Compared with Zhangzhou, Jinzhou can be said to be a country and a country of peace and security over the years.

Since the establishment of the Fumin Chamber of Commerce established by Lu Chao, it is indeed as Lu Chao said at the beginning, to reduce all costs to the lowest and ensure that the people can buy the most affordable things at the cheapest price, so that as long as the people of Jinzhou are willing to plough the fields, everyone can be rich, not to mention the rich and expensive, but it is still possible to eat and wear without worrying.

However, there is never a shortage of smart people in this world, and Lu Chao can be said to be quite in place, but as time goes by, it still arouses suspicion among those who have a heart.

"Brother Chao, this person's name is Fan Hong, he is a Confucian in Jinzhou, a newly promoted virtue realm, a native of Jindu, he has been criticizing you among the literati for a long time, saying that your move seems to benefit the people, but it is actually a move to harm the country." Liu Sandao handed a booklet to Lu Chao: "I'm not as smart as you, I don't know if there will be any omissions, so let people record the remarks he said on various occasions and compile them into a book." ”

Liu Sandao pointed to the booklet and said: "The main thing is three points, one is that the rich people Chamber of Commerce is indeed rich people, but it is poor in the government, the yamen and the army have to be raised, these all require money, and the method of the yamen has enriched everyone, but the poor government, the officials still have luck, but they do not compete with the people for profit, but the government service, tolerance, and the army have to live, and now the errand can't even support the family, which makes the people extremely reluctant to enter the yamen to do things." ”

"The second is money, the current money is only enough to raise soldiers, but if there is a war, even the money and food for the people cannot be scraped together, if the foreign enemy comes to attack, the prosperity in front of you will immediately come to naught."

"Third, it is suspected that you are constantly praising the image of Cui Zhengrende and the image of officials among the people."

"It's worthy of being a great Confucian." Lu Chao looked at the booklet carefully and couldn't help but sigh.

"I wanted to send someone to assassinate this person, but now if he is assassinated, whether he succeeds or not, everyone will suspect you." Liu Sandao frowned.

"Not bad." Lu Chao approvingly: "Brother Dao has been much calmer over the years. ”

"But if you don't get rid of this person, it will be bad for you after all." Liu Sandao said in a deep voice.

"Brother Dao, what is the best weapon to kill people?" Lu Chao asked with a smile.

Liu Sandao thought for a while and said, "You want to borrow a knife to kill someone?" ”

"Whose knife?" Lu Chao asked.

"The one who can kill him is naturally Cui Zheng." Liu Sandao said with a smile.

Lu Chao shook his head: "Unless it is heinous, it is impossible for Cui Zheng to kill a great Confucian in the realm of virtue, the sharpest knife in this world is human words, Brother Dao do me a favor, help him, let his remarks be known to everyone in Jinzhou." ”

"People are terrible, but he is a great Confucian in the realm of virtue, and this trick works for him?" Liu Sandao was puzzled.

Confucianism is different from other practices, what is cultivated is virtue, but also the heart, which can become a state of virtue, which is not through the vicissitudes of life, how can it be crushed by some rumors.

"I don't know if it's useful to him, but it must be useful to Cui Zheng." Lu Chao got up and stretched and said: "However, more and more people are aware of this matter, which also shows that the situation is a little uncontrollable, and the third plan can start to be laid out." ”

"Understood!" Liu Sandao nodded knowingly.

Fan Hong's remarks were originally only circulated among the scholars, but as time passed, they gradually flowed into the people, and spread to the whole of Jinzhou at a terrifying speed, but in March, the news that Fan Hong wanted to ban the Fumin Chamber of Commerce was already known.

"What is this Fan Hong, I finally hope for a good king, why can't I wait for some good days?"

"Confucian? This is also called Confucianism? Confucianism is indeed a lackey. ”

"The adults are wise, but they lack the vision of employing people, but they don't use good people like Lord Lu, they only use such deceptives and stealing their reputation."

You can't blame the people, this is human nature, when someone touches their own interests, it doesn't matter who you are, scold two sentences to relieve your anger, and the range of contact between the people at the bottom may be the one hundred and eighty people around them, and what they see is firewood, rice, oil and salt, so it is naturally impossible to agree with Fan Hong's words.

As soon as this remark came out, it aroused public resentment, and what it showed was a fluctuation in luck.

As Lu Chao guessed, Fan Hong was not angry because of this, but the loss of luck was not only the loss of Cui Zheng, but the entire Jinzhou official system was damaged, not much, at least for Cui Zheng, but the more low-level officials, the clearer the feeling, and the heavier the resentment towards Fan Hong.

When most of the grassroots officials have this kind of thought, they will unconsciously exert force in the direction they want, and it is limited for a person to face a great Confucian like Fan Hong, but when most of the officials exert their strength, a new wave will be formed.

In March, Cui Zheng specially invited Fan Hong, and no one knew what he said, but the next day, Fan Hong returned to his hometown.

When he came out of the conference hall, Fan Hong suddenly looked coldly at Lu Chao who came out from behind him, and snorted coldly: "Young man, good ability!" ”

"What do you mean, sir?" Lu Chao looked at Fan Hong blankly.

Fan Hong frowned, from Lu Chao's face, he couldn't see any traces of falsification, and frowned: "Isn't this matter your layout?" ”

"Sir, I know that Mr. is biased against him, and he has basically lived in seclusion for the past two years, and these things outside are only known recently." Lu Chao shook his head and sighed: "Sir, don't worry, the dispute between you and me is a battle of ideas, now the adult is just forced to do it by public opinion, after a while, I will ask Lord Cui to take back his life, Mr. is virtuous, and what he does is also for the sake of Jinzhou, everyone knows it." ”

Fan Hong looked at Lu Chao deeply, saw his solemn expression, nodded and said, "What do you think of the old man's words?" ”

"In the beginning of the establishment of the Chamber of Commerce of the rich people, is to stabilize the situation in Jinzhou, the facts have also proved that what is done in the next is right, but what Mr. said is not unreasonable, in the next recently is also thinking hard for the government to raise money to raise the army, but there are some ideas, but I don't know if it is feasible, if Mr. is not afraid of shallow knowledge, I am willing to evaluate with Mr." Lu Chao said.

"Okay, I'd like to hear what you have to say." Fan Hong pondered.

The two did not avoid suspicion, all the way to Fan Hong's mansion, Fan Hong's residence was quiet, quite bookish, and took Lu Chao to the living room and asked the servants to serve tea.

"I inquired about what you did in Liuzhou in the past, although you are benevolent, but you are easy to go to extremes, and I can't complain about you." Fan Hong also sighed when he said this: "After all, you are an outsider, and the old man is inevitably wary of you, but now it seems that it is the old man who has moved the heart of the villain." ”

"Sir's words are serious, human nature." Lu Chao hurriedly said.

"I wonder how you're going to raise money for the government?" Fan Hong asked, this is as big as the government, as small as a family, in fact, the core problem can never be avoided by a word of money, especially such a big force as Jinzhou, coinciding with troubled times, in fact, it is not rational to practice virtue and politics at this time, but the luck after refining is a temptation that is difficult to refuse for everyone.

Immortality, since ancient times, which emperor has not had this expectation, and now that the opportunity is in front of him, who can give it up?

"It is definitely not possible to move the people." Lu Chao said: "There are still many rich families in Jinzhou, so they have to be willing to take out the money, my idea is to let go of some things that the people can't use to earn these people's money." ”

"For example?" Fan Hong asked.

"For example, this house, now the people of Jinzhou are rich, many rich families want to move into the city, just because of the existence of the Chamber of Commerce, has been suppressing housing prices, so such as the housing prices in Jinzhou are actually the same as ordinary counties, but there is no price on the market, we can let go, but we need to increase the purchase tax, willing to take the bait, so that the money in the hands of these rich households will naturally flow into our hands through taxes." Lu Chao said with a smile.

"That's a good idea." Fan Hong thought carefully for a moment and then bowed his head, after all, he is not a person who is proficient in business, he noticed that Lu Chao's method was at a loss, and he also felt that the people were rich and the country was poor, and it would become a problem for a long time, and now Lu Chao's calculation is to solve this problem.

"Actually, I wanted to give advice to the adults today, but I was worried that something would happen again, so I didn't say anything, and if Mr. also felt that there was nothing wrong, how about giving advice to the adults tomorrow? You may want to ask your husband to go back. Lu Chao said in a deep voice.

"No one has ever used this law, you need to be cautious, you need to know that every decision made by the state government is related to the livelihood of thousands of people, and there can be no mistakes, and there can be no mistakes." Fan Hong thought carefully for a moment and nodded.

The two discussed carefully for a long time, and then Lu Chao got up and said goodbye and left.

"This Fan Hong is so easy to reconcile with you?" Sandao looked at Lu Chao puzzled.

"According to the idea of normal people, at this time I should fall into the well, I do the opposite, and at this time he is down, he should treat me as a gentleman, and the gentleman can be bullied, just because the moral bottom line of the gentleman is too high, you can use this method to understand the rules of his behavior, and with his endorsement, this third calculation is completed." Lu Chao said with emotion.

Liu Sandao glanced at Lu Chao strangely, is this still the nerd he was at the beginning?

"Actually, I don't understand it all along, what's the use of these three strategies?" Liu Sandao asked.

"It's very useful, and you'll know when the time comes." Lu Chao shook his head and smiled: "Let's prepare public opinion, the next thing we have to do is to make everyone feel that a good house is a symbol of status, in addition, Cui Zheng's image is not high enough, I want the people of Jinzhou to treat him as a god!" ”

Liu Sandao understood, didn't ask again, and went down to help Lu Chao deal with this matter.

As Lu Chao said, with Fan Hong's endorsement, the strategy of liberalizing housing prices is very effective, in a very short period of time, smart people who saw business opportunities quickly began to buy real estate in various counties, at first it was just a circulation between rich households, but after all, rich households are a minority, housing prices are getting higher and higher, driven by interests, even if Lu Chao does not make a move, there will be people who spontaneously begin to spread the news secretly, so that the identity is linked to housing prices, coupled with the fact that Kamikaze Hall is secretly fueling the fire, a large number of idle currencies began to pour into the counties.

The tax alone has allowed Cui Zheng to raise enough military spending in just one year, and this trend is constantly spreading to the civilian population......

(End of chapter)