In the summer of the seventh year of Yuande, Jiachen (the fourth day of the first month). Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In the Xiongnu tradition, the most important Dragon City Conference was held on time.

On this day, inside and outside Dragon City, within a radius of dozens of miles, were blocked by the cavalry of the loyal army.

In the entire venue, there were infantry soldiers of the Han army guarding them.

The bright Mo knife and the cold light of the long halberd made the leaders of the tribes fearful.

As in the past, the chiefs and nobles of the various tribes were arranged on both sides of the flat grassland in the corresponding position and order, and tens of thousands of herdsmen and cavalry of various tribes surrounded the meeting hall.

"Did you hear that?" Lu An sat on the viewing table and said to Sima Qian beside him: "It is said that even today, the Dragon City Meeting will be held in the west and north...... Tut-tut......"

"I don't know if Mao Dun and Lao Shang, under the Nine Springs, will get up angrily......"

Sima Qian listened and nodded.

He still remembers when he was very young.

The Xiongnu is China's great enemy, the Xiongnu Shan Yu claimed to be 'the birthday of heaven and earth placed the Xiongnu Da Danyu', suppressed the whole world, year after year, the entire northern county at any time, all within the range of the Hun cavalry.

The Huns even burned back to the Middle Palace, the vanguard soldiers were in Xiao Pass, and the beacon fire was lit in Ganquan Palace, and the whole pass was panicked.

And now, the once invincible Xiongnu Empire has disappeared.

The Western Xiongnu were nothing more than a small regime that was going to perish sooner or later.

Although the Northern Xiongnu still had the foundation and strength, their elite was lost to the swallow thistle, and the spirit was almost wiped out.

Once the Han army was able to control the south of the country, the demise of the Northern Xiongnu was just around the corner.

Therefore, many writers in the literary world have written poems to praise the prosperity of today's China.

In today's China, the destiny of the heavens is not obvious!

Today, the Han Dynasty has the power of the Book of Songs, 'the whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's ministers'.

Within the four seas, between the Liuhe, among the eight wildernesses, where the sun and the moon shine, no country or nation can compete with Zhuxia.

Even the Ruru had to bow their heads and admit that today's China has indeed had three generations of style.

Even the Huns began to succumb.

Look at these clan leaders at this venue!

Which one is not a great tribe with thousands of settlements? Which one is not a strong family with thousands of strings?

But now they're all here.

The righteousness canonized to the Emperor of the Han Dynasty surrendered.

This means that they acquiesced in the identity of the Tianshan Yu of the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty.

From then on, the Emperor of Han had the divine power to control the fate of the grassland and formulate the rules outside the Saiwai.

And this power, I'm afraid even the three kings and five emperors have never had!

In the face of reality, both the Western Xiongnu and the Northern Xiongnu gave up those unrealistic ideas.

These days, in the Dragon City, there has been a rumor: the Western Xiongnu and the Northern Xiongnu Shan Yu, will hold the Dragon City ceremony on the same day.

The major affairs of the country are only Rong and ritual.

The separation of the sacrifices marked the official split of the Xiongnu Empire.

From then on, the unified Xiongnu Empire came to an end.

Since Jia Yi and Jia Changsha officially proposed the strategy of dismembering the Xiongnu and making them no longer plague China, it took more than 20 years for the Han family to finally complete this strategic concept!

Sima Qian was already preparing to return to Chang'an to write a biography for the Xiongnu, recording the origin, history, glory and current situation of this once terrible enemy.

And this means that in the eyes of Sima Qian, as a historian, the Xiongnu have perished.

Only the dead need to be passed on! Give it a coffin!

However, compared to this matter, Sima Qian is now more concerned about the group of big-bellied businessmen on the other side of the viewing table.

In the past, Sima Qian's concept of a merchant came entirely from books.

Whether it is what Han Feizi said: the people of commerce and industry, the tools for repairing suffering, the wealth of the Buddha, the accumulation of time, and the benefits of the farmers! If the master is not removed, although there is a ruined country in the sea, and a dynasty that is destroyed, don't blame it!

It is still what Zhou Shu said: if the farmer does not come out, there is no food, if the work is not out, there is no work, if there is no business, there are three treasures, and if there is no money, there is little wealth.

But in essence, Sima Qian is actually insensitive.

Whether it is Confucianism's criticism, exposure and attack on the merchant group, or the stories of Guan Zhong, Tao Zhugong and others.

In fact, to say something unkind - what does it have to do with him?

No matter how bad a businessman is, it is impossible to smash his job.

No matter how useful a merchant is, for a historian, it is just a piece of text.

However, now, Sima Qian has really opened his eyes.

These days, in and around this Dragon City, these guys are the most active group.

They deal with all the tribes.

Even, Sima Qian also heard that some businessmen knew that the other party was a person from the Western Xiongnu or the Northern Xiongnu, and they still hooked up with him.

He had seen with his own eyes a whole cart of weapons being pulled into the vault of a tribe.

He even saw with his own eyes that someone sold an entire box of bamboo slips to the Huns.

These behaviors were really Sima Qian's dumbfounded.

These businessmen don't seem to care about being caught doing these things at all.

They are above board and honest in their dealings with the tribes.

livestock, furs, gold, silver, jewelry, and even slaves......

As long as you can meet their requirements, it seems like nothing can't be sold.

Sima Qian's companion, Uncle Wang, the son of the big farmer Zuo Cao Ling, who had always had a strong sense of justice, couldn't look past it, and stepped forward to correct and stop it.

Unexpectedly, he was beaten by these guys' dog legs, and his bones were broken twice, and they are still on the bed!

But the Loyal Warriors and the officers in charge of security patrols sat back and watched this kind of thing.

It wasn't until Sima Qian and the others joined the brawl that they hurriedly came to mediate.

Even so, they started out with an ambiguous attitude and leaned more towards businessmen.

Until Sima Qian couldn't bear it anymore, revealed his identity, and took out the token given by the Son of Heaven.

These guys just panicked about it.

And the result of the treatment is also and dilute the mud.

It's just to arrest the beater, and then call the master behind him to discuss compensation.

Then a man who called himself 'Zhang Wen' appeared.

He came to the door with a hundred gold to apologize, saying, 'I am very sorry that I have collided with all my sons because of the fault of the house slaves......

Sima Qian and the others naturally would not accept the other party's statement and money.

But the other party then brought up the big truth, accusing Sima Qian and others of 'making a fuss out of nothing' and 'destroying the national policy'.

may be because Sima Qian and others showed their identities, and Sima Qian's identity as a historian was confirmed.

So, this guy talked to Sima Qian about many things.

And now, these things make Sima Qian's brain messed up.

On the one hand, Sima Qian himself saw with his own eyes that these businessmen were abducted and deceived in this dragon city for the sake of profit, and they did everything they could.

Several catties of dog's head gold were actually exchanged for only a few dozen stones of grain and a few iron pots.

Hundreds of intact furs are worth a hundred gold in Chang'an, but here, even a hundred stones of cheese may not be exchanged.

Hundreds of handsome war horses, the market price is more than a thousand gold.

However, they could only exchange for 500 stone of corn and 100 stone of wheat flour and dozens of stone of salt.

And those bronze weapons that have long been eliminated by the Han army and played for the militia are said to be sky-high.

A bronze crossbow with a hundred bolts is said to require a mare.

A halberd weighs no more than twenty or thirty catties, but he dares to ask for two male slaves.

In Sima Qian's eyes, these bastards were simply taking advantage of the fire to rob and make unscrupulous trouble.

They jumped up and down, lest the world would not be chaotic.

But on the other hand, what Zhang Wen said made Sima Qian silent.

"I, Zhang Wenye, a native of Shu County, is a guest of Guiping Jun......"

The fame of King Zhuo of Guiping is known to the world, the richest man in the Han Dynasty, the father of Concubine Zhuo, and the maternal grandfather of Liu Si, the son of the Son of Heaven, sooner or later he is a figure who can be crowned a marquis.

What's more, this grandfather has a good reputation in Guanzhong.

If nothing else, the slope was built by him and Cheng Zhengying out of their own pockets.

Since last year, the Bao Slope Road began to operate, from Hanzhong to Bao County and other places, thousands of families have Buddha, and everyone praises the greatness and convenience of this project.

What's more important is that during the construction of the Baochuan Road project for several years, hundreds of thousands of people relied on this project to feed their families.

In particular, the poor people in that area of Hanzhong have become rich because of the praise of the slopes.

Not to mention, in Shu County, Zhuo and Cheng Zheng are known as 'Confucian merchants', and the Shu people praise these two abbots for 'adhering to the courtesy of a gentleman and giving generous policies, and using the benefits of industry and commerce to feed agriculture', which is simply the embodiment of perfection.

And the reason is also very simple - more than seventy percent of the poor people in Shu County, especially the farmers, use the products of Shaofu's fake from Zhuo's and Cheng Zheng's workshops.

The most important thing is that the Zhuo family and the Cheng Zheng family announced that 'the hardship of remembering the father's elders, and the hardship of the people's livelihood', and lowered the price of all the fake farm tools of the Shu people by three percent.

A Quyuan plough that costs 5,000 yuan to buy in Guanzhong is only sold for 3,500 yuan in Shu County......

So much so that any foreign goods cannot survive in Shu County.

Because, this price has broken through the cost price of the current curved plow.

It is also because of this that Sima Qian can listen to him.

Otherwise, they would have been rushed out.

And what this person said dealt a heavy blow to Sima Qian and his partners.

According to the statement of this article, in the southwest, I used the policy of industry and commerce to attract the people of the Quartet and use it for the country, without spending a single penny in the treasury or a single soldier, and the southwestern countries bowed to ......

This is a fact, as a historian, Sima Qian has heard that in the past two years, the southwest has sent a mission to Chang'an desperately to request annexation.

There was even an envoy of a certain country in the southwest of Yi who hanged himself in the bus office without the permission of the Son of Heaven, and he left a suicide note saying: I can't get the virtue of the Son of Heaven, and my country is dead, and I am ashamed of the king's father......

His suicide note was deeply moving, especially shocking the Confucian scholars, so they petitioned one after another, asking the Son of Heaven to 'send the messenger of King Bu to a distant country to comfort the hearts of loyal ministers'......

But Sima Qian and his friends couldn't imagine that the truth of the facts was far beyond their imagination.

According to Zhang Wen's statement, the countries of the southwest are indeed crying and shouting that they want to attach themselves to China.

But the reason is not that they admire the king at all.

It's just that they were manipulated by the Zhuo family and the Cheng Zheng family, and their hearts were haggard.

In order to get rid of this terrible fate, they can only ask for internal attachment and let their country become the territory of the Han Dynasty, so that they can protect their home and country.

And the Zhuo family and the Cheng Zheng family are also because of the cheap labor and wealth obtained by the southwestern Yi countries, so they can have such financial resources and courage to benefit the world.

Otherwise, where would they get so much money, so many cheap iron tools?

Do you really think that digging pits and smelting iron doesn't cost money, and you won't die?

How many people died when Qin Shi Huang built the Great Wall?

After so long of construction, who has ever heard of a large-scale death of the people?

But what about the thousands of corpses in the Qinling Mountains?

And this fact made Sima Qian and others creepy.

Many people sleep at night and dream of the bones in the mountains of Linqiong and the wailing spirits of the dead in the depths of the mines.

This makes it a little difficult for people who have received the education of 'benevolence and righteousness' since childhood.

After this change, Sima Qian's partners were also divided into two factions.

One faction believes that although Yidi is a beast that walks on two legs, it is also a human after all.

Mencius said that a gentleman is like a beast, and he can't bear to see his death when he sees his life, and he can't bear to eat his flesh when he hears his voice. Even if the kitten and puppy you raised die in your own home, you will cry and grieve. What's more, it's people, or tens of thousands of people!

What Zhuo and Cheng Zheng did is intolerable, and they should be told to the world and their ugly faces exposed.

And the other faction thinks - Yidi or something, what does it have to do with me? As long as it wasn't Zhu Xia's siblings who died, there was no need to bother with it.

Besides, the Zhuo clan and the Cheng Zheng clan did not use a dime from the country and did not use a single soldier, so that all the countries in the southwest were vassals.

This is a great merit!

It should be praised, it should be beautified, how can it be blamed?

Sima Qian himself was entangled and confused, he was just a young man over fifteen years old.

This was the first time in his life that he had left home and traveled the world.

Reason told him that although the Zhuo family and Cheng Zheng's approach was improper, it was Zhu Xia who benefited after all.

The sage said: Yidi jackal, do not be tired, Zhuxia is intimate, do not abandon it.

Guanzi and Confucius also said that the defense of Yixia is greater than the sky.

But the Three Kings and Five Emperors, the sons and sages, none of them have said it publicly-Yidi can be tortured and abused at will, and no one has done anything like it.

"Your Majesty ordered me to come here to find the answer...... Sima Qian thought to himself, "Is this answer so cruel?" ”

"Shang Jia is a demon, a demon, and a villain who seeks profit......"

"And then...... If the gentleman is rich, he will be good at his virtues, and if the villain is rich, he will be self-reliant......"

"Zhuo's and Cheng Zheng's are just villains in Linqiong, they will have their opportunities, and they are rich in domestic ......"

"I heard that back then, before the Zhuo family and the Cheng Zheng family made a career, they beat and scolded their workers and domestic slaves at every turn, and let them live and die ......."

"And after its wealth, it is not the case, there are widows and orphans in the neighborhood, Zhuo's and Cheng Zheng's families, welcome them to their homes, give them food and clothing, and raise them......"

"Its workers and domestic slaves are all given clothes, wine and meat at the age of the year, which is quite like Meng Weijun......"

"This is what the teacher told me - people are rich and benevolent and righteous?"

"This is what Confucius said - know etiquette with a solid manner, and know honor and disgrace when you have enough food and clothing?"

That is to say...... Rich is not a sin, but poverty is a sin? ”

Thinking of this, he sighed: "No wonder everyone in the world says: the country of ten thousand times, the wait of ten thousand families, the county of a hundred rooms, is still worried about poverty...... In this way, it is human nature to be willing to do business today......"

After thinking about it, he thought maybe that was the answer.

But when I thought about it, I felt that it was wrong.

If that's the case, the Son of Heaven shouldn't let him come and see it.

"What does the Son of Heaven mean......" Sima Qian held his cheeks and pondered: "The Son of Heaven wants to tell me - only when everyone in the world is rich can all disasters be eliminated?" ”

After thinking about it carefully, Sima Qian felt that this should be the case!

If everyone in the world is rich, naturally there will be no one to steal or plunder, and naturally there will be no war, let alone disputes.

"It seems that the miscellaneous family also has such an attitude?" Sima Qian thought to himself: "Maybe I should go to Anton again to have a look and see the situation of Anton under the rule of the miscellaneous family......

Today's Anton can be described as the pearl of the empire.

At least in Sima Qian's eyes.

Anton's whale oil, dried fish and gold are well-known all over the world, and almost all of the official eunuchs and Haoqiang families in Guanzhong have these three things.

It is said that in Anton, as long as you are diligent enough, you will definitely get ahead.

Therefore, the local folk customs are impassioned, fierce and heroic.

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