As the leader of the largest violent organization under the Great Tomorrow, Zhu Di couldn't help but respond: "This is the inevitable result of the violent organization 'Bandits', as Mr. Jiang said, starting to pursue the maximization of long-term benefits of blood rewards." ”

Jiang Xinghuo nodded, but the conversation changed.

"But as the number of bandits grew, the strong Wang Mazi gang attracted the attention of another violent organization that also lived on blood."

Speaking of this, Zhu Di, Zhu Gaoxu, Zheng and the three of them recalled that the so-called "Duck City Fengyun" does seem to have two violent organization camps.

One is a gang of bandits led by Wang Mazi, and the other has not yet appeared.

"Another violent group that lives on blood? Who is it? Zhu Gaoxu asked curiously.

Jiang Xinghuo didn't have the habit of hanging people's appetites, so he simply said: "That's the real official army, Huang Wulang, the envoy of Luzhou, Jiannan Province." ”

"Who is Huang Wulang?" After Li Jinglong left, Zhu Gaoxu's praise skills became more and more natural.

Jiang Xinghuo slowly introduced: "Huang Wulang, born in the local Badong Huang clan gate valve in Jiannan Province, is after Huang Quan, a famous minister of the Ji Han Dynasty, as a local county has been inherited for hundreds of years. ”

Hearing this, Zhu Di nodded instead.

made up stories, at least Jiang Xinghuo made it up quite well, because it looks like the Padang Huang family, and it was indeed a county watchman in the past.

"During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Bashu, the country of abundance, was also full of factions of the official army and fought endlessly, Huang Wulang was obviously an official army, but he had corrupt military discipline and did all kinds of evil."

Jiang Xinghuo said this, and the three of Zhu Di were not surprised.

In troubled times, as long as people's hearts are scattered, it is the world that is getting worse, and it is not surprising to make any ugly things.

Jiang Xinghuo finally said after talking about the various crimes committed by Huang Wulang in Duck City.

Huang Wulang even received all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes in Yacheng, his jurisdiction, ninety years later.

This number obviously made several people stunned for a moment.

How dare you take it!

"Why?" Or Zhu Gaoxu asked.

Zheng He couldn't help but ask: "It stands to reason that the officials and the army shouldn't want to protect the territory and the people more in order to maintain them locally for a long time?" After all, the official army is not a gang, so there shouldn't be such a faction. ”

"Because the day is precarious."

Jiang Xinghuo said with a smile: "If Huang Wulang can't rely on the violent organization of the official army in his hands to scrape the ground, pursue the maximization of short-term gains in blood rewards, and then expand the army to build weapons, then he will soon be defeated by other envoys and defense envoys, which is a common thing in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period." ”

"After all, although the period of five dynasties and ten kingdoms is only fifty-three years in terms of length of time, it is easier to have five generations, nine surnames and fourteen emperors, and the average reign of each emperor is only two and a half years, ah no, three and a half emperors are like this, let alone the place."

Jiang Xinghuo, who almost became a little black, reined in the cliff, relieved himself and continued.

"If Huang Wulang doesn't do this, he won't take the tax revenue of Duck City to ninety years later. Then when he was defeated, not only did Yacheng become the territory of other envoys and defense envoys, but the taxes that he did not collect at the beginning also became a source of tax for others, and people would scrape the ground. ”

"It is." Zhu Di also agreed when he heard this.

After all, in troubled times, if you are not ruthless enough, there is a high probability that you will be defeated by more ruthless people.

"Then what did Huang Wulang do later? Exterminate the bandits? Zhu Gaoxu asked curiously.

Jiang Xinghuo didn't answer his question directly, but said.

"Before we talk about the second half of the story, we might as well talk about the first half of the story, what can we see?"

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In the secret room next door.

Dao Yan opened his mouth and said: "Obviously, whether it is the bandit led by Wang Mazi or the official army led by Huang Wulang, the envoy of Yacheng, in the law of blood reward, they are all violent organizations that live on blood remuneration or whether it is the establishment of a feudal state or the management of a feudal state, in this story called 'Duck City Fengyun', you can find a corresponding shadow." ”

Xia Yuanji agreed with Dao Yan's point of view, and then said: "Indeed, if you look at the period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms in history, or even push it forward, to the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, many feudal state powers, to put it bluntly, gradually rose from small violent organizations that were no different from gangs to gradually rise to become feudal countries by expanding their territory and recruiting troops. ”

"So, the path taken by the bandits, that is, the so-called maximization of blood rewards, is actually no different from establishing and managing a feudal state?" Zhu Gaochi asked tentatively.

"Jiang Sheng's meaning, I'm afraid it's not just that."

Dao Yan turned the Buddha bead in his hand and continued: "In fact, from another point of view, Huang Wulang, the envoy of Yacheng, the corruption of military discipline in the officials and troops under his command and his own wanton extortion, is not the appearance of a feudal country from prosperity to decline? ”

When Zhu Gaochi heard this, he touched it carefully for a long time, but asked, "Then according to Master Daoyan's meaning, will I be like this in the future?" In order to expand the armament, the exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes were levied until 90 years later. ”

"That's not alright, ninety years from now it's an exaggeration."

Dao Yan smiled and shook his head.

But Zhu Gaochi's heart slowly sank.

Because Dao Yan didn't answer his first half of the question!

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Under the tree with a new crooked neck.

Zhu Di also thought of this question, and he asked: "Then Mr. Jiang thinks that since Yacheng recruited the officials and soldiers under Huang Wulang and the bandits under Wang Mazi, they respectively represent the two extremes of pursuing short-term/long-term maximization of blood rewards, and said that this is no different from the establishment and management of the feudal state, does that mean that Huang Wulang's road of expanding armaments for self-protection and fishing for the people is also the road that feudal state management will take at the end of the period?" ”

"Not bad." Jiang Xinghuo replied affirmatively.

Zhu Gaoxu glanced at his father and asked with some hesitation, "Will Mr. Jiang's Daming be like this?" ”

Zhu Gaoxu asked, and Zheng He immediately looked at the gray sky in winter.

"We talked about this in the first class when we sat under that tree."

Jiang Xinghuo said lightly: "The combat power of the border army is declining, if the alien race rises, then the Ming Dynasty, which is the center of gravity of the empire, must invest more resources in border defense to ensure the safety of the political center, so may I ask, the salaries, military uniforms, baggage, weapons, rewards, auxiliary soldiers and people's food needed to transport grain for thousands of miles of food come from?" ”

Zhu Gaochi said with some humility: "Increase, increase taxes." ”

"Coincidentally!"

Jiang Xinghuo patted Zheng He's thigh and said, "Huang Wulang thinks so too!" ”

"Huang Wulang, the envoy of Yacheng, heard that there was a gang called 'Ma Bandits' in the jurisdiction, and he also did the business of selling Ma cards to protect the territory and the people, so he was naturally displeased. Therefore, in order to exterminate the bandits, Huang Wulang levied 'hemp salary' from the residents of Goose City. ”

Weakly, Zhu Gaoxu asked, "So Huang Wulang sent troops to suppress the bandits?" ”

"What are you thinking?"

Jiang Xinghuo looked at him strangely and asked rhetorically, "Think about the three characteristics of the blood reward law I talked about earlier, do you still remember?" Repeat. ”

Zhu Gaoxu has recently benefited from the squatting edict and quitting color, and the memory of the brain that has been corroded by the color of wine has recovered a lot, and he reviewed the three characteristics of the law of blood reward and retold it.

"First, the reward of blood is the proceeds of violent plunder at the cost of life.

Second, when the blood reward is greater than the cost, violent scramble occurs.

Third, violent competition does not create wealth. ”

"That's it." Jiang Xinghuo said, "It is also a violent organization that is rewarded with blood reward, Huang Wulang, the army under the command of the Duck City Recruit, naturally has to consider the three characteristics of the law of blood reward that they do not necessarily understand, but the principle of weighing the pros and cons in the world must be the same." ”

Jiang Xinghuo dismantled and analyzed him one by one: "First, if you send troops to fight and get blood reward, you will die, right?" ”

"Yes."

"Second, the prerequisite for sending troops to fight a war must be that the benefits obtained by winning the war are much stronger than the price of the dead, right?"

"Yes, yes."

"Third, fighting a war itself doesn't create wealth, does it?"

"Yes, yes, yes!"

"Isn't that the end of it?" Jiang Xinghuo said: "Huang Wulang sent troops to suppress the bandits to die, and he couldn't create wealth, and the bandits were so powerful that they didn't get much money, and Huang Wulang couldn't be sure that the spoils he got after winning the battle were worth more than the dead people, what if he lost his strength in a fight here, and was attacked by other recruits and defenders?" ”

While Zhu Gaoxu was still puzzled, Jiang Xinghuo continued: "Moreover, think about the benefits of not sending troops. ”

"If you don't send troops, you don't need dead people, you can always collect hemp money from the people of Yacheng in the name of exterminating the bandits, and you must be sure that you don't need dead people to consume your strength, and you won't be picked up by other recruits and defense envoys, why did Huang Wulang send troops?"

"This Huang Wulang's heart is really black!" Zhu Gaoxu was speechless, and said indignantly for a long time, "Then he is not afraid that the people of Duck City will be dissatisfied after receiving the money and not doing anything?" If the people of Duck City get up to make trouble, they won't be able to harvest Huang Wulang's salary, right? ”

Jiang Xinghuo said as a matter of course: "This is the trick in the governance of the feudal state, the common people are dissatisfied with the collection of taxes, how should the civil service system deal with it?" ”

"First of all, we declare that nothing has happened.

Second, we say that something may happen, but no action should be taken.

Then, perhaps, we should take action, but nothing can be done.

In the end, maybe we could have done something, but now it's too late. ”

Zhu Gaoxu was stunned, a little shocked by the shamelessness of the civil bureaucratic system, but then, he asked inquiringly: "Then what if the people of Yacheng are still dissatisfied with the collection of hemp salary?" ”

"Then we need to support a group of fake bandits who will not lose Huang Wulang's strength."

(End of chapter)