Chapter 418 A businessman with a keen sense of smell
Wang Guojun told Li Ru his concerns and wanted to discuss a solution.
Li Ru thought for a while and said: "Now we have accommodated nearly 500,000 Qiang people, which is almost half of the Han people in Xiliang."
Because after the land is divided, household registration must be re-calculated. This time the statistics method is not based on resettlement households, but based on population statistics. Children over three years old must be registered. As a result, Xiliang, which has experienced hundreds of thousands of wars, actually Counting millions of people, most of them are separated from the big families! If Daqian also followed the Dahan household registration method, I am afraid that even 100,000 households in Xiliang cannot be counted! In the hidden population The powerful man is top notch in tax evasion!
This data surprised Wang Guojun. The development of Xiliang would be more favorable with hundreds of thousands more Han people. Originally, he planned to move hundreds of thousands of Qiang people from Xiliang, and then move hundreds of thousands of Han people from Bingzhou to Xiliang to enrich Xiliang. The population of Liang will ensure that the Han people will dominate, but that is not needed now! Just ensure that the Qiang people in Xiliang are less than the Han people, and then speed up the assimilation of the Qiang people in Xiliang and let them become Han people!
Li Ru continued: "And more Qiang people will definitely come to join us in the future. The fact that these tribal leaders do not leave is indeed a huge threat to Xiliang. We must send them to other places to stay away from these Qiang people. It makes it difficult for them to exert their influence. In the past, when the Han Dynasty won such a victory, they would bring prisoners to sacrifice to the Ancestral Temple. Now, although we don’t have to kill these tribal leaders, the governor can escort all these tribal leaders to Jixian, so that the Han people can When the common people see the governor's martial arts, they can get rid of these troubles at the same time!"
Wang Guojun nodded, approved of Li Ru's idea, and then asked Yan Liang to lead a force of a thousand people to escort these Qiang tribal leaders to Jixian County to praise them!
At the same time, a large number of wealthy businessmen began to enter Xiliang, and even the snow could not stop their enthusiasm!
When Xu Wei led the army to attack Xiliang, the entire Daqian business community was already discussing this matter in full swing. Because there was no new market, and coupled with the constant disasters in the past few years, the Han Dynasty could not even eat enough to eat, and woolen cloth had already been It's hard to sell. Even big businessmen like Zhen An have very low profits. After experiencing the golden age of wool cloth with profits of more than 50%, they can't bear to have only a few profits now.
Although they listened to Xu Wei's words and entered a new industry and joined Liaodong Development, firstly, Liaodong's current basic market is very small. Although the profit rate of entering the new industry is high, the net profit is still not as good as wool cloth. Secondly, Zhen An and the others It is also necessary to continuously expand investment to increase profits, especially the ocean-going shipbuilding industry, which can be regarded as a heavy industry in this era. The investment is extremely huge and the payback time is extremely long. After all, it takes half a year to more than a year to manufacture an ocean-going fishing boat. For Zhen An and others, the shipbuilding industry is still in a loss-making stage.
This is the reason why they bribed Xiangkai to let Daqian open the Silk Road. As long as the Silk Road is opened, they can get the market of tens of millions of people in the Western Regions, and their woolen cloth can be spread to the Western Regions through the Western Regions. Go to other countries! This is equivalent to opening up a market for Han Dynasty. Their textile factories can operate at full capacity again! Their woolen cloth can be sold at a price similar to gold, and Zhen An and the others are willing to risk several times the profit. At the risk of offending Xu Wei, we must also find ways to interfere with Daqian's strategic direction!
Although Zhen An and the others did not succeed, they did not expect that Han Sui and Ma Teng would seek their own death and march into Bingzhou with tens of thousands of troops. When Zhen An and the others found out about this news, they were overjoyed because they knew about governing and knew that The ruler will definitely send troops to avenge his people!
Sure enough, after the news was known to the ruling party, the ruling party led an army of 50,000 to attack Xiliang, and then annihilated 60,000 Xiliang coalition forces in one battle. The gateway to the Silk Road was now theirs!
Later, when Xiliang inherited the power to recruit 10 billion bonds and carry out the development of Xiliang, Zhen An and the others began to raise funds and form their own caravan. After the Four People's Conference of Daqian was over, they immediately came to Xiliang !
Then ask for an audience with Wang Guojun!
When Wang Guojun heard that Zhen An and the others wanted to see him, he smiled at Li Ru and said, "These businessmen are really fast. I thought they would come next year, but who knew they would brave the wind and snow to come to Xiliang!"
Li Ru mocked: "Businessmen value profits. This is the Silk Road. If the goods from my Han Dynasty are resold in Xiliang, the profits will be dozens of times higher. The goods from the Western Regions will be resold in Dahan, and the profits will be dozens of times higher. You can make a hundred times profit by walking back and forth, how can this not make these businessmen crazy!"
But Wang Guojun said: "Who in the Han Dynasty does not attach great importance to profit? The powerful nobles and gentry are all the same thing. Tai Shigong has said that all the prosperity in the world is for profit, and all the bustle in the world is for profit. As long as the gain is legitimate, it should not be Ridicule him, if what he does can benefit the country and the people, he is already a sage! We should protect such people and make them more common."
"But the most important thing the powerful nobles of the Han Dynasty did was to benefit themselves at the expense of others. Even the Ling Emperor of the Han Dynasty harmed the country and benefited himself. These people gnawed at the country of the Han Dynasty like moths one by one, so the Han Dynasty declined to what it is now!"
Li Ru was surprised: "The ruler actually looks at businessmen?"
In this era, the most despised businessmen were the powerful gentry, and the most valued ones were the powerful gentry. However, Xu Wei killed all the powerful gentry and regarded the workers and peasants as his fundamental strength. Even the businessmen looked down upon him, while Li Ru couldn't. I understand what Xu Wei is thinking!
Wang Guojun nodded and said: "The ruler believes that businessmen are also a force for progress! Compared with businessmen, the powerful gentry of the powerful gentry are simply rotten. The ruler told us that what we want to eliminate at this stage is the most decadent power of the powerful gentry, the powerful gentry of the Han Dynasty, and The power of a businessman is a power that can be united!"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Li Ru asked curiously: "How does the government judge decay and progress?"
Wang Guojun said: "The ruler once said that businessmen worship money and like to measure all relationships with money. For businessmen, everyone is equal before money!"
Li Ru thought for a while and nodded in agreement: "What a brilliant summary of the ruling!"
Wang Guojun continued: "The gentry attaches great importance to bloodline and rank. Even if they are all their own descendants, they still have to separate their descendants. The eldest son can regard the bastard as a slave, and if you want to be the head of the family, you must have the direct bloodline. As long as you are from the noble gentry. The legitimate son can easily become the Three Dukes and Nine Ministers, a high-ranking official worth 2,000 shi. The Han class has been solidified over the years. Like the Yuan family, the descendants of the Yang family can become the Three Dukes and Nine Ministers, so their family is only the fourth generation and the Three Dukes, because this position has been taken by them. The family has a monopoly, and the Xun family, Guo family, Feng family, etc. of the second level can become high-ranking officials with a salary of 2,000 shi, and occasionally they can become three ministers and nine ministers. However, a humble family like you, Li Ru, can only become the magistrate of a thousand shi county in a lifetime. , the common people will always be the common people! How can such a world that does not look at ability, but only looks at family background and ancestors, like a pool of stagnant water, not be corrupted!"
Li Ru nodded solemnly and said: "The ruler has a very deep view of the powerful noble families of the Han Dynasty. I never thought that the powerful noble families of the Han Dynasty are actually more decadent than the merchants! No wonder the ruler wants to kill them all!"
At this time Zhen An came to inquire. He saw Wang Guojun saluting and said: "I have seen the governor Wang!"
Wang Guojun smiled and said: "Mr. Zhen, there is no need to be polite. I wonder why you came to this remote place like Xiliang to find me?"
Zhen An smiled and said: "Of course I came here to open up the Silk Road! I heard that the governor Wang captured hundreds of thousands of Qiang people this winter and completely solved the Qiang rebellion in Xiliang!"
Wang Guojun said: "Thanks to this drought, most of the Qiang people in Xiliang no longer have rations for the winter. In order to survive, they now have the help of Qiang soldiers, so they took the initiative to be caught by me, but I said they would completely solve it."
The Qiang rebellion in Xiliang is a bit exaggerated!"
Zhen An said in surprise: "To be able to capture hundreds of thousands of Qiang people, Governor Wang is already a famous general in the world. Duan Xi only killed hundreds of thousands of Qiang people back then, and it took ten years and tens of billions of money!
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In Zhen An's view, the Wang Guojun captured hundreds of thousands of Qiang people. Even if the Qiang people in Xiliang were not exterminated, their vitality was greatly damaged. Judging from the results of this battle, the Qiang people in Xiliang will be wiped out in less than two years.
Being wiped out by Da Qian will reduce the number of horse bandits on the Silk Road by more than half!"
Zhen An asked with a smile: "The ruler is talking about getting a business license in Xiliang. I wonder what the regulations are for this so-called license?"
Wang Guojun said: "According to the ruling idea, opening up the Silk Road will cost a lot of money. We can only rely on bonds to raise food and grass supplies. In order to ensure the interests of you merchants who support our army, the trade routes in the Western Regions will not be the same as before.
Fully open to the outside world, instead of issuing licenses for monopoly operations. For every 1 billion bonds purchased, you can get a business license in the Western Regions, which can monopolize all goods from the Western Regions. Therefore, there are only ten caravans that can truly trade freely in the Western Regions.
Any merchants who are doing business as unlicensed merchants will have their goods confiscated if caught!"
Zhen An's eyes gleamed when he heard this. The Silk Road was of great benefit. It directly supported the people of Liangzhou. If it is true that only 10 companies can do business in the Western Region according to the ruling, this is an inexhaustible city.
Exhausted gold mine!
Relatively speaking, 1 billion is nothing. Even if he can't come up with it, he can find other big businessmen to join forces, and everyone can invest together to buy a license to do business in the Western Regions!
"I don't know when Governor Wang will completely capture Jiuquan and other counties and completely end the war in Xiliang. If Jiuquan and other places can be pacified, Lao Chen and others will definitely contribute their small efforts to the development of Xiliang!" Zhen An was still a little hesitant, although
The Daqian army was invincible in Xiliang and even captured hundreds of thousands of Qiang people. However, there are still 4 counties in the west of Xiliang that have not yet been captured, which means that there is no road leading to the Western Regions.
Completely break through. Of course Zhen An did not doubt that the Royal Army did not have the strength to capture Jiuquan and other counties.
What he is worried about is the outbreak of war in the Central Plains, which will drag down the time for the army to occupy Xiliang and open up the Silk Road! Zhen An also knows the situation in the Central Plains. His original head of the family, Zhen Ju, has climbed to the position of the Han Dynasty Xiangyang Order in recent years, so for
He also knew something about the situation of the big men in the south.
Several princes of the Han Dynasty are constantly expanding their armies and preparing for war. It is said that there are nearly one million troops. If a war breaks out in the Central Plains, the ruler must mobilize the power of Xiliang to attack Guanzhong to support the Central Plains battlefield. At that time, he wants to open a road to the Western Regions
, I don’t know if it’s the year of the monkey. So Zhen An doesn’t dare to gamble his fortune like this. If unfortunately he is right, all his savings for half his life will be left here in Xiliang!
Wang Guojun also heard what Zhen An and the others meant, so he said: "If we want to capture Jiuquan and other counties, I'm afraid we have to wait until next year!"
Although the sled army can march quickly in the snow, Dunhuang County is more than 2,000 miles away from Beidi County. In such a cold and windy winter, it is basically impossible to lead tens of thousands of troops to fight 2,000 miles away.
It is an act that is seeking death, and Wang Guojun will not do it. Even if he wants to capture Dunhuang, Jiuquan and other counties, he will not be able to do so until the next spring! The combined population of Dunhuang counties is only a few hundred thousand, and it is impossible to resist them.
His army!
Zhen An could only sigh and said: "Then the old man and others can only wait for the good news about the governor Wang!"
Although they cannot invest money now, they can wait for news from Wang Guojun here in Xiliang. Although they are very busy businessmen, the Silk Road is worth waiting for them all winter!
In fact, Zhen An and the others did not wait all winter, but in just one month, they got the good news they liked!
Early February of the second year of Xingping in the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 195)
Powerful envoys from the four counties of Dunhuang came to Beidi County and asked Daqian to help them repel the Qiang people!
After hearing the news, the Royal Army immediately summoned the envoy!
"Gaishun has met the Governor Wang!" The envoy saluted when he saw the Wang Guojun!
Li Ruxiao, who was following Wang Guojun, said to Wang Guojun: "This man is the son of Gai Xun, a famous minister of the Han Dynasty. The Gai family has a very high prestige in Xiliang. If the governor wants to quickly pacify the four counties of Dunhuang, the help of the Gai family is indispensable!"
"Although the Gai family is also powerful, their family tradition is very upright. When there was a great famine in Liangzhou, Gai Xun, then the prefect of Hanyang, did not hesitate to use his private money to help the victims and saved tens of thousands of people.
In the first year of Zhongping, the Qianghu and Bianzhang rebelled in the north. The governor Zuo Chang took advantage of the opportunity to expand the army and embezzled tens of millions of military funds. Gai Xun tried his best to dissuade him, but Zuo Chang became angry and sent Gai Xun to lead his army to station in another area.
Heyang County resisted the enemy's frontal offensive and wanted the rebels to kill Gai Xun. However, Bian Zhang and Han Sui knew Gai Xun's reputation in Xiliang and did not dare to kill him. On one occasion, the Qiang and Hu even surrounded Gai Xun.
However, the Qiang and Hu people admired his heroic spirit and did not dare to harm him. They sent him back to Hanyang and did not even dare to attack the city where Gai Xun was stationed. Even now, although Gai Xun has died of illness, the people of Xiliang still miss Gai Xun.