Chapter Seventy-Five: The Hole of the Pastoral Authority
A slip of the account book is placed on Li Xian's case, there are two particularly thick books, one is the fishery department, the other is the food supervision department, the two shops of the fishery department, after the winter, the net profit is hundreds of yuan every day, even if the animal husbandry supervisor only has a general ledger here, there is no detail, at least one is recorded every day, two or three months down, the number is very scary.
Of course, compared to scary, the accounts of the Food Supervision Department look more scary, the tofu industry in Guanzhong County after the complete rollout, the daily sales of 3,000 stones, just the daily production of tofu residue in the workshop, are enough for thousands of fat pigs in the happy village to eat, profit that needless to say, moreover, the Food Supervision Division has not stopped the pace of expansion, soon, Luoyang, Yangzhou, Yizhou, the soybean products branch of the Food Supervision Division will be built, when the time, the Food Supervision Division may become a national yamen.
"This, this, why does the Fisheries Department and the Food Supervision Department have such a huge profit?" Li Xian looked at the number of the last balance in the ledger and stammered a little.
Sun Xiangfu was depressed, seeing Li Xian like this, it was obvious that he hadn't turned over the account book for several months, so don't expect him to be familiar with the new trends of the imperial court, so Sun Xiangfu told him about the situation from the beginning, and Li Xian was stunned.
"Nowadays, the Fisheries Department can make a profit of thousands of yuan per month for the royal family, and the Food Supervision Department has reached a monthly profit of more than 20,000 yuan, while the other three divisions have no profit, my lord, do you think Your Majesty can be happy?"
Send tens of thousands of guan to the palace every month, of course, this is the case of the shortage of ingredients in winter, and in the summer, it is estimated that it will be reduced by more than half, then, on average for a year, two or three hundred thousand guan is not run, Sun Xiangfu has read the tax report of the imperial court, and knows that the net tax revenue of the whole country of the Tang Dynasty in the ninth year of Wude is only more than two million, that is to say, the money earned by these two divisions alone can be worth one or two percent of the tax of the entire Tang Dynasty, and the harem only needs to rely on the income of these two divisions to be able to cope with the expenditure, and there is no need to drag the court back.
Feeling that things were very sudden, Li Xian couldn't accept it a little, and touched the sweat on his forehead and said, "But, how can the other three divisions make such huge profits?" โ
"As long as it's done right, it's okay." Sun Xiangfu said with a confident look.
"Then since you are so sure, Lord Xiaosun, this official will order the chief officers of the Agriculture Department, the Animal Husbandry Department and the Forestry Department to listen to your orders, and make sure that Your Majesty is satisfied." Li Xian seemed to have found a savior, and grabbed Sun Xiangfu's arm and said.
"Well, well, since His Majesty has ordered the subordinate to concurrently serve as the deputy supervisor of the middle pastor, it is also the responsibility of the subordinate to guide the development of the divisions, so please summon the chiefs of the divisions to come to the discussion!"
The same as managing the Food Supervision Department of the Fisheries Department, Sun Xiangfu's management method is to give a business strategy, let his subordinates do it according to the strategy, don't care about small greed and small pollution, big numbers, and keep the core development secrets.
After a while, the chief officer of the three divisions arrived, in fact, counting Sun Xiangfu who was in charge of the two divisions, all the palm seal officials of the Huangzhuang were all present, Sun Xiangfu was naturally ranked under Li Xian, he was not only the chief officer of the two divisions, but also the deputy supervisor of the middle pastor, the pastoral supervisor of the other three divisions had nothing to say about this ranking, and when Li Xian announced that the divisions would obey Sun Xiangfu in the future, the complexion of the chief officials of each division immediately changed.
"It seems that the corruption problem of your three divisions is very serious!"
Sun Xiangfu's first sentence after Li Xian's announcement made the fat on the three lower pastoral supervisors tremble, corruption is such a thing, generally the thick shell will not say that the shell is suffocated, anyway, everyone is greedy, and the boss Li Xian does not like to take care of things, so naturally how much can be greedy, but Sun Xiangfu is different, this goods will be handed over to the harem tens of thousands of yuan in a month, it is a grain of white rice in a pile of chaff, and the emperor and queen couple must believe in him more now than Li Xian.
"Why did Lord Sun say this!" Zhang Yidao, the lower pastoral supervisor of the Department of Agriculture.
"Then why don't you check the accounts of your agricultural department first?" Sun Xiangfu glanced at Zhang Yidao lightly.
"This ยทยทยทยทยทยท"
"The word 'this' has an allusion, when the official first went to court, there was a Cui who liked 'this', and then he spurted blood, and now he is still recuperating at home! Could it be that Master Zhang also wants to learn from Master Cui? โ
The things in the court may not be spread to the people, but in the circle of officials, there are still many people who pass it on, especially the fact that Cui Shixun, a child of a top family with five surnames in seven sects, was vomited blood in the hall by a farmer-born child, this is explosive news, and the official doesn't know it!
But this kid caused such a big disaster, and no one survived, this is simply amazing, in this, Li Shimin and Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Changsun Wuji and others have made great efforts, and the first person in the civil official team, Pei Lian, has also shared a large part of the pressure on him, so, in the official circle, Sun Xiangfu has been labeled as not to be provoked, unless you are an official of the seven sects and five surnames, but Zhang Yi is? Obviously not, how could an official of the Seven Sects and Five Surnames be a retainer for Li Shimin!
Therefore, he didn't dare to make a noise when he was blocked by Sun Xiangfu's words, he just lowered his head and waited for Sun Xiangfu's next words.
"A few adults can actually rest assured, this official will not check your accounts, because I know that you are not clean, and if you are investigated, it will only expose all the problems, and it will not be good for me, and this official will not take away your power, because this official is the same as Lord Li, and he is too lazy to take care of things."
When Sun Xiangfu said this, he looked at Li Xian embarrassedly and touched his nose, saying that Li Xian was lazy, so Li Xian came to sleep in the yamen every day, and listened to the will of the palace at any time.
Zhang Yi and the others breathed a sigh of relief when they heard this, and Zhao Muchun of the Forestry Department asked Sun Xiangfu, "Then Lord Sun, are we going to do business as usual?" โ
"As usual? As usual, you should go home and farm, Your Majesty has already spoken, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Animal Husbandry, and the Department of Forestry, after the beginning of spring next year, must make a profit. "Since these three people know that the items from the royal fiefdom can be sold, then Sun Xiangfu will not be polite to them.
"However, if I don't have your Tao Zhu ability, Master Sun, how can we make our company profitable?" Yang Qiu, the head of the animal husbandry department, who had not been silent, asked.
"No, I told you to wait to spread the way of your germination."
As soon as Sun Xiangfu said this, Zhang Yi and the others' faces instantly became eager, and they said with a flattering look, "If we get Lord Sun's guidance, we will be grateful, I don't know what kind of plan Lord Sun has to grant me?" โ
"Then let's be honest with you first! I want to know in detail what resources you have and how much you have to lose. โ
As soon as Sun Xiangfu said this, Zhang Yi, the animal husbandry supervisor under the most powerful agricultural department, took the lead in unnatural expression, and said with a twist, "The agricultural department has 178,000 mu of fertile land, 30 warehouses for seeds and grain, and there is no disaster in Guanzhong this year. โ
"More than 70,000 stones? Master Zhang, you are so daring! This can involve tens of thousands of huge corruption cases, and it seems that this official will not be able to save you. Sun Xiangfu was stunned when he heard this.
This deficit is too big, but it is a little difficult to make up, and the news of the possible drought in the coming year has begun to spread in Chang'an, and the price of grain has begun to rise slowly, so the cost of making up for this deficit is also increasing day by day, 70,000 stone grain was originally worth less than 50,000 yuan when it was harvested in the autumn, but now it may cost 70,000 yuan, or even 100,000 yuan to make up for it.
"Well, it's not like I've lost money in a year, it's accumulated over the years, and I'm here, in fact, there are only a few thousand stones." Zhang Yi explained.
"Why don't you report it early?" Sun Xiangfu asked depressedly.
However, Zhang Yi did not answer, and glanced at Li Xian, obviously, the morning newspaper is useless, every year from the Department of Agriculture picks thousands of stones of grain out and sells it to share the account, it is Li Xian's acquiescence, and he also divides the big head, so as long as he does not change the middle pastor, everyone knows it.
"I remember, isn't your agriculture department only 90,000 acres of farmland?" Sun Xiangfu thought about it and asked carefully.
"That was when Emperor Taishang was in power, and then His Majesty ascended the throne, and the farmland of the Qin Wangfu was merged with the farmland of the Huangzhuang, and where did the former prince and the King of Qi collect, although His Majesty rewarded a part, but there are still 178,000 mu in the account, and in fact, there may be about 200,000 mu, and the Agricultural Department has organized the farmers to open a lot of new fields in the past two years, and it has not been reported."
"The part of Xintian's output is also in your own pocket!"
Zhang Yi was embarrassed and didn't speak, Sun Xiangfu knew that it was ironclad, and asked again, "Then how many households are under the jurisdiction of your Agricultural Division?" โ
"Well, 3,000 households, with a population of more than 15,000 and more than 4,000 strong men." Zhang Yi reported truthfully.
However, Sun Xiangfu knew from the data reported by Xiong Ting that the people of Huangzhuang may have to cultivate 120 acres of land per household, that is, of the 200,000 acres of Huangtian, there are less than 2,000 farmers who actually cultivate it, so what about the remaining more than 1,000 households?
Zhang Yi looked at Sun Xiangfu looking at him with suspicious eyes, and knew that he couldn't hide it, so he said truthfully, "The actual population responsible for cultivation is less than 2,000 households, and the remaining 1,000 or so households are all allocated to various palaces to do miscellaneous labor, so that some benefits can be collected and a lot of rations can be saved." โ
Zhang Yi is a typical example of the Tang Dynasty version of petty officials and huge greed, Sun Xiangfu doesn't want to wipe his ass for such a scumbag at all, but he is more afraid that he will be affected, so he said, "I don't care what method you use, before spring ploughing, you must let all 3,000 households return to their Zhuangzi to prepare, otherwise don't say it's me, and the gods can't save you." โ
After that, Sun Xiangfu looked at Zhao Muchun and Yang Qiu again, "What about you over there?" โ