At the next day's court meeting, Yang Guang announced the matter of Da Suo Maung Yue.

Da Suo looks good, it can be called the largest local inspection in the Great Sui, and the patrol envoys are all officials at the level of the central elder, the higher the official, the people below will also laugh at you, the official is too small, and the bottom will not take you seriously.

As soon as Yang Guang's words were thrown, the faces of the people below were more and more ugly, because this kind of inspection was aimed at them.

But they are also lucky, because every time they read the whole world, they are not inspecting the whole world, but a certain place.

The inspection during the Kaihuang period was not strong, because Yang Jian was unwilling to offend people too much, and the treasury had always been full, so there was no need to be too ruthless.

Today is different from the past, the treasury is now out of money, Luoyang has repaired several warehouses in one go, and the emperor plans to fill them, so many people think that Yang Guang's Da Suo Maung Yue is going down to find money for the treasury.

Then the most likely ones to inspect are Bashu and Jingzhou, and generally do not go to the southwest and Lingnan, because these two places, as soon as you check, it will rebel.

Seventy percent of the officials in the court are from Guanzhong, so what they are most afraid of is patrolling in Guanzhong.

So Li Hun first stood up and said: "Since Your Majesty intends to send an inspector, the minister thinks that Bashu is the most suitable, Yizhou is dangerous, fertile for thousands of miles, the Bashu Hao family has the benefits of salt and copper, and the household specializes in mountains and rivers. ”

He is right, Sichuan is a very special place, and the complexity of the problem is not much worse than that of Lingnan.

The land of Bashu, the country of abundance, and the formation of local wealthy clans were formed during the Qin Dynasty, mainly after the Qin Dynasty destroyed the Six Kingdoms, and the remnants of the Six Kingdoms, the wealthy people, merchants, and tunhu immigrants came and gradually developed.

After nearly a thousand years of development, it has formed a typical wealthy clan characteristics integrating clan, power, wealth and culture, but it is still a big difference compared to the Central Plains clan, because they have geographical limitations.

After the founding of the Great Sui Dynasty, Yang Jian still continued the tradition of the Northern and Southern Dynasties and implemented a policy of "avoidance" in the Bashu region.

The meaning of this evasive policy is that the imperial court employs people, not Bashu people, even if local officials appoint, their left officials do not use Bashu people, which can be regarded as completely blocking the upward channel of the Bashu Hao clan, in order to disintegrate local forces.

Completely intervening in the political system, the local wealthy clan of Bashu is also declining day by day, especially after Yang Xiu, the king of Shu, is in charge, he is even more murderous, whoever is disobedient will do whom, for a full twenty years, the Bashu region is obedient.

However, people are also convinced on the surface, but they are still unconvinced in their hearts, so the tax policy of the Great Sui cannot be implemented at all in such a place controlled by regional clans.

The taxes collected in other places are getting more and more year by year, and here since Yang Xiu was abolished, it has been decreasing year by year.

For Li Hun's point of view, Pei Ju didn't agree very much, and stood up and said: "The situation in Bashu is complicated, and if you want to improve it in a day, you need to think about it in the long run. ”

With Pei Ju's shrewdness, he didn't expect Yang Guang to want to inspect Hebei.

This is normal, Hebei has become like that, it is in the recovery stage, what to check? Aren't you afraid of a few more high years?

Yang Guang brought the topic back to Bashu again, frowned and said:

"The disease of Bashu has always been worried about me, and I don't want to be the head again, but in the long run, the Bashu clan is only afraid that it will become more and more presumptuous."

As early as the Kaihuang period, Yang Jian said a sentence: Ba and Shu are dangerous, and people are chaotic.

It means that the road in this place is not easy to walk, and the locals still like to do things.

So Yang Jian directly destroyed the official road leading to Bashu in Guanzhong, and the Sword Pavilion Road was destroyed, and another better road was opened up to facilitate the control of Bashu.

Historically, because the county chiefs in the Bashu region were all unpopular figures, with no power and no soldiers, the local wealthy families had a chance to recuperate and form a delicate peaceful relationship with the imperial court, so there was a saying that "there were no thieves in Jiannan at the end of the Sui Dynasty", that is, the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and this place did not participate at all.

Yang Ming also believes that the best way at the moment is actually to stabilize Bashu, and it is not a day's work to solve the problem of the local wealthy families in Bashu that have been left for thousands of years.

The best way is to send a dove elder to sit in Bashu and communicate with local wealthy families to solve the tax problem, but Yang Guangming is unwilling to send this kind of feudal official, so there is no solution for the time being.

Su Wei stood up and said: "The problem of Bashu taxation needs to be able to be improved by the ministers and virtuous officials, and it is not appropriate to suppress the local government in a tough manner. ”

Niu Hong also agreed: "Seeing that Bashu's taxes are getting less and less year by year, if it continues like this, I am afraid that it will become a stubborn disease, and the minister thinks that the position of chief manager should be sooner rather than later." ”

Yang Guang was a little hesitant, from his point of view, he was definitely unwilling to put a regional governor in Bashu, which was a challenge to the imperial power.

At that time, Yang Jian didn't have this concern, because people put his own son, but Yang Guang is now, one son is abolished, and the other son is the prince, who else can he send?

This kind of place, which is not a direct blood relative, is definitely not at ease.

So next, everyone discussed for a long time, Yang Guang still did not let go, the emperor's position, it doesn't matter if the tax is less, but it can't affect the imperial power.

So Yang Guang said: "Let's discuss the issue of Bashu, but Jingzhou is definitely not the top choice." ”

Okay, now it's time for Yang Ming to get out of the horse, just listen to him:

"Erchen thinks that the election is actually Hebei."

As soon as these words came out, many people were confused, and Pei Ju also pondered in surprise, figuring out Yang Ming's thoughts, but after a while, he figured it out.

Is this trying to repay the debt?

This time, the imperial court owed a huge amount of debts in Hebei, Shanxi, Henan, and Shandong, totaling 19 million guan, and Hebei alone occupied 10 million.

It sounds like nothing for the whole country, this amount of money seems to be nothing, the Yangzhou Mint plus the Guanzhong Mint can produce more than 10 million yuan a year, and the balance of the treasury is not only this amount, it seems that it can be easily repaid.

In fact, it is a big mistake, first of all, we must make it clear that every expenditure of the imperial court has its own budget planning, how the money comes, how the money goes, and every arrangement has been made.

You can't just embezzle any of them, or the accounts will go wrong.

The account of the imperial court is a big account, and it cannot be calculated clearly by dozens of abacus.

For example, Yang Guang wanted to repair Jinyang Palace, but Yuwenshu reluctantly allocated one million from the Ministry of Civil Affairs under the opposition of hundreds of officials, and this million was still used to repay the money in Hebei.

And Hebei's gap is 10 million, where do you allocate it to repay this debt? The agreement signed between Yang Yin and Hebei was to be repaid in three years, and more than 3 million yuan should be repaid in one year, and the more than 3 million yuan was the debt deficit of the imperial court.

The imperial court has always been short of money, and there is only one way, which is to open up sources and reduce expenditures, and the era of the Great Sui Dynasty determined that there are only two directions for open source, one for the family and the other for the common people.

Don't count on throttling, Yang Guang will also talk about it, it is impossible for you to expect him to save, and the family will not save.

And Yang Guang chose a bad account from the middle of open source and throttling.

Pei Ju was amazed in his heart, and hurriedly stood up and echoed:

"The minister agreed with the prince's suggestion, Hebei's losses this time are too heavy, and there is no accurate number of casualties so far. Outflow geometry? Migration geometry? How many of them are still in their hometowns, the imperial court must verify it clearly. ”

This is a very tenable reason, not mentioning tax inspection, but every sentence is inseparable from tax inspection.

Because people are taxes.

Lu Chu must not be happy, the entire Fan Yang Lu family, he himself does not know the registered population concealed below, but it must be a heavenly number, because it is only his branch, at least twenty or thirty thousand people are concealed.

And he can be sure that when the hometown is in such a mess, and the family has a lot of blood, he will definitely find a way to make up for it, and the way to make up for it must be to make up for this dead population, the dead are not dead, the half-crippled are all disabled, and those who have men in the family are changed to no men, because women are also half tax.

Lu Chu said in a loud voice: "The minister thinks that he can go anywhere for inspection, but he can't go to Hebei, the current Hebei is a disaster in the world, and the consumption of the common people of the family is too heavy, so it is not appropriate to increase the burden." ”

"Lu Zhongshu is too worried, not to burden Hebei," Pei Ju said with a smile: "It's just that we have to thoroughly investigate how big Hebei's losses are this time, so that the imperial court can formulate policies to appease them according to the situation." ”

Lu Chu scolded in his heart, what do you want to do thinking that I don't know, don't say it so high-sounding, and the money hasn't been repaid yet? Want to pluck the hair on us again?

"Hebei's losses, local officials have already reported, although there must be some discrepancies with the actual situation, but it should not be big, there is no need to spend a lot of time, in Hebei Dasuo to read."

Yang Ming raised his hand directly and said, "Of course it is necessary, shouldn't the imperial court explore the current situation in Hebei clearly?" The local losses are too heavy, and the chief officials have to be responsible, so the water reported by these local officials must be large, and the imperial court is also to find out the real situation, there is no need for Lu Zhongshu to react so much. ”

Lu Chu didn't dare to speak, he still had to give the prince's face, and he also counted on Yang Ming to be the backstage for him, otherwise he would not be able to stand firm as a Hebei person in the Inner History Province.

As for Cui Hongsheng, who is also from Hebei, although he was also scolding in his heart, he did not choose to come out.

Because the emperor just let his younger brother Cui Hongjun go, he spoke out again at this time, and he was somewhat ignorant.

As for the rest, most of them are from Guanzhong, and the inspection of Hebei has nothing to do with us, and Yang Ming was the first prince, so don't go against others at this time.

So more and more people stood up and supported Yang Ming's suggestion.

Yang Guang nodded, looked at Yang Ming and said:

"Who does the prince think is appropriate for this inspection?"

Yang Ming got up and said: "The matter of household registration has always been under the management of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the new Shangshu Cui Zhongfang has not yet arrived in Beijing, the waiter Cui Jin is old, and the sons think that it is best to take Pei Yun, the waiter of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, as the patrol envoy, and the Si Litai don't drive Yang Qi and Wei Fuzi as the deputy envoys." ”

A three-rank (deputy bu-level) civil department squire, plus a clan, and a Jing Zhaowei, this lineup is enough.

Yang Guang nodded and said, "Just according to the prince's request." ”