Liu Che lowered his head and looked at the memorial in front of him.
This is the report just sent by the Prime Minister's Office.
"The Loufan army has more than nine thousand riders..."
"Loyal and brave army, more than 13,000 riders..."
"Karasuma Army, more than 8,000 riders..."
In his mind, numbers flashed one by one.
This is a full force of 30,000 cavalry!
The ratio of Han to Hu in these armies was generally a few to one.
Among them, the middle and lower-level officers are basically Han Chinese.
This ensures the reliability and loyalty of these troops.
Moreover, the Han family's brainwashing and propaganda skills have increased significantly recently.
Even Xianbei and Wu Heng, who had just surrendered and surrendered, seemed to be submissive and respectful to the Han family.
As for the Huns’ prisoners of war?
Look at the name they chose for this army!
Loyal and brave army!
You know, at the beginning, Liu Che gave them three choices.
The first is the Qimen Army, the second is the Kunming Army, and the third is the Zhongyong Army.
But in the end, they all asked to use the name Zhongyongjun.
Although Liu Che never went to see that scene in person, he sent his eunuchs to see it.
The eunuch came back and reported: The whole army raised their arms and said: "I will die for your majesty. I am a slave. I am willing to wash away my sins with a loyal and brave heart!"
As for Lou Fanjun, Liu Che was even more relieved.
Although Guan He doesn't have a good reputation, this method is really smooth.
In an understatement, he used a method similar to releasing military power over a glass of wine to send all the nobles in Loufan and Wusun to the valley and into the pile of old papers.
Think about it, how awkward and difficult it is for future generations of foreigners to learn Chinese.
If the difficulty for future generations of foreigners to learn Chinese is increased by ten times, and the degree of awkwardness is increased by dozens of times, it will be almost the same as the difficulty for today's foreigners to learn Chinese culture.
Even if they just learned to read and write common words, it would be enough for those guys to squat in Shanggu City for ten or eight years.
That is, the Wuheng people and Xianbei people are not so reassuring.
But that's okay.
When the Central Plains dynasty was strong and powerful, there was no foreign race that it could not assimilate and influence.
Han culture and civilization also have strong enough charm and strength to make these foreign races willing to become Han people, regard themselves as Han people, and fight for the pride and honor of the Han people.
The Xia ethnic groups and the Han Dynasty also had enough self-confidence and courage to believe and believe that they could indeed assimilate all foreign races.
Even native chickens can play Makmulius and let the Greeks fight the Romans.
It makes no sense. China, which is countless times more advanced and civilized than the local chickens, does not have the confidence and courage to do so.
Put this matter aside for now.
Liu Che moved his gaze to another memorial.
Then, he held his head in pain.
In fact, compared to the Xiongnu, in the eyes of the Han monarchs and ministers, the scholars are now the most difficult problem!
According to reports from the Shaofu, Internal History and Zhijinwu Yamen, this year’s examination of scholars is very likely to break through the 20,000 mark for the first time!
Although probably at least 7,000 of them are twice-cooked pork.
Among these twice-cooked pork, there are young people who have failed in the past, but are still committed to it.
There are also people who did not do well in the exams in the past, and were thrown out of the grassroots level. They could not endure the hardship at the grassroots level, so they left with a bad seal, and then came back to take the exam again.
This kind of thing happened as early as two years ago.
In the Han system, if there is no prohibition by law, there will be no correction.
What they did was not illegal.
Therefore, the relevant departments have no way to stop it.
However, legislators, including Liu Che and other high-ranking officials in the Han Dynasty, did not dare to legislate easily to prohibit scholars from abandoning their official positions and taking exams again.
the reason is simple.
The courtiers cherished feathers, but the emperor Liu Che was concerned about public opinion.
After all, after a young man served as an official for a period of time, he found that his knowledge was too shallow and he felt that he was not enough to serve the emperor and the herdsmen, so he went back to study hard, accumulate knowledge and insights, and then come back to serve the emperor and his father.
As emperors and meat-eating courtiers, how can we blame them for their eagerness to learn and self-examination?
Of course, it would only take half a year, or even three or five months, for someone to leave and come to Chang'an to take the exam.
This is people's freedom.
In the examination hall, isn't it a place where knowledge and knowledge speak for themselves?
Shun Fa was raised in the garden, Fu Shuao was raised in the building, Jiao Ge was raised in the fish and salt, Guan Yiwu was raised in the army, Sun Shuao was raised in the sea, Baili Xi was raised in the city.
A hero does not care where he was born.
A king should be a man of merit!
This matter is just dragging on.
The consequence is that the scale of examinations is getting bigger and bigger every year.
Of course, in fact, compared to twice-cooked pork, the number of emerging scholars is the majority.
In recent years, Liu Che and his ministers have shouted every now and then: The businessman is a bad guy!
However, his body was very honest and took the initiative to loosen many of the shackles that bound the businessman.
Especially three years ago, after the tax laws were enacted.
According to the latest tax laws, merchants whose taxes exceed 100,000 yuan will be relaxed.
This means that you can be allowed to live in areas designated by the government without having to live in areas designated by the government, and you can freely choose your residence.
There are many similar provisions for merchants in tax laws.
This makes the world's commercial economy more and more prosperous.
A large number of small businessmen and middle class people began to become wealthy.
In particular, the gold rush in the Andong Protectorate and the opportunities that came with it led to the rise of tens of thousands of merchants.
Some of these merchants had hundreds of employees and drove more than a dozen carts and several ships from north to south. Some were just one person carrying goods on one shoulder and traveling thousands of miles.
They transported Chinese ironware, tools, and luxury goods to various places in Anton, and then exchanged them for local specialties such as bear skins, deer antlers, gold, and ginseng.
After one trip, the profit will be doubled.
Recently, Liu Che heard that hundreds of big businessmen, including his father-in-law, the Cheng Zheng family and the Zhuo family in Linqiong, had sent important members of their families to the Incheon Port in North Korea to take charge.
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They went there for a very special marine product.
Chen Jiao's whaling business started last summer, and it has been a full year this year.
During this year, Chen Jiaoqian became prosperous.
While catching Japanese slaves, explore the landscape of the Neon Islands.
However, his main focus is on the whales in the ocean.
Last fall, Chen Jiao's whaling team hunted a strange giant whale for the first time.
This giant whale is six to seven feet long and weighs fifty thousand stones!
The fat content is very high, and thousands of stones of whale oil can be extracted. In addition, the whale baleen grown from it is soft and elastic.
Of course, none of the above is the point.
The point is, Chen Jiao's whaling team discovered that this weird giant beast that likes to expose its back to the water swims very slowly, even a sampan can catch up with its speed!
Moreover, after hunting several times, Chen Jiao discovered that this giant beast was not only large in size and slow in swimming speed, but more importantly, this giant beast, one of the best in the ocean, would automatically move after being killed. Floating on the water.
Instead of sinking like the whales killed before.
This made Chen Jiao overjoyed and decided to just stare at this whale and kill it!
What made him even more ecstatic and crazy was that he discovered that the male individual of this giant beast had a huge penis growing inside his body.
The weight of a **** is almost heavier than a bison on land!
What's more important is that when the news spread, the entire Anton Protectorate was shocked.
Countless people are waving gold and want to buy this kind of ****.
Then, Qi Lu and Wu Chu also found out.
One after another, a high-ranking prince, one after another, a big businessman, came in droves.
Chen Jiao counted the money until her hand tendons hurt.
This made Liu Che a little stunned, but he also knew the fact that the life of businessmen was not only very good, but also better than before he took the throne.
Especially the development of Anton and the subsequent gold wave and the foreseeable wave of whale trade.
It will make more and more people join the business.
When these people make money, in the past, most of them would choose to go home, acquire land, and become rich.
However, after Liu Che came to power, he severely cracked down on land annexation, especially land annexation by businessmen.
Under the slogan of promoting farmers and eliminating the poor, the country is crazy about increasing the taxes on land acquired by merchants. Once the land controlled by a merchant reaches one thousand acres, the land tax will be ten times that of others, and the cut tax will be three times that of others!
Businessmen's money therefore cannot flow into the land.
However, leaving money at home to get moldy is not an option.
Therefore, with no choice, many businessmen have chosen to expand their trading and business scope.
But this has led to another problem. The industry is large and it is easy to be targeted.
Especially the traffickers and lackeys who travel all over the world will naturally encounter all kinds of difficulties and harsh criticism.
There are even many people who have been ripped off and have lost all their money.
The rabbit dies and the fox grieves, and things harm its own kind.
When other people see this, they will naturally be afraid that this kind of experience will happen to them too.
Therefore, without exception, after almost all businessmen became prosperous, they chose to send their sons and nephews to study at local celebrities and famous schools.
There were even merchants who spent huge sums of money to buy a house in the school district of Maoling in Chang'an so that their children could be sent to Taixue or Wuyuan.
Today's businessmen may not be aware of a capitalist who claims, "I'm as busy as a president every day, but I don't have the power of a president."
However, everyone wants to buy an amulet and protect their property.
In China, the only thing that can protect their lives and property is power.
Therefore, it was inevitable that businessmen would try every means to send their own family members into officialdom.
Moreover, this wave is not new just now.
As early as the Taizong period, merchants had already emerged in the political arena.
However, in recent years, their momentum has only begun to grow.
The reason why their momentum has become stronger is that there are more and more scholars among their nephews.
They can now even influence the positions of some schools of thought.
This year is the fifth year after Liu Che took the throne.
According to common sense, five years is enough for a young person to complete basic studies and have the ability to take exams.
Liu Che can be sure that breaking 20,000 this year will only be the beginning.
Next year, or the year after at most, it will exceed 30,000.
Then, this number will be continuously refreshed.
Moreover, there is no doubt that among these scholars, there will be more and more people born as merchants.
This is the inevitable result of the development of commodity economy.
Of course, the wealth of merchants exceeds that of landowners.
They will naturally try to find ways for their nephews to enter official careers.
But now, what was before Liu Che was a multiple-choice question.
"Should we suppress these merchant-born scholars?" Liu Che pondered in his mind.
There is no doubt that temporary pressure can alleviate many problems.
First of all, a large number of merchants and scholars were prohibited from taking examinations, which would make the landlords and powerful people very satisfied and support Liu's rule even more.
Although these are just worthless cheers and likes.
However, no ruler would not want it.
Secondly, Liu Che can stop worrying about how to create jobs this year.
This is important.
It is also the most critical point.
Now, it is conservatively estimated that the number of merchants' children is about four to five thousand.
Normally, at least a thousand people may eventually be admitted.
This equates to a loss of a thousand positions.
What's more, the nephew of a businessman is much better than those nerds who study hard.
It is very likely that people have traveled around with their parents since they were young, and have experienced a lot. No matter whether they are mentally or in the way they deal with people, they must be strong-willed.
In other words, in reality, their final enrollment could be closer to two thousand!
It looks wonderful like this.
However, Liu Che knew that this was just drinking poison to quench his thirst.
It was only a matter of time before merchants and their sons and nephews poured into officialdom and politics.
Capital will definitely try every means to seek power for itself.
Unless Liu Che goes back to his old and evil ways, forcefully suppressing their political status, holding a sword to suppress their voices, and using violence to destroy the channels they rely on to express their voices.
Then, they combined with Confucianism, Legalism and Huang Lao to step on the merchants ten thousand times and classify them as untouchables.
Otherwise, this day will come sooner or later.
And, most likely it will be like a spring.
The harder you push, the stronger the reaction force will be.
Liu Che knew very well that he could not go back to the old path and repeat the tragedy of history.
Although businessmen and capital have many disadvantages, their advantages are equally obvious.
More importantly, they are just like the landlords eliminated the slave owners at the turn of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
Liu Che knew that sooner or later, businessmen and capital would eliminate landlords and become the mainstream of the world and the ruling class of the country.
Therefore, to merchants and their nephews.
Liu Che's attitude was actually the same as how he treated landlords and powerful people.
It is necessary to support and win over, but also to suppress and weaken.
At the same time, guidance must be provided.
"Use barbarians to control barbarians, use merchants to conquer merchants..." Liu Che held his cheek, quietly took a pen and paper, and wrote this sentence.
Then, he gave instructions to his left and right: "Summon the lord and captain Gongsun Hong and my lord father Yan, and come to the palace immediately to see me!"
Now, the situation is obvious.
What if Liu Che put a large number of businessmen's children into the officialdom to compete with the landlords and nobles for food?
Liu Che had no doubt that the landowners and nobles would make big news.
The current power of merchants and capital cannot even shake the foundation of the rule of the landlords and nobles.
It is no exaggeration to say that their power cannot even move a county magistrate!
Therefore, for the time being, these young people who were born as merchants can only be placed in the Lord Commander's Yamen.
Moreover, in this way, you can kill two birds with one stone.
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I really want to be the emperor of the Yan Kingdom in "Invincible Legend". The national war type game is played with passion. The feature of this game is that upgrading does not require experience. It is not as tiring as the ones I played before. It is more leisurely. You can draw prizes and get phone calls.
Something like that, it’s pretty good, and it’s currently number one on the gaming media’s expectations list (To be continued.)
