Chapter 292: The Way of Governing the State
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Speaking from the heart, Wei Feng's analysis is not completely unreasonable in Liu Yu's view, but recuperation has always been a necessary measure for benevolent monarchs to practice benevolent government, and which emperor does not want to be compared to Wen Jing by those behind him?
Because of years of solidified thinking, the policy of recuperation and recuperation has become Liu Yu's firm belief, and the sacredness cannot be desecrated, and he can't accept the complete denial of recuperation! What's more, Emperor Wen of Han and Emperor Jing of Han are his distant ancestors!
So, after a little hesitation, Liu Yu retorted: "In the early Han Dynasty, Emperor Wenjing and the Second Emperor not only lived and worked in peace and contentment, but also made the national strength accumulate and develop, and then there was Emperor Wu's victory over the Xiongnu, how can General Wei explain?" ”
Wei Feng smiled faintly: "Since Brother Liu mentioned Wenjing, then Wei will talk about his own views, of course, from Gaozu to Wenjing's recuperation and recuperation for Emperor Wu to fight back against the Xiongnu laid a solid material foundation, but Emperor Wu's long-term war with the Xiongnu also exhausted his belongings, resulting in decades of accumulated wealth to come to naught, in order to raise military spending, Emperor Wu forcibly levied and calculated, and the businessmen above the middle were all bankrupt, until Emperor Wu's later years, the people were poor, the land was abandoned, the displaced people swarmed, and the uprisings and riots of large and small scales were endless. Emperor Wu was forced to stop the war against the Xiongnu and review his mistakes with the "Luntai Crime Edict"!
Of course, this is not to deny that Emperor Wu fought against the Xiongnu, Emperor Wu's war against the Xiongnu has a positive significance, it is a life-and-death struggle between the two races, if you do not fight the Xiongnu, not only the people in the frontier will be in danger, but the Han Dynasty will also have the disaster of extinction at any time. At this point, even if you do everything, Emperor Wu's merits cannot be denied!
What Wei wants to talk about is whether it is worth it to recuperate! The wealth of the country for decades was exhausted in a single battle, and everyone from the court to the common people fell into abject poverty. The country can only weaken step by step. In the end, it gradually declined in weakness, Brother Liu thinks, is it worth it? ”
"This" Liu Yu couldn't help but shudder, isn't this a true portrayal of the two Hans? But then the spirits were lifted. Then he arched his hand: "What General Wei said is good. The former Han Dynasty fell into weakness due to Emperor Wu's blow to the Xiongnu. The war between the Later Han Dynasty and Xiqiang for nearly a hundred years also dragged the court into a quagmire and could not be removed, from this point of view, fools know that it is not worth it. But there are some things that must be done if you can't do it, and you can't completely measure it by whether it's worth it or not, if the two Han don't fight against the barbarians, I'm afraid that it will be even more difficult! ”
Wei Feng nodded and said: "This is back to the fundamental question, is it worth it to start a war with the wealth of recuperation and recuperation, Wei thinks that it is not worth it!" The method of gathering wealth is not out of diligence and thrift and forcible seizure, Wei named it slow wealth and fast wealth respectively, slow wealth is taken from the people and applied to the people, and fast wealth is taken from the barbarians and used in the war.
The essence of war is to obtain benefits, not to raise my heavenly prestige and make Siyi surrender, as far as I am concerned, I don't need to surrender to Waiyi, kowtow a few times and say a few good words, who knows if he is really subdued or false? What is the use of satisfying vanity? What I need is conquest, what I need is the enemy's goods, resources, and women!
This also involves the level of strategic guidance, my strategic guidance is to feed the war with war, the northern nomads can use raiding as a supply, our Zhongtu soldiers are also people, and there are also cavalry, when it comes to blades and armor, we must be more sophisticated, why not?
Wei fought abroad, tried not to serve the people, did not consume the people's money, so that there was no harm to the foundation, I would have 50,000 soldiers in a mere projectile land, and also support 10,000 war horses, it stands to reason that the people should have been miserable for a long time, but Brother Liu can go to any city and village in Huiji to inquire, are the people dissatisfied? Absolutely nothing!
And because of the huge profits of foreign wars, the number of people in the army is increasing, which is unimaginable in our dynasty, and then go back to the beginning of the incorruptible thrift, honesty is a must, thrift does not have to be too forced, must be based on living within the means, because of the deepening of private ownership and the expansion of selfishness, people have the desire to improve living conditions, to make an inappropriate analogy, if you have the ability to eat meat, why eat corn porridge?
From another point of view, human beings from the initial fishing, hunting and gathering, to slash-and-burn farming, to today's water conservancy and fertilization, the overall trend is to move forward step by step, which is the driving force of development, is human desire, in short, the pursuit of enjoyment prompts people to use their brains to obtain more materials to satisfy themselves!
On the contrary, excessive frugality will lead to a very paradoxical result, that is, the people are getting poorer and poorer, and the officials are more greedy, the reason for this is not clear in a few words, if Brother Liu does not understand, he can explore by himself, the key is what the top is like, and the next will work, but it gives people with a heart the opportunity to rise step by step, presumably Brother Liu will have enlightenment after thinking about it.
Therefore, Wei does not advocate excessive frugality, but should moderately guide the public to pursue comfortable enjoyment, of course, the degree of which should be grasped, not only can not suppress the enthusiasm of the people for innovation, but also to prevent the pursuit of comfort gradually evolves into arrogance and luxury, in short, the selfish desire should be taken to sparse rather than blocked!
In short, he is like Wei in charge of the center, lightly dispensing with the internal burden, building a set of reasonable and orderly system of distribution according to work and talent, restraining the greed of illegal profiteers with laws and regulations, rewarding and awarding knights with military merits or major achievements, and enlightening the people's wisdom and patriotism on the basis of worry-free food and clothing, so that the people have a sense of belonging and honor to the country, and actively participate in the supervision and management of the country.
Externally, it launched a conquest, plundered the manpower and material resources of the barbarians for its use, and finally established a huge empire with cohesion internally and expansion externally. ”
Wei Feng's face was full of confidence, but Liu Yu was stunned, this person is definitely crazy! Not to mention that his concept of governing the country is very different from the way of the sage, even if it is very different from the tyrannical Qin capital who died in the second emperor, he actually wants to let the people participate in the government politics, which has never been seen since the third generation, and the country must not be chaotic?
Although Liu Yu's background is not prominent, he is an inferior scholar, and there are a group of people with similar backgrounds who are also dissatisfied with the Gaomen Jia clan's expertise in court politics around him, which is his foundation!
Although he sympathized with the suffering of the people, he looked at it with a lofty attitude, looked down on it, and made the people get food and clothing with the mentality of charity, instead of putting the people in an equal position with himself.
Others also looked at Wei Feng with incredible eyes, especially Wang Man, who had mixed feelings, and today was the first time that Wei Feng systematically put forward her own governance concept, which made some of her small doubts easily solved.
She always feels that Wei Feng is not quite the same as normal people, there is no need to say much about strange things, she usually pays attention to the mood and the equal care between husband and wife, instead of putting on a big man's style everywhere, and does not use servant miscellaneous servants in her life, although the dominatrix is responsible for part of his life, but the dominatrix and the servant miscellaneous servants are essentially different! (To be continued......)