Valley Emperor

In the face of disasters, the issue of public opinion is very important, especially Huaxia also has a tradition of saying that all kinds of disasters are the emperor's moral failure. When something happens, it is considered that the emperor is not good. If you offend the gods, then the emperor will You've made a guilt or something.

And Li Xuan is obviously not so generous, how can the fault of God be blamed on himself?

Therefore, from the very beginning, he must guide the public opinion towards the newspaper company, and don't let others drive the rhythm.

Lead all kinds of complaints to the praise of heroes!

Therefore, the Chaobao Division has started to prepare a special report on this flood!

What is the core of the report?

First of all, it is necessary to report the importance and wiseness of the Son of Heaven on this matter, and made preparations in advance to minimize losses to the greatest extent.

The second is to report the official attention and efforts to this matter, especially the deeds of the military's participation in the flood fight, and to focus on the description, because the efficient organization of the government and the sacrifice of the military have greatly reduced losses and saved thousands of people. millions or even millions of people.

The above two points are actually to highlight the role of the Son of Heaven and the government, and let people know that when disaster strikes, the Son of Heaven and the government will always stand on the side of the people, and have made huge contributions and sacrifices for flood relief.

Secondly, it is to report some outstanding positive examples, select or simply make up a number of heroic characters, and focus on reporting that they responded to the call of the Son of Heaven, and government organizations participated in this flood relief with the spirit of loyalty and love to the people.

By establishing a number of positive heroic impressions, the side confirms the bright and greatness of the Son of Heaven and the efficient organization of the government.

Although, in the report, it is necessary to focus on the positive reactions of some ordinary people when faced with disasters. For example, the large gentry and various enterprises in Henan have actively donated money. For example, when ordinary disaster victims faced floods, they responded Called by the government to transfer to the resettlement site, now not only do you not have to be afraid, but also live very well in the new home, better than before.

In short, the core of this series of reports is to guide public opinion, to promote the bright and greatness of the Son of Heaven, and the efficient organization of the government under the leadership of the Son of Heaven.

The Ministry of Public Opinion is in charge of the work of leading public opinion, and Li Xuan is very relieved. Over the years, the Ministry of Newspapers has been quite successful in guiding public opinion through Datang Chaobao. The public has a very good impression of Li Xuan, and it is generally believed that Li Xuan It is a holy son, and the yamen at all levels of the country, although there are problems of one kind or another, but generally speaking, it is good, and it does practical things for the people.

Of course, the public's eyes are also sharp, and they also know that there must be corrupt officials or something, and at this time, the Ministry of Newspapers needs to give correct guidance, so that people think that these corrupt elements are only a minority of the official group, and the government These people are also severely cracked down.

After letting the people from the newspaper department start the work of public opinion guidance, Li Xuan was not idle. Then he called in the minister on duty in the imperial study and told them to make arrangements and prepare to be transferred from various local finances. Funds to tide over the difficulties together.

In terms of the empire's current central financial capacity, it is already difficult to support such a wide range of flood relief costs alone, and now it needs the whole country to contribute.

Each locality has its own local finances. A little squeeze in this place and a little squeeze in that place are a huge figure, which is enough to reduce the pressure on the central finance.

Well, it is worth noting that this is not the central government requesting financial assistance from the local yamen, nor is it an order, but a notification!

Because this operation process does not require the consent of the local yamen!

The central government is short of money and troops, so do you have to ask the local governors for support?

Bullshit!

Just take it away!

The tax department can directly adjust the ratio of national tax and local tax for the current year. After reducing the ratio of local tax, the extra tax will be directly turned over to the central finance by the tax department.

In this process, the local yamen has no chance to intervene or even intervene!

Dare to intervene? You want to rebel!

Finance and military power, these have always been the two most important powers that Li Xuan has grasped!

Because only by grasping these two items, can we talk about centralization, money and army, whoever wants to challenge Li Xuan's imperial power, then Li Xuan dares to slash directly with a big knife.

Under this background, the central government of the Tang Empire has always firmly controlled the power of taxation. The Ministry of Taxation is the only institution in the country that can collect taxes, and the taxation bureaus in various places are also taxation. It is an institution directly under the Ministry and does not belong to the management of each local yamen.

The Ministry of Taxation is the most independent institution among many institutions. It is more independent than the three institutions of patrol police, inspectors, and courts, because these three institutions are more or less affected by local governments, because these three institutions are more independent. This organization basically belongs to the dual management of the local and the central government, and nominally calls itself a system, but the local leaders still have a strong influence on these three organizations.

However, the tax bureaus under the Ministry of Taxation are different!

Local officials have no power to intervene in the slightest, and even the tax bureaus in various places basically do not deal with the local yamen. They only collect taxes. It has its own tax inspection team.

Ordinary tax investigations and even arrests, they have their own investigation agencies, and have nothing to do with the patrol police.

Large armed anti-tax, they have armed action units, ordinary armed anti-tax, and they are done with guns and guns.

Under such a big environment, if the central government wants to adjust the national and local taxes, it is a matter of one sentence!

Because in this big environmental system, in theory, the central government controls all the taxes, and the land tax is only a part of the tax that the central government leaves to the localities. room for resistance.

Now that the central government's finances are tight, Li Xuan naturally wants to fill this gap!

However, even if you don’t need to transfer local finance to supplement the central finance, you can’t make a one-size-fits-all approach, because the local finance in some places is already very difficult. If this is not enough to pay the salaries of public servants every year, there will be subsidies from the higher-level finance. If it is one-size-fits-all, Their days are even worse.

In some places, the local finances are looser, so it can be appropriate to take more.

However, in order to avoid the worries of the local yamen, Li Xuan also instructed to continue, this year's land tax adjustment is a special case, not the norm.

This is a fact. Originally, the central finance was relatively loose. It was only after a major flood this year that the land tax ratio could not be adjusted for a while and a half. It is impossible to do this every year. Officials will not have any opinion, anyway, the local financial money is not their own private, should be officials or officials.

But it will affect the development of the local economy, which in turn will hinder the national economy. The economy is not good, so naturally don't expect to collect much tax.

Therefore, there is a very important balance issue here, and it is impossible to mess around.

After dealing with public opinion and tax issues, Li Xuan called the military people over again and ordered them to focus on the public security issues in the disaster-stricken areas!

Although it is said that the official handling of this flood was quite efficient, and for the time being, it did not cause any large-scale casualties, but after all, there are millions of victims. If these victims cannot be properly resettled, they will become refugees. .

Even if it is properly arranged, if any ambitious person jumps out, it is easy to cause large-scale unrest.

At this critical moment, Li Xuan will naturally not relax. While guiding public opinion, he also needs to maintain high-pressure military deterrence.

Let those who have bad intentions know that even if it is chaos, the powerful military power of the Tang Dynasty is still not something they can fight against.

In fact, without Li Xuan's special instructions, the military personnel are always paying attention to the local situation!

In the general mobilization of the military in the disaster-stricken areas, in addition to mobilizing soldiers to participate in flood relief and disaster relief, a considerable part of the troops actually raised their vigilance to prevent any unexpected events.

Especially in the resettlement sites of the disaster victims, almost all of them have troops stationed!

The role of these garrisons is not only to protect them and maintain law and order, but also to suppress possible unrest on the spot.

After all, these millions of victims are the biggest source of mobilization, and they need to be monitored and guarded at all times.

Because of the shortage of troops in Jiangbei, Wanbei, Henan and other places, the military has even begun to dispatch some troops from Jiangnan, southern Anhui, and neighboring provinces such as Hunan, Jiangxi, and Shanxi to enter the disaster-stricken areas.

If there is really any turmoil ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ will be suppressed as soon as possible, and the rebellion will be eliminated at the beginning stage.

This flood had a considerable impact on the Tang Empire, even more so than tens of thousands of Tartar cavalry smashed out of the Great Wall!

The most important thing is the economic impact. This is not an industrial and commercial economy, but an agricultural economy!

Large-scale floods will inevitably reduce production in the affected areas, resulting in insufficient food production, which will starve people to death.

What the imperial government has to do now is to gather as much food as possible, and then use it for post-disaster relief. In any case, there cannot be a scene of large-scale starvation.

Otherwise, the prosperity of Xuanping, which the entire empire is striving for, is just a joke!

People are starving to death on a large scale, you still say prosperous times?

Bullshit!

Fortunately, the Datang Empire established the Datang Grain Corporation in the early years, and established grain companies in various provincial highways. Grain has become the largest grain merchant in the Tang Empire, in order to reserve grain and balance grain prices.

In the grain warehouses all over the country, a large amount of grain is stored all year round!

Relying on huge grain reserves, it can not only be used for disaster relief, but also to maintain food price stability.

At least for the last ten years of the Datang Empire, the price of grain has been maintained at a normal level. Any grain merchant who dares to buy low and sell high, and speculate on grain, basically end up in the same situation. First, it was acquired by the Datang Grain Corporation. Or put food in, make them bankrupt, and then they will be caught on various charges, and then sent to prison, or even ransack their homes and wipe out their families in severe cases.

In the Datang Empire, anything can be speculated, except food!

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