The emperor... Is it really just for the purpose of handling the case? And it is really just to punish the evil people, so don’t you ask?

How is this possible?

From this point of view, only hundreds of direct descendants of the Xu family died in Runan this time, and many of the Chen family died, especially the elders led by Chen Tang died in the battle of crossing the river, but they were really dead. Not only did Chen Dao himself grant the title, but even Chen Fan was chased for honor. This seems to be rewarding them, and the Chen family, to be honest, is really not a trait.

Although their Chen surnames were all demolished, although there are not many people in Hanoi, Hedong, Jingzhao and other places now, the ones are all fertile and have been developed.

Could it be that the emperor was angry and buried in a million corpses and blood flowed thousands of miles? That's it?

If you don’t kill tens of thousands of people to be buried with Xun You, why did you come to Runan?

The emperor is kind and kind, which everyone in the world knows, but no one really thinks that the emperor is talking about Chen and Xu families because of fear, cowardice, etc.

Who doesn’t know that the emperor has always been decisive in dealing with powerful clans?

Will there be any deep meaning in this?

So after arriving at Pingyu City, Chen Dao couldn't help it and asked, "Your Majesty, Runan is not the only one with Xu. The Chen family. Although the Xu family is the leader of this matter, many of the powerful people of the Runan tribes will probably participate in it. Should I... I will take the elite of the clan to sweep them one by one tomorrow?"

However, Liu Xie frowned deeply and asked, "Are you... so murderous? The wealthy families in Runan are all married to each other for generations. These are all your relatives."

"My... I am a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty. I have no relatives in front of the national law."

"Why do you have to say so cold-blooded? It's just that you think this matter must be over. You're afraid of implicating your Chen family. There's nothing to deny about human nature."

Chen Dao's sweat continued.

"No need to make it so bloody. I am not an unreasonable person. Those who are really involved in this matter will definitely not let him run away. If it has nothing to do, I will not vent my anger. After all, the world has been in chaos for more than ten years, and the population of the Central Plains is already small enough. I will not add fuel to the fire. Let me leave this matter to the new Runan Prefect Fazheng to investigate. He is also the descendant of the Legal Family. I believe that this matter will be found out in the end."

"yes."

"By the way, the Chen family is you making the decision now?"

"I can be the head of the Chen family."

"Oh, I plan to establish the Runan County Industrial Industry Group. Based on your Chen and Xu Manors, we will move these means of production to Pingyu for unified management. Do you think there is any problem?"

"Of course I have no objection, but... if they are all moved here, will Pingyu City be a little small? It is probably not easy to find such a large piece of open space. The workshop requires a lot of workers, including food, clothing, housing and transportation."

"Then you demolish Pingyu City, re-plan and re-build it. You don't have to worry about these."

Chen Dao looked shocked and inexplicably.

Then he said: Yes.

It was indeed a big move!

In fact, Liu Xie really thought about this so-called big move after coming to Runan. He had been troubled by the concept of productivity development level for too long, and to a large extent he was subtly influenced by Wang Mang.

It is said that Wang Mang's reforms neglected the development of productivity. He had always thought so before. Now that he has read so much and thought so much, he found that it is pure fart.

The so-called salt and iron franchise part in Wang Mang's reform was purely imitating Emperor Wu of Han. The reason for the failure was that the powerful people had emerged. The manor economy had replaced the small peasant economy, which made the court unable to directly control grassroots units and was forced to withdraw from grassroots production. This was related to the development of productivity.

In fact, from the Qin and Han dynasties to the late Qing Dynasty, did productivity really develop a lot? (The yield per mu has increased by about 15 times, and the main impact of industry and commerce is that there are more cotton and tea). How many years has it been since the late Qing Dynasty to the founding of the People's Republic of China?

The development of productivity can only be said to be a small section of the matter. In addition to this small section itself, the institutional construction of later generations is actually quite interesting in most of the time.

So Liu Xie decided to try to trap the system of future generations in this dynasty. If you can't get it in, try to modify the areas where you can't get it in and try to repair it.

This is how public-private partnership comes from.

Through political rights, the means of production are incorporated, the production relations are maintained, and then the state assets are built by merging these means of production are built, large asset groups are established, and the national economy is guided.

Although he was a little suspicious of selling official positions, he couldn't care about so much. After all, he was just selling titles, not selling official positions, and he didn't collect cash, so he should not destroy the honor of titles. Well... Emperor Wen of Han also sold titles, which did not delay him becoming a model for future kings to learn from.

Moving Runan's main means of production to Pingyu was the second attempt he wanted to make: industrial cities.

Isn’t the lifeline of the manor economy lies in the population? If there are too many people, it will collapse like the Li family, and if there are too few people, it will not develop like the Xun family. Although Liu Xie is not able to make the population of the country live like a mouse, it is impossible to use a knife to reduce the number of domestic population.

Then move!

Try to move the population, especially the industrial population that works, to big cities and major transportation roads. In this way, there will be fewer people and more land in the countryside. If more township enterprises are established as nodes to break their monopoly on life and means of production, will the manor economy collapse?

Because the large cities and major transportation roads gather too many people, isn’t this a problem of too many people?

In this way, the court could invest saturated administrative forces in large cities and then control surrounding rural areas through large cities.

In fact, even if Liu Xie did not deliberately guide, big cities would also come into being after the Sui and Tang Dynasties. For example, Yangzhou, Kaifeng, Dengzhou, Suzhou, etc. are all large cities with a population of over one million that were born in history due to commerce, and both industry and commerce were developed.

The real factor in this is not productivity, but a developed water transport system. Because water transport is developed, large commercial workshops built in cities can distribute the products produced. Even if the transportation costs are included, their selling price still has a price advantage compared to the things produced by small workshops in the manor economy. In this way, the manor economy will naturally be destroyed, and the people in the countryside can also focus more energy on farming, and the population will gradually increase.

Therefore, the history of the development of productivity in ancient times can actually be understood as a history of the development of water conservancy and shipping, so Yang Guang made an indelible contribution! (The author’s own words are purely thought of by himself, without any historical materials, please enjoy it)

The Han Dynasty certainly did not have such convenient shipping conditions, but to be honest, the water system in the Central Plains was quite developed, and it was not difficult to dig a canal with just a little planning.

Why can’t I do what Yang Guang can do?

As long as you can carry out construction in scientific methods, don’t be too happy to achieve success or rush to achieve rapid success, building a canal may not cause death, and even money may not be able to spend a lot of money, and maybe you can make money.

Where the river flows through, the fields on both sides of the river immediately become fields on the upper fields.

As an ordinary modern person, he is too familiar with land finance.

So, when senior officials from more than 2,000 stone meter from all over the country gathered in Pingyu to discuss tax work in the first half of the year and the property status of the newly reduced places, Liu Xie, as the emperor, finally formally expressed his grand idea:

"I plan to build cities and water conservancy in the Central Plains in a five-year period, and name this the 'first five-year plan'"

"First of all, in the local area, between prefectures, counties, and counties, a brand new administrative level is established. I call it the "city". I will collect the essence of the prefecture in a county. This county is the city. The chief of the city is the mayor, with a rank of two thousand stones, and the same county magistrate."

"In one state, a city will be established. For example, this Yuzhou will be used to work in Pingyu City. I plan to establish Runan Industrial Group here based on the family business of Xu and Chen families and the people of the two tribes, and relocate all industries such as iron, industry, wine, hemp, lacquer, paper, etc. to Pingyu. The outside of the city strictly implements the joint venture of salt and iron, and must come to Pingyu for transportation after the mineral deposit is mined."

"In one year, within one year, we must gather the whole country's strength to rebuild this Pingyu City and make it a Pingyu City. In five years, I will build five major cities in the Central Plains, namely Pingyu in Yuzhou, Taiyuan in Bingzhou, Tancheng in Xuzhou, Pingyuan in Qingzhou, and Puyang in Yanzhou. As for whether Yecheng in Jizhou should be upgraded to a city, this matter will be left to Duke Wei himself to decide. Since he is appointed as Duke of the State, he will always give him corresponding powers."

After saying that, he saw all the high-ranking officials over two thousand stones looking at each other.

The amount of information is a bit large.

"Of course, to build a big city, you must have a big river transportation. In addition, a new department is set up in the central government, called the Water Conservancy and River Transportation Department. The chief officials are the nine ministers, who are responsible for the water conservancy work of the Thirteen Prefectures of the Han Dynasty. The first five years of work were to survey and map the world's hydrology and provide supporting water transportation systems for the five major cities."

But Yang Biao finally couldn't help frowning and said, "Your Majesty, such a big project is probably a huge amount of labor every year. Will this... be too much trouble for the people and money? The court will have to wait until the autumn harvest to have surplus grain at the earliest. The surplus workers and Luoyang have not yet been built. Such a big move may hurt the way of benevolence."

Before he could finish speaking, Liu Xie interrupted: "I am not Emperor Wen."

"Ah? This..."

"I am not Emperor Wen, nor Emperor Wu. One of them saves money and the other spends money, so I am different. What I am looking for is a way to make money. The Taiwei thought that building canals and cities was really just a purely profitable transaction? No, no."

"The old minister is stupid, please explain in detail."

"Not to mention, building cities is originally intended to concentrate industrial forces to do big things. Through economies of scale, commodities can be significantly reduced, and selling goods to the world can make a lot of money. Just say that building cities and rivers themselves can also make money."

"After the establishment of Runan Industrial Group, the entire Henan production materials were counted as forced redemption of titles and merged into Runan Industrial Group. The powerful family then invested in Runan Industrial Group with titles. Do these powerful families want to send their clans' direct descendants into the city? If they don't enter the city, they will not even be able to participate in the shareholders' meeting, so it will be confiscated."

"If so many people move into the city, do you have to live in people and build houses? We divide the city into five districts: industry, administration, commerce, residents, and rich people. It is not easy to live in the city. Small and scattered residential areas can be provided to workers as part of employee benefits in the form of dormitories, but they must pay for houses in high-end rich areas. Of course, they must also be built more beautifully. But Pingyu City is so big. Good houses, especially good houses that can demonstrate their status, are of course cherishing resources. Do you understand what I mean?"

Yang Biao thought for a while and said, "There is no need to build it anymore, just sell the land."

Liu Xie thought for a while: "It's OK, it's easier to do more trouble, and directly engage in land finance."

"In addition, after the construction of the canal, the two sides of the river immediately became high-quality fertile land. The people nearby who participated in the construction of the canal were still working for themselves. The court exempted them from taxes for another three years. Isn't this benefiting the people?"

After saying that, Liu Xie was proud of this trick, as a modern person, more or less knew something about this.

However, Yang Biao frowned and said, "I am frank, Your Majesty, your doing so is equivalent to using real estate to deprive the savings of these powerful people in Yuzhou for generations. Isn't this still plundering people's wealth? This seems to be the new policy you mentioned before..."

Liu Xie interrupted again: "You want to say that this is like my new policy or not? Will they still oppose me?"

"No one dares to oppose your Majesty, but Your Majesty, in this meeting, the strategies of various regions have been summarized. The process of implementing the new policy in the local area is not optimistic. Your Majesty can certainly come to Runan in person and take over the two generations of two thousand stone families with supreme majesty, but your Majesty, you can't travel all the thirteen states in the world. This strategy is implemented... I'm afraid..."

Liu Xie smiled when he heard this.

And I smiled very happily.

This was the first time he felt from the bottom of his heart that relying on modern knowledge, sometimes his IQ was really above these three elites.

He may really have the ability to be a good emperor, but he just doesn't have a firm will.

"I know very well that any policy is only meaningful only when it is implemented. The court is nothing more than a magnificent archway. When my resolution is not conducive to those powerful people, even if they dare not rebel, they will definitely act as slander as possible. When these people form an alliance and decide to jointly fight against government administration, it is naturally difficult to implement the administrative orders of the upper level, unless they are directly facing the oppression of the higher power, such as the powerful county facing the prefects of the county, and the top prominent families like Chen and Xu, facing me as the emperor. However, this situation is only adapted to the extraordinary times, and I can't always spend time on these specific local affairs. That's what you mean, right?"

"The Emperor has no wise power."

"However, you are wrong. I bet that the redemption strategy of public-private joint ventures will definitely attract the powerful people. The real estate in Pingyu City's wealthy area will definitely be scrambled to them, and finally, they will buy one that can almost offset the cost of the construction of the new city."

"How is this possible?"

"There is nothing impossible. When the powerful really form an unbreakable iron plate, the court is really helpless to them. But as long as the iron plate is broken and they fight with themselves, it will be quite easy for the court to do anything. The Taiwei, even the national workshops of the country, need to be managed by someone, especially the middle-level. You know, the senior management of such large enterprises must be mobile, and the middle-level is its real master, so..."

Yang Biao suddenly realized: "So, a powerful man who takes the initiative to replace titles and shares with means of production first, even if he doesn't have many shares, can still occupy a relatively important middle-level position in the enterprise. Since he is a joint venture and the court are the real major shareholders of the enterprise, this leads to... positions are indeed more important than shares."

"Of course, as the person in charge of this matter, Fa Xiaozhi appointed donations actively, owned a large property in Pingyu City, and held a powerful man who supported the court's reform more to take on specific real power responsibilities. Isn't it natural that he took the initiative to do so?"

"Your Majesty...Saintly."

"Nothing, this is all the wisdom of a great man."
Chapter completed!