'Ladies and gentlemen, look at this notebook. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info', Li Chen recruited several prime ministers in Yanying Hall again. Hand them a copy of the notebook.

'Lu Shilang, your memoir, you can read it. Li Chen handed over the notebook to Lu Hongzheng, and several prime ministers understood, it turned out that Lu Hongzheng wrote the notebook, no wonder he was specially asked to participate in the discussion, although Lu Hongzheng was a household servant, but he did not add the same level of affairs, he did not have the qualifications to discuss politics, originally this performance was right, he could not come. Only if Li Chen is particularly approved, he can still get it.

'One said: If a traitor damages the moat and sets fire to it, and the thief is not caught, this decree is in line with the palace punishment, and it has been implemented today. but not within the boundaries of the land, and without the time limit for catching the thief....

One said: Illegal salt that crossed the border should be caught, and two pools of salt thieves should be scraped and stolen, and the head of the salt prisoners who robbed the salt should be connected, etc., and the first said that the state governments should arrest and sell illegal salt and scraping soda decoction thieves. Please write the text before and after.... ’

This notebook is not long, just three. To put it simply, it is necessary to strengthen the anti-smuggling and so on, 'What do you think?' ’

'Good, to the point. Bai Minzhong spoke, and several other prime ministers joined in. Can it not be attached? Why don't they know, this is what Li Chen means, besides, this piece says that strengthening the investigation of smuggled salt can increase taxes, and it doesn't offend people too much, so they naturally don't object.

Of course, if the investigation of smuggled salt finds something that involves officials, it is not that serious. Anyway, not for all officials, it's not a big problem.

Then, it was decreed that Lu Shilang could participate in political affairs with the title of Pingzhang. Bao Sikong Yu Anyi Liangchi Salt Envoy, Inspection Si Feng Langzhong and Imperial History, responsible for investigating smuggled salt. Lu Xiang, you read the ten articles of the salt law to the prime ministers by the way, no problem, and implement it. ''No. ’

Ah, it turned out that it wasn't Lu Hongzheng who had to play the chapter. Originally, I thought that the recital was Lu Hongzheng's, he was a household servant and a salt and iron transfer envoy, and he reported about the salt administration, which was counted as his part, but it turned out that he was helping people to go to the table, and helping the Sikong Yu who was just a small judge. Now the salt method is its own.

Lu Hongzheng played his ten salt methods one by one, and Li Chen listened to them with great satisfaction and a little regret. Lu Hongzheng, his father is very famous, is a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty, Lu Lun.

If you still haven't heard of him, then you must have heard his poems, the moon black geese fly high, fleeing in the night, wanting to chase away the light horse, the heavy snow full of bow and knife Lu Lun.

Lu Hong is his son, and he is also quite famous, he has two elder brothers, and all three of them have been admitted to the Jinshi. It can be said that the tiger father has no dog son, and the door is full of jinshi. It is also a coincidence that he is now in an official position, and his father has also been.

Lu Hong was reciting his ten new laws, and Li Chen was very satisfied, not satisfied with the new laws. Basically, this new law is just the old salt catching system during the Yuan and He periods, and this was just a few decades ago when the regulations on anti-smuggling salt had to be investigated, revised and supplemented.

Li Chen is satisfied that Lu Hongzheng is an honest official, upright, and very abidby by the law. Li Chen really wanted to add him a higher position. It's just that he is older and his health is not very good, and Li Chen is very worried that he won't be able to weigh it for long.

He is more famous for the Wen Dynasty, Huazhou assassin Shi Yu Wending implicated in a crime of embezzlement. Lu Hongzheng was serving as the imperial historian at that time, and was ordered to review it with Lu Yunzhong, a member of the household department.

The case was true, and Wenzong was angry and ordered him to be put to death. Lu Hongzheng argued on the basis of reason, believing that this person's crime did not lead to death, that he was a coercive obligate, not the principal offender, and should not be executed. Wen Zong followed his advice. Li Chen appreciates this very much, he can administer according to law, and he is a talent, but unfortunately he is older.

However, Li Chen looked at the several prime ministers in the hall, how many young ones were there? The difference lies in the quality of the body, and the care that you don't know is just that. The prime minister is not only a kind of qualifications, but also a kind of experience, without those experiences, you can't be the prime minister. Even if he did, he couldn't sit in a stable position.

In addition, people say that thirty old Ming Jing, fifty young Jinshi, usually you are admitted to the imperial examination, you are not young, and you have experienced, and you have been promoted, it is strange that you can be young at this age. Let's look at it again, adding an extra burden shouldn't crush him.

'Guys, what do you think?' |', Li Chen thought about it, Lu Hongzheng had finished reading his new law, and Li Chen asked a few prime ministers what their opinions were. How can a few prime ministers not hear that this is just an addition to the old system in the Yuan He period, and some loopholes were filled, since it was an improvement of the old system, there was no room for opposition, so it was unanimously passed. In addition, the only thought is probably that Sikong Yu is developed.

After that, some things were discussed, and then the court dispersed. Li Chen shook his head as he walked, he was not dissatisfied with anything, he wanted to say that the official system of the Tang Dynasty was really complicated enough.

It is definitely not what a historian surnamed Cen said, there are only ministers, loose officials, lords and titles. He spent a long time trying to figure out these official positions. Take that commonplace, inspect the school Si Feng Langzhong and serve the imperial history.

Basically, these are all false titles. His real position is to be the salt envoy of the two pools. Calibration and concurrent. No matter what you add, it's just an honorary title. It is usually used for officials recruited by feudal towns, or as in the case of Sikong Yu, who held official positions in the Yantie Mansion.

If you can bring it to the school, you should be regarded as a middle-level official. There is also a title called Trial. For example, try the school book, try the Dali judge. This kind of trial title is awarded to civil servants, and is usually used in conjunction with the lower-level officials in the capital.

It's not over yet, if that's for the civilian officials of the shogunate. If it is for the military attache to be used for the shogunate, it is usually connected with the high-ranking officials from the third rank, for example, the most common ones are the test hall middle supervisor, the test Guang Luqing, the test Wei Qing and the test Honglu Qing, etc., and several specific high-level capital officials will be used together. I don't know, is this considered heavy military and light literature?

The official position in the Tang Dynasty was really messy, which made Li Chen dizzy, which was no worse than the Song Dynasty, which was recognized as having a complicated official position. In other words, the Song Dynasty inherited the Tang system, and the official positions of the Song Dynasty would be chaotic, and all kinds of chaotic titles after the middle of the Tang Dynasty could not be separated from the relationship.

Li Chen wants to change it, this kind of official title is too troublesome, can't it be simplified? It's just that it's not a big deal, as long as you are familiar with it, it's clear what kind of position and what kind of position he has. It's going to be troublesome now, mainly because he's not familiar with it. So he didn't do it.

Today's discussion is over, Li Chen is in a good mood, and the matter is settled, but there is still a passing scene to go, and the holy decree has to be written.

However, Li Chen still has to do something to Yan Zheng. Arresting smuggled salt is just a remedy, and Li Chen wants to return to the basics and follow Liu Yan's salt law.

Liu Yan's salt method is very simple, the fundamental reason is to reduce costs, and then the imperial court only sells salt. Liu Yan got the salt method, why is it effective? A very simple truth, cheap...

He only grasps the big production, only grasps the production of ten sea salts, and then watches over there. The advantage of sea salt is that it is in large quantities. The salt in the pool is of high quality, but the amount is small. Well salt, too troublesome to constantly draw brine from the well, how can it be convenient to lift seawater.

Then Liu Yan reduced the number of officials, which could greatly reduce costs, including personnel costs, and invisible corruption. With just a few officials, it's easier to keep an eye on.

'Uncle, it's been a long time. Li Chen summoned a little guest in Zichen Palace, just listening to him call Uncle Li Chen as soon as they met, he knew that he was an orphan adopted by Li Chen.

'Ah Zheng, Ah Yi, it's been a long time. Li Chen replied with a smile, "Sit, sit." ''Thank you, uncle. Ah Zheng also laughed, glaring at Ah Yi on the side, and didn't feel it at all. made Ayi a little weak, how many times did he say that he couldn't use his previous name after entering the palace, and he couldn't change this person.

Li Chen looked at the two people in front of him with a smile, and he also saw Ayi staring at Azheng. These two people are good friends, but their personalities are just reversed, and Ah Zheng is very lively. Ayi is a square, old-fashioned, very rigorous, pay attention to the subtleties, and I don't know how this person became friends.

'Holy man, I don't know what to command today. After greeting for a while, Ayi spoke first, and then let Azheng speak, he was worried that he would be angry to death today.

'There's something for you to do. Li Chen first gave them a drawing, "Recognize this." ''Windmills. Ayi took the drawing and looked at it, and knew what it was.

Windmills, this kind of thing appeared in China, probably a thousand years old, as early as hundreds of years BC, China has a record of using windmills. However, if it really wants to prosper, it will have to wait until the Song Dynasty. Europe is about the same time. Since the beginning of the Middle Ages, windmills have spread almost all over Europe, not only in the Netherlands, but also in many landscapes in the Middle Ages.

However, in all seriousness, the Chinese have fallen behind, lagging behind those Hu people. Li Chen had heard Suleiman say it and seen it with his own eyes. The Middle East is full of windmills. Although the founding of the country was later than that of the Tang Dynasty, the Middle Easterners surpassed the Tang Dynasty in this regard.

Li Chen now plans to vigorously advocate the application of windmills, first to Haiyan. The use of windmills to extract seawater, and then combined with the sun drying method, can greatly increase the salt yield and reduce costs. This is Li Chen's plan to make a price system.

In addition to this, the Changping salt system will be restored. Increasing production, reducing prices, and adding Changping salt will completely make private salt no way to live, and it can also benefit the people. To put it bluntly, private salt just doesn't pay taxes. If you get salt at the same price, regardless of taxes, the cost of private salt is even higher than that of ordinary salt merchants.

Why? Because the smugglers do not dare to take the big road, and the amount is not too much, not to mention that the road is difficult to walk, and it is difficult to hide the large amount. Most of them are carried by shoulder, which is small and troublesome. Even if you use the method of bribing officials to smuggle, isn't the money you buy cost?

Li Chen believes that with a two-pronged approach, he may be able to achieve greater results than Liu Yan. More than 6 million, maybe it can break 1,000.

But there's something that needs to be done with it, 'What is this?' Ayi looked at the powder in his hand curiously. (To be continued.) )