Weird Three Kingdoms

Chapter 2772 anticlimactic
money.

Or interests.

Although this word is a bit rotten, it is actually not outdated for any feudal dynasty.

Moreover, the interests are multifaceted, and they are more and more obvious in the national economy.

Han Emperor Liu Xie wanted to hold a celebration, which in itself was not a problem, but no matter what type of celebration it was, it would cost money.So where did the money come from?

It is impossible for money to fall from the sky. Of course, the money was dug out from the land. After all, the Han Dynasty and the subsequent feudal dynasties had an agricultural-based national economic system for a long period of time.

Liu Xie felt that the money spent on the celebration was worthwhile. On the one hand, it could show that the big man still had strength, or that the big man had recovered from the embarrassment of the Dong Zhuo Rebellion. How can more gentry and gentry be attracted to Xu County, and how can they have a reason to start their own plan?

Therefore, Liu Xie was very persistent in organizing this victory celebration, and even temporarily put up with some uncomfortable issues.

But with such forbearance, after holding this victory celebration, can Liu Xie's goal be achieved?

Wang Chang had a premonition that there might be some changes in the celebration this time...

After the ritual officer made a small mistake, it seemed that everything had returned to normal.

The emperor Liu Xie ordered the eunuchs of the Huangmen to read the awards and rewards step by step. He commended Cao Chunxia Houshang and other Youbei soldiers, and gave them promotions and bonuses. This is also what it should mean.

Later, on behalf of the generals and schools who received the awards, Xia Houshang thanked him and expressed his loyalty. There were no problems in these procedures.

Anyway, these are all arranged in advance, whether it is the commendation read out by the eunuch of the Huangmen, or Xia Houshang’s reply to thank you, they are all determined in advance. If even this can be wrong, it will be really embarrassing up.

After the victory, it is the agricultural ceremony.

Naturally, the agricultural ceremony was not held in front of Chongde Gate, but moved to the Beijiao Altar where heaven and earth are worshipped.

If it is in Luoyang, there should be two sacrificial altars, one is the altar in the southern suburbs for offering sacrifices to the gods, and the other is the altar in the northern suburbs for offering sacrifices to the land.The ancestors are worshiped in the ancestral temple, and the heaven and ancestors are worshiped in the Mingtang. In addition, there are Lingtai and Piyong related to sacrifices.

It's just that in Xu County, there is naturally no such thing as Mingtang. Even the heaven and earth sacrifices are merged together, and there is only one northern suburban altar.

After all, after Liu Xie came to Xu County, these facilities were built one after another, so everyone can understand.

The so-called everyone includes the emperor Liu Xie, civil and military officials, local elders who are specially invited to participate in the agricultural ceremony, local gentry from all over the country, and some agricultural and industrial bachelors, artisan representatives, etc.

Bachelors of Agriculture and Engineering represent these people, basically they only have eyes and ears, but no mouths.

The right to speak is in the hands of officials, and these people are only expressing a testimony.

Of course, these people did not expect that what they came to witness was not only a grand ceremony, but also a joke.

At the beginning of the joke, uh, the beginning of the farming ceremony, everything was normal.

Now Liu Ye, on behalf of the Son of Heaven, explained Dong Yu's Xunfenglu, especially the difference between Guanzhong agriculture and Shandong.

The gentry and squires in Shandong were quite interested in these contents, and whispered to each other while listening.

Liu Xie glanced at Cao Cao, and there was a faint sense of exploration in his eyes.

Liu Xie also felt the flaws in the etiquette official process that Wang Chang noticed at Chongde Gate, but then he became normal again, making Liu Xie not sure what the problem was...

In the current agricultural ceremony, it seems that Cao Cao did not express anything, which made Liu Xie feel both uneasy and secretly happy.

Could it be that his own plan will come true?
Cao Cao naturally also noticed Liu Xie's small movements, but he remained calm.

Regarding Liu Xie's thoughts, Cao Cao actually knew it well.

In other words, in any feudal dynasty, the emperor guards against the powerful ministers, and the powerful ministers also guard against the emperor.

Who controls who, who is strong and who is weak, just depends on their own means.

Obviously, in this regard, Liu Xie is still a little immature.

Cao Cao wanted to tell Liu Xie that the emperor is not so easy to be.

As the son of heaven, you should have the world in your heart, not just "pretend".

As for Cao Cao's so-called display of ambition, it may be a little bit, but at present, Zhong Fei is suppressing him, and Cao Cao will not really do such a stupid behavior. Therefore, Cao Cao is more important to express to Liu Xie that there is no old man, You are nothing.

This point was exposed in the follow-up link of the Agricultural Ceremony...

The Agricultural Ceremony was originally a great day that Liu Xie wanted to officially show to the outside world. For this reason, he prepared a lot, not only ordered to summon many agricultural officials, but also invited some village elders from around Yingchuan to participate in the ceremony. .

When these village elders faced the emperor Liu Xie, they were naturally respectful, without the slightest contempt or arrogance.

This kind of respect from the folks made Liu Xie feel a lot of emotion, and also felt a little glory. After all, since Dong Zhuo's rebellion, he seemed to have not been able to feel the respect from the countryside for him a few times. worship and respect.

Although the current kind of respect is naturally incomparable with the respect of the great Han Dynasty, but at least it gave Liu Xie some confidence, and he was quite moved.

It's just that Liu Xie's confidence and emotion were quickly hit...

When Liu Ye said that according to Dong Yu's patrol record, Shandong's agriculture should be improved and improved, which was the most important link of Liu Xie's secret plan, there was a problem beyond his control.

Just when all the village elders said that the Son of Heaven is wise and wise, just like the words of Yao and Shun, the doctor Liu Fang said that the more important thing than revising the agricultural books is to solve the problem of insufficient number of registered households first. !

The doctor Liu Fang's words immediately caused a commotion!
Hidden household!

This is almost equivalent to the loincloth of a big family of country gentlemen!
Unexpectedly, Liu Fang actually tried to lift it!

Liu Fang believes that although Dong Yuzhi's tour record is very good, it can't actually play the most direct role in the harvest of the fields. The most critical problem of Dahan's agriculture is not to improve the equipment, but to hide it from the local gentry. on the household registration!
The number of household registrations is seriously insufficient, accounting for as little as [-]-[-]% of the original population, as much as [-]-[-]%, and even [-]-[-]% of the population have all become hidden households of large gentry families in various places.These hermits made it impossible for the court to pay taxes at all. Even if it improved agricultural equipment or developed agricultural technology, it would not help at all. For the Han court, only by solving the problem of hermits can the real Gain agricultural development.

Just before the grand ceremony, old folks from all over the country came, so why don't we make a statement?

Liu Fang's words were very sharp, and it could even be said that he was very rude. All the old folks who came to participate in the Liu Xie Agricultural Ceremony had red eyes and green faces.

What Liu Fang said is well-founded, because starting from Guangwu, the Great Han Dynasty had special laws that strictly prohibited the trading and killing of slaves, and strictly prohibited turning peasant households into slaves, which is the so-called hermit household.When Xiao Guangwu was in office, he issued a total of nine imperial edicts, demanding the release of slaves everywhere...

Of course, from this point of view, it also shows that Guangwu's edict is actually the same thing. The problem that Guangwu's nine edicts may not be able to solve, can Liu Xie solve it now?

Obviously impossible.

Liu Fang jumped out and immediately put Liu Xiehe and the local villagers on fire.

The local gentry originally came here because they heard that the emperor Liu Xie wanted to give "benefits" and "policies", so they all came excitedly, but when they heard it now, they suddenly felt something was wrong. It is simply killing people!
All of a sudden, the scene became extremely awkward.

The issue of land and estates is a big one.

The Great Han, in the history of China, indeed has a very unique position, because it was this dynasty that completely unified China, created a dynasty that lasted for quite a long time, and established a unified prosperous age.

Qin Shihuang was dissatisfied at first, and muttered to the side, but he couldn't help it when he heard the word "long", and turned around to beat his child.

Whether it is the prosperity of the Western Han Dynasty or the revival of the Eastern Han Dynasty, this dynasty has added a unique color to the history of China.The Great Han Dynasty implemented the policy of "recreation and recuperation", which reduced the burden on farmers, encouraged the development of people's livelihood, promoted the idea of ​​"only respecting Confucianism", strengthened the thought of ethics, and promoted the prosperity of Confucianism; opened up the "Silk Road" direction, expanded the commodity market, promoted economic vitality, set up the "three gongs and nine ministers" system, and strengthened centralized rule...

It can be said that the Han Dynasty did what the Qin Dynasty wanted to do but failed to do, and the Han Dynasty also did what the Qin Dynasty could not think of, and they did it well. From politics, economy, ideology and culture to people's livelihood security, the Han Dynasty What Dynasty has done is remarkable.

However, the big man also had new stubborn diseases, and the land problem became more and more obvious.

The Han Dynasty can be said to be the first prosperous dynasty after the unification of China, but behind this prosperity is also the sadness and blood and tears of the people. Peasant uprisings continued and social turmoil continued.The establishment of the Great Han saved the people who suffered from wars and hardships in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, but when he was aging, he also brought such pain to the people, even worse than the Spring and Autumn and Warring States.

The development of the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty seemed like a strange circle. The more prosperous the country was, the poorer the lives of ordinary people.

The wealth of the Han Dynasty is actually an illusion, because this kind of wealth only belonged to a small number of groups in the Han Dynasty, and most of the common people were still living in a state of being squeezed.To give a simple example, it is like the prosperity of the Han Dynasty, which means that a stone of grain is tens of dollars, but it was short-lived in the Western Han Dynasty, and it never happened again.

The Han Dynasty attached great importance to the development of agriculture, but it also created a good excuse for the gentry and gentry to annex land. The powerful nation relied on its own power to continuously devour the land of the common people.It has resulted in a situation where the rich and the rich and the people can lose tens of thousands, while the poor and weak become more and more impoverished.

Guangwu Zhongxing was only a short-term rebound. The aristocratic families had even more control over the land than in the Western Han Dynasty, because in the Eastern Han Dynasty, not only did they own the land, but these aristocratic families also controlled the farmers, and opened the gentry family. A new model of the army, with its own armed forces, and then evolved into a local prince.

The boosters behind the economic prosperity of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the powerful local families, were also the boosters of the Eastern Han Dynasty's demise.They annexed land, they divided one side, they organized armed forces, local forces expanded, and centralization weakened. This was also an important reason for the demise of the Eastern Han Dynasty.Not everyone enjoyed the prosperity of the great Han national power.The children of the poor are still poor, the confrontation between the poor family and the gentry, and the struggle between the peasants and the powerful are all making the great man decline and perish step by step.

Among them, the so-called small-scale peasant economy and the self-sufficient manor system proposed by the great Confucian scholars are one of the biggest drawbacks, and even affected the subsequent feudal dynasties.

When the emperor Liu Xie hadn't figured out how to deal with it, the prime minister Cao Cao said that this issue needed further court discussion. As a result, Liu Fang was relentless and bluntly said that now is the best opportunity for villagers everywhere , and the emperor Liu Xie should issue an edict like Xiao Guangwu to investigate the hidden households in various places...

Immediately, the mentality of many people present collapsed, especially the emperor Liu Xie.

The emperor Liu Xie is not stupid, he knows that this edict cannot be issued.

Although this edict is indeed beneficial to the big man, and the hidden household problem also affects the economy of the big man, but if Liu Xie really issued the edict as Liu Fang advised, then Liu Xie originally planned to bypass Cao Cao, Wouldn't the plan to collude with these opposition parties come to nothing in order to gain fame in the countryside?
But the problem is that Liu Xie can't say anything, and he can't even scold Liu Fang.On the one hand, Liu Fang is also a member of the old Liu family, and on the other hand, Liu Xie claims to be the second in Guangwu, rejuvenating the great man again, and now Liu Fang says that Guangwu has done this, and issued an edict to get rid of bad habits. Yes, does Liu Xie have the face to object?
When the scene was extremely embarrassing, Cao Cao stood up and scolded Liu Fang with a sullen face.

Someone dragged Liu Fang down, and then Liu Xie's meticulously prepared agricultural ceremony ended hastily like this...

Wang Chang, who had been a spectator all the way, returned to the post house, somewhat ironic.

What is anticlimactic, this is probably a wonderful embodiment.

Wang Chang didn't expect Cao Cao to be so light-hearted, it seemed to be carefully planned, and then he hit Liu Xie's weakest link with a stick...

It's like a stick stuck in the axle of a vehicle that is about to set off. Although the stick is not big and it can't be completely destructive, it makes the whole car immobile.

Even if Liu Xie was to deal with that Liu Fang, so what?

It's just a doctor who is filial and honest, and he speaks grandiose words. Could it be that Liu Xie can still slap Guangwu in the face?
Wang Chang even felt that this would be an excuse for Cao Cao's backhand to restrict the squires!

Although it is said that Cao Cao did not support Liu Fang's remarks at the moment, if these squires don't know the depth and know the good and the bad, will Cao Cao use this name to do something?

Oh, Prime Minister Cao is indeed a scheming man!
For this, Wang Chang really admired it.

During this period of time, Wang Chang has been in Xu County and has been in contact with many Shandong gentry one after another, but Wang Chang found that there are indeed big problems in the thinking of these Shandong gentry, and in this celebration It seems to be more obvious in it.

These Shandong gentry always seem to be vacillating.

If these gentry and gentry can unite thoroughly, no matter which side they support, whether it is the emperor or the prime minister, they will become the strongest opponent and the biggest threat to the hussars, but the problem is that they cannot unite and are always vacillating.

So Prime Minister Cao is also aware of this problem, so he has been integrating continuously for a while?

Wang Chang suddenly felt that this contradiction was the biggest gain he got from coming to Xu County this time.

As for the celebration activities this time, on the whole, it was undoubtedly Lao Cao who got the biggest advantage, and almost none of the things that the emperor Liu Xie wanted could be successfully achieved.

Some people expressed their dissatisfaction with the victory ceremony held by the Son of Heaven this time, thinking that for Shandong, it should not invest too much in the remote north of the border, so that they can concentrate on dealing with Guanzhong. As long as Guanzhong is pacified, naturally The situation can be restored, and the country will be stable.

In fact, this is just a joke. The key is that such a joke can still have many supporters!
Because the nomads in Youbei, or in other words, the desert area, have been beaten to pieces, and they don't have much combat power at all. The nomads are very honest, and they are even afraid of the Han army's advance...

Coupled with last year's white and black disasters, many tribes in the desert were unable to protect themselves, and those who wanted to go south to plunder could not defeat Zhao Yun and other elite Han troops, and the rest could only wrestle with Cao Jun, so overall It is said that it did not consume money and food like the previous Xiqiang War, which only increased casualties.

So in fact, Shandong's national treasury is empty and the money is in distress. In fact, it has nothing to do with the desert and Youbei.

And if it is true that Cao Jun gave up the Youbei region of the desert, then Shandong is equivalent to only the Central Plains area. The next question is what will Cao Cao use against Fei Qian's cavalry?
Even if you can attack the pawn phalanx to push, what about the population and money that will be consumed?

To attack Chang'an, let alone [-] to [-], even if there are [-] elite soldiers, they may not be able to conquer Hangu Tongguan, and the daily food and drink expenses of these [-] or more soldiers and civilians is an astonishing value. Where will the grain and grass come out again?
Therefore, Cao Cao used Youbei to train cavalry, and the strategy of using cavalry to control cavalry is the most cost-effective way, but it was sprayed by many gentry children in Shandong...

It's all right now, Cao Cao took this opportunity to not only suppress Liu Xie, but also gained a wave of favorability with the squires by the way, making a fortune.

(End of this chapter)