In Chang'an, for the people, they could not feel much turmoil at all, and the situation had 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 Lu 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 future 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 the Shang Dynasty was the end of the Shang Dynasty? He said that the four peoples, scholars, farmers, industry and merchants, are the pillars of the country. This is consistent with what the Lord said, the four peoples are the pillars.
Also, if the four peoples are high and low, wouldn't it mean that the pillars are high and low? How strange is that?"
Feizhen nodded, "All the four peoples are the same, no matter how high or low they are."
Pang Tong pinched his beard and said, "In the past, scholars put virtue, knowledge, and talent first, so they could occupy high positions and win the hearts of the people. However, there are many unscrupulous people among today's scholars. They do not put virtue first, but put power first, stealing possessions."
Those who rise to power among the people may use flattery, slander, bribes, or power to rob and deceive the world and steal their reputation. Their actions are inappropriate, their words are untrue, their hearts are not right, and their ambitions are 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 thought about it.
"Sir, among the four peoples in the world, who is the most common?" Pang Tong asked.
"Nong Ye." Fei Zhen replied.
Pang Tong nodded and said, "If that's the case, why do all the farmers in the world have no voice but only their crops?"
"This..." Feizhen thought for a while, "Uncle Shi is saying that when you are in power, you should not ignore it just because you are silent?"
Pang Tong put his palms together and smiled, "Yes!"
Fei Zhen said: "My father once said that the good and the bad in governing a country should be judged by the food and clothing that the farmers eat. If the people are not well fed, it is not a good law."
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 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, 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 Fei Zhen some correct ideas.
There are many reasons why rulers do not know this knowledge.
For example, at the beginning of the dynasty, those who climbed up the table may not have enough knowledge and experience in governing the country, and often had to rely on these traditional bureaucratic noble families. By the middle and late dynasties, the huge bureaucracy colluded with each other, making government orders
It is difficult 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 a system of 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.
The Western Regions? The Han people said, I have been here.
Mongolia? Huo Qubing sneered, I have killed countless of your ancestors.
Emperor Sui Yang of Korea coughed.
Snowy land? People in the Tang Dynasty cursed and said that those bird people in Tubo were nothing.
Even the Yuan Dynasty tried to conquer the Eastern Japanese, which scared 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 big braided core 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...
The reason why the Ming Dynasty could not survive in the later period is because of the cycle of land annexation. However, history is a spiral pattern. Each spiral is similar, but there are also differences. The problem of the Ming Dynasty is indeed a land problem in the final analysis, but it is also a land problem.
It is not entirely a land issue. There is one part of it that cannot be ignored, which is the businessman issue.
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 decrees of Zhu Yuanzhang. This man's attitude towards merchants can be regarded as strange among emperors. He once explicitly stipulated that arrests could be made directly without reason.
Those businessmen who are not engaged in production and specialize in the end of business...
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 merchant forces occupied the government and the public like locusts. However, the court had no way to deal 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 were from small and medium-sized business families. At the same time, three-quarters of Jinshi
, Juren’s family has 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 impose taxes other than agricultural taxes, otherwise it would be firmly opposed by the Donglin Party, and such a boycott was almost 100% successful...
There are so many things contained in this policy of "loving the people as sons". The taxes in the Ming Dynasty were too heavy for agriculture, but for commerce, they were almost nothing. In the Ming Dynasty, except for those along the canal and in Beijing
Near Nanjing, there are almost no commercial tariffs in other areas. In most of the Ming Dynasty, all industrial and commercial taxes combined, the annual revenue was only more than 3 million taels, of which the city shipping tax was only 40,000 taels. In the Song Dynasty, these commercial taxes
The tax revenue can already exceed 70 million taels. Even if calculated according to the official exchange rate, it is still 70 million taels of silver.
During the Wanli period, in the "struggle" against the mine tax inspectors, the Donglin Party members performed particularly prominently, 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
Threatening whether he would hold office or not, he wrote a letter asking Shenzong to withdraw the mining supervisor before he entered the cabinet, saying that he "did not talk about profits, only talk about justice" and "do not compete for profits with the people, but kept wealth among the people." The so-called small words and great justice became
These guys have the best cover to cover up their dirty deeds.
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 was even encouraged by officials, who thought that as long as they collected something to pay for their business, once an official dared to offend the interests of businessmen,
He became the target of public criticism and became 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.
He wants to end it once and for all, which 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 auxiliaries of Chang'an had actually "made their fortunes" in the forty years of Xiqiang. For example, the Fan family, the Chen family, and
Some guys from Hedong and Longxi are like this.
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,
I was also exhausted, so where did all that money go?
"There is nothing in the world that cannot be used, but its use may not be in the right way." Pang Tong said, "The use of money and the master's method are like the blood of a person. Wherever money can be accessed, there is a great man."
The place where blood transfers. Nowadays, the economy and trade in Sanfu, Guanzhong are increasingly prosperous, but business taxes have not increased much... Haha, naturally the blood is blocked and the flow 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 the gentry wants to make money, how much can the gentry family alone 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's is undoubtedly the leader. It was normal for him to be inconspicuous before. Who has seen that before a certain official fell, his own gloves were destroyed first? No one was unlucky, and that official's
The coachman can still continue to be at ease...
Now that Webster's is no longer guaranteed, it's 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, they 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 that kind of environment, they can't even protect themselves, so there's 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 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?
A person like Webster is still considered 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 were naturally welcomed...
Master Tanhu King!
After all, when the Xiliang Army was in Sanfu in Guanzhong, they pried open a warehouse shop and plundered it. The owner of the manor also smashed the turtle shell without any ambiguity. 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 for the nobles and merchants who were able to escape, or rather survive, powerful anti-inflammatory drugs in such a harsh environment, could they really be done just by Fei Qian's words?
As the economy of Feiqian Guanzhong Sanfu continues to recover and develop, business activities become more and more frequent, and these previously atrophic fibroids begin 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 still living in panic and had a hard time eating. Everyone had half food and half food.
Wild vegetables can fill your stomach at random, 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 collusion between government and businessmen, who would want to go back and be Kuhaha’s back bangbang?
Wei Duan didn't want to, and Fan didn't want to either, and 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 true that the hussar won't come, it's just a bluff at most. Is it too scary for me?
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 even the Qiaoqi can't handle it!
The hussars dare not...
What?
Where did the nearly 10,000 cavalrymen come from?
Don't be kidding, if there were so many cavalry, I would just put on a show and eat them...
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. Instead, they built a new governing system on their own. Even though there were some problems in the process of building this official system.
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 education of a bachelor of engineering 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 ordered the recruitment of reserve troops one after another 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 he will use his full strength to fight against the rabbit, and it is impossible to engage in any fueling tactics.
"Ruling a country cannot be achieved overnight." Pang Tong summarized it for Fei Zhen, hoping that through such practical cases, the new system promoted by Fei Qian could be continued on Fei Zhen, rather than being destroyed by a generation.
The king has his ministers for one generation, and the emperor has his ministers for one dynasty.
"Since ancient times, emperors, generals and ministers have all taken this as their responsibility, and they can achieve great success, but only a few are like morning stars. Why? To govern a country, we need not only to be aware of everything and distinguish right from wrong, but also to think deeply and plan for the long term. Not only do we need to be strict with ourselves and correct people's hearts, but also
It is necessary to recruit talents and open up new avenues for speech. Not only is it necessary to be diligent in political affairs and care about people's livelihood, but it is also necessary to know people well and appoint them to their posts.』
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. It is like a farmer plowing a field, sowing a grain of millet in the spring and harvesting ten thousand grains in the autumn. Therefore, a gentleman strives for perseverance, and perseverance will lead to success."
It is necessary to have a wise policy to achieve twice the result with half the effort. What is a wise policy? It is called adapting 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 people. These three are the key to governing the country. If you get one of them, you can get twice the result with half the effort. Therefore, a gentleman must change.
Change will lead to success, don't stick to old rules, and don't follow others' opinions without making any definite plans."
"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, saying, "Zhen should remember this!"
