After rebirth, I tortured the scum and strived to become the empress

Chapter 113 The emperor is helpless! (asking for a ticket)

Queen Lou stood up and handed Emperor Shaowu a cup of ginseng tea.
"Your Majesty's concerns are naturally justified."

But if there is no food to enter the Northland, the people in the Northland will be in chaos!Even if it is pacified, the people may surrender and rebel in the next three to five years. I am afraid that there will be no peace in the Northland! "As Queen Wei, she is naturally worried about state affairs.

Emperor Shaowu drank the ginseng tea in one gulp, then looked at Queen Lou with a smile and said, "That's why I agreed to let those two girls go to suppress the bandits."

Empress Lou blinked, thinking about her husband's words, she immediately understood.

"His Majesty is still cunning! He also wants to scheme against two little girls." She joked with a smile.

Originally, she had been thinking about other ways to appease the North besides tax exemption and mobilizing food from outside. But now that Emperor Shao Wu said this, it seems that there is no need to bring food from outside?

The two have been married to each other for more than 30 years. Of course, Emperor Shao Wu would not care about his old wife's jokes.

In fact, he was helpless. Didn't he want to send food to the people in the North?Of course!
Does he want to plot against two girls who are not yet married?Of course not!
But he also knows that he is the emperor, and there are some things that he can't do or not do according to his own thinking or not.

The current Wei Dynasty has only been engaged in the unification war for two years, and the Wei Dynasty's granary does not contain much food!

Although the Wei Dynasty robbed countless money from Chen State, there was really not much food because it could not be stored.

And if it’s all eaten, you’ll have to wait a year for it to grow in the ground!Even though he is the emperor, there is no way he can make food grow in the ground right away.

And as a country, we must have food in the national granary. Otherwise, if we encounter emergencies, such as Donghu invasion, we must send soldiers to resist it!
The northern part of the Wei Dynasty was severely affected this year, so the disaster in Donghu in the north of the Wei Dynasty must be more serious than that in the Wei Dynasty. According to the Donghu people's habit of looting southward when they have nothing to eat, the invasion of Hu invaders this year is absolutely inevitable.
Moreover, Emperor Shao Wu estimated that the scale of the Hu Kou invasion this year would not be small, so the grain he left in the granary had to be used as military rations to resist the Hu Kou invasion, and could not be distributed to the affected people in the north.

Because once troops are used, food must be taken out of the granary.These days, we would rather starve the people than starve the army!The consequences of starving the army are much more serious than starving the people.

Then the people in the Northland must also need food to appease the people in the Northland. Where does the food come from to appease the people in the Northland?

The food comes from the big family!

The Northland was hit by a disaster, the country had no food, and the people had no food, but there was some in the warehouses of the wealthy families!

And there are many, many, many more!It is more food than all the people in the Northland combined, and it can completely feed the people in the Northland for more than a year!
But the sad thing is that as the emperor, Emperor Shaowu could not directly order the wealthy families to take out the food in the granaries to help the people. They had no such obligation.

If he dares to force himself like this, then the people in the north who rebel will not be the ordinary people who have no food to eat, but the wealthy families who have food, soldiers and people.

But Shen Qingjun and Wei Wen can make the powerful families in the North willingly give up their food!

Why?Look who is behind the two girls, Shen Pingnan, Duke of Liang, and Wei Shujiang, Duke of Wei.

The wealthy families in the north were unwilling to give food to the emperor for disaster relief, because most of the food given to the emperor was free.

But if Shen Qingjun and Wei Wen led the army to fight the rebellion, they took out food for the army to fight the rebellion, but they could get the favor of Liang Guogong and Wei Guogong.Things in the world are so funny, the emperor can't open the granary of the aristocratic family, but the courtiers can let them open it willingly.

That's why Empress Lou said that Emperor Shaowu was treacherous and cunning. Of course, this was a joke between husband and wife.
As for Emperor Shaowu's idea, Queen Lou supported it.

And in Emperor Shaowu's "calculation", no one would suffer.

The emperor does not need to open his own granaries and can leave enough military rations to resist the Donghu who will definitely come this year...

Shen Qingjun and Wei Wen gained credit for suppressing the rebellion, and the Shen family and the Wei family can expand their contacts...

The aristocratic families of the Northern Lands can take the opportunity to build relationships with the two founding princes of the Great Wei Dynasty, important ministers of the empress, and dignitaries of the country, and their official careers will be better in the future.

Why did Emperor Shaowu taboo his courtiers to form a huge network of relationships through recommendation relationships, because recommendation is not necessarily a good thing, there are many beneficiaries, and of course there are also many people who are implicated!

Great Wei's "recommendation system" closely connects the guarantor and the recommender. In the Great Wei, the guarantor often has to bear joint and several responsibilities. The law of the Great Wei clearly states: "The crime of raising officials to commit stolen goods and personal crimes , Untruthful, inappropriate, untruthful, inferior, etc., the guarantor will sit together." In a word, the premise of the recommendation is that the recommendation should be held before and after the recommendation. The insurer shall be jointly and severally liable for the act of recommending the principle
When Emperor Shao Wu came to the throne, he emphasized in the "Edict on Recommending Talents" that if local officials misbehaved in the officials recommended by the imperial court, they would have to "increase the crime by one level".
The original words are: "One out of ten people from all the states will be brought to the inner hall on a flat table, so as to warm their faces and secretly visit the political affairs. They can't praise each other and talk about each other... It's better to return them together and let each of them follow their true colors." His patron cited his inhumane crime and gave him an additional grade."

What do you mean, not only should you be investigated for the crime of improper recommendation, but also what crime your recommender committed, and the crime of protecting the principal will be added.

Empress Lou also often emphasized, "If the government cannot be carried out, and there are legacy in action, it is only a failure of age, and it will be its protector."

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Closer to home, as far as the common people are concerned, if the wealthy families move out the excess food in the granaries, the people in the north will have food to eat and will not starve to death.

This kills four birds with one stone, and in this calculation, no one suffers.

This is Yangmou!This is the imperial technique!

After hearing his wife's comments, Emperor Shaowu was quite proud.

There is no other way. All the ministers are old foxes, and all the noble families are brave. If you don't see a rabbit, you won't let go of the hawk. In this case, the king needs to be cunning!It takes a lot of tact and calculation!

This is also the reason why Emperor Shao Wu was able to make up his mind to give up Li Xian. He was not cunning and clever enough to defeat the ministers and noble families who had become spirits.
Don't think that courtiers are inherently loyal to the king, and don't think that courtiers dare not plot against the king!

The fact is that if the king does not have enough means, he will be tricked by his ministers and even become a puppet!
"Don't worry, Zitong. I don't intend to let them two completely solve the food shortage problem in the North. At most, I will only let them survive for a few months."

Emperor Shaowu said: "The Northland has been hit by disaster this year, but not the Jiangnan area. The autumn grain harvest in the Jiangnan area is about to be good. By then the autumn grain will be in the warehouse and the granaries will be full. The Northland will be able to solve its problems and the Northland will get through it."

At this time, a eunuch entered the palace and handed Emperor Shaowu a piece of paper. Emperor Shaowu read it and said, "If all the ministers in the world are as peaceful and self-disciplined as the Shen family, I won't have so many worries!"

(End of this chapter)