please make me king

Chapter 839
Zhang Shun discussed with Zhang Shenyan and Lu Weiqi for a long time, talking about whatever came to mind.

When he took a break in the middle, he tidied up a bit and found that the depth of this conversation was far beyond what he usually thought about, and had touched the core of the problems of this era.

Originally, he still followed the scriptures, and his cognition of ancient social problems still remained on the dogmatic views of "land annexation" and "farmers losing land as the means of production in agricultural society" mentioned in textbooks.

Only after this conversation did he deeply realize that these viewpoints are from the grand perspective that productivity determines production relations.

If it is purely from an economic point of view, it is more accurate to use a description like a textbook supplement, "a large number of household-based small peasant economies have gone bankrupt."

The structural model of traditional Chinese society is based on Legalism as the main theoretical basis, and its ideal operation model is based on the word "farming war" as the core, based on small farmers as the unit of production, and officials are set up to administer and collect taxes , Conscription, conscripting labor, and ultimately responsible to the emperor alone.

All the output of the feudal empire was in charge of "households", so this was the requirement of "organization of households and Qimin".For this era, a "household" is a small production "enterprise".

No matter how many burdens are placed on the heads of these "enterprises", whether it is aristocratic families or corrupt officials, gentry and village sages are also popular.As long as there are enough "enterprises" to pay taxes, pay food, contribute labor and soldiers, then everything is easy to say.

Once these "enterprises" go bankrupt one after another, destroying the foundation of everything, no matter how many geniuses a dynasty produces, it will be powerless to recover after all.

Today's Daming is like this, just like sitting on a powder keg, some farmers under his rule have begun to "bankrupt" on a large scale, and some have entered "the verge of bankruptcy".

The former is represented by Shaanxi, especially the land of Yansui; while the latter is represented by Henan and other places.

From the point of view of historical materialism, this Ming Dynasty should also perish.Its foundation has been severely damaged. No matter how scheming Chongzhen is, it is not enough to continue his life without reorganizing the mountains and rivers!
Thinking of this, Zhang Shun finally understood his mission.

If you want to build a career, you can't be satisfied with being a feudal emperor with three palaces and six courtyards and groups of wives and concubines; let alone focus on expanding the territory and making countless bones as your own achievements.

Instead, we must honestly reorganize the old mountains and rivers, pick out the foundations that Daming crushed one by one, and glue them together.Let every family have no worries about food, clothing and housing again, and have surplus food and energy to undertake corresponding obligations.

A country can only prosper if it has the support of a family. This is the true meaning of China's two thousand years of prosperity and replacement.

As the saying goes: A building of a hundred feet is built on the ground; a silk of a thousand feet is accumulated in silk; a bell of ten thousand stones is accumulated in two baht!
Without the support of household registrations like sand grains, any feudal dynasty will collapse, let alone imagine that it can secure the throne and expand its territory.

It can be seen from this that land distribution and granting of land to landless and land-poor farmers are of course the key points of the reform; but supporting and protecting farmers who are on the verge of bankruptcy are even more important.

The former is open source, and the latter is throttling.Take a two-pronged approach and recast the foundation of the world in order to reap the unrivaled achievements!
Zhang Shun thought clearly, and repeatedly told Zhang Shenyan, Lu Weiqi and the others to prioritize the matter and explain it to them. Only after the investigation of the people's livelihood in Henan Prefecture was clear, can they formulate corresponding policies.

Seeing that the incident was almost explained, Song Xiance stepped forward to inquire: "Because the commander Cao Wenzhao is away on an expedition, and King Shun is not in Luoyang, there is an important matter that has been backlogged for a long time, so I have to go out of my way to report it on my behalf!"

"Oh? What's the matter?" Zhang Shun was still thinking about land, reform, and bankruptcy, but he didn't react for a while.

"Cao Wenzhao, Chen Changbing, and Li Mou, the three generals, chased after the rebel army defeated Hong Chengchou, the governor of the five provinces. The two sides fought fiercely for a long time, but Tongguan was so strong that the rebels could not enter the pass!"

"In the future, Dudu Zhang will be asked to lead the craftsmen to cast cannons in order to break through the pass. However, the skill is not perfect, and the casting fails repeatedly. The heavy cannon cannot be made, and the grand pass cannot be broken. Please also ask King Shun to make a decision early!"

"What?" Zhang Shun was taken aback when he heard the words. He was also thinking about this at first, and planned to send an envoy back to inquire about the progress.

But he never expected that Zuo Guangxian, the commander in chief of Shaanxi, would be so capable, forcibly combining Cao Wenzhao and righteous brother Chen Changbing, he still had no way to deal with them.

"What's going on?" Zhang Shun asked.

Song Xiance and Zhang Shenyan didn't have time to reply, but Lu Weiqi, who lived in Xin'an and was close to Tongguan, knew something about this place, so he quickly replied: "I don't know much about soldiers, and I don't know the key points."

"Based on common sense, Tongguan is dangerous and fortified. Zuo Guangxian, the commander-in-chief of Shaanxi, was also a famous general, and he guarded the city. Generals Cao Wenzhao and Chen Changlong are in a hurry!"

"Mr. Lu's words are true, who are some unknown soldiers?" Zhang Shun saw that everyone's faces were a little heavy, so he couldn't help laughing and teasing, enlivening the atmosphere.

The three of them grinned and were about to continue their discussion.

Song Xiance reached into his bosom, took out for a long time, and took out a stack of crumpled letters, I don't know how long he had been holding them.

Song Xiance handed it to Zhang Shun with a smile: "All the letters and reports of the two generals Cao and Chen are here, please read them carefully, my lord!"

Zhang Shenyan and Lu Weiqi's eyes almost popped out.

This bird man!
It's no wonder that Zhang Shenyan and Lu Weiqi want to scold people. It turns out that Song Xiance is currently serving as a ceremonial officer and has nothing to do with military affairs.

However, Cao Wenzhao, the soldier who should be in charge of military affairs, went to the front line, so there was no one to deal with military affairs for the time being.

This time Song Xiance took advantage of the initial creation of the rebel army system and took advantage of his earliest advantages from Conglong to directly gather the letters and documents of Cao Wenzhao and Chen Changbing in his hands, but waited for Zhang Shun to report back.

If Zhang Shenyan and Lu Weiqi did this kind of taboo behavior, it would definitely make Zhang Shun unhappy.

Only Song Dynasty offered strategies in a detached position, so it was possible to win by surprise.This made Zhang Shun not only not disgusted, but felt that Song Xiance was indeed a mature and prudent person.

This kind of blatant flaunting of the relationship between himself and the lord, and by the way, implicitly expressing that he doesn't trust the other two, is of course very hated.

It's a pity that facts are facts, Zhang Shenyan and Lu Weiqi really have nothing to do.

Zhang Shun picked up the letter and looked at it, the vermilion lacquer was still there, there were five or six copies in total.

He took it apart and saw Chen Changzhu's familiar handwriting.

Chen Changbing's narrative ability is quite good, he recorded in detail how he broke through Mianchi, Shanzhou, Lingbao, Yanxiang and other places all the way to the west, and he used several night raids to lure the enemy out of the city, all of which failed.

The second is Cao Wenzhao's letter. When Zhang Shun opened it, it was just a complete defense map of Tongguan.

Zhang Shun looked at it twice, put it aside for the time being, and then opened the last letter.

It turned out that Dudu Zhang wrote a letter to Zhang Shundao, which contained rich pictures and texts, and described in detail the civil engineering works of the rebel army for the siege of the city, and the process of casting the [-]-jin Hongyi cannon.

As expected by Zhang Shun, the governor tried his best, but still couldn't cast a qualified ten-thousand-jin Hongyi cannon.

The Western Front has been deadlocked for three months without any progress.

How to order them to continue to attack the city, or to retreat in time?

(End of this chapter)