The army has been dispatched and quickly quelled the rebellion.

After the order was issued, Zhao Pu did not pay much attention to this counterinsurgency. These homeless rebels lack discipline and have poor combat effectiveness, and it is okay to bully the local army, but when they encounter elite troops, they will quickly disappear under a strong blow.

As long as you shoot quickly, cut the grass and eradicate the roots, victory is just around the corner.

It's just that there are some things that must be dealt with thoroughly, otherwise there will be troubles left behind.

The next day, it was morning again.

The ministers came up one after another and talked about things. Zhao Pu dealt with them one by one, and the discussion was very happy.

When the main thing was almost finished, Yu Yunwen stood up and said loudly: "Your Majesty, Hubei is in turmoil, Zhong Xiang is in turmoil, this is a big rebellion. However, this popular uprising was also man-made. Some officials do not know how to sympathize with the people, wantonly exploit the people, harm the people and hurt the people, causing the people's resentment to boil, and this is the only disaster! ”

As he spoke, Yu Yunwen began to impeach some officials in Hubei and handed over a booklet that showed that over the years, some officials in Hubei had bent the law for bribes and oppressed good people.

Zhao Pu looked at it, it was recorded in detail, according to the content of the booklet, high-ranking officials above the seventh floor in Hubei should be implicated, or dismissed, or exiled, or removed from their reputations, which is another big change.

The more he looked at it, the more gloomy Zhao Pu's face became.

Sure enough, since becoming the emperor, he is still too merciful to go overboard.

In the Song Dynasty, corruption was at its worst.

Zhao Pu didn't think about it, destroy all the corrupt officials, and make the whole world clear. That's impossible. But corrupt officials, at least understand what money can be difficult. What money can not be taken.

And these corrupt officials obviously went a little too far, forcing the people to death and had to rebel.

If nothing happens, everything is easy to say, turn a blind eye, but something happens. Someone always needs to go to the top of the mines.

"Li Gang, you have full authority to deal with this matter, kill what deserves to be killed. The exile of the exile, the exile of the meritorious name, the exile of the exile, the exile of the family. I rule the world with scholars. It's not about ruling the world with corrupt officials and corrupt officials; I treat the scholars well. But it's not a favor for corrupt officials! ”

Zhao Pu said, with murderous in his tone.

The ministers present bowed their heads and remained silent, as if they were deaf.

Who knows that the emperor is killing chickens and making an example of monkeys!

Thousands of miles to be an official, just for money, three years of Qing Governor's Mansion, 100,000 snowflakes of silver. Definitely not an exaggeration. The one present can guarantee that the back of the fart ditch is clean?

The emperor's meaning is very clear. It's okay to be corrupt, but it's better not to cause trouble, otherwise no one in heaven or on earth will save you.

Li Gang said: "Weichen, you will definitely live up to your mission!" ”

Zhao Pu said: "You do things, I can rest assured!" ”

That's the end of the court.

It's just that Li Gang, Zhao Ding and other cabinet members stayed, mainly to discuss some important matters.

"Hubei is in turmoil, I don't care about it, as soon as the army arrives, it will soon be wiped out. It's just that I'm tired of sending troops every year to quell the rebellion, and I want to solve it once and for all, at least there will be no chaos for ten years, and buy time for the Northern Expedition! Zhao Pu said.

The rebels of the displaced people every year, and the troops sent to quell the rebellion every year, Zhao Pu got tired of it.

Human energy is limited, and the strength of a country is also limited. Although it is said that these homeless rebellions cannot shake the foundation, there are too many times, and Zhao Pu can't bear it, and it is not worth spending his limited national strength on counterinsurgency.

Moreover, the revolt of the displaced people was so devastated that wherever it burned, it burned and plundered like locusts; And the seemingly less threatening uprising of the displaced people, if not quickly extinguished, will cause a devastating fire.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and other righteous armies were defeated by the Ming army many times, which can be described as repeated defeats; However, for some reason, it was difficult to extinguish the rebel army, and finally the Ming Dynasty was destroyed by the rebel army.

Years of experience have warned Zhao Pu not to despise any enemy, to despise and indulge the enemy, will only leave trouble, and finally pit yourself to death.

"Your Majesty, only by lightly paying taxes and reducing taxes, the burden on the people will inevitably be reduced!" Li Gang said, "After this counterinsurgency, it is better to reduce taxes for three years in the rebel areas!" ”

Zhao Pu nodded, and shook his head again, this strategy treats the symptoms but not the root cause, and his eyes look at Zhao Ding first.

Zhao Ding said: "The only way to gather the displaced people, join the army, and Tuntian on the front line frontier is to provide military funds!" ”

Zhao Pu nodded, this is still a palliative rather than a cure. The recruitment of displaced people into the army has made the army larger, diluted its combat effectiveness, and increased the financial burden. The most worrying thing is that the tuntian system consumes more than it gains.

I asked a few more courtiers, and the answers were almost the same.

or tidy up the fields and check the field taxes; or rectify the rule of officials and control corruption; or suppress land annexation; Or integrate the displaced into the army. Back and forth, it is the three-plate axe, which is mostly a strategy to treat the symptoms but not the root cause.

Most strategies can only have a slight effect, and in the long run, they are misguided; Some policies, which seem to be wise, are actually difficult to implement.

For example, it is simply impossible to reduce taxes and reduce taxes. At this moment, it is the eve of the decisive battle of the Song army, and the Song Dynasty must maintain high taxes and sufficient treasury, so that the anti-Jin can have money, otherwise it will be beneficial to the people but not to the country.

It is even more impossible to straighten out the fields and check the taxes. There are policies at the top, and countermeasures at the bottom, and the local grass-roots political power is controlled by the clan and gentry forces, and they have a way to conceal the number of acres of land, and describe the superior fields as inferior fields, and the inferior fields of some poor people as superior fields, and transfer the land taxes to the poor people.

It is even more infeasible to rectify corruption. In the 21st century, corruption is still rampant. At this time, it was only the Song Dynasty, the literacy rate was low, the sense of the legal system was weak, and the local government to the central power was all controlled by the gentry, and nine out of ten people were greedy, and they could not govern at all. It can only be rectified, and it will be better for a while, and then the recovery will still be the same.

And suppressing land annexation is even more nonsense. At the time of the founding of the country, after wars and a large number of deaths, land could be better distributed; However, as the population increases, so do the land annexations.

Land annexation is in line with the law of commodity economy, and if it is violated, it will inevitably be punished. If you want to curb land annexation, you can only wage a large-scale war, and in the end, the number of households in the end will not be one in ten, and you can naturally suppress land annexation.

And Zhao Pu never wanted to suppress land annexation, he unconsciously relied on the power of one person to single-handedly challenge the entire landlord class.

Zhao Pu's face changed gloomy, and the courtiers present also felt uneasy, obviously their words could not satisfy His Majesty the Emperor.

"There are many reasons for the turmoil of the displaced people, saying 1,000 to 10,000, that is, the amount of land is not enough, it is difficult to feed enough people, so in order to survive, the people have to rise up!" Zhao Pu said calmly, "Your family's method is very good, but it's a pity that the symptoms are not cured." I have a solution once and for all! ”

The courtiers present immediately pricked up their ears, and Li Gang couldn't help asking, "I don't know what kind of method?" ”

"Colonize!"

Zhao Pu picked up the pen and wrote two big characters on the rice paper.

"Breeding, breeding, stocking; The people, the people, the people. It's like herding cattle and sheep, and herding the people! Zhao Pu expressed the meaning of understanding "colonization".

"The problem of eating is the first problem. Only by solving the problem of eating well can we talk about education. I can't even eat enough, talking about etiquette, righteousness and shame, talking about loyalty and patriotism, talking about the great cause of the Northern Expedition, talking about the merits of the Thousand Autumns, and talking about Wencheng martial arts, they are all moons in the water and flowers in the mirror. ”

"And the manpower is sometimes exhausted, and the amount of fertile land is limited, and some wise kings cannot conjure up land. However, some mountainous areas, sandy lands, etc., have limited land fertility and are not suitable for cultivation, and forced development will only destroy the water and soil! ”

"Whoever is a king should be the first to open up the land. During the Shang Dynasty, there was only one part of Henan; But in the Qin Dynasty, it reached the Hetao in the north, the sea in the south, Sichuan in the west, and the sea in the east; In the Han and Tang dynasties, it expanded to the Western Regions and the Northeast; And when the territory of our dynasty has shrunk, now it is even more divided into the river, and it is still breathing! ”

"Open up the territory, expand the territory, not to make a name for yourself, not to be admired by future generations, only to fight for the living space of future generations!"

"The grassland peoples also frequently go south, also to fight for living space, but they mainly kill and destroy; And we are competing for living space, based on promoting the way of the sages, focusing on farming, relieving population pressure for the purpose, and building and creating as the foundation! (To be continued......)