Picked up a copy of Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 881
In the 16th year of Yankang, the first court meeting in the new year ushered in a quarrel among the officials.

Xun Shangshu stood up tremblingly, went up to the Son of Heaven, and demanded that the states and counties be divided and ruled. He subdivided the several big states of the Han Dynasty, and he came up with 36 states. Just after he finished speaking, the officials suddenly Divided into two groups, and began to discuss this policy, the elderly Xun Linggong, waving his crutches and shouting loudly, disregarded the decency of his courtiers.

He has many supporters, and Xun Yu's reasons are very sufficient. Now the Han Dynasty has a very large territory, too big a place, too many temples and decrees, and state shepherds are too tiring, and the implementation of policies is also very troublesome. It is so appropriate to be able to divide the big state into states and increase the manpower of officials. Of course, he also has some unexplained reasons, that is, he wants to avoid the serious consequences of local rebellions.

This point cannot be spoken to the outside world, and it is good for everyone to know it well.

It was Liu Ba who was the first to stand up to object. Liu Ba said dissatisfiedly: "Today's officials are complicated and numerous, and the salary money that temples have to bear every year is enough. I'm afraid it will be doubled three or four times, how can the treasury that is already empty bear so many officials? There are few people but many officials, can the people support them?"

The reason for Liu Ba's objection was the pressure from the treasury. The officials heard Liu Ba's words, but they didn't take them seriously. Everyone knows that the treasury has accumulated savings for 15 years, so how could it be empty? It's completely idiot's dream, presumably Liu Gong is just thinking about how to save money for the national treasury like the previous Wen Rengong, so he discouraged him like this.

Faced with Liu Ba's questioning, Xun Linggong was a little dissatisfied. He asked, "Are you an old man who doesn't know? The national treasury has so much income every year. Even if it costs a lot because of the enforcement of the law, now all industries are prosperous and overseas The government's ships are constantly rushing to Luo County, as are the carriages and horses of Xizhou. The law is fixed, and the collection of taxes is much faster. There are no gaps. It is impossible for the state treasury to afford this salary. His salary is not high at all!"

For a while, Liu Ba was at a loss for words. He slowly looked at Zhuge Liang who was beside him. Only Zhuge Liang had the most thorough view of the state treasury. The enactment and implementation of the law this time cost [-]% of the wealth. It is very huge, but he can't explain these situations in detail with the ministers, because these people may find it difficult to understand what he and Zhuge Liang have figured out about hiding money for the people.

If you tell the ministers that the treasury of the Han Dynasty is empty, and they invest their wealth in the private sector to make the economy run, I am afraid that these ministers will not allow it.

However, before Zhuge Liang opened his mouth, someone jumped out. This is Zhong Changtong. Zhong Changtong looked at Xun Linggong in front of him and said dissatisfiedly: "Let's not mention the treasury, but from the administrative point of view In other words, can subdivision really improve administrative efficiency? In my opinion, local subdivision will not only fail to promote efficiency, but may make many political affairs more cumbersome. This is consistent with the implementation of the new official system. Backsliding."

Xun Yu was not surprised by Zhong Changtong's objection, that's how this person is, whenever he thinks it's inappropriate, he will open his mouth to object, never caring who is the person who proposed this system, he admires Xun Yu very much, loves him Xun Yu, this does not affect his views on the policies proposed by Xun Yu, and it is precisely because of this that Xun Yu also favors him very much.

Xun Yu was about to explain, but Zhuge Liang also came out, faced the emperor, bowed himself, and then looked at Zhong Changtong, and he said seriously: "I think what Xun Linggong said is reasonable."

"Oh?" Most of the officials thought that there was a conflict between Zhuge Liang and Xun Yu. Because of the law, the two of them were already at odds. Liu Xi was also a little shocked. He wasn't surprised that Zhuge Liang would speak up for Xun Yu. After all, he knew Zhuge Liang's temperament. Zhuge Liang never blamed Xun Yu. On the contrary, he still admired Xun Linggong.

However, as Liu Ba said, he, Zhuge Liang, knows the current situation of the treasury. After Liu Ba mentioned it just now, Liu Xi's heart was indeed shaken, and even his heart ached. It's really empty.

However, Zhuge Liang obviously knew about this situation, so why did he still support it?
I saw Zhuge Liang looked at Zhong Changtong, and said seriously: "Mr. Zhongchang is still not thorough enough to understand the deep meaning of Xun Linggong's policy. Mr. Zhongchang is in charge of household registration. Dare to ask Mr. Zhongchang How many household registrations does the big man have now?" Zhuge Liang just asked, Zhong Changtong said without hesitation: "The investigation of household registration has not yet been completed, but now there are 600 million people. When the investigation is completed, the household registration may exceed [-] million. .”

Hearing Zhong Changtong's words, the officials in the temple were suddenly in an uproar, and shouted one after another, "6000 million people, what kind of concept is this? According to the alchemists, the emperor of heaven is only [-] million people." , That is a shocking number, but now, the emperor of Han is about to become the emperor who controls [-] million people. This is an unprecedented number of household registrations!

The ministers seemed very excited, just for this, they are enough to be famous in history, Liu Xi also had a smile on his face, he was a little surprised, unknowingly, there are hundreds of millions of people in the big man?Not bad, not bad!
Looking at the restless officials around him, Zhong Changtong was unexpectedly calm, and he continued to ask: "What does this have to do with what Xun Linggong mentioned?"

"Of course it does. Do you know how many scholars there are today?"

"I don't know."

"Menzixue, as well as local schools in various places, have a large number of students. These people have to pass the examination and serve as officials. It can be said that the positions of officials are getting fewer and fewer, but there are more and more students." Zhuge Liang just said, Without elaborating, returning to their own positions, the officials got rid of the frenzy of the number of household registrations and began to think about Zhuge Liang's words.

Nowadays, there are more and more common people, and the same is true for government schools. This has led to a constant increase in the number of scholars, and if they have worked hard to pass the examination, but there is no place for them to go, then this is a very embarrassing situation. Things happened, and they thought of a lot of disasters. If a large number of scholars are dissatisfied, the students will not want to study anymore. I am afraid that the great career of official education and assessment in the past few decades will be interrupted like this!

Even, it may trigger new turmoil.

Zhong Changtong naturally understood very quickly, he bowed to Zhuge Liang, and then bowed to Xun Yu, and then returned to his position, with a little more admiration for Xun Linggong in his eyes, Xun Yu was also a little confused. In all fairness, the students' problems were not in his mind, and the voices of opposition among the officials suddenly decreased a lot.

Only Liu Ba was still a little anxious. He said helplessly, "The national treasury is empty!! Gentlemen, this policy is good, but it also needs the support of the national treasury. The current treasury cannot support it!" , he looked at Zhuge Liang, but Zhuge Liang was not in a hurry at all, smiled slightly, and said just now: "At most, it's just an extra million dollars."

"This! You!!", Liu Ba was so angry that he was speechless. He pursed his lips, frowned, thought for a moment, and then said: "In this case, so", he hesitated for a moment, and then said : "Please increase the admission fees of Taixue and Menzixue, and the enlightenment textbooks will no longer be given free of charge. For officials' salaries, they will be divided into two parts. The basic salaries will be lowered, and then they will be added according to their political achievements."

Liu Ba said his thoughts with a straight face, and the officials listened very seriously. Among the officials, Xun Yu's eyes widened. He looked at Liu Ba in front of him, rubbed his eyes, and looked at him again. For a moment, he just laughed at himself.

In the end, Liu Xi agreed to Xun Linggong's proposal, and the partition will be implemented at the local level starting this year. Originally, the emperor wanted Xun Yu to implement it, but he did not expect that after Xun Yu declined, he recommended Zhuge Liang to the emperor. The emperor did not refuse to do this, so he ordered Zhuge Liang to carry out the matter together with the official mansion, household mansion, and young mansion.

After the court meeting ended, Liu Xi and Zhuge Liang returned to Houde Hall.

"Kong Ming, it's not that you don't know the situation of the national treasury, why are you so eager to implement it?" Just after returning to Houde Hall, Liu Xi complained that after doing so much, the national treasury is getting more and more empty Zhuge Liang was not in a hurry, he sat in front of the emperor and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, the situation of the treasury is not that critical."

"Not in a hurry? Look at Liu Ba being forced to become a celebrity by you. Isn't it in a hurry?"

"Haha, Liu Jun pays too much attention to the state treasury, that's why, most of the current people's salaries are certificates. Officials' salaries used to be given to grain, but now they are given to them to withdraw money from the bank. This is different from the past. The national treasury is now empty, and we can survive this period of time with banknotes, not to mention, Liu Jun also gave a good suggestion just now."

"There is a restriction on the ever-increasing number of students, and at the same time, there is a restriction on the salary of officials, which plays an encouraging and urging role."

"Forget it, I won't argue with you anymore, anyway, you have to remember that if something happens to the treasury one day, I won't go after Liu Jun, and I will directly send you to Ningzhou to eat fish, so that you can eat as much as you want! ", Liu Xi said, glaring at Zhuge Liang.

"Your Majesty, you can rest assured that if something happens, I will bear it alone. However, I have ways to deal with these, and there will be no mistakes. In addition, this division seems easy, but it really can't." Carry out all according to what Xun Linggong said, it is best to divide according to local specialties, household registration numbers, rivers, etc. "

"You can handle these things as you see fit. By the way, don't leave Luo County. I still need your help with everything in the temple."

"But to do this, someone must go to various places in person"

"Let Zhongda go."

"Thank you."

(End of this chapter)