sweeping the world

Chapter 720 What is the reason for the surprise of the Allies?

Naturally, the "Lishan Talks" did not produce any practical results, and they ended up breaking up on bad terms.

Knowing the records and general situation of the ministers' conversations in Lishan, Liu Yan had already guessed about Ji Chang's sitting on the mountain and watching the tigers fight, but it was unexpected that Yu Sangyu and Lu Yi had torn their faces, and what was even more surprising was that Xu Zheng was too slow Ran Min jumped out to disrupt the situation on behalf of the warrior.

"Who is advising Yong Zeng?"

"Back to the king, it is Miao Song, the retainer of the Marquis of Meiyang."

"Miao Song?"

Miao Song is one of Ran Min's retainers, one of Ran Min's important members of the begging army, and Ran Min's trustworthy think tank.

If history had not been changed by Liu Yan, Miao Song would have been appointed by Ran Min as his attendant after Ran Min's uprising and the establishment of the Ran Wei Dynasty.

It doesn't matter how the official position of servant was originally. After the Western Han Dynasty, he became a close minister of the emperor.What is "near"?That is, he can freely enter and leave the palace city by virtue of his status as a servant, and if the emperor trusts him enough, he can also freely enter and exit the harem.

In the Western Han Dynasty, there were usually three servants, and they would often do something to "vegetate" the emperor, but they raised a large piece of green grassland, but they generally didn't dare to do anything to the titled harem beauties. Palace ladies and female officials do some things they love to do.

The most courageous waiter was Han Yan. He and Liu Che often "played games" with the court ladies. It was probably because there were too many such things, and later they played with titled beauties.According to historical records, Liu Che was not angry with Han Yan's behavior. It was the Queen Mother Dou who was furious when she knew about it and wanted to kill Han Yan. .

Then again, the old Liu's family didn't think it was a thing at all when they loved ministers sleeping with female officials and court ladies.This habit started with Liu Bang, but it wasn't Liu Bang alone who seemed very open. It was because the atmosphere at that time was very, very open.For example, Chudi has a long-term habit of having sex on the spot when they are emotional, and things like wild sex are really so common that they are not decent.

When Lu Pheasant's sister Lu Yu was in love with Zhou Bo, she and Fan Kuai performed a love story in the thatched house. When Zhou Bo met her personally, Lu Yu didn't feel any embarrassment. She felt that the relationship was In Zhou Bo's case, he would play erotic movies with Fan Kuai out of temporary physical needs. The problem was that Zhou Bo seriously couldn't accept the breakup, and as a result, Lu Yu married Fan Kuai.

Before an unmarried man and a woman are married, a love that can be said and done when they are in love is not only taken for granted by the man, but also the woman does not feel any moral burden.This kind of ethos was very normal in the pre-Qin period in ancient times, and it didn't feel anything wrong in the pre-Han period.I really felt that something was wrong only after the Song Dynasty, and it was only after Zhu Cheng's Confucianism rose in an all-round way.

"The question is...has Miao Song already guessed the content of the Xiaochaohui?"

"I'm going to investigate immediately."

Having retainers is a habit that existed in the pre-Qin period, not only in the Central Plains, but also in the whole world.This habit was maintained in the Central Plains until the end of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, that is, Xia, Shang, Zhou, Spring and Autumn, Warring States, Qin, Han, Three Kingdoms, Western Jin, Eastern Jin, Wuhu Huanhua (Southern and Northern Dynasties), Sui, and Tang were still established rules.

Of course, not everyone can have retainers, they must be qualified to establish a shogunate.People who are not qualified to establish a shogunate use the title of retainer. However, retainers and retainers are two different things. Retainers and family heads are the real ones who have both prosperity and loss. The retainers and the family master are more of a relationship of interest.

Liu Yan will not underestimate anyone who can leave a name in the history books, even if history has proved that Miao Song's wisdom is not enough to allow Ran Wei to survive, on the contrary, he was captured by Qianyan (Murong Yanguo) within a few years. off.

If one has wisdom and ability, it should of course be included in the national system, not for personal use... The above is a traditional statement, and to put it more clearly, the ruler does not allow any threatening person to be out of control.

"Jinglue." Liu Yan waited for Cui Zong to leave before looking at Wang Meng, who had been watching him all the time: "Can the supervisor Jiankang get anything?"

In eight years, Liu Yan had three personal secretaries. Wang Meng was the first, Xun Xian was the second, and Cui Zong was the third.

The so-called personal secretary Lang is actually the role of the servant in the Western Han Dynasty, but the title has changed.

Being able to become the king's personal secretary Lang itself means that he is trusted by the king to a certain extent.Although the position is small, but because of the trust of the king, no one dares to offend the king's personal secretary, Lang.

Wang Meng can definitely be regarded as one of the "Jane in the Emperor's Heart", no one can deny that he has a great future.After he was sent down by Liu Yan, he first went to Jizhou to serve as the head of a county, then he was transferred to Sizhou, and finally he became Jiankangling.

Jiankang is currently the main window of the Han Kingdom to the outside world, and it is also the city with the largest number of urban residents in the Han Kingdom (no one).Although the Jiankang Order is still at the county magistrate level, it belongs to the county magistrate directly under the central government, and its political status is not inferior to that of a county magistrate.

"Going back to the king, I dare not relax day and night, for fear of losing the love of the king." Wang Meng was flattering, but also expressing his determination, and said: "The minister who supervises Jiankang earns a lot."

Managing a city with a population of over one million is not an easy task, especially since that city was the former capital of the defeated party, and the personnel structure inside is extremely complicated, many of which belong to the remnants of the previous dynasty who may cause trouble at any time, and then the residents Naturally, they will not get close to the new dynasty.

Jiankang was only handed over to Wang Meng after nearly two years of military management. Jiankang in Wang Meng's hands has been reduced from more than 140 residents to more than [-] million. The administrative level has changed from an imperial capital to a central "municipality". It's no wonder that Kang residents are happy.

What is the most important thing in managing a place?Isn't it that first of all people have to be willing to obey the government!In the past, military control was a high-pressure supervision and management model. Those who showed hostility to Han were basically either killed or moved out of Jiankang City. Rabbit's city can be regarded as reducing the difficulty of his management of Jiankang.

After Wang Meng took office, the first thing he did was to find a group of people to kill chickens and scare monkeys. Those people must also have a way to die.He first dealt with people, and then used relatively mild policies, such as government funding to repair cities and build public facilities, to win over people.

What I have to say is that the strategy of pumping a meal before giving sweet dates is applicable to any enemy in any era. Kindness after high pressure is also easier to force people to submit. It is far more difficult than continuous cruelty or kindness without any reason. Suitable as a management tool.

The most successful thing for Wang Meng is to make the healthy residents realize the importance of being a Han again. That is the direct impression brought by tens of thousands of slaves as a typical example. With this deep comparison, who would think that being a Han is bad? ?

"The minister responds to the king's call, and Yu Jiankang strongly encourages handicraft workshops..." Wang Meng talked a lot, mainly introducing the scale of the workshop and what it produces. Later, he concluded: "People will feel at ease when they have income."

In a city with a population of more than one million, it is basically impossible for all of them to be farmers or businessmen.In fact, in any city with a population of more than one million, all its needs will be purchased from outside, whether it is agricultural products or industrial raw materials, then some workshops will be very important, which also means that the handicraft industry in the city will be the survival of residents. One of the dependencies.

Of course, Liu Yan would encourage people to open workshops, which was one of the inevitable reasons brought about by the land policy of the Han Dynasty.Furthermore, he is really not optimistic about the small-scale peasant economy, that is, a self-sufficient social system. He believes that it will only make the society rigid and will not make the nation have too much curiosity about the outside world.

"Small peasant economy" is not the same in both the literal and the ancient times. In ancient times, the "small peasant economy" was advocated to be self-sufficient in everything and not to obtain from "outsiders". As a result, capable groups especially like to build huge The manor, a small kingdom of his own just appeared.

Where does the room for progress come from in a society without communication?That is, without mutual exchange, the manor basically cannot generate more taxes for the country except for paying a fixed amount of taxes.The most harmful thing is that the fixation of group thinking usually produces countless careerists. When the country is peaceful and the people are safe, they do not contribute much to the country. Once they are caught, they will yell, "Princes and generals will live in harmony." "Pioneer for King".

The "small peasant economy" thinking of the Zhuxia civilization has always been the mainstream. The inconvenient transportation is one of the reasons. Furthermore, the authorities reject the flow of people. Just don't move.

Liu Yan needs people to move around, too many sparsely populated areas need to be filled by people, and the Han Dynasty, which has strict control over land, has no room for some groups to build private small kingdoms.

"Big Han communicates with foreign countries, and the first foreigner to arrive is Jiankang." Wang Meng said this with a kind of unconcealable excitement: "Last year there were not many foreigners, but this year they have increased greatly. The largest number of people."

Wang Meng's excitement was nothing other than the fact that Wai Guo Ren did nothing else after arriving in Jiankang. He just bought and bought for a while. It not only contributed a lot of tax revenue, but also stimulated more people to buy workshops and absorbed more people. People as workers.

The number of idlers in society has always been planned into the performance of an official. If there are more idlers, social security will be extremely poor. Many vicious cases are caused by those who have nothing to do.

Liu Yan has read the relevant official documents. It is true that many crooked nuts came to Han by sea. They paid tolls in Malacca and were restricted to activities in Jiankang when they arrived in Han. They were not allowed to move around without permission. hang out.

"I have records. Before I came to Chang'an, there were 410 foreigners stationed in Jiankang." Wang Meng said that when he was asked.He answered Liu Yan's last question: "Foreigners can't buy land, they rent houses and land from the government or private people. There are 170 shops in the public office and warehouses exceeding [-] mu."

Warehouses are of course calculated in acres. After all, each one is big or small, and there is no skyscraper at present.

Since the number of people coming from abroad has been increasing, Wang Meng plans to designate an area for Wai Guoren as a residential area.Considering that the number of foreign ships is also increasing, he plans to ask Liu Yan for permission this time to build a special port area for foreign ships to dock at Jingkou.

"My widow agrees." Liu Yan has no reason to object, it is indeed more conducive to management.He asked, "Is there any trouble from foreigners?"

What is more amazing is that Wang Meng's answer is not only that Wai Guoren dared to make trouble, but that Wai Guoren was very well-behaved. What happened was because Wai Guoren didn't understand some social customs of the Han Dynasty and had some disputes with the Han people.
Liu Yan thinks about it, it should be the same. It is not clear that the Han army killed the crooked nuts in the direction of the grassland, but the Han army went to the Indochina Peninsula, and even killed it in front of the Asan Gate, which has fully demonstrated the strength of the Han country. Of course, a strong country should make people think more when they want to do something. Only the rules of a small country are not the rules.

"The land is Han land, so the law of the Han Dynasty shall prevail." Wang Meng was talking about some judgments in case of disputes, and later he said with confidence: "The people of other countries are not the people of the Han Dynasty, and the Han people are protected by the Han law. People from other countries are not protected."

To put it simply, if there are no disputes, that’s all. Once a Han Chinese is involved in a dispute, the unlucky ones will definitely be crooked.

Liu Yan nodded and said, "It should be so."

As for the surprise of any friendly country, it is not only that Liu Yan doesn't care, he has fully realized what country he is in, and his country's army can teach any country how to respect the Han people at any time. When this side.Even if it's unreasonable, you should first ask if the army can move forward to fight?If you can, whether you have reason is not the key, the key is whether you can beat it.

This kind of "principle" and thinking did not first appear in the Han Dynasty founded by Liu Yan. It was the "principle" that Liu Che had after repeatedly defeating the Huns. In the world, there is only a distinction between those who can defeat the Han people and those who cannot defeat them.

Liu Yan asked: "Jing Lue already knows about Persia and Rome, are you interested in going there?"

Wang Meng said without hesitation: "Your Majesty has dispatched something, and I serve him wholeheartedly."

"I not only hope that Jinglue will be the Marquis of Bowang, but it is not harmful to go to foreign countries to broaden my horizons." Liu Yan said that the Marquis of Bowang is Zhang Qian, and his expectation for Wang Meng is that Wang Meng has proved himself "already" in history. Ability means that the stage given to Wang Meng by the Han Dynasty will be even bigger: "Jing Lue will still serve as Jiankang Order. The widow will appoint Jing Lue as Shaoqing."

The Han Dynasty inherited the Qin system, and Liu Yan established the Han Dynasty. Many systems have changed, but they continue to have quite a lot of official titles and responsibilities. The Shaoqing he mentioned is an official position of the Qin Empire, which originally belonged to the bureaucrat "Qing" As part of the system, responsibilities have been changed repeatedly.

Wang Meng's breathing involuntarily became a lot heavier. As a county magistrate with a population of one million, and concurrently serving as Shaoqing, he created the first special case in the Han Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)