Chapter 207: Cash-for-Work

At the end of the fifth year of Qianfu, Li Bao's affairs were basically over. ∷, the matter of Xinglong Qianzhuang, Jing Xiang and Zhao Wenzhi did a good job.

After investigation, the two of them determined that the amount of flying money issued each year was 1 million yuan, and the 250,000 copper coins minted by the Datang Qian Supervisor every year were used as banknotes.

Li Bao feels that this banknote is a bit small, but the amount of copper ore mined by Datang every year is limited. The ratio of paper/money to banknote is four to one.

This ratio is okay, Li Bao understands the monetary system of later generations, and the ratio of metal money and paper/money issuance is reasonable within 10 to 1. Now that Xinglong Money Village has just begun to operate, it is not advisable to take too big a step. So Li Bao agreed and encouraged them to work hard.

For the whole five years of Qianfu, the days were quite peaceful. But the world outside Chang'an is still as unquiet as ever. The rebels of the Yellow Nest are still reversed.

Li Bao recruited him as the envoy of Fuzhou Festival through the political affairs hall, but this guy pretended to accept it, but within a month he killed the mission that went to canonize him, and led the troops to continue to wreak havoc in Fujian, and now the Huangchao army has occupied almost the entire Fujian.

Now the Zhenhai Festival has made Gao Biao very proud, and the Shangzhang accuses the political hall and even Li Bao behind him of tolerating and raising traitors, and continues to ask the center to send him more military rations, so that he can continue to encircle and suppress Huangchao.

The prime ministers in the political hall were very angry, and Wang Duo, Yang Yan and others, who originally advocated Zhao'an, were reprimanded by Emperor Li Yi. And Tian Lingzi, who was badly injured, has now returned to the emperor.

Li Bao felt that none of this mattered, after all, this Chang'an City was quite safe, and he didn't know what would happen in the future, so he had to watch step by step.

Although Zhang Qingping is now a lieutenant, he and Li Ying have been reunited for a month, and they have rushed back to Weizhou in early December. There are still a lot of things going on there, and the new army he has trained has not yet had much combat effectiveness.

Li Bao felt that he owed Zhang Qingping, the new brother-in-law, but the newlywed Yan'er had to be busy with Li Bao's affairs. But Li Ying was very supportive of Zhang Qingping, and also planned to ask the emperor for permission to let her follow her husband to Weizhou, but Zhang Qingping refused to live or die.

In desperation, Li Ying had to stay in the house and take care of the family business. Li Bao felt that his sister might be bored, so he often took Ling'er and Xinniang to visit Li Ying in Guanghuafang.

Now that the New Year is approaching, there are more refugees in Chang'an City, and Li Bao ordered people to open a porridge shed in the south of the city to help the fleeing people.

Most of these people are refugees from neighboring states and counties, and most of them are farmers who have fled because of natural disasters or cannot pay taxes. But there are also quite a few of them, with a total of about 20,000 or 30,000 people.

But there are so many of these victims, which makes Jingzhao Yin Zhao Zhizhao a headache. After the refugees came to Chang'an City, they lacked food and clothing, and many of them took risks in desperation, which caused the crime rate in Chang'an City to increase sharply.

There have been many officials in the court to impeach Zhao Zhizhao, but Zhao Zhizhao has nothing to do about these refugees, so he has no choice but to find Li Bao here.

Li Bao's idea was to give soup porridge first, and then wait until after the beginning of spring to make plans.

In addition, Li Bao and his people looked for children and children from the refugees, and if they were willing to sell, they bought them from these refugees, and then brought them to the first village to cultivate and educate them, so as to accumulate talents for the future.

Nowadays, most of the people do not have enough to eat, and after their children are sold, they can still have a good way out, and those refugees are very willing. But what to do with the rest of the adults, Li Bao is very difficult.

Zhao Zhizhao came to this refugee area early in the morning and saw refugees wandering everywhere in the south of the city. He seemed to hear the impeachment recital of the court officials again, and the fear that the official hat would not be protected.

But these people can't get rid of them like rotten maggots in Chang'an City, and he was stunned in his heart, looking at the figure of Li Bao, the king of Ji, blankly.

Li Bao put a bowl of gruel in the hands of a ragged woman, and said a few words to her, encouraging her to recover well and recover as soon as possible.

Zhao Zhizhao looked at the woman with a sickly blush on her face, and he knew that this woman probably wouldn't live for a few days. But Prince Ji didn't dislike her at all, which made Zhao Zhizhao admire her very much. But admiration is admiration, he can't do such a thing.

After all, he was still a high-ranking official, but he didn't want to get involved with those live mud legs, so he waited for Li Bao to stand up, and then hurriedly followed Li Bao.

Li Bao didn't look back, and said loudly: "Zhao Dayin, you see that there are so many refugees in this city, it's okay now, there has never been heavy snow since winter, if it snows heavily, I'm afraid that when the time comes, most of them won't be able to survive this winter." ”

"What the king said is that in the two counties of Chang'an for 10,000 years, there are endless reports of stealing chickens and dogs among the victims every day. The king has to give advice to the lowly officials. Otherwise, these victims would have to die of starvation. ”

Li Bao listened to Zhao Zhizhao's words and knew that he saw through his feelings of distress for these victims, so he deliberately said that to provoke himself.

Li Bao thought about it again and again, and then he said: "Okay, today I am only to pity these disaster victims, so I will cheapen you once." ”

When Zhao Zhizhao heard this, he immediately said respectfully: "King, Bodhisattva heart, a certain generation of these disaster victims thank King Hongen." I don't know if the king's plan will be released? ”

Li Bao said to Zhao Zhizhao: "Come here with your ears, you just have to do this...... So ......"

When Zhao Zhizhao heard this, his face was immediately full of smiles, as if he had bloomed, and said to Li Bao: "The king's clever plan, this matter will be done." ”

After that, Zhao Zhizhao went in a hurry, looking at his figure, Hu Sanbao said on the side: "What plan did the king say to him, he is so happy?" ”

"Oh, it's nothing more than cash-for-work, and if these people want to survive, they have to be able to earn money and have a place to live. I asked Zhao Zhizhao to unite the high-ranking families in the city, as well as the presiding monks of the temple, etc., and now there is still a month until the end of the year. As long as these high-ranking families build some architectural pavilions and pavilions, they can survive this year. ”

After hearing this, Hu Sanbao whispered: "The king taught that Zhao Zhizhao in the twilight of the Qin Dynasty like this, this matter has become his own credit, and it will not be of much benefit to us." ”

Li Bao said lightly, "You can't just look at anything and lose it, although Zhao Zhizhao has made a mistake before, but now he has shown his attitude and is firm under our door, then we will not blame him for the past."

Besides, now that he has taken over Jingzhao Mansion, it is still beneficial to us, you Jin Luanwei's people can install some more people in Jingzhao Mansion, and you can get closer to that Liu Dutou more. Although he doesn't have much talent, he is familiar with Chang'an City. ”

Hu Sanbao lowered his head and said yes, then he looked at the sky, and then said to Li Bao: "It's time for the king to go and see the people of Yang Dujian." ”

After listening to Hu Sanbao's prompt, Li Baofang remembered that he had made an appointment with Yang Fuguang's people to meet today. Now Yang Fuguang is outside to suppress the civil unrest, the troops in his hands are insufficient, Gao Biao holds the troops tightly in his hands, although Yang Fuguang has meritorious fame, but there is no one in his hands, he is very helpless.

The court is more supportive of Yang Fuguang, the former privy envoy, but the court has no money and no one, and it is useless to support, although Tian Lingzi was lost by Li Baocheng some time ago, but now he has regained his favor, Gao Biao is really treacherous, and he is actually embarrassed with Tian Lingzi again, and he began to control the government.

Li Bao didn't care about Tian Lingzi's resurrection, but Yang Fuguang was very angry and strongly asked Li Bao to find an opportunity to get rid of him, and then remove Gao Biao's military power.

In the face of Yang Fuguang's request, Li Bao was speechless, is this what he can do? Besides, it is simple to kill a Tian Lingzi, but he doesn't dare to provoke Gao Yu, who has a heavy soldier in his hand. In case Gao Yu is forced to reverse, you Datang is only afraid that the country will die faster.

But Yang Fuguang couldn't ignore it, after all, he had also helped him. Therefore, Li Bao still planned to meet the messenger.

The place agreed with the messenger was in Qianjinlou, and when Li Bao arrived, the messenger had already arrived.

The messenger was white-skinned, in his early thirties, square-faced, with a short beard, not tall or short, and he smiled first when he saw people, and he was very kind.

Seeing that Li Bao had arrived, he bowed down to Li Bao and said, "Student Shen Dian to meet the king, good day to the king!" ”

Looking at the smiling Shen Dian, Li Bao waved his hand slightly and said: "Shen Lang is quickly exempt, I don't know if Shen Lang can have a table when I meet for the first time today, if so, please let me know." In addition, don't be polite when you go to Qianjinlou, we have everything we need here, Shen Lang just order. ”

Shen Dian smiled and said: "The king is polite, a certain Chongwen, and then be a staff member in the Yang Dujian curtain, the king of Yang Dujian's letter must have received it, this time, I still want to ask the king how he thinks about it?" ”

Shen Chongwen? Shen Congwen? Could it be the past life of a great writer? Li Bao muttered in his heart, but he still smiled on his face: "Oh, Chongwen became Yang Dujian's staff at such a young age, and his future future is limitless." ”

"The king, it's a false praise, it's still today"

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