In fact, Yang Ming fell into the trap of Chen Shuyi and Gao Yue this time.
Fortunately, he was the prince now and could ride in the royal chariot in the imperial city. Only the last few steps into the palace required him to hold on and stay normal.
You can sit down as soon as you enter the main hall.
Yang Ming's current position is unique. He is not far from Yang Guang, clearly separated from the officials on both sides.
After Yang Guang came in, he found that there was something wrong with his son's sitting posture. As a person who had been there, he did not expose it.
How old are you when you can no longer do it? I'm like this all the time, and nothing like you.
The court meeting three days ago had put Yang Jian through, but the affairs in Hebei were not over yet, and many aspects needed to be dealt with.
For example, what policies should be used to appease Hebei, and how to deal with Chen Junbin, Cui Hongjun, and Gao Sandao.
Everyone expressed their opinions, some suggested exempting Hebei from taxes, and others, as Yang Ming originally petitioned, implemented the policy of exempting slaves from concubines and conferring land in Bashu, Jingzhou, Southwest, Lingnan and other places.
Yang Guang never expressed his position, but allowed the ministers to discuss it.
After a while, Yang Guang changed the topic directly and talked about Chen Junbin and others.
Yang Wanshi, the Ministry of Punishment has sent officials to Hebei to arrest people. Yang Ming has to protect the remaining three people, Chen, Cui and Gao.
One is Chen Shuyi's cousin, one is Cui Hongsheng's third brother, and the other is Gao Xi's eldest son.
It seems that Cui Hongjun is not worth protecting, after all, his daughter is married to Yang Jian, but in fact, no one involved in the Hebei family will be punished or arrested this time.
Because Yang Ming figured out that his father's way of appeasing Hebei was absolutely unique.
First, Lu Chu of the Lu family in Fanyang was appointed as the internal history order, and then Cui Zhongfang of the Cui family in Boling was transferred back to serve as Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. Then the brothers Cui Junsu and Cui Junchuo of the Cui family in Qinghe were appointed as the minister of the Ministry of official affairs and Taipusi respectively. Sir.
Cui Shu, who was also born in the Cui family of Qinghe, became the minister of Sinong Temple.
The Shandong clan arranged five of them in one go, all of which were in absolutely key positions. It was obvious that they wanted to appease the Hebei family.
Among them, Cui Junchuo was the uncle of Yang Guang's concubine Yang Ning. Yang Ning became Yang Chan's dowry girl and now lives in Pei Xuanji's house.
Normally, concubines, that is, dowry girls, can sleep with them, but you have to look at who the father is.
That was Comrade Yang Guang.
Although she does not have the name of a princess, she has the reality of being a princess. You, Pei Xuanji, want to sleep with two princesses? Are you dreaming?
Therefore, Yang Ning is still in perfect condition, and Yang Guang also intends to find a good family for his concubine daughter.
At the court meeting, Yang Guangdao waved his sleeve and planned to kill Gao Shengdao. Yang Ming hurriedly stood up to dissuade him. The father and son sang and reconciled. In the end, Gao Shengdao was not convicted and even entered the Shangshu Province.
Gao Xi didn't say anything, he just watched the father and son acting. How could he not understand what Yang Guang meant? Don't you just want to hit me?
Don't worry, when Yang Ming enters the East Palace, I won't be waiting for you anymore.
Next, Yang Guang continued: "As for Chen Junbin, although there was civil unrest in his jurisdiction, his county guard still did a good job. Now the people of Wu'an County need to be appeased. I have no intention of asking anyone to blame. I feel that how?"
Pei Ju nodded and said: "Your Majesty, this person has a reputation of being honest in the local area and has lived up to your Majesty's high expectations. This civil unrest was caused by many reasons, and he is not the only one to blame."
Pei Ju also saw that this time Yang Guang was very ruthless in treating officials who were born in Guanzhong, but outside Guanzhong, he was a bit extra-legal and merciful.
Doing so is actually in line with the interests of the imperial court. This varies from person to person. To deal with Shandong and Jiangnan, we need to relax our policies and show our noble hands to prevent them from becoming resistant.
But Pei Ju didn't know that Yang Guang wanted to support the Shandong and Jiangnan families and go against the Guanzhong Group.
Others have no objections to Chen Junbin's matter. After all, everyone knows that two ladies of the Chen family are currently favored, and one is favored by the prince. Right now, Jiangnan Chen's career is on the rise.
Cui Hongjun's side is basically fine. His second brother Cui Hongsheng is still alive, and his nephew has gone to Yang Ming's place. Everyone can see that nothing will happen to him.
After the court meeting, Yang Guang left his son behind in Daxing Hall.
After Yang Guang sent all the servants away, he said to his son:
"It is imperative to abolish slave labor and grant land to the tribes in Bashu, Jingzhou and the south, but it is unrealistic to exempt Hebei from taxes."
Yang Ming nodded and said: "I agree that Jiangnan has already been exempted from tax. If Hebei is exempted again, the national treasury will be stretched thin."
"So," Yang Guang said with a smile, "for some things, you don't have to wait for me to express my position. You should also express your position at the court meeting. Don't be afraid of making mistakes. If you make a mistake, I will take care of you."
Yang Ming understood clearly that his father meant for him to be the popular face at the court meeting. To put it bluntly, he wanted to help his father block some things he didn't like.
"So, can the money saved by exempting land transfer in these places be provided to Hebei?" Yang Ming asked tentatively.
At that time, he also discussed it with the ministers at the Prince of Qin's Mansion, and Pei Ju thought it was not feasible.
Yang Guang smiled and said: "Why should I spend money in Hebei?"
Yang Mingling said: "But the imperial court still owes money to Hebei. At present, all industries in Hebei are in ruins, and money is needed to stabilize the local area."
"You kid, you still have a lot to learn," Yang Guang said slowly, "Hebei needs to be appeased. This is the top priority of the court this year, but in what way can we be appeased in order to be comprehensive?"
Then, Yang Guang said: "We must pay back Hebei's debt, but we can't. So how do you think we can solve it?"
Both repay and not repay? What's the meaning? Yang Ming shook his head blankly.
Yang Guang smiled and said: "The money is owed by your second brother, and it is owed to the court, so we, the father and the mother, have to pay back the money, but the treasury cannot come up with the money. How to solve it? Of course, they take the initiative not to take the money."
Yang Ming pretended to suddenly realize: "This is why my father appointed five officials from Shandong at once, because the court owes them the most money."
"This is not enough," Yang Guang said: "The amount of debt owed is too large, and it cannot be solved by giving it to a few officials. It requires both kindness and power. Giving to officials is kindness, so what is the power?"
Yang Ming shook his head and said, "I don't know."
"Actually, you proposed the method at the court meeting earlier," Yang Guang said with a smile, "That is to send inspection envoys to inspect Hebei."
I'm so stupid! Yang Ming's mouth twitched.
I understand, Dad, you are really amazing.
What is the inspection for? When looking for money, you can't look for money from ordinary people, because ordinary people have no money. In fact, they go to aristocratic families.
Su Wei served as an inspection envoy twice. After returning from one inspection, he was pulled down because he accepted bribes during the inspection.
Why take bribes? Because the people below were afraid that he would investigate, they stuffed some money in the hope that Su Wei would show his favor.
The main purpose of the inspection was household registration, and all the aristocratic families in Sui Dynasty concealed a large number of household registrations, but also occupied huge amounts of land.
This is Da Suo Mao Yue. Da Suo is to count the household registrations and register names, dates of birth and appearance. Mao Suo is to check the appearance of the people with their appearance recorded in the household registration.
During the Kaihuang period, the Da Suo Mao Yue directly cleared out 1.6 million concealed people in the north, resulting in a sharp increase in taxes, which showed an increasing trend year after year.
But Yang Guang knew very well that the original Dasuo Maungyue were all small landowners from Cha, and none of the real big families could move.
He can't move now, but he can put on a show and scare them, which means that I am going to send people to go and inspect the situation. How strong the force is depends entirely on how determined you are to demand payment from the court.
If you still want money, we will investigate it carefully. If you don’t want money, we will just go down and go through the motions.
It's so amazing. Yang Ming was so impressed that he said, don't underestimate any emperor, because they are thinking about how to fight with the world, what about you? Just fight with those few people.
Yang Ming nodded and said, "Then let Pei Yun go?"
He was the one who recommended Pei Yun at the court meeting at that time.
"It's the same for anyone who goes there. The key point is that he can understand what we mean and know what to do when we go down," Yang Guang said:
"Pei Yun is still very suitable. This person has been trying to figure out my thoughts. I will occasionally give him opportunities to figure out my thoughts."
Yang Ming said with sincere admiration: "My father's move was flawless. Now that Hebei has been hit by this disaster, a large number of people have died, and the local aristocratic families have suffered a lot of losses. They will inevitably hide the number of deaths to continue to occupy acres of land and evade taxes."
If a person dies but the fields are still there, then the fields should be returned to the state and redistributed. However, local aristocratic families will say that the person is not dead and is alive and well. In this way, they can use this to usurp the dead person's acres.
According to the policy of the Sui Dynasty, the three diseases are tax-free and partially tax-free, that is, disability, debilitating disease, and severe disease, which represent three categories of people: those who have partially lost their labor force, those who have completely lost their labor force, and those who have lost all their labor force and still cannot take care of themselves.
For these three categories of people, the disabled are subject to half tax, and the disabled and severely ill are exempt from tax.
At present, more than 600,000 people have died in Hebei, and at least 400,000 to 500,000 people have been injured. How many of them are unable to take care of themselves?
Maybe not many, but there must be a lot of people reported in Hebei, because they want to use this to evade taxes. You are originally disabled, but in the end you are declared disabled, so you don’t have to pay taxes.
Therefore, I chose this time to do the reading, and my timing was very precise, which can be said to be hit the nail on the head.
As expected of Yang Guang, Yang Ming really felt that he still had a lot to learn, because he had no access to these things before traveling through time.
My father in the previous life was just an ordinary employee, but my father in this life is more than ten thousand people.
