Chapter 815: Li Shimin was stunned
Li Shimin has always been a little upset recently, and as the end of the year approaches, all kinds of things are coming together. The busier the www.biquge.info the pen "Fun" Pavilion became, the more distracted they became, and the prime ministers under the Zhongshu Sect recently came up with a plan for Tunbian immigrants.
In general, this plan is still the real immigration plan led by Li Chao in the past. Only this time, it is mainly moving in the four directions of Hetao and Daibei, as well as Annam and Longnan. The plan is good, there is a lot of land to immigrate.
Especially in the Hetao and Daibei, especially in the Hetao area, the Yellow River is harmful, and only one is rich. It's a good place for rich oil, stuffed with granaries, and an excellent horse ranch. These two places, when developed, can even accommodate millions of immigrants.
During the Qin and Han dynasties, there was a large-scale immigration there, and it was no problem to immigrate there.
But the problem is that immigrants also need money.
After the catastrophe in the Central Plains, the imperial court still owed a large amount of money.
Post-disaster reconstruction and resumption of production in various places require a lot of money, especially the imperial court has to exempt the disaster area from taxes and reduce revenue. In this case, the imperial court did not have much financial resources to lead the immigration. Now the imperial court has no plans, but no financial support, so it can only reduce the scale of immigration first, and at the same time encourage the people to migrate independently.
As long as the people themselves immigrate, when they get there, they can divide the land and divide the land.
One ding can divide 100 acres of land, which is the upper limit of the average land. If it had been in the past, under such conditions, and in a good place like Hetao, there would definitely be a lot of people going there.
But now, the imperial court has let out the news, but few people are willing to respond to the immigration.
As for the reason, it's simple.
The princes who have already obtained the fiefdom are rolling up their sleeves to make a big move. In order to recruit people to build a territory, they offered much better terms than those of the imperial court.
Although their territory cannot be compared with the imperial court, it is farther and more remote, but they have money.
For example, the Li family, they began to recruit the population at the earliest, and the conditions they gave were that there was no restriction on their origins, and then they would travel and stay and eat along the way. In short, compared to the imperial court, you have to go, you can only find a way to go all the way by yourself, and after you go, the imperial court only gives you a piece of wasteland, and everything else depends on your own policies, and people are all-round.
If you want to immigrate over, Li Ji will give you an appraisal of your belongings, and then pay for it, or you can directly hand over these houses, fields, and belongings to Li Kee, and entrust them to help sell them. If you haven't sold something yet, you'll get a sum of money first.
In fact, even if the family has no money, sign up, the Li family will give a settling-in fee, and when you get there, the Li family will also promise to give an interest-free loan, in short, you don't have to worry about it over there.
As long as people pass, they don't have to worry about the house, they don't have to worry about the work, and even Li Ji promised that if they immigrated to the past, no matter what kind of good or bad they were, if they had children, they could go to the school opened by Li Ji for three years to study in a free primary school, and they could learn to count words and counts. If they have excellent grades, they can also get scholarships, which will be funded by the Li family for them to go to high school, or even junior high school and high school in the future.
Anyway, the promises given by Li Ji are indeed very tempting.
Even Li Shimin, seeing these conditions, also admits that if he is a poor person living in poverty in the Central Plains, he will immediately sign up to move his family when he sees the conditions of the Li family.
In fact, it does.
The Li family recruited, and the people who signed up were crowded. But no matter where the Li family comes from, they still pick skills. Even if you are a reader, you must be able to know a skill, either proficient in clerical work, or proficient in accounting, etc. Ordinary people, without any skills, are really difficult to enter the eyes of the Li family.
Compare.
The immigration registration points of the yamen in various parts of the imperial court were very deserted.
Now the other princes are also following Li Chao's example, offering many favorable conditions, and are pulling people around.
No way, who wants these princes to be rich.
For example, the Li family is wealthy, and as soon as he made a move, he threatened to build three cities directly. Some other princes, such as Qin Shubao, who was Li Chao's father-in-law, or the eldest princess attached to the horse, was also a wealthy man, he had a fief of 180 li, and he also said that he would build two castles. 、
Cheng bit the Taurus to reach these guys, followed Li Chao to make a lot of money, and shouted that they wanted to choose to build a big castle.
Even if they are like Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui, they all want to build a castle directly.
It takes a lot of money to build a castle and build a city with the strength of a family.
Now the net worth of the craftsmen has risen sharply, and many materials for building the city have also risen, but it still can't stop the enthusiasm of these princes for building the city.
If any prince said that he did not plan to build a city, but only planned to build a manor first, he would be laughed out.
If you want to build it, you have to build at least a castle.
Not to mention that like Li Chao, you have to build three surrendered cities as soon as you come, but you can't build a castle first?
Li Shimin really didn't know that these meritorious nobles were so wealthy one by one.
Looking at their posture, which one doesn't have tens of thousands.
Even if you build a small castle, don't you get a lot of money? Like Cheng biting Jin Qinqiong and them, if they want to build a city directly, they must have tens of thousands, or even more than 100,000 yuan.
As for Li Chao, he directly plans to build three cities, and also build roads and Feng Forts, which is estimated to be impossible to beat hundreds of thousands.
These guys are really rich.
Think about it, I owe a lot of debts, usually when the court has no money, I don't see these nobles saying that a lot of money is stored in Li Ji Qian Zhuang, or buried in the underground money cellar. Now it's good, it's all taken out.
"It seems that the two taxes of household tax and local tax should be accelerated and fully implemented. There are too many loopholes in the taxation according to the ding, so it is necessary to tax according to the household and so on, and according to the property. It is also necessary to strengthen the collection of commercial taxes, and the nobles and gentry are one, and none of them can be exempt from taxes! ”
Li Shimin was a little ruthless.
Peace was reached with the Turks this year, but everyone knew that it was only a temporary truce. The Turks even made it clear that the peace treaty was marked as a three-year truce.
If things go well, maybe the Turks will come south in three years. If things don't go well, maybe the Turks won't be able to wait for that time and will have to go south.
The imperial court must step up its preparations for war.
Li Chao's northern nine-sided defense system must be stepped up, but these all require money.
It takes a lot of money.
The soldiers of the imperial court do not spend much money on raising soldiers in peacetime, but as soon as the war starts, all kinds of ordnance, money, food, pensions, rewards and other expenses are immediately a massive number.
The court is short of money.
Li Shimin is now a little jealous of the Li family's industry, and the family has a big business.
The Li family is too rich, this Li Chao is too good at making money. The Li family doesn't know how much money they have earned over the years, they are simply rich and rival the country.
In terms of making money, Li Shimin really admires Li Chao.
Li Chao mastered the money bag for the imperial court and presided over the household department, which was not long, but he opened many sources for the imperial court. Li Chao is in charge of the household department, no more than other officials. Other officials are trying to find ways to reduce spending, but Li Chao will only find ways to open source.
The Emperor Taishang had told him a few words before, saying that the court could no longer accommodate Li Chao. These words have the intention of provocative, and Li Shimin was really touched when he heard it.
But now, the empty treasury of the court makes Li Shimin still have to rely on Li Chao.
Before Li Chaozheng, he had proposed to set up a salt company and issue salt shares and salt shares. After Li Chao left, Li Shimin asked someone from the household department to take over, but so far, he has not made a figure out about this matter.
Without Li San, a butcher, he really eats pigs with hair, this fact makes Li Shimin very dissatisfied, mainly dissatisfied with those people in the household department, but dissatisfaction is dissatisfaction, and the result is still like this.
The household department is still inseparable from Li Chao.
The imperial court still has to be presided over by Li Chao and control the money bag.
Li Shimin has some thoughts about the Li family's money recently. He used to be red-eyed and wanted to get a bank. Look at it now, this money village is really powerful, money in and out, and money is rolling.
Li Shimin wanted to talk to Li Chao after he came back, and let Li Chao build a money bank for the imperial court. He believes that with the credibility of the imperial court, after building a money bank, he will definitely be able to do more and earn more at that time.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty."
Li Shimin came back to his senses.
Eunuch Wang was found standing in front of him.
"Huh?"
Eunuch Wang called Li Shimin a few times just now, but found that the emperor had been distracted.
"Your Majesty, urgent news from Hetao."
"Urgent?"
"Well, an urgent report from the secret agents of the Six Doors, Li Xiang was assassinated in Saibei!"
"Assassinated?" Li Shimin's voice suddenly raised an octave. "How is Li Chao now?"
I just thought that when Li Chao came back, I would reuse him, but I didn't expect this to happen.
"Your Majesty, rest assured, Li Xiangguo is fine, the assassin was caught on the spot, and Li Xiangguo was not injured."
"Do you know who sent the assassins?"
"It's an assassin from the Yu Shooting faction."
"This damn Yu Shot, as soon as the peace agreement was made, he dared to break the contract like this, I will never spare him!"
"Your Majesty, the secret agent also reported that after Yu Shot's assassin failed, he planned to personally lead his troops across the border into the Hetao to intercept and kill Li Xiang."
"How dare he!" Li Shimin slapped his palm on the imperial case, and the music on the table jumped up.
"Pass Ma Zhou here."
Ma Zhou, the Chinese scholar, arrived.
"Ma Zhou, you immediately draft an edict, ordering Li Simo, the deputy governor of Zhenbei, as well as Cheng Yanjin, the governor of Xiazhou, Guo Xiaoke, the governor of Linzhou, and Li Jing, the governor of Hedong Province, so that they can immediately send troops to Hetao to meet Li Chao, and Li Chao's safety must be ensured. If Li Chao has a loss of a hair, I am the only one who asks! ”
Ma Zhou was secretly surprised by the emperor's anger, but he didn't expect the emperor to value Li Chao so much.
Directly mobilize several generals around the Hetao to send troops to respond, which is not a treatment that ordinary courtiers can get.
"I understand."
"Go quickly, send it out as soon as it's ready."
Ma Zhou returned to Zhongshu Province and hurriedly prepared the edict and then sent it to Li Shimin.
"Your Majesty, Hetao is urgent!"
Li Shimin raised his head violently, "Hetao urgent report? Say it! ”
"Your Majesty, Hetao urgently, Li Xiang fought with the southern prisoner's Yu Shooting Set in Fengzhou a few days ago, and broke the Yu Shooting Set up with 2,000 troops, annihilated more than 1,000 enemies, and forced the landing of Yu Shooting, capturing more than 6,000 horsemen."
"Yu shot and surrendered!"
"What?" Li Shimin looked at the edict in his hand that sent troops to rescue Li Chao, and he felt a little in a trance when he listened to the latest report.
He was still worried about Li Chao here, and was ready to send someone to pick up Li Chao, and then Li Chao had already shot 8,000 with 2,000 people, not only won more with less, but also directly shot Yu to the prisoners, and made him surrender and submit?
Isn't this really a joke?