"Do you have any opinion, Prime Minister?" Liu Che looked at Zhou Yafu sincerely and asked.
Regarding Zhou Yafu, Liu Che never thought that he could make him bow down with a plan of immigration military control.
If Zhou Yafu could bow his head so easily, then he would not be Zhou Yafu anymore.
In the history of the Han Dynasty, Zhou Yafu was like an outlier.
In the end, he even went on a hunger strike and died in order to stick to his principles.
How could such a person compromise because of an exchange of interests?
Liu Che chose to talk about immigration first, in fact, he just hoped that Zhou Yafu could listen to his analysis and arguments on the salt and iron issue.
Otherwise, if the other party doesn't even listen and assumes the idea first, then even talking about drying up your mouth will probably have no effect.
Zhou Yafu hesitated for a while, countless thoughts flashed through his mind.
To be honest, whether salt and iron were government-run or private, whether the court allowed private money to be minted, and whether the existence of the merchant class was reasonable, these issues had no impact at all on the feudal class of the Han Dynasty.
The largest source of income for the feudal lords was the food and town tax from the feudal state.
Their relationship with businessmen is not very close. At most, they have some friendship with the big families in Guanzhong.
As for the merchants from various places in Guandong...
The loose economic and financial policies of the Han Dynasty for more than fifty years made Guandong merchants less in need of the protection of the court bosses.
For big businessmen, since I give money, the court may not take care of me, and if I don’t give money, the court may not attack me, so why should I give the little cutie in my pocket to others?
Therefore, on the one hand, the merchants in the early and middle Han Dynasty were running wildly on the road of seeking death, but on the other hand, no one was managing the power of the imperial court and buying protection.
Under the care of the inactive rule of the Huang-Lao faction of the Han Dynasty, their wealth and land increased rapidly.
It wasn't until Confucianism and Legalism came to power and they were sharpening their knives that they thought of looking for a protective umbrella. But unfortunately it was already too late.
If you are cramming for the moment, you will only be treated like a pig and slaughtered!
Therefore, when Zhou Yafu was thinking about the issue of salt and iron, he basically didn't think about it from the perspective of businessmen.
Whether businessmen live or die has nothing to do with him.
More importantly, no matter in the past or present, or in China in the next two thousand years, most of the time, the government and mainstream public opinion refuse to recognize the status and contribution of businessmen.
A person from a municipality who is from a lowly household and a low-income person has the nerve to have the surname Zhao?
Even the businessmen themselves think so...
In the past fifty years, after countless businessmen became prosperous, they did not think about clearing their reputation, but spent huge amounts of money to send their descendants to Chang'an to serve the emperor in the hope of becoming an official.
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Once one of his children became famous, the whole family would immediately abandon business and spend most of their wealth to settle down in Chang'an.
Therefore, for Zhou Yafu, the key to this matter is: Will the Yantie official camp cause turmoil in the world?
You know, nine out of ten princes in the Kanto region live off the profits from salt and iron.
The cheese of the princes and kings has been touched. What if these guys jump over the wall in a hurry?
Also, when it comes to Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, Zhou Yafu must think twice about anything.
He was single-handedly promoted by Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, and there is nothing he can do to repay his kindness.
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If the resettlement and reclamation policy proposed by the emperor is really feasible.
That means that the merit lies in the present time and the benefit lies in the future.
Apart from this, after the resettlement and settlement, the land developed will not be able to support many people.
What's more important is that immigration can greatly enhance the Han Dynasty's control over Liaodong, Western Liaoning and the newly conquered lands of Korea. Moreover, immigration also enhances the Han Dynasty's national defense.
There were so many benefits that Zhou Yafu felt that he had no reason to object.
"That's all, let's see what His Majesty said first..." Zhou Yafu thought in his mind.
Immediately, he bowed his head and said: "Your majesty is wise and wise, I only bow my head, and I sincerely obey your majesty's edict!"
As for Chao Cuo, as soon as Zhou Yafu finished speaking, he immediately kowtowed and said: "Your Majesty, I feel that the imperial censor's office should also be involved in this settlement and immigration matter, and each settlement army should have a supervisory censor to supervise lawlessness!"
Compared with Zhou Yafu, Chao Cuo had a much stronger sense of bureaucracy.
For the same thing, Zhou Yafu considered the overall situation, the whole world, and future generations.
But Chao Cuo only thought about the interests of his imperial censor and his own authority.
But Chao Cuo was not wrong either.
Everything requires supervision.
The Ming Dynasty's garrison system was originally very good, but without supervision, it eventually degenerated into a garrison army of dozens or millions on paper. It was unable to stop a group of Japanese pirates composed of a ragtag group of bereaved dogs. If Zhu Yuanzhang had known better, Izumi
, I’m afraid everyone is already rolling.
Liu Che nodded and agreed: "What the imperial censor said is very much in line with my wishes. After you return, you will draw up an agreement with the censor and others, and then submit it to the court for discussion!"
"No!" Chao Cuo bowed his head and worshiped, and he was really overjoyed!
The key to any yamen leader's ability to convince the public is whether he can obtain benefits and positions for his subordinates.
If the emperor's resettlement and reclamation plan is implemented, at least hundreds of supervisory censors will be needed to take turns supervising and inspecting it.
These more than one hundred positions were enough for Chao Cuo to use them to establish his prestige.
Liu Che waved his hand and moved on to the next topic.
Immigration is a long-term plan. Even if it is approved at the court meeting and an edict is issued to organize the first batch of immigrants, it is estimated that it will not take place until this summer.
For the time being, this matter does not require detailed discussion.
But there was one issue, and Liu Che had to reach an agreement with the two important ministers now.
This problem is the problem of killing!
Now that winter has entered, the killing season has arrived.
The Han Dynasty was different from the dynasties after the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and even different from the Eastern Han Dynasty.
The laws of the Han Dynasty gave local governors the power to execute prisoners.
In the Han Dynasty, most of the prisoners on death row did not need to be reported to the emperor, and the local officials could kill them themselves.
What's even more troublesome is that Han law stipulates that when magistrates torture prisoners, except for corporal punishment, which Emperor Taizong has explicitly abolished, other punishments can be used as they wish.
Generally speaking, it is not a big deal for local officials to whip prisoners, or even whip them to death or maim them.
Back then, Zhou Bo, the Marquis of Jiang, was sent to Tingwei Prison and was almost tortured to death for half his life.
There are also stories of Han Anguo's resurgence in history.
These top aristocratic bureaucrats with two thousand or even ten thousand dan are still driven to death by the jailers, let alone the common people?
In historical records, Wang Wenshu once lamented: It would be nice if the winter were longer.
Yi Zong also committed murder to the point where everyone in the county was frightened, and the blood of the powerful men in the county was so bloody that even the river was dyed red.
What's even more troublesome is that the local governor of the Han Dynasty regarded killing people as political achievements.
Under such circumstances, various unjust, false and wrongful convictions are naturally inevitable.
But as the emperor, Liu Che couldn't let these guys kill people randomly.
Moreover, a characteristic of centralized power is that the emperor has the power to review the death penalty.
The so-called life and death are all in the hands of the emperor.
As it is now, local officials can decide to kill people by themselves. This is too unscientific for Liu Che.
And it is not conducive to the authority of the central government of the Han Dynasty. (To be continued...) r1292
