Chapter 421: Temptation
In the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, it is natural to keep vigil at night, and today's Taiping City is extremely lively, especially in the square in front of the main gate of the city lord's mansion, it is even more crowded. The county guard Quan Yun www.biquge.info of Shayang County specially invited the most prestigious opera troupe in the county to sing in Taiping City, one is to celebrate the festival, and the other is to congratulate Qin Feng on the reunion of Princess Min Ruoxi and the child family of four. As an old-fashioned official, Quan Yun is not only quite capable, but also quite careful in these subtleties. It's not a sycophant, it doesn't cost much, but it can make everyone up and down happy, so why not?
Quan Yun and the core figures of the five major families gathered in Taiping City tonight to celebrate the Spring Festival, which is the first time for Taiping City to welcome so many big people, on the side of the stage, Ge Qingsheng has already set up a big suitcase for these leading characters to sit inside and watch the play comfortably.
The position in the middle of the box naturally belongs to Qin Feng and Min Ruoxi, on the other side of the two, Cheng Wuben and Yinggu are sitting, and on both sides, sitting are Shu Chang and Old Man Liu, and in the middle of the second row, sitting are Quan Yun and Ge Qingsheng, Wang Hou, and like the patriarchs of the five major families, they can only sit in the back row. The number of seats in the box can make people see the position of these big men in the Taiping army at a glance.
Ge Qingsheng was very emotional, thinking that at the beginning, he was just a Fengxian county magistrate, but in just two years, he became a figure on an equal footing with Quan Yun, I have to say that the opportunities in life are really wonderful. The core figures of the five major families that he needed to look up to at the beginning could only sit behind him now.
The big names in the box were not very interested in the drama on the stage, which was a story about the Qing officials' eight mansions patrolling the case to avenge the people's grievances, and at the climax, there were deafening cheers from the front of the stage.
The common people believe in this, and hope for a clean official who can be the master for them, which is their highest luxury.
But in the eyes of these big people in the box, it can't help but be a little ridiculous, not to mention that the official position of the Bafu Patrol does not exist at all, it is this kind of plot that holds the sword of Shang Fang, regardless of the official position, and is completely different from reality.
But it's good that the people like that.
Everyone didn't pay much attention to the scene on stage, but put their heads together and lowered their voices to whisper, for them, today is an excellent social occasion, they can meet characters who are not usually easy to see, say a few more words, and get closer to the relationship.
Qin Feng has experienced the biggest unjust case in history, and he is naturally even more sneering about this kind of trick of clean officials, like this kind of official on the stage, if it really comes to reality, he will definitely die if he doesn't live for a year.
He sits here, preferring to see the people dressed in flowers, all with red faces, which gives him a strong sense of achievement, and this sense of accomplishment is not what he could get when he was a school captain. At that time, every time he won a battle, he was very satisfied.
Sitting in different seats naturally has different sources of satisfaction.
"Celebrating your birthday, how many days has this troupe been performing in the city?" Qin Feng turned his head and asked Ge Qingsheng behind him.
"General, three days in total." Ge Qingsheng said with a smile, "Quan Junshou is sending drama to the countryside, we in Taiping City, we really don't have such a high-level opera troupe, and there are a lot of grass stage troupes." ”
"Lord Katsuragi laughed." Quan Yun on the side smiled.
"The play is really good, go back and let them go to various villages to perform a show, you can't just let the people in the city feast their eyes. The right to guard the county, you need to pay more, and you need to celebrate your birthday. Qin Feng said with a smile. Let everyone feel the joy of the whole world. ”
Quan Yun laughed: "How much does a troupe cost?" It is worth it to get the general to pay attention to them, compared to how much money is given. Go back and let them go to the villages around Taiping City to perform one by one, where can you still let the lord of Gecheng spend money, isn't this a slap in my face? ”
"That's a good idea!" Without waiting for Qin Feng to speak, Ge Qingsheng had already nodded again and again: "Then I will thank the county guard on behalf of the surrounding villages." ”
Qin Feng laughed, Ge Qingsheng was like a miser, even this little money had to be saved, but thinking about what he was facing, he didn't blame him for being careful.
"Quanjun Shou, this year, Shayang County measured the fields, and at the same time began to implement commercial taxes, and the fiscal and tax revenues have increased significantly, you have contributed a lot!" Qin Feng said softly: "In the next year, we will use troops on a large scale, and when the time comes, the money will be spent like water, without you to lay the foundation, I really have to worry about it!" ”
"The general is wrong, I am just an executor, and the general is the one at the helm!" Quan Yun leaned his head over and chuckled: "Without the general's prestige, without the general's successive victories on the battlefield, it is really not an easy thing to want those few families to give up these benefits." ”
The few companies that Quan Yun said are naturally the five masters of Shayang, and almost all of Shayang's businesses are controlled by these few families, but with the victory of the Taiping Army led by Qin Feng, they also see a brighter prospect, at least one Changyang County falls into the palm of their hands, which will almost double their market, although Changyang County is still very withered, but as long as there is land and people, sooner or later they will make a lot of money.
It is precisely because of these that everyone is willing to give up their interests. They can also see clearly now, as long as the Taiping Army wins and wins the next step, then everyone will really make a fortune, Zhengyang County is not Changyang County, it is close to the richness of Yuejing City, and it is richer than Shayang County.
Mobilizing troops and grabbing land naturally requires money. The current concession, in the eyes of the five masters, is like an investment above business, and in the current situation, the risk of this investment is very small, small risk, big return, don't do such a thing, aren't they fools?
In Qin Feng's view, this is also a matter of mutual benefit. He doesn't want to carry out too violent reforms, for the five families of Shayang, he is more of a temptation, tying them to his chariot, with the same interests, he can naturally have the same goal, Shayang has been accustomed to the rule of the five major families for so many years, if the reform is forced, it will only make Shayang chaotic, and it will not benefit anyone.
It is more advantageous to use a broader market, a larger territory, and more interests to lure the five major families to willingly submit to their own reform goals, and to slowly encroach on them little by little.
Changyang County was almost crippled by Mo Luo, and there was no powerful figure who could compete with the five families, but Zhengyang County was different, while taking Zhengyang County, it was necessary to attract more powerful figures to join the group, and slowly dilute the strength and influence of the five families in the Taiping Army, and finally make them no longer able to control their own thinking, which was what Qin Feng really wanted to do.
However, this idea hidden in the depths of the heart, naturally not revealing a little bit now, this is like boiling a frog in warm water, slowly warming it little by little, and when they understand it, they can't jump out of the car because they are too deeply tied to the Taiping Army.
As a veteran bureaucrat, Quan Yun has roughly guessed some of his own ideas, and for more than a year, he has been slowly moving closer to himself and began to alienate the five families of Shayang, and on top of the implementation of some policies, his rich experience in governance has made up for Qin Feng's shortcomings in this aspect.
To say that in terms of governance, whether it is Ge Qingsheng or Wang Hou, compared to Quan Yun, they are still too far behind. The wrist is flexible, smooth and accessible, straight is not good, he can achieve the desired goal in the end with a bend or even a few bends, this means that even Qin Feng admires.
Qin Feng is only in charge of the big strategies, while Quan Yun will try his best to make these strategies a reality.
After taking Zhengyang County, the Taiping Army must carry out a major institutional reform, and Quan Yun is the first person to govern in Qin Feng's mind. If you have to compare the status of Quan Yun after the institutional reform, it should be equivalent to the head of a country.
Cheng Wu was already sitting beside Qin Feng, Qin Feng's voice was extremely low, but he naturally heard it clearly, smiling and not saying a word, his eyes were looking at the stage, but his mind was spinning.
Qin Feng is an extremely smart person, how could he not know what he said, he would be heard by himself, the so-called large-scale mobilization of troops next year is naturally a signal sent by himself.
Of course, the target of large-scale mobilization of troops will not be Baoqing, but it must be Yueguo, the first to bear the brunt is Zhengyang County, now Qin Feng's general Gan Wei has snatched those counties from the hands of the Shuntian Army, next year, the target is the whole county of Zhengyang County, and after taking Zhengyang County, Qin Feng's strength will go to a higher level.
And the Yue country will be in chaos. Luo Yishui and Qin Feng will mess up the Yue Kingdom.
And all he had to do was to maintain contact with Qin Feng and slowly correct his general course, making him the most powerful arm of Da Chu.
It may seem like an impossible task, but if you don't do it, how do you know that it will fail? Even if Qin Feng does not fall to Great Chu, if Qin Feng really replaces Yue Guo, it is also an excellent thing for Great Chu, with Qin Feng's personality, he will definitely not look up to the Qi people, but the ambition of the Qi people is to dominate the world, and the two sides will naturally conflict.
Qianmian quietly appeared in the box, walked up to Qin Feng lightly, and silently handed a piece of paper in his hand to Qin Feng.
Glancing at the contents of the paper, Qin Feng's face changed slightly, turned his head and whispered a few words to Min Ruoxi, got up and left the box. Behind him, Qianmian walked to Cheng Wuben's side and said, "Cheng Shuai, the general is invited." (To be continued.) )