At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

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According to his investigation, he found that Fa Zheng has a narrow mind, and he is a typical person who must pay for his kindness and revenge. Such a person is most suitable to sit in the position of Captain Sili.

Guo Peng's Cheng Yu died, but Captain Sili had no choice.

Guo Jin chose her own "Cheng Yu".

After Fazheng took office, it seemed that he wanted to show the emperor that he was no worse than Cheng Yu, so he immediately launched an investigation into the illegal salt sale case that Cheng Yu had investigated before.

He sent many people around to investigate, and the target was directed at the Salt Affairs Department that Zhuge Liang was also in charge of.

It seems that he wants to use his attack on Zhuge Liang to show his loyalty to the emperor, to show that he is not afraid of any political network behind the Zhuge clan, and that he is only loyal to the emperor Guo Jin.

Zhuge Liang submitted a form to Guo Jin, explained the matter, and talked about the core issue - as long as there is a monopoly, there must be corruption and private salt.

You can catch it, but you can't finish it.

Zhuge Liang has also been in charge of the salt administration for several years, and has largely reformed the shortcomings of the salt administration and increased the income of the salt administration.

But at the same time, he submitted several forms to Guo Jin, saying that the salt issue cannot be solved by anti-corruption. If it is to be solved, it must be resolved.

It is necessary to change the situation of salt and iron monopoly to a certain extent, so as to change the situation of repeated bans on salt smuggling.

Guo Jin knew that Zhuge Liang had done his best in the salt business, but he was still hesitating as to whether to change the situation of salt and iron monopoly.

While he was hesitating, Fazheng had already launched a crackdown on this round of illegal salt sales, eager to make a contribution.

Zhuge Liang went to the table again, asking the emperor to make a decision, at least to release money bit by bit to control the salt affairs, otherwise it is not the way to fight and kill like this, although the income from salt affairs is not small in the financial income of the Wei Empire , but not the most necessary one.

For this reason, there was quite a lot of controversy in the court, and many people thought that Zhuge Liang was trying to disentangle himself from the malpractices of the salt administration, with sinister intentions.

A new round of political struggle is imminent, and Guo Peng doesn't care about all of this.

Cai Yong's death was like a herald, starting the process of the gradual passing away of the old people who followed him to conquer the world. In just a few years, many old officials passed away one after another.

Once this momentum starts, it will never stop.

Cheng Yu was gone, and within a few months, Tian Feng was gone too.

Tian Feng is younger than Cheng Yu, but working and living in places like Yunzhou all the year round, he is overworked and in poor health. Although he was later transferred to Luoyang, his health has always been poor.

At the end of the eighth year of Xingyuan, Tian Feng contracted a disease, but could not be cured, and died in Luoyang.

The couple passed away one after the other at the beginning of the year and at the end of the year. Guo Peng didn't know if they had any debts to settle, so he had to rush over there to settle the accounts.

After thinking about it, Guo Peng also found it funny.

Although they are gone, at least over there, the two of them don't have to worry about having no one to accompany them, and they can continue to fight over there, without him making trouble, the two of them can come and go as much as they want, and have a good fight.

It must be like this...

For this world, the death of a person does not mean anything, the world is still that world, and the world will not end just because someone is missing.

What also happened in the eighth year of Xingyuan was Guo Heng, the son of Guo Peng, who went out to seal the country, and the official start of the Roman Civil War.

The Roman civil war was not something that the Wei Empire could intervene, but both sides maintained their rationality and gave the Wei Empire's diplomats and caravans the greatest degree of protection.

Nevertheless, during the period of the Roman Civil War, the Maritime Silk Road of the Wei Empire was bound to be affected.

However, the Wei Empire has already had experience in dealing with this, and all parties are ready to proceed in an orderly manner. Coupled with the vigorous development of trade with the Western Shu Kingdom and the Southern Wu Kingdom, it will certainly not cause the crisis of the two states and three prefectures in the Northwest.

In Guo Peng’s plan, the West Qin Kingdom is located west of Zhenxi Duhufu, the west of Kazakhstan, and can go west to the Volga River Basin, which has broad development prospects and room for maneuver.

With the development of the Wei Empire all the way to the west, the successful construction of the Zhenxi Protectorate is still of positive significance to the construction of the West Qin State. They set out all the way west to build a country, and they can give full support and help through the Silk Road in the Western Regions. .

Moreover, Guo Jin still has some selfish intentions.

For Guo Heng to set out to establish the Western Qin Kingdom, apart from the support given by the court management, he must still need a lot of other materials. If he wants to order, he will naturally need to go through the Western Regions.

In this way, not only can the Northwest business be revived, but also some blood can be returned through taxation, so that a large amount of funds will not always be invested in Fengguo, and no benefit can be obtained from Fengguo.

Through the "aid" to the Xishu Kingdom established by Guo Jun, Guo Jin tasted the sweetness.

He knew that in addition to the free aid stipulated by Guo Peng, the feudal states needed many other aids, which were not within the scope of free aid.

If necessary, even brothers must settle accounts clearly.

Let's talk about business, hello, hello, everyone, isn't it?

Guo Jin dispatched relevant officials from the inner court to the West Shu Kingdom, and through direct contact with Guo Jun, finalized the various materials Guo Jun needed. Guo Jun would use money or some local minerals and special products to buy them, and the Wei Empire was responsible for transporting them by boat. The materials arrived in Xishu Kingdom.

In this way, the commercial interoperability between the two parties has been realized.

As Guo Jun continued to achieve military victories in the Indian mainland, continued to defeat the local aborigines, and annexed their lands to expand his sphere of influence, his wealth continued to increase and he needed more and more things.

At this time, the brothers Guo Jin and Guo Jun communicated through this additional trade, and part of Guo Jun's expansion bonus was swallowed by Guo Jin.

What Guo Jun can do most is the large number of young and strong aboriginal men and women obtained in the war, so many supplies are also exchanged with these local aboriginals.

Ships of indigenous slaves were transported to the Wei Empire to participate in the hard work of the Jiangnan development, and ship after ship of supplies were also transported to the Principality of Xishu through the ports of the Wei Empire, making Guo Jun even stronger.

This is a win-win for everyone, and the loser is the local indigenous people.

Later, this model was copied to Guo Qiong's Southern Wu Kingdom, and the effect was also very good.

Southern Wu State has a huge demand for water conservancy construction and deforestation, and there is a great demand for fire oil and engineering talents.

In addition to free aid, Guo Jin did business with the Southern Wu Kingdom through these two points, and his business was flourishing, and he was able to bring back a lot of labor.

Of course, Guo Qiong is still in the start-up stage, and Guo Jun is already in the expansion stage, and it is still more profitable to do business with Guo Jun.

Chapter 1637 One thousand five hundred and five hundred and seventy-frozen on the Huaihe River

Guo Jun's current sphere of influence is about as large as Yangzhou.

After years of expansion, he ruled more than 600 million indigenous people and about 70 Wei people, with a standing army of about 4.

Not only that, but he also established a system in the process of exploration.

An evil system that makes it easy for the minority to become the ruling group to rule over the majority.

First of all, let the people of Wei become first-class citizens, enjoying various privileges, such as the right to education, the right to take exams, and economic benefits.

Therefore, the Wei people have the strongest centripetal force and loyalty to him, and they are closely united around him, and his main officials and troops come from this.

Secondly, the aborigines who voluntarily surrendered and cooperated in the early days became the second-class citizens of Xishu Kingdom.

This part of the aborigines includes the leading party and the original dignitaries in the countries that had contact with Guo Jun in the early days, such as the Zhunian Kingdom and the Zheluo Kingdom.

When Guo Jun wiped out countries such as the Zheluo State and the Zhuan State, they voluntarily surrendered, led the way, and even fought back, which contributed to the collapse of the mother country.

Because of their cooperation, Guo Jun successfully annexed their home country, thus obtaining such a status.

Apart from the Wei people, they are the most noble class, and they also have a series of privileges.

For example, middle and low-level officials can join the ruling class, and their children can join the army and enjoy the same treatment as Wei soldiers. They can even intermarry with Wei people, and they can also exploit and oppress the lower levels with Wei people.

It can be said that they are the most welcome and most willing to accept the rule of the Wei people. For the rule of Guo Jun and the regime of the Western Shu Kingdom, they have worked hard.

Then there are those local aborigines who surrendered and did not take the initiative to fight in the subsequent annexation wars.

After the defeat of the resisters, these people saw the strength of the Wei army. They were afraid and did not dare to fight, so they took the initiative to put down their weapons and surrender, which is considered a credit.

However, because the time of surrender was relatively late, it did not catch up with the upsurge of second-class citizens leading the way, so it could only be resigned to third-class citizens.

This group has the largest number of people, and as third-class citizens, they also have certain personal rights.

They are basically farmers, who bear taxes and important corvees. At the same time, they can also serve as servants and auxiliary soldiers of the Wei army, making certain contributions and enjoying certain rights.

But they cannot intermarry with first- and second-class citizens, nor can they receive education, nor can they become officials.

Even so, their status is higher than that of the lower levels.

The rest are basically untouchables.

They resisted in Guo Jun's war of conquest, fought hard, did not surrender, and caused a certain degree of damage to the Wei army, so there is no possibility of forgiveness.

After the resistance failed, this group of people, their descendants, and followers were all beaten as pariahs and became the lowest group of people.

These people are deprived of all personal rights, live like pigs and dogs, toiling hard, being brutally exploited and oppressed, confused, and don't know where their future will be.

They are exactly the same as ordinary farmers under the rule of the Eastern Han Empire 40 years ago.

But even among this group of people, according to the level of resistance, Guo Jun also artificially divided them into levels, and divided them into three levels among the fourth-class untouchables.

Different levels correspond to different labor responsibilities.

Relatively higher levels can engage in some relatively easy jobs, such as serving high levels, entering the rich and powerful's house to do housekeeping and the like.

The inferior ones are doing dirty work, hard work and terrible work everywhere, such as mining, coolies, etc., they are the main labor force.

In order to further supervise and squeeze them, Guo Jun also specially selected people from the first two levels of the untouchables to supervise and manage them. If there were any problems, they would also be classified as the lowest level of the inferior people.

This set of rules is quite cunning, cruel, despicable, and dirty.

But I have to say, it worked.

The number of Wei people is very small. If the local people are not included to assist in the rule, it is uncertain when the regime will be overthrown.

In order to prevent them from uniting to carry out riots and affect the stability of Xishu Kingdom, Guo Jun established such a ruling order in his groping.

By learning Guo Peng's method of dealing with the surrendered people, to ensure that the dominance of the Wei people will not be shaken, Guo Jun pondered for a long time, personally observed the people's conditions, and even referred to the original life style of these people, and established this rule. order.

Guo Jun established a school for 70 Wei people, absorbing all school-age people to study in the school, and also accepted the children of second-class citizens to enter the school and study with Wei people.

Let them speak Chinese, learn Chinese characters, wear Han clothes, intermarry, eat the same food, use the same tableware, and fully Sinicize their living habits.

A series of privileges made them feel superior to themselves, and soon became spiritual Wei people, and then assisted Guo Jun's ruling group to help them rule and oppress the indigenous people.

This not only reduces the ruling cost that Guo Jun needs to pay, but also increases his ruling income.

In order to eliminate the possible resistance of the natives, once a riot occurs somewhere, troops will be sent to suppress it immediately.

Then the main organizers were killed, and all the remaining participants were shipped and sold to the mainland of Wei State for digestion.

It not only alleviated the contradiction, but also made money—the amount of labor needed in the Wei Empire was really huge.

After the ruling order was established, Guo Jun wrote to ask his elder brother and father what loopholes there were in his set of rules.

After seeing it, Guo Jin was amazed, thinking that in this way, the stability and expansion of the Western Shu Kingdom would be relatively easy, and the status of the Wei people would be well protected.

Through liaison and learning from the home country, ensure the superiority of first and second class citizens in terms of force and intelligence, cut off the possibility of the lower class getting promoted through education, block the educational channels, adopt the strategy of ignoring and weakening the people, and turn them into mere production tools .

In this way, one layer is on top of another, and if one layer wants to do something, it can only target the upper layer, but not the top ruler, because they cannot touch it.

Guo Jin showed Guo Jun's letter to Guo Peng, and Guo Peng was a little surprised after reading it.

He didn't specifically teach Guo Jun this method of rule. It seems that this is the art of rule that Guo Jun comprehended spontaneously.

Governance is also an art, some people master it well, and some people master it badly.

Obviously, at least this son of Guo has comprehended the effective rule of the minority over the majority by himself. Before the sun never sets and the empire collapsed, he used this method to inject Chinese genes into the local area. After hundreds of years, here, it will be true It is deeply imprinted on China.

Guo Jun's method is worth learning, so Guo Peng asked Guo Jin to write to Guo Qiong, who was struggling to open up at that time, telling him the art of ruling, intending to let him learn this kind of art.

Guo Jin was very touched by this.

"My father asked my younger brothers to go out to seal the country and establish a foundation. Is he really worried that my Wei will also have the problems of the former Han, so that the people will have no way of life, so that they can go to sea by boat to survive?"

Guo Peng nodded.

"Of course, perhaps, it is certain."

Guo Jin was a little unhappy.

"Did father think that it was a mistake to hand over Wei Guo to his son?"

"It's the same in anyone's hands. It's better to hand it over to you. Jin, this cannot be changed by manpower. It's enough to do what you can and pass on the power to the next generation."

Guo Peng's face was indifferent, without any emotional fluctuations.

"Everything that the father prepared for Wei, the son is doing his best to consolidate and maintain it. The father does not allow strong forces to appear in the local area. The son works hard to restrain and will never tolerate. The father hates corruption, and the son works hard to punish corruption and will never show mercy. Wei Guo has Today's prosperity.

Why did my father say such dejected words when he saw the prosperous times?This is the foundation established by you, father, the Wei Kingdom you founded, don't you want the foundation of the Wei Kingdom to be passed down forever?Father, son does not understand. "

Guo Jin asked her father loudly, pouring out her dissatisfaction.

Guo Peng sighed.

"Where is the Kingdom of Eternal Eternals? Emperor, the last Kingdom of Eternal Eternals has already died for the second generation. Do you want Wei Guo to die for the second generation?"

Guo Peng asked Guo Jin back with Guo Jin's own question, but Guo Jin was speechless.

"If the son does his best, will Wei Guo also perish?"