Chapter 63 Leading the Meeting
As the biggest peacemaker, Yuan Qianyao is still very qualified to fulfill his obligations.
After exposing this topic, no one dared to mention it again.
Pei Min's words obviously have a huge deterrent effect.
Shangshu Province has certainly declined and lost its original style.
But after all, he is the boss of the six ministries, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and he governs the twenty-four divisions of the six ministries, and the officials responsible for the promotion and transfer of officials are under him.
With this convenience, Pei Min wants to arrange for officials to be promoted and transferred to the border, not too easily.
Pei Min entered the court, and the original direct command of Anxi Dadu Hufu, Xihe, and Longyou Jiedu became Yao Ling. Generally speaking, remote officials do not need to be responsible for local affairs, but who doesn't know Pei Min's situation?
What is the difference between his remote collar and his direct rule?
Most of the officials in Anxi Daduhu, Xihe, and Longyou were all promoted by Pei Min, how could they refuse Pei Min's order?
Which one of these people who can enter the political hall is an idle person?
Not to mention that everyone has a certain identity background, the network is definitely not weak, and most of them are married and have children and daughters.
This is an official, how can he not seek the welfare of his family and future generations?
If Pei Min really transferred their clan descendants to the border as he said, it would be a good game.
One by one, they all pinched the weight and didn't dare to say any more.
The topic also involved Pei Min on the administrative side.
Many ministers seem to have chosen to forget about military issues and have begun to discuss political affairs.
The opening of the Qinghai Road was imperative, and the smooth passage of the Silk Road allowed Tang officials to better understand the economic convenience brought by commerce.
Although the status of merchants in this era is low, only the wealth of the country can make the people strong.
The country is all poor, and they still expect the people to live a good life?
There is no one here who does not understand this basic truth, and no one opposes it, and the policy has been given the green light all the way.
For some trivial matters, Pei Min became a spectator again and didn't talk much.
It wasn't until the issue of food prices that Pei Min opened his mouth, "In terms of the adjustment of food prices, I don't think we should die to save face, but we have to keep up with Zhenguan." During the Zhenguan period, four or five dollars of rice were used to govern the world. It is because the population was insufficient during the Zhenguan period, and there were less than 3 million households, so the price of rice and grain was low, which is reasonable. But now, after a hundred years of development, the population of our dynasty has almost reached the peak of the previous dynasty. ”
Speaking of this, Pei Min suddenly thought that there was a brain-dead article in later generations that "the population and economy of the Tang Dynasty were inferior to the Sui Dynasty".
The above learned from the pain and held the stinky feet, saying that the development of the Tang Dynasty for a hundred years was not as good as the Sui Dynasty, which was a little short-lived.
is a brain-dead article that does not conform to reality, but most people choose to believe it, I really think so.
In fact, the population of the first 100 years of the Tang Dynasty was indeed not as good as that of the Sui Dynasty, but who will carry this pot?
After Yang Jian succeeded to the throne, the population was counted to nearly 3.6 million households, which does not include the 3.3 million households in the Northern Qi Dynasty and a large number of hidden household registrations in the Southern Chen and the Northern and Southern Wars.
After Emperor Wen of Sui ruled the world, the population was around 7 million households.
The Sui Dynasty was an intact successor, and its population capital was more than three times that of Li Tang.
However, the Tang Dynasty was established in ruins after the great turmoil at the end of the Sui Dynasty, with a population of only more than 2 million households......
The ancients could give birth, but they were not pigs, a litter for a lifetime, a lifetime for a lifetime.
Population growth takes time.
This real difference completely blinded some sunspots.
It took a hundred years for the Tang Dynasty to return to the population level of the Sui Dynasty, and a hundred years later, the Tang Dynasty's household registration had reached 9,619,254 households, a figure that the sunspots completely ignored.
However, even now, the population of the Tang Dynasty is still slightly inferior to that of the Great Cause for nine years, but it is not far behind, with more than 40 million people.
The Tang Dynasty was undoubtedly an agrarian nation, and more than 30 million of the more than 40 million people were farming people.
Pei Min said cautiously: "Rice and grain are expensive, and they hurt the people; Rice and grain are cheap, hurting farmers. ”
This is an experience summed up by our ancestors thousands of years ago.
Later generations of scholars also studied the economic phenomenon of grain cheapness hurting peasants according to this law: that is to say, in a bumper harvest year, the peasants' income decreased, because the grain price was too low, and the grain could not be sold at a price.
"The people are hurt, the people are scattered, the peasants are hurt, the family and the country are unstable. The pricing of this rice grain is the most important thing. I know that the bastard of Wang Ji before, in order to please the Sacred Heart, deliberately changed the price of food to three or four dollars for Zhenguan, in order to compare with Zhenguan, which is really stupid. This price must be changed so that it must not harm the interests of the 30 million households, nor can it hurt the businessmen. This little bit of price must be adjusted properly, and the sooner the better! ”
Pei Min said solemnly.
Everyone in the hall looked at Pei Min in some surprise.
In military affairs, Pei Min is resolute and resolute, and they don't think there is any problem.
Pei Min's exploits at this moment are already comparable to the military god Li Jing in the eyes of everyone.
Military affairs are his strength, but he does not want to be able to make such suggestions in the details of government affairs.
You must know that the change in the price of rice and grain, although it is a penny of data, is related to the whole world.
Scholars and businessmen need to buy rice to eat, while farmers need to buy rice to live.
Everyone in the world can't do without this small data......
It's just that in the past, in order to curry favor with Li Longji, Wang Ji lowered the price of grain. Although it has hurt thousands of people, it has also cheapened the three classes of businessmen and commerce.
Now, if we want to raise food prices rashly, it will inevitably damage the interests of Texis Industry and Commerce, and it will also harm people's livelihood.
Therefore, the small amount change has been delayed again and again, and there has been no result.
Pei Min said unceremoniously: "Some things can be delayed, and some things can't be delayed." Long-term pain is better than short-term pain, this grain price will be changed sooner or later, and the later it is changed, the greater the damage. ”
Li Yuanhong smiled with a little wry smile: "I'll understand this!" But how is this amount determined? Is it a one, two, or three money. That's the problem, and each has its own point. It is not easy to find an absolute balance between the injured people and the injured peasants. ”
Pei Min understood it, but in fact, this is a lack of courage to make a decision.
We all know that there is this problem, but this problem is a double-edged sword, and this choice of importance is related to the wishes of 40 million people in the world.
Li Yuanhong and a group of officials couldn't make up their minds, and the person with the courage was now on a hospital bed.
This cannot be implemented.
"After today's meeting, I will go back to Shangshu Province and gather officials and household officials to learn in detail about the emergency situation of ordinary businessmen and ordinary people, and set the price of grain according to their level. I will give you an answer in two days at most, and when the time comes, the situation of my investigation will prevail, and we must not delay it and chill the hearts of the people of the world. ”
Seeing Pei Min taking this matter on his shoulders, Li Yuanhong, Yu Wenrong and others were shocked to find that although Pei Min did not say much, he decided the two biggest problems of the meeting by himself, and invisibly dominated the meeting.