Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 1105 The Inevitable Trend
Chapter 1116 Inevitability

When a few small things happened, and after several rewards and punishments were implemented, the officials of Wei State gradually understood what Ran Ming wanted, and began to slowly cultivate a new elite class of Wei State scholar-bureaucrats.But it is never one or two geniuses who really support the operation of the large administrative system of the Wei state. As long as order can be formed, there will always be outstanding talents in the future.

In a relatively democratic system, both dictatorship and corruption can be avoided, with layers of supervision and constraints. This is the political system of Wei State.The members of Wei's national cabinet are first local, then central, and then elected by hundreds of officials to enter the cabinet. There will be about ten candidates with the highest support in the cabinet. Seven people will officially join the cabinet and three will be cabinet candidates. Members, once a cabinet member dies of illness or accident, or Ding You, there will be an alternate cabinet member to replace him. The emperor can interfere with the appointment of personnel, but he only has the right of veto, and he can disagree, and then hold a second election.

As for the members of the cabinet, in fact, there are no restrictions, and the person who restricts them is Wei Guo's Tianying Pavilion bachelor.This Tianying Pavilion bachelor is something that Ran Ming made according to the Western democratic system. There are more than one hundred members in Tianying Pavilion, including three from each state, one from each of the four major governors, and one from each of the four Nanyang towns and vassal states. .The function of Tianying Pavilion is to impeach court officials at all levels (including the prime minister) to initiate bills, and it can also impeach and remove the prime minister when the prime minister fails in his duties.Of course, what restricts Tianying Pavilion is Wenying Pavilion, which is composed of the noble class of Wei Guo.In fact, this can also be said to be the Western bicameral system in disguise, but with Chinese characteristics added.

After Prime Minister Wang Jian learned the whole story, Wang Jian began to think. For him, the Prime Minister is the highest official position. There is no promotion or reward.With the economic development of Wei State, more and more slaves were introduced. There were sporadic slave rebellions all over Wei State. For slave rebellion, the policy of Wei State was to "kill without pardon", and after killing a group of people , before negotiating with the slave owners to adapt to improving the treatment of slaves.However, Taoist priests' "rebellion" is not of the same nature as slave rebellion. First of all, these Taoist priests neither raised the flag, nor killed officials to rebel, nor violated the law, but just sat in silence.Now it is a big problem for these Taoists not to eat. If they are not handled well, the pressure will be concentrated on the cabinet.

At this time, Wang Jian vaguely sensed the true meaning of Ran Ming's establishment of the cabinet. First of all, the prime minister of the cabinet is not the prime minister, far less powerful than the prime minister, and if something goes wrong, the prime minister is the best candidate to blame.

Wang Jian thought about it for a long time and finally said: "For this matter, don't be in a hurry to deploy troops, and don't force the Taoists too much. Send capable people to Chengdu to negotiate with Li Hong and others. Avoid intensification of conflicts!"

This is obviously the best way to avoid the intensification of conflicts. A hasty dispatch of troops will only make the opponent jump over the wall. There are many believers in the Heavenly Master Taoism, and it is definitely not a matter of more than [-] Taoist priests. There is a big mess.Since the matter cannot be resolved by force now, peace talks are the best way.

The cabinet initially set the tone of the preliminary talks, and everyone began to focus on what concessions should be made under the bottom line of appeasement.Of course, there are actually many details.

While the cabinet was discussing how to deal with the incident, Ran Ming, who was in the palace, had a headache.It is a bit far-fetched to say that Li Hong is going to be a great hero of Wei.However, Li Hong's approach was very clever, which meant a peaceful demonstration.But no matter what, the imperial court had to come up with an opinion on how to deal with it. However, Ran Ming knew that this kind of peaceful demonstration was actually just the beginning of Wei Guo, and there would be countless similar incidents in the future.Now it is just because the Taoist laws and regulations formulated by Wei State are not in line with the interests of Tianshi Zhengyi, so Li Hong leads all the Taoist priests to sit-in and protest. If the court easily compromises, it will cause people to follow suit.

You must know that the state of Wei also established various organizations and guilds in various places, such as the mulberry farmer's association, that is, a number of mulberry farmers unite to form an organization, and send representatives to conduct price and quality grading with raw silk purchasers. As well as the negotiation of transaction methods, because such an organization covers a wide range of areas and takes into account the interests of mulberry farmers, mulberry farmers everywhere have followed suit.The Wei Guosheng Silk House has a total of more than 39 members, and almost [-]% of the mulberry farmers in the Wei State have joined this mutual house.

In addition to raw silk houses, there are also porcelain shops.China has been the hometown of porcelain since ancient times, and it was also the key product of ancient China’s export earnings. However, with the increasing ocean transportation capacity of Wei State, it is no longer difficult to transport large quantities of porcelain to all parts of the world.Then as the output of porcelain increases, new problems will arise.That is because things are rare and expensive, and the output of porcelain has increased a lot. However, the profits of porcelain manufacturers have not increased, but have shrunk seriously.Under such circumstances, all the porcelain manufacturers in the State of Wei began to unite to form the Porcelain Company of the State of Wei. More than 8000 large and small porcelain manufacturers joined the Porcelain Company. , maintain the output of porcelain and protect the interests of porcelain manufacturers.

In this series of guilds, all kinds of guilds have sprung up like bamboo shoots after rain, such as furniture stores, tea stores, leather goods stores, and grocery stores. More than 100 industry associations, large and small, have been established in Yecheng alone.In addition to this kind of guild representing capitalists, workers' organizations have also begun to emerge one after another, such as construction unions, mining unions, and service unions.

Organizations from all walks of life, once mobilized, any one of them can easily organize tens of thousands of people. If Wei State's construction industry as a whole is mobilized, Wei State may be able to mobilize three to four million people to protest.The scale of other guilds will not be smaller than this Taoist protest.Ran Ming decided that the imperial court should not come forward to solve this kind of matter. Anyway, it is an internal matter of Taoism. Anyway, the internal discord of Taoism is in the best interest of Ran Ming.

From the Cabinet Yamen to the Taiwu Hall of the Imperial Palace, in fact, it takes about ten miles to walk. Of course, veteran officials like Wang Jian also have the treatment of walking around the palace, but with the appearance of shock-absorbing carriages, Wei Guo only needs a little money. People with high status and high status all choose to ride in this comfortable and light carriage.

When Wang Jian's carriage arrived at Chengtianmen Square outside the Taiwu Hall, nine Taoist priests were walking up the stairs to the Taiwu Hall, and the leader was none other than the current leader Yang Xi.Yang Xi is a native of Jurong, styled Xihe, eager to learn when he was young, good at calligraphy and painting, and has psychic abilities since childhood.In history, he was the founder of the Shangqing School of Taoism.

Ran Ming and Ge Hong created the map of Taoist gods to rank the gods of Taoism. In fact, the gods of different sects of Taoism are not the same. They believe in the Celestial Master (Zhang Ling) and Lao Tzu, while Ge Jiadao's Lingbao sect believes in Taiyi Yuanjun and Lao Tzu.In fact, although Yang Xi is also the patriarch of the Shangqing School, he has learned from the Ge family.In the Immortal Picture created by Ran Ming and Ge Hong, Haotian is the real ruler, incarnated as the emperor in the world, in charge of all living beings, Yuanshi Tianzun, Taishang Laojun, and Lingbao Tianzun are the three gods who assist Haotian.

With Ran Ming's help, Ge Jiadao, which originally accounted for only one-third of the world's influence, became the orthodox Taoist sect, and Yang Xi did not have the idea of ​​creating the Shangqing School, but what always bothered Yang Xi was because Li Hong unexpectedly Call on Yizhou Tianshidao to rebel.

"The minister (Pin Dao) joins His Majesty!"

Ran Ming seemed to be writing something on the paper, without raising his head, he said: "Wang Qing, Daoist Yang will be here later, I will be ready soon!"

After a cup of tea, Ran Ming said, "Wang Qing, has the cabinet come up with a plan to deal with Chengdu?"

Wang Jian nodded.

Ran Mingdao: "Wang Jian's matter is an internal matter of the Taoist sect. From my point of view, the cabinet will not be involved. Let Taoist Yang deal with it internally!"

Hearing what Ran Ming said, Wang Jian was relieved instead.From the standpoint of the imperial court, the Chengdu incident is nothing more than suppression or appeasement. Once Li Hong is appeased, Yang Xi must be offended, and if Li Hong is exterminated, he will offend the followers of the Celestial Master. No matter what you do, it is actually a difficult decision .It is a good way for Ran Ming not to let the cabinet deal with it, but to remove the cabinet from the matter!
Wang Jian said cheerfully: "I obey the order!"

"Go, enjoy the family happiness for a few days." Ran Ming said: "After the Shangyuan Festival, the court will be busy for a period of time, and it will be a luxury to want to rest at that time!"

"Old minister retire!"

After Wang Jian resigned, Yang Xi saw the obviously suppressed anger on Ran Ming's face, and Yang Xi was terrified at this moment.

Although he inherited Ge Hong's position as the leader of Taoism, Yang Xi actually did not have much personal relationship with Ran Ming, but there was such a disturbance in the Taoism of Heavenly Master.

At this time, Ran Ming said, "Master Yang, what do you think of the Chengdu incident? How to deal with it?"

"Pindao obeys His Majesty's orders!" Yang Xi replied after a little thought.

"You don't look like Fang Wai, but like an old fox who has spent half his life in officialdom!" Ran Ming paused and said, "It's just that it's not good!"

Yang Xi was very disturbed, he was not as familiar with Ran Ming's temper as Ge Hong, and he would never express his opinion until he found out Ran Ming's real intentions.

"Actually, you don't have to worry. This is Li Hong's memorial to impeach you. Some of the things I know and some of the things I don't know, but you should be clear about it yourself!" Ran Ming said: "I'm afraid of trouble, Ji is here Great Wei is waiting to be revived, developing the country's economy and improving people's living standards are the top priorities, I don't want to be distracted by such mundane things, Daoist Yang, do you understand what I mean?"

If Yang Xi doesn't understand at this time, then his life will be in vain.

In fact, the matter of the Taoism of the Celestial Master is actually just a small episode in Wei State, and Ran Ming doesn't take it to heart.Ten days later, Yang Xi arrived in Chengdu. I don't know what Yang Xi and Li Hong talked about. I didn't know the content of this conversation. , south of the Yangtze River in the missionary area.

In fact, Wei’s foreign military use almost stopped after [-]. Of course, as a huge empire, Wei had occasional conflicts with the Gupta Empire and the Sasanian Empire on the border, but Wei’s After occupying the east coast of the Caspian Sea, instead of continuing westward, multiple expeditions were sent northward along the South Caucasus.

As for the plateau war, this is only the internal affairs of the Wei State, and the Wei State court is only trying to calm down the local separatist forces.As Hu Guang led the Giant Hammer Action Team to plunder a large amount of grain and grass in the Naqu River area, Hu Guang later discovered that Fu Jian's defense was tight, and the protection of generals at all levels was very strict. Hu Guang saw that there was no loophole to exploit.The third resolution formulated by the General Staff was implemented.

Wei Guo failed to export revolution on the plateau. Ran Ming and the general staff began to sum up the failure experience and came to a conclusion.It was these revolutions that lacked a unified leadership, a sense of teamwork, and a lack of overall situation. Under Fu Jian's division and wooing, they were quickly defeated one by one.

Under this circumstance, Ran Ming put forward a very constructive suggestion, that is, to send a team of capable and flexible teams to carry out military, political, economic and cultural struggles with Fu Jian on the plateau.At the same time, he publicized the oppression and persecution of the Qiang and Tubo people by the Di people, and led them to rise up against Fu Jian's tyranny.

In fact, Ran Ming's source of inspiration is the very famous armed forces behind the enemy during the War of Resistance Against Japan.In the forest of nations in the world, many nations often have some very crazy and outstanding achievements, such as Alexander the Great who established across Asia, Europe and Africa, Napoleon who led the French Army to become the overlord of Europe, and Caesar the Great. ) In fact, it is not that any nation is inherently weak, but that it lacks a strong leader.

This is the role of a leader. Since Genghis Khan, Mongolia is definitely not the son of heaven.However, under the leadership of the Burmese Mang Yinglong who made us a joke, Myanmar was unified, and the Indochina Peninsula was almost unified.In fact, the role of Ling guides is very great. Under the leadership of Wei's excellent military commander, the revolution of Tubo and Qiang against Fu Jian's tyrannical rule should be easy to succeed.So this special operations team with more than [-] people immediately dispersed, leading the Qiang and Tubo people to carry out vigorous armed revolutionary struggles on the plateau.
Aiming at the difficulty of employing troops on the plateau, the soldiers of the army reacted strongly to the plateau, and their combat effectiveness dropped sharply. Wei Guo once formulated a strategy of opening up a secret front. However, intelligence agents were used to lure the serfs into an armed uprising, and the result soon appeared, and it almost spread to the plateau. The serf uprising in two-thirds of the area was finally easily suppressed by Fu Jian.

Since the peasant uprising led by Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, countless peasant uprisings have been set off on the land of China. Among them, the uprising of the Green Forest Army at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, the Yellow Turban Uprising at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Du Tao uprising in the Jin Dynasty, the Sun En uprising, the Sui Dynasty uprising, etc. Wagang, Dou Jiande uprisings, etc., but in fact, these peasant uprisings all failed without exception.The only exception is the current emperor Taizu.The main reason for the failure of the peasant uprising is actually very obvious. The peasants did not have the ability to govern the world, and at the same time they had no political goals and no strategic planning. The most fundamental reason was the lack of real leaders.

As a giant standing on the shoulders of history, Ran Ming is naturally very aware of the shortcomings and disadvantages of these serfs, so he formulated a series of plans and arrangements for the phenomenon of unorganized and undisciplined serfs on the plateau.First, a unified command was established on the plateau, with Major General Hu Guang, the captain of the Giant Hammer Special Operations Team and the rebellious general, as the commander-in-chief. Wei Guo's direct military support and support, so the strength is relatively strong.The eastern theater is based on a main battalion of the [-]rd Mountain Division. The entire theater has eleven company-platoon-level martial arts teams, with more than [-] troops directly under the Wei State.Its occupational area headquarters is located in the Ngari area in Shenza area.

The southern theater is led by Major Zhao Zan, the captain of the Royal Secret Service Team of the Kingdom of Wei. The strength of the southern theater is relatively weak. Active in the Dampatin River Basin.

The western theater is active in the vast area west of Namco. Since it can be connected to Wei Guoxin Prefecture, the western theater is led by Fan Yanzhi, a major staff officer of the 27th Division.This Fan Yanzhi was born in the Fan family of Qingcheng, and belonged to the aboriginal noble family in Yizhou, so he was quite capable.The Xinzhou Governor's Department supported some materials and personnel, and established a total of nine company-platoon-level martial arts teams in the western theater, as well as a water guerrilla team under the banner of the Lake Bandits.As for the northern theater, Major General Hu Guang is currently leading the main force of the Plateau Armed Forces Committee and is active in the Tanggula Mountains. Since the northern theater can also directly border Wei, there will be a steady stream of armed materials transported in.

Throughout the history of China's war, in fact, only the Chinese have fought against themselves. The precursors of all these cannot escape the two words civil war.In fact, some experts can easily draw a conclusion that the Chinese are good at fighting among themselves.In fact, this is not just Chinese history. In fact, in human history, civil wars have always occupied the mainstream.The reason for the high altitude is the unique geographical environment, which makes it invincible. When ordinary people reach the plateau, [-]% of their strength cannot be exerted. Therefore, the Tibetans who are accustomed to the plateau climate can form a system for thousands of years.

However, this peaceful cycle was broken by Wei Guo's alien butterfly.At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the people were in dire straits, natural disasters and man-made disasters continued. Chongzhen wanted to serve the country, but he was unable to return to heaven. The fall of the Ming dynasty was the most terrible of all dynasties.

(End of this chapter)