The convoy stopped in a poorer village than Hejia Village, and the villagers were lucky enough to be able to meet the emperor's visit at the most difficult moment.

Li Shimin still walked around the village first, sent clothes to the villagers who lacked clothes, greeted the physical condition of the old man, and asked the soldiers to pick rice and noodles from everyone's homes, however, Sun Xiangfu, who was cooking, saw that this village was different from other villages, because it was too similar to the happy village back then.

When Li Shimin was holding a big bowl and persuading the villagers to eat more, Sun Xiangfu used food as bait and asked the two and a half children in the village to tell all the basic information in the village.

The reason is not complicated, the means are the same as Hu Cai back then, who called this period, the production and life of the people are all obeyed by the officials! The village official is also an official! is in charge of ploughing cattle and some public property, and there is a lieutenant behind him, and the county order supports him, which is enough for the mud legs in the village to play dead and alive, Sun Xiangfu only listened to the beginning, and knew why this village was poor.

"Hehe, the family has not stopped playing the routine of land annexation!"

Sun Xiangfu smiled and added a bowl of mutton noodle soup to the two half-grown sons who answered, and then found an opportunity to tell Li Shimin some of the information he had.

After listening to Sun Xiangfu's explanation, Li Shimin's anger was full of smoke and said, "I could bear the things back then, but now, I can't bear it." ”

After that, Li Shimin wanted to recruit guards to arrest the village chief called Shuanglu Village, as well as the county magistrate of Wugong County, but was stopped by Sun Xiangfu.

"Your Majesty, such a thing, even under your nose, is widespread, then, what about the whole country? We will definitely deal with it, but the top priority is not to deal with one such thing, but to solve such a thing on a large scale. ”

"What do you mean, tell me to continue to endure and find a way in secret?"

Sun Xiangfu nodded and replied, "Exactly, exposing the contradictions, it's just another chicken and dog jumping in the court, you can't solve the problem, there are policies, there will be countermeasures below, you can't even notice what is going on under your nose, how can you manage such a big stall in the country, they can always find loopholes to exploit." Therefore, the minister felt that another method should be used. ”

"How?"

"Do you remember that the Minister of Housing suggested that the people who were released from the family and pretend to be disaster victims should be re-registered and reorganized for the people?"

Li Shimin nodded and said, "Well, I remember this." ”

Sun Xiangfu continued, "Since that time, the tenants under the families of those families in Guanzhong have been lost in large numbers, and there is no manpower to help them farm, so they need to make up for the manpower, and the way to make up for it is to use all kinds of means to trap the ignorant people, seek to seize their land, and make these people their serfs. Why don't we just take the bottom of the pot and directly extract all the people of these poor villages, even if they can use the means again, without people, their means will be useless. ”

Hearing this, Li Shimin squinted at Sun Xiangfu and thought for a moment before saying, "You mean, use the Weinan Industrial Zone that is about to be built to recruit people from these poor villages?" ”

Sun Xiangfu nodded with a smile and said, "Exactly, however, just one Weinan Industrial Zone can't digest everyone, and the minister thinks that next year, Guanzhong should start the construction of a new countryside." ”

"New rural construction?"

This fresh word popped out of Sun Xiangfu's mouth, which made Li Shimin stunned again.

"Your Majesty, don't you have any idea when you see the shack-like houses where these villagers live?"

"Thoughts? What's the idea? Aren't the houses of our Datang people like this? Li Shimin didn't react for a while, so he said casually.

However, after speaking, his eyes narrowed, there is one place that is different, he has been to Xingfu Village, not to mention the houses where the aborigines live, that is, around Xingfu Village, on both sides of the cement road leading to Xiaoheji, some of the houses that moved over later are also very different from the houses in this village.

The rows of neat brick houses are still fresh in Li Shimin's memory, neat, clean, firm, spacious, and fully furnished, and the faces of the people who live in them are full of satisfied smiles.

Unlike this village, where there is a smell of mud everywhere, everyone is still using wood to make a fire for warmth, and when it is time to cook, there is smoke everywhere, because the villagers do not have a good house to store firewood, and the firewood that is wet with snow water is full of smoke as soon as it burns.

"You mean, let all the villages in Guanzhong become like happy villages?" Li Shimin, who had come back to his senses, said with some excitement in his tone.

"Well, this can almost be regarded as a five-year plan for the development of Guanzhong! It is also the first link in the development of people's livelihood as the minister said. ”

Everything in Happy Village is actually just made out by Sun Xiangfu in a hurry, and there is no very scientific and modern planning, but with the current social situation of Datang, it is very rare to let the people live in brick and tile houses, burn on the hot kang, and use furniture such as iron pots and coal stoves.

However, this is only the living conditions, if you want the people to live happily in such a house, you have to solve many problems, farming, you must have your own fields, you must work, you must have a stable work income, you want to straighten out everything, the work to be done, not a star.

"This is good, this is good! Tell me how to make the entire village in Guanzhong look like a happy village! Li Shimin listened to Sun Xiangfu's description, his anger disappeared, and he looked at Sun Xiangfu with an expectant face.

"This has to be done step by step, the progress in the first year may be slower, and the scope is smaller, because the people in Guanzhong will fully enter the two-season planting next year, and in the reform of the new farming model, the things in the farmland are enough for them to be busy, so they can only choose to take Chang'an as the center, and some recent villages will be transformed.

In the second year, when the farmland is planted on track, more labor will be freed up to complete the transformation and expand the scope of transformation.

For example, Hejia Village in the past and Shuanglu Village can actually move to a new village near the main road, so that it is convenient for villagers to go out and enter the city······"

"Money, where does the money come from to renovate the village?" Li Shimin pointed out the key issues.

Sun Xiangfu replied without thinking about it, "Of course it's the treasury, and the taxes of the treasury are all created by the people for the country, taken from the people, and used for the people, this is the right way!" ”

"Is this the right way?"

When Li Shimin heard this, he fell into contemplation again.

Where did the tax revenue of the imperial court flow in the past? Most of the pockets of the royal family, the magnates, and officials are filled with very little, and very few are really used for people's livelihood and social welfare, and the imperial court basically blindly takes from the people, that is, the exploiting class.

And the tax revenue of the imperial court is used to build houses for the people and improve the living environment, which is something that no emperor has done before, although he is a little distressed about money, but Li Shimin is already thinking about how much money to do this.

'Good' has no limit, in the eyes of some rulers in ancient times, it is already very good for the people to have a shack to live in and not starve to death, even if it is such a standard, there are many emperors who can't reach it, but Sun Xiangfu refreshed Li Shimin's cognition and let him know what is better, and then, the situation is different.

Soon, Li Shimin didn't have the heart to continue chatting with the people, so he summoned Xiao Yu, Fang Xuanling, Changsun Wuji, Ma Zhou and others who came with him to the camp outside the village to discuss the new rural construction plan that Sun Xiangfu said.

Xiao Yu felt that he couldn't let Li Shimin stay with Sun Xiangfu anymore, this guy had too many ideas all day long, and he was all moving his mouth, saying an idea, and then he didn't care.

As everyone knows, every idea of Sun Xiangfu requires those of them who are really in charge of government and affairs to think about it, clarify it one by one, analyze the feasibility, and then implement it.

But he had to admire Sun Xiangfu's ideas, because all the starting points of these ideas were for the people and the country, and whenever they took into account all aspects of what should be considered, the results were positive and positive.

Therefore, the lights in the camp in Shuanglu Village will not be extinguished tonight.

Early in the morning, several fast horses galloped out of the camp and went straight to Chang'an, and the document in the knight's arms recorded Li Shimin's order to Yousi.

First of all, the first one is that the secret guards don't want to rest during the Chinese New Year this year, all the villages in Guanzhong counties will be visited, and all the poor villages that can't be opened will be counted as soon as possible.

Secondly, the county orders of Chang'an, Wannian and Lantian counties will report the details of the villages, households, and farmland in the jurisdiction, and in addition, the chief officials of the three counties will be organized to visit Xingfu Village after the Spring Festival to learn about houses, road construction, etc.

Third, the household department will set up a special audit and budget department, and if the school is backward, it will go to the happy village to learn, and there is a dead order, before the end of spring ploughing next year, the operation of Datang Qianzhuang must be on track, to put it bluntly, that is, the emperor must see the money at that time.

Fourth, of course, it is an order to give the magistrates of all states and counties across the country to build schools and implement them to all counties, but just to delegate this order to the whole country, it will be a matter of a month or two, and it will be really implemented and built, and the fastest will be the end of next year, or even the year after next, at that time, the civic production can almost be implemented, and the imperial court will also have the money to hire a large number of teachers.

For this fourth article, Fang Xuanling's suggestion is very problematic, that is, the local finance will fund the construction first, and the money used will be directly deducted from the tax revenue of the year, so as to avoid the current poor clanging court from appropriating funds from Chang'an, making the whole process even slower.

In fact, through the appropriation of this matter, Sun Xiangfu thought of the problem of imperial court taxation, every year all over the country to the central government to escort the treasury and taxes, the central government to allocate funds to various places, in fact, a lot of manpower and material resources were wasted, because of the inconvenient transportation during this period, long-distance round-trip transportation, great loss.

And if Datang's money bank is quickly opened all over the country, then this problem can be greatly avoided.

At that time, all taxes will be settled in money, and the magistrates will only need a deposit slip to pay taxes to the central government, which is simple and convenient, and there is almost no loss.

Of course, this idea cannot be realized in a short period of time, there are still too few people in Datang who can write and calculate, and the manpower of the officials feels that it is not enough, not to mention the people who run the money bank, in terms of manpower, first of all, they do not have the conditions for comprehensive coverage.

In addition, how many people have been harmed by a whip law in the Ming Dynasty, Sun Xiangfu, who has brushed a lot of TV dramas in later generations, still knows some, asking the people of this era to sell grain and pay taxes in cash is no longer feasible than in the Ming Dynasty, because there is little cash on the market, and the people have no money to spare, and if they want to pay taxes, they must sell their own agricultural products, and those who have mastered the money will be because they have cash in their hands that the people must take to pay taxes, and the prices of various agricultural products will be suppressed. This method is not feasible and can only be put on hold for the time being.

In the end, it is the problem of the itinerary of the convoy, since the Wugong County Order has a plan to harm the people, then it is not only this village, for some other villages that will not be able to open the pot, Li Shimin also plans to go to condolences in person, collect more people's hearts, and at the same time, grasp more black materials of family officials, and truly understand the local government and people's feelings, so that Li Shimin can consider more comprehensively when formulating policies in the future.