Wan Nian Yi arched his hand: "The minister wants to expand to the north." ”

"Why North?"

Wannian replied: "The land north of Chaoge is vast, and it has not been covered in the past, because the terrain is too flat, and it is easy to be driven into by the Rongdi in the north, and there is a worry about besieging the city. ”

Zishou pondered for a moment and said, "It's not bad, but I want to expand eastward." ”

"East?" Wan Nian was puzzled: "The east is Qishui, how to expand?"

Zi Shou smiled and said: "It's good to cross the Qishui, build a bridge when you meet the mountains and rivers, and incorporate a section of Qishui into the song, what's wrong?"

Wan Nian hesitated: "This.... It's not inappropriate, with this water source, it will be easier for the people of Chaoge to live, but it takes a lot of effort to build bridges..."

Zishou waved his hand: "Everything must have a beginning, the sooner the bridge is built, the sooner it can be completed, I heard that the homeless people are quite unruly, yes or no?"

This time, it was Li Jing who answered: "These displaced people include herdsmen from the north, and there are also displaced people from Xiqi, whose identities are unknown, who act fiercely, and may even have some people sent by the princes, so they are unruly and untamable, even if the law is strict, it is difficult to restrain them!"

This is the reason for Li Jing's headache, the expansion of Chaoge will have to demolish those broken houses that are temporarily built outside Chaoge, but the homeless people living in the broken houses resist not to mention, and they also make trouble, which is really a group of Diao people.

Zi Shou said: "I am a big businessman, and I should be tolerant, but for the troublemakers, they are severely punished in accordance with the law, that is, the displaced people have suffered too much, they are unruly, and it is reasonable to distrust the court, but Li Qing's family is also reasonable to punish according to the law." ”

"Minister... Got it. Li Jing replied, he couldn't be sure, but he had to deal with it, if he was allowed to go on like this, the problem would only be bigger.

Zishou said again: "If the displaced people make trouble again, they will be requisitioned to repair bridges and roads, and the expansion of Chaoge is short of manpower, and those captives are far from enough, so it can properly appease the displaced people, and the credit is not small!"

Wan Nian's eyes lit up, and he didn't care about the numbness on his back, and said in a loud voice: "Your Majesty, Shengming! This move can not only make the displaced people stop complaining, but also increase labor, killing two birds with one stone, but I don't know, how to set the salary for this day?"

"What kind of wages?" Zishou shook his head: "Without wages, the treasury is already empty, where is the wages?

"This..."Wan Nian frowned: "I'm afraid that it will be difficult to manage." ”

Zishou waved his hand: "That's Qing's business." ”

It's just that if it's not well managed, there will be public resentment!

These displaced people have been hoarding for a year, and during this year, Chaoge has not only provided temporary housing, but also donated porridge from time to time, which is already very good.

It is precisely in this way that they will subtly make them feel that everything is taken for granted, and Chaoge treats them well, and should solve all the problems for them, but now not only does it not solve the problem, but also let them go as free laborers?

If there is no housing and food, how can the displaced people who have experienced good treatment be willing to do so?

The homeless is like this, he has always been bad to him, and if he is suddenly good to him, he will be grateful, and if he has been good to him, and suddenly he is not good to him, he will complain.

Did the big merchants owe them anything? No, the big merchants accepted them, gave them food, and were kind to them.

If you let them work first, and then accept and then give food, everything is easy to say, thank Dade, you can turn the order around, oh no, the people are full of grievances!

It's all settled!

He asked Xiang Wannian: "Is this true?"

"Really, if this is the case, it is not only difficult to manage...... Wan Nian sighed: "Your Majesty doesn't know, these homeless people are not like the Chaoge people, the Chaoge people are enough to eat and wear, and if they have money to spare, they will be afraid of the law, but the homeless people are barely fed and clothed, and they have no hope for the future, and they don't have any reverence for the law at all......

"I see. He said, "Then do it, since they have no fear of the law, I will teach them how to have fear." ”

"Your Majesty, it's not right!"

"This move is not advisable, please think twice!"

"Lord Wan is reasonable, the matter of the displaced people will have to be discussed later, please think twice, Your Majesty!"

Almost all the weighty courtiers in the inner room have spoken, if it weren't for the fact that there was still a person standing on their backs, they would be all brushed and bowed down.

Seeing that the king was going to be arbitrary, Shang Rong directly pushed away the woman who was massaging him, and said, "Your Majesty, the minister has something to say!"

"Old Prime Minister, please speak. Zishou nodded slightly.

Shang Rong said: "The minister thinks that it is good to have strict laws, but these displaced people were not the people of my big business before, and they did not have much sense of belonging, so it is not surprising that they have done some illegal things......

"My great business sea is inclusive, these homeless people come to admire the big business, naturally to be kind, so as to win the hearts of the people, as Wan Shangshu said, call them to work, and then give wages, you can collect their hearts, everyone can bathe in my great business kindness, in order to return to the heart, and then abide by the law, for my people of great business. ”

"If this is not the case, if you only force you to do work, but you don't get paid, there will be public resentment, and there will be no slight public resentment, but if someone instigates it and uses it to make trouble and maliciously slander you, I am afraid that it will damage Your Majesty's sanctity!"

"The ministers all know that Your Majesty treats the homeless people well, even if you force these homeless people to work, it is nothing, but the world does not know! If the treasury is tight, the ministers are willing to contribute their family wealth!"

Shang Rong's expression was serious, this is not a small problem, if these Xiqi homeless people use it well, they will be able to gain momentum, and if they are not used well, there will be frequent problems.

The bigwigs in the DPRK and China echoed one after another, and Zishou felt that he was fortunate to have two rooms, otherwise the minister in the other room would also echo it, but I was afraid that it would be really difficult to follow his own wishes.

"I've made up my mind. ”

He is determined not to pay wages, it is the homeless people who owe him, not the homeless people, to understand this truth.

You have been robbed to run away, eat me, wear me, I will let you do things, and you will make trouble without paying?

Why do I have to feed you for nothing?

As for whether there will be a riot or a riot, that's nothing, just to contribute to the mediocrity and beauty.

Anyway, if you send troops to guard it, these homeless people can't afford to turn up the wind and waves, so you can be a mediocre value maker with peace of mind.

Seeing that the king was so tough, the ministers had no intention of enjoying the massage, and the whole room was very quiet, only the women were nervous, and they looked trembling, as if they had heard something they shouldn't have heard.

Zishou said again: "But what the old prime minister said, there is also some truth, Qian Bao ......."

"The minister is here!" Qian Bao gave up, a little inexplicable, he is a medical doctor, what does the expansion of Chaoge to deal with homeless people have to do with himself?

"The old prime minister is worried about the country and the people, shave a sha for the old prime minister, scrape the sha to calm the nerves, ward off evil spirits and disperse turbidity, the old prime minister will definitely prolong his life for a hundred years, and the big business must not lose the old prime minister!"

"Minister... Obey the order!" Qian Bao's eyelids jumped slightly, he couldn't resist the order, right?

Gua sha is indeed good for the human body, especially when Shang Rong is old, there are many dark diseases, at the beginning of the year, he was drenched in the rain and suffered from the cold, and gua sha is just the right symptom.

"Wait... Wait!"

Shang Rong shouted again and again, Qian Bao's face was expressionless, and he had already picked up the jade scraping board and put it in his hands.

"Wan Qing's family is also worried about the country and the people!"

"Minister...."Wan Nian reluctantly gave up, but he still strongly advised: "If the treasury is tight, the expansion can be postponed." ”

Zishou smacked his lips: "Although the treasury is tight, but there must be money and grain, the old does not go to the new and does not come, I want to ask, can the nobles pay the land tax?"

"Under the well field system, the people cultivated the public land and paid a land tax, and the land in the hands of those nobles grew grain, how much could the court get?"

Shang Rong trembled under Qian Bao's gua sha technique, and couldn't answer, but Bo Yi came forward to answer: "The nobles' fields are private fields, and the imperial court can't collect the fields." ”

"If it is not the king's land, how can you come to private land? I see, these nobles have grain in their hands, so it would be good to ask them to collect it, and now that the treasury is empty, it is just right to solve the urgent need. ”

The aristocracy paid the field tax....

The ministers were shocked, it was the privilege of the nobles not to pay the land endowment, and the land was fought for by their ancestors, it was their thing, how could it be given to the court?

Zishou said seriously: "What's the matter? The nobles do business and earn money, so they have to pay business taxes, and the nobles farm the land and grow grain, shouldn't they pay the field tax?"

"This ......"

Yang Ren, who was pressed by the massage and grinned, couldn't take care of spraying, he didn't know what to do, it was such a reason, but it was not like this.

So he had to say: "Your Majesty, if the nobles pay the land tax, it is enough to have a large surplus of grain, but the Great Shang has never set this precedent for six hundred years, Your Majesty can know why?"

Bo Yi followed Ying He and said: "This is because the nobles are related to His Majesty's ancestors, how can there be any reason to collect land from their own relatives?"

He sighed, in fact, as a side of the Shang royal family, he saw this point more clearly, the dead Ziqi, the Ziyan who was addicted to singing, and the Jizi and Meibo who went north, which one is not the family has a field?

Oh, there is also a person who was almost forgotten in the village outside the city and didn't know what to do all day long, these people have countless fertile soil in their homes, but do they pay the field tax?

If they don't, even if they force the nobles to pay the land tax now, in the next few hundred years, the descendants of these royal families will become nobles, and along the blood of their ancestors, the nobles still do not need to pay taxes.

And this minister of the court, if he resigns from the official position, is he also a small nobleman? Can they hand over the field endowment?

Zishou didn't listen to a word, and those who have money and food pay more taxes, which is normal logic! They consume more public resources!

Zishou smiled and said: "The treasury is empty, there is a lack of money and grain, then we have to let the people who have money and grain to pay it, is it possible to increase the collection of land endowments, so that the people will be displaced, and the people will be forced to change their children and eat?

Zishou looked at the ministers, he was already standing on the moral high ground, and he knew from the fact that these courtiers were willing to chase out of the palace in order to popularize sweaters for the people, and they were all lovely people with the world in their hearts.

The ministers were silent, they may not have felt much about this before, but since they went to various places to rest last year, they have seen the suffering of many people.

It is difficult to know the suffering of the people at the height of the temple, and only then did they understand what they were going to do, and their income came from the blood and sweat of those people!

Even many people have decided that if they are still resting next year, it will still be like this, go to the local area, walk more, and see more.

Therefore, under these words, there are many people who are moved.

But they couldn't make up their minds.

In the morning, the king of Xuan wanted to change his clothes and tamper with the etiquette system in front of the public, and now he came to collect land from the nobles?

I don't know what kind of mess I have to make!

Everyone fell silent.

It is difficult to collect the field, it is difficult to go to the sky, the pressure of the new law is already very great, and there is a new gift that is ready to be started in the morning, plus the new endowment now....

Even the mere thought of it can be extremely stressful.

Zishou looked at the reaction of the ministers, and already had a plan in his heart.

It's good to be in trouble, and it's better to be under pressure, as long as the ministers are on their side.

Originally, they were completely enemies of the nobles, and these things were nothing, just to earn more memelocity, and someone was holding on to the throne and waiting for the mediocrity to settle.

If all the ministers are unwilling, he may not really dare, after all, the nobles have rebelled twice, and if there is no one to count on the third time, he can only run away with his wife.

Zishou sighed in his heart, capable ministers and officials are also useful for earning mediocre value in some aspects, at least they can get to the bottom.

He said softly: "All of you are the pillars of the court, don't you have to be sure?

He further increased his weight: "Why are there displaced people outside the city? Why is there a wage dispute today? My big businessman governs the country with extravagance, money and grain are not saved, but earned, the sky has fallen, there is me, the nobles have resentment, they are also coming to me, I am at the forefront, and Zhuqing is making a few pillars under the head, can't you do it?"

Shang Rong first hissed coldly because of the gua sha pain, and then sighed: "What Your Majesty said is not unreasonable, the old man is the prime minister of the dynasty, if there is any objection, it is really self-contained, Your Majesty has made a decision, the old minister is naturally the first to look forward, and this change of land will be presided over by the old minister...."

The ministers glanced at each other, their eyes were shocked, Shang Rong said that he personally presided over it, it can be said that he carried everything on his back, even if the change of land failed, the king only needed to depose him, and there would be nothing left, and the nobles could not deliberately find fault, after all, the court had already given up a lot of benefits in the woolen clothes and workshops.

Old Prime Minister.... Really noble!

In fact, Shang Rong felt that it was nothing, he was old, his health was not good, and there was not much he could do, so it was worth it to do such a thing with his last reputation and status.

When he led his ministers to chase out of the court song in the morning and seek the benefits of sweaters for the people, he had such an idea that something must be done.

It's not a wise man to protect himself, and he doesn't need any credit, just a little practical thing that he has done for the world after three dynasties.

Zishou didn't know what Shang Rong was thinking, how could you old man rob me of my mediocrity?

"Since I proposed, I presided, Dr. Qian, and then cupping the old prime minister. ”

The next day, in fact, it was finished at eleven o'clock, and it took an hour to check and revise

(End of chapter)