Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 391

In mid-October, Wen Tiren and others arrived in Chengdu as scheduled.

At the same time they arrived in Chengdu, Sun Chuanting's aide, Zhou Xun, handed over the seal and power of the Sichuan chief envoy.

Sun Chuanting did not go to greet Wen Tiren and others, but let Zhou Xun and Wu Youxing go to greet them.

He was too tired, and he didn't want to waste energy and mind on these detours in the officialdom.

Wen Tiren and the others didn't care too much. After all, Sun Chuanting was also a hero who managed the Northwest and governed the world. Besides, with the support of the Northern Army Governor's Mansion and Qi Wang's Mansion, no one would not be short-sighted enough to let him greet him.

It's better if he doesn't show up, so that everyone can take time to deal with him.

Wen Tiren delegated the right of trial to Zhou Yanru, and asked Zhou Yanru to be the leader.

Although Zhou Yanru knew what Wen Tiren was thinking, he really needed to show his head once to attract Zhu Youjian's attention.

Therefore, Zhou Yanru led a team to settle in Chengdu Mansion, while Lu Wenzhao said "it's up to you adults" and successfully escaped from the trial situation.

He knew that Sun Chuanting would be fine. As for Liu Yuyou and Pan Shiliang, although he wanted them to die, Zhu Youjian didn't speak, so he couldn't act rashly.

After he escaped, he began to lead people to rectify Jinyiwei's hundreds of households in various places in Sichuan. Without Lu Wenzhao's restraint, Zhou Yanru could easily handle the case.

He first discussed the collection of criminal evidence with Wen Tiren, Li Banghua, and Li Yongzhen, and then with the consent of the three, he slowly sent Tang Qi to collect criminal evidence.

After all this back and forth, when Tang Qi returned to Chengdu with the oral evidence of the people from all over the country, it was already the middle of winter.

Zhou Yanru did not try Sun Chuanting, but first interrogated more than 600 officials involved in the case, and interrogated more than a dozen people every day, asking extremely complicated questions.

But even so, this group of people were basically sentenced to exile in Nanzhou.

Zhou Yanru procrastinated for a good time. After the trial of more than 600 officials was over, more than 7000 Sichuan officials appointed by Zhu Youjian also arrived in Chengdu successfully, and brought with them the imperial decree that Li Banghua was canonized as Sichuan Chief Envoy.

In this way, Li Banghua was easily picked out of the trial by Zhu Youjian, which no one expected.

"I thank you for your grace..."

The imperial decree sent by the capital was heavy in his hands, Li Banghua was unhappy, but Zhou Yanru was happy.

Both Lu Wenzhao and Li Banghua were out of the game, so it was much easier for him to protect Pan Shiliang and Liu Yuyou.

"There is no need for Li Buzheng to be too polite. There is also an order issued by the Qi Palace, asking Li Buzheng to govern Sichuan according to the order."

The eunuch passing the decree in Beijing presented the decree of the Prince of Qi with both hands in the chief secretary's office. Li Banghua took it upon seeing it, while Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren standing behind couldn't help but look at it.

They all wanted to know what good strategy King Qi sent to govern Sichuan, but Li Banghua did not rush to open it after receiving the decree. Instead, he accepted the decree, turned around and said to Zhou Yanru and the others:

"Since the old man has been appointed chief minister, the matter of the trial will be handed over to the two of you..."

"Emissary Li Buzheng is at ease." Although the three parties were fighting secretly, but in front of the eunuch who delivered the decree, he still had to be polite.

"Since the decree has been delivered, our family will leave first..." The eunuch passing the decree bowed in return, and Wen Tiren and the other three hurriedly returned the salute.

But in the middle of returning the gift, the eunuch who passed the decree suddenly remembered something, and explained:

"By the way, Your Highness said that one must first learn to seek one's life in order to seek the country..."

After finishing speaking, the eunuch passed the order and turned around to take the people away, leaving only the three people who were stunned in place.

After a while, Li Banghua came to his senses, turned his head to look at Zhou Yanru, chuckled lightly, and went to the backyard with the decree.

It was the place where Sun Chuanting rested, and he wanted to go there, obviously to discuss the decree with Sun Chuanting.

As for Wen Tiren, when he heard this, he also cast a vague glance at Zhou Yanru.

Zhou Yanru was finally happy for a while, but was beaten back to his original shape by Zhu Youjian's words.

Lu Wenzhao retired and Li Banghua was transferred. Zhou Yanru thought that Pan Shiliang and Liu Yuyou would be able to keep them, but Zhu Youjian turned him off with one word.

To seek the country first seeks the body, the gentleman seeks the country, and the villain seeks the life...

Those who plan for the country should worry about the world first; those who plan for themselves should benefit themselves first...

A wise man's plan is far away, and his plan is deep...

Only when it is far-reaching can it respond to people...

Zhou Yanru couldn't figure out Zhu Youjian's words. He was thinking that Zhu Youjian made him a villain and killed Pan Shiliang and Liu Yuyou?Or let him get out of this muddy water?
It's easy to be a villain, and if he can get to the top, it's okay for Zhou Yanru to be a villain, but the problem is that Zhu Youjian didn't give him any substantive promises.

As for withdrawing from this muddy water, it is even more impossible. If he withdraws from the front foot, Gu Dang will liquidate him on the back foot.

Besides, is this really only for him?
Thinking of this, Zhou Yanru glanced at Wen Tiren, but Wen Tiren bowed to express that he wanted to leave.

Before Zhou Yanru could speak, Wen Tiren turned around and left the hall, leaving only Zhou Yanru in the hall.

Puzzled, he also returned to his bedroom. At the same time, Li Banghua came to the backyard where Sun Chuanting was resting with the decree and the eunuch's words.

"In my opinion, Liu Yuyou and Pan Shiliang will be exiled to Nanzhou even if they don't die."

Sitting in the meeting hall of the main house, Li Banghua talked about his thoughts to Sun Chuanting who was sitting next to him. Sun Chuanting was dressed in common clothes and held the decree of the Qi Palace in his hand.

Li Banghua had already read the contents of the decree. As for what he said about Liu Yuyou and Pan Shiliang, Sun Chuanting was indifferent.

Corrupt officials are everywhere, and they can't be killed or killed.

Although the incident in Sichuan made him disappointed in the officialdom, killing Liu Yuyou and Pan Shiliang could not change the overall situation.

What he is more concerned about is the Sichuan governance policy issued by the Qi Palace.

Sun Chuanting is very familiar with the handwriting on the decree. It was written by Zhu Youjian, which means that this policy was formulated by Zhu Youjian.

As for the content, the first is to exempt the whole province of Sichuan from money and food for one year, the second is to check the household registration and fields in Sichuan province, and finally, according to the household registration, more than 900 million mu of land will be distributed equally to the people of Sichuan.

If one person has one mu of land, he can only get two mu, while the other has no land, he can get three mu.

In short, three mu is a standard line, and the premise of this land division is to distinguish rural household registration from urban household registration.

First distinguish the household registration, and then distribute the land to the rural household registration. This policy is well done, and even Sun Chuanting can't fault it.

The reason for distinguishing between urban and rural hukou is not to divide the population, but to prevent mistakes in the implementation of policies when dividing land.

With the "rural household registration" in the household registration book, there will be no gentry colluding with officials during the land distribution to let farmers prove that they are farmers.

In Sichuan Province, there are about 400 million farmers, and the land in their hands is between 800 and [-] million mu, barely surviving.

If another 900 million mu of arable land is distributed this time, then under the policy of satisfying the three mu of guaranteed land, it can basically reach the policy of four mu per capita.

Three acres can guarantee a person's life, and four acres can guarantee a person's easy life, and taste meat from time to time.

Therefore, when seeing this policy, Sun Chuanting already felt that he had no regrets.

He killed the gentry in a fit of rage, and in exchange for decades of happiness for the common people in Sichuan, this was worth it in his opinion.

However, he underestimated Zhu Youjian, because after the household registration and land distribution policies, there is another policy that concerns the whole country.

[Abolish all kinds of miscellaneous items related to rural areas, the whole province of Sichuan will be used as a pilot, and the land tax will be collected with ten Fu]

Seeing this policy, Sun Chuanting couldn't sit still, and Li Banghua said happily:
"If this strategy is implemented in Guochao, I am afraid that the land tax of Guochao will increase a lot..."

One out of ten grants means a [-]% levy, which may seem like a lot, but in this era, it is already a benevolent government.

You must know that the fields under the Yumajian are all ten Fusan, and it is reasonable to say that after the land is divided this time, the common people should also be ten Fusan, but now it has been changed to Ten Fusan, that is, at least tens of catties per mu of land food.

An acre of land is tens of catties, and after the current land distribution, the per capita land may be four acres, which means that the imperial court exempted the people from at least two hundred catties of grain.

These two hundred catties of grain can feed one more child.

Faced with this policy, the gentry and tycoons will probably be very entangled.

If miscellaneous items are exempted, then they can save more than ten catties of grain per mu of land, but the problem is that the court has to check the fields and household registrations, so the fields they concealed cannot be hidden.

However, gentry tyrants are also divided into big and small. For the small gentry tyrants, their fields are inherently small, and concealment means concealing dozens of acres.

But if this policy is implemented, they can save nearly ten thousand catties of grain for hundreds of acres of land, far exceeding the output value of the concealed tens of acres.

Therefore, the small and medium gentry will support it, but the big gentry may oppose it.

However, if the land tax is further reduced, even the great gentry may support it.

But if such a policy is implemented across the country, then Daming's land tax will indeed drop as Li Banghua said.

"Currently, the Guocha army has more than 3000 million mu of farmland, and 4000 million mu of civilian farmland."

"Previously, 7000% of the land tax was paid by the army, and the country and the dynasty increased the land tax by nearly [-] million stones every year."

"Although the land tax of Mintian is 600 and 700, and only [-] million shi rice and wheat are paid, the bulk is actually miscellaneous items. After all kinds of miscellaneous items are handed over, the total is about [-] million taels, and each mu of land actually needs to pay more than [-] catties. Mi Mai."

Having said that, Li Banghua breathed a sigh of relief and continued:
"If the military farmland and the civilian farmland are merged, then the 7000 million mu of arable land will be paid [-]% of the land tax, and the land tax can at least collect tens of millions of stones."

Tens of millions of stone field gifts, compared with the 600 million stones at the peak of the Ming Dynasty after the implementation of the current policy, it is indeed an increase.

From whom did the tens of millions of rice grains increase?The answer is the great gentry.

One out of ten, exempting miscellaneous items, this policy benefits the small and medium gentry, and plunders the wealth of the big gentry.

Sun Chuanting and the others can see that Zhu Youjian is splitting up, but I am afraid that as soon as this policy is announced, it will be criticized by all officials.

After all, the small and medium-sized gentry had less power to speak than the big gentry. They wanted to reduce the land tax, but the big gentry didn't want to, and they didn't have the strength to influence the court. This is undoubtedly very sad.

But the problem is, if there is one person in the court supporting them, the ending will be different.

Reducing and exempting the taxes of the small and medium-sized gentry, and increasing the taxes of the big gentry, big landlords, and big tycoons, will definitely be resisted by these three mountains, which is inevitable.

But as long as the small and medium-sized gentry pay the bill, the world will not be chaotic, and this is why the Qing Dynasty killed so many gentry without resistance.

First please a large number of people, then suppress a small number of people, raise taxes, and then wait for the big gentry, big landlords, and big tyrants to be dealt with, then Zhu Youjian will go on to deal with small and medium gentry landlords.

How to deal with it, Sun Chuanting is very clear, because Zhu Youjian told him.

"The gentry pays food as one, and does errands as one..."

The scene of Zhu Youjian saying this sentence in the northwest appeared in Sun Chuanting's mind, and after this memory flashed, he also let go of the edict.

"These governance policies depend on you, Brother Meng An..."

Sun Chuanting had something in his words, because he believed that Li Banghua saw the trap for the great gentry.

Sichuan now has no big gentry, not even middle gentry, so it is not difficult to implement these governance policies.

But the problem is that what is done in Sichuan is for the world to see. If Li Banghua does this, then he...

"Bo Ya, don't forget, this old man also came from a poor background!"

Li Banghua talked about his own background, and Sun Chuanting also remembered the other's background.

Speaking of background, Li Banghua's background is worse than Sun Chuanting's.

Sun Chuanting's family is at least a hereditary military household, guarding the palace on behalf of the palace, but Li Banghua's family belongs to pure rich peasants.

Back then when Li Banghua went to Beijing to take the exam, he wore commoner clothes and went to Beijing on foot. He couldn’t even sit in a donkey cart. Although he had been an official for more than ten years, he didn’t collect much money. Although his family had hundreds of acres of land, if he really wanted to Division, he is at best a small and medium landlord.

Therefore, the policy established by Zhu Youjian has no class conflict with Li Banghua for the time being, and he can even exempt him from miscellaneous silver of dozens of taels of silver.

But Sun Chuanting is very clear that there are no conflicts right now, but it doesn't mean there will be no conflicts in the future.

When the big gentry are cleaned up, Zhu Youjian will definitely promulgate the policies he said, and the small and medium landlords and gentry tyrants in the ruling and opposition parties will not be spared.

Thinking of this, Sun Chuanting didn't know how to face Li Banghua, how to face the Sun's children of his own clan.

He suddenly felt that he had become an accomplice in suppressing his family members.

"There is nothing wrong with the decree. The old man will implement it according to King Qi's order. Boya, you should also take a good rest. It is estimated that Wen Tiren and the others will judge you next month."

Li Banghua still didn't understand Sun Chuanting's entanglement, he took up the decree calmly, obviously ready to implement the governance policy set by Zhu Youjian.

Even though he knew that these policies would cause him to be attacked by groups, after seeing Sun Chuanting's treatment, he thought that if he followed Zhu Youjian's words, there would be no problems with a high probability.

On the contrary, if he doesn't do it, it may be the turn of the Sichuan chief envoy to someone else.

Therefore, Li Banghua is going to study how to operate, especially how to arrange the more than 7000 officials.

With calmness, he left Sun Chuanting's courtyard, but Sun Chuanting looked at his back, secretly entangled...

Not long after Li Banghua left, Zhou Xun entered the courtyard with a thick document.

He walked into the room, saw Sun Chuanting staring at the door in a daze, and deliberately stretched out his head to have a look, but following Sun Chuanting's line of sight, he only saw the closed courtyard door.

Turning around, he put the paperwork on the table, sat down and made himself a cup of tea, and finally glanced at the water stains on the tea cup on the table, knowing that someone had come to visit.

"Governor, I have explained everything clearly to the new Chief Secretary officials. This time, His Highness is really generous. He transferred all the officials from Sichuan in one go, and then sent more than 7000 officials."

"However, there are only more than 7000 people. I am afraid that Sichuan, which has more than 400 million people, cannot be managed well. It is estimated that more officials will have to be added in the future."

As Zhou Xun said, he drank a cup of tea and refilled his own cup and Sun Chuanting's cup.

"How is the year-old exam for the subordinate officials?"

Sun Chuanting came back to his senses and started to care about the more than 130 million petty officials this year, while Zhou Xun shook his head when he heard the words:

"Of the more than 130 million subordinate officials, only more than 7 have passed the old age examination and become officials of the second ninth rank."

"More than 7 people..." Sun Chuanting repeated, then took a sip from his teacup, put it down again and said:
"Counting these more than 7 people, the number of officials in the imperial court is only 523 million. I am afraid that there will be a shortage of officials."

"Your Highness should want to investigate the administration of officials, rather than being indiscriminate..."

"Isn't this a good thing?" Zhou Xun refilled his tea while expressing his opinion:

"The imperial court should have done this a long time ago. Perhaps among the 52 to [-] officials, there are still a large group of officials who pretend to be numbers."

"Instead of waiting for them to be caught for corruption, it is better to let them be eliminated by themselves."

"I heard from the Chief Secretary official who came from the capital that the imperial court has already prepared to make regular governors from next year. It is estimated that the weather of the Metropolitan Procuratorate will change soon."

"However, if the Metropolitan Procuratorate is really dedicated to anti-corruption, then you don't need to be a governor. Without this offending job, you can also concentrate on side affairs."

Zhou Xun was very sorry for Sun Chuanting's current experience, but he was also glad that Sun Chuanting had resigned from the post of governor.

In his opinion, the governor is the one who offends people, and the kind who offends people to death.

He and Sun Chuanting have been governors since last year, but within a year and a half, all major factions in the court have been offended by them over and over again.

Therefore, Zhou Xun is now a little worried about his own safety.

Sun Chuanting was dismissed, but he was not.

Although he is Sun Chuanting's aide, he also holds the temporary official position of Bo Jinglue Mansion.

Now that Sun Chuanting has been dismissed, what he should do has become a problem.

Thinking of this, he was silent for a moment, but Sun Chuanting saw his worries, so he said:

"Fuchen, now the Jinglue Mansion has been revoked, and you have no official position. I have already reported to His Highness half a month ago. Please transfer you to Jiaozhi as an official."

"This..." Zhou Xun didn't know what to say for a while, and it was natural to say that he was touched, but he was not willing to leave Sun Chuanting.

After all, he had worked under Sun Chuanting for five years, not to mention that Sun Chuanting was a celebrity in front of King Qi, just being transferred to intercourse was hard for him to accept.

Being transferred to Jiaozhi, if Sun Chuanting can't think of him in the future, then he will at most sit in the position of participating in politics from the fourth rank in his life.

But if he follows Sun Chuanting, and when Sun Chuanting ascends to the cabinet in the future, then he can at least become a provincial chief envoy.

"The lowly position is still unwilling to leave the governor, only willing to serve the left and right, not seeking official positions."

Zhou Ji was still unwilling to leave Sun Chuanting, he bowed and said:

"Governor, you have returned to Shanxi, but you also need people to work by your side so that you can respond to the imperial court's resurgence at any time."

"This is really..." Sun Chuanting sighed, then waved his hands and said:

"In that case, I'll ask someone to recover the handbook."

"As for your preparations, Governor Li just said that Wen Tiren and the others will try me next month."

"You go back to Shanxi early, you don't have to stay here and wait for me."

"Yes..." Seeing that he could stay, Zhou Xun didn't bother anymore, but nodded, got up and bowed to leave.

Watching him leave, Sun Chuanting glanced at the several teacups on the table, not knowing what to think.

It's just that today's visitors are not destined to be only two. Not long after, Wu Youxing knocked on the door in ordinary clothes.

Sun Chuanting looked at the other party who was standing at the door knocking, and could only say helplessly:
"Brother, why bother to stick to etiquette?"

"Hehe..." Hearing Sun Chuanting's angry words, Wu Youxing smiled, and walked in with a beard.

But as soon as he entered the room, he did not pour tea or speak, but took out the medical bag and put it on the table, motioning for Sun Chuanting to put his hand on it.

Sun Chuanting was helpless, but honestly put his hand on the medical bag.

Seeing this, Wu Youxing diagnosed his pulse, and after a while, he withdrew his hand and said:

"I'm fine, so I'm relieved to leave."

"Leave?" Sun Chuanting frowned, while Wu Youxing said with a smile:
"I was originally sent by His Highness to patrol the world with you. Now that you are no longer the governor, the Imperial Hospital will naturally call me back."

"I came out this time, brought out more than 600 disciples, and healed millions of people. This trip is not in vain."

"Are you only serving as an imperial physician after you go back?" Sun Chuanting asked concerned, while Wu Youxing shook his head with a smile:

"no……"

"I heard that the Tai Hospital is planning to rectify the Huimin Pharmaceutical Bureau, and build 21 "branch medical schools" in the two capitals and [-] provinces. Thousands of students who have graduated from Yanshan Medical College will be sent to teach, and at the same time take over Huimin locally Pharmacy, heal the people."

"This is a good thing..." Sun Chuanting couldn't help but nodded in agreement after hearing the cause and effect, while Wu Youxing sighed:

"Originally, a 320 "branch" should be established in a 320 prefecture in the world, and nearly [-] graduates will be sent down by the way."

"However, it seems that the court next year has too many things to do, and the scale has been reduced by [-]%."

"Fortunately, the branch schools in each province are large enough to accommodate tens of thousands of people to study in them."

"According to His Highness, it is estimated that six years later, when 10,000+ students graduate from the medical school, the Tianxia Huimin Pharmacy Bureau will be taken over at one go, and every county will take care of it, and the people will only be charged for medicinal materials when they see a doctor."

Wu Youxing is a doctor, so he naturally looks at things from a doctor's point of view.

However, although it is about medical matters, Sun Chuanting also knows that after this matter is promoted, the medical environment for the common people will be much better, so he sighed:
"This is indeed a matter of boundless merit..."

"That's right..." Wu Youxing nodded, and then said with a smile:
"Over there at the Military Armament Academy, there is something called a microscope, which is very helpful for the "plague" I am studying. If we can understand the plague, the common people will not have to worry about the plague."

"So, I'm here to say goodbye to you this time, and I'm going back to the capital tomorrow morning."

"However, you and I don't need to leave. The distance from the capital to Zhenwu is only more than six hundred miles. In my spare time, I can take my disciples to practice medicine and visit you in Shanxi."

Having said that, Wu Youxing stood up, and Sun Chuanting also stood up.

He sent Wu Youxing to the door, and Wu Youxing also said, "Just send it here."

"Bo Ya, you are more difficult than me. I fight against plagues and diseases. If you lose, you will die. But you are in the officialdom, surrounded by enemies. If you lose, you will die."

"I'm in the Imperial Hospital. Apart from being able to say something for you when I meet King Qi and Long Live, I can't help you. You can only rely on yourself..."

Wu Youxing looked at Sun Chuanting, but after a year and a half as governor, the 36-year-old Sun Chuanting had already turned gray at the temples.

This is a shortfall caused by too much work, and it can only be filled slowly.

"You take this prescription, your body is deficient, you can only fill it up slowly, and I can only do this for you."

Wu Youxing stuffed a prescription into Sun Chuanting's hands, and Sun Chuanting looked at the prescription in his hand with mixed feelings in his heart, so he could only bow to Wu Youxing:
"Brother You Ke, there will be a period later..."

"There will be a period later..." Wu Youxing bowed in return, and then left the courtyard gate with a sigh.

Sun Chuanting stood at the door and watched his back until he disappeared, then he turned and walked into the courtyard.

Seeing this, the Jin Yiwei at the courtyard gate immediately closed the courtyard gate.

Although everyone knew that he was fine, such treatment was no different from that of a prisoner.

Even if it's just pretending to show the world's gentry, it's still a stain at the end of his campaign to govern the world...

(End of this chapter)