Chapter 54: Mudicate the Waters
At this time, Pei Minqiu's voice came from the outhouse, "You children, the elders haven't chosen yet, you guys have picked it up first, okay!" Take one for each person, don't disturb Sanniang's rest. ”
There was a sound of footsteps, the children were gone, the tent curtain was lifted, Pei Minqiu walked into the house, she saw that Yang Yuanqing was a little hairy holding the child, she couldn't help but shake her head and smiled: "There are so many children, can't you even hold a child?" ”
She stepped forward and took Yang Yuanqing's hand and moved it up, "Hold the child's head, his neck is soft and can't stand upright." ”
"Of course I know, isn't it swaddling? It's okay not to hold your head. Of course, Yang Yuanqing will not admit that he can't even hold a child.
"You!"
Pei Minqiu shook his head helplessly, "Forget it, you go to the outer study!" Du Xiangguo is waiting for you. ”
Yang Yuanqing was stunned, Du Ruhui came, and he came so quickly.
"Yuanqing, give me the child!"
Jiang Peihua stretched out his hand to take the child, lovingly held his son in his arms, and smiled at Yang Yuanqing: "You go!" Don't get down to business. ”
Yang Yuanqing nodded, "Okay!" I'll come back to see the kids in the evening. ”
He turned around and went out, Pei Minqiu sat on the side of the bed, gently stroked the child's little face, and asked a little casually, "What's the matter with Fangxin, why are you crying?" ”
Jiang Peihua bit her lip and sighed lowly: "Eldest sister, let her move to Jinyang Palace!" ”
When women talk to each other, many things are well known, Pei Minqiu was silent for a long time, and finally shook his head, "I can't be the master of this matter, you should understand." ”
"Could it be...... Will there really be that day? ”
Pei Minqiu smiled helplessly, "I don't know, this matter is ...... You can only take one step at a time! ”
Although she is the princess, there are some things she can't do. After all, this world is still for men......
In the outer study, Du Ruhui slowly paced back and forth with his hands behind his back, his heart was very chaotic, he was a very simple person in his bones, he didn't like intrigue, he just wanted to do things seriously.
In fact, he also hates factional disputes in officialdom, but since Yang Yuanqing deliberately divided the Pei Party and the Wang Party. Du Ruhui knew that Yang Yuanqing liked to divide factions.
Of course, any person in a position likes to watch his subordinates fight, and Yang Yuanqing is naturally not exempt from vulgarity.
In just two years, seven or eight factions, large and small, appeared in the imperial court. Pei Dang, Wang Dang, Su Dang, Yang Dang, Fengzhou Dang, Hebei Dang, Dunhuang Dang, Southern Dang, among which the Wang Dang has disappeared, and only seven factions remain.
But this is too much, and factional interests have begun to influence some of the major decisions of the imperial court. For example, the comprehensive inventory of Yicang grain was strongly resisted by the Hebei department.
Together. In fact, the major factions of the Sui Dynasty are basically related to the region, the Pei Party is actually the Hedong system, the Su Party is the Guanzhong system, and the Yang Party is the Central Plains system.
Each faction has to think about its own interests, so sometimes. When Ziwei Pavilion votes, everyone often does not start from the overall situation. Rather, they will consider their own factional interests.
Du Ruhui felt that it was necessary to persuade Yang Yuanqing not to indulge in factional struggles too much, but to appropriately weaken the influence of factions.
At this time, Yang Yuanqing walked in from outside and said with a smile: "Is Du Xiangguo clairvoyant or shunfeng?" It's been less than an hour since I returned. You'll know the news. ”
Du Ruhui hurriedly saluted and said, "I met General Cheng on the road, so I know that His Highness has returned." ”
"I think only his quick-talking woman can say it."
Yang Yuanqing scolded with a smile. waved his hand and said: "Since you are here, it is not good to drive you away, so I have to see you, Du Xiang, please sit down!" ”
Du Ruhui knew that Yang Yuanqing's joke was very casual, and he didn't take it seriously, so he sat down with a smile, took out a booklet from his arms, and handed it to Yang Yuanqing, "This is a reconsideration of the Yicang system from a humble position, Your Highness take a look!" ”
Yang Yuanqing took the booklet, and saw that tens of thousands of words were densely written, so he put the booklet aside and said: "I'm too lazy to read it now, you can talk about the main content of the restructuring!" ”
Du Ruhui thought for a while and said: "In fact, the main point is that the counties are now in charge of their own warehouses and changed to the direct management of the imperial court, in order to facilitate transportation, five or six counties can be concentrated to set up a general warehouse, and the grain in the Yicang can be stored in the general warehouse, and the general warehouse is only in charge of the county account, how much the county has sent, and the counties are in charge of the detailed accounts, and how much grain is stored in Zhang San and Li Si, so that the physical goods and the account book are separated, and the local government can be prevented from being greedy for grain in the warehouse." ”
Yang Yuanqing is very interested in Du Ruhui's plan, which is to separate the accounts from the facts, and it is a good way to manage the accounts and things, and manage the things regardless of the accounts.
He pondered for a moment and said, "But how can we guard against corruption in the distribution process of the local government? For example, Zhang San died, his righteous warehouse grain became a dead account, the local government knew, but the general treasury did not know, after the local government took it out, it took it for itself, of course, this situation is relatively rare, the key is the grasp of loss, the grain is moldy and rotten, it is impossible to hand over it when it is five stones, and after three years when it is still five stones, there must be a loss in the middle, and the local officials are very likely to use this loss to make a profit. ”
Du Ruhui thought for a long time and said: "Otherwise, the local government will not be allowed to manage the grain in the Yicang, and all the grain depots will be handled by special grain depots, one in each county, which will directly belong to the imperial court, and the money and grain in the official warehouse will also be managed." ”
Yang Yuanqing still shook his head, "In this way, the official institutions will be too bloated and complicated, and the burden on the court will increase, in fact, what I mean, Yicang grain is originally the people's own business, so the government should not interfere, let the people take care of it themselves, and encourage the powerful private shops to keep money and grain for the farmers for a fee, the shops are profitable, and the farmers are also free, they are wishful thinking, saving us a lot of things." ”
"But...... What if these shops take away the peasants' money and grain? ”
"Therefore, the government has to manage the residence shop, not just a house shop, the house shop must be filed with the household department, and there is enough scale and funds to open branches in various places, so that they can run the monk and not run the temple."
"But I'm afraid that the peasants won't store it in the store, isn't it better to store it in their own homes?"
"This can't work, it's the same as the current Yicang regulations, it must be stored, if the farmers don't store it, the imperial court will not give any relief in the disaster year, but which one is it stored in. It is the free choice of farmers. ”
Although Du Ruhui didn't quite understand what the bank of later generations was, from Yang Yuanqing's statement, he still felt that this method was not very reliable.
After all, the merchant is not an official government, there is no official authority to exert pressure, and some powerful people will take the opportunity to make profits from it, and the peasants would rather store their own grain than hand over the grain to the merchant for storage, Yang Yuanqing still thinks about things simply.
It's just that he can't object immediately, maybe Yang Yuanqing will think about it himself. will also feel unreliable, Du Ruhui said euphemistically: "This matter, let the humble post think about it again!" ”
Yang Yuanqing was also keenly aware of Du Ruhui's perfunctory mood, of course. Maybe his statement was too simple for him to understand, and this matter had to be considered in the long run.
"Alright! There is no urgency in this matter, first check the current Yicang grain. Dating back to two years ago, farmers only had to hand over grain to Yicang. The imperial court must admit that even Dou Jiande did not move the grain in the warehouse, and we can't rely on this account. ”
"I understand, I'll take care of it."
Du Ruhui hesitated, and then said: "There is also the matter of His Royal Highness executing the county commander in the house county. I'm afraid there's something wrong. ”
Yang Yuanqing saw that Du Ruhui's expression was very unnatural, so he asked, "Is something wrong?" ”
Du Ruhui sighed. "His Royal Highness violated the system, causing many important ministers to be dissatisfied, and now there are three ministers in Ziwei Pavilion who want to resign."
"What?" Yang Yuanqing was stunned for a moment......
Du Ruhui said goodbye and left, Yang Yuanqing stood in front of the window with his hands in his hands, pondering for a long time, there were three Xiangguo who wanted to resign. He really didn't expect it.
Just because he killed a corrupt official who embezzled 6,000 stone of grain, without the consent of Ziwei Pavilion. An indescribable anger swelled up in Yang Yuanqing's heart, if it was Yang Guang who killed someone, would they dare to do this?
Is their tolerance in exchange for their disrespect, in exchange for their contempt for their own power?
For a long time, Yang Yuanqing restrained the anger in his heart and forced himself to calm down, he also knew that the resignations of Yang Shidao and Lu and Cui were not the same thing.
Yang Shidao may really want to maintain his power, but Lu and Cui are not, Lu Yu and Cui Hongyuan have other ideas, they are using resignation to put pressure on themselves.
There are pros and cons to everything, it is impossible to only have advantages, in the appointment of the two famous families in Hebei, the heads of the Fanyang Lu family and the Boling Cui family are the same as Xiangguo, there are advantages and disadvantages, and it has a huge role in promoting the rapid control of Hebei and making Hebei fully identify with the new Sui Dynasty.
It was because the Sui Dynasty was never able to control Hebei that led to the rebellion of Yang Liang, and the rise of the counties in Hebei led to the rise of the Hebei rebellion storm after the Battle of Goryeo, and the fundamental reason was that the Sui Dynasty did not get the support of the famous families in Hebei.
Historically, the biggest obstacle to the Tang Dynasty's battle to unify the world also came from Hebei, so that Li Yuan wanted to kill all the Hebei people, but in the end the Tang Dynasty still failed to really control Hebei.
A large part of the Hebei people are the descendants of the military households of the six towns, and they have the brave spirit of rebellion left by their ancestors in their bones, and it is precisely in this way that the Anshi Rebellion broke out in Youzhou.
Yang Yuanqing knows very well the importance of Hebei in his heart, not only now, but also for his descendants Yang Yuanqing, the Yanzhao family is one of the many forces in Hebei, and it is also an entry point for him to control Hebei, which is the fundamental reason why he reuses the Hebei family.
But the reuse of famous families will also have drawbacks, that is, the rise of family interests, Fanyang Lu and Boling Cui, their disciples are all over Hebei officialdom, forming two major family interest groups, and the two families have joined forces to form a Hebei faction.
He killed the county commander and county Cheng in the house county for the matter of Yicang grain, which was a warning to the Hebei bureaucrats, and at the same time made them become vigilant, which led to the resignation of Lu Cui and the two ministers, they were actually threatening themselves in disguise and not allowing themselves to clean the Hebei officialdom.
Just as Su Wei saw the problem clearly, in fact, the Yicang grain case was just an introduction, and it was just an entry point for Yang Yuanqing to clean the Hebei officialdom.
Just moved the whole body, Yang Yuanqing killed officials in Fang County, which not only disturbed the troubled waters of Hebei officialdom, but also caused the dissatisfaction of Yang Shidao, who maintained the power of the prime minister, and the whole situation was chaotic......
[Today is the Chinese New Year's Eve, Lao Gao has to watch TV with his parents and family, so one chapter cannot be updated at night, and on the first day of the New Year next year, there may only be two chapters, I hope you understand]