On the occasion of rebirth Zhou Sui

Chapter 109

Su Wei is worried, it is really hard to be the Minister of Civil Affairs of the Great Sui Dynasty.

Today, today's people have to be light and poor, but also have great ambitions, and want to create a great career.

But to do big things, you have to spend money, so you can only find ways to increase revenue and reduce expenditure.

Throttling expenditure is already under planning, and the discussion about dismissing the county should now be discussed in the court.

Since the Northern Wei Dynasty, states and counties have been continuously subdivided, resulting in a serious problem of redundant staff. The number of officials alone is close to double that of the Han and Wei Dynasties, not to mention the scale of staff and staff.

Yang Jian had long had the idea of ​​reducing the number of officials in order to reduce financial expenditure.

The reason why it was not carried out before was nothing more than fear of causing turmoil. This is not to destroy the jobs of one or two people.

Putting it on the agenda now is also forced by the emptiness of the treasury.

After Cui Che took away 300 million Shi Zhousu, the treasury of Chang'an treasury had already bottomed out, and the rats would have to shake their heads and sigh when they entered.

For this reason, Yang Jian had to order to start from Puzhou (to govern Yongji, Shanxi Province), Shanzhou (to govern Sanmenxia, ​​Henan Province) in the west, to Weizhou (to govern Weihui, Henan Province), and Jeju (to govern Chiping, Shandong Province) in the east. Thirteen prefectures along the Yellow River urgently transported rice to Chang'an.

Last year, the large-scale reduction of official salaries was undoubtedly one of the measures to reduce expenditure. Brother Che was the victim. At that time, the salary of 4000 shi was cut to 960 shi.

And open source is nothing more than lying about the number of acres and hidden households in order to increase fiscal and tax revenue.

Most of the court officials who have actually served in the local area can see through the moisture in it, but no one has pierced through this layer of the emperor's new clothes.

What, the income has been reduced, do you want the sage to continue to cut official salaries in order to reduce expenses, or further reduce the number of officials.

This is outrageous.

Su Wei didn't tell Cui Che the depression in his heart, but Brother Che is a caring person, he took the initiative to solve Su Wei's worries and problems:

"Che has recently discovered a new method, which can evaporate seawater on the tidal flats to obtain salt. If it can be promoted, it can be used by the military and the country. If the salt is sold for profit, the people will not be rewarded, and the country will use it."

Su Wei was surprised and said:
"What the son-in-law said is true!"

"The matter is so important, how dare Che speak falsely, why don't Mr. Su and I go to the saltworks tomorrow to see what's going on?"

Seeing Cui Che's confident appearance, Su Wei already believed three points, but as Cui Che said, the matter was of great importance, so he didn't dare to neglect it, so he grabbed Cui Che's sleeve and walked out.

"How can we wait until tomorrow, you and I will start now."

It's no wonder that Su Wei was in a hurry. In the first half of the year, a counterattack against the Turks, with an army of 40 to [-], really emptied the treasury. Cui Che now said his new method of making salt so well, Su Wei How can we take care of the investigation.

What's more, this investigation is just a formality. It seems fair for Su Wei to be stationed in Licheng, but Licheng is close to Zhu A and far away from Dongyang, so that Cui Che arrives before Yan Rong. It is already obvious who he is biased towards.

The next day, when Yan Rong rushed to Licheng County, the post house was already empty, so there was nowhere to be found Su Wei.

"Su Shangshu and Cui Shijun left in a hurry yesterday, and the officials really don't know where they went."

The posthouse clerk said in a trembling voice.

Yan Rong felt dizzy for a while when he heard that, he was a military commander, he was vulgar and vulgar, but he also knew that the current situation was not good for him.

Summoning him, but avoiding him, Su Wei's inclination was already on the surface.

Yanrong beat the post station official until he was dying, and only then did he think of a way to crack it.

If he was confronted with other people, maybe Yang Jian would pinch his nose to cover up his crimes. After all, he was once set up by the Emperor of the Sui Dynasty as a role model for officials. For the sake of face, it is absolutely impossible to punish him publicly. At most, he will be left idle afterwards.

But Cui Che has a closer relationship with Yang Jian, not only as a minister of the hidden residence, but also as the son-in-law of the eldest princess.

Yanrong didn't want to criticize Cui Che at first, Cui Che didn't give him face at first, and Yanrong didn't bother him either.

It was after hearing that Cui Che had collected evidence of his own crimes, he acted preemptively and impeached him to the court.

As for killing people to silence them, his sufferers are all over the four states under the jurisdiction of the general manager's mansion, so how can he be killed.

After much thinking and thinking, Yan Rong really couldn't find a way to solve it. He knew that once the incident was brought to Chang'an, Yang Jian would feel cheated, and the highly respected role model of an official actually acted like this, and he would definitely punish himself severely. Yanrong definitely has no way out.

"Why don't you send people to pretend to be bandits and attack and kill Su Wei and Cui Che? If the court believes me, I can continue to be the governor of Qingzhou. It is better to be able to go to sea to be a grandson after being defeated in the army, than to be escorted to the capital and let the mermaid go! '

Sun En was the leader of the Wudou Midao Uprising in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He occupied the sea all the year round and was known as the beginning of the pirates in the Central Plains.

As for whether the imperial court would believe the claim that Cui Che, who was guarded by three thousand cavalry, was attacked and killed by bandits, that was beyond Yan Rong's consideration. Go to Nanchen by sea.

Since he had made a plan, Yan Rong ordered his followers to make preparations early.

All of Ying's followers looked at each other in blank dismay when they heard that Yanrong was going to put all his eggs in one basket and commit rebellion, but feared by Yanrong's prestige, no one dared to speak out against it.

After the entourage dispersed as ordered, they met again in private.

Wang Xi, who had finally healed from his injuries, was the first to speak out:
"Now that Yanrong is afraid of crimes and wants to intercept and kill the ambassador, we will go against it and put the whole family, old and young, to death!"

Someone else answered the question:
"Yan Rong is moody, tyrannical and cruel, and beats and scolds us at every turn. A few days ago, Chen Sanlang just reported that Cui Shijun did not come to Dongyang to pay a visit, and he was beaten to death by Yan Rong. We continued to work for tigers, how could we not know?" You will follow in the footsteps of Chen Sanlang!"

These words resonated with everyone, and they all spoke out indignant words.

When Yanrong was successful, they naturally didn't dare to have any other ideas. Now seeing Yanrong's struggle, they also had an impromptu idea to sell their master for a good price.

Cui Che has the most right to speak about such matters. In Yecheng, even if he did not abuse his subordinates, more than [-] people led by Cui Lu wanted to arrest him and sacrifice him to Wei Xiaokuan.

Not to mention Yan Rong.

Wang Xi continued:
"Help Yan Rong in his rebellion. If the matter fails, we will die; if the matter succeeds, we will serve him, and we will inevitably die sooner or later. If this is the case, why don't you survive the death? If you can trust me, Wang Xi, I am willing to go Contact Cui Shijun, and ask everyone to cover for me."

Everyone agreed and excused themselves:

"It's not me who is unrighteous, it's his Yan Rong who is not benevolent first!"

Wang Xi then went to Zhu'a, looking for Cui Che to report the news, but Cui Che and Su Wei had already gone to inspect the saltworks, and only saw Dou Wei, the deputy envoy who was in charge of the work in Zhu'a, and Cui Che's shogunate Sima Qinai.

"What you said is true!"

Qin Ai wondered, and Dou Wei on the side was also stunned. He never expected Yan Rong to have such thoughts.

"Everything that the villain said is true, please introduce me to Cui Shijun."

(End of this chapter)