Chapter five hundred and ninety-ninth: Tianhuang nobles
After seeing Zheng Rong off, Qin Shaoyou shook his head and smiled. He suddenly felt a little tired, called someone and ordered: "I won't see guests today, please let me go back."
After saying that, when he returned to the backyard, he supported Zheng Rong's idea. Qin Shaoyou is more like a bystander. He clearly has a far-sighted vision that transcends the times, but in addition to making some correct decisions occasionally, he is silently allowing them to grow.
In fact, he knew very well that people like Wang Ju, Zheng Rong, and even Yang Jiong were in conflict.
They benefited from the Shence Mansion and changed a lot of thinking through the Henan Mansion. Together with Qin Shaoyou, they created a brand new world, but deep in their hearts, there was another idea hidden.
After all, they still recognized themselves as ministers of the Tang Dynasty. This...is almost inevitable problem. After all, they have been with Qin Shaoyou for a few years, but they have been as ministers of the Tang Dynasty for more than half of their lives.
In their hearts, the emperor naturally had the surname Li and the country name, and of course it should be the Tang Dynasty. Not to mention them, even the vast majority of the peddlers and pawns in Luoyang City were probably the same.
This... is also a human heart to some extent.
Of course... this does not mean that they are not loyal to Qin Shaoyou. Qin Shaoyou is almost certain that if they reach the opposite end, they will stand on their side without hesitation. But even so, their psychology is still contradictory.
As for Qin Shaoyou himself, Qin Shaoyou himself asked himself that he had been a human being for two lifetimes, and he had no good feelings for the Li family's royal family, and he could never be loyal to him. However, he was never disgusted.
Zheng Rong was surprised by his layout just now. In fact, Qin Shaoyou could feel his inner surprise. In fact, the performance of Wang Ju and Yang Jiong is probably the same.
Qin Shaoyou just smiled bitterly at this.
In their hearts, although the court has done many mistakes. Although in many places, because of the weakness of the Li family, even the people are in a state of dilemma, they must have believed that all the mistakes were not the Li family, but the Wei family. It is an old tradition to let women take the blame anyway. What's more, the Wei family is not a good thing.
But the problem is that Qin Shaoyou has to make plans. It is precisely because he knows what will happen in the future that he is determined to plan ahead in his own way.
The key to the problem is actually not the hatred of the Wei family, nor is it whether the future prince will have any prejudice against him. Although Qin Shaoyou is a powerful minister, although the future emperor may suppress him. In fact, it doesn’t matter to Qin Shaoyou. He is confident that he has enough strength to maintain a delicate balance with the new emperor. This kind of suppression can only be without any pain to himself.
The real problem is that it is no longer a royal family, but a Henan Prefecture, from the gentry, tycoon, to the most ordinary minority, the ridiculous thing is that Qin Shaoyou is almost 100% sure of people who are born in aristocratic families like Yang Jiong, who are blindly loyal to the Li family. They... are the main force who ultimately insisted on burying the Li family.
Their current hesitation comes from their education and cognition.
But such perceptions will change soon.
Because Qin Shaoyou has already opened a Pandora's box, once it is opened, it will be difficult to close.
The prosperity of commerce and the crazy production of commodities, the final result is that the production capacity begins to expand violently. This expansion is barbaric and does not make any sense. Therefore, when it expands to a certain level, more cheap raw materials must be obtained, more strong men must produce for themselves, and enough people must consume their own goods.
When production reaches a certain limit, when consumption reaches its limit, when population restrictions reach its peak, and when raw materials remain high due to increasing demand, a crisis is born.
A large number of goods will be stockpiled in the warehouse, and a large number of people will lose their karma. Once this happens, countless people will go from wealth to poverty overnight.
Even the Yang family, the largest leader in Kanto, is very likely to encounter this disaster. At that time, even hundreds of years of foundation may be destroyed.
So...how to solve this problem?
In fact, this problem has always been easy to solve. Since no one consumes, then create consumption. A large number of people are unemployed, then create employment. However, nothing was created out of thin air. However, Qin Shaoyou has one way, that is... expanding his arms.
Because expanding the military requires countless needs, countless weapons, and countless military uniforms, which can make the difficult workshops reopen and allow those craftsmen who are about to lose their jobs to continue to have new jobs.
But the problem is that Qin Shaoyou's money was not transformed, and he could not raise more and more military horses, but he had endless money and grain. If he had no money and grain, of course he would issue debts.
Then... this model is that Qin Shaoyou borrowed money from merchants, and then trained troops, creating demand, merchants earned money, and workers had food to eat.
This... seems to be a perfect plan, but... it has a fatal weakness. When the money is borrowed, how should we pay it back? After raising so many troops, it is a bottomless pit in itself. It is easy to borrow money and it is difficult to repay it. Once the money cannot be paid back, the money bank must collapse. Once the money bank collapses, everyone will be finished.
If the army stays at home, of course it is a pure consumable. It seems that there is no way to make the army create value, and the only opportunity for the army to create value is... plunder.
Plundering land, plundering more population, and plundering more resources is the most crucial link in this future link.
The more plundered Qin Shaoyou can support more troops, and merchants have more demands, so they can expand their production capacity crazily and make more money. The more they expand their production capacity, they need more manpower and more resources. The lives of craftsmen can be improved, and those gentry members who have resources do not have to worry about family business.
This is almost the only way that Qin Shaoyou can find. The nature of merchants is infinite greed. Once the development here reaches its limit, these people who are loyal to the Tang Dynasty will not hesitate to become the main driving force for Qin Shaoyou to break up with the court.
Because Qin Shaoyou understood this, what he could do was to make this preparation early so as to avoid being in a hurry when he was really busy.
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A few days later, good news came. The second prince left Chang'an. This was an urgent report from Zhulou, and the news was very accurate. The movements of the court were naturally under Zhulou's nose. After the incident, the attitudes of the people in the temple became ambiguous.
The emperor seemed unwilling to bother with this issue. Obviously, Li Xian's fear of trouble could not help but attack at this time. He did not want to confront Qin Shaoyou at this time, so he didn't mention it at all.
And Wei was planning something for the time being, and he couldn't care about a prince.
The ministers in the temple did not make any noise. To some extent, everyone may not be satisfied with the third prince and had some sympathy for the second prince. However, since the third prince is the crown prince, they can do nothing.
It is said that the prince's prince suddenly ran away after hearing the second prince's brother. He was anxious for a while, but he was not easy to speak. Did he just become the prince, and he was eager to jump out and criticize his brother?
The reason why the second prince Li Chongfu made up his mind to go to Luoyang was that his inner fear had reached its limit.
He knew very well that in the end, whether Wei was in the world or his brother became the emperor, he had no good results. His last glimmer of hope was cut off in Chang'an. At first, he was in a state of confusion. But soon, he began to worry. As the eldest son of the emperor, he actually found that he had no way out. So under this anxiety, Qin Shaoyou's summoning had a fatal temptation.
After all, he was unwilling to give up, and after all, he was unwilling to give birth to a sloppy life.
So he finally set off quietly, taking advantage of the messy situation in Chang'an City, he fled overnight.
On the way, there were actually no dangers, and even Hangu Pass did not investigate the business trips and travels. Moreover, Li Chongfu also used some money to get away with it. In fact, what he didn't know was that before that, Zhulou people had already begun to protect him secretly, and many people along the way had been secretly bribed, enough for him to arrive in Luoyang safely.
Li Chongfu's arrival is almost equivalent to heavy news in Luoyang.
Anyway, this prince deserves sympathy.
Qin Shaoyou and many people were waiting at the dock early in the morning. When he saw Li Chongfu's ship coming, he waited for Li Chongfu to get off the ship. When the ship leaned against the case, Li Chongfu got off the ship. The second prince's heart finally fell to the ground.
Coming to Luoyang was a big gamble for him. He didn't know the situation in Luoyang at all. It was precisely because of this that Li Chongfu couldn't help but feel anxious, but when he saw the show that Qin Shaoyou personally greeted him, he felt that he was welcomed by him.
Although many things are a sight to the leopard, Li Chongfu saw sincerity, so he crossed the pier and greeted Qin Shaoyou. Qin Shaoyou had almost no dealing with this noble man. When Li Xian was in Luoyang, Qin Shaoyou was very busy and had already become prominent. However, Li Xian's sons obviously were not in a good situation. Their identities were too awkward. Even when they had contact with important officials like Qin Shaoyou, they were afraid of attracting unnecessary speculation and trouble.
Chapter completed!