Chapter 168: The Original Joke
This winter is normal, not as cold as in previous years, nor as hot as in previous years, and the same is true in Beijing.
It is the day when the annual festival envoy enters Beijing, and the name that sounds domineering is just the governor of the previous dynasty. Several provinces near Gyeonggi come to Beijing once a year to report on the work of each province.
In the Forbidden City.
The eunuch looked at the thick fold in the emperor's hand, and looked at the emperor's expression of nodding yes from time to time, thinking that this was Liu Yu's fold again.
But it's not.
Liu Yu's memo will come almost every few days, except for some nonsense, it has almost become a daily diary.
Today's soldiers know about it, yesterday the soldiers received their salaries and shouted thank you for Your Majesty's salaries, and the soldiers officially fired their guns the day before yesterday......
That's basically what happened.
The emperor has reached the point where he occasionally glances at it for a few days: the short recital is like this, and once Liu Yu comes to the long recital again, the emperor will take a closer look.
What the eunuch thinks about is just a habitual thinking, and most of the long and unscolding recitals that can be scolded twice by the emperor are from Liu Yu's hands.
After reading the long recital, the emperor set up the Heavenly Blessing Palace.
This year's catastrophe has led to a disaster in Shandong, and the imperial court wants to be exempted and relieved, so the matter of storing grain in Mongolian post stations has been delayed a lot.
The money of the imperial court is limited, and if it is used for disaster relief, it cannot be used for conquest, and it cannot be used for three salaries.
As soon as the emperor came, the people on duty in the writing room had to leave, and they knew that it must be a military matter.
Looking at the thick folds again, I thought that Liu Yu had something wrong with him, and several Pingzhangshi were all stunned.
However, the emperor said: "Zhuqing, look at this, this Bai Yunhang is really a capable official." ”
A few Pingzhang things secretly breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that if it was this Bai Yunhang's matter, His Majesty should be in a good mood. After all, the entire Shandong and Jiaodong have been hit by disasters, but this Baiyunhang is outstanding, and he has achieved "few escapes and effective relief".
The imperial court didn't believe it at first, until it sent someone to see it, and then it believed that it was true.
The emperor had already commended it once, and this time he said this again, and everyone thought to themselves that this Bai Yunhang was afraid that he would also take off?
There are also delicate thoughts, and they can't help but think of some of Bai Yunhang's disaster relief methods, thinking that this person is flying and is inseparable from Liu Yu.
Sure enough, before he could see the twists and turns, the emperor said again: "It is said that those who are close to Zhu are red, and those who are close to ink are black." Na Shutu followed Liu Yu for only a year or two, and the Rakshasa battle to attack the city and pull out the village has a lot of performance, and now it is also doing very well in Heilongjiang, and this year the Rakshasa fur business tax is more than 3,000 taels. Now that Bai Yunhang is in Wendeng, he is just a little closer to Liu Yu, and he has done a lot of things. ”
boasted, of course, because Bai Yunhang's performance made him happy, and because Liu Yu's idea of "controlling Mongolia with business" at the beginning has received practical results this year.
The share capital invested by the internal treasury united the merchants of Shanxi and Xijing to run the trade of Mongolia and Rakshasa .
The child army secret spy inserted in it not only drew a detailed map of Mongolia, but also reported the preferences of the leaders of various Mongolian tribes one by one, giving a perfect answer.
The money that the imperial court appeased those Mongol leaders really flowed back as Liu Yu said...... Because the money of these Khalkha chiefs can only buy the goods of the caravan.
What makes Li Gan even happier is that the money invested by the internal funds has paid dividends of more than 90,000 taels this year, and it was just sent back yesterday.
Ninety thousand taels is not much, but it is just the beginning.
Military, political, and economic goals have all been achieved.
Liu Yu was in the east, although he didn't send back the money, but he exchanged for two warships, which have not yet arrived, but it is indeed a good start.
Bai Yunhang's recital also mentioned Liu Yu's help, Li Gan thought about such a thing as "spreading the ding into the mu", I was afraid that the ministers would be surprised, so they first said something that seemed unrelated.
Thinking that after the Pingzhang people finished reading the content of the fold, they had to make a big comment. Sure enough, after reading the recital, several Ping Zhangshi had different expressions on their faces.
This is a twist...... It's going to make a big wave.
This Bai Yunhang is really crazy for credit, and he dares to write such a thing?
Thinking about this person who became famous in Fujian for teaching cases, some people can understand that this is a gambler, and he is once again gambling on his future, and the bet is much bigger than the last time.
If you lose the last bet, you will be dismissed at most.
If you lose the bet this time, you will not be able to open the coffin and kill the corpse after death. Think about the fate of those people who did reforms, Shang Ying's car was split, Wang Anshi's name was better than Qin Hui's, Jia Rudao's traitorous ministers were famous, and Zhang Juzheng opened the coffin and killed the corpse...... Isn't this Bai Yunhang crazy?
Thinking like this, I have to admit that this person is a capable official.
Taking advantage of the catastrophe, he took advantage of the opportunity of the catastrophe to check the acres of fields, disaster relief and famine, and spent seven days to promote disaster relief crops throughout the state, and his Wendeng Prefecture performed best when the whole Jiaodong was starving.
Even more terrifying is the man's twists and turns...... There is an obvious tendency of Liu Yu.
The geometry of the number of acres and the original tax are clearly written, and the numbers are clearly listed.
This is nothing, what really makes them feel a trace of "Liu Yu'er" is the series of numbers behind.
Including the combination of the number of acres of land and the number of people in the family, which are beneficial and which are damaged, a chart is actually drawn, and there is a curve chart of the number of people on the vertical axis and the number of acres on the horizontal axis......
If it weren't for the fact that "those who are close to Zhu are red and those who are close to ink are black", you would have seen a ghost.
But these people have to admit that this curve is too intuitive, and it is clear which people will be hurt and opposed, who will be grateful for support, and who will not support or oppose.
In addition, there are a series of supporting policies.
Include:
The amount of silver added to each of the fields was divided.
After the land is apportioned into the mu, it is conducive to the alleviation of land contradictions by immigrants from all over the country, because officials will not care about the population but only about the land, which can relax the population to go to Liaodong, Mongolia, Heilongjiang, Taiwan and other places to reclaim land. Originally, population also meant Ding Yin, but now that Ding Yin is spread out of the land, officials will encourage reclamation and immigration: if the contradiction between man and land is resolved, the probability of local uprisings will also be reduced.
After the land is apportioned into the mu, in view of the loss of smelting silver ingots required for tax transportation, it is recommended to increase the lost silver into the tax, and levy a few more positive taxes, so as to prevent all localities from collecting miscellaneous taxes through this.
The officials objected, because their interests were damaged, and suggested that the officials' salaries could be increased, and according to the amount of silver levied in various places, the officials' salaries could be increased according to different degrees.
It is pleaded that the past corruption should not be blamed in the past, and that the crime should be increased from the day it is actually implemented, and that if it is not reined in, it will be punished again.
These policies, both reform and compromise, are highly enforceable.
Everyone present knew that according to the chart drawn by Bai Yunhang, they could know that once the policy of apportioning the land into the mu was implemented, the local squires would inevitably oppose it. The chart is clear that those people's interests will suffer, and the more land there is, the greater the loss.
Now all this is just a "request for trial".
The problem is that Wendeng Prefecture has now completed the land inventory, the population statistics have been completed, and there is still a waiver period after the great famine to buffer and prepare in advance.
Obviously, this policy is easy to implement in Wenden.
Of course, there are people who oppose it, but what is the use?
Since the emperor took out this letter, the intention is obvious: support.
In this year's disaster relief, Bai Yunhang is a typical example set up by the emperor again, at this time, attacking Bai Yunhang, isn't that just a slap in the face of the emperor?
The emperor said: Yes. However, this person is a shameless scum with bad intentions, doesn't that mean that the emperor is blind?
Everything is ready, only the east wind is owed, don't think about it, after the implementation continues, it will definitely be implemented perfectly: in seven days, the disaster relief planting can be promoted throughout the state, and the land can be really inventoried and more than 600,000 acres of hidden land can be found, what difficulties can be in implementing the new policy?
While most people are thinking about the policy itself, Zhang Muzhi, the British minister and Zuo Pingzhang, is thinking about another matter.
It is not surprising that he cares not about the policy itself, and this kind of thinking can be imagined. The key is execution.
Speaking of implementation, looking at the process of checking acres of fields and disaster relief organizations introduced above, Zhang Muzhi couldn't help but think of an incident a few years ago.
Liu Yu took the students of Wude Palace to mess around, went to beat the Dengwen drum, and wrote a letter.
There are many words in the book that are scared to death and can turn the court upside down, but there is one in it, but it jumped into Zhang Muzhi's mind at this time.
"Select the sons of good families, train them as officials, and do inspection teams. It is advisable to take 3,500 people to investigate the acres of land, unjust cases, and population...... With the prefecture and county as the goal, half a year as the period, parachuted into the past, set aside the local officials and gentry, and comprehensively investigated and rectified. After the inventory is completed, the reinstatement officer will be based on the number of acres of new fields......"
This policy was originally used by the Emperor as a bargaining chip with his ministers, because no one knew if it would be available, but it sounded like it would work.
However, everything Wendeng is doing now proves one thing: this method does work.
The inventory of acres of land was not carried out by Wendeng Prefecture, but by taking advantage of the rest of the holiday, he borrowed the officers under Liu Yu.
The popularization of the cultivation technology of grain relief was not run by the Wendeng Prefecture government, but by borrowing the officers under Liu Yu.
This is nothing, because Liu Yu said one thing in his performance a few days ago: the organization of the new army, the staff system, and the separation of training and command.
To say all this is to say one thing. If the emperor wants to transfer him away, then this new army is also combat-effective, this is not the Liu family's army, but the emperor's Qingzhou soldiers.
Liu Yu also fulfilled his original promise: a controlled army and an incompetent general should not be defeated lightly.
At least, that's what it says on the fold, it only says that the recruits have been recruited, and the imperial court can send a general to Weihai next autumn to watch the martial arts.
In addition to self-confidence, it is more like a foreshadowing for Wendeng's affairs this time. Even if he interfered in local affairs, he was not selfish, and the new army could transfer him at any time, so please rest assured that the emperor would be relieved.
Now think about it...... I am afraid that Liu Yu had already considered these things at that time, and I was afraid that Wendeng's matter would arouse the emperor's suspicion, and it was obvious that Liu Yu had long known that Bai Yunhang was going to take this kind of change.
Zhang Muzhi thought that Liu Yu made the nonsense words at the beginning to show everyone: It's really okay.
It's for the emperor to see, and it's for the ministers. Before, it was just talking, but now that it has really been done, it will give the emperor another bargaining chip.
There are many good policies, and there will always be problems of one kind or another in the implementation of the policy, and Wendeng's practice provides a model: a group of full-time officials of good families who have nothing to do with the local area and belong to the emperor can parachute into the local area and complete the inventory of acres and acres without hindrance.
And Wendeng, too, gave the benefits of doing so. How much can a state, 600,000 hidden fields, add to the treasury every year?
With so many prefectures and counties in the country, isn't the tax revenue from the acres of land checked enough to support a group of hundreds of people directly under the emperor and officials who have nothing to do with the locality?