"Your Majesty." Li Fu was a little embarrassed.

"Your mind is clear, but some things cannot be avoided. Look at this, it's from the Dark Guard. Li Jing picked out another one from the compromises on the side and threw it away. The cover of the fold is red, unlike the other white folds.

Li Fu opened it and took a look, his face suddenly changed, and he couldn't help but say: "A small county order embezzled 100,000 silver coins, this, this?" The above recital was handed over by Chen Long, the deputy commander of the secret guard, and it was written that Chen Liuxian ordered Liu Zhi to embezzle 100,000 silver coins, which made Li Fu frightened, Chen Liu is not a big county, just such a county seat, a county order can be corrupted so much. This shows the problem.

"See! It's just a small county order, just because I want to build the Yellow River embankment, and I accept so many bribes from merchants, and the big ones are terrified, and I only consume a lot of silver coins a year. Li Jing pointed to the music in front of him and said: "Now the world is about to be unified, the Central Plains have been peaceful for many years, the life of the common people is better, the court encourages business, these businessmen are rich, and there are more ideas, and the court has only so many money, some officials' annual income is not as good as a meal for some businessmen, how can these officials be willing in their hearts, and it will become natural to accept bribes, Li Qing thinks?" ”

"Even so, this cannot be a reason to take bribes, how can these people do such a humiliating thing when they read the books of sages, and the minister thinks that this matter should be strictly investigated." Li Fu said without thinking.

"It's natural to investigate and deal with it strictly, but that's not what I'm talking about." Li Jing knocked on the table and said: "The imperial court has an imperial history platform, and these supervising imperial histories are divided into states, but these people have not found it, but the secret guard has found it, doesn't Li Qing think it's very interesting?" ”

Li Fu stopped talking for a while when he heard this, Li Jing said so much, just to show that the secret guards cannot be withdrawn, even in the peaceful period, these secret guards are still effective, look at these officials, how can they be done without the monitoring of the secret guards? It's just that he always feels that something is wrong, and he can't say it.

"After the Jiangnan War, the people's livelihood withered, and it will take some time to recover." Li Jing didn't pay attention to what Li Fu was thinking, and said: "Jiangnan was originally a place of ointment, Jiangnan has not been fully developed over the years, which is unreasonable. "I think that in history, Jiangnan is in the hands of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the annual tax will reach 100 million, what is this concept, it can only show that Jiangnan is rich, but later, in all dynasties, the money in the whole country is only tens of millions, which can only be said to be a huge irony.

"Your Majesty is still ready to start a business?" Li Fu asked again.

"Yes, Jiangnan is close to the sea and is an important window for maritime trade." Li Jing said without thinking. The reason why the Southern Song Dynasty was able to get such taxes was not because it relied on the sea and developed marine trade, so much money, and the later Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty, although the land was vast and rich, but they closed themselves off from the country, were self-sufficient, and relied on various taxes such as poll tax, which was only tens of millions of taels a year.

"Your Majesty, the world thinks that merchants can make money, but are there still people who cultivate food?" Li Fu said seriously: "Over the years, the imperial court will spend a huge amount of money to buy grain from outside, on the one hand, because the people's livelihood in the Central Plains has not yet recovered, His Majesty is sympathetic to the people, and the grain collection is very small, so he will buy grain from Champong, Goryeo and other places, but in the same way, it is not because some people give up cultivating the land and plant mulberry trees instead, so that the grain will be reduced. As a result, the farmland has been greatly reduced, and the grain that the imperial court can harvest is getting less and less all year round. ”

Li Jing's face changed when he heard this, he looked outside, then knocked on the window, and the carriage suddenly stopped. Li Jing took the lead and walked down, farming was unstable, it was like this through the ages, and the grain in later generations was piled up, which was the credit of Mr. Yuan, but it is different now, it is very difficult to be self-sufficient in grain, not to mention changing the farmland into mulberry fields, the further reduction of grain, and the stability of the imperial court will be even more difficult.

Li Jing encouraged commerce, forgetting that businessmen were profit-seeking, factories were clustered, and there were fewer people who even farmed the land, not to mention the land, and the court collected less grain. If Li Fu hadn't said this, Li Jing probably wouldn't have reacted until now, and farmers and businessmen are interdependent and antagonistic to each other.

"Your Majesty." Li Daniu Pegasus came.

"Change into civilian clothes and take a few people down with me." Li Jing's face was solemn and waved his hand, at this time the army had crossed the Yangtze River and entered the Jianghuai River, Jianghuai is still the grain-producing land of the Central Plains, the same, because of its proximity to the Yangtze River, the business is developed, porcelain, salt, silk fabrics, etc., all flow from here into all directions, and even overseas countries, Li Jing wants to see the situation here, is it as Li Fu said.

"Crimson, are you going to see what's going on?" In a carriage behind, Li felt that the army had stopped, and he was curious and hurriedly asked Crimson to investigate.

"Back to Mrs. Hui's words, Your Majesty will prepare a white Arowana suit to see the people's feelings." Half a sound later, I heard Crimson trotting over.

"Oh, let's go down together!" Li thought for a moment and said.

Li Jing saw that Li was dressed in white, and did not speak, at present, Li Jing had something in his heart, just led a few people to walk into the distance, faintly saw a small village in the distance, the village is beautiful, even in winter, autumn, can still vaguely let people see the harmony of the village.

On the living water side of the village entrance, there are many farmlands around the village entrance, according to the reason, the autumn harvest has been completed at this time, but there should be straw roots left in the field, but Li Jing did not see these, but saw a mulberry tree, the leaves on it are yellow, some have been light and transparent, there is nothing, I believe that in the spring, there is a piece of green in it.

Li Jing bent down and looked at the soil, the smell in the soil was relatively strong, indicating that the quality of the soil was still very good, next to it was a ditch, connecting the living water at the head of the village, this is a high-quality paddy field, but at this moment it has become a mulberry field.

"It's a good farmland, it's a pity." Li Jing sighed slightly.

If it weren't for the fact that silk fabrics were sold better in the market, overseas countries particularly liked the silk fabrics of the Central Plains, which led to businessmen leading and farmers changing this way of planting.

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