After Li Shimin sat down, the waiter brought all kinds of dishes, at this time, the half fat sheep in the hot pot has been boiled and eroded, the broth is fragrant, and the hot vegetables or meat bones are delicious.

Everyone went to the court all morning, and sat at the table for half an hour, they were already very hungry, Li Shimin beckoned everyone to eat and drink for a while, and then said, "I have been thinking about how to do government affairs in front, but I only thought of a few aspects, now, I want to take advantage of this momentum to reform the various systems of the imperial court, what suggestions do you have, you can say it, let's discuss it, just like Zhengming mentioned this" Citizens' ideas are the same, whether they succeed or not, whether they do it well or not, and look at the after-effects, but with more ideas, when we govern the country, we will have one more choice, and the more the better! ”

Speaking of doing the work in front, Fang Xuanling first mentioned one point, that is, the situation of official corruption and rampant domination.

Due to the stimulation of a series of expensive commodities made by Sun Xiangfu, the consumption of the magnates in Chang'an City increased sharply, not to mention the high-priced meals in Wangjiang Tower, the perfumes, leather products, new clothes, furniture, antifreeze sesame oil, etc. sold in the two cities, are all things that officials and noblewomen like, and if you want to enjoy these things, you have to spend a lot of money.

This is only one aspect of the increase in the expenses of the magnates, on the other hand, on the daily necessary expenses, to maintain a large number of people to burn a warm kang, the consumption of coal stoves is not small, usually eat more vegetables and fruits, but also spend a lot of money, these things are now sold in Chang'an market, either shipped from Lingnan, or planted by farmers outside the city, even if you don't have much money on hand, eat less, but the guests come, you don't pick up good hospitality? The prosperity of commodity varieties is reflected at this time, which can greatly stimulate consumption.

And these officials have more and more places to spend money, and the money on hand is naturally not enough to spend, so they are bound to find ways to embezzle and use their official status to seek some personal gains.

In the eastern and western cities of Chang'an, it is not uncommon for officials to take the goods of small traders for nothing, and even beat up small traders, and often the city bureau turns a blind eye to such things, and the small traders themselves do not dare to speak out, but can only endure it, because in the feudal period, the people could not sue the officials, especially the merchants who had no status.

According to the situation raised by Fang Xuanling, Li Shimin felt that officials should be banned from going to the market in the future to prevent this from happening, however, Sun Xiangfu felt that this was a symptom rather than a cure, and he was not doing his work in front at all.

For example, if an official needs vegetables at home, he will not personally go to the stalls of the farmers who pick the vegetables and sell them in the East Market, but will come forward and shock one or two of the farmers, so that his dogs will come to the stall every day to take them for nothing.

Now, if you prohibit this official from going to Dongshi, the actual impact on them is actually not great, because this kind of thing, the official himself does little every day, and in order to reduce the impact, he may directly send his own dog leg to the farmer's house to get it.

Sun Xiangfu is a person who has experienced the mature era of the social system in later generations, and naturally has some insights and ideas of his own, and suggested to Li Shimin, "Officials oppress the people because their power is not restricted, and they do some things that infringe on the interests of others, and they take it for granted.

For example, citizens can sue officials for illegal acts, so that they can put a lock on the rights of officials, and in the litigation and punishment stage after the lawsuit, the interests of vulnerable groups should always be protected, and even the people can be anonymously sued, and only the officials in charge of procuring and collecting evidence know the identity of the accuser, so that the people do not have to worry about not suing because they are afraid of official retaliation. ”

"Give the people the power to sue the officials?" When Li Shimin heard this, he thought about it and already felt that it was feasible.

The current system of the Tang Dynasty is basically inherited from the former Sui, and the Sui Dynasty was defeated under this strict management system, and the officials' management of the people is fine and strict.

However, Li Shimin was previously overwhelmed by external troubles and disasters and had no energy to carry out reforms, but now that the external troubles have been resolved and the internal disasters have basically subsided, it is time to start improving these systems.

However, giving the common people the power to sue officials is a bit unacceptable to feudal society, and if the officials in a place cannot shake the people, the place is very likely to be chaotic.

"Your Majesty, the people only have the power to complain, whether they really investigate or not, whether they are punished or not, it is not the court that has the final say, so, in fact, there is no need to worry that after the people have such power, the court will be difficult to control, Your Majesty can change the authority of supervising the imperial history or inspecting the imperial history, and set up a procuratorate to specifically accept the cases of the people against officials, and all the members of the personnel use full-time criminal investigators, only talk about evidence, not emotional, and only have the right to investigate the case, not the right to judge, and the imperial history of the wind and action, active picketing is different, They only went out to investigate the case when the people made a complaint. ”

"In addition, the minister also suggested that all officials should be abolished."

After Sun Xiangfu finished saying a large paragraph, he added a sentence.

However, it was this sentence that made everyone here feel shocked, canceling the rice job field is something that will touch the interests of all officials, why is it necessary for Datang to do this now?

Seeing that everyone's eyes were on him, Sun Xiangfu continued to explain, "There are many purposes for doing this, among them, there are factors that increase the cost of official crimes. ”

"The cost of crime?"

Everyone didn't quite understand the meaning of this new word that Sun Xiangfu said, and continued to look at him with inquiring eyes.

"Your Majesty, what is the component of our Tang officials? Monthly, rice, and vocational field output.

The monthly salary is given money, in fact, it is not much, Lu rice is given to grain, mainly to ensure the daily use of these officials, the output of the field, is to tie the income of the officials to the output of the field, although the purpose is to let the officials supervise farming, but the real effect is very little, we Datang, and there are a few officials who will take care of the things in the field! Moreover, the grain and rice produced by the field are enough for officials to consume at ordinary times, and the rice is already a superfluous move, allowing the imperial court to save from other places

Too much of the grain that was collected went to the pockets of officials.

Therefore, the minister thought that it was only necessary to keep the item of monthly salary. ”

"Only keep the monthly salary?"

Everyone was stunned again, everyone knew that Sun Xiangfu was not a targeted, he said this, there must be some of his considerations, but just now he just said that the output of the field and Lu Mi are somewhat duplicated, so at most Lu Mi will be canceled, and now how can even the job field be counted, you know, this is the biggest piece of official Lu.

"Yes, only keeping the monthly salary, this has several advantages, one is that the imperial court does not need so much grain and rice to spend on officials, which will make the grain reserves of the treasury more sufficient, and when there is a disaster in the country or a certain place, it will not be subject to some merchants, and can mobilize grain for disaster relief more freely.

Second, it can prevent officials from privately accumulating slaves and tenants, hiding slaves, and making trouble.

And after the fields are directly in the hands of the people themselves, they will help them farm the land, they will be more attentive, the output will be more, and the tax revenue of the court will naturally increase.

Of course, not distributing rice and allocating land does not mean that the imperial court should reduce the income of officials, but to increase the income of officials, but only give them money, the third advantage of this is that it will stimulate consumption, increase the commercial tax revenue of the imperial court, and promote commercial prosperity.

In this way, the income of the official is single, once the crime is dismissed, he has no source of income, worse than the peasants, and the officials and subordinates who are supported by those officials with money will also worry about the problem of jobs, and prevent officials from committing crimes, after all, when the only source of income is gone, their jobs will be broken, and in this way, officials will pay more attention to their official positions and dare not take risks easily. ”

Sun Xiangfu's set of ideas came out, and the eldest grandson Wuji listened to it and nodded again and again, however, the ideal is plump, but the reality is a little skinny, first of all, the imperial court can't take out so much money to pay for the officials' salaries, not to mention the whole country, just Guanzhong, or even just the Beijing officials and magnates in Chang'an City, if all the money to be issued every month is converted into copper coins, it is also a huge number, how can the imperial court bear the expenditure of hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash every month.

However, from Sun Xiangfu's words, Li Shimin heard a lot of other useful things, first of all, Sun Xiangfu's set of ideas about separating the investigation of the case from the trial is very reliable, and in doing so, it seems that it can control the power of officials very well, so as to make the people's lawsuit against the officials a reality.

Secondly, this can solve the problem of officials accumulating private slaves, after it is too large, the harm to the country, as long as the policy of vocational fields is abolished, it will be difficult for Datang to form a family that can threaten the state power.

He roughly calculated in his heart, just one Taiyuan Wang family, there are hundreds of people who are officials, how many of their occupations do they add up? As a result of these occupations, how many households did they control in their own private hands? It is no wonder that they were able to squeeze out tens of thousands of serfs to develop them outside the customs in a short period of time, which is also one of the fundamental forces of a family like the Taiyuan Wang family.

In addition, only by handing out money, they can also monitor the royal family, magnates and other forces, they do not have a huge number of jobs, then it is naturally useless to raise tenant serfs, and all the things that can be produced by themselves will be greatly reduced, and if they rebel, they must first buy a large amount of grain, grass, and ordnance in the market, and once they use the money to buy these things in the market, Li Shimin can know immediately.

However, this kind of idea of killing multiple birds with one stone is difficult to implement because of the lack of money in Datang, which is really depressing.

Seeing that Li Shimin, Eldest Sun Wuji and the others showed regretful expressions one after another, Sun Xiangfu asked again, "But because of money, Your Majesty feels that this matter is not feasible?" ”

Hearing this, the eldest grandson Wuji looked at Li Shimin's eyes, and after getting permission, he turned his head and replied, "My Datang's total tax last year, excluding grain, cloth, silk and livestock, etc., was only 2.8 million yuan, and if the Tang Dynasty, no, just all the officials in Guanzhong were converted into copper coins, I am afraid that at least 10 million yuan would be needed. ”

At this time, Li Shimin had actually heard some of the meanings in Sun Xiangfu's words, if he didn't have a way to solve the problem of money, he wouldn't have said this set of things, so he said directly, "If you have any way, just say it, if it is feasible, I will definitely consider it." ”

Sun Xiangfu smiled when he heard this, "It's still Your Majesty's minister, in fact, there is no coincidence, Weichen opened a free money deposit cabinet in Shanyang in the name of the Protectorate of the Metropolitan Protectorate of Anbei, and since then, all my transactions in Shanyang have been in cash, and I have never been short of money." ”

"Free cabinets?"

People who don't have big brains really can't think of what Sun Xiangfu meant, and Wang Gui, who has a cabinet business in the family, squinted his eyes, once the free cabinet shop is opened in Chang'an, all Chang'an cabinet businesses, including Wang's cabinet shop, will all face closure, which not only affects their profits, but also makes them lose their right to speak in the money market, just like Sun Xiangfu, he only needs to look at the data of Shanyang cabinet shop, he can see the assets of each family at a glance, and when he does certain things, he eats them to death.