Although it was the New Year, and it also coincided with the great victory on the ground battlefield after the founding of the country, there was not much celebratory atmosphere in the Forbidden City at this time, in fact, because the country was newly established and the leaders were very aware of the war, the more such times the more impossible it was to publicize the victory with great fanfare, so as to be able to deal with changes and respond to new situations that may arise at any time.

“…… That is to say, it is very suspicious to desperately preach victory and exaggerate the results of a major battle before the end of a major battle, and this practice is either to cover up the defeat or to agitate and propagate all strata of society, but the real victor is always cautious about all kinds of war reports and does not exaggerate! ”

Zhang Tao, who was sitting in the imperial study, had a lot of official business to deal with even during the Chinese New Year, and as for the crown prince Zhang Huan, who was doing an internship, he also accompanied him in the imperial study to listen to his father's holy teachings. But for Jiang Tian, who was sitting opposite them, he didn't have the mentality of being the master of the country at all, and he just wanted to go home and sleep well at the moment.

"Alas......" Jiang Tian, who stretched his waist and yawned, casually threw the report on the Longshu case: "Your father is stingy, and he found a reason why it is not appropriate to drink and feast during the national war, so he canceled this year's imperial banquet, although I also hate that kind of formalistic thing, but at least let me rest for a few days!" ”

"You're lazy!" Zhang Tao hated that iron could not be made of steel, and he picked up the report that he threw over: "I don't have a sense of ownership at all, do you still want to have a Spring Festival holiday at this time?" ”

"Owner?" Lord Jiang had a ghostly expression on his face: "Anyway, this court should be your Zhang family, my surname Jiang is a long-term worker, even if it is the landlord's family for the New Year, I have to give the long-term worker a few days off and a good meal, right?" ”

Regarding the daily bickering of the two brothers, Zhang Huan was unbelievable at first, but now he has become accustomed to it. Anyway, no one believes it, in the eyes of outsiders, Master Jiang, who belongs to the level of a new master, a master of music and rhythm, and a tireless teacher, will only take off all his masks in front of his father and become a complete foolish Ya Nei face.

At first, Wu Yuan, the extremely smart fake prince, thought that this was Jiang Tian's disguise in front of the emperor, and the effect was a bit similar to Xiao He's self-defilement, but after a long period of observation, he found that this was Jiang Tian's true temperament......

Emperor Zhang was still looking at Jiang Tian's report, but the voice of a eunuch reported outside the door: "Your Majesty, the queen mother announced that she had seen His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and asked the slaves and maids to come and report it." ”

When Zhang Tao heard this, he looked back at his reluctant son, and then said outside the door: "You go back to the queen, and say that the prince will be there in a while." ”

Since his father said so, Zhang Huan had to bow his head and retire even if he was reluctant in his heart, Jiang Tian saw that this kid was wilting, so he asked after he left the imperial study: "This is to discuss the prince's wedding, right?" ”

Zhang Tao nodded: "It's not just the queen's heart, but I have received a lot of twists and turns here." ”

"Monarchy is based on allegiance to a particular family lineage, so the first duty of a monarch is to carry on the lineage." Jiang Tian knew very well that Zhang Huan's most important job was not to learn to handle official business, but to be able to spread the branches to the royal family as soon as possible, so he would not feel that this kid was getting married a little too early. However, when he picked up the tea cup in front of him and took a sip, he frowned again: "This tea ......"

"Well, it's definitely not ordinary!" Emperor Zhang took a long time to pick up his tea and took a sip: "Although it is a little old, it is still the top Lu'an melon slices, you must know that when my old chief went to Beijing for a meeting, he rubbed a little bit from the prime minister, and he didn't want us to taste it." ”

Seeing that his fellow countryman was complacent about being able to drink special tea, Jiang Tian seemed to feel uncomfortable. But why can't you say this: "Now that the little one is gone, are you going to say something important about the old one?" ”

Zhang Tao put down the tea in his hand and asked with a serious expression: "What did the Shanxi Hall say?" ”

"They've approached me and come up with their own package of transport trade, and the details are in your hands." Jiang Tian took another sip of tea a little greedily: "To be honest, I think that in addition to arms and some controlled materials, we can hand over the existing transportation to the people." ”

Seeing that Emperor Zhang's expression began to become playful, Jiang Tian hurriedly added: "I returned all the benefits they promised me, and told them that I would not guarantee that this business would be monopolized, anyway, you don't really want to destroy the Jin merchants." But in my opinion, as long as you give them a little sunshine, the kind of money village that connects the world at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the endless camel caravan outside Zhangjiakou are likely to reappear in more than ten years. ”

Zhang Tao nodded, don't look at him, he can be regarded as having read "Capital", but he is indeed a layman when it comes to the issue of financial and economic construction, but precisely because he used to be a soldier, he knows that war is fighting for national strength, and without private capital, although he can concentrate resources to do great things in a short period of time, it is easy to lose his own hematopoietic ability in the long run.

"I have my own opinions on this matter, and I have to open the mouth little by little, and I can't let them dominate the family."

"That's what I mean, especially when the highway is opened, its carrying capacity is far from what a Jin merchant can eat, but ......"

"But what?"

After carefully organizing the language, Jiang Tian came up with a conclusion that Zhang Tao did not expect: "Judging from the current situation, it will indeed be a prosperous situation in one or two decades, but as long as there are no major changes in the existing business system, all kinds of old habits and corruption will soon return, and then the capitalists on whom we once had high hopes will degenerate into a group of monopoly trusts, which will drag down the economy of the whole country." ”

"Stereotypes...... Zhang Tao thought for a while: "You mean all kinds of guilds and tooth trades?" ”

"There are factors in this regard, but more importantly, the corrupt forces within the government will ally with them!"

"Do you have anything to do?"

"Yes! But ......"

"But what?"

"Without a sound system and an efficient government, as well as transparent supervision by third parties, all measures are nonsense!"

Zhang Tao was silent, he knew that what Jiang Tian said was the truth, the system is easy to establish, but how to ensure the implementation of the law is the most difficult, if you can't change the current social atmosphere of trading power for money, the "Anti-Monopoly Law" is just a dead letter. However, if we want to change the society of man-rule that the Chinese have been accustomed to for thousands of years, it is not a great project to change the world. Even in the so-called rule of law countries in later generations, various ways to circumvent the law are endless.

"Let's talk about the current situation." Zhang Tao flipped the information in his hand backwards: "Although we have demarcated the pilot area for reform, but we underestimate the inertia of the old system, take this large-scale construction of roads as an example, even under my nose, all kinds of fraud and corruption are endless, if it is not for the logistics by the new army people, this is not necessarily something sent to the front line!" ”

Jiang Tian knew what he was talking about, after all, such a long route started at the same time, and the "land masters" of each section were really full of tricks. Because the military has already shouted wage standards all over the towns and villages, it is not allowed to arbitrarily deduct workers' wages, but there is no shortage of common corrupt methods such as empty salaries, lowering food standards, and shoddy road construction materials. If it weren't for the fact that he could get through this lifeline as soon as possible, Zhang Tao's temper would have killed people a long time ago, which is one of the reasons why he was angry and didn't hold a New Year's tea party.

"At the beginning of a person, he may not be inherently good." Jiang Tian had to sigh: "There are many of these things in later generations, so almost all of our major projects in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China were inseparable from the engineering corps." ”

"Engineer ......"

Looking at Zhang Tao's thoughtful appearance, Jiang Tian hurriedly added: "It was a specific historical period, and it was disbanded in the end, in fact, as long as the quality responsibility system is carried out, I am not afraid that he will be tired!" ”

Having said that, Emperor Zhang still has an unsolvable knot in his heart, and he also experienced the mentality of Zhu Yuanzhang when he started to kill, but even if Zhu Yuanzhang killed a river of blood, the Ming Dynasty finally fell on the imperfect system and the unfair implementation of the law. This is only the construction of a high-grade highway from Tanggu to Zhangjiakou, and it will be even more shocking if we look through the reports sent by the intelligence departments on the internal operation of the reform provinces.

In the final analysis, it is still a problem of the ability of the grassroots to carry out the law, the government decree is not in the villages, and the local clans and gentry are too large, and other reasons, in these reform provinces, are not a big problem, but the grassroots rulers themselves have not yet had the consciousness of reform, so this experimental field can only be fruitless in the end.

"I want to be back then...... After the liberation, the millions of troops were disarmed, and the vast majority of them enriched the government functional departments in various regions, so that the whole country could ......play a game of chess," Zhang Tao began to turn his gaze to Jiang Tian.

After coming out of the Forbidden City, no matter how Jiang Tian pondered, he felt that Zhang Tao's words seemed to have another deep meaning, and as for what the emperor wanted to do, he couldn't figure it out. But how many people in this Chinese dynasty can know Zhang Tao's thoughts well? Just like this Northern Expedition, on the surface, everyone thinks that Zhang Tao took the opportunity of the Mongols to stir up trouble to recover the Hetao and the inherent territory north of the Great Wall. And it seems that just as Dolgon expected, in the face of such a sweet bait, Emperor Zhang has no reason not to eat it.

However, it was not until the emperor himself explained to Jiang Tian in private that Zhang Tao deliberately let Dolgon have a way out, because the reform of the new army is at a critical time, and it is necessary to find a difficult opponent for the reformed troops to brush up on merits, and to take the opportunity to carry out a major reform of the whole army, so now is not the time for a decisive battle with Dolgon, once the reform is completed, the combat capability of the troops will be greatly improved, and at the same time, the use of the retrenched personnel can also send a large number of grassroots cadres loyal to the emperor to the locality. Completely dismantle the social foundations of the old bureaucracy and the village gentry. As for the "Great Qing Dynasty" that lies down in the white mountains and black waters, it can be wiped out at any time at that time.

Because the atmosphere of the New Year will continue until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, so the streets can still see happy children and people greeting each other, Jiang Tian stood by the window on the second floor of his own street, listening to the occasional cross talk and laughter in the teahouse on the opposite side, but there was no New Year's mood in his heart. In fact, it was expected that the reform would not go well, and he was originally opposed to carrying out large-scale reform too early, but because Zhang Tao wanted to reorganize the army, and the external environment was not very stable, he rushed to carry out reforms in order to improve productivity. Fortunately, both Jiang Tian and Zhang Tao knew in their hearts that when the national strength failed to return to the level of the heyday of the Ming Dynasty, the best result of the Northern Expedition with the purpose of destroying the country was that the soldiers were dragged to death in the end.

Choosing the soft persimmon of Mongolia can firstly establish its prestige, second, it can cut off the external aid of the Manchus, and third, it can use the war to attack the original warlord families in the army. In the end, it will be possible to find a dumping ground for the products of the Central Plains and exchange them for much-needed livestock. But just like all good ideas are bound to be distorted by all kinds of selfish desires and greed, this is just the beginning, and it has already been regarded as fat meat that can be grabbed by all kinds of cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods.

"What do you think?" Meng Daya stood beside Jiang Tian with a fox fur coat: "I'm not afraid of the wind chill even if the cold wind blows like this." ”

Jiang Tian didn't look at her, still looking out of the window emptyly: "The heart is colder than the body!" ”

Meng Daya sneered when she heard it: "Okay, I'm not one of your confidantes, it's useless to pretend to be a bookbag with me, I don't care if you're cold or not, as long as your body isn't cold." ”

As she spoke, she draped the big coat on Jiang Tian's body, but because of the height difference, she could only reluctantly tie the rope on tiptoe: "I don't know about the side, but if you really die, you won't stand here and blow the wind, and you would have run downstairs to get drunk and dream." There must be a way to stand here, but I don't dare to do it! ”

At this time, Jiang Tian couldn't help but retract his gaze and look at the dirty village in front of him, but in a few words, he once again refreshed his understanding of this cousin, this kind of insight that was not commensurate with his identity, really surprised Jiang Tian.

"Don't look at me like that, don't forget that we grew up together, I don't know who you are?" Meng Daya smiled: "If you figure it out, go back and talk to your sisters and sisters about Fengyue, and do whatever you need to do tomorrow!" ”

Seeing that Meng Daya turned around to leave, Jiang Tian subconsciously asked, "Then cousin, what do you say I should do?" ”

Meng Daya, who had already walked to the door, turned around and looked at him: "Hungry to eat, sleepy to sleep, marry a few wives and have a few babies, and then out of this door, you are the emperor's courtier, and the emperor will do whatever he asks us to do!" ”

After speaking, Meng Da girl left without looking back, leaving Jiang Tian to look at the cold moonlight outside the window again and sigh again.

Jiang Tian is going to get married, and the marriage that was originally dragged down by the war will be completed in the near future, although this news is not a sensation in Sijiu City, but people who are familiar with the inside story are a little puzzled, because it is not the old man of the Jiang family who proposed to hold the wedding this time, but Jiang Tian himself!

Of course, the happiest person about this matter is Jiang Hu, as long as this baby son gets married quickly, it doesn't matter if Meng Daya's stomach is angry, anyway, there are so many women in this backyard. The Jiang Mansion has once again entered a state of organizing weddings. However, the girls who were in a lost mood were smiling one by one at this time, and those who didn't know thought they were the brides.

"Isn't Sir advocating the freedom of marriage?" Zhang Huan, who finally ran out of his mother, looked at Jiang Tian strangely, as if the person in front of him had betrayed his faith.

"It's true that I'm advocating for the freedom to marry, and I'd like to practice it myself if possible, but now I've figured out an issue that I'm overlooking."

Zhang Huan hurriedly asked, "What's the problem?" ”

"As long as everything in the world exists, it has its rationality." Jiang Tian smiled bitterly with a constipated face: "And if you take too big a step, it's easy to pull the egg!" ”

"Poof......" Liu Baokai, who was drinking tea on the side, didn't hold back his breath, and sprayed the tea in his mouth on Song Yi who was not far away.

Zhang Huan, who didn't understand, still wanted to ask, but was stopped by Wu Yuan and whispered a few words, and then suddenly understood the meaning of this sentence.

Jiang Tian glanced at his few high-ranking people who came to congratulate him: "You all know that fish is what I want, and if you want to eat fish, you must first gnaw off the bear's paw in front of you, what can you do?" ”

Tian Xuhai said with a smile after hearing this: "Isn't this a fish and a bear's paw, Mr. is really blessed!" ”

Jiang Tian knew that he would be wrong, but he didn't intend to say it too clearly: "It is said that if you govern a big country and cook a small fresh, how can you sweep the world if you don't sweep this room, now I want to understand, the wheel of history has its own inertia, if there is really a violent revolution in the future, it can be regarded as the inevitable development of history, just let it go......"

Although it is not a great enlightenment, this can be regarded as a feeling, he never expected to wake up his dream is a seemingly vulgar Meng Daya, the current social system, whether you think it is reasonable or not, it has the inevitability of its existence, as if everyone advocates free love, from the "Book of Songs" to "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai", even in the evil old society, there are a group of literati who are looking forward to love, but arranged marriage seems to be contrary to human nature, but it just ensures the right of men at the bottom of the society to marry, As a result, the vast majority of low-income groups have ensured structural stability.

In later generations, the gold-worshipping girls that everyone hated many times were actually under the banner of free love, and low-level women sold their flesh @ body in order to get promoted? This will inevitably lead to the phenomenon of men marrying low and women marrying high, and the men at the bottom will have no choice, which will eventually lead to social instability. From this point of view, the lowly nationality system of the Ming Dynasty can also be regarded as a system to ensure the stability of the class, and the household cannot be beaten to death with a stick and say that this sentence is feudal dross.

A glimpse of the whole picture, when Jiang Tian and Zhang Tao worked hard for how to reform, they didn't know that their good intentions were not necessarily a good idea in the eyes of people in this era, and if they wanted to promote their ideas, they must carry out subtle propaganda and long-term changes, unless these two people have the courage to engage in a vigorous cultural @ Hua @ big @ revolution @ life, completely smashing the original class barriers, the question is which of them can guarantee that the ending will be better than their hometown?