Valley Emperor

Valley Emperor

From a procedural point of view, this kind of dispatch is the same concept as an ordinary imperial envoy. It is directly appointed by Li Xuan, and it can also be revoked at any time without going through any official procedures. If Li Xuan is willing, he can let him A cat and dog also entered the imperial study!

Cai Siqi has reached the peak of his life, which is not a good thing for other officials.

This person is different from Shi Wuyan. Although Shi Wuyan is the censor of Zuodu and the minister on duty, he is also in charge of the Judicial Personnel Bureau and controls the personnel issues of the entire judicial system. At the same time, this person is also the direct supervisor of Cai Siqi. However, Shi Wuyan, as a minister on duty who is already a high-ranking official, has no life.

He will consider more political influence issues when handling matters, and his biggest mission in the imperial study is not actually responsible for the administration of officials, nor is he a representative of the entire judicial system, competing for interests for the judicial system and improving the judicial system in the empire. The right to speak in politics.

His mission, or the most important job responsibility, is to work with the other eight ministers on duty to formulate a strategic development direction for the empire and to assist the emperor to govern the entire world.

In terms of the size and scope of authority, in fact, the nine ministers on duty are all the same. It is not said that Shi Wuyan can only manage the judiciary, and Hao Bainian can only manage the army. In fact, as the ministers on duty, they have to manage everything.

But under mutual restraint, in the end, it evolved into a small stall where everyone is responsible for their own, and does not interfere in the sphere of power of others.

However, Cai Siqi entered the imperial study as the director of the anti-corruption bureau, and his status is only half a level lower than that of Shi Wuyan, and this person's position represents, he will definitely focus on anti-corruption in the future. As for the rest, he doesn't care and doesn't care.

The high position of Cai Siqi means that there is still a knife hanging on Baiguan's head, but this still makes Baiguan relieved, and the anti-corruption storm has finally stopped.

Don't be afraid that tomorrow it will be your turn to be arrested!

However, after this round of blows, many officials are still afraid. They tend to be more cautious when they do things. They are also afraid that the Son of Heaven will kill another carbine, and now that the storm has passed, you can't wait to jump out and do it. Well, isn't it obvious that he wants to hit the Son of Heaven in the face, then, he will not know how he died.

Therefore, most of the smarter officials know that the situation has been relatively tense recently, and it is still not clear enough. As for this matter of corruption and bribery, it is better to postpone it for a while, to avoid the limelight and talk about it. I can't help it now. Even if you make money, you have to be more secretive, and you can't make money directly like you used to.

After the anti-corruption storm that had been blowing for half a year stopped, Li Xuan was still paying close attention to the situation of official governance. Judging from the report from Hantong, although many officials began to return to their old jobs, the methods were more secretive. , and this is only a small number of people, most of them still carry it honestly and do not dare to make money.

This made Li Xuan show a satisfied look!

This wave can at least let Baiguan An share for a year and a half!

Later, let Cai Siqi take down those who dare to commit crimes against the wind, and it is necessary to extend the security time for another year and a half. In this way, at least two or three years of stability can be obtained.

Taking advantage of these two or three years, we will quickly improve the inspection situation, plug those loopholes, and control the overall situation.

What should I do if the administration of officials becomes a mess after a few years?

What else can we do, let's fight against corruption again!

Li Xuan has already decided that, before the overall environment of official governance has not been greatly improved, a small killing a year and a big killing three years, even if the problem of official governance cannot be completely cured, at least the atmosphere of official governance must be maintained at a reluctance. acceptable level.

He would rather kill a group of corrupt officials every year than spend more than ten or twenty years, and the entire empire will face the embarrassing situation of fighting corruption and subjugating the country, and not fighting corruption will also subjugate the country!

He had this plan in mind. If there would be a total of 100,000 corrupt officials in ten years, he would choose to kill half of them, which would be 50,000. If he killed 50,000 at one time, the impact would be too bad, and the operation would also increase the numbness.

But if the killing is divided into ten years and five thousand per year, the impact will be much smaller, it will not easily cause panic among officials and anti-corruption, and at the same time, the deterrent effect is relatively large.

Killing all the time is better than a big kill in ten years!

Cai Siqi is the knife he plans to use to kill corrupt officials every year!

Judging from the past six months, this knife is still relatively sharp and usable!

After the end of the anti-corruption storm, the rainy season of the new year also ushered in. In the Huaihe and Yellow River basins, this year's rainy season is a bit heavier than last year's, but the many newly built water conservancy facilities have played an important role.

The levee of Hongze Lake, which has completed nearly half of the project, has played a huge role in blocking the countless floods in the rainy season in Hongze Lake, protecting the downstream area and preserving the canal.

At the same time, with the gradual completion of the Hongze Lake levee, after two consecutive years of no flooding, local agricultural production has also recovered relatively quickly. Jiangbei reported that Jiangbei is expected to harvest the largest harvest in the past two decades.

In this regard, Li Xuan is quite pleased!

The food is harvested well, and when there is food, the people will have something to eat, and the people will not go hungry, so they will not think about rebelling, and Li Xuan's country will be stable.

However, in order to prevent a bumper harvest of grain and the fall in grain prices hurting farmers, Li Xuan also instructed Datang Grain Corporation in time to prepare for grain purchases in the Jiangbei area in advance. The price of this grain must be stabilized within a certain range.

Any rise or fall that exceeds the range must be taken seriously!

Stabilizing grain prices by market means and arresting grain speculators by legal means has always been the two magic weapons for the Tang Dynasty to stabilize grain prices. It has been used for more than ten years, and it is very easy to use.

The only side effect is that there are fewer and fewer ordinary grain merchants in Datang today, especially the grain merchants who simply purchase grain and then sell it directly. Basically, there are not many left.

Because these traditional grain merchants have either been arrested for grain speculation amid the constant fluctuations in grain prices over the past decade, or they have changed careers.

Many traditional grain merchants have turned into grain processors, directly purchasing grain and selling it. Under the circumstance that the government has set the grain price range, they can't make a lot of money, and they will be caught if they are not careful. Grab it and charge it with grain speculation.

However, the grain processing industry does not have this risk, because Datang Grain Corporation controls the price of ordinary grain, but for grain processing products, that is irrelevant.

Therefore, many grain merchants have begun to change careers, most of which are flour processing or rice processing industries, or other grain processing, non-staple food and the like.

Always, few people are playing the unprofitable and high-risk business of traditional food sales.

Grain merchants, like salt merchants, have gradually become a historical ranking. Today’s grain merchants are not called grain merchants. They often engage in grain processing in the middle of the night. It is a processing industry and an industry supported by the empire.

If you still call them grain merchants, they will be anxious for you!

Who is the grain merchant, you are the grain merchant, and your whole family is the grain merchant!

With the establishment of the empire and the continuous advancement of industry and commerce, in fact, many industries are gradually disappearing or changing!

Salt merchants were the first group to disappear rapidly on a large scale. After the empire implemented the salt industry franchise system, no one or organization was allowed to engage in salt production, transportation and sales except for Datang Salt Industry Company. If they were caught, they would be beheaded. .

There are also many industries that have undergone changes, such as the textile industry. Even in the feudal era, the textile industry has always existed, and the scale is very large. A large number of weavers in manual workshops use primitive tools to produce cloth, silk.

When the Datang Empire began to use new machinery to produce cloth and silk, it once caused the closure of a large number of primitive hand-woven textile workshops and countless weaving industries.

However, this situation did not last long, because there were no restrictions on the upgrading of the textile industry in the Tang Empire, regardless of whether it was Jiangnan Textile Company, a strong enterprise directly under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, or the private Dayang Textile Company, etc. Purchase relevant machinery and equipment anywhere for equipment upgrade production.

At the same time, the unemployment of the weavers is actually a false proposition, because although the new machinery has improved the efficiency~www.wuxiaspot.com~ theoretically no more workers are needed, but in fact, after the efficiency is improved, the cost has changed. lower, and more cloth is sold, prompting factories to expand production and hire more workers.

The only real hit is the traditional small-scale peasant economy in the countryside, but now the empire is making changes to the rural economy.

They encouraged vast rural areas to open up wasteland and plant more land.

In the past, it wasn't that the farmers didn't want to open up wasteland, but that they had no land to open up wasteland. Those wastelands looked wasteland, but they all had owners. You went to someone else's house to open up wasteland, it's not nonsense.

But now, the government provides a large amount of wasteland for free for farmers to open up wasteland. At the same time, it also adopts a unified agricultural tax, which increases the tax burden on the landowners in the countryside, forcing them to give up their land voluntarily.

Thus, ordinary farmers have a lot of land available for wastelanding!

Reclaiming wasteland and planting more land means that every labor force in the countryside needs to work fully. This labor force is not only limited to men, but also women.

For thousands of years, rural women in China have always been the main component of the rural labor force, but it is not said that women's labor force must be liberated before they can be allowed to farm.

During the slack season, men and women go to the fields to farm together, while during the slack season, men generally look for opportunities to do odd jobs or open up wasteland, while women spend part of their time spinning and weaving fabrics for their families to wear.

Nowadays, the mechanism cloth is rampant and the price is low, which, to a certain extent, greatly weakens their labor value.