In short, not a single person spoke in the entire Tianying Pavilion.
Originally there were two eager young members of the Admonition Council who were ready to express their opinions after the big shots spoke, but the quiet Tianying Pavilion really frightened them.
There are quarrels every day in Tianying Pavilion, and there are even two old men pulling each other's beards, but there is no peace.
The arrangement inside Tianying Pavilion was such that even the guard sergeants outside were no longer uneasy.
"I repeat, a special topic has been added to discuss His Royal Highness King Qin's inspection of Liaodong!" Li Jing read the topic again.
It was still quiet inside Tianying Pavilion.
"Speak!" Li Jing slammed the table hard.
It was still quiet, and no one reacted. Just when Li Jing patted the table, everyone was sitting in a straight posture, looking forward, with expressionless faces.
Young people may not understand the truth, but they will never interrupt at this time. Just learn.
Li Jing gently put the file aside: "This issue seems to be somewhat controversial. You can write a motion after you go back. It will be handed in before the next meeting of Tianying Pavilion in three days. Now let's change to the next issue, the Ministry of Commerce.
The table proposes different taxes on different goods, and is also accompanied by letters of intent from thirty-seven different chambers of commerce.”
"The tax on frosted sugar is too low. We need to sell frosted sugar at least five times the price of ordinary sugar. And that maltose, the raw sugar is only twenty-two cents per pound. This will kill several cane sugar merchants."
Taxes must be increased, taxes must be increased!" A minister from the Ministry of Household Affairs immediately jumped out.
An official from the Ministry of Commerce stood directly on the table: "Shit, as the industry improves, selling sugar cheaply will naturally benefit the people. I heard that if maltose can achieve the industrial mass production mentioned by His Highness the King of Qin, one kilogram will be
It can be less than ten cents, don’t you think the common people should have candy?”
"At least we can't let all the original sugar merchants go bankrupt!"
"Business competition...
Let's start the quarrel, this is the atmosphere that should be in Tianying Pavilion.
After the meeting that afternoon, a young attaché of the Ministry of Works asked his superior: "Why was the silence silenced at that time? Shouldn't our Ministry of Works support His Highness to go to Liaodong? Your Highness can comment on Hedong Road and Hebei Road on the way.
This new steel mill, although it is said to be an investment by a famous family, is under the supervision of the Ministry of Industry!"
"You don't understand, you have to keep silent about this matter!"
"Please Shangguan teach me!"
"If you don't tell Liu Er, I will tell you that if we support it, given His Highness the Qin's temperament, even if he goes alone, there is a 70% chance that it will trigger a war. There are three reasons."
The two whispered, deliberately avoiding the others, and quickly got into their carriage.
The Tianying Pavilion meeting is around four o'clock in the afternoon, so that those who attend the meeting have time to return to their respective yamen gates to handle some of the day's official business, especially urgent matters.
Sitting in the carriage, the minister of the Ministry of Industry continued: "Once there is a chance, His Highness King Qin will not mind giving Datang an extra piece of territory. Secondly, if there is an excuse, if someone really does something to Datang, catch him
The evidence is that there are 80,000 soldiers in Liaodong, which is enough for His Highness the King of Qin. Thirdly, His Highness the King of Qin went there just for the war, otherwise he would not have gone to Liaodong without any trouble!"
The young attaché still couldn't understand.
"I support it. Once there is a war in Liaodong, the Ministry of Industry will support the war. This will face the blame of the entire court. On the contrary, if you dare to say that you don't support it, once there is huge profit in Liaodong, you, the Ministry of Industry, will
To divide or not to divide, the whole department is not willing to divide the work, but the other five departments are not willing to divide it."
"Could it be that they also have this idea?"
"The heads of the six departments are all very thoughtful. The two ministers of the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Husband ran away. I'm afraid they knew earlier that His Highness King Qin was going to Liaodong."
They are all foxes, and they are all cunning foxes.
Li Jing was sitting in the main hall of Tianying Pavilion. There was no one else here except him.
How could Li Jing not know what these people were thinking?
After much deliberation, Li Jing decided to tell Emperor Li Er of the Tang Dynasty about the discussion at Tianying Pavilion and let His Majesty the Emperor make up his mind.
The other side is in Yaozhou.
Wang Jishan, the Minister of Rites, along with several stewards of the Ministry of Rites and dozens of unworthy officials, are unwrapping the red cloth here in Yaozhou, setting up the table, and letting the slaves line up to receive their deeds of sale.
After they had destroyed it, they received another scroll belonging to the lower commoners of the Tang Dynasty.
"Really moving in together?" a slave asked anxiously after getting the identity paper.
The official waved his hand: "Get out of the way. If you have any questions, ask over there!"
The slave still wanted to ask, but a guard pulled him aside and cursed at the top of his voice: "You bastard, you are so good at talking, you don't have to go over there and spend two cents to check the slave status."
It’s fast. If you don’t want to spend money, just help with the work and turn over the files yourself.”
This slave didn't know how to read or look up, but he knew about two pennies.
I quickly asked one more question: "Well, where? Check?"
The guard pointed to a flag two miles away: "Under that flag, please stay out of the way!"
A very rude sergeant, but many slaves supported this sergeant, because if some people were allowed to talk nonsense here, it would seriously affect their time to receive documents. You must know that there were thousands of people queuing up.
Some slaves even helped shout: "Run quickly, if it's too late, your woman may be bought."
The slave's face turned purple, and when he stopped and was about to argue, a whip handle lightly hit him on the head, and then the owner of the whip laughed and cursed: "Go quickly, don't let him know that women are
What nonsense." After saying that, the owner of the whip kicked him from behind: "Hurry!"
The slaves burst into laughter.
"Let's all line up. Those with the best performance will have the opportunity to be promoted. The first batch will number five hundred people." The captain shouted.
What is Pingyin?
It first appeared in the Han Dynasty and later became a formal official regulation during the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty.
In today's terms, it is like a passport to the outside world, and it is like a pass to the inside.
Internally, there are two types of vouchers in Datang. One is voucher. For example, if you have to go out for activities after the curfew in Chang'an, if there is a formal reason, you will have an official voucher. Otherwise, traveling at night is both adultery and theft.
A guide means that you can leave your home county and go to another place. This guide indicates the general route of your action, your starting place, your destination, etc. With this, you can move around legally.
If the rangers don't have these things, they will be arrested by the officials.
So the rangers ran around, and sometimes they made some fake moves to guide them upward.
Of course, there are also some very special people. For example, Tiance Neiwei, they have special credentials that can prove their identity and legitimacy.
Five hundred Pingyin is five hundred hometown return certificates.
However, these 500 certificates will not be issued until one month later, and the application must be submitted twenty days later.
Most of the slaves in Goguryeo have their whole families here. If they die, they will die. If they return to their hometown alive, they will never be found.
Moreover, those who are eligible to receive vouchers must already have civilian qualifications.
Wang Jishan stood on the roof of a workshop, with Cui Junsu and Lu Chengqing standing next to him. Li Chang stood behind him.
"There are quite a few people who have changed their civil documents. Are those who are suspected among them?" Wang Jishan asked softly.
Li Chang took half a step forward: "I found six of them, one of them must be the spy."
Cui Junsu did not care about the spy, but asked: "How is the reaction of the workshop when these slaves become civilians? Is the output higher and the quality higher as originally expected?"
"Cui Shangshu, it is better to say that the entire Yaozhou is worse than them. The slave workshops that were originally lifeless are now booming, and their efficiency and production capacity have increased significantly. Those slaves either want to be promoted or want to be promoted. Save more money. When it comes to that plan, I have two good candidates.”
Lu Chengqing took out two bamboo tubes and handed them to Li Chang.
Li Chang is from the Security Department of the Tang Empire, so he naturally has to ask about this kind of thing.
After he took it, he opened it, glanced at it, and held it in front of Wang Jishan. After Wang Jishan took it, Lu Chengqing said, "One of these was originally a slave. He was bought when he was a slave. He was originally a mason.
He was imprisoned because he could not pay taxes, and his wife fled back to her parents' home with his children."
Wang Jishan shook his head: "This is unreasonable. According to Tang Dynasty law, those who owe taxes can be exempted if their family is poor. If they cannot be exempted, they must use labor in lieu of taxes, and evildoers will be punished with physical punishment and then labor. But they will not demote common people into slaves!
"
"Wang Shangshu, he is from Goguryeo!" Li Chang whispered beside him.
"Ah, haha!" Wang Jishan laughed twice.
Lu Chengqing quickly changed the subject: "He has the documents of the third master craftsman, and the Ministry of Industry has determined it through three assessments. His skills in building houses and bricks are very poor, but he can make casting sand. The quality of the casting sand he makes is second to none here in Yaozhou."
, his name must be among the top ten, he is the number one on the balance wheel of the stamping machine of the Ninth Steel Workshop."
"Is this son rich?"
"If a man has money, what will he do when he becomes rich?" Cui Jun asked with a smile.
Three pairs of eyes looked at Li Chang, who was a little embarrassed: "Of course I want to go to this brothel for drinking and gambling. But Brother Lang wants to beg a piece of cloud brocade from His Highness, and he has not been drunk for a whole month!"
Cui Junsu nodded with satisfaction: "That's right. His third-class craftsman lost at least five thousand dollars in one month. He would miss his wife and children, and he himself was framed by Goguryeo officials.
So Chengqing is a good choice. After he returns to Goguryeo, he will definitely not dare to make a fuss, but everyone wants Ji Jin to return home."
"It's just a follow-up. Whether he comes back alive or is killed by the Goguryeo officials is not up to us!"
Li Chang is telling the truth. These people are really out of reach in Goguryeo!
But Cui Junsu said: "His Royal Highness King Qin said something really good. King Qin reminded someone that this person is already a subject of the Tang Dynasty!" (To be continued. Please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!)