Tang's dining table

Chang'an City has not had many serious cases that require Di Renjie to investigate immediately, and the power to review files has also been taken over by other Dali Temple ministers, which has led to Di Renjie being very leisurely recently.

Thinking about it, every time Di Renjie started to review the files, he would always find something inappropriate in the files submitted by the local government.

The files reviewed by him had a high probability of being sent back for re-examination, which caused local officials to be very dissatisfied with Dali Temple.

They even clamored for a time to ask the Dali Temple ministers, who only sat in the public hall and gesticulated, to come down and investigate the case themselves.

As a result, Di Renjie went there for half a year. During this period, six local magistrates were found to have taken human lives. According to the laws of the Tang Dynasty, four were killed. One was sent to Lingnan to fish, and one went to the Western Regions to guard the border.

The evaluations of the six county magistrates that year were poor. In other words, the lightest punishment for these people was to be demoted and retained.

The people were very happy and once regarded Di Renjie as a god-like figure. However, in such a good atmosphere, Di Renjie, the prime minister of Dali Temple, lost the power to review the files.

It's not that he was deprived of his power of review, it was just that when the young minister of Dali Temple assigned official duties to the lower officials, when Di Renjie arrived, there was basically no official duties to assign.

As a result, the other three Dali Temple ministers were often busy until late at night. Only Di Renjie was idle in his mansion, pondering Yunchu's methods of governing the place.

No one in the yamen of Dali Temple dared to blame Di Renjie for dawdling around doing nothing. In the eyes of these officials, if Di Renjie became busy, it would be a disaster for everyone in Dali Temple.

Therefore, Di Renjie once again became famous, and even the emperor heard about his ability to solve cases.

The reason why the emperor knew Di Renjie's ability was of course done by gentle hands, when others thought this was a sign that Di Renjie was marginalized.

After gentle re-editing, the story has become what it is now. Di Renjie is the only useful official in Dali Temple. As for the others - naturally they are all useless.

Even so, Dali Temple Minister Xin Mao will pretend not to hear. These small humiliations from the people are nothing to him. If Di Renjie is completely released, it will be the biggest dissatisfaction to Dali Temple and even local officials. Be responsible.

When potatoes, peppers, corns, sweet potatoes, and pumpkins worth 10,000 yuan appeared in Chang'an people's sight, the whole Chang'an was boiling.

Everyone is searching endlessly for the memories of these crops in their minds.

Unfortunately, their minds are empty and there is nothing.

As a result, some imperial censors took this matter as an example of Yunchu teasing the people of the world, and reported it to the emperor, hoping that the emperor could punish Yunchu, the county magistrate who spoke so freely.

There are also people who believe that Yun Chu has evil intentions, adding unattainable prices to non-existent things and teasing the world.

Li Zhi has long been accustomed to such impeachment after seeing it. The previous hybridization incident was even worse than the current high-priced crops incident.

However, at that time, the huge cabbage that Yun Chu took out in the court still made everyone shut up.

Things are so strange. Once many things that are beyond people's understanding are physically proven, everyone will immediately forget their previous doubts and show strong support.

Li Zhi felt that there was a high possibility that the issue of high-priced crops would be reversed in the future, so he decided to put this matter aside to avoid being in trouble when Yunchu actually took out these things and put them in front of him. Maintain his supreme dignity.

Every spring is the time when Hu merchants from the Western Regions gather in Chang'an.

They usually leave the Western Regions in autumn and drive their camel caravans all the way to Chang'an. After experiencing a severe cold winter, they arrive in Chang'an in the spring and start their business.

Then they stayed in Chang'an from spring to late summer, and then drove camels with the goods purchased from Chang'an back to the Western Regions in winter. In this way, they could avoid the worst sandstorms in the Gobi desert.

Many Hu merchants have formed a habit in the process of doing business with Chang'an. Spring comes and autumn comes and goes like migratory birds.

This year, when the Hu businessmen were preparing to enter Chang'an trading again, they were directed to Qujiangli by the government officials of Wannian County.

At this time, the sunken city defense works in Qujiangli have been completely completed. The people in Qujiangli even poured water into the sunken tunnel. The water level is not high, but it can effectively isolate Qujiangli from the outside world. .

Qujiangli has now become a goods distribution center for Hu merchants.

The reason why Hu merchants are not allowed to drive camels into Chang'an is because the entire city of Chang'an is undergoing a vigorous city-wide health campaign.

Dirty, smelly livestock like camels are naturally not allowed to enter Chang'an City.

Placing the Hu people's goods in Qujiang Li can effectively protect their goods from unexpected losses. At the same time, it can also truly build Qujiang Li into a place where Hu merchants mainly trade.

As long as the Hu people stay in Qujiang for a day, they will always leave some money for the people in Qujiang. Moreover, the houses vacated by the people here can also be used as warehouses or inns to continue to make a fortune for them.

The most important thing is that Qujiangli is ten miles away from the city gate of Chang'an City. This distance is not far or close. The best way is to take a carriage specially made by the people in Qujiangli. This way, you can make a fortune.

As for cargo transshipment and hand-to-hand transactions, the largest profit therein needs to be shared equally with Chang'an County.

It seems that these businesses are all for a few copper coins, but it is the business of these few copper coins that allows the people in Qujiang to get a good way of living in addition to making bricks and tiles.

Yun Chu knew very well that even if it was a small business like driving a carriage to pull people into Chang'an City, it would be no problem to feed a family of six with one carriage.

Many times, what local officials do is to rely on their own power to do things like taking off their pants and farting.

The profits from the transactions between the Hu people and the Tang people were astonishing. Yunchu needed to turn this industry into a chain and extend the chain as much as possible so that more people could benefit from the Hu merchants' trade.

To be honest, no matter how amazing the benefits of Hu merchants' trade are, they have nothing to do with ordinary people. As the county magistrate, what Yun Chu has to do is to make the Hu merchants' trade process as cumbersome and orderly as possible, so as to make it as easy as possible for thousands of people. The officials of Nian County and Chang'an County participated in the trade.

If you have power, you will have money. Yunchu has a very deep understanding of this. As for the losses suffered by Hu Shang and the big merchants in the transaction, as long as they do not cause hysterical opposition, it is Yunchu's success.

As long as Wannian County and Chang'an County can resist the pressure exerted on them by the big businessmen through the nobles who have taken refuge in them, over time, it will become a routine and can no longer be changed.

Peeling off a layer of skin from the rich and adding it to the poor is the most basic function of the government.

Originally, this function was achieved through taxation, but unfortunately, the taxation in the Tang Dynasty did not reflect this at all. Yunchu could only rely on other means to achieve the purpose of killing the rich and helping the poor.

"If the imperial court cannot take the initiative to kill the rich and help the poor, when the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, and when it reaches a limit, the poor, who make up the vast majority of the population, will pick up a hoe and a fork to demand themselves. Re-equalize the rich and the poor, and equalize the land.

Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, there have been a total of twenty-six cases of people's rebellion. You should take a good look at these files. Don't look at the official statements above, but look at the real reasons for the people's rebellion.

Then, you will find that most of these twenty-six cases of people's rebellion are related to injustice and poverty.

As for the rebels who have clearly stated their intention to overthrow your Li Dynasty from the very beginning, to be honest, there are none. "

Yunchu sat in a thatched shed, watching the long convoy that could barely see the head and tail heading towards Chang'an City, and began to explain his purpose to Li Hong, who was full of questions.

Li Hong looked at the convoy and said: "So, the reason why the master is deliberately causing trouble for Hu Shang and the big merchants is to balance the rich and the poor?"

Yun Chu smiled and said: "Anyway, those barbarians transported goods all the way to Chang'an for the purpose of trading, and they will definitely trade. Therefore, it is completely reasonable for us to charge some fees for some small services. As for those big businessmen, I will continue to deal with them in the future."

Li Hong still said in confusion: "Those big businessmen also pay taxes."

Yun Chu said: "A square piece of white jade is just a stone at the foot of Kunlun Mountain. When Hu merchants brought it to Chang'an, it was worth several or dozens of stones. Some of the better stones were even boasted to be priceless by them.

Although the imperial court set a market tax for these big merchants, this tax was just a drop in the bucket for them and could not achieve the purpose of robbing the rich and helping the poor.

When taxes don't work, the government should take the initiative to do it. Boy, remember, the government's butt must sit on the standpoint of the majority of people, instead of hurting the majority for the sake of a small group of people. people's interests. "

Li Hong shook his head and said, "That's not right. That's not what my mother told me. She said that safeguarding the interests of the people around you is the first priority, and when it comes to safeguarding the interests of the people of the world, the people of the world are blind and cannot see."

Yun Chu thought for a while and said: "There was once a king in the far west. He had been doing some perverse things all his life. When his ministers told him that if this continued, the country would perish.

Do you know how he answered the minister? "

Li Hong frowned and said, "What did he say?"

Yun Chu touched Li Hong's round head and said, "He said that after I die, the floods will come to the sky..."

Chapter One