After everyone thought about how to restore Chang'an to his function as a political center for a while, Cao Xin, Xia He, and a group of generals left in a hurry, and half of the people in the room were missing in an instant.

"While order is restored, it is also necessary to settle accounts after the autumn." Li Ze looked at Chun Yuyue and said, "Otherwise, it is not enough to show the legitimacy of the imperial court." Those who took refuge in the pseudo-Liang and caused real damage to Datang must be punished. What does Chun Yu Shangshu have to say about this? ”

Chun Yuyue stroked his beard and muttered: "Li Xiang, the Tang Dynasty should naturally do its part to destroy the pseudo-Liang, recover the old capital, and punish these betrayers." Just like Zhang Zhongwu's rebellion in the Northeast, even though Li admired Zhang Zhongwu very much, didn't he also execute him in the end? But here in Chang'an, there are still several situations. ”

"Tell me more."

"The first type is the officials of the pseudo-Liang, they naturally have nothing to say. Now they are all in prison. The second is that they were originally officials of the Tang Dynasty and later surrendered to the pseudo-Liang, and the third is the low-level arresters and officials mentioned by the Cao Ministry before, these people are direct actors and the objects of hatred of the people. The fourth type is more troublesome, and officials like Wang Shu have also made meritorious contributions. "Chun Yu Yue Dao.

Li Ze smiled, "Grasp one principle, that is, how much damage has been done to us." Start from the bottom first, aren't Yang Kai and the others about to start screening the officials at the grassroots level? Get rid of these people first, and let order run normally. Level by level, in an orderly manner, and finally, move those who are not moving. ”

"Are you saying that people like Wang Shu will still be punished in the end?"

"Or else?" Li Ze said with a cold face: "I want to be the grass on the wall, the wind blows on both sides, once I see that things are not good, I will immediately turn against the old master, and I have no position at all, how can we keep such a person." It's just that they are still needed now, so I can only endure the nausea first. ”

Chun Yuyue nodded.

"There are actually a lot of people represented by Wang Shu, especially people like Zhao Xi, Gou Rong, and Wu Hou, who still have military power in their hands, so they must be more cautious."

"First of all, they have to reorganize their army." Li Zedao: "Gao Xiangsheng said that these divine forces can't be used at all. But if you want to rectify the army, you must first settle these people, otherwise it is very easy to cause chaos, although you are not afraid, but after all, it will be trouble. So, let's upgrade these generals first. Attacking Cao Zhen, taking away his grain and grass, forcing Cao Xuan away, and preserving Chang'an are indeed meritorious. Zhao Xi was transferred to the Ministry of War, Gou Rong went to Cangzhou, and Wu Hou went to Shandong, separating them from their army first. When they are gone, start disbanding their armies one by one. Wait until these troops are scattered and settled, and then talk about them. And after dealing with them, let's finally talk about Wang Shu. ”

"It's the safest way, it's slow, but it won't mess up." Chun Yuyue nodded again and again: "Li Xiang, what about those noble families?" ”

"Your Excellency?" Li Ze suddenly laughed: "Do you know that these days, many people have handed folds into the palace to ask to see the emperor and the queen mother?" ”

Chun Yuyue rolled his eyes.

At this time, I went to see the emperor and the queen mother, and it can be seen that these people are really blind to the extreme.

"These people are the people who colluded with the Zhu family to lead the Liang army into Chang'an, and the real clean people were expelled from us by Zhu Wen as early as that year." Li Zedao: "Now these dogs, don't think about how to atone for their sins, they still want to protect their family wealth, hehe, what to say that they are meritorious, like Wang Shu, staying and begging for grievances is all to ensure that Chang'an is safe, the temple is unharmed, pure, shameless people I have seen a lot, but such shameless is still rare in the world." ”

"These people are really frogs at the bottom of the well, don't they know our current national policy? Those who returned from Wuyi didn't tell them about our policies? Chun Yuyue had some difficulty understanding the train of thought of these people.

"These two groups of people are already strangers and even enemies. Back then, I was afraid that these people who defected to Zhu Wen would fall into the stone of them. So now, do you think they're going to help these people? They want these guys to die. Li Ze said: "Those who were expelled by Zhu Wen to our side have adapted to our side of the policy, and most of them are doing very well now, and we also told them earlier how to dispose of their property in Guanzhong." Don't think about the land, in the Northland, we have given them the land, but their real estate, we will return it. ”

Chen Wenliang on the side took over and said: "We have checked it in general, and these families own a lot of land in Guanzhong. The land is still in their hands. ”

"They didn't mean to hand it over?"

"Naturally not!" Li Zedao: "So you should increase your efforts against these people, investigate their bad deeds, and check them out for me one by one." Kill what should be killed, copy what should be confiscated, now that the court is basically clean and smooth, and there is no money elsewhere, you can only think of a way on the land. ”

"Understood." Chun Yuyue said: "My subordinates know what to do." ”

"In this matter, contact the internal guards directly where you need it, and they will provide you with what you want." Li Ze pointed to Gao Xiangsheng and Tian Bo on the side.

"There are two of you!" Chun Yuyue said with a smile.

The two owe their bodies: "Chun Yu Shangshu is just as he is told." ”

Seeing Chun Yuyue say goodbye and leave, Guo Fengxiao of the Ministry of Industry stood up and arched his hand: "Li Xiang, I want money." ”

Li Ze smiled and said, "I know you want money, but now I don't have money." ”

"Li Xiang, the road in Guanzhong is in disrepair, the water conservancy is in disrepair, and now is the time to use a large number of idle manpower to vigorously renovate it, according to our past experience in tidying up the place, a lot of investment at this time, although it takes a lot of money, but a large part of it, can still be returned. Moreover, it is extremely beneficial to the stability of people's livelihood and local security. Guo Fengxiao said: "Of course I know that the imperial court's finances are tight, but if you squeeze it, you can always squeeze it out." ”

When it comes to money, Li Ze has a headache.

"For this matter, you go to Xia He."

"If you speak, Xia Shangshu will naturally find a way for me, if you don't speak, Xia Shangshu will talk about him left and right, but I know that Xia Shangshu will have a special amount of money in his hand every year." Guo Feng filial piety.

"The Ministry of Industry doesn't have a small treasury?" Li Ze snorted: "Don't be sloppy with me, the special money in Xia He's hand is to deal with unforeseen needs, and it must not be used under normal circumstances." ”

Guo Fengxiao said with some embarrassment: "There is naturally a little, but it is a drop in the bucket!" ”

"Let's use it first." Li Ze waved his hand: "Wait for the news from the Yue side, once a large amount of land is recovered, we can sell it, and then we can return a sum of money." Besides, which nobles, rich people, and families were robbed by Zhu Youzhen once, but the three caves of the cunning rabbit, they must still have a lot of good things hidden, I believe that Chun Yuyue and Gao Xiangsheng can quickly get a lot of things we need. ”

"That's good, that's good." Guo Fengxiao was satisfied: "The manpower organized by the Ministry of Industry has already begun to investigate and carry out preliminary preparations. Next, we will move first, renovate the surrounding areas of Chang'an, and when the funds are in place, we can start to spread to the surrounding prefectures and counties. Wait until the beginning of spring next year, and we will at least improve the roads and water conservancy around Chang'an. ”

Guo Fengxiao left satisfied.

"All of them are stretched out in coffins, and they want money to die!" Li Ze looked at his back and said dissatisfiedly: "I'm not the God of Wealth, I can make money!" ”

"Li Xiang, in fact, a large amount of money will be in the account soon." Chen Wenliang on the side said with a smile.

"Where's the money?"

"Our three fleets have returned. The news was just delivered today, and this time the harvest was even greater. Chen Wenliang said: "Where is Jin Shiren's harvest stable, and Jin Mantang finally found the Europa you said this time, where is it, but the real people are stupid and have a lot of money." ”

"Jin Mantang is back?" Li Ze's eyes suddenly lit up. Speaking of Jin Mantang's departure, it has been more than a year, and he has almost forgotten about this rich man.

"He found Europa." Chen Wenliang took out a copy of the pile of documents and handed it to Li Ze.

Li Ze was overjoyed, Jin Mantang was really his lucky star, whenever he was poor, this God of Wealth would appear at the right time.

I couldn't wait to open the paperwork, and after reading through it at a glance, Li Ze was already smiling.

Money, money, he can finally have a while more on hand.

"How much?" Zhang Hui poked his head: "The net income of the entire fleet is three million silver dollars, did Jin Mantang go to rob?" ”

"It's like a robbery." Li Ze laughed: "A new route represents an endless stream of wealth." What we have here is shipped over, and that's windfall profits. ”

"In this case, I have to reach out to Li Xiang to ask for money." Zhang Hui smiled and said, "I wasn't embarrassed to say it before. I went to see Guozijian, it was dilapidated, but the place is really a good place, Li Xiang, do I want more, only 100,000 silver dollars, I want to renovate Guozijian, didn't I say earlier that I would separate the School of Political Science and Economics from Wuwei Academy? This winter, I will be able to put him in order, and I don't need you to send more people, I just need the Ministry of Engineering to give me a few masters, and then I will let those students do it themselves. ”

"Give!" With a large income, Li Ze suddenly became arrogant. "But this matter, let's not make a noise about it first, otherwise Guo Fengxiao and others will be entangled again."