Li Xingchen noticed that many people had heard the noise and looked over subconsciously. They were all very embarrassed and didn't know whether to kneel or not. He became increasingly helpless and could only laugh and said:
"I don't mean to blame you. Get up first. You two don't scare others."
It would be strange if no one noticed that two important ministers of the court came together like this.
Li Xingchen even had reason to suspect that these two guys did it on purpose.
Chen Shushen and Shen Jungao started laughing, as if they had overreacted. Especially Shen Jungao glared at Chen Shushen with dissatisfaction. You, a junior, should be careful with your words. This will cause disaster to someone who came to watch the show. If His Majesty is angry,
, I still have to help you excuse yourself.
Li Xingchen said slowly: "Since I raised my troops in Bashu, and to this day, we have continued to fight foreign wars, but I have a clear conscience in my heart. The stability of the country and the tranquility of the country are naturally not spoken out, but fought out.
Those around who want to provoke the Han Dynasty and threaten the existence of the Han Dynasty, I will raise my sword and destroy them. But this does not mean that I am a belligerent person. My dear friends have also seen what I have done in recent years, but there is no belligerence.
And ignore the people's livelihood? The people of the Han Dynasty, let alone compared to the prosperous period of the Han Dynasty, I feel ashamed. But compared to the time when the Northern and Southern Dynasties stopped their troops and stopped fighting, they should have won."
The two of them even laughed apologetically.
Isn’t this because you, the old man, have been conquering all over the world these years and your prestige in the military is unparalleled? Isn’t it natural that everyone has almost forgotten your achievements in other areas?
All in all, Li Xingchen has indeed done a lot in restoring people's livelihood and promoting the economy.
This doesn't have to be dark.
What's more, as the founding monarch, it is inevitable to conquer the east and west. Do some people really naively think that peace and prosperity can be obtained by asking for it and can be obtained without provoking others?
Once everyone in the surrounding area has been conquered, it will naturally be a time of peace and prosperity.
At home, Li Xingchen has worked very hard to improve people's livelihood.
Of course, his behavior was different from that of previous dynasties.
In order to improve people's livelihood, successive dynasties used strikes and truces and reduced taxes to give the people a chance to breathe.
However, Li Xingchen focused on developing industry and commerce, thereby creating employment and directly improving the quality of life of the people. Wealth was accumulated bit by bit amidst the roar of machinery in the workshop and the sound of horse hooves in the caravan.
When the people are prosperous, the court is also prosperous.
It's just that this seems somewhat crooked to many people.
If you don't cultivate the land properly and only think about industry and commerce, isn't this throwing away the traditions passed down by our ancestors for thousands of years?
But His Majesty quickly fought back in an even more helpless way. Through foreign conquests, he introduced a large number of surrounding barbaric tribes, divided their fields and lands, civilized the barbarians, and quickly transformed these barbaric tribes into Han people.
Using a method that no one had thought of, the population of Han Dynasty was suddenly increased, and many already desolate places were revitalized.
At the same time, he established the Ministry of Agriculture, but instead of encouraging mulberry farming, he was researching new planting species, but he actually allowed them to increase rice production.
In the eyes of many people, these are naturally heretical.
Over time, everyone has the impression that His Majesty fought in the north and south, and used various heretical methods to make the Han people rich. However, such wealth is not as good as "facing the loess and back to the sky" and farming honestly.
The development over the past ten or even decades is reassuring.
After all, you are worried about making castles in the air.
What if these rice plants are only grown now and have the ability to increase yields?
What if this workshop and shop goes bankrupt?
It's not like there's nothing left.
Only the soil you step on and the sweat you shed can prove that you are working hard, which is a good way to restore people's livelihood.
As a result, the efforts made by Li Xingchen were unreliable in the eyes of many people, even many officials in the court, and were naturally ignored by everyone.
Among these people, there are also Shen Jungao and Chen Shushen.
The systematic education they received from an aristocratic family since childhood made them naturally have such thoughts.
Li Xingchen should feel strange if he doesn't.
But now that Li Xingchen said it, Shen Jungao and the others had to admit that at least now they have no real evidence to oppose what His Majesty has done.
The Han Dynasty was indeed fighting foreign wars while the domestic economy and people's livelihood were doing well.
The voices of the people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are the best proof.
Ordinary people cannot see that far. What they can see and feel is the real benefits and benefits they can obtain.
Peace, prosperity, and countless measures and products that make life more convenient have indeed allowed them to live a life that they could not even imagine in the troubled times.
Therefore, for His Majesty the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, it may not be appropriate to say "respect". It should be more appropriate to use "respect and love". It is even at the level of "personal worship". Even if it is not as exaggerated as in the military, it is not much different.
This also made Shen Jungao sigh for a while.
In the three hundred years since the chaos at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the present, all dynasties have relied on aristocratic families to gain a foothold. The aristocratic families supported the emperor to sit in this position and command the world, and the emperor supported the aristocratic families to occupy one area, and each had their own land and
subjects.
In fact, it was the aristocratic family that truly represented those under the emperor's rule.
The common people knew that there was an aristocratic family but did not know that there was an emperor, but they really didn’t know which level of taxation fell on them, and it was usually the emperor and the court who were scolded.
Therefore, the emperor sometimes felt aggrieved.
Why should I take the blame for the wealthy family?
Therefore, Li Xingchen simply took advantage of the intensified internal party disputes in Nanchen and the weakened family strength to rise up, and conquered the Southern family in one fell swoop. He also used the momentum of the Northern Expedition to force one family after another in the north to surrender and accept the arrangements of the Han Dynasty.
, instead of them arranging the emperor and the great Han.
When Li Xingchen did this, his superficial confidence naturally came from his control of the army. The rebellion of the Jiangnan family was beaten to pieces by the muskets of the Han Dynasty. This is the best example.
Now, Shen Jungao has understood that just relying on the superficial confidence, Li Xingchen may not be so decisive in taking action against the family. His deeper confidence should come from the fact that His Majesty is very clear that he can gather enough people through these policies.
of the people's hearts.
Industry is developing, commerce is developing, there are a lot of job opportunities, and a lot of wealth is in it.
How could the people be willing to stick to the old rules and work honestly?
Farming is farming, but during slack periods, their thoughts naturally drift to the workshops. Especially the large amount of labor transported from Nanyang, the people of the Han Dynasty gradually no longer need to farm by themselves and hand over the land to them.
Wouldn't it be a good choice to give these people labor and then go to the workshop to earn more money?