In fact, Yang Ming fell into the trap of Chen Shuyi and Gao Yue this time.
Fortunately, he is the prince now and can ride in the royal chariot in the imperial city. Only the last few steps into the palace require him to hold on and stay normal.
You can sit down as soon as you enter the main hall.
Yang Ming's current position is unique. He is not far from Yang Guang, clearly separated from the officials on both sides.
After Yang Guang came in, he found that there was something wrong with his son's sitting posture, but as a veteran, he did not reveal it.
How old are you before you can't do it anymore? I've always been like this, and I've never been like you.
The court meeting three days ago was done with Yang Jian, but the affairs in Hebei are not over yet, and many aspects need to be dealt with.
For example, what policies should be used to appease Hebei, and how to deal with Chen Junbin, Cui Hongjun, and Gao Sandao.
Everyone expressed their opinions, some suggested exempting Hebei from taxes, and others, as Yang Ming had originally petitioned, implemented the policy of exempting slaves from servitude and conferring land in Bashu, Jingzhou, Southwest, Lingnan and other places.
Yang Guang never expressed his position, but allowed the ministers to discuss it.
After a while, Yang Guang changed the topic directly and talked about Chen Junbin and others.
Yang Wanshi, the Ministry of Punishment has sent officials to Hebei to arrest people. The remaining three people, Chen, Cui, Gao, and Yang Ming have to be saved.
One is Chen Shuyi's cousin, the other is Cui Hongsheng's third brother, and the other is Gao Xi's eldest son.
It seems that Cui Hongjun is not worth protecting, after all, his daughter is married to Yang Jian, but in fact, no one involved in the Hebei family will be punished or arrested this time.
Because Yang Ming figured out that his father's way of appeasing Hebei was truly unique.
First, Lu Chu of the Lu family of Fanyang was appointed as the internal history order, and then Cui Zhongfang of the Cui family of Boling was transferred back to serve as Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. Then Cui Junsu and Cui Junchuo of the Cui family of Qinghe were appointed as Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and Taipu Temple respectively.
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Cui Shu, who was also born in the Cui family of Qinghe, became the minister of Sinong Temple.
The Shandong clan arranged five of them in one go, all of which were in absolutely key positions. It was obvious that they wanted to appease the Hebei family.
Among them, Cui Junchuo is the uncle of Yang Guang's concubine Yang Ning. Yang Ning became Yang Chan's dowry girl and now lives in Pei Xuanji's house.
Normally, concubines, that is, dowry girls, can sleep with you, but you have to look at who the father is.
That's Comrade Yang Guang.
Although she is not named a princess, she is actually a princess. You, Pei Xuanji, want to sleep with two princesses? Are you dreaming?
Therefore, Yang Ning is still in perfect condition, and Yang Guang also intends to find a good family for his concubine daughter.
At the court meeting, Yang Guangdao waved his sleeve and planned to kill Gao Shengdao. Yang Ming hurriedly stood up to dissuade him. The father and son sang and reconciled. In the end, Gao Shengdao was not convicted and even entered the Shangshu Province.
Gao Xi didn't say anything, he just watched the father and son acting like this. How could he not understand what Yang Guang meant? Didn't he just want to hit me?
Don't worry, when Yang Ming enters the East Palace, I won't be waiting for you anymore.
Next, Yang Guang continued: "As for Chen Junbin, although there was civil unrest in his jurisdiction, his county guard still did a qualified job. Now the people of Wu'an County need to be appeased. I have no intention of asking anyone to blame. I feel that
how?"
Pei Ju nodded and said: "Your Majesty, this person has a reputation of being honest in the local area and has lived up to your Majesty's high expectations. This civil unrest was caused by many reasons, and he is not the only one to blame."
Pei Ju also noticed that this time Yang Guang was very ruthless in treating officials who were born in Guanzhong, but outside Guanzhong, he was a bit extra-judicial and merciful.
Doing so is actually in line with the interests of the imperial court. This depends on the individual. To deal with Shandong and Jiangnan, we need to relax our policies and show our noble hands to prevent them from becoming resistant.
But Pei Ju didn't know that Yang Guang wanted to support the Shandong and Jiangnan families and go against the Guanzhong Group.
Others have no objections to Chen Junbin's matter. After all, everyone knows that two ladies of the Chen family are currently favored, and one is favored by the prince. Right now, Jiangnan Chen's career is on the rise.
There is basically no problem with Cui Hongjun. His second brother Cui Hongsheng is still alive, and his nephew has gone to Yang Ming's place. Everyone can see that nothing will happen to him.
After the court meeting, Yang Guang left his son behind in Daxing Hall.
After Yang Guang sent all the servants away, he said to his son:
"It is imperative to abolish enslavement and grant land to the tribes in Bashu, Jingzhou and the south, but it is impractical to exempt Hebei from taxes."
Yang Ming nodded and said: "I agree that Jiangnan has already been exempted from tax. If Hebei is exempted again, the national treasury will be stretched thin."
"So," Yang Guang said with a smile, "for some things, you don't have to wait for me to express my position. You should also express your position at the court meeting. Don't be afraid of making mistakes. If you make a mistake, I will take care of you."
Yang Ming understood that what his father meant was to let him be the popular face at the court meeting. To put it bluntly, he wanted to help his father block some things he didn't like.
"So, can the money saved by exempting farmland in these places be provided to Hebei?" Yang Ming asked tentatively.
At that time, he also discussed it with the ministers at the Qin Palace, and Pei Ju thought it was not feasible.
Yang Guang smiled and said: "Why should I spend money in Hebei?"
Yang Ming said blankly: "But the imperial court still owes money to Hebei. At present, all industries in Hebei are in ruins, and money is needed to stabilize the local area."
"You kid, you still have a lot to learn," Yang Guang said slowly, "Hebei needs to be appeased. This is the top priority of the court this year, but in what way can we be appeased in an all-round way?"
Then, Yang Guang said: "We must pay back Hebei's debt, but we can't. So how do you think we can solve it?"
Both repaying and not repaying? What do you mean? Yang Ming shook his head blankly.
Yang Guang smiled and said: "The money is owed by your second brother, and it is owed to the court, so we, the two of you, have to pay back the money, but the treasury cannot come up with the money. How to solve it? Of course, they take the initiative to not want the money."
Yang Ming pretended to suddenly realize: "This is why my father appointed five officials from Shandong at once, because the court owes them the most money."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "This is not enough," Yang Guangdao said: "The amount of debts owed is too large, and it cannot be solved by giving it to a few officials. It must be both kindness and power.
"Giving an official is a favor, so what's the power?"
Yang Ming shook his head and said, "I don't know."
"Actually, you proposed the method at the court meeting earlier," Yang Guang said with a smile, "That is to send inspection envoys to inspect Hebei."
I'm so stupid! Yang Ming's mouth twitched.
I understand, Dad, you are really amazing...
What is the purpose of the inspection? To find money. You can't ask ordinary people for money, because ordinary people have no money. In fact, they are going to the aristocratic families.
Su Wei served as an inspection envoy twice. After returning from one inspection, he was pulled down because he accepted bribes during the inspection.
Why did you accept bribes? Because the people below were afraid that he would investigate, so they gave some money in the hope that Su Wei would show his favor.
The main purpose of the inspection was household registration, and all the aristocratic families in the Sui Dynasty concealed a large number of household registrations, but also occupied huge amounts of land.
This is Da Suo Mao Yue. Da Suo is to count the household registration and register names, dates of birth and appearance. Mao Suo is to check the appearance of the people with their appearance recorded in the household registration.
During the Kaihuang period, the Great Suo Mao Yue directly cleared out 1.6 million concealed people in the north, resulting in a sharp increase in taxes, which showed an increasing trend year after year.
But Yang Guang knew very well that the original Da Suo Mao Yue were all small landowners from Cha, and none of the real big families could move.
He can't move now, but he can try to scare them, which means I'm going to send people down to inspect the situation. How strong the force will be depends entirely on how determined you are to demand payment from the court.
If you still want money, we will investigate carefully. If you don't want money, then we will just go down and go through the motions.
It was so amazing that Yang Ming was so impressed that he said, don't underestimate any emperor, because they are thinking about how to fight with the people in the world, but what about you? Just fight with those few people.
Yang Ming nodded and said, "Then let Pei Yun go?"
He was the one who recommended Pei Yun at the court meeting at that time.
"It's the same for anyone who goes there. The key point is that he can understand what we mean and know what to do when we go down," Yang Guang said:
"Pei Yun is still very suitable. This person has been trying to figure out my thoughts. I will occasionally give him a chance to figure out my thoughts."
Yang Ming said with sincere admiration: "My father's move was flawless. Now that Hebei has been hit by this catastrophic disaster, a large number of people have died, and the local aristocratic families have suffered considerable losses. They will inevitably hide the number of deaths to continue to occupy acres of land and evade taxes."
If a person dies but the fields are still there, then the fields should be returned to the state and redistributed. However, local aristocratic families will say that the person is not dead and is alive and well. In this way, they can use this to usurp the dead person's acres.
According to the policy of the Sui Dynasty, the three diseases are tax-free and partially tax-free, that is, disability, debilitating disease, and severe disease, which represent three categories of people: those who have partially lost their labor force, those who have completely lost their labor force, and those who have completely lost their labor force and cannot take care of themselves.
For these three categories of people, the disabled receive half tax, the disabled and the seriously ill receive no tax.
At present, more than 600,000 people have died in Hebei, and at least 400,000 to 500,000 people have been injured. How many of them are unable to take care of themselves?
Maybe not many, but there must be a lot of people reported in Hebei, because they want to use this to evade taxes. You are originally disabled, but in the end, you are declared disabled, so you don’t have to pay taxes.
Therefore, I chose this time to do my research, and my timing was very precise, which can be said to hit the nail on the head.
As expected of Yang Guang, Yang Ming really felt that he still had a lot to learn, because he had no access to these things before traveling through time.
My father in the previous life was just an ordinary employee, but my father in this life is worth more than ten thousand people.