Chapter 267: The beginning of the war
Ji Qiong has a dull personality, but he does things exactly the opposite of Yu Zheming, he is bold and aggressive, but he is not as steady and steady as Yu Zheming, step by step, and he does not cast a net when he sees fish. Please search for the product #Book.com to see the most complete and fastest update
At present, it is recommended that Lin Feng throw off his arms, learn the Song State model, and directly open the iron ore monopoly, I have to say, he is very bold
Lin Feng glanced at Ji Qiong and asked, "Ji Aiqing, tell me the reason, don't tell me, you are just hot." ”
Ji Qiong's expression was solemn, not like a joke, and he said in a serious tone: "Your Majesty, the monopoly of iron ore will do more harm than good, especially in the case that the laws and regulations of the Yan Kingdom have not yet been fully promoted, it is most easy to form collusion between officials and businessmen and enrich their own pockets."
On the contrary, like the Song Dynasty, the monopoly of iron ore was opened, but it was like introducing a living spring to stagnant water. Wechen wants to say that the iron ore monopoly, within three or five years, businessmen and the government, may not form a deep-rooted force, three or five years later, with the passage of time, smuggling will inevitably be rampant, tax loss. However, the opening of the iron ore monopoly is bound to hand over the national strategic materials to the merchants, both of which have their own advantages and disadvantages, but the latter is within the control range, with the implementation of the law and the supervision of the court, no matter how powerful the businessmen are, it will not become much of a climate, but if the former is deep-rooted, it will be difficult to clean up, and even affect the national capital."
Ji Qiong is right, in this era, the status of businessmen is extremely low, even if they are rich, they are still ranked at the bottom of the Shinong industry and commerce, in the new deal, Lin Feng attaches importance to the status of businessmen, but for thousands of years, the deep-rooted influence can not be changed overnight.
At the same time, Lin Feng also knew that like the current Song State chaebols, even if the merchants colluded with each other, they would not be able to threaten the foundation of the Song State, after all, the merchants did not have the power to dominate the army.
This era is far from reaching the embryonic stage of capitalism.
Lin Feng already had an idea in his heart, and when he heard Ji Qiong say this, he agreed slightly.
"Hmm" Lin Feng nodded and asked Yu Zheming, "Yu Aiqing, tell me your suggestion." ”
For a long time, Yu Zheming of Yan State has controlled the household department of Yan State, and he has the best understanding of Yan Guo's economy, and whether the salt and iron monopoly is open or not, Lin Feng and Yu Zheming have discussed it many times, and at this time, he also wants to hear Yu Zheming's advice.
After all, Yu Zheming's old city is stable and not seven or eight points sure, so he usually doesn't make a decision easily, but if it is implemented, it will definitely be a good prescription.
Yu Zheming didn't think about it, and said directly: "According to the current situation of Yan Kingdom, continue to open up, or completely open the monopoly of salt and iron, which is suitable for the current Yan Kingdom. ”
Yu Zheming didn't say much, but in his words, he also hoped to continue to open the iron ore monopoly.
When Lin Feng heard this, he thought for a long time and asked, "How many unmined iron ores are there in Yan Country at present?"
"Eight places" Yu Zheming said.
"Okay, leave the two largest ones for building weapons, and all the remaining iron ore will be auctioned off, and the one with the highest price will get it." Lin Feng said.
"Your Majesty, are you sure?" asked Ji Qiong.
"Of course, I know that in my heart," Lin Feng said.
Lin Feng knew that he would let him lead the troops to fight, he was not afraid, let him engage in the economy, and his ability would be a bit dwarfed, just knowing that if he wanted to refine it, or even implement it, it would be Yu Zheming and Ji Qiong, which would be more suitable.
Fortunately, Lin Feng is self-aware, as Liu Bang said, in the midst of the husband's strategy, the decisive victory is thousands of miles away, I am not as good as the ovary; Town the country, care for the people, give gifts, endless food, I am not as good as Xiao He; Even millions of people, the battle will be won, the attack must be taken, I am not as good as Han Xin. All three are masterpieces, I can use them, so I take the world. Xiang Yu has a fan increase and does not use it, so it is my bird.
Therefore, Lin Feng hopes to gather the strengths of hundreds of schools and know how to make good use of them, instead of Zhuge being cautious all his life, handling affairs big and small, with full authority.
What's more, listening to Lin Shuying's meaning, the iron ore monopoly is bound to appoint a large number of officials and form a special agency to carry it out, not to mention the lack of officials in the Yan State, if a large number of officials are spent on the iron ore monopoly, not only can not solve the problem of officials accepting their fate, but also redundant officials and redundant government for a long time.
Moreover, as Ji Qiong said, if it continues for a long time and forms a situation of integration of government and business, it will definitely be a disaster for Yan Guo.
Lin Feng intends to compete in the world, and will never allow any disclosure to occur within ten years, or even twenty years, to affect the rise of Yan Kingdom.
"The emperor means, Weichen has understood, since ancient times, iron ore, and even salt wine and iron monopoly or open monopoly, there is no mature law constraints, all dynasties, regardless of whether the monopoly is open or not, to reduce losses as much as possible, unfortunately, people's hearts are complicated, there are policies, and there are countermeasures."
Situ Dao, he looked at this matter from the perspective of laws and regulations and historical past, the practice of successive dynasties has proved that in the absence of a strong rule of law, the advantages of the monopoly of salt and iron often outweigh the disadvantages, but the opening of the monopoly involves many aspects.
At present, Lin Feng chooses to auction and collect heavy taxes, it is not impossible, after all, Yan Guo is in ruins, and there is no doubt that the new country will greatly reduce the harm by opening up the iron ore monopoly, at least for decades, there will not be much harm.
"Well, the auction is also a feasible strategy, and the minister will deal with it." Yu Zheming nodded.
Solving the matter of iron ore, the problem that Lin Feng had been pressing on his heart for a long time was finally resolved, and his heart was much more relaxed, although it was not clear how much benefit imitating Song Guo would bring to Yan Guo, but he still hoped for a good start in his heart.
"Okay, after talking about this iron mine, I also plan to strip the salt wine out of the household, and also release the specialty, collect heavy taxes, at the same time, I hope to follow the example of the Song State, in the Yan State to establish a workshop for the production of paper, silk, porcelain, leather, weapons, at the same time, plant and vigorously raise livestock, and develop the economy on a large scale" Lin Feng said, at present, the main money-making industry in the Yan Kingdom, mainly concentrated in the salt wine, and the mule and horse market to generate taxes, not like the Song Kingdom in full bloom, all walks of life have brought rich taxes to the Yan Kingdom. Lin Feng sorted out his expression and said, "You guys think about it, these things are not allowed to be sloppy."
Seeing Lin Feng open the salt wine, everyone listened carefully, which meant that Lin Feng completely accepted the current situation in the Yan Kingdom and planned to completely emulate the Song Kingdom.
Seeing the attention of Yu Zheming, Situ and others, attracted by his own words, Lin Feng continued: "I went to the Song Kingdom, I felt a lot of emotion, at present, the merchants of the Yan Kingdom are still very weak compared with the merchants of the vassal countries, so I plan to contribute to the royal family to support a group of local merchants loyal to the Yan Kingdom, and support the other party to establish paper, silk, porcelain, leather, and weapons workshops in terms of money and policy, even if they can't compete with the merchants of the Song Kingdom, they must be stronger than ordinary merchants." ”
In this matter, Lin Feng thought clearly, he must speed up the pace of developing commerce and handicrafts, and the two complement each other, which can enrich the goods of Yan Kingdom, make the people's lives more colorful, and will also bring a lot of taxes to support his southern and northern wars.
"How does the imperial court make money," Yu Zheming asked.
Following Lin Feng for a long time, he knew that Lin Feng was not an impulsive person, but the state supported businessmen, among the vassal states, it had not yet happened, if the Yan Kingdom supported businessmen, what kind of results would it bring, he couldn't believe it.
After all, if the state supports businessmen, it means that the status of businessmen will be greatly improved, and it will inevitably break the thousand-year-old customs.
Lin Feng looked at Yu Zheming's surprised look, but said without changing his face: "It is still divided, except for taxes, the imperial court and merchants are divided fifty-fifty, but these workshops must all be separated, and each merchant only participates in one industry, not controlled by a few people, to prevent the breeding of gate valves." ”
I don't know if his idea is whimsical, but Lin Feng has heard of the word state-owned enterprise, and at present, the businessman he decided to support is also a state-owned enterprise.
"Your Majesty, this move is feasible, but it doesn't exalt the status of a businessman too much" Ji Qiong asked, although he is a down-and-out scholar, he still doesn't look down on businessmen in his bones.
"At present, Yan Kingdom needs businessmen, I know what to do, you just need to implement it," Lin Feng said.
Longlin County, the camp of the Chinese army.
Under the light of the torches, outside the gate of the camp, thousands of black-armored cavalry iron cavalry entered the camp, the war horses galloped wildly, the blood clothes and blood splashed everywhere, the front row of generals wore black iron armor, the expression was cold, and the cavalry behind was like a wolf and a tiger, the momentum was violent, and the air of killing was killed.
Zhang Yu was covered in blood and had just retreated from the battlefield with his cavalry.
Since the invasion of Longlin County, I don't know how many times, and I have returned in vain.
In the face of Mu Xiaotian and Wang Lunkey's army, the Yan army fought extremely hard, and it had long been without the courage to let me break through when I was on the grassland.
It's not that the Yan army can't do it, but the Jin army seems to know that the Yan country has the determination to swallow the Jin country, and the whole army, although the combat effectiveness is not strong, but they all have the heart of death, not to mention that most of these people are the elite of the Jin country, with a very high ideological consciousness and the will to serve the country.
Now, there are battles almost every day in Longlin County, there are casualties on both sides, hundreds of thousands of Jin troops, occupying several major cities in Longlin County, forming horns with each other, the Yan army can neither besiege but not attack, trap each other, and can not attack with all their strength, for fear of falling into the opponent's several sides, at the same time, behind the high walls of the inner city of Longlin County, the cavalry is not good at attacking the city at all.
After many battles, the Yan army had little gain except for transferring the battlefield from Shaoyang County to Longlin County.
Today, Zhang Yu, Liu Xuanyuan, Lin Xiao, three people, successively sent troops to attack the Heyang City defended by Mu Xiaotian, this battle, from the early morning, until Zhang Yu led the army to cover the evacuation of the siege cavalry, five hours, ten hours, the Yan army could not move an inch.
Rao caused a lot of pressure on the Jin army, but he still did not break through Heyang City.
It was getting late, and it was getting for nothing, and the three main generals were all angry, swallowing Jin, it seemed easier than imagined, and the enthusiasm of the army was decreasing.
What's more, Zhang Yu knew very well that in the battle of Swallowing Jin, the Yan army could not feed the war with war, and if the army returned every day without success, it would be a big problem for hundreds of thousands of troops to consume money and food every day, which would inevitably bring great pressure to the court.
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