The first thousand three hundred and ninetieth section
The reaction of the businessmen was different.
As soon as the plan was announced, the powerful and wealthy businessmen in Guandong and Guanzhong were all stunned.
"This move..." Countless people looked at the official documents that were sent to them. From the official documents, the future layout of Chang'an was clearly visible.
All nine cities in Chang'an will be relocated and will be relocated near the offices of Jiuqing.
Anyone who is not a fool understands what this means?
"From now on, every inch of land in these nine cities will be valuable!"
Businessmen are not blind, and of course they are aware of the explosive profit prospects that can be generated when the nine cities of Chang'an are so close to the densely populated core area of Chang'an!
So, for a time, countless people heard the news and drove to the Shaofu one after another.
Even many scholar-bureaucrat families are eager to give it a try.
After all, who can have trouble with money?
However, when people rushed to the Shaofu government office, they were frightened by their own eyes.
"Marquis of Pingyang, Marquis of Wuyang, Marquis of Fuyang..."
Luxurious carriages one after another crowded the open space in front of the government office. One after another, famous and powerful families were neatly arranged in front of people's eyes.
And this is just the situation of queuing in front of the government office.
In the parking lot in front of the government office, the shadows of more prominent figures were also looming.
"Oh my God!" someone screamed, pointing to a plain carriage in the parking lot: "That is the vehicle of General Hu Yi, the brother of Bo Zhi, the governor of the Andong Protectorate, Bo Shi! I definitely don't
I will admit my mistake!”
Among Bo's relatives, the most prominent one now is the Governor of the Anton Protectorate.
As everyone knows, the Governor of the Anton Protectorate is the nephew of Empress Dowager Bo. Apart from him, there is only one brother in his lineage, and that is Bo Zhi!
Bo Zhi has always been very low-key and has always lived in seclusion to avoid causing trouble to Brother Nai outside.
But at this moment, his carriage appeared here.
Obviously, he is not here just for fun. It is very likely that he is carrying the interests of the entire Bo family!
But that's not the most shocking thing.
"I just saw the younger brother of my late friend Zhou Ren..." someone screamed and pointed at the carriage of a prominent figure.
Therefore, Zhou Ren, Zhongling, was a powerful figure who dominated the world during the reign of the late emperor.
Legend has it that even if the late emperor had concubines in his harem, he would not avoid Zhou Ren. This shows how important this person was in the heart of the late emperor.
Nowadays, although Zhou Ren has become an official, as the late emperor's subordinate and confidant, he has been holding the positions of Yangling Order and Yangling Internal History.
Therefore, although his authority is lost, his status is still prominent.
At least, the status is much more noble than that of the ordinary 5,000-household princes.
Obviously, Zhou Ren's biological brother will not appear here for no reason. He must have a purpose when he comes here.
What is surprising is that whether they are representatives of Bo Shi's relatives or the late emperor's senior ministers, their carriages can only stop at the gate of the Shaofu and are not eligible to be greeted inside.
It is conceivable that the carriage parked in the courtyard of the Shaofu government office must be that of a distinguished person.
"Let's go..." Looking at this situation, Tian Guang, who was originally in high spirits, sighed.
"Brother Tian, what do you mean?" Wu Yanchun was a little confused and asked quickly.
"I only know today..." Tian Guang sighed and said, "How humble we are..."
"All plans must be restarted..." Tian Guang said with a frown.
"Huh?" Wu Yanrong vaguely guessed it, but he couldn't believe it and said, "Brother Tian's worries must be impossible..."
He looked at the carriage full of boxes.
Each carriage is a carriage belonging to the family of a prince with a household of more than 2,000 households or a scholar-official or general with a household of more than 2,000 stone.
Although they are all collateral members, in a legal sense, they are members of the common people.
However, these people are imperial nobles after all!
Probably impossible!
Tian Guang smiled and said: "Both Guipingjun and Fengrenjun can do business, why can't brothers of foreign relatives do business?"
"Moreover, wealth and silk are so attractive!" Tian Guang said in a low voice: "Today's lord, even if he has a thousand households, his annual income is only 200,000 yuan! And the merchants in the city and shop selling goods can earn a year's profit.
Ten times, a hundred times this...they have the power and resources. If this is the end, we are afraid..."
When the other businessmen heard this, they all looked at each other.
They finally know what is the most terrifying thing for them!
The real threat does not come from Guandong at all, but is within Chang'an City, among the princes' relatives among Qili and Shang Guanli.
If only they could go into business.
With their resources, manpower and material resources, and the authority they hold, what can businessmen do to compete with them?
They are both athletes and referees.
Even if you can't do business for yourself, you can still flip the table and change the rules.
Ordinary people are no match for these guys.
Even the Tian family and the Wuyan family, who have deep roots and luxuriant leaves, are no match for them.
But it was businessmen like them who caused all these results.
Now, Tian Guang and Wu Yanyan finally know what "self-inflicted" and "self-inflicted" mean.
For their own selfish reasons, they instigated and encouraged Confucians to come out to create momentum, and they also paid to organize ruffians to help spread the word.
As a result, the owner of Weiyang Palace was completely annoyed.
Allowing Guandong merchants to enter is the first step.
The real killer move is right here!
The princes, relatives, and scholar-bureaucrats are going to die personally!
Just thinking about these terrifying guys entering the scene with their authority, manpower, material and financial resources makes everyone shudder.
Because the rules of the game will be completely rewritten.
No matter how strong the backer is, can it be stronger than the nine ministers of the dynasty? A two thousand stone general with a gun in his hand?
hehe……
However, these people were able to lift the ban only because of the Guanzhong merchants themselves.
Before today, nobles and scholar-bureaucrats could not engage in business, nor could they engage in business.
Both public opinion and the law have firmly tied their hands and feet. No matter how greedy they are, they dare not blatantly get involved in commercial activities.
Because there are national laws above and public opinion condemnation below.
For a long time, people all over the world have been accustomed to the setting that scholar-bureaucrats are noble, respected by princes and relatives, and do not involve themselves in lowly careers.
No one has ever imagined that one day, aristocrats and officials would abandon their dignity and status, let alone the possibility that shackles such as national law, public opinion, and morality would disappear.
but……
Now, everything can change!
"We have trapped ourselves in a cocoon and have to bear the consequences..." Tian Guang lamented.
In his eyes, this is the fact: the merchants in Guanzhong overestimate their capabilities and try to compete with the emperor!
However, no one, including him, had ever thought that the current emperor was a holy king who had realized his destiny!
Just like the legendary Yao, Shun, and Yu.
Heaven's heart is my heart, and Heaven's will is my will! The true constitution of heaven is spoken, the universe is governed by the actions, and the yin and yang are combined in action!
On this day, one can not only witness celestial phenomena and predict disasters, but also one can consecrate the mountain god He Bo and grant pardons to the three mountains and five mountains, and the four seas and the six heavens.
Just like the words inscribed on the Heshi Bi by Emperor Qin Shihuang back then - If you are ordered by Heaven, you will live forever!
In front of such an emperor, all provocations and challenges are like ants and elephants.
What's worse is that the ants challenge the elephant, but the elephant doesn't know, and even if it knows, it won't take it seriously.
However, today, or in other words, the entire hereditary lineage of the Liu emperors, starting from the Gao Emperor, every one of them is a chicken-bellied person who will seek retribution, especially those who like to settle old scores.
Liu's belief has always been: tooth for tooth, blood for blood.
Thinking of this, Tian Guang's hands and feet became cold and his whole body trembled.
Because he remembered something he heard two days ago - Zhang Hui of Legalism wrote to Confucian giants such as Dong Zhongshu, Hu Wusheng, Shen Pei, Han Ying, etc., asking each Confucian school to answer and define "Zhi Gong"
Case "Sanbei Case".
This reignited the war between Confucianism and Legalism.
Before today, Tian Guang didn't care about who won or lost in this war.
But now, Tian Guang has understood.
In this war, once Confucianism is defeated all the way, it will no longer be able to defend its core values.
So……
Without the public condemnation and moral restraint of "competing with the people for profit", the aristocratic officials can go out naked and modify the Han laws. From then on, all merchants can almost become gg Smecta.
Because businessmen will inevitably be unable to defeat the aristocrats, scholar-bureaucrats and generals who hold power and control the barrels of guns.
If Bai Gui is alive and Tao Zhu Gong is resurrected, the nobles and gentry will not be able to play with it, and the table will be overturned at worst!
From then on, whether it is the Tian family, the Wuyan family, Yang or anyone else, it is very likely that they will become the domestic slaves of the nobles.
All wealth will go to those who live in wealth!
After listening to Tian Guang's words and looking at the scene in front of them, all the merchants lowered their heads with regret.
They are finally afraid now.
But no one has a solution to the current predicament!
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It is different from the wailing of businessmen.
The princes and scholar-bureaucrats are now sitting in their elegant rooms with great satisfaction, waiting for the news.
For them, the current situation is actually easy to explain - now, the businessmen have brought it upon themselves and brought humiliation upon themselves. The emperor was furious and instructed the Legalists to restart the great discussion of the 'Zhigong Case' and the 'Sanbei Case'.
Once the Legalists win, the so-called moral dilemma of "competing with the people for profit" and the pressure of public opinion are eliminated, and everyone can do business openly and honestly.
Then the wealth will definitely come rolling in!
These people have actually been very unconvinced all these years!
How noble are their statuses?
But his wealth is not as good as that of a humble merchant!
There are wealthy businessmen who even own thousands of houses, thousands of slaves, hundreds of carriages and horses, and tens of thousands of employees!
And what about them?
Even if there are 10,000 households in the city and an official position of 2,000 shi, the annual tax income will only be 2 million, and the salary income will only be more than 1 million!
Even including the rewards from the Emperor, the gold commended by the Queen Mother is far less than the wealth of those rich businessmen whose families are worth tens of millions!
Who can be convinced by this? Who can endure it?
I have been unconvinced for a long time! I can’t bear it anymore!
In history, these dissatisfactions and dissatisfaction eventually gave rise to the Emperor Wu's denunciation order.
So much so that after giving the order, no one spoke up for the merchants.
The ruling and opposition parties, and even the common people, applauded and applauded.
The Han Dynasty's industry and commerce, which had prospered to its peak under decades of loose policies since Taizong, were wiped out overnight. Countless big businessmen who were once wealthy and powerful were wiped out in an instant.
But now, these dissatisfactions and dissatisfactions have rushed to another channel.
The nobles and gentry can no longer hold back.
They no longer want to watch theater on the shore and play games with black and white gloves.
They want to take control of capital themselves! From behind the scenes to the front!
It's not difficult... To be honest, before this, many people had already done a lot of things in private to protect themselves.
For example, Song Zihou Xu Jiu secretly smuggled bronzes and even went to the southwestern barbarians to purchase Bo slaves.
For example, Shi Fen's family secretly opened a workshop in their own manor in the name of their nephew.
But these things cannot be exposed to the light after all, and it can even be said that they will die if they are exposed to the light!
And now, once Legalism wins - although Legalism is still hostile to business, and its attitude is far more extreme than Confucianism.
However, there is no longer the constraint and moral dilemma of "competing with the people for profit".
Even if aristocrats and officials cannot do business themselves, can the Legalists still control the business affairs of their children and relatives?
The worst case scenario is just to show off and expel a few business relatives and ‘draw a clear line’ with them!
Only a few conscientious and moral scholar-officials and nobles were extremely anxious, running back and forth in search of news.
In the hearts of these people, the whole world is already dark now
After getting the news, Prime Minister Zhou Yafu immediately went to the palace to see Liu Che.
"Your Majesty, merchants are in low business. Emperor Gao ordered the merchants to deprive them of clothing and carriages, and burdened them with heavy rents and taxes..." As soon as Zhou Yafu saw them, he straightened up and said, "I heard that there are actually some people in the Shaofu government offices now.
A large number of princes, relatives and even family members of scholar-bureaucrats are queuing up to persuade them to get involved in business affairs! I request your majesty to order an immediate order to arrest them all, and to serve as a warning to others!"
For Zhou Yafu, nobles and scholar-bureaucrats were absolutely not allowed to participate in industry and commerce!
If they ended up doing business, Zhou Yafu couldn't even imagine the scene!
There is no need to use your brain to think about what these scum will do.
In the past, the children of princes and their relatives often ran rampant in the market, bullying men and dominating women, which was a common occurrence.
Once they are free from constraints, they can participate in business activities.
So, relying on the power of their father and ancestors, they can't help but turn the world upside down!
Forced buying and selling may become a common occurrence.
And using power to disrupt economic activities or even interfere with national policies is bound to happen.
And once they succeed, it will be Zhou Yafu's failure!
It is no exaggeration to say that the time of peace in the Han family since Taizong is likely to end.
Starting from today, wars will break out all over the world, and smoke will fill the air inside and outside Kyushu.
And this is something Zhou Yafu never dares to agree to and is willing to see!
Liu Che looked at Zhou Yafu and laughed. He waved his hands and said, "Prime Minister, please be patient..."
While comforting Zhou Yafu, Liu Che ordered: "Shang Shuling, pass my order to Zhi Jinwu. Immediately dispatch the troops of the Jingfu Duwei Yamen and the left and right Taoist Marquis to me. All the nobles, scholar-bureaucrats and sons who gathered in front of the Shaofu Guanyamen will be dispatched to me."
