Prime Minister of Great Qin

Chapter 387 The sword goes astray! (Please subscribe)

Zhang Liang sat on the ground.

After reading it through, he already had a rough idea in his mind, but he still didn't dare to be careless. He turned over the bamboo slips again. He didn't put them down until he read them several times and was about to memorize them.

Zhang Liang frowned and said: "Judging from these bamboo slips, Qin Ting obviously paid more attention to Northern Xinjiang and conducted more tests. However, this is just an appearance after all. Qin Ting's focus has always been Guandong."

"It's just that it's more hidden this time."

"Nothing was revealed."

"From beginning to end, it was just a simple order."

"What has been announced to the outside world is that a large-scale transit warehouse will be built in Kanto. Is this warehouse really that simple?"

“Increase revenue and reduce expenditure.”

“In the end, it will fall on surplus money and food.”

"Under the Qin system, the demand for money and grain was huge, and countless money and grain were processed every day. Building warehouses in Guandong can indeed reduce losses on the road, but Qin Ting's strict defense of Guandong in the past made such a move , obviously the gain outweighs the loss.”

"At least."

“It’s hard to win courtiers’ agreement.”

"There will definitely be a follow-up."

"But what will happen next?"

Zhang Liang frowned and thought deeply.

After thinking about it carefully, Zhang Liang couldn't help but shook his head.

No clue.

He could never guess what Ji Heng was thinking, and sometimes it wasn't that he couldn't figure it out, but that he couldn't imagine it at all. Ji Heng's ideas were wild and unconstrained, often unreasonable, and difficult to understand. Find corresponding comparisons in history.

If you use common sense to infer, you will basically not see the problem, and you will only think that everything is as it should be.

In practical terms.

If he didn't have a deep understanding of Qin Ting.

I might think so too.

The Qin court was short of finances and wanted to increase revenue and reduce expenditures to generate excess money and grain.

And Zhang Cang is the new Shaofu.

The new official took office three fires.

It is completely reasonable to want to make some political achievements and make some changes.

Especially building warehouses in Guandong is in line with the "repair of personnel to defeat nature" preached by the First Emperor during his tour. It is completely reasonable and reasonable, and certain patches have been made to remove blockages. That is, only the money and grain from Guandong are collected, and they can stay in the place for a maximum of Three months, and then they must move away.

Never stay in Kanto for too long.

Everything seems to be taken for granted.

But Zhang Liang didn't believe that this matter would be so simple, let alone that a person as cunning as a fox like Ji Heng would only dabble in it. This was not Ji Heng's past behavior.

Ji Changheng had other plans.

Zhang Liang stood up, patted the bamboo slips gently in his hands, and whispered: "What is Ji Heng planning? What is he planning?"

"What is his intention?!"

Zhang Liang looked puzzled and paced back and forth in the courtyard.

Long thought.

finally.

He still focused on money and food.

The trouble should end it.

And money and food happened to be what Qin Ting cared about most.

Zhang Liang said softly: "Qian Liang. Qin Ting started talking about money and grain, so he should be able to find a breakthrough in the direction of money and grain. Qin Ting's main purpose is to make a surplus of money and grain for the court."

"If you don't have money, everything will stop."

"Just through the so-called increase in revenue and expenditure reduction, the surplus money and food that can be made is too limited after all, and it cannot bear too much at all. Whether it is Northern Xinjiang or building warehouses, it can only be regarded as a small profit. When it comes down to it, but It’s sewing and mending.”

"It is difficult to make further progress."

"Is it true that I am so deeply influenced by Ji Heng that I would be suspicious of everything?" Zhang Liang murmured to himself, but his brows were furrowed.

a long time.

Zhang Liang shook his head.

What Qin Ting did was definitely not without purpose.

It can never be aimless.

How could Qin Ting have so much time and energy to bother? If there is no plot, all this is obviously not worth the gain. It is also relaxing the control of the Huns and the control of Guandong, which is obviously inconsistent with the Qin system's requirements for the world.

"It is obviously not enough to increase revenue and reduce expenditure."

“Money still needs to come from somewhere.”

"Ji Heng has sympathy for the people at the bottom, so he is unlikely to support continuing to collect money from the people. If he cannot get money from local people, he can only get it from elsewhere."

"Merchant?"

Zhang Liang shook his head.

He didn't think he was a merchant.

After going through the "Guan Shan Hai", the merchants' vitality was seriously damaged, and they were also targeted by local officials. Today's merchants are being exploited by the court and local governments, and they cannot collect much money at all. Those who really have a lot of money and food in their hands will be behind them. Most of them have the shadow of local officials.

This is difficult for the government to find out.

Qin Ting is unlikely to take action before he has thoroughly investigated the local situation. If he acts rashly, he will only alert the enemy and make ends meet. Qin Ting does not have so much energy and motivation to investigate.

What's more, even if it's found out.

The money and food earned by merchants have long been divided among the localities.

How much profit can Qin Ting make?

"Where is the noble?" Zhang Liang's eyes moved slightly.

immediately.

He shook his head again.

Nobles are even less likely. The nobles were originally on the opposite side of the Qin court.

They hide their wealth even more tightly. It is simply unrealistic for Qin Ting to seize the hidden property from the nobles. The difficulty is equivalent to capturing the hidden nobles.

This is obviously impossible.

Neither merchants nor nobles can do it, so only officials are left.

Zhang Liang looked up at the sky and said solemnly: "Does Qin Ting want to take advantage of the remaining power of the First Emperor to patrol the world and continue to clean up the officialdom of Guandong?"

"But can Qin Ting really be so courageous?"

"The officialdom in Guandong has been harsh for many years and is deeply rooted. They are connected with each other. There is no big army to suppress the formation. Just rely on a few officials to come down to investigate. Even if something is really found? With mutual concealment and cover, it may be difficult to convict in the end, and may even be counter-sued and slandered. .”

"And what does this have to do with this warehouse?"

"Is it because you want to use the warehouse to stabilize the place? Then the court can clean it up slowly and not worry about chaos in the place?"

"It's certainly possible."

"It's also something Qin Ting can do."

Think of this.

Zhang Liang is certain.

There was a calm look on his face.

After thinking about his thoughts carefully, Zhang Liang strengthened his understanding.

He chuckled and said, "It's hard to hide it."

"The high-profile plan for Northern Xinjiang is actually just to divert attention and make the officials in Guandong relax their vigilance, and then achieve the purpose of cleaning up the officialdom in Guandong."

"If I'm not wrong."

"Qin Ting's real intention is not in the warehouse."

"After the warehouse was built, the local government obeyed the imperial court's orders to transfer the corresponding materials. When these resources arrived at the warehouse, Qin Ting no longer had any worries, and might take action against the corresponding officials. However, the imperial court held a large amount of materials and did not worry about the local government at all. Make trouble."

"The livelihood of all people should be firewood, rice, oil, salt, iron, etc."

"If the people are not in chaos, the place will not be in chaos."

"The name is to build a warehouse, but in fact it is to build the tombs of local officials."

"After knowing Qin Ting's intention, the local officials were probably quite happy, thinking that they could get the money and food issued by Qin Ting early. Little did they know that they were building tombs to bury themselves."

"How do I break it?"

Zhang Liang stood still.

He frowned, thinking secretly.

He believed that he had guessed a lot about the true purpose of the Qin court. Just because he knew it did not mean that he could convince others, especially local officials. The Emperor's 'atrocities' in Jiangdong were still fresh in his mind. I'm afraid not many officials would dare to risk themselves at this time.

If the sword doesn't hit oneself, no one will take the initiative to cry out in pain.

What's more, this is just his personal conjecture.

How to make it convincing?

It was impossible to prevent the warehouse from being built.

No official would dare to do such a thing, and it would be equally difficult to prevent materials from entering the warehouse. Unless many local counties can be persuaded, the chances are slim at present.

As for causing local troubles, it is even more unrealistic at the moment.

The First Emperor's tour had just ended, and the tens of thousands of soldiers accompanying him had not yet dispersed. They would rush over directly. Who in Guandong could withstand them?

Think of this.

Zhang Liang also looked sad.

He sighed softly: "Is this your plan?"

"Even if there are people outside who can guess your thoughts, or even be sure of your thoughts, due to various circumstances, not many people will respond, and they can only watch the implementation without being able to stop it. With this This kind of calculation that seems to be nothing can control people's hearts to death."

"Only one person in the world has ears."

"As for the conventional way to break the situation, I've probably already guessed it for you."

"It's nothing more than making noise in the local area and stirring up local dissatisfaction. I think Qin Ting built warehouses just to continue to collect more land and rent taxes. Although I don't know how you will deal with it, I'm afraid these tricks are useless. If you want to Breaking the situation, we can no longer perform such routine operations."

"The only way to take the wrong approach is to take the wrong path."

"Use the same surprising method to win."

"It's not enough to make noise and cause trouble, then sink the materials transferred by the imperial court. If the sinking is not enough, then kill people until everyone in Guandong sees Qin Ting's true face and no longer wants to be a snake. Only in this way can we have a certain chance of breaking the situation. But if you want to do this, you still have to convince local officials."

"Only do something first."

"That will make other people stop and wait and see."

"You can also disrupt the situation in Kanto and make your plans fail. It's not that easy to do this, but now that you have a direction, it may not be impossible to achieve."

"The road is made."

"Things are also made by people."

"Back then, Su Qin was able to bear the seal of the Six Kingdoms. Why can't I, Zhang Liang, follow suit?"

Zhang Liang's eyes were bright.

His eyes were full of fighting spirit and excitement.

He has now slowly found a way to compete with Ji Heng.

Also started to really get into the game.

He put the bamboo slips on the ground into the study room full of cobwebs, then looked deeply at the old house, and then at the weeping mulberry trees in the courtyard, as if to remember this scene firmly in his mind, and then never looked back. 's left.

When Zhang Liang began to plot destruction, a major event also happened on the northern grasslands.

Touman Shanyu died.

Died at the hands of his own son.

The king of the grassland, after several turmoils, finally changed his candidate.

Mao Dun ascended to the throne.

at the same time.

Dozens of miles away from Beiyuan, there was only one person left in the scouting team. This person was covered in blood, but he still protected the bamboo tube under his body as he galloped on the broad grassland.

Beiyuan and the Great Wall are near!

　It's the third update tomorrow. I still can't code in bed and doze off.

　　

　

(End of this chapter)