Kong Ru came back to meet at the end of the year, Li Jun looked at Kong Ru's achievements this year, and couldn't help but nod and said: "Yes, in just one year, under the premise of not affecting the normal operation of the country, the entire Grand Canal has been completed by one-fifth, and you have made great contributions this time." ”

"Your Majesty has an overreputation, this is all the result of the joint efforts of the ministers and colleagues, and Kong Ru does not dare to take the credit alone." Kong Ru hurriedly said modestly.

This is the cleverness of Kong Ru, everything ties everyone to a rope, anyway, he is already Jane in the Sacred Heart, and the big credit is almost earned by himself, and it doesn't hurt to share the remaining small credits.

Li Jun continued: "Meritorious service rewards, the officials who are in charge of the canal with you this time will all be promoted to the next level, as for you, you should be a waiter in the Ministry of Works first." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Kong Ru said excitedly, the position of the Ministry of Industry is already considered a high position, and he has been promoted from the head of the Ministry of Industry to the Ministry of Industry, which is a third-level official promotion, and in the history of the Tang Dynasty, it is rare to be promoted so quickly as himself.

Li Jun waved his hand and said, "Okay, work hard, as long as the canal is completed, I will not hesitate to thank him as a marquis." ”

"The minister must do his best to do this well." Kong Ru's eyes lit up and he said.

"By the way, I heard that you had a conflict with Guo Yi when you went to Luoyang this time." Li Jun asked pretending not to care.

Kong Ru is a smart person, remembering the recent rumors that Guo Yi was going to marry Princess Huaihua, he understood what the emperor meant, so Kong Ru immediately made a look of righteous indignation and said: "Your Majesty, this person is really a traitorous and slippery person, when the minister went to Luoyang to be responsible for the bidding, this person gave a very high price, and no one dared to compete with him, in desperation, the minister had to give up the bidding from the local merchants in Luoyang, and instead bid from Xuzhou and other places, the minister also took a lot of effort to do a good job in Luoyang's section of the canal. ”

"Hmph, he dares to get involved in the country's major affairs, are all the local officials in Luoyang dead?" Li Jun snorted coldly.

Kong Ru saw that Li Jun was angry, and continued to add fuel and vinegar to say: "Your Majesty, don't you complain about the local officials in Luoyang, it's really that Guo Yi's power is too great, in Luoyang and other places, many commodities have been monopolized by the Guo family, and no one has competed with him over the years, but for some reason, those people were either wiped out or excluded from Luoyang, although everyone knows that this matter must have something to do with Guo Yi, but every time the government can't find conclusive evidence, so they have to kill a few scapegoats, And then it's gone. ”

Li Jun was even more angry when he heard this, he didn't expect that this Guo Yi was really a party to the disaster, and Luoyang was too special, if Chang'an was the political center of the Tang Dynasty, then Luoyang was the economic center of the Tang Dynasty, and his status was the same as that of the demons of later generations, so Li Jun had already made up his mind at this time, and he must not leave Guo Yi to stay in Luoyang.

So Li Jun asked: "Kong Qing, I want to bring Guo Yi to Chang'an, do you have any good way?" ”

Kong Ru thought for a while before he said slowly: "Your Majesty, the minister remembers that when Emperor Jingtai built Jingling, Emperor Jingtai had recruited rich merchants and wealthy families from all over the country to enter the customs to guard the tomb for Emperor Jingtai, and the current Jingxian County only began to exist at that time, and the first emperor did not implement this policy because of his short reign, but His Majesty can, His Majesty's Yangling is also being built, and local black sheep like Guo Yi can be recruited to Yangling, and when the time comes, they will give them a hundred dares under Your Majesty's nose, Don't dare to mess around. ”

"Haha, that's a second." Li Jun laughed and said......

After sending Kong Ru away, Li Jun also received a reply from Ji Meng, in which Ji Meng analyzed in detail his mentality of being a ranger, the ranger is actually not as tall as Li Jun thinks, many times the ranger is the dirty glove of the official, so Ji Meng feels that Li Jun does not need to make a lot of effort to deal with Guo Yi, as long as Li Jun tells Guo Yi, Guo Yi himself will come up like a dog, and when Li Jun asks him to bite whoever he wants.

Ji Meng was right, it was indeed no problem to deal with ordinary rangers, but since Guo Yi had a relationship with Yunxiao, Li Jun could not take it lightly, and in the end Li Jun decided to use the safest way to get Guo Yi to the capital first.

At the first court meeting in the ninth year of Zhenguan of the Tang Dynasty, Kong Ru, the servant of the Ministry of Works, who was in the limelight, put forward a proposal to move 2,000 households to Chang'an Sanfu, these 2,000 households are obviously rich households from all over the world, and it is not good to say that it is not good to say that the rich households in the world are migrated to Chang'an, and there will be no problem in saying it.

As soon as this proposal came out, the courtiers immediately quieted down, and Zhang An, who was the first assistant to the cabinet, stood up and said: "Your Majesty, the ministers think this matter is inappropriate, when the pre-Qin period, the emperor had the matter of requisitioning the world's rich households into Xianyang, why would we do this in the Tang Dynasty?" ”

Li Jun didn't reply either, and Kong Ru stood up and retorted: "Lord Shoufu, I used to do this during the time of Emperor Jingtai at that time. ”

"Hmph, at this time and that time, let's say that Jing Taiye moved the rich families in the local area into Jing County, and there is no specified number, but it just shows that the local cannot be controlled by the strong and powerful, and they can migrate to Guanzhong, Jing Taiye is mainly doing this to help the local government clarify the rule of officials, which is very different from your proposal." Zhang An snorted coldly.

Kong Ru continued to want to refute, but saw Li Jun wave his hand and said: "Zhang Qing's words are reasonable, then I also learn from the emperor's grandfather's old plan, and do not make any indicators, as long as the local officials feel that it is difficult to control the heroism, they will all be sent to me, and I will teach them to be good people." ”

"Your Majesty is wise." Zhang An glanced at Kong Ru demonstratively, and then arched his hand and said.

After retreating from the court, Li Jun left Sima Da alone, because Sima Da looked like he had something to say at the court meeting just now, but for some reason he retreated.

Li Jun smiled and asked, "Sima, now it's just you and me, do you have anything else to say?" ”

"Your Majesty, you still don't use Kong Ru too much, just now the minister has been observing Kong Ru, and found that when His Majesty supported Lord Shoufu's decision, Kong Ru had a sense of disappointment in his eyes, so the minister dared to guess that Kong Ru wanted to take this opportunity to retaliate against others, please Your Majesty must be careful, if one or two villains make a popular uprising, then Your Majesty is a sinner." Sima Da said worriedly.

Li Jun nodded and said: "Sima, until now, you can still tell me the truth, I am very relieved, you can rest assured, I will not hand over this matter to people like Kong Ru to do, I have already thought about it, when the list is given by the locality, I will let you take the people who supervise the guard to check it again according to the list, if there are good people who are affected, I can't bear it." ”

"Your Majesty." Sima Da said admiringly.

In fact, the reason why Sima Da and the others did not object to this matter was that they felt that Li Jun was strengthening the weak branches, the poorer the local area, the better, and the richer Guanzhong was the better, but they were really wrong, Li Jun actually wanted to take this opportunity to suppress the uncontrolled strong and powerful in those places, and the province would continue like this for a long time and form a gate valve.

Sima Da was also very happy after getting Li Jun's promise, because Sima Da finally had the opportunity to travel all over the country, and if he wanted to write a history book, he couldn't go out.

As soon as Sima Da wanted to retire happily, he was retained by Li Jun, Li Jun asked with a smile: "In fact, this is very detrimental to the development of the place, whether a place can become rich is not to see how many poor people there are, but how many rich people there are. ”

"That's right, the place that needs to be rich the most is Guanzhong." Sima Da replied.

"Ah, isn't it unreasonable, the reason why many rich families have become rich is to rely on the output of local mountains, rivers and rivers or the people to become rich, so grasping the eyebrows and beards is not good, and it will only reduce the overall strength of the Tang Kingdom." Li Jun continued to ask worriedly.

"No matter what, we must keep Guanzhong the richest place in the world." Sima Da still said the same thing.

Li Jun sighed very helplessly, it was really hard to talk about the economy with the ancients, Sima Da arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty, you are right to do this, don't have any burden, the minister thinks that the implementation of this kind of policy is mainly because the farther away from Chang'an, the less binding force the imperial court has on it, and the whip is beyond the reach of Ah, the man-made rebellion in a barren land is completely different from the man-made rebellion in a rich land, in this case, it is better to transfer all the rich households from other places first, first, the countryside is less heroic, and second, It can make Chang'an richer. ”