New Shun 1730

This winter is normal, not as cold as in previous years, nor as hot as in previous years, and the same is true in Beijing.

It was the day when the military envoys came to Beijing once a year. Even though the name sounded domineering, everyone knew it was just the governor of the previous dynasty. Several provinces near Gyeonggi Province come to Beijing once a year to report on various tasks in each province.

In the forbidden city.

The eunuch looked at the thick memorial in the emperor's hand, and looked at the emperor's nodding expression from time to time, thinking that this was another memorial from Liu Yu.

But no.

Liu Yu's memorial came almost every few days. Except for some nonsense, it almost became a daily diary.

Today the soldiers all know who is left and right. Yesterday the soldiers received their pay and shouted thank you for your majesty’s pay. The day before yesterday the soldiers officially fired their guns...

Basically this is the case.

The emperor has come to the point where he only glances at it occasionally for a few days: this is a short memorial, but once Liu Yu comes again with a lengthy memorial, the emperor will definitely check it carefully.

What the eunuch thought was just a habitual thought. Most of the long memorials that could not be scolded by the emperor were written by Liu Yu.

After reading the long memorial, the emperor went to the Tianyou Hall.

A group of "Pingzhangshi" people are studying the matter of storing grain in Mongolia's post stations. This year's disaster caused the entire Shandong to be devastated. The court had to provide relief and relief, so the matter of storing grain in Mongolian stations was delayed a lot.

The court's money is limited. If it is used for disaster relief, it cannot be used for war, and it cannot be used to pay three wages.

As soon as the emperor came, everyone on duty in the writing room had to leave, and they knew that it must be a military and national event.

Looking at the thick memorial again, they thought something had happened to Liu Yu again, and several Pingzhangshi felt a little bit in their hearts.

However, the emperor said: "Look at this, gentlemen. This Bai Yunhang is indeed a capable official."

A few ordinary people secretly breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that if this matter was about Bai Yunhang, His Majesty would be in a good mood. After all, the entire Shandong and Jiaodong were hit by disasters, but Bai Yunhang stood out and managed to achieve "rare escapes and effective relief".

The court didn't believe it at first, but it wasn't until they sent someone to see it that they believed it was true.

The emperor had already commended him once before, and this time he mentioned it again. Everyone thought that Bai Yunhang would also fly high?

There are also those who are thoughtful and can't help but think of some of Bai Yunhang's disaster relief methods, thinking that this person's success is inseparable from Liu Yu.

Sure enough, before he could read the memorial, the emperor said again: "It is said that those who are close to vermillion are red, and those who are close to ink are black. Shutu has only been with Liu Yu for a year or two, and he has performed well in the battle against Rakshasa, attacking cities and forts. Now he is doing very well in Heilongjiang. He collected more than 3,000 taels of Rakshasa fur trade tax this year. Now Bai Yunhang is in Wendeng, but he is just a little closer to Liu Yu, and he has done great things. "

He was boasting, not only because what happened in Bai Yunhang's memorial made him happy, but also because Liu Yu's original idea of ​​"using business to control Meng" has achieved practical results this year.

The equity invested by internal funds combined with businessmen from Shanxi and Xijing to conduct business in Mongolia and Rakshasa.

The secret agent of the Boy's Army who was inserted into it not only drew a detailed map of Mongolia, but also reported the preferences of the leaders of various Mongolian tribes one by one, and gave a perfect answer.

As Liu Yu said, most of the money the imperial court spent to appease the Mongolian leaders flowed back... because the money of these Khalkha leaders could only buy the goods of the caravan.

What makes Li Gan even more happy is that the money invested from internal funds has been distributed as dividends of more than 90,000 taels this year, which was just returned yesterday.

Ninety thousand taels is not much, but it is just the beginning.

Military, political, and economic goals were all achieved.

Liu Yu was in the east. Although he did not send back the money, he did get two warships back in exchange. They have not yet arrived, but it is indeed a good start.

Bai Yunhang's memorial also mentioned Liu Yu's help. Li Gan thought that the ministers might be surprised by the idea of ​​"dividing a small family into a small family", so he first mentioned something seemingly unrelated.

I thought that after everyone read the contents of the memorial, a long discussion would be necessary. Sure enough, after reading the memorial, several Ping Zhang officials had different expressions on their faces.

This memorial... is going to cause a big stir.

This Bai Yunhang is really crazy about asking for credit. How dare he write such a thing?

Thinking again about this man who became famous as a teacher in Fujian, some people can probably understand that he is a gambler, betting on his future again, and the bet is much bigger than the last time.

If you lose the bet last time, you will be dismissed from your job at most.

If the bet fails this time, the coffin will be opened and the body will be slaughtered after death. Think about the fate of those who carried out reforms, Shang Yang's car was broken up, Wang Anshi was named after Qin Hui, Jia Sidao was named as a traitor, Zhang Juzheng opened the coffin and killed the corpse... Is this Bai Yunhang crazy?

Thinking like this, I have to admit that this person is a capable official.

Taking advantage of the catastrophic disaster, he inventoried acres of land, prepared for disaster relief, and spent seven days promoting disaster relief crops throughout the state. His Wendeng Prefecture performed best when the entire Jiaodong was starved to death.

What is even more frightening is that this person's memorial...has an obvious tendency of Liu Yuhua.

The number of acres of land and the original tax amount are written clearly and the numbers are listed clearly.

This is nothing, what really makes them feel a bit "Liu Yu's flavor" is the series of numbers at the end.

Including if such a policy is implemented, which ones will benefit and which will lose based on the combination of the number of acres of land and the number of people in the family? They even drew a chart with the number of people on the vertical axis and acres on the horizontal axis. The graph of numbers...

If it weren't for the fact that "those who are close to vermillion are red and those who are close to ink are black", it would be a ghost.

But these people have to admit that this curve is too intuitive. It is clear at a glance which people will be harmed and oppose, which people will be grateful and support, and which people will neither support nor oppose.

In addition, there are a series of supporting policies.

Including:

How much silver will be added to each land grade.

After the silver is added to the land, it will be beneficial for immigrants from all over the country to ease land conflicts, because officials will not care about the population but only the land, which can relax the population to go to Liaodong, Mongolia, Heilongjiang, Taiwan and other places to reclaim wasteland. Originally, population also meant silver. Now that silver is added to the land, officials will encourage reclamation and immigration: the contradiction between people and land will be resolved, and the probability of local uprisings will also be reduced.

After the silver is added to the land, in view of the loss of silver ingots required for tax transportation, it is recommended to add the lost silver to the tax, collect a few more regular taxes, and prevent various places from collecting miscellaneous taxes.

Officials oppose because their interests are damaged. It is recommended to increase the salaries of officials. According to the amount of silver collected in various places, the salaries of officials can be increased to different degrees.

Request that past corruption and bribery be forgiven, and from the day of the actual implementation, if they do not restrain themselves, they will be punished again.

These policies include both reforms and compromises, and are highly enforceable.

Everyone present knew it, because according to the chart drawn by Bai Yunhang, it can be seen that once this policy of allocating land tax to land is implemented, local gentry will inevitably oppose it. The chart is very clear that the interests of those people will be damaged, and the more land they own, the greater the loss.

Now all this is just a "request for trial implementation".

The problem is that Wendeng Prefecture has now completed the land inventory, population statistics, and there is a period of exemption after the famine to buffer and prepare in advance.

Obviously, this policy is easy to implement in Wendeng.

Although some people oppose it, what's the use?

Since the emperor took out this memorial, the intention is very clear: support.

This year's disaster relief, Bai Yunhang is the model set up by the emperor. At this time, attacking Bai Yunhang, isn't it a slap in the emperor's face?

The emperor said: Yes. However, this man is a shameless scum with evil intentions. Doesn't that mean that the emperor is blind?

Everything is ready, only the east wind is missing. There is no need to think about it. After it is implemented, it will be implemented perfectly: the disaster relief planting can be promoted throughout the state in seven days, and more than 600,000 acres of hidden land can be found after a real land inventory. What difficulties can there be in implementing the new policy?

While most people were thinking about the policy itself in the memorial, Duke Ying and Left Prime Minister Zhang Muzhi was thinking about another thing.

He didn't care about the policy itself. It was not surprising that he could think of such an idea. The key is execution.

Speaking of execution, looking at the process of checking the land and disaster relief organizations introduced in the memorial, Zhang Muzhi couldn't help but think of an incident a few years ago.

Liu Yu took the students of Wude Palace to make trouble, knocked on the drum, and submitted a book.

There are many scary words in the book that can make the court go crazy, but there is one thing that jumped into Zhang Muzhi's mind at this time.

"Select good family sons and train them to be clerks to form inspection teams. Three to five hundred people are appropriate, and they can check the land, investigate unjust cases, and check the population... Target prefectures and counties, and parachute in for half a year, and bypass local officials and gentry clerks, conduct a comprehensive investigation and rectification. After the investigation is completed, the officials will be reinstated, based on the number of new land..."

This policy was originally used by the emperor as a bargaining chip with ministers, because no one knew whether it would work, but it sounded like it would work.

However, everything that Wendeng Prefecture has done now proves one thing: this method is indeed usable.

The land investigation was not done by the governor of Wendeng Prefecture, but by hiring officers under Liu Yu during the holiday.

The popularization of famine relief grain planting technology was not done by the Wendeng Prefecture government office, but by hiring officers under Liu Yu.

This is nothing, because Liu Yu's memorial a few days ago said one thing: the organizational method of the new army, the staff system, and the separation of training and command.

All of this is talking about one thing. If the emperor wants to transfer him, then this new army is also capable of fighting. This is not the Liu family army, but the emperor's Qingzhou army.

Liu Yu also fulfilled his original promise: a well-regulated army and an incompetent general should not be defeated lightly.

At least, that's what the memorial said, saying only that the new soldiers have been recruited, and the court can send a general who knows the army to watch the military performance in Weihai next autumn.

In addition to self-confidence, it is more like a prelude to this Wendeng incident. Even if he interfered in local affairs, he had no selfish motives, and the new army could transfer him at any time, please rest assured, emperor.

Now think about it... I'm afraid Liu Yu had already considered these things at the time, fearing that Wendeng's affairs would arouse the emperor's suspicion, and it's even more obvious that Liu Yu had long known that Bai Yunhang was going to submit such a memorial for change.

Zhang Muzhi thought, Liu Yu's nonsense words at the beginning were made to show everyone: it really works.

It's for the emperor to see, and it's also for the ministers to see. It was just talk before, and now it's really done, then it can give the emperor another bargaining chip.

There are many good policies, but there will always be problems when they are implemented. Wendeng's practice provides a model: a group of full-time officials from good families who have no connection with the local area and are affiliated with the emperor, parachuted into the local area, and completed the land inventory and other tasks that were difficult to do before without obstacles.

And Wendeng also gave the benefits of doing so. How much income can a state with 600,000 hidden fields increase for the national treasury every year?

With so many states and counties in the country, wouldn't the land tax collected from the inventory be enough to support a team of hundreds of officials who are directly under the emperor and have no connection with the local area?