Man Tanghong

Building official roads, building a mausoleum for Li Yuan, building water conservancy in various places in the north of the Yangtze River, repairing government offices in various places, rewarding many women in various places, replacing armaments, rebuilding passes, and so on.

There were as many as eighteen projects that Chen Shuda asked for money in the newspaper.

The money required for each piece is more than [-] guan.

The most exaggerated thing is to build official roads and reward women who have given birth everywhere.

The money required for both things has reached millions.

If it weren't for the planning map of official roads issued by Chen Shuda, Li Yuanji would have suspected that he wanted the money to build official roads in places where there were no official roads, and to open up roads leading to various places in the Tang Dynasty. Want to be greedy for money.

As for the sums awarded to the prolific women everywhere, there is nothing to doubt.

It is also mentioned in the memorials from the Ministry of Minbu, and a clear number is given.

Just last year, the number of newborns in Datang increased by 100 million.

Converted into the number of households, it is equivalent to an increase in the population of 20 households.

Among them, there are 70 boys and less than 20 girls.

The ratio of men to women is seriously unbalanced.

Li Yuanji could guess why this happened, but he had no choice but to pretend that he didn't see it.

After all, in this era, if you go out and tell people that boys and girls are the same, and girls can hold up half the sky, you will be sprayed to death.

Even if you are the person in power in Datang, you will still be sprayed with bruises.

In this era, there is no man to be the pillar of the family, no matter how big your family business is, no matter how deep your background is, you will still be bullied to death.

Therefore, giving birth to a boy and paying attention to a boy is not only for the inheritance of incense, but also for self-protection.

So if you jump out and talk nonsense and deprive others of their right to protect themselves, they will not only scold you, but also fight you desperately.

So even if you have seen this kind of thing and guessed the reason, you can only pretend not to see it.

In addition, another number was mentioned in the memorandum played by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, that is, the total population of Datang has reached 220 million households.

Except for 20 households with newborns, the remaining nearly 30 households are all fugitives who were persuaded back from the mountains by local government offices last year, as well as hidden households rescued from various aristocratic families.

Minister of the Ministry of Minbu specially asked for credit for two people in the memorial, one is Li Shentong, and the other is a Zhou Sima surnamed Lu.

The hidden households rescued by these two people reached more than 5 households.

When Li Shentong was eradicating the Zheng family, he rescued nearly 8000 hidden households from the Zheng family, which can be regarded as taking advantage of the court's dealing with the Zheng family.

Zhou Sima, surnamed Lu, left. He rescued more than 1 hidden households from various homes in Hebei Province entirely by himself.

For this reason, he had a big fight with his family, Fan Yang Lu's family, and was almost stabbed by Lu's family. Thanks to Gao Yaxian's protection, he saved his life.

He is a collateral descendant of the Lu family of Fan Yang, a capable man discovered by Li Shimin after he began to secretly resell official titles.

Yes, Li Shimin has now begun to resell the official titles. Although it is being carried out secretly, he has already resold many official titles from Hebei Province, Duji Province, and Guannei Province.

At present, Changsun Industry is helping him with this matter, but he is a little worried about Changsun Industry, so he asked Changsun Shunde, Yuwenshi and others to help him.

Changsun Shunde and Yuwen Shiji are very low-key now.

The eldest grandson Shunde lost his support. Without Li Shimin as a backer, Li Yuan didn't see him very much, so he couldn't be arrogant and could only keep a low profile.

Yuwen Shiji kept a low profile, purely for the sake of his nephew.

Because his nephew Li Yuanjia was able to play with Li Chengye, he often wandered around the Wude Palace, so he already had a certain status among the concubine princes.

Although his nephew is still young, his future is bright.

He didn't want to ruin his nephew's future, and he didn't want his nephew to be too noticeable, so he had to keep a low profile.

After all, ever since Yu Wenhuaji killed Yang Guang in Yangzhou, their Yuwen clan's reputation has not been very good.

If he is too high-profile, it is easy for people to notice his nephew from him.

Once people find out that his nephew is talented, a child prodigy, and favored, he will definitely have a different heart.

No matter where this kind of alienation comes from, and what purpose it has, it will destroy his nephew and their Yuwen clan's upcoming glory and wealth.

So he has to keep a low profile in everything he says.

The more favored his nephew is, the more he gets, the more low-key he has to be.

It is precisely because of this that he was favored by Li Shimin, and he became Li Shimin's white gloves together with his grandson Shunde.

As for Changsun Industry, after these two people joined, it was almost empty.

As far as Changsun Industry's ability is concerned, even Changsun Wuji, who has not yet entered the Dacheng stage, can't be suppressed, so how can he be able to suppress Changsun Shunde, Yuwenshi and these two old officials who have been in the officialdom for many years.

With the help of these two people, Li Shimin's reselling of official titles went very smoothly.

At present, many officials and nobles have been sold to the eight families of Guanlong, as well as the collateral children of Qiwang with five surnames.

And from it, many great talents who hated the Eight Great Masters of Guanlong and the Seven Wangs of the Five Surnames were unearthed.

That Lu Sima who kept digging the foundation of his own family was one of the great talents he discovered.

That Lu Sima dared to challenge Lu Shi was also because he was behind him to help support him.

In the future, as these people get better and more daring, there will be more things like this.

A Zheng family has more than 3 Tibetan households, and a Lu family has a collateral descendant who dug out more than 1 hidden households casually, which shows that there are many Tibetans in the wealthy family.

If all these people are dug out, the national power of the Tang Dynasty will definitely be strengthened, and the control of the aristocratic and powerful families on the local area will be weakened, as well as its own strength.

So Li Yuanji did not hesitate to write down the rewards for Li Shentong and the state Sima named Lu Minzhi in the Memorial of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

Add Huai'an Wang Li's supernatural powers to hundreds of households, and bestow a team of drum music and a team of screens.

Jiayouzhou Sima Lumin joined the army in the Youzhou Governor's Mansion.

There is nothing to say about the rewards given to Li Shentong. Just adding a household seal is enough to reward Li Shentong for saving Zheng's hidden household. With Li Shentong's current official title, there is nothing to bestow on Li Shentong other than adding a household seal and a guard of honor.

Giving Lu Minzhi the post of joining the army in the Youzhou Dudufu is purely for Lu Minzhi to be able to speak in the Youzhou Dudufu, so that he can fight well with Lu Shi in the future.

With the protection of the Youzhou Governor's Mansion, if the Lu family attacks Lu Minzhi in the future, Lu Minzhi doesn't need to find Gao Yaxian, the half-retired Xianyu, for help, and can directly hide in the Youzhou Governor's Mansion to seek asylum.

If Mrs. Lu dares to hurt people in Youzhou Dudu's Mansion, Mrs. Lu will have a lot of fun.

Although there is no White Tiger Festival Hall in Youzhou Dudufu's Mansion, if you hurt people in Youzhou Dudufu's Mansion, you are slapping the faces of Youzhou Dududu's Mansion, and it is no different from rebellion.

The governor of Youzhou has the right to immediately dispatch troops to wipe out the culprits.

If Lu's family is killed, the officials in the court will only complain that the governor of Youzhou is unkind, but they will never say that the governor of Youzhou is wrong.

People from aristocratic families have nothing to say.

Therefore, unless Mrs. Lu has a brain problem, he would never dare to go to the Governor's Mansion in Youzhou to hurt people.

In this way, Lu Minzhi can safely cut off the flesh from Lu's body.

"Send it to the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and let them do it directly without negotiating."

After Li Yuanji wrote the rewards for Li Shentong and Lu Minzhi, he handed the memorial to Liu Jun and asked Liu Jun to send it to the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

After Liu Jun left, Li Yuanji continued to review the memorials of other ministries.

In the Ministry of Rites under Tang Jian's leadership, most of the matters reported were related to diplomacy, sacrifices, and etiquette.

Except for the relatively big matter of communication with the Western Turks, the others are not a big deal.

However, at the end of the memorial, it still mentioned asking for money.

I don't want much, only 20 guan.

Part of it is spent on missions, and the other part is spent on entertaining envoys from various countries and returning gifts to various countries.

Before this, Li Yuanji had also received some rumors that someone in Honglu Temple proposed to give generous gifts to all countries, that is to say, to return heavy gifts to all countries, in order to show the majesty of the Tang Dynasty.

Originally, Li Yuanji wanted to intervene to make things right.

From Li Yuanji's point of view, prestige is created by typing, not by giving gifts.

Datang, as a state of heaven, should accept the filial piety of its neighbors, instead of treating them like beggars and giving them blindly.

There is a good saying that a lean camel is bigger than a horse.

No matter how poor the family is, it is still a country, and there is no need for charity from the Tang Dynasty.

Moreover, the Tang Dynasty did not need to reward rich gifts to attract more countries to come to court, creating a vanity scene of all nations coming to court.

From Li Yuanji's point of view, the true heavenly state never wants a state from all nations.

For a true heavenly state, all ministers should come to court.

Having all nations come to court is not enough to prove your strength, but it can only prove that you have not done enough. If you have not yet achieved the goal of being a king in the whole world, is it a king's subject on the coast of the land?

Otherwise, tens of thousands of countries would not exist.

Therefore, the real celestial kingdom should take down these tens of thousands of countries, and then entrust them to their own people, and let their entrusted officials come to worship.

However, before Li Yuanji took action to set things right, Tang Jian did it first.

Judging from Tang Jian's memorabilia, he has reduced by more than [-]% the gifts he had given to each of the vassal states in the past. Not only that, Tang Jian also divided the gifts of each vassal state into certain grades.

Those like Silla who are willing to befriend Datang, let Datang garrison troops, and only follow Datang's lead will get the most generous gifts in return.

For those who went to Tang Dynasty to take advantage of Linyi and Waguo, the value of gifts in return did not exceed one-tenth of the value of the items they paid.

Tang Jian's move saved Datang more than [-] guan in expenses.

However, Tang Jian also proposed in the memorial to give some privileges to envoys of various countries, such as allowing envoys of various countries to do business in Datang, and exempting envoys of various countries from customs duties or customs duties when they go to sea.

Tang Jian also explained the purpose of his proposal, which is to hang the envoys of various countries, and let the envoys of various countries come every day, every year, all the time.

Although Datang cannot let the vassals take advantage of it, Datang cannot make countries lose their interest in communicating with Datang because of stinginess.

When Datang had no time to send people to the mainland of each country to understand the situation in each country, he could only use envoys from various countries to understand the internal situation of each country.

Therefore, it is necessary to make it attractive for envoys from various countries to come to Datang.