, Liu Xie, who only knew how to read one, two, three, and four, the veteran actor Xun Yu understood what it was like after thinking for a while.
Although this is slightly different from what he originally planned, it has generally achieved the goal.
After Xun Yu held the court meeting, he went to the Prime Minister's Mansion to give a brief explanation to Cao Pi.
The reason is slightly because Xun Yu knew that it would be beneficial to bring closer relationships with Cao Pi, but he should not get too close...
It’s not that Xun Yu discovered something wrong with Cao Pi’s personality right now, but Xun Yu, as Cao Cao’s counselor, was not Cao Pi’s minister. He expressed kindness, so there was no problem, but he was too close, so old Cao would definitely not be happy.
"Lingjun," Cao Pi's attitude seemed particularly sincere today. "I would like to ask you to give me advice, why did there be many complaints in the court a few days ago, but now it is now like this?"
Cao Pi couldn't figure it out. He was still shouting for fighting and killing before. It seemed that all the emperors and officials, even the civil gentry, were talking about Cao Cao, saying that Cao was old and confused, doing things inappropriately and incompletely, or he secretly said how the Xiahou family of Cao dominated the power and bullied the weak. Anyway, there were basically few people who said good things from top to bottom. Why did Cao Cao immediately turn a flip after Cao Cao resigned, and it was said that Prime Minister Cao was hard, Prime Minister Cao was not easy, and Prime Minister Cao had made great contributions?
Just because Ren Jun was "assassinated", he was scared?
So easy to use?
It's that simple?
So, can any officials in the future be "assassinated"?
Cao Pi felt it was necessary to ask and figure it out.
Xun Yu pondered for a moment, "Officials, officials, serve kings, and are just like crowds."
"Hiss..." Cao Pi felt a toothache. He said something carefully before, but now he has this one again?!
"Let me be a tribute to you!" Cao Pi left his seat and bowed to Xun Yu without saying a word.
Xun Yu was shocked. This kid didn't play according to the norm! So he quickly got up, avoided it, and knelt down and returned the greeting.
Cao Pi looked solemn, "Lingjun! I am stupid by nature and read very little... Please let me say more details! I'm polite here!"
"Huh..." Xun Yu had no choice but to return the favor again, and said that it was his own fault. He would definitely explain in detail in the future and no longer make things difficult for the prince.
Xun Yu really didn't do it on purpose.
In his cognition, it is already very straightforward to say this.
The sentences about the Lu family’s Spring and Autumn before may be a bit "official", but what Xun Yu said just now was the sentences about the words of the word "interpretation"! Isn’t this a shallow text that all the children of the gentry must read from childhood and be able to memorize it like a stream?
Cao Pi was impatient. He subconsciously felt that it sounded troublesome, so he thought Xun Yu was going around again, so he acted faster than his brain, and didn't want to think about it any more. Otherwise, Cao Pi really had to calm down and think carefully, but he couldn't remember where Xun Yu said...
After all, in the Han Dynasty, this is a reading material for primary school students.
Of course, it is also possible that Cao Pi felt that paying a visit was easier than thinking about it.
"Crown Prince, do you remember that the minister said before that Shandong is now "it is better to buy"?
Cao Pi nodded, "This matter is also related?"
Xun Yu nodded, "It's like assassinating the Celestial Lord's crossbow... Originally, the price was high from the merchants, but we still claimed to be proud, thinking that the Cavalry ruled the underworld and was not strict... Now that I think about it, I'm completely trapped..."
At first, he could smuggle some elite equipment from the cavalry workshop. Many Shandong people secretly laughed at the cavalry as a fool, and his workshop was just a sieve. As a result, after getting used to the cavalry equipment...
You should know that war, well, even if it is not a war, the daily use of these weapons will have the probability of damage. Shandong feels that everything is good for Chang'an, and it is better to buy it by itself. When something happens, he will glar at him, and then he kept mocking Chang'an and ridiculing the Shandong gentry who sang the cavalry, all his heads shrank and closed his mouth, and thought that he had never said it before.
These gentry children like to mock Fei Qian in Chang'an, and naturally mocked Cao Cao in Xu County for fun.
However, it is harder to make these Shandong gentry children take responsibility for their own words than to ascend to heaven.
Just like those who used to ridicule the policy of cavalry, and the system was outdated, either imitating the Spring and Autumn Period or imitating the ancients, it was nothing more than this and all kinds of descendants of the gentry who looked down upon. Now that they know that these systems and laws are powerful, they immediately changed their words, indicating that Fei was acting unruly and corrupting the legal system of the ancestors.
Xun Yu means this. Such officials seem to be crowded, but in fact they are useless...
The original meaning of the word "官" is originally just a house that represents authority in the ancient oracle bone inscriptions.
It's just a dead thing.
How good or bad officials are, whether they are good or bad, is not measured by the dead objects on their surface, nor the crown on their heads or the robes on their bodies, but rather the people and their words and deeds.
Now these gentry children suddenly changed their tone. What's so strange about it from opposing Cao Cao to supporting Cao Cao?
Seeing that Ren Jun was assassinated, he might be killed, so he would just die. I am supporting Prime Minister Cao!
A saint appears before a person, but a ghost comes from behind.
Cao Pi understood a little, but nodded a little confusedly.
Understanding the human heart is a major project, and with Cao Pi's current skills, it is naturally somewhat deficient.
Seeing this, Xun Yu did not force it, but instead changed the subject and began to explain to Cao Pi why he designed it like this and why he got the current situation...
Shandong has a large population.
The meaning of many is a mob.
Especially in Shandong, there are too many people who think they are smart people, know everything, and they especially like to jiu. This trend has reached its peak during the Yuedan Review. Although it has been suppressed a little, there are still many remnants and endless poisons.
In this case, if you want to unify your thinking and keep these people from Shandong at least on the surface consistent with Cao Cao, you can't just hold two court meetings and issue an announcement. And there are also some people, if the official request is made, the more they should show their wisdom, deliberately do the opposite, speak the opposite, and do the opposite, at least they should stand aside and sarcastically...
Now, Cao Cao is seeking a battle. If he really wants to start a fight, he must concentrate and be indifferent. Therefore, he must first let these people automatically adjust to a unified direction.
It is better to force, even the surface unity, than to not even maintain the surface...
There is another very important factor.
No money anymore.
Thanks to the measures pioneered by Fei Qian at the moment of the Han Dynasty, not only did Pang Tong, Xu Shu, Zhuge Liang, Sima Yi and others in Chang'an have a deeper understanding of economic development, social progress, and technological improvement, but also affected Shandong, which forced Xun Yu and others to learn and change.
However, Xun Yu still has many things that are confused and not very clear, but if you explain it a little to Cao Pi, you can still do it...
Of course, if you have learned the politics and economy in later generations, you can generally understand one or two. For example, what Xun Yu and Cao Pi explained now is actually talking about the right to mint coins.
This is a blunt knife, which makes Shandong feel extremely painful at the moment, but there is nothing we can do about it.
Since the Wuzhu coins were worsened by Dong Zhuo and were despised across the country... Well, in fact, it is not only Dong Zhuo's contribution, but also those Shandong gentry who wanted to take advantage of the evil coins to dig out their own underground, or smash bronze statues of bronze statues in the ancestral temples and cast private coins. They also put in the wrong hands on the original monetary system of the Han Dynasty and took advantage of the situation to rob, which eventually led to the complete collapse of the Han Dynasty's coins.
It is obvious that as long as human society moves forward, it is impossible to get rid of commodity trading.
Especially in China, a country with many terrain, multi-ethnic, water and soil distribution, high and low differences, and product differences, the circulation and transaction of commodities are the instinctive needs of the overall development of society. It is not a few laws, or can be completely curbed by suppressing merchants to the bottom.
Wealth is often described as flowing water, which means that it will find low-lying land on its own and then fill it up and level it up, just like the responsibilities and obligations that should have been borne by the court, but the court failed to do so, so naturally there will be gray or even black forces from the people to fill it.
If Fei Qian had not been Fei Qian, then Cao Cao, who occupied Yanzhou, Jizhou, Yuzhou, and Qingxu land, would have a large amount of land, and these lands would once again bring the Three Kingdoms back to the trajectory of farming to determine the outcome, and also left all the emperors of subsequent dynasties with a wrong understanding that farming and fighting to determine everything.
But it is obvious that the word "farm" is not the whole society.
As Fei Qiang Chang'an did not attack Shandong in a frivolous manner, but instead pulled the man to run to another road, the importance of money, or currency, gradually began to appear.
Shandong began to fall into Feiqian's trade network, and once it got stuck, the obstacle to getting up was not just as simple as "buying is worse than buying".
In the Shandong area, it was not so cooperative at the beginning, nor did it willingly join Feiqian's trade network. However, as the most powerful consumer group in the Han Dynasty, its huge population base is like a snowball rolling down the top of a mountain. After it is pulled and moved, it is very difficult to brake.
Especially with the opening of the Western Regions, a thick trade route runs from the west to the east.
The snowball is getting bigger and bigger and faster.
『If we can eliminate the goods from the Western Regions...』 Xun Yu said in a deep voice, 『This battle can be prepared for a few more days, but now it can only be... a battle. The things in the Western Regions are of great value. Although they are very exquisite and prosperous, they are... but... the farmer worked for a hundred acres a year, but only a hundred stones. The hard work for several years is not as good as a gold pot in the Western Regions...』
The prices in the Western Regions doubled, but some people flocked to them. Some people even sold the goods they had purchased before and sold them for second-hand. They made a lot of money from time to time, and happily shared their business minds.
What a good mind!
Sometimes Xun Yu also wants to dig open the heads of these guys to see what is inside...
Cao Pi asked: "Then why can't we cut off goods from the Western Regions?"
Xun Yu didn't say anything, but his eyes turned slightly.
Cao Pi followed Xun Yu's gaze and saw a complete set of gold and silver utensils placed on the side of the hall. The patterns were gorgeous and complex, and shining gems were inlaid, which seemed to be a specialty of the Western Regions.
"This..." Cao Pi remembered that this set of drinking utensils was his father's favorite, and he had a big banquet for guests before.
Cao Pi was also with him and drank a few drinks.
The rose wine filled with ice fish tastes like...
Well, Cao Pi admitted that he asked a stupid question.
"The more goods trade, the more coins you need. The more you trade with goods in the Western Regions, the more you need to use the money from the cavalry..." Xun Yu sighed slightly, "Everyone knows that the cavalry's money is good, and they all want to use it, so now the Wuzhu coins are gone in the market..."
"Then is there no way to ban the money from the cavalry?" Cao Pi asked.
Xun Yu smiled bitterly, "It is simple to say that it is simple and simple, but it is just an edict. But... the prince thought that if this edict was issued, would it be beneficial to the lord? Is it harmful to the lord?"
That's right, aren't coins? Isn't they legal currency?
Then change a law, which stipulates that you cannot use cavalry coins, but Wuzhu coins, or the money you cast by Cao himself, isn't it done? Cao Pi thought so, but soon, he understood what Xun Yu meant, his face began to look ugly, and his face turned red in anger, but he didn't know what to say, nor did he know how to vent, but just sat there and gasped.
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Cao Cao, or the Xiahou family of Cao, was willing to bear the consequences of cutting off the use of the cavalry money for a while and returning to the barter state, would other Shandong gentry be willing? Will these people follow Cao Cao's footsteps or will they think this is a great opportunity to make money, and the opportunity should not be missed and never come again?
The ant hole and rat warehouse are blooming everywhere. The financial dam that Cao Cao tried his best to pull up would collapse in a bang.
The benefits are that all local gentry and family members have been taken, but the consequences are the people of Shandong. But the blame is, of course, Old Man Cao is the one who takes it alone.
Then the public grievances will be boiling, who will calm down?
If Cao Cao did not want to retreat, he had to hand over his important counselors, then...
Who will it be?
Cao Pi was silent.
Xun Yu was also silent.
Of course, it does not mean that this cavalry money is a bad thing, because the increase in trade and the circulation of coins have also brought an increase in the transaction volume in Shandong, which has led to the prosperity of Shandong's economy. However, this also means that the finance and economy of the Cao Cao regime are increasingly relying on the input of coins from Feiqian Chang'an.
Especially in Shandong, there is a lack of minerals of silver and gold, and gold is undoubtedly much more expensive than copper coins, and Fei Qian has gold and silver mines...
Feiqian used the exchange rate difference between luxury goods and gold, silver and copper to replace Shandong's raw materials and Shandong's low value-added goods. Through bachelor's degree in agriculture, engineering, and a series of technological updates and iterations, it selectively exported to Shandong, which semi-forcedly led Shandong to carry out technological reforms and economic development, and also successfully penetrated all aspects of the current Han Dynasty and became a noose wrapped around the entire Shandong economy.
Although Xun Yu didn't understand what the right to currency was, he instinctively noticed something was wrong, but unfortunately he felt it was too late...
If the money in the Cavalry cannot flow in like before, the Shandong region will soon fall into a situation where there is no money available, and the entire Shandong social economy will deflate, and then a serious economic crisis will break out.
To give an immediate question, now in Shandong, the salaries of officials have gradually evolved from physical to monetization.
Xu County is undoubtedly the place with the most concentrated officials in Shandong.
When Liu Xie first arrived in Xu County, the economy was very poor at that time, and officials paid for food directly. The officials received as much food as possible. However, with the addition of the bachelor of agriculture and engineering sent by Fei Qian, the grain production in Shandong recovered very quickly and the prices of grain began to decline. So many officials did not want physical grain that fluctuated easily and had a variety of good and bad quality, but wanted to pay money directly.
This is actually due to later companies, employees are more willing to pay money directly, rather than taking a bunch of Blue Moon Shells produced by unknown places to go home...
Although this is a social progress and has also promoted Shandong's economic prosperity, people in Shandong, whether Cao Cao or Xun Yu and Guo Jia, do not understand what inflation is, nor do they realize that the prices of food and cloth, such as daily necessities, have increased in the long run, but the salaries of officials of the Han Dynasty have not been adjusted accordingly.
In other words, it is the old saying that prices are rising and wages are not rising.
So, a dilemma.
I am not happy to give food, and I am not happy to give money.
After the potential recovery of the Western Regions, the amount of trade accelerated, causing a large increase in the circulation of currency. Then economic problems quickly turned into political issues.
Seeing that there are more and more good things, but the salary is always only so pitiful. What should I do?
Do you eat braised vegetables honestly and watch others eat meat and drink rose apple wine?
How is that possible?
The result can only be that officials either seek rent, corruption, or increase exploitation, and storm the ground. In this way, the atmosphere and efficiency of the Shandong officialdom, which was not very good, are all visible to the naked eye to decline.
As a counselor, due to the perspective of the times, Xun Yu had to do his best to find a solution in the face of increasingly harsh situations, but his methods were limited to the level of comparing the "physics system".
"The cavalry is increasing in money, but we are decreasing," Xun Yu whispered, "If one day... the cavalry cuts off the exchange of coins, or changes coins to use them... Then... this battle cannot be avoided... If the battle against Chang'an, if the battle is won, the universe will be determined by one battle, and the country of Han can be extended, and the lord's achievements can be immortalized in the world."
This is naturally the most ideal result.
Cao Pi nodded, then pondered for a while, and asked softly, "Then if you can't get it... what's the gain from this?"
『Take the casting workshop.』 Xun Yu said in a deep voice, 『Patch his craftsmen and get the coin craftsmanship, Shandong can get rid of the noose and form its own line, or it can in turn restrict Chang'an...』
"Then..." Cao Pi hesitated and dared not ask.
Xun Yu also fell silent again.
Chapter completed!