Chapter 1129 A bold idea
Guanshan Pasture.
“Let’s talk first, what were you originally going to do?”
?Li Ru ignored Jia Xu''s cuteness and continued to speak calmly.
Jia Xu''s slender eyes flickered up and down a few times. Seeing that there was no effect as expected, he lazily let go of his hand, walked back to the table, sat down, spread out, and ignored him. Don''t speak.
? Li Ru suddenly smiled and said, "Thank you." Li Ru knew clearly in his heart that Jia Xu was seeing his face aging and was worried that he was depressed, so in order to relieve himself, he acted humorously.
Only then did Jia Xu gain some energy, waved his hands, sat up straighter, and said: "Hey! Isn''t this ridiculous... It''s just Dong Zhongying, a Dong Zhongying died, and... OK, OK, I won''t say it anymore, I won''t say it anymore Already…”
Jia Xu saw the change in Li Ru''s expression, and quickly changed the topic and said: "... Apart from other things, I actually don''t understand one thing... Why is this Pingyang like a magnet, attracting countless gold? ?”
"Are you sure General Zhengxi didn''t take any special measures?" Li Ru thought for a while and asked.
Jia Xu shook his head and said: "If there were, I wouldn''t be so confused... There are some things that make and sell utensils, but they are definitely not related... The only thing that has changed is the commercial tax... 1 out of 10 , although it is not a heavy tax, although it may be slightly better than the ordinary one, but compared with the land tax that was implemented at the same time as the Western Expedition, this business tax is nothing new..."
"Hmm... Military nobility and land tax..." Li Ru nodded and said, "It''s a bit like the way of the old Qin people, but it''s also a bit different... After all, Qin''s laws are very strict..." The laws of the pre-Qin Dynasty simply made Virgo Legalism was brought to its extreme, and it was simply an excellent template for later generations of military-controlled governments. Compared with government regulations that stipulated in detail what could and could not be eaten, some of Fei Qian''s laws were indeed a lot looser.
"Shang Shang moved to wood, so he trusted the people... But this expedition to the west seems to have done nothing?" Jia Xu scratched his head and said, "Does tinkering with food count? I really can''t figure it out..."
"If a country is poor but fights, the poison will be lost to the enemy. If there are no six lice, it will be strong. If the country is rich but it does not fight, if it is born secretly, if there are six lice, it will be weak." Li Ru muttered softly, and then said, "... Zhengxi is very different from Shang Gong... In the land of Pingyang, where the barbarians look around, the population is sparse, but Zhengxi can make something out of nothing, which is also remarkable..."
Shang Yang was the most important reformer in the pre-Qin Dynasty. It can be said that without Shang Yang, the Qin Dynasty would never have reached the stage of unification. One of Shang Yang''s most important concepts is "preventing six lice".
Shang Yang''s reform "After ten years of operation, the people of Qin are very happy, there are no scavengers on the road, there are no thieves in the mountains, and there are enough people in the family." It seems to have a very good effect, but the actual situation is not like this. At that time, the people of the Qin Dynasty suffered a very large proportion of exploitation. They were always struggling to survive. If they wanted to improve their family status, they could only join the army and trade the heads of their enemies.
Because Shang Yang believes that "if the people are weak and the country is strong, the country is strong but the people are weak. Therefore, the affairs of a well-mannered state depend on the weak people." According to Shang Yang''s logic, when people are poor, they will have the motivation to seek wealth; when they are rich, they will be "promiscuous" "After being "promiscuous", the country will have "lice" and it will not be strong. Therefore, the state must find a way to "reasonably" take away the wealth of the people after they become rich, so that they will fall into poverty again.
In this way, the people''s motivation to seek wealth will be re-energized. They are exhausted for survival and have no energy to seek wisdom, and there will no longer be "lice" in the country.
??However, Fei Qian, the general who conquered the west, did not use the method of depriving the people of their wealth to become rich like Shang Yang. He even seemed to encourage the people''s prosperity. This can be seen from the military merit and land tax system.
Without the reduction or exemption of military merit, ordinary people can still live a good life. Of course, if there are exemptions for military merit, the remaining wealth of the family will definitely increase. At the same time, Fei Qian did not make various large and small regulations like the pre-Qin Dynasty. He established laws and dug holes for the people at all times.
"The pre-Qin Dynasty lost its kingdom because of harsh punishments, and the Han Dynasty lost its military titles because of excessive selling..." Jia Xu said, stroking his beard, "Now it seems that General Pingyang, who conquered the west, is under the rule of both punishment and punishment, as well as good rewards and titles." , this balancing art...Zhengxi studied under Cai Zhonglang and Pang Degong, and now he has established a school, advocates Confucian classics, accepted Huang Lao, and used Legalism...I don''t know where he will go in the future, so I stay in Pingyang to wait and see. …”
??Li Ru nodded, was silent for a while, and said leisurely: "You want to drag your tail in the paint, just do it of your own free will, why are you pulling on someone?"
Jia Xu rolled his eyes and said with a smile: "Not as good as others..."
Li Ru snorted and said: "So, when you came out of Diaoyin, I''m afraid you had already made up your mind. No matter you win or lose, you will come to disturb the peace..."
Jia Xu chuckled twice and did not answer the question directly. Instead, he said: "Senior brother''s talent is ten times that of someone else. What a pity if it doesn''t reach the world."
?Li Ru glanced at Jia Xu, looking indifferent to Jia Xu''s flattery.
Jia Xu continued: "How can one or two smart disciples pass on all the knowledge learned by senior fellow apprentices, including government and military affairs, financial management, and things? Moreover, this place is remote and good talents are hard to find. Even a certain person, Pingyang, and Taoshan It’s difficult to have the academy nearby... huh? Senior brother, what I said just now is that I have a disciple, so could I be deceiving someone?”
Jia Xu squinted his eyes and his eyes flashed.
Jia Xu himself lived near Pingyang Academy, and saw many young talents coming and going, but failed to find a suitable candidate. Of course, it was also because the corners of his eyes were too high. And here in Li Ru, the pasture is mostly populated by rough people. How is it possible to find a so-called "smart" successor immediately?
What''s more, he can be regarded as an "uncle master" to some extent. Now that he is here, this so-called "successor" is in the pasture, but he has not been called to see him for a long time, and he has to wait until later...
So no matter from which point of view, it is somewhat disrespectful to etiquette. How could the senior brother, who has always been serious and valued the rules the most, do such a discourteous thing?
So there is only one explanation. The so-called successor is just Li Ru''s lie.
?? Li Ru smiled, without comment, and then said: "Who makes you think about so-and-so''s broken foundation all day long... After all, if so-and-so doesn''t want to, what will you do?"
Jia Xu sighed and said: "I originally thought that I would just deal with the old thief You Fufeng and cover the grain road. I never thought that Han Wenyue was hiding behind it... so I came to look for my senior brother... But what, if my senior brother doesn''t want to Come out of the mountain..."
"The Han Wen treaty is based on nothing more than the Qiang people. If you want to defeat their army, you must first disrupt the Qiang people..." Jia Xu narrowed his eyes and said, "...But if this is the case, this move will inevitably be very trivial. It is better for my senior brother to come forward to save trouble. some…"
The Qiang people belong to a very special group of Hu people in Xiliang. Although they are said to be Hu people, they are not entirely Hu people. To be more precise, they should be semi-Chinese nomadic people.
The Qin people are of the same lineage and are undoubtedly "Xirong". During the Spring and Autumn Period, Qin dominated Xirong and annexed the twelve kingdoms of Xirong. The Longshan generation officially entered the Chinese territory during the Spring and Autumn Period. Among the Xirong people, there are many surnames Jiang and Ji, which shows that the Xirong people at that time and the Zhou people of the Zhou Dynasty were actually people of the same clan. However, it was just for historical or cultural reasons that they went their separate ways and lived in different places. Just a place to live.
??And Xirong was the name of the Zhou Dynasty. In the Xia Dynasty, these people in the west were called Kunlun, Xizhi, Qusou, etc. In the Shang Dynasty, they were called Qiang people...
There are too many tribes among the Qiang people. First, Shaodang rose up, and then Xianling became the hegemon. However, now, Xianling Qiang is already a thing of the past. The tribe is dilapidated. After several battles with the Han Dynasty, it has declined and has completely lost its power. The binding force on the Qiang people.
The feud between the Han and Qiang people lasted for hundreds of years. Due to the inward migration of the Western Qiang, conflicts often occurred with the local Han people in the Hexi Corridor and Longxi. In addition, most of the local officials sent to the northwest used cruel and harsh methods, which led to the rise and fall of Qiang resistance. The Qiang people killed the Han people, and the Han people also killed the Qiang people. The entanglement was unclear. The Qiang people replaced the Xiongnu as the number one foreign invader in the Han Dynasty. At this time, the Xianbei people were still busy occupying the northern Xiongnu pastures and had no time to pay attention to things in the south.
During the Ling Emperor''s period, with the rise of Xiliang tycoons like Dong Zhuo, who replaced Xiliang''s original position of Qiang marshals, the Qiang power in Xiliang became weaker, and under Han Sui, these Qiang Huqi , also occupies a considerable part.
In the land of Sanfu in Xiliang, these sporadic Qiang tribes, as well as the Qiang people who were suppressed by the Han Dynasty''s migration strategy, formed a series of Han Dynasty mercenaries who only sold force for money and wealth. These people formed a large number of The few are so-called Xianling surrendered to the Qiangqi, Huangzhong Yi followed the Hu, Liangzhou Yi followed the Qiang, etc.
Since it is for money, it is basically insulated from things like faith.
??Li Ru nodded and said, "Do you want to adopt the old story of Zhao Wengsun, the Lord of the Gods?"
Jia Xu chuckled and said: "In the past, the money for killing the rich was 400,000 yuan, the middle tycoon was 150,000 yuan, the low tycoon was 20,000 yuan, the big man was 3,000 yuan, and the young and old women were 1,000 yuan... Once this order comes out, the Qiang people will be in chaos..." Jia Xu said, saying that as long as the problem can be solved with money, it is not a problem.
?Li Ru glanced at Jia Xu.
"Uh... Of course, this strategy has not yet been reported to General Zhengxi..." Jia Xu touched his beard and added.
Li Ru nodded, then shook his head.
After all, the whole country used to be the endorsement of Zhao Wengsun, and his credibility was somewhat guaranteed. But now, even if the county governor and local officials are willing to come forward, they may not be able to convince everyone...
Jia Xu smiled, took out a wallet from his arms, took out a few jiaozi, put them on the table, and said: "Senior brother, I don''t know...because the five baht coins are very bad, Pingyang Zhengxi used this thing." Making money is called ''Jiaozi'', so if Zhengxi wants to print as much as he wants, he can... Well, wait, is Zhengxi gathering wealth related to this thing? "
Originally, Jia Xu wanted to say that this Jiaozi was printed by Fei Qianshui, and compared with copper coins, there is actually a slight difference in value. The most important thing is that Jiaozi with larger denominations is just larger in area. There is no equal proportion of growth, so if Fei Qian really adopts his own strategy, it is just to print more Jiaozi, which is not fundamentally different from Zhao Wengsun''s national policy of buying people.
??But when Jia Xu took out the Jiaozi, something suddenly struck him, and he suddenly discovered that the Jiaozi might be Fei Qian''s means of amassing wealth...
"No wonder Zheng Xi once said that everything he did was a conspiracy, and it was all exposed to the sun..." Jia Xu murmured, and couldn''t help but take a breath of cold air, "... now it''s just a combination of the north, the east of the river, and the west river. , Taiyuan, Huguan area use Jiaozi, Hebei Yuguan and other places use it occasionally...this...this...if the whole world uses this thing, wouldn''t all the world''s wealth be gathered in Zhengxi?"
??Li Ru frowned and took Jiao Zi in his hand, turned it over a few times, and suddenly shouted: "Come here! Send Yan Qiaoshou to come!"
Yan Qiaoshou is a craftsman who is good at making things. Basically, every big family will have several such characters. Guanshan Pasture is so big that it naturally requires a lot of utensils, so it is naturally necessary.
Soon after, Yan Qiaoshou arrived.
"Take this and see if you can imitate it..." Li Ru pointed at Jiaozi and said to Yan Qiaoshou.
Yan Qiao took it and looked at it, smiled bitterly, then handed the jiaozi back, took out a small cloth bag from his arms, opened it, took out two slightly older jiaozi, and said: "This... One of these pictures was copied by the villain, but...please look at it..."
??Li Ru took the two pieces of jiaozi in his hand, glanced at them briefly, then pointed at one of them and said, "The one on the left is your imitation?"
Yan Qiaoshou glanced at it, nodded and said: "Exactly... Although this thing looks simple, the procedures required are extremely complicated. Just inserting silk thread into the paper is already extremely difficult, and the preparation of Zhu Xuan''s two-color ink is also very complicated. There are fixed rules, but it’s hard not to know how to compare them. Moreover, the connected words have both yin and yang sides... Even these unexplained symbols seem to have hidden rules, so... it’s really difficult to imitate..."
Jiaozi is not the same thing as copper coins after all. To make a copper coin, you just need to make a mold, and then pour the prepared bronze into it. The result may be a little rougher, and the writing may be a little blurry, but the copper coin is still a copper coin. If the copper quality is not too bad, there will be no Too obvious a difference.
The Jiaozi used by Fei Qian was printed with later paper inks and colored silk threads mixed in the paper. For most people in the Han Dynasty, to decipher the engineering technology, even writing a word was a task. In this age of technology, it is indeed quite difficult.
? Paper as a general equivalent is a bit strange, but it is not unacceptable. Many ordinary people do not need money even once a year. Bartering is the most common transaction mode, so most of the money is still used by the nobles. As long as these people are willing to use this kind of exchange, naturally this will It becomes a general equivalent.
Li Ru waved his hand and asked Yan Qiao to step back. Then he looked at Jiaozi on the table. After thinking for a long time, he slowly raised his head and said: "... During the time of Luoyang, Fei Ziyuan came to Fei Ziyuan several times to offer advice. ...Looking at it now, haha...the greedy wolf star moved last night, it was actually a matter of fighting...well, I just followed your wishes and messed up the Qiang people first! Don''t know that Dong Zhongying was not here, so he was unscrupulous and broke the rules!"
(End of this chapter)