"How's the business tax going?"

Dealing with the matter of the Tubo tearing up the covenant, Li Jing turned around and asked about the collection of commercial taxes.

"It's only about four or fifty percent."

Tobe Shangshu's face was a little ugly.

"Four, fifty percent? Why so few? I didn't issue an edict to encourage the merchants of the world to do business and elevate their status, why did I collect less business taxes than before? ”

Li Jing did not understand very much, he vigorously encouraged businessmen to do business, launched a number of new goods, and the commercial tax not only did not increase, but decreased.

What is the truth of this, is it that he encourages merchants to do business, but instead makes them not to do business?

In order to allow more people who have the ability to do business to work hard to do business, Li Jing has given a lot of preferential policies, and under normal circumstances, more people should participate.

"Sage, Liangzhou and other places, especially in the border areas, there are often bandits, resulting in a sharp decrease in the number of merchants, and even many people were robbed, resulting in many businessmen losing their money, who dares to do business again."

The military department Shangshu said that he had recently received relevant reports, which had already piled up.

It's all about mountain bandits, robbing passing businesses everywhere, and even more rampant, sneaking directly into other people's homes to commit murder.

"The minister's criminal department has also received a lot of related cases, many families have been persecuted by bandits, their heads are in different places, and several members of the family have been wiped out."

Shangshu of the Criminal Department also stood up and told the latest facts of the case.

Originally, he planned to report to Li Jing, but since the military department had said it, he said it by the way.

"Bastard, something so big happened, why didn't you report it early? What do the local governments do? Why don't you exterminate the bandits? ”

Li Jing asked the minister, is this how local officials do not act?

Let a gang of bandits kill people and rob goods, and don't take care of it? Don't the local security forces know to exterminate them?

"Local officials have tried their best to encircle and suppress the bandits, but the other party is so cunning that it is difficult to get rid of the bandits, and it is not the fault of the local officials."

The secretary of the criminal department defended the magistrate, feeling that this was not the fault of the locality, and that the magistrate had already done his duty, even if there was no merit, there was still hard work.

"Joke, the magistrates have the duty to maintain law and order in a place, and if they don't govern the place well, they let bandits flourish, which is their dereliction of duty."

"You actually told me that it wasn't their fault, whose fault was it, was it my fault?"

Li Jing roared angrily.

Several ministers did not dare to say more, and they were all silent.

"Bring all the reports to me where bandits have occurred in various places."

Li Jing waved his hand and told them all to retreat.

Reports of bandits in various places were quickly sent to Li Jing.

After Li Jing saw it, his brows furrowed, and he was even more puzzled in his heart, the bandits in various places had only recently appeared, and they all suddenly appeared overnight.

Li Jing doubts that there will be someone behind this, which will lead to bandits in many places, and Liangzhou is the most serious in the border states.

Merchants who went to do business abroad, as well as merchants from abroad, were robbed by bandits and their goods and money were looted as long as they passed through this place.

The hinterland of the Central Plains is mostly economically prosperous places, and this situation has occurred.

At this time, Li Jing was even more determined that there must be someone behind the ghost, and deliberately created a bunch of bandits to rob homes and houses, and undermine the security and stability of Datang.

Who is behind it, and for what purpose?

"Quickly spread the East Factory Supervisor Yuhuatian to see me!"

Li Jing instructed the inner attendant to call Yuhuatian over.

Ten minutes later, Yuhuatian, the superintendent of Dongchang, appeared in front of Li Jing.

"Slave maid rain and turn into fields, see the saint."

"Over there in Luozhou, can you have a fan of your East Factory?"

Li Jing looked at Yuhuatian and asked.

"Back to the sage, the East Factory belongs to the period of grass creation, and there is still a lack of manpower, and there is no fan of the East Factory in a cold place like Luozhou."

Yu Huatian replied truthfully that there was a shortage of manpower, so he could only monitor the hundred officials in the imperial court, as well as big cities such as Dongdu and Yangzhou.

In a remote area like Liangzhou, there is no one to put it in.

"Do you know that there are bandits in Yangzhou and other hinterlands, especially in the area of Dongting Lake?"

Li Jing asked.

"The slave knows that the East Factory is responsible for monitoring hundreds of officials, and when they know that there are bandits, they will inform the local government as soon as possible."

"However, the local government has not been able to exterminate the bandits, and the slaves and maids have always felt strange, I don't know if the bandits are too cunning, or if there are other hidden secrets, so that the bandits are endless."

Yu Huatian replied respectfully.

After Li Jing heard this, his brows furrowed slightly, there was something in Yuhuatian's words, it seems that it is very likely that local officials are colluding with bandits, and even behind this, there are black hands.

If it is the former, it is only necessary to remove the officials who colluded with the bandits and replace them with honest and honest officials, and it is not difficult to exterminate a group of bandits.

I'm afraid it's the latter, the water is too deep, and it can't be solved by removing officials, but it will become even more chaotic.

"From now on, in addition to surveillance, Dongchang can also be responsible for detecting, arresting people, and interrogating prisoners with the black guards."

"From now on, you have the right to investigate the cases of bandits in Dongting Lake and other places, and you must uproot them all."

Li Jing decided to give Dongchang some rights, no longer simply spy on others, and make it a privileged institution like Dongchang in the Ming Dynasty.

It integrates the three major institutions of supervision, spies, and secret officials, and gives Dongchang these rights in order to solve the problems of bandits in various places.

"The slave will not disappoint the high expectations of the saints, and will do their best to eliminate bandits everywhere and ensure peace in the world."

Yuhuatian was overjoyed, and hurriedly thanked the Holy Grace, with these rights, many things will be done, and it will be much smoother.

"Okay, what to do, you can do it yourself."

Li Jing waved his hand, anyway, he gave Dongchang new rights, how to exercise these rights, Yuhuatian solved it himself.

"Slave and maid retire!"

Yuhuatian bowed and retreated.

The matter in Liangzhou cannot be solved, but who will be sent to investigate and solve the problem in Liangzhou.

After thinking about it, Li Jing thought about all the capable ministers in the court.

But Li Jing felt that none of the ministers of the DPRK and China were suitable for the candidates in his mind.

Di Renjie is outstandingly capable, and it is appropriate to send him to investigate the matter in Liangzhou.

However, I am afraid that the people behind this are too powerful, and Di Renjie may not be able to hold it down if he goes.

If you send the royal clan to go, and you are worried that he is inexperienced, when the time comes, let alone find out something, you will be played by the opponent.

After some careful consideration, Li Jing planned to go to Liangzhou in person, go over quietly, and not tell anyone, and pay a private visit to Weifu.

If he tells the ministers of the DPRK and China directly, it is easy to startle the snake, and the ministers of the DPRK and the Central Committee will also vigorously oppose it, and in the end they will not be able to go.

Some people died, but not completely......