At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Many people went bankrupt and had nothing, so they had to go home and continue to cultivate the land, and they had to pay back the money owed to the court.

There are also problems in the handicraft industry. Without Anxi, a big customer, many handicraft workshops in Liangzhou and Yongzhou, some porcelain and lacquerware workshops, and some government-run enterprises affiliated to the inner court will all be affected, and the products will accumulate and cannot be sold. .

The inner court has the emperor's internal treasury, and it can maintain a certain cash flow even if the products are piled up and cannot be sold, and it will not go bankrupt.

The handicraft workshops set up by private individuals will be impacted, the products will be piled up and cannot be sold, the workshops will close down, and the workers will lose their jobs.

If this is an industrial society, it is a big problem.

In industrial society, agricultural productivity has been greatly improved, so much labor is not needed, and surplus labor has no place on the land, and must go to urban factories to survive and become urban residents.

Once the economic crisis occurs and the factories close down, the workers will have nowhere to live, and they will not be able to find a place to stand when they return home, not to mention that many people have no land as a way out.

Therefore, the productivity of industrial society is high, and once a crisis occurs, it will be extremely destructive.

But the agricultural society, or the current Wei Empire is still the same sentence.

There are fields at home, and the labor force is not too much. If you can go home and farm, you will not starve to death.

In addition, the biggest impact on the society of Wei State is panic. The psychological panic caused by the economic crisis will destroy the safety valve of many people, making them think that developing business is a very dangerous behavior in their hearts.

So the biggest trouble is not Lu Qian, but Guo Jin who is in Luoyang, Guo himself, and the political forces in the DPRK and China that support the development of commerce and advocate a certain degree of loosening of commerce.

The crisis is not just about business, but more about politics.

Even during Guo Peng's reign, conservative forces continued to attack these business innovators, saying that the experiments they conducted in the three prefectures of the Western Regions and the two prefectures of Yongliang and Liangzhou were messing up people's hearts and killing themselves.

However, due to the good economic environment at that time and the increasing commercial tax revenue, Wang Can, Minister of Finance, under the instruction of Guo Peng, gave this political force a platform and withstood the impact of conservatives.

The conservatives were intimidated by Guo Peng, who did not publicly express their stance behind Wang Can, so they did not dare to further attack the reformers.

In a certain sense, the brand-new production model brought by the reformers brought more people engaged in commerce and handicrafts among the people, and the emergence of these people increased the competition intensity of private commerce.

Most of the conservatives are officials themselves, and there are other members of the family who run business, and even friends and slaves do business, relying on their power to obtain commercial benefits, and then feed them back economic benefits.

Relying on such a traditional model to realize the combination of government and business within a family has nothing to do with his own family.

The rise of private business forces, and the government's encouragement of private business, will naturally have an impact on the commercial forces that rely on political power to protect these traditional wealthy families, thereby affecting their interests.

They naturally don't want this situation to continue to spread in the country, further increasing the difficulty for them to gain benefits in business and gain political advantages.

But Wang Can is the emperor's favorite minister, and when Wang Can speaks out, it must be the emperor's instigation behind him.

They didn't dare to go any further against the emperor, so they could only endure it.

As a result, the business model of the three prefectures of the Western Regions and the two prefectures of Yongliang and Liangzhou was preserved and greatly developed. After the fiscal revenue of the imperial court increased, this model was also partially imitated in other regions.

For example, Qingzhou and Yangzhou, where maritime trade was very developed, Qingzhou governor Xin Ping and Yangzhou governor Gu Yong also relaxed the restrictions on squares and cities to a certain extent, allowing commercial development, encouraging commercial development, and driving local economic development.

After the situation in Jiaozhou was gradually pacified by Manchong, Manchong also planned to use the huge advantage of Jiaozhou's seaside to develop commerce, allowing to break the boundaries of squares and cities, loosening restrictions on private commerce, vigorously developing maritime trade, and accumulating wealth for the development of Jiaozhou.

The rest of the inland states have also followed the Yongliang model in the central cities where commercial transactions are very developed.

Like Runan, like Xiangyang, like Jiangling, like Chengdu, like Yecheng, like Jixian, all of these cities have a relatively large amount of commercial trade, which is suitable for the development of commerce, and is sufficient to do so.

In this way, business taxes will continue to increase.

Moreover, this ratio of commercial taxation is mainly a domestic circulation, and has nothing to do with Rome, Anxi, or Guishuang abroad.

Until the emperor Guo Peng abdicated and became the Supreme Emperor, the power to suppress the conservatives suddenly disappeared. Although the power of the reformers has developed, they are not strong.

Under such a situation, once an economic crisis occurs in the Northwest and affects the government's fiscal revenue, those conservative forces that have been suppressed for a long time will inevitably climax collectively, and will inevitably launch a vigorous attack on the reformers immediately.

The impact on the external economic model will definitely also impact this relatively stable domestic circulation of commercial taxation.

At that time, conservatives will exert unprecedented political pressure on the emperor, and it is still a question of whether bureaucrats at all levels who support innovation can resist the pressure.

Of course, the most important thing is the emperor's attitude.

Chapter 1546 One thousand four hundred and sixty-six Sima Yi is worried

As a centralized emperor, Guo Jin's attitude is crucial.

If he withstands the impact of the conservatives, he will be able to stabilize the established situation in the country, will not let the achievements of innovation over the years go to waste, and can further improve the country's financial strength.

If he can't hold on, if he falters, it's a big problem.

If the emperor wavers, the courtiers must waver one after another. This is a disaster for the relatively weak reformers.

This is a great test of Guo Jin's political determination and vision as an emperor.

It all depends on Guo Jin's courage whether he can firmly support the development of some businesses, insist on not changing the current model, not suppressing the reformers, and not complying with the demands of the conservatives to change the situation of the Wei Empire.

Therefore, the biggest impact of this wave of economic crisis is not economic impact, but political impact.

A huge blow to the reformers will severely impact the fragile business model that the Wei Empire has just developed.

It will also have an impact on Guo Peng's "going out" strategy, which Guo Peng cannot accept anyway.

This is Guo Peng's reverse scale.

It is a place where he cannot be offended.

Anyone who dares to take action against this achievement is courting death.

After so many years of hard work, it is to let the people of the Wei Empire break the shackles of existing concepts, work hard to attack outside, and find a way out. Now, the conservatives are very likely to expand the contradiction along the economic crisis, pointing at Guo Peng's formula Strategy.

That's something Guo Peng can't stand.

He felt that Guo Jin would not accept such a thing—his younger brothers were still sending them out.

Now, it remains to see how the situation will develop.

In addition, he will continue to introduce outstanding officials with innovative tendencies into the central government to expand the political power of the reformers so that they can continue to maintain the achievements of Guo Peng's reforms after his death in the future.

Cao Ang couldn't understand Guo Peng's worries.

Similarly, Guo Chengzhi, who was listening on the sidelines, couldn't understand it either.

However, things did develop as Guo Peng expected.

The economic crisis spread along with the trade routes. After the crisis of the Zhenxi Protectorate's Mansion, the crisis of the Beiting Governor's Mansion and the Annan Protectorate's Mansion followed.

From the first restaurant or hotel in the westernmost city of the two prefectures that could not persist and chose to go bankrupt, this bankruptcy seemed to form a wave, and it began to spread in the city and spread to other cities.

Those with small scale, weak capital, and unable to attract many customers, had no customers for more than ten days in a row.

Then I went to the government to ask my grandpa to sue my grandma, and told the government not to arrest them or embarrass them. They will try their best to repay the loan, and just ask the officials to give them some time.

The officials were unprepared at the beginning. They just thought it was a normal situation and there was no need to embarrass these people.

So set a time with them, agree on a deadline, and repay the loan before the deadline.

But as more and more people came to ask questions like this, the officials felt that the question was not right, and began to report it to let the county magistrates and county heads know about it.

After the magistrates and magistrates knew about this, it was Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi's turn to know about it.

But at this moment, they were already prepared for such a thing.

Before such a thing happened, they had completed the tasks assigned by the court ahead of time and were ready to deal with the shock.

Needless to say, if the imperial court hadn't informed them in advance to make preparations, if the preparations had only started now, the situation in Beiting Dufu Mansion and Annan Duhu Mansion would be much worse than it is now.

Despite the preparations, there are still many shops that cannot continue to operate and close down.

It is conceivable that if there is no previous preparation, there will be many more closed stores now.

Zhuge Liang's side was told by Guo Peng after he arrived, and Zhuge Liang himself had expected a little bit of the situation.

Sima Yi was just as smart. He deduced from the clues that the crisis was coming, and after receiving a warning from the court, he began to prepare to restrict business.

The means of the two are not the same.

It is very difficult to develop a business. You have to start from scratch. Once you get it on track, it will be easier. The same is true for restricting business. It is also very difficult to order all localities to reject applications for opening stores and close some stores.

Compared with Beiting Duhufu in Shanbei Road, there are more oases in Shannan Road, but they are also more fragmented. It is more difficult to develop agriculture, and it is more necessary to rely on commerce to develop the economy.

Coupled with Sima Yi's sense of urgency and anxiety, he developed even harder and more aggressively than Zhuge Liang.

When Sima Yi learned that Zhuge Liang's tax income was higher than his, he decided to adopt Zhuge Liang's development model, and also vigorously developed service-oriented cities to attract more caravans to take the Shannan Road instead of the Shanbei Road.

He anxiously followed Zhuge Liang's pace, fearing that he would leave him too far behind.

As a result, before the crisis came, the situation he faced was more dangerous than that faced by Zhuge Liang.

It's not difficult to reject the application. If you don't approve it, you can block those people.

No matter how they make trouble, they can't set up shops without the permission of the government, and the loan has not been processed, and there is no interest relationship.

But it is not easy to close the shops that have been allowed to open.

Especially for those small shops that have just successfully applied, received loans and invested their own savings, opened the shop for business or just opened, you now say that it does not meet the standards, and if you want to close it, it is simply killing them.

I just opened the store, I have invested everything that should be invested, and I haven't made any money yet, so why don't you open it?

Aren't you disregarding human life?

One family or two, these people have little power, and they dare not confront the government. Now that the number has increased, dozens of small businesses have been threatened together, so what's the matter?

Close it if you say it?

Have you done this?

don't close!Just leave it off!

This group of people also has a stubborn temper, and when there are many people, they are not afraid of the government. When the relevant officials were sent to perform tasks, the other party called seven aunts, eight aunts, neighbors, and dozens of people to block them there. , I didn't let those officials and officials take a step forward.

It's useless to say it anyway, Wen's idea is not going to work, and the officials from all over the country are so big that they don't know what to do, so they report the news to Sima Yi one after another.

Sima Yi also has a head as big as a bucket.

He is very aware of the urgency of this matter. If it is not closed now, and the loss cannot be stopped in time now, it will be a big financial black hole when the funds are exhausted before closing down.

Most of these people who set up small shops borrowed loans, and when the loans were lost, the Ministry of Finance also wanted to trouble Sima Yi.

You Sima Yi did not follow the central government's order to close the store and caused the loss to the Ministry of Finance. If you are not responsible for this part of the loss, who is responsible?

And now those who are unwilling to close the store may not thank him, but instead blame him-why didn't we force us to close it at that time?

If you are tougher, won't we follow?

At that time, Ta Sima Yi is not a human being inside and outside, and he will be offended everywhere, so what kind of central government will he serve as a high-ranking official?

When the economic crisis hits, big-ticket shops must go bankrupt, and there may be some troubles. Now I can't think of a way to reduce the scale, when will it be?

close!It must be closed!Shut it down even if you use coercive means!

Sima Yi felt that this must be done.

But if you do this, the text will not work, and you will obviously have to resort to force.

But if you resort to force...

Can the policemen in his hands alone work?

And what if something happened, and the criminal department came to invite you to drink tea, what should I do?

Sima Yi was worried.

The local armed forces of the Wei Empire were fully rectified by Guo Peng after the ten-year rebellion in Yande.

Ten years after Yande, the local armed forces are not part of the army, but called the police, which belong to the level of officials. In layman's terms, they belong to the administrative establishment, not the army establishment, and have nothing to do with the army.

If you want to say anything about it, there is.

For the time being, the Wei Empire has no financial allocation to build a school for police training. Generally, those retired soldiers who are not interested in village chiefs or military instructors can be transferred to serve as police officers.

This is a transitional policy. In the future, Guo Peng has plans to let Guo Jin set up a martial arts school for police training. However, the transitional policy is quite good for now, and the local police also have good force.

They are mainly responsible for the daily security management of the place.

Moreover, the reason why the county magistrate and the county magistrate can fight each other with the state governor and violate the state governor, in addition to the central check and balance, is mainly because the county magistrate can mobilize the county police, and the county magistrate can mobilize the county police, but the state governor has no state police to mobilize .

The state governor does not have the power to mobilize the state's police, whether in name or in reality, and there is no state-level police organization at all. There is no armed force to mobilize the state governor.

This power belongs only to the chief administrators at the two levels of county guards and county magistrates.

In the past, township and village chiefs worked with military instructors to lead the people's self-defense forces to maintain law and order and enforce the law.

With the police, the power of law enforcement is transferred to the police, and the villagers and self-defense forces of the villagers are only qualified to assist in management and have the function of sweeping up the mountains to sweep up bandits and beasts.

This is the power to overturn the table reserved by the county guards and county magistrates in order to do business, which is the reliance of the ultimate violent means. Without this reliance, many people would not take the local chief executive seriously.