Weird Three Kingdoms

Chapter 3505 Land, Land

The two Zi Jings looked at each other and bowed.

I have admired you for a long time, but I have lost respect and lost respect.

The two of them exchanged meaningless pleasantries.

Fei Qian smiled slightly, stood aside and made no comment.

Fei Qian's attitude towards the characters of the Three Kingdoms changes constantly as his understanding improves.

At the beginning, Fei Qian's self-awareness was actually very insignificant. After all, his original identity was just a nobody, an ordinary company clerk. At work, any boss could bully him, and in the family, his status was lower than that of a dog.

When such people see the legendary Three Kingdoms characters, they will naturally get excited, just like ordinary people seeing a star. As for keyboard warriors, they are naturally fearless and of course look down on Fei Qian's cautious appearance.

Later, as time went by, Fei Qian woke up from his blind worship, or empirical trust, and realized that these people in the Three Kingdoms were not simply a symbol or a fixed template.

They also have emotions, mistakes, poop, fart, swear, and get angry and swear. They don't appear with full stats, full skills, and can use a big move at any time...

Until now...

First it was Ma Yue, then Lu Su, which eventually made Fei Qian's attitude towards the characters of the Three Kingdoms move towards a more mature and stable direction.

These Three Kingdoms characters are first and foremost human beings!

It's not just a name or a symbol!

People have seven emotions and six desires!

What are Lu Su's "seven emotions and six desires"?

History only notes the friendship between Lu Su and Zhou Yu, and the relationship between them and Sun Quan, but in fact, is the friendship between Lu Su and Zhou Yu really unbreakable and stronger than gold?

Obviously not entirely.

The relationship was good because Lu Su and Zhou Yu's interests did not conflict too much, and in a way, Zhou Yu was the one who recommended Lu Su...

However, what is interesting is that since Zhou Yu had already abducted Lu Su as early as the time of Sun Ce, why did Lu Su only truly enter the political ecology of Jiangdong during the time of Sun Quan?

It can be said that Sun Ce and Lu Su were incompatible, but Fei Qian believed that Sun Ce and Lu Su were unable to talk to each other.

For Sun Ce, it is possible that he did not want to stay in Jiangdong for long. He might have wanted to join the competition in the Central Plains, or at least return to the Jianghuai area to develop and grow, so he was very rude to the Jiangdong nobles. This was also slightly reflected in Sun Ce's last words. He was not very optimistic about Sun Quan, and even told Sun Quan to leave if he could not do it...

But Sun Quan is different.

Sun Quan's goal, everything, was to preserve the Jiangdong base, especially when almost everyone was not optimistic about Sun Quan at that time, Lu Su appeared. Lu Su affirmed that Sun Quan had the potential to be a "great emperor", and offered a grand strategy of using Jiangdong as the base, coveting Jiangbei, and looking for opportunities to conquer the Central Plains.

Although this grand strategy seemed a bit ridiculous later on, it undoubtedly gave Sun Quan a shot in the arm at the time!

Therefore, Sun Quan and Lu Su really got along well with each other...

So in history, when Lu Su arrived in Jiangdong, he was not valued during the reign of Sun Ce and remained unknown. It was not until the reign of Sun Quan that he really came to the fore in the Battle of Chibi and became an important counselor and think tank!

But now, the Battle of Chibi is gone, and Lu Su’s importance in Jiangdong is not as high as in history.

This was one of the reasons why Fei Qian felt that there was a chance to get Lu Su to come over, but after actually meeting Lu Su, and hearing Lu Su's respectful yet distant words, Fei Qian realized that he was a little self-righteous and that Lu Su was not very willing to come to Guanzhong.

Fei Qian even thought about using Zhou Yu's illness to threaten Lu Su, but after careful consideration, Fei Qian gave up this idea. First, it was somewhat despicable to do so, and second, could the friendship between Lu Su and Zhou Yu really be as close as that between Liu Bei and his three brothers?

Obviously not.

If Zhou Yu and Lu Su really had a close relationship like brothers, then Lu Su should have come to power during the time of Sun Ce, and would not have had to wait until the time of Sun Quan to get the opportunity for promotion.

Therefore, Lu Su and Zhou Yu should be close friends, with no conflicting interests, and they are related entities that can cooperate with each other to a certain extent, but they are definitely not brothers in life and death. Using Zhou Yu to threaten Lu Su will obviously not succeed.

So, how can we satisfy Lu Su's needs in other ways?

After thinking about it, Fei Qian felt that it was inappropriate.

Fei Qian could indeed give Lu Su very high treatment that exceeded the standards of Jiangdong, but that would be inappropriate.

Fame and ability are no longer the focus of Fei Qian's attention on the Three Kingdoms characters!

What Fei Qian needs now is "suitability"!

Or we can use a more gamified term such as "compatibility".

We have to thank Ma Yue for this.

It was Ma Yue who sounded the alarm for Fei Qian, allowing him to wake up from the joy and pride of defeating Cao Cao.

Ma Yue is a veteran, but seniority does not mean that he will necessarily think and move in the same direction as Fei Qian!

So, how many more "Ma Yue" will appear?

Can introducing new talents change and solve this problem?

It is not a bad thing to introduce talents, but if there is no idea or plan, and they are introduced just for the sake of introduction, then there will definitely be problems.

Fei Qian thought of the future companies, which almost always called for the introduction of talents every year, treating the original old employees as cattle and horses, and the salary of new employees as soon as they came in was higher than that of old employees, and then they called it the catfish effect, but in fact it was full of complaints. Whether there is a catfish effect depends on the specific situation of the old employees, rather than throwing catfish into the water casually.

Starting from Emperors Huan and Ling, because of the nearly two hundred years of peace and prosperity, Shandong landlords and aristocratic families gradually tended to indulge in wild pleasures. It reached a new height during the Wei and Jin Dynasties, where taking Wu Shi San collectively was considered an elegant thing, and a group of people dancing naked in the streets were all considered romantic. They wanted freedom and unrestrainedness.

In such an environment, although the celebrities always talk about family, country and the world, not many of them actually do anything about it...

Many famous scholars in Jiangdong and Shandong are like this. Does Lu Su have much of this habit?

We don’t know about Fei Qian, but we can observe further.

Fei Qian brought Lu Su here for this very reason.

Lu Su is Lu Zijing, Zao Zhi is Zao Zijing.

Both of them are named Zijing, but they do different things.

Fei Qian was not sure whether Lu Su was admired and supported by the people in Jiangdong, but in Guanzhong, Zao Zhi's reputation in the fields was even more popular than Fei Qian's cavalry!

Ordinary people respect Fei Qian, but they are grateful to Zao Zhi from the bottom of their hearts!

Because the agricultural and water conservancy affairs in Guanzhong were almost all handled by Zao Zhi himself, even including animal husbandry and forestry. After all, agriculture and sericulture in the Han Dynasty were considered together and not divided so finely.

Almost every year after the autumn harvest, some elderly people from the countryside would bring some agricultural products and walk dozens of miles to deliver them to Zaozhi's home.

Maybe it was just some corn, or maybe just some wild fruits, neither of which were very valuable, but it was like this every year. When they delivered it, they would kowtow, put it down and leave.

Fei Qian laughed and said that this was because the people were worshipping the dates as gods...

For the people in Guanzhong, Fei Qian was too far away, untouchable and difficult to contact, while Zao Zhi was the official they saw most often, and who helped them to truly enrich their lives!

When an official truly serves the people, takes the people's sufferings to heart, and works hard to solve them, the people will naturally support him, and there is no need for the official to scream and yell on the stage.

What Fei Qian needs are officials who can actually do things, not officials who can only shout slogans.

As the saying goes, without experience, there is no experience.

After the Ma Yue incident, the collision of ideas brought about by Lu Su's arrival, coupled with Fei Qian's self-reflection, eventually made Fei Qian's attitude and concept towards talents become more perfect and mature.

Everything happened naturally, as if it was a natural progression.

"Zijing, why are you wearing so little?" After the two Zijings exchanged a few words, Fei Qian stepped forward and held Zaozhi's hand. Feeling that Zaozhi's hand was a little cold, he naturally took off his fur coat and covered Zaozhi with it, not caring at all about the dirt and grime on Zaozhi's hands and body.

"I just moved around a bit, so I don't feel cold..." Zao Zhi smiled, not getting particularly excited by Fei Qian's action of taking off his clothes and giving him food. "Why did my lord come here?"

"I heard that you were doing repairs here, so I came to see...the progress of the canal repairs..." Fei Qian asked.

Zao Zhi stood on the dirt hill and pointed with his finger, "The section over there near the Baiqu Canal has been almost completed. Now we are rushing to work on this section..."

Fei Qian listened and watched, nodding from time to time, "Where's the hot soup? We also need to light a fire under the canal to keep warm... We must prepare enough firewood and coal."

"We have them all." Zao Zhi said, "Two or three trucks were just pulled in a few days ago, over there..."

"Where are the straw raincoats? Are there many people with frostbite?" Fei Qian asked again.

"It's OK. Slight frostbite is inevitable... We will rotate every hour and return to the earth house to warm ourselves by the fire and drink hot soup..."

"You should also wear something thicker...your old fur coat?"

"I accidentally got it wet while grilling..."

"Then you can wear this one first..." Lu Su was standing aside, watching the interaction between Fei Qian and Zao Zhi, and for some reason, he suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.

Lu Su subconsciously shifted his attention to the Zhengguo Canal in the distance.

It is already quite cold in Guanzhong in winter, but the Zhengguo Canal ahead is still bustling with activity.

The Han Dynasty did not have a strict safety management system for canal repair, so on-site dispatch and arrangement were very important. Once an official who only wanted to gain political achievements appeared, it was inevitable that there would be a large number of casualties among the forced laborers...

Lu Su watched slowly, but did not see any casualties among the laborers.

Items such as stones and wood were piled up on one side of the canal according to their categories.

The transport vehicles and people have trampled out a path on the land beside the canal.

On the other side of the canal, some temporary sheds were built, emitting hot smoke.

From afar, the melodious sound of laborers' calls could be heard. Although it was unclear what they were shouting, Lu Su could tell that there was not much resentment, anger or other negative emotions in the shouts. Instead, there was a feeling of vigour and optimism...

This……

totally different.

In Jiangdong, every large-scale labor service was a good opportunity for officials to make money, but it was also a disaster for ordinary people.

Lu Su vaguely heard Fei Qian asking about the casualties from the labor service...

Lu Su was stunned for a moment and turned his head.

"When we were moving the stones, two of them didn't hold them firmly. One had his leg broken, and the other was crushed to death..." Zaozhi sighed, "The doctor said the one with the broken leg couldn't be reattached, so they just chopped it off..."

"Has the compensation been paid?"

"I've already sent someone to deliver it..."

After listening to what Fei Qian and Zao Zhi said, Lu Su found it hard to believe.

What a joke, for such a big project, there is only one death and one injury?

And there is a pension?!

This……

Is this just pretend?

When will the Han people give pensions to hard laborers?

Isn’t life and death determined by fate?

However, the following topic between Fei Qian and Zao Zhi not only failed to clear up Lu Su's doubts, but made him even more confused.

"Have you discovered any talents during this period?"

"There are a few. I plan to send them to the Institute of Technology for two years..."

Fei Qian smiled and nodded, "Good! I think we can add another course, focusing on hydraulic engineering... such as these canals and bridges, docks and mudflats, mills and water wheels... maybe there will be some overlap with the construction department..."

"Remove the mill and add a ship?" Zao Zhi said.

"That makes sense..." Fei Qian said, "Let's try it for one or two terms first, and then make adjustments... Uh, this... Jiangdong has a complex waterway with many bridges and canals. Zijing, why not ask this Zijing to take a look and give some suggestions..."

When saying the second half of the sentence, Fei Qian turned his head and gestured to Lu Su.

Zao Zhi's eyebrows moved, "Zhengguo Canal?"

Fei Qian nodded, "Zhengguo Canal."

Zao Zhi smiled and said, "I understand."

So Zao Zhi stepped forward and invited Lu Su to go to the Zhengguo Canal construction site to take a look...

In Jiangdong, there are many people who pretend to do something. What they say and what their subordinates actually do are two completely unrelated things. Therefore, Lu Su was skeptical about what Fei Qian was doing at the moment.

Whether it is horizontal ratio or vertical ratio.

Everything in front of me, all the situations in Guanzhong, are unbelievable.

After hearing Zao Zhi's invitation, Lu Su, who had many doubts in his mind, agreed reluctantly and followed Zao Zhi back to the construction site of Zhengguo Canal.

Fei Qian watched Lu Su follow Zao Zhi forward and signaled Huang Xu to ask the guards to watch him carefully.

Although Lu Su behaved very honestly after meeting Fei Qian, and even when Fei Qian invited him to go with him, he was respectful and kept one or two steps away from Fei Qian, neither too far nor too close, showing good etiquette, he still couldn't be careless. Even though there was no record in history that Lu Su had the habit of working as a part-time assassin, he still had to take necessary precautions and be cautious.

At this stage, Fei Qian feels that collecting characters from the Three Kingdoms is no longer an important issue.

Instead, how to manage the current business well, formulate corresponding strategies, and plan the direction of future development are more important matters!

Fei Qian stood on the hill and looked out at the surrounding Guanzhong land.

In Chinese history, during the feudal dynasties, there was not much awareness of land and water conservation. Therefore, by the end of the Tang Dynasty, both the vegetation and the fertility of the land in Guanzhong had been gradually exhausted. Without sufficient agricultural products, Guanzhong could not support a powerful core circle of the empire.

Therefore, after the Tang Dynasty, the population gradually moved eastward and southward. The south suffered fewer disasters and wars than the north, and the Huaihe River, Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas were greatly developed and became an important granary supporting the entire country. Jiangnan became a place of wealth, and taxes accounted for half of the country's income. After the Southern Song Dynasty, it went to a higher level, and people could even buy their lives...

Later, the Southern Song Dynasty also started foreign maritime trade. These are indeed the advantages of Jiangnan and its contribution to the entire country. There is no need to doubt or deny it.

With the further development of the south in history and the introduction of higher-yielding rice varieties, Jiangnan's position as an agricultural support became increasingly unshakable, leading to the rise of the landlord class of all sizes in Jiangnan, as well as the landlord class bureaucracy that was constructed over a long period of time from the Song Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty.

That's right, for some of these landlords in Jiangdong and Jiangnan, they have not awakened to the concept of class, but more subconsciously stick together, fellow villagers, fellow students, or cliques. But what they do is actually to protect the interests of the landlords in Jiangdong and Jiangnan, using land to parasitize on the country and suck blood, intertwined with each other, shielding each other, and cruelly exploiting and oppressing the people.

Even in the Qing Dynasty, after the change of dynasties, the group of aristocratic children in Jiangnan quickly found their own position. They continued to use the land to make peace with the Qing rulers and exploit the people to the greatest extent, continuing to live a life of drunkenness and debauchery.

Land, land.

As we all know, China is not actually a country with abundant resources. The early propaganda in later generations was nothing more than to boost national self-esteem, but it was distorted by some scholars and experts to mean something close to the "Heavenly Kingdom"...

China in particular lacks precious metals.

This is extremely fatal.

The two sources of precious metals closest to China, the largest, and most convenient are East Japan and Persia.

However, the landlord class, who made their fortunes from land and used it to hold the nation’s citizens hostage, obstructed the development of Chinese navigation and burned the navigational blueprints…

They don't want to leave the land.

Of course, an empire, like a person, also ages.

This was true for the Han Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty.

Fei Qian knew that the same must be true in Guanzhong.

So what he needs to do now is to prolong his youth and prime years as much as possible, so that the decline will come later.

The key to delaying decline is not one person, but a group of people.

The larger the number of this "group", the more powerful it is.

otherwise……

"My Lord..." Huang Xu whispered, "Does Lu Zijing... want to stay?"

Fei Qian pondered for a moment, then smiled and shook his head, "No need... If he wants to stay, then he can stay. If he doesn't want to... why force him to stay?"