At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

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Leaving Guo Jin alone in the South Study Room, she was sulking.

Yes, my father and son did take care of Liu Jian, and his death was indeed promoted by their father and son. Liu Jian was a plaything in their hands from beginning to end.

But so what?

The throne was never obtained by Liu Jian himself, it was given to him by Guo Peng, because Guo Peng gave it to him, he could get the throne and become that emperor, not because of other reasons.

Liu Jian is a lucky one. He can live so lucky to this day, living a luxurious life that everyone in the world envies. Even the emperor did not live a luxurious life. What else does he want?

If Guo Peng hadn't chosen him, he would have lost his family business and become a commoner like the other Han clansmen, farming the land with ordinary people to support himself, and he would never have thought about such a luxurious life.

From the troubled times at the end of the Han Dynasty to the present, he couldn't count how many clan members of the Han family starved to death in the world.

Too many people died.

Liu Jian lived to be 28 years old, which is indeed not considered a long life, and it can even be said to be quite short-lived, but so what?

In his short 28 years of life, he has already enjoyed a blessing that other people can't cultivate in a few lifetimes!

In the troubled times at the end of the Han Dynasty, tens of millions of people lost their lives, or died of illness, or starved to death, or died of sleepiness, or were killed. Before they died, they suffered all kinds of torture, terribly painful, crying and crying, but what about Liu Jian?

Come on, he is awesome!

He died on a woman's belly!

He has not made any achievements in his life, and his typical virtue is not worthy. He can live so many years of extravagant life, and even die is so happy, what else does he want?

What else do you want to fight for him?

Guo Jin sat on the throne, the more she thought about it, the more angry she became, and the more she thought about it, the more uncomfortable she felt.

Although the incident at the end of this matter spoiled Guo Jin's good mood, the matter still developed in a normal and orderly direction.

Chapter 1589 The End of the Economic Crisis

In the past few months when Guo Jin successfully used the clean government storm and Liu Jian's death to divert conflicts, the economic crisis in Northwest China gradually calmed down.

The three prefectures of the Western Regions took the lead in stabilizing.

The population is small, the scale of business is small, and the scale of agriculture is acceptable. Under such circumstances, the three prefectures of the Western Regions quickly survived the economic crisis and returned to normal life.

Cao Ang, Sima Yi, and Zhuge Liang used their own means and ideas to lead the three Western Regions through the crisis in different ways. Although the business scale has been reduced a lot, life can still go on as usual.

The situation in Liangzhou is not so good. Many large-scale shops cannot continue to operate and have to go bankrupt, let alone small businesses.

The only survivors are those whose funds can withstand the impact or those who are luckier and only do business with the Guishuang Empire.

They survived and have the opportunity to persist until the next prosperous period. Although they also suffered heavy losses, there is still hope after all. After the restructuring, the market has experienced a wave of depression, and consumption has decreased, but the pressure of competition has also decreased.

And those who failed to persevere are naturally alas, they are heavily in debt, and many people really have the intention of dying.

If Lu Qian hadn't used the funds in his hand to help them write off part of their debts, the people who died because of this might have caused local officials to worry about it.

But even with the help of Lu Qian to write off some of the debts, some large merchants who had expanded too seriously still failed to hold on.

After all, their capital chain was broken, so they went bankrupt and were heavily in debt. More than a dozen businessmen committed suicide for this reason, leaving behind a lot of bad debts, which made the local government a dilemma and a headache.

In the end, quite a few of them need the government to help wipe their buttocks.

Then there was a more serious situation.

The officials of the Ministry of Finance in various places are worried that too many people who pay their debts in installments will affect their year-end assessment, so they make things difficult at the implementation level.

They are unwilling to repay the debts of those bankrupt merchants in installments, and always want them to repay the debts as soon as possible to reduce their administrative burden.

Lu Qian issued decrees many times, requiring local finance departments not to insist on immediate repayment of bankrupt merchants, but to conduct research and evaluation and allow them to repay debts in installments.

Then it further announced that the number and scale of debt repayment in installments will not be included in the Ministry of Finance's year-end assessment criteria.

With regard to this decree, Lu Qian still specially asked Guo Jin to make a decision.

Then Guo Jin issued an order to the Ministry of Finance, ordering the Ministry of Finance not to use the number and scale of installment debts as a reference for the year-end assessment, so that the local Ministry of Finance has no relevant worries.

Otherwise, once the reluctance to give more installments due to worrying about the year-end assessment happens, there will undoubtedly be a group of bankrupt merchants killed. Instead of dealing with it after the incident becomes serious, it is better to prepare in advance to avoid public grievances. .

The imperial court's pressure on officials will always make these officials cleverly move the universe and transfer it to the people, making the people very embarrassed.

They just blindly seek stability, and pursue the official philosophy of doing more, making more mistakes, doing less, making mistakes, and not doing anything good.

Lu Qian, who is very clear about this point, cannot turn a blind eye to it, otherwise a good policy will be tossed into an evil policy that disturbs and deprives the people wherever it is issued.

At the critical moment, Lu Qian could only ask Guo Jin to relax the pressure on officials, so as to let the people get a chance to breathe.

This is just one of his measures, and there are many other measures aimed at asking the local government to fully implement the central government's decree and not engage in petty tricks.

If the central government's policies can be fully implemented, Liangzhou's economic crisis can actually be controlled. I'm afraid that some bureaucrats will act like they want to, mess around, and ignore everything for their own interests, which will be bad.

For example, Li Wei, a doctor in the finance department of Jiuquan County.

He obeyed Lu Qian's instructions, and on the surface allowed bankrupt merchants to repay their debts in installments. In fact, he still required a considerable number of merchants to repay their debts as soon as possible, engaging in yin and yang double-sided contracts.

After the installment agreement on the surface, they sent people in private to threaten those merchants to repay the loan immediately, otherwise they would come to their homes to search their properties, which frightened a group of merchants. They really thought that the Ministry of Finance could come to their homes to search their properties.

In this way, many merchants had nowhere to go, and they either exhausted everything to make money. Some really had no choice but to be forced to do nothing, so they went to Lu Qian's place to beat the Dengwen drum to appeal.

The Dengwen Drum in Guzang County has not been sounded since the establishment of Yande three years ago, but this time it was sounded.

It might not be effective in normal times, but it happened to meet Lu Qian at this moment.

Lu Qian met the complainant in person, and when he learned the truth, he was very angry, and immediately ordered the Jiuquan County police to dispatch Li Wei and the bureaucrats of the Finance Department of Jiuquan County, and took him to Guzang County for interrogation in person.

Faced with Lu Qian's interrogation, Li Wei didn't feel scared. He claimed that he had connections in the central government, saying that he was very much appreciated by the Minister of Finance, and asked Lu Qian to be careful.

But why would Lu Qian care about this kind of thing?

"Don't say that Wang Butang has anything to do with you. You are a relative of the emperor. Today, I want to punish you!"

Lu Qian used his own power to remove them from their official positions on the spot as Liangzhou emergency envoy, demoted them to common people, sent them to the Shu Road construction site for five months, and then sent them back to their original places.

Seeing that his official identity was gone, Li Wei was terrified.

"Lu Qianer dare! I am an official of the central government! To dismiss me, only the central officials can do it! You overstep! You overstep!"

"I don't think you know what Liangzhou's emergency response envoy means. Except for the military, I am in charge of all government affairs and the appointment and dismissal of officials in Liangzhou. I will handle the affairs first and report them later! Even if you want to deal with me, it will be after you leave office, but you , I can still do it! Drag it out!"

When Lu Qian stopped drinking, the surrounding police immediately stepped forward and dragged Li Wei out, and forcibly took off his official uniform, and carried him directly out of the official office.

Then, of course, someone loaded him into a prison van and escorted him to the construction site of the southern section of the Shu Road in Yunzhou.

A central official was dealt with by Lu Qian in this way.

When the news came out, not to mention the local officials, the central government officials who had previously disdained Lu Qian were all shocked, and they all realized that Lu Qian would not be in bad luck if things went on like this, and they would definitely be the first to suffer.

So they didn't dare to act in the same way.

Lu Qian's decree was carried out to the localities, and no similar situation has ever been heard of in Liangzhou.

After that, Lu Qian's series of decrees were also implemented, and no one continued to defy them.

Lu Qian carried out what he had said before, as long as he is still the emergency agent for one day, he will exercise the power for one day.

If you want to take revenge on him, you can. After he resigns, anyone can take revenge on him, or even put him to death. But before he resigns, whoever opposes him, he will take the lead.

Whether I am unlucky or not is still unknown, but you must be unlucky.

With so many measures, after more than three months, Lu Qian finally managed to stabilize Liangzhou's economic situation and restore Liangzhou to a certain sense of stability.

Although there have been shops that couldn't support and closed down, but the scale is too small to affect the overall situation and make Lu Qian so troubled.

By mid-September of the second year of Xingyuan, Lu Qian had spent all the money Guo Jin gave him, and had helped more than [-] large, medium and small merchants to forgive excessive debts so that they could repay their debts.

And in the capacity of [Liangzhou Emergency Response Envoy], he used his own authority to strictly supervise the local Ministry of Finance, and personally tried the installment repayment accounts listed by the local Ministry of Finance to ensure that the Ministry of Finance did not entrap bankrupt merchants for its own political achievements.

Lu Qian worked day and night, worked hard, and finally stabilized the situation in Liangzhou, preserved the vitality of Liangzhou's economy, and prevented the economic crisis from causing man-made disasters and breaking down Liangzhou's economy in one fell swoop.

The achievements of Liangzhou's ten-year development and construction have been largely preserved.

The most dangerous Liangzhou has survived the crisis, and the less dangerous Yongzhou has naturally also survived the crisis.

Yongzhou itself has a relatively large domestic market, and a considerable part of the demand for the Shu Road Project is ordered from nearby Yongzhou.

Before the completion of the Shu road project, there would be no major chaos in Yongzhou's business. The disappearance of Anxi's demand caused a group of merchants specializing in Anxi's foreign trade to explode on the spot. They went bankrupt one after another, which brought some troubles to Mao Jie.

But this trouble is much smaller than the three prefectures of the Western Regions and Liangzhou, which are heavily dependent on foreign trade, so Guo Jin also very clearly gave financial support to Lu Qian, not to Mao Jie.

Mao Jie knew this well.

He is very clear that the hidden dangers in Liangzhou are caused by the disorderly expansion of business scale when he was in office.

He led everyone to focus on money and overcome all difficulties to develop Liangzhou's economy. Although Liangzhou's economy has developed, it has also buried today's hidden dangers.

Once the Anxi Empire collapsed, the crisis broke out, and the situation in Liangzhou was so severe that it really had to be investigated. He, the former governor of Liangzhou, had an inescapable responsibility.

Therefore, Mao Jie's nerves have been very nervous, and he has been paying attention to Lu Qian's actions in Liangzhou. He is very worried that Liangzhou's economy will collapse, which will harm Yongzhou. gone too.

When Liangzhou was in the most danger, he was even going to write to Chen Gong to ask Chen Gong to help him operate, so as not to let him be too seriously implicated.

As a result, Lu Qian really withstood the pressure and restored Liangzhou's economy.

Lu Qian was happy, and Mao Jie was even happier.

He is sitting in Yongzhou, which has a strong economy, but there is a lack of a group of foreign trade businessmen anyway. Some workshops have lost orders, and there is not so much money to make, but it will not shake the whole state.

So the situation in Yongzhou was quickly controlled by him, and he was waiting for Liangzhou.

After news of Lu Qian came from Liangzhou, saying that the situation was generally stable, Mao Jie heaved a sigh of relief. If Lu Qian wasn't by his side, he even wanted to hug Lu Qian and kiss him hard.

That's awesome bro!

Chapter 1590 One thousand 510 "The Lucky One" Wang Can

Liangzhou's economy has successfully stabilized. Not only will Lu Qian be rewarded, but Mao Jie will also get a chance to be promoted.

At the same time, from the standpoint of a reformist official, no matter what the original intention is, the two actually prosper and both prosper and lose each other.

Even if his contribution is not as great as that of Lu Qian, and he has to be ranked behind Lu Qian, he can bear it, because this time he really wants to thank Lu Qian.

And the opportunities are still great.

Emperor Guo Jin had just purged the opposition headed by Zaozhi. Although the vacancy was quickly filled, as long as the northwest side is stable, there will be real rewards.

Naturally, it wasn't the two wolves who were the happiest, but Guo Jin.

At the end of September, when the debate in Luoyang about whether the pill was a poison or a celestial product was in full swing, he was connected to Lu Qian and Mao Jie's list.

The above list of these two people indicates that the economic crisis in the Northwest has been initially contained and the situation has stabilized. The focus of the next work is to lick the wound and reshape the economic order in the Northwest.

Of course, compared with dealing with the economic crisis, this finishing work is simply too easy.

The two expressed their gratitude to the emperor one after another. Thanks to the emperor's blessings and blessings, they managed to stabilize the situation in the northwest.

Literally thank the emperor.

Because the fact is the same, if Guo Jin hadn’t opened up a second battlefield to deal with Zaoyi, and the Northwest bureaucrats had to deal with the backstabs of the old central bureaucrats while resisting the economic crisis, the result would be hard to say.

Guo Jin provided them with help in Luoyang, helping them attract the firepower of the opposition, and even the opposition fought to cleanse the opposition, creating political conditions for the Northwest bureaucrats to deal with the economic crisis with all their strength.

Isn't this the credit of Guo Jin?

For this unexpected incident, he even used Cheng Yu, the ultimate weapon left to him by Guo Peng, and ruined his reputation from a benevolent king to a tyrannical one.

If Northwest is still unstable, his hard work will feel like it's meaningless.

Now that the Northwest has successfully stabilized, his hard work has meaning.

And the meaning has expanded.

Cleaning Zaozhi and stabilizing the Northwest can be regarded as his two major victories on the political battlefield.

He purged the opposition and successfully stood on the same front with the Northwest Reformers. After that, the Northwest Reformers can be said to be his own people and will provide him with important assistance during his ruling process.

In addition to the ruling base left to him by his father Guo Peng, he finally obtained a group of bases in another sense.

And after this Zaozhi incident, he felt that it was better to build the basic set by himself. Although the ruling team left by his father was rich in experience, he would feel really uncomfortable if there was a second or fifth boy who jumped back.

Before launching the counterattack, Zaozhi led the opposition to exert enormous political pressure on him, which made him almost breathless.