The appointment of Yanghu was the last appointment of the day. After that, Guan Yi directly ordered the maids to serve food and start the banquet.

In the course of the banquet, the former ministers of the Jin State who had not been appointed, such as Pei Xiu, Zhang Hua, He Qiao, Ren Kai and others, basically looked as usual, and all kinds of entertainment were very decent. And Xun Xuan, Xun Kai, Yang Xiu, Wang Rong and others can clearly see that they don't belong to the gods, and they are forced to smile.

These things are so obvious that not only Guan Yi can see it, but also the simple and Huo Zai who are sitting on the side of their hands can also see it. There is no doubt that the former is worth wooing. The latter, uh, if it's introduced to the court, it's a pig teammate.

Among these people, Pei Xiu doesn't need to say it. Zhang Hua? On the historical level, in the middle and early stages of the Eight Kings Rebellion, when the country was in chaos, Zhang Hua was in charge of government affairs, basically maintaining the operation of the imperial court, not to mention, and also allocating money and grain to quell local rebellions. That alone is remarkable. And He Qiao and Ren Kai's government affairs ability are quite good, bottom-line, and principled ministers.

What about the latter group? Xun Miao has the ability to be a person, but he has no bottom line and principles of being a man, and everything is to please the leader and make the leader happy as the first priority. Whether such a person is by Liu Chen's side or Guan Yi's side, he will make the ruler degenerate rapidly: if a person only hears praise and praise day after day and for decades, he will definitely swell to the point that he does not know the height of the sky.

The next one, Xun Yu's great-grandson Xun Kai. Okay, the children of the Xun family, their government affairs skills are still good at this time. In the kung fu of escaping on the battlefield, Xun Kai is also a must: from the five-way war to the fall of the Jin State, Xun Kai has been with no service in the past twelve years, so many ministers and fierce generals have been killed, and this oily skin has not been wiped off half of it!

But this one, like Xun Miao, belongs to a politician who has no bottom line and principles. In order to be promoted, he can do anything shameless....... well, Mr. Xun Yu seems to have used up all their family's justice, principles, and insistence.

Yang Xiu? This is the kind of typical gentleman who appears in textbooks. Well, let's find out about the four young people in the capital......

Wang Rong? As for this person, the ruling party is qualified. It is also decent to lead troops to fight. But this guy is a master of talking. Well, many people in the Langya Wang clan are masters of Qing talk, and this is a person who inherits the metaphysics of the Wei and Jin dynasties: upward, he is the youngest of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest. Down, he is Wang Yan's cousin again. For such a person, do you think that Ji Han's official style is too good, and he needs to be corrupted in order to balance?

Oh, and this Shi Chongshi tyrant, what does this guy say, the ability is there, the discipline? That's not to be counted on. This kind of person, hey, in the future, he will be sent to the Western Regions to plague the four great powers or something. You don't even think about the position of the court.

Because everyone has something on their minds, and this is the first time that the generals of the former Ji Han have gathered together with the former ministers of the former Jin Kingdom. So everyone at the banquet was a little bit uneasy. Therefore, the feast did not last long before it ended.

As the host, Guan Yi still stood at the door very dutifully and sent all the guests away. After all the guests left, Guan Yi turned to Shi Qiao and said, "Hongzu, go and chase back Pei Jiyan, Zhang Maoxian, Ren Yuanbao, and Changyu for me." ”

Don't have a brother of your own? But that's okay, at least the position of the head of the Shi family is stable to get back: "No! ”

……

"I'll wait to meet Da Sima."

"Please forgive me for bothering you to turn around late at night."

"Don't dare, what does Da Sima want to send to us? But please advise. ”

"How dare you speak, come, please take a seat."

After the guest and host sat down, Guan Yi cleared his throat: "Please return late at night, but ask for a strategy to stabilize the Kanto." ”

This proposition is too big, so Pei Xiu and the others didn't know how to answer it for a while when they heard this.

Seeing this situation, Guan Yi couldn't help but smile: "This is the topic of tonight's conversation. Well, before the official does something, he must ask for money and grain. So ......"

The direction of this question is very clear, Zhang Hua stood up: "Back to the Great Sima, Jianwu, uh, no, in the first year of Guiyuan, there were 3.25 million mouths on the national roster of the eight states in the Kwantung region, nearly 20 million stones of grain in stock, and 15 billion yuan in money. On June 26, the third year of Guiyuan, there were still more than 11 million stones of grain and 7 billion yuan of money in the city of Luoyang. However, it should be noted below that these money are all new money for Jianwu, and the copper content is only about 20% of the money of Yanxing of the Han Dynasty. As for the household registration, there are 3.02 million on the roster, but Luoyang has lost contact with the outside world for a long time, how much is this? But it's hard to say......"

"Well, Shige-sen's telling the truth." Guan Yi pondered for a while and said: "This official received a letter from Chen Chengzuo (Chen Shou), the new assassin in Jizhou, saying that in the first year of Guiyuan, there were 480,000 people on the Jizhou roster, and after he arrived, there were only 290,000 left. Excluding the 60,000 who were conscripted, 130,000 are missing! ”

Speaking of this, Pei Xiu and the others could only smile helplessly.

The Han and Jin dynasties fought this life-and-death battle for two years, and in these two years, it was the time of the feast of the wealthy families of the family: the country's energy was in the war, and it could not and did not dare to react to the family's embezzlement of the country's homesteaders. Therefore, before the start of this war, Pei Xiucai said to Sima Yan that the war is a trivial matter, and the resulting damage to the country's foundation is a major matter.

In fact, on the historical level, the so-called Wuhu Chaohua, more than ninety percent of the Han people in North China died, that is also unreliable: foreign invasion, many Han people must have died in the war. But it is this kind of large-scale war that has ushered in a golden age of development for the families and clans in various places.

The weakening of the Government has made it impossible to effectively protect ordinary civilians. The big family embezzled the common people, and that was an unscrupulous one. When Wuhu entered the Central Plains, the population on the national roster was less than ninety percent, but most of them were swallowed by the big families in various places.

Otherwise, why do you think that in the Sui and Tang dynasties, five or six outstanding emperors went forward one after another, and it took nearly a hundred years to completely suppress the five surnames and seven hopes in North China? That's because more than 300 years of division and division have given these families enough time to develop into super monsters!

"So, Mao Xian, the three million and ten thousand you said, the official is very pessimistic. Even if the prisoners of war who returned home after the release this time are counted, the final figure can be two million, and the official should burn high incense. ”

Speaking of this, Guan Yi was also speechless: the family in Kanto and the Yizhou family that have been suppressed, and the Yongliang family, which has never been able to develop into a super monster due to natural conditions, are completely different concepts. It's also different from those guys in Soochow who only know how to pick weak chickens and pinch them repeatedly.

These families are currently the most greedy and aggressive families in the land of China. On the historical plane, it is also the most shameless and bottomless family. At the same time, they are also the most disguised families.

This is the most powerful enemy Guan Yi has encountered in this era as a traverser!