Chapter 3248 Spring Rain
It's raining.
This time the rain finally brought a little bit of spring and was no longer so cold and bitter.
The ice layer in the upper reaches of the river has also begun to loosen. If you walk by the river, you will hear the ice surfaces that make thrilling creaking from time to time.
The whole world seems to be gradually disengaging from the cold winter, but winter is still holding the little braid of spring.
Just like those people from Shandong are unwilling to face their failures.
Conspirators conspire in the shadows.
Under the sunshine, everything will also usher in growth.
And when the river melts, the land that has not yet been decided will eventually return to the Shura field where the battle is fought.
Fei Zhen has been able to calmly deal with all this.
After checking the granaries for storing food and grass, he set off again and headed to the military camp.
Beside him was Wei Du. Although Wei Du recovered after being seriously injured and his strength decreased slightly, he was still qualified as Fei Zhen's guard. With a huge body and thick armor, as long as he stood in front of Fei Zhen and a shield that was one person tall, it was like a moving steel wall.
But no matter how much protection is, it cannot replace Fei Zhen's growth.
Fei Zhen rode on the horse, recalling the information that had been summarizing him during this period.
Spring is the season for all things to grow, and Fei Zhen seems to have grown up a little. The eyebrows and eyes are slightly open, no longer like the child before, and the armor on her body can be slightly supported. Of course, in front of outsiders, Fei Zhen is also used to the silly smile no longer like a child. This helps to erect Fei Zhen's serious behavior and increase his majesty.
But when facing a familiar person, Fei Zhen still grinned and showed her eight big teeth...
However, in the past two days, Fei Zhen rarely smiled, and even occasionally showed a trance look.
Information about the changes of the Three Guards of Chang'an has actually been delivered to Fei Zhen these days.
Pang Tong didn't say anything directly, but asked Fei Zhen to see and think about it himself.
Among the news sent from the Sanfu of Chang'an, Fei Zhen felt the most sad that there were so many spies and so many opponents...
Is it not good for Chang'an Sanfu's life?
Or is there any problem with the political system in Guanzhong?
Fei Zhen’s father told him that whether a political system should be optimistic or not is not whether it is good or not, but whether the officials in the government office say good or bad, but whether the poorest people are full.
But now...
It is obvious that the people have eaten better than before, but why do some officials and some Qingliu feel that the system is not good?
When Fei Zhen returned to the military camp and asked Pang Tong this question, Pang Tong laughed and looked at Fei Zhen, "Does the young master really want to know?"
Fei Zhen bowed and said, "Ask Uncle Shi for advice."
Pang Tong thought for a moment, nodded, and put the bamboo slips on his hand aside, "Okay, it's time... The young master thought, what is the government of officials?"
『Of course it is a talent!』 Fei Zhen answered without thinking, "Select talent, use talent, and make full use of talent!"
Pang Tong nodded, shook his head again, "This is a control, not a governance."
"Ah?" Fei Zhen was stunned for a moment.
Are these two different?
"It is to set up rules and regulations. It is to cure evil and seek good." Pang Tong wrote these two words in the air with his fingers.
Fei Zhen suddenly realized, "Then what is the rule of this official?"
Pang Tong smiled, touched his sleeves, took out a few coins, and put them on the table, "This is the rule of officials."
"This..." Fei Zhen frowned.
Fat Uncle, aren't you just fooling me?
Pang Tong was still smiling, then stretched out three fingers, "The Lord decided to the country three laws, this is one of them!"
『Oh?』 Fei Zhen stared at the top, 『This matter... Why don't I know about the three methods? Those three methods? This is one of them? Isn't this money? Money is also one of them?"
Pang Tong nodded and said, "If you talk about the classics, your lord is not very clear... Haha, don't look at me like this, I mean it is true. If the lord comes here in person, I will say the same thing! However, the lord can integrate the two words of economy, which is the inability of the lords in the world... The reason why Zhou was defeated was the princes. Confucius cried rituals and music, but he did not know that it had nothing to do with rituals and music, but it was money. If the lords did not get money and could not support officials and soldiers, how could Zhou be defeated?"
Fei Zhen took a breath, "In this way, what is the point of governing officials...is salary?"
'It's almost the same, but not all.' Pang Tong nodded and said, 'Using history to find the method, we know what the old tricks are covered. If the ancient method is used as the current method, wouldn't it be a good food to use rotten food? There were some Confucians in the Han Dynasty who were ashamed of discussing money, but they did not know the way of money. It was the law of the world. If they were not used, they would be like holding a sharp blade in the hand and running wildly in the downtown market, hurting others and hurting oneself.'
In fact, it was not only in the Han Dynasty, but also in most scholars in subsequent feudal dynasties.
When these Confucian scholars who read scriptures in ancient China talked about money, they seemed to bear how much humiliation they had...
As a result, in modern times, I was slapped by foreigners again, and then made a big turn of 180 degrees, which often showed how the Western economy was. I regarded Western financial theory as the standard and disdained the history of ancient China.
In fact, the evolution of the Chinese dynasty is inseparable from the exploration of the economic and financial system and the reform of the official salary system...
Huaxia is actually a country that matures earlier than any other country in the world.
In order to maintain China's territory, China was the first to enter the era of centralization. Before this system was invented, it was almost impossible for humans to establish a unified country within a territory of millions of square kilometers.
In order to make the people a hundred miles away obey and act in unison, in ancient times, Yan Huang thought of a way, which was to integrate. They fuse deer antlers, fish scales, horse faces, and other tribes, creating the image of a dragon, and becoming the background color of the Chinese political system.
On the basis of Yanhuang, the Zhou Dynasty laid a foundation for the system with bloodlines.
The Qin and Han dynasties learned from the Zhou Dynasty, cut off the princes again, became counties, and established a primary centralized state system.
The most important means for the central government to control bureaucrats is finance.
Except for the central government, other institutions have no right to collect taxes and cannot pay salaries to officials.
In this way, officials became ruling tools raised by the central government, and the central government firmly controlled the people through bureaucratic networks.
However, centralization has a big problem.
As the regime continues, the bureaucracy, as the stability maintenance system of the entire empire, will become increasingly large.
The bureaucratic system is indefinitely expanding, which makes the Chinese small peasant economy gradually unable to afford it.
In the early days of the establishment of the dynasty and the peace era, the scale of the bureaucracy was relatively small, and it could be supported by formal agricultural taxes. However, once it entered a state of war, or in the late dynasty, the bureaucracy expanded too much, and relying solely on formal taxes would be useless.
At this time, the Chinese dynasty would develop various means other than formal taxation, grab wealth from the people and further deteriorate the conflicts between them. Therefore, it is not wrong to say that it is a land conflict, because this is indeed a disadvantage under the ancient small peasant economic system in China.
"At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the emperors succeeded to the remnant disaster of the separatist vassal of the princes, and the analysis of the taxes of the Shaofu." Pang Tong said slowly, "Therefore, all the wise men were wise and used the method of cultivation to cultivate the methods of nourishing and resting, gradually financial policies, weakening the power of the vassal states, and thus became the prototype of unification. At the end of Emperor Xiaowu, he wanted to fight the Huns' national war, but his treasury was insufficient, so he established a monopoly of salt and iron and a monopoly of coins. "
"Salt and iron theory..." Fei Zhen nodded, "I know this..."
Pang Tong smiled.
Fei Zhen immediately realized something was wrong, so she quickly changed her words and said, "I... I know a little bit..."
Pang Tong nodded.
If Qin Emperor was the founder of the centralized legal system, then Hanwu was the founder of the centralized financial system. With the Tang Emperor, then the three sets of classical centralized carriages were all gathered.
Emperor Wu of Han's centralized fiscal system influenced the development and changes of the subsequent dynasties of China in many aspects for thousands of years.
Because the military expenses were too extensive, the cost of a war in the Han Dynasty could reach dozens of times the salary of central officials, which made the tears of those bureaucrats flow out of their mouths in a daze...
Many bureaucrats and officials do not understand the so-called unreliable teaching of classics, nor do they know that those who talk to the enemy cannot resist swords and guns, but the problem is that there are so many small money! If the emperor agrees to change the main method of war to verbal cannons, then can these small money be used to improve the quality of life of bureaucrats?
As for losing a foreign war, the country will be destroyed...
What's the matter with the bureaucrats?
Confucius could be an official in several countries and travel around the countries to give lectures. Why can't they do it?
Just imitate the sages!
Make money, it’s not shabby!
In the war between Emperor Wu of Han, the agricultural tax could not cope with his expenses. For this reason, Emperor Wu of Han tried almost all possible financial resources, from selling official positions, issuing impairment currency, and then strengthening commercial taxes, but none of them could meet the huge financial expenses. In the end, Emperor Wu of Han chose to monopolize natural resources and open a salt and iron monopoly.
It can be said that Emperor Wu of Han established the earliest state-owned enterprise in China...
The bearded man said that it was necessary to have a state-owned enterprise until the starry ideology. In fact, China had already begun to follow this path in the Han Dynasty, but it was just beaten back by some people.
Emperor Wu of Han made the role of the Han court from simply collecting taxes to participating in the actual operation of the people's livelihood economy, which also brought about changes in the bureaucratic system and destroyed the original small government model.
Therefore, after Hanwu, if we want to fight, we must collect more taxes; if we want to collect more taxes, we must establish state-owned enterprises and financial monopoly, which will inevitably affect the development of the fragile Chinese economy; and the Chinese economy blindly extends its hands to agriculture, which will lead to the barrenness of farmers and stagnation of development, which in turn affects the stability of the court, thus causing the collapse of the dynasty.
"Emperor Xiaoling, the same is true..." Pang Tong said slowly, "I thought that once the money arrived, I could defeat everything and fight invincible... Haha, I didn't know that this money was just fat, and I ate it for a year and a year..."
Fei Zhen understood a little, but still asked in a confused manner: "Uncle Shi, I still can't understand, what is the relationship between this... the government of officials and this money...?"
Pang Tong laughed and said, "Isn't this still clear? Could it be that the young master thinks that the rule of officials is to establish the salary of officials?"
Fei Zhen exclaimed, "Isn't it?"
"No." Pang Tong said, "Why is the country paying taxes to all people but paying salaries to officials? Are they loyal to the emperor and the officials of the world?"
"Of course it's for..." Fei Zhen pondered halfway through the words.
If it is for the sake of the loyalty of the emperor, this is obviously wrong.
At least in the Han Ling Dynasty, the places where the young emperor Liu Bian and the current emperor Liu Xie cannot be seen...
How many people can really do it if you swear?
The court gave the three dukes and nine ministers, and the civil and military officials so much salary, what was the result?
The family and country are humiliated, the frontiers are fallen, and the emperor is shamed, but all officials are still happy.
It turned out that the great man had a high salary and a generous salary, and the bureaucrats he raised were just to raise a group of ungrateful wolves?
So, are officials for the sake of the people of the world?
Isn't this even more a joke?
Pang Tong faced Fei Zhen's puzzled look and nodded and said, "The original reason was indeed for the sake of the people in the world... but, haha... the young master also understood, so he retreated and sought the second best. He used his salary to control the officials in the world and did not allow him to favor personal gain."
『Purchase private affairs with salary?』 Fei Zhen's eyes widened. This was the first time he heard Pang Tong say this.『There are no...there are Wen Si and Zhi Yin Jian?The Dali Temple...』
Pang Tong laughed and waved his hand and said, "Have you ever heard of... the cruel official Zhang Du?"
"Zhang Tang and Du Zhou?" Fei Zhen asked.
Pang Tong nodded, "There is no more cruel officials in the Han Dynasty, but how about it? Let me ask you, is it not that the investigation is not strict? Is it not that the punishment is not serious? Is it not that many people are killed? But corruption cannot be eliminated!"
"This..." Fei Zhen couldn't answer.
When Du Zhou was the Tingwei, he launched a vigorous anti-corruption campaign. The arrested county magistrates and officials above the nine ministers had a salary of more than 2,000 stones. If we compare them in later generations, it can be understood that there are no less than 100 people at the provincial and ministerial level, and no less than 1,000 cases submitted for trial by the local government every year.
There are hundreds of people involved in a major case, and dozens of people involved in a small case.
In order to verify the case, the case handlers went back and forth for hundreds or even thousands of miles.
When someone disobeys the trial, the prison officers will adopt the method of torture and force confession to make a decision. In the end, many officials immediately fled when they heard that they had been involved in the lawsuit, so as not to fall into Du Zhou's hands.
Some cases have been delayed for more than ten years and have not yet closed, and more than 100,000 people are imprisoned in prison...
It was Du Zhou who only had one horse's property before becoming an official, but after becoming an official, he became a rich man and also had a good end.
In the anti-corruption project under Du Zhou, the confiscated property was calculated in billions of dollars, and the servants were calculated in thousands of millions of dollars. The confiscated land was hundreds of hectares in large counties and hundreds of hectares in small counties. In fact, the money was collected and could have been used for economic development. However, after Emperor Wu of Han got it, it became the cost of war and the consumption of the high-end museums in Shanglinyuan.
Fei Zhen listened and pondered.
Pang Tong was not in a hurry, and picked up the bamboo slips from the side and started to look at them.
The rain outside the window gradually became heavier.
The spring rain drizzles and falls in every inch of the courtyard.
In the drizzle, the carved beams and painted buildings in the corridor appear more simple and deep, as if they are gently covered by the quicksand of time. On the path paved with bluestone, the rain slowly gathers into small water flows, flowing slowly along the mottled texture, and then soaks into the land.
The flowers, plants and trees in the courtyard are more and more vibrant under the nourishment of spring rain.
The water droplets on the leaves are crystal clear and circling from time to time, and then quietly jump down from the leaves and thrown into the embrace of the earth.
The mountains in the distance are looming in the rain, like a faint ink painting...
Fei Zhen looked up at the spring rain, as if she was feeling a little, and muttered, "The rain fell... the water was gurgling..."
Pang Tong glanced at Fei Zhen and smiled slightly.
As a second generation project who has been carefully trained, Fei Zhen has received a lot of attention and has to bear more responsibilities.
It doesn’t matter if someone else’s half-boy is flying eagles and horses, but Fei Zhen can’t do it. He must understand these things.
When Pang Tong Rafeizhen arrived at Zuo Fengyi, it was not entirely to assist Fei Qian, but also to cultivate Feizhen.
On the one hand, we can quickly allocate troops according to Cao Cao's actions to correspond, and on the other hand, we can create an opportunity to allow Fei Zhen to grow.
I saw some blood, and it would be better if Fei Zhen took it on his own...
Pang Tong thought in his heart that the thief Cao could not wait any longer and could only try his best, so his methods should naturally be used up!
Wei Duan jumped out this time, which surprised Pang Tong a little.
Pang Tong thought that Xun You would need to do some more actions to force Wei Duan to come out of the turtle shell...
Now it's good. It's legitimate to allow Fei Zhen to gain some merits, and it will also help Fei Qian go further in the future and have a relatively stable and intelligent successor...
Pang Tong thought in his mind and pinched his chin.
I thought that I had finished this time, and I would have to make up for it anyway...
On the other side, after a while, Fei Zhen suddenly clapped her hands, "I understand! The flowing water does not rot the door hinge and does not rot! Money is like flowing water, and official positions are like the door hinge! Taking the wealth of the world, it should flow back to the world! Assuming the job of the house hinge, it should operate like a door door! If there is a trap that flows from the water and it will be fat, it should be eliminated! If there is a person who does not operate properly, it should be replaced!"
"The master's command is the method of money flowing! It's like this spring rain moistening all things! It's unbiased, without any increase or decrease! Towers, pavilions, flowers, plants and trees are regarded as the same!"
"The salary of officials should be sufficient to support their families, and they should respect their duties and distinguish between mediocre talents and encourage them to advance, just like the achievements of military merits! If the salary is too heavy, the official will be lazy, and the people will be resentful. If the salary is very light, the officials will lack food and clothing, and they will be unwilling to manage affairs, and they will easily become greedy... Sure enough! The salary is the primary priority of finance! The way to balance is like rain, which will cause flooding and drought. Only when they are not biased can they produce everything!"
Pang Tong nodded and praised, and then smiled and said, "If there is an official, his salary is only a hundred stones, but his family's wealth is tens of millions... What do you think?"
"Do you should be punished!" Fei Zhen said firmly.
Chapter completed!