Great Tang princess

For these low-level officials, when they came to extort corvee, where have they seen such a formation?

Not to mention those middle-aged men, even a lot of dealer women came to sign up, saying loudly that their strength is not inferior to men.

The point is that they didn't dare to fool around. You must know that this is what the princess told them. If they brought back a group of people who couldn't work, they probably wouldn't have to work in the future.

So in desperation, we had to temporarily build a shed and register one by one.

Ask them if they have the strength, or if they have any skills.

After all, building a house does not mean that only a lot of strength is enough. If you have a powerful technology, it is also a rare bonus.

There are three main projects this time, one is the fabric factory in Chang'an, the other is the banknote printing factory next to the military area, and the other is the Tobacco Bureau.

There's actually a fourth, and that's the real Reichsbank.

It is the Imperial Royal Bank that is responsible for printing money, formulating financial rules, and supervising financial markets. Such a bank cannot be the same as a commercial bank.

And since banknotes are to be fully issued, there must be a serious commercial bank.

The Imperial Royal Bank, which is responsible for printing money, is under the jurisdiction of the royal family.

The Imperial Central Bank, as a commercial bank, is managed and operated by the Ministry of Accounts.

With so many projects, there are naturally enough people needed, and the money to be invested is not a small amount.

However, this money was not paid by Li Yuechen alone. The royal family still paid the bulk of the money, which accounted for the majority of the shares.

Li Yuechen herself has never been a person who loves money, and besides, she has no descendants. In the future, no one will inherit her assets, and they will still be left to the royal family.

But she has another idea, that is, to save part of her own money in the bank at that time, divide the annual interest into several parts, and give it as a bonus to those who have made great contributions in science and medicine.

That's right, just like the Nobel Prize, this time, Li Yuechen will turn it into the Taiping Princess Award of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

If it can be developed, then this award will become a well-known award in the world in the future.

But this is all for the future, what Li Yuechen has to do now is to finish the project in front of him first.

In the office of the Ministry of War, Li Xian patted the table: "Yuechen! What are you thinking? Did you hear what Brother Wei said?"

"what?"

After recovering from Feiyang's thoughts, Li Yuechen shook his head subconsciously: "I was just thinking, there are more white hairs on brother's head."

Hearing this sentence, Li Xian shook his head: "How old is my brother, and it's almost time to know my destiny... I don't look like you, like a goblin."

Li Yuechen is now 33 years old, but he looks at least ten years younger than his actual age.

She still looks like a little girl in her early twenties. In this era, she can really be called a fairy.

In this era, the average life expectancy is not high, so the appearance of most people is older than their actual age.

Like Li Yuechen, whose appearance is ten years younger than his actual age, it is really rare to see.

"Is it too much to be a goblin?" Li Yuechen picked up the teacup with a smile and took a sip.

"Okay, let's stop the gossip. Is it true that there is no need for engineers to do this project?" Li Xian asked seriously.

Li Yuechen shook his head: "Engineers, in the final analysis, they are soldiers. These external projects should be done by outsiders."

"Well, since that's the case, I don't care about this matter." Li Xian nodded.

Now, as the Minister of the General Logistics Department of the Ministry of War, his rank has also been promoted to major general.

After returning from the Tubo War, a conferring ceremony was held, and his mother Wu Zetian personally wore it for him.

The work of the General Logistics Department is relatively busy, and the logistics problems of the major military regions will eventually be reported to him, which is much busier than before.

And Li Yuechen was also thinking that it was almost time to assign life secretaries to these senior officers.

In fact, military officers in this era also had assistants similar to secretaries, called clerks.

And what Li Yuechen wanted as a life secretary was to help arrange trivial matters in life, including schedule arrangements, nutrition and health care, and other aspects.

After all, when the job reaches a certain level, they will be too busy to deal with these trivial matters.

It's just that they still have to think about what level to equip them with secretaries.

The current idea is that the highest officer and above of the military sub-district should be equipped with life secretaries.

That is the current level of Li Chongrun.

The northern border military division where he is located is not comparable to the large military division in terms of number and scale, so it is temporarily under the jurisdiction of Liu Huang.

But the military division is also a military district, and he is also the highest officer of a military district, so he still has to be given the treatment that should be given.

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The recruiting process went very smoothly, and now it's not time for the autumn grain harvest, and most farmers are basically idle.

So it only took a week, and all the people who needed it were recruited.

The fabric factory in Chang'an naturally recruits people near Chang'an, and the ones in Dongdu are here.

This is done so that those who don't want to work can leave at any time, and secondly, when the autumn grain comes down, they can go back to collect the grain quickly.

And the blueprints from the Engineering Academy were quickly produced.

Whether it is the banknote printing factory or the cloth yard, they are all four-meter large factories, made of concrete with main reinforcement, and there are few internal columns, which will not block the view.

Moreover, there is a six-meter-high space in the middle of the roof of the factory building, and glass windows are installed on both sides to ensure the lighting of the entire factory building.

The factory building of the Tobacco Bureau is not that big, it is relatively small.

The only troublesome thing was the bank. According to Li Yuechen's generous request, the engineering institute gave the design drawing of the third floor.

However, high-rise buildings were not allowed near the palace, so after accurate distance calculations, the bank was placed in the southeast direction of the city, far away from the palace, so that even if you stood on the top of the building with a telescope, you would not be able to see the palace.

According to calculations, these projects will be completed by the middle of next year.

Li Yuechen was not in a hurry. In this age without large equipment, it was already very efficient to rely solely on manpower.

As for why no prisoners are used... because all prisoners across the country are now being dragged to build roads.

Although there are already many hardened trunk roads across the country, it is obviously not enough.

Especially now that Li Chongrun has gone to the northern military division, it will be the main wool import channel in the future.

Therefore, in order to ensure future wool transportation, a cement road was specially planned from Mongolia to Shanxi, and then to Dongdu.

As a result, most of the prisoners in the country were dragged to build roads, which can be regarded as making the best use of everything.

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With the gradual improvement of legal provisions, more complete laws have gradually been introduced.

After reading it, Li Yuechen said that it was almost done, and announced the official opening of the University of Political Science and Law.

At present, the campus does not need to be specially established, just use the place of the Imperial College.

So on the first day of September, Dazhou University of Political Science and Law was formally established, with Di Renjie as the principal.

When the emperor announced it in the court, the ministers had no special reaction.

Recently, this matter has been almost completely made public, and now the emperor's notice is at most just a confirmation.

After the establishment of the University of Political Science and Law, a large number of officials who claimed to be legalists appeared immediately, and they did not know where they came from before.

This incident made Li Yuechen feel a little ridiculous. Until today, no one in the Academy of Engineering claimed to be from the Mohist family.

But it doesn't matter, I thought this matter would arouse Confucian resistance, but at least for now, everything is calm.

In fact, it's normal to think about it carefully. As early as many years ago, during the students' boycott of the exam, the royal family and the Kong family had already had a confrontation.

And that confrontation ended with the defeat of the Confucian family. Now that the emperor is powerful, the Confucian family represented by Confucianism cannot speak out, and the others are not qualified.

The biggest difference between the two is that Legalism emphasizes the law, while Confucianism emphasizes etiquette.

Although there were various laws to manage the country before, etiquette and law are not the same thing in essence.

For example, the previous law stipulates that if a father goes to the Yamen to say that his son is unfilial, Dali Temple can arrest his son and punish him without any evidence, because your father said that you are unfilial, which is unfilial.

But in the law, Li Yuechen did not say that being unfilial is innocent, but if you say that your son is unfilial, you have to produce evidence.

This is the difference between etiquette and law, and the reason for this is very simple, because in this world, there are some weird parents who make a living by oppressing their children.

The law seems to no longer impose restrictions on people's morality, but it pays attention to actual evidence and does not make different sentences according to their status.

After the implementation of the new law, if a father goes to the Yamen to say that his son is not filial, then his son is still guilty, but he must produce evidence, what he did.

That's the difference.

To put it simply, in the future countries, etiquette and law are mainly moral education, while laws are restrictions on actual behavior.

The implementation of the new law will naturally be published in the newspapers, and it will soon spread throughout the country.

As far as the folks are concerned, there is actually not much difference. The only thing worthy of praise is the abolition of the corvee system and the policy of distributing income to the mu.

When the Ministry of Household Affairs conducted a census of the population near Chang'an and Dongdu recently, the number was much higher than before.

It can be seen from this that this policy will still be welcomed by the people.

However, Li Yuechen felt that this number was too small, and there must still be many hermits.

So it was specifically published in the newspaper that before the end of the year, the hermit households should go through the formalities, regardless of whether they have committed tax evasion before or not.

As for starting from next year, as more and more places need to be handy in the future, the survival of hidden households will naturally become more and more difficult.

As for the corvee system, let alone the corvee system, now only the system for servants is left, and other corvees have been cancelled.

In the future, as long as young people honor the elderly at home, they will be in corvée service.

Even if there are many children in the family, being sent out is to take care of other elderly people, take care of food and housing, and don't have to do any tiring heavy work, which can be said to reduce the burden of the common people a lot.

At that time, the Yamen will regularly send people to the door for inquiries and inspections. As long as the elderly at home are well taken care of, they will update their corvee resumes on their hands.

Such a change made many people start to sing praises to the imperial court, and the children in the streets and alleys also sang songs about the peaceful and prosperous times.

The reaction of the people is often the best reflection of the true strength of a country. The sights that foreigners walking in the streets and alleys will shock their hearts and make them yearn for this land.

It stands to reason that the prosperity of the country's development is naturally a good thing.

But many ministers are unwilling to see such a phenomenon happen at this time.

The reason is very simple, because at this time sitting on the dragon chair is a woman!
These developments of the country today will definitely leave a strong ink in the history books.

But this is an era ruled by women, and no one can say what kind of impact it will have on the future.

It can be said that in the current Great Zhou Dynasty, martial arts are abundant and products are abundant.The country is strong and prosperous, the river is clear and the sea is clean.

Coupled with the fact that the emperor included the assessment of poetry and poetry in the imperial examination, this has led to many literati nowadays submitting their own poems to newspapers, hoping to become famous overnight.

This makes the cultural and artistic atmosphere in the current society gradually become stronger.

To put it bluntly, even if the emperor is dead now, with so many changes in the country during her reign, the name of a great emperor will inevitably be included in the history books in the future!

Not to mention that she still looks very healthy now, who knows if there will be any major changes in the country in the next few years.

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Of course, they can't do anything even if they don't want to. Now this is an established fact. Apart from being incompetent and furious, they can't make any changes to the reality.

In the evening, when Li Yuechen returned to the Princess Mansion, before eating, Shangguan Wan'er suddenly came over with an article: "Your Highness, let's see how it goes."

I took it over and saw it was a poem: In August, the wind is cool and the weather is crystal clear, and the river is Hanming without clouds for thousands of miles.Faintly see that the south tower is clear and shallow, and the west mountain is vertical and horizontal at dawn.The city of Luoyang rises from the sky, and the long river runs thousands of miles every night...

This poem is not too short, and the whole poem looks like unrequited love and whining.

Li Yuechen frowned: "This doesn't look like your writing style either!"

Although her level of poetry and poetry is not very good, Shangguan Wan'er's writing style can still be seen. This should not be her work.

"Of course it wasn't Wan'er's writing, but this poem can be published in the newspaper, Wan'er is here to ask His Highness how he feels."

"Ask me? I've never had anything to do with this kind of thing on weekdays... Tell me, who did it?" Li Yuechen asked.

Shangguan Wan'er had a gossiping face: "Song Zhiwen!"

"Song Zhiwen, a senior scholar of Chongwenguan?" Li Yuechen raised his eyebrows, knowing that he wrote it, and immediately laughed, "What? It started again?"

Song Zhiwen is actually a strange flower in the court. He is really talented, but he is also famous for licking dogs. To the emperor, it can be said that he has achieved the ultimate in dog licking.

Even if he is a well-known comedian in the court in recent years, Li Yuechen would listen to his gossip on weekdays as a joke.

This guy seems to have a different mind for his mother. Knowing that she likes poetry, he often writes some literary poetry to please her.

It's just that for so many years, Wu Zetian's appreciation of him has only stayed in his poetry, and he has not even been promoted.