Section 320: The Imperial Court Planning Liangzhou (1)
Although many people in Liangzhou died, and in Ye Tan's opinion, there was no need to die, it was in the eyes of Karma Lu. Anyway, there are so many slaves like refugees, so wouldn't they be able to acquire many warriors? He didn't care much about Ye Tan's slightest quest, but Merck was removed from his post. At the same time, the news in Ye Tan also started from Liangzhou and went to Taohai Town and Songzhou respectively. It's not that he didn't want to use the people here directly, but there were really few people who could use it.
As night fell, these people outside the city, with the help of Master Wugui, began to allocate and arrange places. At the same time, Merck took his five thousand subordinates to the place where they were before and sealed up the local pastures and land. As for cattle and sheep, except for the food that can be left to eat, the rest were also rushed back. Ye Tan's temper was sometimes so stubborn. In Xu Jingzong's view, these were all the money from the government, so why should they be exchanged? But when Ye Tan pointed at the nose of Karma Lu, he still planned to listen to the other party, because Ye Tan, who was like a tyrant, was a person who could not be refuted by anyone in many places.
Originally, the people who were still alive should have arranged to drink and eat meat here at night, but unfortunately, they were all refuted by Ye Tan. Go back and prepare. Now there is no extra food for you to eat. The temperature outside the city should be more and more people, and the smell is getting worse and worse.
On the third day, Li Shimin received a report from Xu Jingzong. Although this guy has been following Li Shimin for some time. In the past, he could still say a few words when he was reciting poems and essays. However, after Li Shimin became busier and busier, Xu Jingzong had very strict behaviors, and he was not interested in doing big things and doing small things, so he kicked him to Songzhou. However, he didn't expect that this guy had learned a lot of good knowledge. Originally, Xu Jingzong was a well-educated person, and after those newly learned knowledge, he became increasingly unable to understand the memorials he wrote to Li Shimin.
Despite this, Li Shimin was still very angry in the imperial study room, throwing the memorial on the table in front of several bigwigs, and cursing at the door, "This karma is Lu, bold and reckless. Xu Jingzong doesn't know what it means, Ye Tan is used to killing people, right? Those people are all people of my Tang Dynasty, and they actually sent people to rob them. If this continues, how do other frontier prefectures view my Tang Dynasty court? Are they all the people who are greedy and flies?"
Because of Ye Tan's appearance, Changsun Wuji has not been promoted in the past two years and has no time to be promoted. Because Li Shimin is very ambitious, he needs more money. As the Minister of Revenue, he often thinks about one thing, that is, he really wants to hang himself because he has no money.
The military pay and other things are indispensable. In places where famine occurs, disaster relief must be done. Seeing the officials sending the money to the treasury and then spending it quickly, he didn't want to live such a life.
So, when he heard Li Shimin's words, he looked up at him and asked, "Your Majesty, why are you so angry?"
"You can read it yourself." Li Shimin threw the memorial on the table and was caught by him. Then Fang Xuanling, Wei Zheng and several other civil officials looked down. Although they were civil officials, their martial arts were not weak, but civil officials did not need to go out to kill people. They all used their mouths and pens in their hands to kill people. When they saw the things on the memorial, they couldn't understand them, but there were still many places that could guess. Therefore, Changsun Wuji looked at Li Shimin strangely and asked, "Your Majesty, why did Ye Hou run to Liangzhou? Isn't he in Fengzhou?"
"This, cough, I don't know. Maybe I was feeling idle and ran out to play." Li Shimin coughed and turned the blame. He was the emperor. He could know these things so well. They did all these things.
Changsun Wuji was so irresponsible by Li Shimin. However, fortunately, he was a smart person. He knew that Li Shimin must have other ideas, so he stopped asking, but Fang Xuanling couldn't help asking, "Your Majesty, why did this Xu Jingzong go?"
"Ahem, maybe it was also when I was bored. He always said that he liked to look around." Li Shimin explained powerlessly, which made Fang Xuanling very unbelievable. How could it be? Xu Jingzong could do anything to become a small official. Is such a person now a person who likes to travel? Is this possible? You think everyone is a fool.
"The army in Liangzhou lost one-third of those people to recruit. How did this Karma Lu lead the troops?" Wei Zheng saw this scene and couldn't help but say angrily, "Such a person is a waste. It's not possible to manage the place, nor can he lead the troops to fight. He is really a waste."
"Ahem, Wei Aiqing, Karma Lu is a rough man, you can't ask too much." Li Shimin explained lightly, but did not make Wei Zheng feel anything good. He glared at Li Shimin and said, "Isn't Ye Hou a rough man? How could he organize Songzhou so well? He is a rough man? I think he is just brainless. Such a person should be damned. Don't they all say that the army in Liangzhou is very powerful, and this is considered powerful? Could it be that I have no one in the Tang Dynasty?"
Wei Zheng may have been a little confused by his anger. He actually said that Ye Tan is a rough man. Thinking of Ye Tan's usual style and how he eats and studies, if he is a rough man, Li Shimin thinks that he is from the wilderness. This guy is not alluding to him as a descendant of the Hu people, right?
"Your Majesty, I don't know why Xu Jingzong sent this?" Changsun Wuji's mind is now thinking about the number of cattle and sheep in those years. If he could sell it to Songzhou people, it would be a good investment. If the national court had this investment, he could give the money he had to give to the local area every year and do more. Now Changsun Wuji is honest, because even if he wanted to embezzle, he could not find any money to embezzle, because the money in the treasury was not as much as his own.
"He wants to tell me whether this matter is used by Liangzhou or Songzhou. If the people of Songzhou are used, Liangzhou will inevitably become a new territory for Ye Tan, but the speed can be very fast. However, if the people of Songzhou are not used, the matter of improving Liangzhou will take more time. How to deal with this matter at that time requires me to make arbitrary decision." Li Shimin said lightly. He felt a strong smell of Ye Tan from Xu Jingzong's memorial. This kid just wants to be lazy. The best thing is to not use Songzhou people. At that time, not only can he get rid of his suspicion about this kid, but he can also not work. You kid has gained so many benefits. Now
He actually planned to give up, you dreamed. But if Ye Tan really intervened, he was now the Marquis of Songzhou, and he managed a small town in Fengzhou without any leakage. The soldiers were safe to die, and he did a good job in grain reclamation. Such a person is a capable minister, but sometimes he can easily become a powerful minister. However, this kid is too young, and even if he is a powerful minister, it will take more than ten years to be a powerful minister. Naturally, he doesn't have to worry about it. Even if he is more than ten years later, he is thirty and he is only about fifty years old. At that time, he is young and strong, what are you afraid of? Moreover, the prince will become an adult by then. Even if he is old, the prince will not let this go.
However, once this incident is later kicked off, it will definitely cause an uproar in the court. After all, since ancient times, ministers have not been able to interfere in other people's local affairs at will. Once they intervene, they will be easily confused. Moreover, this kid is too murderous and likes to solve everything he does at one time. He has poor patience and is really not a good material to be an emperor.
"Can Ye Tan have arrived in Liangzhou?" Changsun Wuji couldn't help asking. This kid has been really troublesome in the past two years. He has never been to Chang'an, so he is so lucky that he is running around and is simply invincible.
"Yeah, I've been there for more than ten days, and I have destroyed four tribes." Li Shimin said lightly, but Fang Xuanling frowned and exclaimed, "What, I have destroyed four tribes? I remember that there are only nine large tribes in Liangzhou, right? How dare he do this? Your Majesty, if you do this, wouldn't it make the people of Liangzhou panic?"
"Don't worry about this. He has already started to use the army to protect him. If he doesn't agree, he will be wiped out. He is free, but what should I do?" Li Shimin said with emotion. According to Ye Tan's idea, he will fight if he doesn't agree. But how can the court rule the world so rude? Because once this is done, if the wrong person is killed, it will be troublesome. Why must the emperor have to be moderate in governing the world? It is not because they think, but because the world is their own, they are reluctant to let go and are afraid of the mouse. They understand, but Ye Tan does not need it.
"Then what if you use the person instead of him?" Changsun Wuji asked, "If this happens, it will not be a big deal, right?"
"Changsun's words make sense, but will those people in Songzhou listen? Moreover, those people in Liangzhou have bad tempers. If there is no murderous person to suppress it, this matter is very troublesome. Moreover, Songzhou is rich enough now. If he is allowed to continue to be rich, it will not be a good thing to keep it in the frontier at that time." Fang Xuanling asked suspiciously. This kid's way of buying people's hearts is definitely good, but because of this, it will always make people happy and worried.
"Your Majesty, is there any way for Ye Hou to come?" Wei Zheng didn't care, because he knew the situation of Ye Tan from many channels. In order to hide early and rest, he did everything.
"Yes." Li Shimin said this and it seemed a bit difficult to talk about, because it was really embarrassing.
"What do you say?" Wei Zheng asked directly, regardless of whether you are the emperor or not.
"Ye Tan's idea is two points. One is that people from Songzhou can help, but they need to occupy at least 20% of the interests of Liangzhou's future development, while the imperial court accounts for 30% and Liangzhou itself accounts for 50%.
"He actually wanted the court to do business with them." Changsun Wuji's mind started to move again. If possible, this would be a way to fill the treasury. However, there has never been a reason for the court to do business since ancient times, but this thing cannot be directly placed on Li Shimin's head. Otherwise, for the emperor he knew, the emperor would definitely be greedy for all the money. In order to govern the country, he worked very hard. An energetic person not only in governing the country, but also in enjoyment. Although the country has not paid money to help Li Shimin build a loft courtyard in recent years, he has paid a lot of money to do, but because the money is not from the court, everyone has covered their noses and recognized it.
"How can this be done? If this is the case, where is the face of the court?" Fang Xuanling asked back. There is no precedent for such things. In history, there was an emperor who had done this, that was Emperor Ling of Han. However, this guy sold official titles, which was an act of destruction of the country. In the later court, anyone with a little prospect would not do this.
"Your Majesty, what did Ye Hou say?" Changsun Wuji felt that the swelling bags in the court were not as strong as the swelling of the court. As long as he made money in the warehouse of the Ministry of Revenue, then he could take it out when the emperor was fighting. As for the rest, can he take it out?
"He means to put an investment department under the Ministry of Revenue, which specializes in managing investment and construction in some places, and at the same time allocate some benefits, which can increase the income of the court and relieve some difficulties." Li Shimin also didn't know about this investment department, and he was very unclear. Since ancient times, the Ministry of Revenue has been concerned about money, grain, cloth, and some leather, but there is no department like the investment department. Because the court does things, it is more about the face than other things. Do you expect the emperor to do business with you?
"This is not bad, but, Your Majesty, how can you pass it in the court? Those ministers will not agree." Fang Xuanling said worriedly. This is true. Once the people in the court know Li Shimin's idea, they will be depressed, because everyone is just doing business and earn at most some scattered money. Are you going to cheat a place directly? Who are you worthy of doing this?
"Ye Tan told me too." Sometimes Li Shimin really wanted to pull this kid over and beat him hard, and then stand him on the edge of the court. He could help solve any problems he had. What a good thing that would be.
Chapter completed!