Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 852
Why?

Brand effect ah.

This horse comes from the imperial stables, so it is no longer an ordinary horse, and it has a brand premium.Although it is difficult for ordinary people to accept such a brand premium, for those rich people, do they lack that money?

No, there is no shortage.

What they value more is the reputation of the imperial horse, so the same horse may only be worth forty when bought from a merchant, but when it comes out of the imperial stables, it is matched with an imperial horse identity document issued by the palace. Then brand a royal horse logo on the horse, and the value will increase greatly.

For the same reason, Luo Cheng planned to use commercial means to build the palace.

Instead of recruiting artisans and purchasing materials from the court and government, it is subcontracted to merchants for various projects.

For example, the timber used for repairing the palace can be openly tendered to recruit timber suppliers.All the court needs is to formulate a repair plan and requirements, mark the quality grades of the materials, and then hand them over to the merchants.

After the businessman wins the bid, he will recruit craftsmen and labor, purchase materials by himself, and even advance funds by himself.

What can they get?

The imperial court will award them a plate of the royal merchant's timber merchant, and even allow them to engrave their own firm's name on the timber they provide.

Even if you don't want to burden too much, you can subdivide the contract.

Some merchants specialize in contracting construction, and some merchants specialize in supplying materials.

The imperial court can subdivide the entire Ziwei Palace into several projects. For example, a palace is divided into one project, and then subdivided into undertaking construction and providing materials.Those who provide materials are subdivided into those who provide a single material, and those who build can be divided into those who repair the roof, those who repair the ground, those who repair the interior of the house, and those who repair the yard, etc.

"Businessmen recruit people by themselves, pay for it themselves, and then help the imperial court repair the palace. In the end, they only get an imperial merchant brand. Will they agree?" Chen Shuda thought it was unlikely.

"Why not? If they can get this imperial plaque, they will have the credit guarantee of our Daqin court. Even in the future, when they do business, the government will give them the convenience allowed by the legal system. I can also specially let the young The Fusi is responsible for managing these imperial merchants. If they encounter injustice, such as extortion by officials and dignitaries, they can directly report to the Shaofu Temple, and the Shaofu Temple will send a special person to investigate and take responsibility. There is no way to appeal for oppression.”

This is only a superficial benefit, and becoming an imperial merchant is also a kind of brand promotion for merchants. It is not ordinary for their products and their companies to get a great brand promotion. promote.

This is actually a form of advertising in disguise.

You can advertise in newspapers, or engage in publicity and promotion, but these are not as beneficial as becoming an imperial merchant, directly becoming a restoration partner of Ziwei Palace.

If you can build a palace for the emperor, then your products must be the best in the world, otherwise, how can you build a palace for the emperor.

The businessman seems to work hard to repair the palace for the emperor for free, but the credit of the royal family and the court is of great value.

This is like Yang Wang's advertising standard, a few seconds of advertising costs hundreds of millions or more, but they are willing.In other words, just like the sponsors of those large-scale events, if they are rushing to pay and give away money, they also want to sponsor, isn't it because it can bring about a greater effect.

Prime Minister Fang Xuanling did not speak, but listened very carefully.He is different from Xiao Yu and Chen Shuda, he has spent more time with Luo Cheng and knows more about the emperor.

Knowing that the emperor is not the kind of person who speaks nonsense, he must have thought carefully before he could say this on this occasion.

"Your Majesty, I think that as long as the merchants are not forced, as long as they are voluntary, it will be fine."

"How can merchants be voluntary? Even if Ziwei Palace is further subdivided, it will cost 100 million yuan. Even if one hundred merchants are recruited, it will cost an average of [-] yuan per family. Is this [-] yuan a small amount of money? Who would be willing?" Throw it out for nothing?" Xiao Yu thought that Fang Xuanling, the prime minister, flattered the emperor too much, he had always been upright, and dared to speak out in front of Yang Guang, not to mention that now Luo Cheng was famous for accepting advice.

Luo Cheng immediately laughed and said, "Why don't we hand over the rebuilding of Ziwei Palace to Fang Xiangguo and Xiao Xiangguo to supervise it?"

"can."

Xiao Yu immediately accepted the order, "I will keep a close eye on it, and if there is any act of coercion and oppression, I will report the truth to Your Majesty."

Fang Xuanling also accepted the order, "Welcome to supervise Xiang Xiang."

"My minister Xiao Yu still has this Qi Zou."

"Xiao Xiang, this is not the main hall of the previous court, just speak up if you have something to say."

Xiao Yu said that not long after the founding of the Qin Dynasty, many systems basically followed the Sui system, such as the treasury.In the Sui Dynasty, the national treasury was divided into three treasuries: left treasury, right treasury and yellow treasury.

But after Emperor Sui and Ming succeeded to the throne, in fact, the imperial treasury and the palace treasury were often not separated. Now that I am a great Qin country, we should distinguish them.

Xiao Yu's suggestion is that the system should be perfected so that the officials below can rely on the system to handle affairs.

The national treasury is very important, after all, it controls the wealth of the imperial court.

The Ministry of Civil Affairs is in charge of financial decrees, Taifu Temple is in charge of money, silk, gold and silver storage and cashiers, and the Shaofu Supervisor is in charge of manual manufacturing and coin casting.

Yuan Huangzang was separated from the Taifu Temple and put under the Ministry of Internal Affairs Bureau, responsible for the treasures in the palm.

In fact, what Xiao Yu meant was that the imperial court's money belonged to the imperial court, the emperor's money belonged to the emperor, the imperial court's public money, and the inner treasury's private money, so that public and private money were clearly distinguished.

The Ministry of Civil Affairs became the supervisory department of the treasury, the Taifu Temple was the competent department of the treasury, and the Shaofu Supervisor was the treasury audit department, and the Huangzang Neiku was separated from it and belonged to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In this way, Taifu Temple is only in charge of money and silk, and the grain storage and cashiers belong to Sinong Temple.

In the future, if the emperor wants to personally reward officials, soldiers, or nobles, the money can only be paid from the emperor's own internal treasury.

The country's rents and taxes belong to Sinong Temple, and the country's industrial and commercial taxes belong to Taifu Temple.

The money can only flow into the treasury, not the emperor's treasury.

Where did the money in the emperor's treasury come from?It can only be money and silk income from royal farms, palaces, local tribute, and foreign tribute.

The left accepts the right, and the left hides the tax money and silk, which is used to distribute the salaries of hundreds of officials and military expenditures, while the right hides in charge of distribution.It is equivalent to one for custody and one for accounting.

Sinong Temple also has two warehouses, one for storing grain and the other for releasing grain. The grain is mainly used for official salary and military service.

In this way, in the future, the emperor will not be able to use the money from the treasury casually, use it to practice palaces, reward officials and nobles, etc.

After Luo Cheng listened, he actually smiled and said, "It's good to distinguish between public and private, I think this is a good advice, accept it!"

"My emperor is wise!" Xiao Yu was a little surprised, and immediately flattered her.

"Hahaha!"

The emperor's laughter continued, and an urgent report was played.

"Liu Wuzhou in Mayi planned a rebellion, Liu Hongji was defeated and fled to Yunzhong, and the three counties of Mayi in Yanmen tower were wiped out."

"Tang General Chai Shao led one hundred thousand troops to defeat Liang Shidu in Lingzhou, and went north to encircle Jiuyuan. Yunding Xing surrendered and rebelled and returned to Tang. Yulin Guozi and Liang Shidu led his troops back to Tang."

"Dou Jiande became a vassal to the Turks, and he was awarded the wolf head banner by Jieli and Pingyang Khan."

Li Yuan became a vassal to the Turks and was granted Yang Khan; Liang Shidu became a vassal to the Turks and was awarded the Dadu Pika Khan; Dou Jiande became a vassal to the Turks and was awarded Ping Yang Khan; Liu Wuzhou became a vassal to the Turks and was awarded the Nanmian Khan .

The atmosphere in the hall suddenly became tense.

(End of this chapter)