Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 382

Chapter 385
In the seventeen cities of Chenliu County, there are Zhang Muzhi's properties in every city. From herbal medicine shops, pawnshops, money houses, salt shops, brothels, wine shops, inns, at least the money-making business, Zhang Muzhi's figure is inseparable.

Because of his great family and business, Zhang Muzhi has great influence in Chenliu County.

From the last year of Zhao Dynasty to the early year of Ranwei Dynasty, the Central Plains was in turmoil, and Chenliu County could be said to be raging with flames of war.

Whether it was taking advantage of the shrinking of Ran Min's battle line, when Gu Qiang occupied Chenliu County, he was forcibly occupied by Duan Kan, the leader of the Xianbei Duan tribe, or was later recovered by Ran Wei, Zhang Muzhi remained the same.

In times of war, standing still can explain the problem in itself.Although the Zhang family is a large Chenliu family with hundreds of members, there has never been a prominent figure in the family.Even if they were born and raised in Chenliu County, no one could explain clearly how Zhang Muzhi's family wealth came about.

Zhang Muzhi is quite powerful. He once joined the army of Zhao State and served as a low-level officer. He started to make a fortune 20 years ago and slowly accumulated such a huge family business.

Fu Shou Tang, the largest herbal medicine store under the name of Zhang Muzhi in Chenliucheng, is also Zhang Muzhi's first medicine store opened in the morning. In the past 20 years, the store has never changed.

This morning, a person dressed as an ordinary maid came.

But the prescription is very strange, the font is twists and turns, no matter how you look at it, it doesn’t look like Chinese characters, but it looks like Western Regions characters. After reading it for a long time, the doctor sat in the hall and couldn’t understand it. He asked: "Girl, I really can’t understand this prescription. Naturally, I can't catch it, so please ask the girl to find another master!"

The servant girl said: "Your proprietor did not accept a concubine from the Kang Kingdom, this prescription is specially for her illness."

The fact that Laisheng Pharmacy doesn't buy medicines, but comes to offer prescriptions is a strange thing in itself.

The sitting doctor is Zhang Muzhi's enshrined sitting hall for more than ten years, of course he remembers Zhang Muzhi's special teaching, if someone asks about Kang Guo's concubine.He replied directly: "Miss, you are joking, our proprietor has one wife and three concubines, but none of them are from Kang country!"

The servant girl smiled and said, "Isn't your proprietor born in Kang Country?"

"The proprietor was born in Kang country?" The doctor sitting in the hall was trying to ridicule this maid. No one in Chenliu County knew that Zhang Muzhi was from Chenliu County, and his ancestors had lived in the Ruanjiabao in the southwest of Chenliu City for generations.

But at this time, there was a hint of horror in the eyes of the sitting doctor.He finally came to his senses. "How do you know that the proprietor was born in Kang?"

Kang Guo is one of the countries in the Western Regions. Ever since the establishment of the Protectorate of the Western Regions, Kang Guo has nominally belonged to the territory of the Han Dynasty.The Kingdom of Kang is located between the Syr Darya River and the Amu Darya River (that is, the area in the river), and its location is in the area of ​​Samarkand in today's Uzbekistan.

At this time, Kang State was under the jurisdiction of the Changshi Mansion of the Western Regions of Liang State.After the fall of Liang State, China's influence on Kang State disappeared for more than 200 years. It was not until the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty that the nine surnames of Zhaowu belonged to the Tang Dynasty.

The servant girl said: "Your lord is in Kangsha, and there is a big locust tree in front of the gate."

"So you are an old friend of the proprietor!" The attendant stood up and stretched out his hand, "Miss, please come inside, I will send someone to invite the proprietor right away!"

The maid was led in the study on the second floor, and then there was an attendant serving tea, and then there was a long wait.

The servant girl is Qing'er among the dead men. She looked at the study room. The area of ​​the study room is not too big, about a hundred square meters. It can be concluded that the owner should like medicine very much.The furnishings inside are also very simple, similar to the study of ordinary down-and-out gentry.

After about half an hour, the door of the study finally opened again.

"I kept the girl waiting for a long time!" A fat middle-aged man entered the study and said with a smile, "I heard that you are from your hometown?"

Qing'er didn't speak, but took out a jade pendant from her bosom.

This is a Hetian sapphire. The jade quality of sapphire is very hard, the jade quality is delicate and moist, the jade color is deep and pure, and the sapphire is also the jade with the largest output in Hetian jade.

There is only one hole on this jade pendant, which is oval in shape, as if it looks like a human eye.

Zhang Muzhi also took out a bead, which was also Hetian jade, but it was Hetian moyu.

Zhang Muzhi put his black jade into the hole of the jade pendant in Qing'er's hand, and it fit perfectly.

"Blue eyes are officially awakened, I don't know what Fangjia does!" Over the years, Zhang Muzhi has never dared to forget his identity, he has always hoped that Liangguo will not let anyone come looking for him, and he can be a rich man with peace of mind.

It's a pity that what should come, will come after all.Zhang Muzhi didn't dare to forget his duty. Although this girl is dressed as a maid, she represents the Lord of Liang Country!
In Yecheng, Imperial Palace Ran Min got the news the next morning, Xie Ai sent someone to Chen Liu to meet Zhang Muzhi.

Ran Min showed a knowing smile and said to Zhang Ping: "Don't startle the snake for the time being, just summarize the information about Chen Liu and the Zhang family in recent years, I can read it tonight!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Zhang Ping replied in sign language.

Ran Min asked again: "Aside from this, what other news is there?"

Zhang Ping pointed to the letterhead on the desk, and said in sign language: "Your Majesty, the memorial of King Jiaodong has arrived!"

Ran Min picked and found Ran Ming's memorial. This memorial is quite thick, and it seems that there are a lot of things written.

Ran Min sighed helplessly. This son is good at everything, but he doesn't like to use classical Chinese. Every memorial is written in vernacular, whether it's a long story with tens of thousands of words, or thousands of words.

"Political Consultative Conference." Ran Min looked at the secret letter, with a look of surprise on his face, "Menxia Province plans to build a political affairs conference hall, under which there will be one person in the Zhengzheng Hall, Nayan, and the third grade. There will be one servant on the left and one on the right. , is the fourth grade. Four foreign ministers, eight Yuanwailang..."

Ran Min looked very carefully. Since the establishment of Wei State, he, like Ran Ming, has been looking for a way to make the country long-term stability.

Since the fall of the Han Dynasty, the three kingdoms first stood together, and then the Jin Dynasty unified the world. However, the Western Jin Dynasty had only 24 years of real peace. Afterwards, Zhu Hu rebelled against Jin.From the beginning when Li Xiong, the leader of the Di tribe, rebelled against Jin and established himself as the king of Chengdu, Liu Yuan, Shi Le, Murong Hao, etc., come on stage after you sing.

The excitement is lively, but it is the common people who suffer the most.

The 40th year of Cao Wei, the 54th year of the Western Jin Dynasty under the Sima family, the 24th year of the Huns under Liu Yuan, and the 26th year of Shi Zhao under Shile, the dynasty of one family and one surname is only a few decades old, and Ran Min really does not want to see the country fall into long-term turmoil.

Ran Min asked himself countless times: "How many years can the Great Wei exist?"

Ran Min didn't know that if it wasn't for the existence of his cheap son Ran Ming, his Ran Wei had only existed for three years and belonged to one of the many Han separatist forces.

After Ran Ming's explanation, he also knew the root of the turmoil. In fact, it wasn't the emperor's lack of morality, nor the barbarian's power. The real root was the gentry.

The Sima family of the Jin Dynasty was born in Hanoi's gentry, and the gentry advocated luxury. From the royal family to the powerful, they all lived extravagantly.Their luxury is not property created by themselves, but by relying on the shadow of their ancestors and plundering from the hands of poor people.

The more greedy he is, the more people will suffer.

If we want the people to be stable and the world to be peaceful, we must eliminate the authority of the gentry as much as possible.

But before the imperial examination system prevailed, the gentry controlled cultural inheritance, controlled public opinion, and mastered the history of the Spring and Autumn Period. They could say that the dead were alive, and the black could be said to be white.Ninety percent of the world's talents come from the gentry, no matter what method is adopted, it is impossible to eliminate the gentry in a short time.

The only way is to use the poor family to fight against the gentry. Unfortunately, the poor family's fight against the gentry is not a short-term achievement, it takes a long time to accumulate.The son of a poor family in Wei State, the most official official is Jiaodong Prime Minister Wang Meng.Jiaodong is equivalent to the prefect of Shangjun, and belongs to the two thousand stone officials.But other poor families are much shabby.

A few poor scholars can become county magistrates, or county magistrates or assistant officials, but not even one enters the central government.Poor officials, not to mention being diligent in political affairs, the tricks and stumbling blocks of those gentry children are enough for their busy work.

Ran Ming's imperial examinations took a hundred officials, most of whom couldn't do it anymore.

To put it bluntly, you come from a humble family and have never been exposed to power and tactics. How can you play tricks and tricks like a scholar from a noble family?Even Zhuge Liang, who is known as a poor scholar, is actually a family of officials and officials, but his ancestors are down and out.

In order to eliminate the influence of the gentry, relying solely on running schools and the imperial examination system will not work for at least a few decades.Still unable to shake the foundation of the gentry.At present, the only ones who can compete with the gentry are merchants and the like.

Merchants came from humble backgrounds, but they had cultural heritage. Most of them were literate, especially proficient in arithmetic.More importantly, they have countless financial resources, even more financial resources than the gentry.The dowry that Mi Zhu gave to Mrs. Mi was more than 2 million yuan for ten thousand children.We must know that the money of that period was far stronger than the purchasing power of the Jin Dynasty.Su Shuang, Chen Gui, Chen Deng, and Cao Bao, Kuai Liang, Kuai Yue, and Cai Mao from Jingzhou, Lu's and Quan's from Yangzhou are all giant businessmen with huge resources.

These merchants are actually ambitious. They supported the separatist forces during the war, just to gain a place in politics.But now Ran Ming uses the CPPCC method to attract them to serve the imperial court, which is to induce them to fight against the gentry.

A Liu Yuan can help Ran Ming financially support Qingzhou, and most of the merchants in the entire Wei State work together to shake the foundation of the Jin Dynasty with one move, which shows how amazing their power is.

Ran Ming told Ran Min the details of this financial war, from poaching the corners of the Jin Dynasty, buying up the resources of the Jin Dynasty, using old money to create inflation in the Eastern Jin market, and so on.

There was an astonishing light in Ran Min's eyes.

If you think about it, you have finally found a solution to the problem that you have no clue about. How can this not make Ran Min happy?

The eunuch Cao Chundao, who was beaming with joy at Ran Min, said, "Speed-passing Shangshu ordered Liu Qun, Sikong Tiaoyou, Taifu Cui Yue, six ministers, and servants to wait for orders in the Lizheng Hall."

(End of this chapter)