When it comes to Ethereal City, the first impression is always the same

Ethereal City is a hegemon in the Western Regions, the strength of the city lord is very amazing, and there are four protectors under him, Canglong, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird and Xuanwu, all of them are first-class or even top masters, and there are countless minions. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Ethereal City acted domineering and unscrupulous, almost cutting off the trade routes between the Central Plains and the Western Regions, so arrogant naturally caused dissatisfaction with the Western Qi and the imperial court, and sent troops to clean up many times, but the result was a heavy loss every time, but it also made Ethereal City more arrogant and wanton.

It is rumored that the strength of the ethereal city lord is even higher than that of Xibohou Jichang, and Gu Fan has the intention to send troops to the Western Regions and develop a Silk Road for the merchants of the Great Commerce.

Theoretically, it is correct for the national army to march outward for the benefit of the people, and even if we are lucky, the commodity economy will develop in this way.

It's a pity that I'm afraid of a theory about everything. Who made the Shang Dynasty a slavery? Now, Gu Fan can still barely suppress it. But once the commodity economy really developed, the 800 princes of the Shang Dynasty had to rebel.

Because it's definitely about their basic interest – the population.

If that's all there is to it, the problem is that the king doesn't support the merchants, he always thinks he is the king of the princes.

And the most pitiful are the businessmen themselves. The weakness of the merchant class.

Gu Fan more than once, he directly started to catch all kinds of big nobles, powerful nobles, big businessmen, small and medium-sized businessmen, and so on, and then threw down a sentence coldly: "I'll help you gather together and talk slowly." ”

A slightly bolder merchant asked, "When is it going to be talked about?"

"When it's negotiated, when it's over. Sui Xiong said, "It's not appropriate to talk about it, you can live here for the rest of your life." ”

The first sentence is very common, but the latter sentence is really murderous, and those big people are so scared that some of them even pee out.

Reality is not a story, and there are few people in the world who dare to compete with Gu Fan, the marshal of the great merchants, especially Gu Fan's strength is still top, and none of those slave owners dare to disobey Gu Fan's will, so even if they are unwilling in their hearts, the leaders of the merchant faction and the aristocratic faction can only honestly stay in the big house arranged by Gu Fan and negotiate slowly.

In order to advance the commodity economy, Gu Fan even planned to ignore the slave owners and merchants who united and bullied the workers together.

Historically, isn't this how the Omi ghost animals developed?

They were lucky to have the Black Uncles, and later the whole world. In history, this should be called the general trend of history! The advanced replace the backward. And Gu Fan also had captives in his hands. If they join forces, in order to take care of the growth of seedlings, Gu Fan will not mind backing down.

For the progress of the Shang Dynasty, Gu Fan did what he said, and locked them up in a military fortress of a big Shang. Not to mention going home to sleep, even eating, drinking, and Lazar must be done in the fortress, and you can't go out for a single step.

At that time, winter had passed, and the weather was getting warmer day by day. A large crowd of people gathered inside a military fortress, even if they could be brought in from the outside, and Lasa could be carried out in a commode bucket, but bathing was unthinkable - when the military fortress was built, no one thought that there would be a day when they would need to bathe inside.

Soldiers? Just bear with it.

The dirtiness of clothes can be solved by changing clothes, but the stains on the body are unthinkable. As the days passed, the big names in the Great Council hall were dirty day by day. Gradually, everyone smelled bad, and they themselves got used to the smell and didn't notice it, but everyone who entered from the outside would be dizzy from the stench of these hundreds of people, and then some people even vomited as soon as they entered the door, and vomited until even the bile came out.

When things have come to this point, many people are also a little uneasy. Even Gu Fan's subordinates persuaded these people to take a few days off, so that they could tidy up and tidy up, at least wash off the smell on their bodies. Gu Fan was unmoved at all and directly rejected this matter.

"I'm a man who wants to talk. He said, "Since I have taken care of this matter, I will have to deal with the result." If they can't talk about the result, then they will all stink and die inside!"

When he talked about this, no one could persuade him anymore. The leaders of the merchant faction and the aristocratic faction also died. But where can the negotiations be so quick to produce results? The two sides have long reached the point where they are almost desperate to load their bayonets, and there is really no room for relaxation and accommodation on many issues, and no matter how anxious and worried they are, no matter how much they want to get out, they will not give in.

The slave owners, one of the two marquis that Gu Fan got at that time, once said: "Even if I die in this fortress, don't want me to back down half a step!

In contrast, the attitude of the merchant faction was somewhat more softened. After all, merchants are not as stubborn as the nobles, or rather, their temperament is softer, and they can't follow the example of the nobles to the end. Over time, they began to give in.

Once you get started, things are easy to do. The aristocracy had the upper hand in the general situation, and did not mind making a slight concession in other areas, and the negotiations gradually came into formality.

What happened inside the fortress naturally couldn't be hidden from Gu Fan. Seeing the businessmen back down again, he sneered in his heart, and couldn't help but think of the comments he made when he was in business class.

The group of businessmen is actually very weak. Although they are crazy enough in the face of profit, they often retreat when it comes to long-term and hard work. Therefore, none of the countries in the world that can complete the infrastructure and lay the foundation for future prosperity are completely controlled by pure businessmen.

At that time, some classmates were not convinced and asked: "Since the merchants are weak, why is it that the world situation has developed to the present, but the merchants have eliminated the nobles?"

The old professor laughed and said, "It is not the merchants who will eliminate the feudal system, but the people! The weakness of the merchants makes it easy for them to submit to the nobility as well as to the people." So they naturally had more support from the people than the nobility, and finally eliminated the feudal system, what is it strange?"

"If the power of the people is so strong, why do we still have all kinds of problems in our lives?" someone else asked.

"Bastard, do you think progress fell from the sky?" the old professor scolded with a smile, "I don't know how many people's efforts and how many twists and turns are needed to promote a little progress." It took hundreds of thousands of years for Australopithecus to evolve into humans, and the feudal system was phased out, and it is only a hundred years now - and in many places it has not even been eliminated. Are you so anxious to realize a Datong society? Reality is not storytelling, and there is no black technology such as infinite energy, and we will never see Datong society in our lives...... Maybe it will be a few thousand years before it becomes possible. (To be continued.) )