C791 Martial Man Politics (1/2)
Feng Fu took a sip of tea to moisten his throat, ”When I was in Beijing, I had already realized the problem of Xiao Letian. He was able to buy the newest type of weapon in Xi Yang, be able to arm soldiers to the teeth, and even turn corruption into a miraculous transformation of the sulcus longus, all because of the power of money …”
”This year, Xiao Letian's bank had begun to take over the treasury of the Great Qing once again. The amount of money he had left in the account department wasn't even as much as his, so it could be imagined how many merchants he has gathered … When you push open the window, look. This Naha Harbor is definitely a city that does not sleep, and even now, the docks are still brightly lit with unloading goods. The shops are still in the middle of trading … ”
”I've asked before, the tax officials of the Ryukyu are all on shift three all day, there was no time to rest at all. All the wealth in the world came in like the flowing water, the power of all the merchants we lost was taken away by them …”
”If Xiao Letian only extended his hand to the merchant, then he would not be difficult to deal with. Although all the matters in the world are started with money, the more things like money gather, the more people would hate him, and the more people would miss him. Thus, Xiao Letian, while mobilizing the power of the merchant, also hoped to restore the politics of the martial arts!”
Buzz! The study room was in an uproar. The civil officials were too sensitive to the word martial arts. This was the natural enemy of civil officials.
Actually, in the history of China, before Sui and Tang Dynasties, there was no distinction between civil and military. At that time, the society worshipped the talents of civil and military.
However, when the Tang Dynasty was annihilated and established a position as a high-ranking official, society started to discriminate against generals.
The destruction of the Tang Dynasty and the destruction of the Central Plains were all caused by the vassal forces. From the beginning of the rebellion at An Lu Mountain to the establishment of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Central Plains had been completely controlled by the Military groups, and the time for war and chaos had far surpassed the time for peace.
In the fourteenth year of the Tang Dynasty, in the year 755 A.D., the Anlu-shan rebellion began. It was not until the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty in the year 960 that the vassal state came to an end, with a total of 205 years in between.
Very few people knew the details of what happened in the Late Tang Dynasty and the Five Generation Ten Countries, but everyone knew that these two hundred years were the two hundred years of civil war and two hundred years of hell-like hell.
The people had truly become cattle and sheep, and now, the population had turned into resources such as cattle and sheep, forest and mines, and so on.
It's hard for people in peaceful times to imagine a time like that. Can you imagine your three-year-old son being thrown into a pot and cooked into minced meat without even looking at him?
Can you imagine a young sister of a childhood friend who was kidnapped and bullied to death by bandits in the blink of an eye?
Can you imagine a mountain village with a harvest at hand suddenly being looted by soldiers? Not a single grain of food was left, all the women were humiliated, and all the men were captured?
People in the era of peace would never have imagined that a skeleton could be kicked out from the streets after walking for three to four steps, and a rotting corpse could be found within five to six meters.
What modern people couldn't imagine was that when a person left their hometown for a long journey, what they were worried about wasn't others robbing and stealing, but others eating themselves. In that era when the bones were exposed to the wild, eating people was a very common thing.