Guo Peng's words touched Cao Ang a little.

He quickly remembered how passionate the officials under his command were when the economy was prosperous in the past few years.

Now that the economic crisis is coming, I feel panic and autistic.

He sighed.

"What the Supreme Emperor said is extremely true, so I must not be afraid."

"Political people should have courage, courage, and dare to take responsibility, rather than avoiding it when they encounter responsibilities and just want to dodge. Such people cannot entrust heavy power to take on great responsibilities, so Zixiu, do you understand what I expect from you?"

"I understand."

Cao Ang nodded firmly: "I will never retreat, and I will never slackew. Before the transfer, I will do my best to rectify the business and agricultural affairs of the Zhenxi Protectorate's Office and try my best to restore it. After that, I will make a handover with my successor. After everything is ready, I will return to Luoyang."

"Okay, this is the person I like."

Guo Peng smiled and patted Cao Ang on the shoulder, encouraging him.

Cao Ang smiled for a while, then suddenly thought of something, and his face changed.

"The Supreme Emperor, if Zhenxi Protectorate was hit by such an impact, then the three Western Prefectures and the two Yongliang Prefectures... the merchants in Anxi would not go to their place if they did not come to Zhenxi Protectorate, they would not go to their place, so they..."

Guo Peng curled his smile, showed a solemn expression on his face, nodded and said, "In the three prefectures in the Western Regions, Zhenxi Protectorate has the best agricultural development and the lowest proportion of commercial taxes. Even if he encounters such an impact, causing such panic, it is almost a disaster.

Now the crisis should have been followed by Dachi Road to Beiting Protectorate and Annan Protectorate. These two agriculture relies on oasis and the proportion of commercial taxes is very high. Once such a thing occurs, you will inevitably face a more serious crisis than Zhenxi Protectorate."

"Will something go wrong?"

"There will be problems, but it is not too serious, because, including Zhenxi Protectorate, the total population of the three Western Regions is less than that of Liangzhou. The small population means limited losses, which is easy to deal with? It is easy to curb and rectify.

Moreover, the three prefectures in the Western Regions do not produce too many products. The relationship between locals and commerce is mainly concentrated on agricultural products. Can you still eat it yourself if you can’t sell it? The losses are limited? Therefore, no matter how chaotic the three prefectures in the Western Regions, they will not be much more chaotic."

Guo Peng took a deep breath: "I am more worried about Liangzhou and Yongzhou than the three prefectures in the Western Regions? And I am more worried about Liangzhou than Yongzhou."

"What does the Supreme Emperor mean?"

"The two states of Yongliang have a large population, and when the crisis comes, the impact will be wider? But Yongzhou still has trade in Hanzhong and Shuzhong? Is there trade in Luoyang? The proportion of foreign trade is not large? Agricultural production is also stable enough? Is something really wrong? Mao Jie can hold it steady.

What is most worrying is Liangzhou. To the west are the three prefectures of the Western Regions and to the east are Yongzhou, which leads to the three prefectures of the Western Regions and Yongzhou? There is no way out at both ends? If there is a problem, it will explode? And Liangzhou has a large population? But agricultural development is limited."

Guo Peng looked to the east, Liangzhou with a worried expression.

"Agriculture is not developed enough, and the power to deal with the crisis will be much smaller. Can Liangzhou agriculture be compared with the Central Plains? Once the crisis breaks out, I am really worried that Lu Qian will not be able to withstand it."

"Wouldn't that be very dangerous?"

Cao Ang's expression changed drastically.

Guo Peng waved his hand.

"The problem will be very big, but it will not be a loss. Fortunately, I, Wei, have land in my household registration, and most of the private business is caused by a family doing two things. One family usually divides into two groups, and they cultivate the land and do business.

So even if you fail to do business, you still have land and grain. If you go home to farm, you won’t starve to death. That is, the debt problem is relatively serious. If you have too much debt and the food you saved in your family cannot be repaid, the family will have problems."

Cao Ang was stunned for a moment, his face relaxed a little.

He remembered that the problem of Zhenxi Protectorate was also curbed.

Business people have land outside the city and family are still cultivating the land. Even if the store goes bankrupt or goes bankrupt, they can still return to the land to cultivate the land, self-sufficient and will not starve to death.

This is the last retreat left by the Wei Empire for them. With this retreat, the economic crisis will not die.

Unless they have too much debt and cannot be paid back for a while, the court will not force them to pay off their debts immediately.

As long as the court stabilizes itself and gives them enough time to repay them slowly bit by bit, they will not force them to a dead end. In the end, they will be able to pay off their loans and eliminate their bad debts.

Guo Peng's behavior of fighting against local tyrants and sharing land with powerful manors and giving land to all households was actually a guarantee for the people across the country. The farm farm model made them not starve to death even if they failed in business.

The families in the city that operate business often have surplus labor, or the elderly and women, in the farms outside the city.

Their original intention of opening a store is to make extra money.

If you can't make extra money, the land is still there, and the house is still there. As long as the court gives time, they can use agricultural production to repay their loans. The court will not suffer any damage, and they will not be unable to survive.

As long as this is the case, the impact of the economic crisis will not destroy the economy of the Wei Empire, and the agricultural economy of the Wei Empire can still operate.

That is, there will be great losses at the business level.

Many people went bankrupt and had nothing to do, had to go home to continue farming the land, and had to repay the money owed to the court.

There are also problems in handicrafts, and the lack of this big customer, Anxi, many handicraft workshops in Liangzhou and Yongzhou, some porcelain and lacquer ware workshops, as well as some official enterprises affiliated to the inner court, will be affected, and the products will accumulate and cannot be sold.

The inner court has an emperor's inner warehouse to provide a guarantee, and the products can be piled up and cannot be sold, and can maintain a certain amount of cash flow and will not go bankrupt.

Handicraft workshops organized by private private offices will be impacted, products will not be sold, workshops will go bankrupt, and workers will be unemployed.

If this is an industrial society, it will be a big problem.

In industrial society, agricultural productivity has been greatly improved, and there is no need for so much labor. The surplus labor has no place on the land. We must go to urban factories to survive and become urban residents.

Once an economic crisis occurs and the factory goes bankrupt, workers have nowhere to live, and they cannot find a place to live when they return home, not to mention that many people no longer have land as a way out.

Therefore, the industrial society has high productivity and, once a crisis occurs, it will have great destructive power.

But the agricultural society is still the same as the current Wei Empire.

If you have land at home, you don’t have much labor force. You can go home to farm and don’t starve to death.

In addition, the biggest impact on Wei society was panic. The psychological panic caused by the economic crisis would destroy the safety valves of many people, making them think from the bottom of their heart that developing business is a very dangerous behavior.

So the biggest trouble is not Lu Qian, but Guo Jin in Luoyang, Guo himself, and the political forces that support the development of business and advocate a certain degree of loosening of business.

Crisis is not only lies in business, but also in politics.

Even during Guo Peng's reign, conservative forces were constantly attacking these business reformists, saying that their experiments in the Three Prefectures of the Western Regions and the Yongliang Prefectures were torture people and to destroy themselves.

However, due to the good economic environment at that time and the increase in commercial tax revenue, the Minister of Finance Wang Can, under the instruction of Guo Peng, stood up for this political force and withstood the impact of conservatives.

The conservatives were frightened by Guo Peng's deterrence, who had not made any public statements behind Wang Can, so they did not dare to further attack the reformists.

The new production model brought by the reformists has in a certain sense made the public more people engaged in commerce and handicrafts, and the emergence of these people has increased the intensity of competition among private businesses.

Most conservatives are officials themselves, and there are other clan members in the family doing business, as well as friends and slaves doing business, relying on their power to obtain commercial benefits and then feed them back to their economic benefits.

Relying on such a traditional model, the integration of officials and business within a family has nothing to do with his own family.

When the private business forces are emerging, the government encourages private business, which will naturally have an impact on the commercial forces among these traditional high-ranking businesses that rely on political forces to protect them, thereby affecting their interests.

They naturally do not want this situation to continue to spread in China, further increasing the difficulty of their business gains and gaining political advantages.

But Wang Can was the emperor's favorite minister. Wang Can spoke out and must be the emperor's instructor behind him.

They dared not fight the emperor further, so they could only endure it.

As a result, the business model of the three prefectures in the Western Regions and the two prefectures of Yongliang was retained and developed greatly. After the imperial court's fiscal revenue increased, this model was partially followed in other regions.

For example, Qingzhou and Yangzhou, where maritime trade is very developed, Qingzhou Governor Xin Ping and Yangzhou Governor Gu Yong have also relaxed market restrictions to a certain extent, allowing commercial development, encouraging commercial development, and driving local economic development.

After the situation in Jiaozhou was gradually calmed down by Man Chong, Man Chong also planned to use the huge advantages of Jiaozhou Linhai to develop business, allow the breaking of market boundaries, relax the restrictions on private business, vigorously develop maritime trade, and accumulate wealth for the development of Jiaozhou.

The other inland states also imitated the Yongliang model among central cities with very developed commercial transactions.

For example, Runan, Xiangyang, Jiangling, Chengdu, Yecheng, and Jixian, these cities have relatively large commercial trade quotas, which are suitable for the development of business and are sufficient to achieve this.

In this way, business taxes will continue to increase.

Moreover, this business tax is mainly a domestic cycle, and it has nothing to do with Rome, Rest and Kushan abroad.

Until Emperor Guo Peng abdicated and became the Supreme Emperor, the power to suppress the conservatives disappeared immediately. Although the power of the reformists had developed, it was not strong.

Under such a situation, once an economic crisis occurs in the northwest and affects the court's fiscal revenue, those conservative forces that have been suppressed for a long time will inevitably have a collective climax and will immediately launch a strong impact on the reformists.

The impact on the external economic model will definitely impact this relatively stable domestic circulation of commercial tax revenue.

By then, the political pressure imposed by conservatives on the emperor will be unprecedentedly huge, and it is still a question whether bureaucrats at all levels can withstand the pressure.
Chapter completed!