Chapter 41 The court will discuss financial matters
The simplest of methods was immediately effective, and with the spread of well-intentioned people, land reform was quickly implemented within the royal family. At the same time, most officials saw the clues, and began to take the initiative to give up their excess land and return it to the state.
The incident of Li Youliang's rebellion came to an end hastily, and the only thing that made Li Chengqian dissatisfied was that he did not have a strong armed force in his hands. What particularly surprised me was that those people who supported the camp on the ground alone were also good hands, but after actually trying to fight, they didn't have enough force to catch those important criminals who had been prepared for a long time.
Use the army of the Prince's Mansion? Don't think about it, the leaders of the guards guarding the Prince's Mansion are all under the jurisdiction of Li Shimin, and I have tried to call it myself, but it's a pity that in addition to guarding the Prince's Mansion, what else do I do? It can't be adjusted at all, and there must be Li Shimin's handwritten oracle or military talisman. In the end, the few guys who were engaged in intrigue and intrigue ran away again, but at the moment, there is no way to do it.
Just set up local support camps all over the country to assist in industries, distribution outlets, transportation, and intelligence networks. Li Shimin didn't say anything, just turned a blind eye and passed. Want to engage in armed forces? Thinking about the last time he asked to form a special squad of 500 people, Li Shimin had to think about it for a while before agreeing.
If you want to get more, you can think of it, it's impossible, don't even mention it. If he had to put it forward openly, not only would it not be approved, but it was estimated that it would immediately arouse Li Shimin's suspicions and concerns. Although I won't do anything about myself, falling out of favor is certain, and such an ending is even uglier than death.
Quietly developing? Do you think that when making a movie, you are the protagonist and everyone else is a fool? In ancient times, these people were not stupid, just in their own industry, there were dozens of secret agents and traitors who could see the clues. Although he has been transferred to some unimportant positions, there are not a few spies who have not been discovered so far. What's more, he doesn't dare to give these spies now, after all, they are people sent by Li Shimin.
The idiot King Changle, who had just died, just quietly got hundreds of private armies in private, and he was directly denounced and labeled as a rebel. It is estimated that if you do it like this, the end will not be much better than that of Changle King. I had to find another way.
Li Chengqian also fantasized at the beginning that when he came to the prosperous era, he would be a young hero, and he would kill all directions; Get an attack on everything, invincible, but the result is not good, needless to say anything else, since I saw the consumption of food, grass and military materials for sending troops once, it was so terrifying, and I immediately extinguished this thought. This is not a game, and it really can't afford to spend national power.
Up to now, Datang is not stable, Liang Shidu is still lingering, Yuan Junzhang is still swaying in the Yanbei area, the Turks are still eyeing each other, Lingnan Feng Ang is not particularly stable, and all the heroes and officials of the Tang Dynasty are waiting and watching Li Shimin's ability to govern the country and the development of the current situation.
In terms of resources and wealth, most middle-level officials still travel in ox carts. Most of the common people are poorly clothed and hungry. These can be seen in some clues.
Regarding the above situation, in order to stabilize the situation, after Li Shimin came to power, he first obediently made a Weishui Alliance, and kept paying tribute to the Turks and spending money to ensure peace. The emperor knows more than himself, his heart is more aggrieved, he wants to fight more than himself, and he wants to show his great achievements. It's a pity that the political situation has just stabilized, so we can't mess around, so we can only rest and recuperate first.
The former Sui Dynasty was strong enough, and the grain in the granary was enough for the whole country to eat for fifty years, but Yang Guang collapsed in a few years. The consumption of resources to fight a war, that is not a trivial matter. If you are belligerent, you will die, and if you forget to fight, you will be in danger, and development is the last word. Bear with it for now, and it will be almost the same after a while. Besides, its basic military industry has just started, it takes a long time to accumulate precipitation, and the development of agriculture has just begun.
It has been more than a month since Li Chengqian returned to Chang'an in early February, and although Li Wujie and Wang Xuance helped take care of it, he has been busy, and the key is that the stall is too big. The most important things at the moment are, of course, land reform, banking, and training and education.
In the Prince's Mansion, Li Wujie and Li Chengqian, looking at the three sets of colorful and unique banknotes that were taken out of a beautiful copper box, their eyes suddenly lit up. This is the sixth prototype that has been sent, and it finally makes them both feel a little satisfied.
Even Li Chengqian himself had to admit that the wisdom and insight of the two people were much stronger than his own, and it was not a simple accumulation, but a multiple-fold improvement.
For example, the invention and improvement of clothing, cosmetics, daily necessities, medicine and hygiene, food production, music and art, etc., Li Wujie's insight far exceeds his own, and many knowledge points in this set of books are now being revised and supplemented by Li Wujie.
Looking at Li Wujie, who was busy every day, he couldn't help but feel a little throbbing, fortunately he didn't kill this demon girl, not to mention that she was beautiful, compared to the women around her, she was full of modern atmosphere. And in terms of life, he is also quite considerate of himself, if he had a bad thought at the time, he would really regret it. Now sometimes when he sees Li Wujie, he always has a strange feeling. Is it true that I have reached puberty now? This made him very embarrassed and uneasy.
The new coins are much thicker than the banknotes of later generations, after all, they are printed in three layers, and the middle layer is a very thin silk embroidered security imprint. There are also special spice fusions, embroidery and security filigree weaving techniques, with special paper on both sides.
If you want to imitate, you first need to make paper, textile, spice preparation, glue, drawing, dyes, painting, ink preparation, embroidery, engraving plate making, watermarking, overprinting, layered overprinting and other processes to figure out and master all the processes. It's not that it can't be imitated, it's just that the cost and cost of imitation are too great and not cost-effective.
In the Hongwen Pavilion, Li Shimin also had a phobia of choice for these three sets of banknotes, and the officials of the three provinces and six ministries sitting below had nothing to say except for the exclamation one by one. As for which set to choose, this kind of thankless thing is also kept silent, and the final choice is not decided by the emperor. Everyone tacitly agreed not to mention it, and everyone understands that you are the emperor, and you have the final say.
Li Shimin's eyes rolled, and he looked at everyone and said: "Since all the princes don't express their positions, let me have an opinion." These three sets of banknotes were all recently made up by Gao Ming, so we might as well listen to his introduction. ”