"Cultivating people to win the sky." Fusu sighed.

He naturally knew this.

This is the banner of the first emperor's tour, and he has been committed to preaching it all over the world.

But as far as he knew, it didn't work very well.

How can it be so easy to change customs?

Moreover, the imperial court did not want to change it directly, but just wanted to let the world know the attitude of the imperial court, and use this to deter the nobles and scholars of the Kanto region.

It's just that Ji Heng is mentioning it again now, why is it?

He didn't ask.

Quietly waiting for Ji Heng to explain.

However, Ji Heng changed the topic and talked about other things.

"Since ancient times," he said, "there have been two problems that statecraft have had to solve. ”

"Development and stability maintenance."

"And Great Qin is because of the idea of founding a country."

"From beginning to end, we have taken the road of maintaining stability, and the object of maintaining stability is not just the nobles and scholars, but the entire Kanto, and even the whole world, you have been in power for a while, and you should find out something, as far as the current situation in Daqin is concerned, it is impossible to maintain stability."

"Because there is too much conflict in the world."

"It's so big that it's not just force that can brutally suppress everything."

"Therefore, the head of Qiantou has never been gathered."

"Great Qin has now suppressed the nobles and scholars."

"But Haoqiang is slowly raising his head."

"Wait for Haoqiang to be suppressed, I'm afraid that there will be new forces coming up, in the long run, Daqin will only fall into exhaustion, and eventually the hole in the world will get bigger and bigger, so big that it can't be filled at all, even if it is to tear down the east wall and make up the west wall, it is not enough."

"At the end of the day."

"In fact, it falls in the other direction of governing the country."

"Development !!"

"After the unification of Great Qin, the development of the world has stagnated, there is no development, whether it is the fields of the world, wealth, or knowledge, it will only continue to accumulate upward, and eventually become the whole world to exploit the bottom, and the dissatisfaction of the bottom will be brewed, and the bottom will move closer to the local forces, so it will begin to appear strong and bigger."

"Haoqiang is attached to the officials at the moment."

"But over time, Haoqiang embarked on his own career."

"It has completely become a local tyrant."

"Even the lord."

"The current Great Qin has fallen into this embarrassing situation."

"For the nobles and scholars, there will be a lack of energy and mind to target the locality, and for the locality, the nobles and scholars will get a chance to breathe, and in the end, those who are always exhausted and always oppressed by all parties will only become more and more unable to live."

"Daqin needs to turn."

Hear the words.

Fusu frowned.

He had a different view on the lack of development of Great Qin.

He didn't agree with that either.

Daqin has always had development.

Otherwise, why did Daqin build water conservancy, dig cities, and unify weights and measures at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, for the sake of development.

Now Ji Heng said that Daqin has not developed, so he naturally does not approve of it.

Looked at.

Ji Heng sneered.

He said indifferently: "I know that you may have a different opinion. ”

"But that's the truth."

"The so-called development of Daqin is actually pseudo-development."

"Because development is for the sake of reform, not really for development, and the money and grain that Great Qin spends every year on maintaining stability are even more innumerable, and the imperial court simply has no surplus to further develop, and in the end, the so-called development has become the squeezing of the bottom, relying on the exploitation of the flesh and blood of the bottom to promote the so-called development."

"Development is for the benefit of the people."

"And Daqin's 'development' is achieved by exploiting the bottom, and the life of the bottom has not only not been improved, but has become more and more embarrassed, even to the point where the people are struggling to make a living, can this really be regarded as development? You may argue that this is a mischief done by a magistrate and a bad deed with good intentions. ”

"But no matter how you argue."

"The bottom of Daqin has not been improved."

"It's a fact!"

"I advocate reform, and I also think that Daqin should insist on reform, but when I strongly advocate that you promote the innovation of the world, the first starting point is often not from reform, but from money and food."

"Do you know why?"

Fusu shook his head.

He was a little confused right now.

Ji Heng's face was extremely cold, and he said coldly: "Because the country of Great Qin, since the founding of the country, has already embarked on the road of destruction, and the reforms that Great Qin has been pushing hard are actually only accelerating the progress of this destruction. ”

"The world's innovation is not something that Great Qin did."

"Daqin's system doesn't allow it either."

"Xia Shang Zhou, at the beginning of the three generations, all reorganized the world, but the system of Xia Shang Zhou is different from that of Great Qin, through the destruction of the previous dynasty and other tribes, Xia Shang and Zhou accumulated a lot of money and grain when they established the country, and they also had enough strength to deter the world, Great Qin actually has such congenital conditions, but because of the military merit system, Great Qin distributed a lot of money and grain when it was founded."

"There is no way to carry out reforms without a fiscal surplus."

"Going your own way is just the way to die."

"I admire the First Emperor."

"It's not that the first emperor ruled the world."

"It's that the first emperor really went the right way, in this field where no predecessors have set foot in it, he took the right path, and the only mistake is that the first emperor really distributed the money and grain when he founded the country really generously, so that there is always a huge gap in finances."

"If there is no such vacancy, the first emperor's reform of the world is actually very likely to succeed."

"The world is innovating."

"The first condition is a high degree of political centralization."

"And this is what the First Emperor has been pushing for."

"The First Emperor basically did it."

"Although it is only centralized in one person, it does achieve absolute centralization of political and economic power, and the reform will undoubtedly touch the interests of many people, so it is also necessary to transfer external contradictions, so the first emperor opened the conquest of the north and south lines, and Daqin pursued the legal system, and the officials themselves were very high, and the execution was enough."

"At least it's enough."

"In this case, Daqin's innovation is actually very easy to promote, at least it will be implemented in Guanzhong, but the First Emperor himself may be very incomprehensible, he obviously did everything right, why the world not only did not improve, but became more and more tired."

"The reason was already known to the First Emperor last year."

Fusu asked curiously, "What is the reason?" ”

"Military meritorious." Ji Heng Road.

"Military meritorious?"

Ji Heng nodded, his eyes were calm and said: "Great Qin can be said to be a military meritorious lord in success, a military meritorious lord in defeat, and a great Qin with military merits in defeat, and no one in the world can stop it, but in order to maintain this system, it costs millions of Qin and half taels of money and grain every year, and the money and grain collected by Great Qin are spread out on maintaining the basic operation of military meritorious, and then distributed to the huge bureaucratic system. ”

"Eventually, it did."

"Daqin seems to be on the right path."

"But there are too many places that need money and food, and Daqin can't fill it at all, so he can only go further and further on the road of working hard and losing money."

"The army is the foundation of Great Qin's ability to sit firmly in the world."

"Except for the First Emperor, no one will be allowed to get involved, and whoever dares to get involved will die."

"However, this is the case, you are a prince, not only involved in military power, but also implemented the 'non-commissioned officer transfer' in the army, do you really think that your suggestion is appropriate?"

"It's not."

"It was the First Emperor who saw the problem."

"I want to borrow my strength, borrow your hand to change."

"The essence of the transfer of non-commissioned officers is to use administrative means to reduce the expenditure of the military merit system."

"And then free up additional finances for the imperial court."

"So as to ensure that the reform continues."

Hear the words.

Fusu was thoughtful.

He naturally knew that the transfer of non-commissioned officers had not reduced their expenditures at the moment, but in the future, if any non-commissioned officers were promoted, the imperial court would no longer need to reward them with additional land money and grain, just arrange them in the locality, the higher the rank, the higher the reward given by the imperial court, but compared with the huge and bloated military merit system, this change is still minimal.

Unless the soldiers are put back.

That's it.

Fusu's eyes showed a sudden look.

It was only now that his mind was finally strung together.

Ji Heng arranged Fan Hao and others to march into the army, in fact, he wanted to use their mouths to spread the changes in Daqin's army to all corners of the world, so as to attract more Kwantung people to enter in the future, and as long as the number of soldiers was large, the imperial court could send back these soldiers stationed in batches, so that many soldiers who could be promoted to knighthood in the past would only be discharged from the army at that time.

And so it goes.

Under the military merit system, the financial pressure was greatly reduced.

Because the soldiers only need to serve for a fixed number of years, they will not have so much resentment, the imperial court will have less expenditure, and most of the non-commissioned officers can also be transferred, and the imperial court's expenditure on the military merit system will be greatly reduced.

The surplus money and grain can continue to be used for reform.

It's all about throttling.

Fusu said: "Mr. Dacai, through the actual decentralization of power and profits, to achieve a multi-kill strategy, not only suppressed the nobles and scholars, reduced the difficulty of cultivating officials in the world, but also made the gap between the Qin people in Guandong and the Qin people in Guanzhong continue to decrease, and more importantly, it saved money and food for the imperial court." ”

Ji Heng shook his head.

His face was very serious, and he said in a deep voice: "All this seems to be very beautiful, and it can indeed be regarded as a multiplicity, but if you want to implement all this, it will take time, and even need to spend more money and food, and many of Daqin's policies cannot be stopped, so in the next few years, Daqin's finances will only become more and more stretched." ”

"Even getting poorer and poorer."

"It's inevitable to make ends meet."

"The ultimate suffering will fall on the leaders at the bottom."

"Suffer from the bottom."

"It's easy to say this sentence, and it's very simple to do, but the bottom can't really endure such oppression all the time, sooner or later it will be unsupportable, and then the world will be reversed, and the beacons will be all over the place, and it will become a reality."

Fusu's face changed slightly.

Ji Heng sighed lightly: "Daqin has no way out, if he doesn't continue to grit his teeth and stiffen up, the previous insistence will come to naught, but if he continues to insist, it will only make the bottom more and more resentful and dissatisfied, and complain, but according to the current situation in the world, I am afraid that Daqin will not wait for the dust to settle, and the world will already be reversed." ”

"So."

"There is nothing wrong with the path taken by Daqin."

"The mistake is that there is no fiscal surplus, and the reform without fiscal surplus is a big gamble, betting on the patience of the people at the bottom, and betting that the imperial court can support it together, but this kind of big gamble, often the imperial court can't gamble in the end, because it is not only the bottom that is dissatisfied with the imperial court, but also the old forces, they are coerced by each other, and Daqin will not be able to drag on for so long."

Fusu was silent.

His fists were clenched, and his eyes were full of unwillingness.

But eventually, he sighed softly and let go of his fist weakly.

Is Da Qin wrong?

No.

Renovating the world is the only way Daqin can go.

But what did the bottom do wrong?

Nor did it.

Their only mistake may be that they live in the current Great Qin.

In order to promote the reform of the world, the current Great Qin has to be exhausted, has to work hard and lose money, and has to expropriate and expropriate.

Daqin also had no choice.

He smiled bitterly, and said with a dejected expression: "Mr. Gaojian, the world is indeed as Mr. said, all parties are tired, but Daqin is already walking on thin ice, and if you want to ask Daqin to light taxes and streamline government, you can't do it at all, Daqin's system means that Daqin needs a huge governance system." ”

Forthwith.

Fusu seemed to think of something.

He looked at Ji Heng sharply and said in a condensed voice, "So Mr. has set his sights on salt and iron again?" Put it on the local Haoqiang, the previous imperial court through salt and iron, profited a lot, if it can shake the place, let some Haoqiang ambush, the imperial court can also take advantage of this to get a lot of money and grain. ”

"In order to reduce the levy on the bottom?"

Ji Heng nodded.

He said in a deep voice: "Any reform in the world touches interests, if the imperial court does not come up with enough money and grain, there is no way to promote it, so if you want to implement this policy, you can only throw more money and grain, and the court has no money and grain, so you can only find a way to make money." ”

"Salt and iron are the world's huge profits."

"But is it not only salt and iron that profiteers? Tea, wine, vinegar, alum, commerce, etc. are also profiteering. ”

"It's just that these windfall profits are currently operating in the 'market'."

"Controlled by the magistrates."

"Therefore, if the imperial court wants to promote the innovation of the world, it must collect money from these profiteering industries, and if the policy is directly forced, the imperial court will not have enough control over the local area, which is easy to backfire, so it can only change the way of thinking and do some camouflage."

"Get involved by investigating and punishing officials."

"Salt and Iron are your own official office, so it is easy to investigate."

"And the others are intertwined with the place, and it will not be so easy for the imperial court to get involved."

"So I got another excuse."

"Another reason."

"This reason is 'cultivating people to win the sky.'"

"With the help of the help of the prevention of natural disasters and man-made disasters, the construction of permanent liquidation in some convenient transportation places, the people's urgently needed commodities, centralized storage and transportation, declared that it is only an emergency, and wants to do an emergency drill to prevent natural disasters and man-made disasters, and when the real goods are in place, they will directly attack the corresponding government offices."

"So as to completely reinstate the power of local finances."

Ji Heng said very calmly.

But in Fusu's eyes, he has seen the bloody rain.

False and real, true and false.

Through some specious orders, the local officials were mobilized to transport supplies, and when the imperial court controlled a sufficient amount of supplies, it would strike at the local government with a thunderous speed, and then take back the financial power that had been lost to the local government in the past.

It's just that all this will probably cost a lot of money and food.

Fusu smiled bitterly: "I'm afraid I have to suffer the people at the bottom." ”

(End of chapter)