In psychology, there is a labeling effect and psychological suggestion.
In modern popular slang, there is also a word called "pengsha".
Destroying a person is actually that simple.
So how do you save someone?
Just do it the other way around.
The reason why people reject aliens is because they feel that aliens are incompatible with themselves.
Why is bullying and cliqueism prevalent in schools in a certain island country in later generations?
It's because they instinctively reject others. Once you can't tolerate others, you will be ostracized.
This is also why there is collusion and why it was so difficult to be an upright official in ancient officialdom.
Who are the people around the emperor now?
Zhang Rang, Zhao Zhong, Xia Yun, Guo Sheng, Sun Zhang, Bi Lan...etc. eunuch groups.
Although Lu Qiang was also a eunuch, just like oil cannot dissolve in water, because he was not perverted enough and was incompatible with them, he would naturally be suppressed.
But what if Lu Qiang is not so upright, has his shortcomings, and has his shortcomings?
Then it would be easy to be accepted by Zhang Rang and others, after all, we are all eunuchs.
So Chen Mu's solution was actually to go to Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong to make them believe that Lu Qiang was the same kind of person as them, and told them that neither of you had balls, you were both eunuchs, and you should have sympathy for each other and have common interests.
, there should be no conflicts.
certainly.
This is just a metaphor.
However, whether it is labeling effect or psychological suggestion, it can only play a supporting role.
If Zhang Rang Zhao Zhong was determined to kill Lu Qiang, then no method would work, so Chen Mu could only give it a try to see if Zhang Rang Zhao Zhong really wanted to kill him.
It's just that Lu Qiang committed suicide in history, which is enough to show that he was a relatively upright person, somewhat similar to Tian Feng's character, being stubborn and committing crimes.
If Zhang Rang changed his mind after Chen Mu's persuasion, but Lu Qiang would rather die than give in, and was unwilling to make a fuss with Zhang Rang and others after he came out, and insisted on committing suicide, then Chen Mu would be blamed.
Anyway, he did the thing, and whether the final result is as Xun and the others wished is another matter.
After all, people decide what to do and what to do depends on God. There is no 100% successful strategy in this world.
After sending Xun You away, Chen Mu went out to find Zhang Rang.
He is about to start his next strategy.
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Zhang Rang is not in the mansion now, but in the palace.
However, he had to go out for something today. Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty ordered all counties to contribute part of the funds to Luoyang. This money was called "guide fee", and he wanted to collect it and send it to Xiyuan.
After working hard until noon, Zhang Rang finally had time to go home for a meal. Hearing Chen Mu's visit, he immediately summoned him in.
"Zi Gui, you came just in time. Let's sit down and have lunch together."
Zhang Rang called him over.
People in the Han Dynasty generally only had two meals, the morning meal around 9 a.m. and the evening meal around 5 p.m. But those were ordinary people. Of course, rich people had three meals.
Zhang Rang not only had deer breasts, beef, deer meat, and even bear paws and goose meat on Zhang Rang's table, but there were also colorful fruits on the table, which showed how luxurious he was.
However, Zhang Rang was not crazy enough to eat so much by himself. Besides him, he also had his adopted son Zhang Feng and his daughter-in-law He.
Chen Mu smiled and shook his head: "I have eaten, Mr. Zhang."
"Oh, that's a shame."
Zhang Rang actually wanted to win over Chen Mu, and he was mentally planning to use him as a candidate for the chancellery. After all, it was not easy for eunuchs who were notorious these days to find smart people to work for them.
I just don’t know why, but Chen Mu doesn’t move around very diligently when meeting him. Usually, he either has something to do with him or he has something to do with him. He doesn’t “communicate” much in private and is very polite when he meets him. It’s really strange.
Chen Mu waited in the hall outside until Zhang Rang came out after eating, then stood up and saluted again.
Zhang Rang waved his hand for him to sit down. As he sat down, he asked, "Zi Gui, you study in the academy every day and don't come to me. Why did you come here suddenly today?"
Chen Mu smiled and said, "I have something to do with Mr. Zhang."
"I knew it."
Zhang Rang smiled and shook his head: "Tell me, what happened this time?"
The last time he helped Chen Mu become sworn brother Liu Bei, he wasted a lot of effort. Even though he was only promoted from one thousand dan to two thousand dan from Sima of the other department to the state minister, Sima of the other department was a temporary temporary post during the war. If he wanted to become a real official, he had to do a lot of work.
It is proposed that only consultant positions such as doctors, doctors, and doctors can be moved to the next level.
If Chen Mu hadn't helped Zhang Rang solve that huge problem, according to the price list of official positions for sale in Xiyuan, Chen Mu would have spent at least more than 10 million to get the chancellor, and it wouldn't be a matter of time, it would take a step by step process.
Only by buying an official can you get it.
So Zhang Rang worked hard to repay his kindness. He just didn't know what kind of trouble Chen Mu would have with him this time. If the trouble was serious, he would still have to collect money. Friendship is friendship, and every code is a code.
Chen Mu said: "Actually, it's not my business, but Rang Gong's and the emperor's business."
"What's going on between me and the emperor?"
Zhang Rang was very puzzled and asked: "What is it?"
Chen Mu said: "The first thing is the emperor's lack of money, and the second thing is the problem of Lu Qiang, the imperial minister."
"Lu Qiang?"
Zhang Rang asked curiously: "What does it have to do with him?"
According to the "Book of the Later Han·Biography of Lu Qiang", the people who framed and falsely accused Lu Qiang were actually Zhao Zhong, Xia Yun and others, not Zhang Rang.
Because on the issue of Lu Qiang, Zhang Rang actually had an ambiguous attitude. He felt that Lu Qiang should not have done what he should have done, but he had no intention of putting Lu Qiang to death.
the reason is simple.
Zhang Rang had never been corrupted. He made all his money from bribes in an honest way and never dared to take a penny from the emperor.
Among the ten permanent servants, four of them, Zhao Zhong, Xia Yun, Song Dian and Bi Lan, had committed acts of corruption.
Zhao Zhong once worked for Changqiu and embezzled money from the Queen's Changqiu Palace.
The three of them, Xia Yun, Song Dian and Bi Lan, did the Yeting Order, the Hook Shield Order, the Imperial Palace Order, and embezzled the expenses of palace purchases, garden repairs, clothing making, washing and mending, etc.
Anyone who has watched "A Dream of Red Mansions" knows how profitable it is to do procurement and manufacturing for the royal family, especially since Ye Tingling is also responsible for the accounting books of the entire palace procurement, how easy it is to deceive the emperor and his subordinates to engage in corruption.
Therefore, when Lu Qiang wrote a letter not long ago, hoping that the emperor would kill the corrupt elements around him, Zhao Zhong, Xia Yun, Song Dian and Bi Lan among the ten ministers were the four most afraid, and they were the ones who framed Lu Qiang.
Although Zhang Rang felt that Lu Qiang had gone a bit too far this time, these matters were obviously internal problems for us eunuchs, so why bother bringing them to the emperor?
But at the same time, I felt that since everyone was eunuchs, there was no need to get into such trouble.
When Wang Fu was killed by Yang Qiu, he died on the roadside and was eaten by wild dogs. The fox was saddened by the death of Cao Jie's rabbit. He went to the palace to meet Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty and confessed his crimes, which ended Yang Qiu's continued persecution of the eunuchs. Finally, Zhang let Cao Cao
With the efforts of Jie and others, they killed Yang Qiu and avenged Wang Fu.
Eunuchs like them are helpless and pitiful people. They have no lower body, and they also underestimate money, women, and power. They should obviously stay together and support each other. Why should they fight with each other and kill each other?
For this reason, Zhang Rang has never participated in Zhao Zhong's operation. He neither made trouble for Lu Qiang nor planned to help him.
Although Chen Mu was studying at Hongdu Hall, he was very well-informed about the court. Naturally, he knew this, so he made a draft in his mind, prepared a hand of emotional cards, stated the pros and cons and said: "Mr. Zhang, I think Lu Qiang
This matter is not appropriate for you, Chang Shi."
"What's wrong?" Zhang Rang asked.
"Lu Qiang is also a regular servant. The regular servants have always been one. Even if there are internal differences, they should not end up killing each other."
"But Lu Qiang colluded with the scholars and even wrote a letter asking Your Majesty to punish us. It is obvious that he was the first to be unjust."
"Look, Mr. Zhang, now that Changshi Lu is in trouble, there are people in the court interceding for him. It can be seen that in the hearts of the scholars, they never regard Changshi Lu as one of their own. It is impossible to say that they are still secretly happy in their hearts.
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"Where do you start talking about this? Isn't Lu Qiang from the scholar group?"
Zhang Rang didn't know what was going on.
Chen Mu said seriously: "Don't Zhang Gong still understand those so-called scholars? They are all extremely hypocritical. They appear to have a very good relationship with you, but in fact they are just using you and do not regard you as a friend at all."
"I was an acquaintance with Wang Yun back in Yuzhou, and we had no resentment. In order to transfer me from Yuzhou and share the credit, he stabbed me in the back in the blink of an eye."
"So in my opinion, Lü Changshi must have been deceived by the scholars, thinking that by befriending them he could gain a clear reputation. In fact, in the eyes of the scholars, as long as they were eunuchs, there was no distinction between good and bad. They were all just the same.
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"What's more, according to Mu's opinion, Lv Changshi's sudden letter must be caused by Zhang Gong's political enemies. If they can use Lv Changshi to overthrow Zhao Changshi, they will certainly be happy. Even if they don't overthrow him, for Zhang Gong, it will be a big deal.
A big blow.”
Zhang Rang couldn't figure out the problem inside, and wondered: "What impact will it have on me?"
Chen Mu said with a smile: "Think about it, Mr. Zhang, once Lu Changshi is persecuted to death by Zhao Changshi and others, what will the other Huangmen servants in the palace think? Lu Changshi and the princes just have different political opinions, but no matter what
In this way, he is still a regular servant in the palace, and he is the same person as Zhang Gong and others."
"If it is just a political disagreement, Zhang Gongda can write to the emperor to remove Lu Changshi and let him take a casual position in the palace instead of serving as a regular servant."
"But now, just because Lu Changshi didn't name any petition, he was persecuted to death. So what will other Changshi think? They will also feel scared, and they will also want to unite to protect themselves. Once such a situation occurs
, all the regular servants will fall apart in an instant and attack each other. Does Mr. Zhang think this situation is good or bad?"
Historically, at the end of the Han Dynasty, some of the eunuchs in the palace were indeed good people, such as Lu Qiang, Wu, Ding Su, Xu Yan, Guo Dan, Li Xun, Zhao You, etc. They had good relations with the scholars and never competed for fame and wealth.
But after He Jin died, Yuan Shao led people into the palace to kill the eunuchs. Regardless of whether they were good or bad, they all were slaughtered. You can know that in the eyes of scholars, eunuchs are no different from pigs and dogs.
In the eyes of many people, including Lu Qiang, he was a representative of the honest and upright eunuchs. However, after he was imprisoned, only a few honest party members wanted to write letters for rescue.
Those who claimed to be loyal and upright in the court were all afraid of Zhao Zhong's power and did not dare to rescue him. Even the current Situ Yuan Wei, because of Zhao Zhong's warning, Yuan Shao was not allowed to go out to make friends with heroes from all walks of life.
You can see what the attitude of the nobles in the court towards the eunuchs is. When you have power, you try your best to fawn over them. When you have no power, you are no better than a wild dog on the roadside.
Chen Mu stated the pros and cons, telling Zhang Rang that in the eyes of scholars, you are nothing. Telling him that in the eyes of scholars, you are all in the same group, and there is no distinction between good and bad.
In fact, it was just a change of Lu Qiang's camp, which was considered a sneaky change of concept.
Because before this, Zhang made them think that Lu Qiang was on the side of the scholars and a traitor among their eunuchs.
But Chen Mu told him that no matter what Lu Qiang thought, he was still a eunuch and a regular servant with the same status as them. So in essence, they should be on the same side, but Lu Qiang was deceived.
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Such a psychological suggestion is actually the opposite of how to flatter a person, how to draw a person into a certain lineup in exchange for help from people in the same camp.
After all, no matter how much he was rejected, Zhang Rang would still feel that Lu Qiang was the same type of person as him because of his physical and psychological identity - he didn't even have a g2.
Hearing Chen Mu's words, Zhang Rang suddenly came to his senses and said, "What Zigui said is reasonable. Zhao Zhong almost made a big mistake. I will go and persuade the emperor to release Lu Qiang."
Chen Mu smiled and said: "Don't worry, Mr. Zhang. Didn't I just say that there is one more thing?"
Only then did Zhang Rang remember that Chen Mu said that he would help the emperor solve his money problem.
People have habitual thinking. When asked two questions in a row, the memory of the first question will be blurred and it is easy to ignore it, and the focus will be on the second question.
This was also Chen Mu's little trick. He would first help Xun He solve their problem, and then talk about another matter. Only in this way can he make plans step by step.
"There are now millions of victims in Luoyang, and all states are fighting for money. The emperor really has no money."
Zhang Rang thought deeply: "Do you have any good ideas about this matter?"
Chen Mu nodded: "Of course."
"What's the idea?"
"tax."
"tax?"
Zhang Rang smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Forget it, all the states are in chaos now, how can there be any tax to collect."
Chen Mu smiled and said: "It's a good time to collect taxes."
"how do I say this?"
Zhang Rang's eyes widened. The whole country was now in ruins, the people's livelihood was withering, and mourning was everywhere.
No matter how greedy Emperor Ling and Zhang Rang of the Han Dynasty were, they would not dare to collect taxes at this time. They were afraid that if this situation continued, a second Yellow Turban Rebellion would immediately start.
Chen Mu was thinking about the manor economy of the Eastern Han Dynasty in his mind. He shook his head and said, "Does Mr. Zhang know who is in the hands of most of the land in the country now?"
"Which people......."
How could Zhang Rang not know that his own clan was a big landlord. After the Yellow Turban Rebellion, a large number of farmers lost their land. His clan aggressively gathered land and people in Yangzhai, Yingchuan, and became wealthy landlords.
When he thought about the lands held by his own clan, Zhang Rang said with some embarrassment: "It should be in the hands of some big clans."
Chen Mu nodded: "Yes, now that the world is in chaos, the aristocratic clans must buy a large number of fields at low prices, hide their population and work as field slaves to support their nobles. Since their population is hidden by them, the country collects oral taxes and calculations
The gifts were much less, and what was paid was only a meager land tax. The emperor had no money, which was not unrelated to this."
The taxes in the Eastern Han Dynasty were very low, with a tax rate of one in thirty. But the population tax was the largest, which was called oral tax and suanfu. Ordinary adults had to pay hundreds of yuan in suanfu each year, while children had to pay 20 yuan in oral tax.
In addition, the corvee is also very heavy. If you want to be exempted from the corvee, you also have to pay taxes.
Starting from the Western Han Dynasty, the manor economy emerged in the Han Dynasty. The so-called manor economy meant that landlords bought land and then recruited refugees to work for the landlords, but did not report the population and conceal the population.
As a result, the country collected very little land tax, and could not get much money from the head tax, so the tax revenue naturally could not be raised.
This is quite similar to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, except that this situation was obvious during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. After the scholars were elected, they had the privilege of tax exemption for the non-commissioned class, and the farmers came to them with their fields to donate, so that
There is no need to pay taxes. Such a vicious cycle, like the Han Dynasty, also resulted in land annexation.
During the time of Emperor Huan of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the population was still 50 million, but by the time of the Three Kingdoms, the population was only 16 million. Even if there were wars, plagues, and famines, it would not be possible for so many people to die.
Therefore, at least half of the population was basically hidden using this manor economy. Through this phenomenon, we can actually see how rich the big landowners were, and why there were so many aristocratic families in the Jin Dynasty.
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"If that's the case, how can we tax it again?"
Zhang Rang didn't understand economics, so he asked.
"It's very simple."
Chen Mu said with a smile: "Increase the land tax. Disasters are happening everywhere this year. We will definitely not be able to collect taxes from the poor people. So I think we can take some of the money from the aristocratic families. Now the land tax is extremely low and they control a lot of land."
The aristocratic families don't have to pay much money at all, which makes them fat and thins out the emperor. This is robbing money from the emperor. Therefore, as long as the land tax is increased, the money can be taken away from the aristocratic families."
Take money away from aristocratic families?
Zhang Rang's mind turned around several times before he finally figured out the mystery.
The main tax in the Han Dynasty was the population tax. After the war, the population was taken away by wealthy and powerful clans, and the land was bought by them at a low price. In this way, the court could not collect the population tax, and it all fell into the pockets of the powerful clans.
But the fundamental problem still lies in the land, so as long as the land tax is raised, the money will actually return to the state, thus providing normal tax revenue.
After figuring out this link, Zhang Rang was very excited and said overjoyed: "Zi Gui's words really made me enlightened. In this way, we don't need to collect money from the people, we only need to collect money from the aristocratic clans. The emperor
You’ll have money right away.”
Zhang Rang doesn't care about the interests of wealthy families. He is a eunuch to begin with, and he doesn't need to consider issues from the perspective of a noble family. Although this matter is also related to his own clan's land, the problem is that his clan's little land is compared to the world's aristocratic clans.
In terms of the land that is controlled, it is not as good as a drop in the bucket.
Therefore, he spent some money of his own, sacrificing the interests of the world's nobles, and it had nothing to do with him as a eunuch.
Anyway, eunuchs only need to please the emperor, who cares about those rats?
"Zigui, come on, follow me into the palace."
Zhang asked Huo Di to stand up from behind the desk, extremely happy.
Chen Mu smiled and said nothing.
In fact, many people think that the demise of the Eastern Han Dynasty was related to the excessive taxation of the Shi Changshi, but if you truly understand the economic structure of the Han Dynasty, you will find that the Shi Changshi encouraged Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty to collect land taxes, which really had no impact on the common people.
Because land tax was not the main source of tax revenue in the Han Dynasty, and the land was all in the hands of powerful nobles, even if land tax was levied, the only ones who would be harmed would be those powerful nobles.
So this is also the reason why there was no second large-scale uprising in the Han Dynasty in the second year of Zhongping, when Zhang Rang, Zhao Zhong and others persuaded Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty to order a land tax of ten yuan per mu.
Because land taxes have nothing to do with the people anymore, the number of homesteaders has been reduced by countless numbers after the first Yellow Turban Uprising, and taxes cannot be collected from them.
But Chen Mu knew very well that doing so would definitely affect the interests of the bureaucrats, noble families, and other classes. There was only one piece of cake. They took it from the hands of the people, so why should they let the emperor take it away?
Just like in the Ming Dynasty, the emperor could not collect land taxes from Jiangnan and could not impose a sea ban.
Therefore, once Emperor Ling of Han dies and there is no adult successor, the country of Han Dynasty will fall apart. It is not far away.
Seeing Zhang Rang's happy look, Chen Mu also smiled, put his hands in his sleeves, lowered his head, and followed Zhang Rang slowly with small steps to prepare to enter the palace.
The weather outside was still cloudy. Looking up at the sky, Chen Mu raised the corner of his mouth.
One word can bring chaos to the world.
The country of this great man is too old and has become rotten.
Therefore, the name of the Han Dynasty was inherited by the eldest brother Liu Bei.
And a new prosperous age will be created by him!
This will live up to the ambition of a man! 1603375397