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Gongliangxiu was worried that after the annexation of the newly occupied land, the Xian State was busy digesting the occupied land, and did not have sufficient national strength and market to generate sufficient financial and material resources.

Economic vitality means fully stimulating the enthusiasm of downstream producers, efficiently mobilizing market resources, and optimizing the allocation of resources.

In other words, the free economy and macroeconomic regulation and control are two-pronged, walking on two legs, using the new land policy to ensure the basic needs of the people, while opening up the market to the greatest extent, supporting production units, actively developing production machines, popularizing high-efficiency production facilities, and stimulating the production and circulation of goods, and this is how the money comes from.

Compared with the traditional eyes always staring at the land and staring at the peasants, the source of funds under the business model is neither robbed nor forced, and is converted into money and goods through productivity, and taxation is no longer used as a tool for major countries to collect money, but has become a tool for allocating market resources and regulating the economy.

The Gongliang Army only needed to cooperate with the economy of the Xian State, open the door of convenience, and let the goods of the Xian State, especially iron tools, tools, salt, daily necessities, and other commodities that are conducive to the resumption of agricultural production and labor, enter the occupied areas at low prices, so that the economy of the counties and counties under the control of the Gongliang Army could be linked to the market of the Xian State and make them linked.

Sitting on the economic market of Xianguo, which has 20 counties, the cost of large-scale production will be lower, the scale of the free market will be larger, and the economic benefits that can be generated will naturally be more.

When the land is liberated and the economy flows from the top to the bottom, more and more money will increase.

The final result can only be the formation of substantial independence of the Gongliang clan in the economy, and the formation of a comprehensive suppression of the economic market of Zhiguo.

Militarily, the number of traditional armies that the Gongliang clan can maintain by relying on its economic strength will not be small, the popularization of iron products, the development of firearms, and the better equipment, politically the economy of the Gongliang clan has been kidnapped by the Xian State, and in fact has become a raw material supplier and a military vassal of the Xian State.

Even if the new policy of Xianguo is understood, it is difficult for him to see that the economy under the free market is essentially a war without gunpowder.

If the Gongliang clan accepts Bailiyan's suggestion in order to protect itself, it is equivalent to relying on the economic resources of the Xianguo from now on in terms of economic capital and social material needs, and losing the productivity and technical support of the Xianguo, and the Gongliang clan will be nothing.

At the same time, Xianguo, which sits on more than 20 county markets, will completely crush the vassal states economically after ten and fifteen years, so that in the lifetime of Bailiyan, it will take another ten years to launch one or two large-scale wars, expand the territory of Xianguo, and lay the foundation of his irreversible unified geopolitical pattern after a hundred years.

If he can live to be 75 years old, the political system of Xianguo should also follow the trend and become a political system that can shoulder the responsibility of completing the great unification, and no longer rise and fall because of the personal will of the monarch.

The tea talk with Gongliang Xiu was very speculative, and he still did not explicitly contradict it, but what he said was all a plan to stand on his own.

The current predicament of the Gongliang clan is largely due to the system of Zhiguo and the unhappiness of King Zhi, and at the same time, the Black Turban Rebellion shattered the existing geopolitical balance and created an opportunity for the rise of Xianguo.

A variety of factors are superimposed, and the shortcomings of the system accumulate to a certain energy, and it is inevitable to choose the weak points to vent, that is, the so-called search for the focus and transfer the internal contradictions.

As far as the current historical background is concerned, the system of Zhiguo is relatively advanced to a large extent, first of all, the old aristocratic slavery system exists in name only.

After nearly two hundred years of evolution, slaves and lowly people form a personal dependence on the aristocracy, so the aristocratic class has a huge group of domestic slaves, and a huge settlement group composed of domestic slaves can be imagined in two hundred years.

This situation is similar to the domestic slave system of the Qing Dynasty, but the scope of the domestic slave system of Zhiguo is more extensive, and the nobles with a large number of fiefs often have as many as tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of domestic slave groups, and the upper generation is a domestic slave, and the lower generation is a domestic slave for life.

A large number of domestic slaves formed a solid network of personal dependency relationships, the advantage was that the armed forces had a large base, it was very convenient to requisition labor, and the nobles could share more land and economic benefits if they sent troops to win, and it was the domestic slaves who lost their losses.

Domestic slaves are different from slaves in vassal states, and the nature of domestic slaves is closer to the dependent population belonging to the private elites, so domestic slaves are treated better than slaves and lowly people, so their loyalty is higher.

At the same time, there are incentives for domestic slaves, and after the combination of domestic slaves and ordinary soldiers, the will to fight is often stronger, which is also one of the reasons why the soldiers are hard-working.

However, under this system, it will inevitably lead to the expansion of local power and the loss of control, so in order to limit local power, the measures taken by the Chronicles of the Chronicles are to restrict the title, especially the title of the lord of different surnames and relatives other than foreign relatives.

At present, the title means land, slaves and fiefs, and when the fief is given to his own surname, King Zhi is still relieved at first.

However, this is an era when most people lack mathematical knowledge, and King Zhi's measures are more like Zhu Yuanzhang was afraid that the descendants of the Zhu family would starve to death, and carried out knighthood activities, and the final result was that the Zhu family divided the land and treasury of the world, and starved the treasury and the people of the world to death.

When the heirs expand and multiply indefinitely, there is only a lot of land to be sealed, and when it is not enough, the contradiction will inevitably turn into a struggle for power.

In order to avoid killing each other with the same surname, King Zhi successively appointed Gongliang and Tao, while expanding externally and strengthening the use of foreign troops, using troops to weaken the strength of the same surname in various places, and on the other hand, stepping up the centralization of power and recovering land and local power, Gongliang offended a large number of local magnates and heroes.

However, there are unforeseen circumstances, the Gongliang clan under the blessing of the king of the past dynasties has become bigger, making the power unbalanced, to this generation of the king of Zhi, the Gongliang clan is more jealous, coupled with the domestic aristocratic forces in the long-term war in the vitality of the great injury, the king of Zhi felt that he lost the support of the nobles, and the status was shaken, and then this generation of Zhiden throne, began to cut off the Gongliang clan.

However, the house leak happened to rain overnight, unfortunately the black scarf rebellion, the southern expedition to Jin Xuedi, and the strong rise of the Xian State, originally planned to hide the bow of the bird, and the king of Zhi, who was dead and the dog cooked, had to continue to rely on the Gongliang clan to carry the beam.

On the one hand, the Gongliang clan fought in the south and the north, and on the other hand, it consumed the vital strength of the Gongliang army, and even did not hesitate to rise to the diplomatic level, using the Gongliang clan to play games with the vassal states.

In this dangerous situation, even if the Gongliang clan does not rebel, it is impossible to retreat with all its might. Gongliangxiu tried his best to avoid the situation of fighting alone, and looked at the Central Plains, and only Xianguo could rely on and be reliable.

Of course, defending the country is also a choice, but Gongliangxiu himself said that the defense of the country is more like an uncivilized and barbaric backward vassal state, at best, it is a beast who learns to write and ride a horse, and leading the country to do foreign aid is tantamount to luring a wolf into the house.

After talking for two hours, they talked about dusk, Gongliangxiu was hungry, and Bailiyan asked people to prepare food for him to enjoy.

However, Zhou was half dead, and Bai Liyan originally promised her to enjoy the hot air balloon ride, saying that she would finish the matter. As a result, after waiting for an afternoon, he said that he did not break his promise, but in Zhou Kong's eyes, it became a difficulty.

"You can drink tea for an afternoon, you did it on purpose!" The air around him was rapidly decayed, and the burn scar on the left side of his face became hideous, like a demon in the twilight, and he could be startled if he didn't expect it.

As the commander of the first army, Bai Liyan certainly would not be left behind by Zhou Kong and did not say anything, he said in a deep voice:

"General Zhou, pay attention to your identity, dare to say irresponsible things to this commander, you are still the first, the Japanese marshal has endured it for so many times, but it does not mean that you can be allowed to be wild without restraint."

Bailiyan's tone was quite heavy, and Zhou Kongmeng was stunned and a little surprised:

"Hehe, you are still reasonable, you promised to go to heaven, and it has been delayed until now, you are still reasonable."

"Is it more important to be busy with national politics than General Zhou's enjoyment of going to heaven?"

"Drinking tea for half a day, you can also be busy with national politics, what do you say that General Ben has been waiting for a long time!"

"Hmph, you're going to mess around."

Bailiyan chirped, ignoring Zhou Kong, and motioned to the soldiers to pull the hot air balloon towards the ground.

Most of the hot air balloons in the battalion are used for lookout and vigilance, both during the day and at night, and are very effective against large-scale moving troops. In the early days, equipped with quadruple telescopes, the high-altitude limit observation distance of people could be placed 80 miles away, and after being equipped with 80x telescopes, they could reach 150 miles.

The resolution limit of relatively large targets for human naked vision can reach 40 kilometers in the clear space, but in fact, it is very ideal to see more than 10 kilometers with naked eyesight, and the effect of equipped with telescopes will be increased.

Hot air balloons in a lookout state are usually tied to a cable and are raised at a height of more than 500 meters or even higher, and the effect is many times better than that of a watchtower. Of course, the longer the cable, the greater the weight of the cable, and the less payload the balloon can hold, so it often doesn't exceed two miles.

The soldiers on the ground used torches to signal the hot air balloon, and after turning off the ignition device, with the efforts of more than a dozen people, the hot air balloon was slowly pulled to the ground until it completely landed and stopped.

"General Zhou, this thing looks like a big ball made of cloth, it's empty inside, and there are big holes, why don't it collapse."

Zhou Kong was speechless, she didn't know the principle of hot air balloons, so she began to talk nonsense:

"This thing must have strange powers, you see." Zhou Kong pointed to the alcohol lamp and said, "As long as you put a fire here, you can float." ”

After speaking, Zhou Kong stretched out his hand to fiddle, but Bailiyan shouted to stop:

"Stop!"

Zhou Kong's face was not happy when he heard the news:

"What to do, don't you just set a fire to the sky!"

"Where is it so easy, if you don't manipulate it carelessly, you will burn it to death, you know. Little lotus seed, you come down. ”

"Ahh Xiao Lianzi pointed at herself in surprise, looked at Zhou Kong and said, "General Zhou......"

Zhou Kong asked rhetorically:

"My people are also your ability to move."

"If you don't want to fall from the sky, go up by yourself."

Bai Liyan didn't care, Zhou Hollow was not convinced, and he confronted each other:

"You think I'm scared of it!"

"It doesn't matter if the commander falls, it's just a general who falls and is promoted to a general, and the commander can't ask for it."

"You!" The air around the air is knotted, and the cheeks are bulging. The next moment said: "Little lotus seed, go down." ”

"Oh......"

Xiao Lianzi looked at Zhou Kong with resentment, and then at Bai Liyan and Jiang Jie, and reluctantly stepped off the hanging basket. Baili Yan took his place, flipped into the hanging basket, and startled Zhou Kong:

"What are you doing in here?"

"Of course it's to manipulate the heavens, it's hard to make the soldiers obey you, what if you turn it over. Jiang Jie, let go of the cable. ”

"No."

Before Zhou Kong could react, Jiang Jie and the others had already loosened the cable, and the hot air balloon jumped up with a roar, which made Zhou Kong shout:

"Ah...... You're crazy. ”

Bai Liyan was unmoved, lit the alcohol lamp, the air expanded rapidly under the action of heat, and the height rose rapidly, Zhou was at a loss, and looked at the ground in surprise It was more than thirty zhang away, and the more he looked, the more panicked he became. I want to chat about "Empire Travel" with more like-minded people, pay attention to "excellent reading literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find confidants~