Chapter 178: Thrifty and Simple, Meritocracy

For a long time in ancient China, the economic center of gravity has been in the Yellow River Valley, and the north is much better politically, economically, populationally, and resourcefully than in the south.

Since the founding of the Great Jin Dynasty, this situation has become more and more obvious. First, the economy of the south of the Yangtze River is naturally not comparable with the Central Plains, although the disaster in the Yellow River basin is much bigger than that in the south of the Yangtze River, but after all, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse. The most important thing is that the south is the place where Sun Wu descended to the country, and the people of the Central Plains (formerly the Wei State) are naturally high, with the attitude of a victor, and they look down on the people in Jiangnan very much, and the talents of Jiangnan are not reused in the imperial court, even if the famous Lu Yun, Lu Ji brothers, Zhou Chu, etc., are not reused in the imperial court.

But Lin Yizhi said that the current focus is only afraid that it is shifting more and more to the south. By the time of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, society had undergone profound changes. Compared with the chaos of more than 400 years, which has severely affected the economy of the North, the economy of the South has developed rapidly and has become the center of gravity of the national economy. Especially after the Sui and Tang dynasties unified the country, they paid special attention to this region, although the national capital was still settled in the north, but its economic center of gravity has shifted to the north.

It is the so-called 30 years in the east of the river, 30 years in the west of the river. Of course, this is the trajectory of another parallel space. Now it is because of Lin Yi's crossing that this history has changed. However, the southward shift of the economic center is also the trend of the times.

Lin Yi thought that he could change the status quo, or suspend this status quo, but he was afraid that God would not fulfill people's wishes. Although in recent years, the winter in the Central Plains has become colder and colder, and the snow has covered thousands of miles. In summer, droughts and plagues occur frequently, and the red fields are thousands of miles. But at least not to the limit of human existence. However, due to the serious damage to the dragon vein qi of Luoyang City, the royal qi of the Central Plains declined. The fortunes of the Great Jin Dynasty have moved south. This is the current situation he has to face now!

Lin Yizhi said that in the parallel universe before him, the southward shift of the center of gravity of the entire China was after more than 400 years of ethnic integration and hatred, and it was promoted by countless blood and lives!

In his position, he seeks his own government, as a human king, and the co-lord of the world. Lin Yi will never allow the tragedy of such a tragedy to be repeated, and he wants to use the power in his hands to slowly promote the development of the entire political economy to the south!

Of course, the matter of moving the capital is to affect the whole body. We must not be so hasty, but at present, if we can find a legitimate reason to leave Luoyang City to inspect the south, it is also a good way to promote the economic development of the south of the Yangtze River! Such a mysterious thing can only be held in the heart. I can't discuss with the minister, Lin Yi has been anxious about this matter for the past few days!

"Jiangnan development!" He already had a preliminary plan in his mind. Everything is ready, only the east wind is owed, just wait for the deeds to mature! Lin Yi thought about this matter in his mind, and unconsciously came to this Fengyi Palace.

Look up. There is a colorful auspicious cloud in the Fengyi Palace. It is opposite to the shadow of the Tianzi cloud in the Taiji Palace, echoing each other from afar. This is exactly the Fengyi Palace, which is the residence of the queen.

Lin Yi was the emperor, and naturally the crown princess Wang Huifeng was named the queen, and Jiang Jun was the concubine. Of course, Han Yufeng, the daughter of Jia Wu, is the so-called gentleman who is difficult to chase after a word, this belongs to the love debt owed by Sima Shu back then, and Lin Yi had to help him repay it. After Lin Yi ascended the throne as emperor, he naturally kept his promise. Recruit Han Yufeng into the palace.

Of course, this Han Yufeng naturally can't be compared to Jiang Jun, but he just gave the title of a beauty. Even so, this Han Yufeng is naturally grateful. Lin Yi not only spared the lives of hundreds of people up and down the Jia family, forgave his mother Jia Wu's great sins, but also asked him to serve the Son of Heaven as a sinful body. After experiencing this, this Han Yufeng is obviously a lot quieter, and the previous pungent and arrogant character is gone, not only because of the influence of the family's plummeting, but more importantly, after entering the palace, he was naturally taught many rules by Wang Bao and others, and he was naturally much more well-behaved after facing the saint, and he could no longer play as unscrupulously as he did when he was a child.

Except for this queen and these two concubines, Lin Yi has no one else. Not only that, in terms of food, clothing, and living, Lin Yi is even more set an example, except for those work clothes, that is, the dragon robe used in the last dynasty and the national ceremony, he wears coarse cloth clothes, and eats coarse tea and light rice every day.

How well-read, intelligent, kind, and virtuous this Wang Huifeng was! Although Lin Yi did not make any requests to the concubines of the palace, she naturally understood the emperor's profound meaning. She took the lead in replacing the silk and satin worn by herself and her family in the palace with ordinary cloth, and ate home-cooked food instead of delicacies from the mountains and seas.

The power of example is endless, and the role of this lead is unimaginable. If there was no martial emperor Sima Yan to travel in a sheep cart, there were more than 10,000 beauties like flowers and jade, and there were more than 10,000 beauties in the country.

And now the emperor and queen are like this, who else in this palace dares to be arrogant and wasteful. From inside the palace to outside the palace, it is natural for hundreds of officials to follow suit, up and down, and both the government and the opposition follow. The world is once prosperous in the style of simplicity and frugality.

Although Lin Yi was only helpless to find this Wang Huifeng as the crown princess back then, now it seems that he has really found the right person, although this Wang Huifeng cannot be crowned in the world in appearance, but his conduct and morality are first-class standards, he is really a mother in the world, chaste and virtuous, and a great country.

According to the practice of the two Han dynasties, after the new emperor ascended the throne, this foreign relative naturally wanted to be greatly rewarded to show his holy grace. The marquis worships the prime minister, a family of marquis, and the family of relatives is ascending, even if the wise and martial emperor is like Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, this unspoken rule is inevitable. The Empress Dowager Xie Jiu is the only daughter of the butcher, her mother died early, and her father was also murdered by the master of the Jiafu family, so there is no clan at all, but this queen Wang Huifeng is different, born in the Langya Wang family, and has great power. After Lin Yi ascended the throne, not only did he not greatly reward the children of the queen's family, but on the contrary, he removed Wang Yan's position as the prime minister, and even Wang Yan's cousin, the founding father, and Wang Rong, who was already the third prince, completely returned to his hometown.

Lin Yi only did not reward the queen's family wantonly, just to set a benchmark for new style. After Sima Zhen succeeded to the throne, he didn't know anything about the government, so the government fell into the hands of Yang Jun, Sima Liang, Jia Nanfeng and others. Because they all came to power by improper means, they were afraid that everyone would not accept them, so in order to encircle the courtiers and expand the scope of their power, they gave a large number of civil and military officials, especially to their cronies, and even the slaves who listened to the errands.

First-class executives such as the emperor's attendants, loose cavalry, and permanent attendants generally only had 4 people in the palace personnel establishment at that time, but at the most it reached nearly 100 people. It is really a flood of official positions! Due to the wanton promotion of officials to knighthood, the mink tail was not enough for a while, so I had to use the dog tail instead, making a joke about the dog's tail continuing the mink. This situation is getting worse and worse, and Lin Yi must stop it!

As for Wang Yan, Lin Yi has long been unaccustomed to this person's style of talking, empty talk and misleading the country refers to this guy, he does not seek his own politics in his position, and bragged in class every day and waits for work, since he likes Qing Tan so much, go home and talk about it, and leave the official position to the person who really wants to do it! Of course, this Wang Yan is not useless, but he is also a first-class talent today. Lin Yi just asked him to go home for a while to reflect, such a talent will eventually be used!

Guozhang let Lin Yi be treated like this, and Lin Yi did this, which can be said to be an example of killing chickens and monkeys. The queen's relatives are treated like this, and a few months ago, those speculators who saw that Jia Hou's party was declining and took the opportunity to get closer to the East Palace, delusionally thought that the high-ranking officials were also dead!

Of course, those who have been following the East Palace with all their hearts, Lin Yi will naturally not treat them badly, and he will naturally be promoted to the rank of knight and greatly rewarded. Among the twenty-four friends who originally took refuge in Jia Mi, those who were really talented and learned such as Liu Kun, Lu Ji, Lu Yun and others, Lin Yi not only did not punish them, but also reused them very much, so Lin Yi is now not only reusing Jiang Tong, Du Xi and other former East Palace main advisers, but also reusing Wang Dao, Wang Cheng, Wang Dun and other relatives, and even old ministers like Zhang Hua, Lin Yi is now going to release such a signal to the world - appoint people on the basis of merit, meritocracy, regardless of background.

Some people are happy and some are worried, of course, there are many people who are unhappy! Among them, the queen Wang Huifeng's mother Guo Shi is the most obvious one! (To be continued......