Chapter 396: Joining Forces

Qin Shaoyou understands that now some people have begun to look forward to it.

Truth be told, the world has changed today.

This kind of change is not as simple as lifestyle.

The most important thing is the change in the structure of the economy.

The soil on which the scholars originally relied for their survival was actually in jeopardy, and in fact, almost all the high-ranking sects were aware of this problem.

On the one hand, it was the Sui Dynasty that opened the imperial examination, although after the imperial examination, the imperial court still compromised with the scholars and the gate valve, so there were freaks such as throwing rolls, but the general trend has been irreversible, and the system of righteousness and filial piety has completely declined.

On the other hand, it is due to the improvement of the level of technology, which leads to the reduction of the price of books.

Before the Jin Dynasty, the reason why the wealthy families were everywhere and monopolized everything, the essence of the reason was that the vast majority of the cultural knowledge at that time was recorded on bamboo slips and cloth, even if there was the appearance of paper, the price was also high, in addition, although printing technology has appeared, but it has not formed a scale, which means that the cost of printing is unattainable.

Before the Sui and Tang dynasties, education was almost a particularly luxurious thing, except for the scholars and local Haoqiang, the rest of the ordinary people, almost completely without the possibility of literacy and hyphenation, they were just a group of people confined to ten miles, illiterate characters, only sunrise and sunset in their eyes 'beasts', and the scholars and Haoqiang's children, since childhood, began to learn, by the elders of the training, their advantages, compared to the poor, can be described as infinitely great.

This advantage means that no ruler can replace the scholars and gate lords with other people to rule the world, and the Son of Heaven will never let a group of illiterate civilians manage the place, and the Son of Heaven will always have only one choice, either the scholar clan or the strong and powerful. At that time, the Son of Heaven wanted to sit firmly in the country, and the only means he could use. It's just a little infighting between Haoqiang and the Shi clan, and he didn't have any choice from the beginning.

And when the spread of knowledge began to spread, or rather, some people with some wealth gradually had access to books, and the monopoly of the scholars on culture became precarious, because at this time, for the rulers. They already have a new choice, this choice, not necessarily you scholars and gates, this is the meaning of the imperial examination, because the imperial examination, and because access to knowledge is no longer out of reach, so a group of poor children gradually stand out. And the only thing the scholars can do is to take them in as protégés.

It's just this kind of alliance. Obviously not unbreakable, in this world linked by clan and blood, when he is not a blood relative, he wants complete control. It's not that simple.

Immediately afterwards, it was Wu Zetian who really shook the status of the scholars, and Wu Zetian ascended the throne in order to fight against dissidents. began to appoint a large number of cool officials, and these cool officials dealt a heavy blow to the economic foundation of the scholars.

Now it is before the nobles. It is still the third catastrophe, and that is the rise of the Divine Mansion.

If the Shence Mansion came into being twenty years ago, I am afraid that it will not take long to be immediately suppressed, because the emergence of this freak has greatly hindered the fundamental interests of the wealthy and the scholars, it built a peaceful school, so that the scholars and the wealthy are more and more powerless to monopolize knowledge, in addition, the Shence Mansion has created a number of new rich, which has dealt a heavy blow to the economic foundation of the scholars, and the Hongnong scholars wanted to take advantage of this to hit the Shence Mansion, but as a result, the Shence Mansion has used many means, and suddenly the pastoral economy of the scholars has completely collapsed, The collapse of the Hongnong clan, to a certain extent, has many factors, on the one hand, because Qin Shaoyou's means of throwing money are really too powerful, on the other hand, it is also because of the imperial examination opened by the Sui and Tang dynasties, so that the Hongnong clan no longer has the same strength as before, coupled with the suppression of Wu Zetian during his reign, so that the economically suppressed by Qin Shaoyou is dead, and politically, it is actually immobile.

Since it can't be suppressed, then there is only cooperation.

The cooperation between the Hongnong clan and Qin Shaoyou can be described as a model, the scholar clan has safeguarded their political interests through the council hall in large numbers, even if there are some policies that hurt the scholars, but through the council hall they can also have some bargaining capital.

On the other hand, it is economic integration.

The pastoral economy was the foundation of the Hongnong clan, but they soon found that their way of life was vulnerable in the face of Mengjin's commercial economy, after all, they had enough contacts, and also had enough political capital and financial resources.

They suddenly found that farming is really not profitable, guarding boxes of money in the cellar, there is no meaning, it turns out that there is money in hand, you can give birth to several times the money, it turns out that the network is not only a tool to maintain status, but also a tool to make money.

Far from weakening, the Hongnong clan has risen strongly by taking advantage of this shareholder wind.

The Yang family alone, the Yang family was originally the largest family in Hongnong, and its status was stable, but it was a pity that Wu Zetian did not allow the Yang family to be officials, which made them dormant for a while, and now, Yang Jiong has become the speaker, which is not enough, the most important thing is that the children of the Yang family began to engage in business, and now there are hundreds of shops, a caravan, seven or eight workshops, and the wealth has almost doubled in just over a year.

In fact, they are not keen on running a workshop, but they are more enthusiastic about taking goods, and the profits earned by running a workshop, they can't look down on it, because they have a more profitable business, in this era when the connection between regions is not close, it is not easy for ordinary businessmen to send a batch of goods hundreds of miles away, because the status of merchants is not high, and they must encounter difficulties along the way, the government is like this, and the local Haoqiang is also the same, so it is often a batch of thousands of goods, Hundreds of miles away, the money spent on it may far exceed the goods by several times.

But the scholars are different, the most important thing for the scholars is the connections, their goods, the government does not dare to make difficulties, the checkpoints along the way, will also try their best to give convenience, to the locality, the local heroes have become their help, a thousand of goods, ordinary merchants need to spend three thousand to dot and transport and wear and tear along the way, and here in the scholars, they only need to spend hundreds of dollars to be responsible for the manpower and animal power along the way.

This...... It's profiteering.

This kind of profiteering, let the scholars taste the sweetness, so, almost in Hongnong, every household Gaomen now although occasionally get a few workshops to play, place a few children to learn production and management, and their real pillar is the agent and goods, the more Mengjin production, the more developed the trade, the greater their profits, these people, more like a group of rentiers lying on the coffin of their ancestors, quite like the charter and charter of the later generations, but their function is irreplaceable by others.

The Kwantung Shi clan, someone has long come to Mengjin for an unannounced visit, they are dumbfounded by the income of some Hongnong families, it turns out that people take a trip to the goods, easy and labor-saving, and their income is higher than the income of hard planting tens of thousands of acres of land, this kind of shock, is not just a reason to be tempted, but more naked envy.

So, these people flocked to it, and finally came.

It's just that Qin Shaoyou's temporary neglect of them made them a little uneasy, grinding hard bubbles at Yang Jiong's place every day, and even some people went to find Wang Ju's freak, even Wang Ju's kind of goods have now become everyone's sweethearts, and they always go to Wang Ju to inquire about the news in the name of some distant relatives, or for the old reasons of the Wang family.

Shence Mansion has become a powerful existence that can withstand the Longmen valve, although the current strength is still a little insufficient, but it must not be underestimated, and now even this last worry is gone, so what are you waiting for?

Yang Jiong mentioned these people's thoughts to Qin Shaoyou originally, and he said it for half an hour.

In this regard, Yang Jiong knows very well that those Kanto clans, even if they are good friends with the Pei family, no matter what, they are also latecomers, since they are latecomers, Yang Jiong still hopes to maintain some advantages in front of them, of course, converging with the Kanto clan has great benefits for the entire Shence Mansion, after all, the strength of these people is amazing, which has great benefits to the business and political influence of the Shence Mansion, the stronger the Shence Mansion, the less concerns the Yang family has, and the more stable the position, so Yang Jiong in this regard, Neither was he in a hurry to pull the Guandong clan into the water, and maintained a certain vigilance, but at the same time, at the time of the final summary, he said to Qin Shaoyou: "Your Highness, now that all the families in the Kanto region are willing to make friends with the Shence Mansion, the situation is also imminent. ”

Qin Shaoyou nodded and said, "Yes, it's time too, but according to Yang Gong's opinion, how to deal with it?" ”

Qin Shaoyou has always called Yang Jiong as Yang Gong, which is different from calling Wang Ju as Mr., and it is more respectful, on the one hand, Yang Jiong is old, on the other hand, he also respects Yang Jiong's identity as the speaker, the council hall is logically speaking, it is an institution independent of the Shence Mansion, and its status is very transcendent, Qin Shaoyou does not want to be criticized in this matter.

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The first chapter was delivered, and everyone's book reviews were read, only to find out that the tiger had one more alliance leader, thanks to tiexuemogui classmates, the tiger was ashamed, the book was not very well conceived when it was opened, on the other hand, and wanted to move closer to the book city, but it turned out that both sides were not pleased, and it was able to get everyone's support, ashamed. (To be continued.) )