Han Shizu

Chapter 1913 Look at it from the perspective of development

Chapter 1913 Look at it from the perspective of development

Emperor Liu's summoning of Xungui to the Pavilion of Meritorious Ministers has not been concealed much. Such a big movement can't be concealed even if one wants to. Therefore, people of all kinds have already gathered outside the Pavilion of Meritorious Officials. Eyeliners from all walks of life are probing and prying. The core dignitaries of the Han Dynasty are discussing something to prepare for possible changes in the court situation.

It was quite natural that Emperor Liu's speeches in the cabinet of meritorious ministers were spread one after another, from nobles to bureaucrats, from court to court, from top to bottom.

Of course, in the process of dissemination, exaggeration, embellishment, and even misrepresentation are indispensable. Therefore, in a short period of time, a sensational effect was formed between the government and the public.

The ones that shocked the most were undoubtedly the families of the nobles, and more specifically, those non-core and descendants of the nobles.The descendants of the direct line are to be used as family heirs. Their future lies in official careers, military administration, and frontier cultivation. It is hard work. It is impossible for the descendants of the direct line to do these dangerous and hard tasks.

If it is possible, those relatives and old children who have been attached to various honorable families for a long time will have a hard time in the future.For the imperial court’s many propagandas on foreign cultivation in the past, it can deceive the low-level people and some unsatisfactory concubines, but it is difficult to hide the truth from the powerful children who are more accustomed to sucking blood and knocking marrow.

Compared with the domestic situation, the situation outside the region is indeed freer, and there are countless wealth resources for them to discover. However, the conditions at home and abroad are very different. For most people, it is like sleeping on gold every day overseas. The bed, soaking in the agate river is not as good as domestic.

It is human nature to love leisure and hate work, and for them, comfort comes first.Although in recent years, many descendants of honorable families have participated in overseas colonization, these groups are still a minority, and the vast majority of them are only engaged in basic trade in goods, and they can really let go People who are ruthless enough to go deep into the colonization business are even rarer.

Those who really sacrificed for it had to be the sailors, as well as the hundreds of thousands of poor people, who also paid for it with their lives.Exceptions are not ruled out, but this kind of suffering is really not something the noble children who are well-clothed and well-fed can bear.

They also couldn't understand Emperor Liu's "hard work". What's more, the root cause was not to let these honorable children go overseas to conquer the world for the princes of the feudal country.

Of course, Emperor Liu didn't care whether he could understand or not, or what they thought.The idea of ​​driving the nobles out of the country, going west and south, going overseas to develop and eliminate harm is certainly somewhat idealistic, but Emperor Liu did not expect to solve the problem once and for all.

However, since the outside world has been opened up, the inside can be further restricted and strictly restrained. In the future, anyone who dares to commit crimes will be severely punished by the national law, and Emperor Liu cannot be blamed for being ruthless.

Even if they are forced, those powerful and powerful who cannot control their hands and feet and their hearts of exploitation and cruelty should be forced to develop abroad.On the other hand, there are tens of thousands of noble descendants of the Great Han Dynasty. Even if one percent of the people who go out to make a fortune can produce outstanding people and achieve something, it is also adding bricks and tiles to Emperor Liu's blueprint for development.

If it can develop and grow, it will eventually form a new rentier class, a new military and political force, and bring new possibilities to the country, which is even more important.

At the same time, if you go out, you have to go back, and collect foreign resources and wealth to feed back the country. This is the ultimate goal, and only in this way can a cycle be formed.Otherwise, can it really be for the purpose of developing overseas, disseminating technology, and bringing the aborigines outside the realm to civilization?

The nobles like to enjoy, this is not wrong in itself, we can understand that most people are ordinary people, and Emperor Liu never expects them to have a high level of awareness or ideals, what he cares about is always to provide them with The material source of enjoyment, as for the way of enjoyment, he doesn't care, and it is difficult to interfere.

It's good and right to be nostalgic for the homeland and covet the comfort of the country. It is absolutely possible to earn enough money outside, collect enough money, and then come back. If that is the case, no one will object, and Emperor Liu will even welcome it.

In the past 20 or [-] years, the Department of Propaganda and Welfare has worked so hard to promote this kind of awareness and habit among the powerful, officials and people. The example of returning to the country to be rich and rich” has never been more convincing and inspiring than any hype propaganda.

Behind each of these models, it also means hundreds of sacrifices. Exploitation has never been sentimental. It is also the history of blood and tears of those Han people who dared to go to sea. The mines embody the bitter sweat of the Han merchants.Of course, the suffering suffered by the local aborigines was even greater, but this was never something that the imperial court and the Han merchants needed to consider. It was too late to take care of themselves, so why bother to take care of the barbarians.

As the upper ruling class of the big Han, there are more sources of information, and they have some understanding of the truth of overseas colonization, and because they understand the hardships involved, even if they know that there are huge profits to be made, there are still not many people who are willing to put down their bodies to practice it.With the resources in hand, it is enough to eat some meat and drink some soup for nothing.After all, they are not like those low-level heads of Guizhou, who need to rely on their lives to fight for a smooth path in life, to achieve wealth acquisition, and a leap in class.

In fact, those "successful people" in the process of overseas colonization have already walked on the road expected by Emperor Liu. Overseas gold and silver, grain, spices, wood, pearl agate, and even slaves are all fed back to the country through them and serve the great Han. contribute to prosperity.

As for the future, there may be some changes. After all, Emperor Liu has promised to divide the fiefdoms, allowing nobles to have their own territories and fiefdoms under the feudal states.

But it is conceivable that most of the resources will still be transferred to the country, which is also determined by their status. After all, for Xungui, the country is the foundation. A large site is nothing but rootless duckweed.

Perhaps after a long period of operation, the situation will gradually change, the development focus of honored nobles will shift, the emphasis on overseas territories will increase, the resources invested will increase, and they will even break away from the control of Zhongtu Dazong.

However, before that, the Great Han had seized enough wealth and resources. This is what Emperor Liu expected, and played its role as a reservoir for the internal conflicts of the Great Han to vent. , Li Tang Guoyun extended 100 years, that is also a kind of progress.However, the relationship between the same clan and the same origin exists, and it is almost impossible for overseas territories to completely escape the influence of China.

Even if you look at it from the most pessimistic perspective, one day, the great Han will perish, and the descendants of the Liu family will no longer be able to sit firmly in the country. Those overseas feudal states can also take on the responsibility of continuing the incense of his Liu family.

Divide up a few more princes, establish a few more overseas states, even if you can't keep all of them, even if only one is left, the most basic goal of Emperor Liu will be achieved.Compared with letting the Liu family in China last forever, the possibility of this matter is much greater.

(End of this chapter)