A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 315 Several Ledgers
The lame Song Jiang sat opposite Wu Huaiyu for a long time.

On the other hand, Wu Huaiyu, opposite him, has been looking at two ledgers. One is Wei Siren, Du Wen, Wen Fu, Cao Xuan, Liu Xian, and Han Gui who led troops to check the property of the Peng family and other thieves. Gu Songjiang gave Huaiyu another ledger.

The two accounts are very different.

Especially the one about the Peng family.

The property of the Peng family reported in the inspection report was much smaller than that reported by Cripple Peng.

Not a little bit, at least [-]% less.

"Those subordinates of yours are very courageous," Song Jiang said with a smile.

"really."

Since the Peng family's share has shrunk by at least [-]%, the other confiscated property must also be at least this amount.

The cripple has actually been in charge of the Peng family for several years. Of course, no one knows more about how much property the Peng family has than him.

Wu Huaiyu asked the cripple to go out, and then called Li Wujie, Zhao Xin, and Chen Sheng. Except for Li Deju who sent Li Sanniang back to Beijing, three of the four principals came.

"Have you been watching the raids on the properties of Peng and other traitors, have you found any problems?"

The three of them each took out a ledger to Wu Huaiyu.

These are the records they inspected secretly, and they found some problems more or less. There were many problems when they ransacked the house.

Officials, soldiers and soldiers tried their best to pluck the feathers of the geese, and everyone wanted to catch some.

The evidence in the hands of the three of them is not comprehensive enough, but put together, it is not much different from the account book of the lame man.

Things are basically clear and the evidence is abundant.

This result was actually in Wu Huaiyu's expectation, don't imagine people too well, even the soldiers from Guanzhong, or even the children of famous families like Wei Duwen Li, are actually the same.

Even Cao Liu wanted to trample on two families on the corpses of the Peng family, taking the opportunity to squeeze another two.

"How does your envoy plan to deal with it?"

"Family has family rules, state owns state laws, how do you say how to deal with it?"

"But it's very involved."

"Are you trying to say that you don't blame the public?"

Wu Huaiyu put down the ledger, took out the tea pot, and started making tea.

Hot water is poured into the teapot, and the fried green tea instantly exudes an attractive aroma.

"Call the principal officials in charge of this matter first, and I will talk to them in person."

Yan Governor Shi Weisiren was the first to be invited.

"Cucumber Hou, please sit down."

When Wei Siren heard Wu Huaiyu call him the Marquis of Cucumber, he felt something was wrong.

He got on the couch and sat upright.

Huaiyu poured him a cup of tea, "It's hard work on this inspection."

"It's all part of the job."

Wei Siren was originally the Governor of Yan Prefecture, not an official of the Dudu Mansion, Wu Huaiyu temporarily seconded him to handle the case in a different place, it was the emperor's special order.

"I just read the search report you submitted, Cucumber Hou, and found that you missed a lot of reports. It is estimated that the clerks were too busy and made a mistake. It was fine to make a small mistake, but I checked it. The error Some are too big, [-]% underreported."

Wei Siren froze there for a moment.

"Drink tea."

Wei Siren looked at the tea handed in front of him, he had no choice but to take it, and wanted to explain, but when his eyes met Huaiyu's, he couldn't say anything immediately.

He got it all.

Wu Huaiyu knew everything, since he could point out the [-]% difference, there was no room for him to justify, and the explanation was just a cover-up.

"Huangguahou is a relative of the country. The two elder sisters in the family are in His Majesty's palace and are deeply loved. Jingzhao Wei is the first of the six surnames in Guanzhong. Naturally, he will not covet the stolen property. It's just that Cucumberhou is also a little young, and he is too young for the people below. Don’t trust me, you don’t know, if you don’t pay close attention to those people below, their hands will be stretched out unscrupulously, even dead people want to scrape two or two taels of oil.”

Wu Huaiyu took out the report he had handed in earlier and returned it to him, "With Lao Wei Changshi, go down and check it again, make corrections again, and put all the confiscated property that has not been put into the treasury as soon as possible."

"As for us, we are old buddies who have been partners since Shenji Camp. We went north this time, Ping Luoyi, Zhen Peng, regained Yanzhou, and stabilized Lingzhou. The credit is not small. Don't be overwhelmed by some trivial things If you delay, you will lose more than you gain.”

Wei Siren got up, bowed his head and took the report.

"Thank you, Ambassador Wu."

"Go ahead and get busy."

Wu Huaiyu summoned them one by one and pointed out to everyone, but he didn't pursue it, but asked them to remedy it.

In front of Wu Huaiyu's detailed figures, no one dared to quibble, and all of them withdrew honestly.

"so cheap?"

"We have to give some chance, these are our own people."

Looking at the accurate data, Huaiyu found that there are quite a lot of slaves in these properties and fields. Lingzhou is worthy of being on the south of the Yangtze River. Over the years, relying on the Silk Road, coupled with border trade, black, white and ashes have gathered here. people.

With such a large amount of money, indeed, everyone would be tempted to see it, and would like to get some if they had a chance.

But on the other hand, in fact, no matter whether you are a soldier or an official, who doesn't love money.

The soldiers from the inland provinces are ordered to come to the frontiers in turn to guard the frontiers. They will spend at least a year as a guard, leaving their homes and being far away from their wives and children. Only a few dollars.

If a strong laborer leaves home, the family will suffer a great loss, especially if he is only a soldier of the small landlord's family, the family will be more difficult when he is not at home for a year.

It will be even more troublesome if you get injured while on duty.

Who would hesitate to have a chance to earn some.

"The money that was confiscated this time, land, servants, households, livestock, etc., the land was entered into the government, and the slaves and livestock were sold. The money and silk were used to make money. Three points were paid to the emperor, three points were turned over to the treasury of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and the remaining four points were divided into four. One part is reserved in the treasury of the governor's mansion, one part is allocated to the state government, one part is allocated to the county, and the remaining one is given to the generals and officials as rewards.

The land without officials is divided into public land, employment land, military farmland, school land, and official leased land.

One tenth of the income from the sale of slaves and livestock is also used to distribute to officials and soldiers. Everyone has worked hard. "

"Such a division, isn't it appropriate?"

"Your Majesty asked me to take charge of the affairs of the Governor's Mansion temporarily, and gave me the right to do things cheaply. Now there is nothing wrong with taking out some confiscated money and distributing it to the soldiers,"

You can't let them be greedy secretly, then you have to make up for it publicly.

Otherwise, it is impossible to make the horse run without letting the horse graze.

Those people have already proved their choice to Wu Huaiyu with practical actions. If they don't give it to them, they can take it themselves.

But if you don't care, it will break the rules, and it will be difficult to do anything in the future.

There are no rules and no squares.

In fact, Wu Huaiyu had expected such a result from the very beginning, he deliberately didn't make any arrangements, just waited for them to take it first, and then made a move, so that Wei Siren and other officials who made the move were all at fault on Wu Huaiyu's side.

Of course, Wu Huaiyu didn't pursue it, and gave them the opportunity to correct themselves. Although these people have a reason to be caught, they are definitely unwilling to eat and spit it out again. Rewarding at this time, even if it can't be compared with the greedy ones, at least they can feel better. Some.

In contrast, in fact, if you don’t allow greed at the beginning, and just reward a little bit, it may not be the best solution in terms of human nature, and those who don’t get it always want to try.

Forgive and make up for a mistake after making a mistake, which makes them both awed and grateful.

People are so mean sometimes.

People like Wei Siren and Du Wen may not be really greedy for the little money, but everyone wants to take it, and they have to take it. In addition, if they all take it, they will naturally have no responsibility, and no one will take it for nothing.

But now that Wu Huaiyu really put the matter out, they were on the contrary, they were caught in a difficult position, and Wu Huaiyu really wanted to pursue it. If this matter fell out, it would probably be a result of peace, but it seemed that Wu Huaiyu was incompetent, and he would be able to lead the people under him in the future , everyone hates you, how can you lead the team.

Now it is so good that it is not announced, and it is not pursued if it is pointed out.

"Arrange it for me. I will take Cao Shisanniang back to Cao's house tomorrow to visit relatives."

"The envoy wants to talk to Lao Cao?"

"Well, the matter of selling money and casting utensils and stealing private money is now underway, but those workshops have stopped working, and so many craftsmen who were engaged in the past have no livelihood.

Talk to the Cao family and ask each family to hand over these craftsmen to the imperial court. We use these ready-made craftsmen to open the money supervisor and start the furnace to make money. "

"Shi Jungao, this is a great way to get rid of the bottom line."

The most important thing is that Lingzhou has a complete industrial chain, such as money collection, sales, private casting, scattered, clear division of labor, many craftsmen, and mature industries. Only in this way can there be sufficient scale and more efficiency and competitiveness.

If it is just a simple prohibition of private casting, there are still a large number of these private casting craftsmen, and they have no work. No matter how the imperial court bans it, they will take risks in order to survive. Do it again, but it will be more difficult to manage the prohibition.

Now that the imperial court's money supervisor is opened, and these craftsmen are transferred to the imperial government's official money supervisor, it is indeed a bottom line. If there are no private foundry craftsmen outside, the private foundry industry will be cut off. I want to create a mature private foundry again. How can the industrial chain be so easy?
"By the way, talk to them about opening copper mines and making bronze utensils,"

In fact, although private copper coins are not allowed, imitation Persian silver coins are still allowed. That is the main currency that circulates in large quantities in the Western Regions, Turks, Hexi and other places. It is much larger than copper coins. This is not the currency of the Tang Dynasty, so Casting is fine.

We can continue to cooperate with the Cao family on this.

One more thing, most of the money circulating in Shuofang Lingwu is privately minted money, some of which are of good quality and some of which are of poor quality, and there are even many old five baht coins, as well as old bad money and white money. The business and economics of Shuofang's market is still somewhat negatively affected. Take this opportunity to have a good talk with the local snakes of the Cao family, and recycle and exchange these bad money and old money, which happens to be used to sell and mint new money for circulation.

For the Cao family that has already surrendered, Huaiyu is still very satisfied with their knowledge of current affairs, and he also needs the cooperation of such local snakes who know current affairs. In fact, both the imperial court and him hope that Lingzhou can be stable, and the game between the imperial court and the local area is always unchanging. It will stop, but there will be times when each other will rise and fall.

Now even though he went to several cities in a row, he would accept it as soon as it was good, leaving enough leeway for the other party, otherwise they would have no way to retreat, and they would fight to the death, which would not be a good thing for anyone.

Really speaking, the imperial court wished they could pull out Cao Liu and other local snakes, but this is just a thought, and we still have to return to reality.

Wu Huaiyu has always kept this conflict within a controllable range, that is, eradicating the Peng family and others who were betrayed and abandoned by Cao Liu and the others.

But it is limited to this, and it only makes a fuss about selling money and casting utensils, stealing and casting private money, and does not implicate other equally serious problems such as slave trading, smuggling, land occupation, soil group, and lending.

Maintaining stability and unity is the top priority, and stability is paramount.

So far, Wu Huaiyu is very satisfied with the current progress.

He returned to Houya and went to the West Courtyard. Cao Shisanniang was playing the piano and flute with two half-sisters. Since entering here, San Cao has been Wu Huaiyu's concubine in name, but Wu Huaiyu has never lived here.

"Pack up and dress up, and I will take you back to Cao's house to visit relatives later."

The three of them were very happy to hear that, and hurried to clean up.

"My lord, something urgent happened. Qiu Xinggong beat Han Gui of the Han family to death in the street, and even dissected him in the street. He took out his heart and liver and roasted him in the street to serve wine,"

(End of this chapter)