Zhao Hongrun's faint words caused the other sect guards to snicker knowingly: Although Zhang Qigong is a poisonous person, Zhou Pu is not inferior to Zhang Qigong in terms of character. If these two people get together, it will be really amazing.

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Unexpectedly, Zhou Pu said with a smile: "Your Majesty has misunderstood. Beizhi and Mr. Zhang are not the same people... Mr. Zhang has only one way to kill those who hinder him, but Beizhi is different. He is more inclined to persuade people to do good.

To inspire evildoers..."

"I'm afraid those five boys from the Anling Zhao family won't agree with what you said."

Mu Qing said quietly from the side.

The five boys of the Anling Zhao family in his mouth, namely the five grandsons of Zhao Hongrun and his third uncle Zhao Laiyu, Zhao Chengzhi, Zhao Chengjiong, Zhao Chengtang, Zhao Chengcan, and Zhao Chengxun, were originally playboys who were fearless, until they met Zhou

Pu—— Even now, Zhao Chengzhi and others are still trembling when they see Zhou Pu.

In the end, Zhao Hongrun agreed to Zhou Pu's request to serve in the judicial office of Daliang City, but in his heart, he still secretly felt pity for those prisoners who would fall into Zhou Pu's hands in the future: Zhou Pu definitely has the ability to make people

As long as a person has the ability to "repent his past mistakes" and falls into his hands, you will never dare to break the law again in your life.

In a sense, this can be considered as persuading people to do good?

After settling the clan guards, Zhao Hongrun summoned Yan Shun and Tong Xin from the Guard Division.

There is no need to mention the loyalty of the Gongweisi. After all, they were promoted by the late king Zhao Si himself, and most of them were descendants of the family who were close to the Ji Zhao family. There were even some connections among them.

For example, Tong Xin is the nephew of the great eunuch Tong Xian.

The current situation of the Gongwei Department is very embarrassing, because this department was originally set up by the late king Zhao Si to track down Xiao Ni. Therefore, the guards of the Gongwei Department can be regarded as the royal guards around the king and have the power to arrest and kill important criminals.

A transcendent status.

But after the new king Zhao Run took the throne, the status of the Gongwei Department inevitably became very embarrassing: in terms of criminal investigation, it was closely related to the "Left Captain Gao Kuo" and "Right Captain Gao Kuo" who were in charge of the Blue Crow and Black Crow respectively.

"Zhang Qigong" conflict; and as a member of the guard, his power overlapped with that of the Imperial Guards commanded by Wei Jiao and the East Palace Guards (formerly King Su's Guards) commanded by Cen Chang.

The situation is quite embarrassing.

If Zhao Hongrun doesn't find a way to find some errands for the Imperial Guard Department, I'm afraid that the Department, which once stood above the Criminal Department and Imperial Guards, will be completely idle and reduced to a low-level person.

But the question is, how to arrange the Archguard Division?

After all, it is not appropriate whether it is affiliated under the name of the Imperial Guard or the name of the Chamberlain.

After much deliberation, Zhao Hongrun finally decided to ask the Gongwei Si to return to the Chui Gong Hall. In addition to being responsible for guarding the Chui Gong Hall, Zhao Hongrun also listened to the orders of him and the ministers in the inner court.

Since then, the Gongwei Division and the Qing and Hei Erwei of Tiance Mansion have become the three most detached special departments in Daliang and even the entire Wei State. The internal eunuchs have completely lost the right to supervise Daliang and even the whole country, and their rights are limited to the palace.

Inside.

In addition, there are also some changes in the DPRK. After all, the new king has a new atmosphere, so there must be some slight changes.

On the ninth day of September, the ministers in the Chui Gong Hall finally formulated some new policies and mentioned them in the so-called morning court which was postponed to the afternoon the next day.

The core of the new national policy is actually four words: rest and recuperation.

But when broken down, there are dozens of them.

The first is the "field reclamation" area.

The land reclamation in the Wei State is divided into civilian villages and military villages. Needless to say, the former is the main source of grain reserves for the Wei State, while the latter is simply to feed the army in various places of the Wei State.

However, the imperial court gradually discovered that the efficiency of the civilian villages was gradually being compared with that of the military villages. Although the grain production of the civilian villages was still far behind the general villages, if calculated carefully, the efficiency of the civilian villages was far less than that of the military villages.

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In this regard, Li Liang, the former Minister of Household Affairs, proposed several reasons:

First, domestic cultivated land is unevenly distributed.

In Yingshui County, the most densely populated county in Wei, more than half of the land is still in the hands of nobles and noble families, so that the area of ​​cultivated land for common people is very small. What is embarrassing is that in Sanchuan County, Shangdang County, and Hexi County,

In Hedong County and the Hetao area, a large amount of fertile land remains uncultivated.

Even the fields purchased by some nobles and aristocratic families in counties with smaller populations are just left there uncultivated.

In the view of Li Liang, the former Minister of Household Affairs, this was a huge waste.

Therefore, Li Liang proposed to the court to encourage the people of Yingshui County to move to Sanchuan, Shangdang, Hexi, Hedong, Hetao and other places, and he did not hesitate to reduce the land tax of the previous few days as a sweetener.

But the Ministry of Rites said this was difficult.

After all, in this era, the "love for hometown" complex is quite common. Unless they are desperate, few people will leave their hometown and go to a strange land.

After thinking about it for a while, Zhao Hongrun made a baffling suggestion: build roads!

What does road construction have to do with this?

The ministers in the DPRK and China expressed their confusion one after another.

Seeing this, Zhao Hongrun explained to him.

Zhao Hongrun believes that the reason why people in this era are generally reluctant to leave their hometown is mainly due to inconvenient transportation. For example, the distance between Anling and Shangdang is more than a thousand miles. If ordinary people rush to travel, it will take several months or even longer.

Arriving from Anling to Shangdang is still optimistic that we don’t get lost along the way. Otherwise, it may happen in a year or two.

Under such circumstances, people are certainly not willing to leave their familiar hometown easily.

But if transportation is convenient, for example, rail carriages are used for civilian use, it may only take 20 days to a month for Anling people to go to Shangdang, which greatly reduces people's fear of going to strange lands - even

, even if they miss their hometown, they can still spend another 20 days to a month to return to their hometown, so as not to be tied to the Shangdang all their lives, until they are old and dying, then they try to return to their hometown with the mentality of returning to their roots.

After hearing Zhao Hongrun's point of view, the ministers in the DPRK were greatly surprised because they had never thought about this factor.

But it cannot be denied that this concept is very reasonable.

However, Meng Wei, Minister of Industry, raised objections: "Your Majesty, the project is too huge."

Yang Yi, the current Minister of Household Affairs, also quickly followed up: "And the expenses are too high."

Think about it, laying a road network across the country, and also installing rail carriages. Oh my god, not only will the Ministry of Industry be burdened to the point of vomiting blood, but even if the Ministry of Household Affairs is sold, it can't afford it.

In this case, Zhao Hongrun suggested: "As for the money, you can temporarily borrow it from domestic merchants. As for the cost of maintaining the track carriage, I think we can charge it to the private sector... One ride can greatly shorten the travel time of the private sector.

I believe that the people will not be dissatisfied with the meager remuneration in exchange for the hard work... In addition, you can also collect it from the merchants who wish to carry the goods. You can rest assured that I can guarantee that this will never be a loss.

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Since Zhao Hongrun personally guaranteed it, the ministers had no objection. After all, there is never any possibility of being wrong in what His Majesty firmly believes.

As a result, Tao Ji, the Minister of War, rolled his eyes and stood up immediately: "Your Majesty is wise, I think this strategy will be of great benefit... I think it is better to leave this matter to our Ministry of War, which is under the jurisdiction of our Ministry of War.

The Driving Department has always been responsible for managing roads and horse administration..."

After hearing this, Meng Wei, the Minister of the Ministry of Industry, and Yang Yi, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, secretly cursed their mothers: As soon as they heard that it was profitable, these guys came out immediately, why didn't they see you talking just now?

But let’s not forget that the Ministry of War has always been responsible for the management of roads and horse administration in the country. It is understandable that Tao Ji, the Minister of War, takes charge of this matter.

On that day, in addition to confirming the construction of additional track carriages, Li Liang, the former Minister of Household Affairs, also put forward other suggestions for improvements in "field reclamation", such as land taxes, land loans, and the court's control of rice prices, etc.

This allowed the day's court affairs to last until dusk.

The terrible thing is that even so, there are still many new policies that have not yet been discussed by the ministers of the inner and outer dynasties.

This made Zhao Hongrun finally realize that being the king of Wei was not an easy task.

Even though an internal dynasty was formed to share the pressure, the government affairs were still so heavy that it was physically and mentally exhausting, and it was simply destructive to the body and mind.

Zhao Hongrun deeply believed that if he continued like this for a long time, he might not survive even twenty years and would follow in the footsteps of his father Zhao Si.

And just when he was sitting lazily in the Chui Gong Hall to rest, Jie Ziyu lost no time in coming to him and asked in a low voice: "Your Majesty, have you ever thought about... moving the capital?"

"Move the capital?"
Chapter completed!