Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 1129 Bold idea

  Guanshan Grassland.

   "Let's talk first, what were you going to do?"

  Li Ru ignored Jia Xu's cuteness, and said as usual.

Jia Xu's slender eyes flicked up and down a few times, seeing that there was no effect as imagined, she lazily let go, walked back to the table, sat down, spread out, and ignored her not talking.

  Li Ru suddenly smiled, and said, "Thank you." Li Ru knew in his heart that Jia Xu was seeing his aging face, and was worried that his depression would be difficult to understand, so in order to relieve himself, he deliberately acted humorously.

Jia Xu regained his energy, waved his hands, sat up a little more, and said, "Hey! Isn't that just right... Isn't it just Dong Zhongying, and Dong Zhongying died, and... okay, okay, don't say it, don't say it It's..."

Seeing that Li Ru's expression changed, Jia Xu quickly changed the subject and said, "...don't talk about anything else, I don't really understand one thing... You said that this Pingyang, like a magnet, can attract countless gold ?”

   "Are you sure General Zhengxi didn't do anything special?" Li Ru thought for a while and asked.

Jia Xu shook his head and said: "If there is, I won't be so confused... There are some things like making and selling utensils, but it must not be related... The only thing that has changed is the business tax... Take one out of ten , although it is not considered a heavy tax, although it may be slightly better than the general ones, but compared with the land tax that is being implemented at the same time as the Western Levy, this commercial tax...is nothing new..."

"Hmm... Junjue Tian Fu..." Li Ru nodded, and said, "It's a bit like the way of the old Qin people, but it's not like... After all, Qin's laws are strict..." The laws of the pre-Qin are simply the way of the Virgo. The Legalists were brought to the extreme, and they were simply an excellent template for the military-controlled government of later generations. Compared with the government regulations that have detailed regulations on what you can eat and what you can’t eat, some of Feiqian’s laws and regulations are indeed much looser.

   "Shang Shang moved to the woods, Fang believed in the people... And this Zhengxi, it seems that he didn't do anything?" Jia Xu scratched his head and said, "Is it worth eating? I really don't understand..."

"If a country is poor but fights wars, if it loses its poison to the enemy, it will be strong if it does not have six lice. If a country is rich but does not fight, it will be born secretly. If there are six lice, it will be weak." Li Ru muttered softly, and then said, "... Zhengxi is completely different from Shanggong... In the land of Pingyang, the barbarians look around, the population is thin, but Zhengxi can make something out of nothing, which is amazing..."

  Shang Yang was one of the most important reformers in the pre-Qin period. It can be said that without Shang Yang, it would be absolutely impossible for the Qin Dynasty to reach a unified stage. One of Shang Yang's most important concepts is "prevention of six lice".

  Shang Yang's reform "After ten years of practice, Qin people are happy, the road does not pick up things, there are no thieves in the mountains, and the family has enough", it seems to be very effective, but the actual situation is not the case. At that time, the people of the Qin Dynasty suffered a very large proportion of exploitation, and they were always struggling on the survival line. If they wanted to improve their family status, they could only join the army and exchange the heads of the enemies.

Because Shang Yang believes that "the people are weak and the country is strong, and the country is strong and the people are weak. Therefore, the state affairs of the right way are for the weak people." According to Shang Yang's logic, if the people are poor, they will have the motivation to seek wealth; ", after being "prostitute", the country will have "lice", and it will not be strong. Therefore, the country must find a way to "reasonably" take away the wealth of the people after they become rich, and make them fall into poverty again.

  In this way, the motivation of the people to seek wealth will be re-stimulated. They are exhausted to survive and have no energy to seek wisdom, and the country will no longer have "lice".

  However, Fei Qian, the general who conquered the west, did not like Shang Yang to deprive the people of their wealth to become rich and powerful. It could even be seen that he was encouraging the people to become rich.

Without the reduction or exemption of military merit, the common people can live well. Of course, if there is military merit reduction or exemption, then the surplus wealth of the family will definitely increase. He laid down the law and dug pits for the people every moment.

"The pre-Qin lost their country because of harsh punishments, and the Han lost their ranks because of excessive selling..." Jia Xu stroked his beard and said, "Now it seems that under the rule of Pingyang, the general who conquered the West, he punishes and punishes, and rewards him well. , this technique of balance...Zhengxi studied under Cai Zhonglang and Pang Degong, and now he is building a school, advocating Confucianism, accepting Huang Lao, and using legalism...I don't know where it 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: "If you want to drag your tail in the paint, you can do it yourself. Why are you dragging Yu X?"

  Jia Xu rolled his eyes and said with a smile: "It's not as good as everyone..."

  Li Ru snorted, and then said: "In this way, when you came out of Diaoyin, I'm afraid you have already made up your mind. Regardless of the victory or defeat, you will come to disturb the purity..."

  Jia Xu chuckled twice, and did not answer this question directly, but said: "Brother's talent is ten times that of a certain one. It is a pity that it is not as good as the world."

  Li Ru glanced at Jia Xu, and was indifferent to Jia Xu's flattery.

Jia Xu continued: "Senior brother's learning, governing the government and the army, managing money and property, all kinds of things, how can one or two smart disciples pass them all on? Moreover, this place is remote, and good talents are hard to find. With the academy at your side, it's difficult... eh? Senior brother, what you said just now has disciples who have passed on the inheritance, isn't it just a lie?"

  Jia Xu squinted her eyes, and there was a flash of light in her eyes.

  Jia Xu himself is near the Pingyang Academy, and he came and went to see many young talents, but he couldn't find a suitable candidate. Of course, Jia Xu's own eyes were too high. As for Li Ru, there are mostly rough people in the pasture, so how could he find a so-called "smart" heir immediately?

   What's more, I can be regarded as an "uncle master". Since I came, this so-called "inheritor" is in the pasture, but I haven't called him for a long time, and I have to wait until later...

  So no matter from which angle you look at it, it is somewhat out of courtesy, but how can a senior who has always been serious and values ​​rules the most, do such a rude thing?

  So there is only one explanation, the so-called successor is nothing but Li Ru's lies.

  Li Ru smiled, noncommittal, and then said: "Who made you think about this dilapidated foundation of XX... After all, if XX 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 up the Liang Dao, but I never thought that Han Wenyue would hide behind it... so I came to look for the senior brother... But, if the senior brother is not willing out of the mountain..."

"The Hanwen contract is based on the Qiang people. If you want to break the army, you must first disrupt the Qiang army..." Jia Xu narrowed his eyes and said, "...But if this is done by someone, it will inevitably be very trivial. Brother should come forward to save trouble. some…"

  Qiang people, throughout Xiliang, belong to a very special group of Hu people.

   It is said that they are Hu people, but they are not completely Hu people. To be precise, they should belong to the semi-Chinese nomadic people.

  The lineage of Qin people is undoubtedly "Xi Rong". During the Spring and Autumn Period, Qin dominated Xirong and annexed the twelve kingdoms of Xirong. The generation of Longshan officially entered the territory of China during the Spring and Autumn Period. Among Xirong, most of them have the surname Jiang and Ji, which shows that the Xirong people at that time and the Zhou people in the Zhou Dynasty were actually people of the same clan, but it was only because of historical or cultural reasons that they parted ways. place to live.

  Xi Rong 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 there was the rise of Shaodang, and then there was the rise of Lingling, but now Xianling Qiang is also a thing of the past, the tribes are ruined, and after several battles with the Han Dynasty, they have been in decline and have been completely lost. It has a binding force on the Qiang people.

  The grievances and hatred between the Han and the Qiang people lasted for a hundred years. Due to the inward migration of the Western Qiang, there were frequent conflicts with the local Han people in the Hexi Corridor and Longxi, and most of the officials sent to the Northwest as local officials used cruel and harsh methods, which led to the Qiang people's rebellion one after another. 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.

In the period of Emperor Ling, with the rise of powerful clans like Dong Zhuo in Xiliang, who replaced the status of Qiang people in Xiliang, the power of Qiang people in Xiliang became weaker, and under Han Sui, these Qiang people Hu Qi , also occupies a considerable part.

In the Sanfu land of Xiliang, these sporadic Qiang tribes, as well as the Qiang people under the Han Dynasty’s repressive migration strategy, formed a series of Han Dynasty mercenaries, who only sold their force for money and wealth. There are few so-called Qiang cavalry surrendered first, Yi Cong Hu in Huangzhong, Yi Cong Qiang in Liangzhou, and so on.

  Since it is for money, it is basically insulated from things like belief.

  Li Ru nodded and said, "Do you want to adopt the old story of Shenjue Zhao Wengsun?"

Jia Xu laughed and said, "In the past, the money for beheading the big man was 400,000, the middle man was 150,000, the next man was 20,000, the big man was 3,000, and the woman and the old and the young were worth a thousand... Once this order is issued, the Qiang people will definitely be in chaos..." Jia Xu said 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 been reported to General Zhengxi..." Jia Xu stroked his beard and added.

  Li Ru nodded, then shook his head again.

  After all, the entire country was the endorsement of Zhao Wengsun before, so the reputation was somewhat guaranteed, but now even if the county guards and local officials are willing to come forward, it may not be enough to convince everyone...

Jia Xu smiled, took out a wallet from her pocket, took out a few Jiaozi from it, put it on the table, and said: "Senior Brother, I don't know...Because the five baht money is bad, Pingyang Zhengxi used this To make money, it is called 'Jiaozi', so if Zhengxi wants to print as much as he wants, he can...well, wait, is it related to Zhengxi's accumulation of wealth?"

Originally, Jia Xu wanted to say that this Jiaozi was printed by Fei Qiansuo, and compared with copper coins, the value is actually slightly different. The most important thing is that Jiaozi with a larger denomination is only larger in size. There is no proportional growth, so if Feiqian 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 heads.

  But when Jia Xu took out the jiaozi, he suddenly touched something, and suddenly realized that the jiaozi might be Feiqian’s means of accumulating wealth...

"No wonder Zhengxi once said that what he did was a conspiracy, and it was all exposed under the sun..." Jia Xu murmured, and couldn't help but take a breath, "...now it's just going to the north, east of the river, and west of the river , Taiyuan, Huguan area used Jiaozi, Jiyuguan and other places occasionally used it...this...this...if this is used by the whole world, wouldn't all the wealth of the world be collected by Zhengxi?"

   Li Ru frowned and took Jiaozi in his hand, turned it over a few times, and suddenly called out: "Come here! Send Yan Qiao to come here!"

  Yan Qiaoshou is a craftsman, good at making objects. Basically, every big family will have a few such characters. The Guanshan pasture is so big, and naturally it needs a lot of utensils, so it is also necessary.

   Not long after, Yan Qiaoshou came.

   "Take this thing and see if it can be imitated..." Li Ru pointed to Jiaozi and said to Yan Qiaoshou.

Yan Qiao took it over and took a look, smiled wryly, then returned the jiaozi, took out a small cloth bag from his bosom, untied it, took out two slightly older jiaozi and said: "This... One of these pictures was imitated by the villain, but... please check it out..."

  Li Ru held the two handovers in his hand, glanced at them briefly, pointed to one of them and said, "Is the left one your imitation?"

Yan Qiao glanced at it, nodded and said: "Exactly...Although this thing looks simple, the procedures required are extremely complicated. It is already extremely difficult to just insert silk thread inside the paper, and the two-color ink of Zhu Xuan is also very difficult. There are fixed rules, and it is difficult not to know the ratio, and moreover, the linked words, both sides of yin and yang...Even these unidentified symbols seem to hide the law, so...it is really hard to imitate..."

   Jiaozi is not the same as copper coins after all. The copper coin is to make a mold, and then pour the prepared bronze into it. The result may be rough, and the handwriting may be a little blurred, 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 Feiqian is printed with the ink of the later generations of paper, and the colored silk threads are mixed in the paper. For most people in the Han Dynasty, it is difficult to even write a word here if they want to decipher the engineering technology. In the age of technology, it is indeed a very difficult thing.

  Paper is a bit strange as a general equivalent, but it is not unacceptable. Many ordinary people don't even use money once a year, and barter is the most common transaction mode, so most of the money is still used by the rich and right of the gentry. As long as these people are willing to use this kind of money, naturally this become a general equivalent.

Li Ru waved his hand to let Yan Qiao back down, then looked at Jiaozi on the table, pondered for a long time before slowly raising his head, and said: "...in Luoyang, Fei Qian and Fei Ziyuan offered advice several times ...Looking at it now, hehe...Last night, greedy wolves and stars moved, and it was really a matter of fighting...Well, I just did what you wanted, and messed up the Qiang people first! Don't think that Dong Zhongying is not here, so he will be unscrupulous and break the rules!"

  (end of this chapter)