Emperor Su He summoned Li Yuanzheng, the censor of Zuodu, in Qianqing Palace.
When Li Yuanzheng entered the Qianqing Palace, he bowed first.
"Li Yuanzheng, the imperial censor of Zuodu, pays homage to Your Majesty."
When Li Yuanzheng heard Pingshen's order, he bowed again and said with a choked voice: "I am ashamed of your majesty's cultivation, which caused the censors and local officials in the four provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiaozhi, and Nanyang to collude.
The censor lost his ability to supervise officials and instead became an accomplice of official corruption.
I am not capable enough, so please allow me to take up my official position."
Emperor Su He said in a calm tone: "Get back on your feet! I know you are not to blame for this matter.
However, the Metropolitan Procuratorate must also learn lessons and do a good job in internal supervision. The key is to promote the capable and demote the mediocre.
The censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate must be impartial and cannot become a tool used by various factions."
When such a big thing happened in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Emperor Su He only reprimanded him a few words, and then he let Li Yuanzheng, the censor of Zuodu, off lightly.
Li Yuanzheng's abilities are by no means the top among the people in the Metropolitan Procuratorate.
But his loyalty is undisputed, he is also a solitary minister, he never shows mercy when handling cases, and his relations with various factions in the court are very tense.
People with these qualities are naturally suited to manage the Metropolitan Procuratorate.
The prime ministers have changed several times, and all key positions in the empire have been changed. Only the Metropolitan Procuratorate has always been under the control of Li Yuanzheng.
The Metropolitan Procuratorate is a sharp sword hanging over the heads of all officials. Zuo Du Yushi is in charge of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. If he is not the emperor's confidant, the entire empire will be in chaos.
Emperor Su He offered a seat to Li Yuanzheng, the censor of Zuodu, and then he asked: "The major smuggling case involving Gu Qiandao, after several months of investigation, how far has it progressed now."
When Li Yuanzheng saw that he had passed the test, his expression relaxed.
He holds great power and controls the yamen of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, so he can realize his ideals and clarify the darkness of officialdom.
He really doesn't want to resign and go home to become a rich man.
When he was young, he was famous far and wide only because of his physical disability, but he could not even obtain the fame of being a child, just because he was afraid that he would offend the nobles.
After being favored by Su He, he made up his mind to protect Su He's foundation and never let the official system collapse.
But the Metropolitan Procuratorate made a big mistake, and Li Yuanzheng had to express his attitude.
Sitting on a stool, he heard Emperor Su He's inquiry and immediately introduced the case.
"Your Majesty, I would like to inform you that Cabinet Minister Lin Wenjing will serve as the imperial envoy to mobilize an investigation team composed of elite personnel from the Three Law Departments.
Go to Guangxi to investigate and find out that the Gu family, represented by Gu Qiandao, is indeed involved in a major smuggling case.
These people evaded taxes amounting to 30 million taels of silver coins every year, and also smuggled goods prohibited by the empire to foreign countries.
Lin Wenjing followed the lead and uncovered gangs involved in large-scale smuggling in Huizhou, Guangdong, Jing'an, Jiaozhi, and Lefo, Nanyang.
The investigation of the smuggling case has been basically completed. This case involved a sum of up to 500 million taels of silver coins and more than 200,000 people.
There are only one official of the second rank, nine officials of the third rank, and twenty-one officials of the fourth rank."
Emperor Su He heard that a major smuggling case involved such a large amount of money.
Such a large amount of tax evasion can build 200 Taishan-class battleships.
Emperor Su He slapped his left hand hard on the dragon chair, and angrily ordered: "The relevant personnel involved must be dealt with seriously and punished accordingly.
All the homes of the relevant families involved were confiscated.
I will order the customs and other relevant agencies to check and fill in the gaps and sum up experience."
After Li Yuanzheng, the imperial censor of Zuodu, reported on the major smuggling case, he left the Qianqing Palace with the intention of rectifying the Imperial Procuratorate.
After Emperor Su He finished reviewing the memorial in front of him, he asked his personal eunuch Zhou Fangzhi: "Xiao Zhou, what else is going on today?"
Zhou Fangzhi stood aside and reported respectfully: "Your Majesty, the new Minister of Household Affairs, Li Yan, would like to see your Majesty."
"Let's meet!"
"I obey your order, Your Majesty, please wait a moment."
Emperor Su He was still familiar with the name Li Yan.
He left his name in the original history.
He is one of the rare strategic talents with clear minds in Li Zicheng's team, but he is not reused.
When Li Yan joined, Su He's team had already gained an absolute advantage, and one adviser could no longer affect the development of the battle.
Li Yan did not take the counselor route, but took the civil official route normally.
On the road to civil service, his talents were obviously more moderate, but he was extremely stable.
When Emperor Su He paid attention to Li Yan, he had already paid homage to the left minister of the Ministry of Industry.
This time something happened in Gu Qiandao, Emperor Su He chose to promote Li Yan, who had no obvious connection with all parties.
Outside the Qianqing Palace, Li Yan, the Minister of Household Affairs, wearing a red official uniform, thanked Eunuch Zhou Fangzhi: "Thank you Eunuch Zhou for your help. I will thank you deeply in the future."
Eunuch Zhou Fangzhi smiled and nodded, making a gesture of invitation.
"Li Shangshu, Your Majesty is waiting at Qianqing Palace. Please don't keep Your Majesty waiting."
Li Yan adjusted his demeanor slightly and approached Qianqing Palace.
This was the first time he was received alone by Emperor Su He after he became the Minister of Household Affairs.
Li Yan never thought that the key position of Minister of the Ministry of Revenue would fall to him.
He can be regarded as being simple in the emperor's heart.
This is inseparable from his attitude of being prudent and self-protective.
Any aspiring emperor would never allow ministers to form cliques and infringe on imperial power.
Li Yan looked at the scumbag people in the imperial court.
As an outsider, he watched them build tall buildings, watch them entertain guests, and watch their buildings collapse.
He gradually understood what Emperor Su He was doing.
Emperor Su He had a trough in his chest. He had come up with too many ways to govern the country, but he didn't know which way was more suitable for the empire.
Emperor Su He implemented a stupid method and tried slowly.
If the test is successful, the official in charge will be promoted.
This is how Qian Mingyi, Lin Wenjing, and Han Cuibai rose to the top.
If problems arise, it is the fault of these officials. If these officials are removed, the problematic policies will naturally be adjusted.
Li Yan saw this. He never stood out in the officialdom. He always followed Xiao's rules and acted as a moderate official.
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He did not expect that he could become the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, which was among the six departments, and was called the upper two departments together with the Department of Officials.
The Ministry of Revenue controls the registered population of the country and is well aware of the changes in the empire.
More importantly, the Ministry of Revenue controls the financial system.
Because of the emergence of the tax bureau, the Ministry of Household Affairs lost the right to collect taxes.
But how the imperial court spends money has always been managed by the Ministry of Household Affairs.
Even for the Metropolitan Governor's Office, military expenditures need to be reviewed by the Ministry of Household Affairs every year.
Li Yan knew that he was the Minister of Household Affairs, so he couldn't avoid it and experimented with new policies for Emperor Su He.
It is better to passively accept than to actively request.
By taking the initiative to request, you can also grasp the general direction and avoid difficult problems.
Li Yan, the Minister of Household Affairs, walked into the Qianqing Palace and saluted respectfully.
"My lord, Li Yan, Secretary of the Ministry of Household Affairs, pays homage to Your Majesty.
Long live your Majesty, long live, long live your Majesty."
"Get a life!" Emperor Su He asked immediately, "Li Shangshu asked to see me. What do you want to report?"
Li Yan took out the memorial and handed it to Eunuch Zhou Fangzhi. At the same time, he said: "I have received statistical data from customs in Qingdao, Songjiang, Ningbo, Fuzhou, and Guangdong.
Just over March, the country is like an overseas vassal country, with more than 500,000 immigrants.
The cost of immigration was all paid by the vassal countries and had no impact on the empire's finances.
But there are nearly 200,000 immigrants every month. This amount is too high if it continues.
The empire's population will drop sharply, and the country will be drained of people.
An empire with such a large territory cannot even defend its territory without enough population.
Your Majesty must be cautious and consider the situation ten or twenty years from now."
As soon as Li Yan, the Minister of Household Affairs, took office, he saw such a big crisis emerging in the empire.
He doesn't know what price the vassal country paid?
The empire had almost no obstacles to population migration.
The empire now has a rich population base, and it has not yet become hungry.
When the empire's population continued to lose, a small number of people guarded the open land.
All it takes is one war that consumes the population, and the empire will completely collapse, and there won't even be enough people to go to the battlefield.
Emperor Su He laughed when he heard that Li Yan, the Minister of Household Affairs, was worried about this matter.
"Li Shangshu, do you know that there have been several waves of immigrants since the founding of the empire?"
When Li Yan heard Emperor Su He ask this question, he could only answer this question first.
“An immigration wave can only be considered an immigration wave if there are millions or even tens of millions of immigrants.
As far as I know, there have been two waves of immigrants since the founding of the empire.
The first wave of immigration lasted a long time and mainly involved immigrants within the empire.
It starts with the empire taking over the Korean Peninsula and ends with recovering the southeastern provinces.
In order to control overseas provinces, the empire spent more than ten years and immigrated a total of more than 50 million people to these places.
Taking into account the migration of immigrants from various overseas provinces, the number of immigrants exceeds 100 million.
The second wave of immigration was when princes went overseas to establish their country.
The scale of immigration over the years is at least one million per family.
A total of 13 million people immigrated to overseas vassal countries."
After Emperor Su He listened to Li Yan's words, he nodded with satisfaction and said: "The data is very accurate. In my impression, the number of immigrants is not very different from this data.
Li Shangshu, you should be able to notice that these two waves of immigration were actively promoted by the imperial court, and you know why the imperial court spent a lot of money to do such things."
Li Yan, the Minister of the Ministry of Finance, thought very quickly. He was not the Minister of the Ministry of Finance before, but he had also thought about this problem.
"Your Majesty, I think this is for the sake of stability.
During the first wave of immigrants, the court obviously wanted to stabilize the place.
Over the years, overseas territories have gradually become provinces, which shows that more than half of them are Han people.
Without a sinicized environment, even if local officials wanted to sinicize the indigenous people, they couldn't do it.
Only when the Han people and the indigenous people live together and attract the indigenous people with the power of Chinese civilization can the local area be quickly Sinicized.
The stability of overseas provinces cannot be separated from the help of a large number of immigrants.
The second wave of immigration was for the stability of the vassal country.
The empire's annual trade volume with its vassal countries has already exceeded 100 million taels of silver coins.
Your Majesty is wise and has long recognized that the vassal country is a huge market.
If the vassal states gain stability overseas as soon as possible, they will be able to purchase large quantities of the empire's goods.
Only Han people with the same culture and race can obey the vassal king's control and quickly stabilize the vassal state."
Emperor Su He happily praised: "Li Shangshu, you are right, the first two waves of immigration were indeed for stability.
Many people still don't understand such a simple truth.
I have seen criticism in newspapers many times, saying that immigration is a waste of people and money. These people have no understanding of national affairs.
Li Shangshu could see the first two waves of immigrants, so he should also have foreseen the third wave of immigrants."
When Li Yan heard what Emperor Su He said, he was shocked.
This phenomenon of accelerating immigration turned out to be the third wave of immigration actively promoted by the imperial court.
Why did the court do this?
The situation in overseas provinces and vassal countries has now stabilized.
These places will definitely attract some people from the country. This is normal immigration and does not need to be controlled.
Li Yan suddenly remembered a set of data he saw when looking through the Ministry of Household Information.
He immediately bowed and saluted and said: "Your Majesty believes that there are too many people born now, so he will conduct immigration diversion in advance to leave enough space for the future young population."
"Come here, give me a seat."
Emperor Su He heard what Li Yan, the Minister of Household Affairs, said, and he recognized Li Yan's talents.
This person is a bit mediocre in his work, but his mind is really flexible and suitable for doing more difficult things.
Emperor Su He smiled and said: "What Li Aiqing thought was right.
Li Aiqing should have noticed that since the founding of the empire, the number of births has skyrocketed every year.
The empire now has a population of 700 million, and the number of people under the age of 15 is as high as 170 million.
The empire's population will continue to skyrocket in the future.
The court must be forward-looking in doing things and cannot allow the population to continue to gather.
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If there are too many people with nothing to do, they will become homeless.
I know how terrible the refugees are."
Li Yan said respectfully: "This situation will inevitably happen.
For most people, having children makes a lot of money.
When the children grow up, they become a working population and can earn a lot of money for the family.
The court allocates land based on population. The larger the family size, the more land they can allocate.
Even girls can be allocated land, so many families have no worries.
The two most important points, the first point is that the imperial court canceled the Dingkou tax completely and completely, and did not hide the Dingkou tax among other taxes.
Throughout the dynasties, every time the Dingkou tax was abolished, there would be a birth boom.
The second point is that the imperial court's grain output is increasing year by year, which can provide cheap and stable food supply for the people.
Only when they have enough to eat can people think about having children.
With today’s cheap food, it doesn’t cost much to raise a child.
People do not need to worry about fertility issues, and having children can bring considerable benefits to the family. People generally tend to have more children.
I saw the information from the Ministry of Household Affairs and found that young families generally have three or four children.
What's more, they gave birth to seven or eight children.
This is still a monogamous family, while a polygamous family will have more children."
Li Yan praised again: "When I think of this, I feel the exquisiteness of the imperial policy.
The population born after the empire is still under the age of adulthood and dependent on their parents.
By the time they break into society, emigrating overseas has become a trend.
They cannot gain a foothold in the empire, so they will inevitably go overseas to seek life, which will make the empire more stable."
Emperor Su He said with satisfaction: "Li Aiqing has analyzed and understood that it is absolutely undesirable for the Ministry of Household Affairs to provide convenience for immigrants, restrict population mobility, and suppress people's fertility."
The Great China Empire has never been afraid of more births for its people, it is only afraid of fewer births.
No matter how large the population of the empire is, if it cannot be fed domestically, then it will be robbed abroad.
There are so many good territories in the world, and as long as there is a sufficient population, Emperor Su He is not afraid of not being able to grab them.
Nowadays, the major vassal states welcome the empire's immigration policy, and the problem of population explosion can be easily solved.
