Chapter 134 Rectify Government Affairs

The emergence of the Imperial Bank has greatly alleviated the pressure of money shortage in various parts of Lulong, and now after investigation, although flying money does not occupy a major position in transactions, flying money has occupied about 5% of the circulation in the currency market, and there is a gradual upward trend. It is expected that in a year, in the future transactions, transactions with flying money will account for at least 50%.

Especially those merchants who traded across state borders, because of the light special surname of flying money, they began to use flying money in large quantities. More importantly, because of the convenient circulation of flying money, Lulong's economy suddenly stepped onto a new level, and a bottle that restricted business development was broken.

Li Cunhuan also discovered such a phenomenon. In the Youzhou Imperial Bank, there are about 100,000 yuan of money stored now, but in fact, only seven or eight thousand yuan are withdrawn every day, and they will soon be leveled by the deposited money. Many people have become accustomed to trading with lighter flying money instead of copper coins. It feels like flying money has become a separate currency.

Li Cunhuan immediately ordered that the same amount of flying money be issued again according to the amount of currency stored in various places. The money was used to pay for the local soldiers and officials. Let the ratio of flying money and stored copper coins reach two to one. If this ratio is successful, it will be equivalent to Li Cunhuan invisibly doubling the money.

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And when Li Cunhuan was still muttering about the Imperial Bank and the trouble of insufficient cotton seeds, a shocking news came from Guanzhong.

Huazhou Han Jian took refuge in Zhu Wen, this is not counted, Zhu Wen's general Liu Zhijun led 5,000 troops, broke Li Maozhen, Wang Xingyu's 60,000 coalition troops, and connected the five states of Tongzhou, Yanzhou, Yanzhou, Fangzhou, and Danzhou, which was equivalent to occupying the jurisdiction of the Jiedu envoy and the defense envoy of Tongzhou, and the two towns of Lianke at once. also won more with less, Liu Zhijun's reputation was greatly enhanced, and he was nicknamed Liu Kaidao.

Wang Xingyu saw that it was not the right way, and he was closest to Liu Zhijun. hurriedly prepared to lead his troops to flee to Tubo for refuge, but he was killed by his subordinates on the way, and cut off other people's heads to invite merit.

Emperor Qianning also fell into the hands of Zhu Wen, and Zhu Wen named Liu Zhijun as the Taifu of the school, the envoy of Youguo Festival (the former Chang'an Mansion under his jurisdiction), and the envoy of the camp in the west to crusade against Li Maozhen.

Zhu Wen himself returned to Chang'an with Emperor Kangning, appeased Emperor Qianning a little, and canonized himself as King Liang and generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses in the name of Emperor Qianning. Immediately took Emperor Kangning to move the capital to the eastern capital of Luoyang.

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Regarding Zhu Wen's seizure of Emperor Qianning, Li Cunhuan did not have much feeling. After all, things don't have much to do with him now, but Li Cunhuan can see that Guanzhong will become the key point of contention between Li Keyong and Zhu Wen in the future. Zhu Wen ate such a large piece of territory at once, I am afraid that it will be much more difficult to make a difference in the East in a short period of time.

After all, it will take two or three years to swallow so much territory, not to mention that there is Li Keyong to make trouble, there is no four or five years, Zhu Wen doesn't want to have a stable Guanzhong.

Li Cunhuan began to ponder the deprivation of local financial rights and accelerate the centralization of power. Of course, this is not so much a dispossession as a weakening. In December, Li Cunhuan issued a new order, and before January 1 of the third year of Qianning, all government treasury was revoked, and money storage was transferred to the Imperial Bank.

At the same time, Wu Bifu, an old man from Danzhou, was appointed as the money envoy of the Imperial Bank, responsible for the management of the Imperial Bank.

All of a sudden, in January, Li Cunhuan found for the first time that there were people around him, and the feeling of the festival was different. Li Cunhuan rarely practiced martial arts or handled government affairs in the morning, and took Yu Xianyun to play.

However, pleasure in troubled times is obviously a luxury.

Before Li Cunhuan had time to have some fun, there were local tyrants who rebelled in Yanzhou. Why the rebellion? The direct reason is that Li Cunhuan promulgated the apportionment of the land into the mu, and the apportionment of the mu exempted the people from the heavy poll tax, and the share of the poll tax was added to the landlords, and these local tyrants immediately refused.

More importantly, the exemption of the poll tax has allowed many people who are hiding in the mountains and forests to come out and look for jobs in the cities. Especially now that Li Cunhuan has enough salaries and soldiers' families have a world, but professional soldiers need to be trained frequently, and their families have begun to hire these black households to farm.

Or because everyone is from a poor background, the fee for renting a field is not expensive, but it is three or seven kai. The autumn harvest yielded seven farmers and three lessors. Compared with the landlord's five or five points, the black households were greatly relieved.

But the landlord was uncomfortable, and the tax was heavier, which was barely acceptable, but the tenants below demanded a rent fee. In the past, because of the oppression of poll tax and the fact that the tenants were basically black households, they had no choice but to accept the harsh rental fees of the landlords. Now I don't care so much about you, if you don't agree, leave immediately.

Li Changtian, the head of a local tyrant in Yanzhou, couldn't bear the heavy economic losses, and united with several nearby local tyrants to settle a village in Moyun Mountain, Fuzhou, calling himself the king of Moyun, and refusing to pay taxes.

Li Cunhuan hurriedly came to the White Tiger Hall, and when he heard that this was the case, he was really furious. He said: "The three towns of Lulong, Yichang and Andong implement land measurement!" Where the field exceeds 300 mu, the tax will be increased by 1 chengtian, and if the land exceeds 1,000 mu, the tax will be increased by 2 chengtian! Ordered, Pang Kongming led troops to level the bird cottage for me before the Lantern Festival! ”

The eldest grandson Chengliang immediately opened his mouth to persuade him: "Lord, is this time too fast!" In this way, I am afraid that Lu Long will rebel in all directions! ”

Zhang Chengye expressed a different opinion, "Now that Zhu Wen and Li Ke's energy are being restrained in Guanzhong, it is time for us to rectify the rule of officials." If it were usual, I would be against it, but what is the situation now? The Duke of the Kingdom was deeply loved by the soldiers. Forgive him, Li Changtian can't go against the sky! And can the local tyrants of the three towns still fight against the army? And they fought better against each other, and now there were three million people in Lulong, of which 1.5 million were free people, and most of the others were tenants, slaves, and black households. Liberate these people, and Lu Long will get hundreds of thousands of people! There has been some turmoil, but now is the right time to deal with it! Do you have to wait for Li Keyong to free up his hands before making rectification? ”

Li Cunhuan immediately made a decision and appointed Zhang Chengye as the observer envoy of the three towns, and the governors cooperated with him, responsible for the measurement of various places, and had the right to mobilize troops of less than 500 people without declaration.