Xinshun 1730

Chapter 168 The original joke
This winter is normal, not as cold or hot as in previous years, and the same is true in Beijing.

It was the day when Jiedu envoys entered Beijing once a year, and the domineering-sounding name was known to be the governor of the previous dynasty.Several provinces near Gyeonggi come to Beijing once a year to report on various tasks in each province.

In the forbidden city.

The eunuch looked at the thick memorial in the emperor's hand and the emperor's nodding his head from time to time, thinking it was Liu Yu's memorial again.

But not.

Liu Yu's memorial came almost every few days, and except for some nonsense, it almost became a daily diary.

Today the soldiers know what to do, yesterday the soldiers received their pay and shouted to thank His Majesty for the pay, the day before yesterday the soldiers officially fired their guns...

Basically something like this.

The emperor has reached the point where he occasionally glances at it for a few days: the short memorial is like this, and once Liu Yu comes with a long and cumbersome memorial, the emperor will definitely check it carefully.

What the eunuch thought was just a habitual way of thinking, and most of the memorials that were long enough to avoid being scolded by the emperor were mostly written by Liu Yu.

After reading the long memorial, the emperor drove to the Tianyou Hall.

A group of "Pingzhangshi" are studying the matter of grain storage in post stations across Mongolia. This year's catastrophe has caused disasters in the entire Shandong Province.

The money of the imperial court is limited, and if it is used for disaster relief, it cannot be used for war, and it cannot be paid three times.

As soon as the emperor came, the people on duty in the writing room had to leave, so he knew it must be a major military event.

Looking at the thick memorial again, they thought that something wrong with Liu Yu had happened again, and the hearts of the few ordinary people thumped.

However, the emperor said: "Let's take a look at this, this Bai Yunhang is indeed a capable official."

A few ordinary things secretly heaved a sigh of relief, thinking that if it was about Bai Yunhang, His Majesty should be in a good mood.After all, the whole of Shandong and Jiaodong were hit by disasters, but this Bai Yunhang stood out from the crowd, and managed to achieve "few escapes and effective relief".

The imperial court didn't believe it at first, but it wasn't until they sent someone to look at it that they believed it was true.

The emperor had already commended him once before, but this time he said this again, and everyone thought that Bai Yunhang might also fly as well?
There are also those who have delicate thoughts, and can't help but think of some disaster relief methods of Bai Yunhang, thinking that this person's flying is inseparable from Liu Yu.

Sure enough, before reading the memorial, the emperor said again: "It is said that those who are close to vermilion are red, and those who are close to ink are black. Na Shutu has only been with Liu Yu for a year or two, and he has shown a lot of performance in the battle with Luocha. Now in Heilongjiang, it is also doing very well. This year, it collects more than [-] taels of Luocha fur merchant tax. Now that Bai Yunhang is in Wendeng, but he is a little closer to Liu Yu, he has done a lot of things."

He boasted, of course, because what happened in Bai Yunhang's memorial made him happy, but also because Liu Yu's original idea of ​​"using business to control Mongolia" had achieved practical results this year.

Equity capital invested from domestic funds, united with businessmen from Shanxi and Xijing, ran the business in Mongolia and Rakshasa.

The secret agent of the Haier Army not only drew detailed maps of Mongolia, but also reported the preferences of the leaders of various tribes in Mongolia, and gave a perfect answer.

Most of the money from the imperial court to appease the Mongolian leaders, as Liu Yu said, flowed back... because the money of these Khalkha leaders can only buy goods for the caravan.

What makes Li Gan even more happy is that the money invested from internal funds has been distributed to more than [-] taels this year, which was just sent back yesterday.

9 taels is not much, but this is just the beginning.

Military, political, and economic goals have all been achieved.

Liu Yu was in the east. Although he didn't send back the money, he got two warships in exchange. They haven't arrived yet, but it is indeed a good start.

Liu Yu's help was also mentioned in Bai Yunhang's memorial. Li Gan thought about such a thing as "spreading into the mother's house", and I was afraid that the ministers would be surprised, so he first said a seemingly irrelevant matter.

Thinking about waiting for Pingzhangshi to read the content of the memorial, it will take a lot of discussion.Sure enough, after reading the memorial, several Pingzhangshi had different expressions on their faces.

This memorial... will cause big waves.

This Bai Yunhang is really crazy about seeking credit, dare to write such a thing?

Thinking about the fact that this person became famous for his work in Fujian, some people can probably understand that this is a gambler, and he is betting on his future again, and the bet is much bigger than the last time.

If he lost the bet last time, he would be dismissed at most.

If he loses the bet this time, the coffin will be opened and the corpse will be slaughtered after death.Think about the fate of those who did the reform, Shang Yang's car split, Wang Anshi's name was better than Qin Hui's, Jia Sidao's treacherous official, Zhang Juzheng opened the coffin and killed the corpse... Could it be that Bai Yunhang is crazy?

Thinking about it this way, I have to admit that this person is a capable official.

Taking advantage of the catastrophe, he checked the acres of land and prepared for disaster relief. He spent seven days promoting disaster-relief crops throughout the prefecture. His Wendeng prefecture performed best when the entire Jiaodong was starving.

What's even more frightening is that this person's memorial...has a clear Liu Yuhua tendency.

The number of acres and the original tax revenue are written clearly and the numbers are listed clearly.

This is not a big deal, what really makes them feel a little "Liu Yu flavor" is the series of numbers behind.

Including if such a policy is implemented, the combination of the number of acres of land and the number of people in the family, which ones will benefit and which ones will be damaged, even drew a graph, with a vertical axis showing the number of people and a horizontal axis showing mu A graph of numbers...

If it weren't for the reason that "one who is close to vermilion is red and one who is close to ink is black", he would have seen a ghost.

But these people have to admit that this curve is too intuitive. It is clear at a glance who will be damaged and opposed, who will be grateful for support, and who will neither support nor oppose.

In addition, there are a series of supporting policies.

include:

The fields are classified according to how much Dingyin is added.

After the land is divided into acres, it is beneficial for immigrants from all over the country to alleviate land conflicts, because officials do not care about population but only land, which can relax the population and go to Liaodong, Mongolia, Heilongjiang, Taiwan and other places to reclaim wasteland.Population used to mean Dingyin, but now Dingyin is allocated to the land, officials will encourage reclamation and immigration: if the conflict between man and land is resolved, the chances of local uprisings will also decrease.

After the distribution of the people into the mu, in view of the loss of smelting silver ingots required for tax transportation, it is recommended to add the lost silver to the tax and collect a few more positive taxes to prevent various places from collecting miscellaneous taxes.

The officials objected, because the benefits were damaged, and suggested that the salaries of officials could be increased, and the salaries of officials could be increased to varying degrees according to the amount of silver collected in various places.

I request that the past corruption and corruption should be ignored, and from the day of actual implementation, if there is no restraint, then the crime will be repeated.

These policies include both reforms and compromises, and are highly enforceable.

Everyone present knew it well, because according to the chart drawn by Bai Yunhang, they could know that once the policy of dividing the land into acres was implemented, the local gentry would definitely oppose it.The chart is very clear, the interests of those people will be damaged, and the more land the greater the loss.

It's all just a "request trial" right now.

The problem is that Wendeng Prefecture has now completed the land inventory and population statistics, and there is still an exemption period after the great famine to buffer and prepare in advance.

Obviously, implementing this policy in Wendeng is easy.

Although some people object, what's the use?

Since the emperor took out this memorial, his intention was obvious: support.

This year's disaster relief, Bai Yunhang is a model set up by the emperor, so to criticize Bai Yunhang at this time, wouldn't that be a slap in the face of the emperor?
The emperor said: "Yes."However, this person is a shameless scum with evil intentions. Doesn't that mean that the emperor is blind?

Everything is ready, only the east wind is owed, no need to think about it, after the implementation, it will be perfect: the disaster relief and planting can be promoted to the whole state in seven days, and the land can be checked to find more than 60 mu of hidden land , What difficulties can there be in implementing the New Deal?
While most people were thinking about the policy itself in the memorial, Zhang Muzhi, the British public and Zuo Pingzhang, was thinking about another thing.

What he cares about is not the policy itself. It is not surprising that such an idea can come to mind.The key is execution.

Speaking of execution, Zhang Muzhi couldn't help but think of an incident a few years ago when he saw the process of checking the fields and disaster relief organizations introduced in the memorial.

Liu Yu took the students from Wude Palace to play around, beat Dengwen Drum, and wrote a book.

There are many words in the book that scare people to death and can turn the court upside down, but there is one sentence in it that jumped into Zhang Muzhi's mind at this moment.

"Select good family members, train them as subordinate officials, and serve as inspection teams. It is appropriate to have 500 people, who can investigate acres of land, investigate injustice cases, and investigate population...Take prefectures and counties as the goal, and take half a year as a period. They will be parachuted over, and magistrates and gentry will be removed. Subordinate staff, conduct a comprehensive investigation and rectification. After the investigation is completed, they will be reinstated as officials, based on the number of acres of new fields..."

This policy was originally used by the emperor as a bargaining chip with the ministers, because no one knew whether it was available, but it seemed to be available.

However, everything that Wendeng Prefecture has done now proves one thing: this method is indeed available.

It wasn't Wendeng Prefecture's state herdsman who checked the acres of land, but hired Liu Yu's officers while he was on vacation.

The popularization of food planting technology for famine relief was not done by the Wendeng Prefecture Government, but by borrowing and hiring military officers under Liu Yu.

This is nothing, because Liu Yu's memorial a few days ago said one thing: the organization method of the new army, the staff system, the separation of training and command from the command.

All of this is saying one thing.If the emperor wants to transfer him away, then this new army is also capable of fighting. This is not Liu's army, but the emperor's Qingzhou soldiers.

Liu Yu also fulfilled his original promise: A well-controlled army and an incompetent general should not be defeated lightly.

At least, that's what the memorial said. It only said that the recruits had been recruited, and the imperial court could send generals who knew the soldiers to go to Weihai to watch the martial arts performance in the fall of next year.

In addition to self-confidence, it is more like laying the groundwork for Wen Deng's incident this time.Even if he interfered in local affairs, he had no selfish intentions, and the new army could transfer him away at any time, please rest assured the emperor.

Thinking about it now... I'm afraid Liu Yu had already considered these things at that time, and he was afraid that Wen Deng's incident would arouse the emperor's suspicion. It was even more obvious that Liu Yu knew that Bai Yunhang was going to be involved in this kind of reform.

Zhang Muzhi thought to himself, Liu Yu made out the nonsense words at the beginning for everyone to see: it really works.

It was for the emperor, but also for the ministers.It was just talking before, but now that it is actually done, it can give the emperor another bargaining chip.

There are many good policies, but there will always be problems of one kind or another when they are implemented. Wendeng's approach provides a model: a group of full-time officials of good families who have nothing to do with the local area and belong to the emperor, parachute to the local area, and complete the farmland without hindrance. Inventory and other things that were difficult to do before.

And Wen Deng also gave the benefits of doing so.A state, 60 hidden fields, how much income can it add to the national treasury every year?

With so many states and counties across the country, isn’t the land tax collected enough to support hundreds of officials who are directly under the emperor and have nothing to do with the local government?

(End of this chapter)