Chapter 92: The Gap
Luoyang.
The same court discussion was also going on in Great Wei.
Cao Chao sat on the top, and the ministers sat on the bottom.
Since the three dukes and nine kings completely lost their power and became honorary officials, the court discussion has become very interesting.
The beginning of the court meeting usually begins with the proclamation of the various departments of Shangshutai.
The various departments of Shangshutai talked about their achievements in the near future and their future directions.
Today's Shangshutai is definitely the most powerful department in the world, each of the six Shangshu is the top, and the full set of configurations is almost full, and it is the most powerful institution under Cao Chao.
Their results are also evident.
All six have made great achievements during this period of time.
Needless to say, the abolition of the tuntian system is now the largest policy of the Great Wei Dynasty.
The public land in various places was leased to the common people, and the temples were no longer used for farming, and the tuntian institutions of the Great Wei were directly reduced, which caused a huge controversy.
Speaking of which, there are a lot of opponents.
The excuses vary, but some say that this is a system that has been in operation since the time of Emperor Wu, and that a simple change may shake the national capital, reduce revenue, and lead to the collapse of the national treasury.
Some people say that they are afraid that the public land will become privately owned by some people.
Some said that they were worried that without the leadership of the temple, the people would not be able to cultivate effectively and would be prone to neglect.
When Lu Zhi talked expressionlessly about the reform situation in various places and abolished the decisions of many Tuntian institutions, the three princes and nine secretaries couldn't sit still.
The temple was divided into two factions.
The people on Shangshutai's side are responsible for doing it, and the three princes and Jiuqing are responsible for staring at them to find fault.
As soon as Lu Zhi finished speaking, Cui Zan asked with a worried face: "Shangshutai is going to completely abolish the tuntian system this year, so can next year's harvest still be guaranteed?" There is not much grain left in the treasury because of the war, and what if there is an imbalance between the balance of payments? ”
"Today, many departments in Tuntian have been slowly perfected and formed over the past few decades, and the officials they serve are also carefully selected, if they are abolished at this moment, it will be too late to regret them later!"
In the face of Cui Zan's questioning, Lu Zhi replied very politely: "The consumption of the departments in Tuntian themselves is greater than the benefits they create. ”
"The officials you have carefully selected have no distinction between grains and grains, and the season is unknown, all they can do is sell grain, seize cultivated land, embezzle farm tools, lie about harvests, and so on. What a system! ”
"These departments have now become moths of Great Wei, without any ability, but they are just constantly adding chaos and increasing the burden!"
"Don't the people know how to farm themselves? These people are stuck with farm tools and grain seeds, and they have to wait for their orders to start farming, and these people are very incompetent, they don't know anything about farming, and in the end they are a group of people who don't understand to direct a group of old farmers who have been farming for decades to farm, delay farming, and cause a big deal. ”
Lu Zhi's eyes were extremely sharp, and he stared at the many ministers in front of him.
"They are completely dragging them down, they have no effect, and they are even helping to annex the public land together, and abolishing them is in line with the general trend, which should not be controversial!"
After Lu Zhi's words, Cui Zan didn't dare to argue anymore.
Lu Zhi said that these officials in Tuntian were national thieves, and if Cui Zan defended again, if there was another strict investigation, he would be easily implicated.
Cao Chao obviously saw that helplessness flashed on the faces of some ministers.
Cao Chao's heart is clear, and the Tuntian organization has become the main tool used by the big clans to make money over the years.
It can only be said that when my eldest father changed this policy, he gave too much power to the tuntian organization, and they were responsible for everything, from the preparation of farm tools and grain seeds to the harvest of farming, and in every link, there were huge interests.
None of this can be seriously pursued.
Even Cao Chao, the emperor with real power, did not dare to investigate the dirty things in the Tuntian institution in the past.
He was afraid that he would kill all the people under his command
In the past, since there are no explicit regulations, Cao Chao can be regarded as not knowing, but in the future, if these people dare to use Tuntian as an excuse to interfere and obstruct the current new policy, then Cao Chao will let the dog go.
Do you see He Zeng, who was sitting on the left-hand side, looking around at everyone?
Although the ministers in the temple felt that it was a pity, they also had brains, and they didn't think about going too much to obstruct at this time, after all, they were not clean, if they jumped out to oppose it, and then they were found out something, it would be bad.
Lu Zhi looked at these people and felt only disgusted in his heart.
The matter of this Tuntian, the more I investigated, the more chilling I felt, the more outrageous I felt, the harvest of Tuntian in the temple over the years, the one that fell into the hands of the temple was not a big head!
Lu Zhi originally thought that this Tuntian was greedy for ink, and it was a little bit of it from all links, and the little was gathered into a lot.
He always thought that the huge consumption of Tuntian was due to the excessive number of officials.
But when he really went to handle this matter, he realized that this greedy ink was deducted from each link to the temple, and the rest was divided among everyone.
The temple doesn't get a big head, it's the leftovers that others eat, which is incredible!
Lu Zhi immediately changed his moderate attitude, and directly wrote to abolish the tuntian system, and to abolish all places, even if it was a border tun that was plugged in the side, he would not be left.
The policy of the Ministry of Household Affairs was quickly adopted, and no one questioned it.
Immediately, several officials of the Ministry of Rites talked about their work.
The Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites is not in the temple now, but on the Yongliang side, and the things they have to do are no less than those of the household department.
Qiang, Xiongnu, Xianbei.
They have to solve all three major problems.
Pei Xiu himself was in Yongliang and personally handled the affairs of Qianghu.
After a baptism of Shibud, in fact, Yongliang's things are very easy to do.
Pei Xiu cooperated with Zhuge Xu to split the tribal organizational form of the Qiang people under the condition of persecution or semi-persecution.
They completely disrupted the Qiang people, resettled them in many county towns according to their regions, organized households, and gave them shelter and farmland.
Of course, there was also chaos, and some leaders wanted to lead their people to flee, and it was immediately discovered that Great Wei had almost no opponents in Yongliang.
Great Wei is not the Later Han, and the Qiang chaos can plague the Later Han, but it cannot trouble the Great Wei.
Without the support of the local people, they could not do anything.
Pei Xiu is decisive and almost ruthless, his main focus is the set of those who follow me, there are a total of 230,000 Qianghu, who have been placed in more than ten counties in three states, and after they are broken up like this, the households that can be distributed in each county are only a few dozen.
As for the original leaders, Zhuge Xu asked for officials for them, let them get into the carriage, and go to Luoyang.
This incident has attracted the attention of the world.
The last person to do something like this was the First Emperor!
After he destroyed other people's countries, he forcibly dispersed the nobles in the other country, trying to weaken the power of the restoration of the country, and later Liu Bang also implemented a similar policy.
But Cao Chao is obviously different from them, strictly speaking, he is following Cao Cao and Sima Yi to move the Hu people inward.
But Cao Chao's internal migration is different from both of them.
They just let the Hu people go to the Central Plains to graze, let them continue to maintain their organizational form, and wander away from the governance of the temple, but Cao Chao's internal relocation really directly turned the Hu people into residents in the city, and the organization will be broken up for you, and from then on, you are the people of Dawei with the Great Wei household registration, and there is no difference from the rest of the people!
The Xiongnu side also carried out such a policy.
The ministers did not say anything about this policy.
The main reason is that these things have no conflict of interest with them, and they don't care at all if the emperor is unkind and unrighteous about Hu Ren's behavior, whether there is anything immoral or not.
They have always only cared about whether their own interests will be harmed.
After the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Works, the Ministry of Officials, and the Ministry of Punishment also expressed their achievements in these days.
Cao Chao had always felt that the court discussion could no longer be handled, but recently he changed his mind and decided to convene ministers to discuss from time to time.
Shang Shutai also needs the supervision and questioning of the foreign ministers, and the three princes and nine secretaries not only find fault with them, but some of the accusations are really very reasonable.
Shang Shutai is very united internally, and it is inevitable that there will be some behaviors that cover up his own family, and he just uses these old ministers to balance.
There is a big gap between the young ministers and the old ministers in the temple, and it is best to let them neutralize them.
It took more than an hour for the court to explain many things clearly.
After the court meeting ended, Cao Chao was the first to leave here, and a minister immediately followed him.
The one who followed him was He Zeng of the Imperial Historical Tower.
Seeing He Zeng leave with the emperor, the ministers looked at each other a few times, and their eyes were a little flustered and afraid, this guy won't bite people again, right?
"Your Majesty"
He Zeng's face was full of flattering smiles, and he nodded and followed behind Cao Chao, without the temperament of a scholar at all.
"He Gong, I remember, these days the Imperial Observatory is very calm, nothing serious, why does He Gong seem a little uneasy?"
He Zeng hurriedly replied: "Your Majesty, the minister has something important to tell. ”
"I heard that these days, the big clans in various places are using all their strength to arrange their children to arrange a lot of cultivated land and a lot of industries in Shuzhong, and the officials are already full of holes."
He Zeng narrowed his eyes, "But do you need the ministers to take action?" ”
Cao Chao laughed, after these years of rectification, the situation of the officials is getting better and better, and Yushitai has nothing to do, He Zeng is obviously afraid.
He was afraid that if he was useless, he would be abandoned and taken out to vent his anger to the ministers.
Cao Chao glanced at him, and then said: "He Gong, I am definitely not a person of affection, there is nothing important in the Imperial History Tower, isn't this a good thing?" That's enough to see your achievements and talents. ”
"You can handle a small thing like this yourself, and you don't have to ask me."
"Yui!!"