Chapter 574: Taking from the People, Using It for the People (First Update)
"How did you say this, if I really have sadness in my heart, it is just to mourn its misfortune and be angry, if there is such a person in Meng Yi's clan who regards the laws of Great Qin as nothing, I, the Tai Lieutenant, will definitely abdicate and give way to Xian!"
What Meng Yi said was really loud, he was the first person in the Great Qin Dynasty, if he really abdicated and made way for Xian, it could only mean that the banner of the old Qin nobles had fallen, and the people below all gasped when they heard it.
"What is Taiwei talking about, what Han Xin did this time is not just a normal execution in accordance with the laws of Qin, although people are members of the Mengshi clan, but the Mengshi clan is so vast, Taiwei still has to work hard for my Daqin's court, naturally sometimes he will take poor care of the Mengshi clan, don't blame himself, I won't have any opinion on the Mengshi clan because of this matter!"
Clear-eyed people understand after listening to Yinggao's words, in Yinggao's eyes, there is no fault with Han Xin this time, people act according to Qin law, and the descendants of your Meng clan have committed the Qin law of Great Qin, who can you blame?
It's just that people don't hold Meng Yi accountable for the crime of lax discipline, and those who make mistakes deserve to die, but it has nothing to do with you Meng Yi at all, but to put it bluntly, this shit basin still has to be buckled on the head of the Meng clan, because it is already difficult to give up between Meng Yi and the Meng clan.
So, those who originally wanted to take this opportunity to frame Han Xin for a while, so as to achieve the goal of settling Meng Yi, all swallowed the words they had prepared, because now they have seen the situation in the Great Qin Dynasty very clearly, the nobles in Yinggao's eyes, no matter what kind of situation you are noble, they don't have any privileges.
At this time, this matter came to an end in a period of silence, and then Ying Gao began to introduce a series of policies he had prepared last night, and these policies were basically related to Sun Yue and the other five agricultural supervisors.
It turned out that the time node when Yinggao came back happened to be a period of time after the people of Daqin had just harvested.
Although most of the places are good, Yinggao carefully studied the data obtained by Sun Yue and others, and still found that in some places, it is likely that the seeds distributed by Daqin officials are not suitable and there is a reduction in yield or no harvest, although I don't know how much each household has reduced production or lost harvest, but Yinggao knows that the compensation for such people must be determined as soon as possible, and then implemented.
So what Yinggao introduced in the court today is his compensation plan for this part of the people, after a brief introduction, Yinggao glanced at the officials below, and said: "Before, many people in the group were eager to try, obviously they all wanted to show their faces in front of me, and now I need to listen to your opinions, so you don't have to excuse yourself." β
In this way, the guys who were eager to try before suddenly all lowered their heads, obviously, what they were thinking in their hearts, Yinggao had already seen it, but they didn't directly debunk their faces.
And when Ying Gao asked, there were some guys who did have something to say before, but had nothing to do with Meng Yi's family.
"Your Majesty, once you compensate those Qiantou as you said, I don't know how much damage will be caused to my Great Qin's treasury?"
Indeed, if all the food lost by the people who have suffered losses for some reasons is replenished to them according to the method that Yinggao said before, it will indeed be a big challenge for Yinggao to have never done such a thing before, and the tax remains unchanged, and there is no such expenditure for the Daqin treasury, so this person thought of this, and listened carefully, but what he said made Yinggao sound very angry.
"Then I came to ask you, what is the grain stored in my Great Qin's treasury for?"
Because Yinggao's expression was still very playful, and he couldn't see any bad emotions, so the person who asked the question didn't realize how much his statement made Yinggao oppose, and he was the person who was responsible for the expenditure of grain, grass and other things in the treasury of Daqin, so he thought of the treasury for the first time after Yinggao raised this matter, and saw that Yinggao still had something to ask, and thought that he had grasped the key point this time, and he organized a lot of language in his heart.
"The grain and grass in the treasury are transferred from various counties and counties, and they are for the use of my Great Qin Xianyang City and the surrounding areas, and the number of those victims is very large, so it will definitely have a very big impact on the treasury of Great Qin, and I have to ask you to think twice about this matter, and consider one or two for Xianyang City!"
In the end, this guy also showed that he was brave and loyal, as if he was persuading Yinggao to change his mind.
But this guy's words made Sun Yue, who was standing not far from him, angry enough, without him, because this proposal was finally put forward by Sun Yue, and Yinggao saw it in a hurry last night, plus Sun Yue was a woman, Yinggao was embarrassed to summon her into Xianyang Palace in the middle of the night, in that case, if some people with a heart misunderstood, then Yinggao's first life name would be completely ruined.
Sun Yue, who heard these words, turned red, and was almost about to stand up and refute it, but Ying Gao saw such a situation, so naturally he couldn't let a woman like Sun Yue stand up as cannon fodder, and although Sun Yue and the other five people had been in Daqin's court for a while, they were still a lot worse than these old fritters who had been immersed in the court for so long.
"Then I will ask you again, where does the grain and grass in the Great Qin Treasury come from?"
It was still the same tone, it was still the same question, but the official in charge of the treasury didn't think much about it, and slowly stepped forward, as if this would bring him closer to Yinggao.
"Your Majesty, these grains and grasses are the tax balances of various counties and counties, and they are transported to Xianyang City through the straight and waterways of my Great Qin, and it is very difficult to obtain them, so naturally your lord can't distribute them to the people so easily."
After he finished speaking, it seemed that he had found another reason to persuade Yinggao, and his face was full of satisfaction, but he didn't know that Yinggao's heart was speechless to the extreme.
"I have a sentence, I will teach you today, the grain and grass in this treasury, taken from the people, used for the people, what you say, all of them are strong words, why did Chen Sheng and others oppose Qin when I was not on the throne before, at that time, my Great Qin's treasury was also very rich, but what is the use? Aren't you going to take the army and sweep down the rebels? If these people had been fed before, why not? β
"This ...... Your Grace, I'm ...... I was confused for a moment! β
How did he know that what he thought was a perfect statement would become worthless when it came to Yinggao, and this reversal was something he didn't expect at all.
But those words have been said before, this is like spilled water, even if he has the heart to kneel on the ground and lick it back, it will not be able to lick it back in the short term, right? So he could only slap his face incoherently, in order to ask Yinggao to forgive him.
"I'm not a person who expelled you from Xianyang Palace without saying a word, you were an important member of the Great Qin Dynasty, and today I will leave what I said before to you, your task is to cooperate with Sun Yue and the other five agricultural supervisors, according to the requirements of the five of them, to transport the grain in the Great Qin treasury to various counties and counties, and distribute it to the people who have indeed reduced production or lost harvest because of my reasons or the weather, if this matter is done wrong, Or if I hear any complaints from the people of any county about this, you won't be in front of me again, you know? β
"Thank you, I will definitely cooperate with the five agricultural supervisors in this matter, and I will definitely handle this matter well!"
For this official of Daqin, the current situation is that in the final analysis, Daqin's treasury is high, and he is not the owner of the treasury, but he is just temporarily guarding the door for others, and the master has spoken, if you don't hurry up to execute, his days in the Daqin court may really come to an end.
Sun Yue, who was already so angry that she was almost jumping up, saw this reversal, and her heart was still very comfortable, especially the sentence that Yinggao said was taken from the people and used by the people, although those nobles who stood on top of the court may not be able to listen to it, but Sun Yue is a person who was born with Qianshou and has been dealing with Qianshou during this time, so he understands the meaning of this sentence too well.
These grains were originally planted by the people with hard work, but after planting, almost half of them had to be handed over, and the rest was left by themselves.
But on the other hand, for the people of Daqin, if they are fed a little food, they will be dead set on Daqin and Yinggao, not only those people who are about to starve to death, but also those people who have a good harvest After learning about this, they will not be afraid that they will not be able to grow food in their fields every year.
The person who came out let Yinggao put it on the table again, and naturally no one dared to say anything to refute this matter, although this matter was not regarded by Yinggao as a new deal, but this is not much different from the new deal.
Yinggao knew that those officials were not against making the grain in the treasury of Great Qin smaller, but against Yinggao taking the people of Great Qin seriously.
Every emperor has a balanced balance in his heart, if he puts all the weight on the nobles, the nobles will naturally be able to live a comfortable life, but if he puts all his energy on the people, the weight of the nobles in his heart will definitely be lower and lower, which is what they feel unbearable in their hearts, so they will desperately not want Yinggao to be good to the people.
Now, Yinggao has clearly expressed his thoughts and attitudes many times, when Sun Yue and the other five people were brought from the candidates of the imperial examination to the court of Daqin, many nobles were scoffing at this matter.
But now, they all have to admire Yinggao's foresight, and when these five inconspicuous women who have not even been noticed by them have played a role, they find that things are no longer under their control.
This order didn't seem to play a very big role in the court of Great Qin, nor did it make any big moves, let alone send it out from Xianyang Palace in the form of Qin Law, but the impact of this matter was very big, and even Sun Yue and Yinggao didn't expect it.
It was late autumn, and in a village where the north wind was howling in the hometown of Yan Kingdom, two children less than ten years old were curled up in the house, and the house was also ventilated on all sides, making their clothes look extremely thin.
"Brother, what can my father and mother come back to, can you cook some food for my little sister, my little sister is hungry."
It was a little girl who was no more than five or six years old, and her body was clean, but there was not a little blood on her pale face and body, and her cheekbones, collarbones, and bones that could be seen in everything were all on the outside, and she obviously did not have enough to eat, and there were more than one or two meals, not only for a day or two.
At this time, she was lying weakly on the body of a boy who was slightly older than her, although the boy looked the same thin, but his face was better than the girl, after he listened to his sister's words, Douda's tears were already rolling in his eyes, but he still subconsciously hugged his sister tightly, and replied in a low voice: "Daddy has gone to the county to help, today is sure to bring back food, wait, wait a little longer, we won't be hungry!" β
The little girl was obviously very naΓ―ve, she blinked her big eyes vigorously, looked at her brother in front of her, and waited with antidescent for her father's return.
But when the little girl's head turned, the tears of her brother, who was also young, could not be stopped any longer, and slid down his little face, for he had heard the conversation of his parents when he was too hungry to sleep the previous night, and that their family, or indeed he and his sister, would probably not survive this winter.