The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 852

"My minister sued Ling Jing, Shangshu of the Ministry of Commerce, for favoritism and bending the law. He should be severely punished." After Wei Zheng's words came out, everyone in the hall was shocked.

Ling Jing is an orphan brought up by Liu Xuan, and his wife is also an orphan adopted by Liu Xuan. It is no exaggeration to say that he has no relatives and no reason. , are reading.

Ling Jing is the Shangshu of the Ministry of Commerce, what reason does he have to bend the law for personal gain?

The key is that he is not short of money. In addition to the real job of Shangshu and his false job, there is also the dividends from the supply and marketing cooperatives. In Yang Tong's words, they are called shares.

This is Yang Tong's compensation for these 'founding fathers'. He knows that privileges exist in any social system. This is an inevitable product of any society. Now that these ministers have status, it is human nature to want privileges. It’s not that Yang Tong doesn’t know how to be flexible. As mentioned above, the land equalization system was the foundation of the Sui Dynasty, and no one can touch it. Yang Tong can give convenience to ministers in other ways, but when it comes to land issues, no one can touch it. .

This convenience is the very rich supply and marketing cooperatives, and the national merchants who travel to and from various countries. At present, the two constitute the supply and marketing cooperative system, which is quite a large multinational enterprise, and it is parallel to the department that collects business taxes.

The system of supply and marketing cooperatives removes costs and taxes every year, and [-]% of the income is owned by the state treasury. Yang Tong accounts for [-]% of the remaining [-]% of the income. These founding ministers, and the other thousand shares are still in Yang Tong's hands, intending to use them as rewards in the future.

He knows one thing very well, that is, if you want the horse to run, you must feed the horse!For example, in previous lives, many companies liked to talk about wolfish culture.The results of it?You want your employees to be as fierce as wolves, but you let them eat grass... and it's still a weed. If employees can be fierce and loyal, it's a ghost!Except for a few people who are just waiting to die, most people think that you are good to me and I am good to you.If your company has a good atmosphere, a good system, a fair promotion system, and high remuneration... how many people don't work hard?How many people are not loyal?

It is based on the idea of ​​benefit sharing that everyone is given dry shares. The purpose of this is twofold. One is to let these honorable ministers who hang their heads with him have income, and replace the previous land with money to compensate, so that everyone Complaining can't get you anything, otherwise, sooner or later, they will be alienated; the second is that these honorable officials will develop into new nobles sooner or later. local factions.

It seems that the sharing of thousands of shares between North Korean and Chinese bigwigs is rare, but the value of each share is still astonishing.

Just because many things in the supply and marketing cooperative system are exclusively operated, and it is the only "transnational" large enterprise in East Asia, which earns incalculable amounts of money every year, which also makes each of the North Korean and Chinese soldiers rich.

With a huge amount of family property, everyone can't use their positions to be greedy for money. It is precisely because of this that Yang Tong can rest assured that this fat and oily job is under the control of Ling Jing. There have never been bad rumors in these years, and he Like all big stockholders, he donated all the annual dividends to the academic department to improve the local rural school environment. The whole family lives only on salary and rewards from Yang Tong... even many times, even the rewards are donated …

For such a person who has always maintained his original intention, Yang Tong really does not believe that he will bend the law for personal gain.But Wei Zheng, who has a little bit of fellowship with Ling Jing, is also a law enforcement officer who pays attention to evidence, and he is also not a person who is aimless.

This is a bit interesting.

Yang Tong glanced at Ling Jing, and found that he had a wry smile on his face, as if he knew what Wei Zheng was going to say, but he didn't defend himself.So he asked solemnly: "Xuancheng, tell me, how did Jingzhi bend the law for personal gain?"

"Your Majesty, Ling Shangshu was entrusted by His Majesty to collect commercial taxes from various places, but he allowed some shops to become illegal places." Wei Zheng talked about the cause of the incident.

"Respect, what's your reason?"

"My lord, it's not that I don't want to accept it, but I really can't accept it." Ling Jing cupped his hands.

"Who is so arrogant? Could it be that a family has opened a shop under my rule?"

Yang Tong was angry.

Commercial tax has existed since ancient times, but it is useless. Why?

Just because most of the goods in the world are in the hands of aristocratic families, and nine out of ten officials in the court are from aristocratic families. Let these people discuss whether they can spit out the delicious food in their own mouths. If they can pass, there will be ghosts...

Often, the emperor was dismissed for not being able to 'compete with the people'.

If the emperor wants to take it forcefully, the world's aristocratic families will boycott it.

Let them spit out the meat in their mouths?
Don't even think about it, maybe some 'indigenous' raised the banner of rebellion and shook the emperor in the palace... Otherwise, why did the emperors of all dynasties turn a blind eye to such a large piece of fat from commercial taxes?
Even the arrogant and domineering Yang Guang didn't dare to do this. Of course, even if he didn't do it, he was rebelled by everyone, just because what he did made the Guanlong nobles more angry than collecting business taxes, that is, he wanted to take their military power ...

Therefore, over time, whether the commercial tax can be implemented not only represents whether the treasury is abundant or not, but also represents the emperor's control over the world.

Without a high degree of centralization, there will naturally be no business taxes.

Which one of the emperors doesn't want to promise everything, but who really did it?
However, the current Sui Dynasty was built from the ruins by Yang Tong and a group of "mud-legged people" who were not valued by the aristocratic family. The era of huge profits has long since ceased to exist.The pricing of merchants’ goods was uniformly dispatched by the imperial court, and those who set prices indiscriminately to bully the market would be severely punished by revoking their licenses, confiscating their property, or being sentenced to hard labor through labor reform.

The businessmen from the bottom are extremely honest.

But now that Ling Jing said that he couldn't collect the tax, Yang Tong was of course angry.

"There is Feng Laiyi." Ling Jing said quietly.

"Uh..." Yang Tong was taken aback for a moment, and then he became embarrassed. Isn't the 'You Feng Lai Yi' luxury store opened by Wei Fengwu and the others?No wonder Ling Jing couldn't accept it.

But when Yang Tong thought about it carefully, he felt something was wrong.

According to Wei Fengwu and their sisters, they will never corrupt the laws of the country. This is not only related to their own status and interests, but also related to the long-term stability and inheritance of the Sui Dynasty. law.

In this way, it must be Jiang Fengyi's tricks.

"The queen obstructed?" Yang Tong's face was dark, but he still had to do it.

"No, it's Director Jiang." Sure enough, as Yang Tong expected, Ling Jing gave the correct answer directly.

Wei Zheng directly fired at Yang Tong: "Please also ask the Holy One to abolish private interests. Since the Holy Lord recovered Jizhou, he has been governing the country according to the law, and such a bad incident has never happened. If there is a Fenglaiyi that becomes a place outside the law, everyone will learn from it." , stores follow suit, then where are the laws and disciplines of our country in the Sui Dynasty?"

Yang Tong almost died of anger, and said angrily, "I and the empress did not act as a protective umbrella for Feng Laiyi, so it's none of my business. You two talk about you, don't talk about me!"

"I know I'm wrong." Wei Zheng knew he had made a slip of the tongue, and said awkwardly: "The meaning of the existence of the law is to restrain the people and benefit the people. It's hard to come to such a good situation. I really don't want to see the dignity of the law being violated." Trampled on, momentarily out of breath, and hope the Holy One will forgive me."

Everyone tried their best to hold back their laughter, but they also understood Wei Zheng's mood.

After all, no matter how good the law is, if no one enforces it, it will be a dead letter. The people who really let the law subtly influence and constrain the people's norms step by step are Wei Zheng, Liu Zhenghui, and Zheng Renji, who head the Ministry of Punishment, the Ministry of Defense, and Dali Temple. The top-down resolute implementation of the laws of the Sui Dynasty and the creation of a firm-willed legal team enabled the people to accept and trust the government. Once something happened, they would skip the clan elders and other local tyrants and go to the government for help.If they compromised with "You Feng Lai Yi" today, their painstaking efforts and sweat would be meaningless. If this bad example is opened today, other nobles will follow suit in the future.If things go on like this, what is the difference between this dynasty and the previous dynasty? It is still an unbreakable vicious circle.

Because of this, Wei Zheng became anxious, not only sued Ling Jing, but also pointed the finger at Yang Tong.

"What did Jiang Fengyi say?" Yang Tong naturally wouldn't be really angry with Wei Zheng, and asked Ling Jing.

"She said that the imperial court owed her money, and it would be fine to deduct it directly from the arrears. There is no need to move around." Ling Jing smiled wryly.

"..." Wei Zheng also turned off the ignition.The imperial court indeed took the money from her entire palace, and then went to subsidize hundreds of thousands of disaster victims to settle down, and when the disaster victims had no harvest, they provided work relief for nearly a year, but only God knows how much it was.

"Yang Shangshu, how much did you take? Don't you have statistics?" Wei Zheng asked Master Yang, who was responsible for accepting the matter at the time.

Yang Shidao had a bitter face: "A lot of priceless treasures were sent to the palace, and there were also a lot of livestock. At that time, they were anxious to resettle the victims, so we couldn't count them."

Yep, this is another scam.

Yang Gongren said confidently: "It's a big deal to pay her twice as much. If she doesn't move, she will say that the court owes money, which is not only bad for the law of the country, but also bad for the credibility of the court."

"It makes sense, the court also wants face." Yang Shanhui nodded
Yang Tong clearly remembered that Jiang Fengyi said it was free.

But after that, he turned his back on it.

He kept saying he owed her money.

It's better now, just throw this stupid debt on the court's head, but he didn't say it, anyway, he wasn't the one who lost the money.

Yang Shidao is in a hurry: "Although the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Commerce have made a lot of money, their expenses are even greater. Counties and counties have invested huge sums of money in water conservancy and construction of official roads and tracks. , so... I really can’t afford to double the loss.”

This is not an excuse. Although the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Commerce have high incomes, they spend even more. The construction of water conservancy facilities such as waterwheels, canals, and overturned vehicles by the Ministry of Industry in Qingxu, Jingyang, and other newly acquired lands, as well as the construction of industrial facilities in these places Relief will consume a large part of the national treasury, and the military pay and pensions for millions of soldiers are even more serious. There are also many large-scale projects that Yang Tong's internal funds are involved in. For example, the track that has been invested in and built is Yang Tong himself. of.

The key is that more than 50 counties have been recovered this year, and the disaster victims on nearly one-third of the territory have become a huge burden for the court. In addition to providing relief and resettlement for refugees and victims, various infrastructures that have been destroyed by wars have to be rebuilt. Production lays a solid foundation.

This is also because the foundation of the Sui Dynasty was well laid. If the imperial court had not invested the wealth accumulated over the years in the land of the four southern states, these places that did not receive relief and resettlement would most likely revolt again.

Although there are a lot of gold, silver and copper ingots from Huining, Zhongtiaoshan, Jiangxia, Liaodong, Liyang, and Wonu, and there is no shortage of raw materials for casting coins in the Sui Dynasty, if all of them are made into coins and distributed to the world, it is estimated that something big will happen , The lessons learned from the indiscriminate issuance of copper coins have not been long in the past.

But the imperial court's huge efforts are also rewarded. At least the four southern states have been completely peaceful, and the people have worked hard to rebuild their homes on the ruins.

"Women like these shiny things. From my point of view, I simply return gold ingots, rough diamonds, and rough jade to her. Instead, she dares not make money herself. Putting it at home is no different from stones and mud. It doesn't matter." Fang Xuanling came up with an idea.

Everyone laughed together, and praised Fang Xuanling's good idea.Yang Shidao and Ling Jing left in a hurry to negotiate with Jiang Fengyi.

Yang Tong sneered:

That woman is well-informed, she has long since put wealth in her heart, and opening a shop is just for fun. She deliberately did this because it was too cold and wanted me to warm her bed. No charge.

If you don't believe me, you can watch it.

As expected by Yang Tong, the two great ministers came and went in a hurry, and ended in failure with disgruntled faces.

……

"Now that we have three great flying artifacts, we can use them to deal with the Pseudo-Tang Dynasty in the danger of the Guanshan Mountains. It will surely achieve unexpected results. The collapse of the Puppet-Tang Dynasty is no longer a problem. After that, all the swords of our Great Sui Dynasty will be exposed to the outside world." Li Jing suddenly smiled.

Swish!
Everyone looked at Li Jing. He changed so fast that people were a little caught off guard.

"That's for sure." Yang Tong was a little puzzled, but he still said: "If there is another round of fighting in Dong/Turk, the strength of Dong/Turk will fall to the lowest level in history. Ten Flags System."

The Jiangyuan Ten Banners have been formally established, and the members of the Ten Banners are completely separated from the ordinary party members and Xianbei people in Jiangyuan. They have an infinite sense of superiority in their hearts. With soft hands, he achieved the effect of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty.

With this successful case, the next step is to promote the four surnames of Tubo, Subi, Ba, Nong, and Cai Bang. Because of this, the four generals under the command of the four surnames were also canonized by the Sui Dynasty. The laws of the four countries could not sanction these four people. The army is also very similar to the Jiangyuan Ten Clans.It is not difficult to promote the Ten Banners system in the country.

"Even so, foreigners are not trustworthy after all, and more regulations need to be set up." Li Jing said.

"How to set it up?" After all, the Ten Banners system is a new thing, and Yang Tong certainly hopes that it will be further improved, and it will be strictly restricted.

"Haha, from the perspective of the old minister, it depends on the descendants of the Holy Majesty." Li Jing suddenly said with a smile.

Everyone was taken aback for a moment, then nodded knowingly.

When Yang Tong was around, the Ten Banners of Jiangyuan didn't dare to stir up any disturbances. Even if something went wrong, it would never happen in this generation.

The founding emperors of all dynasties conquered the world by killing. The astonishing killing intent and aura were enough to deter everything. However, the descendants of the emperors who inherited Guozuo were pampered and pampered. In the cultivation of offspring, we strive to create a complete system of internal and external control for future generations.

"The prince is too young now, let's talk about it later! I am still young, at least I have decades to help him lay a solid foundation." Yang Tong laughed.

"The sage is wise." Li Jing cupped his hands and said, "If the concubine Xian gave birth to children, then the sage would have six princes."

Yang Tong was taken aback for a moment, then smiled wryly, "You can only know whether it is a man or a woman until you are born."

"If I rule the world in the Sui Dynasty, the next step is to suddenly conquer the whole world. At that time, the children of the royal family will be needed to control all sides. Compared with the vast and boundless world, the number of descendants of the Holy Majesty is really too small. In the opinion of veterans, the Holy Majesty should marry more concubines. .”

Li Jing said very seriously, they not only have seen the world map, but also know where Yang Tong's ambitions lie. Set up a governor's mansion, a governor's mansion, and the like.However, many places are too far away, and only the children of the royal family can control them, which is reassuring.

Yang Tong couldn't help laughing wryly, the old fox said all this in a roundabout way, it was nothing more than asking himself to pay off the debt with his own body.

"What Zhongshu Ling said is very true. There is only one concubine and six concubines on the Holy One. Even if the Liaoren princess enters the court, there are only eight women. This is really too few. We don't require three thousand beauties on the unsages, but nine At least concubines, right?" Yang Gongren gave Fang Xuanling a strange look, "In my opinion, the girls in the Raksha camp are beautiful in appearance and capable of both civil and military skills, so they can all be arranged to enter the palace."

Generally speaking, people with higher status pay more attention to inheritance. Like Han Gaozu Liu Bang, I am afraid he doesn't know how many women he has. Qin Shihuang and Han Wudi are similar, but the three emperors of the Sui Dynasty rarely have women. Expansion, Emperor Wen has a tigress in his family, so there is no way;

Emperor Wu took the empress Chen as a lesson, he loved the country and not the beauties. As a result, after Yang Zhao died of illness and Yang Hao was abolished, he didn't even have an older and qualified heir. Fortunately, a great Yang Tong came out. Otherwise, Yang Jian's lineage would have been extinct long ago.

But when it came to Yang Tong, he was still not very interested in expanding the backyard. Except for one first wife, the others were passively accepted.If he intends to expand the harem, he only needs to give an order, and the girls from various families who come to Shurawei and Luochaying to study will definitely line up outside the door to accept any request from Yang Tong. The attitude is mostly matching.

Nowadays, the Shura Guards and the Raksha Battalion mainly guard Miyagi completely, and rarely fight alone. The content of the training is not only military force, but also ask people to teach them piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, female red and so on. Girls who are not on duty can also Going to study in the palace library, and because of the good educational conditions here, officials of the Sui Dynasty liked to send their daughters to study in Shurawei.

First, Yang Tong's attitude towards women is reassuring. Second, if Yang Tong really likes someone, it may not be a good thing for the officials. At worst, Yang Tong will also protect their matchmakers and find a good one. people.

"That's right. From Yichen's point of view, those girls are also happy." Du Ruhui fought with Yang Tong for a few months, and he knew very well the thoughts of Li Youwei, Zheng Liwan, Fang Xiuzhu, and Yaoyao.

Seeing the unfinished business of the big boss who became a matchmaker in seconds, Yang Tong quickly interrupted, "Stop, stop, if I spend all day in Ruanrou Township, the Da Sui Foundation that we have worked so hard to manage may not last long." It will be abandoned. Don't you just ask me to come forward to negotiate with Jiang Fengyi? I just deal with it."

"Saint is wise."

Everyone smiled like a fox. Only Yang Tong could solve Jiang Fengyi's big problem.

(End of this chapter)