Chapter 58: What is a Gentleman?
"Ming Gong is really a genius of the world, and he is not inferior to Cheng." Li Mu pondered Ma Yan's plan carefully, and had to admit that it was indeed effective.
First, the family was executed, so that the government could maximize the manpower of Longxi County. A large number of hidden households and land were revealed, so that the government could collect a sufficient amount of taxes, and at the same time, a large number of human laborers.
After that, he transferred troops to recruit the Qiang people who were in rebellion, uprooted them and moved them to the jurisdiction of the government. In this way, while greatly enhancing the manpower of the imperial court, it can also expand the strength of the Shu army.
Finally, it is to use the manpower and resources at hand to build water conservancy facilities and find a way to revitalize the land in Longxi.
From the military to the economy to politics, Ma Jian carried out an all-round reform. Basically, every step is dancing on the tip of the knife, and Ma Jian still rushes to the front every time, and Ma Jian dies in it if he is not careful.
I have to say that this Ming Duke is really bold, and he really doesn't even want his life for the sake of the court.
"Ming Gong is really desperate to revive the Han Dynasty. It's just that next time you'd better take care of your own safety, at least don't take risks like this one. ”
Li Mu sighed, shook his head lightly, and persuaded seriously.
"What you do now, once you die, no one will do it again. Even the prime minister is the same, everyone's core lies in the Northern Expedition and not here, if you die in Longxi, these affairs will all be put on hold. ”
"So please also ask Ming Gong to respect himself, sometimes it is the most important thing to ensure your own safety first."
"Ziwen, what you said is very unstructured. If I start to be greedy for life and fear death, and put my own safety first, will I still be able to do these things? Ma Jian shook his head, walked to the head of the city with his hands behind his back, looked up at the sky and said lightly.
"If you think about the things I've done in the past, if I don't go up and work hard myself, will anyone dare to replace me? Can I walk the way of death with the greed of life? ”
"By doing this, I am marrying death and fighting for the common people in the world and the society of the country. If we are afraid of death, how can we ask others to die in our place? ”
"The road we are walking is too difficult, too dangerous, and too many people have died. But that's why we need to do it, even if we die. ”
At this moment, Ma Yan's figure once again raised a notch in Li Mu's heart. What he said, thought, and did was almost exactly the same as the gentleman praised by Li Mu when he read the scriptures.
The gentleman is in righteousness, and the villain is in profit.
This is the Confucianism that the Han Dynasty admires, daring to defy the world's condemnation.
"What's more, who said I didn't have a legacy." Ma Tan suddenly turned around and looked at Li Mudao with a smile.
"Isn't Your Excellency the Friends of the Friends? If one day my horse dies on the grass, Ziwen can take over my heavy responsibility and continue to move forward. ”
"We are not afraid of death, and we can save the world with one death, but what?"
"Yes!" Li Mu's expression was solemn, and he bowed solemnly.
"Ming Gong has never been afraid of death, so why should I, Li Mu, cherish this life?"
"Good, that's right." Ma Tan nodded with satisfaction, and after some rhetoric, he finally drew this person from a family to his side.
This is not easy for Ma Tan, what he is doing is not tolerated by the family business. Even if Dongzhou sends Jingzhou faction, it may only be profitable to get involved.
Ma Tan didn't want him to die, and this law would become a weapon of party struggle, which would only deal a bigger blow to the already small number of homesteaders.
Now he hasn't just crossed that meeting, and he still doesn't want to be too sorry for the people of this era.
So it's best to leave an heir to his ideas, and maybe he dies that day, at least someone will continue to carry it on.
Again, it is certainly not possible to rely on only one or two people to advance history, but it does not mean that it can be rotten. As long as one person starts, one day it will evolve into countless people who will follow one another, pushing the carriage of history in the right direction.
"By the way, Ming Gong, that assassin has been recruited." At this time, Li Mu suddenly straightened up and said to Ma Yan.
"The punishment you gave was so cruel that we just chose confinement. After imprisoning that assassin for half a month, I finally couldn't stand all the moves. ”
"Assassins? I guess you still have her? Ma Tan was stunned for a moment, and after thinking for a while, he remembered the abstract assassin who had assassinated her earlier.
Good guy, I'm almost forgotten that the family has been wiped out for so long.
Isn't it a little late?
"There's no way, we still have doubts in some places, so we still continue to torture to extract confessions, but fortunately, we understand it in the end." Li Mu spread his hands, Ma Jian didn't say anything, they didn't dare to kill her, so they could only continue to torture.
Fortunately, the punishment given by Ma Tan was surprisingly effective, and after being imprisoned in the small black room for half a month, the female assassin was so suffocated that she could even shake out how many things she had stolen when she was a child.
"As expected by Ming Gong, she was a dead soldier cultivated by the Qiang people, a Han but raised by the Qiang people." Li Mu explained to Ma Yan.
"He came to assassinate him on the orders of the dead Qiang leader Danmuji. But the order is not to kill you, but to die in front of you to blame the family. ”
"It is said that Danmuji was afraid that you would die, and the people of the family immediately refused to admit it, so they just wanted to provoke the relationship between us and the family."
"When we are defeated by the Longxi family, he is using the hand of the Longxi family to open the city gate and occupy this Didao County."
"So that's the case, I have to say that this group of Qiang people has begun to learn the wisdom of our Han." Ma Yan's brows furrowed slightly, and he felt a little more threatened for a while.
Longyou Zhuqiang has always appeared as a barbarian, characterized by a bad brain that makes him like to slaughter.
But judging from Danmuji's intention to assassinate and the performance of Shu Ji, the leader of the Eastern Qiang, the Qiang people are no longer as simple as before. They are also learning the techniques and strategies of the Han people, and make up for their shortcomings through learning.
Master the Han long skills to control the Han?
Maybe this is also one of the reasons for the chaos in the future?
Thinking of this, Ma Jian couldn't sit still, because the Qiang people in Longyou were far from being purged. It's just that the two major Qiang tribes located in Longxi County have been exterminated and absorbed, and there are still many Qiang people entrenched in Longyou.
If they unite with Cao Wei and learn to join vertically and horizontally, it will have a great impact on the Northern Expedition of the Shu Army in the future.
"The assassin will be executed as soon as possible, just give him a good time."
"However, the progress of these Qiang people is really fast, if it weren't for my quick moves, the Qiang people would probably become a big problem." Ma Yan's expression suddenly became serious, and he pondered for a while.
"No, this matter must be ...... as soon as possible."
Before Ma Jian finished speaking, Li Mu had already pounced and grabbed Ma Jian to death.
"Unless someone dies! Otherwise, Ming Gongxiu wants to kill Qiang in person! ”