Anyone who wants to promote policy reforms is either the emperor himself or a powerful minister with sufficient power, and is flawless.

When the policy is in operation and needs reform, there will inevitably be many [Cain Industry] who rely on the policy to survive. They are the natural enemies of reform.

Even if the emperor touches their interests, he will have a headache.

Because as long as you are a human being and are willing to sacrifice your life, you have the right to rebel and turn the table up.

Except for the founding emperor who held power throughout his life without fear of any challenges, other emperors had to consider whether the power in their hands was enough. If it was not enough, it would be difficult to say the result.

But if it is a powerful minister, it will be even more difficult. In addition to gaining the trust of the emperor, it also has to face the infinite firepower attacks and endless frame-up and slander from interest groups.

Say you are corrupt, say you are corrupt, say you are disregarding human life, say you are lawless, say you are lustful, say you are greedy for alcohol, say you have problems with your sexual orientation, say you have improper relationships with your relatives, etc.

Even if you die, you won’t let you go. Anyway, people live with just a mouth. If you die, they can frame you and get rid of the coffin in the middle of the night and commit adultery. When you finish, you will go back and lie down and die on the spot. Isn’t it just a mouth?

So if you are not strong enough, clean enough, or neat enough, then don’t think about promoting reform.

Even if it is just a small reform, it will be a passionate match with the [Cain Industry].

The more the number of canal workers, the more difficult it is to reform and the higher the chance of failure. When the number of canal workers reaches a certain level, it is not something that can be solved by reform.

Want to revolution.

Although Mao Jie did not have a subjective sense of reform and what he did was just for his own future, objectively, he led the first reform action of the Wei Empire.

In addition to the traditional agricultural economy, a certain commodity economy is developed above the agricultural economy, injecting economic vitality into underdeveloped agricultural areas, and in a certain sense loosens the development of commercial development.

This is a primitive state of developing a model according to local conditions.

Therefore, Mao Jie is not challenging the interest groups in the general sense, he is challenging a rigid thinking.

A kind of conservative thinking that emphasizes agriculture and suppresses commerce to the extreme, extreme contempts business and even develops to the point where no new things are allowed to appear.

The power of this conservative force is not only reflected in the economic level, but also in the political and cultural level. It not only exists in reality, but also in people's hearts, which is more difficult to deal with than interest groups.

So if Mao Jie is not clean enough, he will be knocked down every minute, criticized and killed to warn the monkey, and severely warns those who are later - don't think about innovation.

Only when Mao Jie is clean enough can he withstand the first round of offensives of the old school, otherwise he will not be able to even withstand the first round.

After understanding Guo Peng’s meaning, Ma Bo said he had been taught.

"So, Mao sent the king through the crisis safely and safely, continued to adhere to the new policy, and asked all counties to follow suit. Later, Wang Can, Secretary of the Ministry of Finance, submitted a statement, saying that the new policy of Liangzhou is quite visionary. If he could try it, he might have unexpected gains.

The news came to Liangzhou, and the officials from all over the country breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that they would not be criticized for doing so. This matter was really implemented. In addition to Dunhuang County and Wuwei County, the other counties also began to implement Mao's plan.

After that, now, all counties have established policies that are mainly commerce and agriculture as the auxiliary, setting up restaurants and hotels in the city, and ordering a large number of agricultural products in farms outside the city to provide them to merchants to increase their income. Over the years, it has indeed achieved great results."

Guo Peng laughed.

"I know, so I asked Wang Can to submit a letter and support him. Without the nodding permission and support from the people in the court, the minds of Liangzhou would not dare to do it.

This matter is too much to do with it. Mao Jie can't stand it alone. If there is a problem, everyone will be unlucky and they will not be able to bear the official position."

"The Supreme Emperor is wise."

Ma Bo bowed and said: "Now that Liangzhou is thriving in business, some of this money has been invested in the farms outside the city to help them reclaim more wasteland and expand the scale of production. Now the agricultural production in the counties of Liangzhou has improved greatly compared to the eight years before Yande."

"This is the benefit, the benefit of commercial innovation is visible to the naked eye."

Guo Peng picked up the tea bowl and took a sip, and said slowly: "If you can benefit more people, you can achieve a virtuous cycle. Business development will feed back to agriculture, agriculture can also develop, and farmers can make money, but..."

"but?"

Ma Bo looked at Guo Peng.

"Everything has two sides. There is no absolute thing. One thing has a good side, and one must also see the bad side and look at it dialectically."

Guo Peng put down his tea bowl and looked at Ma Bo: "Liangzhou, including the Western Regions, can develop almost entirely by commerce. The number of merchants and the number of orders is large, which supports the development of the Western Regions and Liangzhou, and can now drive the development of Yongzhou.

But you must be clear that the reason why these merchants appear in large numbers is that the Kushan and the Retire Kingdoms in the west need our goods. Their powerful and wealthy merchants ordered our goods, so many merchants would come here.

Everything seems to be fine, but once something happens to the Kushan Kingdom or the Abnormal Kingdom, what problems will happen to them, resulting in the disappearance of the powerful and wealthy merchants who are willing to buy our goods. What will happen here?"

“……………………”

Ma Bo was stunned for a while.

He really didn't expect that to be that far.

"The Supreme Emperor, will this... have a great impact?"

"It can even be a devastating effect."

Guo Peng looked serious: "If the powerful and powerful businessmen are gone, there will be things happening in the Kushan Kingdom and the Anxue country, such as what happened in the late Han Dynasty here, do you think there will be so many merchants coming from the west and going to the west?

They don’t come anymore and don’t have money to send it here. Who does our shop do in? Who sells wine to the wine shop? Who will live in the hotel? Who will eat grain? Who will buy silk lacquerware, porcelain and tea?"

Ma Bo thought for a moment and was shocked.

To be honest, his level cannot tolerate him thinking about these national strategic issues, and he himself did not take the initiative to consider the connection between the two.

He just looked at the present and constantly guided merchants developed in the city to sign agreements with the military farms outside the city to sell the surplus agricultural products outside the city to the city, allowing farmers to make more money, and allowing merchants to sell more and pay more taxes.

With his status and status as a county magistrate and his own credibility as his responsibility, he called on everyone to sit down under his presidency, have a face-to-face conversation, be kind and happy, and then signed the agreement.

Then what should be paid is paid, what should be delivered is delivered, and what should be done is done business.

Farmers can actively reclaim wasteland and expand production scale when they have money. Merchants can also expand the scale of stores when they have money. The government can also provide more public services when they collect more taxes, and achieve healthy development in three aspects.

Then officials can let the court pay attention to their political achievements and give themselves the opportunity to go to a higher level.

I haven't thought about it before, and I don't have time to think about it.

He traveled back and forth between counties and farms every day, discussing, matching and witnessing their cooperation, and enjoying this, and being so busy that he didn't even have to eat.

He was definitely a diligent prefect, but he never thought about this issue.

Once there are not so many business trips, who will do the restaurants and hotels in the city?

To whom are the surplus agricultural products in the out-of-city farms that have finally expanded their production?

Who can afford this part of the transaction amount?

Obviously, there will be big problems.

He absolutely could not imagine how much damage this world-wide economic connectivity would bring to the outward-oriented economy, because he had never experienced it, and this link did not exist in his consciousness.

This situation will even span thousands of miles of seas and more than ten years, bringing a butterfly effect.

For example, the Bozhou Battle, one of the three major battles in the late Ming Dynasty.

One of the important reasons why the Yang family in Bozhou rebelled was that the Spanish, who had been delivering silver to the Ming Dynasty, was over.

The Spanish Invincible Armada was killed by the British, and the Spanish were no longer here.

The Spanish were an important contractor of the outward-oriented economy of the Ming Dynasty. The Spanish stopped coming, and some of the influential Bozhou products could no longer be sold.

Some of Bozhou's specialties were very intimate products at the time, but the Spanish were finished and there was no silver to be sent, so they could not be sold.

The accumulation of products led to lack of money, but Yang Yinglong also wanted a lot of money to live and rewarded others to maintain his rule. He had to rob him everywhere, which intensified the conflict between Bozhou and the central government and directly triggered the Battle of Bozhou.

During the period of flooding, everyone's conflicts can be covered up by a prosperous economy, and you can make money. Hello, I, Hello, everyone, it is really good.

No matter how big the conflict is, for the sake of Baiyin, he can walk hand in hand with him.

Once the economy goes down and the money is gone, the hidden contradictions will no longer be controlled.

In the past, if you eat more, I will eat less so that you won’t starve to death and your life will continue, so we will be more harmonious with each other.

But now if you eat one more bite, I will starve to death. How can this work?

Let’s start the war!

So social conflicts broke out instantly.

An economic crisis can trigger large-scale wars.

Who would have thought that the demise of the Spanish Invincible Fleet could affect the economy of the Ming Dynasty, and it would be ignited thousands of miles apart and nearly ten years long, and it would have been a success in the Bozhou Battle.

Similarly, this will also trigger Guo Peng's thinking.

Will the collapse of Kushan or Aisi trigger an economic crisis in the two prefectures of Yongliang and the three prefectures of the Western Regions, and thus affect the booming economy of the entire Wei State?

Will their unrest lead to a large-scale economic crisis in the Wei Empire, thus affecting the stability of the Wei Empire?
Chapter completed!