Chapter 1678: Join forces to collect private soldiers
"That's fine." Jia Xu took a deep look at Chen Xi. He knew that if Chen Xi proposed something policy-oriented, he would have prepared the means many years ago and was waiting for a good opportunity.
After this time, if nothing unexpected happens, the era of aristocratic families possessing large numbers of private soldiers will come to an end. The next era of private soldiers will probably only appear after the Han Dynasty enfeoffs the major aristocratic families out of the Central Plains.
At present, in Chen Xi's words, internal stability trumps everything else. There can be conflicts, but except for the government, no one is allowed to have the power to turn conflicts into war, and he will deal with everything that exceeds this limit.
From this perspective, Sun Ce and Cao Cao can basically be regarded as extremely large cancers now. However, Chen Xi plans to remove these two cancers and throw them into others to poison them, because in order to increase their power, they need to find a more suitable one.
Take action again when the opportunity arises.
As for when the aristocratic family was in trouble, Chen Xi waved his hand and treated it as a forced purchase and sale. The fertile soil in the Northeast, the promise of enfeoffment after doing well, was thrown directly into his face, and our money and goods were cleared.
After all, the family did not achieve the feat of exterminating the Northern Huns, so they essentially owed Chen Xi a favor. There was indeed talk of exchanging land before, but in fact everyone knew that what the family got was far greater than what they paid. Although this
People from business families like to do it, but it also depends on the target.
His own strength is not as good as the other party, but he still owes such a huge favor. Although this favor may be given by force, under the condition that it has become an established fact, the family can only bow their head and acknowledge this favor. So isn't this a gift?
Use it as a handle?
All the aristocratic families know that the favor will be repaid sooner or later with their lives, so the sooner it is repaid, the better. But Chen Xi didn't give them a chance at all. Instead, he directly accepted their private soldiers. At first glance, it looked like he was going to fall out.
, but as long as Chen Xi stops in moderation, all the aristocratic families will understand.
In this way, although the aristocratic family must have a lot of dissatisfaction, the simultaneous action of Liu, Cao, and Sun basically represented the will of the entire Han Empire. Even if the aristocratic family was dissatisfied, they obediently took the land after it became a reality.
Going north is the wisest choice.
This seems to have seriously offended these aristocratic families, but as long as Chen Xi only takes private soldiers and does not move the main members of the aristocratic family, but only restrains, does not deprive and make promises, it is actually an alternative exchange of interests, and this method of exchange, although there are
He is domineering, but his final promise is enough to eliminate all dissatisfaction, and it will also make the family owe more favors.
Although this kind of bright bait is like catching a fool, Chen Xi can guarantee that with his current reputation, if he says this, every family in the world will choose to bite the hook, even those who didn't like Liu Bei before.
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Chen Xi admitted that until now, aristocratic families have occupied about 60% or even 70% of the official positions in the country by relying on their abilities and connections. However, unlike during the reign of Emperor Ling, the current Han Empire can forcibly remove these people as long as they are willing to pay the price.
It is stripped from the entire system. Of course, if there is no great benefit, Chen Xi will never do it.
After all, whether the people at the bottom are willing to admit it or not, Chen Xi knows that in the current social environment, officials from aristocratic families have more advantages than disadvantages for the entire social environment.
At least until Chen Xi has trained enough officials to replace the entire bureaucracy, Chen Xi will never make any big moves in this system. Even after training enough officials to replace the entire bureaucracy, Chen Xi will be cautious enough in this regard.
After all, these people are not completely broken in this period, so there is no need to kill them all with one shot. Besides, if they really want to be transformed into class enemies, Chen Xi feels that he will be in the category of being knocked down. After all, whether in the past life or in this life, he
They are all vested interests.
Therefore, Chen Xi's position is that he will sympathize with these people and be willing to help these people if he can, but if he wants to play moral kidnapping, and the Holy Mother, Chen Xi does not mind letting them be humanely destroyed first.
Chen Xi, who seems harmless to humans and animals, is after all the rule-maker at the top of the food chain, and is essentially different from those who rise from the bottom.
It is precisely because of this that Chen Xi can poach the corners of the family and leave promotion channels for the lower levels, but he will never completely destroy it. On the one hand, he does not have such courage, and on the other hand, it is also because the land of the Central Plains is constantly growing new ones.
Family.
Therefore, stability is still the top priority, but sometimes it is not impossible to use radical measures. At best, you can make up for it later. Anyway, those in the middle class of society should not only get the blame but also get the dates, saving them time and money every day.
Looking for trouble.
"That's it. We just have some time to bring up a batch of cotton-padded clothes." Chen Xi turned to Zhuge Liang and said, then looked at Xun Yu and Zhou Yu and asked, "Are the winter clothes you prepared enough? If not, I have a batch here."
A sweater for you."
Speaking of sweaters, Chen Xi has been harvesting the wool of the northern barbarians since the early days of Mount Tai. Over the past few years, a complete industrial chain of wool purchasing, spinning and knitting has been established.
However, the past two years have not been as easy as in previous years. In the past, a standard five-baht coin could collect more than ten kilograms of wool. Now, a standard five-baht coin can basically be exchanged for one-for-one wool.
Inexplicably, the barbarians began to use wool as a general equivalent, although those guys had no idea what the Han Dynasty was doing with wool.
After a large amount of wool is collected, it is cleaned, screened, roughened, and fluffed. It is basically ready for use whether it is spinning or playing with it.
As for Chinese wool in the Han Dynasty, it was not suitable for weaving, and was only suitable for making carpets. Under the terrible black science of temperature maintenance, as long as the material composition is the same, you can achieve the results you want, so Liu Bei
Already have woolen sweaters.
The wool industry, which was originally expected to create a wealthy businessman, has been messed up by the northern family, relying on small profits but quick turnover, and cashmere to hit the upper class market. The total annual profit is higher than the income of any of the five wealthy merchants.
In the end, these northern merchants who were backed by aristocratic families even discovered that this was a gold mine with no bottom. Wool thread might become one of the indispensable materials of the Han Dynasty like silk thread and hemp thread.
Different from silk which can only be supplied to the upper layer and export, hemp thread is basically only used by the middle and lower layers. Woolen thread can be used all over the map, with cashmere at the top and coarse wool at the bottom. This thing seems to be able to be used in the four major categories of food, clothing, housing and transportation, including the "clothing" item.
Come and divide the world into two.
How much profit is this? Those families in the north who were the first to get involved in the big ship of the Chamber of Commerce will understand after a little calculation that this is a bottomless gold mountain!