When the people of Chang'an expressed their trust in Liu Hong with their actions, and purchased food from the newly established lord of Shaofu at a price of 15 to 20 yuan per stone higher than the market price, and Chang'an Gaomen was panicked because of the previous Empress Dowager's decree and the successive 'murders', Liu Hong sat leisurely in the Xuanshu Palace, looking at the man in front of him with soft eyes.

If Lao Fengchang Liu does not doubt recognize this person, even if he is a member of the imperial party, I am afraid that he will inevitably have to face a court dispute, and he will advise Liu Hong to 'not forget the country'.

Because of this man's identity, he was despised by the Han family and even the vast majority of the Chinese feudal dynasty - Shangjia.

If you really want to talk about it, the notoriety of merchants was not too bad in the Spring and Autumn Period and even the Warring States Period not so far ago.

Bai Gui, who was evaluated as the 'ancestor of Shang' by Taishi Gong, creatively put forward the business concept of 'people abandon me and take me' in the distant Warring States Period, and used it to accumulate thousands of family fortunes.

Fan Li (lǐ), who is also recognized by some people, is the rich side after retiring and has become the prototype of the 'God of Wealth' believed by later generations.

As for Guan Zhong, who was also well-known in later generations, he even put forward the ideological proposition that 'if the country has more wealth, those who are far away will come, and if the land is opened, the people will stay, the warehouse will know the etiquette, and the food and clothing will know the honor and disgrace', which is extremely close to the ideological proposition of Capital!

Any one of these three people is enough to be regarded as an ancestor by Shang Jia and look up to them.

——Wei Xiang Baigui's ruling thinking of 'enriching the country with business' allowed the Wei State, which occupied a small land during the Warring States Period, but retained tens of thousands of standing field troops, and unbelievably implemented an ultra-low tax rate of 'twenty taxes and one'!

It must be known that the Han family, which now owns most of the Central Plains, has a tax rate of only 15 taxes; It is even more vain to talk about the Spring and Autumn countries, and even the 'violent Qin' that unified the world.

Doctor Fan Li helped Goujian, the king of Yue, to take revenge, pull the Yue country out of the abyss of the country, and push it to the hegemonic politician and military strategist.

Needless to say, in the Han Dynasty, the academic community still respectfully called Guan Zhong: Guanzi.

- You must know that in the Han family, even Zhong Ni is not qualified to do so, and is called 'Zi'!

If you are happy to be able to call Zhongni, even if you are very face--if you are not happy to say Kongqiu rudely, no one will care too much except for Confucianism.

Even in the edicts of Liu Hong and even the first emperor Liu Ying and Emperor Gao Liu Bang, there are many parts that quote scriptures from the book "Guanzi" to enhance the legitimacy of the regulations.

With so many ancestors as role models, the merchant class with rich life experience and abundant capital? Should have been an elite class? At least the pre-elite.

But Bai Gui, Fan Li, Guan Zhong, and even have a long-term vision? Out of pocket for the sake of business stability? Zheng Renxingao, who fully supported the cause of national defense, failed to become a role model for the merchant class.

Merchants? I chose an example that was so wrong that I couldn't be wronger.

——Jiang Ziya's twenty-third great-great-grandson, the founder of the miscellaneous family? The first prime minister of the First Emperor Yingzheng: Lü Buwei.

Whether it's Bai Gyu's people forsake me to take? People take me with', or Fan Li's 'loyalty to the country; Wisdom to protect oneself; Business to get rich and become famous in the world', or Guan Zhong, who put forward the concept of 'business warfare' more than 2,000 years before the West? They all lost to Lü Buwei, who was a 'strange commodity to live in'.

Lost Baekyu's mindset of 'governing the country with a business mindset'? Without Guan Zhong's proposition of 'striking the enemy with commerce', and also losing the broad vision of 'the skin does not exist, and the hair will be attached', the confrontation between the merchant class and society has become inevitable.

Who is changing today? It is absolutely impossible for Liu Hongdu, as the emperor, to personally meet a 'lowly household' whose household registration is still in business.

But the person in front of you? It is precisely among the merchants of the Han family today that the only businessman who can be received by Liu Hong in an open and honest manner: the lord of the Chang'an Tian clan? Tian Lan.

After the Beique of Weiyang Palace staged such a good show of 'avenging grievances for his father', Tian Lan is already in a sense? Replaced the historical position of the filial daughter Tiying? It has become a model of 'filial piety' in the Han family.

About the incident of Tian Lan hitting the drum? Just what Liu Hong has learned so far, there are already countless versions.

The ancient school, Jiajia, which gradually withered from the war in the late Qin and early Han dynasties, took advantage of the legendary events of Tian Lan to re-become active in Chang'an, the capital of the Han Dynasty.

Liu Hong even deliberately asked Wang Zhong to send someone to inquire about a version, and when Wang Zhong's face was weird, he said the almost fantasy painting style of 'Tian's filial son avenged his father', Liu Hong was dumbfounded...

What cornices and walls, what forces pull out mountains, are all secondary - in folklore, Tian Lan's incident has been interpreted as a myth like Meng Jiangnu crying down the Great Wall!

Judging from the national policy of 'ruling the country with filial piety', Liu Hong should be happy about this matter, and Liu Hong should be vigilant about the folk myth of Tianlan's merchants.

But this incident made Liu Hong have some new thoughts.

In the original history, merchants became officials only after Emperor Wen connived at the barbaric growth of private capital, coupled with the Han family's 'official official' policy, and Gongsun Hong, Sang Hongyang and other businessmen who were born in the business.

Now, the option of completely loosening the shackles of private capital was eliminated by Liu Hong from the 'Han family's plan for the next fifty years'.

Relying on the empty glove white wolf's official policy and extremely unfriendly public opinion, Liu Hong doubted that he would be able to see an elite like Sang Hongyang in his lifetime.

The appearance of Tian Lan provided Liu Hong with another choice: to create a god.

This method was commonplace in later generations: entertainment workers were packaged and dressed up by brokerage companies to obtain huge profits, and after a few years, they created new gods and continued to make money.

In this kind of last days of creating gods with assembly lines, Liu Hong gritted his teeth in later generations; But now, Liu Hong has a very interesting idea: since the brokerage company of later generations can package dramas to make money, why can't they package out an 'honest and benevolent' businessman in this Han family?

Today's Tian Lan doesn't even need Liu Hong to pack it - the political component of filial piety is definitely second only to the 'abundant children' in the Han family!

By packing Tian Lan to form a value system acceptable to the regime in the business community, the idea of keeping national security in mind for the sake of business stability like Xuan Gao is undoubtedly the best way for the business class to deal with it.

As a descendant, Liu Hong knew very well in his heart: if the country wants to be rich, it is absolutely impossible to leave commerce and trade aside; However, if private capital is allowed to pursue interests without the concept of family and country, it is likely to form a group similar to that of Jin merchants in the late Ming Dynasty.

The hatred of the rich buried in the depths of human nature, as well as the nature flowing in the blood of businessmen, will keep the merchant class on the opposite side of the whole society for a long time, thus accelerating the lack of national identity of the merchant class.

This problem also belongs to Liu Hong's experience of spending several generations of Han emperors to solve.

As for Tian Lan, it can be regarded as an attempt by Liu Hongdi to solve the problem of the confrontation between the merchant class and society from the root by gentle means, and to enhance the sense of national identity and national identity of the merchant class.

Liu Hong's requirements are not high, and there is no need for businessmen to really serve the country and the people like Guanzi, as long as most businessmen have the same sense of distress as Xuangao, it is enough.

Even if it fails in the end, there is no loss for Liu Hong - whether it is packaged or not, Tian Lan has become a living model of filial piety.

Even if it fails to change the values of the merchant class in the end, it is just a seed that has not blossomed.

"The grain price in Guanzhong is stable, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and Sect Master Tian can be said to have contributed a lot."

Without hesitating appreciation, Liu Hong put on his trademark smile and secretly looked at the best of the businessman's children in front of him.

For Tian Lan, Liu Hong's original senses were actually not very good: eager for quick success, extreme, high-spirited, etc., were all pasted on Tian Lan's head after the Dengwengu incident.

But everything that happened after that made Liu Hong a little surprised, and his senses for Tian Lan gradually changed.

Liu Hong successfully harvested a wave of people's hearts with Tian Lan's drumming and grievances, and completely solved the problem of grain prices in Chang'an.

Whether it is the 100,000 stone corn donated by Tian Lan resolutely when Shaofu sold grain and outside the north wall of Weiyang Palace, or Tian Lan's strong appearance to unify the grain business community later, all prove that Tian Lan is definitely a smart person.

If Tian Lan is really willful and impulsively beats the drum, then after the matter is completed, Tian Lan will inevitably choose to taoguang and gradually fade out of the field of public opinion, so as not to attract too much attention to her businessman status - especially the attention of Prime Minister Chen Ping.

But Tian Lan chose a path that was almost ruined, and she threw herself into Liu Hongdi's camp without intention, busy with Liu Hong's career, without caring about the gains and losses of interests.

Afterwards, Tian Lan, who was only in her twenties, stood up with great responsibility, enveloping all the panicked business people, and had the power to unify the business community in Guanzhong.

This happened in the capitals of the regimes, where the vast majority of rulers chose to slaughter meat or fatten it for their sons.

But Liu Hong found a trace of extremely wonderful possibility in two unrelated things.

Since Tian Lan unexpectedly unified the business community in Guanzhong, and the lord and lieutenant under the command of Shaofu also successfully pulled up the framework, then...

As a later generation, Liu Hong opened up a new path in addition to 'destroying the unity of the business community and adopting checks and balances': since it is unified, it can take less effort...

——Take this opportunity to directly bring the Guanzhong businessman group under the control of the system!

Officials and businessmen.

A dusty word from a distant era appeared in Liu Hongdi's mind.

Now that Tian Lan has faintly become the head of the business community in Guanzhong, if Tian Lan is made the first lord of the Duke...

Out of this consideration, Liu Hongcai turned a cold eye to Tian Lan's naked 'siege of the city', and even acquiesced to Wang Zhong, using this grain price incident to help Tian Lan clean up a group of thorns who did not want to be attached.

- The final result is a bit tragic: the entire grain merchant class is a thorn!

But that's fine, anyway, Liu Hong has already begun to promote the economic policy of 'state monopoly of grain', and the grain merchants will be gone if they are gone, and Liu Hong of the province will bother thinking about it in the future.

Thinking of this, Liu Hong looked at Tian Lan's gaze, and he couldn't help but bring a trace of anticipation.

——Dignified appearance, tall and long arms, although a little thin, but also a talent.

——The reputation of filial piety is also enough to make up for the political stain of 'merchant background'.

That's the head...

"In what name should Tian Lan be allowed to become an official?"

Seeing Tian Lan bowing her head respectfully, Liu Hong couldn't help but fall into thought.

Different from later generations, most of the feudal period, especially the Han dynasty where ritual music had not yet completely collapsed, paid special attention to 'teachers are famous'.

When it comes to political rules, it is the 'uninterrupted' of those in power.

Taking Liu Hong's worship of Ling Mian as Lang Zhongling, for example, in the political rules at this time, it is a typical 'famous division' - Chai Wu is an old and general retires, and Chai Wu's successor Ling Mian is recalled to the central government for inspection, and adds some experience, which is in line with political rules, and courtiers and officials cannot make mistakes.

So what is not politically correct?

- Suppose Liu Hong inexplicably named an unknown officer and wanted to worship him as Jiuqing for no reason, this is a violation of political rules.

In layman's terms, no matter what Liu Hong does, he can't make an attitude of 'you don't need to know why, just do it', but give a reasonable explanation, so that the courtiers and officials can deeply understand the causes and consequences of this arrangement, and completely expose the political intentions in front of the courtiers and officials.

And now, Liu Hong plans to appoint Tian Lan as the first lord and lieutenant, if it is a direct edict and coldly says, 'From today onwards, Tian Lan will be the lord and lieutenant, and everyone will cooperate in the work', it will be a violation of political rules.

In a narrow sense, Tian Lan will be labeled as a 'fortunate minister' from now on, because when there are departments to communicate, they will also encounter some deliberate difficulties.

- What is Xingchen?

At first glance, you are fortunate to be in a high position without qualifications!

This kind of thing happened occasionally, and the impact on Liu Hong was not very great, and the courtiers would understand it as the emperor's normal installation of henchmen and cultivation of henchmen.

But if it happens often, it is likely to make the courtiers and officials have a wrong guess: Your Majesty is dissatisfied with the court and wants to be completely replaced?

At that time, the court will be filled with a negative atmosphere, and everyone will be in danger; In a more serious way, it may even lead to the paralysis of government departments!

-- Non-violence and non-cooperation also belong to the wisdom of the ancient Chinese.

"Sect Master Tian is a great talent, I think that he should become an official to serve his family and country."

"That is, if you enter the office, it is inconvenient for Sect Master Tian to keep a business registration."

couldn't think of a reason, so Liu Hong had no choice but to put the matter aside for the time being, step by step - let Tian Lan change her household registration back to agricultural first.

——Even if she has now become a 'filial son' praised by public opinion, Tian Lan must also enter the ranks as a farmer!

Otherwise, the Han family's national policy of 'agriculture-oriented' will be shaken.

It is true that in the entire Chang'an and even in Guanzhong, the vast majority of people know that the Tian family is a businessman, the courtiers and officials are clear, the princes and ministers are clear, and Liu Hong, who is the emperor, is also clear.

However, in order to avoid the risk of 'possibly shaking the capital', it is better to try to avoid the occurrence of 'directly entering the official with business registration'.

Regarding Liu Hong's arrangement, Tian Lan did not show much emotional fluctuations - long before the price of grain rose again, Wang Zhong had already vaguely penetrated the wind to Tian Lan.

So in fact, Tian Lan's appearance in Weiyang Palace today has actually proved that he agreed to Liu Hongdi's arrangement.

Although it is said that in the face of Liu Hong, who is the emperor, Tian Lan, as a businessman, has no other choice...

"Thanks to Your Majesty's kindness, even if the people die, it is not enough to repay Your Majesty's kindness."

"However, the people came from a vulgar and lowly industry, and they did not dare to ask His Majesty to pardon the people and merchants..."

Hearing Tian Lan's words, Liu Hong subconsciously frowned slightly, and then listened to Tian Lan and said: "The minister is vulgar and lowly, Xin has the grace of His Majesty, and I am willing to scatter all my family, take donation as a husband, serve Your Majesty, and work with filial piety." ”

"If the people are lucky and have some meritorious deeds, Your Majesty can pardon the people and merchants as a reward."

"The people are vulgar, the words are rude, the king is disrespectful, and the crime deserves death..."

After saying that, Tian Lan bowed her head resolutely, waiting for the judgment of fate.

Looking at the voice prostrate in front of him, Liu Hong was stunned for a long time, and finally couldn't slow down...

- What the hell! Is it a businessman who is evaluated as having sores all over his body, pus on the soles of his feet, and only knowing how to expel benefits?

This is simply a bureaucratic billet of just the right size and length!

Let's not care about political means, just with this rainbow fart technique, Tian Lan will be able to mix like a fish in water in the officialdom of later generations!

In just a few words, the huge amount of information revealed made Liu Hong sigh at the young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes in front of him, faintly exuding a sense of determination!

Liu Hong has faintly promised to move Tian Lan from business to farmer, this alone is an absolutely irresistible temptation in front of any businessman!

——The former Guanzhong business giant Anling Du clan, until the moment when his family was ruined, he couldn't get the coveted agricultural status!

With such a big temptation, Tian Lan was stunned without blinking her eyelids, and said 'shameless', and when she had the gesture of giving credit in the future, she gave up freely!

What can make a human being resist the temptation that cannot be refused?

Greater temptation!

The second half of Tian Lan's sentence secretly revealed his ambitions, and at the same time, he also faintly showed his ability to figure out the Sacred Heart.

'If you have some meritorious deeds,' what is meritorious service?

Wu Xun!

Tian Lan vaguely expressed that she 'doesn't care if you are a merchant or not, I thought that Your Majesty was charging into battle' and didn't say it first; only the first time she saw Liu Hong, Tian Lan had already guessed Liu Hong's ambition: raise troops to the north, and the horse stepped on the grassland!

- Except for the head of the Huns, there is nothing that can be called a 'meritorious service' in the Han family at this time.

In just a few words, Tian Lan showed her talents, confessed her ambitions, and won Liu Hong's trust at the same time, she also patted enough horses...

Such people will generally be labeled as hypocritical and cunning in the future generations.

But after the ass sat on the throne, and then looked at this kind of bureaucrat, that feeling, Liu Hong really couldn't express it in words...

- Boss, another dozen such bureaucrats!

If the three princes and nine secretaries are all bureaucrats like Tian Lan, then the officialdom will inevitably be filled with unhealthy tendencies; But if the grassroots management is all people like Tian Lan, then Liu Hong doesn't have to worry about centralization at all!

- Such a person is perfect for a knife!

Look at Tian Lan at this time, how does Liu Hong really like it; There is also a slight resonance for the doubts that Emperor Han Jing likes cool officials.

- Let's not talk about whether the knife is good or not, he's sharp...

Even if it is possible to cut yourself, you can't help but throw down the stick!

Thinking of this, Liu Hong also made up his mind and no longer struggled with the name of Tian Lan's entry.

"Wang Zhong, go and tell the left minister: Chang'an Tian's sub-column, sincere and filial, can be described as a masterpiece; If such pure filial piety people are not used, how can our Han family talk about filial piety to govern the country? ”