After beating the Liji, Zhao Xin asked A Miao to heat up the food and bring two more pairs of bowls and chopsticks, and the four of them sat down to eat.
Sheng Haizhou and Li Ji declined quickly, saying they didn't dare, but Zhao Xin's words made their hearts boil: "Have you forgotten the time when we drank porridge from the same pot?"
Having said that, it is no longer five years ago. Everyone was silent during the meal. Sheng Haizhou and Li Ji took a few bites before pretending that they had already eaten before. Zhao Xin also ate half the bowl with great taste.
When the two said goodbye, Zhao Xin asked Li Ji to stay. Sheng Haizhou was vaguely aware of the matter that Li Ji was responsible for privately, but when he thought about his own affairs, he couldn't help but feel a little uneasy.
"Tell me, what's going on in the past few months?"
The secret agent organization Li Ji is responsible for has now become a behemoth, with tentacles covering every resident group; if you insist on comparing it to anything, it is almost the same as the "XX masses" in another time and space.
Whether it is a factory or a farm, or the security police, civil affairs, the army, and schools have all developed eye spies, and Li Ji will be able to know what happened in any area during the day at night. There is all kinds of news, ranging from weddings and funerals to all kinds of satisfaction or dissatisfaction in folk chats.
Zhao Xin does not want to engage in "espionage politics". Only a ruler who cannot fully trust his subordinates would engage in this kind of thing. When a ruler prefers to use unconventional means that are outside the law, he must want to achieve his own unconventional goals.
Whether it was Wu Zetian or Yongzheng who were very good at this in history, one founded the dynasty as a woman, which was neither in line with the etiquette nor the ancestral system; the other was because of the deep-seated conflicts between Manchu and Han and the emerging conflicts. Official corruption.
In fact, what they are really afraid of is that officials will unite against them, so they use espionage politics to maximize their control and alienation of officials, and let them fight alone in order to establish their absolute authority.
Zhao Xin chatted with Li Ji very late. In addition to some nonsense about "the Zhang family and the Li family have three toads and five eyes", there were two things that attracted his attention.
First, Sheng Haizhou and the eldest daughter of the Katabei family, Nozomi, are in love, and they are now waiting to get engaged to Zhao Xinzhenming. Since the Momoyama era of Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the island country, both the shogunate and the lords of the feudal lords have been involved in the marriage affairs of their ministers. Warriors would be punished if they decided to get married privately without going to court.
Although Beihai Town has long promoted the autonomy of marriage, in the final analysis, in the face of powerful secular forces, few people dare to do so; especially guys like Katayama and Sheng Haizhou who were born as warriors in the island country.
Xi Hui and Zhao Xin from the Katayama family also saw her and had a very good impression. She was a beautiful and decent girl. Ding Guofeng had also been thinking about her coming here before.
So Zhao Xin told Li Ji that this matter was nothing. He went to tell Sheng Haizhou that if he needed to help propose a marriage, he would be happy to be the matchmaker.
The second is that since Zhao Xin teamed up with the Sendai Domain to attack Shimazu, there have been some criticisms among the naturalized people of the island country, but they were all discussed in private, and no one dared to bring it to the table. The biggest promoters here are Lin Ziping and Sato Shinbuchi.
Since Lin Ziping has been responsible for making maps for Beihai Town, he naturally has more contact with Sheng Haizhou, the chief of staff of the Beihai Navy. Old man Lin is also a famous scholar in the island country, and he has gradually exerted some influence on the young Sheng Haizhou. Mr. Lin often reveals his worries about the future of the island country in his words.
In fact, from the perspective of islanders, it is understandable for Lin Ziping and Sato Shinbuchi to think so. You, Prince Zhao, are very capable of saving people from fire and water, but after all, you are messing with my country.
It is obvious that the shogunate and the feudal lords are a bunch of bastards who eat people without spitting out their bones. The lives of ordinary people are in dire straits. Why don't you, Prince Zhao, conquer the island country and take over the country? After all this, the Sendai clan was actually established to compete with the shogunate.
Taking advantage of this "support incident", Zhao Xin took down the two leading military leaders among the naturalized people of the island country, Sheng Haizhou and Zhao Liji. This was regarded as an unintentional insertion and blocked Lin Ziping's attempt to influence Beijing through Sheng Haizhou. Thoughts of the Navy. If Old Man Lin continues to be dishonest, Zhao Xin will have no choice but to send him to Beihai Special Zone under residential surveillance. It is impossible to return to China.
In the past five years, Rikichi, whether voluntarily or forced by his wife Shino, read some books, and his vision was no longer the same as that of the small rich peasant of Hirosaki Domain. At the end of the conversation with Zhao Xin, he finally couldn't hold back and asked the question he wanted to ask the most.
"My lord, why don't you want to be emperor?"
Zhao Xin pondered for a long time before slowly saying: "Liji, do you know what an emperor is?"
Li Ji was stunned for a long time before saying: "Emperor? God?"
Zhao Xindao: "The Book of Changes says that the emperor is the master of living things and the sect of Xingyi."
How could Liji understand this? So he could only shake his head blankly.
Seeing this, Zhao Xin explained: "The emperor is above, and the emperor is below. The emperor originally meant heaven and earth, which means that heaven and earth are the masters of all things. Whether you or I, we are just passers-by in heaven and earth. .”
Liji said: "Lord, you are different, you are..."
Zhao Xin raised his hand and interrupted: "There is no need to mention this matter again. Remember, if I don't say anything, no one is allowed to do this again. Let me tell the people below, whoever dares to make an issue about this matter will be punished. Go to Lake Baikal and drink the northwest wind."
When Zhao Xin went to Shen's house for breakfast the next day, Shen Xuan took advantage of the fact that no one was around to talk about what happened yesterday. The seven aunts and eight aunts of the Shen family all came over last night. Through their chats with Mrs. Shen and Shen Xuan, their words contained a lot of complaints, saying that if there was a good opportunity, why didn't our uncle seize it? Where to live?
After all, Shen Xuan was going to become his wife, so Zhao Xin decided to tell her everything to avoid any trouble in the future. He first asked A Miao to watch at the door and not let anyone else in, and then said to Shen Xuan: "A Quan, why do you think the people need a king?"
Because she was going to marry Zhao Xin, Shen Xuan had been studying "Ming Dynasty Palace History" with Wang Zhong recently. She thought about it and said: "Tongjian said that the emperor's duties are nothing greater than etiquette, etiquette is nothing greater than points, and points are nothing greater. Yu Ming. Educate the world and coordinate the yin and yang."
Zhao Xin nodded slowly and asked: "Then what is etiquette, and what are points and names?"
"Ji Gang is the etiquette, the monarch and his ministers are divided, and the names of duke, hou, qing and doctor are the names."
"Well, that is to say, ethics divides people into three, six or nine levels. Under the emperor, there are princes and princes, and under the princes, there are scholars and officials. Do you have any objection to what I say?"
Shen Xuan nodded, that was indeed what the Confucian Book of Rites meant. As a king, in addition to determining his title, he also needs to determine his salary and allocate land.
"Remember what I say below. If anyone wants to whisper to you about becoming emperor again, just use my words to figure out what the other person is thinking."
Zhao Xin held Shen Xuan's hand, stared into his eyes and said: "Royal power is just a product of the incompatibility between the common people and the powerful. All the powerful want to enjoy the fruits of their labor and get something for nothing; but from the bottom of their hearts, the people don't want to Those who are oppressed by the powerful have their biggest wish not to pay taxes. It is precisely because of the conflict between these two forces that there must be a ruler who represents the interests of everyone to check and balance it, otherwise everyone will be destroyed. As for the etiquette you mentioned Controlling that is just a facade, a means of checking and balancing the powerful and the common people."
"Then you mean you don't need an emperor?" Shen Xuan was stunned.
Zhao Xin smiled and said: "Emperor is just a name. Whoever controls the distribution of interests is the real king. The system in Beihai Town is different from that of previous dynasties. The key is to be king without king."
"Then," Shen Xuan hesitated for a long time, her pretty face turned red, and finally asked a little embarrassed, "We will always have children in the future."
"The family and the world cannot be defended. "Zuo Zhuan" says that if you start with this, you will end with it. This is the case when dynasties change."
Zhao Xin sighed when he said this, and continued in a deep voice: "There is too much blood on my hands..."
When Shen Xuan heard this, her face turned pale. She put her hand on Zhao Xin's mouth and said, "Why are you saying this? At worst, I will accompany you to get into the frying pan!"
Zhao Xin was moved in his heart. He held Shen Xuan's hand and finally said: "Remember, with the situation in Beihai Town, the emperor can only become a mere appearance in the end, put on the stage and looked at like a monkey. What I can do , is to establish a system where everyone can compete according to their own abilities. From now on, the descendants of our family will just sit back and watch them play monkey."
Afterwards, Shen Xuan recalled what Zhao Xin had said, and finally settled on four words: not king but king. Later, when she asked Wang Zhong for advice on these four words, Wang Zhong said something else.
As a scholar who respects pre-Qin thought, Wang Zhong said that Zhao Xin's line is actually still "one world", but the method is different from Confucianism. It is a hybrid school mixed with Guanzi and Xunzi; Guanzi's theory of managing the world is a means , Xunzi's "righteousness establishes the king" is the foundation.
In other words, Zhao Xin controlled the economy based on Guanzi's idea of "whoever cuts a hole, his country is invincible", and used Xunzi's establishment of justice and integrity to form the reality of being a king without being a king.
(This is enough to give you a rough outline. You can’t go into more detail, otherwise it won’t be finished in three days and three nights.)
By taking away the positions of Li Ji and Sheng Haizhou, Zhao Xin completely suppressed the island nation's naturalization faction, and his warning to some people was self-evident. However, new candidates for the heads of these two departments have not been announced, leaving many people who thought they were qualified feel empty.
There is no rush to propose marriage to Sheng Haizhou. Zhao Xin has one more thing to deal with right now, which is the candidate for the governor of the "Beihai Special Zone".
Needless to say, Lake Baikal has been called the "North Sea" since Suwu's shepherd days. The reason why it is a special zone is that the current main residents of the towns of Nerchinsk and Irkutsk are Tsarist Russians. Of course, in addition to Tsarist Russia, there are also Buryat and a small number of Evenki.
Zhao Xin's plan is to immigrate at least 30,000 people to the upper reaches of Heilongjiang starting next spring, with an average of 5,000 people in each town. After a year or two of development, even if those powerful people in Tsarist Russia leave, it will not have much impact on the local economy and people's livelihood.
As far as the system of Beihai Town is concerned, it is impossible for businessmen and nobles like the five major families to coexist. These people not only held a large number of serfs in their hands, but also monopolized the trade between China and Russia.
According to what Zhao Xin learned within a few days in Irkutsk, although the land trade between China and Russia in Kyakhta is a state action, in fact all commodity prices are controlled by six Shanxi merchants and five major families. .
The Tsarist Russian government is concerned about the huge benefits of taxation. The tariff revenue from Kyakhta border trade can account for 15% to 20% of Russia's total tariff revenue; the Manchu Qing Dynasty is concerned about the various donations made by merchants in trade activities. Who cares? Whether it can be sold or not, as long as a load of tea passes through Guihua City, a donation of 2.5 taels of silver will be required.
Zhao Xin found Yu Deli, and the two chatted for a long time in the time travel group. A guy named Zhang Jingxuan from the power plant group appeared on Zhao Xin's candidate list.
Zhang Jingxuan, 28 years old, from the south. Before I came here, I was responsible for centralized control operation, responsible for regulating power output and voltage stability. Simply put, it was to ensure that there would be no short circuits.
Yu Deli met Zhang Jingxuan because of a dinner party. At that time, he told Wu An'an that there was a shortage of teachers in cadre schools and hoped that the other party would find ways to support him.
Wu Ping'an went back and checked the resumes of his subordinates, and recommended Zhang Jingxuan, who had been a student union cadre. This man had been the student union president at the Electric Power College where he had attended. After a few classes, Yu Deli was quite satisfied with Zhang Jingxuan. Gradually, he discovered that this young man's organizational skills were also quite good. Whether he was working in a factory or helping newly arrived refugees settle down, he did a great job.
With the candidate in mind, Zhao Xin decided to talk to the other party.
When Zhao Xin saw Zhang Jingxuan, he was wearing a pair of rimless glasses with silver frames, and his eyes looked very bright. This man is almost 1.78 meters tall, with thin cheeks and a side-parted hairstyle similar to Daniel Wu's, which looks dark and thick.
"Mr. Zhao, Mr. Wu said you have something to do with me?" Zhang Jingxuan's tone was very good, with a hint of respect in the calm tone.
"Sit down." Zhao Xin stood up and made tea for the other party while saying, "The cigarettes are on the table. If you want to smoke, take them yourself."
Zhao Xin handed over the tea, lit one himself, and started chatting away.
Psychologically speaking, smoking posture can also reveal a person's personality. Zhao Xin puffed on the clouds and observed Zhang Jingxuan's posture of holding the cigarette and flicking the ashes, and he made a rough judgment in his mind.
This is a guy with a strong will and a stubborn heart. From his first puff of cigarette, which was a gentle inhale, Zhao Xin knew that Zhang Jingxuan paid attention to details and was thoughtful in his work. He must think twice before dealing with such a person.
"As for me, I have been outside for the past six months and have had little communication with you. Lake Baikal has been conquered, and now I need someone to keep an eye on it and take charge of military affairs and trade with the Russians. Lao Yu recommended you to me. I don't think so. Could you please come over and discuss it?"
"Me?" Zhang Jingxuan was happy, but still had a puzzled look on his face, and said to Zhao Xin: "Are we here to help build the power plant?"
At present, the first coal-fired power plant in Beihai Town has completed equipment installation and started trial operation. The main power supply user is Zhao Liang's workshop. Now Wu Ping An is leading a group of subordinates to conduct final maintenance and debugging, and plans to officially start it in late October. When it is put into operation, every household in Beihai Town will be able to use electric lights. Wu Ping'an's plan is that if this power plant operates well within half a year, the next step is to build another one in Fuldan City.
Zhao Xin stroked his forehead and said: "Yes, but there is no one at hand. The children in the cadre school are too young and cannot bear such a heavy burden. How about it? Are you interested?"
Henry Zhang pretended to hesitate for a long time, then looked up at Zhao Xindao: "Then what should I do? I don't understand anything."
Zhao Xindao: "You go to Irkutsk to be the governor,"
Before he finished speaking, Zhang Jingxuan became happy and said: "It sounds like a colonial governor."
"It's different." Zhao Xin smiled and explained what the Beihai Special Zone was, and then said: "Don't worry about military matters. There is a battalion of troops there now, and I will mobilize troops in the spring. Liu Sheng and Fan The President is in Kyakhta now, and Liu Sheng will go to Irkutsk in half a month. His task is to deal with the Russian army coming next year, and he will not interfere in civil affairs. Your task is to take charge of the administration of the entire Beihai Special Zone. Do three things: Trade, Immigrate, and stabilize the Russians with kindness.”
Zhang Jingxuan asked with some confusion: "Be kind? To Tsarist Russia?"
Zhao Xin nodded and said: "To rule a newly occupied territory, it is actually similar to taking over a new company with old employees. You can either use kindness, generosity and ability to conquer others, or you can kill all the original old people and completely change the team. Newcomer."
After Zhang Jingxuan heard this, he couldn't help but shudder in his heart. He understood what Zhao Xin meant by "kill", and he thought to himself, could this person in front of him be considered a murderer without blinking an eye? A feeling of "accompanying a king is like accompanying a tiger" emerged uncontrollably.
Zhao Xin saw Zhang Jingxuan's concerns, so he pretended to be relaxed and explained kindly: "Like you, I don't like Tsarist Russia in this era, otherwise why should I fight them?
But you have to be careful, as a manager, you cannot use violent machines because of personal hatred, otherwise they will secretly look for opportunities to resist us. As the old saying goes, a thief can only be a thief in a thousand days, but there is no way to prevent a thief in a thousand days. Instead of worrying about this group of people every day, it would be better to eradicate the root cause.
Remember, only interests can unite people's hearts. Use trade to stabilize new immigrants before they arrive. As occupiers, the premise of using force is to protect our safety. Beyond that, it is okay to use violence for the benefit of the most people. If we achieve this, the Beihai Special Zone will be as stable as Mount Tai. "
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