How could a person as smart as Sima Yi be fooled by Xun Yue as a gunman, or simply say that if Xun Yu told him these words in person today, he might still consider them. Xun Yue's words, then I can only say sorry.

Among the people of Yingchuan, excellent children from aristocratic families would definitely not go to the Western Regions as long as they did not make a big mistake. First, they all have a bright future and no reason to go to the Western Regions to suffer. Second, to be honest, they are not suitable. They are all pure literati, who are born in classics, and going to places like Western Regions is not a good match.

But Sima Yi was also very clear about his reply and was not fooled by Xun Yue at all: You Yingchuan people cannot go, it does not mean that we Sanhe people cannot go.

The people in Hedong and Henei have been the source of military service in the Eastern Han Dynasty. There are many families among the aristocratic families who are really good at using troops to fight, so Pei Qian from Hedong is very suitable.

Emperor, who is that person? Who can't tell his determination to manage the Western Regions? Cao Chun, a defeated general, was awarded General Anxi, and he didn't even want to see him. He just made a King of Shu and King Wu.

With such a great determination, I will definitely not be able to persuade you. As for the stuttering and seeking death? Can the emperor's eyes tolerate sand?

So, the two of them were squirrels facing a large bag of pine nuts for half a night, and they ate until late at night, so they went back to their own houses to sleep.

But the two of them tossed and turned and couldn't sleep. Until the next morning, Sima Yi, who had two dark circles, wrote a reply letter and instructed the man: "Go, send it to Brother Yun, and I said that I'm the best... I bought a piece of good topaz and asked him to come over at noon to taste it."

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When Sima Yi and Xun Yu were eating pine nuts, Liu Xie was not idle, but made teppanyaki and invited Cao Chun, Zhuge Liang and Han Sui to have dinner together.

Cao Chun was fine. He knew that the emperor loved to eat teppanyaki, and he also knew that he had always liked to use this trick to win over people. He was not too flattered. Zhuge Liang and Han Sui were different. One was so excited that he cried, and the other was trembling excitedly.

But Liu Xie took out a jar of wine and said, "This wine is the strong wine I brewed when I first started brewing in the palace two years ago. It had to be over 50 degrees. There was only one batch in total. I originally wanted to brew it on a large scale and sell it for money to make up for national use, but after brewing, I found that this wine was too fertile, so I only brewed this batch and stopped brewing."

"I advise you to have a glass of wine and go west to Yangguan without any friends. Come and try it."

As he said that, Liu Xie poured the wine for the three of them himself. As soon as the three of them drank, they were choked and heartbroken, which made Liu Xie laugh.

Then he took a sip of joy, felt the burning of the strong wine from his throat to his stomach, and sighed comfortably.

Han Sui flatteredly: "When drinking this wine is like a knife, it is best to drive away the cold, it is indeed comfortable."

"After a few years, the court's life has become more prosperous, and every household of the people has planted land and collected endless food. We will brew this wine again and sell it to Liangzhou and the Western Regions, which will definitely be easy to sell."

"As for silk and porcelain, it goes without saying that as long as it can be transported out, it will be priceless treasures outside, and even this tea is a powerful tool for trade."

"Three, my purpose of managing the Western Regions is not just to let you simply station an army in Luntai, and let those small countries in the Western Regions give a statement to express their surrender. What's the use of me asking them to surrender? I will never do anything to make face and lose money."

Cao Chun had already wanted to ask, and hurriedly said, "I am stupid, please tell me clearly, how should I manage the Western Regions?"

However, Liu Xie did not answer this question positively, but said: "Why do you think I want to build five major cities in China? What do you think of Kongming?"

Zhuge Liang was stunned when he heard this.

Didn’t we talk about developing the Western Regions? Why are we talking about the five major cities?

Although a smart person like Zhuge Liang could keenly realize that these five major cities were indeed related to the Silk Road, as an ancient person, his inherent limitations made him unable to see clearly.

However, since the emperor asked, he had to answer: "It is for the purpose of ruling the place better, and also for the purpose of clamping down the powerful."

Liu Xie smiled and nodded, "It's right, but it's not all right."

"I know very well that the powerful people are the cancer of the country. The stronger they are, the poorer the country will be. However, I have asked myself many times over the years, can this powerful people really control it? Can I control it, and can descendants also control it? If a group is suppressed, a new group will inevitably emerge like bamboo shoots after a rain."

Cao Chun said: "So, strict systems and laws must be formulated to keep them away. This is the basic idea of ​​the Legalists. Therefore, the emperor attaches importance to law, which means that the Han Dynasty has been of great succession."

Liu Xie smiled and said, "The flattery is good, but in fact, it is useless, or it is destined to only solve the temporary urgent problem and cannot solve the worries of all generations."

"Because any law and law are determined by people, as long as it is determined by humans, there will be loopholes. Over time, these loopholes will be discovered and mastered by smart people, and then become so-called unspoken rules. Vested interest groups always have ways to bypass the law. When these vested interest groups are large enough, any reform is undoubtedly a revolution."

"The taxes of the court will definitely become lower and lower in control of the people. Specifically, the national strength is getting stronger and stronger, but the taxes are getting smaller and smaller, and the money is spent more and more, and the bureaucracy is getting bigger and bigger. However, the court can do less and less. Gradually, the finances are getting less and less, and the court is unable to organize the people to build any large-scale projects, and it is even less and less capable of disaster relief. At this time, if you happen to encounter an invasion of foreign enemies, and with a slight touch, an empire that seems to be extremely powerful will collapse like a fortress on the beach."

Zhuge Liang thought for a while and said, "So, it is not enough to collapse the powerful in the system. We can only start from the bottom. Your Majesty, you are building the five major cities for this purpose. The five major cities concentrate on production and labor, because the classification is more detailed, production must be more professional. Organizing production in the form of assembly lines can greatly reduce the production costs and thus suppress the living space of the powerful manor economy. Through the five major cities, you can also firmly grasp local power."

Liu Xie smiled and nodded, "It's half right."

"I have thought about this question for a long time, and it has been several years. Of course, I think the thinking and angle of the question are different from that of you."

"If you want to completely solve the problem of the powerful, you must understand how the powerful came about. I heard that there were no powerful people in the Shang Dynasty, so why did the Qin Dynasty have no powerful people?"

Zhuge Liang said: "During the Shang Dynasty, the people and the court had a complete personal dependence, and they were all slaves."

"Why are they all slaves?"

“Because…they have low productivity?”

"Yes~, Kong Ming is indeed a wise man of his generation. He can see through the essence of the problem at a glance. It is because of the low production capacity and the low ability of human beings to obtain natural resources, so it must be organized by the state, work and produce in a unified manner. The court occupied all the time and personal freedom of the people. Therefore, the way of rule of the country is to put it bluntly, and the reason why these tribes united to form a country is just to unite to resist the plunder of the northern grassland people."

The three of them looked confused.

It’s not how profound what Liu Xie said is, but that they have never thought about problems from this perspective before.

This is a complete denial, no, it completely ignores the meaning of individuals, especially the saints in the historical process, and completely ignores the so-called benevolence, righteousness, and morality.

However, if you think about it carefully, this analysis is so reasonable, at least much more reliable than those irrelevant myths.

"However, with the progress of productivity, by the end of the Shang Dynasty and by the Western Zhou Dynasty, the population of the imperial court increased and the people no longer needed the imperial court to organize production, so they could survive in nature through farming. Therefore, the well-field system appeared, and only the middle of the nine fertile fields in the tic-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-

"The court doesn't care, and everyone can only manage themselves. However, humans must obtain natural resources through collective production and labor. In order to resist wild animals, or even to resist robbers, the most natural way of production is the family. Because people cannot survive alone in the natural environment and lose the protection of the court, they can only rely on the family. Therefore, after the Zhou Dynasty, the random marriage system became the mainstream. The matriarchal marriage model of the matriarchal society gradually disappeared, and the family became the only social form, and the well-field system naturally disappeared."

"As there are more people, the more powerful it will naturally become stronger after being organized. The more people there are, the higher the productivity of a family with strong organization, and the easier it is to squeeze the survival resources of small families. Gradually, this wealthy family appears, and the wealthy family that has seized political resources can oppress those wealthy families that have not seized political rights. This is the fundamental reason why our dynasty is deeply burdened by the powerful families and the wealthy families."

"When Wang Mang usurped the throne, he also realized the disaster of the powerful clan. When he thought about the ancients, he wanted to restore the well-field system and restore the ancient etiquette. How could he not destroy it? Although what I do now seems to be similar to Wang Mang, and the military household system is essentially similar to the well-field system, the foundation is completely different. This is why I succeeded and Wang Mang failed. This is the reason I thought about it for a long time before I figured out."

"So, the rich people exist because of changes in the mode of production. As long as there is no change in the mode of production, they will never be eliminated. Wild fires cannot be burned out, and the spring breeze will grow again."

The three of them were completely attracted by Liu Xie's unique thinking logic at this time, and they temporarily left the original intention of the meal behind. When they heard this, they couldn't help but look at each other.

Although Liu Xie was a science student in his previous life, he still mastered materialism and dialectics, the basic idea of ​​understanding and understanding the world.

The world observed with materialism is indeed completely different from the world observed with the books of sages.

Why have you been busy for so many years and have been useless and have done so much?

Cao Chun couldn't help asking: "Why didn't the Qin State suffer the disaster of the rich clan?"

This time, Liu Xie didn't need to answer, Zhuge Liang said: "Powering the country by law is the system of military dukes."

"What?"

"The Qin State established a country with law, but actually did not solve the powerful, but forced the powerful to suppress the powerful with national power. It is based on the military duke system. The military duke system and the rule of law are in line with each other. It is precisely because of the rule of law that the court can distribute land with power and allocate it to soldiers who have made meritorious contributions on the battlefield. This distribution method is actually to seize the family's power to distribute the personal distribution power. What the head of the family said is not as good as the court's words, so that's it."

Liu Xie nodded happily when he heard this, saying, "Not bad."

Zhuge Liang continued: "However, after unifying the six kingdoms, the military duke system collapsed because the war had ended. In order to maintain this military duke system, he even refused to conquer the actually meaningless Nanyue. Because he unified the six kingdoms too quickly, although the remaining powerful forces in the six kingdoms were suppressed by the method of migration, their control over the land was greatly reduced, and the court itself also lost the ability to control the land at will. For this reason, the First Emperor had to consolidate his rule through a national tour."

"However, such an approach actually greatly increases the cost of administration. In fact, the Qin State's practice of governing the country by law is to use large-scale officials. I guess its administrative cost should be very high. It is just because Qin State can win battles and has been winning battles. Through war plunder, it is actually equivalent to having additional fiscal revenue to transfusion blood for itself. When the six countries are unified, although it has been maintained for some years by plunder, the six countries are not only unable to transfusion blood for Qin, but also have to collapse because the new establishment of the six countries has greatly increased their administrative costs, which is really the destiny."

"Since the establishment of our dynasty, our army duke system was soon unable to maintain. During the reign of Emperor Wen, the system of raising money was sold and the system of turrets quickly became famous and destroyed. The power of the powerful gentry became increasingly powerful. Since Emperor Wu, even if the court tried its best to suppress the powerful, Emperor Xuan was even more unfair. However, the powerful gentry still grew and developed until Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty. Emperor Guangwu revitalized for a while, but then he quickly took a sharp turn. By the time of the late emperor, the finances in the court were too short to even afford the imperial guards."

Cao Chun and Han Sui: “…………”

Can history be understood like this?

It's really wonderful.

There are so many things that can only be understood.

He heard Zhuge Liang continue to talk: "So what Your Majesty means is that the powerful and powerful gentry cannot be solved by political means at most, and at most they can only temporarily suppress them like Emperor Wu. If Your Majesty is determined to achieve eternal achievements, he must solve the problem of the powerful from the root, that is, destroying, or innovating the production and lifestyle of the people of the world."

Han Sui and Cao Chun looked at each other unconsciously when they heard this. The two strangers saw the subtext in their eyes:

"Do you understand?"

"No, what about you?"

"I don't know much."

No wonder the emperor admires Zhuge Liang so much. Perhaps only he can keep up with the emperor's unpredictable foresight, right?

Liu Xie took over Zhuge Liang's words and started chatting: "According to my analysis, these families currently actually undertake three purposes, namely production and operation, social activities, and reproduction and reproduction. This is the lowest logic that the powerful families can exist. Among them, what is truly the soil of the rich is undoubtedly their production attributes."

"Once this attribute is stripped away, the size of the family will shrink sharply, and the size of the hundreds of people will be the limit. With the withdrawal and degradation of social attributes, the family will eventually become an existence that only passes on to the family line, that is, a family of three or four. By then, the new ethics will replace the old ethics, and Confucius's scheme will become outdated, and the rich will naturally no longer exist."

"Of course, maybe one day the attribute of reproduction will be diluted or simply withdrawn, and the number of children born out of wedlock exceeds that of wedlock. On that day, I guess that the existence of the family will disappear, and there will be renewed ethics to replace the new ethics, but this is not what I could have expected."

This time, even Zhuge Liang was a little confused.

It’s not that he can’t understand it, but that he can’t imagine it at all.

Is it really possible that a society dominated by families of three, four and five?

This kind of thing that was taken for granted to later generations was really shocked in the eyes of these ancient people, like a fantasy.

Han Sui couldn't help asking: "So, how can we draw this attribute of the production and labor unit in the family?"

Zhuge Liang thought for a while and replied: "Since the emergence of the powerful is due to the development of production efficiency, I boldly guess that the demise of the powerful can only rely on the further development of productivity? That is... the city, the city!"

"Although I have never been to Pingyu, I can roughly understand the idea of ​​the emperor. The wealth of the state gathers in the city, so that people's production will be more bound by their identities in the city. In this way, the clan's ability to control individuals' personal control will naturally be greatly weakened."

Liu Xie nodded with a smile when he heard this: "Kong Ming is indeed a wise man. He can see through the essence of the urban economy at a glance. I personally name this new production model industrial economy."

"To be precise, because enterprises in cities, that is, large craftsman workshops, this production model can be completely penetrated into the road. This is a production model that is far more advanced than family production. The production efficiency of large production enterprises built with concentrated financial resources is far higher than that of the manor economy based on clans. The production of enterprises can definitely replace family production and replace family into social production units. At that time, the wealthy families will naturally die."

The three little ones listened attentively. Although Han Sui and Cao Chun could no longer keep up with Liu Xie's ideas at this point, they still didn't understand the truth. They just felt that the emperor's current words were clearly creating a new idea.

An epoch-making idea that is completely out of Confucius.

"However, if we really want to lead the country from the manor economy to the industrial economy, it is far from enough to rely on the five major cities to make a difference. To be honest, although the five cities are enough to dismantle the large tyrants who really threaten the imperial power and subvert the world (like Song and Ming dynasties), they cannot reach every corner of society. The threshold for industry is very high, or very expensive."

"If you want to enter the industrial age, there is an indispensable premise, which is primitive accumulation. A simple understanding is a large amount of money. In fact, the five big cities I want to build are also built by confiscating the production materials from the families of powerful local families. To put it bluntly, it is to do this by plundering private capital and concentrating it into state capital."

"However, if you can only grab it once, the accumulation of aristocratic families for hundreds of years is actually enough to build such five cities. Although it cannot be said to be a drop in the bucket, it is not enough, too little."

"And as mentioned above, the construction of the five major cities was actually built with administrative orders and was operated through administrative systems. Any administrative orders and systems will be found by vested interest groups in a few decades and will play with unspoken rules. Just five pieces of fat, people in the world will start to stare at these five pieces of fat, and sooner or later they will be cleaned up."
To be continued...