"All the new assassins of the four directly subordinate states have been arranged in place, and they will take office today, plus the three directly subordinate state assassins appointed last year, we have added seven new assassins directly under the state, and the number of directly subordinate states has reached fifteen." In the palace of diligent administration, Li Siyuan put down the roster in his hand and said to Li Congjing, Feng Dao and others in the palace, "The assassins of the states directly under the imperial court are carefully selected by me and Qing, and they will bear the heavy responsibility of implementing the new policies in the states and counties in the future." ”

"The first batch of new policies, there are six decrees: first, rectify the taxation, lightly pay the fee, all the peasants and the fifteenth tax one, still levied in spring and summer, allowed to be paid in kind, no longer have to exchange for money, in addition, there are no other subjects and miscellaneous taxes; Second, persuade farmers to build water conservancy, renovate acres of fields, and state and county officials at all levels should rent farm tools and ploughing cattle at no profit to protect agriculture; Third, land annexation should be inhibited, and all wealthy families should not increase the number of acres, servants, and tenants based on the results of the previous year's reckoning. ”

"Fourth, towns set up grass markets, counties set up markets, encourage commerce and trade, no more heavy taxes, unreasonable trouble, deduct businessmen's property, heavy punishment; Fifth, where the state is down, the town army shall not exceed 1,000, Zhongzhou, the town army shall not exceed 1,000, and the town army shall not exceed 2,000 in Shangzhou. The garrisons of the various fortresses were uniformly under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, and the money and grain came from the taxes of the state; Sixth, encourage the township scholars to set up private schools, the county student staff shall not be less than 100 people, where the imperial court opens a department to take scholars, enter Beijing to take the examination of scholars, by the state and county to fund part of the travel expenses. ”

The new political and legal decree that came out of Li Siyuan's mouth is naturally very concise, and the decrees issued to the prefectures and counties have corresponding annotations clause by clause, sentence by sentence, and the discussion is extremely clear, and there will be no ambiguous doubts.

The basic agricultural society is agriculture, the core of the new deal, the current is still farming, the tax system still adopts the two-tax law, but the people no longer have to sell the physical goods into money, and then hand over to the government, so that naturally the government has caused some trouble in collecting taxes, but for the people, it can avoid being colluded by the government and Haoqiang in the process of selling physical goods.

As for whether the government will sell the collected goods to merchants at market prices and transport the money and grain to Kyoto, or whether they will be disposed of separately, it will be decided according to the situation in each locality.

Since it is a new policy, it cannot be a new policy in some places, it should be implemented on a national scale, and feudal towns cannot avoid it, but this is also the difficulty.

This time, the imperial court did not intend to give the feudal towns a chance to breathe, not to mention the sensitive parts involving the military, but the agricultural and commercial parts of the new policy should be implemented by the feudal towns to the letter, so the imperial court had already discussed properly, and Li Congjing would inspect the towns and supervise the matter.

It is not impossible to govern the world, and the difficulty in governing the country lies in the magistrates, officials, and those who touch vested interests.

In fact, since the emergence of Caoyun, it has always been a great chain of interests, and the shady curtain and the abundance of fishing profits are amazing - in later generations, the Qing Dynasty had a Cao Yun governor, who ate pigs and donkey meat was always a whole pig, and the donkey only took a small piece, which was extremely luxurious, which showed the thickness of the black profit.

However, if these problems are not curbed and solved, no matter how much the people's fat and people's ointment are, they can only enter the private pockets of officials, and cannot reach the hands of the imperial court.

Of course, the focus of the new policy is still on the 15 states directly under the new policy, which is the main contradiction, and if the tax situation is to improve this year, the main energy must be focused on this.

Li Congjing has been busy in the two prefectures of Huazhou and Puzhou for a month or two, and he has quite a lot of achievements and experiences, and the assassins and officials of the directly subordinate prefectures are basically carefully selected, and the combination of the two, as long as the will of heaven does not make people, the situation can still be expected.

It can be said that the new deal that began in the second year of Tiancheng brought together all the wisdom and hard work of Tang Junjie led by Li Siyuan, Li Congjing, Ren Yuan, Feng Dao, Li Qi and others, supplemented by great determination, and these people are not momentary figures, momentary choices, and can be described as a momentary effort.

Just after the Shangyuan Festival in the second year of Tiancheng, the first batch of decrees of Tiancheng's new policy has been issued to all states and counties in Datang, fifteen directly subordinate prefectures, and officials at all levels under the history of assassination, most of them are looking forward to this and rubbing their hands. After all, for scholars who have real talents and learning, are eager to show their ambitions, and do practical things, such a new policy is exactly what they are looking forward to day and night.

This is the time for great ambitions.

Today's Tang Dynasty is not as stable as Mount Tai, after all, the two Sichuan, Shu and Jingnan can be described as treacherous, but fortunately, there is no external trouble at the border, the grassland and the Bohai Sea are very stable, and the domestic feudal towns, after the iron-blooded reshuffle of Li Siyuan's father and son last year, are also carrying their tails to be people.

When the feudal town feels that the court is weak and can be bullied, it can be bullied and bullied, and when the feudal town is afraid of the court, who will be stupid for no reason, and can't get along with their own life and wealth?

As soon as the new policy was issued, it was in full swing.

Qin Wangfu. Today, Li Congjing wants to meet someone in the mansion. Regarding this person, Li Congjing's performance was indifferent. He is like this, and the people of Qin Wangfu are even more so. There is almost no one who values the person Li Congjing wants to see in advance, even if Li Congjing actually values this person very much in his heart.

Probably only Mo Li knows a thing or two. So when Li Congjing saw this person, Mo Li was sitting next to him.

"Servant Sang Weihan, meet His Royal Highness King Qin!" Sang Weihan stepped into the hall quickly, and bowed in the hall from afar, but his voice was very loud, and there was a sense of lingering sound, which was obviously full of energy.

"No courtesy." Sang Weihan heard the voice of the young prince sitting in the Ming Hall ten steps away.

"Your Highness!" Sang Weihan got up freely, but he still couldn't suppress the excitement in his heart.

There is something that Sang Weihan has never mentioned to outsiders, in fact, in his early years, he had the ambition to cleanse the foreigners, just like every Tang person, even in the face of the smoke of the whole country, he could not bear the invasion of foreigners. In his opinion, the Khitan barbarians are really fart people, and they really don't know the height of the sky, so after hearing that Li Congjing led the army to win a great victory and forced the Khitan to sign an alliance under the city, he drank three jars of wine in one night excitedly, drunk for a whole day and night, and even wrote the sentence "The heavenly soldiers are hungry for thousands of miles, and they are called the four seas to know the Tang Dynasty".

Therefore, for Sang Weihan, Li Congjing is not only the noble King of Tang Qin, but also the object of his future service, but also a role model for heroes in the world, and his idol.

Sang Weihan looked up at Li Congjing, and found that the other party was also looking at him, so he lowered his head to avoid him, waiting for Li Congjing to ask.

After a moment, he heard Li Congjing's voice ringing in the hall, "Lone has heard that Your Excellency has the ambition of wearing an iron inkstone and vowing to be a public assistant, but I don't know if this ambition has changed today?" ”

Li Congjing knew his deeds, which undoubtedly showed that the other party was concerned about himself, which made Sang Weihan even more excited, and he hurriedly replied: "Returning to His Highness, his words when he was young will inevitably be arrogant, and His Highness will be ashamed of his or her eyes." However, although the servant was reckless, he did not dare to forget his old aspirations. ”

"What is a public assistant?"

Sang Weihan heard the clear voice sound again, and this time, the voice was a little solemn.

Sang Weihan knew that this was Li Congjing himself in the examination school, so he didn't dare to be careless at the moment, and said carefully word by word: "The public, the leader and the minister, are respected and responsible; auxiliary, upper auxiliary king, lower An Lishu; The public assistant of the world, when both virtue and virtue, loyalty and uprightness, know the suffering of the people, know the king's worries, know the teachings of the sages, the future of the country, and have the talent to govern the country and the country. ”

"Do you think you are qualified for the position of public assistant?"

His servants were terrified, and they did not dare to be arrogant so far. However, the servants are willing to follow the example of the sages, always encourage themselves, and forge ahead day and night, so as to be useful for the community. ”

"Who can be called a sage?"

"The Shang Jun of Qin, the Wei Huo of the Han Dynasty, and the Fang Du of this dynasty are all the sages admired by their subordinates."

"Shang Jun worked hard to change the law for Qin, did not avoid danger, where twenty years, once Qin was strong, and Shang Jun's car was split and died, Your Excellency is willing to be Shang Jun?"

"The servant knows that he has no talent for the merchant king, but he is not inferior to the merchant monarch in his own courage, if he can have a merit of the merchant monarch, what is there to fear of death?"

"Lonely heard of the ambition of the sages, you can't eat five tripods in life, and you can cook five tripods in death, and your Excellency also has this ambition?"

"Life can eat five tripods, and the servants can do what they want, and die for the five tripods, and the servants are not ashamed."

"Why?"

"Of course, it is not enough to be afraid of leaving a stench for 10,000 years, but it is perverse, bringing disaster to the country and the people, so as to show itself in the world, why not make coarse tea in the grass and bury it in a banquet!"

"If the Tang people all have your ambition and goodness, then in your opinion, what should be the ambition of the Tang Dynasty?"

"The Tang Dynasty, the world's majesty, should possess the world, and subdue the people, so that the four seas come to the court."

"Your Excellency's words mean that the dynasty should restore Taizong's hegemony?"

"The servant is not talented, I heard that Shangjun entered Qin, and I knew that Xiaogong wanted to restore Mu Gong's hegemony, and said that with the virtue and talent of filial piety, this ambition is small!"

"Lonely news, the dynasty is prosperous, the people are suffering, the dynasty is dead, the people are suffering. Your Excellency thinks that the hegemony is important, or the people are important? ”

"Why did Your Highness say this? Xing, the people are suffering, dying, the people are suffering, this scholar's theory is not enough to enter the eyes of His Royal Highness! If the world is prosperous and the dynasty is strong, all industries will flourish, scholars will have something to learn, farmers can cultivate, craftsmen can work, merchants have something to pay, and soldiers have military exploits. All the people of the world are born and raised, and they are buried in death. The national style is high-spirited, the people are forging ahead, the officials are not afraid of the officials, the people are not afraid of the officials, and the bandits are extinct. Because of this, hegemony is heavy, and the people are also heavy, and hegemony is prosperous, and the world is lucky. If the country loses its hegemony, and the barbarians invade, reproduce the image of the five chaotic flowers, once the land of Shenzhou sinks, the country is not a country, then the world is ten rooms and nine empty, the people are not more than one, people are like pigs and dogs, the taste here, and how can the word "bitter" be exhausted! ”

Your Excellency's words are deafening and deafening, and I am very admired. If you have any doubts, I hope your excellency will solve your doubts. ”

"Your Highness, please."

"If the dynasty is strong and prosperous, if the dynasty declines, civil strife arises, the country is broken, and foreign invasions, at this time, the country does not sacrifice land and profit, then the country will perish, if the country offers land and profit, then the country will survive, what do you think?"