My clone is on the other side of the starry sky

The battle between Zhangzhou and the Guiyi Sect has been ongoing, but Jinzhou has initiated three changes during this period.

The first time, Lu Chao offered a plan to appease the influx of refugees, which not only helped Cui Zheng to stabilize the refugees, but also helped Jinzhou open up vast hectares of fertile land, and also allowed Lu Chao to successfully establish a foothold in Jinzhou; the second time, Lu Chao helped Cui Zheng establish He established the Chamber of Commerce, stabilized the market, and allowed people to buy high-quality and low-priced goods. He successfully suppressed vendors and won the hearts of the people. The third time was led by Fan Hong, who launched housing transactions. In just a few years, the core city of Jinzhou House prices have increased more than tenfold, accumulating a large amount of coins in Jinzhou's treasury.

However, this is the agricultural era after all. After all, the number of wealthy households in Jinzhou is limited. As time goes by, housing prices are getting higher and higher, reaching a point where even wealthy households cannot afford them. However, some thoughtful people have begun to concoct laws according to the law. House sales started in various counties in Jinzhou, attracting wealthy farmers from the countryside to come and buy.

In this process, the quality of the house gradually became a symbol of status. In fact, it used to be the same, but most of them were owned by dignitaries and dignitaries. They were too far away from ordinary people, so naturally they would not regard it as a status symbol. status, but as this trend spreads to the county, you can live in luxuriously decorated houses at a relatively low price, thereby gaining the envy of others.

More and more people are beginning to participate.

In recent years, due to the small profits but quick turnover of the chamber of commerce and the low government taxes, almost every family has a surplus of food. Coupled with good expectations for the future, the richer people have begun to buy houses in the city, of course, only a small number.

After all, this era was still dominated by farming.

But even if you buy a house and don’t live in it, if you flip it and sell it, the money you earn may be equal to your income from a year’s work. After realizing this, more and more people began to participate, making the already depleted housing market welcome. With the arrival of the New Year, some local gray forces have even begun to take advantage of this to start a loan sharking business.

The concept that you can make money just by buying a house has gradually become popular among people in just ten years. However, this is just a game of beating the drum and passing the flowers. No matter how much money there is in the market, there will eventually be time for it, and naturally someone will make money. , but as time goes by, people gradually find that some houses cannot be sold. The market is still hot, but fewer and fewer people are willing to sell or have the ability to buy a house.

As early as when the real estate market began to flow to the counties, Lu Chao began to stop the matter more than once in Cui Zheng's meeting hall, but there was no way. The real estate market not only brought a large amount of fiscal revenue, but it seemed that the people's luck would also increase. These are all related to the official's performance.

At this time, Lu Chao came to sing the opposite, and was naturally rejected and resisted by everyone. Even Fan Hong felt that Lu Chao was unfounded, and although Lu Chao stopped him, when he explained the reasons, he always said it was incomprehensible. , it’s difficult to understand, coupled with the impact of huge interests, the interests here are not only enough funds to support Cui Zheng’s forces and equip the army, but also majestic luck.

When the real estate market was at its peak, the luck of the entire Jinzhou continued to rise like a raging fire cooking oil. It wasn't that no one noticed something was wrong. This was actually very similar to the jade coins in Huangzhou back then, but the voices of these people were drowned in the boundless desire. People listen to what they say.

As Lu Chao, who has been working on this matter, became a beacon for these people, and gradually gathered around Lu Chao, but it was of no use. He was just scolded like a street rat, and Lu Chao's originally good reputation in Jinzhou gradually became On the contrary, Cui Zheng's reputation reached its peak driven by various forces!

Just a month ago, Cui Zheng finally replaced Lu Chao's position in the Chamber of Commerce at the suggestion of many people. The reason was simple. Lu Chao was an outsider after all, and he had been badmouthing the housing market among the people for these years, which had caused a stir. In addition to the public outrage, and the fact that the Chamber of Commerce often had to lose money, the people initially applauded, but now they are more picky, indicating that Lu Chao's approach is no longer appropriate.

This is also the result of Lu Chao's secret manipulation.

In ten years, Cui Zheng, who was already in the realm of virtue, began to practice martial arts. In just ten years, with the blessing of this prosperous luck, he reached the realm of cave viewing. Cui Zheng recently planned to ask Qingxuan Taoist Sect for advice on how to practice Taoism. , intends to spend another ten years cultivating to the Nascent Soul realm, and with the current luck in Jinzhou, it is enough to support his fellow practitioners in the three realms.

However, Cui Zheng recently discovered that Jinzhou's luck began to decline at an extremely fast rate.

Jindu, Cui Mansion.

Cui Zheng, who had just finished receiving Qi, frowned and opened his eyes. The speed of Qi's decline was a bit fast, and his practice speed was as much as 30% slower than usual. This was a bit difficult for Cui Zheng, who was used to high-speed practice, to accept.

"Come here!" Cui Zheng raised his head and shouted to the door: "Notify officials at all levels to meet me in the conference hall in one hour!"

"Yes!" The guard guarding the door saluted through the door and left in a hurry, going to arrange for someone to deliver the news.

An hour later, all officials from all levels in Jindu gathered in the meeting hall. In the spacious meeting hall, all the officials looked sad, and their luck suddenly shrank significantly. This was something that everyone could feel, and now everyone was worried.

"What exactly happened? In just one month, luck dropped by 30%!" Cui Zheng glanced at the ministers, frowned and shouted: "You are all Jinzhou humerus. Is there anyone who can tell Yu Gu?"

When the ministers heard this, they looked at each other in confusion, not knowing how to answer.

In fact, someone has vaguely guessed the answer. His luck began to decline, which started from the day Lu Chao was kicked out, and it is getting faster and faster.

"Everyone here is our wise man in Jinzhou, how come no one knows about it?" Cui Zheng looked at everyone with sharp eyes.

Fan Hong sighed, stood up and saluted Cui Zheng: "Since you don't want to say it, let me do it."

Cui Zheng looked at him and nodded slightly: "Sir, please speak."

"A month ago, my lord asked Mr. Peng to take charge of the Fumin Chamber of Commerce instead of Lu Chao, and our luck in Jinzhou began to decline rapidly." Fan Hong sighed: "The purpose of the Fumin Chamber of Commerce is to allow the people to have high-quality and affordable food and clothing."

"Mr. Fan, didn't you also say that this method was a strategy to bring chaos to the country?" Mr. Peng, Cui Zheng's eldest son, Cui Peng, frowned upon hearing this.

"It is true that this law has low benefits and is easy to win the hearts of the people, but it leaves the state government with no money to support the soldiers." Fan Hong sighed: "I discussed it with my friend Lu Chao back then, and the real estate market policy was also made at that time. It is solved. This method can not only harm the people, but also quickly make money for the state. However, Lu Xiaoyou said at the time that this method should not be used among the people. Starting five years ago, Lu Xiaoyou tried his best to prevent this, but no one listened to his words. "

"After all, you are too young and don't know people's hearts. The greed in people's hearts has been stirred up. How can you be willing to give up easily?"

"Originally, even if the real estate market hurts the people, the presence of the wealthy merchants' association can still ensure that their luck will remain intact. But now, as soon as Mr. Peng took office, he abolished many of Lu Xiaoyou's rules. Now, although the prices have indeed not changed, the income collected from the people has not changed." However, the price of grain has been continuously lowered. I remember what Lu Xiaoyou said, "The price of grain hurts farmers. I wonder if you still remember it? The grain in the hands of the people is worthless, and the money they get is less, so what do they use to buy things?"

"The Fumin Chamber of Commerce is too big. The reason why I said this move is a policy that will harm the country is because it is so big that even a mistake or even a little bit of selfishness by those who control the Chamber of Commerce will hurt the entire Jinzhou. No one has any Selfish? However, as an outsider, little friend Lu Chao has been able to help us for ten years, but we Jinzhou people have destroyed our own foundation."

"The Enriching People's Chamber of Commerce does not make money. It is because concessions benefit the people that the people support the state capital and the lord. However, all the princes in the hall have been blinded by their luck and wealth over the years and have probably forgotten... the people also need to eat. , there is no food to eat, how can the people still be here? My lord, forgive me for being bold, why did you stop practicing Confucianism back then? But you already know that it will be difficult to enter the country again? "

Confucianism is different from Taoism and martial arts. What they cultivate is virtue and benevolence. Once this thing is gone, even if you reach the realm of virtue, it is still a delusion to enter the realm of a third-grade gentleman. After Cui Zheng reached the realm of virtue, he was expected to be at the height of his popularity at that time. Cui Zheng had the opportunity to become the first gentleman-level Confucian cultivator in three hundred years, but Cui Zheng instead spent ten years cultivating martial arts to the fifth level. Now he is starting to practice Tao again. It's not that he can't practice with others, but he must have someone. A primary and secondary.

It is obvious that Confucianism and Taoism are the highest level of cultivation, but why abandon them?

A Confucian cultivator in the Gentleman Realm, even if he only has one place in Jinzhou, he can do it not only to expand the territory but also to defend the realm. Even the Taoist Alliance would not dare to ignore a Gentleman Realm.

Looking at Cui Zheng, whose expression gradually darkened, Fan Hong sighed. This position is indeed not suitable for Confucianism cultivators. It can change a person.

Who could have imagined that the man with stern eyes in front of him was the humble gentleman who was loved by the people ten years ago?

Interest, power, and luck have blinded his eyes and made him addicted to them. Confucianism, Taoism, and benevolence have long been destroyed. Even if the luck of the entire Nine Provinces converges on him, I am afraid it will be difficult to break through to the realm of a gentleman.

The only thing to blame is that over the past ten years, Jinzhou has developed too fast. It was so fast that a person without any martial arts foundation could break through to the fifth level in ten years. The feeling of explosive growth in power made him lose his normal self. His heart, the sudden increase in luck, and the corrosion of a wealthy life also made him forget where the roots of these things are and how they came from, so that he can't even tolerate the heroes who helped him achieve all this.

Of course, one reason is that Lu Chao is too young and too accepting of death. If he goes against people's hearts, even if he is right, he will not end well.

Silence, as Fan Hong's words fell, the entire meeting hall fell into a long silence.

Seeing that everyone was silent, Fan Hong continued: "There is also the housing market. Five years ago, Xiaoyou Lu kept reminding you not to continue and it's time to stop. Now it seems that it was indeed the best time, both for the state capital and for the state capital." Wealth does not hurt the people, but who has listened to it? With today’s trend, the Chamber of Commerce for Enriching People is just an inducement, and this housing market is the mountain that crushes luck!”

After a while, an official said: "Mr. Fan, what we want now is to solve the problem, not to blame the lord harshly. How to solve this matter now? How about restoring the past rules of the Fumin Chamber of Commerce?"

"I don't know." Mr. Fan glanced at him and sighed in disappointment: "It takes ten years to build trust, but it may only take one day to lose the trust of the people. Moreover, the current situation is complicated. The Fumin Chamber of Commerce is only one reason, and the real estate market is. The key is, but if this thing is suppressed immediately, it will not work. Many people have real estate in their hands and have devoted their whole life to it. If it is completely suppressed, it will also lose the hearts of the people."

"Go and invite Mr. Lu." Cui Zheng sighed, Lu Chao had to come over for this matter.

Fan Hong opened his mouth, then sighed and said nothing...