Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 408 Economic Sanctions
For the people who moved from Goguryeo, Sun Xiangfu had already made arrangements, so when things came to an end, he didn't panic at all. Those houses that were evacuated due to land replacement were just in use. The material is still complete, not worse than when they were in Goguryeo.

When they learned that each household would be allocated [-] mu of land, and that after the beginning of spring, they could still receive high-yielding grain seeds, these people immediately forgot the hard work and exhaustion of the journey. They are more sinicized, and they don’t really care about the rule. No matter who they are, Guanzhong is richer and more comfortable than the bitter cold Northeast.

After distributing these Goguryeo people in various villages, Sun Xiangfu asked the Lizheng of each county to take them to visit the new villages around Chang'an in turn, and told them that as long as they planted their own land well, it would not be a high tax for the court , Then, in the next one or two years, all the villages they live in will be replaced with such good houses.

Regarding Sun Xiangfu's series of resettlement plans for the common people, Changsun Wuji exclaimed wonderfully. He imagined that the common people in Goguryeo might experience various discomforts, but none of them appeared. It can be seen that no matter where the common people are, as long as they see I hope they can all become more obedient.

While Sun Xiangfu was busy resettling these newly moved people from village to household, Yu Xiu'er was also busy working on the strategy she had discussed with Sun Xiangfu.

In the past few days, I have been in and out of the palace to meet the eldest grandson empress several times, and have frequent gatherings with the ladies of various families. Finally, when the time entered the twelfth lunar month, when Sun Xiangfu returned home after finishing the resettlement work, he got good news.

"Husband, the wives of each family have successfully persuaded their husbands. At this time, the husband puts forward a proposal to let women be officials in the court, and at least [-] to [-]% of the courtiers agree."

"So, this matter can be done."

After more than half a month of resettlement work, Sun Xiangfu finally returned home, and when he went to court tomorrow, he was going to bring this matter up.

Then, he saw Yu Xiuer running to the study to write and draw.

"Well, Chuntao, come and help my husband, I will press my head, Hongmei, and bring some food here, so that my husband can satisfy his hunger. I have suffered a lot outside these few days."

When the big woman suddenly became not so cute, the benefits of the two concubines were revealed. In order to have a child of their own, Chuntao and Hongmei are now obedient to Sun Xiangfu. After a while, Sun Xiangfu The fatigue dissipated.

"If the two of you had children like Xiu'er, wouldn't you be serving your husband like this again?"

"That will have to wait until after we have a baby."

"You're getting smarter, Huanhuan and Lele! Let Xi Niang and the others bring me to have a look."

"The two little guys go to sleep every day when they are full, and eat when they wake up. Now they have grown into big fat people."

"Naibazi just wants to be fat, and when he draws bars, he will lose weight."

After a while, Sun Xingfu started teasing the children to play, but this kind of gossip was commonplace and the days of making fun of children, he was destined not to last long. In the palace, there was a new situation from Jingxiang, and Li Shimin was going to call We have discussed.

Jingzhou tyrants have great resistance to the New Deal. They not only obstruct the implementation, but also support the bandits, rob the official ships, and destroy the relocation plan of the samurai. They went to Laizhou, and most of the soldiers in Jingzhou were transferred to Guanzhong for winter training, preparing to go to Goguryeo next year, and the warriors basically had no soldiers to use.

At dinner time, Li Shimin hosted a banquet in the Imperial Study Room for Fang Xuanling, Li Jing and others who had discussed military affairs with him all afternoon. Sun Xiangfu also rushed over after receiving his summons.

"Is Zhengming able to solve the rampant Jingxiang water bandits?"

Li Shimin asked after Sun Xiangfu read the report of the warrior Xun.

In fact, he brought this matter to Sun Xiangfu, because he didn’t want to use war to solve Jingxiang’s problem. He knew the root cause of some water bandits falling into the grass, and in history, the samurai Xun was the sixth year of Zhenguan, who attacked the powerful in Jingzhou, "lenient He helped Li Shimin solve this problem and achieved his greatest political achievement in the Zhenguan Dynasty.

However, it was implemented when there was no foreign war in the Tang Dynasty and the samurai Xun had soldiers in his hands.

The situation is different now. Li Shimin's reforms are much more aggressive than in history. Since the end of the Han Dynasty, the land of Jingxiang has been an important place controlled by powerful families. The surrounding area is densely covered with waterways and crisscrossed by lakes. It’s okay to be here, at least, it can’t look too chaotic on the surface. Now that the navy has been withdrawn, those local tyrants no longer need to maintain any superficial restraint and scramble to strengthen themselves. As a result, the situation here is worse than in history. The situation is even more serious, with as many as [-] local people being forced to fall into the grass.

Moreover, these people who have fallen into the grass can't play with their brains and those tyrants, they are always used by them to achieve their own goals. A group of Miao people who moved out of the area, currently he has no soldiers to use to solve this matter by force, and because of some scruples, he didn't want to take the lead himself, so he pushed the matter to the court.

Sun Xiangfu put down the report, analyzed it in his mind, and said, "Your Majesty, the reason why the water bandits fell into the grass is because they can't make a living. Who made their life difficult? The local tyrants.

Jianghanping has fertile land, abundant water resources, and large farm output. The more land these tyrants occupy in the local area, the more wealth they accumulate. If they want to continue to expand, they have to start with the common people.

Chen was in charge of land replacement before, and discovered some problems in Shannan Road. With the strength of five surnames and seven families, the land in the entire Shannan Road area is actually less than 100 million mu. It can be seen that these Jingzhou tyrants have already taken over the local area. The operation is monolithic, and even the five surnames and seven families are not easy to intervene. "

When Sun Xiangfu said this, he paused for a while, while Fang Xuanling took over and said, "What Zhengming said is the truth.

The group headed by the Jingzhou clans such as Cai, Huang, Kuai, Deng, Liu, etc., has held the land of Jingxiang since the end of the Han Dynasty. In Zhouzhou and Huangzhou, there are almost no people with other surnames on the household registers. Whether the imperial court sends officials or not, both places are under the control of the Cai and Huang clans, and it is difficult for anyone to change them. "

When local tyrants have developed to such a degree, their foundations have been formed, and it will be difficult to completely eradicate them. The five surnames and seven families first reached this level, and after a long period of accumulation, they began to expand. Lu, if you want to destroy them, you must eradicate their foundations, but can you kill all the people in a county?
Doing so will bring huge losses to the imperial court, but if you ignore them, they will always be inside the country, using their accumulated energy, exploiting others, absorbing some benefits that should belong to the country, calling them cancerous, It couldn't be more appropriate.

"What can be done to cure it?" Li Shimin asked with a frown.

When Fang Xuanling was talking about the situation in the land of Jingxiang, Sun Xiangfu was already thinking of a way quickly. In the past farming society, if the local tycoons wanted to develop, the only way to go was to annex the land. However, now But it is different, because Datang is about to embark on the road of industry, and there is no shortage of land, only labor, so there are many ways to deal with these tyrants.

"Your Majesty, these local tyrants who are defending together seem to be powerful, but it is not impossible to deal with them."

Li Shimin was overjoyed when he heard the words, and said, "Please come quickly."

"Aren't they clinging to the land? Let's make their land worthless."

"How to do it?"

Sun Xiangfu replied, "Since your majesty asked me about advice, I actually didn't want to send troops to wipe out those water bandits. Presumably, their crimes are not too big, and they are not to the extent of sending out an army to kill them. I think they should send envoys to recruit them. "

"Recruiting them will solve those local tyrants?"

"Recruiting them is only the first step. I want to organize these people who are good at sailing on water and set up a Yangtze River waterway transshipment company to take on the important task of cargo circulation between the north and south of the Tang Dynasty."

"Yangtze River Waterway Transshipment Company?"

"Yes, this is an industry that makes profits by running ships and transporting goods. Think about it, after those factories in Weinan are put into operation, many commodities will be produced every year, or even every day. These commodities require a lot of Raw materials and finished products require a large market to digest them, which requires a large communication and supply of raw materials and a transportation line for commodity output. Therefore, even if there is no such thing as water bandits, in the future, The imperial court also has to find a way to solve this problem."

If you produce something, you have to find a way to sell it. If the industrialization of Weinan wants to drive the whole country, it must have a more convenient and fast communication channel with the national market. In the era of underdeveloped land transportation, Waterway transportation is the first choice.

"You're right, but can this water transport company make the powerful land in those places worthless?"

Seeing that Li Shimin hadn't figured it out yet, Sun Xiangfu explained again, "Actually, when you earn more money from industry and commerce than from agriculture, all the land in the country will become less valuable.

And when these people who accepted the imperial court's surrender and started to run the boat are richer than those clan people who stick to one land and farm, they will no longer be satisfied with holding on to one land, first of all internal disputes will arise .

Of course, if they don't make trouble, they can be willing to live a self-sufficient life in the past, so that they can just live a poorer life and it won't affect others.

And if they are not obedient, it is actually very simple to make them poorer with what the current court can grasp until the internal division.

For example, this year they are growing grain in their fields. Your Majesty, you only need to issue an order to transport some grain to the area with a high yield and sell it at a low price, so that their grain will not be sold at all. Without money, they will quickly become poor, because they need salt, iron and many other living materials, and they need money to buy these things.

The ministers call this economic sanctions. In the future, when they encounter such disobedient local tyrants, they can use this method to punish them. "

"Economic sanctions, this policy, this policy..."

Li Shimin really wanted to say something bad, but he felt that it was inappropriate, because this was a method he would use to deal with others in the future, so it was a good idea!It's really damaged.

This is the same as the grain price war that broke out in Hongzhou before, using grain to directly hit the market. Moreover, when the court has more supplies, there is no need to play around like before. You plant mulberry, I use Ten times the amount of mulberry, sell at a lower price, so that your mulberry can’t be sold. If you grow grain, I will use ten times the amount of grain, so that your grain can’t be sold. Since you dare not listen to the imperial court, don’t blame the imperial court Use tricks on you.

"Your Majesty, in my opinion, I can send Zhengming as an envoy to Jingxiang to recruit those water bandits. As for this Yangtze River Waterway Transshipment Company! If it can really be opened, I also plan to get a share."

Fang Xuanling didn't participate in many businesses before. This time, he couldn't miss the opportunity. If this waterway transshipment company has the ability to communicate goods from all over the world, then it will definitely be a business that can make a lot of money.

Just when Sun Xiangfu was about to be courteous and agreed, Li Shimin hurriedly interjected, "Don't want too many royals, it's better to account for [-] percent, and the rest, let's just figure it out!"

It was said that Sun Xiangfu really wanted to cover his forehead, and it was almost done, so don't you want more?Do you know how much [-]% of the members need to pay?

(End of this chapter)