My players are all actors

Chapter 223 Intersection of Two Lines
The fog in the field of vision dissipated again, and Chu Ge began to play the next stage of Wang Wenchuan's role.

"Almost all the other contents of the new law can be implemented."

Chu Ge looked at the second batch of plans for the new law in his hand.

In this new law, the young crop law is finally included.

Judging from the current situation, Wang Wenchuan, played by Chu Ge, has even more control over the entire court than Wang Wenchuan in history.

It can only be said that when a gentleman plays the tricks of a villain, he will be more terrifying than a real villain.

The old party was also trying to fight back, such as impeaching and attacking the new party, but this counterattack was easily suppressed by Chu Ge, and it didn't have much effect at all.

On the one hand, it is because Wu Desi is actually in the hands of Chu Ge. Even if the officials of the old party want to dig out the black material of the new party, it is difficult to find it; even if they can, the emperor may not support it.

After all, the emperor already had black information about the officials of the new party. As a referee, once he made up his mind to sideline the fight, these people from the old party would have nothing to do.

As for the conventional attack on the new law, it is even less effective.

Chu Ge's new law plans this time are all tending to be safe, and the results are basically positive.In addition, the official system firmly tied the emperor to his chariot, so the impeachment of the old party would not have much effect at all.

Therefore, after Chu Ge looked around in the court hall and found that they were basically his own people, he felt that he could almost enter the next stage.

Promote the Green Sprouts Act!
Of course Chu Ge knew that promoting the young crop method might cause great harm, but he still wanted to try it.

On the one hand, it is because, if you want to win the battle of Niuzhu, you must have enough military resources.In the current new law, except for one exemption law that can significantly increase fiscal revenue, the other items have little effect.

The exemption law has also been revised in order to win over the centrists in the old party, so the effect of income is far from the historical immunity law.

Therefore, Chu Ge's promotion of the young crops method at this time is to further increase financial revenue and make the subsequent battle of Niuzhu more likely to win.

On the other hand, it is because Chu Ge also wants to see how far the young crop method can be promoted at this time.

Historically, Wang Wenchuan promoted the Green Crop Law, which brought at least 3 million annual income to the Qi Dynasty. However, because local officials began to continuously increase the interest rate of the Green Crop Law, the Green Crop Law changed from "making money" to "accumulating money", and was eventually abolished.

Now, Chu Ge has dealt a heavy blow to the old party through vigorous and vigorous methods of party struggle, and his voice in the court is already extremely high.

Unless the emperor has a serious crisis of trust in him, the possibility of being dismissed is very slim.

He wanted to see if the implementation of the Young Seedling Law could achieve better results than it did then.
Therefore, Chu Ge added another one to his improved young crop method plan.

It is strictly forbidden for local officials in various states and counties to increase the loan interest rate of the Young Crops Law, and it is strictly forbidden to force apportionment.All levels must be reviewed layer by layer. Once there is a forced apportionment or an increase in interest rates, the superiors in the area will also be punished.

In addition, Chu Ge also decided to send Beijing officials to various places to make unannounced visits on a regular basis. As long as they found that the Qingmiao loan was out of shape, they would punish the local officials in charge.

Of course, Chu Ge is also very clear that it is definitely impossible to rely on the constraints of this system to completely eliminate the situation of officials singing crooked scriptures, but it can be avoided to some extent.

The Wang Wenchuan reform in history did not do well on this point, which can be said to be an omission.

Wang Wenchuan used the income from the youth crop loan as the content of the performance appraisal, which naturally gave birth to many speculative officials who forcibly apportioned the youth crop loan and raised interest rates.

In this way, he will naturally take the blame for harming the people firmly.

Chu Ge speculated that the reason why Wang Wenchuan indulged these new party officials to a certain extent in history was probably out of compulsion.

Because back then, Wang Wenchuan's control over the entire court was not as strong as Chu Ge's is now, and he didn't clean up the old party hard enough, and he won the emperor's trust relatively limited.There are only so many people in the New Party. Wang Wenchuan can't spare no effort to rectify the interior of the New Party. Naturally, there are some people who can be hired. First, make do with collecting money for the treasury.

But at this time, Chu Ge can reach within the new party to a limited extent, because the pressure from the old party is already very small.

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[Battle from Niuzhu: 4 years]

Soon, Chu Ge's young crop law was implemented for a whole year.

He looked at the documents on the table again, and information from all over the country came to him like snowflakes.

The surviving old party officials are still going up against the Youth Law, including Wen Junshi who was expelled from the capital.

But Chu Ge is completely immune to these, and doesn't even look at them.

The young crop law has been implemented for one year, and it has indeed brought a lot of income, reaching more than 200 million.

This is indeed a considerable income.

Many officials in the new party were punished for forcing apportionment or raising the interest rate of young crop loans without permission. Chu Ge's vigorous and resolute style caused some turmoil within the new party, but since there are not many voices from the old party in the court, most of the speculation in the new party Pai had no choice but to swallow his anger.

They either restrained themselves and did not dare to force young crop loans or raise interest rates so blatantly, or they tried to hide it.The latter is obviously very difficult and risky.

To a certain extent, this has made the implementation of the Young Crops Law a little better than it has been in history.

Chu Ge estimated that according to the current situation, winning the battle of Niuzhu four years later should not be a big problem.

At least at the level of military resources, it is sufficient.

After all, the Armament Supervision Law and the Disarmament Law, which can enhance the combat effectiveness of the army, have been implemented long ago. Coupled with the abundant financial revenue in recent years, as long as Yu Jiaxuan's line can be played normally, there is great hope in Niuzhu. Rocky wins the Golden Bing.

Came to the court again.

What surprised Chu Ge was that today's emperor seemed to have something wrong with his face.

"Wang Qing, do you know about this matter?"

As the emperor spoke, he asked the little eunuch beside him to hand over something.

Chu Ge was stunned for a moment, and then realized that he might have triggered some special plot, so he quickly took the things.

This is a scroll and a memorial.

Chu Ge slowly unfolded the scroll, and couldn't help but "thump" in his heart.

This is a "Refugees Map"!
The refugees in the picture are all disheveled and emaciated, each leaning on a tree branch as a cane, a scene of purgatory on earth.

But in the memorial, it is lamenting the harm that the new law has brought to the people, saying that the new law has caused serious consequences of "ten rooms are empty and the people are displaced."

There is even a sentence at the end: "But through the eyes, you can already cry, but what is worse than this? The drought is caused by Wenchuan. As the officials and ministers said, if you go to Wenchuan, it will rain. Ten days not Rain, that is, begging and beheading ministers outside Xuande's gate, for the crime of deceiving the emperor."

It means that the scene seen in front of you has already made people cry, not to mention that the real situation is far worse than this?This severe drought was caused by Wang Wenchuan's political reform. If the officials can do what I said and dismiss Wang Wenchuan, it will definitely rain!If it does not rain within ten days, then I will be beheaded outside the Xuande Gate to punish my crime of deceiving the emperor.

This memorial can be said to be heartbreaking every word.

Look at the name on the memorial: Zhang Renxia!

Just when Chu Ge was still a little lost because of the name Zhang Renxia, ​​the emperor slapped the armrest and asked angrily: "Wang Qing! What's going on!

"Has it been like this since the new law came into effect?"

Chu Ge hadn't seen the emperor so angry for a long time, and there was even some mourning in this anger.

He hurriedly explained: "Officials, this is not the fault of the new law..."

But his explanation still failed, and the emperor, in grief and anger, decided to dismiss Wang Wenchuan again.

……

"Damn! This dog emperor!

"The ears are too soft!"

Returning to the key point of the five years, Chu Ge was almost out of breath.

The failure this time came a bit too suddenly, so he was not mentally prepared at all.

Of course, part of the reason was that he had already suppressed the old party to such an extent that he unknowingly let down his vigilance, and ended up being robbed by these old party.

After calming down, Chu Ge learned from the pain and began to analyze the reasons for this failure.

On the face of it, the failure was sudden.

It stands to reason that Wang Wenchuan has basically wiped out the old party within the court, and the officials who support the new law already account for the majority of the court.

Moreover, through the official system law, he won the trust of the emperor.

But why is it still dismissed because of a picture?
In detail, this matter is more complicated.

The key this time is "heavenly change".

People in ancient times were very trustworthy, especially believed in the interaction between heaven and man.And the emperor, who calls himself the Son of Heaven, is even more convinced of this.

Therefore, when there was a severe drought in ancient times, many emperors would fast and pray for rain, and even issued edicts against themselves, because in the eyes of the ancients, natural disasters such as severe drought were warnings from the heavens, and the emperor must seriously reflect on and correct his mistakes.

But this time, why can a "map of refugees" have such a huge lethality?
Because there were indeed many refugees at that time.

The emperor didn't know how serious the disaster was at the time, but after seeing this picture of refugees, his spirit was greatly shocked, and he even didn't eat much for several days because of mourning.

And once the disaster was brought to the emperor, the emperor had many channels to confirm the disaster.

After the disaster was confirmed, the matter became complicated.

In the eyes of the emperor, the severe drought started not long after the implementation of the new law, which was obviously a warning from the heavens.In addition, officials from all over the country impeached one after another, saying that the young crops law in the new law made the people hungry and displaced. With the superposition of multiple factors, the emperor would naturally be shaken by the new law.

At this time, although Wang Wenchuan, played by Chu Ge, has become a powerful minister, he has not yet grown to the point where he can stand up to the emperor.

And those old party ministers who have not been able to deal with it thoroughly will also take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to attack the new law fiercely.

Only after another three to five years, when the Green Crop Law is implemented smoothly, and the bureaucratic system of the entire imperial court builds a powerful system rooted in the new law from top to bottom, can the Wang Wenchuan played by Chu Ge truly grow up to completely hide the truth from the emperor, or have a relationship with the emperor. The point of challenge.

"Then, the most urgent task at this time is how to overcome the hurdle of natural disasters.

"It can only be said that the most difficult thing to deal with in history is not inevitability, but some kind of contingency..."

Historically, this natural disaster became a key factor in the interruption of Wang Wenchuan's reform.

Speaking of this matter, it is actually quite unjust.

A few years after the implementation of the new law, a severe drought swept across the country.The severe drought created a large number of refugees and gave the old party an excuse to attack the new law.The emperor was worried about this matter every day, thinking that it was a warning from heaven to oppose the new law.

And Zhang Renxia's picture of refugees became the last straw that broke the camel's back.

He even swore in the Shangshu that the drought in the world was all because of Wang Wenchuan's new law, and that as long as the emperor revoked the new law, it would rain within ten days.

According to the historical records compiled by Wen Junshi, after the emperor canceled the new law, it really rained within ten days.

And the old parties also took this as ironclad proof that the new law will bring disaster to the country and the people, and anger and resentment.

Wang Wenchuan's response was very strong at the beginning: change in the sky is not to be feared!

In other words, neither landslides nor severe droughts can make him fearful, and neither can stop him from implementing the new law.

And after he was dismissed from the Prime Minister, he felt helpless: Could it be that the drought in the world and the rise of refugees are all because of the Qingmiao Law?Could it be that without the Young Crops Law, there would be no severe drought and refugees?

It's just that at that time, his helpless rebuttal didn't have any effect.

As far as Chu Ge is concerned, this time he is of course on Wang Wenchuan's side.

Because from the perspective of modern materialism, if it doesn’t rain, what does it matter if the ground is dry or not?This is just a purely natural phenomenon.

What's more, now that Chu Ge is playing Wang Wenchuan, if he wants to spend the country and strengthen his army, he must overcome the hurdle of natural disasters.Otherwise, once the prime minister is dismissed, the new law will be abolished, which is tantamount to wasting all previous efforts.

Chu Ge calmed down a little, and began to look for a solution in historical materials.

The first thing he thought of was to start with Zhang Renxia.

This little character played by the player before was originally a teacher and friend with Wang Wenchuan, but at such a critical moment, he stood on the opposite side of him and became the fuse for his dismissal.

In history, Zhang Renxia has also been praised for hundreds of years as a "little man who worries about the country and the people" because of this incident of exiles.

In the relevant historical materials, Zhang Renxia's changes are actually very clear.

He really respected Wang Wenchuan at first, but after he went to the local government, he saw more and more disadvantages of the new law, so he quickly changed his mind and began to oppose the new law.

It seems a little biased to say that he is an old party, after all, he has not been deeply involved in party disputes, but his existence has indeed caused a huge obstacle to the new law.

"Long sword and a glass of wine, a man's heart is square."

This is the description of Zhang Renxia in the copy, summarizing him as a "Xia".

If Zhang Renxia's deeds end here in the refugee map, then some people may think that he is a capricious villain.But in fact, after Wang Wenchuan was dismissed as prime minister, some officials made trouble for Wang Wenchuan, and Zhang Renxia also spoke up. If the emperor hadn't saved him, he would have almost lost his life.

From this point of view, Zhang Renxia at least practiced his own morality in his heart, and used the word "Xia" throughout.

Chu Ge's idea at the beginning was to use Wang Wenchuan's identity to directly find an excuse to send Zhang Renxia to Lingnan, and then arrange for someone to intercept all his memorials.

As long as Zhang Renxia is not in the capital and can't get on the refugee map, maybe things won't develop to this point.

But soon, Chu Ge dismissed this idea.

Because he knew that Zhang Renxia's behavior was actually inevitable.In other words, Zhang Renxia is actually just a pawn of the old party. Even if Zhang Renxia did not appear on the refugee map, the old party headed by Wen Junshi will not miss this opportunity. They will always try their best to attack Wang Wenchuan with natural disasters new law.

It may be a choice to lie to the top and the bottom, and it is also a choice to cover most people's mouths so that they cannot report to the emperor, but these methods are too easy to overturn.

It is also important to lie to others, small things are easy to hide, but for such a big thing as a natural disaster, the longer you hide it, the more tragic it will be when the car overturns.

Therefore, we still have to find a way to solve this problem from the root cause.

"The difficulty of this matter is that natural disasters and the new law, in the eyes of people at the time, are a state of strong correlation.

"The severe drought happened just after the implementation of the new law.

"The battle of Niuzhu will start ten years later. I must race against time, and I cannot waste a second. Therefore, I cannot let the old party govern the country first, and then implement the new law when there is a severe drought and people complain. In that case, There is simply not enough time.

"So, I'm going to take advantage of the rain in reverse.

"Zheng Xia may have been prepared to die when he wrote the letter, but he did not expect that it would actually rain after several months of drought. In the eyes of the people at the time, it was his spirit that moved the heavens, but in reality Well, this is obviously a coincidence...

"It's just that this coincidence gave the new law a fatal blow.

"What if I can take advantage of this heavy rain in reverse? What if I can find a way to get Tianren Sensing to be on my side?"

In Chu Ge's mind, a plan was gradually outlined.

It's just that he didn't have time to implement it, and the fog in front of him has filled up again, and today's game time is coming to an end.

Chu Ge felt a little regretful, but on second thought, he had already taken a big step forward in the story line of Wang Wenchuan tonight.In particular, the line of power ministers has been cleared, and the difficulty of slicing the entire history has also dropped suddenly, which doubles his confidence.

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At this time, other players also woke up from their sleep.

The official forum of "Dark Sand" was quickly overwhelmed by players' discussions.

"Damn! The second stage of this dungeon is too difficult!"

"Yeah, both lines seem to be MAX difficulty."

"Actually, it can't be said that it is particularly difficult. A more accurate way to say it is to be aggrieved! Compared with Sheng Taizu's copy, it is too aggrieved!"

"That's right, the key is because Yu Jiaxuan and Wang Wenchuan are both courtiers. No matter how ambitious they are, if the emperor doesn't support them, it's all useless!"

The players on the forum can be said to be full of complaints.

Some players have further smoothed out the detailed customs clearance method of the dungeon "I want to talk about it".

As predicted by many players before, the ultimate goal of this dungeon is to win the battle of Niuzhu, without Zhao Binfu as a key figure, to defeat the enhanced version of Jin Bing.

But before, the players were still vague about how to do it, and they could only roughly guess that Yu Jiaxuan was going to take on the role of leader.

But now as the progress of the players progresses, all this has gradually become clear.

Yu Jiaxuan and Wang Wenchuan can be regarded as two lines, one literary and one military.

Yu Jiaxuan represents Wu. Although he is a scholar, his combat prowess is beyond the mark and he is also extremely talented in military affairs.

Currently, the player who is playing Yu Jiaxuan's line is Zhao Haiping, who is progressing the fastest. According to his strategy, Yu Jiaxuan's line has at least three stages.

The first stage is to rob camps, the second stage is to suppress bandits, and the third stage is to train troops.

Players have already mastered the two methods of looting the camp, but the second stage of bandit suppression stumped many people.

The difficulty is not whether you can beat them well, but that you can't catch these tea bandits at all!

Every time the officers and soldiers were led to suppress bandits on a large scale, these tea bandits could always get the news in advance and slip away.

Players are like punching cotton, they have nowhere to use their strength.

Zhao Haiping carefully analyzed the current situation of suppressing the bandits after two times, and finally thought of a way.

That is to carefully select five hundred dead soldiers from the army, and charge hard!

In the end, he was really rushed down.

The reason is to start with the fact that the tea bandits were able to avoid the encirclement and suppression by the government and army every time.

The tea bandits have the support of the people nearby, so as long as the officers and soldiers gather on a large scale, there will always be people to report the news.The tea bandits crushed the officers and soldiers in obtaining information, so naturally they could escape every time.

Therefore, Zhao Haiping deliberately stayed in the city for a few more days, allowing the officers and soldiers to practice and rest in the city, creating an illusion for the tea bandits.

During the drill, Zhao Haiping secretly selected five hundred elite soldiers, and secretly went up the mountain when no one was paying attention.

Of course, in this way, the number of officers and soldiers will not be dominant at all.

There are thousands of tea bandits, and the mere 500 people led by Zhao Haiping are at an absolute disadvantage.

But after two attempts, Zhao Haiping discovered that these tea bandits were actually just mobs. Facing Yu Jiaxuan, who had exploded in force, and officers and soldiers who seemed to have fallen from the sky, these tea bandits soon lost their morale and fled in all directions.

Zhao Haiping found the right time to behead several of the leaders, and the banditry this time naturally calmed down.

Immediately afterwards, he entered the third stage of Yu Jiaxuan's line.

The main goal of the third stage is to train troops.

After pacifying the tea bandits, Yu Jiaxuan moved to many places as a firefighter to quell the bandits in various places.

It's just that the combat effectiveness of the local government and army at that time was not high, and their armaments were weak.Even if it is to fight the bandits, it is a bit difficult.

What's more, Yu Jiaxuan's target has never been these bandits, but the Jinren.

He knew very well that many of these bandits were poor farmers who could not survive, and many of them were forced to become bandits like the previous tea merchants.As an official of the Qi Dynasty, it is his duty to suppress bandits and protect the environment and the people.

But he has never forgotten that the golden talent is his greatest enemy in this life.

Therefore, Yu Jiaxuan wrote to the emperor, hoping to create a local army with combat effectiveness, and got the emperor's consent.

Zhao Haiping originally thought that such things as military training were not difficult, but as soon as he got started, he realized that there are obvious pitfalls here!

Because the thinking of the emperor and Yu Jiaxuan can't be said to be very different, it can only be said to have nothing to do with each other.

The emperor's idea was only to establish a local militia organization to deal with frequent riots in various places and maintain local law and order.

In other words, the emperor only wanted a fire brigade.

But Yu Jiaxuan's ambition is definitely not here. He wants to build this Flying Tiger Army into a truly combat-capable force. Once the border changes in the future, he can be pulled to the front line at any time to go head-to-head with the golden soldiers!
Therefore, players encountered a big difficulty when forming the Flying Tiger Army: no money!
After all, in the eyes of the emperor, this Flying Tiger Army was only used to suppress local uprisings, so the military expenditure was very limited.

In the process of playing Yu Jiaxuan, Zhao Haiping discovered that if he really only used the emperor's appropriation to form the Flying Tiger Army, he could only form a weak team. impossible.

Therefore, Zhao Haiping began to try to get money from various places, and the expenditure of the Flying Tiger Army was particularly huge.

As a result, he was impeached in various ways.

Some people say that Yu Jiaxuan's Flying Tiger Army has a particularly large expenditure, which affects the daily expenses of other troops; friction, and even war.

These are of course nonsense in the eyes of the players, but the emperor couldn't stand it and asked the special envoy to bring a gold medal, so that his Flying Tiger Army was immediately suspended.

Zhao Haiping was in a daze, but he didn't dare to defy the gold medals, so the Flying Tiger Army couldn't continue to build.

Yu Jiaxuan's line is stuck here.

On the other hand, Wang Wenchuan's line of writing caused more controversy.

The solution of Yu Jiaxuan's line is relatively simple. Whether it is robbing camps or suppressing bandits, in the final analysis, it is solved with excellent military skills, and the solutions are similar.

But for this line of Wang Wenchuan's reform, players have various solutions.

It has even been played by many players as a simulation business game, grabbing this historical slice and frantically experimenting with their own economic ideas.

But in the end, it was mostly a fancy failure...

Rather than saying that the players are frantically performing different economic reform ideas, it is better to say that the low-level officials in this historical slice are frantically performing crooked scriptures.

Players found that no matter how hard they tried to perfect the details, no matter how perfect the new method plan they came up with, the final execution could be described by the name of the dungeon.

I want to talk about it.

The behavior of these low-level officials is really hard to describe.

Some players simply stopped pretending in a fit of anger, tearing up their faces and collecting money nakedly, only caring about winning the Battle of Niuzhu ten years later. .

After some experimentation, many players found helplessly that copying Wang Wenchuan's standard answer turned out to be the safest choice.

Strictly following Wang Wenchuan's method at the time, the new law can be stabilized for at least five years.

Of course, five years later, he will still be dismissed because of the drought and Zhang Renxia's pictures of refugees.

Immediately afterwards, some players tried to play Zhang Renxia, ​​telling him not to go to the refugee map, or simply using Wang Wenchuan's identity to suppress Zhang Renxia, ​​and using Wang Wenchuan to persuade Zhang Renxia earnestly...

Although the final result is still not very optimistic, the players have basically determined the way to clear the level, and also determined the relationship between the two lines of Yu Jiaxuan and Wang Wenchuan.

The two lines influence each other.

Wang Wenchuan's reform may fill the national treasury, and may also create a large number of refugees in the local area, leading to banditry.

Yu Jiaxuan's training of the Flying Tiger Army requires financial appropriation from the state. The better the country's economic situation, the more military funds the Flying Tiger Army can get; and if Yu Jiaxuan fails to assess these banditry problems in time, the old party will be able to find opportunities to impeach Wang Wenchuan , so that the new law will fall into failure earlier.

How to use the new law to increase tax revenue while generating as little refugee money as possible, how to quell local banditry as much as possible and train the Flying Tiger Army without the support of the court have become the key for players to pass the level.

In an ideal situation, the players have accumulated a large amount of military resources for the Qi Dynasty through Wang Wenchuan's reform, and they are using Yu Jiaxuan's identity to train the Flying Tiger Army. Combining the two, there is hope to win the battle of Niuzhu.

(End of this chapter)