Section VII
For Lin Feng, this New Year is indeed not a pleasant one, although in terms of Chinese tradition, the Spring Festival is a big relaxation, but this does not include politicians, in fact, Lin Feng himself did not realize this at the beginning, originally in his plan, this Spring Festival he should accompany his wife Ake, find a random place to visit, such as a garden or "micro-service private visit" can be, or work together to create a prince and princess and the like, but then a series of events forced him to cancel this vacation, obviously, He forgot that we Chinese have another name for the Spring Festival - Nian Guan, and Nian Guan means to calculate a series of things that happened last year.
The first crow is Li Guangdi, the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, who has just entered the wax moon, this bastard who doesn't know the times can't wait to come to the door to report the funeral, but now it is definitely not good to turn this kid away, in fact, when Lin Feng saw his prime minister's declining heart, he also softened, in fact, he himself also understands that the government is more difficult this year, in addition to a lot of unreassuring reforms, there are also a lot of problems with the traditional projects in the territory.
In just two years, the prime minister who has not been confused has already stepped into the sixtieth birthday in advance, because of the relationship between the usual daily meeting, Lin Feng did not notice this, and when he saw Li Guangdi when he said goodbye to the old and welcomed the new, Lin Feng suddenly saved this problem, remembering the first time the two met, Li Guangdi was handsome and young, lupine scarf, and burned the Manchu Dynasty in a laughing and laughing, what a high-spirited man, and when he took over Kangxi's baton, the cumbersome and heavy government affairs crushed this Han Wangxiang, The previous young man was born early, and his originally strong body was as thin as a dried shrimp at this time, his wide and majestic official uniform was wide and wide on his body, his two eyes were deeply sunken, his face was flushed with an unhealthy earthy yellow, and his expression was very tired.
There was no surprise that something was really wrong with the government, and after listening to Li Guangdi's report, Lin Feng realized that the matter was far more serious than he had expected.
This sharp contradiction erupted from the recent relief of displaced people. In fact, before Lin Feng accepted Gu Yanwu's request for help and ordered a limited amount of help to the population, there has always been a wave of immigrants in the territory of the Han army, Lin Feng did not expect that since he promulgated the decree of preferential treatment of industry and commerce, and personally supported Hu Mingren's "Hu Ji Tiexing" group, officials at all levels, landlords, and big businessmen have gone up and down, and in this short period of time, the industrial and commercial mergers in the Han government area have reached the most **, because they occupy a strong position and wantonly bully and oppress the handicraftsmen of the lower classes. In addition to colluding with some Han military officials, many people even bribed and organized underworld gangs to force those scattered artisans and workshop owners to sell their properties, during which cases of murder, fraud, and robbery emerged one after another, and all kinds of methods were outrageous. endured their harsh exploitation, while other unwilling bankrupts emigrated to the Nurgan region of eastern Liaodong.
In this drastic reshuffle, these "unemployed vagrants" posed a threat to the rule of the Han government several times, and when Lin Feng was originally crusading against the Eight Banners of Manchuria, in addition to organizing complaints and petitions, these people also hired Xiucai several times to write "submissions to the imperial petition", and thousands of people gathered in a protest demonstration, which slowly brewed into a riot, and in response to such a grim situation, Li Guangdi had to go to the Metropolitan Procuratorate to ask for help, with the help of Chen Menglei's two brigades of the guards, The Han government carried out several large-scale repressions against these bankrupts, including hundreds of beheadings, beheadings, and beheadings, and countless other canes, whips, and exiles, and after bloody and brutal mass killings, this workers' revolt that almost caused great social unrest was reluctantly suppressed, thus ensuring the smooth progress of Lin Feng's foreign war.
In addition, these industrial and commercial groups were also in chaos with each other, and in order to compete for market share, they often fought with each other, and even bought murders and deliberately set fires, creating a large number of vicious public order cases for the Han military government, making the already turbulent city even worse.
Li Guangdi was at a loss for what to do, he was not a man of inability, in fact he was a man of many heroes in today's China, and this situation was something he had never encountered, and he never thought that he would deal with such a thing in the future. Although he is a scholar who reads poetry and books, he is not old-fashioned, if he is old-fashioned and winter baking, he will not actively participate in the rebellion against the Qing Dynasty, on the contrary, in addition to writing well, memorizing books well, filling in poems well, playing the zhengqin well, and writing eight strands of literature well, he is also proficient in the art of the emperor, can read through history, know the rise and fall of ancient and modern dynasties, is familiar with the operation of government agencies, and is also very good at financial management and grain, all in all, he is the most typical Confucian elite in Chinese tradition, both "general learning" and " economy".
At present, dozens of large chaebols have been formed in the territory of the Han government, among which the most powerful is the Jinhui chaebol headed by Xu Danyang, the former president of the Jinhui Chamber of Commerce - this model Lin Feng is very familiar with, and the financial oligarchy formed by the collusion between banking and industry and commerce; The most powerful is the military chaebol organized by the children of the Han army - it sounds very strange, very much like the samurai group in Japan, in fact, the formation of this group is still promoted by Lin Feng, after the capture of Beijing, Lin Feng immediately issued a preferential treatment of military dependents, ordering all industrial and commercial shops in Beijing to unconditionally make profits to the military dependents of the Han army, this group of people took advantage of this policy loophole, taking advantage of the social turmoil at the time of the crazy price increase of grain and oil to buy and sell hoarding, although in the end the Han government corrected this policy loophole in time, But they also completed the primitive accumulation of capital by doing so; And the most widely connected is the original big landlord group, especially represented by the "Hu Ji Tiexing" invested by Lin Feng - this group of people occupies a large number of real estate, mines, and at the same time occupies a large part of the fixed market share, the power is deeply rooted in the local area, in order to cope with the vicious competition of the first two types of chaebols, they also have to unite to communicate with each other, and at the same time use the relationship between Hu Ji Tiexing and the urgent need for mineral raw materials to climb the big tree of Hu Mingren - as we all know, Hu Ji Tiehang is the industry of the Han King, At the same time, it is also the main supplier of military equipment, who dares to grow hair on the side and swatt flies on the head of tigers?!!
Although Lee Kwang-di had pleaded with the lord at the beginning to ask for the policy to be changed back to the traditional farming, but the world is not as expected?! Once an industry that has been shackled for centuries is put on the track, how can Lee Kwang-di be easily single-handedly reversed?! At the beginning, the prime minister was also ambitious and determined to turn things around, but after only a few cases, he had to be forced to face the reality, because the relationship between these chaebols and the Han military government was too close, so close that you have me, I have your flesh and blood, no matter who you shoot, it is equivalent to cutting meat on yourself.
And the most perplexing thing for Li Guangdi is that the economy of the Han army's territory has not collapsed, and the embarrassment of his imagination of "no acres of farming, no land, no place for the people to live, and no livelihood and industry" has not appeared, on the contrary, the market in the Han army's territory is unprecedentedly prosperous, although it is still in the war period, but the prices of various living materials such as salt, iron, sauce, and cloth are two percent lower than in the early years of Kangxi, and the great bankruptcy of the handicraft industry has not affected the vast rural areas, and the natural economy of the original small peasants is still maintained very well. The large-scale organized production of the big factories has not yet been able to exert a sufficient impact on the natural economy, so in this case, the first few workers' uprisings will be suppressed by Chen Menglei's thousands of guards. In Chinese society, it would be a joke for the working class to do something on their own if they could not ask the peasants for help.
On the one hand, there is a violent social upheaval, and on the other hand, there is a prosperity of goods and goods. Obviously, Confucius did not explain how to deal with this kind of thing, neither did Mencius, and Zhu Xi's second Cheng Wang Yangming played philosophy. So this strange and strange phenomenon makes the scholars in the north and south of the river dumbfounded, in fact, not to mention these Confucian scholars, even if it is Lin Feng, he has never thought of such a situation, although he knows that there seems to be such a strange thing as people eating sheep and sheep eating people in the embryonic period of capital, but it is a history textbook after all, when it is really their own face, but they always feel weird, how other countries do is one thing, but China does this is another thing, this kind of traditional capital grown in the soil of Confucianism is obviously very different from other countries, Now they are tightly tied to the big tree of the Han armed group, tightly tied to the emerging Han Empire, and tightly tied to Lin Feng. It's really a historical joke, they didn't sprout and grow because of social progress, but a by-product of Lin Feng's struggle for China and domination of the world.
It's like a freak.
Lin Feng didn't know what to do.
Things are no longer under his control, in fact, this thing is very much like a dynamite bag, all the things he has done before are just to ignite this fuse, and then it explodes, destroys the world, or opens up the world, it is not within his power. Now before him are some very real problems: first, the bankrupt handicraftsmen are unemployed, and they need to be resettled, whether they go to the big factories of the chaebol or to the newly conquered northeast region, they have to be given a job; Second, according to Lin Feng's estimates, judging from the current development model, the markets of Zhili and Northeast China under the control of the Han army will obviously be crowded, and if these capitals compete viciously with each other in the narrow market, resulting in a defeat for both sides, these landlords and businessmen who have just entered the road will definitely lose confidence and return to the traditional mode of production, thus triggering a large-scale economic recession -- this is a fatal blow, if this problem cannot be solved, the Han army group does not need others to attack, and it is very likely that it will collapse.
Come to think of it, it seems that only war can solve this problem.
It is very similar to the soldiers who followed their own lives to fight, these people hope to be able to follow Lin Feng to make a big comeback, when the occupation of the whole of China Dingding Shenzhou, according to the traditional dividend distribution law, Lin Feng can be the emperor, they can be the prince and the marquis as the general, and the wife and son can establish immortal achievements; And this group of chaebols can certainly only be solved in this way, as part of the close rally around Lin Feng, they should be able to follow in the footsteps of the Han army to develop business and expand the market, and enjoy the privilege of competing with other local capital, by exploiting other provinces to enrich themselves.
However, these solutions are just some plans, in layman's terms, it is called "talking on paper", Lin Feng himself is not very sure, in fact, he can think of this trick is only to learn from the experience of China's reform in later generations, when the government was able to sacrifice the whole of China to fatten a few special zones, then it should be no problem to follow and learn by yourself, of course, there may be some difficulties in policy operation, but as long as the general direction is set, it will basically not produce a fundamental danger.
If there is a fundamental danger, then there is another one at present, and in fact, this is the second problem that is now plaguing Li Guangdi. Speaking of this matter, the responsibility is also on Lin Feng, when he promised Gu Yanwu for help, after opening some border passes to select young people to enter, these people gathered in several state capitals on the border to make trouble, in fact, Lin Feng's order is indeed very bastard, there are old and young, and they came all the way to the Han army territory to find food, which was miserable enough, and after finally getting the permission of the Han army to enter, they had to accept the torture of abandoning their families and children, and many of the people who agreed to the conditions were really hungry at that time. In order not to starve to death, he left his children to enter the border, and after drinking a few bowls of porridge, he immediately repented and asked the Han government yamen to let their parents and children in.
This matter is now very gunpowdery, you know, according to the concept of the Chinese, giving up filial piety is a very, very serious crime, more condemned by public opinion than theft, robbery, rape and prostitution, and now Lin Feng feels the pain of patting his head again, in fact, this policy is indeed the product of his whim - the imagination is indeed very perfect, lose the burden, get a batch of cheap labor, and it is also within the scope of the government's finances, cheaper than buying slaves, It's a pity that he is not the only one in this world, King Han has a head, everyone is flesh and blood and relatives, and now he has such a hand with him as soon as he is relieved.
It is meaningless to condemn these people for not keeping their promises, and in this case, of course, it is the Han government's side that is to blame, although it is said that it is a good deed to help the displaced people, but it is too much to ask people to give up their parents and children, and it is simply morally impossible to find any place to stay. In the past two months, more than 600,000 young people have entered the territory of the Han army one after another, lined up along the official road, and the front has passed Jinzhou, and most of them are still gathered in several border states and counties of Shunde Mansion and Zhengding Mansion on the border.
The current situation is basically still under the control of the Han government, when this contradiction was finally exposed and increasingly acute, the two prefects of Shunde and Zhengding immediately sent Wenjing Division for help, and although the General Staff was caught off guard, it also understood that the matter was serious, so it quickly responded, and the whole army of the Fourth Army of the Han Army Infantry in the defense area was dispatched to the bomb pressure deterrence, and the Zhao Liangdong Department of the Fifth Infantry Army of Datong also urgently dispatched more than 1,000 cavalry reinforcements, in addition, Due to the proximity to Henan, the landlords in this area were all frightened by Yang Qilong's peasant uprising, and in addition to the threat of peasant uprising in Baiyangdian, Baoding not long ago, they all felt very necessary to take some precautions, so when the official request for the organization of the militia group was enthusiastically involved, many far-sighted landlords could not send their sons and nephews into the regular army, and they smelled the smell of the militia group. They sent their sons to participate in the building of the militia one after another, so although the military construction at the grassroots level was only carried out for half a year, it also achieved great results after receiving strong support from local forces in various localities.
The first thing Zhou Peigong did in the reorganization of the militia regiment was to organize people to overhaul the bunkers, and the militia regiments in the border prefectures and counties were under the command of the regular officers of the Han army, and in accordance with the principle of "joint defense of villages and villages, joint protection of households", a long arc was drawn in accordance with the border line of the Han government, and this fan defense formation took the peasant army in Henan and the Qing army in Shandong as imaginary enemies, and fortified the fixed military camps of the third army of Liu Lusi and the fourth army of Sun Sike. Then the roads and military posts were sorted out to ensure that "one side has police, and all sides support", and a complete set of defense system was initially formed.
In fact, when the situation had just intensified, the militia members in various localities entered the bunkers at the request of their hometowns, and because of the serious situation in some prefectures and counties, the Han army officers who controlled the militia also opened their arsenals and took out weapons and armed forces, although these organized militia groups were relatively scattered, but the total strength also exceeded 150,000 people, and now the two sides are confronting each other in a narrow area.
After listening to Li Guangdi's urgent report, Lin Feng immediately sent an envoy to order the border defenders to close the checkpoint and stop the entry of the displaced people, and ordered Colonel Zhao Yingkui to lead 2,000 guards cavalry to urgently reinforce him. At this point, there is no room for him to have any choice, the relief plan has been completely bankrupt, and there are two options for dealing with the aftermath - the first is to expel these displaced people who have already entered the country, and the second way is to compromise with the displaced people and allow their wives and children to enter the country.
If the former method is adopted, it can only start a war and suppress the displaced people, but this kind of war is undoubtedly very boring, even if it is won and these hundreds of thousands of people are killed, what benefit can the Han government get? So I had to accept their terms and compromise with the displaced people.
The relief plan can only go so far, and now, Lin Feng has to accept the reality that according to the current financial situation of the Han government, the millions of people on the border cannot be fully fed no matter what, and even if it is necessary to help the more than one million people who have entered the territory, it is already the limit of the Han military government.
People in troubled times are not as good as dogs, such as today's war, thousands of miles of red land, the life and death of millions of living beings, let it fall from heaven.