Li Chen is not completely contemptuous of Wenjingzhizhi, after all, the Han Dynasty really needed to rest at that time, and the two generations of emperors also did a lot of things. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

It's just that Li Chen doesn't think much of the kind of warehouse is full of grain, piled up until it is rotten, and the copper coins in the treasury are piled up to the point that the ropes used to string copper coins are rotten. Although without these accumulations, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty would not be able to make great achievements.

However, Tang Xuanzong did not accumulate much after ascending the throne, and after ascending the throne, he began to look for financial resources, and he still opened his borders. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Tang Taizong was even more embarrassed, and he still beat the Turks.

That kind of accumulation is a waste at all, not something to envy. Ruling by doing nothing sounds very good, allowing the people to rest, reducing the collection of taxes, thirty taxes and one, and reducing forced labor to two years, or even once every three years, for the people, it is indeed a moral policy.

However, there is no need for those accumulations. First of all, the warehouses are so full that the grain is rotten, why not take it out and dispose of it? To feed the pigs, to make wine?

Li Chen did just that. Since his accession to the throne, he has clarified the taxation and returned the excess to normal. The so-called excess collection refers to those grains that were originally used to store the grain obtained from the famine and restore it to its original use. Originally, the imperial court was in short supply before, and these were all requisitioned, and no one cared. Now that Li Chen has normalized him, he uses it to snipe at those profiteers who deliberately hoard grain and raise prices.

However, it is a law that the grain pile will go bad for a long time. Therefore, Li Chen stipulated that the warehouse would be counted every year, the old grain would be taken out and sold, and the imperial court would auction it publicly to see if you would use it to feed pigs, chickens, or wine.

In addition, there is an emergency call, which is also processed first from the old grain. Because basically all the rice is from the South Seas, it is limited to three years, and if it is exceeded, it will be disposed of.

In addition, there is money, and most importantly, money. Li Chen has only accumulated some money now, and of course he won't save it. Grain is just an example, and Li Chen's disdain for that kind of gain comes from the government of later generations. In fact, if you have enough knowledge of finance, you will despise this kind of stingy behavior like Li Chen.

In later generations, many governments would borrow, and even if there was a surplus, it would not be much, let alone saved. will be spent.

Money is to be spent, what does the government do with so much money, you say that you keep some is a preparation, and after saving so much, is there nothing in the world?

Yes, maybe you can save so much, it's really nothing in the world. But does the modern government desperately save money because the world has nothing to do?

Money has to be spent, science and technology development costs money, armaments need money, and, more importantly, economic construction needs money. Imagine, if the modern government and the ancient court have the same concept, the people of the world can have enough to eat, there is no war, there is no natural disaster, and they tightly pick every penny, what will happen?

Who will build? If there is no road, there will be no smooth traffic, and if there is no smooth traffic, how can business be developed? In addition, the issue of medical care, the issue of the elderly care, imagine what would happen if the government did not care about anything, just collected money, managed disaster relief, did not do any construction, and deducted every penny.

He didn't know whether the two emperors of Wenjing had built roads, maybe there were, but there was no record in history. It's just that even if you don't build roads, there's so much you can do.

Like Li Chen, now that he has a little money, he has a lot of things to do, he wants to popularize medical care, and in recent years, he has been recruiting students from Tai Hospital, and some of them can start internships, Li Chen plans to build some affordable pharmacies, on the one hand, to give them internship opportunities, and on the other hand, let the people see a doctor cheaper and more convenient.

Li Chen plans to popularize compulsory education, hoping that one day compulsory education will be fully implemented and the literacy rate in the Tang Dynasty will be raised to eighty or ninety. It's better to be 100 percent, although that's unlikely, but people always have a goal. The imperial court also has a goal.

There are also irrigation ditches to be built, in the Guanzhong area of the Tang Dynasty, there are two large irrigation ditches, one is the Longshou Canal, the other is the Zhengbai Canal. Zhengbai Canal is the Zhengguo Canal of the Qin Dynasty, and the Bai Canal of the Han Dynasty is called together, and the two ditches together can irrigate about 80,000 acres of land.

However, the more tired it gets, the area that has long been gradually inferior to the original gain. One of the reasons is that some powerful people have set up waterwheels along the way, and there are many waterwheels. No matter how it is rectified, it is useless, even if it is ordered to be demolished three times and twice, it will be revived not long after.

Li Chen renovated the banks of the Wei River, densely packed with waterwheels, and later learned that the irrigation ditch was also seriously occupied.

In fact, the Tang Dynasty did not manage the Zhengbai Canal, which was theoretically under the jurisdiction of Jingzhao Shaoyin, among which the water conservancy law of the Tang Dynasty, the "Ministry of Water Style" had provisions for management methods, and there were also special institutions to manage them. But these can't help the powerful, originally a total of 44,000 poured Zhengbai Canal, but now, it can only irrigate more than 6,000 tilts.

Li Chen is to renovate the irrigation ditch, in addition to reiterating the prohibition of the establishment of waterwheels, he also simply sent a forbidden army, directly dismantled the waterwheels, and every year in the spring ploughing season, he will send troops to patrol, he also sent an edict, people along the way, as long as they see a waterwheel, they are not responsible for demolishing it. Look at a few who dare to commit crimes against the wind. Okay, you have the ability, send someone to guard, that's just right, don't get caught, whoever is caught will be severely punished. Someone is guarded, just as evidence.

This alone is not enough, he also needs to reorganize the water conservancy. In addition to the occupation of the Zhengbai Canal by waterwheels, the river channel is cut by water, resulting in a gradual decrease in water inflow. The more important reason is the lack of dredging.

The irrigation ditches in the field need to be dredged, otherwise they will gradually be clogged up by heavy rain and accumulated over time, so they need to be maintained. This is a long-term, manpower-intensive project. Unless you use stones to repair it, it is not uncommon for the surroundings to collapse. And this can't just be one paragraph, it must start from the source, and each section must be maintained.

It's not that the peasants don't know this truth, but first, there is no one to lead them, and second, even if they do it themselves, they still have to prepare food, and even, many times, they don't even have enough time, and they are arrested to serve in forced labor, so where is the time to repair this.

I don't have time to repair, but there is time for fighting, because it usually takes half a day to finish. In order to fight for the right to use the canal, the countryside fought fiercely, resulting in a lot of human lives. And because the ditches are deserted, there is no water for irrigation, and the yield is reduced and more fields are produced.

There is a Yimin Temple in Taiwan, and these people are worshipped. There are two names for this, one is called Fu Ke Dou and the other is called Zhangquan Tilt. Fuzhou people and Hakka people fight, Zhangzhou and Quanzhou fight, countless casualties, and later all over the country unified to establish the Yimin Temple, those who died in the temple are enshrined.

Isn't there a solution? Neither is it. It's not that there is no long-term water conservancy project, Taiwan has Babaozhen, Kangxi Temple was built in 44 years, and it can still be used now.

In addition, during the Japanese occupation era, the Japanese also built a lot of irrigation canals, and the amount of work was not small. It's also been used for a hundred years and is still in use, and I haven't heard of any special maintenance. How? Quite simply, because of the cement.

Cement, Li Chen hoarded a lot, and road construction is only a small effect. The most important use is the construction of irrigation ditches. From the very beginning, he had hoarded a lot, but he was delayed by the war and had no money to repair it, so he could only continue to use it, and now he has to take it out and use it.

The ditch repaired by cement is not afraid of silt accumulation, nor is it afraid of heavy rain erosion, although the cost will be more, but after repair, it can be done once and for all.

It just so happened that agricultural magistrates were set up in various places, and the agricultural magistrates were used to coordinate manpower, and those who could still be used had to be maintained, and the waste had to be reorganized, and it was not necessary to say that it would be completely ignored in the future with cement, but it would not be a problem to use dozens or even hundreds of years.

Used for hundreds of years? This is not a big place, like the Longshou Canal, the inlet is built with stones, which is more durable. If the local ditch can be used for hundreds of years, it is difficult to calculate the reduction of manpower and material resources and the increase of production.

Cement doesn't clog? That's right. In addition to not being afraid of collapse, cement ditches, the water flow will be faster, less likely to cause siltation. Li Chen also saw it on TV and in newspapers.

Because cement can allow water to flow through quickly and is not afraid of water washing, it is widely used in river control projects. However, it is not without its drawbacks. So in modern society, cement began to be slowly abandoned.

Taiwan once spent a lot of money to clean up a river, cut bends and straighten it, and also used cement to build embankments and rivers. As a result, it failed..., and it cost a lot of money, but on the contrary, the water became more serious.

Why? It turned out that when it rained heavily, the water flow was too fast, and the upstream rushed down without shelter, and was cut off and straightened, as a result, the downstream river did not have time to drain, and the water overflowed. Originally, there was no truncated bend to straighten, and there was still a place for the water to flow to give the downstream flood time, but a bend was straightened, and even this little time was gone.

It's not that I didn't think about this problem at the beginning, and the problem of flood discharge was too late. When renovating, the centennial line was taken into account. This means that in the past 100 years, the highest will be flooded. But back then, it was negligence, there was no cut and straightened, there were places that temporarily overflowed, and the water would not rise so high...

Later, it was spent a lot of money to renovate, so that no more news of flooding was heard. Li Chen only knew from this that cement had such benefits.

Another disadvantage of cement is that it will damage the ecology. Because it is not easy to silt up mud, the water flows too fast, and the agricultural abuse leads to the destruction of the field ecology, and some field organisms that can be seen in the field before have disappeared. Therefore, in some rural areas, cement ditches have been abandoned, and traditional mud ditches have been adopted, and ecological construction methods have been adopted to return them to nature.

But these were not problems for the Tang Dynasty, which just needed cement ditches. In addition to the rural areas, Li Chen planned to renovate the water conservancy facilities in the Guanzhong area, as well as the Yellow River, and used cement as embankments for part of the river.

Although, the Tang Dynasty was very careful in controlling the water, and the Yellow River basically did not flood. It is also because of the frequent wars in the five dynasties and ten countries, not to mention the disrepair, and the embankment was dug by people, which led to frequent floods in the future.

However, it is necessary to take precautions and build cement embankments in some key areas as soon as possible, so that the water flow can be accelerated and siltation reduced, that is, in the future, some people will want to dig up the embankment at every turn. Cement embankment, no explosives, see how you dig it.

This money is to be spent. What's the point of keeping? It's a waste to leave it to Wenjing. ', Ayaqi Palace, Li Chen is giving lessons to several prime ministers.

Now that the regular liquidation has gradually resumed, the imperial court has prepared a budget in advance and set aside some money and grain to prepare for the famine. Everything else has to be spent. ’

'The court keeps the money, it is useless, and it will only have an effect if it is spent. For example, now that the conscription is exempted, the imperial court hires people to build roads. This road is repaired, business travel is smooth, and trade can be circulated, which can promote commerce, first, to levy commercial taxes, and secondly, to reduce transportation costs, so that people can buy cheaper goods. ’

In addition, imagine that the money is back in the hands of the people, and the people have money, will they buy all kinds of clothing, food, and supplies, and the clothing and food products will sell well, and the merchants will increase production? Do you need to hire workers to increase production? Employing workers keeps the landless people from being without food and clothing. ’

'Equalization may lead to chaos among the people, for the simple people. And to increase sales, you can draw a commercial tax. The increase in business output and the reduction of costs can benefit the people. The imperial court increased the commercial tax and spent it again, repeating the previous process. ’

'Think about it, if the money is put in the warehouse and the ropes are rotted, can this result? A few words, which are very common in modern times, let these Zaifu bow their heads and ponder, they only thought of saving some flowers before, but they never thought that the imperial court could have such an effect by spending money.

Moreover, spending resources to resettle the people may not be effective in the short term, but in the long run, it can turn the wilderness into fertile soil, and it will only take more than ten years, and it will be a land that I am rich in. There is also a tea mountain, which can not only accommodate the people, but also produce tea in the future, and it is suitable for domestic use and export, why shouldn't this money be spent. ’

But what if the money is spent, what if there is a war in the future? Li Chen's words are very reasonable, but there is a fundamental problem that cannot be solved. In the event of a war, the cost is small. And no one knows how much it will cost, and now they have spent all the money. What should I do when I need to use it?

It's not easy, go and borrow it. Li Chen said it as a matter of course, but several prime ministers shook their heads when they heard it. Borrow money? Who to borrow? Asking those merchants to borrow money would not make the imperial court lose its majesty. Besides, who would dare to borrow?

It's not that the imperial court hasn't borrowed money from merchants, and when the finances were tight, the Tang court also used to borrow it. Like those wealthy businessmen in Chang'an, they forcibly borrowed.

It is conceivable that the so-called borrowing is simply a forcible extortion. If there is no borrowing or repayment, who will borrow? Not forced? Absolutely no one borrowed. Forced borrowing? This kind of thing is really too bummer, and it is not a good way to do it until the last minute.

"I didn't say to borrow from merchants, once the court is in war again, the cost is not small, how many rich merchants can borrow it?" Don't I know that the rich businessmen are afraid that they will not be able to repay the loan, and who will be willing to borrow it? ’

However, if there is a person who must borrow it, it is only that the court must pay it back. Li Chen said with a smile, the money has been spent, and it will not be recovered in a short period of time. Moreover, once a war breaks out, this cost is not small, and it is by no means enough to be supported by taxes in that year. It's just that for Li Chen, this is a premeditated thing. He had already planned it, and it was not difficult at all. (To be continued.) )