Although Zhang Rang wanted to tell the Son of Heaven that Guo Bin was a minister, but looking at Liu Hong's joyful but trying his best to suppress it, and then thinking about Guo Bin's methods, he still swallowed back the words that came to his lips. He was always said to be a minister, and at this time he finally felt the sad and depressed mood when others said that he was a minister.

However, Guo Bin's move was not simply to sell the Son of Heaven, but also to solve the problem of Nangong being burned. If it is really done according to the rules of the imperial court, whether it is collecting taxes, or buying flowers and stones from all over the country, or levying and issuing forced labor, the cost may be countless times larger than that of Yangzhai Construction Co., Ltd.

Not to mention the layers of exploitation of officials at all levels, including the Ten Standing Servants, that is, the officials in the world are honest and honest, but because the efficiency of the bureaucratic system is extremely slow, the cost of it has also gone to the sea.

After the Son of Heaven issued the edict, the bureaucracy at all levels should learn and comprehend the spirit of the new edict, right? The officials of the state and county should recalculate the acres of land and calculate the taxes that should be paid by each household, right? Well, the work of accounting for the acres of land is going smoothly, and if these calculations are to be implemented, it is necessary for the officials to go to the countryside and report the amount of additional taxes that each household should pay, right?

Of course, according to the current grassroots management system, most of the officials go directly to the township and report to Li Zheng, and then Li Zheng and the village elders explain to the villagers. However, not to mention that taxes should be increased per mu of land, even if taxes are not raised, it is difficult for many farmers to pay taxes on time, so this will require a lot of prevarication, right?

Not only that, in the past, the field tax was mostly paid in kind, but now it is necessary to increase the tax by ten yuan per mu of land. In the era of subsistence small-scale peasant economy, farmers only received the crops produced in the fields, and if they wanted to calculate it in silver, they had to sell handmade products or directly sell grain, which was called male ploughing and female weaving.

At a time when the family is struggling to make ends meet, asking them to hand over the money is not forcing them to rebel? Moreover, once it is really implemented, it means that the small officials in the township will not raise taxes privately and fill their own pockets, and there will be more people who can sell grain and pay taxes, and the price of grain will inevitably fall, and the grain that used to cost 500 yuan a day may not be sold for 400 yuan now, which is also a disguised oppression of peasant property, but part of this squeeze will fall into the hands of landlords or grain merchants.

Speaking of collecting rent and taxes, these small families are good to say, a few small officials come to the door with knives, guns and sticks, and make some intimidation, as long as it is not really a desperate house, it can always be found. In addition, the clerk took an old hen and took out a duck egg, isn't it an exaggeration? The officials and gentlemen came to the door in person under the scorching sun, and how many pairs of shoes did they step on? It doesn't seem too much for the small people to worship a little!

And in the face of the powerful in various places, this work of increasing taxes is not so easy to do. Not only were they literate, but they also had a better understanding of the imperial decrees than the officials who did the work. The wealthy and big families are connected to each other, and the information of the imperial court must always be clarified, right? These subordinates often have hundreds or thousands of strong people, where will they pay attention to the little officials?

Okay, I finally collected the money for the reconstruction of Nangong and transported it to Beijing, right? This money is still easy to transport, but whether it is flowers and stones or other belongings, how to transport them? In this era, the means of transportation are nothing more than people shouldering them, so that people eat horses and chew horses, which is a big cost.

This is still a smooth situation, if you encounter a horse on the way, and there is some loss on the road, the huge cost of building a South Palace is unimaginable. If this is the case, it will be another great upheaval that will shake the whole country.

What's more, now that the Yellow Turban Rebellion has just been put down, displaced people from all over the country are slowly returning to their place of residence. They were destitute, had neither food rations nor seeds to grow their crops, and had to borrow food from the local wealthy clans to make ends meet, not to mention pay heavy taxes.

It can be said that Liu Hong's edict continued, followed by the rise of smoke in various places, the poor people became thieves, and the Yellow Turban Army resurgented in various places. And if such a situation is caused, it is not something that can be exterminated by the imperial court organizing a large army to encircle and suppress it.

It was Nangong who spent a huge amount of manpower and material resources to build it, so can the tax increase per mu of land really be reduced? Let's not talk about whether the Son of Heaven will pretend to forget this stubble, and keep the tax at a high level, that is, the Son of Heaven ordered it to be lowered, can it really be lowered below? Officials at all levels finally saw a means to increase their income and make extra money, and they could stop it so easily? Therefore, this kind of temporary increase in taxes will easily become a common practice due to the "mistakes" of officials at all levels.

Nowadays, the leaders of the Qiang nationality in the northwest, Beigong Boyu and Li Wenhou, have rebelled, and the northwest is indispensable to garrison heavy troops, and the officials and troops of the north and south who suppressed the Yellow Turban Rebellion add up to only 100,000 people. It seems that there are still a lot of soldiers and horses in the Central Plains, but if each state and county is divided, whether they can defend the county seat is still two words, let alone suppress bandits.

These thieves, knowing that they are not well equipped and not strong, where will they rush to kill the officers and soldiers head-on? If they give full play to the tactics of guerrilla warfare and take advantage of their familiarity with their numbers and geography to engage in sports warfare with the officers and soldiers, they will be dragged down in less than 10 days and half a month. At that time, not to mention a hundred thousand troops, even a million, two million troops, it will not help.

Why did Lu Zhi force Zhang Jiao and all the elites of his department into Guangzong City and surround them? Isn't it just to prevent Zhang Jiao from sending his subordinates to various parts of the Central Plains to mobilize the masses to rebel against the imperial court? You must know that there were only 50,000 people in Lu Zhi's hands at that time, and if he really wanted to play like this, he would not be able to finish it for another ten years and eight years!

Therefore, the most important reason why Guo Bin took over the task of rebuilding Nangong is to prevent this situation. Otherwise, the world will fall into chaos again, and the Eastern Han Dynasty will certainly accelerate its demise, but in the end it is the common people at the bottom who suffer.

Guo Bin was just a flat-headed ordinary man in his previous life, otherwise he would not have gone to the army because of his poor studies. He knows the Chinese people best, even if they endure humiliation, even if they make a living secretly, even if they have no dignity, as long as there is still a way to live, they will consciously go to that road. The so-called good death is better than living, which not only shows the strong desire of the Chinese people to survive, but also reflects their weak and humble demands.

Guo Bin was born in a new society and grew up under the red flag, if he didn't know about this kind of thing, he could still pretend to be fine, but now that things have come to his door, Guo Bin has no reason to ignore it. Therefore, he left behind the entanglement of whether to work hard to save the Eastern Han court, which was corrupted to the roots, and only thought about doing his best to save ordinary people. The so-called "don't do what is right, no courage", Guo Bin thinks that he is not a weak and cowering person.

However, he just wanted to try his best to help the people and strive to take over the task of building the South Palace, but he was not to be an unprincipled good man. Because he is not alone, behind him are thousands of families in Fulong Villa and Guojiazhuang, and hundreds of thousands of people in Yangzhai County. Every decision he made was closely related to the fate of these hundreds of thousands of people, so even if he did good, Guo Bin could not do what he wanted, and he didn't care about the gains and losses at all. What's more, for a project of this scale, although Fulong Villa can be seen alone, things should never be done like this.

Because he has his own team, and he has allies and collaborators behind him, and sharing benefits and risks with allies and collaborators is also a good virtue of being a good businessman, isn't it? What's more, if it really shows that his Fulong Villa has such huge financial, manpower, and material resources, if it is targeted by people with ulterior motives, it will be too annoying, right?

Therefore, if Guo Bin brought out Yangzhai Construction Co., Ltd., which is a shareholder of the wealthy family of Yangzhai County, this time, if he gathers the strength of a large county to rebuild Nangong, although it is also very easy to attract people's attention, it will not make people blush. People will only sigh that Yangzhai County is rich, but no one will dare to have bad intentions. In this era, even the relatives of the emperor and the country, who dare to fight for life and death with a local wealthy family group, have never heard of it. Who knows where the children of these wealthy families are officials? Who knows with whom these wealthy families have an unknown intimacy?

And Guo Bin asked Yangzhai Construction Co., Ltd. to preside over the construction of the South Palace, which was not entirely out of political considerations.

At present, Yang Zhai Construction Co., Ltd. has spread its business all over the world, and it is known for its extremely fast construction speed and extremely high firmness that surpasses ordinary buildings. The world's wealthy families are vying to contact them for business, wanting to strengthen their estates. This business has become more and more popular since the Taiping Dao rebellion and the chaos in the world.

However, business is good business, but it is a clear labor-intensive industry, to put it bluntly, the profit is not too high, and the company's employees are working hard. Although, in this troubled era, it is a fluke to have a stable job that fills the stomach of the whole family, Guo Bin still wants a new way of building to go high-end.

Because the current business, the most common is to build courtyard walls for the wealthy. Although this kind of work seems to have broad prospects and quick money, it will eventually decline one day, after all, the courtyard wall of a wealthy family cannot be built forever, right? Moreover, the work of building the fence is too simple, although the speed is extremely fast, it cannot better hone the construction process and better train the construction skills of the workers.

If it weren't for the company's welfare, the status of a worker who only knows how to build walls would not even be as good as a skilled worker who can only build a fence. Moreover, if it is a simple walled building, the technical content is too low, and it is very easy to imitate, and now many wealthy families buy the cement produced by Fulong Villa, and then train their own workers to build the wall.

Therefore, at this critical moment when the new construction industry is extremely hot, Guo Bin thought of not how to further monopolize the market and bring the world's business over, but how to achieve industrial upgrading.

On the same day, when Yang Ci asked Guo Bin about the solution to rebuild Nangong, he only said that Yangzhai County would bear it all, and Yang Ci, who knew Guo Bin's huge influence in Yangzhai County, listened to it and did not ask much. It wasn't until he returned to Guo's mansion that Guo Jia asked that Guo Bin explained his plan and inventory in front of Xi Zhicai.

When everyone heard this, they were all impressed.

In this era when every little new technology has to be hidden as a treasure, and even regarded it as a treasure, passed on to future generations, and become a way for his family to survive, Guo Bin's open-mindedness deeply shocked everyone.

Xi Zhicai held the teacup excitedly at that time and said something like this: "The pattern of the lord is a device, with a bearing of heart, chasing to three generations, and there is no one who can match it." ”

Yes, Guo Bin has never banned the sale of cement from beginning to end, and has never stopped wealthy families from all over the world from sending their families to Fulong Villa to learn new construction methods.

Because, he knows very well that the world's business is inexhaustible, and the world's human feelings are limited. Only by striving to form a good alliance with the wealthy families everywhere and leaving a good reputation among the wealthy families everywhere is the only way to strengthen themselves. Since establishing a foothold in Fulong Villa, it is one of Guo Bin's basic principles to earn money.

This is true of business, but isn't it true of politics?

No matter what era it is, in high-level politics, the dictatorship of one word and the arbitrariness of cadres will never last long. Because there are undoubtedly several relatively large forces at the highest level, it is precisely because of this situation that high-level politics has always been a relationship of mutual containment and cooperation. And the person who stands at the top and stands in front of the stage will always be the product of mutual compromise between all parties, because as long as one party wants to dominate, it will be jointly attacked by the rest of the parties. Therefore, the person who stands at the highest point must be a person who is acceptable to all parties.

Although Guo Bin didn't dare to have such extravagant hopes, he always wanted to leave a few more ways for himself.