In the brand-new Chang'an City, it is still a boxy pattern, and the city and Fangjing are clearly distinguished.

Li Zhongyi strolled through the streets, shuttling among the crowds, and his mood was exceptionally comfortable.

Zhang Sanzheng, who pretended to be the chief butler, was still very nervous, his eyes constantly scanning the movements around him, and he was always vigilant.

There is no way, there is an emperor who likes to pay private interviews with micro-services, and Zhang Sanzheng deserves to be frightened.

After all, Jingzhao Mansion is the largest city in the northwest, and there are not many people on the street, but it does not have the taste of the capital Kaifeng.

In any case, Kaifeng City is already the first male city in the East with more than 400,000 urban residents, and its total number of citizens is more than Jingzhao Mansion, which is more than five times.

Others are looking at the street scene, Li Zhongyi is looking at pedestrians, and the trick here is to see whether there are more people buying things or selling more things.

In particular, the small food stalls in the streets and alleys, whether the business is good or bad, can quite explain some problems.

The so-called layman looks at the bustle, and the insider looks at the doorway, what Li Zhongyi secretly observes is the big question of whether the market is really prosperous.

Knowing the autumn after falling a leaf, peeking at the leopard in the tube, what is said is to see the big thing from the small.

In any case, the people live on food.

Therefore, Li Zhongyi led Ye Xiaolan into a grain store, and asked the price of grain with a smile, "How much is a liter of local japonica rice?" ”

"Don't hide it from the big officials, ten cents and one liter." The guy in the grain store can see that Li Zhongyi is not a poor ghost, and he speaks very politely.

Li Zhongyi nodded, the price of grain in Kaifeng is more than twice as cheap as that of Jingzhao Mansion, mainly because the grain from the south is sent to Kaifeng and transported by water, and the cost is not high.

From the Central Plains, transporting grain into Shaanxi, just the difficult mountain road in this section of Tongguan has invisibly increased a lot of transshipment costs.

In later generations, the vegetables harvested from the fields were actually not expensive, only a few cents a catty. However, when these vegetables are sent from the fields to the fairs in the big cities, the prices often increase by several turns.

In addition to the monopoly factor, the main reason is that the cost of transportation is relatively high, which leads to the high price of vegetables.

Today, the grain shops in the entire Great Zhou are all monopoly grain merchants owned by Li Zhongyi, typical state-owned enterprises.

Li Zhongyi knew very well in his heart that the grain stores in the same city had the same grain prices.

In other words, this store sells japonica rice for ten cents a catty, and other grain shops are also at this price.

The reason for this is not complicated, because it is Li Zhongyi who made a regulation prohibiting grain prices in the same city, and there are unnecessary fluctuations.

The people live on food!

In today's society, the way for the powerful to get rich is not only to monopolize the grain business and take advantage of the fire to loot in times of disaster, but also to lend usury.

After Li Zhongyi ascended the throne, he monopolized the grain business with a backhand and banned the issuance of usury.

If there is no village in the village, and there is no pavilion in the pavilion, Li Zhongyi's ban is like a piece of waste paper, and it is useless.

However, as the number of people who transferred to the village and the number of people who changed to the village and the pavilion continued to increase, the entire countryside of the empire was gradually included in Li Zhongyi's control.

Based on Li Zhongyi's inherent experience, the imperial court collected a tax of one penny, and the officials had to be greedy for three cents, while the officials had to be greedy for at least six cents or more.

Often, a seemingly powerful empire is defeated at the hands of cool officials at the grassroots level.

Objectively speaking, the nominal taxes of the Ming Dynasty were not heavy, but in the late Ming Dynasty, the imperial court never came up with money to suppress Li Chuang, Zhang Xianzhong and other thieves, and the core was that the officials were rich and the people were poor.

The root cause of the wealth of officials and the poverty of the people is that officials and officials collude to extort money and food from the common people.

Li Zhongyi walked two streets in the city, and according to his secret observations, there were always small food vendors with stalls in the streets and alleys.

This shows that Yang Wencan did not adopt a short-term ban on stalls because of Li Zhongyi's arrival.

After all, snack stall owners need income every day, otherwise, the family may not be able to open the pot.

A state official who is sympathetic to the people's feelings does not dare to say that he is a clean official, but at least he can prove that he has compassion and is not bad.

Li Zhongyi wanted to test the fairness of the grain store, so he deliberately bought twenty liters of japonica rice, which Zhang Sanzheng carried.

Not long after leaving the grain shop, Zhang Sanzheng rushed up to report and said: "There is very little sand and gravel in the rice, obviously, it is not shoddy." ”

Li Zhongyi nodded, the cat in the grain store was greasy, he roughly mastered it. Among them, one of the most important is to put more sand and gravel in the rice.

In addition, if the manager of the grain store wants to do tricks, he must be shoddy. For example, replace the new rice with old rice that is more than five years old, so as to earn the difference.

Relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and relying on the water to draft has always been the unspoken rule of the Chinese people!

Since the monopoly of business, the shopkeepers of Li Kee Grain Store have been killed nearly 100 people.

Before the corrupt shopkeepers died, they all wrote down the details of how they did things, so Li Zhongyi knew a lot about it.

"Well, Zhang Sanzheng, tonight, you will lead someone to surround the grain shop, and be sure to count all the food in the shop." Li Zhongyi has always known the shortcomings of state-owned enterprises, so he has never been soft on killing.

Compared with greed and life, he wants to see, who else dares to be a rat?

Rats, especially those in charge of grain, must be cut with a thousand knives and will not be merciful!

After Li Zhongyi instructed Zhang Sanzheng, he walked forward and turned a street corner, but saw a bunch of people surrounded by water.

When Li Zhongyi took a closer look, he found that this place was the location of the Dali Temple in Jingzhao Mansion.

After Li Zhongyi ascended the throne, he made fundamental reforms to the judicial system of the imperial court. Among them, the most important point is that the local state and county officials are no longer responsible for adjudicating and questioning cases, but instead the Dali Prefecture Temple or County Temple is responsible for the trial function.

Professional things must be done by professional people, which has always been the philosophy pursued by Li Zhongyi.

"Ascension ......"

"Silence ......"

As soon as Li Zhongyi stood in the crowd, he heard the shouts of the people in the yamen of the Dali Temple.

"Bringing people to commit ......"

"Witness ......"

"Bringing the Bitter Lord......"

Li Zhongyi couldn't see it very clearly in the crowd, but the various movements coming out of the hall were relatively clear after being loudly communicated by the officers.

This is not the first time Li Zhongyi has watched Dali Temple to ask about the case.

Previously, when he was in Kaifeng City, Li Zhongyi often mixed in the crowd, listened to the officials of Dali Temple, and openly interrogated the case.

The facts of the case interrogated today are actually not complicated, Zhang San borrowed the same money from Li Si, and agreed to roll over the interest and interest of one cent per month.

This kind of profit is forbidden by the imperial court and is not protected.

But the problem is that Zhang San and Li Si's borrowing behavior was before Li Zhongyi issued the ban, which is a bit difficult to do.

"The judgment of this judge is as follows: The consistent money borrowed by Zhang San is 5 percent of the interest payable to Li Si, not 70 percent ......"

The case was not complicated, and the judge handed down his verdict on the spot. It is a fact that Zhang San borrowed money, but the interest money he paid must comply with the regulations of the imperial court.

Li Zhongyi clasped his hands to his chest, looking at the usury plaintiff's crying face, and couldn't help but feel a little funny.

As long as the government does not support usury, the magnates and large landowners will not be able to expropriate the land of the yeoman farmers by rolling profits.

For the imperial court, the big landowners belonged to the category of vampires, squeezing the peasants downwards and avoiding taxes upwards, which was of little use. Li Zhongyi saw very clearly that only homesteaders were the fundamental source of taxes for the imperial court.

Therefore, the policies formulated by Li Zhongyi are all biased towards protecting the fundamental interests of yeoman farmers.

As for the big landlords, they are not satisfied and want to make trouble? That's too simple, the imperial court doesn't just eat dry food.

To put it bluntly, the land restriction order and the profit restriction order together become a conspiracy.

Those who go along with it prosper, and those who go against it die!

Today, thousands of heads have been cut off by the big landlords everywhere, and those who make trouble because they are not satisfied.

Cutting off the head and confiscating the family property is equivalent to redistributing the benefits.

The family property copied from the big landlord was not distributed by Li Zhongyi to the commoners for free, but kept it and existed as the imperial field.

The so-called imperial land, that is, the land owned by the emperor, is a proper state-owned asset.

Li Zhongyi saw very clearly that only after part of the land was nationalized could it be possible to ensure that the hungry people had land to plant and food to eat in the year of famine.

Expecting the big landlords and big squires to give porridge and rice to the hungry is just a drop in the bucket.

In smallholder societies, the most important means of subsistence and production is land.

In essence, the land policy pursued by Li Zhongyi was actually a land revolution, and it was the lifeblood of the big landlords.

After listening to the verdict of Dali Temple, Li Zhongyi led Ye Xiaolan and went around into a small alley.

In Li Zhongyi's experience, the things exposed to the street are often too beautiful. And the living environment in the alleys is the real axis of the city.

Li Zhongyi identified that the main axis of the city can only be the living standard of small citizens, and nothing else.

Whether the price of grain is cheap, whether the price of vegetables is cheap, and whether the price of firewood is cheap, these are all details that Li Zhongyi really cares about.

That is to say, as the saying goes, the price of vegetable baskets, rice bags, and water and electricity is the vital interests of the people.

Li Zhongyi, who walked through the streets and alleys and got into the small alley, found that there was a hole here.

In the small alleys, there are many small food stalls, and the prices are very fair. As for the taste, Li Zhongyi is not hungry and has not tried it much.

"How's business?" Li Zhongyi bought a cooking cake casually and asked the stall owner.

"It's okay." The stall owner replied casually, and there was no particular dissatisfaction with his demeanor.

Li Zhongyi understood at a glance that the stall owner said that it was improvised, but in fact, I am afraid that he made a lot of money.

The small stall owner made money, which shows that in the city of Jingzhaofu, the life of the common people is quite okay.

The logic is not complicated, if the small stall owner can't make money, it means that the income of the residents in the city is not ordinarily low.