Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

It turned out that at the beginning of February, the prince suddenly wrote to the court. In order to alleviate the financial difficulties of the court, the prince asked the court to open the donation of prisons.

The so-called donation to the prison is to allow ordinary people to donate money to the court, and then they can obtain the qualification of a Guozijian supervisor.

According to the memorial of the Eastern Palace, the time when the number of the Imperial College was the largest was during the Kaiyuan period of the emperor. At that time, the entire Imperial College had thousands of students studying in the Imperial College.

But now there are only a hundred students studying in the Imperial College, and the Imperial College can accommodate more students.

According to the prince's memorial, each supervisory student is priced at [-] deniers of grain, and the corresponding rice price can also be used to donate the supervisory student's quota.

Now once the price of food is about [-] yuan, according to the conversion of this money and grain, the qualification to donate a prison student is about [-] yuan.

The fixed salary of an ordinary seventh-rank official is [-] yuan. According to this calculation, only one donation to the prison is needed, and the imperial court can give a seventh-rank official a year's salary.

This memorial was quickly discussed by the court. Although the emperor and the prime minister have not said a word about donating prisons, the court has already discussed this matter.

The first person to express objection to this matter was Duzhilang Fifth Qi, who was in charge of the state's finances.

Fifth Qi wrote a letter to the imperial court, arguing that the imperial court's opening of prison donations would damage the imperial court system. Although these supervisors could not directly enter the imperial court as officials, they would still cause huge damage to the imperial court's official selection system.

The Guozijian was originally a place for the imperial court to train officials. Although the importance of the Guozijian has been greatly reduced because of the imperial examination system of the imperial court, as long as you pass the internal examination of the Guozijian in Shangsanshe, you can still obtain the qualification for conferring officials.

Selling the qualifications of supervising students in this way will also allow a large number of incompetent people to enter the Imperial College, and even pass the exams of the Imperial College by chance and get a position in the imperial court. Earn it back.

Obviously Fifth Qi's objection is also justified. As an official in charge of Duzhi, and everyone says he is a party of princes, he is now clearly opposed to the policy of donating prisons.

However, compared with Fifth Qi's opposition, Donggong's support was louder.

Now the imperial court is almost unable to pay the official salaries, let alone maintain the imperial court expenses, these are not small expenses.

Seeing that An Qingxu in Henan Province is getting more and more troublesome, and Shi Siming and his son in Hedong are also openly opposing the Tang Dynasty. Under such circumstances, they don't know when the water transportation will return to normal.

The imperial court does not allow prison donations at this time, when will the officials' salaries be reissued?Is it possible to delay the soldiers' pay in the future?
Although the crown prince's method has its drawbacks, the qualifications of a student supervisor can still make Chang'an and even the rich in Guanzhong pay for it. With such a large amount of money added to the national treasury, the current financial difficulties of the court can be alleviated.

Moreover, for the court, the Guozijian school building is ready-made, and there is no need to build more school buildings. Even for many rich people, the status of a supervisor is not for the purpose of going to the Guozijian to study, but only for the identity of such a scholar. , You don't have to go to the Imperial College to study.

As the censor, the matter of donating the prison was naturally discussed intensely at the censor's station.

Wei Yingwu thinks that the opening of donating prisons will not affect the imperial court. Anyway, most of the school buildings of Guozijian are now empty, but it can solve the problem of the imperial court's arrears of officials' salaries.

But when this matter was mentioned today, Gu Kuang still strongly opposed it. Gu Kuang said:
"Although Guozijian is now in decline, it was also the way for many ministers to become officials in the early days of the country. Today the imperial court can sell the qualifications of supervising students for money, and tomorrow it may sell the imperial court position for money. This kind of atmosphere must not be allowed!"

Wei Yingwu sighed and said: "But the imperial court has reached such a difficult point that it is almost unable to pay the officials' salaries. You and I both know the miserable situation of the officials in Beijing. How to solve this problem?"

Gu Kuang said, "Brother Yibo, have you been to the Wannian County of Zhuangyuan Gong recently?"

Wei Yingwu shook his head. Since the last Lantern Festival, Wei Yingwu knew that Wang Chengwei was busy with official duties, so he never bothered Wang Chengwei again.

Gu Kuang said: "When Brother Wang took office in Wannian County, you and I both knew how poor the Wannian County Yamen was at that time."

Wei Yingwu nodded. When Wang Chengwei took office in Wannian County, Wannian County was hit by a snowstorm, and the people had no place to spend the winter. The poor yamen in Wannian County couldn't even pay the rewards for subordinate officials.

But after Wang Chengwei took office in Wannian County, Wannian County is now the county with the best finances among the counties in Gyeonggi Province. A few days ago, Wannian County also recruited a group of street patrol envoys to maintain law and order. It is said that the treatment is quite generous. Many people signed up.

Even now there is a saying in Chang'an City, "It is better to be an official of Wannian than to be an official of Chang'an", which shows that the treatment in Wannian County is generous now.

Wei Yingwu sighed and said, "Who doesn't know that Brother Wang's method is good, but there is no one in Chang'an who can use Brother Wang's method."

Wang Chengwei's method is also very simple, which is what Guan Zi said, "promote production and promote business".

Wang Chengwei demolished the markets and collapsed houses in each workshop, and used them to recruit business owners to open various workshops.

The various workshops in Chang'an have a large population, and these people are a good labor force.

The players, merchants and players recruited by Wang Chengwei quickly produced a large number of products in the workshop opened in Chang'an.

Longyou's technology combined with Chang'an's labor force, coupled with Chang'an being the most important market in Datang, the workshops in Wannian County are naturally booming in business, and relying on the rent and business taxes collected from these workshops, Wannian Nian County earns a lot of money.

Nowadays, the prosperity of Wannian County can only be seen by Wei Yingwu. These workshops have also driven the income of the people in Wannian County and increased the prosperity of the city.

The secret of the prosperity of Wannian County is also very simple, but Wei Yingwu knows that it is not something that can be done easily.

Now the rest of the counties in Chang'an also want to learn from Wannian County to grow their industries, but these counties are either unable to vacate so much land, or the vacated land is quickly occupied by local powerful families. The powerful clan occupied the land and did not open workshops. They just wanted to occupy these lands, and they couldn't create any decent industries at all.

In contrast, it is a miracle that Wang Chengwei was able to rent out all the land and build profitable workshops.

Gu Kuang said: "The majestic prince of the Eastern Palace doesn't want to open up the right way for the court, but he always thinks about such crooked ways as selling officials and nobles. Is this a blessing of the Tang Dynasty?"

Wei Yingwu had nothing to say now. In any case, Donggong's suggestion was too unrealistic, and the proposal of donating prisons had too much room for manipulation. Maybe Donggong had his own selfish motives.

However, although ministers like Fifth Qi and Gu Kuang objected, the imperial court did encounter financial difficulties. The emperor and the Zhengshitang finally agreed to allow the people to donate money to buy the number of supervisors according to the East Palace's suggestion.

However, Prime Minister Zhang Hao pointed out that if the prison donations are distributed indiscriminately, it will cause huge losses to the prestige of the Guozijian, so this time the number of donated prisons is limited to 1000 people, which can also help the court tide over the difficulties and prevent the Guozijian from being distributed indiscriminately. quota.

Another prime minister, Miao Jinqing, also suggested that if the court accepts food donations, it will lead to an increase in the price of food in Chang'an and make the lives of the people in Chang'an even more miserable. Therefore, money or silk must be used to donate prisons. Currency such as silk, but can not directly donate food.

The proposal of the Zhengshitang was also included in the decree. The emperor announced that it would be handed over to Donggong to sell the quota of supervising students this time, and the total number of superintendents would be increased by 500. Based on a quota of [-] yuan for a supervising student, this is [-] million yuan. !

This amount of money was not much for the income of Datang in its heyday, but for Datang who can't even pay officials' salaries today, it can be regarded as an emergency money.

The East Palace soon began to prepare for this great event with great joy. The current crown prince, Hongwang Li Chu, personally took charge, vacated a few empty houses in front of the East Palace, specially hung up the sign of donating prisons, and began to announce it in Chang'an with great fanfare. You can use money to donate the number of supervisors.

Twenty-five thousand yuan, in fact, this is not too much money for the rich in Chang'an.

Chang'an is the most wealthy in the world, and there are countless tycoons, many of whom want to enter the Imperial College as a supervisor.

Although scholars nowadays look down on Guozijian and think that it is not the right way to become an official after taking the Guozijian examination, the sign of Guozijian is still resounding, and only the children of imperial court officials and nobles can secretly enter Guozijian to study.

Among other things, the Ph.D. of Guozijian is a famous teacher that ordinary people can't hire. How can ordinary businessmen have the qualifications to let these great Confucians personally teach their children.

The pass rate of the exams in the third house of the Imperial College is not high, and only [-] to [-]% of the students in the Imperial College can pass each year.

But compared to the brutal elimination rate of the imperial examinations, this pass rate is too high. If you study hard, you may not be able to pass the examination of Shangsanshe, then it will be different, and you will have the qualifications to be an official!
Soon, the house in charge of donating prisons at the entrance of the East Palace was full of people. Every day, a large number of people held money and begged for the qualification to donate a prison student.

Naturally, this also included the players who had heard the news a long time ago and rushed over from Longyou with money.