Since Li Jing captured Jie Li Khan alive and killed the Eastern Turks, he was beaten up because he really had no money during the Tang Dynasty. Li Jing became the Minister of War again.
To be honest, if Du Ruhui hadn't been alive, Li Jing would probably have become the Right Pushe of Shangshu.
But even so, Li Jing at least received the position of Zuo Guanglu Dafu.
Li Jing also knew that he was still jealous of the Eastern Turks after he destroyed them, so he became even more low-key.
Unless it is related to military affairs, Li Jing said that he is just a clay sculpture in the court, and you can do whatever you want.
Under Li Jing, those who chose to do wood carvings like Li Jing were basically compensated for the bumper harvest last year.
Either giving silk or giving food, he must have received a reward, and Li Jing himself had three thousand pieces of silk.
However, those who jumped very hard, especially those who felt a little resentful, were somewhat suppressed.
After seeing his subordinates being suppressed, Li Jing became even quieter and hardly had any contact with his old subordinates.
And this time, Li Jing narrowed his eyes slightly, as if he had just woken up.
To be honest, he really didn't expect that today's things would be related to him, but after thinking about it, Li Jing also understood that it was normal for this thing to be related to him.
Although they are alien races, they are mainly Eastern Turks, so it is natural for Li Shimin to arrange for this matter to be handled by himself.
Li Jing went out and said: "I have deployed Su Lie, the general of the Left Wuhou, to lead an army of 3,000 to station Gaoling to prevent accidents. I wonder if it is appropriate?"
"Su Lie?" Li Shimin remembered this person when he heard Li Jing's words. When Wen Yanbo killed Li Jing, he used Su Lie to kill the chicken to warn the monkey.
The most important thing is that this person was a little ungrateful and resentful, so he didn't give it to him when he was replenishing food and brocade last year.
Now that he has been left for a year, Li Jing obviously hopes to give him a chance!
"But!" Li Shimin thought for a while and agreed. After all, Li Jing still had to give him face.
When Li Jing heard this, he retreated and stopped talking, and chose to continue making clay sculptures and wood sculptures.
Li Tai couldn't help but ask, "Is this Su Lie strong? Can he suppress the riots of the Eastern Turkic Labor?"
Li Tai naturally didn't know whether Su Lieli was powerful or not. After all, he didn't have much to contact the military.
Hearing Li Tai's words, Li Jing explained: "When he fought against the Eastern Turks, Su Li personally captured Jie Li Khan, but unfortunately he was demoted for plundering civilians. However, with him, the aliens of the Eastern Turks would definitely not be
For chaos!”
Is this strong? Is such a strong guy really good to be a guardian of a foreigner?
Li Tai didn't expect that such a guy would come and said to Li Jing, "So that's it, thank you Shangshu Li to solve the problem."
At this time, Li Tai turned his attention to Li Shimin and continued: "Aye, in addition to the labor force, we also need great craftsmen with extraordinary skills. So I wonder if the Ministry of Works can arrange about fifty craftsmen to be assigned to the Ministry of Works.
Give me!"
Hearing Li Tai's words, Duan Lun, the Minister of Works, hurriedly stepped out,
"The number of master craftsmen in the Ministry of Works is limited, and the master craftsmen who can be dispatched by the Ministry of Water have dispatched them to the Zhengbaiqu project as much as possible.
In addition, there are also major craftsmen on the coal, and other major craftsmen’s craftsmen’s warehousing department, tun department, and Yu department all have their responsibilities. At most, you will squeeze out nine out of nine for King Yue… no, squeeze out three out!”
Listening to Duan Lun's words, everyone present also knew that it was obviously unrealistic to ask for personnel from the Ministry of Works again.
Li Tai raised his eyebrows when he heard the words of the Minister of Works, and said, "Three, do you really dare to say it!"
Li Tai knew that he wanted to attack the Ministry of Works again, and he was afraid that the Ministry of Works would let the dog and bite him directly.
After all, even if you are pulling a sheep, you don’t have the reason to grab a sheep and pull it to death.
Li Tai shrugged, but said to Li Shimin, "Aye, the Ministry of Works does not have enough craftsmen, can we provide policy support!
The construction of Zheng Baiqu is not enough to be able to build a manpower, so it definitely requires enough technicians to support it."
"What kind of policy support do you want?" Li Shimin curiously said to Li Tai when he heard Li Tai's words.
"I want to take this opportunity to release a craftsman assessment to the people, and the assessment will be completed until the entire Zhengbaiqu project is completely over.
Through practice, these craftsmen who came from the folk assessment were divided into four grades: master craftsmen, good craftsmen, backbone and apprentice.
After the exam, the master craftsman and good craftsman took advantage of the situation to absorb the country, and as for the backbone and apprentice, they were dismissed home!"
Hearing Li Tai's words, Duan Lun said, "If you are admitted to the country, you can't keep it like this? How will the King of Yue arrange them?"
Li Tai said in detail, "First of all, part of them will be responsible for the regular maintenance work of Zhengbaiqu area.
After the construction is completed, only regular maintenance will not allow Zheng Baiqu to be abandoned. This maintenance matter will be directly handed over to these craftsmen, and even let them pass on the family maintenance.
Unless this section of the canal is completely cut off, at least one of their descendants will have to provide the responsibility for maintaining the Zhengbai canal, otherwise they will be removed from the list.
Of course, if the descendants of their family have completely stopped, then the descendants of their family will no longer need to maintain this section of Zheng Baiqu."
Hearing Li Tai's words, the people present thought for a while, but there was no big problem.
This system seems quite unkind in modern times, but in ancient times, it was not to mention that the son inherited his father's business was something that most people wanted to see.
For the court, if the craftsmen are directly bound to this project, the administrative costs will be greatly reduced in the future.
Even for those craftsmen, although they have a lineage, they must be limited to this project, but they should know that this is an official meal that can be eaten, and a guaranteed income from drought and flood. Not to mention ancient times, even in modern times, many people want to eat it.
It's all your life.
"What about the other part?" Duan Lun asked again when he heard Li Tai's words.
"As for the other part, we need to make reserves for the Luoyang Palace!" Li Tai said, "The Luoyang Palace needs a large number of craftsmen to rebuild, but I am afraid that there will be not enough craftsmen at that time, so I think it is still too late to cultivate them from now on!"
When Li Tai said this, his eyes naturally looked at Duan Lun.
Duan Lun coughed for a moment. Even if Duan Lun was willing to build a luxury facility for Li Shimin, there were many important officials in the court who hoped that Li Shimin could pity the people's strength.
Don't say nothing, Zhang Xuansu and Wei Zheng definitely hope that Li Shimin can calm down.
At this moment, when Li Shimin heard Li Tai's words, he couldn't help but touch his beard. It was still his son who really thought about him.
He takes this matter even more seriously when doing things. Compared with this, other court officials are too harsh.
"So..." Li Shimin was really ready to report it.
"Sage, I have something to ask King Yue!" Wei Zheng walked out and said to Li Shimin.
"Wei Qing, please tell me!" Li Shimin looked upright when he heard Wei Zheng's words and couldn't help but say.
"The idea of King Yue is excellent, but Zheng is a little confused at this moment, and I don't know if King Yue can answer it."
Wei Zheng looked serious when facing Li Tai, but he didn't easily pass because Li Tai had this idea.
"Secretary Wei, please ask!" Li Tai couldn't help but look up and answered to Wei Zheng's inquiry when he saw Wei Zheng.
Wei Zheng said seriously: "First of all, if these people are collected as master craftsmen of the court, then where will the money and food allocated in the future come from? Will it increase the burden on the court?
Secondly, the entire Zhengbaiqu project is a test question. The project time is afraid that it will take several years to test these craftsmen. How should the craftsmen who have passed the construction after the construction is completed?
Finally, during the renovation of Zhengbaiqu, there were people from Gaoling and foreign laborers. Now a large number of craftsmen are prepared to prepare. Is the money and grain you have raised enough?
If not enough, will it cause riots? That's why you dispatched the army to station in advance!"
Wei Zheng asked questions one after another, and the ministers in the court held their breath and looked at Li Tai.
To be honest, no one expected Wei Zheng's inquiry would be so sharp, but this was a problem that Li Tai had to solve.
Li Tai shrugged and said:
"One-third of the Zhengbaiqu area belongs to the imperial court, and it will be fine to use a small part of it to allocate their rewards.
In addition, these people maintain different locations. If there is less food in these places, they will receive less rewards.
So through them, the court should be able to know where the land was occupied again.
As for whether they will stick to their own robbery, it depends on the court that the food in a certain area is low, so they will naturally send people to investigate.
Even if the food is low to a certain level, the person will be disqualified in the name of not having to maintain this place, and some things will be exposed at that time."
Listening to everyone's words, no matter whether the idea proposed by Li Tai is good or not, it is at least a feasible solution.
Of course, any solution must have loopholes, so you can find a solution at that time.
Li Tai continued: "The second point mentioned by Secretary Wei is that he is afraid that these people will not be evaluated after working in Zhengbaiqu area for a period of time, and will feel resentful after returning, which will affect the credibility of the court. This should be the problem.
Bar!"
"It seems that King Yue has taken this into consideration!" Wei Zheng replied seriously when he heard Li Tai's words.
"This is another part of the policy I hope the court will add!" Li Tai said,
"Any craftsmen who are assessed here, if they have been more than half a year, will be calculated based on the service time.
Even if they were not tested, I hope that Aye will allow them to be exempted from the corresponding time of corvee service in order to assist in completing the Zhengbaiqu project."
"In other words, should they calculate the time they were exempted from corvee labor by counting the time they were exempted from labor service?" Wei Zheng was stunned.
"Yes!" Li Tai nodded, "The Zhengbaiqu project can be as short as two years and three years long. If you don't give any benefits, it's not appropriate.
If the court takes advantage of the people, after a long time, the court will naturally have no credibility.
And maintaining the credibility of the court among the people is the most important thing."
When the important officials of the court heard Li Tai's words, they nodded one after another. Although the King of Yue was particularly good at doing things, they were not as good as Confucianism and did not look like Li Chengqian, but to be honest, the court officials were concerned about the people.
All acknowledged.
"As for money and grain..." Li Tai said, "Money and grain must be enough so far.
If it is not enough, I will definitely ask the court for food as soon as possible. More importantly, I think that at that time, I will go to the royal family to ask for another sum of money and food, and I believe they are willing to lend it to me.
After all, they don’t want their investment in Zheng Baiqu to waste it!”
To be honest, Li Tai was not worried about not having enough money and food.
After all, Li Tai knew that with the emergence of food coupons and his continuous upstream grasp of various fragmented products, the entire system has become more and more perfect.
In this process, the cost of products is getting lower and lower, the system is getting more and more complete, and the money within this range is getting less and less.
The wealth you have harvested is also becoming more and more invisible.
In short, as long as the wheat can successfully harvest this year, there is basically no need to worry about reputation bankruptcy within a few years.
Of course, when others heard Li Tai's words, they couldn't help but feel black. They understood that although Li Tai was shameless, this method was really feasible!
If Li Tai really has no money and asks for money from the aristocratic families, these aristocratic families will really continue to invest their money in Li Tai.
And for the court, this matter will naturally not be opposed.
Because the court agreed at the beginning to have one-third of the Zheng Baiqu arable land, mainly to meet the storage built by Li Shimin. The remaining two-thirds are divided into other aristocratic families and to make up for the under-full part of the storage.
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If this project is really halfway through, Li Shimin would be disrespectful and he would take over one-third of the land of the court first. After all, one-third of the land is at least 3,000 yuan. What is it that shamelessness is the case.
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At that time, Li Tai will come forward and say that he has no money, and he is afraid that many people will rush to give it to Li Tai.
Therefore, after Li Tai told this method, the ministers of the royal family who had already made money could only sincerely pray that King Yue would be more personal and not be corrupt and waste, preferably this wave would be enough.
Li Shimin couldn't help but lit up his eyes, looking at his son, muttering in his heart that there was such a way to operate it?
Can you do this in this way if you want to build a garden in the future?
In fact, Li Tai knew that this kind of operation method was more of a last resort.
If you are responsible for the central government's financial scheduling, you will naturally increase the proportion of the imperial court's economy, reduce the proportion of the economics of the aristocratic families, and strengthen the imperial court's control over the Tang Dynasty.
No matter what, if this reason was given to Wei Zheng, Wei Zheng retreated and said nothing more.
This is the best thing to do practical things. When others pick on tricks, you can give a solution reasonably, but others don’t have other solutions, so this thing will basically not be argued against again.
What I fear most is that if you have a plan, others also have a plan, and no one can prove that the plan is the best, which is the most troublesome.
Because this often becomes the so-called struggle for Taoism, and no one will give in to his own plan.
However, at this time, it depends on who has the money and food to implement his plan.
It’s like, what was Li Tai’s plan proposed? Didn’t the people in the court oppose it?
Impossible!
People from Confucianism want to say that Li Tai’s plan is useless and let Li Tai extinguish his intention to do practical things.
But the fact is that every plan of Li Tai can always solve the problem of money and food.
No matter how Li Tai cheated, had money and food in his hands, had plans in his mind, and had capital to test right or wrong. This is a capability that most court officials did not have.
Because they can only ask the court for money to implement their own plans. After all, they cannot do some projects even if they destroy their families and the country. This is the biggest gap between them and Li Tai.
Then which court would choose? Naturally, it is conceivable!