Chapter 523: Enlightenment
"Your Majesty, please ...... With the benefit of Chu goods, build warships and workshops, and at the same time prohibit Chu goods outside the agreement from entering Xichuan, or collect additional taxes. In this way, not only can Jing Chu be shocked, but the disaster of the Southern Barbarians can also be solved without a fight! Zhang Song said to Liu Zhang.
Zhang Song's proposal is not so much a "strategy" as a general policy.
It is to fundamentally alleviate the "middleman" economy of Liu Zhang and a part of the Tuas clan, and instead use the convenience of Chu goods to gather people's strength, develop Yizhou's own workshops, and gradually reverse the situation.
In this way, the establishment of the workshop also requires manpower, and the "unemployment" brought about by the collapse of the Shu brocade and well salt industries will be alleviated, and the root cause of the natural Nanban invasion will also be alleviated.
The current invasion of the Southern Barbarians, on the one hand, is that the Chu State is engaged in the "Chu Xue New Nanzhong Construction" in the south, causing some dissatisfied southern and central tribes to go north, and on the other hand, the southern tribes in Xichuan, whose interests have been damaged, have merged with the southern barbarians, and have caused trouble on one side of the other, in an attempt to divide the autonomy......
If you use the profits of the Chu goods in the agreement to develop yourself, at least the conflict will be weakened a lot, and at the same time, you will restrict the unscrupulous inflow of Chu goods outside the agreement, leaving room for development for Yizhou's own workshop...... In fact, Yizhou is not without a chance to turn around!
Zhang Song actually regretted it a little, after all, it was he who proposed Liu Zhang to distribute the Chu goods imported by the agreement with the Chu State to other Dashi clans as "benefits", so as to win over a part of it and stabilize Xichuan.
The result is a ripple effect......
Zhang Song can't be blamed for being short-sighted, after all, this scene has not happened before, with the theoretical level of economics at this time...... If you understand and understand "Pipe", you can already be regarded as a famous minister of the way of goods breeding.
I really haven't seen these flowery jobs in the Chu State!
Zhang Song saw from the very beginning that the inflow of Chu goods would cause harm to the "Shinong industry and commerce" and all strata of Yizhou, but it was a pity...... is still bound by the times, only thinking about sewing and mending, and missed the opportunity to set things right from the beginning.
Now the skills of the Chu State are still improving, the gap in productivity is widening more and more, and seeing the successful example of the Wei State, this is gradually waking up.
After all, everything is inseparable, and when Zhang Song realized that something was wrong, he traced back to its origin, although he didn't understand too many principles, but he also vaguely found the problem.
It's a pity that Zhang Song's proposal has few responders.
There is no shortage of people and scholars in Yizhou who want to develop workshops in a down-to-earth manner - in fact, according to the logic of the family, this should be the right way!
Twenty years ago, the family attached importance to the land and the classic inheritance, and the workshop at this time was not the land at that time, and the craftsmanship at this time was not the classic inheritance at that time?
When did the Maison degenerate enough to abandon its foundation in favor of pursuing the interests of the Mirror?
All I can say is......
It was Liu Zhang's initial operation, coupled with Chu State's intentional encouragement, that stunned the scholars of Xichuan in a wave, and ran in the wrong direction after "waking up".
There is also a root cause......
Among the important ministers in power in Yizhou Prefecture, a large part of them were outsiders who entered Yizhou with Liu Yan, including Wu Yi.
These outsiders have only been in Yizhou for 20 years, and their roots have not been completely rooted, so they naturally seek more profit than their roots, even if they are external interests, they are not completely consistent with the Yizhou scholars.
Driven by this group of people, some Yizhou scholars also became "impetuous".
Zhang Song was still able to get the support of Zheng Du, Huang Quan, and some of the scholars behind him at this time, and it was already regarded as the ancestral wisdom of the Huaxia scholars who had not lost it.
However, now even Wu Yi, a Xichuan leader, has been a "middleman", so naturally there will not be much support, and even Zhang Song has brought a lot of criticism.
In the end, Wu Yi stood up and said a "fair word", asking both sides to take a step back, and raised the tax revenue of the agent Chu goods for the war in the south.
It was a temporary settlement of the dispute, but it was ...... Treat the symptoms but not the root cause.
At the same time, Huang Quan's mansion, his eldest son Huang Chong, had completely accepted the enlightenment of the "Enlightenment Department" at this time, and recognized that the ultimate goal of the Chu State was "eight wildernesses and six combinations, and four good as one".
For the Chu State, or when inciting the bottom, such as the Koreans, the focus of propagating Chu studies is "four good as one", that is, the absolute equality of "Shinong, industry and commerce" is the ultimate ideal goal.
For those outside the Chu State, when persuading middle and high-level targets, the Enlightenment Department not only outputs "four good as one", but also persuades the target to recognize the "Eight Desolations and Six Combinations" - that is, "the whole world" and "any place", which are all within the glory of Chu Xue, and there is no difference between the enemy and me.
At this time, Huang Chong already believed that the state of Chu was really for "everyone", and there was no need to worry too much, after Yizhou was merged into the state of Chu, it would be "divided and eaten".
Indeed, now it seems that although the distribution of interests in Chu is not completely equal, it is at least close to equality, and the local scholars in Jingzhou are also catching up, and most importantly, the Jingzhou scholars are ...... It is absolutely impossible to call it suppressed.
As for being harvested in the short term, it is completely due to strength, after all, the start is slow.
At the beginning, Huang Chong didn't know that this Chu businessman, who had a good relationship with him, was a member of the secret department of the Chu State, but now he ...... Nature has already guessed.
And in order for Yizhou to be incorporated into the arms of Chu as soon as possible, Huang Chong began to use his identity openly and secretly to find out the news, and paved the way for other members of the Enlightenment Department to be in Yizhou, and also secretly tested his father's attitude, and even tried to persuade Huang Quan indirectly.
The same thing is happening in Yizhou, and even in the whole Han and all over the world.
Otherwise......
Huang Quan will not meet with a Chu businessman, and now Huang Quan can also guess that a few months ago, the little partner who introduced himself to meet and meet this "Chu businessman" and got acquainted with him may have already been enlightened, but he just tacitly did not say it.
Even at this time, at the forefront of Xichuan's pacification of the Southern Barbarians, Qianwei County, which was fighting with the Nanzhong Baiman, Yizhou County Shi Clan Alliance, was raising an army by itself at this time, and Meng Da, who led thousands of people to stick to the walled city on the order of the commander Zhang Ren, was also in contact with the "Enlightenment Department".
And in contrast, Mengda cannot be regarded as enlightened, but ...... Simply rebelled!
It's just that with the help of the influence of the Enlightenment Department to penetrate into the enemy's interior, it will be more convenient for its own activities, and it will also be easier to contact Fazheng.
At the beginning, Meng Da was a fellow villager and friend who entered Shu with Fazheng, and he was originally the same as Fazheng, and he was not very favored.
It was with the help of the power of the Enlightenment Department that Meng Da was appreciated by Zhang Ren and had a chance to get ahead - otherwise Meng Da would have gone to his fellow countryman Fazheng a long time ago!
Now Meng Da wants to play a vital role and make meritorious contributions when he defects, rather than simply hugging his thighs.
It's a pity that there are also members of the Enlightenment Department who want to use the relationship between Zhao Yun, Zhang Xiu and Zhang Ren to persuade Zhang Ren, but they were directly beheaded by Zhang Ren Mingzhi, but fortunately Meng Da was not involved......