Chapter 142 Yang Guozhong's Enlightenment
As soon as he took office, he strongly rectified the public security of Chang'an City. Li Fei's reputation among the people was high, and the people were grateful to Li Fei.
"That's Lord Li Fei of Wu. He is so young and promising. It's the gospel of the people. The imperial concubine really accepted a good adopted son--" As soon as Li Fei appeared on the street, the people immediately praised each other, and praised Li Fei a little fluttered and felt very proud.
Li Fei has a bad habit, that when a person is proud, his slutty look will inevitably be revealed. The people who are grateful to Li Fei think Li Fei is very temperamental, but those who are unhappy with Li Fei find it disgusting and disgusting.
As Li Fei's follower, Zeng Aniu is not surprised by the person who has been with Li Fei for the longest time.
Zhang Shuo was relatively simple in his mind and blindly admired Li Fei and did not think too much. Like those people, he only felt that Li Fei looked very elegant and the worship in his eyes was much stronger than before.
Although when Li Fei first did this, he was considering that he wanted to give himself some darkness and not look very outstanding, and he was like a normal "young man". However, seeing such a result, he was indeed very proud. He actually wanted to help ordinary people do things within his ability.
Yang Guozhong and Li Linfu's mutual attacks and frauds became more and more intense.
Both sides are picking on each other's faults, hoping to bring the other party down.
In general, Li Linfu was suppressing Yang Guozhong to fight. After all, Li Linfu has been prime minister for more than ten years, and his position as prime minister is much greater than that of Yang Guozhong.
The prime minister controls all officials, Yang Guozhong only manages the Ministry of Revenue, but Li Linfu, the prime minister, can manage six ministries, and Yang Guozhong is all controlled by Li Linfu. Just like when Wang Hui wore small shoes for Lin Siming and set obstacles for Lin Siming. Now, Li Linfu wore small shoes for Yang Guozhong, setting obstacles for Yang Guozhong, and using his own rights to suppress Yang Guozhong.
On the contrary, Yang Guozhong's counterattack seemed very limited. Suppressing Li Linfu like a prime minister is not something that Yang Guozhong could do, and it is even more impossible to wear Li Linfu's shoes. Yang Guozhong can only pick Li Linfu's faults at most.
However, Li Linfu has been prime minister for more than ten years, and now he is nearly seventy years old this year. It is too difficult for Yang Guozhong to find Li Linfu's mistakes.
Normally, Yang Guozhong and Li Linfu are not the same opponents as the same level. The only thing Yang Guozhong can rely on is that Emperor Xuanzong of Tang trusts him more and more, but he is suspicious of Li Linfu and distrusts him more and more.
Yang Guozhong just wants to endure, strive to endure something for a while and do his best to make the best of his efforts.
That night, Yang Guozhong hangs with his mature and charming cousin, Lady Guoguo.
After a love story, Lady Guo’s face was full of rosy and charming. She was really a beautiful and seductive beauty. Her white jade arm was placed on Yang Guozhong’s shoulders: “I hope you will become prime minister, so we may be brighter, so I will help you no matter what. After my careful observation over time, Your Majesty really no longer trusts Li Linfu. The reason why she has not touched Li Linfu is that she has not found a suitable candidate to succeed to the prime minister. Your Majesty may trust you very much, but after all, you have just become the Minister of Revenue and have not shown enough ability. Your Majesty is not sure whether you can be competent for the prime minister, so you must do something for Your Majesty to see your abilities, let Your Majesty trust you more, and believe that you have the ability to succeed to the prime minister.”
Lady Guoguo is not only the most beautiful among Yang Guifei's three sisters, but also the smartest among Yang Guifei's three sisters and the most favored by Emperor Xuanzong of Tang. Emperor Xuanzong of Tang often jokes with Lady Guoguo.
"You fight with Li Linfu, not to find Li Linfu's fault to defeat Li Linfu, but to prove your ability to His Majesty as much as possible and make the outstanding achievements of your Minister of Revenue." Lady Guo Guo was indeed smart and could see more thoroughly than Yang Guozhong.
Yang Guozhong was refreshed and seemed to be enlightened.
"Yes, I don't have to attack Li Linfu fiercely to defeat Li Linfu. Your Majesty no longer trusts Li Linfu, so naturally he doesn't want Li Linfu to occupy the position of prime minister again. But what Your Majesty lacks is someone suitable for taking over as prime minister. As long as I make political achievements and make Your Majesty believe that I have the ability to take over as prime minister, Your Majesty will naturally let Li Linfu step down and let me take office!"
"Hahahaha, you are really my lucky star, let's continue---" Yang Guozhong finally figured it out. In a good mood, although he was a little tired, he laughed and rushed to Lady Guoguo to repay her with a smile.
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Next, Yang Guozhong no longer spent his energy to attack Li Linfu and find Li Linfu's mistakes, but instead tried every means to see how to achieve political achievements.
As the Minister of Revenue, he controls the national finance. To achieve political achievements, Yang Guozhong can only start from increasing his finances.
After three days of thinking, Yang Guozhong's hair was almost lost, and he finally came up with a solution.
Yang Guozhong wrote a letter to Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, requesting that all the grains in the national charity warehouse be replaced with silver, money and cloth, and then transported to the capital to increase fiscal revenue.
In the second year of Zhenguan, Emperor Taizong of Tang Li Shimin felt that the world was not peaceful, and floods, droughts, etc. occurred in various places from time to time, resulting in no harvest. The ability of local disasters to resist disasters was too weak. The court often had to distribute food from a very distant distance, and the cost was huge, so he made an appointment to set up a charity warehouse across the country.
In fact, it is a large warehouse, and a portion of the grain paid by the people every year is placed in the charity warehouse to prevent floods and droughts and increase the disaster resistance of various places.
In the early Tang Dynasty, Yi Cang's role was indeed huge, but as the Tang Dynasty became more and more prosperous, especially in the Kaiyuan Tianbao period of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty had reached its peak. The world had been peaceful for a long time, and there were few floods and droughts, etc., and because of the peaceful times, even if there were floods and droughts, etc., the efficiency of disaster relief was much stronger than that in the early Tang Dynasty, and the role of Yi Cang was gradually not that great.
No matter how many hidden dangers there were during the Tianbao period, the peak prosperity of the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty was still there, so the charity warehouses in various places were filled with money, and they could not even be able to hold them. However, every year, they still had to add grain to the charity warehouse according to the previous rules. Adding together, many grains were broken in the charity warehouse.
In addition to selling grain from charity warehouses across the country, Yang Guozhong also made another suggestion, saying that the grain in Taicang in Chang'an City could not be contained, so it would be better to exchange all the grain that should be paid for this year's D tax and the land tax to be paid for silver and cloth.
After all, it is the accumulation of years of prosperity. The two items are superimposed, and the Tang Dynasty's finance can earn at least three years of annual income at once, which is definitely a huge amount of money.
"Okay, okay, that's great. Your idea is amazing. Just do it!" Emperor Xuanzong of Tang stopped Yang Guozhong's suggestion and was overjoyed. He agreed without thinking. He also praised Yang Guozhong as a pillar of the country.
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Chapter completed!