Chapter 478 A blank piece of paper is easy to draw on
Xu Wei sometimes felt that these counselors and literati in the feudal era were simply sick in their minds. You might say that they did not have a long-term vision, but they knew the harm of business to the feudal era and knew that businessmen were the most dangerous opponents to disintegrate their system, so they almost
They have been suppressing the merchant group for thousands of years.
Even though there may be elements of deception in this, they were really deceived, because it was these businessmen who completely ruined the feudal system in later generations!
But you say they are smart, but they are also amazingly stupid. The number of people is sparse, and when everyone in the world does not have enough to eat, agricultural production naturally becomes important. This is not a period of great commercial development. They restrict it at this time.
Business behavior is barely justified.
But by the time after the heyday of the feudal era, the number of people in the world was no longer too few, but too many, and there was no longer enough land for everyone to cultivate. In the middle and late stages of a dynasty, there would be more than a million refugees at every turn.
For example, at the end of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, there were millions of refugees, which made the world crumbling. Emperor Wu found a way to resettle these refugees, which made the world of the Western Han Dynasty go from crumbling to a stable level. This was not achieved by the "Edict of Sin".
It really makes people put down their swords.
In the Eastern Han Dynasty, during the period of Emperor Ling, there were also millions of refugees, but Emperor Ling could not find a solution to this problem, so the Eastern Han Dynasty was blown apart by this powder keg.
As for other feudal dynasties, they tried their best to extend the life of the feudal dynasty. They did whatever they could to extend the life of the feudal dynasty. As long as they could continue the fortune of a dynasty, they would do anything, but they never thought of using business.
way to resettle these refugees.
Even at the end of the dynasty, there were still hard-nosed officials who believed that a large population in business would affect food production. Even the more refugees there were, the more they had to suppress business, because in their view, with so many refugees,
There is not enough food to eat, so everyone has to find a way to farm to survive.
But they have never thought that you have no land for the refugees to cultivate, and you don't want these refugees to join industry and commerce. This is not to force people to death. This kind of mechanical and one-sided way of looking at business has actually affected the entire feudal society.
The dynasty has been around for thousands of years, and even Xu Wei felt that it was incredible. They just couldn't kick it away, which delayed the Chinese civilization for thousands of years. Even the national football team didn't have such bad skills as them.
Jia Xu found that Xu Wei looked at him with disappointment in his eyes. He was shocked and thought to himself that this is not good! His current stable life in Daqian depends on the ruler appreciating him. If the ruler dislikes him, I am afraid that his future will be ruined.
Life won't be easy!
At this time, the bodyguard reported to Xu Wei that Master Xiangkai was visiting!
Xu Rong asked his personal guards to lead him in!
"In power, you haven't returned to Ji County for several years, especially since the meeting is over and no one has seen you. Many congressmen are a little disappointed!" Xiangkai people said before they arrived.
Xu Wei smiled and said: "It's not that the war is busy. I think Yanzhou is still inseparable from me now. But with you kind people like you in Jixian County, what can go wrong? You can see if the meetings in the past two years have been held well.
It raised a lot of problems that our cadres have and also solved a lot of hidden dangers! If you want to manage a country, it is not enough for me to test myself alone. The best choice is to gather the strength of everyone. After all, I can only see the long-term on my own.
, it’s not as far-sighted as hundreds of people!”
Then Xu Wei asked: "Master, you are busy with work now, how can you have time to come to me?"
Xiangkai said solemnly: "Now Daqian's debt is getting bigger and bigger. It has exceeded 80 billion yuan. The annual interest expenses alone are several billion yuan. With such high debt and so much interest, the entire Jixian County Everyone is worried. Originally, everyone was asking you as a ruler to solve this debt, but if you don’t come to Jixian, I can only go south to Yanzhou to ask you on your behalf, what should we do now?"
Obviously they have not experienced the baptism of modern finance. Everyone feels that Daqian's debt is as huge as a mountain. They do not have the confidence of Xu Wei, who is afraid that the debt will explode like a dynamite!
Xu Wei asked: "After everyone discussed it, what solutions did they come up with?"
Xiangkai said: "Most people want to be in power and reduce the frequency of fighting with the Han Dynasty. At least there will be no wars in the past few years. We will consume the current results, increase revenue and reduce expenditure, and slowly reduce these debts!"
"However, many generals and lieutenants in Jixian County believe that now that our army has severely damaged the Han coalition forces, these two years are a good opportunity to attack the Han. If we stop the attack, the princes of the Han will also take the opportunity to regain their strength. In this way, this Central Plains war will The results of our victory have been wasted by us, and we will have to pay a higher price in the future to occupy the entire world!"
Then he added: "I have the same opinion. The only one who pursues victory is to pursue it. If we give up halfway, we will definitely pay a heavy price!"
Xu Wei nodded and said: "It is better to use the remaining brave men to chase the poor bandits, and not to pretend to be the overlord. We are in difficulty, and the Han side is even more difficult!"
Xiangkai just said: "There are still some people who want to sell some government-run factories in Daqian. Each of these factories makes a lot of money every day. If they buy them, it will definitely cause the entire Han businessman to go crazy. The debt of 80 billion should It can be reduced by half!”
Xu Wei was dumbfounded. There were still people who thought of going with him, but they still looked down upon Daqian's government-run factories. In Xu Wei's opinion, the textile industry alone was enough to pay off all the debts. But in Xiang It seems to Kai that all the government-owned enterprises in Daqian can't even repay the 80 billion debt. This is either because people who don't understand business or they have ulterior motives!
Xu Wei has heard too much about this kind of thing. Although he has this idea, he will definitely not sell the factory in his hands at a low price. Not only will he not sell it at a high price, but he still has control. Take it into your own hands!
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! It seems that the stock market of Daqian is about to open. It is time to push the textile factory out. The market value will increase 20 times. These debts should be solved!
At this time, Jia Xu suddenly said: "Absolutely not. A quarter of my manufacturing income now comes from these factories. If we sell these factories, our finances will become even worse. This will It's not just drinking poison to quench our thirst. Now we have sold the factories, but there are still 8 states in the Han Dynasty that we have not conquered. In the next 10 years, we will have continuous wars with the Han Dynasty. After selling these factories, how will we support the subsequent wars? The factory is the backbone of our work and must not be sold lightly!"
Xu Wei said firmly: "I only have an opinion. After I arrange Yanzhou's affairs, I will go back to Jixian and completely solve the debt problem!"
Xu Wei finally figured it out. If this debt is not resolved, the entire top management of Dagan will not be able to live in peace, and it will be difficult for everyone to deal with the big man wholeheartedly!
After coming out of the meeting hall, Jia Xu went to find Xiangkai to communicate!
Jia Xu said: "Master Xiang, we are so lucky to have such a wise and powerful ruler who can win every battle. But not long after the juniors followed the ruler, they felt that the ruler valued merchants too much. Zhen An was just a domestic slave of Zhen Ju, but It is because he has assisted the ruling party and now he has become a big businessman with a large number of people. Not only does the ruling party have the intention to support them, as the saying goes, there is no business without treachery, and the ruling party attaches great importance to businessmen, and I am afraid it will be detrimental to our efforts!"
After hearing Jia Xu's words, Xiangkai couldn't help but shook his head and sighed: "Our ruler is good at everything, but no one understands his thoughts! Who in the past dynasties conquered the world did not value the power of the powerful gentry, but he They don’t pay attention to it, and they regard the powerful nobles and gentry as enemies and want to get rid of them quickly!”
"The powerful gentry of the Han Dynasty are extremely powerful, but when he first raised his troops in Jizhou, he concluded that the powerful gentry of the Han Dynasty were just paper tigers. They looked powerful, but in fact they were broken by a poke. He believed that the workers and farmers of the Han Dynasty were more powerful than the gentry. The gentry were ten times and a hundred times stronger, but they don’t seem to be strong now, just because no one organized the common people of the Han Dynasty!”
After hearing this, Jia Xu said with admiration: "He really has a far-sighted vision when it comes to governing. None of the heroes of the past generations have discovered this power, but now it is easily grasped by the governing body."
Then he asked strangely: "It's okay for the government to pay attention to farmers and workers. After all, to conquer the world now, the support of farmers and workers is indispensable. But why should the government support merchants? This generation does not seem to have a great effect on the cadres?"
Xiangkai also felt strange and said: "The ruler said that merchants are an advanced force that can be used to deal with the powerful gentry and powerful gentry in the world?"
"Uh!" Jia Xu felt confused for a while. It was a joke that merchants could deal with powerful gentry and powerful gentry. Dong Zhuo was about to kill all the powerful gentry in the world, but he didn't see many merchants dare to do so. They didn't dare to take revenge on Dong Zhuo, even the local tycoons and the officers from the underworld who came to attack them. Such a group of people who were similar to cattle and sheep, the ruler actually thought that they could deal with the powerful gentry and gentry?
Xiangkai smiled bitterly and said: "No one understands why the ruler has such an idea, but he has been doing this all these years. In Daqian territory, farmers can get land, workers can live a good life, and businessmen can also They will be protected, but only the wealthy gentry and powerful gentry are in power. The ruling party is really eager to kill them, and now, although all the wealthy gentry in Hebei have not been killed by the ruling party, they have been completely reduced to ordinary people!"
Although Xiangkai was from Qingzhou, he had been active in Hebei. Not only was he a good friend of Zhang Jiao, he also had good friendships with many heads of wealthy families in Hebei. But he was also someone who could talk to Xu Wei, so many The head of the noble family in Hebei found Xiangkai and asked him to help him intercede. Now the noble family in Hebei no longer care about land, property or anything else.
They just want Xiangkai to help, so that Xu Wei will no longer restrict their children from entering the army and entering the Daqian regime. The wealthy gentry of the Han Dynasty are completely different from the landlord class of later generations. For the landlord class, land is their core asset. , but for the wealthy nobles, their disciples and former officials are the core assets.
Therefore, when the wealthy nobles in Hebei found it difficult to resist Xu Wei, they had long planned to surrender to Xu Wei, but Xu Wei did not open the door for them.
It is basically impossible for their children to join the army or politics in Daqian. This is the most difficult thing for them to accept. Seeing that Daqian is getting more and more prosperous, they cannot join this group. In the new imperial court, even though their family still has money, their decline is already doomed. This is the scene that makes them most desperate!
Originally, they all started to give up, but now they are marrying the direct ladies of their families to the senior officials of the Daqian Army. They want to wait until Xu Wei dies and then rely on this relationship to find a way to sneak into the Daqian court. Even Xu Wei didn't realize that many of his subordinates had already begun to marry into the noble families of Hebei!
However, the treatment of Xiliang's tycoons broke Hebei's reliance. Hebei's powerful nobles discovered that after Xu Wei conquered Xiliang, although he also wiped out the local tycoons, he did not refuse the Xiliang's powerful people to join the army and become a big cadre. What an official!
That's how things are in the world, don't worry about the lack but the inequality! The powerful people in Xiliang can join the army, why can't the powerful people in Hebei do the same!
So the heads of the Hebei clans came to Xiangkai one after another, hoping that Xiangkai would ask Xu Wei to lift the ban on the Hebei clans!
But Xiangkai knew how much he weighed. Although Lei Gong was respectful to him, he only did it for Zhang Ning's sake, and the ban on Hebei noble families was the core policy of Daqian. He knew that he had no Energy changes this.
And it just so happened that many of the people who came to him were his life-and-death acquaintances back then! They were people it was difficult for him to refuse even if he wanted to.
At that time, Xiangkai wanted to rely on the emperor to revive the Huang-Lao theory and recommended the "Taiping Jing" to Emperor Heng. However, Emperor Heng only heard that he was good at harmonizing yin and yang and wanted to learn his secret skills to have a son. He was not interested in his "Taiping Jing" Not interested at all!
And his behavior was also discovered by the ministers of the imperial court. At that time, the three ministers and nine ministers in the imperial court were all studying the Six Classics of Confucianism. How could they bear the revival of Huang Lao's school again, so they found an excuse to say that Xiangkai borrowed the stars. He falsely entrusted the gods to achieve his own personal goals and made false accusations, and was later imprisoned by Emperor Heng.
At that time, Xiangkai was also famous all over the world. He had many friends in Hebei. He relied on these friends to escape from Zhao Prison in Luoyang City. He then relied on these friends to wander around Hebei for more than ten years, and his life was easy. Not bad. Hebei has many close friends of his.
It was these life-and-death encounters that were difficult to refuse that made Xiangkai feel embarrassed, because he knew that Xu Wei had no intention of changing his strategy, otherwise he would not have immediately eliminated the noble families in Yanzhou after capturing Yanzhou, attracting hundreds of thousands of people. Without blinking an eye, they were all cleared out of Yanzhou.
From this action, we can also see Xu Wei's firm willpower. He wanted to eradicate all the powerful noble families active in the Han Dynasty. Then he led the officials of the Daqian Army to paint again on such a piece of white paper!