Jia Xu and Li You both stopped and looked at Chen Xi. They didn't understand why Chen Xi was so sure.
"Don't worry, I have already made preparations in these aspects when Taishan was first built, otherwise I wouldn't have implemented those welfare protection systems." Chen Xi said with a smile. He would not say clearly what those things were, and it is not yet available. Time.
Probably no one knows how much profit there is in making sugar, tea and porcelain. Similarly, no one has thought about how many cattle and horses can be raised in the north. Few people pay attention to these simplest things.
However, Chen Xi has witnessed the power of these things in history. The profits generated by each item are calculated in terms of hundreds of millions, but not in terms of copper coins, but in terms of silver...
As for how much it would be converted into copper coins, Chen Xi was not sure, but one thing Chen Xi knew was that this income was enough to beat the current overall tax revenue of the Han Dynasty by several blocks.
Chen Xi didn't want to say this out loud. He had long since discovered that he was no longer as able to suppress this era as before. Although some people felt that Chen Xi was like the bright moon covering this era under his own light, dimming the light of the stars.
In fact, Chen Xi felt more and more that he had more than enough ambition and insufficient power. Whether it was his own wise men like Lu Su and Guo Jia, or the enemy leaders like Cao Cao and Sun Ce, Chen Xi felt that he could not suppress them.
Well, this kind of inability to suppress is not the kind of being unable to be killed or defeated. To be killed or defeated is purely based on the loss.
What Chen Xi can't suppress at the moment means that he can't make these people move forward obediently according to the script he has prescribed. Sun Ce is fine, but Cao Cao wants to make a big move all day long, which makes Chen Xi a little annoyed. After a while, Lu Bu soared, and another chess piece was eliminated.
At that time, the situation in the Central Plains was made like that by Liu Bei and Yuan Shao. If Lu Bu didn't go to Bingzhou, he would die. If he went to Bingzhou, he would have to bear his previous debts. Chen Gong was not a fool. The righteousness must be put to good use, and Lu Bu is destined to never return to the Central Plains if he kills the barbarians.
People are like this. Lu Bu can continue to be stone-hearted if he doesn't step into Bingzhou, but after stepping into Bingzhou and seeing the devastation everywhere. It would be strange if Lu Bu could maintain a heart of stone.
There is a psychology called the sense of atonement, and there is also a psychology called the sense of responsibility. It doesn't matter if Lu Bu doesn't return to Bingzhou, but as long as Lu Bu goes back, he won't give an explanation. It is impossible for him to leave, this is the human heart.
This is also the reason why Chen Xi knew that Tian Yu was in the north, but did not recruit Tian Yu. Although Gongsun Zan did get offline in history, one thing needs to be admitted, this person did not let go in fighting Waihu.
Similarly, Li Jue and Guo Bang are also scum, but they will not give up when the opportunity to clear themselves is at hand, because this is human nature.
This was also Chen Xi's confidence to suppress and even drive the civil and military ministers of the entire era. Everyone has everything they want to gain, and they also have a cautious side. And Chen Xi relied on these to drive everyone to a road bit by bit.
Liu Bei needs to support the Han Dynasty and the super clan, so he needs the power of his ministers. When Cao Cao is weak, he needs to play according to the rules set by Liu Bei. Sun Ce wants to prove himself and not let down Yuan Shu's trust, so He can't break the rules set by Yuan Shu.
Li You wants to give poor families a way to advance and make the people of the Central Plains more prosperous; Jia Xu wants to live a more comfortable and comfortable life; Liu Ye wants to promote Liu Bei to a higher level; Fazheng wants to prove himself; Guo Jia hopes to prove the existence of poor families and so on.
These are almost irrelevant, but Chen Xi found a clear context from them. Relying on this thread, these wise men, although they are not completely opposite to each other, are all different from each other.
It's not because these people are virtuous, nor because they are intelligent. It's because the path Chen Xi takes can help them achieve their goals better.
Both Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu wanted to achieve the Yuan family's goal of wiping out the rebels from the bottom up. However, Yuan Shao was born as a commoner, so he was more lenient to the common people. Yuan Shu was the legitimate son of a wealthy family, and wiping out the rebels was inevitable in his view. Therefore, The goal is set further.
Not to mention whether the method is right or not. No normal person would think that he is a representative of evil, unless he is already crazy. It can be said that except for misestimating the actual situation, no one in this group of confident people will think that what they are doing is wrong.
Just like Yuan Shu didn't think there was anything wrong with restoring the old style of the aristocratic family, Yuan Shu never thought that he was doing anything for the people. He was just clearing away garbage. There was no concept of people in his concept.
This is actually due to the different concepts of the times. In this era, there are probably only people with one hand who really fight for the people. Chen Xi is one, Liu Bei is one, Zhang Zhongjing is one. As for the others, Chen Xi really doesn’t know.
Li You did it for the poor family. The poor family is not equal to the common people. Chen Xi has known this for a long time. Even if he said that he would open the door to education widely, Li You was just glad that the poor family had books to read.
Li You knew very well that the people could not afford a full-time scholar and were powerless, so Chen Xi chose partially free education from the beginning and provided two meals.
Li Jue reopened the Zhengguo Canal and Liufu Canal not for the people, but for himself, but the people benefited.
Lu Bu's battle with the barbarians in the north was filled with a sense of atonement and shame. No one can tell how much of it benefited the people, but it was enough that the people benefited.
Officials in the world are the main force fighting for themselves. Chen Xi has no good solution for this, but as long as the people benefit, the purpose is not important to Chen Xi.
The late Han Dynasty was not an era for the people. Chen Xi had already determined this. Therefore, in order for the people of the world to treat the people gently, it was impossible to rely on their moral quality.
The punishment is not as good as that of the officials, and the courtesy is not as good as that of the common people. Whether it is misinterpreted to mean that the common people do not need to be treated with courtesy, or that the common people are not required to have complete etiquette, the basic meaning is the same. The saints believe that the common people are not the same species as them.
After being taught like this, Chen Xi himself didn't even have this hope that he could still treat the common people as human beings, but it didn't matter, he had his own way.
The wealthy family didn't want to do this, so Chen Xi used coercion and inducement. The tenderness in the late Han Dynasty was also forced out by Chen Xi with extremely strong force. Giving the common people some benefits is better than being unlucky for his own family, not to mention that Chen Xi will also compensate them. .
Wasn't it because Cao Cao was forced by the situation to admit the mistake of massacre in Xuzhou? If Cao Cao is the Duke of Wei who spans ten states, see if he will admit his mistake.
Internally, Chen Xi relied on his ideals to unite his comrades and eliminate internal conflicts; externally, he relied on the strength of his comrades to write rules bit by bit, forcing everyone to move forward according to his rules. However, that was it, and it was difficult for him to be more precise. . (To be continued.)
