Prosperous Tang Dynasty

Chapter 109 Yang Guozhong's Enlightenment
As soon as he took office, he rectified the law and order in Chang'an City. Li Fei's reputation among the people rose, and the people were grateful to Li Fei.

"That is Lord Wu Guogong Li Fei, he is really young and promising, the good news for the people, the imperial concubine and empress really have adopted a good son--" As soon as Li Fei appeared on the street, the people immediately praised Li Fei, and praised Li Fei. A little bit flustered, and I was very proud of myself.

Li Fei has a bad problem, that is, when he is proud of himself, his coquettish appearance will inevitably be exposed. The people who are grateful to Li Fei think Li Fei has a good temperament, but those who are unhappy with Li Fei feel that he is very handsome. Disgusting, so disgusting.

As Li Fei's follower, Zeng A Niu is not surprised by the person who has been with Li Fei for the longest time.

Zhang Shuo, on the other hand, was relatively simple-minded, and would not think too much about Li Fei's blind admiration. Like those ordinary people, he only felt that Li Fei's appearance was very temperamental, and the admiration in his eyes was much stronger than before.

Although when Li Fei first started doing this, he thought he wanted to smear himself a bit, so that he didn't look too good, like a normal 'young man'.However, seeing such a result, he was indeed very proud. In fact, he also wanted to do what he could to help ordinary people as much as possible.

Yang Guozhong and Li Linfu's mutual attacks became more and more intense.

Both sides are picking on the other, hoping to bring the other down.

In general, it was Li Linfu who suppressed Yang Guozhong. After all, Li Linfu had been the prime minister for more than ten years, and his power as a prime minister was much greater than that of Yang Guozhong, both in terms of foundation and his position as a prime minister.

The prime minister controls hundreds of officials, Yang Guozhong only manages the household department, but Li Linfu, the prime minister, can manage six departments, and Yang Guozhong is controlled by Li Linfu.It's like when Wang Yu put on small shoes for Lin Siming and set up obstacles for Lin Siming.Now, Li Linfu wears small shoes for Yang Guozhong, sets up obstacles for Yang Guozhong, and uses his own rights to suppress Yang Guozhong.

On the contrary, Yang Guozhong's counterattack seemed very limited.Suppressing a prime minister like Li Linfu is beyond the power of Yang Guozhong, and it is even more impossible to wear small shoes for Li Linfu. Yang Guozhong can only pick on Li Linfu's faults at best.

However, Li Linfu has been the prime minister for more than ten years, and now he is nearly [-] years old. He is a real old fox. It is too difficult for Yang Guozhong to find Li Linfu's fault.

Normally, Yang Guozhong and Li Linfu are not rivals of the same magnitude. The only thing Yang Guozhong can rely on is Tang Xuanzong's growing trust in him, and his suspicion and distrust of Li Linfu.

Yang Guozhong just wanted to endure it, and strived for a period of time to be able to do his best in one incident and soar into the sky.

That night, Yang Guozhong hangs out with his mature and charming cousin Mrs. Guo Guo again.

After some love, Mrs. Guo Guo's face was full of ruddy and charming. She was really a beautiful and attractive stunner. She put a white jade arm on Yang Guozhong's shoulder: "I hope you will become the prime minister, so Maybe we can be brighter, so I will help you no matter what. After careful observation these days, His Majesty really no longer trusts Li Linfu. The reason why Li Linfu has not been moved is that he has not yet found a suitable prime minister. His Majesty may trust you very much, but after all, you have just become Minister of the Household Department, and you have not shown enough ability. Your Majesty is not sure whether you are qualified to be a prime minister, so you must do something to show His Majesty, so that His Majesty can see you Your ability will make His Majesty trust you even more, and believe that you have the strength to take over as Prime Minister."

Mrs. Guo Guo is not only the most beautiful among the three sisters of Concubine Yang, but also the smartest among the three sisters of Concubine Yang, who is the most popular with Tang Xuanzong. Tang Xuanzong often jokes with Mrs. Guo Guo.

"You are fighting with Li Linfu, not to find Li Linfu's faults to overthrow Li Linfu, but to prove your ability to His Majesty as much as possible, and make outstanding achievements in your household affairs." Mrs. Yang Guozhong is thorough.

Yang Guozhong's spirit lifted, as if suddenly enlightened.

"Yeah, I don't need to fight Li Linfu fiercely to bring down Li Linfu. Your Majesty doesn't trust Li Linfu anymore. Naturally, I don't want Li Linfu to occupy the position of prime minister anymore, but what your majesty lacks is someone who is suitable to take over as prime minister. I just need to make Achievements, let His Majesty believe that I have the ability to take over as Prime Minister, His Majesty will naturally let Li Linfu step down and let me take over!"

"Hahahaha, you are really my lucky star, let's continue—" Yang Guozhong finally figured it out, and in a good mood, although he was a little tired, he laughed and threw Mrs. Guo Guo to him again, trying to let Mrs. Guo Body satisfaction to repay her.

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Next, Yang Guozhong no longer spent his energy fighting against Li Linfu and finding Li Linfu's faults, but tried every means to see how to make political achievements.

As the Minister of the Ministry of Households, he controls the national finances. To make political achievements, Yang Guozhong can only start with increasing finances.

After thinking about it for three days, Yang Guozhong's hair was about to fall out, and finally he thought of a way.

Yang Guozhong wrote to Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, requesting that all the grain in the righteous warehouses across the country be replaced with silver money and cloth, and then transported to the capital to increase fiscal revenue.

In the second year of Zhenguan, Tang Taizong Li Shimin felt that the world was not peaceful, and there were floods and droughts in various places from time to time, resulting in no crops.The ability to resist disasters in various places is too weak.The imperial court often had to send food from far away for disaster relief, which cost a lot, so it set up a nationwide charity storehouse.

In fact, they are large warehouses. Part of the grain paid by the people every year is placed in the righteous warehouses to prevent floods and droughts and increase the disaster resistance of various places.

In the early Tang Dynasty, Yicang played a huge role, but as the Tang Dynasty became more and more prosperous, especially in the Kaiyuan Tianbao period of Tang Xuanzong, the Tang Dynasty had reached a peak.The world has been peaceful for a long time, and there are few floods and droughts, etc., and because of the prosperity and peace, even if there are floods and droughts, etc., the efficiency of disaster relief is much better than that in the early Tang Dynasty, and the role of righteous warehouses is gradually not so great.

No matter how many hidden dangers there were during the Tianbao period, the accumulation of the peak and prosperity of the Great Tang Kaiyuan is still there, so the warehouses in various places are filled to the brim, and they can't even hold it.However, every year, we still have to add grain to the righteous warehouse according to the old rules. A lot of grain is broken in the righteous warehouse.

In addition to selling the grain from righteous warehouses across the country, Yang Guozhong also made another suggestion. He said that the grain in Taicang in Chang'an City could not hold the same grain. It is better to replace all the grain that should be paid for this year's small tax and land tax with money and cloth.

After all, it is the accumulation of many years in the prosperous age. With the superposition of the two items, Datang Finance can get at least three years of annual income at once, which is definitely a huge amount of money.

"Okay, okay, great, Qing has a great idea, let's do it like this!" Tang Xuanzong stopped Yang Guozhong's suggestion, was overjoyed, agreed without thinking, and praised Yang Guozhong as the pillar of the country.

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