At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Watching Guo Jin grow step by step into an autocratic emperor who satisfied him, Guo Peng should have been very happy, but for some reason, he was a little bit unhappy.

This made Mao Jie feel very strange.

"Your Majesty turned things around, solved the problem in the Northwest, and punished those who committed crimes below, and wiped out those who were corrupt. This is a good thing. Why is the Supreme Emperor so worried?"

Guo Peng looked at Mao Jie, and then at Guo Chengzhi beside him.

"It's a good thing in itself, but what I'm worried about is exactly what Zaoyi is worried about."

Mao Jie was taken aback.

"Taishanghuang, what Zaoyi did can't be called a pure minister. If you really want to pursue it, you can convict him of disrespect. Why does Taishanghuang feel like this?"

"Zaozhi is disrespectful, but his worries are not wrong."

Guo Peng shook his head: "Zaozhi used the wrong method and did the wrong thing, but the most important thing he was thinking about was criticized by others. Isn't this worth worrying about? Xiaoxian, how big is your plan to develop business in Liangzhou?" resistance?"

"It's big, and a lot of people are against it."

Mao Jie recalled a little: "Furthermore, when the order was promulgated, almost no one did so. They were all watching the situation, and it was very difficult to push forward."

"That's it."

Guo Peng sighed: "I promote Northwest commerce in order to allow people in places not suitable for developing agriculture to have a way of life and to support more people, not to make the development of commerce and emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce become two opposing political views."

Mao Jie was a little surprised by Guo Peng's words.

"I told you before that the reason I don't speak up for you in public is because I can't give up emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business, otherwise the people will go into business and we will starve to death. In the same way, I won't give up because of emphasizing agriculture. Keep the people of the barren land from doing business.

There is no three-foot-level place on the ground, and there is not much grain to be harvested throughout the year. Isn't that why people starve to death for no reason?Doing business is also to feed more people. The two should complement each other, rather than become two opposing views. "

Guo Peng patted Mao Jie on the shoulder: "Focus on agriculture, it is not necessary to put down business as the top priority, agriculture and business should not be in opposition, but should complement each other and cooperate with each other.

Rather than in the eyes of some officials, doing business is treason, or suppressing business is stubbornness, and the two are opposed to each other, causing such a pattern of events that should complement each other.

Under such a situation, the officials who advocate the development of agriculture stand on the opposite side of the officials who advocate the development of commerce. The two sides oppose each other instead of cooperating with each other. The purpose of one side's development is to suppress the other. How can I not worry? "

"Your Majesty, will this... such a thing really happen?"

"Isn't it?"

Guo Peng looked at Mao Jie: "When you go to the imperial court, you will definitely see those who insist on developing commerce, and there must be very few officials who dare to limit the scale of commerce and develop agriculture first. Will say so publicly.

That's why I said that jujube is a shrewd life, and at this time, the evening festival will not be guaranteed!How careful I was to maintain a balance was to prevent farmers and merchants from going against each other.

As a result, he single-handedly forced the emperor to put farmers and merchants into a confrontational situation, tossing out a new party and an old party, making the development of agriculture an incorrect thing, how short-sighted it is! "

Guo Peng stamped his feet angrily.

Mao Jie was speechless.

Chapter 1595 One thousand five hundred and five I am no longer sitting on that throne

Guo Peng is very worried that this struggle will push the balance he has worked so hard to maintain to a certain extreme.

He was even more worried that the economic policies of the Wei Empire would jump back and forth between the two extremes, without coherence.

Zaozhi has undoubtedly made a very bad start, and this trend is not obvious at present, but over time, the problem will be fully exposed.

"The next thing to do is the emperor. After this turmoil, no matter whether he explained it or not, many officials will subconsciously think that it is not wrong to develop commerce, and it is wrong to prevent the development of commerce. Once such ideas spread to the people, there will be problems. It's even bigger."

"Father, is there a problem?"

Guo Chengzhi asked nervously.

"Of course it will."

Guo Peng looked at Guo Chengzhi: "Think about the sensational things we heard along the way. Human nature is greedy. After doing business, this kind of greed is only magnified, so many things that have never happened in the past will definitely happen.

Two brothers in a family turned against each other over the matter of who was doing business, and the clansmen fought over how to distribute the business profits, and even attracted government interference. These are all things that will inevitably appear after doing business. "

Guo Chengzhi looked confused.

"How should this be chosen?"

"Originally, there was no need to consider any trade-offs."

Guo Peng sighed: "The so-called simple folk customs are nothing more than isolation from the world and no conflicts of interests. The villagers are self-sufficient and the natural folk customs are simple. Once commercial and other interests are introduced, there will be a distinction between the rich and the poor, which will inevitably lead to various scandals.

This is a very normal thing, there is no such thing as folk customs and simple roads that do not pick up things, but poverty is the same, and there is no one who is not old and the world is going down, it is nothing more than the beginning of development and change, and there is a distinction between rich and poor.

If there is no distinction between rich and poor, there will be no disputes, no conflicts, so how can you be unsophisticated?Once there is a change, some people are rich and some people continue to be poor, which will inevitably cause confrontation. How can we continue to maintain simplicity without changing?

This is the world, if we want to be harmonious and not opposed to each other, we must either be poor together or rich together, any of the states in between will cause the so-called decline in the world and people’s hearts, and it is meaningless to discuss choices. Now that we have got rid of the common poverty, we cannot Turn around and go back, the only way is to get rich together. "

Mao Jie was stunned for a long time after hearing this, and fell silent.

After hearing this, Guo Chengzhi felt that some of his doubts were instantly resolved, and he couldn't help but sigh.

"So that's why the father is so worried."

"Yeah, I thought it would take some time for everyone to slowly accept such things, and tell everyone that everything is just a result of development. If Wei Guo wants to move forward, such problems will inevitably arise. Can.

Focusing on agriculture, supplemented by business, and developing together, more and more people can follow the progress of Wei Guo. However, Zaozhi and others expect everyone to be simple forever, but in fact they want everyone to be poor forever. Is it something I want to see? "

Guo Peng nodded, hands behind his back, walked slowly forward step by step, and opened his mouth slowly.

"What Lao Tzu said about a small country with few people who do not communicate with each other is a negative idea of ​​avoiding the world. He only wants everyone to be poor forever and maintain the original appearance forever. If there is no development, no change, and no change from ancient times, there will be no disputes. Is this normal?

This is abnormal, without development, the number of people to support is extremely limited. Once there is a natural disaster or man-made disaster, there is a risk of extinction.

So I promote the development of business in the Northwest, discover problems, solve them, and after accumulating enough experience, I will put the Northwest experience in other places and promote it in an orderly manner.

At that time, we will also have a group of officials who know how to develop commerce, and will not follow the scriptures and drive the localities to use the accumulated agricultural materials to develop commerce, so that people will gradually become rich, at least they will not cause human disasters in case of natural disasters. "

"Father thinks far and wide."

Guo Chengzhi admired his grandfather's far-reaching thinking very much.

Guo Peng just sighed.

"The people of Wei State are no longer in the state of general poverty in the troubled times. Some of them have become rich. This is not a bad thing. We can't think about making them the same as before. Everyone continues to be poor together. .

If we want to develop, there will always be smart people who will seize the opportunity to get rich first. This is inevitable. Zaoyi’s worry about the decline of the world is not the solution to the problem at all. Now that we have started, we cannot go back.

Even if there is a problem, you have to grit your teeth and move forward. Only by moving forward can you survive. If you run back, don’t develop, and let everyone go poor together, there will be fewer disputes and the people’s customs will be simple, but this country will change. What is it like?Is there hope?

Shang Yang's emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business is not to create antagonism between agriculture and business, but to create a comprehensive wartime system for the survival crisis of Qin State, so as to gather all forces to break the deadlock and seek development. Emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business is a means, not an end ah. "

After hearing this, Mao Jie sighed deeply.

"The words of the Supreme Emperor are thought-provoking. The ministers will always remember the words of the Supreme Emperor. After returning to Luoyang, they must be spread widely so that all officials know the thoughts of the Supreme Emperor."

Guo Peng originally wanted to say so what to know, but after thinking about it again, he felt that it would be better if more people knew.

Mao Jie can accept this view, which shows that this view is more likely to be recognized by people.

In short, Wei Guo must not be allowed to fall into the trap of choosing either non-agriculture or business, otherwise Wei Guo's future route disputes will be very terrible, which will directly affect the situation he has established with painstaking efforts.

Although he can't see common prosperity, the Wei Empire will definitely fall on this road, but this doesn't stop him from moving forward.

The task of the Wei government is to rule, and the so-called rule is actually the art of making and distributing big cakes. Making big cakes is easy, but distributing big cakes is difficult.

And really speaking, Guo Peng felt that he also needed to take the blame.

"It was also my mistake. I didn't expect that the war between Loumo and Anxi would trigger the crisis in the Northwest. Some people in the DPRK would overreact, thinking that they would kill the business in the Northwest in one go, so that the crisis could be avoided. I can discover this kind of hidden danger earlier, and I won’t reach this point.”

Guo Peng clenched his fists.

Mao Jie looked at Guo Peng's appearance, as if realizing something, he immediately walked forward a few steps.

"The Supreme Emperor, what does the Supreme Emperor need the minister to do? When the minister arrives in Luoyang, he will definitely do it for the Supreme Emperor!"

Mao Jie saluted Guo Peng respectfully, and stood motionless behind Guo Peng.

Guo Peng turned around, looked at the respectful Mao Jie, and was silent for a while.

Then he stretched out his hand to support Mao Jie.

"You are the emperor's servant, I am not your emperor, you can do what the emperor tells you to do, if you are dissatisfied, just submit a complaint on the table, I am already an old man."

Mao Jie looked up at Guo Peng in astonishment.

"Your Majesty..."

"There are no two suns in the sky, and there are no two masters in the earth. Since I abdicated as the Supreme Emperor, I have never thought of interfering with the emperor's decision. I will not do anything except for the academic department. This is even more important to Wei Guo.

No matter how bad things get, if I don't intervene, the state of Wei still has hundreds of years to live. If I intervene, what do you think will happen?I don't want to do that, the Supreme Emperor is the Supreme Emperor, and I don't sit on that throne anymore. "

Guo Peng held Mao Jie's hand, and Mao Jie just looked at Guo Peng.

After a long time, Mao Jie saluted Guo Peng again.

"Minister Mao Jie, remember the teachings of the Supreme Emperor!"

"Ah."

Guo Peng nodded: "Although you can tell the emperor what I said, I will not go to Luoyang. Next, I will go to Yizhou and Yunzhou. Since you have been transferred back to the capital, then Do your own thing."

"I understand."

Mao Jie kept Guo Peng's words in his heart.

Guo Peng turned his head and looked in the direction of Luoyang for a long time before he sighed and smiled.

"When I came from Liangzhou, I talked with Zike. He said that he was a little worried. He was worried that the emperor asked him to be the Minister of Finance. If you were his deputy, you would feel dissatisfied."

Mao Jie was taken aback for a moment, and immediately turned serious.

"I will not be dissatisfied. The problem in Liangzhou actually planted the root of disaster in my appointment. Lu Butang tried his best to turn the tide, and it was too late for me to be happy. How could I be dissatisfied because of this kind of thing? Your Majesty's arrangement is natural. Your Majesty has reason, and I can only obey."

Very politically correct answer, full marks.

Guo Peng smiled.

"No one will be dissatisfied with such an answer. In fact, I am relieved that the two of you can take charge of financial work. You have all experienced crises and know how difficult it is for the people under the crisis, so you will not rush forward. "

"Your servant should be careful."

Mao Jie replied.

"That's enough. You stay stable, the central government is not chaotic, and the local government is not chaotic anywhere... In addition, what should be tightened should be tightened. The large-scale bad debts that happened in Yanzhou and Qingzhou back then should not be repeated. did it."

Guo Peng recalled the chaos at the beginning, and sighed: "I don't want such a thing to happen again."

"I don't want it to happen again."

Mao Jie said so, and hoped so.

If there is another time, the court will lose money, and he will lose his future and power.

After so many years of hard work, he was finally able to enter the central government. If he lost his power due to certain things, Mao Jie would die in pain.

How can a man be powerless for a day?

With such expectations, Mao Jie waited for the end of his final term, to complete the handover with the latecomers, to enter the central government, and to take real power.

He knew that his future was approaching step by step, and he could finally realize his political ambitions.

The only thing that was a little unpleasant was Zhuge Liang, who jumped up and joined him as the Minister of Finance.

Mao Xiaoxian's position and qualifications are much higher than Zhuge Liang's, and his promotion is a normal promotion, but this Zhuge Liang is obviously promoted by leaps and bounds. Although his contribution is indeed not small, but...

There are people in the court who are really good at handling things.

Zhuge Jin, Minister of the Ministry of Agriculture, and Zhang Zhao, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, Zhuge Liang relied on these two big trees, and it is only natural that he would flourish.

Mao Jie had nothing but envy and no objection.

It's just a little bit uncomfortable.

Chapter 1596 One thousand five hundred and ten six people's retribution

Guo Peng didn't stay long in Chang'an City, and quickly reorganized his team, crossing the Qinling Mountains from the Baoxie Road, intending to go south to Hanzhong and further to Yizhou.

Walking on the road, Guo Peng was still in a bad mood.