Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 984 The night is cool

  Historical stages are not stimulated or induced by a certain point or a certain line.

Instead, countless lines and points move and interweave according to their own will to form a huge painting, and this huge picture scroll is formed by the accumulation of these countless individual wills. Please note that it is a vector and, not scalar sums. The mutual wills of these people may be the same, or they may be completely opposite, so after being superimposed together, the result formed may not meet everyone's expectations.

  The reason why the Three Kingdoms are the Three Kingdoms is not the simple addition of one historical event after another, but intertwined and mutual influence. The reason why the Three Kingdoms became the Three Kingdoms has its reasons, but there is no so-called real reason.

  As the research and observation of history for later generations, it is natural to choose to stand at any node you want to observe, and then follow the clues of time to summarize or extend the changes...

  But this kind of summary or extension does not mean that history can be planned and predicted.

  In later generations, people who know a little bit about history will say that the stars of the Three Kingdoms are twinkling, beautiful and wonderful, but they have not seen that the chaos of the Three Kingdoms broke the balance of power between the Hu people and the Han people. The chaotic times of Wu Huanhua were the result of the accumulation of conflicts in the last years of the Han Dynasty, and it was a turning point after the population increased significantly. Although it was somewhat related to a few stupid horses in the Jin Dynasty, these prodigal men were not the most direct factor.

Fei Qian wrapped the clothes around his body. Although it is already summer, the temperature now is not that high. Compared with the temperature in the past two or three years, it is still much lower, especially at night, when the cool breeze Together, it seems a bit chilly...

In the Qin and Han dynasties, the temperature was actually very high. According to Fei Qian's understanding, the temperature in the Yellow River Basin should be similar to that in the south of the Yangtze River in later generations. In terms of land, the proportion of tropical and subtropical regions is actually relatively high.

   Even in the late Three Kingdoms period, there were still Asian elephants on the land of China, so Cao Chong also had elephants to be called...

   But now, the drop in temperature is already an obvious phenomenon.

   Fei Qian raised his head and let out a breath towards the night sky. Fortunately, there was not much white smoke.

  However, time is running out.

  The gradual drop in temperature will make the pastures in the north no longer suitable for grazing, and the Hu people will definitely be forced to migrate to the south. The Qiang people, the Southern Huns, or the Xianbei, this situation cannot be reversed by Feiqian alone...

   It's like running a drug.

   If you don’t want to be poisoned to death, you have to run to the safe area.

  Of course, the land of Huaxia in front of me is just the most suitable stage for a chaotic world. The stage is fragile and menacing, and the whole composition is already changing.

  The wind blows and the rain blows, and the temperature decreases step by step over time.

  Fei Qian looked up at the sky, and there were countless stars in the sky, beautiful and dreamy, just like all the generals and advisers on this land of China, shining with their brilliance.

  Confucius has a saying, when the propriety is lost, one seeks the wild. In the old Liu family, the centralization lost the "ritual", that is, the rules, and then the "wildness" around it naturally appeared.

But now, the people in the Central China land, the Chinese people in Guanzhong, Jizhou, Yuzhou, Yangzhou and Jingzhou, etc., these amazing talents, do you know what they are going to face? ?

  The answer is, they don't know.

  The old Liu family seems to have been corrupted. Those who once stood at the top of China and yelled to commit strong men, even though they were far away, have been reduced to ashes, but they don't know who will lead the new road.

The road under their feet seems to have come to an end. The Han Dynasty, which once ruled the East Asian world, now seems to be a stumbling block that hinders their progress. They resentfully chopped up and buried this stone, but they hoped to create more glory. They know that the old system is dead, but they try to imitate and continue on various occasions.

  What they can learn from, apart from the great Han, is the Western Zhou Dynasty.

  That’s why Senior Brother Cao finally hinted and confirmed again and again, who am I, am I King Wen of Zhou? Well, I should be King Wen of Zhou, I must be King Wen of Zhou…

   Fei Qian shook his head and smiled helplessly.

Small footsteps sounded softly, Huang Yueying walked over holding a big cloak, first bowed her knees slightly for half a salute, then went around behind Fei Qian, put the big cloak on Fei Qian Mountain, then turned to the front, and stood up for Fei Qian After finishing the tie, he raised his head and said, "Lang Jun, do you have something on your mind?"

   Fei Qian was silent for a while, and then said: "Well, there are some..."

  Huang Yueying raised her head, her big eyes reflected the splendor of the stars in the sky, revealing a bit of curiosity.

   "This..." Fei Qian thought for a while, and then said, "Yueying, do you know about salt and iron monopoly?"

  Huang Yueying nodded and said, "I know, Father has said it before."

   "Oh," Fei Qian asked, "then, how did you say it?"

  Huang Yueying tilted her head slightly, and imitated Huang Chengyan's tone of voice and said: "Well, this matter is to fight for the interests of the people, it is not good governance, so it cannot be done..."

   Fei Qian chuckled, then nodded, then shook his head again.

   "What? Isn't it right?" Huang Yueying asked.

"Hehe," Fei Qian didn't give an answer directly, but seemed to talk about another irrelevant topic, "...then do you know why farming and land leases are classified as Dasinong, while mountains, rivers and ponds are classified as Shaofu? ?”

  Da Si Nong is the national government administrative expenses, while the Shaofu is mainly for the expenses and use of the royal family.

  Huang Yueying blinked her big eyes and said, "Isn't this always the case? I don't know why..."

   Fei Qian smiled, walked a few steps forward, and sat down casually at the front of the hall.

  Seeing this, Huang Yueying didn't seriously say that this behavior was not like a marquis, but hurriedly asked someone to fetch the mat.

Fei Qian didn't refuse either, so he took it, put it on his own, and took another one by his side, motioned Huang Yueying to sit down together, and then said: "... all the fields in the world are Wang's fields, within four seals, can it be Wang Tu... you know this, right?"

  Huang Yueying nodded.

"In ancient times, the fields were sealed off and became well fields, but the non-field land, that is, the mountains, rivers, and ponds were not fields and could not be cultivated, so they were still royal lands, and trespassing and logging were prohibited. For guarding... However, these mountains, rivers, and ponds are for burning charcoal, logging, fishing and hunting animals. Such behaviors are called "treacherous profit". People can conquer them, but they are hard to guard against and hard to punish. , In the end, the mountains, rivers, and pools were released, and only at the entrances and exits, collection officials were set up to collect such taxes full-time..."

"...Afterwards, the Qin and Han Dynasties followed the practice, the land was privately owned by the farmers, and the mountains and rivers were still owned by the royal family, so the land tax and so on belonged to the Dasinong, and the mountains and rivers belonged to the Shaofu..." Fei Qian turned his head to look at Huang Yueying, and continued. , "...and the genus of salt and iron all comes from mountains and rivers...so, this salt and iron, do you think it is for the benefit of the people, or for the people?"

   "Huh?" Huang Yueying was a little dizzy, "...in this way...it seems to be..."

  Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty engaged in salt and iron, not for self-enrichment.

   At that time, the army spent a lot of money in the crusade against the Xiongnu. Not only the money of Da Si Nong was spent, but even the savings of Emperor Wudi's father and grandfather were also spent. At that time, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty could reach out to the vast number of farmers and even increase the land tax, but in the end he did not do so.

  Tian Fu is still one out of thirty.

  Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty first ordered money to be allocated from the Shaofu to supplement military expenditures, and then ordered local rich people, such as salt and iron businessmen, to donate freely...

  Of course, everyone knows what the result will be.

Businessmen with a lot of wealth usually put oil on their mouths and chanted bright slogans again and again, but when they were really asked to spend money to support the Han Dynasty's war against the Huns, they retreated one by one. Drumming.

So Emperor Wu of the Han was furious and felt that he had taken out all the money from Shaofu, and these salt and iron merchants not only used the mountains and resources belonging to his Shaofu, but also refused to pay, so he ordered to take back all the money from the whole country. For non-cultivated land, the government system is adopted, that is, salt and iron monopoly.

  Huang Yueying suddenly asked: "...Your Majesty, do you mean that you are going to be a salt and iron monopoly?"

Fei Qian smiled and said, "Not exactly...hehe, I'm going to make a Pingyang monopoly..." Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty engaged in salt and iron because he didn't have many better options other than salt and iron at that time, um, In fact, there is another one, which is the wine monopoly, but wine is not a necessity after all, and for Fei Qian, there are other better choices at the moment.

Businessmen are inherently profit-seeking, so once there are enough interests, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not be shaken, and the most important thing is that under the current political system, there is no way to manage businessmen as conveniently as farmers. One is It is very difficult for merchants to travel around in terms of household registration. The other is that merchants can quickly accumulate a large amount of wealth by virtue of trade.

  In order to ensure the safe and stable development of its own region, Fei Qian could not give merchants the same social status as the later generations. He could only adopt the strategy of raising pigs, killing whoever became fat, and then seized several important materials for monopoly...

   But what kind of product do you use?

   Fei Qian looked at Huang Yueying, maybe he could pick out some interesting things from Huang Yueying's treasures in that room?

  ………………

  The moonlit night is cool.

  The jade hooks in the other courtyard of the small building hang obliquely.

  Heartbreaker, um, wrong, Pretty Woman, um, also wrong, it should be Kansai Dahan in Tianya...

Although Jia Xu's figure is not as sturdy as Xu Shu's, she is not like a weak scholar, but her face is thinner and elongated, so it is not very obvious in normal times. After all, Jia Xu was born in Xiliang and grew up in Xiliang. People who are cold eat more beef and mutton. Naturally, there is a little difference from some literati in Han.

  Jia Xu was greatly touched by what Fei Qian said in the Council Hall today.

Strictly speaking, there was a truly unified government only in the Qin and Han Dynasties, and before the pre-Qin period, it was only a kind of feudal unity, or a nominal unity. The princes have the final say.

The Qin Dynasty was too short, but by the Han Dynasty, a more decent government system had been established. The county system lasted for hundreds of years, and now it has passed the stage of "turning a family into a country". Most of the old nobles have fallen, and the emerging nobles have stood up. In the process, some traditions have been broken, and some new rules are being established...

  In the beginning, these things were all upward and good.

   It's like a tax.

  At the beginning of the taxation, it was only to support the country's finances, so that the country's officials had a meal, and the soldiers guarding the country had armor to use.

  However, the taste gradually changed...

Jia Xu paced back and forth in the small courtyard. Although it was already late at night, he didn't feel sleepy at all. The scenes of the day flashed before his eyes. He didn't expect that Fei Qian, who was so young, could think of such a thing. There are many things about the governance of the entire Han Dynasty.

  The system of taxation involves a lot and has a lot of connections. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Mencius once said that taxation by tithe is the government of the king. It can be seen that in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, the tax rate for farmers was far from a tithe. By the Han Dynasty, the well field system in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods had been abolished. It is the good governance of the old Liu family, and the old Liu family has also done it from the beginning to the end. From Liu Bang to the present, even Han Lingdi, a guy who likes money very much, only borrows other names to collect money, and has never touched it. What's Tian Fu's idea.

Although Jia Xu has some practical insights, and has also noticed how much effect Feiqian will have on the Hu people's taxation system in Yongbin and Erzhou, or an attraction, but for the land tax economy from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the Han Dynasty, But there is no very systematic cognition.

  I just vaguely feel that the tax policy proposed by Fei Qian may be a very huge change for the whole world...

  However, to what extent it will change and what impact it will have on the future, Jia Xu has deduced it for several hours from daytime to now, but he still can only get a glimpse of it and cannot perceive the whole picture.

Jia Xu thought that all the affairs of this world were in the palm of his hand, and if he was confused, he could just look down and understand. I can see some things, but I can't see them all. This feeling beyond my control makes Jia Xu feel uncomfortable.

  Maybe…

   It seems that I should write a letter. Presumably, such an interesting thing should be shared with someone, otherwise it will be ruined.

  Jia Xu silently raised his head and looked towards the west. The stars in the night sky hang like belts in the black velvet sky.

  Beautiful and dreamy.

  (end of this chapter)