Rebirth of the best emperor

Chapter 86

Seeing Chu Feng cheerful, Wang Mang secretly laughed in his heart.

This City Management and Administrative Law Enforcement Bureau is not a good unit. The famous urban management in later generations is the abbreviation of this unit. In such an open public opinion environment in later generations, the urban management can be sprayed to death, let alone at this time.

The head of the city management is not something that can be done casually.

Originally, before Chu Feng jumped out, Wang Mang was still thinking about who would jump into this pit, but he never thought that Chu Feng, who was unwilling to give up his power, jumped into the pit himself.

After everything was over, Deng Fangfang shouted loudly: "Ministers, if you have something to tell, you will leave the court if you have nothing to do!"

Of course the ministers are fine, even if there is something, there will be no more performances today, everyone has to go back and digest the information revealed at the court meeting today.

There are also some ministers, especially the officials of Taichang Temple, who are thinking about how to operate to a new Yamen and continue to be happy at the moment.

Not surprisingly, Shang Yang stayed.

Looking at Shang Yang, Wang Mang nodded with satisfaction, and said: "Shang Yang, you did a good job today, I am very satisfied, tell me, what reward do you want, as long as it is similar, I will promise you."

Shang Yang kowtowed and said: "Your Majesty, it is an honor for Shang Yang in this life to serve His Majesty. Shang Yang dare not ask for any rewards, as long as your Majesty is long live long live long live long live long live Great Qin."

Wang Mang laughed and said, "Since when did you learn to be afraid of flattery!"

"It's not about learning, it's about knowing it." Shang Yang said with a smile: "It's just that I don't usually flatter my ministers, and I only kiss Sheng Mingzi when I flatter."

"Haha." Wang Mang burst into a hearty laugh. Everyone likes to listen to good things, and Wang Mang is no exception, let alone the flattery of a talented man like Shang Yang.

After Wang Mang finished laughing, Shang Yang said: "Your Majesty, I have something unclear."

"What's the matter?" Wang Mang said.

"According to what His Majesty told the minister before, the Minister of Taichang Temple, Chu Feng, is going to sue his old age and return to his hometown this time. Why did His Majesty accept him as the director of the Law Enforcement Bureau?" Shang Yang looked at Chu Feng suspiciously.

Shang Yang is a smart man. Although he has doubts, he will never openly question the emperor above the court, but he has to ask about this matter. The Law Enforcement Bureau is the first yamen established by the reform he presided over. Unusual implication, such a yamen, let an "old bureaucrat" take charge, in the eyes of Shang Yang, this is a manifestation of incomplete reform.

Wang Mang knew that the central government would ask such a question, and said: "The Law Enforcement Bureau looks like a flower, but it is actually a trap every step of the way. This position is not suitable for ordinary people. Since Chu Feng threw down his face in the court and joined me, I naturally can't." Not expressing anything, giving him the position of director of the Law Enforcement Bureau, on the one hand, let him explore the way, if he makes a mistake, he can easily change people, on the other hand, it also gives them some thoughts, so that they will not give There are too many obstacles in your actions, Shang Yang."

Shang Yang's eyes flickered. He felt that things were by no means as simple as what Wang Mang said, but Wang Mang had already explained to him.

Therefore, Shang Yang tactfully put down the topic, and directly changed the subject: "Your Majesty, after today, I am afraid that all the ministers of the court will live in the Shangshutai. Your Majesty can give instructions on this."

Shangshutai is currently the location of the office of the leading group of the Great Qin Reform, and is the central organization of the entire reform work.

As for the Reform Leading Group in Daqin, the leader was Wang Mang, the deputy leader was a prince from the clan, Zhang Jian, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and Haifeng, the head of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the heads of other ministers and major yamen were members.

Members of these leading groups have the right to intervene in reform matters according to their job responsibilities, but because these people did not take the reform seriously, they ignored the role of Shangshutai.

After today's court meeting, it is conceivable that the bigwigs of these leading groups will definitely stay in Shangshutai and really intervene in reform matters.

"No instructions." Wang Mang shook his head and said with a smile, "Everything is done according to the job responsibilities of the Reform Leading Group."

Shang Yang's eyes lit up, and he immediately shook his head and said, "Your Majesty is also the Son of Heaven!"

One of the duties of the leading group of the reform is that the leading group implements democratic centralism. It involves important matters related to the reform. The leading group of the reform organizes a meeting to conduct research and decide by voting. All members of the leading group have one vote. This is called democratic voting, but All decisions must be reported to the team leader for approval, and at the same time the team leader has a veto power, which is called centralization on a democratic basis.

Under this system, no matter how the ministers ordered them, there would be a final result, and the emperor would make the final decision.

This system can make the imperial power more concentrated, and it is the prelude to the cabinet system that Wang Mang will introduce in the future.

As the specific manager of the reform, Shang Yang has long been familiar with the responsibilities and requirements of these reform work. At this moment, just seeing Wang Mang's expression, he understands what he should do in the future.

Talking to smart people is easy!
Looking at Shang Yang's expression, Wang Mang knew that Shang Yang understood what he meant, and said with a light smile, "Shang Yang, I heard that you don't have a house in the capital yet, and it just so happens that I have a house here that I seized from Fang Xizhi's house before. If you have a set of other courtyards, I will reward you with this set of other courtyards."

Shang Yang looked stunned for a moment, and immediately kowtowed: "Thank you, Lord Long En!"

The capital is big, and living is not easy. Shang Yang was not born as a rich man. He still lives in a rented house in Chang'an. Now Wang Mang gave him a house. This indeed solved his biggest problem at present, but it was the great grace of the emperor.

What's more, who is Fang Xizhi?The famous corrupt officials that the Great Qin Dynasty has promoted in recent months, the other courtyard of this corrupt official is definitely a first-class courtyard.

With this unexpected joy, Shang Yang took the key handed over from Deng Fang, hummed a little song, and walked briskly to his new home.

Looking at the back of Shang Yang leaving, Wang Mang narrowed his eyes. At this time, Wang Mang had another idea.

The capital is big, and it is not easy to live in.

Now many officials of the imperial court in Chang'an, especially middle- and lower-level officials, live in rented houses, and the monthly rent is a very heavy burden for these officials.

This is also an important reason why Zhang Jian has repeatedly reflected in the court hall that officials have difficulties in life and are unwilling to work, and what Wang Mang is thinking about now is to solve this problem.

Public housing.

This is a word that emerged in Wang Mang's mind. This is a system introduced in later generations to solve the housing problem of low- and middle-income groups in cities. The state will build a number of houses and rent them out to low- and middle-income groups at a lower price. Although many places in later generations have sung crooked scriptures, they did solve the housing problems of many people at the beginning of the introduction of the policy.

But now, Wang Mang feels that it is time to introduce this policy. He wants to reform and develop, Chang'an City needs to expand in scale, and Daqin wants to be stronger. more expensive.

Those who do not plan for the future are not enough to plan for a while.

The experience and lessons of major cities in later generations made Wang Mang clearly see that if the house price in Chang'an City rises, it will directly lead to a result, which is to force talents to leave.

Talents are the first resource for development. To keep talents, you must first settle the housing of talents. Otherwise, great talents like Shang Yang will be forced out of Chang'an City by Chang'an's high housing prices sooner or later.

This was definitely not what Wang Mang wanted to see.

To suppress the housing prices in Chang'an City, we can't wait until the housing prices go up before pressing down. At that time, there will be too many vested interests, and strong pressure will only be counterproductive.

Therefore, we must eliminate the soil for rising housing prices from the very beginning!Wang Mang thought.

(End of this chapter)