Chapter 80: Ding Ge

However, the wheel of history is not like this can block the ground (spread hands), and many chambers of commerce that secretly obeyed Shangyang imposed an embargo on the Anshi rebels in accordance with the instructions of Shangyang during the Anshi Rebellion, and the rapid defeat of the Anshi rebels also had a credit to many chambers of commerce.

After that, Xuanzong rewarded these many chambers of commerce, and the many chambers of commerce that made contributions to the country and the dynasty were no longer something that the bureaucrats could suppress at will, but could only restrict them, but the huge profits and cheap goods brought by commerce and manufacturing were slowly and profoundly changing the ancient Middle-earth Kyushu from the bottom up.

The expansion of the Tang Empire brought new trade routes and markets to commerce, huge commercial taxes began to increase year by year, and commerce became more and more valued by the ruling class, although the landlords still had a huge political advantage, and the traditional structure of thousands of years was not so easy to change.

However, compared with the meager income of agriculture, the huge benefits of commerce made more and more scholars and landlords begin to set up manufacturing industries on their own land, and Shangyang also instructed the chamber of commerce to transfer some technology to the scholars and landlords, and the scholars and landlords who tasted the sweetness inevitably changed from landlords to big merchants.

Compared with human beings, Shang Yang has a huge advantage, that is, he doesn't have to care about time at all, Shang Yang used these simple social laws to cultivate the Central Plains bourgeoisie with one hundred and fifty years, and then slowly pushed, they began to change the world.

Over the past 150 years, the merchants of Middle-earth have grown into an indispensable driving force for the country, and the great feat of forcing the Arab Empire to withdraw from Central Asia during the reign of Emperor Yuanhe of Tang Xian was facilitated by the Central Plains capitalist class.

The power of the Arab Empire in Central Asia caused the merchants of Middle-earth to be charged high taxes when they entered the territory of the Abbasid Dynasty of the Arab Empire, and the huge profits generated by the huge market in Central Asia were also greatly reduced.

This incident shows that the merchants of Middle-earth already have the power to influence the decision-making of the Tang Empire in High Heaven. Of course, the landlords of Middle-earth also found one thing in the trend of more and more people turning to manufacturing and commerce.

That is, serfs are much more cost-effective than hiring people to farm.

During the reign of Emperor Yuanhe of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Empire of Gaotianyuan used troops against the grasslands, Tibet, and the Western Regions many times, reduced a large number of captives to slaves, and became serfs of the middle landowners.

As a result of the land annexation, the homesteaders who lost their land were absorbed by commerce and manufacturing, and the landlords bought a large number of slaves to cultivate the large amount of uncultivated land held by the landlords.

Shang Yang did not change China, Shang Yang only used one hundred and fifty years to cultivate and strengthen the Central Plains capitalist class, and then the Central Plains capitalist class cooperated with the landlords and doctors to change the ancient China, so that the Tang Dynasty became the world's first empire beyond the rise and fall of dynasties.

This is also what Shang Yang wants to see, the balance of the two instruments.

Not only the use of the two instruments of the ability, Shang Yang also casually applied the idea of "two instruments" to his own layout, from this point of view, Shang Yang not only for the "two instruments" understanding, has been profound, but also, he also mastered the use of longevity for a long time, to slowly achieve their own goals.

This is different from the layout ability of human beings, because of their short lifespan, the layout needs to pay attention to timeliness. But Shang Yang, who has immortality, doesn't need this kind of timeliness very much, he just needs to make proper use of the laws of history, grasp the key nodes, and then sit back and wait for the long river of time to help him complete a qiē.

However, after all, it is a human society, and it is unlikely that a long-term state will exist, and the coordinated and antagonistic state of the Central Plains bourgeoisie and the scholar landlord class led by Shang Yang cannot exist for a long time.

After the death of the Middle Earth sage Tang Xianzong, the enthroned Tang Muzong and Tang Jingzong were mediocre, and the two generations of saints reigned for a total of only six years, and the Tang Wenzong who ascended the throne after him was also a virtuous monarch like Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, and Tang Wuzong and Tang Xuanzong after him were even better, but the strange thing is that the national strength of the Gao Tianyuan Tang Empire, which was fortunate to be enthroned by three outstanding saints in a row, increased and decreased under the rule of these saints.

The fact is also very simple, under the rule of the three sages of Tang Dezong, Tang Shunzong, and Tang Xianzong, the merchants of Middle Earth, who had accumulated great strength, reached out to the power of the Tang Empire in Takamagahara, according to the laws of history, at the end of Tang Xianzong's reign. The bureaucrats, supported by the capitalist class of the Central Plains, began to fight with the bureaucrats representing the scholars and landlords in the Hanyuan Hall of the Daming Palace in Chang'an, the center of the imperial government.

The Tang Empire of Gaotian Yuan finally ushered in a problem that was enough to lead to the demise of the dynasty.

Although the two previous saints Tang Muzong and Tang Jingzong reigned for less than six years, it was during these six years, because of the mediocre political methods of these two saints, the imperial power that was originally enough to balance the two factions did not play any role at all in these six years, and by the time Tang Wenzong ascended the throne, the struggle between the two factions had already heated up.

During the reign of Tang Wenzong, Tang Wuzong and Tang Xuanzong, the main energy of the three sages was to mediate the contradictions between the two factions, so that the Tang Empire of Gaotianyuan, which was actively expanding outward, experienced a long period of "conservative expansion", and the struggle between the two factions not only lies in the power of the Tang Empire, but also involves all aspects of the Tang Empire, and has a great impact on the lives of the people.

In fact, the struggle between the two factions led to a rebellion in the Silla homeland that was conquered during the reign of Emperor Yuanhe of Tang Xianzong, and after this rebellion of Silla, several small rebellions broke out in Central Asia, which had originally submitted to the edict of the sage, and there were some signs of instability.

And what's worse is that after the death of Tang Xuanzong, a Middle-earth sage known as "Little Taizong", Tang Yizong, who ascended the throne, was incompetent and Tang Xizong was absurd. During the twenty-nine years of the reign of these two generations of saints, the government was dark, the two factions were constantly fighting, the government decrees were chaotic, and even the hinterland of the empire rebelled.

In 889 AD, Li Ye of Tang Zhaozong ascended the throne and changed the Yuan Dragon Era, and 889 AD was the first year of the Dragon Era of Tang Zhaozong.

Before the young saint of Middle-earth, who was only twenty-one years old, was an empire that was unprecedentedly close to being torn apart by the struggle between the two major classes.

Shang Yang was looking forward to his choice, and now he had only three choices: first: to use extraordinary means to ease the contradictions between the two factions, and then slowly let the already powerful Central Plains capitalist class smoothly take over most of the bureaucracy of the empire; Second, it is to stand firmly on the side of the bourgeoisie in the Central Plains and sweep away the bureaucrats representing the traditional landlord and scholar class in the bureaucratic system by thunderous means, but in the face of him, it will be a frantic counterattack by the landlords and scholars, and rebellions large and small are completely predictable; Third: It is to stand on the side of the traditional landlord scholar class and suppress the Central Plains capitalist class, but this result can be completely known that the Central Plains capitalist class, which is ineffective in internal struggle, will choose to destroy the entire Gaotianyuan Tang Empire externally, and the already extremely weakened scholars and landlords will not last long at all, and in the end, the spokesperson of the Central Plains capitalist class will establish a new dynasty on the ruins of the Gaotianyuan Tang Empire.

China has a long history of thousands of years, and the Central Plains capitalist class born in it will not choose to change the dynasty until the last moment, not only because the members of the Central Plains capitalist class are also educated by Confucianism, but also because once the war is chaotic, business will be greatly impacted.

And even if the spokesman of the Central Plains capitalist class finally establishes a new dynasty, this dynasty is not a constitutional monarchy, but a feudal dynasty with a strong capital color, suitable for merchants, and thousands of years of tradition determine that this qiē must be so.

However, no matter whether it is a matter of course or a change of dynasty, no matter how the right to rule China is obtained, what can be known is that in this land of tens of millions of square kilometers, the struggle between the capitalist class and the landlords in the Central Plains will be extremely long, and even hundreds or even thousands of years.

Hawkers, but Shang Yang has no idea about this part of the development, killing An Lushan, who is a foreign race, and helping Xuanzong to pacify the Anshi Rebellion, not only for Shang Yang's plan in Dongying Yamato, but also for Shang Yang's loyalty to the Tang Dynasty, which represents one of the pinnacles of the flower family. And to inject the power of the ancient hometown of all Han families into China, which is enough to change the nightmare of the rise and fall of dynasties, it is Shang Yang who is repaying the favor to the flower grower who has raised him for decades, and to the Han civilization that taught him Han thoughts.

The north is deep, and the things are wide; Mingshui soup soup, destiny is boundless; The present is unhappy, and the dead die; Divide and combine, who understands the details; It will meet in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and the elegance is exquisite; Tianbao suddenly collapsed, and Zhu Wen usurped the Tang Dynasty; The sons of the Han family, bleeding and guarding the township; Both are majestic, and they are all reckless; Three officials and three farewells, a thousand years of broken intestines; There are commercial sheep in the world, and Shao continues to become a soup; made a brazen move, and An Shi died; and lead the tube, transcending the rise and fall; The six saints rule the world, unparalleled in the world; Dingge is approaching, where will it go; Millennium Kyushu, the hometown of China; The people of this party have been kind for thousands of years; What is the matter with reading the books of the sages?

May my Middle-earth be endless and prosperous; May my Middle-earth, forever and ever, be peaceful and serene.

PS: Writing here, the scene of the unparalleled Gao Tianyuan Tang Empire in the first eighty chapters is over here, how much Ning Chu hopes that our world line, the Tang Dynasty, and even Huaxia, just like Ning Chu's fantasy, will be smooth sailing, but the fact is that our world line, the Tang Empire, the peak decline, and the glory of the Han and Tang Dynasties will be gone. Although he was melancholy, although he was disappointed, and although he knew that it was impossible, Ning Chu hoped even more that from now on, the flower planter who had endured five thousand years of suffering could be prosperous forever, and could be peaceful and serene forever.