I nodded. "Okay, that's it. Prophet will come to Jiaozhi area and ask how wind resistance the local cement brick and stone houses are? In addition, we can first promote more in the coastal areas of Lingnan. We have good intentions, but we must not be too arrogant and cause civil unrest. The most important thing is to guide them so that they understand the benefits and will naturally do what we say. Do you know?"

"Don't worry, Your Majesty, I will do this quickly." Ma Zhou replied with an order.

"Is the grain output this year so high?" I saw a conspicuous and eye-catching number on the data table. After counting its digits clearly, I couldn't help but take a deep breath. More than 247 million stones, this number really scared me.

However, after a closer look, I realized that this is just the total grain output. In the seventh year of Daye in the previous dynasty, the national grain output reached more than 622 million stones. Now, I have occupied nearly three-fifths of the land in the Sui Dynasty, but I have only obtained such a total grain. It is really not high.

According to this calculation, our income from grain tax is only more than 20 million stones. In addition to ensuring the needs of war, this grain also requires 15 million stones of daily food for the army and other miscellaneous items, and the grain required by officials, factories, construction workers, etc. has reached 20 million stones.

Moreover, at least 10 million stones of grain must be prepared to be kept in various places for disaster preparedness. Therefore, the grain we collected has a gap of at least 20 million stones. Fortunately, the economy has been booming in the past two years and tax revenue has been rising.

In addition to social stability, the people are willing to sell stored grains for corresponding daily necessities. In addition, the food is now collected by the state and private individuals. The purpose of the state is to stabilize the price of grain.

The purpose of private expropriation is to introduce competition so that the country's grain management will not be dominated by one, thereby causing adverse reactions. Of course, private expropriation is naturally the same as the national expropriation. In addition, all measuring instruments must be produced by workshops designated by the state, without any strange problems of large and small buckets.

I think there should be no big problem in levying 45 million to 60 million stones this year. As for the more levying levies, it is very simple. Some of them can be sold to those who lack food.

"Your Majesty, the fields in Lingnan have not been completely clarified yet, so this place does not contain the grain income of most parts of Lingnan. In addition, under the rule of Jianghuai, we have not yet fully started our work, and the grain income there is not included." Fang Xuanling replied with a smile. "Also, the population we have is only about one-fifth of the previous dynasty, but has produced more than one-third of the grain at the peak of the previous dynasty, which shows the prosperity and peace of our dynasty."

"Well, I, China, need to pay attention to both scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, especially in terms of grain cultivation. The training of personnel from all over the country must be done with me. I don't want those officials to not even understand farming, but they know that they are chatting with a farm book."

Hearing my words, Fang Xuanling nodded heavily. "Don't worry, your Majesty, I have been working hard on this matter. However, at present, there are still too few such officials familiar with farming. If it weren't for the large number of people obtained from veterans, it would be even scarce."

"It's okay. Things are done step by step, but every step must be implemented."

"promise"

"Your Majesty, this is what I just received at noon today..." After seeing those people finish their work, Du Ruhui came to me and carefully handed over a piece of information.

After turning it open and looking at it for a few seconds, my brows couldn't help but frown. The ministers' eyes were immediately attracted.

"Forget it, I'll send someone to hand over this thing to Shangshu Wei and ask him to send someone to find out the whole story. Well, as soon as possible." I sighed lightly and handed the information back to Du Ruhui, and said with a calm face.

Du Ruhui nodded and strode towards the outsider, leaving behind several important officials who looked at each other.

"Don't inquire about it, I will let you know about this." I grinned.

After watching these ministers leave, I leaned on the couch tiredly. I was the most tired every late autumn because I was really worried about the autumn harvest. Fortunately, this year is another bumper year.

Nowadays, both taxation and grain tax have increased significantly, allowing me to calmly engage in economic and infrastructure construction. With income, we must invest, so that the brand new chariot of the Huaxia Empire can have sufficient motivation to continue to move forward.

This is a cycle, and it must continue like this, so that the Chinese Empire can move forward rapidly in the highway lane.

Before, countless civil and military ministers expressed strong opposition to this. They did not oppose me spending money, but opposed me spending money so much. In their eyes, money should be thrown into the treasury, and all the twine that was wearing money decayed, that was the wealth of the country.

I sniffed this truth. Even if I gave Han Cheng's example, I could not completely convince these guys. In the end, my patience touched these people, and the rewards of my investment made everyone shut up.

More importantly, the benefits and benefits brought by these investments to the Chinese Empire left everyone with nothing to say. In addition, for the wealth, or for the taxes no longer based on the heads of the shop, but based on the value of the goods.

The tax revenue of the Chinese Empire has achieved rapid growth with a completely take-off attitude. Although many people have great complaints about this, it is not ordinary small merchants, but those aristocratic families, or wealthy merchants.

But the problem is that after collecting the prescribed taxes, no officials will cause trouble for them, and they will not be forced to be plundered by the government in wars or in emergencies. Gradually, the opposition from the wealthy merchants and giants also weakened.

But now, Du Ruhui had just handed me the information that I had, which made me surprisingly angry.

The content written above is very simple and concise. On June 17th, the rainstorm was hit by Hanzhong, and the prefect ordered dozens of merchants in Hanzhong County to donate 50,000 ounces to rescue the disaster, which was suspected of being defiled.

It is very simple and concise, but it makes me angry. Before, I have ordered all counties and counties to be strictly enforced by the court, and no longer forced the people to collect anything except the taxes explicitly ordered by the court.

Unexpectedly, the prefect of Hanzhong County actually came to such an event, which would cause the merchants in the county to help them, and it was an order. Such a method and such practice were similar to those of later government officials who required that all enterprises have to set up large carriages and lanterns to celebrate the New Year.

The more wonderful thing is that it is suspicious. The suspicion means that it is very likely that this guy is not only forcing merchants to donate for disaster relief, but even suspected of corruption.

Although Hanzhong County cannot be considered a wealthy county, it will definitely not be bad. What's more, it is located between Guanzhong and Bashu, which is a key place for trade and trade. Moreover, Hanzhong's tax revenue can be equal to the Guanzhong counties.

In addition, the disaster reduction and relief system in Hanzhong County is not much different from that in Guanzhong. In the mid-June rain, Hanzhong County suffered disasters, but it is not serious. It can be completely solved by the local disaster relief and relief system alone.

But I really didn't expect that such a thing would happen at this time.

Two days later, a more detailed situation was introduced into the palace and placed on my case. "... It has been confirmed that the prefect Yuwen Jin did order a donation to the merchants, and the amount was not 50,000 guan, but 57,000 guan. In addition, during the disaster relief, the prefect Yuwen Jin promoted the enthusiastic donation of merchants. However, according to the audit results, the 57,000 guan, the money spent on disaster relief and reduction was less than 25,000 guan. In addition, there were 32,000 guans to be unknown."

"There was an official who once asked the prefect to ask the prefect, but this official had a fierce conflict with his superiors because of his ineffective disaster relief. He was imprisoned and imprisoned for injuring people. It was this official who reported clues to the procuratorate. After more than ten days of secret reconnaissance, he had the previous information." Du Ruhui told the whole story with a calm face.

"Is this official's fault a mistake?" I asked with a frown.

Du Ruhui nodded. "It's true."

I took a deep breath, my voice was as cold as ice: "Okay, go down first. In addition, Fang Qing, you are preparing to take over the candidates for the prefect of Hanzhong County. In addition, I will investigate how many of the officials in Hanzhong County know about this. In addition, all the staff members of the Independent Commission Against Corruption in Hanzhong County who are specifically responsible for the corruption of officials will also be dismissed. In addition, the main responsible persons of the Independent Commission Against Corruption in Hanzhong County will be prosecuted for the crime of dereliction of duty."

"Your Majesty, isn't this too strict?" Fang Xuanling couldn't help but be stunned.

I did not look at the entrance of the house, but looked at the big tree outside the house that had almost lost all the fallen leaves. "It is now the end of August. It has been almost two and a half months since mid-June. However, I, and the court, have not received any news about the incident in Hanzhong County."

My eyes fell on the important officials in the room, and my expression was still very quiet, but the awe-inspiring eyes made everyone lower their heads.

"Two and a half months are enough to travel more than thirty round trips from Chang'an to Hanzhong County, but I don't know what happened in Hanzhong. You said, if there was no news from this Hanzhong County official, would you have to wait one day when I went to Hanzhong for a private visit, and I happened to hear the rumors about this matter privately circulating in the Hanzhong people, and then play the role of the Emperor of China who is wise and wise and martial, masters of the people?"

"His Majesty calms down..." Without waiting for me to continue, all the ministers bowed into the hall with shame.

"Shut down? How do you let me calm down?" Seeing their performance, a sudden burst of fire suddenly arose in their hearts, who were originally calm and even cold. "What does the Independent Commission Against Corruption do? They specialize in supervising whether officials are dereliction of duty and corruption. There is such a big deal in Hanzhong County. Those Independent Commission Against Corruption are blind and deaf, and they can't even see or hear the major events that are close to you?"

"What is the use of such a person? What is the use of the Independent Commission Against Corruption that I have worked hard to establish?
Chapter completed!