Chapter 256 Rules are for changing
The Tang Dynasty was still quarreling and quarrels. Li Yuan, who was already addicted to playing imperial power, saw that Li Jiancheng was strong, and he still gave the credit for quelling the Fu Gongyou Rebellion to Li Shimin.
In the East Palace, there were thick documents on the table table of Li Jiancheng. Li Jiancheng was depressed, especially after accompanying Li Yuanji to visit Li Xiuning's "sickness", Li Jiancheng felt even more depressed. However, Li Jiancheng was still very serious about handling official documents before the table table, rubbing his forehead tiredly while sighing.
Wei Zheng walked in.
Li Jiancheng looked up and breathed a sigh of relief, "Erlang's move is really brilliant."
Wei Zheng did not comment and sat in the seat next to him, starting to help handle official documents.
Li Jiancheng continued to murmur: "I didn't expect that Erlang, who could only fight and kill on the battlefield, can now use such cruel and incredible conspiracy."
Wei Zheng said lightly: "Everyone can change. Besides, the Tiance Mansion is full of talents. In fact, he has no choice when he is with the King of Qin. No matter what he thinks, now in the court, he can fight with His Royal Highness to the death!"
Li Jiancheng smiled bitterly and said, "Fu Gongyou and the Jiangzuo clan had a different dream. Erlang led the army of tigers and wolves to the south, and the Jianghuai River would definitely flow into a river!"
Wei Zheng suddenly said: "The country and the country entered the war, how can we live in the people? Don't talk about being a marquis? One general succeeds and thousands of bones are undone."
Li Jiancheng looked at Wei Zheng with some surprise and said, "A general succeeded and thousands of bones were undone, but Xuancheng still hit the mark!"
Wei Zheng said seriously: "This poem was not written by me, but by Mr. Chen!"
"Chen Ying?" Li Jiancheng sighed and said, "I didn't expect Chen Ying could see thoroughly. How many people could survive if millions of people in the Jianghuai River and the swords and weapons together?"
Wei Zheng thought for a while and said, "Your Highness the Crown Prince is worried about the livelihood of the people in Jiangnan!"
Li Jiancheng nodded.
Wei Zheng chuckled softly and said, "Zheng has a plan that can save the people of Jiangzuo from war!"
Li Jiancheng quickly asked, "What is Xuancheng's trick?"
Wei Zheng said lightly: "Actually, there is no choice for Du Fuwei!"
Li Jiancheng nodded and said, "The Tianzhu incident has made him a great enemy with the generals of the King of Qin."
Wei Zheng said: "So, if Du Fuwei does not surrender to the crown prince, he will die sooner or later at the hands of the King of Qin. For the sake of the present plan, only one person needs to explain this truth to him."
Li Jiancheng hurriedly asked, "Who is the right one to send?"
Wei Zheng raised his head from the official document, thought for a while and said, "After all, he is a king of a different surname, so it's better for the minister to leave in person!"
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At this time, because of the role of Chen Ying, a butterfly in another world, history began to go to a fork in the road. Because Li Xiuning did not die of illness as in history, Li Xiuning came forward to protect Du Fuwei. Now, although Du Fuwei has been stripped of his official position, like the Minister of War and the position of Prince Taibao, he has been stripped of his position as the Minister of War, but he is still living well.
However, Du Fuwei knew very well. The Jianghuai Army rebelled with Fu Gongyou. Fu Gongyou would definitely not be the opponent of the Li Tang court. He might have a temporary victory. The Li Tang court could fail once or twice, ten times or eight times. Fu Gongyou only needed to fail once and he would die without a place to bury him.
Fu Gongyou failed his trust and died, but tens of thousands of brothers and sisters of the Jianghuai Army were innocent.
Whenever Du Fuwei gritted his teeth whenever he thought that the Qin King Li Shimin would have the blood of tens of thousands of brothers of the Jianghuai Army, which dyed his path to promotion red when he was promoted.
But now, Du Fuwei is already a bird in a cage, and he can only sit and see the dilemma of tens of thousands of Jianghuai army brothers, but he has no choice.
Du Fuwei drank one glass after another, and he wanted to use alcohol to anesthesia himself. However, as the more alcohol he drank, Du Fuwei was not drunk, but he became more and more sober.
At some point, Wei Zheng held his hands in his arms, looking at Du Fuwei lazy and leisurely and said, "King, if the prince no longer cares about you, the great Tang Dynasty and the civil and military officials of the court, who can be your backer?"
Du Fuwei casually raised his feet on the desk and said, "A family can turn to the King of Qin at worst."
Wei Zheng sneered, turned his head unexpectedly and said, "There will never be a shortage of you, the martial artist, from the King of Qin--"
Du Fuwei's expression froze.
Wei Zheng continued: "What's more, you saved the prince in the Heavenly Prison of Dali Temple. This is all the generals of the same line as the King of Qin. Once the King of Qin gains power, these generals will inevitably gain power. At that time, will the King of Qin favor them or you?"
Du Fuwei put away his feet angrily, stared at Wei Zheng and yelled: "What's the point of death for a family?"
Wei Zheng leaned forward slightly and said word by word: "Although the Tang Dynasty is big, there is only one person who can shelter you from wind and rain, and that is the prince - apart from that, you only have a way out!"
"Why are you happy in life? Why are you sad in death?" Du Fuwei sneered: "A family will be another hero in 18 years!"
Wei Zheng said coldly: "Then I wonder if your tens of thousands of brothers in the Jianghuai Army will think about it. The king really wants to bring them back in 18 years?"
When Du Fuwei heard this, he felt like a lightning strike.
He, Du Fuwei, was alone and had no worries except his younger brother Du Fude.
He is now trapped in Chang'an, and life is worse than death. He really has no fear of death.
However, what he couldn't let go of the most was the tens of thousands of brothers of the Jianghuai Army. These brothers were all from poverty and had no power or power. When they followed him to rebel, they could not survive. When the Tang Dynasty fought against Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande, he had an absolute advantage, helping Tang Zetang Xing and Zheng Zezhen Sheng.
At that time, Du Fuwei was dissatisfied with Wang Shichong's excessive tax collection and was greedy, and dissatisfied with Wang Shichong's nepotism and self-reliance. Therefore, he led tens of thousands of Jianghuai troops to pay tribute to Tang, in order to allow these miserable brothers to have a background, to live a good life and live a peaceful life.
However, Du Fuwei did not expect that Fu Gongyou would actually cooperate with Du Yan, and he did not expect that Fu Gongyou would lead tens of thousands of Jianghuai troops to rebel and openly proclaim himself emperor.
Now, although Fu Gongyou relies on his cleverness to win a game, he still has not changed. Compared with strength and weakness, once the Li Tang court has launched a good general, Fu Gongyou can still be easily destroyed.
Du Fuwei looked at Wei Zheng and said, "You have a way to save the lives of tens of thousands of brothers from the Jianghuai Army?"
Wei Zheng nodded, then shook his head and said, "Most of them can be saved, but some people must die, such as Fu Gongyou, Zuo Youxian, Zhang Shan'an and others!"
"They have no choice but to die!" Du Fuwei said angrily: "They deserve to die!"
Wei Zheng said: "You don't have much time. The King of Qin has already taken charge and will choose a day to send troops to arrive in Jianghuai from Chang'an. Although it is thousands of miles away, the cavalry under the King of Qin can reach Jianghuai in less than half a month. Once the King of Qin arrives in Jianghuai, the Jianghuai army will definitely flow into blood. The only way to survive is actually in their own hands. As long as they kill Fu Gongyou, the accomplice of Zuo Youxian, most of the soldiers of the Jianghuai army can be pardoned!"
Du Fuwei's eyes flashed and he said solemnly, "What do you need me to do?"
Wei Zheng said: "Give me Kan Ling and your five hundred adopted sons, let Kan Ling go south to Jianghuai, snatch the Qin King, kill Fu Gongyou, regain military power, and then praise Tang!"
Du Fuwei shouted coldly: "Kan Ling!"
Kan Ling, who was carrying the Mo Dao, walked up and said, "Father-in-Law!"
Du Fuwei pointed at Wei Zheng and said, "You obey Mr. Wei!"
Kan Ling said unhappily: "Father, Li Tang has no good people!"
"Damn it, stop!" Du Fuwei shouted coldly: "Don't you apologize to Mr. Wei!"
Kan Len had no choice but to apologize to Wei Zheng!
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Since Chen Ying returned to Chang'an, he was forgotten by the entire court. Chen Ying was also happy. Chen Ying accompanied Li Xiuning to recuperate, while acting as a very dad, teaching the four children of Wu Yuanqing, Wu Yuanshuang, Li Siye and Chen Qian.
Since returning to Qinglin from Furong Garden, Chen Ying began to focus on his Tang Dynasty University of Technology. With the arrival of professors from the Jiangzuo clan and Hongnong Yang family, Datang University of Technology has also become full of talents.
However, what made Chen Ying the most depressed was that Li Jiancheng ran towards the Qinglin every few days.
As long as Li Jiancheng comes, in order not to get rid of the problem, Li Xiuning will have to make a fuss and quickly put on makeup. However, as time goes by, He Yueer's disguise technique has become more and more amazing.
Li Jiancheng saw with his own eyes that the Qinglin was deserted and stood up in just four or five years. Although Chenjiabao is called Yibao, the population has actually exceeded 10,000 households. It is definitely Shangxian in the whole country of the Tang Dynasty.
What made Li Jiancheng curious the most was that Chen Ying was like a boy who gave money and never lacked money. Sometimes, Li Jiancheng was jealous of Chen Ying's wealth.
At this time, the end of the year is getting closer, and of course, there are many places for the imperial court to use money at this time. For example, forty-eight founding dukes, twenty-two vassal kings, hundreds of founding marquis, and as for the Baron Bozi, there are thousands. As for the New Year, the imperial court has to pay salaries. Whenever he sees the exhausted treasury, Li Jiancheng can't help but worry.
The Li Tang was built on the ruins of the Great Sui Dynasty, so Li Jiancheng knew very well how the officials and nobles of the Sui Dynasty swept through all aspects of this former powerful empire in just over twenty years, eroding the foundation of the empire. The last bit of execution ability left by the empire was used to plunder the people's wealth.
In the 13th year of Daye, Yang Guang still issued an imperial edict to open Xingluo Warehouse to use one million stones of grain to help the victims (this was not fabricated by Lao Cheng). However, at that time, corrupt officials still did not forget to put the money from the court at home.
As the Great Sui Dynasty collapsed, Li Jiancheng, the prince of the Tang Dynasty, paid great attention to this issue, so he formulated a very harsh system, and would be executed if he embezzled ten coins of money (about 42,750 yuan for the people's system).
Although the Tang Dynasty was only six years after its founding, Li Jiancheng had already smelled a strong twilight and rotten smell from top to bottom.
As a prince with ideals, integrity and bottom line, Li Jiancheng sincerely asked Chen Ying how to manage corruption.
"Human nature is good, and it is impossible to completely eliminate this!" Chen Ying listened to Li Jiancheng's statement, and he spread his hands and said helplessly: "The problem in the Tang Dynasty is that the gap between the rich and the poor is too big, the aristocratic families are too strong, and the common people are too weak. Even you, the prince, are too weak, and you can't fight these aristocratic families at all. Officials can organize the people to reclaim land and how much they have been reclaimed, and it won't take long to be occupied. Even if the lawsuit is brought to the emperor, you will lose, because those aristocratic families have a lot of backers in the court!"
Li Jiancheng looked sad when he heard this.
When the Tang Dynasty dealt with the issue of corruption, it often only opened one head. There was no way to go further. Every time it was cracked down, it could only catch some small shrimps.
Land annexation was the biggest problem of the Sui Dynasty. In order to prevent the Guanlong Group from enclosing land in a crazy way and making Guanzhong useless, Yang Guang adopted a roundabout strategy and moved the capital from Chang'an to Luoyang.
However, Yang Guang still failed.
The biggest fundamental reason for Yang Guang's defeat was not his incompetence, not his exaggeration, nor was his poor steps, but because he moved the cheese of the aristocratic families, and the aristocratic families began to fight back, and Yang Guang became a tragedy.
Yang Guang actually fought against aristocratic families throughout his life, but when the court was full of aristocratic officials, Yang Guang could be said to be an enemy of the whole world. Although Yang Guang was not afraid, the key was that he did not have a real executor. The poor family members could not stand the enlistment and temptation of aristocratic families and failed Yang Guang's trust.
Li Jiancheng was in a very heavy mood.
Chen Ying looked at Li Jiancheng dejected and explained: "In fact, the aristocratic families are not invincible. There is another trick to let those aristocratic families see investment channels that can gain more benefits than invading the fields, so that they lose interest in the fields!"
Li Jiancheng said anxiously: "What are your good plans?"
Chen Ying stood in the attic, pointed to the high chimney in the distance, and smiled and said, "I have told His Highness the way!"
Li Jiancheng looked at the chimney, still confused.
Chen Ying had no choice but to explain: "In fact, the easiest and most direct way is to run a workshop! Look at the iron smelting workshop, phosphorus fertilizer workshop, horse carriage workshop, agricultural tool workshop, furniture workshop, flour processing workshop and other workshops I have run over the years. How much money is made! The iron smelting plant has been given to the court. The horse carriage workshop now has at least tens of thousands of tubes per year. The flour processing workshop alone... Don't be inconspicuous, a mere small mill can make at least hundreds or thousands of coins a year, but the investment cost of a mill is only twenty or thirty coins, and it takes up to five or six coins to completely manage it. If all winter wheat is promoted, just one mill can add tens of thousands of coins!"
Li Jiancheng still said a little difficult: "No one has done anything like building a workshop, it is illegal..."
For thousands of years, the Chinese have been working at sunrise and resting at sunset. It has been passed down from generation to generation. The small peasant economy has long penetrated into the souls of the Chinese people. It is indeed a bit embarrassing to let them set up factories.
The population of modern China has exceeded 1.3 billion, and it has been growing, but the arable land has not increased by an inch, but has been decreasing, but has not caused any trouble. What do you rely on? It is relying on the four words "factory in the world".
The flowers blooming all over the country provide farmers with another way to get rich besides farming. The income from working in the factory is ten times that of farming. Relying on this salary can solve the problem of food and clothing.
If you still rely entirely on agriculture as in the past, relying on 1.8 billion mu of arable land to support 1.3 billion people, believe it or not, immediately cause a huge mistake to you? When industry develops to a certain extent, industrial tax will completely replace agricultural tax, and agricultural tax can be abolished, and it can even give farmers some subsidies in turn. For farmers, this is a great thing.
Li Jiancheng looked entangled.
Chen Ying smiled and said, "Rules are for changing. The Tang Dynasty did not use blast furnace steelmaking before, but since the blast furnace steelmaking, the steel production capacity of the Tang Dynasty has increased by more than a thousand times compared to before. Just like now, the kitchen knives at ordinary people's homes have been replaced with high charcoal steel. Why don't we use iron kitchen knives? Fools also know that steel kitchen knives are easier to use than iron kitchen knives!"
Chapter completed!