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Time flies, and it’s already early March in the blink of an eye.
Chang'an City was still bustling with people, and the mental outlook of the people was completely different from when Liu Ce ascended the throne.
The chaotic scenes of the past have long been replaced by joy and laughter. This kind of hard-won life was something that people of all dynasties and generations in the past would never dare to imagine.
Today, Liu Ce came to Shanglin Garden, a royal garden outside the city.
Shanglinyuan covers an area of 500,000 acres, including farmland, forests, orchards, pastures, etc.
The reason why Liu Ce occupies so much land is not to enrich his own pockets and enjoy life, but to guard against Wei Ran.
"I heard that disasters continue to occur in various places in Heyuan. Although the local government agencies are doing their best to provide disaster relief, there are still 20,000 people displaced and moving to Gyeonggi to seek life?"
"Reporting to Your Majesty, after verification by the Ministry of Household Affairs, a total of 18,426 people are living in Chang'an. The civilian posthouse in Chang'an City has accepted all of them. We will arrange for them to return to their hometowns when the disaster situation eases."
Listening to Qin Mo's explanation, Liu Ce sighed and nodded, pointing at Shanglin Garden and said: "It is my decree to open Shanglin Garden to the victims. Each household can rent ten acres of fertile land.
If they are unwilling to farm, arrange for them to take care of the orchards or pastures. In short, let them settle down first, and then arrange for them to return after two years. "
Qin Mo cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty is benevolent and righteous."
Liu Ce: "What is benevolence and righteousness but not benevolence and righteousness? The world is based on the people. If the people's hearts do not exist, can the country and the country be stable?"
Qin Mo nodded in agreement, and then asked: "I wonder how much tax and rent your Majesty plans to collect?"
Liu Ce: "Just charge one penny per month for one acre of land. It won't be too late to wait until they have a harvest."
There is no difference between this price and free money. In fact, Liu Ce does not need to rely on rent collection to protect his quality of life. After all, he is the largest shareholder of Hanling Company and Ocean Trading Group. Not only does he not have to ask the treasury for money. , on the contrary, they also take the initiative to pay a large amount of business taxes every year.
If you ask the big man, who is currently the largest tax payer? It must be Liu Ce, the emperor. No one would believe it if he told it.
The purpose of Liu Ce's great effort to enclose the land and build the Shanglin Garden was also to solve the livelihood problems of the refugees, and to study new agricultural product varieties and planting methods.
To be honest, it's not like no one has gossiped about Liu Ce's actions. Yao Zhong has raised this issue more than once before, suggesting that Liu Ce give up reclaiming Shanglin Garden and hand over the land to the people.
But later I learned that the Shanglin Garden was a wasteland before, and that Liu Ce personally paid for the garden to be built for the purpose of scientific research and refugee accommodation, so he no longer stopped it.
People's livelihood issues have been a big issue since ancient times. In ancient Chinese history, various uprisings broke out because people's livelihood issues were not guaranteed. Even under the high-pressure rule of ignorant people like the Qing Dynasty, large-scale civil uprisings broke out. The most famous one It was the Bailianshe Uprising in the later years of Qianlong and the Taiping Rebellion in the Xianfeng period that directly accelerated the demise of the Qing Dynasty.
So don’t say that the Chinese nation is very servile. From the Chen Sheng and Wu Guang uprising in the late Qin Dynasty to the Boxer Rebellion in the late Qing Dynasty, for two thousand years, the people have never lacked a sense of resistance, but they have lacked effective leaders.
In addition to ancient Eastern history, Western ancient times also caused instability in the kingship of various countries due to improper handling of people's livelihood issues.
To this day, international people's livelihood issues are still a major concern of the United Nations. Not to mention developing countries and third countries in the world, even developed countries will have large-scale protests because people's livelihood cannot be guaranteed.
Liu Ce understood the truth very well. If he wanted to stabilize the country's situation, he had to improve people's livelihood. This is why he began to change the living environment of the people at all costs before he ascended the throne. Even if this change would affect the interests of the imperial power in the future, from the overall perspective It seems that the advantages definitely outweigh the disadvantages.
If possible, Liu Ce hopes to see the Han people become the first country in the world to have complete social security in his lifetime.
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At the same time, thousands of miles away in Nan'ao, Honglin was looking at the royal garden being built with great interest. This was the dowry he had prepared for the seventeenth princess's wedding.
After spending a lot of money at all costs, the efficiency of the garden took shape at a speed that is visible to the naked eye. In less than two months, the garden has taken initial shape, and craftsmen are currently paving the outer ground with cobblestones.
Looking at the bustling scene and thinking about the Ministry of Internal Affairs with its well-established crime settlement system, Honglin's face was glowing these days.
At this moment, Yang Chunsheng came to report: "Long live my Lord, Lord Hong, please see me."
Honglin didn't even think about it and said, "Let him come in and talk."
Not long after, a bearded indigenous official cautiously came to Honglin, knelt down and said, "Long live my slave Hong Qi!"
Honglin raised his hand and said, "Hong Qi, do you know why I'm looking for you? Someone told me that you were corrupt and perverted the law when you were in office in Jiangnan, and you concealed the disaster and whitewashed the peace. Is this true?"
Hong Qi was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat and said hurriedly: "Long live Lord Mingjian, who is slandering this slave? I have served Jiangnan faithfully and faithfully. I dare not say that I have governed Jiangnan like a paradise on earth, but the people live and work in peace and contentment. This is obvious to all!"
Honglin smiled and said: "Get up and speak. I don't mean to blame you. I believe in your character, but there is something good to say,
If you don't see everything with your own eyes, you won't know the truth. I will go and verify it myself so that you can be innocent! "
"Thank you, Long Live Lord, for your understanding!"
After hearing this, Hong Qi breathed a sigh of relief and stood up to thank him.
At this time, Li Shen, sweating profusely, came to Hong Lin's side, leaned over and raised his hands: "Long live Lord? Why are you here? I couldn't pick you up, please forgive me."
Honglin smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, Li Shen, you have been working hard on my affairs during this period. I see you have lost weight."
Li Shen was flattered: "It's my blessing that I can do things for Lord Long Live. What do these hardships mean?"
Honglin nodded: "I can rest assured about your work. I came here today firstly to check the progress of the project, and secondly,
Zhao Guochang, the governor of Jiangnan, came to report that the river embankments in Jiangnan were in danger of collapse and that the government urgently needed to allocate three million taels to build river embankments.
This river fortification is related to the country, the country, and the country. What do you think of this matter? "
Li Shen replied: "Please rest assured, Long Live Lord, I will definitely allocate the funds for the river work as soon as possible."
When Honglin heard this, he chuckled: "A few million taels of silver is not a small amount. If it is transported to Jiangnan like this, I don't know how many officials will be jealous.
If someone enriches themselves and delays the construction period, it will only be the people of Jiangnan who suffer. "
Li Shen said: "What does Long Live Master mean?"
Honglin said: "Come to think of it, it has been almost five years since I visited the south. I plan to go to the south of the Yangtze River in person to see if the embankment needs to be built as Zhao Guochang said.
Also, someone reported that Hong Qi was corrupt and perverting the law. I also want to go and verify it myself. What do you think? "
Li Shen's head suddenly got big. Is the old emperor going on a romantic tour to the south again? How much money will this cost?
