"Although the imperial court opened the imperial examination, but every time the imperial examination came out of the low-level officials, according to the requirements of the prime minister, these officials first entered the low-level government to learn the opportunity to govern a county, these years, it is only able to govern a county, if it is to govern a county, I am afraid it is still a little worse." Xiao Yu said: "My subordinates think that if we should select some officials from among the officials of the previous dynasty and let them continue to stay in office, in this way, it can also show the bearing of the new dynasty, and secondly, it can also improve the system of the imperial court and maintain the management of local counties." Avoid confusion in the management of the imperial court. ”

Everyone nodded, although Xiao Yu is a bit stubborn, he still has some brains in this regard and knows how to be flexible, of course, there are also some selfishness in this, after all, most of the officials of the previous dynasty still like to be entrenched under his uncle of the former dynasty.

"What Lord Xiao said is very true, but now under the rule of our imperial court, it is only the saying of the imperial court, the county, and the county, so that there are many places under the management of the imperial court, it is better to split these systems again, divided into four levels: the imperial court, the province, the government, and the county, the province has a governor, who is in charge of the civil affairs of a province, and the general army is in charge of the army, and the envoy is in charge of the law, and the government has a prefect, a governor, and a general judge, and a county has a county, a county, a county, and a county lieutenant. The position of governor and general judge can prevent local officials from controlling everything in the locality, and also allow the central court to control everything in the locality and strengthen the centralization of power. What do you think? ”

"Prime Minister Shengming." Everyone nodded their heads, and in this way, the imperial court would increase some official positions, and it would weaken the power of the local officials, and Li Xin was trying to divide power and seize power at the same time.

"From the past dynasties to the present, they have been hovering on heavy agriculture and suppressing business. Or should we suppress business. Li Xin looked at everyone with a smile. As a matter of fact. In the past, in order to fight against the family, Li Xin developed business and got a lot of money to equip the army, which led to a powerful army in Guanzhong and swept Liuhe, but now it is different, Li Xin not only has to consider the army, but also the people's livelihood, and the imperial court not only needs a lot of grain and grass for the army. Even those ordinary people are the same, and the development of commerce once is not in line with social development.

"Prime Minister, the national policy of pro-business cannot be changed! It is precisely because of the development of commerce that there is the prosperity of Guanzhong today and the powerful army of our country. Business is the foundation of Guanzhong's existence. As soon as Li Xin's voice fell, he heard Wei Yuancheng say loudly. His voice was loud and loud in the hall. Now no one in Chang'an City knows that the Wei family has received huge benefits from the cake that Li Xin divided. That's why it will become like this, it will become so impassioned, and it will support the business in the main hall.

"Prime Minister, the old minister thinks it's inappropriate." Xiao Yu said: "Although the imperial court is because of business. The treasury is full and the military budget is sufficient, which has created the elite soldiers in my Guanzhong, but don't forget it. Merchants seek profit, now look at those merchants, in order to earn more money. Destroying farmland, which used to be farmland, but now! Most of them planted kapok or mulberry trees, and there were very few rice growers, and some even gave up their farmland and went directly to work as coolies in the big workshops. For a long time, even if you have earned a lot of gold and silver treasures, but if there is no food, the army will be unstable, and if there is no food, the people will not be able to live and work in peace and contentment. ”

"The old man laughed, now my Datang food is enough to eat for twenty years, afraid that there will be no food?" Wei Yuancheng was annoyed in his heart, this Xiao Yu was obviously late to join Guanzhong, the cake thrown by Li Xin had already been eaten, and the families in Jiangnan did not get any benefits, so they were so desperately opposed to heavy business.

"Twenty years? That's the number that Master Wei got! But the old man didn't think so, twenty years of stored grain, with the expansion of the prime minister's territory, still need to be compensated for the newly occupied places, once there is a drought or flood, these grains need to come to the relief; Once, like the previous dynasty, there was a drought for several years, then these grains must also be released, otherwise, it will cause chaos in the world. Xiao Yu said eloquently: "Prime Minister, business is developed, many people will go to business, the fields are barren, and there is more and more money in business, so they will not be able to plant crops, so that food will continue to decrease in the future, and if food is lost, once a disaster occurs in the imperial court, then the matter will be serious." Xiao Yu arched his hand and said loudly.

Li Xin was stunned when he heard this, but he was secretly thinking about the situation in front of him, heavy business is the trend of future development, but Xiao Yu is also reasonable, because of heavy business, many people have abandoned farmland, in this way, although it is an increase in taxes for the imperial court, but in the same way, it also makes the imperial court's grain decrease, and now it is supported by the granary of the Sui Dynasty, but for a long time, this situation is obviously not a thing. If there is no food in the hands of the imperial court, God knows what will happen!

In the past, he took it for granted, although the mercantile is very good, but the mercantile also has many weaknesses, no wonder there are very few mercantilists in the past dynasties, on the one hand, it is of course caused by feudal Confucianism, and there are also ways to prevent businessmen from getting a lot of power, but more importantly, the Central Plains is still important is the small peasant economy, and agriculture is very important to the world. However, the current agriculture is not as developed as in later generations, and the yield per mu is very normal, and the current agriculture may not work, the grain output cannot be raised, and the seeds cannot keep up, and the common people can earn more money after entering the workshop, so naturally there are many people who give up farming.

Such a loss is definitely not a single family, but the entire imperial court, Xiao Yu may be selfish, but what he said is not unreasonable. Even as Xiao Yu said, such things may get more and more serious. There are fewer and fewer people who cultivate, and once there is a natural disaster or flood in the future, the blow to the imperial court is not necessary, if it is in the last years of the empire, natural disasters and man-made disasters, if the imperial court does not have enough reserves, the world will definitely be taken by other forces.

It's just that commerce is what Li Xin pays attention to, and without commerce, Li Xin will have no money, how can he recruit more troops without money, and how can he unify the world.

"Mr. Pei, what do you think?" Li Xin looked around and said, agriculture and commerce are both the foundation of the imperial court, if it is for the sake of agriculture to give up business, Li Xin is obviously unwilling, but there are fewer and fewer people in agriculture, it is also a big problem, related to the security of the country, Li Xin also has to pay attention to this matter.

"In that case, just go up both." Pei Shiju said without thinking about it: "Commerce provides a lot of money for the imperial court, and the imperial court must not suppress business, once the business is suppressed, the imperial court will have no money, but it cannot ignore agriculture." If there is no food in the court, once there is an emergency in the court, there is no food, then it is not a great chaos in the world? Therefore, there must be no problems with nongsang. ”

"The old man's words are light, but now that the common people have gone to business and worked in the workshop, how many people are willing to guard the one-third of an acre of land? In the face of the days when the loess was facing the sky, they were reluctant to do so, and they had long thought about how to use the shortest time to earn more money, and live a life without work in the simplest way. Xiao Yu said disdainfully. In his tone, he was very dissatisfied with Pei Shiju's words, and he had seen and dilute mud, but in such a big matter, he didn't like Pei Shiju and dilute mud.

"Huh! Mr. Xiao's words were misunderstood. Pei Shiju said with a smile: "The reason why the common people give up farming mulberry is just interests, they have no interests in planting agricultural mulberry, in this case, why not plant agricultural mulberry, the court will subsidize it, and the old man thinks that there are very few people who can do business and enter the workshop." As long as there are interests, people in the world will continue to run the farm. ”

"What the old man said is very true, since there are those who are in business, there are those who give up arable land, and the imperial court can allow these people to rent and plant those who do not need land, as long as they pay a small amount of rent, they can grow agricultural mulberry, which is also a road." Wei Yuancheng also said with a smile. He now Wei's attaches great importance to business, and the profits obtained from business account for the vast majority, once Li Xin wants to suppress business, the losses caused by the Wei family are huge, and the first person who does not want Li Xin to take the old road is Wei Yuancheng and those who have vested interests in Guanzhong.

"The reason why the peasants don't like to plant mulberry is that the money obtained from agriculture is too small, and the subordinates think that it can be solved from two aspects, the first is that the imperial court buys at a higher price than the market price during the autumn harvest every year, so that the people can earn money, and the imperial court can also receive more grain, and the second is the seeds. Why didn't the prime minister ask the people of Gewuyuan to study whether they could increase the yield of grain? Pei Shiju's eyes lit up, flashing with a strange light, his eyes flickered, stared at Li Xin and said.

"Seeds?" Li Xin nodded and said: "The south can now be three crops a year, on the one hand, because of the climate, but if the seeds in the north are good, they can also be harvested twice a year, and the seeds are very important." Li Xinzhong sighed, why can the future generations be re-merchant, it is because the Celestial Empire does not worry about the lack of food in the market at all, not only the Celestial Empire itself has a high yield of grain, even in the world, it is also a place where there is a kind of food, so it can be re-merchant, but Li Xin here, if he wants to take this road, I am afraid it will take a certain amount of time. (To be continued......)