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The Wind Rises in Chang'an Chapter 174: Pretending to be dead?

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    ps: Please subscribe!  Please give me your monthly vote. If you still haven¡¯t voted, please vote for Wu Mei!  50 votes is coming soon. If you work hard, there will be more updates tomorrow.  Daxi Zhuangtou, Du County, Neishi County.  "Dear elders and brothers! What we are going to apply now is ear fertilizer. We should apply fertilizer during the ear-bearing period to increase production. We will have a good harvest this year." Zheng Tong bent over and dug the soil pit, and Xu Ji followed with a frown behind him.  Spreading fertilizer requires traveling to at least three locations every day to do the same work. For those who are used to being lazy, it is as painful as being punished.  The woman from the farmer asked: "Brother, I would like to ask why we need to apply fertilizer three times. Is it okay for my family to only apply fertilizer once?"  , in addition to irrigation and harvesting, there should also be weeding, insecticide, fertilization, sometimes anti-freeze, sometimes irrigation or drainage. I won¡¯t go into the details, just the above three. Weeds grow in the fields and compete for the nutrients of the corn, affecting the harvest and crops.  If you have an insect disease, the branches and leaves will turn yellow and become hollow inside. If you don¡¯t kill the insects, you will work in vain for a year. The same is true for fertilizing. If you don¡¯t fertilize, you will have to rotate crops every year. If you have a piece of good land that will be abandoned for at least one winter, how much will you lose if you don¡¯t abandon it and force farming?  The fertility of the land will be gone in less than two years. Even if you replenish the river mud and mulch, you still can't make ends meet. It's like running 100 miles all day long. No matter how much you eat, you can't make up for the loss.  Let¡¯s talk! What should I do with my farm? Can we add fertilizer now? ¡°Yes! Please don¡¯t add too much fertilizer. Otherwise, it will burn the land.¡±  If you have to hold on to seven or eight steamed buns, you¡¯ll be exhausted.¡± ¡°Thank you, big brother, I¡¯ll go back and replenish my weight first.¡± The woman shouted and called dozens of people away.  They are farmers who skip a crop of fertilizer in order to save trouble. Farmers are like this. Without knowledgeable people to direct and understand the good and bad, it can easily become a mess.  Even some ignorant old farmers still insist on the ancient farming techniques.  No matter what you say, I am just busy doing this. Most farmers are gathered around the fields to watch people working.  Those old farmers were sitting relaxedly in front of the village to bask in the sun.  The middle-aged scribe asked: "Don't you want to go and take a look? I heard that the farming skills of Pingyang Hou Mansion are very good." "Humph, I won't go. My old man has been doing crops for most of his life. He is better than those children.  They know a lot. They spread some river mud and mulch to protect the soil in their hometown. I think they are just fooling around. They damage the land by throwing things indiscriminately. If they can't grow anything next year, they will suffer a loss. If they don't listen to the old man's words, they will suffer a loss.  Right in front of me! My grandson wanted to hear it, but I sent him back to farm. He learned his own farming skills better than others," the old man said firmly.  "So that's how it is. Everyone has his or her own tricks. I hope the old man's life will be better and better." Standing at the head of the village.  Seeing hundreds of people gathered around the fields to see what was new, the middle-aged scribe hesitated for a moment and did not walk over. He slowly left the village on the ridge of the fields.  In just over a month, he traveled to 75 counties in Guanzhong, plus several counties in Longxi, Hanzhong, Hedong, Henan, and Hanoi.  He is Da Nong Ling Dou Ying.  "I was not prepared enough for the first visit and the records were not accurate enough. I have to review the visit and make timely supplements. It would be great if there were two people to help. At least they can take notes so that I don't have to do it myself." Dou Ying boarded the shabby two-story building with worries.  wheel carriage.  There are not many people like him who still use two-wheeled carriages, perhaps because of nostalgia or to save money.  He had not thought about getting a new four-wheel carriage. Anyway, two wheels were enough for him when he lived in the capital.  There are many tasks in the Great Agricultural Order. Encouraging farmers to build water conservancy is the basic one, river management is also his, treasury management belongs to him, the court's taxation also belongs to him, and the payment of salary also belongs to him.  Dou Ying summed up the two-word secret of the Da Nong Order to make money.  Nothing can be done without money. Money and grain are the economic lifeline of the Han Empire, and salt and iron are also important economic lifelines. Any problem with any of the above four items will give him a headache for a long time.  "The renovation of the Hedong Salt Pond has been completed. From now on, there is no need to go into the water to collect salt for the salt in Hedong. I heard that the speed of salt production can be increased three times. I have to go and take a look when I have time." The servant asked: "Junhou, are we going back now?" "  If I don't go back, I want to go for a walk in some nearby villages. You drive away first, and I'll remember this section later." Dou Ying worked day and night. Halfway down the road, he suddenly remembered that today was Muxiu, and he thought again.  He stopped the servant and walked to the Pingyang Marquis Mansion, thinking of asking him for detailed information about the salt drying.  When we arrived at the Hou Mansion, it happened to be meal time. Dou Ying was left to have a light meal and couldn't wait to get down to business.  "The Great Agricultural Order is talking about salt drying information?" "Exactly! I want to check the salt industry information. I'm sorry to bother you.", there is a ditch built next to the border, and the pond water is introduced into the border through the ditch. When the water evaporates, it will naturally crystallize into coarse salt.  " "Coarse salt?"  " "Coarse salt with a bitter taste has many impurities and is not suitable for consumption. Filter it with fresh water two or three times to wash out the impurities. Store it in a clean earthen jar and dry it to dry, and you will have pure white top-grade salt. The production cycle is within five days.  " I looked through the information and was confused. My self-proclaimed smart mind knew nothing about a lot of professional vocabulary. The longer I read, the more dizzy and confused I was. " Let me tell you, there is a better way to make Yanchi better.  The higher the efficiency, the better the quality, and the more business tax can be collected.  " Dou Ying said suspiciously: "Business tax is imposed now?  It¡¯s a bit rushed!  " " Everything that should be prepared is almost ready. One tax must be increased and one tax must be abolished, otherwise the Holy Emperor will never agree to abolish the oral tax.  "Cao Shi rubbed his brows and felt very tired. It is so difficult to do things seriously. He fought over a tax issue for half a year with no result. Every time he came to the court meeting, he would withdraw after a back and forth. People who follow the old school do not allow random reforms.  Cao Shi, Huang Laoxinxue, is a deviant. The relationship between the two factions is like the collision between the conservatives and the reformists. The fierce conflicts caused by political disagreements, from the powerful relocation of millions of family assets, tax reform, to the reform of money laws, and then.  By the time of "Zhao Xian Liang Fang Zheng Shu" and the racecourse project, the two sides had gone from court discussions to being summoned privately by the emperor for more than dozens of times. The initial small conflict of not being right about the matter but not the person gradually expanded to being against both the matter and the person.  The fierce conflict ended in a stalemate, but I didn't expect it to happen so quickly. Maybe it was because I felt that I was old, or I felt that I had a chance to win as soon as possible, and I tried to conquer the emperor's capable generals as soon as possible.  , to maintain the status of the spiritual leader of the Huang-Lao school, and to pass the banner of the school into his hands. Cao Shi was not interested in their wooing. He was a banner figure of the pseudo-royalist faction, which not only kept the emperor's political status as stable as Mount Tai.  They won't work desperately for the little emperor. Most of the Liehou Group have this idea. They only work when they can make money and earn money. They stupidly run out to work hard like Wu Chu's Seven Kingdoms Rebellion, and the result is seven injuries.  If you don¡¯t even pay a penny, you are acting like a monkey. ¡°The burden on the great peasant order is very heavy.  The current situation is only slightly better. You have only received 30% of the profits from the money law reform. The majority is still in the hands of the young master, but these are floating wealth that come and go quickly. The best way is to invest more  Improve the living standards of farmers so that they can have enough to eat and wear good clothes. Then you can talk to them about the four dimensions of propriety, justice and integrity, and whether the whole world must be the king's land. Otherwise, the starving people will have no time to love others.  " Dou Ying's eyes lit up. The arguments he had never heard before sounded very reasonable and fresh. In his impression, there were more people who talked about big principles. Both Huang Lao and Confucianism were fond of talking about politics. I heard that Cao Cao  The debate at that time was different, but it was a pity that he had been living in the Hou Mansion for a long time and had no chance to see him. Today, he got his wish. "Young Master said that having enough food and clothes is the prerequisite for everything?  Why do you say that?  " "If you read "Guanzi", you should know that the warehouse is solid and you know the etiquette, you know the honor and disgrace when you have enough food and clothing, and you can't punish the doctor.  No courtesy should be given to common people. In ancient times, common people were poor and had no food or clothing.  The nobles voluntarily give up the etiquette requirements for the common people and show great love to the common people. If the common people live a comfortable life and have no worries about food and clothing, they will naturally pursue the etiquette of the nobles and pursue the spiritual needs of the upper class. For example, this is the case with our princes  , at the time of the founding of the People's Republic of China, even the princes of ten thousand households had to tighten their belts to live. Now, the descendants of the princes who have been passed down for two or three generations are all five-flowered horses and golden fur, flying eagles and lackeys swaggering through the market. This is a different kind of etiquette in the warehouse.  " There was a bang in Dou Ying's head. He had never heard such a strange statement: "The other kind of Canglin knows etiquette. What is this?  " "Once a person has money, he will naturally have luxuries. For example, let's say you and I are both princes. Let's put on coarse clothes and walk more than ten miles a day, eat the lowest quality grains as food, and live in a well-ventilated place in winter.  Would you be willing to live with mosquitoes and cockroaches all day long in a cramped hut that leaks in the summer?  "Young Master, are you kidding? How can you live that kind of life?"  " "Yes, and no. Dou Guangguo once lived in a black kiln and made a living by mining. It was only a few years since Dou Pengzu's generation. Everyone in the Dou family is soaked in fine clothes and fine food. It's not better to get better. When our material wealth is so rich,  To a certain extent, what needs to be pursued is higher-level material or higher spiritual pursuits. You can pick up music, chess, calligraphy and painting, and listening to dramas and watching horse races are also popular nowadays. In the future, there will be more and more prosperity and development. By then, except for the poorest people,  Living a hard life, most people don't have to worry about food, drink and a comfortable life, so the atmosphere will naturally change.  " "Change the atmosphere?  That's not okay, absolutely not, except for the customs, everything else is easy to discuss.  "Dou Ying's head was shaking like a drum. He has no responsibility to change the ancient customs.He dared to take responsibility, so during the forty years from Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty to Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, every time he encountered the threshold of changing the atmosphere, he immediately retreated. If the atmosphere did not change, he would immediately change from a wise king to a cowardly king.  "There is a way." "What way?" "War." Dou Ying's eyebrows knitted into knots: "Why is it a war." "The Han Dynasty inherited the Qin system, and the Qin people's system was Shang Yang's reform, and Shang Yang's reform was for expansion and peace.  Annexation, without a war, the Han family has no way to go. They can only slowly wait for the change of folk customs and slide into the unknown abyss. Whether they change or not is just the difference between early death and late death. War can eliminate the hidden dangers of deterioration of folk customs. As long as there is war, men  Go into battle and kill the enemy, while women take care of the family. "I finally understand, it turns out that the young master's drunkard is not interested in drinking!" Dou Ying suddenly realized.  Cao Shi said a lot of words, hinting at two words in a roundabout way, war.  Without war, the Han Dynasty¡¯s meritorious system would have nothing to eat. A year without war would mean one year of poverty, and ten years without war would mean ten years of poverty.  Thirty years of no war will destroy two entire generations. Sixty years of no war will lead to four generations of inaction. Within a hundred years, the military merit system will collapse on its own.  The princes cannot live without war, the military meritorious officials cannot live without war, and the Northern and Southern armies outside Chang'an City cannot live without war. Without war, they will rot away bit by bit.  Otherwise, sooner or later, the roots will rot. War is a healing medicine that promotes muscle growth and pain relief. It can remove the rotten roots and grow new roots.  Since the soldiers and horses have not yet used food and grass, the war is fought not only on the personal military command ability, but also on the national power of a country. No matter how powerful the famous general is, he cannot stop the hungry soldiers.  So in order to fight a war, you have to get money first, and then you go back to making a fuss about the word money.  "Your Majesty's lifelong ambition is to defeat the Huns, and my ambition is also to defeat the Huns, not only for myself, but also to contact the border troubles and abolish the marriage system." "The young man is joking again, the Huns are thousands of miles away and cannot be seen or touched  "We have been very friendly with each other over the years. Fighting the Xiongnu will do more harm than good to us." Dou Ying disagreed. He had served as a soldier and had seen the dangers of the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion of Wu and Chu, and the confrontation between the Han army.  The ferocious Wu army still had to defend to weaken its energy before attacking, but it did not have much confidence to defeat the Xiongnu.  Cao Shi didn't want to continue talking. He and Dou Ying were a generation apart and had completely different ideas and personalities. Dou Ying had a tough temperament. Fortunately, he was soft-tempered and didn't like fighting. Cao Shi didn't want to fight with the Dou family.  The smartest people fall out. Dou Yingzhong's calm, intelligent and sophisticated character is still very lovable. At least there are really no political opponents of his inside and outside the court.  After dealing with Wei Wan and Zhi Buyi, he found that he had to bear even greater responsibilities.  Prime Minister Bai Zhihou Xuchang, whose abilities are not outstanding and whose prestige is not very high, is obviously a role chosen out of necessity and does not have the ability to take charge of the government and suppress hundreds of officials. Zhang Ou, the imperial censor, has a soft character and does not like fighting to a certain extent.  Similar to the good old man Zhi Buyi, his character is in line with the young emperor Liu Che's employment ideas, but it is not conducive to solving the contradiction between the three ministers and the nine ministers, and he is still not enough to suppress the minister.  Taichang Zhao Zhou, Lang Zhongling Shi Jian, Daxing Ling Huan Xian, Da Nong Ling Dou Ying, and Ting Wei Tian Fu were all far inferior in terms of strength and prestige, not to mention the Crown Prince Taifu Wang Xin, Changle Wei Wei Tian Sheng, and Zhan Shi  Shi Qing's status is slightly lacking.  After all, he was the only one with the best ability, and he worked hard and put in a lot of energy. He was almost the one to unite the ministers on behalf of the prime minister, win the ministers from the margins into the circle, and look like a tired person after working around for several days.  Dead dog.  "You're all just pretending to be dead? Then I don't care. Whoever you love, I'll go play with my money." Cao Shi thought gloomily.  (To be continued)
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