MTL - Three Kingdoms-Chapter 2772 Anticlimactic

  Chapter 2772 Anticlimactic

money.

   Or interests.

  Although this word is a bit rotten, it is actually not outdated for any feudal dynasty.

   And the interests are multifaceted, and it is more and more obvious in the national economy.

  Han Emperor Liu Xie wanted to hold a celebration, which is not a problem in itself, but no matter what type of celebration it is, it will 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?

  So Liu Xie was very persistent in holding 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 hunch that there might be some changes in the celebration this time...

  After the ritual officer made a small mistake, everything seemed to be back to normal.

  Emperor Liu Xie ordered the Huangmen eunuchs to read out the awards and rewards, commended Cao Chunxia Houshang and other Youbei soldiers, and gave promotions and bonuses, which is also what it should be.

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

Anyway, these are all arranged in advance, whether it is the commendation read out by the **** 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.

  The Agricultural Ceremony was naturally 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 no such thing as Mingtang. Even the heaven and earth sacrifices are merged together, and there is only one northern suburban altar.

  After all, Xu County was built after Liu Xie came, and 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 specially invited to participate in the agricultural ceremony, local gentry and gentry, and some agricultural and industrial bachelors, artisan representatives, etc.

  Bachelors of Agriculture and Engineering and craftsmen 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 just 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 it is Liu Ye who represents the Son of Heaven and explains Dong Yu's Patrol Records, especially the difference between Guanzhong agriculture and Shandong.

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

   Liu Xie glanced at Cao Cao, with a hint of searching in his eyes.

  Wang Chang noticed the flaws in the process of ritual officials at Chongde Gate, and Liu Xie also felt it, but then it became normal again, making Liu Xie not sure what the problem was...

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

   Is it possible that my own plan can be accomplished?

  Cao Cao naturally 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 powerful ministers, and similarly powerful ministers also guard against the emperor.

   Who controls who, who is strong and who is weak, 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 present 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 self-confidence and emotion were quickly hit...

  When Liu Ye said that according to Dong Yu's patrol records, Shandong's agriculture should be improved and improved, which was the most important part 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. !

   Langzhong 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 20-30% of the original population, as much as 50-60%, and even 70-80% 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 how about making a statement?

  Liu Fang's words were very sharp, even very blunt, which made all the villagers who came to participate in the Liu Xie Agricultural Ceremony have red eyes and green faces.

  What Liu Fang said is well-founded, because starting from Guangwu, the Great Han Dynasty had special laws that forbid buying, selling and killing slaves, and forbidding peasant households to become slaves, that is, so-called hermit households. 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!

  Suddenly, the scene became extremely awkward.

  The land estate issue 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 prosperous age of great unity.

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

  Whether it was 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, expanding the commodity market, promoting the vitality of the economy, setting up the "three gongs and nine ministers" system, and strengthening the 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.

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

  The Great 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 continue and social turmoil continues. 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 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 demise of the Eastern Han Dynasty. 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 those great Confucian scholars are 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.

  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?

  In an extremely embarrassing situation, Cao Cao stood up and scolded Liu Fang with a sullen face.

   Someone dragged Liu Fang down, and then the agricultural ceremony carefully prepared by Liu Xie 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 lighthearted, it seemed to be carefully planned, and then he hit Liu Xie's weakest link with a stick...

   This is like a stick stuck in the axle of a vehicle that is about to leave. Although the stick is not big and cannot be completely destructive, it prevents the entire car from moving.

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

  It’s just a filial doctor who speaks grandiose words. Is it possible that Liu Xie can still slap Guangwu in the face?

  Wang Chang even felt that this would be an excuse for Cao Cao to restrain 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!

  Wang Chang really admires this.

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 country gentry can be completely united, 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.

   Actually, this is just a joke. The key is that such a joke has many supporters!

  Because the current Youbei, or the desert area, the nomads 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 infantry phalanx to push, what about the population, money and food consumed?

To attack Chang'an, let alone 30,000 to 50,000, even if there are 100,000 elite soldiers, they may not be able to conquer Hangu Tongguan, and the daily food and drink expenses of these 100,000 or more soldiers and civilians is an astonishing value. Where will the food come out again?

   Therefore, Cao Cao borrowed 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...

   Now it’s all right. Taking this opportunity, Cao Cao not only suppressed Liu Xie, but also gained a wave of favorability with the squires. It was a huge profit.

  (end of this chapter)