The night is dark.
No one is still.
There is a time for feasting.
After Guo Jia got drunk, the banquet gradually came to an end at midnight.
I don't know whether it was the effect of alcohol or the difficulty of calming down his thoughts. Cao Cao returned to the backyard and still had no intention of sleeping.
After the hustle and bustle, there is emptiness, and behind the bustle, there is only loneliness.
Cao Cao couldn't understand Fei Qian's approach, not because he was not smart, but because his thinking was completely different from Fei Qian's. They were two completely unrelated strategies for governing the country.
Cao Cao held his head, and his chaotic thoughts, stimulated by alcohol, made Cao Cao feel that his head started to hurt again.
The sound of sparse footsteps came, and Cao Pi's voice sounded outside the door: "Father, Wan'an..."
The morning and dusk are the same. As a child, this kind of etiquette is indispensable in the Han Dynasty. Even if Cao Cao drinks until midnight tonight, Cao Pi must wait until he has paid his respects before going back to rest.
Of course, if Cao Cao had previously ordered that Cao Pi did not need to pay greetings today, then he could be exempted. However, Cao Cao's mind was outside all day today, and he did not bother to come to the inner court, so he naturally did not order these trivial matters...
Cao Pi was very sleepy.
Young people always feel that they don't have enough sleep, and Cao Pi is the same. He originally thought that he would say hello outside the door as usual, and then Cao Cao would respond and go back to sleep. However, he did not expect that Cao Cao would be uncharacteristic of himself today...
"Pier? Come in and talk..."
Cao Pi couldn't help but rolled his eyes. It was so dark in the middle of the night. What should we talk about? Is there anything we can't talk about tomorrow, uh, wait until dawn?
But at the next moment, Cao Pi lowered his head obediently and walked in to pay his respects, "I have seen my father... Are you doing well, my father?"
"Well..." Cao Cao waved his hand and pointed to the seat next to him, "Sit."
"..." Cao Pi's nose moved slightly, but he didn't say anything. He followed his instructions and went aside to do his job.
"Today...I returned home as a filial piety..." Cao Cao chuckled twice, "I am very happy...my son, do you know where your happiness comes from?"
"Of course I will be very happy when I get talented people back..." Cao Pi replied.
An indescribable smile appeared on Cao Cao's face. Although the corners of his mouth were raised, it seemed as if he was being pulled up by force, "Haha... talented people... not only talented people, but also people's hearts..."
Cao Pi responded, "Yes, those who win people's hearts can get help from Taoism... and they are congratulated by my father..."
What did Cao Pi mean? As long as you are happy, old man, everyone can go back to sleep after everything is over. But unexpectedly, Cao Cao said, "The human heart... So, what is the current human heart like?"
"Ah?" Cao Pi was stunned for a moment, quickly glanced at Cao Cao's face, and couldn't answer for a while.
"During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were Guan Gong first and Shang Lord later. How was this done? Can it win the hearts of the people?" Cao Cao smiled and seemed to have thought of something interesting.
Guan Zhong adopted state-owned economics in the economy, that is, all industries that can make money and have high profits are state-owned, well, including those and so on... and then the court will monopolize and operate them and obtain high profits.
This kind of economic policy is conducive to quickly concentrating wealth and strengthening the country's strength. When the total economic volume is not large, it can give priority to ensuring the country's economic interests and ensure that the court has the greatest wealth. It can weaken the power of local nobles and help
It is beneficial to the stability of society. In times of foreign war, the central court is also in an advantageous position because it has more financial and material resources to deploy.
Shang Yang went a step further and strictly restricted the entire country, using agriculture to support war, and using war to promote agriculture, and concentrated all the country's power on war and agriculture. This was actually a wartime economic system.
When the world is in conflict, the advantages of this system are naturally self-evident.
Therefore, the state of Qi used Guan Zhong to unite the nine princes, and the state of Qin used Shang Yang to unify the world.
Later, because the two of them succeeded, this economic policy was recorded and followed. Even if the social structure changed later, the economic policies of Guan Zhong and Shang Yang were still effective and respected by Confucians.
This policy was also the "good policy" that many later ruling classes had in mind.
The economic policies of Guan Zhong and Shang Yang are like two "standard answers" hanging in plain sight. As long as you copy them, you can get a good score. Therefore, many people in later generations will refer to economic strategies as
Talking about Guan Zhong and Shang Yang, he took it out and copied it.
Even Zhuge Liang in history couldn't handle a question like this well, let alone Cao Pi. Hearing Cao Cao ask this question, Cao Pi stuttered for a long time, and finally choked out, "Maybe it can be obtained..."
Cao Cao shook his head and said: "Shang Jun, let's not talk about it... the policy of managing the public, the authority of the important and the important, the business of conquering the mountains and seas... But if there is no Duke Huan of Qi... hum..."
Guan Zhong's life is actually quite magical. When he was young, Guan Zhong was quite dissolute. He worked as a businessman, served in the army, and also worked as some low-level local officials with smaller official positions. He was soon dismissed and became unemployed...
Later, Guan Zhong met Bao Shuya, and the term came into being, Guan Zhong and Bao Shuya, cough cough cough cough...
When Guan Zhong was doing business, his partner was Bao Shuya, and he was very generous. Guan Zhong took more money than he gave out, but Bao Shuya didn't take it seriously. He even recommended Guan Zhong, making Guan Zhong once again go from being a commoner to becoming an important figure in assisting Prince Jiu.
Officials.
As a result, Guan Zhong is a man who will do whatever it takes to achieve his goals.
Not to mention that Guan Zhong cheated Bao Shuya in business. When Qi Xianggong wanted to determine the heir, he did not miss the old relationship at all. In order to help the young master correct it, he went after the young master Xiaobai and Bao Shuya for personal purposes.
Assassinate Xiaobai, if Xiaobai hadn't been clever enough to pretend to be dead, there would have been no Duke Huan of Qi later.
Prince Jiu failed in his bid for the throne, and Guan Zhong was of course implicated. Then Bao Shuya truly loved Guan Zhong and recommended Guan Zhong to Duke Huan of Qi again. And Prince Xiaobai, the Duke Huan of Qi, accepted Guan Zhong? Obviously he couldn't accept it at first, after all, Guan Zhong
He once almost killed himself, but under Bao Shuya's enlightenment, he was later willing to meet Guan Zhong, and only then did he have a long conversation all night long, and Guan Zhong came back to life.
He was greedy for petty gains, repaid kindness with hatred, and used unscrupulous means and other bad behaviors. It can be said that without the support and affirmation of Duke Huan of Qi, Guan Zhong would have ended up in panic like a rat crossing the street with everyone shouting and beating him.
So what now?
Even if Cao Cao wanted to carry out reforms and correct some mistakes like Guan Zhong so that the Han Dynasty could ascend to the throne like Duke Huan of Qi, would the Emperor Liu Association support Cao Cao?
Cao Cao's smile remained the same, but the sadness hidden in the dark shadow of his smile was as deep as thick ink.
Fei Qian is different. Around him, there is neither oppression from above nor entanglements from the surroundings. But if Cao Cao makes a slight move here, he will be like falling into a quagmire...
Why?
Why did it become like this?
What needs to be done in the future?
Cao Cao was thinking about something, and Cao Pi didn't know what to say, so the room fell silent for a while.
After a while, Cao Pi couldn't help but be tempted by the Sandman. Although he thought he couldn't sleep, his eyelids began to fight and he couldn't open them anymore...
『ε=(′ο｀*)))Alas...』
Cao Cao turned his head and saw the swaying Cao Pi. He sighed, and then he had no intention of continuing to talk to Cao Pi, so he woke up Cao Pi and asked him to go to sleep.
Cao Pi immediately relaxed his eyebrows, bowed without hesitation, turned around and left, muttering in his heart, father is really... such a small thing can do so much!
If it weren't for the fact that you are my father, I would have turned against you!
Delaying my sleep!
Really...
……(╯︵╰)……
I feel like there are people around me who are making trouble, and Cao Pi is not the only one.
And Sun Quan.
During this time, Sun Quan felt that there was really nothing going on around him, and that nothing was not broken. After turning two pages of the book, he felt that it was a broken book, and there was nothing interesting to read. After sitting on the boat for a long time, he felt that the boat was broken, and he felt like he was sitting on it.
It hurts, and what I eat and drink is a pile of broken fish and shrimps, which I hate even if it is stuffed between my teeth...
As for people and affairs, it ruined Sun Quan's mood even more.
"Zijing!" Sun Quan sneered, holding the desk, "Oh, this is quite new. Why can't this traitor be killed? Is there any excuse for it?!"
The fleet was going to overwhelm Wu Commandery in two days, and Sun Quan's anger over Sun Fu's incident was obviously not extinguished, and was even getting more intense. Lu Su could no longer sit still and approached Sun Quan.
Some people's anger will gradually diminish when they look at the scenery of water, sky and mountains, but for some people, no matter what they do, as long as their anger is not extinguished immediately, it will become bigger and bigger...
Sun Quan was the latter.
In the past two days, I have been walking down the river, not because of the majestic mountains and rivers, but because I have become more and more angry because I think about what happened during this period. I have been working hard on the battlefield, and a bunch of dogs are causing trouble at home.
, I was almost killed by Cao Jun because of my smoke and fire, what a bunch of dogs are hiding behind and making trouble, I almost got infected by the epidemic when I expanded my territory, what a bunch of dogs only know how to gossip!
The more I think about it, the more unwilling I become, and the more I think about it, the angrier I become. My eyeballs gradually become bloodshot, my triangular eyelids gradually pull up, my nostrils become larger, my eyebrows stand up, I grind my teeth and clench my fists...
The above is all in my heart.
On the outside, Sun Quan is still very good at pretending... well, he has a very stable aura.
Unfortunately, Lu Su still saw it, and of course Zhou Yu could see it too, but the problem was that Zhou Yu couldn't persuade Sun Quan, because Sun Quan didn't believe Zhou Yu at all, and even doubted whether Zhou Yu had ulterior motives when he said that.
"My lord, please step aside." Lu Su said slowly.
Sun Quan was silent for a moment, waved his hand, and asked the attendants and guards to exit the cabin.
To be continued...