Chapter 279: Liu Bian's Inquiry Policy Transformation Begins
Three days later, Liu Bian in Chengdu, Yizhou, received Huang Zhong's official document regarding the transformation of Nanyang County.
Liu Bian looked at it and felt interested. However, he did not rush to approve it. Instead, he handed it over to his subordinate Wenwu for circulation during the meeting the next day.
"What do you think?" Liu Bian asked with interest.
"I'm a rough guy, we really have no way of knowing whether the affairs of civil servants are good or bad!" Li Jin was the first to answer, and his words immediately attracted the echo of many military attachés.
Li Jin was actually a well-educated man, but Xie Xin once told him that military attachés should not interfere in politics, so he wisely chose not to evaluate this proposal.
Many other generals were lower in rank than Li Jin, or they knew that Li Jin's move had deep meaning, so they chose to agree with Li Jin's words.
Only Huangfu Song, Yan Yan and others believed that they were senior enough, so they checked it a little. But they only checked it once, without making any comments, and they left it directly to the civil servants.
They are not stupid either. At least they want to find faults, and at least they have to be picked by civil servants. As for them, military attachés, they just pretend to be stupid in the early stage, and observe the mood in the later stage. After confirming Liu Bian's intention, they can only speak.
"My lord, Governor Huang is indeed a capable man in both civil and military affairs. This proposal is not unprecedented, but it is definitely unprecedented. Once implemented, it will be of great benefit to both Nanyang County and the lord." Zhang Su took the lead.
He stood up and answered.
"This proposal was written by Xie Xin, the dean of Huaxia Academy. It was given to Taishou Huang to see that there were no problems, so he sent someone to send it to me.
Of course, it can’t be said to have been made by Xie Xin. Strictly speaking, it was initiated by him and jointly formulated by several research departments of the research institute under his name." Liu Bian said jokingly.
"At least, the proposal is well written." Wang Yun replied with a smile.
Indeed, the proposal is well written and very feasible. At the same time, in order to take care of Liu Bian's face, a lot of face-saving projects have been added to it, which is almost as good as praising Liu Bian directly to the people.
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The people have benefited, and all the credit goes to Liu Bian. What if this proposal is not good?
"What my lord is concerned about is not the quality of this proposal, but the research capabilities of Huaxia Academy?" Jia Xu is an authentic conspirator, and he is also the best at reading people's hearts.
"Wen He really knows my thoughts! Yes, the research institute of Huaxia Academy! Its existence, for any force, is a treasure that can quickly widen the gap with other princes.
If such a treasure is not under my control, I will feel uneasy!" Liu Bian said with a sneer.
Perhaps Xie Xin was kind to him, allowing him to escape the fate of a puppet and have a chance to revive the Han Dynasty. But now he is the shepherd of Yizhou and has a lot of power in his hands.
As his power increased, especially his desire to regain the Han Dynasty, he became less and less able to allow anything to escape his control.
"Besides..." Liu Bian accepted the proposal, "The proposed proposal can give away all the benefits, but I don't want anything. How can I feel at ease with such a proposal?"
That era was so magical. If local officials were honest and not corrupt, the emperor would feel uneasy. If it was huge corruption but it had no big impact on people's livelihood, the emperor could turn a blind eye. What's even more amazing is that such huge corruption could even
Continuously promote and reuse.
"My lord is worried about this... In fact, if you have studied economics, it will be easy to see what they are planning." Tian Feng said with a smile.
"Oh, what are they planning?" Liu Bian immediately became interested.
“In many aspects, such as widening roads, for their hometowns in Nanyang, this means that not only is access more convenient, but also buying and selling transportation is much more convenient, which is a long-term profit.
Another example is the tax reform, which abolishes checkpoint tax and only collects transaction tax at the time of transaction. Luxury goods can also be charged a certain percentage of extra luxury goods tax. This is also very interesting.
You must know that each city will set up customs and tax. In addition to the necessary tax rates, tax collectors will also extort some money. In this way, if a long-distance business does not have a large enough background, the cost will be much higher.
And if tax reform is carried out now, it will be point-to-point tax collection. In this way, each country will naturally have to find ways to improve the circulation level of goods, otherwise tax revenue will drop sharply. And merchants in various places only need to pay transaction tax, and operating costs will be reduced a lot.
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If it is properly controlled, businessmen can even be used to quickly mobilize various needed supplies to the disaster-stricken areas, thereby reducing the government's relief efforts. In other words, this is a win-win profit proposal." Tian Feng was born in a poor family, and he didn't care that after the proposal was implemented,
How many big family chambers of commerce will be affected?
"In other words, according to Tian Zhizhong's intention, in this proposal, Huaxia Academy intends to give up its name to us, and what they are pursuing is the benefits they can gain during the transformation process?!" Liu Bian probably understood.
"Strictly speaking, we gain both fame and fortune, but the benefits they receive will not be lower than ours. Moreover, from my point of view, this proposal can not only be implemented in Nanyang, but many regulations can even be implemented
It should be applied throughout Yizhou." Tian Feng said with a smile, completely ignoring the murderous looks cast by several ministers from Shu.
"In this case, let's try it out in Nanyang County first. I don't know if it will work or not!" Liu Bian looked at the faces of the ministers and said to everyone with a smile.
For a moment, the civil and military ministers of the Shu region breathed a sigh of relief.
As long as it is not implemented in Yizhou for the time being, they will have the opportunity to wait and see this policy. If it is beneficial to them, they will support it in the future. If it is not beneficial, then they will firmly deny it. The reason is that the situation in Shu and Nanyang is different and cannot be copied and must be modified.
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As for how weird the revised proposal will look like, God knows.
"There is still a question, that is, how to deal with the problems existing in the institute? Wen He, since you have discovered it, tell me your opinion!" Liu Bian continued to ask.
"I have three proposals!" Although Jia Xu doesn't like to be in the limelight, he naturally can't escape when he is called out.
"Say!" Liu Bian was also quite speechless to Jia Xu. He had obviously prepared it long ago, but if he didn't call his name, he would refuse to say it.
"The Lord has three options to achieve his goal:
The first is to open a research institute in Yizhou, and then find a way to poach a group of people from the Nanyang County Research Institute with high-ranking officials and generous salaries, and build more and larger research institutes based on them.
The second is to order the Huaxia Academy to move to Yizhou. As long as the academy is under their noses, they are like slandering Xingfeng, and there is nothing they can do.
The third method is to issue a decree to include Huaxia Academy under the political system of Yizhou and grant corresponding official positions to the president of the academy and the head of the research institute. From then on, if the academy is obedient, the president will stay. If not, the president will stay.
, just change the dean." Jia Xukan said.
"You are so poisonous!" Li Jin couldn't help but secretly give Jia Xu a middle finger after hearing this.
"This guy, don't provoke him if you have nothing to do..." More ministers thought sincerely.
"Then with Wen He's intention, which one should you choose?" Liu Bian asked excitedly.
"I can't choose any of them..." Jia Xu shook his head helplessly.
"What's the explanation?!" Liu Bian was really confused.
Since you can't choose, what can you say?
“First of all, we don’t know the specific situation of the institute, so we can’t build the institute in advance.
As for poaching people, we can't even hope, because the researchers at the institute are all students of Huaxia Academy, that is, students of Xie Xin. Once we dig them out, they will be the villains who bully their teachers and destroy their ancestors. In this way
, both their reputation and ours will suffer a great loss." Jia Xu didn't waste any time and explained the seriousness of poaching people in advance.
"That's true. A villain who deceives his master and destroys his ancestors will make people worry..." All the ministers also nodded in agreement.
The basic condition for measuring talents in this era is the word "filial piety". Rulers believe that only those who are extremely filial are worthy of trust and reuse in terms of their moral character.
To deceive one's master and destroy one's ancestors is already 'unfilial'. Who would dare to use such an 'unfilial' villain?
"What else?" Liu Bian was already a little disappointed.
"Secondly, there is the nature of Huaxia Academy. Huaxia Academy was established by Xie Xin, and it was also valued by the late emperor, who even personally inscribed it. The plaque even says 'Nanyang County'.
In other words, as long as the Han Dynasty still rules today, no matter who takes the throne, especially Your Majesty you and your descendants, they cannot move the Huaxia Academy at will, otherwise it will be disrespectful to the late emperor and unfilial to the late emperor." Jia Xu said seriously.
Speaking of.
"Such a thing happened..." Liu Bian was really speechless. He never expected that his father would actually take action first.
It's quite depressing to think about this. Other princes can just forcibly move the Huaxia Academy because they are rebels. But as an orthodox prince of the Han Dynasty, if he moves the Huaxia Academy, it will really be disrespectful to the late emperor.
And unfilial.
"Finally, it is because of Xie Xin. This person never accepted conquests and devoted himself to opening an academy to teach and educate people. The late emperor also made conquests several times, but he also rejected them.
Today's Huaxia Academy, every inch of land is deeply imprinted with his mark. Not to mention that the title deed of this land is still in his hands, just talking about these students, who is not his student?
Huaxia Academy can become an institution under the political system, but he can also directly resign and then go to any prince's territory to establish an institution such as Fudan Academy, Peking Academy, etc., and then summon all students there with a piece of paper.
After studying, what will be left to the lord will be nothing more than an empty shell of Huaxia Academy." Jia Xu replied respectfully.
"Then I can't clean up this academy?" Liu Bian was really angry.
"Actually, my lord does not need to clean up this academy. My subordinates have also said that Xie Xin only wants to teach and educate people. As long as the academy is still within our political scope, it will be highly controllable.
We don't need to impose restrictions, and we can even encourage them to continue research and creation. What we need to do is to give priority to purchase after the research is fruitful, and agree that it must be sold to other princes after a certain number of years.
Several years later, when the princes obtained this achievement, we were already fully enjoying the benefits that this achievement brought to us. We only need to keep leading the opponent, then will these technologies fall into the hands of other princes?
It doesn't matter anymore.
As for the disciples trained by the academy, it is now official that they are all doing practical things. The manpower under the lord's command is not very abundant, so we can absorb most of the students with higher level as appropriate." Jia Xu said with a smile.
"I see... Wen He is right..." Liu Bian savored it carefully and found that it was really the case.
It turns out that I was just scaring myself, which is a bit ironic when I think about it.
"So, this proposal..." Liu Bian shook the proposal in his hand, "It's accurate!"
Three days later, when the approval came back to Huang Zhong, he immediately began to transform Nanyang County according to the first step of the proposal.
There is no need to worry about the funding issue, because with the proposal, there will be a large amount of money, which is the funds needed for the first phase of the renovation plan given by Liu Bian.