Valley Emperor

Outside, outside!

Chen Rentu is back in Beijing!

Chen Lifu had just returned home, and before he had time to go to work at the yamen, he reported to his immediate supervisor, the director of the Grain Collection Division, what he had discovered during his inspection of Zhejiang, and some tax issues he had dealt with. The news of Chen Lifu's return to Beijing was basically the same. It has already spread throughout Jinling City, in the ears of all those who pay attention to him.

"I heard that this cruel official went to Zhejiang again, and he made Zhejiang a **** storm. The world is difficult." In a certain teahouse, several men in gorgeous clothes sighed while drinking tea.

"That's right, Chen Lifu and other scoundrels have been able to sit in the inspection department for several years, are the adults above all being deceived!"

"What are you deceiving? That's because someone supported Chen Lifu. I heard that there were adults in the courtroom who openly impeached Chen Lifu at a cabinet meeting. They were all refuted by that Qian Yuli. How can he be so arrogant!"

"That's right, compared to such scoundrels as Chen Lifu, Qian Yuli is the culprit who brings disaster to the country and the people. I don't know how much I have deceived the Son of Heaven, it's really damn!"

When these few people were talking loudly, their voices were a bit loud, and at this time in the wing next to them, there were also a few people listening to their conversation with their ears pricked up!

There aren't many people in the wing next door, just three, a young man, a middle-aged man, and an old man, a mix of middle-aged and young!

But the old man and the middle-aged man, although they are also sitting, but their expressions are more restrained, and they look at the young man from time to time, as if they are worried about something.

At this moment, I just heard the young man say: "Old Qian, it seems that your reputation outside is not very good. Listen, they all say that you are a disaster for the country and the people!"

At this time, the middle-aged man sitting beside him had a helpless expression on his face: "In recent years, there are many people who have offended the taxpayer!"

Immediately afterwards, his expression changed to panic again: "It's just, this little one is really wronged!"

The old man on the side also laughed: "If I can share the worries for the young master, it is possible that I have wronged you!"

The middle-aged man said with a stern face: "Daoist, if you say that, you can treat the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain. I didn't say that because of this injustice, doing things for the young master is my duty, but They are saying that I lied to the top and the bottom, this must be wronging me!"

Hearing that he seemed to continue to explain something, the young man directly pressed his hand slightly: "Okay, don't call it a grievance!"

Listening to the names between them, you can tell that these people are none other than Li Xuan, the emperor of the Tang Empire, Liu Bagou, the minister on duty in the imperial study, and Qian Zhuli. Today, Li Xuan is idle and has nothing to do. It was a private visit, and I happened to hear outsiders talking about Qian Yuli and Chen Lifu in this restaurant.

But even though it was a grievance, Qian Yuli felt that he was really aggrieved, but he was happy with this kind of grievance!

Why do you say grievances, because if you say who is the biggest cheater in the Tang Empire, it must be Qian Yuli, as for Chen Lifu, he can't be ranked, at most is a small cheater!

Many policies of the tax department are very hateful. There is no way. The purpose of the tax department is to ensure that taxes are collected in accordance with the law. If you collect taxes, there must be many people in the world who are dissatisfied. After all, no one wants to collect taxes. Let the tax part go part of the money you earn!

What everyone wants is that the imperial court is poor, and our landlords and businessmen are rich. Only in this way can it be called a prosperous age!

And what the tax department is doing now is that when you landowners and businessmen make money, you will give a portion of it to the imperial court. People will definitely not be happy.

However, in fact, many of the policies of the Ministry of Taxation were not made by the Ministry of Taxation itself. Qian Yuli himself was at most a person in charge. In fact, these policies were proposed by the Son of Heaven and the Ministry of Taxation implemented them.

For example, some time ago, the tax rate of the raw silk industry was raised, that is, the Son of Heaven himself said that the raw silk industry belongs to the luxury jewelry industry, and the existing tax rate is too low, so it needs to be increased.

As a result, the tax department did just that, raising the tax rate and asking the inspection department to strictly investigate the raw silk industry. As a result, the raw silk merchants outside were scolded by Qian Zhuli of the tax department. According to rumors, even in Qian Zhuli's hometown, The local gentry and businessmen are not proud of Qian Yuli at all, but are ashamed of him!

No way, who made Qian Yuli the biggest traitor in the entire empire at present, and the tax department he leads is also the most hated institution in the world.

Regardless of the facts, that's how outsiders see it.

But, behind all this, who is in control of the overall situation?

It's Li Xuan, the Son of Heaven!

To put it a bit harshly, Qian Yuli is actually a knife in Li Xuan's hand. Can the knife decide who to cut?

At this time, the few gentry businessmen who were talking loudly next door naturally did not know that what they said was heard by the emperor of the empire, but even if they were heard by Li Xuan, it was nothing.

Naturally, Li Xuan wouldn't go to war just because he listened to someone casually outside, and then he would come up with something to be investigated, and then put someone in jail.

In this teahouse, after listening to the people in the next room blowing **** for more than half an hour, Li Xuan got up and left, preparing to return to the palace and end today's private visit in micro-service.

But he also thought that he would come out again in a few days. He still liked this teahouse. What he liked was not whether the tea was good or not, and whether the environment was good or not, but because he could hear something he wanted to hear in the teahouse. Learn more about the world.

On the surface, this teahouse was opened by an ordinary businessman, but behind it was an industry belonging to the Survey and Statistics Division of the Imperial Academy, and its main purpose was to collect public opinion in the market.

To put it bluntly, it is listening. Even if Li Xuan comes over occasionally, in fact, what he does is no different from eavesdropping.

Liu Bagou and Qian Yuli didn't know about this!

After going out, he got on the carriage, and the group was about to go back. Sitting in the carriage was the same as other times. He sat in the carriage and observed the surrounding environment with his eyes.

If it is an ordinary person, you can't see anything from these streets, and think it is an ordinary street, but in Li Xuan's case, you can see a lot of things behind it from the street.

For example, the shops on both sides of the street, what kind of goods are sold and how much the price is, and then look at the appearance of the city on the street, and then look at the clothes and attitudes of the people on the street. From these, you can actually see a lot. thing.

For example, in winter, if most of the pedestrians on the street are wearing thin clothes or padded jackets full of patches, then basically it can be concluded that there must be a problem with the economy.

Another example is that if there are many garbage dumps on the street, it goes without saying that the work on the appearance of the city will definitely be left behind.

If you want to really understand the state of the empire you rule, you have to see with your own eyes, listen with your own ears, and understand the real living conditions of people!

Just by looking at the report, you can't tell!

Of course, even if you watch and listen, it is possible that what you see is fake and what you hear is fake!

If Li Xuan went to visit some common people's family with great fanfare, he could be 100% sure that what he saw and heard was false!

Even if he knew it was fake, Li Xuan would occasionally go to condolences and inspect!

Why, because this is a show, political need!

The Tang Dynasty newspaper needs to publish the Son of Heaven's cordial condolences to the families of the martyrs on a certain day, but in fact Li Xuan himself knows that the objects he goes to condolences are all chosen by thousands of people. Everything you see and hear is for the purpose of political propaganda. Basically, don't expect to see anything good.

In fact, if during the public condolences and inspections, if he randomly chooses a family, and then lets Li Xuan see a lot of problems, then Li Xuan will definitely get angry.

This kind of madness is not meant to address these issues!

It's for the ignorance of the people below, such an important political propaganda occasion, you do a bunch of shit, what do you want to prove? Prove that the empire under my rule is bad?

Do you still have a little political consciousness, do you know that family scandals cannot be made public, and do you need to publicize it positively? Could it be that you want to let the Tang Dynasty Daily publish that the people of Datang Liming are living in dire straits?

What do you want to do, do you want to say that I am a smug king?

To be a showman, you must have the consciousness to be a showman, and publicity must be positive publicity, don't make a fool of yourself!

Therefore, public condolences and inspections basically cannot find any problems, but this does not mean that Li Xuan does not know what happened.

Wechat private interviews, this is actually just a small source of news, and more news channels are the public opinion reports of the Investigation and Statistics Division of the Hanlin Academy!

Hantong's main business is counter-espionage, counter-conspiracy and so on.

To prevent rebellion, public opinion monitoring is definitely indispensable. After all, rebellion, apart from purely political and military ministers rebelling, if it is civil unrest, there must be deep-seated reasons behind it.

For example, natural disasters!

Natural disasters can't be helped, but man-made disasters, Hantong can monitor and deal with them in advance.

Because of business needs, public opinion monitoring is very important to Hantong, and these public opinion monitoring reports will eventually go to Li Xuan and let Li Xuan take a look.

These public opinion monitoring reports actually talk about trivial matters. For example, the price of meat on the market has risen, or the price of grain has risen. A factory in a certain industrial area closed down due to poor management, resulting in a large number of workers being unemployed.

But it is these little things that Li Xuan attaches the most importance to. He asked Hantong to hand in a price report of each province every month, especially the price report of food.

There are also many other messy public opinion monitoring reports. Basically, Hantong will send a report every day. When Li Xuan is in office every day, the first thing he sees is Hantong's report.

This kind of Hantong daily report is, to some extent, a newspaper only read by Li Xuan!

For this special newspaper that only Li Xuan can read alone, he can only read it alone.

The Survey and Statistics Department of the Imperial Academy has more than 15,000 direct employees and more than 40,000 part-time employees in the entire empire. It continuously collects all kinds of messy news, neighbors fight, cats and dogs die, all they need collected news.

Then collect, analyze, and summarize various reports. Finally, these reports will be transmitted to Jinling City through the post system, and the Han Tong of Jinling City will organize and summarize them, and make a daily report and submit it to the imperial front!

But just looking at Han Tong's report, it is still impossible to intuitively understand many aspects, so sometimes when there is nothing to do, Li Xuan also comes out to personally go to the market to understand the most real situation.

Therefore, private visits for him are different from the private visits of other emperors. Other emperors visit privately, mostly for fun, but for Li Xuan, this is also part of the job.

Of course, after work, he also needs to adjust one or two, so sometimes Li Xuan will go to the Qinhuai River for a private visit.

Li Xuan has been there a few times, and once he took Wang Wenhua with him, but after Wang Wenhua accompanied him, he just became obsessed with what he said two days ago. Hold an oiran contest.

This is what makes Li Xuanlong happy!

What is a loyal minister?

This is the loyal servant!

Is it not a good minister to solve problems for the Son of Heaven?

Civil servants, govern the country well, and don't cause turmoil every day. This is to solve problems.

Generals, win the battle and expand the territory~www.wuxiaspot.com~ This is to solve problems.

Close ministers, let the Son of Heaven be happy every day and take care of the dragon's body, this is also a solution to problems.

Anyone who can share the worries for the Son of Heaven is a loyal minister!

As the saying goes, there is no distinction between high and low in the industry, and this loyal minister naturally has no distinction between high and low.

Therefore, Li Xuan has always been more pleasing to the eyes of Wang Wenhua. Although he knows that this person has no ability in government affairs, this does not prevent Li Xuan from keeping Wang Wenhua in the royal study and hanging the minister in the royal study. 's name.

And Wang Wenhua is also self-aware and knows that he is not good at dealing with those messy government affairs, so although he is said to be the minister of the Ministry of Agriculture, he never cares about things, and everything is handed over to the two servants of the Ministry of Agriculture. After all, he is also worried that one day I really got killed because of some negligence!

Because he basically does not deal with practical affairs on weekdays, Wang Wenhua is also very free, thinking about how to make the Son of Heaven happier all day long.

For example, last year, in the ninth year of Xuanping, when the court was discussing the renovation of the palace, the courtiers were all talking about rebuilding the tattered palace. Only Wang Wenhua knew that the Son of Heaven had long been concerned about the tattered palace. The former Ming Jinling City Palace was not interested, otherwise it would not have been delayed for several years without repairs.

So he proposed at the time that this palace was the former Ming palace after all, and it was already dilapidated. It was not very good if it was repaired, and it could not reflect the superiority of the Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, he suggested that it would be in a broken state when it was repaired anyway, so he simply stopped repairing it and expanded the Royal Courtyard directly.

This move made Li Xuanlong very happy and approved the proposal on the spot!

Now, Wang Wenhua is preparing for the oiran competition again!

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