Sui and Tang Dynasties: Killing Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty to sacrifice to heaven at the beginni

Chapter 267 Wei Zheng takes office.

After the repairs of the official roads in the entire Shandong area are completed, the Shandong Highway Directorate will unify the pricing of the toll standard, and then a special person will be responsible for the toll.

This matter can be said to be a good thing that kills two birds with one stone. First, it solves the livelihood problem of the bandits, and second, it no longer requires the court to allocate funds to repair official roads.

Moreover, after the road is repaired, the bandits who robbed the road are gone, and Shandong's commerce will naturally flourish. In this way, the tax revenue of Shandong's land boundary will inevitably increase.

After reading Li Mu's plan, Xu Maogong handed it to Wei Zheng to read.After reading it, Wei Zheng asked Li Mu a question.

"My lord, the original official road did not charge, but the current official road charges, can these merchants accept it?" Wei Zheng asked Li Mu.

Hearing Wei Zheng's question, before Li Mu could answer, Xu Maogong laughed first.

"Ha ha!"

"Brother, who told you that there was no charge for the aisle of the merchants in the past?" Xu Maogong laughed loudly.

Wei Zheng studied at a young age and was a scholar. Later, he also served as an official in the Sui Dynasty, and now he is under Li Mu's command.However, Wei Zheng has never done business, and he doesn't know how to do it.

"Third brother?"

"I've never heard of this. Didn't the officials of the Sui Dynasty charge fees?" Wei Zheng asked puzzled.

"Second brother Qin, you are familiar with the boundaries of Shandong, come and tell the elder brother." Xu Maogong looked at Qin Qiong and said with a smile.

In terms of familiarity with Shandong's black and white, no one can be more familiar with it than Qin Qiong.

Qin Qiong thought about it for a moment, and explained to Wei Zheng: "Brother, this government does not charge money. But the bandits in various places do not charge less."

"These caravans have backgrounds and backings. In order to avoid trouble, bandits from all over the country do not rob, but they still have to charge money for buying roads. Some caravans have no background, and some caravans may have a festival with bandits. Then But I still have to worry about whether my goods will be kept safe." Qin Qiong explained to Wei Zheng.

Bandit robbery was originally equivalent to randomly selecting a "lucky" caravan, but Li Mu's new model is to distribute this risk to all caravans.

Originally, this "lucky" caravan, which was randomly selected, might have to pay for the road purchase alone, and it was shared equally among all passing caravans.

In this way, the income of the bandits has not been reduced, and the risk of the caravan is also controlled within an acceptable range.

And there is another advantage, that is, after the official road is repaired.The journey that could have been completed in three days may now be completed in two days.

You know, the cost of transportation in ancient times was enormous.Along the way, people have to eat, and horses have to eat grass.Save three days to two days, which will save a lot of money.

After sorting out all the things, Xu Maogong, Wei Zheng, Qin Qiong and others nodded in praise.If Li Mu's plan is carried out, the security, economy, etc. of the entire Shandong territory will be improved.

However, Li Mu's plan is tantamount to establishing an additional yamen in the Shandong border out of thin air.If this matter is to be implemented, Yang Guang agrees that it will not work, and it will have to go through some court discussions in the court.

As for how this matter passed the court discussion, let Yang Guang worry about this matter. Li Mu wrote a letter to Yang Guang, and only waited for Yang Guang's reply.

However, what Li Mu never expected was that before half a month had passed, Yang Guang's imperial decree came down.

Li Mu's plan was fully agreed, and the reform of the entire Shandong territory was at Li Mu's discretion.It can be said that this is to let Li Mu toss around in Shandong.

The reason why people from aristocratic families didn't trip Li Mu was because there were many bandits in the Shandong area, and these bandits were all from Li Mu's family.

Secondly, from the perspective of the powerful family, if Li Mu starts tossing around, he won't be able to return to Daxing City in a short time.This is a good thing for a powerful family.

Li Mu didn't go back to Daxing City for a day, so the powerful family would be more active in the court.Therefore, the aristocratic family is naturally eager for Li Mu to stay in Shandong, so there will be no way for him to stumbling.

Li Mu's plan in Shandong was implemented, and the man was dragged to the boundary of Shandong.If the powerful family rejected Li Mu's plan, wouldn't that force him to return to Daxing City?

Now the idea of ​​the powerful family is that as long as Li Mu doesn't come back, this Shandong land can be messed with by Li Mu.

Now that Yang Guang's imperial decree came down, Li Mu began to work intensively on the affairs of the Shandong Road Administration Directorate.

Director of Shandong Road Administration, this is a brand new yamen, and this is a job that no one has done before.And it doesn't matter whether it's road repairs or later charges.A large amount of money is involved in all of this, which can be said to be a fat and water yamen.

Therefore, the director of the Shandong Road Administration Department must be an upright and upright official.Li Mu already had a candidate in mind who was going to be the director of road affairs.

"Brother, congratulations."

"Brother, congratulations!"

Before dawn, Qin Qiong and Xu Maogong came to Wei Zheng's mansion to congratulate him.

"Two brothers, why do you like it?" Wei Zheng looked at the two with a confused expression.

"Brother, the lord has appointed your name by hand. You will be the director of the Shandong Road Administration Department." Xu Maogong said to Wei Zheng.

"This"

"How can I, Wei Zheng, be able to take on such a heavy responsibility." Wei Zheng had a serious expression on his face.

Wei Zheng naturally has abilities, and Li Mu also believes that he can take on such an important task.

Li Mu's appointment came down on the same day, Wei Zheng became the first director of the Shandong Road Administration Department, and the deputy director was appointed by You Junda, the head of Shandong Green Forest.

This is the first government-private joint venture in the Sui Dynasty, and it can be regarded as established.

The purpose of letting You Junda serve as the deputy director is to coordinate the various bandits in the Shandong border.

Wei Zheng is also a person who does practical things. After taking office, he immediately summoned the bandit leaders from all over Shandong and told them all the benefits of repairing the official road.

Although the bandits are not highly educated, they can naturally understand such a good thing.As soon as the official road was repaired, they all became legal robbers.

It's nothing more than catching a fat sheep and balding its wool in the past, and now it's just plucking up all the sheep that pass by.

This is a good thing, and these bandits can understand it.However, they also encountered a problem now.What is the problem, that is, no money.

The business boom in the past few days has caused these bandits to lose everything, and now many people are still relying on You Junda's relief.

It is true that road construction is a good thing, but it needs to be funded first.Now, except for You Junda and Qi Guoyuan, the few big bandits, the rest of them can't afford money at all.

(End of this chapter)