In fact, Zhang Xi has long wanted to have a good talk with these Guanzhong families.

It's not like in the past, Zhang Xi wants to rectify this group of Guanzhong families. To be honest, Zhang Xi still doesn't trust the discipline of these wealthy families, but the special situation in Guanzhong suddenly made Zhang Xi have an idea to try to "transform" the family.

In fact, Zhang Xi's dislike for the family mainly stems from the two Jin and Northern Dynasties in history. This history is simply a dark tragedy for the people.

Really, as long as the big families of that era could be more public and less selfish, even if ten Sima Zhen reigned, they could not destroy a dynasty that had just been unified for less than fifty years.

And the reason for the lawlessness of these wealthy families, in addition to the connivance of the Sima family, the power of the wealthy families from the local to the central government is also a very important reason.

And the culprit of all this is really not the Jiupin Zhongzheng system.

The Jiupin Zhongzheng system is only a manifestation of the family's power, and what really gives the family the confidence to confront the central court and set off the Eight Kings Rebellion lies in the fact that the family has a large number of local land ownership.

In fact, Zhang Xi is not biased towards centralization, but the family's blatant annexation of land is obviously even more unacceptable to Zhang Xi.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty still has the day when he will be guilty of his own edict, but the family's greed for land will not be restrained.

Therefore, Zhang Xi hopes to reduce the family's annexation of land, which is not easy in this era.

The family pursues profits, and in these years, the greatest benefit output is land.

Grain is a hard currency in any era, and it is necessary to eat food in prosperous times, and it is even more necessary to eat food in troubled times.

If you want the Maison to reduce its desire for more land, you must give the Maison another chain of profit output that can replace the land.

But in fact, it's not easy.

Zhang Xi did not fail to think about finding a way to improve the status of merchants, promote commercial development, and guide the family to transform into a commercial family, so that the family can accumulate wealth through business, thereby reducing their demand for land.

In his early years, when Zhang Xi was still in Chengdu as the secretary of the military department, he once discussed this issue with Zhuge Liang and Liu Ba, but was unanimously opposed by the two economic wizards of the time.

The simple reason is that this is simply not realistic.

Nowadays, there are so many acres of land, and people always have to eat, and if you rashly develop business when you have not solved the problem of food and clothing, it will only make wealth more concentrated in the family, and the final result is that the common people lose the pricing power of basic survival commodities.

The end result of this will only allow the family to increase the annexation of the people's land while holding a large amount of money.

And once the family has done that, they have food in their hands and money at the same time, if they don't rebel, they have to change the law to control the government, and let them have more land and money through the court.

As soon as Zhuge Liang and Liu Ba said this, Zhang Xi suddenly realized why the emperors of all dynasties had to focus on agriculture and suppress business.

The purpose of heavy agriculture is to solve the problem of food and clothing for the people, and only when the people are well fed will they not rise up to rebel.

The purpose of suppressing business is definitely not to make up for the three melons and two dates that the common people make up for their families when they are not working, nor is it because there is nothing to do business. It is purely to prevent those local wealthy families from taking advantage of this to accumulate wealth and threaten the imperial power.

In all dynasties, all the dynasties encouraged the opening of bazaars in various places, allowing the people to trade freely in the bazaar, and even many dynasties had a very low quota for this kind of city tax, which was a way to increase the income of the people, and the imperial court would only encourage it, never prohibit it.

What the imperial court really guards against is the trade of bulk goods, and the people who can often trade bulk goods are never simple people.

If such a person does not give him a businessman, and cut off the possibility of them entering the official career from the root, how can the emperor feel at ease?!

Therefore, Zhang Xi's idea of improving the status of businessmen and developing commerce was immediately dissuaded by Liu Ba and Zhuge Liang.

Therefore, those predecessors who traveled back to ancient times and thought about developing commerce to replace agriculture are most likely not very good. I don't want to think about it, no matter how much the state revenue is, no matter how rich the landlord class is, you don't have enough food for the people to eat and use.

With such a lesson from the past, Zhang Xi suddenly rested a lot of thoughts. Including but not limited to, developing the wool industry, sending troops to dig through the Western Regions, reopening the Silk Road, and so on.

These things can be done, but not now.

Now that the Three Kingdoms are established, the most important thing is to calm the world first, let the country settle down, and then think about those things.

If it is said that the Han Dynasty is in a shortage of money, there is still a reason to carry out this matter, at least let those families take out the copper coins hidden in the cellar and circulate them. But the problem is that since the copper coins began to be minted in the county of Dayue, the five baht coins of the Han Dynasty have been circulated to Liaodong because they are well-made, and the Han Dynasty is not short of money at all.

Today's Han is no longer the era when Zhuge Liang needs to use the official means of smuggling Shu brocade to collect the five baht money of other countries and subsidize the finances of the Han Dynasty.

What the current Han needs is to smuggle grain from other countries through five baht money. And this is also the biggest reason why Zhang Xi wants to talk to the Guanzhong family.

Dahan now has three grain production bases, but now Dahan's territory is also large.

The Hanjiang Plain on the side of Jingzhou has to bear the consumption of Jingzhou, and at the same time bear the needs of Jingzhou as a base for the Northern Expedition, and it is already very good to be self-sufficient.

As for the Chengdu Plain, it is also necessary to support the development of the Nanzhong mining base, where a large number of copper and iron casting has brought money, food and ordnance to the Han Dynasty, and the people's livelihood there also needs the support of Chengdu.

As for Guanzhong, although it has been won now, the population of Guanzhong has been halved, and the expected agricultural income cannot be reached in a short time, and at the same time, it has to be responsible for supplying the development of Qinzhou and Liangzhou in the northwest.

The vicinity of Qinzhou is basically full of Qiang people, these Qiang people are not easy to mess with, the Later Han Dynasty court has been dealing with these people for more than a hundred years, it is notoriously unruly, there is not enough food to support the pacification work, even if Ma Chao is a "Shenwei Tian General" The name does not matter what use.

And Liangzhou is in trouble.

Liangzhou is located in the bitter cold land of the northwest, which is not suitable for the development of agricultural production, not to mention the arable area, and the population is also small.

But Liangzhou can't give up, it is one of the few horse production bases in the Han Dynasty, and it is absolutely impossible to form a decent cavalry without the support of Liangzhou.

Moreover, there are also many alien races around Liangzhou, and the number of standing border troops cannot be small.

All of this requires food.

Therefore, today's Han is still short of food.

The Cao Wei territory, which is separated by a Yellow River, is the opposite.

The entire Central Plains region, Hebei region, are grain production areas, grain reserves are abundant, even if it is the boundary of Youzhou, although that place is also a horse production base, but the degree of agricultural development is much higher than that of Liangzhou, even if you go north, go east and go again, to the Korean Peninsula, there is still enough arable land can be used for agricultural production.

The degree of development of the place was limited by the fact that the aliens did not know how to cultivate, not the lack of land.

This is also the reason why Cao Wei is still the strongest country among the Three Kingdoms after several consecutive wars - people have enough food, as long as they want, they can explode troops at any time.

As for Zhang Xi, what he wants to talk to the Guanzhong family is that he hopes to smuggle grain from Hedong and even the Luoyang area through the relationship between the Guanzhong family and transport it to the Han Dynasty.

The Han is not short of money and food, but Cao Wei's side, there is not much else, but there is a lot of food.

Moreover, on Cao Wei's side, up to the princes and nobles, down to the big families, the favorite is the exquisite five-baht coins and Shu brocade cast by the Han Dynasty, as well as paper.

And the Guanzhong family has a unique advantage in this regard.

The Guanzhong family originally had close contacts with the Hedong family and the Luoyang family, and the people who were full of favor moved into the customs at the beginning, taking away most of the Guanzhong family even had Neiying.

Those Guanzhong families who have entered the customs, after losing a lot of land, must also urgently need a way to transfuse blood, and the Guanzhong families who stayed in Guanzhong must also have enough ways to bypass the Cao Wei checkpoint and get in touch with these Guanzhong families.

These are ready-made internal responses.

Zhang Xi's meaning, it is still the economic infiltration thought left by Liu Ba before, let's smuggle, semi-official smuggling.

This is not the development of business in the traditional sense, but well, if you have to say, Zhang Xi actually doesn't mind cultivating the "Eight Great Emperor Merchants" in Cao Wei's territory.

By the way, you can also use this way of painting a big cake to pick out the ignition carbon from the hands of the Guanzhong family to respond to emergencies.

After all, Zhang Xi is really short of fire carbon in his hands.

(End of chapter)