This quality that should belong to the monarch can affect too many things.
For example, when a monarch has just risen and is generous to the generals who follow him, he will naturally gain the support of these descendants and even the nobles. At this time, it actually has no impact on the people and common people.
On the contrary, if the monarch is too stingy and petty, he will naturally not be followed by others.
Liu Zheng believed that the Baiya Army must have been generous in its initial development stage, even with the generosity of the Jianghu habit, eating meat in large mouths and drinking wine in large bowls. Even these Baiya heroes who were born in the wilderness were even more generous.
With a mass base, the Baiya Army became famous and began to build the first horse racing farm of the Longyan Dynasty.
However......
Generosity is actually not an infallible weapon. If your generosity does not bring you praise, this quality will begin to damage your interests and reputation.
If you act morally and legitimately generous without being known, you cannot escape the infamy that is the opposite of generosity. So if a person hopes to have a reputation for generosity, he will inevitably bring with him some element of luxury.
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For example, the "White Cliff Palace" where Liu Zheng is now!
It looks even more magnificent than the Taishou's Mansion. Let's not talk about whether this is feasible in terms of theory or whether it is too disrespectful to the Taishou's Mansion. Let's just say that the Baiya Army built such a palace. It must be the same.
In order to give brothers and sisters a "place to settle down", but what do the people think?
Let’s talk about the contribution made by the Baiya Army to Baiya Prefecture.
Yes.
Baiyajun's business has brought prosperity to the state, and even funded road construction, schools, bridges, and various projects to benefit the people... This did win a lot of people's hearts and minds in the early stage.
The support of the people.
But what?
The common people have become accustomed to your generosity, and the gang of people under your command have become accustomed to your generosity.
Slowly, the generosity will begin to escalate.
In the end, in order to continue his reputation of generosity, the monarch will only let his financial resources be exhausted, which can easily go to an extreme... If he wants to continue his reputation of generosity, it will inevitably increase the burden on the people.
Burden, extortionate taxes, and any price to gain money!
This must exist.
The Baiya Army is not Yinzhou.
The place where they can create profits, besides the racecourse, is the various taxes taken from the prefect's mansion...
So, once this happens, you can imagine how people will feel.
You are extravagant and you come to exploit us?
At this point, they won't care whether you have actually done something to benefit the people. They will only see the superficial existence! This luxurious palace, the high-ranking White Cliff Army, and the group of noble men in golden clothes!
This way.
When the Baiya Army lost the respect of the people, this generosity became a bad name!
And quite the opposite is true.
If Liu Zheng were the leader of the White Cliff Army, he would not care about the reputation of being stingy. He would let others see the frugal side of this place. Even if the income is abundant, he will be frugal and even stingy. In this way, in fact,
Only then will it bring more security to the people. Because of the economy, there will be enough military power to deal with the war, and we will make achievements without increasing the burden on the people. This is true generosity!
There are many such examples in human history.
In the Middle Ages, Pope Julius ascended to the papacy with the help of his reputation for generosity. However, in order to launch a war, he later did not care about the name of generosity. King Louis XII of France also went to war for the sake of war.
, but did not increase taxes on the people, but relied on his long-term savings and "stinginess" to finance his additional expenses.
Bai Yajun is indeed very rich...
However, when the world is about to be in chaos, they still fail to practice economy and give the people a sufficient sense of security!
Then, at this time, generosity has really become a bad virtue!
"Brother Liu, what are you thinking about? Let's go. Brothers know your reputation and have prepared a banquet for you. Let's drink and drink!"
Du Biao suddenly laughed and came over.
Yang Ke also smiled and invited Liu Zheng.
Liu Zheng could only follow the guests and follow the host to a huge banquet hall. Sure enough, as Liu Zheng thought, the magnificence of this hall was probably similar to the palaces on TV in later generations.
Luxurious, extravagant, golden pillars, various palace lanterns, screens, decorations...
Before Liu Zheng walked in, there was already a group of dancers dancing inside, making sounds of silk and bamboo.
A feeling of singing and dancing, and being drunk and dreaming, came to my face.
Liu Zheng was quite unaccustomed to this and his expression was worried.
Yang Ke smiled and said: "Brothers, we have been together through life and death, and we are what we are today. Aren't you used to it, sir? People in the world, regardless of etiquette, you should treat as a heir."
Du Biao laughed and said: "Brother Liu is also a happy-go-lucky person. Why do you have so many explanations? Come and sit down!"
Liu Zheng smiled bitterly and said nothing.
He finally knew why the Baiya Army owned the best horse farm in the world and still clung to the refined salt business. Even if it was extremely risky, they had to do it because their lives were too short of money.