Section 1549 Rich and noble gentlemen and poor and lowly people
In March, the hills around Xinhua City are full of bright rhododendrons, attracting countless butterflies. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
This is the beginning of the best season of the year in Anton.
Sima Qian and his friends walked at the foot of this beautiful hill, went out to enjoy the flowers, and by the way, pointed out the disadvantages of the times.
"Chen Gong, the governor of the west, has conquered Chishui, a thousand miles to the north, spreading all the departments, all bowing their heads, it is really fascinating!" A young nobleman smiled.
Immediately echoed by others, for the Antonians, Chen's expedition represented Anton's prowess - an expedition that spanned more than 2,000 miles, completely far from logistical supplies, and ended in one victory from victory to victory.
A land of thousands of miles has been set between the ten months and the moon, and dozens of them bow down!
Thousands of captives were killed, tens of thousands of people were captured, and cattle, sheep and livestock were seized!
This great expedition made the people of Andong proud, and the army and the people were excited, so much so that even the whaleskin bonds of the Metropolitan Protectorate increased because of this!
Sima Qian listened to his friends talking about Chen Xu, and they all thought that Chen Xu was a hero! I think that back then, when Sima Qian was a child, the whole Chang'an heard that the Chen brothers had changed, and some people even said: I'd rather meet the tiger than see Erchen!
However, now the Chen Xu brothers are the world's famous generals, Anton's generals, and the world's magnates, holding supreme wealth and having thousands of miles in their chests, and the world worships them.
"No wonder Anton has a proverb: If you are rich, you will be humble, a hundred will serve, and a thousand will be servants, and you will not deceive me!" Sima Qian sighed.
As a guest from Chang'an, a close disciple of Lord Sima Ji, and a young man who is optimistic about today, Sima Qian had privileges during his sojourn in Anton.
Not only did the people of the Duhu Mansion open the door to him, but even local heroes, ranger magnates, and nobles also showed favor to him one after another.
Even the princes of the Pyongyang Academy seem to have a special interest in him, and they will do whatever they want.
Wrong, Sima Qian has been determined to write history since he was a child, and I am afraid that there is no Taishi Gong at this moment!
It is precisely because of this that Sima Qian knows that the Chen brothers have never been heroes.
In fact, these two brothers don't like each other, and they want to stumble on each other when they have the opportunity!
Their brothers have never been good men and women, and they are still the same in their bones as they were back then!
However, in the eyes of the world, they ignore all the shortcomings and past of their brothers!
Countless people worship them as idols, especially the children of the nobility, almost taking the Chen brothers as an example, and even the costumes and mantras have to be imitated!
This is the power of power and wealth!
Ignoring morality and conduct, and only looking at the results, if in the inland areas, such standards may have to be concealed, but in this Anton, it is an open secret to judge heroes by wealth and power!
Even the most simple people are now pursuing profit!
In the Andong area, industry and commerce are getting better day by day, which makes Sima Qian worried.
However, the other friends did not have Sima Qian's worries at all, and everyone was smiling.
"I heard that Chen Gong has sneaked to escort the prisoners of war back to Anton, tsk, now the plantation in the jurisdiction of the Western Governor is probably about to be released, and my father is already preparing to go to the Western Governor to build a cotton estate..."
Everyone else nodded: "So is my father..."
For Anton today, the entire industry, commerce and plantation industry are inseparable from cheap dispatch workers!
The common people of the Han family are in the middle and upper echelons of the food chain of industry and commerce!
Either they are employers or skilled craftsmen.
Almost all of the dangerous and heavy work is done by dispatch workers.
The aristocrats put themselves into production and expansion as long as they had money!
However, the restrictions of the labor market made their expansion very difficult, especially after the new governor of the prefecture, Xu Jiu, strictly controlled the number of dispatched workers, and the number of Zhuhu slave workers except for Mahan, Japanese slaves, and Shinban dispatched workers has not increased.
It's a daunting rush!
This victory is a major positive for the entire Anton.
The industrial, commercial and plantation economies, in particular, have almost been injected with a shot in the arm.
And the people of the land rejoiced.
is like the song that has been circulating in Anton for a long time: agriculture is not as good as work, industry is not as good as business, Confucianism is chaotic with literature, chivalry is forbidden with martial arts, and Jia Yizi interferes in politics.
To sum it up, it is a sentence: if you have money, you are a gentleman, and if you don't have money, you are a villain.
The words are mean, but in Anton it is the truth!
On this fertile soil, the five baht and gold took over most of the public order and good customs, and all the old good virtues and noble deeds were now clearly marked.
As long as you have money, you can get everything you want!
It doesn't matter if you're a vicious thief or a duplicitous, animal-minded hypocrite.
This made Sima Qian frightened, and even felt a little creepy!
However, for the Anton, they didn't feel anything wrong with it at all.
Shinong industry and commerce are hard work, hard work, with hard work and wisdom to obtain wealth and status, natural righteousness, the nature of things!
Even God and God cannot deprive and restrict the people's pursuit of freedom and wealth!
Today, under the influence of the miscellaneous family, Anton is no longer ashamed to express his love for money!
Even among the aristocratic and wealthy merchant class, there is a view that only the rich and noble can have gentlemen.
Because, even if the moral level of the poor is max, in fact, it cannot contribute anything to the world.
On the contrary, a person worth tens of millions, even if he kills people and sets fires, cheats and abducts, and acts as a traitor...... However, as long as he wakes up and works for good, it is enough to bless the people and benefit one party!
Therefore, the world should be more tolerant of the rich and less harsh.
The punishment is not tens of millions, and the courtesy is not less than the common people, so it is the king of the future!
Such a fallacious heresy should have been chased and beaten, but in Anton, this kind of remarks has a big market!
Even such remarks in the Yamen of the Metropolitan Protectorate were discussed and discussed in broad daylight!
And similar situations are happening more and more often!
Thinking of this, Sima Qian had to sigh, the conscience of a scholar told him that these were not right, and they should be exposed and told to the world!
But the subconscious as a historian made him choose to be silent!
Historians are bystanders, neutrals, and cannot and cannot actively get involved in political or academic disputes!
Otherwise, the facts he recorded and recorded would be skewed!
"Maybe I should write to ask the teacher..."Sima Qian thought in his heart, and his conscience made him choose to tell his teacher about this, hoping that through the influence of the teacher, Anton's perverted social atmosphere today could be corrected to a certain extent.
But Sima Qian was afraid that he would cause trouble to the teacher, so he was entangled.
At this moment, a voice said, "By the way, Brother Sima Xian..."
"Have you heard about Long Xihou's recent actions?"
To leave the thorn Jing Ke said
I'm going to get on a plane right away, and I typed this on my phone