Chapter 153: From Hometown
At present, the configuration of Shangshutai has finally taken shape.
In Cao Chao's list, there is only one Xun Miao who has not yet been in place.
After completing the counterattack of the Shaozhuang faction, the temple suddenly became a lot more lively.
The most lively is Cao Chao's meeting of ministers.
These ministers gathered in the Taiji Hall and put forward various ideas for the future national policy.
The scholars of the two Han Dynasty were not lacking in courage, and the current scholars of the Great Wei Dynasty were going further, and their ideas were indeed very radical, which brought a lot of shock to Biqiu Jian, who participated in the meeting of the ministers for the first time.
At present, the road of the Great Wei is becoming clearer, and through various reforms, it has been regarded as having walked out of its own path, which is very different from that of the Later Han Dynasty.
The ministers gathered here, and all they discussed was a few things.
How to increase the income of the temple, how to increase the household registration, how to improve the living standards of the people, and how to strengthen the military power.
Looking at the ministers around him who were open-minded and drooling, Biqiu Jian's eyes were full of surprise.
His laid-back state was broken by these people.
The national fortunes of the Great Wei are in the hands of these people?
Driven by Zhong Hui, these people seem to be very anxious, and they are all eager to do more.
In terms of increasing income alone, Biqiu Jian has heard a lot of crazy ideas.
These include, but are not limited to, outrageous ideas such as "opening up the private minting of coins", "counting the property of merchants, and paying half of the family property for 20,000 yuan", "selling public land", and so on.
Fortunately, these are just everyone's thoughts, and things haven't gotten that far.
It's just that Cao Chao is extremely indulgent to his ministers.
Biqiu Jian had never seen such a meeting of ministers.
You must know that in Emperor Ming's meeting, Biqiu Jian was also close to Emperor Ming's ministers, and he often followed Emperor Ming to participate in decision-making.
But the decision was made back then and was completely different from what the gang is doing today.
Formal decision-making by ministers is often when everyone sits down calmly, and the content of the decision is put forward by the servants, and everyone speaks one after another to supplement it, and finally the emperor decides.
And now it's happening in front of me, it's like a group of crazy people getting together, arguing and yelling, even interrupting each other, and fighting for each other.
Biqiu Jian wanted to speak several times, but he saw that Cao Chao, who was sitting on the top position, had no intention of stopping him, so he could only watch them continue to negotiate.
Cao Chao sat on the top position, no matter how outrageous ideas his ministers put forward, he would not feel angry, but just listened with a smile.
The reason why he wants the temple to be so strong is to make the temple more vibrant.
In the past, the decision of the minister was just that everyone was competing for each other's interests, weighing each other, ceding and plundering.
Why did the ministers of the past sit together and chat so harmoniously?
They all gathered to cut the meat, and the distribution was made before they arrived here, and of course there would be harmony.
And now, the starting point of these people's ideas is not to put their own interests or the interests of their clan first.
That's enough.
Anyway, unreliable ideas will not be adopted.
The discussion was very intense.
But they do make good decisions.
For example, Zhong Hui believed that it was necessary to continue to increase investment in the government of good deeds, and asked Shang Shutai to promote various new inventions to all parts of the world as soon as possible, even if it was a loss of money.
In addition, for the newly produced fertilizers, Zhonghui also proposed the idea of increasing the production line.
King Dongping is looking for ways to increase its production efficiency through other means.
In terms of improving the living standards of the people, Zhang Hua proposed the policy of interest protection.
It is probably that the temple pays money to fulfill the national welfare, give the people a minimum guarantee, provide different relief and shelter to all kinds of people, and improve the living standards of the people.
This policy, which seems to have transcended the times, is actually recorded in the Zhou Rites, and it belongs to a very ancient benevolent government.
This policy is called Interest-Guaranteed Rokyang.
One is called Salesian, the second is old-aged, the third is to revitalize the poor, the fourth is to care for the poor, the fifth is to relieve the sick, and the sixth is to be safe and rich.
The first is to care for children, the second is to support the elderly, the third refers to those who are widowed and lonely, the fourth is the poor, the fifth is the disabled, and the sixth is the rich.
As for why the rich are also in the ranks of relief? In fact, this is not a relief, it means that the state cannot rob money from the rich people, but must let them be at peace.
The two Han Dynasty also advocated this kind of six nourishment, so it is often seen that the emperors of the two Han Dynasty would take the initiative to order to take out cloth and food to give to children, the elderly, the poor, the disabled, etc., this behavior is still nationwide.
Of course, this kind of six yang is not as huge as in later generations, it is an infrequent behavior, and it is relieved and guaranteed from time to time, not every year.
And it will vary depending on the emperor.
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If you meet Emperor Wen, you can often get relief, and if you meet Emperor Wu in his later years, he will not let you donate money, which can be regarded as favor.
From the Han Dynasty to the Wei Dynasty, many welfare systems were gone, and this system of protecting the people almost disappeared until the Northern Wei Dynasty, when the Sinicization began, and the welfare system was re-established to support the elderly over 70 years old, and to implement the relief of the poor and eliminate poverty.
The Northern Zhou Dynasty inherited the relief of the poor in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and the Northern Qi Dynasty inherited the elimination of poverty, and they truly achieved physical elimination.
The people talked about a lot of things, the decision was over, and the ministers left one after another.
Biqiu Jian still couldn't come back to his senses.
Until Cao Chao took the initiative to speak, "Da Sima, isn't this different from the past?" ”
Looking at Cao Chao who was smiling in front of him, Biqiu Jian sighed with emotion: "It's really different. ”
Biqiu Jian is not easy to describe, but after watching this kind of decision-making meeting for a long time, he still thinks it is quite interesting.
Cao Chao stroked his chin and continued: "Eleven years, there has been such a change, and in another ten years, Great Wei will definitely be a prosperous era."
Cao Chao's eyes were full of anticipation.
Biqiu Jian agrees with this.
Not to mention anything else, on the basis of great unification, as long as it can rule smoothly for more than ten years, it will definitely be a prosperous era.
"I don't plan to send another army to fight against it, and in the next few days, I will develop my internal affairs with peace of mind, but I would like to establish contact with distant countries, especially Persia, which is in full swing."
"Persia?"
Biqiu Jian was a little dazed, he had never heard of this title.
Cao Chao frowned slightly, "Zhuge Xu should have almost reached the territory of the Yue Clan, right?" ”
"It's just this time, and I don't know how many years it will take."
Guishan, Lan City.
Zhuge Xu raised his head and looked at the city in the distance.
Zhuge Xu at this moment looks extraordinarily vicissitudes, his face is almost covered by a dense beard, and his own emaciation can hardly be seen from his original appearance.
And most of the people who accompanied him were like this, and the attrition was very serious.
By the time the group arrived, more than 100 people had fallen on the road.
Zhuge Xu endured the deep tiredness in his heart and stared at the tall city in the distance.
The climate here is not bad, not very cold, not very hot, the road is very flat, and the road leading to the royal city is even specially paved with stones, and you can see the carvings on it.
Seeing this road, Zhuge Xu shook his head secretly.
I heard that these are the masterpieces of the original wave tune king of Guishan.
The king, who was very similar to Sun Quan, began to go crazy in his later years, building a long road, paved with the finest stones, decorated with fences on both sides, and he had intended to build four roads at the four gates, extending from Lan City to the various realms.
But before he could carry out this idea, the person had already fallen ill and died.
Speaking of which, his death from such an illness has allowed many people to survive.
And after the death of this king with great merits, Guishan's days are getting worse day by day, and now they are not long away from destruction, and they have already been sounded the countdown, and even became vassals of the enemy for a time.
But this exquisite road is still here, and the city wall in the distance is also so tall, but the people on both sides who are thin and show their ribs are a little inconsistent with this exquisite road and tall city.
The locals watched in horror at the sudden appearance of the cavalry, even if there were local officials standing aside, they were afraid, and even more afraid of their local officials.
As early as after leaving Shazhou, the officials of Guishan met Zhuge Xu, and then prayed all the way, and personally brought Zhuge Xu to meet their king.
These officials are very close to Zhuge Xu, and they are not at all as distant or wary as Zhuge Xu imagined.
Some officials even took the initiative to salute him and excitedly asked about the situation in the Central Plains.
The person in charge of the translation said: These Yueshi people have always believed that Zhuge Xu and others are from their hometown.
In fact, the Yueshi people used to live in Zhangye, Dunhuang and other places are really no problem to say that they are fellow villagers, and later they were defeated by the Huns and ran to Shazhou, that is, the Western Regions.
Later, they were defeated by the Wusun people, and ran all the way to Bactria and expanded here, carrying out dimensional reduction strikes against the locals, and finally one of them established Kushan
And the historians of the Great Wei have always believed that the Yueshi people belong to the Qiang and call them the Qiang captives.
Being regarded by these people as a township party, Zhuge Xu didn't know what to say for a while, but considering that this was beneficial to the current situation, he accepted it for the time being.
He even summoned a few people from Dunhuang and told the officials that these people were from your hometown.
Along the way, they were all treated with great courtesy.
The Yueshi people have always respected the Central Plains Dynasty, and like King Botuo, they even had to send envoys to pay tribute to canonization.
In their eyes, the country from their homeland is powerful and mysterious.
However, the appearance of the Yueshi people is different from the appearance of the locals, the locals are generally dark-skinned, and these Yueshi people who ran all the way from Liangzhou are somewhat similar to the Central Plains people, anyway, they are not dark-skinned.
And now they have finally come to the royal city of the Yue Clan.
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