Mythical Qin, Han, Three Kingdoms, Sui and Tang Dynasties, establishment of empire

Chapter 459 Problems with Shu

After Liu Hua came to the Interior Department, he saw that Fang Xuanling and Xiao He didn't look very good!

Liu Hua looked a little confused and asked, "But what happened!"

When everyone heard Liu Hua's voice, they immediately saluted Liu Hua. Liu Hua waved his hand and said, "Business matters!"

Xiao He handed a letter to Liu Hua and said, "This time about sending snacks at the end of the year, Shu did not send it to Shu!"

Shu is the place where Xiao He is responsible. The end-of-year snack delivery in Shu is not going ahead, which will naturally have an impact on Xiao He.

Liu Hua took the memorial and after reading it, his face suddenly turned cold.

Last year he failed to deliver it successfully, and this year he failed to deliver it to an individual. This shows that his control of Shu Land can only reach about the county level.

If the world had not yet been unified, he would not have said anything else if he had paid money and food obediently in Shu. But now, with the world under complete control, this kind of thing has naturally become prominent.

In any case, what Liu Hua needs is not the kind of force that is nominally subordinate to him, but actually belongs to a semi-independent force.

If Shu thinks that the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and there is nothing he can do about them, then he will let them know what is meant by the whole world, is it not the king's land!

Liu Hua took a deep breath and said, "This kind of thing cannot be solved by simply killing one person to scare others. Because of the inherent closedness and exclusion of Shu, as well as their economic model, our central government's control over Shu is not strong enough.

This is different from the war in the Central Plains that displaced people and almost all the land was returned to the country. Therefore, if we want to solve the problem of Shu, we must change the economic structure of Shu and let us truly take root in Shu! "

Liu Hua knew that this could not be solved by killing. If killing could be solved, he would send his army in immediately!

"Your Majesty, why not learn from Zulong's method of migrating 120,000 wealthy households in the world to fill Xianyang, force the local wealthy households in Shu to come to Chang'an, and then take advantage of the situation to clean up the power of Shu and master the foundation of Shu." Fang Xuanling stood up and said. , he is an old legalist as soon as he opens his mouth.

"Oh!" Liu Hua was thoughtful when he heard this.

To be honest, the policy of moving wealthy households to Kyoto to strengthen the branches and strengthen the weak branches was still a very normal administrative method in the Qin and Han Dynasties.

The most famous one is not Zulong, but Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's order to move Maoling. For this, he even scolded Wei Qing and personally dealt with Guo Xie, so that the order to move Maoling was completely implemented.

Then when Huo Guang came to power, this policy of strong trunks and weak branches was abolished.

After this policy was abolished, there was an opportunity for the aristocratic family to grow wildly. If this policy had been in place, as long as the aristocratic family dared to develop casually, as long as the economy reached a certain level, it is very likely that the entire family would be moved to the capital with a word from the eunuch. .

Later, when the Han Dynasty wanted to pick up this policy again, they found that the resistance to this policy was too strong. Unless there was another strongman like Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to forcibly implement this policy, it would not be possible at all.

I have to say that this policy was a very good policy at least during the Qin and Han dynasties. For the central government, because it had experienced the anti-Qin war and the Chu-Han struggle for hegemony, and clearly saw the strength of the Guandong nobles, it used this policy to effectively attack the Guandong people. Forces suppressed.

At the same time, because these forces have left the mainland, this has given the local bottom forces room to climb up and grow.

And those who emerge from such fighting or become famous will be seen by others and recommended to the central government through the inspection system, or they will be forcibly relocated again, thus forming a new cycle.

Simply put, this system is an important political law that helps the Han Dynasty survive.

It only offended the aristocratic families and wealthy people of the middle class of the Han Dynasty at that time, so it seemed to be an evil law, but in fact it was a very important auxiliary means to maintain the smooth channels for talent promotion in the entire Han Empire.

This law is somewhat similar to the current rise in housing prices. For the truly wealthy, rising housing prices do not matter, but for the people at the bottom, they will not have the luxury of buying a house.

But for those middle-class people who have a little money, after they find that they can’t afford to buy a house even if they save money, they will eliminate buying a house from their choices and use the money they originally spent to buy a house for consumption or investment. It can be set to 0 itself. For the country, as long as it is money that circulates, it will promote social development and harmony, which is better than just sitting there motionless.

To a certain extent, it means sacrificing part of the middle class to revitalize the entire country's economy.

Of course, later on, the housing price policy was taken to the extreme, with some going too far, and it was even too late to stop.

This is a bit like printing too much money and being unable to stop printing, because many local governments rely on land transfer fees to survive.

The cost of land transfer fees remains high, and it is naturally unrealistic to reduce housing prices.

The topic went a little further. At this moment, Liu Hua somewhat agreed with Zhang Hui's idea of ​​migrating rich households from Shu, and said: "This is indeed a method, but in essence, this is a temporary solution, not a root cause. "

"How does Your Majesty want to cure the root cause?" Fang Xuanling asked curiously after hearing Liu Hua's words.

"One of the most important reasons why Shu is so wanton is that its mountains are high and its roads are far away, and its economy is self-contained. For us, this is not only true politically, but more importantly, economically."

Liu Hua said with a serious expression, "Sichuan is different from other areas in the Central Plains. They have not experienced the anti-Qin war, so they have been relatively recuperating. But this kind of recuperation is really recuperating for the wealthy families, not the local people." common people.

Therefore, we need to free up space and land for these people to live. Only the lower class belongs to us, and the upper class is moved to Chang'an by us, and then we find ways to make the middle class flow. The land of Shu is truly under our control! "

After hearing Liu Hua's words, Xiao He and Fang Xuanling couldn't help but look at each other.

They understood again that Liu Hua's thinking was a little different from theirs, or that the key points in looking at the problem were also different.

But it is undeniable that Liu Hua's kind of thinking makes Liu Hua always hope to get things done fundamentally, rather than just doing things for the sake of appearance.

Liu Hua continued, "All in all, if you want to move the land of Shu, it's best to go all out and completely change the land of Shu. Instead of procrastinating and slowly solving it as soon as you think about it.

We must have a complete plan to completely transform Shu, otherwise I would prefer to maintain the status quo for the time being and let the Central Plains recover first. "

After hearing Liu Hua's words, Fang Xuanling said: "Although we have no plans to carry out operations in Shu, we can infiltrate Shu first.

Recruiting soldiers for training in Hanzhong and Shu will facilitate their establishment of field camps in Shu in the future, and arrange for religious societies to enter Hanzhong and Shu areas to begin to penetrate the power of the bottom. It will also help us understand the situation in Shu.

Although these arrangements cannot solve the Shu problem, they will help us lay the foundation for solving the Shu problem in the future! "

"Okay, just follow what you said, Xuanling!" Liu Hua nodded in approval when he heard Fang Xuanling's words.

Although he wanted to solve the matter in one go, Fang Xuanling's normal administrative methods and infiltrating into Shu little by little were not wrong after all.

Even when this power accumulates to a certain extent, it may directly suppress Shu.

It can be said to be an upright conspiracy, but it takes too much time to accumulate and resolve this force.

What is more likely is that within a limited time, those military camps sent there are likely to be absorbed by Shu itself.

(End of this chapter)