Rebirth of the best emperor

Chapter 87 Group Meetings
There has never been an impenetrable wall in the world.

The news that the emperor planned to build a batch of houses with the state's money and rent them out to officials and talented scholars at a low price spread throughout Chang'an City within two days.

Food, clothing and housing.

The four major issues that ordinary people are most concerned about, the popularity of the topic instantly overwhelmed the rumors that the Lan family was exiled, the Taichang Temple was abolished, and the newly established law enforcement bureau, etc., directly became the hottest topic in Chang'an City .

Everywhere you go, people are talking about this.

The common people discussed it, and the officials discussed it even more. After all, in the entire Chang'an City, except for some court dignitaries and family dignitaries, most of the middle and low-level officials did not have houses to live in.

Now the imperial court builds a house for them to live in. Although the rent is collected, but who has been an official for many years and has never dug a corner of the imperial court, the rent is likely to be paid by the imperial court.

For these middle and low-level officials, he doesn't care who you Lanqing is or what Taichang Temple does. They are always concerned about their basic necessities of life, especially food and accommodation.

So in the past two days, the bigwigs of the imperial court are also very busy. Almost every moment, officials come to ask them what kind of public rental housing is built by the imperial court. Wang Mang asked, Wang Mang flicked his hand and left the matter to Zhang Jian.

In the end, Zhang Jian came forward and summoned more than a dozen ministers of the imperial court to Shangshutai to prepare a meeting to study whether this matter should be included in the reform. This is what Wang Mang meant.

Public rental housing, a new term, has never appeared in the tens of thousands of years of mainland history. It belongs to the new system, and of course it belongs to reform matters.

Since it is a matter of reform, according to the rules, a reform leading group meeting should be held to study and decide.

At the Shangshutai, more than a dozen imperial court dignitaries sat together, looking around, all of them were members of the imperial reform leading group.

In fact, whether it is Zhang Jian or the bigwigs of the imperial court, they never thought that in a few years, this place would become the central institution of the imperial court's operation.

But the only Shang Yang who could think of was sitting at the bottom with lowered brows at the moment, looking at the officials present from time to time.

"My lords, I called you here today mainly because of the public rental housing incident that has been rumored in the capital for the past two days. What do you think about this?" Zhang Jian took the lead in speaking slowly.

Minister of Rites Zhao Xin rubbed his head, said with a wry smile, "I dare not go back to the Yamen these two days."

The ministers of the imperial court, the most annoyed by the public rental housing matters are the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Rites. The Ministry of Officials is the first stop for all the officials of the imperial court to serve as officials. It is also known as the official’s natal home. Most of the officials have a teacher-student relationship with the middle and low-level officials of the court.So these two have the most headaches on this matter.

Wang Yongji has always been the master of what to say. In his eyes, he has no thoughts of friends, political enemies, etc. He simply thinks that this matter is very good. The Ministry of War is responsible for fighting. It is normal to be missing arms and legs on the battlefield, and the Ministry of War sends out Once the officials who supervised the war were injured, their careers would come to an end. However, the existing system of the imperial court could hardly satisfy these officials who were loyal to the country in terms of basic necessities of life. Wang Yongji's eyes were brightened by public rental housing.

Different from Zhang Jian and Zhao Xin's hesitation, Wang Yongji looked directly at Shang Yang and said, "Master Shang, you are the person in charge of the specific work of the reform, what do you think about this matter?"

Shang Yang's face remained unchanged and he said: "Your Majesty is trusted by the Emperor, and he is in charge of specific work, but this matter has to be studied and decided by the adults, and it should be reported to His Majesty for approval. I have no idea about this matter."

Li Hong had already figured out a little bit of Shang Yang's temper, and said, "Then Mr. Shang may explain to us what kind of regulations this public rental housing is."

Shang Yang had communicated with Wang Mang a long time ago, and when he saw this, he informed Wang Mang's meaning, specific process, and meaning of public rental housing to the court leaders present.

Li Hong is the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs. When he heard that the state had paid for it, he immediately said, "I don't know how much Your Majesty is going to invest in this matter?"

"Your Majesty believes that public rental housing is the cornerstone of the prosperity of the Great Qin Dynasty. Naturally, the more the better, but considering the actual situation of the imperial court's finances, at this time, the imperial court naturally invests as much as it has, and invests in building houses every year. , five or ten years later, it will naturally be very different." Shang Yang said slowly.

Zhang Jian said at this time: "But now Chang'an City doesn't have so many people, what's the use of building so many houses?"

"Nowadays, the houses in Chang'an City are naturally enough, but His Majesty said that doing things will last forever. Daqin is destined to become the most powerful empire in the world, and Chang'an is also destined to become the most powerful city in the world. By then, the population of Chang'an The economy, economy, etc. are several times larger than they are now, and what your majesty is planning is not the present, but the future." When Shang Yang said this, his eyes were extremely bright, as if seeing a mighty world.

All the court officials present had experienced the wind and rain. Although what Shang Yang said was simple, the emperor's lofty ambitions were revealed in the simple words.

Great ambition!

Zhang Jian and the others sighed in their hearts. They had already seen from the emperor's several actions today that the emperor's plans were not small, but let them think about it, they never thought that the emperor would want Daqin to become the strongest empire in the world. Become the strongest city in the world.

But if this is the case, the world is destined to be reshuffled and the world is destined to be turbulent. Is this really good?
Zhang Jian and others were still thinking about it, but Haifeng said: "I think this public rental housing is very good. No matter what the future holds, at least it can solve the accommodation problem of many officials in Chang'an. I agree with this."

Different from the big men of the imperial court who are currently ranked in the Jiuqing, Haifeng came from a poor family. It can be said that I am the son of a farmer. Haifeng also climbed up from the bottom of the officials step by step. He has been renting a house for many years. It was not until last year that Shangyuan Palace rewarded a house.

Among the bigwigs in the imperial court, Haifeng understood the life of the middle and lower officials the most. In fact, Haifeng was actually the representative of most of the middle and lower officials in the imperial court.

Therefore, as soon as Haifeng got the news of the public rental housing, he immediately had a detailed understanding of the matter. He didn't care what the emperor wanted to do, as long as the emperor did practical things, he was the first to support him.

Seeing Haifeng jumping out, Yu Wenkai immediately said, "I also support this matter."

In Yu Wenkai's view, the Ministry of Industry must be responsible for building a house. As a construction madman, Yu Wenkai's greatest hobby is construction. Whether it is building walls, roads, dams, palaces, etc., Yu Wenkai favorite.

To build a house, Yu Wenkai did his part.

Gongsun Yan thought of the hard-working translators in the Department of General Affairs, who had no skills other than foreign languages, and could not even sell calligraphy and painting, so he nodded and said, "I agree with this."

Seeing that all the ministers agreed, Zhang Jian sighed in his heart, and said, "Then report this matter to His Majesty."

(End of this chapter)