From a procedural point of view, this kind of mission has the same concept as an ordinary imperial mission. It is directly appointed by Li Xuan. It can also be revoked at any time without going through any official procedures. If Li Xuan is willing, he can let him
A cat and dog also enter the Imperial Study Room!
It is not a good thing for other officials that Zeiss has reached the peak of his life.
This person is different from Shi Wuyan. Although Shi Wuyan is the censor of Zuodu of the Inspectorate, the minister on duty, and is also in charge of the Judicial Personnel Bureau, which controls the personnel issues of the entire judicial system, at the same time, this person is Cai Siqi's direct superior.
But Shi Wuyan, as a minister on duty who was already a highly respected minister, had no chance of rebirth.
When he handles things, he will consider more political issues, and his biggest mission in the imperial study is actually not to be responsible for the administration of officials. It is also not to be the representative of the entire judicial system, fighting for the interests of the judicial system, and improving the judicial system's role in the empire.
The right to speak in the political arena.
His mission, or the most important job responsibility, is to work with others to formulate strategic development directions for the empire and assist the emperor in governing the entire world.
In terms of the size and scope of their powers, the nine ministers on duty are all the same. It is not said that Shi Wuyan can only manage the judiciary and Hao Bainian can only manage the army. In fact, as ministers on duty, they have to manage everything.
However, under mutual restraint, in the end, it evolved into a situation where everyone is responsible for their own small stall and does not interfere randomly in the sphere of power of others.
However, Cai Siqi joined the imperial study as the director of the Anti-Corruption Bureau, and his status is only half a level lower than Shi Wuyan. Moreover, this person's position means that he will definitely focus on anti-corruption in the future.
As for the other things, he doesn't care and can't control them.
The rise of Cai Siqi means that there is still a knife hanging on the heads of all officials, but this still makes all officials breathe a sigh of relief. The anti-corruption storm has finally stopped.
Don't worry about being arrested tomorrow!
However, after this round of attacks, many officials are still wary. They tend to be more cautious when doing things. They are also afraid that the Holy Emperor will kill another one, and now that the storm has just passed, you can't wait to jump out and do it.
Well, isn't this an obvious plan to slap the Holy Emperor in the face? I don't know how he will die by then.
Therefore, most smart officials know that the situation has been tense recently, and it is still not clear enough. As for the matter of corruption and bribery, it is better to postpone it for a while and avoid the limelight first. I really can't help but want to do it now.
When it comes to making money, we have to be more secretive, and we can no longer just make money as carelessly as before.
After the anti-corruption storm that lasted for half a year stopped, Li Xuan still paid close attention to the situation of officialdom. Judging from Hantong's reports, although many officials have begun to return to their old jobs, their methods have become more secretive.
, and this is only a small number of people, most people still carry it honestly and do not dare to make money.
This made Li Xuan look satisfied!
This wave can keep all officials in peace for at least a year and a half!
Later, let Zeiss capture those who dare to commit crimes, and at least extend the period of security for another year and a half. In this way, we can get at least two or three years of stability.
Take advantage of these two or three years to quickly improve the inspection situation and plug those loopholes to control the overall situation.
As for what we should do if a few years later, the officialdom becomes a mess again?
What else can we do? Let’s fight against corruption again!
Li Xuan has already decided that until the overall environment of official governance is not greatly improved, he will kill one small amount every year and one killing every three years. Even if the problem of official governance cannot be completely eliminated, he must at least maintain the atmosphere of official governance at a barely adequate level.
acceptable level.
He would rather kill a group of corrupt officials every year than spend more than ten or twenty years before the entire empire faces the embarrassing situation of subjugating the country if it fights against corruption, or the country will subjugate if it does not fight corruption!
He had this plan. If there were a total of 100,000 corrupt officials in ten years, he would choose to kill half of them, that is, 50,000. Killing 50,000 at once would have too bad a impact and would make the operation more troublesome.
But if the killings are divided into ten years and 5,000 people are killed in a year, the impact will be much smaller, and it will not easily cause panic and anti-corruption among officials. At the same time, the deterrent effect will be relatively large.
Killing all the time is better than killing once every ten years!
Cai Siqi is the knife he plans to use to kill corrupt officials every year!
Judging from the past six months, this knife is still relatively sharp and usable!
After the anti-Japanese revolution, the rainy season of the new year ushered in. In the Huaihe and Yellow River basins, this year's rainy season was heavier than last year's, but many newly built water conservancy facilities played an important role.
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The Hongze Lake embankment, with nearly half of the project completed, has played a huge role in blocking countless floods during the rainy season in Hongze Lake, protecting the downstream areas and preserving the canal.
At the same time, with the gradual completion of the Hongze Lake embankment and no flooding for two consecutive years, local agricultural production has recovered relatively quickly. Jiangbei reports that Jiangbei is expected to harvest the largest harvest in the past twenty years.
Li Xuan is quite pleased with this!
There will be a bumper harvest of food. Only when there is food, the people will have enough to eat. When the people are not hungry, they will not think of causing trouble and rebellion. Only then will Li Xuan's empire be secure.
However, in order to prevent a bumper grain harvest and lower grain prices from hurting farmers, Li Xuan also promptly instructed Datang Grain Corporation to prepare for grain purchase in the Jiangbei area in advance. The price of this grain must be stable within a certain range.
Any rise or fall beyond the range must be taken extremely seriously!
Using market means to stabilize grain prices and using legal means to arrest grain speculators have always been the two most powerful tools for stabilizing grain prices in the Tang Dynasty. They have been used for more than ten years and are very effective.
The only side effect is that there are fewer and fewer ordinary grain merchants in Datang nowadays, especially those who simply purchase grain and sell it directly. There are basically not many left.
Because these traditional grain merchants were either arrested for speculating in grain amid the fluctuations in grain prices over the past decade, or they changed careers.
Many traditional grain merchants have turned into grain processors, purchasing grain directly and then selling it. This kind of thing can't make a lot of money when the official grain price range is set, and if you are not careful, you will be cheated.
Caught him and charged him with grain speculation.
But the grain processing industry does not have this risk, because Datang Grain Corporation controls the price of ordinary grains, but does not care about grain processing products.
Therefore, many grain merchants have begun to change careers, most often to flour processing or rice processing, or to other grain processing, non-staple food and the like.
In general, there are not many people engaged in the traditional food selling business, which is not profitable and is extremely risky.
Grain merchants, like salt merchants, have gradually become a historical figure. Today's grain merchants are not called grain merchants. They often engage in grain processing in the middle of the night. They are a processing industry and an industry supported by the empire.
If you still call them grain merchants now, they will be angry with you!
Who is the grain merchant? You are the grain merchant, and your whole family is a grain merchant!
With the establishment of the empire and the continued advancement of industry and commerce, many industries are actually gradually disappearing or changing!
Salt merchants were the first group to disappear quickly on a large scale. After the empire implemented the salt industry monopoly system, except for the Datang Salt Company, no one or organization was allowed to engage in the production, transportation, and sales of salt. If caught, they would be beheaded.
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There are also many industries that have undergone changes, such as the textile industry. Even in the feudal era, the textile industry has always existed, and its scale is very large. A large number of weavers in handicraft workshops use primitive tools to produce cloth.
silk.
When the Tang Empire began to use new machinery to produce cloth and silk, it caused the collapse of a large number of original hand-woven textile workshops and countless weavers went into business.
However, this situation did not last long, because there were no restrictions on the upgrading of the textile industry in the Tang Empire. Regardless of whether it was Jiangnan Textile Company, a powerful enterprise directly under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, or the private Dayang Textile Company, it could be done at any time.
Purchase relevant machinery and equipment anywhere for equipment upgrade and production.
At the same time, the unemployment of weavers is actually a false proposition, because although new machinery has improved efficiency and theoretically no more workers are needed, in fact, after improving efficiency, the cost becomes lower, and the sales volume of cloth is also
Larger, thus prompting factories to expand production and hire more workers.
The only thing that was really hit was the traditional small-scale peasant economy in the countryside, but now the empire is guiding changes in the rural economy.
They encouraged vast rural areas to clear up wasteland and plant more land.
In the past, it wasn't that farmers didn't want to open up wasteland, but that there was no land for them to open up wasteland. Those wastelands looked like wasteland, but they all had owners. It's nonsense to go to someone else's house to open up wasteland.
But now, the government is providing a large amount of wasteland free of charge for farmers to open up wasteland. At the same time, it has adopted a unified agricultural tax, which has increased the tax burden on rural landlords and forced them to voluntarily give up their land.
This allows ordinary farmers to have a large amount of land that can be reclaimed!
Opening up wasteland and planting more land will require every labor force in the countryside to work fully. This labor force is not limited to men, but also includes women.
For thousands of years, rural women in China have always been the main component of the rural labor force, but there is no saying that women's labor force must be liberated before they can be allowed to farm.
During the off-farm period, men and women work together in the fields. During the off-farm period, men usually look for opportunities to do odd jobs or open up wasteland, while women spend part of their time spinning and weaving for their families.
Nowadays, machine-made cloth is rampant and the price is low, which to a certain extent has greatly weakened the value of their labor.