Emperor Sui Yang

Chapter 143
On the ninth day of February, Du Ruhui was called back by Yang Ming.

Although he came back, his retainers were still checking the fields in Baling, which did not affect the progress.

Yang Ming felt that this matter should not be too urgent, after all, it involved too much, and he had to investigate step by step slowly.

Yuan Wendu, Pang Ben, Du Ruhui, and Pei Xizai were all present in the lobby of the General Manager's Mansion, discussing matters with Yang Ming.

These four people are Yang Ming's current basic team, so many government affairs in the general manager's mansion are temporarily on the four of them.

"Ruhui and Xizai, you don't need to leave the general manager's mansion for the time being. There are many affairs here, and you need to take care of them. The following matters can be handed over to trusted and competent people," Yang Ming said.

The administrative scope of Hucao and Facao covers the entire Jingzhou. It is impossible for Yang Ming to release them for a long time.

As for Pang Ben, he is the Sima of the general manager's mansion, and it is not appropriate to always guard the mansion as the head of security.

Du Ruhui nodded and said: "The matter of checking the fields should be delayed rather than urgent. It really needs to be discussed in the long run."

"We need more manpower," Pei Xizai said.

Yang Ming nodded: "So I plan to temporarily form a team. The members of this team will be selected from among the rogues and hooligans from all over the country. They will mainly participate in the investigation of the fields. The meaning of inspection and correction should be assigned to Chief Pang Ben, who will be divided among you to make up for the shortage of manpower."

Some things must be done by local ruffians, because these people are uneducated and will not reason with you.

Literati cannot do such things as checking the fields. They can't do it.

Be courageous and ruthless.

Because of this inventory, the total amount of land in each state and county is only one of them, the most important amount of land is the amount of land of the aristocratic family.

When Yang Ming knew that there were a lot of false claims about the total amount of land in Jingzhou, he decided to attack the aristocratic family completely, otherwise the people of Jingzhou would be in chaos in the long run.

Yuan Wen understood what Yang Ming meant, and knew that this matter should not be rushed, so he said:
"If all the 22 places in Jingzhou are sent to inspect and guard, I'm afraid it will require a lot of manpower."

"It doesn't need much," Du Ruhui said with a smile: "Your Highness has a deep meaning in choosing the ruffian as the school guard. These people already have gang connections in the local area. You only need to choose their leader to be the school guard, and the following will naturally follow. There is a group of accomplices to follow, this kind of person is arrogant and domineering, once he is given an official background, he will dare to do anything."

Yuan Wendu was suddenly stunned, and he couldn't help but marvel at Yang Ming's thoughtfulness, the prince's teaching was good, and at such an age, he was able to control a party with ease.

Pang Ben was worried that he had nothing to do after he came to Jingzhou, so that's it, Yang Ming has arranged a big event for him.

Recruiting school guards was not an easy task. The reason why Yang Ming handed it over to Pang Ben was of course because the other party was competent.

To be able to serve Dugu Jialuo, it is not enough to only cater to his wishes, and he also needs to have a strong ability to lead his subordinates.

The local ruffians are undoubtedly very difficult to manage. Fortunately, when Pang Ben was in the palace, he was in charge of a group of Guanzhong children. If these children were placed outside the palace, they would be no different from the local ruffians.

Pang Ben asked: "What kind of scale should the school inspector be?"

Yang Ming didn't give him an answer, but said, "Let's discuss it."

Du Ruhui said: "This should be done according to local conditions. I think there should be no more than five people in a county, and we must imply that they can properly recruit people. We will not recognize these people in the governor's office, and we can clean them up if they make trouble."

"Wonderful!" Pei Xizai exclaimed, "So, the school inspector is just temporary?"

Yang Ming nodded: "Of course it's temporary. Could it be that the king has raised a bunch of ruffians for a lifetime?"

"That's very good," Yuan Wendu said: "If there are only a few school inspectors and guards in a county, the salary can be raised a little bit. How much does Your Highness think should be appropriate?"

Yang Ming is unwilling to make up his own mind, his position is to make decisions:
"What do you think?"

Du Ruhui said: "Many of these people rely on the local family, and they are used to being bullied by the family on weekdays. If they are classified as school inspectors, they belong to the general manager's mansion. With reliance, once they turn against the family, they will be ruthless and decisive. So I think that the salary should be more, so much that they think that they can escape the control of the family."

"How much should that be?" Pei Xizai asked curiously.

Du Ruhui said: "Each person has three guans per month, distributed every other month."

It is indeed a lot, three passes, that is three thousand dollars, and there are 120 counties in Jingzhou, which is indeed a huge expenditure.

If there is no new source of income for these expenses, the general manager's office will not last long.

That's why Yuan Wendu was surprised and said, "Where does the money come from? The sudden increase of such a large expense cannot be afforded in the account."

Du Ruhui, who was only 16 years old, said with a calm smile:
"Of course they can't eat for free. They have to do things. We can set tasks for them. We need to check the number of acres of problematic fields every month and the total amount for the year. In this way, a large number of acres will be returned to the public, and we only It can grant land to Ding Nan, who has just grown up, and get new taxes, so as to make up for the deficit of the general manager's mansion."

If the land is granted to the Ding Nan of that year, then the tax can be obtained in that year. If it is evenly distributed to the people who have already been granted the land, there will be no increase, because they pay the tax by head, not by the number of acres of land.

This trick is indeed wonderful, but there are two disadvantages,

First, the new taxes must be included in the national treasury. It is inappropriate for Yang Ming to move into the general manager’s mansion privately. However, this can be avoided by changing the time of granting land. Taxes will not be recorded.

Second, once a task is given to the gang of school inspectors and guards, the other party will definitely use all means, and there may be a large number of unjust, false and wrongly decided cases. In this regard, Pei Xizai must find a way.

So Yang Ming turned his attention to Pei Xizai, who was in charge of Facao, and said:

"From now on, all cases reported by school inspectors must be carefully reviewed, and no mistakes must be made. These people will mess around, and you must check it carefully."

"Your servant will never dare to make mistakes, and must handle every case carefully," Pei Xizai nodded.

People are in charge of the judiciary, and killing people will offend people. Pei Xizai knows very well that he has a heavy responsibility and a huge risk.

"Your Highness is a true god," Du Ruhui couldn't help admiring, "That's the disadvantage of this method. The gangsters, who don't understand the law, will definitely make up the amount of the task by making up the number. Pei Facao will have to work hard. If the school guard did this, he must be dealt with seriously."

"There is no need to be serious," Yang Ming said, "Kill him directly, so as to serve as a warning."

"It's best to kill," Du Ruhui agreed.

Over there, Yuan Wendu and Pang Ben, the two old people who followed Yang Ming from Daxing to Jingzhou, looked at each other subconsciously.
In the year since they came to Jingzhou, their impressions of Yang Ming had undergone earth-shaking changes, as great as the distance between Daxing and Jingzhou.

Pang Ben originally thought that he must be Yang Ming's absolute confidant, after all, they had known each other since Yang Ming was very young.

But he doesn't think so now, because Yang Ming is going to do big things, and if he doesn't satisfy him with what he does, he might be replaced.

He, who has always been too lazy to use his brain, had to use his brain:
"This gang of local ruffians will definitely be carefully selected and restrained. Whoever dares to be a stabbing head, whoever dares to be disobedient, I will be the first to cut him off."

Yang Ming nodded and said: "That should be the case, this matter should be done quickly, you take people to various places as soon as possible, select school guards, and make special clothing, don't let them wear armor, just equip some simple weapons."

"I understand," Pang Ben nodded.

Only then did Yang Ming get up, and said to the crowd: "You guys have to discuss how to arrange it, and it must be thorough and rigorous."

"Yes," everyone stood up one after another and sent Yang Ming away respectfully.

The school guards were just a new team that Yang Ming had improvised.

These people have no establishment, and are temporarily classified as subordinates of the General Manager's Office. They do not need to report to the record, which means they are doing things under the banner of Yang Ming.

If things are done well, Yang Ming will admit it, but if things are not done well, Yang Ming will not admit it.

In fact, the school inspector is a knife in Yang Ming's hand that can be thrown away at any time. They will be responsible for insulting them, and Yang Ming will do good things.

These people are targeting aristocratic families, not ordinary people, so Yang Ming is not worried that they will make a lot of trouble.

A few days later, Yang Ming received a letter from Yang Xuangan, saying that Zhu Guo had arrived in the account, and the letter was filled with words of gratitude, so feel free to say anything useful.

This time point is very interesting, it happened that Yang Su was on the front line to defeat the Turks, Yang Ming calculated this time to give Yang Xuangan the honor he sought.

It's all right now, this favor belongs to Yang Ming.

Prior to this, Yang Ming had already received a letter from Fang Xuanling. Although Li Jing had won the battle, his casualties were not small, and now he has led his troops back to Shuozhou to supplement his rest.

Hearing that this battle will still be fought, Yang Su is determined to destroy Bujia Khan, and Changsun Sheng is also working with Qimin Khan Rangan to take down Bujia Khan's defeated tribes.

Bujia Khan was originally the Western Turkic Khan, and the Eastern Turkic Khan was originally Dulan Khan, the older brother of Qimin Khan Rangan. Khan killed all Qimin Khan's wife and children, and the latter had no choice but to lead his tribe to surrender to Sui.

In the 18th year of the founding of the emperor, Dulan fought a great battle with the Sui Dynasty. In this battle, Gao Jiong, Yang Su, Shi Wansui, and Han Sengshou all fought against the Turks, and Dulan was also defeated by his subordinates. kill.

After Dulan's death, the various tribes of the Eastern Turks were gradually gathered together by Bujia Khan.

The main purpose of the Great Sui's northern attack on Turks this time was to support Qimin's supremacy, because Qimin Khan was the orthodox royal family of Eastern Turks and was recognized by all tribes.

Changsun Sheng's "distance and near attack, distance from the strong and join the weak" has always been the basic national policy of the Sui Dynasty to deal with the great troubles in the north.

This man's lord is not high, but he is a real great weapon of the country.

Her daughter, Changsun, was born just last year, so she is 12 years younger than Yang Ming.

In Fang Xuanling's letter, he detailed the taxes on Hedong last year, which was relatively normal, and there was a lot of balance. After all, Li Jing won the battle this year, so the shortfall for exempting soldiers from taxes is this year.

If you win a battle, you will be exempted from taxes. If you lose a battle, you will not be exempted from taxes. Tax exemption is a kind of reward. If you lose, I will reward you.

(End of this chapter)