Weird Three Kingdoms

Chapter 2047 The theory of sipping incense, the standard of emphasizing agriculture

For some people in the Han Dynasty who did not understand economics at all, it would not be of much use or influence to talk about some great principles, because what these people did not lack was great principles.And the more rational it is, the more loopholes there are, and taking it out of context is an instinct of these people.

Ever since, when Hussar General Fei Qian spread the so-called "theory of sipping incense" in the conference hall, many people were immediately dumbfounded, because they were completely unable to explain this matter with the great principles they had mastered.

Confucius "saved money" and "sufficed food", but in fact he could not live up to the moral standards he advocated, and even he would quibble, "How can I grow melons, how can I tie them and not eat them"?
So Confucius was only a human being after all, and when measuring everything with Confucius' theory, various problems would inevitably arise.

Just like the "theory of sipping incense" proposed by Fei Qian this time, I am afraid that even if Confucius is reborn, he may not be able to describe and understand it.

However, this problem, in later generations, is actually just a triangular debt that is often encountered.The formation of triangular debt is due to the duplication of investment in the project and the long recovery time on the one hand, and the lack of sales of goods and a large backlog of goods on the other hand.Generally, if there is no external force to break the triangular debt, it is easy to form mutual runs and collapses, and finally end together.

On the surface, Fei Qian was talking about gold and silver coins, but the problem actually reflected was not just about gold and silver coins.If the scope of the triangular debt is raised a bit higher and viewed from the perspective of the whole of Greater Asia, in fact, in many cases, China and its surrounding areas are also "triangular debts" of a similar pattern.

The emperor, relatives, eunuchs.

Han, Xiongnu, Xiqiang.

Fei Qian, Cao Cao, Sun Quan.

But so far, Fei Qian is the only one looking up.

The reason why Huaxia has been in a relatively leading position for thousands of years in ancient times, Zai Feiqian believes that its unique location and geographical environment are the most important factors.

Not to mention the continuous mountains and rivers in China, vast and fertile, just say that the land of China has been in a geographically semi-closed state for a long time-in short, there are seas in the east, grasslands and deserts in the north, and plateaus and mountains in the west and south. ... These geographical environments, in the era of underdeveloped transportation, can be called natural barriers, which just surround the largest territory that an ancient dynasty can theoretically control. Commercial and cultural exchanges may be surmountable, but it is a nightmare for large army expeditions.

Therefore, for a long period of time, China's native dynasty is less likely to be invaded by another powerful dynasty, but similarly, once this external barrier is broken, the Chinese native dynasty often collapses very quickly...

In fact, in the Han Dynasty, many scholars or court officials discovered that the so-called "big" is not necessarily beautiful, because China's good geographical location and environment are surrounded by what an ancient dynasty can theoretically control. The "largest" territory, but this scope is not the most reasonable territory that can be effectively controlled.

In the case of inconvenient traffic information, the Han Dynasty, or the people of the Eastern Han Dynasty, saw that a large area of ​​​​outlying areas could only be restrained and could not be completely controlled by remote control. There may even be various problems in these areas, which may lead to threats. When it came to the central dynasty, many officials in the Eastern Han Dynasty began to learn to "give up".

There is nothing difficult in the world, just give up.

However, these renunciations are obviously unable to completely solve the frontier issue, and will even make the frontier issue more difficult, because once these surrounding areas are abandoned, these frontier areas will continue to form powerful forces to threaten the central government. If you don't come to peace, you can only get beaten.It's like persuading Song.

At present, Feiqian, from Yinshan Mountain in the north to Nanzhong in the south, and from Taihang in the east to the Western Regions in the west, has a vast territory and complex geography. Normally speaking, or according to the concept of Shandong gentry, such a large In the block area, there will inevitably be one or another communication problem, command problem, soldier problem, transportation problem, etc., so that these problems are like debts one after another. Time may have little effect, but in the end Feiqian will be dragged down by these debts...

This is a very interesting mindset of the big man at the moment, that is, if he can't do something himself, he feels that other people can't do it either.This way of thinking even affected the later dynasties.

When Huaxia was developing its business, it encountered a lot of problems, but when they encountered these problems, these big Confucian officials who talked eloquently on weekdays could not come up with any solutions. Of course, among them, there were many It is time for one's own people to hold back their own people, trying to use their opponent's flaws to prove their own intelligence.

So, in the end, if we don’t engage in commerce, agriculture is the easiest and safest, which is conducive to the stability of the ruling class and the consolidation of the exploiting class. It is too troublesome to engage in commerce, so forget it.give up.

The result of giving up and retreating is that the industrial revolution has already started outside, and Huaxia is still in debt...

So when Zheng Xuan said "the loss of industry and commerce", Fei Qian wanted to take this opportunity to clean up the theoretical basis of the so-called "emphasis on agriculture and despise business", so Zhuge Liang was specially asked to show his slogan... Uh, Regardless of what it is, the effect is pretty good anyway.

Zheng Xuan is obviously old and mature, so the ones he sent out are also disciples, and he doesn't move, so the loss of face is naturally within his tolerance range.

So does this mean that this debate can completely solve the problem of "emphasizing agriculture over business"?

Fei Qian is not so naive.

At most, it’s like knocking a hamster, temporarily knocking back the one that popped up. Once there is a problem with Feiqian’s business model, these retreatism of "emphasizing agriculture over business" will stand out again No, no, "Look, I said it a long time ago..."

Therefore, the most important issue for Feiqian at the moment is still not to send troops to occupy the Shandong area, but to solve the "self-debt", that is, to develop productivity and production technology as soon as possible, so that we can meet the next challenge.

Guanzhong Sanfu, Weishui River Valley, fertile fields thousands of miles, although after thousands of years of development, there have been some signs of water and soil erosion in Guanzhong area, but at least for hundreds of years, Guanzhong is still a piece of fertile soil.

From a historical point of view, the productivity of the Guanzhong area was not completely behind that of the Central Plains and even the south of the Yangtze River until the end of the Tang Dynasty. Since then, Chang'an has ceased to be a more suitable capital.

What Feiqian needs now is still people, more people, land, there is no shortage now.

Even in the wars of the era of hot weapons in the later generations, the number of people who died directly on the battlefield would not be too many. The sharp decline in the population was mainly due to the plague and famine caused by the long-term wars, as well as the large number of homeowners fleeing.

As far as the current situation is concerned, the war in Guanzhong has not lasted too long, which is naturally due to Fei Qian.At the same time, now that Jingzhou is in chaos, many farmers who originally lived in Jingzhou began to flee, and Wuguan began to receive and arrange these fleeing population one after another.

Everyone has seen the disadvantages of the small-scale peasant economy, but they still don’t want to innovate and chew with the teeth of the ancients all day long. Is it interesting?The ghost knows that this was a good tooth in the past, but now it has become scum, or dental calculus?
It's like after the turmoil of the Three Kingdoms, the original world is gradually stabilizing, and the Jin Dynasty has a great opportunity to create a new prosperous age similar to the later Tang Dynasty, but it was messed up by the group of Sima themselves, knowing that There is a problem with the road, and you are still moving forward with your head depressed. It is no wonder that you are not dead.Sima Yan, Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty, was nothing more than a middle-class man, far away from his father and grandfather, and then he designated a completely mediocre successor... If compared with the Tang Dynasty, even Sima Zhao may not be comparable to Li Shimin, and Li Zhi's talent Even surpassing Sima Yan, as for Wu Zhao, Jananfeng will never be able to catch up...

Wait, Jananfeng seems to be Jia Qu's granddaughter?
Ok……

Is this a question? Fei Qian pinched the beard on his chin.Tutor, Jia Qu looks pretty good, why among the grandchildren...

Of course, this cannot be blamed on Jia Qu.

However, this reflects the disadvantages of the hereditary imperial power system of the monarch.

The biggest weakness of hereditary imperial power is that it cannot guarantee the quality of the heirs.Regardless of whether a person is wise or not, just by giving birth to a good fetus, he has the opportunity to become the emperor and the owner of the highest power in a country——Emperor Wu of Jin showed the absurdity of the imperial power system in an exaggerated way , and also made a huge and unlaughable joke with the people of Huaxia.

But in the same way, this kind of problem was not unique to the Jin Dynasty, it was there before, and it was the same after that. However, when faced with the same problem, Huaxia fell into the same pit again and again.

Knowing where the problem is, feeling that the problem is very difficult, so you procrastinate without solving it, and then you can treat it as completely invisible after a long time, and then ask everyone not to see it?

Isn't this the national football team?The sun is shining, it is raining, the grass is too soft, the ground is too hard, carelessness, being attacked by surprise can all be used as excuses and reasons...

For excuses, thousands.

Do practical things and stand by.

Fei Qian hates such things, so naturally he can't do such things.

Since the problem is over there, even if it is difficult, you still need to do it. No matter how badly you do it, it is better than standing by and sneering!
From "emphasis on agriculture and suppression of business" to "simultaneous development of all industries", this is undoubtedly a huge change.

This is the first step in repairing the small peasant economy.

Repair, not overthrow.

In fact, Fei Qian himself is not necessarily smarter than the talented people in Dahan, but he stands on the shoulders of giants and has accumulated nearly 2000 years of experience.As the saying goes, "The authorities are obsessed, but the bystanders are clear." Later generations' social analysis of the Three Kingdoms and even the feudal dynasty is the greatest magic weapon for Fei Qian's rapid rise...

Because Fei Qian knows very well which classes this society is made up of, what are the interests of each class, who is the enemy and must be attacked, and who is the friend and can be wooed.

China has both friends and enemies.

Once the Huaxia Dynasty looked around in a daze and found that there were no enemies, they put down their swords and guns, and they were not far from collapse.

For the big man, Hu Kou is naturally the biggest foreign enemy.

In the face of this formidable enemy, no matter whether they were aristocratic families or refugees among the Han people, or even nomadic peoples close to the Han people such as the Southern Huns, Di, and Qiang, they could and must form a united front.

The internal enemy is the powerful local landlords formed during the 400 years of the Han Dynasty. The manor economy of these local rich and right families violated the national interests.Although in the face of Hu Kou, a foreign enemy, as long as they are unwilling to act as a minion, even aristocratic families can work together, but they must consider the long-term, at least coerce them, and not allow them to continue to grow.

Fei Qian chose Bingzhou before, and later advanced to Guanzhong. A big reason is that the power of the noble families in this area is relatively weak. On the one hand, it is easier to be recruited by Fei Qian. On the other hand, in a short period of time, The strength of these guys is also unlikely to counteract the regime built by Fei Qian.

To put it simply, the Dahan Shanxi gentry political group headed by Fei Qian is quite similar to the Guanlong Group in the Tang Dynasty.The same is centered on Longyou in Guanzhong, the same is based on martial arts, and there is no specific distinction between civil and military...

Of course, emphasizing other industries does not mean despising agriculture.

Chinese people like to engage in some either-or theories.Feiqian attaches great importance to the development of industry and commerce, and some people lament that agriculture is the foundation of the country, as if Feiqian has completely abandoned agriculture and ignored agricultural production.Actually?The new technologies and production tools that Feiqian has been developing in agriculture for a long time seem to disappear in an instant, and they are completely out of the minds of these people.

Fei Qian comes from later generations, so he naturally knows that the most important thing is to develop productivity if he wants to stabilize the country and make society progress. However, in this era, the industrial revolution is definitely unrealistic, and he may not really be able to do it. Agriculture is still very important. national pillar.

Therefore, after Feiqian launched the speech of "sipping fragrance", he immediately grabbed a handful of agriculture...

Among Li Yuan's Zhuangzi, Fei Qian looked at Li Yuan with a half-smile.

Li Yuan didn't expect Fei Qian to come at all, and when he hurried to Zhuangzi, he saw Fei Qian standing on some abandoned fields and holding a lump of soil.

The dust fell down, and Li Yuan's heart couldn't help sinking.

"Li Qing, this Zhuang He..." Fei Qian looked around slowly, "I'm afraid it's not good..."

Hearing Fei Qian use the word "Li Qing" as an address, Li Yuan felt a little cold in his heart.Fei Qian is now in a high position, and sometimes some habits are naturally pondered by people. Although it may not be happy when you call someone's "word", but when you call "a certain Qing", you are often unhappy... …

"Reporting to my lord, Xia Zhuangzi is small. At that time, some manpower was transferred... Later, when I needed to do some maintenance, there was a shortage of materials..." Li Yuan didn't dare to raise his head, "I'm also negligent in management on weekdays. Please also ask the lord Punish..."

Fei Qian frowned, and pulled Li Yuan up, "Since there is something lacking, why didn't you come to find someone?" 』

Li Yuan is considered to be a Guanzhong gentry who is closer to Fei Qian, so Fei Qian came here not to reprimand Li Yuan, but to start from Li Yuan...

"Whose Zhuangzi is in the distance? Why does it look so corrupt?" ’ Fei Qian pointed to a Zhuangzi in the distance and said.

Li Yuan took a closer look, "Returning to my lord, it seems to be Zhuangzi of the Xue family..."

"The Xue family? ’ Fei Qian was stunned for a moment, ‘Go, let’s have a look. 』

When the people at Xuejiazhuangzi heard that Fei Qian was coming, they were all so frightened that they knelt down by the side of the road and trembled.

"Who is in charge in the village?" ’ Fei Qian asked.

One tremblingly took two steps forward, "Xiao Ke, Xiao Ke..."

"How much can we get in the village this autumn?" 』Fei Qian didn’t get off his horse, nor did he intend to go in to check it out. After all, from a glance from the outside, he already knew that the situation in the village was probably very bad.

"This..." The steward Zhuangzi hesitated.

"Quickly answer! ’Huang Xu shouted loudly.

The steward of Xuejiazhuangzi trembled in fright, "I'm afraid, I'm afraid, it's less than a hundred stones..."

"Hundred stones? ”Fei Qian laughed, “This word “insufficient” is a very good use…”

Fei Qian raised his head slightly, looked at it for a moment, then turned his horse's head around, and stopped fussing with Xuejiazhuangzi's steward.

The steward of Xue's family lowered his head and trembled, and when he heard the sound of horseshoes going away, he slowly lifted a little glance, made sure, exhaled a long breath, then stood up again in a high-spirited way, and patted He patted the dust on his robe, "They're all gone, why are you still kneeling, let me go back to work!" 』

On the other side, Fei Qian motioned to Huang Xu and said: "I thought that although Xue's family was in decline, they still had some land to support them. Now it seems... Tomorrow, I will send two people to Xue's house to help them get rid of their evil servants and cut off the bad ones!" 』

Huang Xu agreed.

Fei Qian asked Li Yuan again, "Xue's Zhuangzi is in charge. He is afraid that he will be rebellious. He should be replaced by a good man. Among the nearby Zhuangzi, which one has a spare manager?" 』

Li Yuan cupped his hands and said, "If it's a bigger Zhuangzi around..." Li Yuan glanced at Fei Qian, "I'm afraid it's Webster..."

When he arrived at Wei's Zhuangzi, Wei Duan also received the news, and rushed from the city to meet him by the roadside.

Fei Qian got off his horse, helped Wei Duan up, exchanged a few words of greeting, and mentioned the issue of finding a suitable and responsible steward for Xuejiazhuangzi. Wei Duan immediately patted his chest and promised that it would be done. The support will definitely make the hussars feel at ease...

After deciding on this matter, Fei Qian and Wei Duan entered Zhuangzi together, but when he looked up, he couldn't help but shook his head with a smile, and said, "I heard that Xiufu also often said "emphasis on agriculture", now it seems... 』

Fei Qian pointed with the horsewhip in his hand, and his tone was a bit heavy, "Is this the method of "emphasizing agriculture"?" 』

If ordinary people don't understand farming, naturally they can't see any problems, but Feiqian also knows some farming and mulberry, so after seeing it on the ground, he knows the situation of Zhuanghe in Wei Duan Zhuangzi, which is no better than Li Yuan's Zhuangzi. Fortunately, there are still large areas of barrenness, obviously there is no time to replant.

Wei Duan got off his horse and pleaded guilty.

Fei Qian sighed, dismounted from his horse, helped Wei Duan up, and said: "Some time ago, someone in the long street publicly said, "Agriculture is the foundation, business is the end, emphasizing agriculture is a hundred-year plan, emphasizing Business is sure to be chaotic in ten years"... Does Xiufu know about this? 』

"This..." Wei Duan quickly denied, "I really don't know. 』

"Then it's not too late to know now..." Fei Qian patted Wei Duan on the shoulder, "Nowadays, it seems that many people who "worry about the country and be compassionate to the world" are mostly talking about it...Xiufu listens to orders! 』

"Subordinates are here!" Wei Duan quickly stood up straight.

"From today to the first ten days of July," Fei Qian said, pointing to the barren fields beside him, "Shen Lü and his subordinates, thoroughly investigate the Guanzhong Sanfu's talk of "emphasizing agriculture", but his actions hurt the peasants!" 』

Wei Duan was taken aback, and then asked cautiously: "My lord... how much is it to be considered "injury farmer"..."

Fei Qian looked at Wei Duan, and then at Li Yuan, "You two discuss it..."

Wei Duan thought for a while, and felt that he still didn't have much background, and when he wanted to ask again, he heard a sudden sound of horseshoes in the distance and remembered, and immediately a cavalry was sent to Fei Qian:

"Report to the general!People from Jingzhou! 』

(End of this chapter)