Chapter 1328: The Vanishing Grain Merchant

Procedurally speaking, this kind of dispatch is the same concept as ordinary Qin Mission, 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 a cat and dog also enter the imperial study!

Zeisszi's arrival at the pinnacle of his life is not a good thing for other officials.

This person is different from Shi Wuyan, although Shi Wuyan is the Imperial History of the Inspectorate Zuodu, the minister on duty, and is also in charge of the Judicial Personnel Bureau, controlling the personnel issues of the entire judicial system, and at the same time, this person is also Cai Siqi's direct boss, but Shi Wuyan is already a very human minister, and he has no life as a minister on duty.

He will consider more political influence when dealing with things, and his greatest mission in the Imperial Study is not actually a responsible official, nor is it a representative of the entire judicial system, competing for the interests of the judicial system and improving the judicial system's voice in the imperial political arena.

His mission, or rather his main job duty, was to work with the other eight ministers on duty to set the strategic direction for the empire and assist the Son of Heaven in governing the whole world.

In terms of the size and scope of authority, in fact, the nine ministers on duty are the same, not saying that Shi Wuyan can only be in charge of the judiciary, and Hao Bonian can only be in charge of the army, in fact, as the ministers on duty, they have to take care of everything.

But under mutual restraint, in the end, it evolved into a small mess where everyone was responsible for their own small mess and did not indiscriminately meddle in the 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 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 he can't care about it.

Cai Siqi's position means that there is still a knife hanging on the head of the hundred officials, but this still makes the hundred officials breathe a sigh of relief, and the anti-corruption storm has finally stopped.

Don't worry, tomorrow it's your turn to be captured!

However, after this round of blows, many officials are still afraid, and they tend to be more cautious when it comes to doing things, they are also afraid that the Son of Heaven will kill another one, and now that the storm has just passed, you can't wait to jump out and make trouble, isn't it obvious that you want to slap the Son of Heaven in the face, when the time comes, I don't know how to die.

Therefore, most of the smarter officials know that the situation has been tense recently, and it is still not clear enough, and this matter of corruption and bribery should be postponed a little, and avoid the limelight first.

After the anti-corruption storm that has been blowing for half a year has stopped, Li Xuan is still paying close attention to the situation of the officials, judging from the report of the Han Tong, although many officials have begun to return to their old business, but the means are more secretive, and this is only a small number of people, most of them are still honest, and they do not dare to make money.

This made Li Xuan look satisfied!

This wave can at least make Baiguan safe for a year and a half!

Later, let Zeisz take down those who dare to commit crimes against the wind, and it is inevitable that he can extend this peace time for another year and a half, so that he can get at least two or three years of stable period.

Take advantage of the two or three years to quickly improve the inspection situation and plug those loopholes, so as to control the overall situation.

As for a few years later, what should I do if the rule of officials becomes a mess again?

What else can I do, another anti-corruption battle!

Li Xuan has already decided that before the overall environment of the rule of officials is greatly improved, one small kill a year, and a big kill every three years, even if it is impossible to completely cure the problem of the rule of officials, but at least the atmosphere of rule must be maintained at a barely acceptable level.

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

He has such a plan, if there will be a total of 100,000 corrupt officials in ten years, then choose to kill half of them, that is, 50,000, killing 50,000 at one time will have too bad an impact, and the operation will also increase the numbness.

However, if it is divided into ten years to kill, and 5,000 people are killed a year, then the impact will be much smaller, and it is not easy to cause panic and anti-corruption among hundreds of officials, and at the same time, the deterrent effect is relatively large.

It's better to kill all the time than to kill 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!

In the Huai and Yellow River basins, this year's rainy season is heavier than last year's, but many new water conservancy facilities have played an important role.

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

At the same time, with the gradual completion of the Hongze Lake embankment, after two consecutive years without flooding, the local agricultural production is also recovering relatively quickly, and Jiangbei is expected to harvest the largest harvest in the past 20 years.

In this regard, Li Xuan is quite pleased!

The grain is harvested, there is food, the people have something to eat, the people are not hungry, so they will not think of rebellion, and he Li Xuan's country can sit firmly.

However, in order to prevent a bumper grain harvest and a drop in grain prices that hurt the peasants, Li Xuan also promptly instructed the Datang Grain Corporation to prepare in advance for the grain procurement work in the Jiangbei region, and the price of this grain must be stabilized within a certain range.

Any rise or fall beyond the range must be taken very seriously!

Using market means to stabilize grain prices and using legal means to arrest grain speculators have always been the two magic weapons of the Tang Dynasty to stabilize grain prices.

The only side effect is that there are fewer and fewer ordinary grain merchants in Datang now, especially those who simply buy grain and then sell it directly, there are basically few left.

Because these traditional grain traders have either been caught for speculating in grain during the fluctuations in food prices that have been occurring for the past decade, or they have changed careers.

Many traditional grain merchants, they have turned into grain processors, directly buying grain and then selling it, this kind of thing in the case of the official demarcation of the grain price range, not to mention the fact that they will not make a lot of money, and if they are not careful, they will be caught and charged with grain speculation.

But the grain processing industry does not have this risk, because the Datang Grain Corporation, they control the price of ordinary grain, but for grain processing products, that does not matter.

Therefore, many grain merchants have begun to change careers, and the most common is to change to flour processing or rice processing industry, or to do other grain processing, non-staple food and the like.

Always, there are few people who play the traditional food sales industry, which is not profitable and has a particularly high risk.

Grain merchants, like salt merchants, have gradually become historical rankings, and today's grain merchants, not called grain merchants, are often engaged in grain processing in the middle of the night, and they are processing industries, which are industries supported by the empire.

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

Who is a grain merchant, you are a grain merchant, and your whole family is a 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, and after the empire implemented the salt monopoly system, except for the Datang Salt Company, no one or organization was allowed to engage in the production, transportation, and sale of salt.

There are also many industries that have changed, 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 the handicraft workshop, using primitive tools to produce cloth, silk.

When the Tang Empire began to use new machinery to produce cloth and silk, it once caused the collapse of a large number of primitive handmade textile workshops and countless weavers.

However, this situation did not last long, because the upgrading of the textile industry of the Tang Empire is not limited, regardless of whether it is a strong enterprise directly under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, Jiangnan Textile Company, or a private Dayang Textile Company, etc., you can buy relevant machinery and equipment anytime and anywhere for equipment upgrade production.

At the same time, the unemployment of weavers is actually a false proposition, because although the new machinery has improved efficiency, and theoretically no longer needs more workers, in practice, after improving efficiency, the cost becomes lower, and the sales of cloth are also larger, thus prompting the factory to expand production and hire more workers.

The only thing that has really been hit is the traditional small-scale peasant economy in the countryside, but now the empire is leading the way to change the rural economy.

They encouraged vast rural areas to clear land and plant more land.

In the past, it was not that the farmers did not want to open up the wasteland, but that there was no land for them to open the wasteland, and those wastelands seemed to be wasteland, but they all had owners.

But now, the government is providing a large amount of wasteland for farmers to open up for free, and at the same time, it is also adopting a unified agricultural tax, which increases the tax burden on the landlords in the countryside and forces them to give up their land voluntarily.

As a result, ordinary farmers have a large amount of land that can be cultivated!

Clearing land and planting more land has made it necessary for every labor force in the countryside to work fully, not only for men, but also for women.

For thousands of years, rural women in China have always been the main component of the rural labor force, but there is no saying that they must be liberated before they can farm.

During the off-season, men and women work together to farm the land, and during the off-season, men generally look for opportunities to do odd jobs or clear the wasteland, while women spend part of their time spinning and weaving for their families to wear.

Nowadays, the rampant and low price of machine-made cloth has greatly weakened the value of their labor to a certain extent.