Chapter 272: Small Talk
Hu Zhong is a person with ideas, and when everyone was eating and drinking, he looked at Wang Lanling and asked a question.
"Lord Wang, what do you think of the current situation?"
Wang Lanling thought for a moment and quickly said, "I think something is wrong now. ”
"Now that all the officials in the world are doing business, I think this kind of thing will collapse sooner or later, and there are not many people in this world who have the money to buy things."
Originally, the overseas market was a good direction, but the two generations of emperors beat everything they could, and now there are not many living people in overseas places at all.
The economic pressure cannot be transferred, and the internal pressure is getting stronger and stronger, and the exploitation passed down from the layers of the aristocracy at the upper end of the pyramid will sooner or later be overwhelmed by the people below.
The people around are still the kind of people with strong blood, and these people will resist and make trouble when they are pressed hard.
Fighting the world and defending the world require different troops and strength.
Wang Lanling felt that sooner or later there would be problems in this country, but basically it would take many years to do it, and the majesty of the empire was still very strong, and many people were afraid of the power of the imperial court.
When Hu Zhong asked this question, he had his own opinion, and at this time he asked: "How do you think this situation should be solved?" ”
Musheng and the others also listened quietly, and sitting around the fire were not only several principals from Muzhou, but also Hu Guiqiao, Yin Wuwu and others.
Wang Lanling took a sip of special rice wine, squinted his eyes and said: "There is no problem to solve, there are many ways to transfer, now this matter is either to endure and pass, or to transfer the problem to others, in addition to saying that there is a way, it is to count on the people above to solve the problem they created." ”
Wang Lanling shook his head, "I can't drink enough, so let's drink slowly." ”
Mu Sheng quickly said to the people standing nearby: "Quickly make a cup of milk tea for adults!" ”
The man who was roasting the mutton next to him quickly stood up and ran to pour tea.
Milk tea is a special combination of milk, coarse tea, and mutton fat, and this and butter tea are not a kind of tea, but a kind of medicinal tea.
People in Muzhou use it to dredge the stomach, and after drinking, they will have diarrhea, and will wash down the worms and oil and water in the body, which can treat anorectal blockage caused by eating cereals for a long time, or gastrointestinal discomfort caused by greasy.
Wang Lanling knows this thing, and Aunt Jin has done this at home, specializing in treating the kind of outsiders who are not familiar with the place, and it is a standing drink for the problem of water and soil.
Seeing the golden man who made tea with hot mutton fat water on the fire, Wang Lanling continued: "Man is a very simple creature, for example, if our body is sick, then there will only be three simplest reactions, vomiting, diarrhea, and body fever. ”
"When the weather is cold, there is a cold and fever, that is, there is dirt outside the body, at this time, the body will protect itself, and will use the high temperature to burn small bugs and other things, and the small bugs will also become a meal on the plate."
"If you eat something bad, then either the stomach can't digest the things and spit them out, or the stomach doesn't care, and the intestines in the body will expel these indigestible things."
"If you want to say that this person is also a very fragile thing, a man like Shepherd and Shou You, who is not feeling well, can survive it, and a weak person like me, if it is not good for a few days, it will be a serious illness."
Mu Sheng and the others pondered Wang Lanling's words.
Wang Lanling continued: "At present, this matter is that more and more dirty things have settled to the bottom, whether to take a dose of fierce medicine to discharge it, or continue to endure it, no one knows." ”
Mu Sheng understood and said: "I am in good health, I am in the prime of life, naturally there is no problem, if I really can't go to the doctor, there are countless doctors in this official family, there must be a solution to the problem." ”
Wang Lanling nodded, "I think so too." ”
After finishing speaking, Wang Lanling said to the rest of the people: "The two of us talk, you can just listen, don't speak." We are all officials, and it is okay to say this, but if you participate, it is a false discussion. ”
Yin Wuwu and the others nodded quickly, not daring to say anything.
When Mu Sheng saw that Wang Lanling said this, he asked, "How do you think this problem should be solved now?" ”
Wang Lanling felt that Musheng was a person with higher education, and said: "The current problem is not the problem of taking medicine, this is not our responsibility, it is the brain that manages this." As for me, I am a shallow learner, and what I can do is not to let the problem block me here, and not to be the dirtiest one. ”
The shepherd asked, "How can I not be the dirtiest one?" ”
The empire has never been one, and there is no collective sense of sharing honor and disgrace with each other, so it is normal to kick the problem elsewhere.
Wang Lanling took a sip of rice wine, wiped his mouth and said: "Mu Shou is a person who does business, some things must be better than me, Mu Shou, you are also an official, so many things are also clearer than me." ”
"The problem of money has never been a problem, the problem is that after there is no money, everyone doesn't make trouble, then there is naturally no problem, and if it does, who do you say jumps the most?"
Mu Sheng thought for a while, and the first thing he thought of was the people of Muzhou, but he soon realized that it was not.
The poor are not greatly affected, and those in Muzhou City do not have many places to spend money, and most of them are trying to save some money to go home and live a good life.
The main places of expenditure are still casinos and brothels, smoke houses, etc., which are themselves gold-absorbing caves.
If the money is collected by those old men, then why is there a series of problems?
Mu Sheng thought for more than ten seconds and couldn't figure it out, and said, "I still don't understand. ”
Because money will give rise to rights, the transfer of assets.
The main assets of this era were concentrated among the upper nobility, and ordinary people did not deserve to participate.
When those with power have access to enough money, their rights and status drive them to convert the money into a higher level of influence, such as superior enjoyment and treatment.
This kind of comparison will be formed, and there will be two rich people in a county town fighting for wealth.
In general, there is still a lack of an effective regulatory system, not to mention now, even Wang Lanling has not seen a superior system that cannot fail to embezzle.
The money does not represent a number, but also represents a transfer of rights.
When the power in the hands of an official is replaced by money by the rest of the people, for example, an official can call a hundred people, but now 50 of these 100 people go to work for the rich and improve the life enjoyment of the rich people, it represents a lack of power.
When official position is no longer the only criterion, then officials will use their power to create matching wealth treatment.
If most of the money in a city is earned by a big person, then unless the other party is frugal and does not spend money, it will form a low-lying area, sucking resources from the outside into one's neighborhood.
If others can break this hole, then the people in the city can continue to live a good life together.
And this kind of person is basically a relative of the emperor and the country, and they are all the top configuration of the Jiang family, so they can't be defeated.
If you can't beat it, then you will live a hard life together.
Either continue to squeeze the people below, or gather at the feet of others to eat leftovers.
Since the concept of money appeared, the rich man is the original sin.
In the past, rich merchants were the target of repression, and now if they can't continue to suppress those who have them, then the empire will soon have some problems.
Normally, the law can restrain these rich people, but in this world, the relationship between the rich and the Jiang family is too close for the law to restrain them.
In the past, the merchants still had reverence for the law, but now the Jiang family and the privileged class have little reverence.
Mu Sheng can't see the essence of the problem, mainly because of the lack of hostility towards the Jiang family, people like Wang Lanling, who are naturally disgusted with the emperor, as long as they push the matter on the emperor's head when they encounter something, then they will definitely be able to find the reason.
"Drink tea, drink tea, let's stop here today, it's useless to say anything else, eat and drink to your heart's content, and have meat to eat at once."
Wang Lanling looked at the milk tea that was about to be boiled, and usually had to go to the toilet forty minutes after drinking tea, so it was time to leave.
The economic crisis is not a crisis or anything, as long as the problem is not too serious with him, he will not be too busy.
Heishui County is very poor, and the Jiang family refuses to come, so the economic crisis or something, it is a struggle between those Jiang family members and officials who have already gained a firm foothold, Wang Lanling does not want to participate blindly.
There have also been successful cases of inflation in history.
Crack down on local tyrants to divide the land, redistribute assets, let the currency go to the countryside, and the currency will be deposited into the hands of the vast number of rural people, so as to solve the problem of excessive currency issuance.
But are those Jiang family members willing to do this?
They naturally refused, and Wang Lanling also knew that they were unwilling, so he only needed to take care of his own land.
Even the emperor can't do this kind of thing, if he dares to do this, the Jiang family in the forty-three states will dare to rebel against the emperor.
Sacrificing a small number of people to save the majority is always coercive, not voluntary.
Wang Lanling's solution was to distribute the wealth of cattle and sheep to the people below, and strive to improve the wealth status of these people.
As long as the wealth of these people is higher than that of other places, then it is someone else who will be flooded.
The people of Muzhou can't understand Wang Lanling's means, and even if they do, they can't copy it, the situation in Muzhou is very special, and there is no such soil as Heishui County.
Heishui County can be said to be the right time, place and people, and if the rest of the places want to copy, first of all, there is no Jiang family!
Regardless of whether the Jiang family is a good person or a bad person, in the process of advancing the times, the Jiang family has gradually become the original sin.
The people of the Muzhou caravan can't understand this, and Wang Lanling's subordinates can't understand it, maybe when the Jiang family in the world becomes the target of public criticism in the future, they will realize how subtle what Wang Lanling said. (Recommended reading: Reading Files 2013)