Chapter 181: Recommendations
Whether it is Yuan Shao's efforts to dissuade the Son of Heaven from building the South Palace, or Cao Cao's expedient measures to procrastinate, it is not a good way to fundamentally solve the current dilemma between the DPRK and China. However, what other good ideas are there that can solve the problem without harming the people? Everyone, including Yang Ci, all fell into deep thought.
Although Guo Bin had a plan, he didn't dare to take it out rashly, because the ups and downs in the court since the beginning of the Yellow Turban Rebellion made him realize that it was not really right to go all out to rescue the terminally ill Han Dynasty. It is true that his strategy can solve the current financial difficulties of Nangong being burned down and rebuilding Yuntai, but what if it is really solved, the Son of Heaven will still go his own way, and even intensify his efforts, regardless of the life and death of the people?
Is it to try to save the Han Dynasty and let it continue to survive for 400 years, or to watch her accelerate her demise from the sidelines, the long pain is better than the short pain? Guo Bin had a hard time choosing.
But looking at the people with hopeful faces, looking at Yang Ci, who is still responsible for his family and country at the age of dying, Guo Bin seems to understand the real reason why the scholars and doctors of this era are working hard to preserve the Han Dynasty.
Because, the Han Dynasty was different from the later Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, she was a wealthy society. As the name suggests, the so-called wealthy society refers to the society composed of countless wealthy families, large and small, which is interrelated with the economic form of its manor economy. So, where did these wealthy landlords come from?
It is recorded: "The Han Dynasty and the Warring States are Yu Lie, the people of many heroes and cunnings, and those who merge and merge are Ling Hengbangyi, and those who are strong and healthy are Xiongzhang Luli."
The so-called "remnants of the war" are very clear. The source of the wealthy landlords in the Qin and Han dynasties mainly included the descendants of the nobles of the original Six Kingdoms and the local surnames. The descendants of the nobles of the Six Kingdoms, although they lost their status as nobles after the fall of the country, still maintained great power in the local area, so they became wealthy families. The local surnames also rely on the advantages of tradition to become the forces that control the localities.
This kind of social form of local tycoon strength made the two Han Dynasty courts have a strong counterbalance from the people, and they did not dare to do too much. The dictatorship of foreign relatives in the Eastern Han Dynasty was largely a product of this economic and social form, after all, all foreign relatives themselves were powerful local wealthy families.
The establishment of the Eastern Han Dynasty won the support of local wealthy families to a great extent. However, when Liu Xiu, the Guangwu Emperor who was brave and brave and the same as Gaozu, wanted to "Dutian", he was resisted by the wealthy families. The so-called degree of land is to measure the land, which also includes the verification of household registration. The purpose of the land was to increase the revenue from government taxes and servitude. At the same time, the landed population of the powerful landlords was also verified, so as to limit the number of land annexed and enslaved by the powerful landlords, so as to increase the tax revenue of the state.
However, this policy, which should be divided from a legal point of view, caused a backlash from the interests of the powerful landlords, which led to a rebellion by many county lords and military commanders, and finally the system of land had to be hastily ended.
Therefore, this world is not really Liu Han's world as Guo Bin took for granted at the beginning, but the world of the world's wealthy landlords. The clan of the Han Dynasty was just an extremely powerful group of powerful landlords. Therefore, the so-called co-governance of the world with scholars and doctors, in terms of system, although the Song Dynasty is indeed the most typical dynasty, but behind what we can't see with the naked eye, it is the Han Dynasty that is more consistent with the local power and power.
The Han Dynasty controlled the state taxes, while the wealthy landlords of the Han Dynasty controlled the mountains, plains, and grasslands of the world.
Therefore, Guo Bin suddenly realized that the scholars and doctors he saw were so committed to the world was actually built on such a deep social and economic foundation. The family behind the scholars is the master of this country, and the Son of Heaven, who is high up in the eyes of the common people and is not respectful enough to even look up, is just a collaborator and an ally in the eyes of the wealthy families.
Just like Yang Ci who is now standing in front of Guo Bin, he watched Liu Hong grow up step by step from an eleven-year-old boy, watched him grow from naïve to mature, from the restless young emperor to the mature son of heaven who has been in Yuyu for 17 years, arbitrarily and experienced, this man who personally held Liu Hong's arm, taught him how to govern and how to lead ministers, and grew from a toddler boy to a son of heaven who mastered hundreds of millions of people, will he really have a mountain admiration for Liu Hong from the bottom of his heart, mysterious and unpredictable? This is a liar!
People only have fear and awe of mysterious things that they cannot control, such as ghosts and gods, such as the starry sky, such as aliens, such as giant creatures under the sea, etc.
And those important ministers who see the Son of Heaven every day, although they abide by the etiquette of the monarch and ministers, the true thoughts in their hearts are only known to themselves. The so-called familiar place has no scenery, in fact, it is the same as "close is not inferior".
Until now, Guo Binfang suddenly realized: What he has always been difficult to understand is why the scholar at this time can really ignore his own gains and losses, for the country and the people, and spill his blood, in fact, there is a deep-seated reason. Because they are the de facto masters of the country; In addition, since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty respected Confucianism, the education of Confucianism has also played a great role. It is precisely because of these two points that this kind of social situation has been formed that future generations cannot understand.
They threw their heads and spilled their blood for the country, not only for the people of the world, but also for their own families. In this era of family supremacy, in order to preserve the family, for the prosperity and prosperity of the entire family, it is worth sacrificing the interests and even lives of one or even a few people. At least, in their opinion, it does.
Guo Bin doesn't have this kind of concept, but he really can't bear to watch the people of the world being exploited and oppressed after suffering from the drought and the Yellow Turban Rebellion. Because the Son of Heaven aims to loot the wealth of the world's wealthy families, the ultimate bearers are always ordinary people living at the bottom.
After listening to Yang Ci's inquiry, Guo Bin really couldn't harden his heart and ignored it. With a sigh, Fang shared his thoughts with everyone. I only heard the applause of everyone in the room, and Yang Ci even blew his beard and glared at him, praising Guo Bin: "Qianyang, it's really a national soldier!"
After today's meeting, Yang Ci looked at Guo Bin very differently, and often recruited Guo Bin to come over the house after that. What Guo Bin didn't expect was that the middle-aged man who had been following Yang Ci that day and was in his forties turned out to be Yang Ci's eldest son Yang Biao. Guo Bin and Hongnong Yang have become good friends since then, which is a later story.
And on the night of the first meeting between Guo Bin and Yang Ci, the Yangzhai Hall in Luoyang City began to be restless. This Yangzhai Hall was jointly funded and built by the major wealthy families in Yangzhai County, and was used as the eyes and ears of Beijing. No matter what the dynasty, policy trends are always the focus of attention of businessmen. In the hall, the persons in charge sent by various ethnic groups wrote Guo Bin's instructions to the head of the family, and some people were afraid that they would not understand the letter, so they set off overnight and rode fast horses to Yangzhai County to deliver the letter.
At the same time, Zhao Yun, who was far away in Yangzhai, also received Guo Bin's flying pigeon message. Yangzhai County's flying pigeon transmission business is constantly expanding, and the rapid communication from Luoyang to Yangzhai has been realized through several carrier pigeon bases secretly built on the way. Of course, at this stage, the flying pigeon biography is still the top secret information at the highest level of Yang Zhai. Regarding the secrecy of this sharp weapon of war, which can change the rhythm and mode of war, the high-level strategists under Guo Bin have reached a consensus.
Since receiving Guo Bin's flying pigeon message, Zhao Yun quickly convened Xu Shu, Xun Yu, Sima Hui and others to discuss, and decided to form a leading group with Xun Yu as the core to be responsible for the implementation of this matter. After that, Xun Yu led the outstanding children in the Fulong Villa School to form a team, and quickly convened the wealthy families in Yingchuan to discuss Guo Bin's instructions with the wealthy families of Yangzhai, and quickly reached a consensus at the meeting.
Not to mention the arrangements and efforts of Xun Yu people in Yangzhai County, just talk about the dynamics in Beijing.
The day after receiving the Yangzhai County Flying Pigeon Message, Guo Bin's report on the reconstruction of Nangong was sent to the case of the Son of Heaven.
Today's Son of Heaven Liu Hong is experiencing the biggest crisis since he ascended the throne. In the past ten years, the emperor has never been so embarrassed as he is now.
First of all, in the sixth year of Guanghe, there was a great drought in the world, and the Central Plains was heavy and red, and many people had no harvest and became homeless. Such a large-scale natural disaster is undoubtedly a warning to the Son of Heaven, and what the Son of Heaven has done is not in line with the way of Heaven. At this time, the pressure on Liu Hong was still within the tolerable range.
The following year, that is, the first year of Zhongping, Taiping Dao took advantage of the great drought in the world and the opportunity of the displaced people to live in sin, and wanted to follow the story of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang and turn his back on the imperial court. It was really a terrifying few months, although He Jin had insight into the conspiracy of Taiping Dao in advance, how could he have expected that Taiping Dao had been preparing for many years? At that time, all the states and counties in the world, the requests for help flew to Beijing like snowflakes, and the bad news of the fall of the states and counties also ravaged Liu Hong's fragile heart again and again.
Later, the imperial court sent two armies from the north and south to exterminate the Yellow Turban thieves, but Zhu Jun lost the first battle, the morale of the officials and troops was greatly defeated, and the 50,000 officers and troops on the south road were trapped in the small city of Changshe and were in danger. And the Lu Zhi Department on the North Road, although the good news is frequent, it is all a small fight, and there is no big victory in the world that can boost the morale of the army!
It was still Guo Qianyang, who first rushed thousands of miles to help, exterminated the 30,000 elite Yellow Turban thieves who defended Yangzhai City, and then won more with less outside Changshe City, playing the main force of the Yellow Turban Thieves' Southern Route Army in the palm of his hand, and finally defeated him. The Yellow Turban Rebellion, which tortured Liu Hong, the Son of Heaven, for more than a month, seems to have finally seen a ray of light.
What's even happier is that this Guo Qianyang not only exterminated the Yellow Turban thieves, but also put forward a proposal to expel the Yellow Turban soldiers from the Central Plains and move to the outside of the Saiwai. This not only completely deprived the Yellow Turban Thieves of the rebellious soldier base, but also enabled the imperial court to obtain the tax revenue of the three large cities outside the fortress out of thin air without spending a penny.
However, at the critical moment when the Yellow Turban Rebellion was pacified and everything was about to begin to improve, Nangong was actually hit by the disaster of Zhurong, and its symbolic significance was so great that it was needless to say that the cost of rebuilding Nangong was not particularly huge, but at such a juncture, it really gave Liu Hong a headache.
Not only that, but now the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty are opposed to the rebuilding of the South Palace, one by one, they are like unprecedented loyal ministers and good generals, swearing to oppose it, there is that momentum, why didn't they fight the Yellow Turban thieves in the first place?
However, when Liu Hong saw Guo Bin's folding, his eyes gradually lit up, and when he finished reading it word by word, Liu Hong was already open-minded.
He took Guo Bin's recital, excitedly circled the imperial case several times, and said to Zhang Rang, who was standing aside, as he walked: "He really deserves to be a loyal minister who I single-handedly, this Guo Qianyang can always share my worries at critical moments!" Good! Hahaha!"