Chapter Thirty-Eight: Guan Gong's Tongue Fights the Confucians
In fact, what Guan Gong didn't know was that part of the content of the pamphlet of the Little Emperor was indeed probed back by the "CIA", but there was still quite a lot of content added by Liu Hou according to later generations' understanding of the Wa State.
In particular, in the area of mineral resources in the Japanese Kingdom, the "CIA" sent out spies, not geological experts, how could they have such a clear understanding of the situation of mineral deposits? Moreover, some of the information about minerals recorded in it is unknown to even the Japanese people, and the spies have no way to find out.
In this booklet, mineral resources are the top priority. Liu Hou told Guan Gong that when the time came, he should focus on explaining to the courtiers that the Wa State was rich in gold, silver, sulfur and other minerals, and at the same time, the Wa State was still in a slave society, and there was a large number of people who could be enslaved.
Although Guan Gong does not have the hearts and eyes of civil officials such as Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong, he is not a dull person, and he can understand the meaning of the little emperor after a little thought. The little emperor is trying to lure him to his advantage.
Although his nephew, the little emperor, established the "Great Han Longteng Academy" many years ago, and now he has also trained some talents to enter the army and serve in the court, but the time is still short, and there are still a few people from poor children in the court.
Whether in the army or in the DPRK, the children of major families still account for the majority. The major families have a huge impact on the trend of the government, and after these families become officials, when formulating some national policies, they often make some choices that are inclined to the interests of their own families, which is an inevitable thing, and no one can change it.
And the little emperor in front of him used the trick of luring them to benefit them, tying the interests of these families to the chariot of the empire, so that these families would continue to contribute money and people on the road of the unification of the empire and external expansion.
This is true of the expansion of the south, the same is true of the war against the Western Regions, and the same is true of the attack on the northern grasslands, from which those families have all gained great benefits.
For example, a large number of prisoners of war sent back to the Central Plains from various major war zones continued to provide cheap labor for major families. There are also timber and grain from the south, and meat, fur, tendon, glue, and dairy products from the north, all of which are trafficked by the family.
In addition, for the attack on the Western Regions, everyone also saw the huge economic benefits brought by the Silk Road. Of course, so these interests, the imperial court must account for the lion's share, but even if a small part of the interests are divided among these families, the amount of money designed is huge, enough for these families to eat a full plate.
The so-called imperial court eats meat, and the family drinks soup, and this soup also depends on what kind of soup it is. With the size of the Han Dynasty as the world's largest economy, even some soup and water are huge benefits, enough to make these families go crazy.
Now that the little emperor wants to open up the eastern battlefield again, start a new war to destroy the country, and it is also a country rich in gold and silver resources, how amazing should the soup and water leak out at that time?
In the past, the Han people did not know how many resources there were in this isolated overseas place, and they were disdainful of this place. What if Guan Gong gave them a detailed investigation report and let them know that there was an inexhaustible supply of gold and silver?
Guan Gong can imagine that as long as he can throw out this report, those families will definitely rush up like cats that smell fishy and rush up to get a piece of the pie.
The next day, Guan Gong began his career as a tongue war. Of course, it was very difficult for a martial artist to fight with a group of Confucians, but fortunately, Liu Hou paved the way for him, and sent a number of eloquent advisers to help him, and finally let him complete the task satisfactorily.
Of course, this is also due to Guan Gong's special status in the Han political arena. He is the sworn brother of the first emperor, although the title is Marquis, but in the minds of some people, it is okay to call him a prince and an uncle. Although no one really called it that because of etiquette, his actual status was quite comparable.
In addition, he is now nominally the governor of the Han Navy (his father), which can be said to be a heavy soldier and a high position. It is a person like him who is old, has a high status, and has great power, and what this kind of person says naturally has a convincing effect.
Therefore, when he took out the pamphlet given by Liu Hou and said that it was the investigation report of their navy, almost no one in the court doubted the authenticity of this pamphlet.
When the ministers saw the contents of this booklet, everyone's eyes turned red in an instant.
"What! How much silver is in this mine? Doesn't that mean that the whole mountain is made of silver? ”
"What! There are so many gold mines in the small Wa Kingdom? ”
"What! The savages of the Wa Kingdom are still drinking blood with wooden sticks, wearing animal skins, and fur? No, the old man has the responsibility to rescue them from fire and water, and the old man wants to go to the Japanese country to carry out indoctrination, and no one can rob the old man of this indoctrination. ”
The ministers let out all kinds of exclamations. Someone has already begun to calculate: "How much silver can be unearthed in a year from such a large silver mine in Iwami Province?" ”
A minister next to him, who was obviously good at arithmetic, said: "As long as the manpower can keep up, can't you dig as much as you want?" It's just that transporting people from the Central Plains to the past, and you have to care about them eating, drinking, and sleeping, which is a big expense, well, to let these people leave their hometowns and wells, and they need to pay a lot of settling-in expenses, and it seems that the early investment is a huge amount of money. ”
A person next to him said: "How can it be possible to transport people from the Central Plains, although it is said that the world is peaceful now, but the world chaos has just ended, and the population of the Central Plains has not recovered, and there is no decades of recuperation, and it is not necessary to move the population from the Central Plains." ”
"You are stupid, there is a ready-made population in the Wa Kingdom, where do you need to migrate people from the Central Plains. Didn't you listen to Guan Gong, the population of the Wa Kingdom is still quite large, but they are short, and they probably don't have much strength to work, and they are all uncivilized savages, so it is estimated that they can't do any fine work. "Another humane.
"If you can't do fine work, you can do rough work, and don't you let them embroider and let them mine?" Another minister took over.
"I heard that those barbarians are not afraid of death, how can it be so easy to tame them and let them go to mining obediently." Finally, there is a minister who is more sober-minded.
In fact, Guan Gong did not propose to send troops to attack the Wa State at all, he just threw out the "investigation report" of the Wa State, and most of the ministers were carried away by the various resources that were rich in the Wa State, and they were all discussing how much benefit they could get from it, as if the Wa State had fallen into the pockets of the empire.
Guan Gong was still confused, and he didn't know what was going on, but he soon found that the issue in the court had changed to the direction of using troops against the Japanese state.