Prosperous Tang special forces

Chapter 137 Rectification
The hall was silent, and suddenly Li Shimin, who was sitting on the dragon chair, sounded slightly angry: "Is Sanbao Long Feiyu here?"

Sanbao hurriedly cupped his hands and said: "Here we are, and we are waiting outside the hall with the Minister of the Household Department, Mr. Li, and the four principals."

Li Shimin waved his hand and said, "Let them in."

After a while, several people walked into the hall under the leadership of Long Feiyu, and finished saluting to the angry Li Shimin tremblingly. Before they could speak, Li Shimin snorted: "Long Feiyu, you are so big!" How dare you take out all the silver from the treasury and distribute it to the common people, do you still have the emperor in your heart?"

Long Feiyu cupped his hands and said, "Didn't your majesty say that the king is a boat and the people are water? Water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn it."

Li Shimin snorted, "So what if I said it?"

Hearing Li Shimin's answer, Long Feiyu said with a smile: "But the water is going to dry up soon, what do you need the boat for when the water is dry?"

As soon as Long Feiyu's words came out, before Li Shimin could speak, San Bao who was standing beside Li Shimin suddenly shouted angrily: "Long Feiyu, you are so bold, why don't you kneel down quickly."

Hearing Sanbao's call, Long Feiyu was about to kneel down when Li Shimin waved his hands suddenly and said, "Then do you think the money in the treasury can fill the lake? How big a boat can this money float?"

Long Feiyu shook his head and said: "What the people want is the court's attitude. In fact, they don't expect the court to give us much money. What they want is land and a peaceful life. Three meals a day are enough. We What is given is not money, but a promise of peace and quiet. Let the wanderers return home, let the barren fields be filled with seedlings, let the dilapidated houses be rebuilt, and let the people know that the court has never forgotten them, and we have been fighting for their livelihood. Work hard. The people we have done can see and feel it, so they are naturally grateful, forgetting the goodness of the previous dynasty, and being proud of our Tang Dynasty. The Ministry of Industry put the money into the palace, although the palace can show To show the court's majesty, one can see the high walls, which not only block people's sight, but also block people's hearts. As the saying goes, one grain of millet is planted in spring, and ten thousand seeds are harvested in autumn. The money we scatter is aimed at collecting People's hearts, if people's hearts are united, the prosperity of my Tang Dynasty is in sight, and this seed sown will reap ten thousand seeds in the near future."

Listening to Long Feiyu's words, the whole hall was silent.There was a burst of intense applause for a long time, and Fang Xuanling stood up and said, "Your Majesty, although the words of the Long Shangshu are simple, they are all wise words. The palace can be built later, but if the people lose their hearts, they will lose everything." No, the Tang Dynasty has been in turmoil since the founding of the country. Those older generations survived the prosperity of the Sui Dynasty. They longed for such a prosperity in their hearts. If our Tang Dynasty is not as good as the Sui Dynasty, then our efforts will be turned into instant Nothing. Thousands of years later, who will remember the Tang Dynasty, they will only think of the short-lived Sui Dynasty. And my Tang Dynasty is just like the chaotic history of the Wuhu era, submerged in the trend of history."

After Fang Xuanling's voice fell, a group of ministers stood up and shouted, "Ministers wait for a second opinion." Hearing what everyone said, Li Shimin glanced at Long Feiyu in dissatisfaction, and said, "Okay, it's okay, go down."

Hearing Li Shimin let him go down, Long Feiyu cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty, I have something important to say."

Li Shimin glanced at Long Feiyu, and said impatiently: "What else is there?"

Long Feiyu waved his hand, and the principals brought up the stack of books they had sorted out.Long Feiyu pointed to these books and said: "Your Majesty, these are the national land and population censuses compiled by our household department. Years of war, people have been displaced, and many fields are barren. I hope that the land can be allocated according to the population and collected according to the land. Taxation. In this way, in order to obtain more land, the people will have a large number of children, and the population of our Tang Dynasty will not drop too much. In addition, concealing the population in various places is not conducive to the census, and there are many people who evade taxes. And collecting taxes according to the land can also provide better protection for those people who have little or no land.”

Hearing Long Feiyu's suggestion, Li Shimin thought for a while and said, "Long Feiyu, this is your own suggestion, but how do you think it has been implemented?"

"Difficult, very difficult. Most of the land is in the hands of powerful people from all over the world. They are definitely not willing to give up their own interests. But His Majesty wants to think about it in a different way. After all, the powerful are only a minority, and most of them are still poor people. We have the support of these people. What are you afraid of?"

"Common people? Do you think they will buy it? The common people are the most easily deceived, and in the end it will only exacerbate the turmoil in the Tang Dynasty."

Li Shimin's words won the approval of all the ministers, and someone immediately stood up and criticized: "Long Feiyu, collecting taxes by people is an eternal truth. In which dynasty has there been a precedent for collecting taxes by land? You This is the root of the disaster, Da Tang has just stabilized, do you want to drag him into the chaos of war again?"

Long Feiyu snorted, looked at the man who spoke and said: "In troubled times, heavy codes should be used. The Great Tang Dynasty was built at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty. When the situation is still unstable, all policies can be implemented at this time. If you want to get it from the powerful hands in a few years Collecting taxes will be harder."

"Long Feiyu, do you want to overthrow our Datang regime? There are powerful enemies watching from outside, if there is turmoil inside, how do you let His Majesty deal with it?"

Long Feiyu glanced at the man who spoke, and said loudly: "When will the Tang Dynasty not change at this time? We have so many capable ministers, if the Tang Dynasty cannot prosper in the hands of our generation, then you plan to make Who will he leave it to? If he is not in his position, he will not seek his own government. Since I have sat in the position of Minister of the Household Department, I must consider for the people of the world. We have more than 600 zhechong mansions. If the powerful dare to go too far, then How about sending troops to suppress it?"

Long Feiyu's words of suppressing with troops left everyone speechless.At the beginning of the founding of the country, military disasters were the most serious. If one is not handled carefully, it will be a catastrophe for the extermination of the family. Although those aristocratic families are powerful, they are not stupid enough to argue with the soldiers. With their strength, they simply cannot fight the army. spell.

As they spoke, a heated discussion began at this time between the court and the central government. Undoubtedly, the household department became the target of public criticism at this time. These ministers of the court and the central government did not have thousands of acres of fertile land in their families. Supported, these people are some recent officials, they have no influence in the court, but they are rising stars who entered the court with real evidence.

Compared with the major forces in the court, Long Feiyu, a rising star, is more likely to become their backbone.After all, they are still young, and they all have a passion for it, and they didn't think of the time when they were only thinking about their own interests.

Looking at the noisy court hall, Li Shimin waved his hands and said, "Okay, the pharmacist is retiring, and this matter of troop transfer is decided by Keming. You can discuss the specific matters of Long Feiyu with Keming."

"Yes"

After Li Shimin said this, he waved his hand without paying attention to everyone and said, "Retire."

With a sound of retreating from the court and a huh, the people in the household department were surrounded tightly. At this moment, all the ministers wished to pull out the skins of these people. What's more, they pointed at the two servants Yan Li and scolded: "You two! How can a traitor among civil servants succumb to the hand of the warrior in the military department, letting him serve as the household department will only bring disaster to the people of the world."

The two ministers, Yan and Li, could only smile wryly at this time. They had offended all the civil servants at this time, so they could only smile wryly in return: "My lords, we can't be officials for ourselves, but also for the common people. Do you eat or drink? Worry why you need to care about that little tax, but the people live in poverty, and their hearts are full of flesh, don’t you just watch them starve to death because they have no money to pay taxes?”

Seeing the two ministers Yan and Li being surrounded by a group of civil officials, Long Feiyu smiled and led the four principals towards the outside of the hall.Although those civil officials looked at Long Feiyu with a little resentment, after Li Shimin left, they did not dare to blatantly blame Long Feiyu.Liu Shilang's front teeth gave them a lesson from the past. If Long Feiyu gets angry and beats them up, it's not impossible.

Withdrew from the court, Li Shimin walked towards the harem with an excited face, and shouted from afar: "Guanyin maidservant."

Hearing Li Shimin's indistinct shout, Empress Changsun came over with a smile on her face, and saluted, "What makes His Majesty so happy?"

Li Shimin smiled and said: "Guanyin servant girl, you don't know something, this Long Feiyu has only been the secretary of the household department for a few days, and he has found the root cause. After a few doses of strong medicine, this stubborn disease of the Tang Dynasty may also be refuted at the end of those diseases. It completely disintegrated under the pressure and recovered health, but it is obviously impossible to use external force during this period of time."

Empress Changsun asked suspiciously: "What kind of nonsense has this Long Shouzhen made?"

Li Shimin laughed and told Long Feiyu's performance in court to Empress Changsun.Hearing his performance, Empress Changsun was surprised and worried: "Didn't Long Feiyu cut himself off from those civil servants by doing this? Maybe even the generals in the court have been offended, so he will be even more dangerous .”

Li Shimin waved his hand and said: "Long Feiyu's existence is like Shang Yang's for Qin, as long as I exclude all my support, he will succeed, but in the end, he will be killed like Shang Yang with my demise. Such a capable minister cannot be used without a king who can shake him."

Empress Changsun wondered, "Is Your Majesty doubting Long Feiyu's loyalty?"

Li Shimin shook his head and said: "No, I'm worried about the people around him, just like my father was the king of Tang and I was the king of Qin. Sometimes we don't have the ambition to win the world, but none of the people under him want to go one step further. With Long Feiyu's talent, he doesn't need to do anything, and someone will help him up, but he has offended the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty. With his unrivaled talent, if there is no protection from me, he will probably die in a conspiracy soon. Only the more people he offends, the more I can feel at ease with him."

At this time, Long Feiyu didn't know that he was still under other people's calculations. When he returned to the Ministry of Household Affairs, he made a call to inherit the whole country, and after letting everyone read it, he posted it all over the country.

(End of this chapter)