At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Due to the objective difference in the number of officers and administrative officials, and the replacement is not so fast, the number of martial arts is not as much as that of literature.

Each county set up a martial arts school, focused on learning and selection, and regularly selected outstanding students to be sent to the Shouyang Mountain Lecture Hall for further study. Other martial arts students can also directly enter the army as grassroots officers after passing some selection examinations.

Because the number of people is relatively small, martial arts can carry out a step-by-step education model from the very beginning.

It is one thing to learn local martial arts, and another thing to learn central martial arts. After entering the army from different martial arts, the future prospects and promotion modes will also be different.

After all, the army is still a world where the strong are respected. The stronger the army, the higher the status.

As for the future road of strong military training, after the enemies around the Wei Empire were wiped out, Guo Peng felt that it was necessary to send these troops out to assist in the battle in the new territory opened up by his sons, and by the way accumulated Practical experience.

Round after round of replacement, round after round of dispatch, such a model may be feasible in the future.

This will be discussed with Guo Jin later. The army still needs actual combat experience. No matter how well-trained, no actual combat experience is enough.

After inspecting the ten model counties around Luoyang, Guo Peng is generally satisfied and can see the future in these ten counties.

So he left Luoyang with peace of mind, embarked on the journey west, crossed the abandoned Hangu Pass, passed through Tongguan, and entered the Guanzhong area.

The last time he came to the Guanzhong area was when he was attacking the Liangzhou warlord group, and it was also the penultimate battle fought by Guo Peng himself as a military commander.

Later came the Battle of Hanzhong, and then the Battle of Xianbei. Since then, Guo Peng has never fought on the battlefield again.

Guo Peng hasn't been to the Guanzhong area for a long time. A rough calculation shows that it must be more than ten years.

In order to "revenge" the tragic death of Liu Xie, Guo Peng led the army to push eight hundred miles to occupy Guanzhong, wipe out the third generation of Liangzhou central government, and destroy the Liangzhou warlord group.

He basically destroyed everything that could be destroyed within the Liangzhou military group, and saved the dilapidated Guanzhong from death.

Guanzhong at that time was really miserable.

Since Dong Zhuo moved westward to Chang'an, Guanzhong has not had a good time for several years.

He was devastated by Dong Zhuo, by Li Jue and Guo Si, by Zhang Ji and Duan Yan, and then he was ravaged by the war between Guo Peng and the Liangzhou Allied Army. In addition, Dong Zhuo randomly cast small money to disrupt the economic order, and the production and economy in Guanzhong collapsed completely. .

In the end, tens of millions of people in Guanzhong were wiped out. They either fled to Liangzhou, or fled to Hanzhong, Yizhou, or took refuge in Jingzhou, or were killed or starved to death.

When Guo Peng occupied Guanzhong, the total population was less than one million. In order to restore the production and economy of Guanzhong, Guo Peng abolished Dong Zhuo's small coins and recast them into standard five baht coins to stabilize the economy.

They also immigrated on a large scale from the Kanto area, transferred the population from the population-rich areas of the Kanto states to fill the vacancies in the Guanzhong population, and sent grassroots officials to Guanzhong to set up farms to resume production.

In this way, Guan Zhong was pulled back from the dying situation.

Without Guo Peng's blood transfusion policy, Guanzhong would become the second Liangzhou, dilapidated and withered.

Chapter 1511 One thousand four hundred and fifty one Mao Jie's commercial reform

Today, more than ten years have passed, and the production and economy in Guanzhong have already recovered.

Even better than before, far beyond the state before the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

Fertile fields, criss-crossing traffic, thousands of villages and farms are densely populated, filling up the land in Guanzhong, and traders from Wei State and foreign traders drive the prosperity of the cities, restaurants and hotels along the road.

The farms provided food, fruits and vegetables to the city, and the city fed back money and goods to the farms. The businessmen and merchants drove economic exchanges and development, revitalizing the economy of Guanzhong.

The people who migrated from the Kanto states also settled down on the land of Guanzhong, multiplied and became a new generation of Guanzhong people. They worked hard and lived hard on this land.

Due to climate change, the land in Guanzhong did not have the warmth of the Western Han Dynasty, and the hydrological conditions have also changed. It is impossible to reproduce the grand occasion of peach blossoms blooming around Chang'an in the eight rivers.

Under the invasion of the Little Ice River, the agricultural potential of the entire Guanzhong Plain has been greatly reduced, and it is impossible to restore it to the level of the Land of Abundance back then.

The agricultural output value of Yongzhou was also surpassed by Yizhou, Xuzhou, Yangzhou, Jizhou, Yuzhou and Jingzhou and other eastern and southern states in one fell swoop, losing the possibility of becoming a political, military and economic center again.

The gradual eastward relocation of China's political center since the Eastern Han Dynasty was actually inevitable.

Of course, Chang'an is not without opportunities. If Chang'an wants to return to the grand occasion of the year, it has to wait for the next warm period of the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

It's just that the warm period of the Sui and Tang Dynasties was more like a reflection of the land in Guanzhong in a sense.

But now is the eve of the Little Ice Age, the climate is gradually becoming colder and drier, the land in Guanzhong will continue to be silent, the agricultural output value will continue to decline, and the population carrying capacity will also continue to decrease.

Guanzhong in the future cannot accommodate the increasing population after production resumes, so Guo Peng has consciously moved more and more people in Guanzhong to the four counties in Hexi, the Western Regions, and Yizhou since the ninth year of Yande to alleviate the tension in Guanzhong. ground pressure.

The population of Guanzhong has always been controlled within a certain scale, and even has a decreasing trend.

Guo Peng did not intend to restore the population of the Guanzhong area to the number at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Even so, what Guo Peng saw was not dilapidated and dilapidated, but a grand scene of peace and prosperity.

The first to bear the brunt was Hongnong County, which was once completely destroyed.

In order to completely destroy the Han Empire and the Han Central Committee, Guo Peng single-handedly planned the destruction of Hongnong City and set fire to Hongnong City.

The soaring fire completely destroyed the centuries-old Hongnong City.

The current Hongnong City was rebuilt after the disaster. The current residents of Hongnong are basically the residents of Qingyan Erzhou who migrated later, and the old Hongnong people hardly exist.

After the disaster, Guo Peng appropriated funds to rebuild Hongnong City, making Hongnong City more magnificent and taller than before, and the city can accommodate more people.

At the beginning, the development of Hongnong County was mainly based on agricultural production. Later, after the opening of commercial routes in the Western Regions, Hongnong County enjoyed the dividends of the times, and began to develop commerce, develop hotels, restaurants, and adopt a development model that pays equal attention to agriculture and commerce.

The current Hongnong City has long lost the appearance of the past, neither the customs nor the people of the past.

The Hongnong Yang family who dominated Hongnong back then has long since become ashes, and the tycoons who divided Hongnong County no longer exist, and the world has already changed.

What Guo Peng saw was a thriving school.

This is true for Hongnong, and even more so for Chang'an.

As the accompanying capital of the Wei Empire in the legal sense, Chang'an could not be worse than Hongnong. At first glance, Chang'an feels more like the second Luoyang, but the permanent population is slightly smaller than Luoyang.

Today's Chang'an is no longer a political and military center, and has not developed as a political and military center, but has developed based on an important node of the Silk Road and an important commercial city.

A large number of people in Chang'an are floating population, but they stay in Chang'an for a long time.

Many big businessmen set up their headquarters in Chang'an, and they directly contact merchants from Anxi, Guishuang and other countries from the Western Regions, so Chang'an gathered a group of the richest businessmen in the entire Wei Empire.

With them there, it is impossible for Chang'an City not to be prosperous.

After Guo Peng arrived in Chang'an, he sent his entourage to the barracks outside Chang'an City, leaving only a few personal guards, and took Guo Chengzhi, Cao Lan and others into Chang'an City in vehicles.

The streets of Chang'an City are spacious, all stone-paved roads, very tidy and clean, and you can't smell the foul smell when you enter it, the air is very fresh and sweet.

There are a lot of people, but they are orderly. From time to time, you can see patrols armed with weapons defending the peace and stability of Chang'an City.

Hundreds of watchtowers are densely distributed, presenting a strange pattern of distribution, monitoring the interior of the city at all times, guarding against any possible unstable factors.

As an accompanying capital, the construction standards of Chang'an City are completely on par with Luoyang.

There are many people in the city, and not only Wei people, but also many Guishuang people, Anxi people, and even Romans who are dressed differently from Wei people in Chang'an city.

Everyone dresses and looks very different, but they can live in relative harmony here, just like Luoyang.

The buildings on both sides of the street are well-organized and tasteful, whether it is shops, public facilities, or official buildings, they are neatly arranged, not crowded, dirty or old, and can give people a refreshing feeling.

Walking on the streets of Chang'an City, facing the sunshine from the sky, listening to the cries of vendors along the street, one can feel inexplicably comfortable.

So Cao Lan looked at everything in Chang'an City and expressed her feelings.

"It's just that I often hear that the market in Chang'an City is prosperous, and things that can't be bought in Luoyang City can definitely be bought in Chang'an City. I also heard that Chang'an City has changed the restrictions on squares and cities, allowing shops to open outside the market. At that time, I was still thinking about Chang'an City. It must have been a chaotic place, but now it looks so neat and orderly."

"Prosperity can only be brought about by cleanliness and order, and the prosperity of the market has never been the main cause of prosperity."

Guo Peng also looked out the window: "However, the two governors of Yongzhou really contributed to the restoration of Chang'an City to this point."

The first governor of Yongzhou was Chen Gong, who had been in office for many years. In the ninth year of Yande, he was promoted to the central government as Minister of the Ministry of War. This position of governor of Yongzhou was replaced by Mao Jie.

Mao Jie did not change the general direction of Yongzhou planned by Chen Gong, and generally continued the construction plan of Chen Gong, giving people a sense of Xiao Guicao.

It is hard to say what Mao Jie changed, that is, Mao Jie changed the restrictions on the square market, allowing shops to be set up in non-market areas, so that the business broke away from the restrictions on the square market and began to develop on a large scale, which caused a lot of trouble debate.

But in any case, during their term of office, they all advocated the development of Yongzhou's economy, and vigorously developed commerce in line with the advantages of the place that the Silk Road must pass through.

Judging from the proportion of commercial tax revenue of each state in Yande's 13-year national statistics, the commercial tax revenue of the three prefectures in the Western Regions is the highest, followed by Liangzhou, and then Yongzhou.

However, Yongzhou's agricultural tax is much higher than that of Liangzhou and the three prefectures of the Western Regions. The foundation is here. With such a high agricultural tax, it can still account for 30.00% of the commercial tax. One can imagine how the commercial level of Yongzhou has developed. the point.

Yongzhou's business is connected to Liangzhou and the Western Regions to the west, to the prosperous places of Kanto to the east, and to the prosperous and developing Hanzhong and Yizhou to the south. good.

Merchants in Yongzhou sold goods from Kanto and Yizhou to merchants from Guishuang and Anxi who came from afar, and bought some goods from Guishuang and Anxi from them, and resold them to Kanto and Yizhou.

That's why Yongzhou's commercial taxation can reach such a level.

At that time, when Mao Jie succeeded the governor of Yongzhou and announced that he would break the boundaries of Fangshi and allow commercial facilities to open in places other than the market, it caused a lot of controversy in the court.

In fact, when Mao Jie did this in Liangzhou earlier, it caused widespread controversy, and was investigated by the court, who suspected that he had abnormal interests with local businessmen.

Later, nothing was found out, Wang Can, Minister of the Ministry of Finance, spoke in support of Mao Jie, and the commercial reform in Liangzhou was carried out.

In the end, I didn't expect that Mao Jie would do this again when he arrived in Yongzhou.

Many people raised objections and demanded that Guo Peng severely punish Mao Jie, believing that Mao Jie violated the tradition of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business, and was turning back the wheel of history.

It's okay to do this in Liangzhou, but Yongzhou's agricultural foundation is so good that he is even higher, it's just messing around.

And they also cited a large number of rich merchants in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods who used the benefits of salt and iron to accumulate wealth and intervene in central politics. They believed that Mao Jie must have accepted bribes this time to give some evildoers for convenience.

In fact, Mao Jie had submitted a form to Guo Peng before that, explaining his approach and intentions. Guo Peng did not object and acquiesced to his attempt.

However, after the incident, many officials criticized Mao Jie. Guo Peng, at the request of the ministers, once again sent officials from the third department to form an investigation team to investigate Mao Jie, so that Mao Jie could accept the investigation safely and not be afraid of the shadow.

The last time they returned without success, this time, the three divisions repeated their old tricks and formed a joint investigation team to investigate Mao Jie. They checked Mao Jie's family property to the bottom, and also investigated Mao Jie's family property. However, the illegal activities of Mao Jie himself and Mao Jie's family were not found out.

By the way, it was discovered that the three merchants were connected with an official of the central government.

Just at that time, the joint investigation team felt that it was shameful not to find anything, so they saved their own face and pulled down the doctor of a certain department of the Ministry of Finance.

It can be regarded as saving a little face.

But Mao Jie is really not a problem at all, and even his family has no problems with economic crimes.

The whole family is honestly farming the land, farming and studying heirlooms, and working hard in the officialdom with all their heart. It is obvious that the thoughts of the whole family are unified in the officialdom.

Mao Jie had no problem, the person who hated Mao Jie and wanted to kill Mao Jie fell on him for the second time.

It is indeed his purely political act to relax the boundary between the market and the market, without consideration of personal economic interests,

Although this behavior was criticized by many conservatives, Mao Jie never changed his mind. After accepting the investigation, he continued to implement this policy, and once again received the support of the Minister of Finance Wang Can.

He still relaxed the restrictions on the boundaries of Chang'an City, and with Chang'an as the center, several transportation hub cities in Yongzhou have relaxed the boundaries of Fang and City, just like Liangzhou's commercial reform.

As a result, Yongzhou's business tax increased greatly, and the economic situation changed from the standard in the Chen Gong era and began to take off.

Chapter 1512 One thousand four hundred and fifty Ermao Jie's answer is very politically correct

Regarding the commercial reforms in Yongliang and Liangzhou, Guo Peng has never clearly stated his support or opposition, and has always been in an ambiguous state.

He neither opposed nor supported it.

Supported by Wang Can.

Wang Can was the minister of the Ministry of Finance, in charge of money, and Guo Peng's loyal confidant, so the courtiers generally believed that Wang Can's support was Guo Peng's support, and that Guo Peng was behind Mao Jie's reform.

So Mao Jie's actions were not hindered in the end, and they were carried out smoothly in Liangzhou, and great results were reaped.

However, Guo Peng's failure to publicly express his support was seen by many courtiers as a different kind of suspicion and contradiction, and Guo Peng himself did not dare to say that he would definitely support this kind of behavior.

Therefore, the courtiers who thought they had grasped Guo Peng's pulse never lessened their criticisms of Mao Jie.

Since the eighth year of Yande, people have been impeaching Mao Jie, saying that Mao Jie's behavior will not cause problems for a while, but will eventually cause problems.

Once commerce and agriculture compete for labor, and people all over the world change their minds and think about making money instead of producing, something will happen.

But Guo Peng never started Mao Jie's reform.

Later, when Guo Peng abdicated, no matter what happened, Guo Jin didn't care much about it when he took the throne, so no one paid attention to this matter for a time.

Until Guo Peng patrolled the world now.

Guo Peng notified Mao Jie in advance and asked Mao Jie to settle down the thousand forbidden troops who followed him on patrol, and then he brought a few guards and family members into the city to find Mao Jie.

The fact that he arrived in Chang'an was not known to the public, only a few senior officials knew——

Anyway, even if most people see Guo Peng standing in front of him, they don't know who Guo Peng is. It doesn't matter if Guo Peng shows up in public.

Guo Peng didn't want to make a big fuss and let everyone in Chang'an know that the Supreme Emperor was coming.