Xie Shence didn't have a good impression of Sima Bi's matter. Because Sima Bi made a black hand behind Tiqi's back, so many people died in the north, because Sima Bi also showed murderous intent to him.

Zhou Jinmian nodded, and then said: "As for the battle situation this time, in the compromises presented to His Majesty, Guo Fei did not count the battle damage, can we do something?" ”

Xie Shence smiled slightly: "Say he's a stupid pig, he's a stupid pig, stick his face up and let us smoke it...... But if you really do something this time, although you can disgust Sima Bi, you can't move his roots, and if you make a fuss, you will startle the snake, so let's suppress it for the time being. But Your Majesty can mention it, let Your Majesty have a number in his heart first. At this stage, it is a common practice to report good news and not bad news, and everyone can understand it...... But later, when the time is right, it will be able to take it out and make a fuss. ”

Zhou Jinmian also smiled, he naturally understood what Xie Shence meant, at this time, he said it, Emperor Jin would not pay much attention to it, at most he would make a verbal criticism. But it will be different in the future.

You think, if Xie Shence is ready to attack Sima Bi in the future, he will cite some examples of Sima Bi or something, and then add: Sima Bi has lost battles before and concealed it and did not report it, this is a bully, and he has long had a heart of disobedience...... What would Emperor Jin think? So won't the effect come out?

Of course, at this time, let Emperor Jin know, but don't let Emperor Jin say anything about it, let everyone know. It's good for Emperor Jin to know it himself, and it's good to leave an impression in his heart, which will be convenient for Ti Qisi to play in the future.

This is a bit like Xie Shence's previous approach, first listing all the contact processes between Sima Bi and the hive spy, and then saying: The general has dealings with the enemy country? I don't believe it.

They all plant the seeds and wait for them to take root and sprout before harvesting.

Zhou Jinmian said: "Well, I'll write the recital of the Tiqi Division, and then show it to you." ”

After thanking Shence and nodding, Zhou Jinmian continued: "The disaster situation in the north has basically been contained, and the latest number of deaths, the number of deaths is 440,000. Plus last fall's ...... My Dajin can be regarded as a big injury now. After the war in the north began, the Yan army plundered a large number of young and middle-aged laborers, plus the number of dead, and now the situation is not optimistic. ”

Xie Shence nodded, he had already picked up a report, and with Zhou Jinmian's words, he read it quickly.

Xie Shence said: "Your Majesty's strategy is to first go north, then west and then south, and now, I am afraid that within ten years, it may not be able to level the north...... It's another protracted battle. ”

Zhou Jinmian smiled: "This is also something that can't be helped. Since the Spring and Autumn Period, there have been four opportunities for unification in the world, two in the Great Jin Dynasty, one in the Qin State, and one in the Yan Kingdom, but without exception, they were all destroyed by natural disasters when they were about to be launched, so that the world was divided for more than 200 years. Speaking of which, it's not the first time that I, Dajin, have encountered such a situation, and now is not the most powerful time, so thinking about it, I can also get some comfort in my heart. ”

pursed his mouth, and thanked Shence: "Talk about yourself." Comfort. ”

"That's right, it's just talking. Comfort! Zhou Jinmian laughed.

"The commercial things you mentioned, I mean some secret letters you sent back from the north, I read them, although I can understand some of them, but I don't understand them very well, which sounds very reasonable. It's amazing that you can manipulate prices by investing, buying, investing. But you were taught by Wang Lao Shangshu, so I'm not surprised to have such insight. ”

Xie Shence said in his heart that if you have read a book called "The Wealth of Nations", you really can not be surprised, if your girlfriend has a degree in economics and forces you to read with her, you can really not be surprised.

"Alright, let's get to the point. What happened to those merchants in the north? ”

Zhou Jinmian took out a volume from a pile of documents and threw it to Xie Shence for him to read for himself.

Xie Shence took the document, looked at it, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Hehe, hehe, I don't know if I'm alive or dead......"

The businessmen of Hebei Province, because of the two disasters last year, among which there was Xie Shence's intervention, few people made money, most of them were lost, and the few who could be flat were already lucky, so many people were very dissatisfied.

Among them, there are big landlords and big businessmen, without exception, they are all high-ranking families, and they are involved in all aspects of the court.

Because these people are the gate lord class of the Jin Kingdom, they are staunch supporters of the Tian family, and they have a relationship with each other, so after suffering such a big loss, they want to get something back.

In Hexi County and Shandong County, there are people making trouble.

The reason is very special, saying that because of natural disasters, the grain for spring plowing is insufficient, and I hope that the government will distribute it, and it is said that ploughing cattle are scarce, the fields are destroyed, etc., and it is impossible to cultivate, etc., etc., etc., anyway, it is just a sentence: we can't do spring ploughing.

Some of the grain seeds are distributed by the government, but the vast majority of the grain varieties are set by the government, and the farmers buy them themselves. In the Great Chu Dynasty, because of the strong national strength, the government was responsible for the grain seeds for spring ploughing, and the peasants claimed them, but in the post-Spring and Autumn Period, the ploughing system was destroyed by war, and this practice could not continue for a long time. Therefore, today's Dajin Dynasty, in the farming system, adopts a compromise method, that is, the cooperation between the government and the people.

The government provided a part of the grain seeds—seeds of crops such as rice and wheat—and distributed them to the landlords' homes, which then replenished them and the peasants bought them. The government would give some preferential policies to the landlords to ensure spring plowing and tax revenue.

Some merchants and landlords in Hebei Province are now using this to come to the official mansion, or to the imperial court.

It's already February, spring ploughing is imminent, if this matter can't be solved, spring ploughing can't be carried out normally, no spring ploughing, naturally there will be no autumn harvest, no grain, then the Jin Kingdom will be a famine year after year, and then be dragged down.

As far as the current situation of the Jin Kingdom is concerned, Hebei Province is counting on this spring ploughing and autumn harvest! Don't expect the imperial court to transfer grain, and the people of Huaiyang Road and Shanxi Road will not eat? The imperial court also needs money to purchase grain, the war has not ended, the disaster has been controlled, and it has not been completely resolved, not to mention that there is still a long way to go in post-disaster reconstruction, which end of this is not to consume a lot of silver? How much food does the imperial court have to consume?

The Jin Kingdom can't afford it.

That's the crux of the matter.

After Xie Shence finished reading it, he put the document on the table, and then said: "This matter, the household department is not easy to handle now, according to those people's ideas, I am afraid that we must get back some benefits, otherwise I will not use such a taboo thing as an excuse...... What do they want? ”

Zhou Jinmian waved his hand, indicating that he didn't know. Xie Shence thought about it, and then smiled "hehe".

Zhou Jinmian asked, "Why are adults laughing?" ”

Xie Shence let out a comfortable "ah" and felt comfortable.

That's how Cheng Yu greeted Cao Cao back then...... It's really cool.

Well, it would be better if the "adult" was changed to "lord".

Zhou Jinmian saw Xie Shence's strange expression, and couldn't help but ask again: "Lord Admiral?" What's wrong with you, Lord Admiral? ”

Xie Shence hurriedly coughed twice, and then returned to his seriousness.

His fingers tapped lightly on the tabletop, and Xie Shence spat out two words: "Land." ”

"Land?"

"Land."

Xie Shence waved his hand, and after letting everyone out, he smiled slightly and said, "Yes, they just want land." You know, the landlords, the foreheads, the clans, and the scholars, their foundation is the land, and the land is their most fundamental support. This is easy to understand, because people need to eat, and they need food to eat, and where does food come from? It is grown from the land, so as long as there is land, it can feed people. Therefore, whoever has land can feed people, and whoever owns more land can have the power to feed more people, and this power to feed people is embodied in ordinary times, which is what we call collecting taxes, compiling household registers, mobilizing the masses, enjoying support, etc., to put it bluntly...... Well, it's the authority that 'we' can have over the people. ”

All Zhou Jinmian thinks.

"So, whoever has more land has more power, and then correspondingly, money, beauty, fame...... It's all about going up. And in order to get more and more benefits, you should be able to understand that people who own land, who have already tasted sweet heads (sweet homonym fields, to avoid), will try all kinds of ways to get more land...... Therefore, what these people want even to threaten the imperial court is land. ”

"A lot of people died in the north, seven or eight hundred thousand, and those who were concealed and not reported, plus those who were taken captive by the Yan people—the Yan people lacked labor—I estimate that there are 900,000, and these people have merchants and workers, but most of them have land. After these people die and leave, a large amount of land will be vacated, and when the disaster has passed, the government will count these lands, and then return the counted land to the government...... So, what these people want to do is to pick food from the mouths of the imperial court. They were beating the land that the dead people had left for the imperial court. ”

"And who dares to ask for these lands? Through buying and selling, or even buying and selling, but only if there are people on the land, people who can sign contracts! And there is no one on these vacant lands, so once the government is cleared, no one can move. With so much land, it is different from the general circle of mountains and lakes to collect profits from the people who enter, this is dominated by the government, and they don't dare to mess around openly and secretly, so there is only coercion. ”

"When these people get the land, as mentioned before, they will have more power, and then they will point fingers at the country, exclude dissidents, and use power for personal gain...... In short, you should treat it as a disaster, and then our country will decline, it will fall behind, and then it will be destroyed by other countries. We're going to be ...... The people who lost their country. ”

After finishing speaking, Xie Shence exhaled deeply, and then poured the tea in front of him fiercely.

Zhou Jinmian still bowed his head and was silent, thinking about what Xie Shence said.

After a long time, Zhou Jinmian said: "That...... How do we do that? ”

"We can't do anything, we can't do anything. Because of this, it is unstoppable. There are so many wealthy families in Dajin, which one didn't come like this? The Lin family is, the Zhao family is, the Wang family is, the Sima family is, and my Xie family is also ...... All we can do is write it down and wait for one day to change him. ”

On this day, a young man in the Tiqi Division, staring at the tea leaves sinking to the bottom of the cup, listening to something that did not belong to this era, changed from then on.

(PS: Good friends have been transformed and reshaped their worldview...... If you like it, please collect it~. ~

This chapter is very satisfying, maybe everyone will be a little boring when they read it. But it doesn't matter, this chapter has a great effect, very big, this is a major turning point after Xie Shence went from the little marquis to the admiral! Stay tuned - "The Ministers of Troubled Times", the first release of the vertical and horizontal. ）