Build official roads, build a mausoleum for Li Yuan, build water conservancy in various places in the north of the Yangtze River, repair government offices in various places, reward more fertile women in various places, replace armaments, rebuild passes, etc.
There were as many as eighteen projects submitted by Chen Shuda for money.
The amount required for each item is more than 100,000 yuan.
The most exaggerated thing is to build official roads and reward women who are more fertile in various places.
The funds required for both cases reached one million dollars.
If it weren't for the official road planning map produced by Chen Shuda, which made Li Yuanji see that he wanted the money to build official roads in some places where there were no official roads and open up roads from the Tang Dynasty to other places, Li Yuanji would have doubted whether he was
Want to be greedy for money.
As for the rewards given to women in various places for having more children, there is no doubt about that.
It was also mentioned in the memorial sent by the Ministry of Civil Affairs and gave clear figures.
Last year alone, the number of newborns in Datang increased by one million.
Converted into the number of households, it is equivalent to an increase in population of 200,000 households.
Among them, there are 700,000 boys and less than 200,000 girls.
The ratio of men to women is seriously imbalanced.
Li Yuanji could guess why this happened, but he had no way to say it and couldn't control it. He could only pretend he didn't see it.
After all, in this day and age, if you go out and tell people that boys and girls are the same and girls can hold up half the sky, they will be criticized to death.
Even if you are the leader of the Tang Dynasty, you will still be sprayed all over your body.
In this era, there is no man as the backbone of the family. No matter how big your family fortune is or how profound your background is, you will still be bullied to death.
Therefore, giving birth to a boy and attaching importance to the boy are not only for the sake of passing on the incense, but also for self-preservation.
So if you jump out and talk nonsense and deprive people of their right to protect themselves, they will not only criticize you, but also fight you to the death.
So even if you see this kind of thing and guess the reason, you can only pretend not to see it.
In addition, the memorial submitted by the Ministry of Civil Affairs also mentioned another figure, that is, the total population of the Tang Dynasty has reached 2.2 million households.
Except for the 200,000 households with newborns, the remaining nearly 300,000 households are all the refugees who were persuaded to come back from the mountains by the yamen in various places last year, as well as the hidden households rescued from various aristocratic families.
The Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs specifically requested credit for two people in his memorial, one was Li Shentong and the other was a state Sima named Lu.
These two people rescued more than 50,000 hidden households.
When Li Shentong was eradicating the Zheng family, he rescued nearly 38,000 hidden households from the Zheng family, which was regarded as taking advantage of the imperial court's treatment of the Zheng family.
Zhou Sima, surnamed Lu, left. Completely relying on his own efforts, he rescued more than 10,000 hidden households from various homes in Hebei Province.
For this reason, he had a big quarrel with his family member Fan Yang, the Lu family, and was almost stabbed by the Lu family. Fortunately, Gao Yaxian protected him and saved his life.
He was a direct descendant of the Lu family of Fan Yang, and he was a talented person discovered by Li Shimin after he began to secretly sell officials and titles.
Yes, Li Shimin has now begun to resell official titles. Although he is doing it secretly, he has already resold many official titles from Hebei Province, Duji Province, and Guannai Province.
Currently, Changsun Industrial was helping him handle this matter, but he was a little worried about Changsun Industrial, so he asked Changsun Shunde and Yu Wenshiji to help him.
Changsun Shunde and Yuwenshiji are very low-key now.
Changsun Shunde has lost his support. Without Li Shimin as his backer, Li Yuan doesn't see him much, so he can't be arrogant and can only keep a low profile.
Yuwen Shiji kept a low profile, purely for the sake of his nephew.
Because his nephew Li Yuanjia could hang out with Li Chengye and often hung out in Wude Hall, he already had a certain status among the common princes.
Although his nephew is still young, his future is bright.
He didn't want to ruin his nephew's future and make his nephew too noticeable, so he had to keep a low profile.
After all, ever since Yu Wenhuaji killed Yang Guang in Yangzhou, the reputation of their Yuwen clan has not been very good.
If he was too high-profile, it would be easy for people to notice his nephew from him.
Once people find out that his nephew is talented, a child prodigy, and quite popular, they will definitely have different intentions.
No matter where this alienation comes from or what purpose it has, it will destroy his nephew and their Yuwen clan's upcoming prosperity.
So he had to keep a low profile no matter what he said.
The more favored his nephew is and the more he gets, the more low-key he has to be.
It is precisely because of this that he was attracted by Li Shimin, and together with his eldest son Shunde, he became Li Shimin's white glove.
As for Changsun Industrial, after these two people joined, it has been almost eliminated.
With Changsun Industrial's little ability, he couldn't even suppress Changsun Wuji, who had not yet entered his adult stage. How could he possibly suppress Changsun Shunde, Yu Wenshi and these two old officials who had been hanging out in the officialdom for many years.
With the help of these two people, Li Shimin's reselling of officials and titles went very smoothly.
At present, many officials and titles have been sold to the eight families of Guanlong and the descendants of the fifth surname Qiwang.
And from it, many great talents were discovered who deeply hated the Eight Great Families of Guanlong and the Five Surnames and Seven Hopes.
Lu Sima, who kept digging for the foundation of his family, was one of the great talents he dug.
That Lu Sima dared to challenge the Lu family because of his support behind the scenes.
In the future, as these people get higher up in society and become bolder, there will be more things like this.
A Zheng family has more than 30,000 Tibetan households, and a Lu family and a descendant of a collateral line dug out more than 10,000 hidden households, which shows that there are many Tibetans from wealthy families.
If all these common people are dug out, it will definitely strengthen the national power of the Tang Dynasty and weaken the control of the local wealthy families and their own strength.
Therefore, Li Yuanji did not hesitate to write down the reward for Li Shentong and the state Sima named Lu Minzhi in the memorial to the Minister of Civil Affairs.
In addition, King Li Shentong of Huai'an granted him a hundred households and gave him a drum team and a screen team.
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The reward given to Li Shentong is nothing to talk about. Just adding a new household to Li Shentong is enough to reward Li Shentong for rescuing Zheng's hidden household. With Li Shentong's current official rank, there is nothing else to give besides adding a new household and granting honors.
Giving Lu Minzhi the position of joining the army in the Youzhou Governor's Mansion was purely for Lu Minzhi to be able to speak in the Youzhou Governor's Mansion and compete with the Lu family in the future.
With the protection of the Youzhou Governor's Mansion, if the Lu family attacks Lu Minzhi in the future, Lu Minzhi will no longer need to seek help from Gao Yaxian, the half-retired salted fish, and can directly seek refuge in the Youzhou Governor's Mansion.
If Mrs. Lu dares to hurt people in the Youzhou Governor's Mansion, Mrs. Lu will have great fun.
Although there is no White Tiger Festival Hall in the Youzhou Governor's Mansion, to hurt people in the Youzhou Governor's Mansion is to slap everyone in the Youzhou Governor's Mansion in the face, and it is no different from rebellion.
The governor of Youzhou has the authority to immediately dispatch troops to eliminate the traitors.
Even if the Lu family were to kill every one of them, the officials in the court would only complain that the Governor of Youzhou was unkind, but they would never say that the Governor of Youzhou did something wrong.
People from wealthy families have nothing to say.
Therefore, unless there was something wrong with Lu's brain, she would never dare to go to the Youzhou Governor's Mansion to hurt people.
In this way, Lu Minzhi can safely cut the flesh from Lu's body.
"Send it to the Ministry of Civil Affairs and ask them to just do it without any discussion."
After Li Yuanji wrote the rewards for Li Shentong and Lu Minzhi, he handed the memorial to Liu Jun and asked Liu Jun to send it to the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
After Liu Jun left, Li Yuanji continued to review the memorials of other ministries.
Most of the matters reported to the Ministry of Rites under Tang Jian were related to diplomacy, sacrifices, and etiquette.
Except for the relatively big matter with the Western Turkic envoy, everything else is not a big deal.
However, the memorial still mentioned asking for money at the end.
Not much is needed, only 200,000 gold.
Part of it was spent on envoys, and the other part was spent on entertaining envoys from various countries and giving gifts in return.
Li Yuanji had also received certain rumors before this. Someone in Honglu Temple proposed to give generous gifts to various countries, which meant giving heavy gifts to various countries to show the majesty of the Tang Dynasty.
Originally, Li Yuanji wanted to intervene and bring order to the chaos.
In Li Yuanji's view, dignity is something that is created, not given as a gift.
As the supreme state of China, the Tang Dynasty should accept the filial piety from its neighbors instead of treating them like beggars and giving alms blindly.
There is a saying that goes, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse.
No matter how poor a person is, it is still a country and does not need charity from the Tang Dynasty.
Moreover, the Tang Dynasty did not need to give generous gifts in return to attract more countries to come to the DPRK, creating a vain scene of thousands of nations coming to the DPRK.
In Li Yuanji's view, what the real Celestial Empire never wants is the coming of all nations.
For a truly heavenly dynasty to exist, all ministers should come to the dynasty.
Having thousands of nations come to court is not enough to prove that you are powerful, it only proves that you have not done enough. If you have not done so, it is not the king's land in the world, and it is the king's ministers who lead the land.
Otherwise, tens of thousands of countries would not still exist.
Therefore, the real Celestial Empire should conquer these tens of thousands of countries, and then entrust them to their own people, and let their enfeoffed ministers come to worship.
However, before Li Yuanji could take action to bring order to the chaos, Tang Jian took action to bring order to the situation.
Judging from Tang Jian's memorials, he reduced the return gifts to various vassal states by more than 60%. Not only that, Tang Jian also assigned certain grades to the return gifts to each vassal state.
Those like Silla who were willing to make good friends with the Tang Dynasty, were willing to allow the Tang Dynasty to garrison troops, and were willing to obey the Tang Dynasty would receive the most generous rewards in return.
For example, those from the Linyi and Japanese countries who came to the Tang Dynasty to take advantage of the situation, the value of their return gifts was no more than one-tenth of the value of the items they paid tribute to.
Tang Jian's move saved Datang more than 100,000 yuan in expenses.
However, Tang Jian also proposed in the memorial to give some privileges to envoys from various countries, such as allowing envoys from various countries to do business in the Tang Dynasty and exempting envoys from various countries from customs duties when going out to customs or overseas.
Tang Jian also explained the purpose of his proposal, which was to encourage envoys from various countries to come every day, year after year.
Although the Tang Dynasty could not let its vassals take advantage, the Tang Dynasty could not let other countries lose interest in communicating with the Tang Dynasty because of its stinginess.
Since the Tang Dynasty had no time to send people to the mainland of each country to understand each country, it could only understand the internal situation of each country through envoys from each country.
Therefore, it is necessary to make it attractive for envoys from various countries to come to Datang.
