I have lived forever since the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 311 Return to Yangxia

"Ta, tap, tap, tap."

Listening to the rhythm of the horse's hooves on the ground, Chen Luo, who was leaning on the back of the cushion, turned his head in a small circle, tapped the guardrail regularly with his fingers, and hummed leisurely and softly the ballad of Daichi.

The breeze lifts the curtains, and the green mountains under the clouds slowly recede outside the window, rising and falling, like waves hitting the beach.

"It's quite warm." He turned his head and murmured, the bright sunlight was a bit dazzling.

I said goodbye to the place where I had lived for more than ten years. If I said that my mood did not fluctuate at all, it would definitely be too false.

It’s just that the weather doesn’t suit everyone’s mood.

Maybe some people are having a happy event, but they are hit by heavy rain; maybe some people are at a low point, but there is a cloudless and sunny sky in front of them.

Who can say clearly about this kind of thing?

"A Zhang, where are we?" Chen Luo asked loudly, drowning out the noise from the outside world.

After a while, the driver responded: "Your Majesty, we have already left Dai, and we are approaching the boundary of Handan City not far ahead."

"I understand." Chen Luo touched his chin.

It was already the ninth day since I left Dai City. According to the speed at which I was traveling, I should have reached this area.

The last time he came here was probably during the battle to destroy the Qin Dynasty. Back then, what he could see was the two armies confronting each other, and what was ringing in his ears were war roars and clashes of soldiers. It was not as peaceful as it is now.

At that time, Chen Luo would not dare to travel as lightly as he does now.

This time he left Daidi and had nothing valuable to carry.

The carriage only contained the sachets that Liu Le had sewn for himself, letters and letters from home over the years, and some records of his observations of the Huns.

Although these records were backed up in Yangxia, the originals were equally important, so they did not choose to burn them directly.

Because the bicycle left Dai City, Chen Luo only took his driver Zhang, who had been following him for many years, with him.

As for the attendants he had recruited in Daidi over the years, he paid them all a sum of money before leaving and sent them home.

Of course, Chen Luo didn't have to worry about danger on the road.

Even though he didn't bring any guards, he was moving with the Mohist caravan.

As a caravan that travels north and south of the Han Dynasty all year round, what kind of storms have they not seen?
And knowing that Chen Luo was in the team, the security level of this Mohist caravan was raised to the highest level.

The route they took from Daidi back to Yangxia was the one they had traveled the most and had the highest safety factor.

During the march, people were sent to the three nodes of five miles, ten miles, and twenty miles before and after the road to conduct reconnaissance to ensure that there were no bandits.

Each carriage transporting goods is equipped with a crossbow on the side.

You need to stay overnight in the wild, ensuring that one-third of the people are awake at each time period.

Moreover, when the caravan traveled to large cities with Mohist strongholds, guards and horses would be added.

According to this standard, even if two hundred regular armored soldiers came to attack, they were confident that they could protect Chen Luo and escape.

In the more than 20 years since the establishment of the Mohist school in the Han Dynasty, the development speed of Mohism was probably the fastest among the hundreds of pre-Qin schools. Especially other schools were more or less divided into various factions, and they were twisted into a rope.

So every family in the world recalled the fear of being dominated by that black color.

It's just that nowadays, the disciples of the Mo family rarely argue with others, even the group of people who came from Qi Mo didn't bother to do so.

They are almost overwhelmed with their own affairs.

As a Mohist disciple, the tasks that need to be completed every month are as follows: assisting in the creation of new agricultural tools, cooperating in the research and development of new tools, and participating in three to five lectures to the people...

They even sometimes need to join Mohist caravans, and a long-distance trafficking trip can take three to five months.

Everyone has to do practical things, who has the extra experience to debate scriptures?
What should I do if I am considered idle and my tasks get heavier next month?

Chen Luo briefly estimated the income generated by Mohist disciples in a year and found that it would not be less than the taxes collected from his own fiefdom of nearly [-] households in Yangxia.

This reminded him of those regional business gangs that later emerged.

Mohism took root in Yangxia and radiated throughout the country, somewhat like Hui merchants and Shanxi merchants.

However, the centripetal force within the Mo family is far beyond what those business gangs can match.

"I still have to check it out when I go back this time." Chen Luo was not overly optimistic.

While the Mohist family is becoming bigger and stronger, the purity within the team is definitely not as good as that of the late Qin Dynasty and the early Han Dynasty. While his influence is still there, he will try to clean out the possible moths that may appear within the Mohist family first.

After all, if Chen Lu takes over the Mo family in the future, he probably won't pay too much attention to this aspect and will not have his own prestige.

When the time comes, the entire Mohist family will collapse, and it will be too late to make rectifications.

You must know that the foundation of their foundation lies in the people. If they no longer wear black clothes, they will wear brocade robes.

So can these people still be called Mohist disciples?
Chen Luo exhaled slowly and put this problem in his mind for the time being. Only after he returned to Yangxia and investigated could he come up with a suitable solution.

Immediately afterwards, he began to take stock of his gains and losses in Daichi.

The years he served as Daiguo's Prime Minister were undoubtedly the stage in which his political abilities improved the fastest.

His original starting point for politics was much higher than that of ordinary people. He had a broad vision, insight and foresight in terms of the overall situation. However, in terms of handling details, there was a gap between him and the first-class level.

Even though I had realized this before, I had not figured out the fundamental solution to the problem. With the help of Mohist disciples, I could make up for the lack of details.

So Chen Luo rarely focused on those trivial matters.

Until I went to Daidi and spent a whole year walking around the local county town, I saw how the petty officials took advantage of loopholes in the rules and took advantage of the law. There were all kinds of "hidden rules" in the county government, and even the county magistrate was subject to them. , and there are too many unjust, false, and wrongly convicted cases in prisons that were beaten to death...

The political ecology at the bottom and the game in the court are completely different. They are two completely different things.

When fighting opponents in the court, most of them will follow certain established principles and pay attention to dignity.

The loser will leave the game voluntarily, but the winner will not kill everyone.

After all, most of the courtiers were once comrades-in-arms who fought against Qin and conquered the world. If you really want to talk about it, maybe the big guys behind them are close friends, and they still have to give them basic face.

Local officialdom is not so warm and affectionate.

The officials in charge want to climb up, and the petty officials below are working together to try to gain status, not to mention the powerful and noble people in some areas.If the other party infringes on their own interests, the methods they use can be described as sharp and bloody.

The order in the court was like a debate arena, with everyone politely explaining their opinions.

The place is like a jungle. If your wrist is not strong enough, you will either tremble and huddle in the corner, or you will be bitten and eaten directly.

After such experience, Chen Luo will naturally make great progress.

He completed the details that he had overlooked before, and found that his overall concept was further improved, and some problems that he did not understand suddenly became clear.

A certain policy that I had previously decided in court would always be "misinterpreted" to a certain extent by local officials during the actual implementation.

For example, due to the needs of the war, an additional [-]% of the tax revenue had to be collected. Some places were slow to collect it, some places could only collect half a percent, and some places seemed to collect it quickly, but according to the reports of Mohist disciples, in that area officials sparked public outrage.

At that time, Chen Luo was puzzled.

We must know that the geographical harvest that year was very good. If we increase the tax revenue by [-]%, it will not bring too much burden to the people. Why is there so many loopholes in the implementation?
Now Chen Luo understands the reason.

Officials in some places often report higher harvests in order to look good in their political performance. They have secretly increased a lot of taxes on the people before, and as a result, they have to collect a new round of taxes, so naturally they will not be able to pay them in a short time. .

Officials in some places will choose to line their own pockets. Everyone uses various means to covet the additional [-]% tax, and uses the losses during transportation to cover up the fact.

One person's greed is nothing, but layer after layer of greed is reduced, and after the local food is delivered to Chang'an, only half of it is left.

Even now that Chen Luo understands the ecological environment of the local officialdom, he feels that the remaining half can still explain the Qingming rule of the Han officials.

As for the officials who collected the goods quickly and in full, most of them had connections with local powerful people and followed the principle of "returning all the money and food to the landlords and dividing the money and food of the common people [-]-[-]-[-]."

Of course, the [-]% must belong to the imperial court, otherwise they would not need to borrow money from powerful men to hand over taxes and revenue.

After thinking about all this, Chen Luo felt quite emotional and missed Prime Minister Xiao even more.

In the past, I relied on the intelligence of the Mohist disciples, which was cheating on the intelligence, and I found it very difficult when dealing with many things.

Xiao He did not have such help when he was prime minister.

He managed the Han Dynasty in an orderly manner simply by relying on his personal ability.

Even if Chen Luo feels that he has improved a lot now, if he really wants to reach the level of Xiao He and be knowledgeable about all matters in government affairs, he still has a long way to go.

But even so, the "political legacy" he left to Liu Ruyi in Dai Di is already quite rich.

At the official level, the core structure of this group of people left by Chen Luo can fully support five to ten years.

Moreover, they have been cultivated slowly by themselves and are completely trustworthy.

During this period of time, Liu Ruyi did not have to worry about having no available talents.

In the business field, Chen Luo started building from a blank slate in Daiguo.

The current Daidi is a transit point for border trade with the Xiongnu.

If merchants from South Korea, Zhao and even further afield want to come over, they must pass through Daicheng to stop for reorganization, replenish supplies, and find guides to lead the way.

With the continuous flow of caravans, the trade of Daidi was naturally revitalized.

Although it is not as good as those places in Guanzhong and Qi where commerce has been prosperous for a long time, it is far beyond the borders of Yan and Bashu, and even has faint signs of being comparable to Changsha, which has the South Vietnam trade line.

Even though agriculture is currently the main source of tax revenue, who would think that collecting customs duties from caravans under their rule is a bad thing?

Of course, as a borderland, the most important thing for Daiguo is definitely its military strength.

Without the ability to protect oneself, no matter how prosperous the business development is, it will be nothing more than a lamb to be slaughtered by the Huns.

It happened that Chen Luo was in Dai, and he paid great attention to the foreign invasion of the Xiongnu.

Before leaving, he handed over control of "Weijiang" to Liu Ruyi.

The number of this light cavalry is still about 2000. It is impossible to rely on them to counterattack, but it is definitely more than enough to deal with the small-scale intrusion of the Xiongnu going south.

For the formation of Weijiang, those harnesses are very important.

Chen Luo counted their losses in previous years, chose a figure above the median, and asked the Mohist caravan to sell a fixed amount every year for their use.

With the guarantees he has provided, even if Liu Ruyi does nothing over the years, Dai's national strength will continue to develop and be in a stage of prosperity.

There is no way, the foundation I have laid over the years is so solid.

But there are gains and losses.

Chen Luo was asked to talk about what he had lost during his years in Dai Di.

He felt that there was too little company for his family.

Except for the first year, I would take leave every year and go back to Yangxia to visit, but after all, this time is limited. After seeing each other for only half a month, I have to face the fact of being separated again, which is like returning to my hometown for the New Year in later generations. After the Spring Festival, I have to go out to work again by train.

When he goes back this time, until the identity of "Chen Luo" ends, he probably won't leave Yangxia for a long time.

The news that he had previously announced that he would return power to Liu Ruyi spread, and Liu Heng sent a letter inviting him to Chang'an, where he would most likely serve as the right prime minister.

Chen Luo chose to refuse without hesitation.

Even if Liu Heng didn't have his own help, he could still become the Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty who would be famous throughout the ages. The people would live and work in peace and contentment under his rule, and the Han Dynasty would develop steadily.

So I have worked hard for so many years and finally have a chance to relax. If I don't take the opportunity to take a vacation at this time, will I live in seclusion in the future when the world is in turmoil?
If you don't cherish the fishing opportunity in front of you, if you really lose it, you may regret it in the future.

What's more, he doesn't have a moonlight box, and God won't give him another chance.

Following the direction of the sun, Chen Luo stretched slowly, and then twisted his neck slightly, stretching his muscles and bones after sitting for a long time.

Then, he woke up the system panel that he had not looked at for a long time.

After all, it has no added functions, its values ​​will not change drastically in a short period of time, and the initial novelty has passed.

Except when checking in, Chen Luo rarely pays attention to it.

What's more, in the past few years, Daichi has not had any famous scenes recorded in history books, so the sense of existence of this system has dropped even lower. If it had existed, a thick layer of dust would have fallen on it.

However, the journey happened to be boring now, and I was alone in the carriage, so I couldn't play chess for fun, so looking at the system panel might be a way to relieve my fatigue.

(End of this chapter)