In the past, if Sun Feng was the prefect of Linhe, everyone would be on par. Moreover, Linhe County was originally a small county analyzed from Guiyang County. Its status is obviously not comparable to that of Changsha, Guiyang, and Lingling. Therefore, Sun Feng can only be regarded as a minor generation in the ranking of prefects of Jingzhou counties.

But now it's different. Sun Feng transformed himself into the new emperor of Wu. Ruan Du and others were all dumbfounded. No one expected that Sun Feng would actually turn into a phoenix. Oh, when he was the true dragon emperor, and fortunately when he was an official in Jingnan, everyone got along well, otherwise it would be really embarrassing.

Of course, Sun Feng was just a puppet emperor and had no substantial power. Now the power of the new court is in the hands of Shi Ji and Tao Ji. In order to maintain the balance of power, Shi Ji and Tao Ji also divided the official positions of the court, of which Shi Ji accounted for half and Tao Ji accounted for half.

But despite this, there were still many vacancies in the court's official positions. After all, whether it was Shi Ji's subordinates or Tao Ji's subordinates, the number was far less than the court's needs. Shi Tao and his confidants only controlled some important ministers.

Tao Ji was unable to make up his mind to whether to continue to promote the subordinate officials in order to make up his money or not to use them empty-handedly.

Shi Ji proposed a solution, which is to sell official positions. Aren’t there so many vacancies? Then just sell them clearly. The official position of a nine minister is sold for 10 million yuan, the rank is 2,000 stone, the official position of a thousand stone is 5 million yuan, and so on. The official position of a six hundred stone is 2 million yuan, and the lowest official position of a hundred stone is only 500,000 yuan.

Although selling official positions and titles is the dirtiest official transaction, it has been common in all dynasties, both openly and secretly, and it cannot be banned. However, it is unique to sell official positions with clear prices like Shi Ji.

Shi Ji's actions were actually helpless, because the new court lacked nothing, just lacked money. If there was no money, the court's expenses could not be maintained, and it was impossible to implement the recruitment plan. Although increasing the fu Rui was a means of making money, the sequelae was very serious, because every increase in taxes would inevitably cause dissatisfaction among the people who received the tax. Now in a crisis, Shi Ji did not dare to easily arouse public anger, which was equivalent to digging his own grave.

So after thinking about it, there is only one way to sell official positions and titles. In fact, the official positions with real power in the court have been divided up by Shi Ji and Tao Ji's people. Most of the official positions that Shi Ji took out were vacant positions that sound good but have no real power.

However, this is really a big deal for those rich people in Jiaozhou. Although they look remote and desolate, they think that the people here are so poor that they live a life of eating raw meat and drinking blood. In fact, there has been no turmoil in Jiaozhou for many years. Unlike the Central Plains, although they are known as wealthy, once the war comes, they are all naked for thousands of miles.

But Jiaozhou is different. Jiaozhou is known as a place beyond the world. No matter how fierce the Central Plains are, the war has never affected Jiaozhou. Except for some small-scale rebellions in Jiaozhou, Jiaozhou has been in a state of peace and tranquility for hundreds of years.

The more peaceful the environment, the easier it is to create wealth. You should know that when Qin Shihuang immigrated to Lingnan, he was not a random lottery person, but a specially selected criminals and untouchables. In fact, at that time, there was no difference between moving and exile.

Among them, the so-called untouchables are mostly merchants, migrant workers and businessmen. Merchants are ranked last. Business is also called a lowly business and has never been favored by rulers.

From Qin to the Three Kingdoms, it took almost five hundred years. After the continuous construction of the people migrated south, Jiaozhou gradually transformed from a barren land to a land of fish and rice. These descendants with the genes of merchants continued to leave Jiaozhou, traded with the Central Plains, and accumulated a lot of wealth.

Although the status of merchants is the lowest, it is an indisputable fact that merchants have huge wealth. The rulers' attitude towards merchants is also love and hate. After all, merchants have a lot of wealth. If the court imposes heavy taxes on merchants, they can bring considerable income to the court.

But rulers of all generations dare not indulge in the development of merchants too much. After all, in the farming era, food is the cornerstone of ensuring social stability. If everyone sees that business can make huge profits and can live a decent and prosperous life, who will still farm?

For this reason, no matter which dynasty, they will use the method of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce. They are not worried that the merchants will earn away the money from the court, but are afraid that people will change their minds and that farmers will not farm well, and they will go to do business. Without food or clothing, no matter how powerful the dynasty is, they will collapse.

In fact, the rulers’ concerns are redundant. Not everyone has the talent for doing business. Unlike farming, doing business requires a great risk. Doing well may be a huge profit. If you don’t do well, you will lose all your money. Even if you are in the era when business is king in the future, the proportion of people doing business is only a small part, and most people will not choose to do business.

In this environment of valuing agriculture and suppressing commerce, the merchants had a low status. They had accumulated a lot of wealth, but had no social status at all. Therefore, the merchants were most eager to seek a job and a half to improve their social status.

The target of Shi Ji selling official positions is these merchants. Although there are still many gentry clans in Jiaozhou, most of them are basically people within the system and have their own responsibilities. Ordinary peasants do not have the financial resources, let alone tens of millions of dollars, or at least hundreds of thousands of dollars. For ordinary people, it is an astronomical number, which is simply beyond the reach.

Before making this decision, Shi Ji had carefully checked the purchasing power of Jiaozhou people. He was surprised to find that there were still many wealthy households in Jiaozhou, and Shi Ji did not intend to sell many official positions. After all, if no one asked him about it after he was released, wouldn’t he be slapped in the face?

The thing about selling official positions and titles is shameless. If you can't eat mutton at that time, you will get stinky, so Shi Ji just wants to deal with it with it in a low-key manner.

But once you see that there are so many wealthy families in Jiaozhou, Shi Ji's mind became active. Now that the enemy is in front of you, you still can't figure out what the situation will be in the future. Why should you be afraid of yourself? If you want to play, just play with a big ticket and make enough money first.
Chapter completed!