Li Shimin was very surprised by Bai Yuqi's proposal to go out of the city at night to exterminate locusts.

[Wujimen] took the lead in organizing this food festival to promote the consumption of locusts, but he specially greeted him and asked for the curfew to be lifted temporarily.

In order to make it easier for people who work outside the country during the day to have time to participate in the food festival at night, it is better to delay the curfew time or simply cancel this system that hinders economic development and enriches people's nighttime life and entertainment.

In this regard, the Tang Dynasty monarch hesitated slightly, after all, the curfew system was to restrain those unscrupulous elements, who took advantage of the night to wander around and wait for opportunities to commit adultery.

Once you open your mouth, it may not be so easy to try to close it when the time comes, which increases the probability of civil crime incidents, which is not conducive to the people living and working in peace and contentment.

From the ruler's point of view, instead of worrying about those trivial crimes, it will increase the difficulty and management pressure of government officials.

It's better to be one-size-fits-all, as soon as the people are locked up at home at night, they should sleep and sleep, they should make babies, and they can also increase the population growth rate, how good is it?

Those who don't sleep in the middle of the night and wander around outside are definitely not good people, just catch them and beat them to death, what a simple, rude and trouble-free way?

But Emperor Wuji's statement also made the Tang Dynasty monarchs and ministers ponder: Ninety percent of the kind-hearted people, why should they take responsibility for that little criminal?

If those criminals want to do bad things, they will find ways to be traitors and criminals if they are curfew, while good ordinary people will not do bad things without curfew.

Therefore, in fact, the curfew system not only did not completely curb the occurrence of crimes.

On the contrary, it also inhibits the convenience of ordinary people's lives, increases psychological pressure, and is not conducive to improving national happiness.

This will lead to a low level of enthusiasm for people's life and work, and a low rate of recognition, recognition, and support for the Tang regime.

Only by improving these things can we truly make the people who have just experienced the change of dynasties have centripetal force and cohesion towards Datang and be proud of being the people of Datang.

In addition, isn't it the government's business to crack down on crime? Why should innocent people pay the price? Is this the government's incompetence or the emperor's inaction?

Of course, Emperor Wuji didn't simply open a map cannon group to ridicule the Tang monarchs, and after pointing out the drawbacks of the curfew system, he also gave corresponding suggestions and solutions.

The first is the benefits after the curfew is lifted.

Not to mention increasing the convenience of life, eliminating psychological stress, and improving national happiness.

The biggest benefit of the lifting of the curfew is that it can promote people's consumption, invigorate the economic development of the Datang market, and increase the reasonable income of government workers.

Emperor Wuji took the initiative to let the disciples of the [Ding Lingmen] who participated in the "Food Festival" pay a part of the income according to the stalls to pay for "market management fees, booth fees, sanitation fees" and other expenses.

The money collected will be used as the government's expenses for managing what Emperor Wuji called the "Night Market".

For example, the salary of the management staff, the hiring of the sanitation staff who clean the night market after the end of the night market, and so on.

Of course, it is certainly not possible to lift the curfew suddenly and let the people let themselves go at will, and a peaceful and buffering transition stage is needed.

Because Datang itself has a "fang market system".

After the original Chang'an City was transformed into the current Taiji Imperial Capital, the so-called fang market system was canceled due to the change of architectural patterns.

But in fact, it has only changed from the "fang city system" to the "three-level management system of unit building community", is it better managed?

Originally, Chang'an was a "fang", which could only accommodate more than 10,000 people at most.

And now the sixty-four hexagram area of the Taiji Imperial Capital can accommodate about 230,000 people in any square area.

Only the opening of the "Tun Hexagram Workshop, Menggua Workshop, Need Hexagram Workshop, Litigation Hexagram Workshop, Teacher Hexagram Workshop, and Comparison Hexagram Workshop" was opened, and these six squares concentrated in one area accommodated the entire population.

Compared with the original square market, which is no more than seven feet high, the building mode of the new square district with the building as the wall makes the square wall as high as nine feet, completely eliminating the possibility that someone can climb over the wall to enter and exit, and can only enter and exit through the square door...... There is a kind of you jumping from the top of a building twenty or thirty meters, or you can try to fall into it?

This leads to simpler and more convenient management, and only needs to set up a "Fang Management Office" at the entrance of the square area to manage the people of a square.

Therefore, there is no need to completely lift the curfew, but only to "close the streets" after dark, and close the road in front of the Liuzafang District to form a free activity area that can be free from the curfew system.

In this way, the difficulty of managing the Jingo is greatly reduced...... In the past, although a curfew was enforced, a large number of soldiers had to be sent to patrol in order to prevent small nights from being haunted.

Now it is only necessary to set up sentry posts at more than a dozen intersections between the six square districts, and a few patrol posts can be sent to solve the management problem.

As for the areas outside these square areas, because they haven't started to go on sale yet, they are as black as ghost towns at this time.

And it's all empty stone houses that haven't been renovated yet, and you can do whatever you want! You can still tear down all those stone houses? You can't even set them on fire, right?

As for the high density of the population, which may cause friction and violence, Emperor Wuji also gave a solution that does not require the government to worry too much.

In the Tang Dynasty, the chivalrous atmosphere prevailed, and scholars could travel around the world with swords.

These people are called "rangers", and they are called "chivalrous" at best, but they are actually social unstables.

That is, young people from all walks of life who are idle to the point of kidney pain, as well as ruffians, hooligans, and gangsters at the bottom of all kinds of society.

One by one, they were young and idle, carrying swords and swords to swagger through the market, and they drew their swords to fight each other without saying a word, and the Tang Dynasty government was also very troubled.

But now?

All of these people were fooled by Emperor Wuji into going to the Mercenary Guild, and they registered their mercenary identities and were restrained through the mercenary system.

Except for those who have mercenary status, who are allowed to carry controlled knives, anyone who carries a sharp blade more than three inches long in the city without being reported is considered a bandit!

Disobedience?

Emperor Wuji directly issued a permanent open free mission in the Mercenary Guild.

Any mercenary caught fighting in the downtown area can receive a bounty and corresponding mercenary points in the guild.

Depending on whether the circumstances are serious or not, these arrested people will either be fined 10 times or sentenced to 15 days of detention and re-education through labor!