[Volume 1] Section 197: The Salt and Iron Conference

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Huo Guang wants to exert his fists and feet, and he can't avoid the other two auxiliary ministers.

These two people are not Prime Minister Tian Qianqiu and Imperial Historian Sang Hongyang, Tian Qianqiu is often praised by Huo Guang for being at ease and no matter what happens. Sang Hong Yang was dying and old, and it was not in Huo Guang's consideration.

The Buddha face that Huo Guang wants to see is Jin Riyan, Shangguan Ji.

To this end, Huo Guang took the most direct and effective way to consolidate their relationship. He married Jin Riyan and Shangguan Ji, and his in-laws will come and go in the future, and he can also avoid a lot of disputes on the table, and his decision-making will naturally be unimpeded.

Jin Riyan is really a kind person, he didn't have time to have a dispute with Huo Guang, he took the initiative to step down in the first year of the first year and went to see the first emperor.

In this way, in the decision-making of the court, Huo Guang only needs to consider Shangguan Ji's feelings.

This is indeed the case, and the two cooperated with each other at first and got along well.

In history, whenever Huo Guang took a leave of absence or traveled, Shangguan Ji would take on all of Huo Guang's work, and he did not do it badly.

"Go, in-laws, have fun, you don't have to worry about it here." Every time Shangguan Ji said such a thing, Huo Guang had the feeling of "If you have a family like this, what more can you ask for".

Huo Guang also had a nervous time, at the beginning of Liu Fuling's accession to the throne, he ate and lived in the palace, and there was a lot of noise in the palace overnight, everyone was shocked, thinking that there was a change, Huo Guang immediately summoned Shang Xilang and ordered him to hand over the emperor's jade seal, and Shang Xilang would rather die. Huo Guang was in a hurry, got up and was about to step forward to snatch it, Shang Xilang hugged the jade seal and said loudly, "The ministers can get it, but the seal can't be obtained." When Huo Guang heard this, he immediately stopped, he praised Shang Xilang with a smile, saying that he was relieved, there was such a courtier who was not afraid of death to protect the national seal, what else was he worried about!

From the beginning of Huo Guang's administration, a plan was brewing in his heart.

This is a plan to restore the vitality and strength of the Han Dynasty, it should be said that he accompanied Emperor Wu for twenty years with trepidation, and was cautious, seeing Emperor Wu's great martial arts, but also seeing the destruction and decay of society.

He was deeply worried, but because of his humble words, he did not dare to show the slightest expression.

Huo Guang is an idealistic and upright minister, he hopes to be like his brother, to become a hero who looks up to heaven and earth, but his brother Huo Quai's heaven and earth is martial arts, and his heaven and earth is civil governance.

In order to realize this ideal, in the first year of the first century (86 BC), Huo Guang sent Wang Ping, the court commander, and a group of five people to tour around the country, the purpose of the parade was to inspect the virtuous, inspect the people's feelings, □□ the wrongs, and obtain first-hand information on the people's conditions for the imperial court, and Huo Guang used this as the basis for governance.

Five years later (81 BC), Huo Guang's position was as stable as Mount Tai, and he also felt the social sentiment, he believed that the time for reform had come, and it must be implemented immediately.

Huo Guang knew very well that his reform involved the economy and people's livelihood, and the biggest resistance came from the imperial historian Sang Hongyang and the officials at all levels who adhered to the rules. Although Sang Hongyang is old and indifferent to power, since the time of Emperor Wu, major economic policies have come from him, so he will inevitably oppose it violently, and the officials who benefit from it will inevitably oppose it.

However, Huo Guang had a way to shut him up, and he ordered that all the virtuous and literary people he had visited in the past five years be brought to Chang'an, with only one purpose, to hold a meeting.

History called this meeting the "Salt and Iron Conference".

The meeting directed by Huo Guang embodied Huo Guang's cleverness, which was to make a state of seeking the best and listening to the best of the world, and second, to use these social virtues with high prestige among the people to refute the conservative officials. Even if there is a dispute, there will be no chaos, they are all readers, and at most they are just bickering.

Although the theme of the conference was salt and iron, it did not stop there, but involved many national strategies such as wine, taxation, and diplomacy. In order to avoid a head-on confrontation with the forces that opposed the reform in the imperial court, Huo Guang decided not to participate in the meeting himself, but sent Tian Qianqiu and Sang Hongyang to preside over it.

Huo Guang's purpose is self-evident, he wants to let these influential social sages living among the people express their dissatisfaction with the current national policy, and let the officials in the court and China realize the shortcomings of the current national policy.

Huo Guang has this self-confidence, and these virtuous and literary people will definitely be on his side, because he knows that many of them are victims of the current strategy. At that time, Sang Hongyang proposed that the government salt, iron, and the collection of luxury goods tax on merchants were helpless to open up the land under the army, and now, there is no war on the border, and if the government is still bent on collecting money, how can it realize the vision of recuperation and recuperation, and hide the wealth in the people?

Sure enough, Sang Hongyang and others were speechless at the meeting, and he did not expect that his strategy of filling the treasury would have so many drawbacks. He lost face at the meeting, and all this was due to Huo Guang.

No matter what he does wrong, he can't afford to lose this person.

"Wait, Huo Guang, one day, I will find it back." Sang Hongyang didn't dare to say it in his mouth, but he said a cruel word in his heart.

Although the salt and iron meeting made Sang Hongyang's face ugly, Huo Guang didn't care about this, what he wanted was for the country to become rich and prosperous again from his hands, and he wanted to achieve the name of the Duke of Zhou, as long as he could achieve his wishes, what if he sacrificed a few bad old men!

The final result of the Salt and Iron Conference was the victory of Huo Guang behind the scenes, and in July of the same year, Emperor Zhao Liu Fuling issued an edict to abolish the salt and iron official camp, and the strategy of losing evenly.

It is this strategy that has brought the society back to the broad road of prosperity and made a good start for the ensuing Zhaoxuan prosperous era, and Huo Guang, as the actual initiator and promoter, has really made a great achievement.

On the other hand, Sang Hongyang, the loser of the meeting, felt an unprecedented nest.

He couldn't sleep, the tea and rice were not fragrant, he finally chose to go to the opposite side of Huo Guang, ready to do something that he was not good at in his life--- power struggle, for this reason, he quickly joined the anti-Huo Guang team.

At present, this team has begun to move, ready to put Huo Guang to death.