At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

This is an important premise, otherwise the situation in the three prefectures of the Western Regions would never be able to remain in a generally controllable environment as it is now.

And how did all this not come easily?

The more Zhuge Liang experienced the crisis, the more he admired the foresight of the reformer.

Chapter 1559 One thousand four hundred and seventy nine thousand years, and there is only one Zhuge Liang

When the crisis hit, Zhuge Liang ran around, and the main officials under his command also ran around to solve the problem and stabilize people's hearts.

At this moment, the most fortunate thing is those small traders who chose to close their small shops before.

They looked at the turbulent wave of bankruptcies in the city and the merchants who wanted to cry without tears, and remembered Zhuge Liang's earnest words, and couldn't help but feel grateful for their choice.

They made the right choice. If they give up early, there is still a way out. If they go all the way to the dark, they are really doomed.

In contrast, the group did not choose to shut down but insisted on gritting their teeth. Up to now, only two or three companies are still holding on to not go bankrupt, and the others have all collapsed and were forced to give up.

Then he was burdened with heavy debts.

It has to be said that they have fully realized the danger of the economic crisis.

Some people are always rejoicing, and some people regret it too much, but no matter what, they still have something to eat, so they won't starve to death.

This is what Zhuge Liang is most fortunate about.

When he was free to deal with government affairs, he talked with Qian Yi about this matter, and he mentioned that the reason why they were able to cope with such a turbulent crisis was mainly because farmers had land.

"Farm households outside the city have land, and most of the businessmen in the city are wealthy laborers from a family who come to the city to do business. They want to earn more money and improve the lives of their families. They farm land and do business at the same time.

So even if the shop collapses, they have no money and have to repay the imperial loan, but they still have land, and the land will continue to grow food, so they have the possibility to repay the loan and will not lose their livelihood.

Therefore, they all have land, which is an important reason why we can survive this catastrophe. If the land annexation is as violent as the former Han Dynasty, and such a catastrophe, I don’t know how it will be a scene of starvation for thousands of miles. "

Zhuge Liang shook his feather fan and sighed with emotion all over his face: "The Emperor Taishang destroyed the princes and powerful people in the world, distributed the land to the people, registered it in the register, set up farmland farms, and severely punished the dignitaries and officials who annexed the land. .”

Qian Yi was also deeply moved and nodded repeatedly.

"Those who have lost their livelihood have no work to do. If they don't even have land and homes, how can they survive? If that's the case, the government may not have money for disaster relief. No one cares about their food. They are not starved to death. , I’m afraid they can only turn grass into bandits.”

"Falling grass and turning into bandits is both light and heavy, which is another Yellow Turban Rebellion."

When Zhuge Liang mentioned the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Qian Yi was stunned for a moment.

He remembered his origin.

His father had participated in the Qingxu Yellow Turban Uprising.

The main reason was that there was no land, and there was a natural disaster, and there was nothing left. In order not to starve to death, they followed the Yellow Turban Army to make troubles, killed many powerful and powerful officials, and robbed a lot of things.

In the first and second years of Chuping in the former Han Dynasty, the Qingxu Yellow Turban Army was suppressed by Guo Peng, who was the governor of Qingzhou at the time, and most of them became prisoners except for some who fled to Yanzhou.

His father participated in farming as a captive. A few years later, he was amnesty, obtained citizenship, acquired land, lived and worked in Qingzhou, became a resident of Qingzhou, and then gave birth to him.

Their family lives in Qingzhou and has lived under the wings of Guo Peng for more than [-] years. They have no illness, disaster, or hunger. They have fully experienced a series of reforms by Guo Peng and enjoyed complete reform dividends. They can read and read. Not a single drop.

In the end, he waited until the imperial examination era, passed the imperial examination to become an official, and entered the Ministry of Finance. After several years of serving as a low-level official, he was sent out to the Beiting Protectorate to take charge of the work of the local finance department.

For his father, he was a yellow turban thief, and it was like a dream that the son of the yellow turban thief could turn himself into an imperial official.

When he returned home to announce the good news in his official uniform, the old father couldn't even believe his eyes, rubbing and rubbing, his eyes were red and he couldn't believe it, thinking he was dreaming.

Of course, this is not a dream, this is real, a fact of real existence.

His son really became an official.

My father has suffered all his life, just to eat enough to eat, facing the loess and back to the sky, getting up early and working late.

Of course, he also got his wish and had a full meal, and he was even able to eat to support himself. What a wonderful thing.

Therefore, Qian Yi, who has witnessed the whole process with his own eyes, is very clear about all these real changes.

So he sighed slightly.

"Yeah, the Yellow Turban Rebellion cannot happen again, too many innocent people died because of it."

"I have no worries about whether I can carry it through. The Supreme Emperor has already laid an invincible foundation for us. As long as this foundation is still there, we will be invincible. At most, we will suffer a little bit of flesh and blood. The government must be safe."

Zhuge Liang clenched the feather fan in his hand, his eyes were extremely firm.

At the same time, Guo Peng had already left the Zhenxi Protectorate's Mansion and followed the Shannan Commercial Road to the Annan Protectorate's jurisdiction, ready to see how Sima Yi would deal with this wave of economic crisis.

Although Guo Peng is dissatisfied with his behavior, but thinking about it carefully, as an official, it is understandable to use various means to climb up.

How can anyone really be indifferent to fame and fortune, who is dedicated to the public and not to himself?

It is unrealistic to expect everyone to be Zhuge Liang.

Guo Peng deeply understands this.

Most people in this world are laymen who yearn for fame and wealth, because there are too many laymen and too few saints, so if you want to get things done, you can only rely on uniting with laymen and maximizing their strength.

Throughout the ages, there is only one Zhuge Liang.

Sima Yi is undoubtedly an ordinary person in Vanity Fair. For the sake of his family and himself, he will always go forward in Vanity Fair, and he will always be an ordinary person. There is nothing wrong with that.

For him, the most important thing is not how the emperor treats it, but how the emperor uses it.

If he can use it well, he is a capable minister. If the emperor's level is not enough, it is the emperor's fault, not his own fault.

Is it wrong to want to make progress?

Later generations hate and look down on Sima Jin mainly because it lost so badly to the Hu people as a unified dynasty, and failed to fulfill its responsibilities as a unified dynasty.

Although the unified dynasty of the people is arrogant, extravagant and lustful for the common people, they are not afraid to fight foreign wars anyway, and they always fight vigorously against foreigners, making them cry their father and mother.

Sima Jin was good, the civil war was an insider and an outsider was fighting outside, and the Eight Kings fought vigorously, and then he was wiped out by others, and fled to the south of the Yangtze River in embarrassment, causing disaster to the whole nation.

As a unified dynasty, it is rare for a country to lose so badly and ugly within 50 years of its founding.

For Sima Yi himself, Guo has no prejudices, he just wants to see how this capable official praised by Zhuge Liang can lead the Annan Protectorate through the crisis.

Of course, Sima Yi is a capable official. With his ability, it is not a problem to lead a department of real power in the central government. As a prime minister, it is not difficult for him to truly hold power. Therefore, although the economic crisis can make him flustered for a while, it cannot crush him.

His psychological endurance is absolutely unmatched by others.

He has never seen an economic crisis, nor does he know what an economic crisis looks like, and the books he read did not describe what the economic crisis is, so when the court informed him that the crisis was coming, he just regarded it as a normal government order to implement.

Just implement this decree. Regarding the crisis, Sima Yi, who is dedicated to portraying a serious, mysterious, and mighty image, has no understanding of it.

When the crisis really came, Sima Yi suddenly realized that the overall economic downturn and recession are so terrible!

People in the Annan Protectorate's Mansion, who have lived a good life for several years, were not aware of the economic crisis at first, but felt that the number of people who came to them to spend recently was much less.

Maybe it was delayed on the way?

They thought so, and waited and waited, and waited and waited, but they never got the people they wanted.

So some people couldn't hold it anymore.

The business scale of most merchants is not large, the cash flow is not much, and they cannot support such a high daily turnover. There are no customers to visit and consume, and they are losing money every day. The various costs and expenditures are heartbreaking. live.

Previously, the Annan Protectorate's Mansion forcibly closed low-quality merchants that were inferior to these small businesses or merchants that had not yet started business, and these small businesses were not necessarily better than those closed businesses.

It's just that Sima Yi and Ren Yong feel that they can't continue to be locked up. If they continue to be locked up, it will cause public backlash, civil riots, and conflicts with the police. At that time, Gong Yun can't handle that matter.

Even the police force may not be able to handle it. If there is trouble, the garrison of the Annan Governor's Mansion will be dispatched, so Sima Yi's official career.

The relationship between Sima Yi and Guan Yu is not good at all.

Moreover, Guan Yu's military rank and title have been promoted, and he was favored by Emperor Guo Jin in the previous political storm, so Sima Yi dared not provoke Guan Yu even more.

What's more, without the previous events, Sima Yi didn't dare to have any conflicts with Guan Yu. His son Guan Ping led troops by the emperor's side, and he had a close relationship. Where did Sima Yi offend him?

That is to say, due to the limited authority, Guan Yu could not interfere with the daily administration, and the garrison was not located in the city, so the two had no communication.

Guan Yu didn't like to associate with literati officials very much. It is said that he seemed to have never looked down on literati officials. The two had no contacts, no conflicts, and of course, no good friendship.

Of course he couldn't be Sima Yi's helper.

After Sima Yi barely completed the imperial court's order, he waited for the crisis to come, thinking about resolving the crisis easily, accumulating political achievements, and seeing if he could return to the central government.

As a result, after the crisis had been brewing for a period of time, it was completely detonated with the closure of the famous wine shop Dasheng Restaurant in Ningmi City, the capital of the Annan Protectorate.

chapter 1560 one thousand 480 between right and wrong

Small businesses and hawkers can still be regarded as a daily situation when they can't hold on, because there are some small businesses and hawkers who are not prepared enough to do business, so they close their doors and go out of business. This is normal.

But Dasheng Restaurant is not a small businessman.

This is the first restaurant opened when the Annan Protectorate's government chose Ningmi City as its capital, and it is very meaningful to the entire Ningmi City.

It can almost be used as a microcosm of the prosperous business of Ningmi City.

Although today, Dasheng Restaurant is not the most luxurious, most expensive, and best restaurant in Ningmi City, everyone still thinks Dasheng Restaurant is a symbol.

Now the symbol is down.

In fact, Sima Yi also knew something about the collapse of this symbol, and it was not entirely caused by the economic crisis.

The restaurant owner's son was illiterate, always playing truant from official schools, and because his family was rich, he liked to gamble privately.

Gambling is strictly prohibited in the Wei Empire.

Guo Peng hated gambling very much, so the Wei Empire ordered the people not to gamble or set up casinos, otherwise they would be severely punished.

Those who set up casinos depend on the size of the casino. Smaller families are assigned to work as coolies on canals and Shu road construction sites. Larger ones directly confiscate the family property, behead the culprit, and the family members serve as coolies.

At the beginning of the implementation of this policy, several officials from the Ministry of Finance reported to Guo Peng.

They say that gambling is something that is difficult to ban. It has been popular among the people since ancient times. A sudden ban may cause resistance among the people. It is difficult to implement thoroughly and the cost is also high.

The so-called blockage is worse than sparseness. It is possible to set up an official casino, which can also ease the sentiment of the people, and can make a steady profit without losing money. If the money goes into the national treasury, the treasury will be filled.

Guo Peng read the memorials of these officials, was furious, and issued an order to reprimand these officials.

The world is pre-determined, the people's family has only a small savings, and gambling can easily hurt their muscles and bones. How can a family with a small savings deal with the bottomless pit of gambling?

A little carelessness will inevitably ruin the family. Gamblers are not worthy of sympathy. How innocent are their families?

Also Official Casino!

Is it something worthy of honor to fill the national treasury with the blood and tears of the ruined and dead?

How can you bear it?

Guo Peng got angry, and the officials of the Ministry of Finance were silent, and no one raised any objections, so this policy was carried out, and the Wei Empire completely banned gambling.

All the casinos left over from the former Han Dynasty were demolished and razed, and a large number of private gambling equipment was confiscated and set on fire.

The order went down to every administrative village and township, and the village heads and township heads everywhere took action to widely publicize the dangers of gambling, call on everyone to resist gambling, encourage the reporting of private gamblers, and reward them immediately if they are found out.

Gamblers need to be severely punished, sit down, and basically have to do coolies. Even if they are lucky enough to get an amnesty, they have to move to live in border areas and are not allowed to return to their original places, so whistleblowers do not need to worry about being retaliated against.

For a time, there were many whistleblowers, and tens of thousands of people were found to have hidden gambling equipment and set up casinos privately.

Guo Peng strictly ordered officials from all over the country to implement the decree to the end, strictly ordered central officials to inspect and guide the scene, and insisted on punishing every violator.

So during that time, everyone was cautious, the gamblers disappeared, and the Wei Empire hardly saw any casinos, gambling equipment, and gamblers.

But this instinct deeply hidden in human genes is really not so easy to curb. Severe punishments and severe laws can deter people for a while, but they can't deter them forever.

In the early years of Yande, the world was initially settled, everyone had little money, coupled with harsh punishments, the custom of gambling in the late Han Dynasty was wiped out in one fell swoop.

As time went by, about eight years and nine years in Yande, the world was at peace, and the prosperity of the empire was beginning to emerge. Guo Peng continued to cut taxes for the people and increase farmers' income, making the people gradually become prosperous.

Once a person achieves keeping warm, he will have many bad thoughts, and gambling is one of them.

With the stimulation of small and big, and the legend of getting rich overnight, it greatly stimulates people's nerves and makes people involuntarily addicted to it.

As long as you have been in contact once and won money once, you will find it hard to resist the temptation. Even if you lose, you will believe that you can win again, and keep throwing your wealth into it, even selling your children and selling your daughters without repenting.

Although the Wei Empire government has zero tolerance for gambling, and once found out, it will be punished immediately, but it can't stand the fact that there are more people, more money, more desires, more places and more occasions.

Some people even hide in the mountains to run private casinos. If they want to go, they must be introduced by a reliable person, otherwise they will never let them go, and their mouths are extremely strict with each other.

At the end of September in the ninth year of Yande, a private casino incident was exposed in Bo County, Taishan County, Yanzhou.