money.
Or interests.
Although this word is a bit terrible, it is actually out of date for any feudal dynasty.
Moreover, the interests are multifaceted, which is reflected in the national economy becoming more and more obvious.
The Han Emperor Liu Xie wanted to hold a celebration, but there was no problem with this, but no matter what type of celebration it was, it would cost money. So how did this money come about?
It is impossible for money to fall from heaven, so of course this money was dug out of the land. After all, the Han Dynasty and the subsequent feudal dynasties were all national economic systems based on agriculture for a considerable period of time.
Liu Xie felt that the money for the celebration was worthwhile. On the one hand, it could show that the Han Dynasty still has strength at the moment, or it could indicate that the Han Dynasty had recovered from the embarrassment of the Dong Zhuo Rebellion. On the other hand, if it did not spend money to hold the celebration, how could it attract more gentry and gentry to gather in Xu County? How could there be reason to launch his own plan?
Therefore, Liu Xie was very persistent in holding this celebration of the show, and even temporarily endured some problems that made him uncomfortable.
But after such forbearance, after holding this celebration of the celebration, can Liu Xie achieve his goal?
Wang Chang had a premonition that he felt that this celebration might have changed a little...
After the ritual officer made a small mistake, it seemed that everything had returned to normal.
Emperor Liu Xie ordered the eunuchs of the Huangmen to read out the rewards and commendations, and commended Cao Chun, Xiahou Shang and other Youbei soldiers, and gave promotions and bonuses. This was also the only thing that was true.
Then, Xiahou Shang expressed his loyalty on behalf of the generals and schools who were awarded the rewards. There was no problem with these processes.
Anyway, these are all arranged in advance. Whether it is the commendation read by the eunuch of the Yellow Sect or the reply from Xiahou Shang to thank him, they are all contents determined in advance. If even this can make mistakes, it would be really embarrassing.
After the victory, it was the agricultural ceremony.
The agricultural ceremony was naturally not unfolded in front of Chongde Gate, but moved to the northern suburbs altar that worships the world.
If it is in Luoyang, there should be two sacrificial altars, one is the Nanjiao altar that worships the gods, and the other is the Beijiao altar that worships the land. The ancestors are sacrificed in the ancestral temples, and the ancestors are sacrificed in the Mingtang. In addition, the spiritual platform and Piyong are related to the sacrifices.
But in Xu County, there are naturally no such things as Mingtang. Even the sacrifices of heaven and earth are merged together, and there is only one Beijiao Temple.
After all, Xu County was built after Liu Xie came, so everyone can understand it.
The so-called great masters include Emperor Liu Xie, civil and military officials, local villagers and fellow villagers who were specially invited to participate in the agricultural ceremony, gentry and gentry from all over the country, as well as some bachelor's degree in agriculture and engineering, representatives of craftsmen, etc.
The bachelor of agriculture and engineering and craftsmen represent these people, basically they only have eyes and ears and no mouths.
The right to speak is in the hands of officials, and these people are just 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, at the beginning of the agricultural ceremony, everything was normal.
Now Liu Ye represents the emperor and explains Dong Yu's patrol record, especially the difference between Guanzhong agriculture and Shandong.
These gentry gentry in Shandong are still quite interested in these contents. While listening, they whispered to each other in a low voice.
Liu Xie glanced at Cao Cao, and there was a faint sense of exploration in his eyes.
Liu Xie also felt the omissions in the process of etiquette officers that Wang Chang noticed on Chongde Sect, but then it became normal, making Liu Xie not sure what the problem was...
At the moment, Cao Cao seemed to have no expression in the agricultural ceremony, which made Liu Xie feel both uneasy and a little secretly happy.
Could it be that your own plan can be accomplished?
Cao Cao naturally noticed Liu Xie's small moves, but he remained silent.
Cao Cao actually knew Liu Xie's thoughts very well.
In other words, in any feudal dynasty, the emperor was guarding against powerful ministers, and the powerful ministers were also guarding against the emperor.
Whoever controls who is stronger and weak depends on their own means.
It is obvious that Liu Xie is still a little immature in this regard.
Cao Cao wanted to tell Liu Xie that the emperor was not so easy to be a man.
As the emperor, you should have the world in your heart, not just "pretending".
As for Cao Cao's so-called display of ambitions, it may be a little bit, but the current situation of Zhongfei suppression, Cao Cao would not really do such stupid behavior. Therefore, Cao Cao is more important to tell Liu Xie that without me, you are not anything.
This was exposed in the follow-up links of the agricultural ceremony...
At the agricultural ceremony, it was originally a great day that Liu Xie wanted to officially show it to the outside world, so he prepared a lot for this. Not only did he order to summon many agricultural officials, but he also invited some fellow villagers from around Yingchuan to attend the ceremony.
When these fellow villagers faced the Emperor Liu Xie, they naturally looked respectful and did not have any contempt or arrogance.
This kind of respect from the folk fellow villagers made Liu Xie feel a lot and feel a little glory. After all, since the Dong Zhuo Rebellion, he seems to have not felt the admiration and respect for him from the countryside several times.
Although this kind of respect now is naturally incomparable to the respect that was in the prosperous period of the Han Dynasty, it at least made Liu Xie gain some confidence and was quite emotional.
However, Liu Xie's confidence and emotion were quickly hit...
When Liu Ye said that he should improve and improve Shandong's agriculture based on Dong Yu's inspection tour, which is the most important link that Liu Xie secretly planned, problems that he could not control arise.
Just when the villagers said that the emperor was wise and just like the words of Yao and Shun, the doctor Liu Fang said in a short time that he had just praised the filial piety and integrity, saying that the matter more important than revising the agricultural book scriptures is to solve the problem of insufficient household registration first!
The words of doctor Liu Fang immediately caused a riot!
Hidden house!
This is almost equivalent to the loincloth of a wealthy countryman in the country!
Unexpectedly, Liu Fang actually took action to expose him!
Liu Fang believes that although Dong Yuzhi's tour is very good, it actually does not play the most direct role in the harvest of land and acres. The most critical issue in Dahan's agriculture is not in improving the equipment, but in the household registration concealed by the gentry and gentry in various places!
The number of household registrations was seriously insufficient, accounting for 20% to 30% of the original population, and 50% to 60%, and even 70% to 80% of the population became hidden households of the gentry and gentry families in various places. These hidden households made the taxes of the imperial court impossible to implement. Even if agricultural equipment is improved or agricultural technology is developed, it would be of no use. For the Han Dynasty, only by solving the problem of hidden households first can we truly achieve agricultural development.
It just so happened that the villagers and fellow villagers from all over the country came, so let’s express their opinions?
Liu Fang's words were very sharp, and it could even be said that he was very rude. All the villagers who came to participate in the Liu Xie Agricultural Ceremony had red eyes and green faces.
Liu Fang's words were reasonable and well-founded, because since Guangwu, the Han Dynasty had special laws, which strictly prohibited the sale and harm of slaves, and strictly prohibited the transformation of farmers into slaves, which is the so-called hidden households. When Xiao Guangwu was in office, he issued a total of nine edicts, requiring all localities to release slaves...
Of course, from this perspective, it also shows that Guangwu's edict is actually just that. The problem that Guangwu's nine edicts were not necessarily solved, can Liu Xie solve it now?
Obviously impossible.
Liu Fang jumped out and put Liu Xie and his local villagers on the fire.
The local gentry originally came because they heard that Emperor Liu Xie wanted to give "benefits" and "policies", so they all came excitedly. As a result, when they heard it, they suddenly felt something was wrong. This was not a good thing, it was simply a life-threatening person!
For a moment, the scene was immediately embarrassing.
The land manor problem is a big problem.
The Han Dynasty did have a very unique position in the history of China, because it was this dynasty that completely unified China, created a dynasty that had been maintained for a long time, and established a unified prosperous era.
Qin Shihuang was dissatisfied at first and muttered to the side, but when he heard the word "long", he had no choice but to turn around and hit his child.
Whether it was the prosperity of the Western Han Dynasty or the revival of the Eastern Han Dynasty, this dynasty added a unique color to the history of China. The Han Dynasty implemented the policy of "rest and recuperate", which reduced the burden on farmers, encouraged the development of people's livelihood, promoted the idea of ​​"respecting Confucianism alone", strengthened the idea of ​​ethics, and promoted the prosperity of Confucianism; opened up the direction of the "Silk Road", expanded the commodity market, promoted the activity of the economy, set up the "Three Dukes and Nine Ministers" system, and strengthened the centralized rule...
It can be said that the Han Dynasty did things that the Qin Dynasty wanted to do but could not do, and the Han Dynasty did things that the Qin Dynasty could not imagine, and they did well. From politics, economy, ideology and culture to people's livelihood security, the Han Dynasty did all of them remarkable.
However, the Han Dynasty also had new chronic 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 the sadness and blood and tears of the people. Peasant uprisings continued and social turmoil continued. The establishment of the Han Dynasty saved the situation where the people suffered from war and the people were living in poverty during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. However, when he aging, it also brought such pain to the people, even more tragic than the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
The development of the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty seemed like a vicious circle. The more prosperous the country was, the more scarce the lives of ordinary people were.
The wealth of the Han Dynasty is actually an illusion, because such wealth belongs to a small group of the Han Dynasty, and most of the people still survive in a state of being squeezed. To give a simple example, it is like the prosperous era of the Han Dynasty that represented a dozens of coins of grain per stone, which was a flash in the pan of the Western Han Dynasty and was no longer there since.
The Han Dynasty attached great importance to the development of agriculture, but it also created a good excuse for land annexation for the gentry and gentry. The powerful nations relied on their own power to continuously devour the land of the people, resulting in a situation where the wealthy officials and the people could have hundreds of thousands, while the poor became increasingly poor.
The Guangwu Revival was just a short-term rebound, and the control of the land by the aristocratic families was even greater than that in the Western Han Dynasty, because in the Eastern Han Dynasty, not only did they own land, but these aristocratic families also controlled the peasants, opened a new model of aristocratic families, and had their own armed forces, which then evolved into local princes.
The boosters behind the economic prosperity of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the powerful local tribes, were also the boosters for the demise of the Eastern Han Dynasty. They annexed land, they separatist the country, they organized armed forces, expanded local power, and weakened centralization. This was also an important reason for the demise of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Not everyone enjoyed the fruits of the prosperity of the Han Dynasty. The children of the poor are still poor, the confrontation between poor families and gentry, and the struggle between farmers and the powerful are all causing the Han Dynasty to decline and demise step by step.
Among them, the so-called small peasant economy and self-sufficiency manor system proposed by those great scholars of the bricks were the biggest drawbacks, and even affected the subsequent feudal dynasties.
Before the Emperor Liu Xie could figure out how to deal with it, Prime Minister Cao Cao said that this issue needed further court discussions. As a result, Liu Fang refused to give up and said bluntly that it was the best opportunity for fellow villagers in various places to express their opinions. Emperor Liu Xie should issue an edict like Xiao Guangwu to investigate hidden households in various places...
Many people present suddenly had a broken mentality, especially the emperor Liu Xie.
Emperor Liu Xie is not stupid either. He knows that this edict cannot be issued.
Although this edict was indeed beneficial to the Han Dynasty, and the issue of hidden households also affected the Han Dynasty's economy, if Liu Xie really issued the edict as Liu Fang advised, then wouldn't Liu Xie's original plan to bypass Cao Cao and gain reputation in the countryside, wouldn't the plan to collude with these opposition parties be completely lost?
But the problem is that Liu Xie is not good at saying anything, and he can't even scold Liu Fang. On the one hand, Liu Fang is also a member of the Liu family, and on the other hand, Liu Xie claims to be the second in Guangwu and revive the Han Dynasty again. Now Liu Fang says that Guangwu has done this and issued an edict to eliminate bad habits. Is Liu Xie worthy of opposing it?
In the extremely awkward situation, Cao Cao stood up and scolded Liu Fang with a calm face.
I asked someone to drag Liu Fang down, and then the agricultural ceremony carefully prepared by Liu Xie ended in such a hurry...
Wang Chang, who was a spectator, returned to the inn, which was somewhat ridiculous.
What is a tiger's beginning and a bad end? This is probably a wonderful reflection.
Wang Chang didn't expect that Cao Cao would be so light and light, and he seemed to be carefully planning, and then he hit Liu Xie's weakest link with a stick...
It's like a stick stuck in the axle of the vehicle being ready to set off. Although the stick is not big and cannot be completely destructive, it makes the whole car unable to move.
Even if Liu Xie dealt with that Liu Fang, what could he do?
Just a doctor who is a filial and honest man, he is also speaking grand words. Could it be that Liu Xie can still slap Guangwu in the face?
Wang Chang even felt that this might become an excuse for Cao Cao to restrain the gentry afterwards!
Although Cao Cao did not support Liu Fang's remarks at the moment, if these gentry were not aware of the depth and ruthless, would Cao Cao use this name to do something?
Oh, Prime Minister Cao is worthy of being a scheming person!
Wang Chang was indeed a little impressed by this.
During this period, Wang Chang had come into contact with many Shandong gentry members in Xu County one after another, but Wang Chang found that there were indeed great problems in the thoughts of these Shandong gentry members, and it seemed that it was more obvious in this celebration.
These Shandong gentry seem to be always shaking.
If these gentry and gentry can be completely united, no matter which side they support, the emperor or the prime minister, they will become the strongest opponents of the cavalry and the biggest threat, but the problem is that they cannot unite and will always be unstable.
So did Prime Minister Cao also realize this problem, so he has been continuously integrating during this period?
Wang Chang suddenly felt that this contradiction was the biggest gain he had gained from coming to Xu County this time.
As for this celebration, overall, Lao Cao was undoubtedly the biggest advantage, and almost nothing the emperor Liu Xie wanted could be achieved smoothly.
Some people expressed dissatisfaction with the emperor's celebration this time, believing that for Shandong, they should not invest too much in the border areas, so that they can concentrate on dealing with Guanzhong. As long as Guanzhong is pacified, the situation can naturally be restored and the country will be stable.
In fact, this is just a joke. The key is that such a joke can actually have many supporters!
Because at present, the nomadic peoples have been beaten to pieces and have no combat power at all. All nomadic peoples are very honest and are even afraid of the Han army's advance...
In addition to the white disaster last year, many tribes in the desert were unable to protect themselves. Those who wanted to go south to rob can't defeat the elite Han army such as Zhao Yun, and the rest could only compete with Cao's army. Therefore, overall, they did not consume money and food like the previous Western Qiang War, and only increased casualties.
So in fact, Shandong's treasury is empty and its money is in a dilemma, it actually has nothing to do with the desert and the north.
Moreover, if Cao's army really gave up the northern desert area, then Shandong would have only the Central Plains. Although Cao Chun and others did withdraw, it seemed that the army was more concentrated on the surface and the soldiers in the Central Plains increased, the next question was what Cao Cao would use to fight Fei Qian's cavalry?
Even if you can attack the infantry phalanx to push, what about the population and money that can be 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 soldiers are an astonishing value. Where will these food and grass come out?
Therefore, Cao Cao's strategy of using Youbei to train cavalry and use cavalry to control cavalry was the most cost-saving way, but he was pissed off by many gentry children in Shandong...
Chapter completed!