Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes

Chapter 267
"Hehehe!" Wang Wenzuo laughed: "Hongdu, you only know one thing and don't know the other! Let me ask you, are there more honest gentlemen or villains in the world?"

"Of course there are many villains, but very few honest gentlemen!" Cui Hongdu laughed and said, "But Sanlang, you said that if you have money, you can make him obey your orders. Although there are few honest gentlemen, at least there are still some!"

"Then if I buy villains with money to besiege a gentleman who does not obey my orders, what will happen to the gentleman?"

"This—" Cui Hongdu was dumbfounded, and after a while he lowered his head and said, "That gentleman will end badly, but why did he do this?"

"Anyone who doesn't listen to me is naturally an enemy. Between us, we will do everything we can. What's the point of besieging villains with money? If Qin didn't use Guo Kai to slander and kill Li Mu during the Warring States period, would Qin be able to destroy Zhao?"

The Guo Kai mentioned by Wang Wenzuo was a famous treacherous minister of the Zhao State in the late Warring States period. Qin Shihuang sent a strategist to buy Guo Kai with a lot of money and let him kill the famous Zhao State general Li Mu, which finally led to Qin's destruction of Zhao.This is a well-known story in later generations, and Cui Hongdu naturally knew it. He sighed: "What Saburo said is also reasonable. I will count the first half of your sentence as reasonable, but what about the second half?"

"Scatter money and recruit soldiers. If you can win, you will win. If you can't win, you will flee. It's a hundred times better than waiting for death with your hands."

"Recruitment?" Cui Hongdu laughed: "Sanlang, you are joking again. What is the use of the mob raised by the money? It will only collapse in front of the imperial army!"

"That's because soldiers who have not been trained strictly after being recruited, rather than money, are unbearable to fight!" Wang Wenzuo retorted: "Even if it is the imperial court, it can only use money Recruiting troops!"

"What?" Cui Hongdu's face changed drastically, he looked at the outside and said in a low voice, "Sanlang is not joking!"

"What are you kidding about!" Wang Wenzuo sneered, "In recent years, the imperial court has opened borders more and more frequently. The country is vast and the distance from east to west is tens of thousands of miles. How can you take care of the farming? After several times, how can the soldiers bear it? It would be strange not to destroy the house!"

"But if you use recruiting as you said, how much money will it cost!" Cui Hongdu said in a low voice: "I'm afraid there are five or six million troops from all walks of life in the imperial court. If one person has a monthly salary, it will cost six million a year." 60 million guan! There are also armored battleships, horses, rations, and clothing. How can the court's taxes be enough?"

"Then increase the tax!" Wang Wenzuo sneered: "Except for the rent adjustment, commercial tax, salt tax, tea tax, etc. are all included, and naturally it is enough!"

Cui Hongdu is also a smart person, and he understood what Wang Wenzuo meant when he heard this. Since the government soldiers were to be replaced by recruits, the original tax-free and service-free privileges of the small military aristocrats under the government soldier system would naturally no longer exist. Not only that, the court also Will find ways to collect wealth from other channels to make up for the cost of raising soldiers.Since they are all recruiting soldiers, then naturally whoever gives more money will have a stronger army's combat effectiveness. The second half of what Wang Wenzuo said just now is very reasonable.

"I understand!" Cui Hongdu said in a deep voice: "Sanlang, please rest assured, I will do my best on this matter, please rest assured and go to Chang'an!"

The first roll of grass is burnt out.

Miscellaneous remarks at the end of the volume
Before I knew it, more than 50 words of "Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes" had been updated. If I were to use an analogy, this book had passed the prologue and started to enter the main scene.Clever readers should be able to guess from the last sentence of Cao Ranjuan that the opening of the next volume is in Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty, to be precise, on the way to Chang'an.Yes, how can a Tang Dynasty historical novel not write about Chang'an?That is the heart of power, the center of the empire, where great poets chanted, Baqiao, Daming Palace, Lishan, Daci'en Temple, these names are familiar to every Chinese.

But if "Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes" only wrote about these things, Weber would not be Weber. Under the gorgeous neon clothes is a hard armor. It's a samurai book.Those people who wear sharp clothes, ride tall horses, open up territories and expand territories, and plant the banner of Datang all within sight.They are the center of the future world in this book. At first they are faint, like sparks falling into the haystack, but as the hay ignites and the flames rise, the whole world will become their world.

Some readers may feel that this book is not progressive enough, not capitalist enough, not industrialized enough, not left enough.Weber only wanted to talk about the things of one generation to another. No one can surpass the limitations of the times.The progress of the times in history does not change people's thinking, but the death of the old and the birth of the new. The life span of the protagonist is limited, and it is impossible to complete such a great progress in his limited life.

Yes, one day the descendants of these determined warriors will be rotten and weak, unable to do anything but sit on the heads of the people and suck the blood and sweat of their people.Does this obliterate everything their ancestors have done?It is absurd to use the merits of the fathers to justify the privileges of the descendants, but is it reasonable to use the corruption of the descendants to obliterate the heroic achievements of the ancestors?Everything in the world is born and dies. Nothing can last forever. Even this planet where humans live will die one day, but this cannot obliterate the fact that humans have existed.All I can do is tell the story as well as I can, and for the rest, it's not my responsibility and it's not my responsibility.

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