Chapter 433
Handan
Chapter 433 Handan
This matter alone is enough for Gong Zizhang to attach so much importance to it, not to mention the Mohist's own military strength, financial resources, loans, and military strength in the Gaoliu area.
The backer his cousin, Young Master Chao is looking for is the State of Wei. Now that the State of Wei is in full swing, it is truly invincible in the world, and Young Master Zhang also needs more support to fight against possible threats.
This group of people came here not only to meet Suo Lushen, but also for the affairs of Que and Jun. In Gong Zizhang's view, this is an opportunity to clean up his cousin while his uncle is seriously ill.
After the death of Liehou Zhao Ji, the reform of Gongzhonglian continued. Many ministers in the country were promoted during the Liehou era to fight against the growing public clan.
This is a very powerful force, and they support Gong Zizhang's accession to the throne.
In this age of change and acceleration of change due to the spread of Mohist technology over the past few years, the battle for succession is no longer just a simple battle between nobles, but involves the struggle between reformists and conservatives.
In any country in the world today, as long as the law is reformed, the interests of the old aristocracy must be damaged.
To fight against the old aristocracy, it also led to the rise of the scholar class and the decentralization of power. At the same time, the scholar class needed to strengthen the royal power to fight against the old aristocracy.
When Zhao Ji was still alive, he appointed Gong Zhonglian to reform, and had a long secret discussion with Gong Zhonglian and others before his death. At that time, Gong Zizhang was young, and he began to prepare for Gong Zizhang's future ruling team.
Zhou Tianzi had the post of a common son official, which was used to educate the princes, nobles and officials.
In the Three Jin Dynasties, there were middle-class sons, princes, sons, ministers, and even princes, all had middle-class sons.
Now the one who came to welcome Suo Lucan was Gong Zizhang's concubine, Zhao Ren, who was recommended by Xun Xin after Gong Zhonglian's reform.As a lieutenant, Xun Xin has the obligation and power to recommend talents, and this is what has been able to maintain Gongzizhang's good team.
The surname of Gong Zizhang's middle-class son is Xu, not the descendant of Xu Yan Wang Boyi who opposed Zhou Tianzi, but the descendant of the six descendants of Yin and Shang who moved to Lu State during the Sanjian Rebellion, with a single name of Yi.
When the Shiqing nobles and the scholar class began to compete for power, paper and printing had already spread from Sishang to various places, so the method of "recommending talents by lieutenants" like Zhao Guo's method was already a little behind when it first appeared.
Although if paper and printing cannot appear, then this method of recommendation is still stronger than the hereditary ruling of Shiqing nobles, at least there will be some upward paths.
In this way of recommendation, it is inevitable that the person who can be the middle son of the prince must be a well-educated person, but he must also be a family figure who has some relationship with officials.
Unless he is a well-known figure like Zhong Ni and Mo Di, how can a person with his own talents be noticed by the lieutenant?
Xu Yi is a member of Xu Yue's family, but he is not the deep-rooted public family of Zhao State.Xu Yue was also the one who, after Gong Zhonglian's reform, used his status as a scholar as an internal history to fight against Gong Shiqing to strengthen the royal power.
After the notification, Xu Yi and Solu said after referring to the ceremony: "Your Majesty is seriously ill, Yu Si and Jun Hou are the son's uncle Zhong; Yu Gong and Jun Hou are the son's lord. Therefore, the son can't come in person, so send me Come and meet me. You have traveled tens of thousands of miles to the west, to the country of the Queen Mother of the West, and you have learned a lot, and there are many talents in the Mohist school, and you love the virtuous, so I can't come here in person this time, so I must tell you."
Solu returned to the ceremony with a smile in his heart, thinking that Zhao Hou was about to die at this time, this young master Zhang would definitely stay in Zhongmou, could it be that his heir was not in the capital when his uncle died?
Seeing through, Suo Lucan smiled and said: "Young Master, we understand. I am about to stay in Handan, and I still have some things to deal with."
"Although the prince is ill, some things should not be said at this time. But the law of the country is no small matter. The Mo family captured some people in Gaoliu and privately transported some goods that were strictly forbidden to be traded with the barbarians under the order of the Marquis of Zhao. This matter... has to be said."
He came this time just for this matter.
Now that Gao Liu has decided to tell the story, it involves the relationship behind it, and Zhaohou is seriously ill at this juncture, in fact, this is a statement: the Mo family will support the son Zhang's ascension to the throne.
The sooner you express your opinion, the sooner Wei, Han, and Qi can be brought in.Suo Lucan knew that the Tian family had just obtained the official title of Marquis with the help of Marquis Wei last year, and it was impossible for Qi Guo not to express this matter.
Hearing what Suo Lucan said, Xu Yi praised: "In the past, Zhao Xianjun Jian Zi cast a punishment tripod, which was called punishment, and it has been nearly a hundred years. Not to mention the Mohism's method of killing. The mortal sin of forbidden things is also unforgivable."
Knowing this well, Xu Yi invited Suo Lushen to board the car on the left to show respect, and they went to Handan together after advocating each other.
As early as when Liehou was still alive, a large area of land in Handan belonged to the young son Zhang, and then a lot of land was sealed before his death, because the son without a fief has no right to speak.
As the concubine son of Gong Zizhang, Xu Yi has been operating in Handan for these years, and some activities of the Mo family in Handan are also carried out through Xu Yi.
All the way to Handan, Suo Lucan knew that the relationship between the Mo family and Gongzizhang was not just a simple cooperation.
The Mo family is still Gong Zizhang's biggest creditor.
Because Gong Zizhang is only a son at this time, not Marquis Zhao, and he has to face the persecution of his uncle and cousin. He wants to train his own team, private soldiers, and run his own fief Handan, and he needs a lot of money.
Building walls requires money, recruiting scholars requires money, and buying weapons requires money. In short, without money, nothing can be done.
In troubled times, merchants lived a very prosperous life. In the Warring States period, big merchants could not only lend money to the emperor, but also press for debts.
This trend lasted until the Han Dynasty. During the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms of Wu and Chu, the country was short of money to borrow money, and some marquises in Chang'an were also short of money and needed to borrow money to earn military merits and regain their fiefs. Even thought that the Seven Kingdoms might win and refused to borrow money.
The Wuyan family resolutely released usury loans at a super high interest rate of ten times the principal and interest to those marquises and lords who stood with the central government. sufficient political capital.
This kind of businessman's interference in politics is the easiest in the age of disputes among nations.
But now, when it comes to the wealth of the world, no one can compare with the well-organized Mohists, so the matter of borrowing money naturally falls on the Mohists.
Mr. Zhao Zhang borrowed so much money from the Mo family that he couldn't afford to repay it unless he could get the position of Marquis Zhao.This also involves the money of many Mohist guarantors and leading big businessmen, all of which will need to be repaid with various preferential policies in the future.
It was thanks to the loan from the Mohist that Gong Zizhang was able to rebuild the city of Handan, strengthened the defense of Handan, and hired Mohist technicians to help build the city wall and a systematic line of walls.
Some cannons for defending the city were purchased, and a small-scale reform of Handan City was initially completed.
There are too many debts, and the Mo family did not lend it alone, but organized many merchants in Zhaodi to lend it out together, so Mr. Zhao Zhang did not dare to breach the contract.Once the contract is breached, these merchants and the Mohist alliance can push him up, and they can also pull him down. There are many princes who are willing to admit this loan.
Whoever recognizes this loan is the Marquis Zhao recognized by the Mo family and those businessmen. As for whether it is a direct descendant or something else, these people don't recognize it at all.
Under various factors, Xu Yi, as the son of the son Zhang Zhong, was extremely polite to Suolu.
Before Suo Lucan became a Mohist, he was also a low-ranking nobleman. He read a lot and knew that although Handan is not the capital of Zhao State at this time, it has always been a city that the Zhao family attaches great importance to, and it can be regarded as the foundation of the Zhao family. one.
At the beginning of the establishment of the Shang Dynasty, Xingtai was built as the capital, and Handan was located in Gyeonggi.
Later, in the era of Zhao Jianzi, the relocation of Handan to Jinyang caused internal strife in the Zhao family and triggered chaos in the Three Jin Dynasties.
Zhao Liehou granted Handan to Gong Zizhang before he was alive, because he was worried that his younger brother would not return the seat at that time, so as to prepare some back roads for Gong Zizhang in advance.
In the past, the Zhao family was able to rely on the city of Jinyang to win the battle. If the city of Handan can be completely controlled by Gong Zizhang, it can also burst out with great strength.Coupled with the support of internal and external courtiers, it will be more secure for the position to be passed from uncle to nephew.
At this time, a lot of land was rewarded, such as the father-in-law Cuo who had just become Wei Xiang at that time, he was rewarded with 140 million mu of land.
The rewarded land includes the people who cultivated the land. People and the land are bound, and it is impossible for the nobles to go to the ground to eat in person. Therefore, the feudal land serf system that binds the human body is the bottom line that the nobles cannot give up.
Before the appearance of iron ox farming and ridge farming, it was impossible to have that kind of pure money land rent or complete land rent in kind, because it was impossible to guarantee the efficiency of exploitation by relying on stones, wood, clam shells and copper utensils.
This inevitably led to the emergence of this semi-serfdom who was physically attached to the land. The nobles enjoyed the labor rent and the fruits of the labor of the serfs on these fiefdoms.
Since Zhao Ji granted Handan to his son back then, many lands and people in Handan also belonged to his son.
The Mohists opened mines and smelted iron in Handan, spread the technology of ox plowing and horse plowing, introduced new crops, and the material foundation of Zhao Guoduoma all made some changes in his fiefdom a reality for Gong Zizhang.
In addition to his son Zhang's side, there are still some hidden Mohists, coupled with the private mu system that has already appeared in the Three Jin Dynasties, in the 13 years since Zhao Ji's death to the present, the transformation of Handan has achieved initial results.
Even some scholars and subordinate officials around Gongzizhang did not subdivide the land, but gave them sufficient monetary salaries.
The prosperity of the commodity economy and the increase of agricultural surplus products have all given practical significance to monetary salaries.
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This matter alone is enough for Gong Zizhang to attach so much importance to it, not to mention the Mohist's own military strength, financial resources, loans, and military strength in the Gaoliu area.
The backer his cousin, Young Master Chao is looking for is the State of Wei. Now that the State of Wei is in full swing, it is truly invincible in the world, and Young Master Zhang also needs more support to fight against possible threats.
This group of people came here not only to meet Suo Lushen, but also for the affairs of Que and Jun. In Gong Zizhang's view, this is an opportunity to clean up his cousin while his uncle is seriously ill.
After the death of Liehou Zhao Ji, the reform of Gongzhonglian continued. Many ministers in the country were promoted during the Liehou era to fight against the growing public clan.
This is a very powerful force, and they support Gong Zizhang's accession to the throne.
In this age of change and acceleration of change due to the spread of Mohist technology over the past few years, the battle for succession is no longer just a simple battle between nobles, but involves the struggle between reformists and conservatives.
In any country in the world today, as long as the law is reformed, the interests of the old aristocracy must be damaged.
To fight against the old aristocracy, it also led to the rise of the scholar class and the decentralization of power. At the same time, the scholar class needed to strengthen the royal power to fight against the old aristocracy.
When Zhao Ji was still alive, he appointed Gong Zhonglian to reform, and had a long secret discussion with Gong Zhonglian and others before his death. At that time, Gong Zizhang was young, and he began to prepare for Gong Zizhang's future ruling team.
Zhou Tianzi had the post of a common son official, which was used to educate the princes, nobles and officials.
In the Three Jin Dynasties, there were middle-class sons, princes, sons, ministers, and even princes, all had middle-class sons.
Now the one who came to welcome Suo Lucan was Gong Zizhang's concubine, Zhao Ren, who was recommended by Xun Xin after Gong Zhonglian's reform.As a lieutenant, Xun Xin has the obligation and power to recommend talents, and this is what has been able to maintain Gongzizhang's good team.
The surname of Gong Zizhang's middle-class son is Xu, not the descendant of Xu Yan Wang Boyi who opposed Zhou Tianzi, but the descendant of the six descendants of Yin and Shang who moved to Lu State during the Sanjian Rebellion, with a single name of Yi.
When the Shiqing nobles and the scholar class began to compete for power, paper and printing had already spread from Sishang to various places, so the method of "recommending talents by lieutenants" like Zhao Guo's method was already a little behind when it first appeared.
Although if paper and printing cannot appear, then this method of recommendation is still stronger than the hereditary ruling of Shiqing nobles, at least there will be some upward paths.
In this way of recommendation, it is inevitable that the person who can be the middle son of the prince must be a well-educated person, but he must also be a family figure who has some relationship with officials.
Unless he is a well-known figure like Zhong Ni and Mo Di, how can a person with his own talents be noticed by the lieutenant?
Xu Yi is a member of Xu Yue's family, but he is not the deep-rooted public family of Zhao State.Xu Yue was also the one who, after Gong Zhonglian's reform, used his status as a scholar as an internal history to fight against Gong Shiqing to strengthen the royal power.
After the notification, Xu Yi and Solu said after referring to the ceremony: "Your Majesty is seriously ill, Yu Si and Jun Hou are the son's uncle Zhong; Yu Gong and Jun Hou are the son's lord. Therefore, the son can't come in person, so send me Come and meet me. You have traveled tens of thousands of miles to the west, to the country of the Queen Mother of the West, and you have learned a lot, and there are many talents in the Mohist school, and you love the virtuous, so I can't come here in person this time, so I must tell you."
Solu returned to the ceremony with a smile in his heart, thinking that Zhao Hou was about to die at this time, this young master Zhang would definitely stay in Zhongmou, could it be that his heir was not in the capital when his uncle died?
Seeing through, Suo Lucan smiled and said: "Young Master, we understand. I am about to stay in Handan, and I still have some things to deal with."
"Although the prince is ill, some things should not be said at this time. But the law of the country is no small matter. The Mo family captured some people in Gaoliu and privately transported some goods that were strictly forbidden to be traded with the barbarians under the order of the Marquis of Zhao. This matter... has to be said."
He came this time just for this matter.
Now that Gao Liu has decided to tell the story, it involves the relationship behind it, and Zhaohou is seriously ill at this juncture, in fact, this is a statement: the Mo family will support the son Zhang's ascension to the throne.
The sooner you express your opinion, the sooner Wei, Han, and Qi can be brought in.Suo Lucan knew that the Tian family had just obtained the official title of Marquis with the help of Marquis Wei last year, and it was impossible for Qi Guo not to express this matter.
Hearing what Suo Lucan said, Xu Yi praised: "In the past, Zhao Xianjun Jian Zi cast a punishment tripod, which was called punishment, and it has been nearly a hundred years. Not to mention the Mohism's method of killing. The mortal sin of forbidden things is also unforgivable."
Knowing this well, Xu Yi invited Suo Lushen to board the car on the left to show respect, and they went to Handan together after advocating each other.
As early as when Liehou was still alive, a large area of land in Handan belonged to the young son Zhang, and then a lot of land was sealed before his death, because the son without a fief has no right to speak.
As the concubine son of Gong Zizhang, Xu Yi has been operating in Handan for these years, and some activities of the Mo family in Handan are also carried out through Xu Yi.
All the way to Handan, Suo Lucan knew that the relationship between the Mo family and Gongzizhang was not just a simple cooperation.
The Mo family is still Gong Zizhang's biggest creditor.
Because Gong Zizhang is only a son at this time, not Marquis Zhao, and he has to face the persecution of his uncle and cousin. He wants to train his own team, private soldiers, and run his own fief Handan, and he needs a lot of money.
Building walls requires money, recruiting scholars requires money, and buying weapons requires money. In short, without money, nothing can be done.
In troubled times, merchants lived a very prosperous life. In the Warring States period, big merchants could not only lend money to the emperor, but also press for debts.
This trend lasted until the Han Dynasty. During the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms of Wu and Chu, the country was short of money to borrow money, and some marquises in Chang'an were also short of money and needed to borrow money to earn military merits and regain their fiefs. Even thought that the Seven Kingdoms might win and refused to borrow money.
The Wuyan family resolutely released usury loans at a super high interest rate of ten times the principal and interest to those marquises and lords who stood with the central government. sufficient political capital.
This kind of businessman's interference in politics is the easiest in the age of disputes among nations.
But now, when it comes to the wealth of the world, no one can compare with the well-organized Mohists, so the matter of borrowing money naturally falls on the Mohists.
Mr. Zhao Zhang borrowed so much money from the Mo family that he couldn't afford to repay it unless he could get the position of Marquis Zhao.This also involves the money of many Mohist guarantors and leading big businessmen, all of which will need to be repaid with various preferential policies in the future.
It was thanks to the loan from the Mohist that Gong Zizhang was able to rebuild the city of Handan, strengthened the defense of Handan, and hired Mohist technicians to help build the city wall and a systematic line of walls.
Some cannons for defending the city were purchased, and a small-scale reform of Handan City was initially completed.
There are too many debts, and the Mo family did not lend it alone, but organized many merchants in Zhaodi to lend it out together, so Mr. Zhao Zhang did not dare to breach the contract.Once the contract is breached, these merchants and the Mohist alliance can push him up, and they can also pull him down. There are many princes who are willing to admit this loan.
Whoever recognizes this loan is the Marquis Zhao recognized by the Mo family and those businessmen. As for whether it is a direct descendant or something else, these people don't recognize it at all.
Under various factors, Xu Yi, as the son of the son Zhang Zhong, was extremely polite to Suolu.
Before Suo Lucan became a Mohist, he was also a low-ranking nobleman. He read a lot and knew that although Handan is not the capital of Zhao State at this time, it has always been a city that the Zhao family attaches great importance to, and it can be regarded as the foundation of the Zhao family. one.
At the beginning of the establishment of the Shang Dynasty, Xingtai was built as the capital, and Handan was located in Gyeonggi.
Later, in the era of Zhao Jianzi, the relocation of Handan to Jinyang caused internal strife in the Zhao family and triggered chaos in the Three Jin Dynasties.
Zhao Liehou granted Handan to Gong Zizhang before he was alive, because he was worried that his younger brother would not return the seat at that time, so as to prepare some back roads for Gong Zizhang in advance.
In the past, the Zhao family was able to rely on the city of Jinyang to win the battle. If the city of Handan can be completely controlled by Gong Zizhang, it can also burst out with great strength.Coupled with the support of internal and external courtiers, it will be more secure for the position to be passed from uncle to nephew.
At this time, a lot of land was rewarded, such as the father-in-law Cuo who had just become Wei Xiang at that time, he was rewarded with 140 million mu of land.
The rewarded land includes the people who cultivated the land. People and the land are bound, and it is impossible for the nobles to go to the ground to eat in person. Therefore, the feudal land serf system that binds the human body is the bottom line that the nobles cannot give up.
Before the appearance of iron ox farming and ridge farming, it was impossible to have that kind of pure money land rent or complete land rent in kind, because it was impossible to guarantee the efficiency of exploitation by relying on stones, wood, clam shells and copper utensils.
This inevitably led to the emergence of this semi-serfdom who was physically attached to the land. The nobles enjoyed the labor rent and the fruits of the labor of the serfs on these fiefdoms.
Since Zhao Ji granted Handan to his son back then, many lands and people in Handan also belonged to his son.
The Mohists opened mines and smelted iron in Handan, spread the technology of ox plowing and horse plowing, introduced new crops, and the material foundation of Zhao Guoduoma all made some changes in his fiefdom a reality for Gong Zizhang.
In addition to his son Zhang's side, there are still some hidden Mohists, coupled with the private mu system that has already appeared in the Three Jin Dynasties, in the 13 years since Zhao Ji's death to the present, the transformation of Handan has achieved initial results.
Even some scholars and subordinate officials around Gongzizhang did not subdivide the land, but gave them sufficient monetary salaries.
The prosperity of the commodity economy and the increase of agricultural surplus products have all given practical significance to monetary salaries.
(End of this chapter)