Section 472 Salt and Iron Official Camp (3)
When Zhou Yafu and Chao Cuo walked into the greenhouse hall, Liu Che was flipping through the briefing on the location of the imperial tomb submitted by the Shaofu.
At present, Shaofu has selected a total of five alternative addresses.
Basically, they are all on the plains west of Chang'an.
Liu Che looked at these alternative addresses and frowned slightly.
In Liu Che's view, the location of the emperor's mausoleum is all false.
The key is that the place is large, which is convenient for building a city, and at the same time can drive the development of the surrounding economy.
Well, Liu Che has now started the idea of the emperor's tomb business circle.
Once the site selection is completed, he will move the world's powerful people, prominent families, and celebrities to the vicinity of the emperor's tomb.
Not only that, Liu Che also planned to move the future martial garden, the examination venue, and the Moyuan as well as the schools that were brewing in the hundreds of schools of thought to the imperial mausoleum, and forcibly pass the imperial mausoleum to promote the local social, cultural and economic development.
This kind of real estate development model similar to later generations, Liu Che feels that he can try it.
In any case, so many academies and cultural centers are placed in the imperial tombs, at least they will not lose money.
It may even be possible to earn back the construction costs of the imperial tomb......
Zhao Pu of the later Song Dynasty said: Governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh.
Liu Che felt that when he became an emperor, he had to be careful and use every penny and every resource on the blade.
Good and great {Joy and profligacy, are the two taboos of the emperor.
I was thinking about whether to take time to go to these five candidate addresses in person, and when I took a look, Wang Dao's voice came: "Your Majesty, Prime Minister, Imperial Doctor, has arrived outside the palace." Waiting! β
"Please!" Liu Che hurriedly said.
The Han Dynasty inherited the Qin system, and the three princes and nine kings enjoyed special treatment in front of the emperor.
Especially the three princes. You can sit and discuss with the Son of Heaven, and talk almost on an equal footing.
Originally. Tingwei Zhang Shizhi was under Sima's door, and even caught the first emperor who was still the prince to brush up his reputation, although Zhang Shizhi was settled by the first emperor after the autumn, but this also proves that the status of the three princes and nine kings in the Han family is very high, at least they can take the prince to brush their prestige openly.
It's just that after Zhang Shizhi, no minister dares to play like that anymore.
The majesty of the monarchy is expanding day and night.
One trades off the other. Naturally, the power of the ministers gradually declined.
Liu Che remembered very well that in his previous life, after Zhou Yafu dismissed the prime minister, the prime minister of the Han family became a joke.
When the little pig was in the court, he even simply turned Cheng into a mascot, and even did not let the prime minister participate in the court meeting......
But at this point, the change is not yet obvious.
Zhou Yafu's world-class efforts to extinguish the Wu Chu Rebellion made the post of prime minister regain its brilliance.
is Liu Che's status as the son of heaven, and he also relies on Zhou Yafu's support. will be so stable.
"Your Majesty, please invite the prime minister and the imperial historian to enter the pilgrimage!" The celebrant sang the promise aloud.
After a while, Zhou Yafu and Chao Cuo approached the hall one after another, facing Liu Che, and bowed to the ground: "Prime Minister Yafu (Yu Shi Dafu is wrong) to meet Your Majesty!" β
"Hurry up and excuse me!" Liu Che hurriedly got up. Commanded to the king: "Give a seat to the prime minister and the imperial doctor!" β
After being the emperor for so long, Liu Che has also become accustomed to the daily life between the emperor and the ministers.
In general, the dialogue between the emperor of the Han dynasty and the three princes and nine kings and ministers of more than 2,000 stones. It has a strong legacy of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
Between kings and ministers, most of the time. In a near-equal position.
For example, no matter how disgusted the emperor is with a minister at the level of Jiuqing. It will also be referred to as 'Jun' and 'Qing'.
Like Liu Che's cheap father, he yelled at Zhou Yafu in history: I don't have to! Such foul language is one of the few in the entire history of the Han Dynasty.
Especially after Emperor Taizong Xiaowen established the traditional system of 'not dishonoring each other', as long as the three princes and nine kings do not die, they can basically die well.
For example, Zhang Shizhi, even if he had offended the first emperor so strictly, he was only expelled from Chang'an and released as the prince and king.
Of course, the historical piglets are an exception.
It's just that in this way, it has brought another consequence: that is, the three princes and nine kings are not as gentle and elegant as the ministers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in later generations.
Therefore, the prime minister waited for Shen Tujia to stop Chao Cuo and the first emperor's policy of cutting the feudal domain with his own strength, which is a clear proof
Therefore, Liu Che knew that if he couldn't convince Zhou Yafu, then he didn't need to mention it in the official camp of Yantie, and he could just take a break!
In the history of the Han dynasty, the emperor who could not convince the prime minister to obey his will had only two choices: remove the prime minister or submit.
Obviously, now, Liu Che has no way to remove Zhou Yafu, nor can he remove Zhou Yafu.
Looking at Zhou Yafu, the prime minister with a stern face and a solemn expression, Liu Che also had a little drum in his heart.
He didn't know if he could make Zhou Yafu resonate with him.
This made Liu Che more or less understand why after Zhou Yafu, the emperor's father began to use Cheng Yuan as an eraser.
A strong prime minister is indeed a serious challenge to the authority of the king.
Taking a deep breath, Liu Che decided not to talk about the issue of salt and iron for now.
"Today, I invite the prime minister and the imperial doctor into the palace, there are a few things, I want to reach an agreement with the two Aiqing before the court meeting, if the two Aiqing do not agree, I will not propose it at the court meeting!" Liu Che said slowly.
This is also the unspoken rule of the Han Dynasty.
Basically, when it comes to court discussions, the emperor must have communicated with one of the prime minister and the imperial historian in advance, and received the support of at least one of the two.
Otherwise, when it comes to the court, there is not even a courtier who instigates, and the emperor himself has to mention yì, in case there is no guò, where will the emperor's face go?
"Please make it clear!" Zhou Yafu bowed slightly.
Liu Che nodded and said, "This first thing, I plan to immigrate to Liaodong, Liaoxi, and North Korea, grant land to immigrants, encourage reclamation, and build roads and water conservancy, just like the story of Emperor Gao!" β
When Zhou Yafu heard this, he frowned slightly, got up and bowed: "Dare to ask Your Majesty, is the Holy Will intended to implement Emperor Gao's decree on Liaodong, Liaoxi, and North Korea?" β
At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the world withered, and Liu Bang issued a decree granting fields. According to the Qin system, the rank of the common people is knighted. Grant of land.
At that time, the minimum standard of land granting was 100 acres per household.
As a result, the fleeing people came out of the deep mountains and old forests. The social economy of the Han dynasty recovered rapidly.
And this decree is the foundation of the Han regime that can sit firmly in the world!
In the first 30 years of the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty gave land to local people on a large scale, encouraged production, and even distributed seeds and agricultural tools.
The people of the world are grateful to the Liu family, and after receiving the firm support of the peasants, who account for the largest part of the population, Han Xin, Peng Yueying, and Buluwan have all become lackeys.
When Zhu Lu was in turmoil, and the princes and ministers destroyed the Lu family, Zhou Bo ordered the whole army: the right side of the Lu family, and the left side of the Liu family.
Almost all of the soldiers killed the officers who were close to LΓΌ. Left to raise his arm to fight for Liu.
It's just that in the past ten years, with the rapid growth of the world's population, the land in the Central Plains and Guanzhong is no longer rich, and the Han family has not granted land for more than ten years.
On the contrary, local landless and landless peasants began to appear.
Guanzhong has become a carnival place for loan sharks.
There is no place for the poor to stand, and there are more and more phenomena of the rich being in the wilderness.
In this context, Chao Cuo shouted out, 'Gold and jade, cold and unclothed.' Hungry and unable to eat', the hundreds of schools of thought also issued their own voices on the current affairs, and there were even calls for the restoration of the well field system.
In the eyes of some people, the Ida system is a panacea that can solve social contradictions and problems.
It's just that......
"The Ida system was restored. Do you want to restore slavery and ask the slave owners to come back? Liu Che scoffed at the guys who were agitating these fallacies.
"Exactly!" Liu Che stood up and looked at Zhou Yafu. Said: "I intend to use Emperor Gao's second and twelfth years of the land grant decree as the basis to make Liaodong, Liaoxi, and Korea borderless. Granting the people of the world who are willing to move is a plan drafted by me and Shangshutai Shangshu and Shizhong. The Prime Minister and the Imperial Doctor, please take a look! β
As he spoke, Liu Che asked Wang Dao to pick up a thick white paper bound notebook for Zhou Yafu and Chao Cuo to watch.
Zhou Yafu respectfully took the notebook, returned to his seat, and opened it to read it carefully.
The more he looked, the more surprised Zhou Yafu became.
The plan and arrangement for immigration to Liaodong, Liaoxi and North Korea in the book are almost detailed.
The ideas and strategies put forward also seem to be very feasible.
It's just that......
Zhou Yafu put down the plan, bowed to Liu Che and asked: "Your Majesty, the minister has a question: according to this strategy, all immigrants are under military management in the early stage, and they are organized by the Shiwu Division, numbered: Reclamation Army, then who belongs to this Reclamation Army, and who is the order?" β
"Naturally, it belongs to the Prime Minister's Mansion and is under my orders, and all the officers of the Reclamation Army are all retired non-commissioned officers!" Liu Che replied.
Liu Che discussed this immigration plan with his personal staff for nearly three months, and all the details were discussed repeatedly.
The whole plan was drawn up by Liu Che by drawing on the homestead law of the later Emperor Mi, the construction corps of the Celestial Empire, and the government military system in Chinese history, and drew on its strengths.
According to the plan, all immigrants were collectively cultivated, cultivated, and lived collectively in a shape similar to that of the Celestial Empire's construction corps.
The cultivated land can only be owned by the cultivator after five years of cultivation.
At the same time, the immigrants could legally own most of the Han standard weapons, including strong crossbows, under the establishment of the Tunken Army, and they needed to train on time every month, and in case of war, they had to bring their own weapons and armor, and go to the front line under the orders of the imperial court.
This is the best immigration option for the Northeast and North Korea regions under the current conditions.
Without collective protection and mutual help, it would be difficult for migrants to survive the harsh winter in the Northeast.
Moreover, Liaodong, Liaoxi, and Korea are all newly acquired lands by China, and Liaodong and Liaoxi have only been under Chinese rule for two or three hundred years, while Korea has just started.
Immigrants have passed, and almost all of them have to start over.
Without the strength of the collective, it will undoubtedly be very difficult to rely on the individual alone.
Of course, in order to avoid a tragedy similar to the Ming Dynasty's development of the guard system to the later stage, Liu Che stipulated that each cantonment army has a ten-year limit, and after ten years, the cantonment army is disbanded and the army is turned into a people, and at the same time, local officials have jurisdiction and governance power over the cantonment army.
Moreover, all officers of the Cantonment Army were not allowed to occupy any land in the army.
As compensation, when the cantonment army was disbanded, all the cantonment officers could choose to return to their hometowns to serve as pavilion chiefs, bureaucrats, or county officials, or even county lieutenants, or they could emigrate to Guanzhong with their families.
Just in response, the investment in this immigration program is also significant.
Unlike in the past, when the government handed over the land and the land to the peasants, they could wait until the tax was collected.
In the first year or two, the Tunken Army was almost entirely funded by the Han family itself.
The expenses of the immigrants on the road, and the funds for cultivating the land and building fortresses and villages after the target was handed over, were almost all spent by the imperial court.
Based on the cost of 5,000 yuan per person for the first phase of the plan's target of 100,000 immigrants, that is 50,000 yuan, which is equivalent to 10% of the annual financial income of the Han family.
Moreover, when the first phase of immigrants has passed the first year of adaptation and the entire policy has been proven to be feasible, it will be followed by a huge immigration plan of more than 15 phases, spanning more than 10 years, with a total of more than 1 million.
If all immigrants had to pay for the expenses of the imperial court.
This treasury simply can't hold it!
But......
When Liu Che said that all the cantonment army was under the guidance of the prime minister's office, and the plan clearly stated that all officers should be served by retired non-commissioned officers, and when the cantonment army was disbanded after ten years, the officers could return to their hometowns to serve as grassroots officials or move to Chang'an according to their respective positions and merits.
Zhou Yafu knew that he didn't support this plan, he had to support it, and if he supported it, he would support it!
The answer is simple.
As long as Zhou Yafu dares to veto this plan, tomorrow, the landless peasants and retired soldiers in Guanzhong who heard the rumors will dare to go to the Changping Marquis Mansion in Shangguanli to block the door of his Zhou Yafu's house.
Especially the peasants in Guanzhong, that is the lord that even the Son of Heaven dares to scold!
Zhou Yafu smiled bitterly, he knew that he had jumped into the pit dug by the Son of Heaven.
Thinking about it again, the royal road was so light before, and he said the words of the intention of the Son of Heaven to summon him.
Zhou Yafu still didn't understand that the Son of Heaven was holding an immigration plan to force him to agree to the Yantie official camp.
"Your Majesty is really the Son of Heaven!" Zhou Yafu smiled bitterly: "No wonder many people say that there is the style of Taizong's filial piety today!" β
Back then, wasn't Emperor Taizong the best at using one thing to force his courtiers to agree to another?
But what can he do?
As a prime minister with a military background and a strong military background, Zhou Yafu could not and could not refuse such a plan as a resettlement army with obvious goodwill and benefits to the army.
Unless, he, Zhou Yafu, is willing to cut himself off from the army, and the children and grandchildren of the Zhou family will no longer join the army and no longer lead the army!
Not only that, but he Zhou Yafu also has to bear the abuse of the people all over the world!
The people of the Han dynasty looked forward to giving land, just as the crops of the great drought longed for rain to moisten.
Granting land is a beautiful thing that countless landless peasants and poor people in the world will never forget.
In the Han Dynasty, the Son of Heaven did not propose to grant land, so that's it.
But if the Son of Heaven proposes to grant land, and because of the opposition of his subordinates, the guide is unable to grant land, then all the resentment of the whole world will be concentrated on that courtier.
No one can resist the resentment of the whole world. (To be continued......)
ps: Tomorrow will send a description of the land granting decree and implementation in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty in the work related, interested students can take a look at ~ R1292