Gradually, he began to talk more, and dared to refute what he thought was wrong like everyone else, especially when he found that Zhen Mingkuyou was listening carefully to him and showed a thoughtful look, he was more and more encouraged.

"The last general has been at the forefront of the Jianghuai army for many years, so he is more aware of the situation in the Jianghuai area, over the years, the anti-king in Jianghuai has risen and gone, although the Jianghuai army is the largest force, but, but ......"

He glanced at Zhen Mingku, and stopped talking a little.

"If the auxiliary lieutenant has something to say, just say it directly, and discuss matters in the king's account, that is, to speak freely, and there are no taboos."

"Yes! With all due respect, the king is wise and powerful, and he will overcome the heroes and recover the Jianghuai ...... with a fearless spirit."

"Don't talk!"

"Yes! Although the king is the head of the dragons of Jianghuai, he has always let his subordinates go and does not control them, so that the thieves and the thieves on the mountains still maintain the habits of the original rogues, harass the people, and destroys production, so that although the Jianghuai is unified on the surface, in fact, the war continues, the people are more poor and tired, and the grain is excessive, and the national body has already been hollowed out, and there is no spare strength to build a high wall, accumulate grain, and have no spare strength to conquer Luoyang ......"

Zhen Mingku's eyes lit up, stopped other people's discussions, and asked: "What do you mean, you must first consolidate the people, make a truce and plough, and make the people rich, so that you can talk about building a high wall, accumulating grain, and going west to Luoyang, right?" ”

Everyone was quiet, knowing that what was next was the point.

Fu Gongyou rarely has such an opportunity to spit out, because of these insights. For a team like him, the boss won't listen at all, and will only treat him as a fool's dream. Before the change, with his identity, before he could see it, I am afraid that he would have been interrupted by the commander and asked him to run ten laps of the school field, let alone speak freely.

Now the senior officers of the entire Jianghuai Army are paying attention to him. Listening carefully to his insights, a sense of pride welled up in my heart, and I was more and more encouraged. He raised his voice and said: "The last general thinks that the truce and return to cultivation is only the second step, and the first step is to take advantage of the flawless eastward appearance of the Li Tang Army and dump all the combat strength of the Jianghuai Army. Defeat Hailing Shen Faxing. It is the top priority of the Jianghuai army to exterminate the bandits in the mountains everywhere, solve the scourge of civil strife in the Jianghuai region, and let the people no longer be harassed and harmed by these bandits and recuperate. ”

Many generals in the main hall nodded one after another.

Zhen Mingku was silent for a long time, then suddenly laughed and slapped the table, "Just according to what the auxiliary lieutenant said." Destroy Shen Faxing first! ”

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A month later, the JAC army had an absolute advantage. Like the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves, it broke through Hailing City, captured Shen Faxing alive, and pushed him to the Hailing vegetable market to behead the public, confiscated all the family property of Shen Faxing's subordinates, opened a warehouse to help the poor, and won the support of the people in one fell swoop.

Then, the king of Jianghuai issued a decree that all the wealthy families of Hailing County must send their children to join the Jianghuai army and become officers of the Jianghuai army. In this way, all the wealthy families in the rich land of Jianghuai were co-opted, the chain of interests was cleared, their interests were firmly grasped in their hands, and their strength was gathered to smoothly implement the new policy.

Then, establish the absolute power of the Jianghuai king, implement new policies and new laws, change the way of education, inculcate values, and change the way of thinking of the people in a coercive way.

As it turned out, the backlash caused by this coercion was much more intense than imagined.

Changing old habits, old customs, and old thinking has always been a painful thing, but if you want to walk in front of people, you must have the determination to break your wrist, which is called radical, and there may be two kinds of radical results, one is to cause a strong backlash, the failure of reform, and talk about changing color, so that the whole shrinks, restores to the original state, and even regresses; One is to cause a virtuous impetus and positive impact on reform, cultural revival, social muscle rejuvenation, and a virtuous circle.

The failure of the New Deal is often due to the lack of a coercive force sufficient to control the backlash that occurred during this period of upheaval.

The method of implementing the hardships of Zhen is to divide into two camps, not to argue, to judge heroes by success or failure, and not to take the initiative to touch the existing interest strata, but to create new interests, not to plunder the existing ones.

Establish a small free economic circle, where new cultural education is promoted, schools for children are established, zero taxes are implemented, free trade is implemented, and a part of the people who are more receptive to the new culture and new policies are recruited and agree with the new policy, and join the household registration on a voluntary basis, and establish special zones, new thinking, new systems, and new systems.

On the other hand, the situation remains the same, leaving the people to see the necessity and superiority of change as a result, but all the new policies are based on the premise of allowing the free movement of household registration.

With the experience they brought from Longmen Town, all the officers of the Dark Guard became bosses, and became the leading demonstrators of the free economic zone, establishing state-owned shops, promoting new technologies, and efficient agricultural tools, so that agriculture surrounded the city and ensured the prosperity of the city's commerce.

The attraction of preferential policies, coupled with the abolition of household registration restrictions, immediately formed an attraction effect in the Jianghuai region, and the development of free economic zones was obviously faster than that of other areas that maintained the status quo, which made the implementation of new culture and education more and more accepted by some old-fashioned people.

Gradually, some wealthy families who really controlled the economy of the towns and cities found that if this continued, not only would their towns and cities decline, but they were afraid that their own people would also be attracted to those special zones, so they had to learn to change and learn to do the same, and there was no need to order them to be promoted, and these policies and practices slowly spread to the entire Jianghuai region

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All of this was carried out steadily, and after Zhen Ming laid down the whole overall situation, he let go of his hands and did not allow anyone to interfere in anything anymore, and he only did one thing during this period, which was to firmly hold the sword of military power in his hands.

He trained 5,000 regiments of guards who were absolutely loyal to him, and who were able to carry out his orders without error, whether it was torture, coercion, or bloody assassinations, to ensure that all variables in the region could be controlled.

There is no absolute stability in the world, and only by giving an appropriate outlet to unstable factors can we satisfy the demands of individuals, and give the most powerful blow to those leaders with other intentions who combine interest groups and seek the interests of individual groups, and maintain the smooth flow of blood in the body, so as to renew the entire culture and promote economic reform.

Zhen Mingku is well aware of the consequences of this improper use of power, and any uncalm and self-righteous decision will cause huge adverse consequences.

From an individual's point of view, the value is based on the process, but for the entire ethnic group and the country, the hero is judged by success or failure.

When one day, the system has a cultural consensus and a universal value in line with humanity as a carrier, and slowly embarks on the track of a virtuous circle of development, there is only one thing that needs to be done at that time, the strong man breaks his arm, takes the initiative to abolish his supreme power, dissolves the violent institutions established during the special period, and establishes a stable system that can check and balance power.

All of this, in the final analysis, is the culture and values of the common people, what kind of culture breeds what kind of system, education determines the future, culture needs the popularization of education in human nature painting, and education is not overnight.

Until then, he must make sure that it all gets on track to form a virtuous circle.

He is well aware of the consequences of the military power being used by personal ambitions, the result of empty eyes and self-esteem, is the warlord melee, the artifact of the army, should be subordinated to a supreme power, but this power is neither the natural imperial power, nor the mythical individual, but by the common people recognized and jointly elected by the hands of a group of people, although it is difficult to do, but it is a direction of effort, the truth that has been repeatedly proven by human history.

What he can do now is contrary to this goal, because he must firmly grasp this power in his own hands, and the world is undecided, how can he talk about the future.

As for how history will develop in the future, he can't take too much care of it, and he can't think about it so far, what he should do, what he can do, has already been done, what he is doing now is just to light a spark and let it fire at the right time.

Smelling the smell of barbecue, Zhen Mingkuang closed the book "On the Spirit of the Law" and put it back on the shelf, there are three Western economic classics on the shelf, Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations", Marx's "Capital" and Keynes's "General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money".

He rubbed his sour temples, stood up, and walked out the door.

Outside the door, the eldest grandson Belle and Yue'er, Huan'er, and Xing'er, were roasting fragrant beef around a pile of charcoal fire.

This warm scene made him return to reality from the difficult and obscure academic theory, smiled and walked to the side of the eldest grandson Belle, looked at her delicate cheeks that were red by the firelight, and remembered her tactful and coquettish moaning in his arms these days, unbearable seductive appearance, the eldest grandson Belle turned his head and made eye contact with him, her beautiful eyes were as bright as stars in the starry sky, and she gently stuffed a piece of roasted beef into his mouth.

It melts in his mouth, but it is his heart that melts.

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At this moment, thousands of miles away in the Central Plains, the flames of war are rekindled.

The Tang army skillfully bypassed Hedong to support Jinyang, and finally attacked the rear of Liu Wuzhou's army before Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang's army broke through Jinyang City, killing Liu Wuzhou's army and breaking into the army, Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang and others fled into the Turks with the remnants of the army.

After the defeat of Liu Wuzhou's army, the land to the east of the river that he occupied, I heard that Miss Li Jiasan personally led the army to attack, all of them were frightened, had no intention of facing the battle, and abandoned the city and fled, and some directly abandoned their weapons and surrendered.

From sending troops to recovering the lost territory, it took less than a month for Li Tang's army to return to the hands of Li Tangjun, and the undefeated myth of Miss Li Jiasan spread all over the Central Plains again. (To be continued......)