"It will hurt the bottom class a little bit, but not too much." Ji Heng said calmly: "In the end, it depends on the court's proper response. If it is handled well, there will only be a period of pain, and this pain will be resolved soon. , if not handled properly, it may lead to chaos in the world."
"The ruling hand actually lies with the court."
Hear the words.
Fusu nodded slightly.
But as Ji Heng said, one move can affect the whole body, and the imperial court once again plans to make money. And in the past few years, how could the powerful local nobles let the imperial court succeed like this? I'm afraid that the secret will cause trouble everywhere, and it's not easy for the court to deal with it well.
Building Changpingcang in a local area is actually a large-scale construction project.
This requires a lot of manpower, material and financial resources.
Where do the human, material and financial resources come from?
From the people.
Ji Heng looked solemn and did not speak because of this.
He couldn't help but think of Du Mu's Afang Palace Fu, which contained such a description.
Take all the money and use it like sand?
There are more pillars supporting the building than there are farmers in Nanmu; there are more rafters erecting the beams than there are workers on the machine; there are more jagged seams in the tiles than there are silk threads all over the body; there are more straight columns and cross sills than there are in the nine-soil city wall; there are more phosphorus on the nail heads. There are more than grains of millet in Yu; more than the sound of orchestral music, there are more than the words of people in the city. Make people in the world dare not speak out but dare to get angry.
Now Qin Ting is stepping into this situation step by step.
And what can be done?
Reform in the world consumes money and energy. Reform without financial surplus is just a loft in the sky. If something goes wrong, it will collapse. In fact, there are many such examples in history. Everything Qin Shihuang did, In fact, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty also did it, but it was only because Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had the wealth accumulated by Emperors Wen and Jing that he could push forward the reform. This also caused widespread complaints among the people.
The subsequent Wang Mang's reforms and Liu Yan's reforms in the Tang Dynasty also ended in haste because they did not have enough money and food to support them.
Even in terms of history.
Tang's failure shocked the world even more.
At the beginning of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, development was valued. However, under the sway of taxes, the treasury gradually ran out of money. Then the world's rich began to appear, and then vassal towns appeared. After the Anshi Rebellion, the world was completely stopped from developing, and could only move towards To maintain stability, there was only one Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in history, and he was the only one who succeeded in seizing power from the local areas. There were only a few emperors in history who succeeded in continuously weakening the local areas and the middle class, and supported the next step in the world. develop.
If you don't catch it and don't succeed, you will be like Tang Dezong, and the world will fall into chaos.
Faced with the same dilemma in history, Wang Mang and Liu Yan both made efforts.
However, under the counterattack of local and middle-class forces, they all ended up dead.
The same is true for Wang Anshi. They all realized that reform must start from finance. However, once finance is left aside, it will be too difficult to concentrate it in the hands of the court. Wang Anshi's "equal loss method" and " The Green Crops Law and the Market Change Law eventually became tools for local governments to make money, and without exception they became the court's policy to hurt the people.
And these changes have accelerated the end of their respective eras.
Since Wang Anshi, the world's choices have changed, from expansion and innovation in the past to conservatism and stability.
Innovation within the system is completely over.
The same is true for Da Qin.
Take all the baht and use it like sand.
The bureaucracy of the Qin Dynasty requires a huge amount of money and food. It also needs to maintain hundreds of thousands of troops to intimidate the world and maintain the military merit and nobility system that was the foundation of the Qin Dynasty. This annexation of money and food is huge, no matter how much the court recruits. , has always been unsatisfactory, not to mention that Qin Ting has always advocated reform, which has intensified the exploitation of local areas.
The world has been suffering for a long time and it is not just talk.
But fact.
Cows and horses in prosperous times, cannon fodder in troubled times, squeeze their strength in peace and use them to death in war.
And Qin, even Anping, was about to die with it.
Fusu said in a trembling voice: "Mr. Ji, tell me truthfully, can the court survive?"
"Can the people at the bottom hold on?"
Ji Heng remained silent.
He couldn't give an answer, and he didn't know the answer.
He only knows that Da Qin is already on the road of slow death. If it does not reform and tighten its finances, Da Qin will definitely be overthrown from the bottom up by the bottom class who have been squeezed to death. Just like in history, there will not be too many change.
Now Great Qin itself is on the verge of death.
There were some things that Fusu could not see at all. Only the First Emperor and a few important ministers knew that the system of the Qin Dynasty had not been fully constructed. Financial shortages caused the court to tighten officials. This was not because of Ji. Heng's alarmist remarks are not exaggerations by Ji Heng, but historical truth.
The "Yuelu Qin Slips" unearthed in later generations directly said: "There are few officials in the house, not enough to provide services."
What it means is that the administrative team is seriously short of staff and has reached the point where normal administration cannot be carried out. From Jian 8 to Jian 197, almost every one of these bamboo strips proves this fact. There is a serious shortage of people at the grassroots level, and the shortage of people is so great. Even serving civil servants have to bear heavy responsibilities, so no one goes to work.
'Official officials, eunuchs, and officials and their subordinates have redundantly recruited garrison soldiers and envoys from Qianshou County. Those who have county official duties and are not able to return, and whose parents and Tai's parents are not dead but have killed officials early in order to return, will be regarded as Cheng Dan. '
'The local officials were entrusted with envoys and the written records before and after have not yet been replaced, and there are few local officials. '
'If all the officials are wrong, they will be dismissed. First, we will give new lands and far frontiers. '
'.'
The system created by the First Emperor was castrated from beginning to end. It had never been fully staffed, and the downsizing was directly reduced by half. Historically, the legal number of employees in Qianling County was 101, but There were only 51 people present in the county court, and the local governor, mistress, principal, assistant officials, and chief officials were all less than half of the number.
Seriously affecting normal administration.
And this is actually the reason why the First Emperor had to tour Guandong.
If you don’t patrol, the world will think you are weak.
The place is already understaffed, and if the thieves encounter a larger number, they will not be able to chase them, because the pavilion cannot be empty.
The system of Great Qin, if fully staffed, could accommodate over hundreds of thousands of people.
However, the Qin Dynasty was always scrupulous about the appointment of officials.
Not willing.
But we can’t dare.
When an official is appointed, he must be given a salary.
How could Da Qin get so much money?
The reason why he started with iron salt from the beginning was also to win the trust of the First Emperor and let the First Emperor know that he knew about Qin Ting's illness, so the First Emperor allowed Fusu to come forward and control the salt and iron. The court spent a lot of money and food in the past, but it was gradually replenished and even collected a lot more.
But this is still not enough.
His subsequent proposal for the military merit system also coincided with the First Emperor's wishes.
It just takes too much time to solve.
The First Emperor couldn't wait.
I am also afraid that Da Qin will not be able to survive until then.
In the later years of history, the First Emperor was already engaged in a battle between trapped beasts, blindly trying to use his own power to force the world to do what he wanted, but the effect was not good, and the bottom did not buy it, and even let Guanzhong Tired and sick of royalty.
A long time followed.
Da Qin's problems are no longer external, but internal financial problems.
A bigger and bigger deficit, a bigger and bigger gap.
Guo Zuo, who was swallowing up the Qin Dynasty step by step.
He just pointed Qin Ting in the right direction, but to achieve it, he actually meant walking a tightrope, dancing on the tip of a knife. If he didn't handle it properly, didn't relieve the pressure on the bottom, or the bottom couldn't bear it, Qin Ting would collapse in an instant. It will be very soon.
There's not much he can do.
I can only give it a try and take a gamble with Qin Ting.
Hard landing existing reforms.
So as to grasp development.
Fusu's face was ashen, and his eyes were full of unwillingness.
He gritted his teeth and said, "Is there really no other way?"
Ji Heng shook his head.
He sighed softly and said in a concentrated voice: "It is difficult to recover. The financial deficit of Qin Dynasty is too big. It is so big that even if the entire world's money and food are put into it, it may still be insufficient. However, because of the credibility of the Qin court in the past and its respect for the First Emperor. Because of the trust of the Qin court, the court has been dragging and suppressing it, but because the Qin court did too many things when the country was founded, this also caused the Qin court to spend more and more money every year. "
“Now it’s so high that it’s unsustainable.”
"Whether it's the Huns, the Baiyue, or the nobles and scholars, they are actually just the imperial court's way of diverting attention from conflicts."
"If the financial problem is not solved for a day, Da Qin has been licking blood on the tip of a knife, and something may happen at any time. Da Qin has already been riding a tiger and is in trouble. It is like the First Emperor's patrol, which consumes money and food. But if it doesn't do this, the court will The money and food that need to be filled will only be more, and it will be even more dangerous once the local government realizes that Qin Ting is weak."
"As far as I'm concerned."
"Da Qin has no choice."
"And another solution is to cancel the debt after death."
"As long as the Qin Dynasty falls, the huge debts that weigh on Qin will disappear."
"Without the expenditure on building the Great Wall, the construction of various water conservancy projects, the huge bureaucracy, the huge expenditure on military merit, etc., the pressure on the entire world will be reduced instantly. You can even think so, except for the imperial family of the Qin Dynasty, and the Shao Shao Some officials, everyone hopes that Qin will be destroyed."
"Because the people of Qin have been burdened with huge debts since they were born."
"Unpaid debts."
"These liabilities are crushing everyone."
"No hope, no future."
"Just endless darkness and pain."
"And Qin's law is so strict, it cuts off their retreat from passive coping."
"Qin's demise is actually the general trend."
"That's what the people want."
Ji Heng told the truth coldly.
Fusu's face turned pale.
He even felt a little suffocated and his mind went blank.
Ji Heng sighed secretly.
In his opinion, the First Emperor was still not cruel enough.
If one were really ruthless and completely cut off ties with Qin when the country was founded, even though it would suffer eternal infamy, the situation in Qin would actually be much better, and it would not have to shoulder such a huge burden from the very beginning of the country, such as the military merit and nobility system for hundreds of years. The operation of the company put too much pressure on Da Qin.
It's just that if that happens, everyone may be betrayed and separated from their relatives.
Therefore, they can only imitate the emperors of later generations.
A killing spree.
When the birds are gone, the good bow is hidden; when the cunning rabbit dies, the lackeys are cooked.
Slaughtering all the heroes who founded the country also means that the debt of death will be eliminated. As long as the killing is ruthless enough and some debts are paid, the future of Da Qin is actually very bright.
It was just that the First Emperor was not ruthless in the end. Although he re-established a Great Qin on the surface, he took over all the hidden worries of the Qin State and opened a new dynasty. It was destined to have a new atmosphere. However, after these actions, it will Da Qin was completely restrained.
Now it is even more difficult to return.
Ji Heng looked at Fusu who looked sad and said coldly: "You don't need to be so sad. The reason why the Qin Dynasty has reached this point is not the fault of the First Emperor alone, but the fault of hundreds of years. How can we clean up these disadvantages?" It is so easy to break and then build again, it is always very difficult.”
"In the past, the Xiongnu and Baiyue were in front, and there were nobles and scholars as cover."
"Da Qin can still manage to deal with it."
"Now that the Huns have fled north, Baiyue has been destroyed, and the nobles and scholars have been routed thousands of miles away, the court should also face these hidden worries. Escape is always not an option. Only by facing the challenges directly, and even overcoming them, can we build a great empire. .”
"It's hard though."
"But Da Qin has no choice."
"Don't take any chances, and don't listen to any rumors."
"It is unrealistic to retreat to Guanzhong."
"If we don't get rid of the financial burden, the Qin court in Guanzhong will not be able to stand. It will only be overthrown by the Qin people in Guanzhong. Therefore, after the return of the first emperor, the Qin court will devote itself to making money for a long time. As for the local officials, The court will probably not pay attention to the reckless behavior, the tyrannical actions, and the unwillingness of the nobles to fight back as scholars."
"What they do against them, Qin Ting does Qin Ting's."
"If Qin Ting can carry it through, everything will bloom in spring."
"If you can't resist it, then die!"
"Winter is coming."
"This is destined to be a cold winter."
"Fusu, you have to be prepared to kill. There will be many, many people you want to kill."
"So much so that I have to bear infamy."
"In addition to trying to make money, Da Qin can only rely on killing people to realize the 'death of the body'. But in the end, whether Qin Ting dies or someone else dies, it depends on how ruthless you are. I have long I told you, what Great Qin needs is never a sage king or a benevolent king, what Great Qin needs is always a tyrant."
"Only a tyrant can control the world."
Fusu's expression changed again and again.
finally.
A flash of violence and blood flashed in his eyes.
His voice was already hoarse, and he said hoarsely: "Fusu understands, even though tens of thousands of people have gone to me, Fusu is the crown prince of the Qin Dynasty, he lives for the Qin Dynasty, and he should die for the Qin Dynasty when he dies. He will never live an ignoble existence. He will not even think about escaping, shrinking, or killing people. Fusu is indeed not happy, but for the sake of the Qin Dynasty and for the sake of my Ying clan’s hundreds of years of rule, Fusu has no regrets.”
"If there is someone in front of him, Fusu will kill him."
"If there are two people, Fusu will kill both of them."
"If there are hundreds, thousands, or ten thousand people, Fusu will kill hundreds, thousands, or ten thousand people."
"Until Da Qin is stabilized."
Ji Heng looked at Fusu, a hint of desolation flashed between his eyebrows.
He actually doesn't want to do this.
But Da Qin no longer had many choices. It could only kill to stop war, kill to stop chaos, and kill to stop killing.
The only thing he could do.
That is to affect the bottom layer as little as possible.
Try to end this oppression that has lasted for hundreds of years.
Let the world return to the path of development.
Rest for the people.
(End of chapter)
