Yan Pianqi shook her head and said, "Confucianism is not the same as Jinshi. You still think about it. ”

Jia Jiu said: "Jinshi is not Confucian? So except for the old lady and her relatives at home, I only went to Zhang's house and Liang's house. ”

Yan Pian said: "Zhang family? The Liang family? What did you say to Miss Leung? ”

Jia Jiu said: "Uncle Shi is referring to Prime Minister Liang's youngest daughter?" I understand. ......After a brief hesitation, Jia Jiu immediately told Yan Pianqian about the second part of his plan, and said, "This plan only has a rough framework now, and the details still need to be carefully considered, so I didn't dare to talk to Dao Kui." ”

What Jia Jiu didn't say was that on the issue of Jia pardoning Jia Lian, he once asked Daomen for help, but Daomen asked him to find a way to solve it by himself and didn't allow him to use "Jiuyang Tianjue". Under such circumstances, this plan to pass through the grassland naturally does not need to be reported to the Daomen at this time.

Jia Jiu didn't expect that Yan Pianji actually laughed happily: "Over the years, my Daomen has been pressed by the agreement of the year, if I have this plan, I will definitely be able to glorify the Daomen." Don't worry, this matter is on me, and I will go to see Daokui. ”

Yan Pian walked away in a hurry.

Under the female Luo in the breeze, Dao Kui was in a daze with green mountains in front of him, and when he heard Yan Pian's footsteps, he didn't turn around and said, "What's the matter, junior brother is here to be a lobbyist?" ”

Yan Pian said, "Senior brother, you and I both know the situation in this child's family. If his family thinks that it is beneficial to be able to get along with the Liang family, they are afraid that they will not allow him not to go. Where is he able to make his own decisions? ”

Daokui said: "Seeking the Tao has never been bumpy. How. Are you soft-hearted? ”

Yan Pian said: "If the senior brother is not soft-hearted, he will not stand under this female luo." However, today's senior brother guessed wrong. The junior brother is not soft-hearted. Instead, I hope that the senior brother can listen to what this kid discussed with the Liang family. The opportunity of the Daomen has come. ”

Dao Kui said: "Huh? Could it be that he has some big plans? ”

Yan Pian said: "Formally, and it is a good way for us to bypass the agreement of the year, which can be developed." ”

"Oh?" Only then did Dao Kui turn around: "Back then, my Dao Sect was calculated and made a very unfair agreement, and the master had been so obsessed with it that he couldn't break through to a higher realm before he was feathered. The elder brother is the one who has the most hope of fighting the other party and making the other party take back his fate. It's a pity that the elder brother is missing. I heard that over the years, there have been many disciples under the other party. But in my Dao Sect, the number of people is enough, but there are not many disciples who really stand out. This kid may have a lot of flaws. But there is no doubt about his talent in "Jiuyang Heavenly Formula". It's just that such a child with excellent qualifications actually had the shadow of Confucianism on his body before his Dao heart was stable, so what can I do in my heart? It's also to blame me for being too stubborn, if I had gone to Yuqing Mountain early, there wouldn't have been so much trouble. ”

Yan Pian said: "Senior brother is serious. Now. Does Dao Kui want to meet this child? ”

Dao Kui said: "That's it." Call the boy. ”

Jia Jiu, who was at the intersection of the small road, saw Yan Pianjiao waving to him from a distance, and hurriedly ran over with the book in his arms, and when he reached more than ten steps in front of Daokui, he stopped and tidied up his clothes slightly, and then walked over to salute Daokui.

Looking at Jia Jiu, who was half-kneeling in front of him, Dao Kui sighed and said, "Your Uncle Yan has said all the good things. I gave him a chance to plead your case. Tell me what you have planned. ”

"Yes."

Jia Jiu cleared his throat and said, "I used to listen to the elders in my family talk about the ancients. It is said that the customs of the people on the grassland are very strange. Take the Di people, for example, they are divided into eight large tribal alliances, and they fight each other to the death, but they still take good care of women and children, and even adopt the babies of rival tribes. And when those children grow up, they know that the tribe opposite is their biological father, and they still do not hesitate to swing knives at each other, even if that person is their biological father or brother. Comparatively, I'm much more xenophobic. ”

Yan Pian said: "You mean, if I have a big war with the Di people, if I lose the same population, it will take much longer for my Great Qi to recover than the Di people?" ”

Jia Jiu said: "Yes." What is fought in a war is consumption, and what is fought is who consumes energy. If we play one round and the opponent can play two rounds, then we have already lost three percent before the battle. I think this is one of the reasons why my Great Qi Ministers are reluctant to fight with the Di people. Because of the large losses and small gains, it is not cost-effective. ”

Yan Pian said: "This is only part of the reason. ”

Jia Jiu said: "Yes." But in my opinion, this is a very important reason. Even though the ministers in the court were not required to serve in the military, the people in their families were required to serve in the military. If there is a real war, their family may not need to be out, but their family still has to send their good sons to the border. Knowing that they can't be defeated, of course they will choose to protect their children in other ways, such as lobbying the king and relatives. Anyway, the ones who marry are royal daughters, so what does it have to do with them? It's just that in this way, I have less room to gather together. ”

Dao Kui said: "Space? ”

Jia Jiu said: "Yes, if the victory or loss of a war is a gain or loss on paper, then a series of results caused by the war will affect the living space of the two peoples. As far as the relatives are concerned, it seems that they have exchanged peace for a small price, but they just gave away women and some property, and they have exchanged the peace and contentment of the people without blood, which seems to be a very cost-effective deal. However, with a woman, there will be children, and if you have goods, you will be able to exchange for all kinds of materials, such as weapons, war horses, and armor, and with these, the Di people will be able to further threaten the border passes of our Daqi. If this is to be compared to a pond in winter, the Di people are the ice on the pond, and the people of our Daqi are the geese on the pond, when the cold winter comes, the pond is a little frost at the beginning, and then the frost thickens little by little, extending to the center of the pond in a particularly cold season, and even the center of the pond can be frozen. The geese that can't leave the pond can only paddle non-stop. But he didn't know that the splash he made was likely to turn into a piece of ice and snow. Those who try to trade peace for peace are like this goose, doing the last thing they can do, raising their enemies with their own hands. And gave their lives to each other. ”

"Winter will always pass."

"But geese that can't leave the pond are likely to die this winter. It won't have to be the goose next spring. ”

There is nothing more stupid than praying for peace to the enemy.

Dao Kui held his left hand weakly, let Jia Jiu get up, and said, "What about your plan?" ”

Jia Jiu said: "It's very simple, that is, we will make the ice and snow in this cold winter, and let Di people be the goose in this pond." Let's squeeze their living space. ”

Yan Pian said, "Impossible." If it's that simple, why isn't anyone doing it? ”

Jia Jiu said: "It's not difficult to say. It's not easy to say. As for why no one did it before, it was not because no one thought of it, but because the people in the world were not aligned. ”

Dao Kui said: "Oh? Tell me about it. ”

Jia Jiu said: "It bothers me Daqi people. It's just because the Di people come and go like the wind, and it is not easy to completely exterminate them. In fact, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty also did this, but in the end he had to give up because he had no way to actually govern this vast grassland. Take the fruits of your hard-earned victory in your hands in vain. So. If you want to take the grassland, it will not work to fight quickly, and the way you can use it is to encroach on it, and control every inch of the grassland in a down-to-earth manner. ”

Yan Pian said, "Impossible." Not to mention Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, even Qin Shi Huang did not do it. ”

Jia Jiu said: "Qin Shi Huang didn't do it, it was because after hundreds of years of civil war in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the vitality of Huaxia was greatly damaged, and even Qin Land was ten rooms and nine emptiness. The entire Central Plains became barren. It's so barren that you can't even find anyone to farm. As for Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, at the beginning of the founding of the Han Dynasty. The population was smaller than that of Qin Shi Huang, and the Han royal family and the princes and kings were constantly fighting. Even during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the population of the Han Dynasty still did not reach saturation. Under such circumstances, it would be empty talk to implement this plan. ”

Dao Kui said: "You mean that this plan can only be implemented when my Daqi population is saturated?" ”

Jia Jiu said: "Yes." This plan is useless for a country riddled with holes. Because the most important thing for a country that is riddled with devastation is to recuperate. At that time, there were few people in the land, and the court encouraged farming, so it was easy for the poor to get the land. The people of Daqi, whether they are civil and military officials or ordinary people, will never be able to fill their desire for land. As long as there is land, as long as there are subsistence rations, no one wants to fight. ”

Daokui said: "But now it's different. After nearly a hundred years of recuperation, a large number of new people appeared, and these people were in urgent need of land, and the families and magnates had already begun to annex land, and even accelerated the process of annexation. The common people did not have the ability to compete with the family elites, and if they did not depend on the family elites to live, they could only be displaced. ”

Dao Kui immediately remembered the past and took it on smoothly. How the magnates of the family devoured the land they could get their hands on, he had seen and heard a lot of tricks, and he was very familiar with them, even when he was a child, he had experienced a lot.

Jia Jiu said: "In this way, there will be contradictions. The imperial court needed to pay taxes to maintain the daily operation of the government yamen, but the powerful of the family enjoyed tax incentives. If the people have less land in their hands, and the family magnates have more land in their hands, the court will lose a lot of income in vain, and the conflict between the court and the family magnates will intensify. ”

Dao Kui said: "If the contradiction intensifies, it will cause disaster. ”

Jia Jiu said: "Yes." In my opinion, twenty years ago, the matter of the Wang family's daughter looked like a woman delusionally thinking about something that did not belong to her, but in fact, it was the court using this woman to play a game with the family, because of the contradiction between land and population. In fact, my plan is to absorb a large number of displaced people in the middle of this, relieve the pressure on the imperial court, and also alleviate the contradictions between the imperial court and the family. However, having taken in so many people, we cannot support them for a lifetime. In addition to asking for land from the grassland, the most important content of this plan is a new way for the people to make a living. ”

Dao Kui said: "What? ”

"Do you remember Zhuangneifang?"

"Shonaibo?"

Jia Jiu said: "Yes." Many powerful families have workshops on their villages. The farmers on the Zhuangzi are busy in the fields when they are busy with the farm, and they help in the workshop when the farm is not working? These workshops don't look big. In fact, a lot of labor is absorbed. Although in my Daqi, the craftsmen are lowly people, but the villagers on the Zhuangzi are happy to go to the village to help. And actually. The Zhuangzi of the Zhuangnei Fang was set up on the Zhuangzi, and the villagers were indeed a little better off than the Zhuangzi who purely relied on the sky for food. ”

Dao Kui said: "This is your plan?" ”

Jia Jiu said: "Yes, when it comes to the most fundamental thing, this is the most fundamental thing. It's just that I built the village in Gyeonggi for the first generation, and the raw materials were transported from the fortress at the border gate. ”

Yan Pian said: "If it's just like this, it's not much different from now. ”

Jia Jiu said: "The difference? Of course. First, the herdsmen are our Daqi people. will not come to rob our own caravans; Second, the grazing place is our Daqi grassland, and the grassland can not only graze on the grassland. It is also possible to grow medicinal herbs endemic to the grassland; Thirdly, the people of Yidi can only kill people with scimitars and do not shear sheep, while we Daqi people will only pick up knives and guns when the lives of ourselves and our fellow citizens are threatened. As for why the workshop was set up in Gyeonggi, it was to ensure safety from being robbed by the Di people. The second is to strengthen the control. Otherwise, the tail will not fall, and the princes will carry the Zhou and the yang and the yin will be repeated, as for this third point, it is naturally to reassure the court. ”

Dao Kui said: "So, if it is Banzai here now, you will persuade the imperial court to build a large number of cities on the grassland, right?" ”

"Yes."

"It's hard."

Jia Jiu said: "It's not very difficult. I have noticed a special building material. It is rarely used in the capital. But there are a lot of them on this Yuqing Mountain. ”

Dao Kui was stunned for a moment, and followed Jia Jiu's gaze to the stone he was sitting on. "You know this? ”

Jia Jiu said: "I don't know how this thing is called in the Daomen. I've only heard that calcining lime and iron slag is then mixed with clay to create a special gray powdery building material that solidifies even in water. In terms of hardness, he is not as good as the natural stone, nor is it as good as the Jingshi city wall built with glutinous rice juice. However, the scimitar used to deal with the Di people was sufficient. ”

Jia Jiu originally thought that he would have to find another way to make cement, but now it seems that he doesn't have to bother.

There are ready-made ones inside the door.

It's not unusual. Daomen, especially the Daozhen lineage, the vast majority of people are sword cultivators, so it is not surprising that there are special refining workshops in Daomen, and cement is an unexpected by-product of this refining workshop. When Daomen was maintaining Yuqing Mountain, it was very easy to use waste and use this by-product as a building material.

Just like the stone that Dao Kui was sitting on, it was actually just a large lump of cement, and after polishing, it was casually placed on the ground, becoming a large blue-black stone.

There are really a lot of such stones on Sanqing Mountain. Because of the blue-black color of iron slag, sword cultivators feel closer than other stones, so many people like to put one or two pieces outside their doors.

Dao Kui thought for a while and said, "This kind of thing is indeed very convenient to use to build a city fortress, and it is easy to transport and fast. As long as there are two or three fortresses that echo each other, those Di people who want to attack them will definitely pay a huge price. And after the city fortress, there is the pasture of my Daqi. That's your plan, right? ”

"Yes."

"It takes people, and not just two people, but many, many people. Only when people have no land and no way to live will they leave their hometowns to seek a living elsewhere. You just gather the people together and arrange for them to do things, and you can reap great benefits. ”

Jia Jiu said: "Yes, Dao Kui. ”

Dao Kui said: "Then why don't you tell me? You can't do without this building material in this plan, right? By the way, since you know that he was calcined with lime and iron slag, then you must know a better recipe, do you want to avoid the Daomen? ”

Jia Jiu said: "No, it's that the disciple doesn't know how to talk to Daokui." ”

"Oh?"

Jia Jiu said: "Dao Kui adopted the plan of his disciples to take in the people who were stranded in the Jingshi, which is no longer the treatment that ordinary disciples can get. The disciple wanted to beg Dao Kui to come forward and let Dao Men start paying taxes, plus this, the disciple didn't know what kind of rhetoric to use to persuade Dao Kui. ”

Dao Kui said: "This is what you discussed with Liang Lihua, the young lady of the Liang family?" ”

"Yes."

Dao Kui said: "Actually, you still have a thought in your heart, and that is the way of balance. The strength of Taoism has surpassed that of Buddhism and Confucianism by many times. If you do this again, I'm afraid that the imperial court, Buddhism, and Confucianism will all be helpless. So you can't find a reason to sue the door. Because if the Dao Gate continues to expand, it is likely to invite disaster. ”

Jia Jiu lowered his head and did not speak.

This was indeed one of the reasons for his hesitation.

Dao Kui said: "In this case, I know, you can go down." ”

"Yes."

Jia Jiu originally thought that he would be able to persuade Dao Kui with his three-inch tongue, but he didn't expect that he was overwhelmed by Dao Kui's aura and couldn't speak, and let Dao Kui dig out his plan.

He's still too tender.

When Jia Jiu disappeared, Yan Pian said, "Senior brother, looking at your appearance, you seem to be very happy?" ”

Dao Kui said: "Why can't you be happy? Among the new generation of disciples of the Daomen, how many people can see this? ”

Yan Pian said: "That's right." As he spoke, he bumped Dao Kui's arm with his elbow and said, "I said, senior brother, obviously you are already happy that you can't tell the north and the south, and you are still sitting upright, with your face so open, the words in your mouth are slipping and slipping, which scared the little girl so much that she couldn't speak." You're getting better at fooling people. ”

Dao Kui said: "Who made me his uncle?" It turned out that I was still doubting whether it was right or wrong for me to accept this child on behalf of my senior brother, but now it seems that I really didn't do anything wrong. It's a pity, it's a girl. ”

"Senior brother, you didn't care about this before."

Dao Kui said: "Senior brother, although Daozi doesn't care about men and women, if you want to become a Dao Zun or Dao Kui, men will take a big advantage." If it's a woman, I'm afraid I won't be able to convince the public. ”

Yan Pian said: "This is also true. If the senior brother and the senior brother were both women, they would have been married a long time ago, where would they stay on this mountain. Seeing Dao Kui's face drop and mentioning that Yuan Gong was going to beat him, Yan Pianqi immediately ran away.

"I said senior brother, I'm just talking about it. Whether this kid can practice all the "Jiuyang Heavenly Formula" is still two words. Besides, there is also the Sanqing Sealing Demon Sword on top of the "Jiuyang Heavenly Formula", do you plan to teach them all to this child? ”

Daokui was stunned for a moment, and finally let out a long sigh: "Alas~~" (to be continued......)