After Xiangkai said this, Jia Xu finally understood why the ruler was disappointed with him. It turned out that in the ruler's view, businessmen were his allies and objects that could be jointly exploited.
But he looked at these businesses with the same eyes as cattle and sheep. Such incompatibility of ideas, in the words of the governor, was a disagreement in three views. No wonder the governor was disappointed with himself.
As a staff officer, Jia Xu immediately decided to change himself. He could no longer look at businessmen with the same old eyes. At least he should see them as one person.
But Jia Xu also lamented: "There are few emperors from ancient times to the present who are as determined as ours and want to create a new dynasty!"
This is really not Jia Xu's flattery of Xu Wei. If the heroes of the past dynasties want to seize the world, they must compete for the support of noble families and powerful people. Just like the great ancestor Liu Bang, he dared to grant anything, including the position of a prince, and thousands of miles.
As long as the country can defeat Xiang Yu, it dares to promise anything. Of course, regretting it later is another matter.
The same was true for Emperor Shizu Liu Xiu. Without the support of the Nanyang clan, the dynasty would not have been established. From these examples, we can see that the power of the clan is very important in the struggle for world hegemony.
But like them, they found a new way to govern and relied on the power of the people to seize the world. There has never been such an example in China for thousands of years, but the new road is not so easy to follow. Just look at the Qin Dynasty and it was just a semi-new road.
road, but did not survive the 15-year national destiny.
Since the establishment of the Western Han Dynasty government, emperors of all dynasties have been aware of the dangers of the powerful gentry.
For example, the emperors in the early Western Han Dynasty, in order to control the expansion of the power of powerful clans and gentry, just like cutting leeks, they regularly used ruthless officials to slaughter powerful people in a place to maintain the national destiny of the Han Dynasty, and even used the mausoleum system to regularly acquire powerful people from all over the world, which played a role
The function of strong trunks and weak branches also protects the local people.
Therefore, in the early stage of the Western Han Dynasty, the government could mobilize the strength of the entire Han Dynasty, recruit hundreds of thousands of troops, and fight the Huns on a front of tens of thousands of miles for decades.
However, the accompanying mausoleum system ended during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the imperial power of the Western Han Dynasty began to decline, and the strength of the Western Han Dynasty court became worse and worse.
The Eastern Han Dynasty government was inherently lame. Liu Xiuben was the representative promoted by the Nanyang clan. Even though he was the founding emperor, it was difficult for him to act on behalf of the clan.
At that time, Liu Xiu also wanted to inventory the land in the world, but even though he killed more than a dozen important officials, the land was still unable to be inventoryed, and in the end he had no choice but to let it go.
From this we can see that although Liu Xiu was the founding emperor, his power was not even as great as that of Emperor Wu in the mid-Western Han Dynasty!
The same flaws in the founding of the country made the entire Eastern Han court less powerful than the Western Han Dynasty. The Eastern Han Dynasty was also more powerful than the Western Han Dynasty. After the gradual decline of imperial power, it was even possible to use the power of eunuchs to find ways to suppress the power of the noble families.
Jia Xu believed that Xu Wei saw how powerful the Han Dynasty was and how harmful it was to the country, so he used the power of the common people to clean up all the noble families in the world.
It's just that the things the ruler does are even more intense than Zulong.
Although Zulong unified the six kingdoms and destroyed their nobles, he still needed the nobles of the Qin Dynasty to rule the world, but he also needed to win over the remaining nobles of the six kingdoms to help him rule the world.
And people like Xu Wei, who completely kicked away the original ruler and created a new era, have never seen such an emperor in three thousand years of history!
But what Jia Xu couldn't figure out was that Xu Wei would share the world with merchants!
In the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, kings and nobles shared the world. In the previous dynasties, the kings and military nobles shared the world. In the Later Han Dynasty (that is, the Eastern Han Dynasty), the kings and the nobles shared the world. And this dynasty seems to be embarking on the path of sharing the world with merchants.
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Then he secretly sighed that his ruler really took an unusual path. If Xiang Kai hadn't reminded him, he would never have thought of this.
I just don’t know if this road will work, because it is a brand new road and no one knows what will happen ahead.
"It seems that after I return, I will find a way to contact my family and open a few caravans in my hometown. In the future, industry and commerce will flourish, and it may even fill the positions left by the wealthy nobles!"
The reason why Jia Xu thinks this way is because there are only four classes in the world: scholars, peasants, workers, and merchants. Now Xu Wei has knocked the scholars into the mortal world, and their status is even lower than that of ordinary people.
And businessmen were regarded as friends by Xu Wei, so it was natural that businessmen would replace the nobles in the future.
The reason why farmers and workers are not valued by Jia Xu is not because he discriminates against these two professions.
But because there are too many people in these two professions, they are naturally not suitable to be rulers.
To become a ruler, it is natural for the minority to rule the majority, so that the pie can be divided enough.
Just like hundreds of people in the Han Dynasty can support one official to maintain the situation. When the number of officials increases to dozens of people supporting one official, the common people in the world cannot support so many officials, so they will have no choice but to rebel in order to survive.
When 99% of these masters are killed and the world returns to a situation where hundreds of people support one master, this prosperous age will come again.
There are too many workers and farmers, and they may even become the majority. There is not enough pie in a country, and it is impossible for one person to support two masters. That's why Jia Xu ruled it out without even thinking about it.
these two classes.
As for what Xu Wei said about doing justice for heaven, dividing fields, and reducing taxes on the people, every new dynasty would say this, not do it, so he was not surprised that Xu Wei treated the people preferentially. After all, they are now fighting for hegemony.
At that time, the power of the princes will try their best to win over the people.
"There are not many of them! We are too ambitious and wild to govern. If it weren't for his equally astonishing ability, this great cadre would have perished like the Yellow Turban Army." Xiangkai complained after hearing Jia Xu's words.
"Look at how many of his men have outstanding talents. Most of them are just ordinary people. Niu Gui is just a down-and-out ranger. He hasn't read a few books and doesn't know a lot of Chinese characters. But now he has
He has become the prime minister of a country, the second-in-command in Da Qian!"
Jia Xu noticed that Xiangkai's expression when he said Niu Gui was filled with envy, jealousy, and hatred, and his whole body was almost distorted!
However, Jia Xu can also understand Xiangkai's mood. He has worked hard all his life to become prime minister and realize his ideals and ambitions. However, in the Han Dynasty, he was framed and almost died. Later, he went to Jizhou to join forces with Wang Fen
He prepared a rebellion to overthrow the late emperor, but failed, and could only survive in hiding in the Taihang Mountains!
He finally joined Xu Wei, but he didn't expect that Xu Wei didn't like him at all, and he could only continue to give lectures at Longshan due to his limited abilities.
But what he wanted was easily obtained by Niu Gui, a poor man with weak legs. You can imagine the emotion in Xiang Kai's heart!