Chapter 2080 Cui Cheng’s Debate
Cao Cao developed rapidly.
It can be said that most of them copy Wen Rensheng’s approach, and it is strange that the development is slow.
And his family is rich and can quickly recruit a separatist force.
Utilizing Wen Rensheng's military training method, and Cao Cao's own liking for the art of war, and having just achieved military exploits, he learned it quickly.
Just three months later, a mountain armed force of 8,000 people was formed.
With this armed force, Cao Cao began to use the authority of the governor to wipe out the bandits.
At this time, Liu Yan's proposal was also approved by Han Emperor Liu Hong, who changed the governor's position to Zhou Mu and ordered Zhou Mu to sweep away the bandits in the territory.
Because thieves are not just in the Yellow Turbans, but everywhere.
"At that time, Hanyang rebels, with more than 100,000 troops, attacked Chencang, and the three auxiliaries were shaken", which directly threatened the core rule.
However, Liu Hong is not stupid, and he did not change everything in one go.
But first came Yizhou, Youzhou, and Yuzhou.
And Cao Cao’s governor was gone, so Liu Yan was still appointed as the prefectural pastor.
How can this be done?
Cao Cao asked his father to use money to buy a state animal husbandry.
However, this time the Han Emperor did not sell it.
Look, Liu Hong is not stupid. Of course he knows that Zhou Mu has too much power and is easy to divide, so he has to choose someone he trusts
It is a pity that the information gap prevents him from knowing that Liu Yan is there He had a rebellious spirit, but Liu Yan died early.
In fact, Liu Hong died equally early.
Liu Hong was only in his thirties when he died. He probably felt that he could live to be in his 60s and still have 30 years to slowly stabilize the world.
But the fact is that he died early.
Excessive luxury and lust can easily corrupt the body.
In fact, even if he can live a long life, he cannot change the dynasty cycle.
After all, no matter how hard he tries, how can he change the situation of land annexation?
There must be a lot of killing before a new king emerges.
As Wen Rensheng said, he has been enjoying himself for too long and the emperor has the power, and has lost his determination to forge ahead and his meticulous patience...
If Cao Cao doesn't sell it, he will break up.
Anyway, Hanzhong is from his family.
He sent a guy named Xia Houran to incite rebellion in the local area.
The Han army could not be quelled because of the difficult terrain and huge expenditure.
This shows that the Han Dynasty is indeed out of money. It is no wonder that Liu Hong wants to drink poison to quench his thirst and sell his official position to win titles.
Anyway, most of the officers who go up normally are T, so it is better to harvest their T money in advance.
This is probably Liu Hong’s clever idea.
So Cao Cao continued to act as governor of the state in the name of governor.
Continue to learn what Wen Rensheng did, refine internal affairs, and develop the four majors of agriculture, industry, and commerce.
However, Cao Cao still promoted Confucianism, which helped maintain his rule.
However, Cui Chengcheng soon understood why Wen Rensheng said that everyone is equal.
Because of the rise of Confucianism, Confucian scholars have belittled business people.
“Those who work and do business often form gangs, ignore etiquette, and often cause chaos. They should be suppressed.”
“The miners gather together in the name of working, but in fact they are bandits.”
"Businessmen are untouchables. They don't engage in production. They buy low and sell high, disturbing people's hearts. They should be punished."
Cui Cheng learned from Wen Rensheng for a month, so he naturally knew the importance of businessmen.
It can be said that Wen Rensheng spent a lot of time telling everyone that only businessmen can truly solve the cycle of chaos.
Why?
Because businessmen can communicate whether or not they have it.
This is his characteristic.
What do the poor have?
There is a labor force.
What the rich have is food.
How to let the poor get the food of the rich through forced distribution?
Coercion will inevitably bring about resistance. Once there is resistance, this thing will not run smoothly and will eventually be inefficient.
What should I do?
Through the means of merchants, merchants manufacture and purchase various novelties in exchange for food in the hands of the rich, so that the poor can sell their labor power to the rich and then obtain food.
This is the so-called capital.
Of course businessmen have no mercy, and neither does capital.
Once they find that there is too much labor and competition is fierce, in order to reduce costs, they can make six-year-old children work in factories.
The reward children ask for is only one-twentieth of adults.
Repetitive work has one-third of the efficiency.
So there must be restrictions.
In short, it must be handled appropriately.
So Cui Cheng told his lord not to focus on agriculture and suppress business.
Only this time, Cao Cao didn't listen to him.
Suppression of merchants soon began.
Because Cao Cao discovered that these businessmen had a big problem.
What's the problem?
Because these businessmen naturally target Lu Buwei.
Having money is not enough, you also have to get involved with officials.
Of course he understands why?
Businessmen only know what kind of business is most profitable and profitable, and they are not afraid of losing money.
That is the investment emperor.
One is Lu Buwei, the other is Mi Zhu, and the other is Fan Li.
They are all typical examples of successful businessmen.
If these people grow stronger, they will definitely threaten the rule of Cao Cao's family.
Cao Cao needs merchants and needs to suppress them.
Let them act obediently as suppliers of military supplies, not as decision-makers on state affairs.
And there's another big problem.
Businessmen are more difficult to manage than farmers.
Cui Cheng continued to use the Confucian method of selecting officials, with superiority and inferiority, strict hierarchy, and the shortcomings soon became apparent.
Businessmen had difficulty operating in Shu and were often exploited and bullied by officials.
They also colluded with larger officials.
Invest in various officials everywhere and let them make profits for themselves.
In short, in Cao Cao's view, businessmen have a good side and a bad side.
The biggest problem is that they are too difficult to control and manage.
Cao Cao decided to restrain them.
Good to reduce more and more management costs.
When Cui Cheng saw this, he immediately felt something was wrong, so he admonished:
"Businessmen seek huge profits and often deceive people, which is really hateful. However, they can adjust to the shortcomings of the four seasons and become more motivated. Taihang Mountain people It has been said that businessmen are the most dynamic group in the world, the most active and proactive group, and also the most destructive and evil group. Only by making good use of them can we truly solve the causes of chaos. ”
"Oh, I don't think they can solve any problem except selling high and buying low." Cao Cao said a little arrogantly.
Cao Cao had this problem. He became arrogant when he achieved great achievements.
In fact, the three kings of the Three Kingdoms all had this problem. Liu Bei, Sun Ce, and Sun Quan were all the same.
The two who were cautious from beginning to end were Sima Yi and Zhuge Liang.
They did not suffer a big loss because of their arrogance.
Cao Cao now owns a large state at a young age, and Shu is very wealthy because there has been no great chaos.
Can he not be proud?
And he didn’t know that this was much better than his start in history.
In history, Cao Cao started his career in Yanzhou, which was the place where the Four Wars were fought. It can be said that Cao Cao relied on his own ability, inclusiveness, and meritocracy to turn a grass belly into a golden edge. But the advantage is that it is located in the Central Plains, with convenient transportation and easy talent recruitment.
The current Shu region is easy to operate, easy to defend, and has abundant wealth, but it is easy for people to be discouraged from making progress.
Now Cao Cao is beginning to think about the inheritance of the foundation a hundred years from now.
So I instinctively want to suppress businessmen.
This is what any unified monarch wants to do.
Cui Cheng understood this very well, so he said: "In addition to this, they can find ways to buy out the excess grain of the rich, and then bring various novelties to the rich. If necessary, For example, they organize people to go to the mountains to collect ice, so that countless poor people can have food to eat. These poor people will not rebel."
"And the rich can also enjoy the autumn weather in the hot weather. It’s cool and has the best of both worlds.”
“If there are no businessmen to coordinate operations, the rich people’s food will just rot in the granaries, while the poor people will have no work, and they will become thieves and bandits, causing chaos. The imperial court was dragged into collapse."
After Cui Cheng finished speaking, Cao Cao suddenly realized and hurriedly said: "Fortunately, Mr. Cao was able to stop the situation and mend the situation."
"My lord is good at accepting advice, which King Xuan of ancient Qi could not match." Cui Cheng was very happy.
Cao Cao then ordered that businessmen should be treated equally and could be officials.
But you need to abide by the laws and regulations and do not abuse workers.
Of course, Cao Cao set the rules for others. When he built his own tomb, he abused the laborers a lot.
In short, you are born with double standards.
In the early stage, it was said that more than one hundred people would be born, and the thought of it would break people's hearts.
The problem is that not many years after writing this poem, he went on a massacre of Xuzhou and massacred the city.
You say you want to take revenge, but you can only take revenge on the nine culprits. Why are you taking revenge on those innocent people in Xuzhou?
And after all, Xuzhou still has a factor, and it will be the same massacre in other places.
The Three Kingdoms originally had fewer people, but you still massacred them. Cao Cao has an unshirkable responsibility for Wuhu's chaos in China.
In the north where he unified the Han people, the power of the Han people declined too much and the population declined too much. As a result, the Hu people could rebel and suppress the Han people.
It has to be said that it is related to Cao Cao's strategy of massacring the city.
Then there is the matter of the Four Books and Five Classics.
Cui Cheng also wanted to open a school to train craftsmen and miscellaneous students. These are the ways to become strong.
Only teaching the Four Books and Five Classics can make people behave in peacetime.
Even the barbarians knew that in the massacre, the blacksmiths, carpenters, cobblers and other craftsmen would be left behind.
But when the city was massacred in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, even these craftsmen could not survive.
Why is this?
The Confucian scholars' day-by-day suppression has made Tao far superior to art, divorced from the fundamentals and reality, and reduced to metaphysics and famous teachings, rather than true knowledge that can truly change the world.
As a result, those people thought that craftsmen were nothing, so they could just kill them.
Of course Cui Cheng couldn't think like that at this time. If he wanted to defeat the Taihang Mountain people, he had to support the craftsmen.
In this way, sharper weapons and stronger armor can be made.
But if craftsmen are not given corresponding status, the things they make will be crude or hastily made.
Cao Cao was indeed cruel. He directly ordered the identity of the manufacturer to be inscribed on the weapons. Anyone who made inferior weapons and armor would be beheaded if he showed up three times.
It’s just this kind of indiscriminate beheading that obviously makes the craftsmen intolerable.
Because we are not in the future, there are no standard measurement tools. Sometimes they are good and sometimes they are not right. This is normal.
And the most important thing is that the craftsmen have no enthusiasm.
In order to pursue stable quality, everyone makes the simplest, most commonly used and best weapons.
As for innovation?
Invention, transformation?
What is that?
Looking for death.
Those who work know that innovation means bugs and too many things.
These craftsmen don’t want to have too much trouble. Once something happens, they will die.
Some people commented: "This is not as good as before. This Governor Cao is three feet high."
"Huh, what he wants is fame and money."
"Life is too hard for us craftsmen. I heard that there is Taihang in the north. It is a paradise. It is better to escape."
"Same. Go, go together. "
Under Cao Cao's rule, the people lived in poverty; it was far worse than under Liu Bei's rule.
However, Cao Cao defeated Liu Bei.
It can be seen that public support is relative. It should be said that public support can reduce obstacles in collection and reduce costs.
If this point can be made up for in other ways, there is nothing to fear if there is no popular support.
The premise is that you must have strong enough force as your base to convince many people to take the initiative to neutralize.
Cao Cao has force, and the craftsmen cannot resist.
I don’t want to be killed because of inferior products.
This resulted in more and more craftsmen fleeing.
And many people actually traveled thousands of miles to the Taihang Mountains and trekked to escape to the Taihang Mountains.
These words were said by businessmen.
They say that the Taihang Mountains are the real place for business. Everyone is equal, business is harmonious, no one is angry, everyone has work to do, and everyone has food to eat. It is really a paradise.
There are no gangsters nearby, they have all been swept away.
It's unbelievable.
After hearing the secret report, Cao Cao thought silently:
It seems that his future opponent will be the Taihang Mountain man.
How to deal with him?
You cannot let the other party develop as they wish.
Although the other party is located in a mountainous area, it is naturally not good at developing the economy.
When it comes to economy, Shu has more potential.
There are grain, grass, supplies, and soldiers, which is much better than the barren Taihang Mountains.
In the end, Cao Cao chose the method of blocking, and the escapees joined forces and detained the craftsman's family in the city.
For a while, the craftsmen did not dare to run anymore.
How could Cao Cao appease these people?
After all, he is not in dire straits at this time.
And Cui Chengze and Cao Cao discussed how to deal with the Taihang Mountain man
"Lord, you can promote the essence of his doctrine, which is rebellion, expose him to the world, and then gather the people of the world Use your strength to attack." Cui Cheng said harshly.
A few days ago he received a letter from home saying that people from the Taihang Mountains had come out of the mountains.
And as soon as they came out of the mountains, they built unique military forts on the plains.
The places where county guards were purchased are concentrated in the most populous counties in Jizhou.
The things Wen Rensheng did and the words he said were enough to make everyone from aristocratic families in the world become his enemy.
What Cui Cheng didn't expect was that Wen Rensheng was not in a hurry to expand at this time.
Because he knows that the pace of expansion is too big, which will ultimately be detrimental to the development of this culture.
A unified empire lacks the full nourishment of this economy and culture. The more developed it is, the faster it will decline.
And Wen Rensheng wants to make the entire Taihang Mountains a very core place.
Always prepare fortifications.
The offensive level of soldiers in this era is simply not enough to defeat them.
Now there is no air force. Without airborne troops, we simply cannot defeat the Taihang Mountains.
Acting too slowly.
There are various issues to consider. Marching in the mountains is a death march.
Subsequently Cui Cheng launched a debate between scholars from the north and the south.
"They are treasonous and unethical. They dare to oppose the words of Saint Kong. This is simply treasonous and unethical."
Kong Rong said: "The king, the king, the minister, the father, the son, the son, is this orthodox? Can this be true? Make society stable? ”
"Although I am a descendant of Saint Kong, this Taihang Mountain man is right. Father and son must be equal, and fathers cannot rely on their father's fists to conquer their children."
"Parents have no regard for their children. All kindness is fake and just for living. The so-called etiquette is so ridiculous."
(End of this chapter)