Chapter 479 Hebei Arms Race
Sima Ji and Sima Ying are naturally trying to gain some morale. After all, the soldiers under their command work hard for you, but they are not all full of patriotism. Of course, patriotism is also very important, but nothing else comes more realistic.
Rubbing his tired eyes, Sima Ji sighed secretly that he could not determine the price of coal at the level of his previous life. Yang Xin, who was staggering, came in and saw this scene. A hint of heartache flashed in her eyes. She came to Sima Ji with her belly and said, "Why do you have to do it yourself? Leave it to the officials below to do it."
"This involves a lot of things, and of course it also requires help from others. The person who formulates it is for the husband." Sima Jiqiang laughed and reached out to Yang Xin's belly and said, "Of course, I hope that the King of Qi can turn the tide, but there is already a separatist situation in various places. If the husband cannot see this, how can we settle down in the troubled times? If the husband is like the King of Qin, and there are not even a descendant, we will naturally dare to sacrifice our lives, but now we have concerns."
"Yes, the population of Youzhou is much worse than that of Jizhou. We must think of ways to open source." Yang Xin agreed very much, and then said in admiration, "Xin'er believes that the King of Hejian is not the enemy of his husband. Only after staying for a long time in Youping, the two states of Youping can we realize the power contained in it. The husband seized coal and made the salt and iron franchise stronger."
"The difference between a strong and a hodgepodge, the salt and iron franchise is not impossible to be like this now. It is all in your hands and you will still separate in the future!" Sima Ji smiled and pinched Yang Xin's chin and said, "Any industry must support two departments with the same responsibilities and let them compete on their own. Even if they don't do this, they cannot develop across industries. It is not that the more they are involved, the greater the power. As for such departments, they should be controlled in the hands of the court."
Sima Ji also valued agriculture and suppressed commerce, but it was not obvious that he had to discriminate against the merchant group through laws, but he certainly did not care about them so much. He never thought of letting merchants lead the country. A country as big as China could not do business for everyone. Farmers and handicraftsmen will always be the vast majority of the population. And it cannot be like the West in later generations, where a few city-states assume the responsibility of leading the entire regional economy.
Since the Warring States Period, there has never been anything like a commercial city-state in China, and the republic has never been heard of. The republic and oligarchy have always existed in Western society intermittently. Not to mention ancient Greece, early Roman republics, and medieval Europe, the establishment of the Republic of Venice is almost the same as the establishment of the Tang Dynasty.
Since the Warring States Period, China has long been unified. If we had to create an environment similar to Europe, Sima Ji's best way now is to do nothing, because the Jin Dynasty had the characteristics of a feudal system. But historically, the era of China's feudal system had long passed, and nothing was obtained except killing each other.
Although Europe is late for the competition among countries, after this stage, European countries themselves are medium-sized countries. Faced with a huge country like China, the United States and Russia, they suddenly exposed their weaknesses and could not respond in a unified manner and were always defeated by them.
Among the three countries of China, the United States and Russia, they actually carried out land expansion before and after. The imperial and Russia advanced eastward in the cold belt, the United States carried out westward movement, and the Qing Dynasty actually fought westward. During the Kangxi period, they occupied the Mongolian Plateau, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Yongzheng used troops to Qinghai, and Qianlong used troops to northwest, and finally killed the Junggar Khanate, which was no less than his own. Of course, it lost a lot in the later period.
However, the Chinese history in later generations focused more on the tribal rebellion since ancient times, just like Jungel was a small basin, not a big tribal rebellion. Since it was since ancient times, hatred could not be promoted. There was no double standard in the government in this regard. The Han people were civil war, harmony! The Han people occupied the south, harmony! The nomadic people fought against the Han people, harmony! The Han people fought against the nomadic people, harmony!
Even fishing, hunting, nomadic, fishing, hunting, and killing each other in harmony. As a result, China's territory seems to be negotiated.
The hodgepodge in Sima Ji's mouth is the chaebols of Japan and South Korea, including Sumitomo, Mitsui, Samsung, and companies that do everything and intervene in all walks of life. Western culture is different from China. The West has been in a state of its own since ancient times. China has been centralized since ancient times. What is the result of China's adoption of Western systems? Because it has never happened, no one knows.
However, it can be seen from Japan and South Korea that Japan and South Korea are both neighboring countries that the United States focuses on supporting, and the European countries it supports are all next to Russia, deliberately setting an example.
Japan and South Korea are both countries under the chaebol model. The chaebol model is similar. It does everything and all walks of life have to intervene. A group of hodgepods of chaebols have been supported. Under this chaebol system, Japan and South Korea have almost no ability to resist after being born, and have been working for them all their lives, and they cannot change the status quo. If China is as rich as Japan and South Korea, people born in Japan and South Korea will almost certainly hit the ceiling earlier than the Chinese, and they can see their lifelong trajectory after graduating from college.
In fact, except for China and Vietnam, all yellow race countries are like this, but Southeast Asian countries are generally Chinese who have started chaebols, and this hodgepodol model is actually not as powerful as expected.
When China first opened, it wanted to set up a few samples to learn about Japan and South Korea. It just now had this idea. Then in an Asian economic crisis, all the top ten chaebols in South Korea were defeated and were all controlled by Wall Street. The chaebols that have been cultivated by decades of hard work in South Korea have become American-funded enterprises. At first glance, China looks quite strong chaebols at such a level. It seems that state-owned enterprises still have advantages and they will stop.
Furthermore, in a country as big as China, there are many lands that are not suitable for business and have no interests, and there are people's lives. If it is left to private enterprises to develop, the same thing is that no one will do business that loses money, and the beheaded business is rushing to do it. From a private perspective, this sentence is absolutely true. Land without interests can only be waited for state-owned enterprises to provide bloodless services.
Your family lives in the mountains and forests, and still wants to use water, electricity and access the Internet? You have no interests to rely on private companies to do it. Do they owe you what they have?
Who in this world is more suitable for centralization than China? Sima Ji believes that this thing is summarized by various dynasties in China. Although some weaknesses lead to slow response when responding, it is still easy to use than the Ottomans, Persia, and India who were hit by the same time.
In later generations, China was essentially centralized, so it was based on the model of state-owned enterprises. Anyway, this was in line with the tradition since ancient times. It imitated Europe to support two city-states that valued business. Don’t even think about this. Sima Ji’s first reaction was to destroy these people.
Even if this model cannot avoid corruption, Sima Ji believes that it is not a big problem. The US Department of Justice investigated the Pentagon, checked the accounts that have been in the past fifty years, and gloriously declared that the Pentagon is fine, that is a big problem. What is the difference between this and Saddam's announcement that he has a 99% approval rating?
Saddam is only 99% in approval rating, but the Pentagon has no problem with one account for fifty years, and the integrity rate is 100%. At least you can find one or two problems to deal with, so make people believe that don’t always do the work of spending one thousand dollars to buy a coffee cup and ten thousand dollars to buy a toilet lid.
Sima Ji has been crazy about coal prices for several consecutive days, and finally set the price of Jicheng coal. He took the price list and asked Yan Yan to go to the trial operation. He said to Yan Yan who came over to get the price list, "I will run the coal, iron and salt separately, and then find someone to show me the price list, and modify the most suitable price."
"Your Highness, King Qi's reply letter agreed to your highness to adopt the orphans of the army." Du Xi hurriedly entered the door, "and he also talked about the affairs of Changshan and Zhao in just a few words."
"The important thing is next, let me see!" Sima Ji took Sima Ji and found the pen and ink about Zhao State and Changshan State. He really only mentioned it, and could only wait for the more clear report from Jin Wei.
The report from Jin Guard arrived in Jicheng one day later. Sima Yong reported that the Youzhou army was returning to Youzhou. Changshan Kingdom and Zhao Kingdom belonged to Jizhou. Since the battle to attack Sima Lun had ended, there was no need for the Youzhou army to stay in Jizhou. The Youzhou army refused to leave, which was suspected of separatist.
"This thief called to catch the thief, Sima Yong, arranged for Wang Jun as the governor of Bingzhou. What's wrong with this king occupying two vassal states? I won't leave, and I will fight if I have sex. Tell Shi Chao, I will practice hard and the rotation day is up. I will transfer the men who have been repaired." Sima Ji looked angry and said with a lip, "Besides, the King of Qi did not agree. I wonder if it was Sima Ji who asked me to clamp down you?"
"Yan Yan, transfer the navy to me and go upstream to enter Jizhou, so that Sima Yong knows that I am not easy to mess with!" Sima Ji thought for a while and said, "Don't think that I have a 150,000 army, but I am afraid of him."
"Yan Yan understands that Your Highness just asked the navy to appear on the canal to remind the King of Hejian." Yan Yan bowed and took the order, gave Du Xi a wink, and signaled to be at ease.
More than ten days later, a huge fleet appeared on the canal, and went upstream and entered Jizhou. It was not until it approached Yecheng that it turned around and left. Soon Sima Yong received the news, smashed a jade plaque and said fiercely, "Sima Ji is demonstrating to me, and Sima Ji is also unfair to deal with things. I see when you are arrogant."
Chapter completed!