Chapter 3 The Times Are Progressing

Although he is in charge, Zhang De is unable to understand the urgent pursuit of the bureaucracy today. If it was a bureaucrat five years ago, you might still be able to experience their desire to "get out of the prime minister".

But now, the dizzying "turmoil", accompanied by "events" such as "moving the capital to Luoyang", "Lu's dedication to land", "Qing Cui was hit hard", "Bo Cui was destroyed" and so on, the old values have suffered irreversible heavy blows after all.

"Five Surnamed Women" is still sought after, but in the end it is not as good as before. In the past, if you marry a "girl with five surnames", the second-level family can enter the circle of "five surnames and seven hopes" and obtain the support of a super-first-class family, so that it has an enviable status in the scholar class.

And this kind of status will naturally make their children like fish in water in guān chǎng, and even invincible.

Even if the "imperial examination" is vigorously promoted, what can really stand out in the "imperial examination" is still those sub-family sons who are attached to the "five surnames and seven hopes", even the so-called "children of the poor family", going back several generations, I am afraid that they have been ministers in the same palace as the Cui family.

The concerted efforts of the "Five Surnames and Seven Hopes" after the Fanyang Lu clan lost a large amount of pastures and cultivated land in Youji, it was already suspicious, and with the incident of Juye County, the aura of the Qinghe Cui clan faded, the expansion of the upstarts of Zhenguan, and the rise of the new arithmetic Wang Xue, etc., as if they were officials in the court, and it was not so difficult.

Although the wings of a certain moth cannot produce the "moth effect", it still makes the eyes of many upstarts light up: pancakes were originally eaten rolled up.

It is an indisputable fact that the old manor economy cannot be said to collapse rapidly, but it can no longer control the labor force.

Originally, I was afraid of the aura of "five surnames and seven hopes", but now I found that those hundreds of thousands or even millions of laborers who were bound under the old scholar clan could not be done as long as they had the "Shangfang Sword" given by Emperor Zhenguan and the "After-dinner exercise of asking for the people's lives".

The imperial court wanted to drive peasants, serfs, and hired peasants to Yongye fields, new estates, and towns, which was not only the expectation of Emperor Zhenguan, but also the expectations of the new nobles of Zhenguan and Luoyang.

The administrative costs, management costs, and profit expectations involved forced Zhenguan Junchen to play a Tang Dynasty version of "Dragon Quest".

Coincidentally, the one who plays the evil dragon is the five surnames and seven hopes.

The new, tool-intensive farmstead gradually replaced the old family estate. Out of the consolidation of vested interests, the Zhenguan nouveau riche and the Luoyang nouveau riche had to give more "concessions" to the hired peasants and serfs in the form of laws. And this "concession" is based on the encroachment and even elimination of the old family.

And what guarantees this behavior is the unprecedented violent machine of Emperor Zhenguan. In the sixteenth year of Zhenguan, there is no known violent organization that can challenge Emperor Zhenguan.

It was also on this basis that after embezzling the strength of a large number of old families, Zhenguan Junchen achieved population concentration in the core area, especially represented by megacities such as Chang'an, Luoyang, Yangzhou, and Sū Zhōu. Around these megacities, administrative bureaucrats can manage their own jurisdictions with populations that are many times larger than they used to be.

And as long as these populations are well managed, as long as the emperor's successor is not a fool like Yang Guang in the future, he can easily deal with the challenges from internal forces such as "old ministers" and "powerful ministers".

It can be said that from the perspective of a Tang Dynasty bureaucrat, His Majesty the Emperor is absolutely wise and martial, long live.

I don't know if the Tang Dynasty can survive forever, but it will definitely not die like the former Sui.

However...... These are all related to the fact that Jiangnan native dogs do not have a single egg hair.

"What the hell?! Who did you learn from these tricks? ”

In China, Li Dong is promoting the centralized management of the population, and then calling on the people of the whole country to have special births, and I dare not say that it has become a trend to have a prize-winning birth, but between Guan Luo, there are definitely "hero mothers" in large numbers, and it is not enough to describe it with "a litter can give birth to more than a dozen".

However, it is quite difficult for foreign countries to concentrate population, or labor force.

Armed slave hunting or armed slave trade is not sustainable, and slave laborers cannot work hard for a dark future. When a slave worker is so passive that he "eats and waits for death", it is not a productive force, not even a means of production.

So a certain "mission" fleet always carried the handle, and came up with a good idea: buy a few idle official positions from the prince at home, and then take them abroad to use......

For example, a prince who uses a microscope to observe how many tadpoles he has in a tube, if it is not really unpredictable, he even wants to sell the "Guocheng" of Wu Wangfu to Wang Wansui, take it to Fusang for money, and then invest in the great microscope under the small tadpoles to find his mother's business.

Fictitious positions are useless in China, but who knows when they go abroad?

The transnational fraud during the Zhenguan period was born in this way.

mixed into some princes' mansions a nine-grade Fusang turtle, four words to describe it as "happy big Puben", and then Shi Shiran used a superior posture to override his "compatriots".

At the manor in Fusang, when the China Resources experienced the first labor crisis, it was killed by the spirit of "mission must be achieved" and successfully passed the relatively difficult period.

As for the sharp decline in the number of peasants in the surrounding areas during the same period, which caused the national tax revenue to fall to a low point, that is another matter.

Of course, a trick can work in some places, and it may not work well in others.

For example, the descendants of Shan Xiongxin, his approach is very humane, and there is no meaning of transnational fraud at all.

"Who the did you learn this from?"

Brother Shan Dao Zhendan, he is a person who has detached himself from the low-level taste, so although he is also engaged in the slave trade, it does not mean that he is evil and dark in his heart, on the contrary, in Liuqiu, a place close to the heart of the mother country, although Brother Shan Dao Zhen Shan also communicates with the natives, but more often, he will communicate with the natives who are "friendly" in a fairer way.

For example, when planting sugarcane, indigenous sugarcane farmers are paid, and the big brother will pay a one-time salary for one year, and then the indigenous sugarcane farmers will offset this one-time salary through a year's labor.

As for the occasion, when some cane farmers have worked for a year, it seems that it is not enough to offset the salary advance, and they fall into debt, which is a matter of personal diligence and laziness.

Of course, it is only natural to repay debts. "Topol" or "militia" is not for admiration and nagging.

As for the next unfortunate debt......

That's another story.

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