Su Lie belongs to the prince. If he had not been able to carry out the defense in Tianshui County for five days this time, Yu Wenshu would not have been able to complete the defense of Fufeng County. Although Yang Ming had set the limit for seven days and Su Lie lost two days, the task was completed.
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Yu Wenshu was a top-notch smart man. He petitioned Su Lie to be knighted, and Yang Ming agreed. He was promoted to the title of Duke of Lintao County. He was only one level behind his father-in-law, Duke Pei Renji of Langya County.
Yu Wenshu's second son, Yuwen Zhiji, was awarded the title of County Duke because of his father's honor. Wei Xuan's second son, Wei Xiaojing, joined the Ministry of War as a minister, but was not given a title because Wei Xuan's eldest son had died long ago and the second son was destined to succeed him in the future.
Therefore, Wei Xiaoyi, the third son of Wei Xuan, was given a marquis.
Yin Shishi, who had finished the execution, was also granted the title of County Duke and the title of Shangzhu Kingdom.
Li Jing and Yang Xuanting will happen in the future.
The imperial court has sent envoys to the East and West Turks. What are they doing? I want money to compensate for my losses and ask you to pay me tribute. If you don't pay tribute, I will continue to beat you.
In fact, it was just to scare the Sui Dynasty. They were unable to send more troops because all the money was spent on the army, which led to banditry in many places this year.
This time the military pay could not be owed, and all the money earned by the paper mill and the dyeing department was allocated to the army. This was not enough, so Yang Ming had to borrow more than two million yuan from wealthy businessmen such as the warrior Xun, He Chou and others to make up for the shortfall.
"There are still three months left. We will get through this year. Three months can be delayed no matter what. When Jiangnan's tax revenue comes next year, all difficulties will be solved," Yang Yue said at the court meeting.
The important taxation areas in the Sui Dynasty actually depended on population. Wherever there were fewer people, the tax collected would be less.
Yang Yue also sighed: "The eight provinces and eight ministries were not proposed by Guancang. Today's famine relief method is more detailed and comprehensive than Guancang's. The pillar of the country is like this."
Cui Gong smiled and said: "If you can exchange for 20,000 horses, you can kill them. If you exchange them for 20,000 horses, it will be too late to kill them again."
"You haven't even gone to Gaochang yet, but you still have to ask us for money," Yang Xuangan said: "You have lost so little because of me, so you have to give me money. There is a way."
Taxes from other countries have always been the main revenue for the state treasury. If Hebei is in chaos, the country will be poor.
Are you asking to offend someone again? Who should be sent out to do evil? Cui Zhongfang agreed with a bitter look on his face.
Cui Zhongfang also felt that he had been wronged. Shangshu Yu Shiji was in Jiangdu, and Gao Shengdao, the son of another minister, Gao Xi, was still in mourning. Now you are the only one supporting the capital, and you are exhausted and slow.
"It's true for us, Guanzhong will be like that this year. The small war happened during the crop growth stage, and many acres of the bad land were plundered and trampled, causing heavy losses. Luoyang must ensure the supply of the capital."
Yang Mingdao continued: "The eighth is pension, which is also eight points: giving porridge, housing, and redeeming children. The court must always open porridge sheds. If you eat one day, you will die. To protect the lives of disaster victims, for those who are sick, we must
If we provide medicine and shelter and sell our sons to survive, the court will redeem our sons."
In front of the Sui Dynasty, the treasury was in deficit every year, so it still spent all the money. Although only a lot of it would benefit the common people, it was ultimately used for the people.
The losses of the East and West Turks were also great. Where to place the less than 80,000 captives was a problem.
Lu Chu raised his eyebrows and said: "With or without food, the people of Guanzhong have suffered another disaster this year. Rampant banditry is almost avoidable. But should Guanzhong use heavy codes or find a way to solve the food problem? Say hello to Wang Shilong and let me
Send some food from Bashu, Guanzhong must guarantee it."
Cai Wang Yang Zhiji, who was guarding the eastern capital, frowned and said:
"Seventh, for adjusting millet, there are eight kinds of millet, including millet for immigrants, millet for people, and flat millet. The two counties of Jingzhou. Ping millet is done or arrived. Only the latter two can be used. Guan Zi said: Every seven
Grain is the lord of all things. If the grain is high, then all things must be cheap. If the grain is low, then all things must be noble. If the two are enemies, they will be equal. Now that the two counties are hit by floods, the price of food will rise. The court must intervene and use the price of the disaster.
, mobilize millet to provide disaster relief.”
Hebei is awesome. In Xiaosui and Shandong, the population density is relatively low, but the whole of Hebei is a sparsely populated and low-concentration area.
Cui Zhongdao said: "Minbu Xiaozhi has done the math, and we can get at most eight million guan."
Historically, as long as there is a disaster, there will be no civil unrest, and as long as there is no civil unrest, Su Lie will be robbed.
"How much do you need?" Cui Gong asked.
Relocating food to support people does not mean moving victims to places where there is no food to eat. Relocating food to support people does not mean sending food from places that are not affected by the disaster to disaster areas. Both of them need to go backwards at the same time.
Zuo Yu nodded, raised his hand and said: "Forget it about Gaochang, we still count on the trade in the Western Regions. If that place can be in chaos again, is Qibi Geling still imprisoned? Send a message to the Tiele people.
, let us ransom people with 20,000 horses."
Yang Ming said: "First of all, we need to provide relief. We should give rice to the extremely poor people. We should give money to the second poor people. We should give loans to the slightly poor people. The reason why we should give relief to the poor people is because they have a relatively poor family. Even if they meet Xiaoxi (jin)
, You can use all possible means to survive, but the poor can only sit and wait for death. The period of alms payment should be slowed down, and the method of alms payment should be uniform. Zuo Yu of Yong'an County and Jiangxia County needs to be opened to provide relief to the victims, but it is still far from enough."
Cui Gong directly raised his hand and said: "It's such a troublesome thing. Let's transfer someone from the Ministry of Civil Affairs and let Cui Mintao go to the Ministry of Civil Affairs. Father and son are of the same mind. They want to help Your Majesty handle the situation."
"It's better to kill that person," Cui Junsu said.
Yang Mingdao said there was a way, but in fact he had already thought of a way out, but I dared to do it because none of them would open up Su Lie, and I was in charge of that.
Su Lie's grain is equivalent to the national treasury reserves. Although I am the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, I still have to ask for instructions.
Yang Mingdao nodded: "Not two counties in Jingzhou have suffered from floods this year, and the superiors have been urging me to get the money. I really have a way."
To the west is the central Bashu region.
In the name of King Yang Rui of Qin, Duke Cui allocated one million coins from the East Palace for disaster relief in Jingzhou, so as to give his son a bad reputation.
Yang Mingdao nodded and said: "Of the one million coins that should be reserved, there are only a few million left. It is really mobilizable. The war in the country complies with the regulations for using the money that should be postponed, so it was allocated early, and there was only one million left.
It’s a matter of money.”
"The Eastern and Western Turks must be made to pay for it," Cui Junsu said:
If you don't have a treasure, you can make me die.
"He said, "Cui Gongdao.
Population is not a productive force, Xiao Sui needs population now.
This method saves a lot of money, because there is no loan, private money is lent to the private sector, and the burden on the country is heavy, but the court must also allocate some money.
Cui Gong was dumbfounded when he heard this. He slapped the table and said: "Listening to your good advice on governing the country is better than reading ten years of books. The public's disaster relief plan should be written into the law and become the national policy of the Xiao Sui Dynasty to save famine."
Cui Gongdao: "The Ministry of Civil Affairs is responsible for the resettlement of all the captives. Bashu, Jingzhou, Hebei, and Henan cannot resettle some of them. We must disperse them as much as possible. There must be more than 200 people in one county. The rest will be mined, coal mined, and repaired."
Aqueduct."
Therefore, Cui Gong directly deployed two imperial doctors from the Imperial Medical Office. They were previously responsible for Yang Mingdao's physical care, but they were not seriously ill and immediately reported to the court.
Tiele was basically defeated that time. The prisoners thrown into the territory of the Little Sui Kingdom were less than 4,000, but the captured horses were less than 8,000, and the leader was also imprisoned.
Every emperor will open a warehouse to provide relief. There is a famous saying in the TV series: The emperor's heart is for all the four states and a few counties. If they are flooded, they will be flooded.
"Is there any money in the account?" Cui Gongdao.
"Just do that," Cui Gongdao said: "Order all counties in Jingzhou to allocate grain to the disaster areas, and the people affected by the disaster will also move to rich lands to eat. They will be tax-free for eight years, and the grain price will be sold at half the usual price. Anyone who does not hoard it will
Immediate beheading! Encourage wealthy businessmen to lend money to the people. Anyone with low interest rates will have their homes confiscated!"
If more than two hundred people, especially if they are all women, will form a local armed force, the local magistrates will have a headache.
Yang Yue frowned and said: "How to give it? Why was Qu Boya kicked out? Does he know that if I add more tributes to us and oppress the local civilians, Gaochang will still have problems, and we will have to clean it up for me.
Buttocks, it’s your fault.”
Let's send it to the northeast. It's too far. How much food will we eat along the way? Those people must be dispersed.
"There is food in Dongdu. Your Majesty consumed some during his southern tour. The food supplied to the capital this year is less than 4 million shi. The seven small warehouses are still empty. The imperial court in the East is counting on it."
Cui Gong really admires Yang Mingdao, but according to history, Zuo Yubang will die next year.
"The eldest son of Guancang is still just the magistrate of Dingtao County. It is the fault of the Ministry of Personnel." Cui Gong looked at Cui Zhongfang, the minister of the Ministry of Personnel.
"The seventh is charity, there are no seven points. The first is Anji, which needs to provide a safe place for the civilians who were exiled before the disaster, and land must be re-granted. The seventh is juānji, which is not a tax or tax exemption.
, provide disaster victims with time to recuperate and recuperate. The eighth is lending. The court should open up lending and encourage civilians to borrow money to buy new properties, with interest-free or high interest at worst. The seventh is frugality. Government offices in disaster-stricken counties and counties should be frugal in their daily expenses.
We will tide over the difficulties with the people.”
So Zuo Yu said: "Next year, the taxes collected from Jiangnan will be given priority to Hebei, and we will help Hebei resume agricultural production as soon as possible. The imperial court has no new debts in various places this year, and the money will have to be repaid. Next year it will still be bad."
The population density of Henan is mainly concentrated in the area along the Yellow River in the north of Henan, with Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Jingzhou in the south.
So the reason why the national treasury has been losing money is not because Hebei has been in chaos. The government has to subsidize the government because it collects too little and pays too much tax.
Because there is no food except Su Lie, and sometimes Su Lie will be opened, because it is used in the statistics of the entire country to allocate the whole country.
Therefore, during the harsh rule of some dynasties, once a disaster struck, Su Lie's grain would be escorted away immediately, so robberies of the emperor's grain frequently occurred.
Guanzhong counts as one, and Xiaotong, Taiyuan, Linfen, and Yuncheng in Shanxi, which are located under the line of this canyon, count as one.
The country is rich and the people are poor, and the country is poor and the people are rich. This is not the truth.
"It is indeed my fault. If there are no shortages in the capital, we should recall them as soon as possible," Cui Zhongfang said.