418. King Wen pushes the cart eight hundred times
Ji Chang woke up on the grass as usual, tasted a few mouthfuls of bitter gall, walked a few laps in the middle of the basket, exercised, and drove to the field.
"Buy three newspapers and get a heartless cabbage!"
The streets were bustling with cries and shouts.
As soon as there were signs of a bumper harvest, the price of vegetables fell, and even became a gift for newspapers.
Ji Chang didn't think so, how could any fool buy three copies of the same newspaper?
"Who is the king of benevolence and righteousness? Shennong was chosen during the Three Emperors, Yao Shun was selected during the Five Emperors, and the people of the world chose him!"
Huh?
Ji Chang feels good about himself, he is the king of benevolence and righteousness!
Even in the court song, it is impossible for someone to say that the king is benevolent, isn't that pinching his nose and coaxing his eyes?
A king who has a strict law and invents a public ruler is a righteous king?
A king who has copied several nobles and has been repeatedly rebelled against is a benevolent and righteous king?
A king who spreads Xiao Liu Bei and paints a picture of the Spring Palace is the king of benevolence and righteousness?
The king appointed slaves, but he was kind to slaves, but unfortunately his benevolence to slaves was not benevolence.
Looking at it this way, the most benevolent monarch on earth in this heaven and earth is himself!
After all, benevolence and righteousness to the nobles are benevolence, and as for benevolence and righteousness to the people, Ji Chang feels that he is also better than the king of Zhou.
"Ben Hou asked for a newspaper. β
"Sell at least three, send bundles of heartless vegetables. β
Ji Chang: "...."
He was silent for a long time, and finally bought three newspapers, anyway, he praised himself, and it was not bad to buy them for collection.
"Eh, waitβ" The old woman pulled out three newspapers, handed them out, and brought them back.
She snuck out a few small pages from one of them.
Ji Chang caught a glimpse of the picture above, and his face immediately darkened.
Spring Palace, the protagonist of the painting is an old man in fancy clothes, and in front of the old man is a bear demon with wings and a fish in his mouth.
The title is "King Wen pushes the cart 800 times".
He clenched his hands tightly and released them, the newspaper was crumpled, Ji Chang's breathing calmed down, and he slowly walked into the car.
People are under the eaves and have to bow their heads, forget it or look at the praise of themselves in the newspaper.
This must have been a nobleman who was dissatisfied with the forcible collection of land by the king of Zhou, and profited from the keel waterwheel and the quyuan plow, so he specially printed a newspaper to explore the outlet.
Ji Changding looked at it, and his face, which had just improved, turned dark again.
Actually touted the king?
Is the king of benevolence and righteousness?
Could it be that this newspaper is actually from the imperial court?
Disgusting!
In order to manipulate public opinion and prevent the homeless people from Xiqi from thinking about his kindness under the convenient farm tools, the king of Xuan unscrupulously said such unscrupulous words!
Damnation!
Look at it again, the author is Fu Yu.
Ji Chang had an impression of Fu Yu, when Li Jing forcibly collected the field endowment, the first place he went to was the Fu family, and Fu Yu was the first noble child who was taken to the criminal department to be beaten.
Ji Chang knew very well that although the Fu family recognized Tian Fu, they definitely had a lot of resentment in their hearts, especially Fu Yu, who was beaten badly.
So, for what purpose did the disgruntled Fu Yu print this newspaper?
Could it be for the sake of killing?
Let people think that the king is a deception and a thief?
Curiosity drove this Ji Chang to continue to look down.
"Why Your Majesty is the Prince of Righteousness, I will explain it one by one in this newspaper. β
"Your Majesty had ordered the collection of land taxes from the nobles, and had the penal department rebuke us with the cane, and even forced us to work in the fields. β
"However, this is only before, because I do not know the depth of His Majesty's stupid thoughts. β
"And now, we have thoroughly understood Your Majesty's good intentions, and we just want to correct Your Majesty's name and let Your Majesty's name of benevolence and righteousness spread all over the world!"
Seeing this, Ji Chang couldn't help but be stunned.
What the hell is this Fu Yu thinking? Do you really think that the king is a benevolent and righteous king?
It's impossible, Ling Chi and the move of raiding the house are just around the corner, can you still say such things?
However, Ji Chang knew that he had been in the countryside for a long time, and he could only come out to let off steam, and all he knew was bits and pieces of news, so he still read it seriously.
"The collection of Tian Fu is to make Your Majesty want us to understand, and if we lose it, we will understand the preciousness we have. β
"We are aristocrats, enjoying the life of Zhong Ming Ding, not knowing the suffering of the people, just paying some land endowments, so they complain. β
"Everything Your Majesty has done is to make us realize that we are different from others, and that owning land and owning private land is a gift in itself. β
"Even if you collect the land endowment, you will not take away the land. β
Some people still scoff at this, thinking that it is too glorified. β
"It's understandable. β
"Because Your Majesty has really collected the land endowment according to Dingkou, which has affected the interests of us and others. β
"But what about now?"
"With all kinds of new farm tools, farming is half the effort, and the first to enjoy the convenience of farm tools is still us. β
"Your Majesty took some, but gave more. β
"Your Majesty is able to surround the princes with resentful intentions and raid the homes of the nobles who are secretly plotting, but for us who refuse to pay the land endowment, we only use a little radical means, and there is no sword and soldier against each other, this is a kind of tolerance, a kind of benevolence. β
"Maybe there are still many family heads who don't understand it and still have doubts, after all, Your Majesty has buried everything too deeply. β
"Your Majesty is telling me that the most important thing for the nobility is freedom, free to do business, free to produce, and to have private land that can be bought and sold, and after going to the countryside and seeing the hard work of the peasants, this feeling is even greater, and our most precious thing is not the grain grown in the field, but the field itself!"
"As long as we have new farming tools and cultivate the land well, we can earn more even if we have a field endowment, on the contrary, if we are too attached to the land endowment that is not too much, and care too much about these things, it will be a small loss. β
"In fact, there are many nobles, and there are many fields that need to be paid by the direct family members, which is also where His Majesty's benevolence lies. β
"Two people have land of the same size, and when it comes to the harvest, one pays less and the other pays more, and at first glance, the person who pays more should be dissatisfied. β
"But what if the man is a nobleman? There are more resources at his disposal, and the tools of the ordinary peasant are wooden, and the tools of the nobles are homogeneous, even iron, and the nobles have better seeds, and the peasants are inferior, and the nobles have more manpower, ploughing oxen to take care of the fields, and the peasants have only one man, or even no oxen, so that even the same size of land must have more harvest. β
"At that time, the peasants' fields occupy three-four-tenths of the harvest, and the nobles' fields occupy only two-thirds of the harvest, although they have many fields, so is the so-called paying more fields or more fields?"
"I don't think a lot of people think about it in depth. β
"So, those people will secretly insult Your Majesty, but what I want to say is that the depth of Your Majesty's intentions is only my speculation, and it is a small point in Your Majesty's benevolence. β
"All in all, Your Majesty has given a method of paying the land tax, and the harvest is still better than before, just like when he created the business before, but some people don't realize it. β
Seeing this, Ji Chang was already stunned.
He didn't expect that Fu Yu really thought that King Su was the king of benevolence and righteousness.
No...
Ji Chang frowned, he knew the aristocratic temperament, and what Fu Yu said was a forcible reasoning.
If the grain production of the fields increases, the land endowment is indeed nothing, but the nobles are not the ones who will be satisfied with the more they reap.
The ambitions of the aristocracy will not stop, there is ten percent of the income, and they even think about taking eleven percent, even if the field production increases, if the field is not paid, isn't the harvest a little more?
Just like himself, he Ji Chang was the Marquis of Xibo before, one of the four princes of the Great Shang, and was named King Wen of Zhou, and he has done it to the extreme, but has he stopped the strategy of the Shang?
No, even if he is locked up in a prison and is seventy years old, he is still dormant waiting for an opportunity.
But why would Fu Yu say such a thing?
Apparently there is something wrong.
Looking at the newspaper in his hand, Ji Chang understood.
This is the nobleman showing his attitude and courting the king.
He remembered that Fu Yu was the person in charge of the woolen clothing workshop of the Fu family, and now the nobles had the interests of business, the interests of woolen clothes, and the interests of producing new agricultural tools and increasing grain production, which was enough.
The first thing the nobles should do was not to be an enemy of the king to slander the king, but to digest the benefits brought by these new things, so that they naturally had to appease the king and ease the relationship between the two sides.
After the things at hand have been dealt with, and the time and resources have been freed up, it is the opportunity for these nobles to attack the king again, anyway, it will be a long time, and when the king of the king completely starts a war with the princes and sends troops to conscript, it is the opportunity for these nobles.
The newspaper printed by Fu Yu was the best way to ease relations, to praise and praise the king, to express the position of the nobles.
Yang Mou!
Ji Chang couldn't help but look at King Su a few points again.
The king saw the appeal of the nobles, and the nobles wanted to appease the king and ease the relationship between the two sides, so why didn't the king do the same?
Chaoge has already experienced two rebellions, and if there is a third time, it will really be panicked.
Now it is stuck in the stage of laying off veterans and recruiting and training new slaves, so it cannot easily target the nobles and oppress the nobles too hard.
But the treasury is short of money, and it is an indisputable fact that it needs money and grain to expand the dynasty and expand the armament, so the king has to persecute the nobles again and again and squeeze what they want from the nobles.
At that time, the king began to plan and arrange measures to prevent the rebellion of the nobles, until now, the measures have come into effect, and the nobles and the king have reached an agreement, and there is a temporary harmonious situation.
Ji Chang suddenly found that he was slightly inferior.
The invention of the keel waterwheel and the curved plough did create a lot of fame for him, and also ensured that the king would not easily attack him, and even bought a newspaper just now to pay less than two pennies, but it also helped the king stabilize the song.
The temporarily stable aristocracy, coupled with the people's hearts that gradually became available after the Qishui punishment and the petitions of the people, the song of the dynasty has been condensed into an iron plate.
Maybe, it can really make Li Jing's change successful!
Ji Chang shook his head again and again, and now he realized that these were useless at all, even if he saw it before the secretary went to the countryside, it was useless.
Because this is also the conspiracy of the king.
Could it be that he, Ji Chang, would waste the opportunity to take advantage of the minister's trip to the countryside to build his reputation because of this?
There is no way, if you are trapped in the court, the initiative is not in your own hands, and you can only use it for the king to use.
Ji Chang sighed, the city of the king was deep, he thought that the nobles were on the first floor, the king was on the second floor, and he was on the third floor.
But now it seems that the nobles know better than themselves, they are still in the third layer, and the nobles have climbed to the fourth level and are shaking hands with the fifth layer of the Emperor.
Ji Chang silently took the newspaper into his arms, and he will never forget this experience.
The king of the Emperor took Yang Mou to the extreme, and every policy not only led the nobles by the nose, but also made them willingly led away.
This method completely exceeded his expectations.
Ji Chang admired it in his heart, and he was worthy of being a king who could force the gods and not give face to the immortals in this situation.
can be admired and admired, and the rebellion still has to be made.
After all, the grandfather of the king of Xuan killed his father, and the strategy of the merchants has been implemented for several generations, and it is impossible to stop it in his hands.
Let alone... Can manpower fight the gods?
Half a year ago, he had already learned about the fact that the immortals rushed into the palace on the pretext of exterminating demons.
What did the King do?
It's just that one immortal was killed, and there are still four immortals showing off their might, just like the king persecuted the nobles, persecuting the king of the emperor, in the forbidden land of the palace, without giving the "first emperor" face at all.
Even if King Yu was born, the dragon vein of the shaping human race in Dingding Kyushu was only suppressed by luck, and one of them ran away.
Ji Chang slowly closed his eyes, his divination skills are the same as farming, among the best among human beings, but the more divination, the more he knows the weakness of manpower.
The lifespan of people is limited, even a holy king like King Yu has turned into dust, no matter how hard he tries to be a saint, he can't escape the mandate of heaven, even if King Xuan calls himself the first emperor, everything has done well so far, but what about after his death?
Calling the Son of Heaven and bowing down to fate is a safer choice, and joining if you can't beat it is the way to survive.
The car stopped, interrupting Ji Chang's thoughts.
It should be in the field, Ji Chang thought, opened the curtain, but at this time he heard a tiger roar: "Your Majesty is here, let go and move your position!"
Ji Chang leaned over, and sure enough, he saw the royal driver.
He felt that the king of Xuan came here on purpose, because he heard that the plan was successful, and he came to inspect it on purpose, and knocked on himself by the way.
But what's the use of this? Ji Chang shook his head, no matter how hard King Su tried, he couldn't change what was set by heaven.