A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 411 Prohibition of Scattering Coins
"The next official, Lu Chengqing, pays his respects to Duke Wu."

The Yongzhou yamen in Guangdefang, the annual vacation is over, and the yamen reopened. Lu Chengqing brought a set of four treasures of the study to meet the Shangguan.

The recent death of Lu Zushang shocked the ruling and opposition parties.

However, this Wannian county magistrate was a blessing in disguise, and he also got benefits. Perhaps out of the consideration of appeasing Fan Yang's Lu family, the emperor ordered Lu Chengqing to be promoted to the governor of Yongzhou.

The county magistrate of Wannian is at the top of the fifth rank, and the Zhizhong of Yongzhou is directly promoted from the fourth rank to the first rank.

This talented man of the Lu family's northern ancestor, who came to this position in his thirties, is the first among the four surnames of the Lu family in Fanyang. High, but in terms of ministry, there is really no one better than him.

It turned out that there was Lu Zushang, although he became lower and lower from the governor to the governor, he was at least a governor of a state, but with his head falling, now Lu Chengqing has become the face of the Lu family.

Wu Huaiyu looked at this handsome guy, a son of a famous family, tall and handsome, with the title of Duke of Fanyang County. In just two years, from joining the army in Qinzhou to the current administration of Yongzhou, his promotion speed has almost caught up with Wu Huaiyu.

Wu Huaiyu has made a lot of great achievements all the way to the soaring, but although Lu Chengqing said that the article is a good man and handsome, but he didn't have any outstanding achievements, let alone military achievements, he all relied on his family background.

The evaluation given by the court to Lu Chengqing is that he has talent and background, and it is rare that he acts cautiously, knows the rules and is polite, never offends the powerful, and even has close relationships with relatives such as Fang Xuanling.

He blended well into the upper circles of Chang'an, met all over the capital, looked up and talked and laughed, looking around, like a fish in water, even the emperor admired him very much.

"Duke Lu Guangxiang's funeral has been taken care of?"

"Well, thank you, Duke Wu, for your concern,"

Lu Zushang died a bit unjustly, but Li Shimin was still very face-saving afterwards, not only admitted his mistakes, restored his official status, even posthumously named him Duke of the State, and even specially appointed a posthumous title of Xiang.

Xiang, that is a good posthumous posthumous title, assisting and assisting, this is the posthumous title given to meritorious ministers.

Lu Zushang's death was a heavy blow to Fan Yang's Lu family, and it was a huge blow to their family's prestige. It even almost triggered a bigger crisis. Fortunately, the emperor's concession was also decent.

Although it is in the first month, all the decent ceremonies that should be given have been given.

What's more, Lu Chengqing was promoted to Yongzhou Zhizhong, and even his younger brother Lu Chengye was specially granted the title of Prince Zuowei to lead the army.

Lu's fourth house has many young children who have been appointed officials this time, although most of them are the lowest level, such as joining the military, from the ninth rank.

But the emperor's method is also very good for being given a few dates with a stick. If Fan Yang Lu's face is shameless, then no one else can be blamed.After being cut as an assassin, Lu family still has to be grateful to the emperor.

Wu Huaiyu accepted the set of four treasures of the study from him, and it was obvious that Lu Chengqing was a little haggard. After all, at such a young age, he had to take on the heavy responsibility of a famous family like the Lu family.

Not easy.

Of course there are many elders in Fan Yang's Lu family's ancestral land, but now among the officials in the court, Lu Chengqing is the tallest and youngest official, so the burden on him is extraordinarily heavy.

Like Zheng Shanguo of the Zheng family of Xingyang, who were 13-year-old governors and reached their [-]s, the patriarchs of the Zheng clan were still too late, so Li Shimin won the title and was demoted to Jiangzhou governor.

Huaiyu sent someone to invite Li Hongjie, another Zhizhong.

The three chiefs of Yongzhou Yamen can be regarded as a formal gathering.

"Invite Chang'an and Wannianling as well."

The new ten thousand year order was named Yang, and he was promoted by Wai Lang, a member of the Ministry of War. The father-in-law and Yang Xuangan were at odds with each other, and they also secretly told Yang Guang during the Eastern Expedition that Yang Xuangan was going to rebel.

When Yang Xuan's feelings turned against him, Yang Yue and his son were imprisoned in Chang'an, and when Yang Guang's pardoning messenger arrived, Yang Yue had already been killed, and Hongli escaped by luck.When Li Yuan entered Chang'an, Yang Hongli actively joined him, and was granted the title of Qinghe County Duke by Li Yuan, and added the crown prince Tongshi Sheren.

This person can be regarded as a representative of Hongnong's Yang family. The Yang family did well in the Tang Dynasty. It is said that Yang Hongli is still somewhat talented.

The county magistrate of Chang'an is also the son of a famous family. He was born in Liu Ji of the Liu family in Nanyang, the great-grandson of Liu Zhilin, the capital official of Nanliang. He served as the governor of Nankang Prefecture and other posts.

Wu Huaiyu's don't drive in the public house.

In the first lunar month, the stove was burning vigorously. It was not the peat used by many people in Chang’an today, but the bamboo charcoal from Zhongnanshan.

Make tea around the stove.

Several main local officials of the capital are here.

Shangzhu State, General Champion, Doctor Jin Ziguanglu, Duke Yi, and Yongzhou don't drive Wu Huaiyu.

Shangzhu State, Doctor Yinqing Guanglu, Qingping County Duke, and Li Hongjie in Yongzhou Zhizhong.

Zhu Guo, Fanyang County Duke, and Lu Chengqing in Yongzhou Zhizhong.

Yang Hongli, Duke of Qinghe County and magistrate of Wannian County.

Liu Ji, magistrate of Chang'an County.

It was the first formal meeting of the five of them, they were all young, even except for Wu Huaiyu, all of them came from famous families.

Li Hongjie is Li Danyang's house in Longxi, the uncle of Li Jing's clan.Lu Chengqing belonged to the eldest family of the northern ancestor of the Lu family in Fanyang, Yang Hongli belonged to the Yuegong family of the Hongnong Yang family, and Liu Ji was also from the famous Liu family of Nanyang.

But Wu Huaiyu's family background, compared with them, is far behind. Although he can be said to belong to the Wu family of Bingzhou, his family has never been an official for several generations, let alone the fifth and third ranks, not even the common people. , can only be regarded as an upstart.

But none of the four famous disciples dared to despise this man.

After all, in the past two years, many people despised Wu Huaiyu in the past, but now no one despises him anymore. Now Wu Huaiyu is already too famous in Chang'an, and many famous families who want to get Wu Huaiyu have suffered a lot.

30-year-old Yang Hongli is very polite to Wu Huaiyu, not only because the Yang family has a good relationship with the Wu family, but also because he knows very well how powerful Wu Huaiyu is. His mother is Wei Xiaokuan's granddaughter, and the same great-grandfather as Huang's servant Wei Ting.Wei Ting wanted to take advantage of Lu Zushang's affairs to mess with Wu Huaiyu, but he couldn't get down.

The water on the stove boiled, Huaiyu brewed a pot of black tea and poured a cup for everyone.

"Shangyuan Festival is about to come. This year, according to the decree of the sage, as usual, Jin Wu can't help but celebrate with the people for three days. This year's Chang'an Lantern Festival will be more lively, and we have to prepare early.

First, to prevent fire and water leakage, it is necessary to prepare multiple fire fighting teams in advance, conduct drills in advance, prepare sufficient fire extinguishing tools, etc., cooperate with Street Shop Wuhou and Fang Ding, as well as Bell and Drum Towers, Watchtowers, once there is water leakage, you must Go to the rescue disposal at the first time.

In addition to preventing water leakage, it is also necessary to prevent excessive crowds and stampedes. These things have often happened in the past. I heard that during the first year of the Emperor Kaihuang, there was a Lantern Festival, and a dude threw money on the busiest street. In favor of severe looting leading to a stampede, which eventually killed dozens of people.

We have to send more people to maintain the order of the neighborhoods. Once there is too much traffic in a neighborhood, we must stop letting people into the neighborhood.

The most important thing is to do a good job of publicity in advance and prohibit people from throwing coins. "

If a serious fire or stampede happened, they must be held accountable for their negligence in the end.

"Of course, we also need to send more bad people to patrol the streets. We must prevent people from taking advantage of the opportunity, especially when there are many people at night and it is dark, to abduct and sell women and children, or steal property, let alone wandering children. Take the opportunity to insult women and so on."

"When you meet those who are reckless, tie them up and throw them in prison."

After the Lantern Festival, the Chinese New Year is considered to be over.

How to handle this best level is a test for their new team.

"Mr. Wu, I suggest seconding people from the Weifu to take to the streets to control the streets and gates, and strengthen patrols." Yang Hongli suggested.

However, Li Hongjie's suggestion is that the young and strong should be drawn from the residents of each square to form a patrol team and be on duty in different shifts.

Lu Chengqing sighed and said, "Jinwu can't help it for three days in Shangyuan. It's really not easy to manage. It would be great if the court could not do this, especially at night. It's extremely inconvenient to let go of the curfew."

"Then we might as well cancel the lantern as an example, so we can avoid trouble." Liu Jie said with a smile, with a knife in his words.

Wu Huaiyu didn't know if there was any quarrel between the two, but he still took a sip of tea and continued, "Let's not discuss improbable things, just talk about practical things.

In the face of these complicated situations, the best way is to be fully prepared. Anyone who has fought in the war knows that we cannot fight unprepared wars. We must have detailed plans and backup plans.

Let me ask a question. These days, not only will there be very lively lanterns and lanterns, but there will also be many vendors and even ordinary people. Taking advantage of the crowds, they want to push carts and sell goods. Of course, their hawking can add to the excitement. , but it is also easy to cause congestion and chaos, so I suggest that on both sides of the cross main street of each square, some stalls should be designated first.

All merchants and ordinary people can only sell in these designated positions, and cannot sell them on the go. It is best to report in advance and do not need to pay, but management needs to be strengthened. "

"In addition, during the Chinese New Year, the big temples and Taoist temples in Chang'an will also have a lot of incense, and there will be a lot of people offering incense and worshiping Buddha. For stall sales, even some venues for juggling performances."

Wu Huaiyu specifically mentioned these things today, in fact, he has a plan to promote the Chang'an market and street shops, and even the temple fair market in Chang'an.

The tradition that all businesses are concentrated in the east and west cities will gradually fail to keep up with the development situation and fail to meet the needs of the people's lives.

Liu Ji agreed with Wu Huaiyu's suggestions, and thought they all had something to say, "I will insert one, when I visited Wu Gong's Yongxingfang before I visited Yongxingfang, I saw that there was already such a plan on the street in Yongxingfang. The locations where the vendors set up their stalls are indeed much more orderly, and there are special people in Yongxing Square who are responsible for managing the vendors, and there are also people who are responsible for cleaning. There are even many public toilets and bathrooms in Yongxing Square. I heard these It's all thanks to Duke Wu.

I think we should also add some huts and garbage rooms in the neighborhood of Chang'an this time, so that there will be no mess everywhere, and even more people will urinate and defecate everywhere. "

Wu Huaiyu felt that if the walls of Chang'an were actually demolished, the entire Chang'an city would be much smoother. Even if Jin Wu couldn't help the Lantern Festival, there was no need to worry so much.

But, you have to eat every bite, and the road has to be taken step by step, so take your time.

Yang Hongli finally made a suggestion. Although Jinwu can't help it for three days during the Shangyuan Festival, and the city gates and square gates are not closed at night, you still have to send people to guard the gates of Chang'an. During the three days of the Shangyuan Festival, don't let the refugees outside the city Entering the city will avoid even more confusion.

This statement is a bit discriminating against the victims of the Kanto disaster outside the city, and even a little impersonal, but from a management point of view, there is nothing wrong with it. It's not so miserable to barely have food and clothing, but if they are allowed to enter the city, it may be even more chaotic.

Wu Huaiyu thought for a while, "Either hold a meeting in the camps of the victims outside the city, send some food and other supplies there to comfort the victims, or organize everyone to have fun by themselves, playing football during the day and throwing corners or something .

Of course, if conditions permit, the disaster victims outside the city can be allowed to enter Chang'an City in batches during the day for a stroll, and they must return to the camp before dark. "

Li Hongjie said with a smile, "It's still better to use Duke Yi's method,"

Yang Hongli also immediately praised, "Mr. Yi is brilliant."

Liu Ji, on the other hand, was very direct, "Excuse me, where do we send food and supplies to the victims outside the city?"

"The three yamen of Yongzhou, Chang'an, and Wannian each have some. For the rest, I can ask the Ministry of Civil Affairs for some. Of course, we can also ask the princes and relatives of Chang'an to make some connections, so that everyone has food. Those who have money donate food, those who have money donate money, and raise some to send warmth to the victims, which is also doing good deeds.”

(End of this chapter)