Chapter 143: The Battle of Ideas
"Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"
Youzhou, civil and military officials, ministers bow.
Tang Ming was dressed in a dragon robe, and his face was solemn.
There are Han Chinese, Hu people, and representatives of various forces.
Since the Wei and Jin dynasties, no Han monarch has become the leader of all ethnic groups, not even the nominal leader, Tang Ming is the first.
"Zhong Aiqing is flat!"
Tang Ming had monstrous ambitions, and he not only wanted to borrow the power of the Hu people, but also to educate them with his own methods.
For three generations, the nomads in the north have been the confidants of the Central Plains Dynasty, and it has been proved that killing cannot solve the problem, and the only way to assimilate them from generation to generation is to use coercion and tenderness.
The method of the Dao valve is not without merit, but it is too desperate, so it is easy to arouse the hatred of the Hu people.
The desert is ambitious, so they have the same hatred, and the strongest period of the Central Plains Dynasty is often the most united period of the desert.
But the good thing is that he was pushed over by the Hu people.
Tang Ming also didn't trust the Hu people, but now was not the time to cross the river and tear down the bridge, waiting for the unification of the country, he had time to divide step by step.
As for now, it is still mainly to win over, and first deal with the powerful enemy of the Dao Valve.
The desert and Youzhou have formed a consensus, everyone knows that once Chang'an is strong, none of them will have a good time, and the desert is not an invincible existence, and when the time comes, both sides will lose, but they will cheapen other forces in vain.
So the two worked together.
Tang Ming also decided that the other party did not have the ability to occupy the city, after all, the desert was not monolithic, at most, it was plundered, and the land and population were still their own.
As for the people at the bottom......
"I can only suffer the people, and I will bear the infamy!"
Tang Ming thought to himself.
His thoughts gradually drifted to Chang'an in the distance.
At the ceremony, the official made a wish, and those who didn't come basically got a position.
In the evening, the banquet continued.
After Tang Ming arranged other affairs, he took advantage of the night and rode a fast horse to the capital.
The spies on the road prepared their horses in advance, and after about eight horses were killed, they finally caught up with Yun Qiong and the others.
This is a large caravan that has cooperated with Dao Valve many times, and almost all of the men and horses dispatched each time are above forty.
But many people don't know that one of the caravanserais' top is one of their people, and this mission also inserts them into it.
Three carriages carried Tang Ming and his henchmen.
The masters of Buddhism and Xuanmen did not follow, they had their own channels.
It was probably divided into more than a dozen groups and rushed to Chang'an together.
As for Goguryeo and the desert, not with them.
This time, when the Holy Emperor Neidan was born, it was not only them who came, but almost all the forces in the top ranks sent people to find out.
Lishan.
A personable Taoist reported to Xu Xuan, judging from his clothes, he must be a high-level of the Daomen, and this person is indeed a high-level of the Daomen, and he is also a real person Lu Jing.
There is no emperor and prince in Daomen, there is only the first seat of the great real person who commands the whole army, the whole religion and the whole people, which is called the great real person, and can also be called the first seat.
"Neidan is said to have been unearthed in Chang'an, and there may be many masters in Chang'an recently, should we be under full martial law? Reinstatement of the Sekimono System? ”
Once Guanwen is restored, Chang'an's floating population will immediately be reduced by more than ninety percent, and then one post in five steps and one post in ten steps will ensure that not even a single ant can fly out.
Xu Xuan smiled and said: "There's no need, there's no need to be strictly guarded, they all come over, just catch them all, besides, they will also be divided internally, you have to have confidence in our path, the family is not monolithic." ”
"Split?" Lu Jing was puzzled.
Xu Xuan said again: "The power of the family is mixed, some people are not necessarily our enemies, they are just temporarily united around Tang Ming, you are optimistic." ”
Lu Jing is not a fool, thought for a moment, and then came to his senses, so he smiled and said, "That disciple will wait and see." ”
In addition to the physical battle, this time it is also a battle of ideas.
Outsiders often demonize the Daomen, describing the place as a barbarian land full of violence and killing.
The dignity and inferiority of the family does not only act on the common people, they are even more hierarchical within them, this kind of hierarchy is innate, as long as you are not from a good background, even if your ability is high, you will have to be suppressed for the rest of your life.
This entry into Guanlong may also be a spiritual impact for them.
Once the Maison's lies and propaganda are shattered, what will happen to these loose Maison alliances?
Lu Jing is looking forward to it.
Soon, the carriage entered the range of the road valve.
"The Yang family, from the second year of Kaiping to the present, has had thirteen slaves who died due to abuse, nineteen who died due to lending, and seven who died due to other reasons, collecting firewood and offending their families. This court pronounced the verdict - extermination. ”
In the open space outside the township, the people watched.
The better-dressed men cried and were pulled out and beheaded, and the women were mostly assigned to single sergeants, and those with blood debts on their hands were killed.
"Good!!"
"Your Excellency is wise!!"
The people applauded and cheered, and the prestige of the Daomen rose a lot.
Part of the family's money was distributed to the victims, and the other part was confiscated for construction, and they only came in and could not go out like Pixiu, and they did not know how much money they had taken for decades.
They thought that wealth could be passed down from generation to generation, but unfortunately in the end, it could only be cheaper for outsiders.
"This ...... Clever robbery, a group of bandits and demons! Inside the carriage, the people from the family were so popular that they trembled.
"Keep saying that for the sake of the people of the world, why are these people ragged? How can there still be hunger? Cui Wen said in disgust.
Decades, or even hundreds of years of accumulation, have been plundered like this, and anyone who sees it is afraid.
"That's fine, in the future, when we rise up, this place will be a hundred responses, and they will all betray their relatives." Yun Qiong said.
Although it is a little despicable, I have to admit that the worse the Dao valve does, the better it is for Datang, more and more people push them, and they are simply popular with the people.
With the existence of the Dao valve as a comparison, some of their improvement strategies may be implemented.
"The reaction of the people can also see that the family is not popular with the people, although the Dao valve is evil, but there are also merits, do you know the need to spread the land into the mu?" Tang Ming came out and poured a basin of cold water.
"This is too aimed at the family, it is better to reduce it step by step according to the official rank, so that the family can support it." A middle-aged Confucian with a white face and beard said.
"It's fine."
Some of the poorly dressed ordinary scholars wanted to say something, but they held back.
"What do you want to say?" Tang Ming was keenly aware of the expressions of the two strategists from poor backgrounds.
"Nothing." Hou Gang did not express his opinion.
It's not a matter of dividing the acres.
If the tax collection still depends on Haoqiang, then this tax will still not be collected, and even passed on to the people, maybe the situation in Yintian will be even more serious.
Moreover, the apportionment of land to the mu should be matched with the abolition of forced labor, and the latter is absolutely impossible to improve; Because the imperial court has no money to hire at all, the reason why the Dao valve has money and food is actually to use the part of the family to support the people.
Along the way, they discover that the killings are not only aimed at the family, but even their own people.
What was killed was a river of blood and a man's head rolling.
This makes them feel that a flame is brewing, and then they may only need to raise their arms and breathe, and they can respond to it and rise to power.
But come to the area controlled by the road valve for more than five years.
Everything has changed, and the people's clothes are simple, but they are not rags.
The roads are smooth, the water conservancy is good, and the fields are planted with thousands of catties of wheat, corn and so on.
At a glance, a piece of green.
Even the mountains and rivers have become beautiful.
"Why? Don't they use firewood? Someone wondered.
In densely populated places, bare hills are the norm.
It didn't take long for them to know why.
The caravan came to a village, and at this time, a large number of people surrounded the entrance of the village.
"Come on, grain for honeycomb carbon, our Jinliang Trading Company specializes in carbon production, one pound of grain and two pounds of carbon, or you can exchange it for atractylodes, yams, and copper coins."
"Are you still hiring?" A villager asked.
"Move, just have arms and legs, two for a month! Silkworm raising, coal digging, driving, and transporting goods are all in short supply! ”
There are even those who sell jewelry and eggs.
Everyone was amazed, when did the lives of the common people become so good?
This is a situation that has not occurred in all dynasties, even if it is a strong man, if the low-level civilians have enough to eat, they can be regarded as prosperous, how can they have the opportunity to improve their lives.
This kind of scene is not only this village, but even some villages with special products, and the whole village has become rich.
"Didn't their village chief take advantage of it?" Cui Wen said in astonishment.
"Probably, I guess they were all killed." Hou Gang said that there was an inexplicable emotion in his eyes.
The Dao Valve is the place where the punishment is the heaviest they have ever seen, and a little greed is a capital crime.
"There is no place to fish for oil and water, are they not afraid of the rebellion of the officials?"
"You should not be afraid, the officials here are treated well, the officials are not fixed, and they are also qualified to be promoted to officials, plus there are schools everywhere, and there are people everywhere, you don't do it, some people are rushing to do it."
Hou Gang seems to know this place very well, in fact, they all have channels to understand, but most of them still can't believe it.
I don't believe that it would be better here without the family, and take these rumors as hearsay.
Now that I've come to see it for myself, it's really ...... Change with each passing day.
(End of chapter)