Chapter 20: Demonic Qi Looms
"Master! This is some of the things in the court in recent days, Your Majesty asked the ministers to wait for your approval! ”
A scribe dressed in a white crane robe handed over a stack of paperwork and exited the tent.
Ranking in the position of the three princes brings not only power, but also boundless government affairs, if it weren't for Yuwen Tuo himself being a top powerhouse, and this kind of handling of the world's government affairs is regarded as a kind of practice, I am afraid that I have already been exhausted alive.
However, the affairs handled over the years are also similar, and the functions of Yuwentuo itself are becoming less and less.
The large stack of papers, which were almost visible to the naked eye, had been highlighted, and the bottom was densely filled with word-processing opinions, and then a fresh breeze blew, and all those papers were left out of the tent.
A calm voice came out, and the waiting scribe couldn't help but bow his hand.
"The focus this time is the drought in the northwest, pass on my order to let the Heavenly Master Tai send someone to go, if you find any foreign objects to make trouble, if you can seal it, seal it, if you have committed a human life, then kill it on the spot!"
Yuwen Tuo's words carried a bit of a swaying aura of general momentum.
"However, the rest of the details, how to deal with the drought and how to ensure that the people's livelihood does not reduce food production, still need to be formulated by local officials to inspect the situation, fortunately, the treasury is full, let's ensure the supply of rations first..."
"Send someone to ask Your Majesty and send troops to disaster relief!"
A few beads of sweat flashed on the scribe's forehead, and he nodded incessantly.
Since the last time it was discovered that someone was doing tricks in the food for disaster relief, the imperial court began to use the army for disaster relief, and professional troops with strict military discipline were not something that local officials could bribe, and the corruption of many local officials was discovered.
With force and prestige in hand, it can be said that it is almost a killing of people's heads, unlike the need to rely on local officials to govern the locality, and the imperial power does not go to the countryside.
After the empress elevated the status of the craftsman and invented the steam engine, the entire huge empire was trained into an iron plate, and the slightest intention of rebellion was completely suppressed.
This is also the reason why the Imperial army is all professional troops, since only the elite can control the huge territory, there is naturally no need for so many soldiers.
It also made many disbanded troops directly integrate into the local area and become a member of the Six Gates, and the ruffians and hooligans in various places were beaten hard for a while.
No empire has ever been so comprehensive and precise, which is why this scribe was in a cold sweat when he heard this.
It can be said that because of the last incident, the officials completely lost points on the empress's side, and they are still unwilling to return the power of disaster relief to the officials, which means that the price they have paid is not enough.
Since the local law enforcement power was replaced by the six doors, the means of mastering force have been lost, and the official class has been completely reduced to a service machine.
Fortunately, the local finances are still in the hands of officials, otherwise I am afraid that the local governments would have been in a big position long ago.
Wiping the sweat drops on his forehead, the scribe bowed, not afraid that Yuwen Tuo inside would not know, picked up the document next to his feet and walked out.
Even if the Taishi processes the paperwork very quickly, it takes a lot of time on the road, and it takes about three days from the East China Sea to Luoyang, which is the reason why the steam engine train does not stop day and night.
When the next batch of documents arrived, it can be said that the invention of the steam engine made the fertile land of the vast territory no longer far away, and the material circulation in various places also made many poor places begin to become rich.
But it also brought a lot of troubles, especially for these officials, who had to deal with a lot of things every day.
Even if there are many subordinate county offices and each has a certain amount of law enforcement power, many things and ideas in a more general direction must also be reported, so as not to recklessly implement the decree before it has any effect, and soon the new county decree will come and be abolished.
Therefore, every decree must be issued with a sufficient long-term design to be recognized, and there must be a detailed research record, and even officials will visit the region from time to time to see if the decree is really necessary.
This also makes the officials of the Great Sui court very busy, plus there are uncertain factors such as gods and ghosts, masters of the rivers and lakes, and every decree that can be recognized almost means that an official has the opportunity to enter a higher court.
This is also a real benefit to one party, Ze is a matter of life, so even if the requirements are strict, but for local officials, after taking office, they will use a lot of time to study the local situation, hoping that such a decree can appear.
And every government decree represents an opportunity for the local area, which gives the local area an opportunity for development and drives the development of the local area.
After a cycle, it is only ten years, who would have thought that the Great Sui has been building everywhere and developing everywhere.
In particular, after the status of the industrial and commercial industry was raised, the idea of agriculture as the foundation did not change, but the saying that industry and commerce are the branches and scholars are the flowers and leaves has been widely spread.
It also made the status of the scholar clan inevitably weakened, and the village elders and clans in various places were under the suppression of the government, and they were not allowed to override the national law with private law, otherwise no matter what status they were, they would be hit by the six gates.
At first, it was hindered, but later it was gradually accepted, and the farmers in the countryside began a new way of life.
In particular, with the emergence of factories, many landless peasant households poured into the cities and towns to work, resulting in no one planting acres in various places, and finally the landlords could only hire the peasant households at a high price, which increased the income of many peasant households.
It's just that Yuwen Tuo doesn't care about these things, when those things are forcefully promoted, and ten years have passed, he knows that there can be no more major wars in this world.
Ambitious people can only be coerced by a small flow of people, and when more and more schools are opened, there will be fewer and fewer people they can coerce.
Not to mention that military power has always been firmly in the hands of the empress.
His Majesty started with military power back then, and after ascending the throne, he did not hesitate to give up many powers, but he only grasped the power of military power and regulation of political affairs.
What a far-sighted vision now, and even if there are descendants, as long as they continue to follow her path, the thousands of generations of this empire are really not a lie.
Even if it is inevitable that the power in the hands will be weakened in the end, it will be many years later.
What really bothered the third prince was that those things that hadn't appeared for a long time seemed to be active again.
Especially when he was not in the court and had to sit on the side of the East China Sea, the empress was the lord of a country and could not make a move at will, which made them perceive what an opportunity.
Nowadays, the reports of natural disasters and supernatural disasters in the Great Sui are obviously several times higher than in previous years, and among the six gates, the Heavenly Department dedicated to supernatural events has discovered long-lost demonic qi in several incidents...