Eight hundred and ninety-ninth chapter Fengchan game (1)
After returning home, Yuan An's mind was still full of what he saw and heard at the shipyard.
After thinking for a long time, Yuan Ang finally wrote a letter and handed it to his trusted retainer, saying: "Go and deliver this letter personally to my son in Chang'an..."
Yuan An's idea is very simple: since Long Li Hou and Chen Jiao are already in the water.
That means that at least there will be no compensation for this matter.
Moreover, today, I have always used practical actions to tell the ministers: follow me and you will have meat to eat!
Last year, didn’t the school district houses in Maolingyi fetch sky-high prices?
A house with only five acres of land can actually be sold for a high price of three thousand gold?!!!
Those who started early have made a lot of money.
It is said that Yong Shichen, the Marquis of Zhifang, made a net profit of five thousand gold in one go!
Such a result makes countless people beat their chests and beat their feet.
It’s almost like picking up money!
A long time ago, the emperor 'punished' the great merchant Shi of Luoyang and ordered his family to spend 30 million to build a track from Chang'an to Hangu Pass.
Almost all the wealth of the master family was squeezed out!
Even the head of the master's family can only eat green vegetables and radishes every day.
The results of it?
Now, the master can rely on that track and count money even while lying down.
He almost monopolized the commodity trade logistics between Guanzhong and Guandong.
The rail carriage has defeated all competitors with its advantages of convenience, cheapness and speed.
Now, the Tian family and the Yang family in Guanzhong have joined forces and are begging grandpa and grandma everywhere, hoping that the emperor will allow them to "serve the country" and build a track from Luoyang to Hangu Pass.
As a result, the matter has not yet been resolved.
Therefore, after Yuan Ang returned home, he immediately wrote a letter asking his son to sell the family's land and all real estate.
He desperately wanted to raise five thousand gold to rent a "whaling ship".
Because Yuan An knew.
The further back this so-called whale ship is towed, the harder it will be to rent.
Especially giant ships like the ones we see today may be treated as treasures by large-scale ships in the future and will not be rented out. If others want to rent them, they will probably only be able to rent whalers converted from old ships.
But the price, I’m afraid, won’t change!
If you don't rent, there are people crying and asking for rent!
more importantly……
"This is an admission ticket..." Yuan Ang sighed in his heart.
It’s already predictable!
In at least the next ten years, there will most likely be a limit on the number of people or families who can be eligible to 'lease' or 'fake' whaling ships.
The further you go, the more stringent the restrictions and requirements become.
With Yuan's foundation and background, it is very likely that he will not be able to wait until the whaling industry causes a sensation before he can still qualify for admission.
Without this qualification, Yuan will say goodbye to the "promising" marine career in the future.
How can I bet if I can’t even participate in the game?
Since you can't bet on it, of course it will be insignificant.
What is even more frightening is that the Yuan family will also lose the right to speak about the "distant country of Yi and Di" in the future.
Um……
Although Yuan Ang doesn't like unjust wars.
But, what if everyone around you is fighting an unjust war?
What's the difference between clinging to an old antique and never giving up, and Liu Xiahui?
"Heaven's behavior is always constant. If it is not for Yao, it will not be destroyed. If it is not for Jie, it will not be destroyed..." Yuan Ang read this famous saying of Xunzi: "If you use it to rule, it will be good, if you use chaos, it will be bad!"
This is Yuan Ang's favorite philosophical saying, and it is also the most familiar saying to most scholar-bureaucrats today.
It is no exaggeration to say that people who cannot understand this sentence thoroughly are not qualified to **** at all.
Not even the dregs will be eaten!
And the second half of this sentence flashed through Yuan An's heart: If you strengthen your roots and use them sparingly, then heaven will not be poor; if you are well prepared and active, then heaven will not be sick; if you follow the path without hesitation, then heaven will not be able to bring disaster.
!
This is already out of the realm of the so-called fate and providence that everyone talks about. It is almost as close to directly saying: Destiny is a p, and those with strong soldiers and horses get the destiny!
Any knowledgeable person or enlightened bureaucrat understands this clearly.
Destiny, providence, benevolence, righteousness, morality, etc. are all meant for the common people and the people below.
If you believe it yourself, you are really stupid!
For most bureaucrats who have experienced bloody battles and are accustomed to seeing the rise and fall of strife.
They even believed in what Wu Zixu said: The crowd will definitely be able to defeat Heaven, and Heaven will also be able to defeat humans!
This is also a famous saying that has always been implemented in the game of monarchy and ministerial power in the past dynasties of China.
The ministers were so powerful that they emptied the emperor and turned him into a puppet. They even called it the euphemistic rule of the emperor by hanging the arch and governing him.
On the contrary, if the imperial power is strong, the ministers can only be the yes-men who wave the flag and shout, and the obedient babies who obey orders and follow the instructions.
This is called the emperor speaking the constitution of heaven and making the laws of the world in one word.
And specifically when it comes to individual officials and scholar-bureaucrats.
The elite among them have a clear distinction between personal, family, ideal and ambition.
You are yourself, your family is your family, and your ideal is your ideal.
When talking, everyone is high-sounding.
But the actual action is...
Just like now, Yuan An sighed with emotion: I am afraid that unjust wars will flourish in the future... while quietly pushing his children to the front line of 'unjust wars'.
It seems contradictory, but in fact it is not contradictory at all.
Putting the matter down, Yuan Ang took out a letter from his arms, held it in his hand, and read it carefully.
This letter has obviously been read by him countless times.
Even the letter paper was shabby and even the color was slightly yellowish.
Reading the letter over and over in his hand, Yuan An seemed to have remembered something, and finally made up his mind, and asked someone to get a pen and ink. Then he picked up the pen and wrote on the letter: Grand Master of Jiangdu, go to Yuan Si, and say goodbye:
My elder brother, Xiao Wu and Chu, took Li as the prime minister and was ordered by the late emperor to assist His Majesty...
There is no doubt that this is a personal letter addressed to Prime Minister Zhou Yafu.
Yuan An wrote very slowly and with great difficulty.
It took a full two hours, and after several revisions, additions and deletions, it was finally finalized.
Yuan Ang copied the letter, sealed it in a bamboo tube, and handed it to his housekeeper, saying: "Send to Chang'an immediately and pay homage to the Changping Marquis Mansion. If the Prime Minister replies, return to Jiangdu immediately!"
"No!" Yuan Ang's butler was an old man who had followed him for thirty years. He was an absolutely reliable and trustworthy servant. Hearing this, he immediately put the bamboo tube into his arms and disappeared into the night.
"I don't know if the Prime Minister can understand..." Yuan Ang rubbed his temples: "But no matter what, I have told him my intention..."
Then, he picked up the letter from Zou Baba again, read it again, and sneered at the corner of his mouth: "The rites and music have collapsed! The rites and music have collapsed!"
As the candlelight flickered, a line of vertical text on the letter's header stood out: "Honor Kong Zhong, the king of cattle and horses, and worship Si Gong, the Taifu of Jiangdu..."
"Even the direct descendants of Confucius are flattering..." Yuan Ang took the letter: "And he is still so flattering!"
only……
In Yuan Ang's opinion, this flattery was shot well and wonderfully!
Regardless of whether you eat it today or not, it is good for yourself and other old bureaucrats and aristocrats.
Yuan An grabbed the letter, threw it into the fire plate, and watched it burn up.
In the raging flames, the letter paper gradually turned black, and in a daze, two words loomed in the flames: Feng Chan!
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Liu Che half-closed his eyes and sat on his favorite swing. There was a murderous look in his slightly opened eyes.
"Who do these guys think I am?" Liu Che took a secret letter from the embroidered guard in his hand and started to play with it: "Qin Shihuang?"
At that time, Qin Shihuang annexed the six countries and established immortal great achievements.
It naturally expanded.
So, under the deception of the Confucian scholars, in the third year after he proclaimed himself emperor, he visited prefectures and counties in the east and visited Mount Tai.
And things like going on tour are as poisonous and addictive as some games.
After tasting the majesty of patrolling the world and having all the people surrender, Qin Shihuang became addicted to it. After that, he continued to patrol the east, and even died on the way to the east.
By the time of the Second Emperor of Qin, the Second Emperor was also deceived by Confucian scholars and granted the title of Zen Emperor Taishan.
Then what?
When the Qin Kingdom fell, guess what the Confucian scholars thought of Qin Shihuang, who was deceived by them into conferring Zen status?
He said that when he went to Fengchan Taishan, the sun was still shining brightly before he stepped up the mountain, but there was a storm just as he went up the mountain.
Pointing your nose at others and scolding them is not your destiny, so God punishes you with this!
According to historical records: When the First Emperor went to Mount Tai, he was hit by a storm and was not allowed to be granted Zen status!
But the question is, since the Zen ceremony is not allowed, then who gave Qin Shihuang the original Zhou Dynasty ceremony and sacrificial ceremony for the entire day?
It can’t be said that Qin Shihuang knew it from birth, right?
And except for Confucian scholars, who can understand these complicated Zhou rites?
And the facts in the history books also prove that Confucian scholars were indeed helping to do it.
For example, in the first year of the Second Emperor's reign, the Qin State granted Zen status for the last time, which was accomplished with the help of Confucian scholars.
When Qin died, these guys turned their backs and denounced Qin Shi Huang for "burning books and humiliating Confucians". They used all available words to describe Qin as a country with no good things in his body, pus on the soles of his bad feet, and a tongue-tied tongue.
A sore tyrannical regime.
But the problem is...
"Who encouraged the First Emperor of Qin to tour the east to consecrate Zen, and who encouraged the second emperor to confer Zen?" Liu Che sneered at the corner of his mouth.
Of course, now, the Qin Dynasty has perished.
Anyone can curse at its corpse for ten thousand years and blame Qin for all problems of the present, past and future.
With this lesson in mind, Liu Che would certainly not be fooled.
Patrolling the world from the east? Enshrining Zen in Mount Tai?
It’s easy to be the wife I worked so hard to save, isn’t it?
The cost of an eastward patrol and Feng Chan can at least be enough to fight a war involving 50,000 cavalry and an expedition of 5,000 miles!
In fact, the Eastern Patrol itself was a large-scale war mobilization.
The emperor's own bodyguards and entourage of accompanying ministers alone amounted to tens of thousands of people.
This does not include the losses caused by disturbing local areas and delaying people's production and life.
Kang Mazi made six expeditions to the south of the Yangtze River and almost brought down the Qing Dynasty.
If he hadn't had a good son, Manqing would have died early!
Nowadays, if Liu Che were to patrol the world eastward, the cost would be conservatively estimated to cost one year of the Han Dynasty's fiscal revenue.
Who will pay for this?
It’s not just the common people!
Liu Che didn't want to be so poor that he had to pay taxes on his four-year-old child!
He raised his eyes slightly and looked at the hawks and dogs in front of him.
"Let me check and see who is jumping up and down among them..." Liu Che ordered calmly: "Who is fishing in the troubled waters among them?"
"Activate the secret room. I want to know the contents of all the nine ministers discussing this matter privately!"
"No!" The hawks and dogs of Xiuyiwei all bowed their heads.
In recent years, the Xiuyi Guards have gradually been institutionalized, and the surveillance of courtiers has been intensified.
Now, although Liu Che dare not say anything, he can know what every official is doing in private.
However, as long as he is willing, he can still find out who this person has been in close contact with recently.
But this time in Chang'an and other places, such as Luoyang and other places, many people have appeared inexplicably saying that "since ancient times, emperors who have been appointed have always been granted Zen". If you don't do rituals for three years, the rituals will be abolished.
Bad' and other random voices clamoring for Feng Chan.
Even students from Taixue and Wuyuan are talking about it.
Such uniformity and loudness would make people believe that it would be impossible without the main messenger behind.
Fengchan, on the other hand, has a complete industrial chain, and is the favorite extravagant thing of the bureaucrats and aristocrats.
Apart from anything else, Confucianism was the first to benefit from Feng Chan.
If the emperor wants to confer Zen status, he must consult Confucian scholars for the etiquette, methods and systems.
Even how to go up the mountain and how to go down the mountain, you have to be taught step by step by the old Confucian scholars.
Then, there are the bureaucrats.
Who doesn’t like traveling on official business?
What's more, along the way, the emperor was busy meeting with local celebrities, appeasing the people, and making gestures of being close to the people, and the officials must be responsible for it.
As long as 10% of the entire Fengchan expenses are spent, it will be enough to make everyone's mouths water.
Not to mention, bureaucrats have always felt sorry for themselves if they were granted Zen status and did not float down to 30%.
And the most suspicious...
It’s the kings of Qilu!
The emperor enshrined Mount Tai and offered amnesty to the whole world since ancient times.
Forgive all the sins of your ministers.
To put it simply, it’s just turning the page.
Without investigating, Liu Che knew that Jiaoxi, Zichuan and Jibei must have put in all their efforts behind this.
If it were a different emperor, he would probably jump into it even if he knew it was a trap.
Feng Chan!
Who can resist the temptation of Feng Chan?
This is a grand party where you can borrow power from heaven and demonstrate your destiny. You can also go out to relax and see the colorful world.
But these guys made a mistake.
"I have proven to myself that I am the emperor who has been appointed by heaven!"
"Feng Chan? Do you need it? No need!"
With so much free time and leisurely elegance, Liu Che was able to arm ten thousand cuirassiers and then sweep across the grassland.
Or build another hundred steel-making furnaces in Nanyang County to double the pig iron production of the Han Dynasty, and use the sea of iron to teach the barbarians how to behave.
You can even follow Emperor Taizong's example and issue an edict to exempt land taxes for three years.
No matter what you do, it is better than being foolishly fooled into climbing Mount Tai.
Moreover, being granted the title of Zen now will do a lot of harm to Liu Che but not a single benefit.
"We can't rule out the possibility that someone is secretly planning a conspiracy..." This is the biggest intuition in Liu Che's heart right now.
How did the Qin Empire fall?
Qin Shihuang died suddenly in a sand dune. In just one year, the huge empire fell apart.
We cannot rule out the possibility that someone wants to lure the tiger away from the mountain and then use the dove to occupy the magpie's nest.
For the emperor, it is inevitable to be suspicious or always feel that "there are always thieves who want to harm me". (To be continued.)
