Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 667 Great Voyage ([-])
If there is anyone who can be famous through the ages with only one parallel essay, then Wang Bo undoubtedly belongs to this kind of person.

He didn't have any wonderful experiences in his life, just like most scholars, he specialized in poetry and Fu, and occasionally lamented that he was underappreciated.

Basically, as long as you are a scholar, you will feel that you are underappreciated for your talents, and all the intellectuals in the Tang Dynasty feel that you are underappreciated for your talents.

This kind of thing is normal, the total amount of cake is so big, there will always be some people who can get the cake, and some people can't get the cake, and those who can't get the cake will naturally feel that they are underappreciated.

As the rulers, the relatives of the emperor had to share the cake, and the Guanlong nobles, as the founding fathers, also had to share the cake. Although the Kanto gentry belonged to the conquered, they were worth fighting for the united front, and they could get a little cake.

In this way, there is no extra cake left for ordinary scholars.

The scholars in Guanlong are a little bit better, and they can get a little leftovers from the nobles of Guanlong.

Scholars in Kanto, especially those in Hebei, are miserable. They have no chance of advancement at all, and achieving a class leap is as difficult as the road to Shu.

In a society, if someone enjoys, someone will pay, and if someone consumes, someone will produce.

It is necessary to exploit the majority of people to satisfy a small number of people so that they can afford to support them. If there are too few people at the bottom, they will not be able to support the people at the top.

I have only heard of a hundred slaves supporting one master, but never heard of a slave supporting a hundred masters.

Since Guan Long is the basic base of the empire, and the empire wants to support Guan Long, who will bear the burden of supporting Guan Long's basic base?

Hu people?
But the Hu people are so small, and the productivity of the Hu people is too backward, how can it be possible to support the huge Guanlong area?

In the end, only the Hebei region with the largest population can support the Guanlong region.

The reason why blood sucks in the Hebei area is not because Hebei has any "charm", but simply because the population of Hebei is large enough to be continuously sucked blood. If it is Lingnan, which has not yet been developed and matured, it may be sucked dry within a few years of blood sucking up.

Only by exploiting the majority of people can a small number of people be supported. If the population of the exploited area is too small, it will not be able to support the ruling class of Guanlong, and the huge bottom population base in Hebei can support the ruling class of the empire.

Who can blame this kind of thing?Just like the Kansai region in the Later Han Dynasty, it became a blood-sucked area because it was too late to join the team. The Hebei area/Kwantung gentry, because it was too early to join the team, boarded the ship of Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu in time, and therefore became the ruling class.

Now in the Tang Dynasty, it’s the other way around. Kansai stood too early and became the ruling class of the empire, while Kanto stood too late and became the blood-sucking area of ​​the empire.

The empire had already planted the seeds of civil war during its prosperous period, and it only needed to wait for an opportunity, an opportunity for all those who were secretly dissatisfied with the empire to dare to turn around.

The reason why there is no rebellion now is not because I don’t want to rebel, but because I don’t dare to rebel and I’m afraid of being suppressed.

If one day, suddenly there is a powerful general who catches the imperial ruling class by surprise and makes those who have long wanted to rebel see the hope of success, then naturally there will be a huge momentum in a short period of time.

Whoever wins, who will they help!
They are willing to help only those rebellions that have a hope of success, and those who have no hope of success, they will instead assist the empire to suppress the rebels, and maybe they can gain some military merit.

Wang Bo has no idea of ​​making contributions. Although he also thought about becoming an official, his desire is not very strong. It belongs to that kind. If you ask me to be an official, then I will be an official and satisfy your desire to be an official. If you don’t take the initiative to come If you ask me to be an official, then I don't bother to ask for an official, it's very casual.

I want to be an official, but I don't think so strongly, I just go with the flow.

The governor of Hongzhou was amazed by his literary talent, and copied his "Preface to the Pavilion of King Teng" and wanted to keep him.

However, Wang Bo declined.

The reason for the refusal was not that he was indifferent to fame and wealth. Although Wang Bo didn’t care much about fame and fortune, he was not indifferent to fame and fortune. The main reason was that he was in a hurry to visit his father in Jiaozhi.

His father was demoted by the court to Jiaozhi in Lingnan because he made some "pro-Yan remarks".

Wang Bo grew up during the period when the Tang Dynasty was prosperous, so he did not have "Yan-mu thoughts" and never felt that the Yan country was orthodox.

However, the older generation of gentry literati in the Central Plains, who grew up in the war-torn years of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, witnessed the most powerful moment in the history of the Yan State, and personally felt the torrent of the era when millions of troops were wiped out by the Yan State. National Orthodoxy].

Therefore, although many literati of the older generation of Central Plains, such as Wang Bo's father, have changed their minds and began to regard Li Tang as the orthodox of China, there are still some literati of the Central Plains who still regard Yan as the orthodox of China and believe that Li Tang is the orthodox of China. Tartar barbarians.

Wang Bo's father just got drunk at a banquet, uttered the truth after drinking, and mentioned that the court should let go of the market and make peace with Yan.

Then, those political enemies took the opportunity to report Wang Bo's father.

Now "anti-Yan" is the national policy of the imperial court. Wang Bo's father's remarks are tantamount to criticizing the government, and he will naturally be demoted.

What should be said and what should not be said, this is what every politician must keep in mind.

If it was in the late period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, if someone dared to say something to reconcile with the Huns, it would not be as simple as demoting officials.

Those with backgrounds will also have to go to jail, and those without backgrounds will be directly chopped off.

In other words, Emperor Li Zhi was relatively more benevolent, and he was only demoted.

Along the waterway (Gan River), through Wuling, came to Panyu (Guangzhou).

It is too far from the center of the empire.

As the saying goes, the sky is high and the emperor is far away. The farther you are from the emperor, the less binding power the court will have.

If the smuggling in Hongzhou is still small-scale, then the smuggling in Panyu is very rampant, and the market is full of spices from Yan State called "Dashi Spices".

Local officials, for political achievement and making money, also turned a blind eye to smuggling.

Businessmen engage in smuggling to make money in the name of importing spices, so they naturally have to pay business taxes.

The achievements of local officials are nothing more than the following: stability, population, food, taxation, and infrastructure.

The most important thing is actually stability, that is, there cannot be a civil uprising. Once a civil uprising occurs, no matter how good other political achievements are, it will be useless.

Increasing population, increasing food production, increasing tax revenue, and using corvees for infrastructure construction are all political achievements.

That is to say, on the one hand, the local officials want to increase taxes to make more money from the people for the court, and on the other hand, they have to appease the hearts of the people, so that there should be no civil uprisings because of too much money.

It is very simple to simply make money from the people, just increase taxes, and it is easy to simply appease the hearts of the people, just cut taxes, but it is very difficult to make money from the people and hope that the people will not complain. Carry out clever micro-management to make as much money as possible before the critical point of people's complaints erupting.

As for how to control this critical point of public grievances, every politician needs his own experience.

This is the difficulty of being an official in the Tang Dynasty. The imperial court hopes that you will make a lot of money from the people and then hand it over to the central government.

It is necessary for the horse to run, but also for the horse not to eat grass!
And condoning smuggling, as long as it is not discovered by the central government, is actually the easiest way for Panyu officials to increase their political achievements.

On the one hand, tax revenue has increased, and on the other hand, the common people will not complain. It kills two birds with one stone. The only flaw is "a little risk". Once the Chang'an court finds out, they will lose their heads.

(End of this chapter)