Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 421

When being waited on to dress and go to court, Sun Xiangfu is usually not energetic. However, Yu Xiuer's words made all his sleepiness and exhaustion disappear.

"Xiu'er, what did you just say?"

"The concubine said that both Hongmei and Chuntao are pregnant, and the family needs a few more personal servants to take care of her. The concubine has already let Uncle De and the servants choose among them. When I turn around, I will let my husband take a look."

"Not this sentence, but the latter sentence."

"The Zilan girl next to my concubine is also a good person. If my husband is free, let her be taken in as well!"

"No, why do you women always think about finding a woman for your man?" Sun Xiangfu wondered.

Yu Xiu'er put on Sun Xiangfu's last coat, helped him to tie his belt, and said solemnly, "This is the responsibility of the concubine as the head of the house."

"It's for the prosperity of the family again, Xiu'er, have you considered your husband's feelings? My husband has no feelings for her, and I don't want to have skin-to-skin relationships with more women..."

"Husband, this is also your responsibility!"

Yu Xiu'er interrupted Sun Xiangfu's complaints, as if there was no room for negotiation in her eyes.

In the era that Sun Xiangfu lived in, people didn't care if it was called responsibility, it was usually called promiscuity or disorderly life. Yu Xiuer's way of impacting his three views made him very depressed. Perhaps, for Yu Xiuer now, it is necessary to manage this well. The family is more important than Sun Xiangfu's own happiness.

With a complicated mood, Sun Xiangfu managed to sleep back into the cage in the carriage. There was no accident at all. As soon as his carriage stopped at the gate of the imperial city, someone got in, and there were more than one.

"Let me tell you two, don't disrespect young people just because you are old! The dream of a young man is not worth a thousand dollars."

"Zhengming, you are also twenty-one! You are still a young man! In a few years, you should call yourself an old man. By the way, it will take two months to go to Jingzhou. I just returned yesterday. The dream of this young man, I am afraid, Hehehe...!"

Sun Xiangfu really wants to say hehe, your sister is 21 years old, and in later generations, she hasn't even stepped out of college yet!It's not what a young man is, but, okay!This is the Tang Dynasty. As a person who is married, has children, and occupies a high position, the term young man is indeed a bit far away from him.

"You two elders, don't patronize eating and drinking, talk about business if you have business, otherwise, I'm afraid that you won't have the opportunity to speak when you are in the court today."

"Why? Zhengming has a lot of things to report?"

"Of course, there are many local problems in Jingzhou, and even in the whole country. I saw a lot along the way. I didn't see it. There will only be more. Guanzhong, now we have reached a stage. Next, we have to face the whole country. gone."

"Okay, old man, let me briefly tell you about the Ministry of Justice..."

Wei Zheng is definitely not an old-fashioned person, he just used some very ingenious ways to make Li Shimin have to follow his advice, so although he died because of his adversity with Li Shimin, he couldn't survive, but he still After entering Lingyan Pavilion, as Li Jiancheng's best friend, he can achieve such high achievements under Li Shimin's hands, which can only show that his political wisdom is too transcendent.

Legislation, as well as the division of duties and powers of the Ministry of Justice and the internal daily management system, are almost only in the internal daily management. Wei Zheng set the rules according to the old rules provided by Sun Xiangfu. Those that conflict with moral cognition, he chose In order not to make explicit regulations and deal with it vaguely, but in private, he educated the judges under him to judge the case according to the central ideas written in Sun Xiangfu's old articles, which greatly weakened the criticism from all sides of the Ministry of Justice. Opposition to reform.

In addition, he also separated the military law and political law, the military law was managed by the minister of the Ministry of War and the generals of the guards, the political law was managed by the prime minister, and his legal department was only in charge of the civil law. They also have the power to investigate, report and file lawsuits, but the trials and judgments are made by their own separate courts, which prevents the Ministry of Justice from being too powerful and being attacked by everyone.

After listening to his general explanation, Sun Xiangfu has to say that, judging from the current environment, his method is more operable. After all, if the subversion is too large, all aspects may rebound greatly. Moreover, the overall The plan was passed by the court years ago, and it has been implemented for almost a month now, but no major problems have been reported back.

On the side of the Ministry of Commerce, Du Zhenglun was about to speak, but was told that the gate of the imperial city had been opened, so he had no choice but to make an appointment with Sun Xiangfu, and then choose another opportunity to talk after the court was over.

After entering the Tai Chi Hall, Wei Ting and Li Gongyan consciously went behind Sun Xiangfu. Before the emperor came, they whispered a few words to Sun Xiangfu about the preparations for spring plowing. I was relieved, and when Li Shimin walked into the main hall in a hurry, he took a special look at Sun Xiangfu's position before sitting down and accepting the visit of all officials.

Afterwards, Sun Xiangfu left the court immediately. He is an imperial envoy sent abroad. After returning to the court, he was naturally the first to perform. In fact, he should have reported to the palace last night before returning home. If this matter had been left before, the censor would have impeached him, but now, everyone can understand, besides, he was rushing to deliver the mission and came home in the middle of the night, which is understandable.

"Your Majesty, I have been ordered to inspect Shannan Road. All matters have been properly handled. I will return to the court to hand over the order."

Li Shimin nodded and said, "Well, I have handed over your previous report to the ministers for circulation, but regarding the follow-up treatment, the ministers have different opinions. You can tell me your own opinion, and I will use it as a reference."

"The minister obeys the order."

After organizing the language, Sun Xiangfu said again, "Your Majesty, there are two reasons why bandits are rampant in Jingxiang.

First, the local lake area is criss-crossed and floods occur frequently, and the people everywhere are powerless to resist disasters.

The second is that after the disaster, the common people have nowhere to ask and have no choice but to fall into the grass. "

Li Shimin pretended to be ignorant when he heard the words, and asked, "There is no way to ask for help? Why is this?"

In fact, why those common people became water bandits, and how the local tyrants harmed them, Sun Xiangfu wrote clearly in his secret memorial to Li Shimin, and Li Shimin absolutely believed that it was the actual situation, however, he did not now He intends to deal with these local tyrants in a drastic manner, so on the bright side, Sun Xiangfu will not speak out.

And the two points he mentioned are just to open up a channel for the people in other areas who can't survive on the court's side to save lives at critical moments.

"Your Majesty, when the people suffer from a disaster, there will be an instant shortage of food in a certain area. At that time, the only way they can think of is to ask the government to borrow money from the big families with food. Let's talk about the big families with food first.

No one can predict the size and duration of the disaster. These large families with food are generally unwilling to lend to the people affected by the disaster. One is because they themselves are also threatened by the disaster.Second, they do not believe in the ability of the people to repay their debts. "

Sun Xiangfu said so, above the court, officials of many local families nodded one after another. This gave them a good excuse, so today's board will definitely not hit them on the head .

Then, Sun Xiangfu continued, "So, to solve this problem, the people can only rely on the government, how can the people get food rations quickly?
Previously, His Majesty set up righteous granaries to levy food from the people in good years and lend money to the people in bad years. This strategy has many disadvantages.

For example, in the area of ​​Shannan Province, there is a county where half of the county was affected by the disaster and half of the county was not affected by the disaster. During the good year, the people paid for the food in the charity warehouse. Affected by the disaster, the people of the whole county will go to the warehouse to borrow money, because if they don't borrow money, they will lose money!This will lead to the fact that the people who are really affected by the disaster cannot receive timely and sufficient food relief. You must know that a person cannot withstand a few days of hunger.

However, in the New Deal, the Changping warehouse set up can solve this problem, because the Changping warehouse does not levy additional grain from the people, but uses money to buy grain from the people in good years. At that time, if they are sold to the common people at a low price, this will be largely restrained. After the disaster, the price of food will skyrocket.

Of course, it is not enough to just have a Changping warehouse, because not all the people have enough money to buy grain in the Changping warehouse.

Then, we should open a channel for the people to borrow money, that is, the bank.

It has been almost a year since our Datang Bank was established in Chang'an, and it has been more than two years in Shanyang. Everything is running normally and can effectively help the court solve many problems. However, it can also help The common people solve many problems. Your Majesty, you should not have forgotten the idea of ​​spreading it throughout the country when I put forward the proposal of the bank! "

How could Li Shimin forget such an important thing!
In fact, in Datang's financial, taxation and commercial important areas, all bank branches have been opened, such as Luoyang, Yangzhou, and Yizhou. In these places where there are banks, it is very convenient to transfer financial and tax accounts. A large number of people counted and escorted, and the loss was greatly reduced. It only needs to be cleared by the official account, deposited in one place, and handed over the bill to the imperial court, and the imperial court can directly withdraw money from the bank in Chang'an.

If all the cities in the Tang Dynasty had money houses, then 10,000+ yuan could be saved a year just in terms of financial and tax escort losses. This kind of good thing can save money and be more convenient. Wuji has been trying to find a way to implement it, and now it seems that it is not only beneficial in terms of finance and taxation.

If there are money houses in every place, and the people are allowed to borrow money, then even if a disaster strikes, the people can quickly find a sum of money to borrow money from the money houses based on their household registration and field records, so that their lives can temporarily get a certain amount of money. Guarantee, after all, not everyone has trouble with money, and if you pay for it, some people will sell food.In this way, they will not have nowhere to ask, choose to take risks, and become bandits.

Sun Xiangfu hardly brought up the evils of the local tyrants. He just aimed at the problem and formulated a system that the local tyrants could not control. If someone from someone else stepped in, then Li Shimin and Changsun Wuji would not be where they are today.

And with this set of loan system, it is very difficult for the tyrants not only in the Jingxiang area, but in any area of ​​the country to use their previous methods to steal the land from the people and drive the people to a dead end.

However, the problem facing the imperial court is still insufficient manpower, and it is impossible to quickly build the yamen, officials, banks, etc. required by the New Deal to the local area. Push it slowly.

(End of this chapter)