Chapter 696: Economic Boom
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After coming to the academy, Feng Yinu said that he wanted to see his students, so he separated from Li Qi. And Li Qi went to his office, and on the way, he had already ordered someone to call Chen Dong and Ouyang Che.
"Knock knock!"
"Come in"
"Vice Dean, you're looking for us."
After a while, Chen Dong and Ouyang Che walked in.
Li Qi stretched out his hand and said lightly: "Sit down." β
The two sat across from Richie.
Li Qi put down the quill in his hand, glanced at the two of them, and said with a smile: "It's getting colder and colder recently, and it's okay for you to go to class." β
Ouyang Che said: "The vice dean looks at us too spoiled, the current environment of the college is good enough, and there is a fire in the office for heating, which is nothing at all, besides, those students can stand it, we will not even be inferior to children." β
Chen Dong nodded and said, "What Ouyang Che said is, vice president, please rest assured, everything is fine." β
"That's good." Li Qi nodded and said, "It's the New Year soon, and this year's workshop has made money, so the academy plans to give each of you a padded jacket at the end of this year in addition to the benefits stipulated in the contract." β
"Thank you, Vice Dean."
"You deserve it." Li Qi coughed lightly and said, "Today is a great good boy for our academy, do you know why?" β
Chen Dong and Ouyang Che glanced at each other, and Ouyang Che said: "What the vice president is referring to is not the fourth appearance of the Taishi. β
"Clever!"
Li Qi laughed: "Isn't this worth celebrating? So I'm going to add some food tonight to make everyone happy. β
Chen Dong snorted lightly and muttered, "I'd rather Taishi continue to serve as the dean." β
Li Qi frowned slightly: "Chen Dong, what did you say?" β
Chen Dongdao: "I just think it's much better for Taishi to be the dean than him to be the prime minister." β
Li Qi smiled and said, "Chen Dong, I didn't expect you to be a teacher for so long, your knowledge has increased a lot, and your skin has thickened." β
The corners of Ouyang Che's mouth twitched a few times, and he almost laughed out loud.
Chen Dong said solemnly: "What did the vice president say? β
Li Qi smiled slightly: "It seems that you are still not convinced, I have always liked to advocate speech, of course, this is just my personal opinion, you don't take my words as a holy decree, in that case, you are not far from death." But Chen Dong, when you say this, you don't blush, you are too a student, and others have been reading for a few more years, people like you, a lot of them, just your little way, to evaluate a prime minister, why do you? β
Ouyang Che said: "Ouyang doesn't dare to agree with what the vice president said, the prime minister is just going to ask for the people's life, why are we not qualified to evaluate." β
Li Qi nodded and said, "Yes, what you said is good. But you are all adults, and you have to take responsibility for your own words, Chen Dong, do you think you are right? β
Chen Dongdao: "I can only say that I am not wrong. β
"Nothing wrong? It's not that I'm talking about you, Chen Dong, you haven't even been an official of sesame mung beans, what Taishi does is not something you can understand, what you see is always just the surface. β
"Yes, I really don't understand the intrigue in officialdom, but I will see the results."
"Hey. You also lifted the bar for me. β
"Chen Dong doesn't dare."
"Don't dare? What else did you Chen Dong dare not do, you dared to point at the Taishi's nose and scold, I am really curious about this. Li Qi smiled and said, "However, what you said is right, you really don't understand the intrigue in officialdom, if you do, it won't be like this." Then let me ask you, do you want to be an official? β
Chen Dongdao: "Naturally." Career is the dream of scholars all over the world. β
Ouyang Che also nodded.
"Then what do you think is the most important thing for an official?"
"Be honest and honest, and ask for the people's life." The two spoke in unison.
Li Qi shook his head and said, "No, no. β
"Would you like to hear it?"
"I don't dare to be a good official, but I think that if you want to be a good official, you must first learn to be a man. Take you Chen Dong as an example, you are undoubtedly the most unsuccessful person, don't be convinced, do you have a friend around you? It can be seen that your interpersonal relationship is not ordinarily bad. β
Chen Dong snorted: "The Tao is different, and they don't conspire with each other. β
Li Qi haha said: "There are thousands of people in the world, but you Chen Dong is the only one who is on the right path, and the others are all evil and crooked, right?" When will you learn to reflect on yourself, you are a well-educated and insightful person, but I am very annoyed by your kind of xing personality that seems to be out of the mud and not stained, please, that is a saint, you are called sick. Is it possible for a huge country to be governed by one person? Even if you are the prime minister, if everyone disobeys you, then you are not a fart, and you still ask for life for the people, you rely on your mouth to shout that I want to ask for the people's life, pragmatism is the most important, what is pragmatism, that is, to do things for the people in a down-to-earth manner, but if you want to do this, the most basic thing is to learn to cooperate with others. If you are the governor of which state, there is a disaster in the place under your jurisdiction, and you ask the imperial court for appropriation, but you offend all the people in the three divisions, will others ignore you and sue you, those people can give the whole person half dead with a casual word, how can you ask for the people's lives? β
Chen Dong snorted angrily: "This is related to the life and death of the people, even if I have any festivals with them, but I must also put the people first." β
Li Qi said with a smile: "My Great Song is not a state, nor is it just that you have a disaster in a state, but the money you can come up with is extremely limited, they can make excuses at will, and you will not be able to do it." If that is the case, then you are a sinner to the people, is this what a good ruler should do? You once impeached the Taishi, scolded the Taishi, so majestic, do you think the Taishi is afraid of you, that is the Taishi disdains to fight with a little person like you, there is a share, if he hates you, don't say that you can't be an official, even if you become an official, he has a way to kill you by jumping into the river to commit suicide. You have failed so much, who would dare to expect you to be a good official. This world is not centered on you Chen Dong, you are just one of tens of millions of people, what is so great about you, you are not qualified to look down on anyone at all. β
Chen Dong was trained by Li Qi's words with a red face and round eyes, but there was no way to refute it, his personality is notoriously stinky in the capital, and those former friends avoided him, but this is also normal, who would want to be friends with a person who insults the first person in the dynasty at every turn, life is precious.
Ouyang Che's face was also slightly red, and he sneered: "Vice Dean, didn't you call us here just to talk about this." β
"Of course not." Li Qi smiled and said: "That's the case, this morning the imperial master played the emperor, and asked for the abolition of the Ying Feng Bureau, and the emperor allowed to play." β
"What?"
The two exclaimed.
Chen Dongdao: "How is this possible, wasn't the establishment of the Ying Feng Bureau his attention at the beginning." β
Li Qi smiled: "As far as your realization is concerned, I told you, you won't understand, in other words, if you understand what the Taishi is thinking, then you can leave here." β
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Ouyang Che said: "Vice Dean, is what you said true?" β
Li Qi said angrily: "Do you think I dare to joke about the Holy Purpose here, I am not Chen Dong, and I don't have the courage of him." β
Chen Dong's neck is red now, and he can't make a sound!
Ouyang Che said happily: "Then this is really a great thing for the people, especially the people in Jiangnan." β
Chen Dong also nodded vigorously and said: "Yes, yes, this should be the cause of harm, and it is the first major scourge of the people." β
"It would be nice if you could think like that." Li Qi coughed and said: "The first thing I called you to come to is to ask the two of you to write a few articles on this matter immediately, remember, the article must be written around the Taishi, Ying Feng Bureau, and the people, the people are the objects you have to face this time, you have to use this Ying Feng Bureau to praise the merits of the Taishi from the side, of course, praise the emperor, this is a must, I won't teach you, do you understand?" β
"It'sβit was."
"Don't tell me that at the beginning, I'm talking about now, isn't it enough for you to write and praise the Taishi? If you can do that, I'll write for you for a year. β
After hearing this, Chen Dong and Ouyang felt that this was indeed a great thing, although this was originally provoked by Cai Jing, but no matter what he said, this was a merit. Both nodded.
"Remember, be fast, I want that kind of immediate effect." Li Qi instructed, and said: "As for the second thing, to be honest, I am against it, but the Taishi insists on this, then I can only obey my fate." Now the imperial court attaches great importance to Jiangnan and intends to focus on rectification, and my new law will also begin to be implemented in Jiangnan, but because of the preservation of the Suzhou Feng Bureau, the Jiangnan officialdom will be benefited, so the emperor intends to rectify the Jiangnan officialdom by changing the law, and this errand will fall on my head, and the Taishi personally recommended the two of you to the emperor, so I plan to send the two of you to Jiangnan, as for the appointment, I believe it will come down soon. β
When the two of them heard this, their hearts were full of joy, and the joy on their faces was beyond words.
Li Qi smiled: "But don't be happy too early, I said earlier, I thought that sending you to send you is equivalent to sending you to death, Jiangnan officialdom is equivalent to Longtan Tiger's Den, whether you can return safely, I am very skeptical." Ouyang, although you also belong to that kind of radical faction, you are better than Chen Dong, I advise you to keep your distance from him as much as possible, but don't let him get involved. β
Chen Dong was so depressed that he was about to vomit blood, and said unhappily: "Vice Dean, don't look down on people." β
"Speaking of this official, I really look down on you." Richie smiled disdainfully.
Chen Dongdao: "Then how about we make a bet?" β
"Bet on what? Money? Your money or what I gave, life? Your life is in front of me, or is it worthless? That's it, I don't ask you to do a good job, as long as you can return safely, I promise to pour tea to you to admit your mistakes and get promoted, not to mention this. β
"Good. Deal. β
"Don't be too busy." Li Qi raised his hand and said: "Things are far from being as simple as you think, rectifying Jiangnan officialdom, this is your primary purpose this time, but there are still many stakes involved, and I can't say it clearly, in short, it is to check the people you should check, and you should not check, you must not have any ideas." In this way, after the appointment, you will go to the Bureau of Commerce to learn from Qin Xuezheng, and he will tell you the specifics, and by the way, let you have an in-depth understanding of the economic construction of Jiangnan. After the year, you will immediately leave for Hangzhou, and when you get there, you will obey Zheng Yi and Zheng Tong's judgment. This is a great opportunity for you, do well, soar, do not do well, even if you don't lose your life for this, then the career will be permanently closed to you, you can do it yourself. β
The two stood up and saluted: "Vice president, please rest assured, we will definitely live up to our mission." β
"Let's hope so, get out."
"Huh? Oh. β
The two of them glanced at each other secretly with low eyebrows, didn't care at all, forcibly held back a smile, saluted again, and turned their backs to go out.
"These two guys, it's really a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers, hmph, you will feel better in the future, I really don't know if this move helped you or hurt you!" Li Qi let out a long sigh, and his gaze became deeper and deeper.
As everyone knows, he himself is not the newborn calf!
Not long after Chen Dong and Ouyang left, Li Qi also left the office and went to the sports park, but seeing that there was no one in the classroom, he knew that Niu Gao and they must have training, and went to the office of the planter, and saw a white-haired old man sitting by the stove and concentrating on the hundred~ten thousand\ small! Say, I didn't even know he was coming.
"Knock knock!"
Li Qi politely knocked on the door a few times.
The planter was stunned, looked up, and saw that it was Li Qi, and said with a smile: "Your kid is finally here, and the old man is still going to look for you, come and sit down." β
Li Qi arched his hand, sat down, and asked with a smile: "Gong, is your body okay?" β
The planter shook his head and said: "When you are old, your body is naturally not as good as day by day, and you can't talk about good or bad." β
Li Qi couldn't help but feel a little gloomy when he heard it, yes, birth, old age, sickness and death are natural laws, and no one can escape. smiled: "No matter what, the seed master must also take care of his body." β
Seed Master Dao nodded and said, "In the past few days, there has been a lot of shaking in the court. β
What shocks? It's like a landslide. Li Qi smiled and said, "I don't know what the seed lord thinks about this?" β
The seed master waved his hand and said modestly: "If the old man can understand the truth, he will also fall here." "He now deeply understands that he is not in his position, he is not in his politics, and the lessons of the past make him not want to participate in these things anymore.
"The farmer is too modest." Li Qi said with a smile: "Actually, the Taishi originally wanted to elect the seed prince to lead the Gyeonggi Road, but for some reason, he may have to let the seed prince wait for Duan Zi again." β
"The kindness of the master, the old man understands." The planter shook his head and said: "Now that I am in the Song Dynasty, I don't need the old man, and the old man is also very satisfied with his current life." I remember that at the beginning, when you invited the old man to come to Taishi Academy, the old man was indeed selfish, but after this year, the old man felt that this was already a gift from God to me, and Yue Fei's group of boys were also angry, and the old man was very happy with them! I don't miss the years of Narong Ma anymore. β
Having said that, but now that the Great Song Dynasty is still inseparable from you, after all, there is a ri, you will still put on the armor, this kind of comfortable life is probably a luxury for you and me. Li Qi smiled and didn't make a sound.
The seed master suddenly asked, "By the way, there is something that the old man wants to ask you." β
"What's the matter?"
"King Yun, is he not coming again?"
Li Qi was stunned for a moment, nodded and said, "Maybe." β
The planter stroked the beard and sighed, "It's a pity, it's a pity!" Your Highness, he is a rare talent. β
Li Qi smiled bitterly: "I'm sorry, I made the seed master lose a beloved apprentice." β
The seed master shook his head and said, "I can't blame you, it's the will of heaven." β
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Throughout the ages, no matter what decision it is, it can't benefit everyone, Cai Jing's first day in the court can't be said to be perfect, it can only be said that he didn't live up to everyone's expectations, he did everything he should do, just that series of performances, let everyone dizzy, dazzling.
Second, the news of the abandonment of the Ying Feng Bureau spread in the capital.
Some people are happy and some are sad, and the people are naturally the happiest, after all, they have all deeply experienced the pain brought to them by this Ying Feng Bureau, and some of them even beat firecrackers to celebrate. But if you are a little more conservative, you still have a wait-and-see attitude towards this, because when Fang La rebelled, this Ying Feng Bureau was also abandoned for a while, but it was soon reopened.
The key is still Song Huizong, in fact, to talk about it, in this matter, Song Huizong is definitely the second biggest victim, what Song Huizong likes, it is nothing more than what granite, strange flowers and trees, etc., all of which have to be scavenged from all over the country by Ying Feng. However, when he thought that what he got was only about one percent, and the rest was divided, and his reputation was also violated by Yan zhΓ²ng, how could he swallow this breath, and after all, this was Cai Jing's first performance, he had to give some face, of course, the most important thing was that Li Qi's military order moved him, and for various considerations, he finally agreed.
Therefore, the worries of those conservative people are not unreasonable, there is still a certain reason for them, in fact, even Li Qi is not 100% sure, this should be the bureau since then, as long as Song Huizong is there, then the bureau will have a chance of resurgence, but Li Qi really can't think too far at this time, he wants to take advantage of the present to do things well.
In addition to Song Huizong, the biggest victim is naturally Wang Huang.
For Wang Hao, this is really a house leak that happened to rain overnight, the job has just been lost, and now even the cornucopia has been smashed, so angry that he fainted on the spot.
He originally thought that even if he was a servant, as long as Ying Feng was there, he would have a chance to make a comeback, because Ying Feng was completely for the emperor's personal service, the best magic weapon for sycophants, and Ying Feng was full of his cronies, and no one could get in, although he was at home, he could still strategize.
It's good now, Cai Jing doesn't beat you up for any idea of the bureau, man, you have to do things simply, just scrap it, think too much, think too much will only cause endless trouble, this time it depends on how you make a comeback.
Of course, Cai Jing's own interests have also been damaged, after all, Suzhou Yingfeng Bureau has a lot to do with him, but in front of his famous plan for eternity, everything is a floating cloud.
However, because Wang Hao also has a great relationship with the harem, the damage to some people in the harem is still very great, but now that Cai Jing, Li Qi, and the prince are in the limelight, they can only choose to avoid their edge and dare not talk nonsense in front of the emperor.
The Great Song Times Weekly also made a special feature for this matter, the content of which is undoubtedly to praise the wise decisions of Song Huizong and Cai Jing, and the harm caused to the people by Wang Hao and Ying Fengju from the side.
This is the same as the situation of Cai Jing Zhishi at the beginning, at that time, Wang Hao also degraded Cai Jing to death, and he couldn't wait to say that Cai Jing was the incarnation of the demon, which also made Wang Hao get the support of the people and was named "Virtuous Minister".
Cai Jing just repaid the favor in his own way, but he had Li Qi's help this time, and his publicity was far better than Wang Huang's.
Because the previous Taishi Academy has begun to change Cai Jing's image in the hearts of the people, coupled with Li Qi's perfect packaging this time, Cai Jing's image has undergone a earth-shaking change, the people support him very much, and the streets and alleys are talking about him, which also makes Cai Jing taste the sweetness, and he is even more unswerving about his plan.
At the same time, Richie's economic construction was also proceeding in an orderly manner. Aside from Wang Huang's biggest obstacle, the imperial court is completely on the same line as Li Qi, and Li Qi finally began to exert his strength, the first thing to do is to reduce redundant officials, and the first to use it is the envoys in front of the imperial court, as well as the officials who have served in the Ying Feng Bureau.
As soon as this should be abolished, those officials did not know where to go, and the Ying Feng Bureau was a huge organization, and there were countless officials, large and small, and they were all over the country, which brought a very heavy burden to the imperial court, and it was just used to set an example for chickens and monkeys.
Poor Wang Huang, the only strength left in the court, was also cut down and eradicated.
Coincidentally, these officials who used to belong to the Ying Feng Bureau are all fat poor, after these years, everyone has made a lot, even if they are laid off, it will not be to beg on the street, but they are not like those big landlords in Gao Yu, they can eat for ten lifetimes while lying down, so they don't want Li Qi to fool around, and they obediently joined the business world, and came to the Commerce Bureau to report, hoping that the Commerce Bureau can give them a good plan, which is really an unexpected surprise for Li Qi.
After these two large-scale layoffs, it is also a good wake-up call for some officials, knowing that this day has changed, and seeing those officials who have been engaged in business, they are now living a good life, and they are too lazy to wait for Qin Hui to come to the door, and they began to run to the Commerce Bureau independently, which greatly reduced Qin Hui's pressure.
Qin Hui has also tasted the sweetness now, he used to beg for people, but now people begged him, it feels really cool.
In addition, with the joining of Chen Guoting, Zhang Rulin, Chen Dong, and Ouyang Che, the Bureau of Commerce is full of talents, and finally becomes a department with complete equipment and talents.
Although Wang Hao fell, the Masuda tax was not stillborn. Before that, Song Huizong listened to Li Qi's opinion and issued a decree, that is, the land real-name system, all the land that was not registered in the Bureau of Commerce, the imperial court regarded it as not existing, since you want to conceal it, simply conceal it to the end, and you are not allowed to auction it in the buying shop, but how to deal with it, or how to punish it, whether it is to take it back, or forcibly expropriate, the court does not say a word about it.
These are terrible, those big landlords are all panicked, I don't know what this real-name system is all about, whether to go or not, that's called a tangled.
On the second day after the promulgation of this decree, Li Qi began to intensify his efforts to publicize the tax on increasing fields, and as soon as the news spread, those small farmers were naturally the happiest, and they hoped that the tax would be implemented as soon as possible.
Although those landlords and powerful people already knew, but at that time there was no official announcement after all, seeing that the tax on increasing land was coming, they couldn't sit still at first, but they saw that many big landlords were running to the Bureau of Commerce with the land deed, which had to surprise people and began to look around for news.
Just when they were confused, Li Qi let out the wind again and released the news of the industrial park and agricultural park, and the four capitals of the Song Dynasty were the first batch of real places, as well as Hangzhou, Jinling, Laizhou, Yangzhou and other places.
At this time, those landlords and heroes began to wait and see again, but their hearts were even more entangled, they couldn't digest such information for a while, so they didn't dare to act rashly, and they waited and watched the changes, and the current situation was calm, which made the conservatives in the court and Wang Huang who was at home in Zhishi was shocked, and the script didn't seem to go this way.
Li Qi sat firmly in Diaoyutai and prepared for the popularization of the new law in Jiangnan at the Bureau of Commerce all day long, in addition, he and Zhu Mian got on the hook, and the two closely discussed the rectification of Jiangnan officialdom, after all, Cai Jing is not good at showing up. It is not good to have to do the scenery and make a little movement to reverse Cai Jing's reputation, but also not to hurt Zhu Mian's roots, so as not to find out that in the end, all the spearheads are pointed at Zhu Mian, which is not very good, and the stakes in this are also a headache for Li Qi, and it is not easy to be perfect.
The most important thing is that Li Qi can't leave the capital by himself, so he can only rely on Zheng Yi and Bai Qiannuo, who have already gone south.
Although the weather is getting colder and colder, the economic heat is becoming more and more violent, and it begins to sweep around Bianjing as the center, becoming more and more intense and unstoppable.
Snowflakes fall.
Li Qi dragged his tired body and stood in front of the gate of the Qin Mansion, looking at the hazy sky, and sighed: "Another year is almost over." This year's festival is really exciting. (To be continued.) )