Chapter 971 Go with the Flow

Yun Chu has always wanted to make a thorough adjustment to Chang'an's economic structure. Unfortunately, the civil and military officials and the emperor of the Tang Dynasty all felt that Chang'an was very good at the moment and that the economy was running very smoothly. Therefore, they were indifferent to Yun Chu's reform suggestions.

Yun Chu understood their approach very well.

After all, Mourinho once said that a winning team would not change its tactics until it encountered defeat.

This sentence can be fully applied to the political decision-making level.

Before the First Emperor appeared, it was impossible for the county system to appear on this land.

Before Chao Cuo appeared, the monarchs could not have thought that there would be a way to decentralize power such as the "Enfeoffment Order".

Two years ago, before the group of nobles left Luoyang, who would have thought that Li Zhi, the biggest landlord, would actually start to implement the policy of beating the local tyrants and dividing the land.

You can't expect a system that has been running for many years to suddenly improve internally and reach consensus internally before encountering trouble, and completely transform into a system they have never seen before.

Before Yun Chu encountered the Gobi rainstorm, he would not have believed that one day there would be a huge flood in the dry and waterless Gobi Desert, and he would not have thought that a large number of wild camels would be drowned.

The government's decision is the collective will. Before a decision is widely recognized, it is difficult to be recognized and implemented. Of course, Li Zhi is an exception. He is so powerful that he is no longer like a person.

Without laws, policies, and even a pool of funds protected by consensus, it will collapse sooner or later. Yun Chu has been bearing this thunder for ten years. If it explodes, it is likely to harm Yun Chu's family.

And Yun Chu will never let this happen.

He can work hard for the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty, but he doesn't want to learn from Fang Xiaoru in the Ming Dynasty to send his friends and family to the guillotine.

Don't think that there will be no time for the Tang Dynasty to punish nine clans. It's just that the court is strong now, and generally only punish three clans. However, when it really comes to the need, let alone killing nine clans, ten clans, it is not uncommon to draw circles on the map to kill people.

Therefore, Yunchu is not a pure person.

He wants to do good things, but he pays attention to the way and method.

Just like this time, although the capital pool suffered a devastating disaster, it was still within the controllable range. After all, the running water brand is too important for the merchants of the Tang Dynasty.

Now it's good, the capital pool has collapsed, and everyone has seen the terrible consequences. The inviolability of the capital pool has also been determined, and it is time to rebuild a capital pool that no one dares to touch.

Ruichun caught up with Yunchu when he was about to cross the Jishui River.

He gave Yunchu an imperial edict, an order for him to quickly take up the post of the county magistrate of Wannian County, and a warning imperial edict that severely punished him if he left his post without reason again.

Yunchu took a look and found that it was a very serious imperial edict issued by the Secretariat, signed by the Left and Right Offices, and sealed by the Ministry of Personnel.

Ruichun saw Yunchu's face was not good, so he took out a piece of paper from his bosom and handed it to Yunchu with both hands, saying: "Your Majesty's imperial handwriting."

Yunchu opened the white paper, and there were only six words on it, which were still very large - what else do you want from me?

Li Zhi's desperate breath permeated the whole paper, what else do you want from me?

Yunchu chuckled, took out the fire and burned the paper in front of Ruichun. When the paper turned into ash and fell on the mud, Ruichun stepped on it several times with his feet until the ash turned into mud.

"Go back and tell Shangguan Yi that this time, the chaos in Chang'an, from the Secretariat to the Left and Right Offices, and then to the Ministry of Personnel, they can't get away with it.

I worked hard for fifteen years to build a prosperous Chang'an, but these people are greedy and always want to control Chang'an. They sucked blood from Chang'an, and I admit it. After all, the blood sucked was also used for state affairs. They stuffed their own playboys who were neither human nor human into Chang'an, causing Chang'an to have few people doing things and many people eating empty salaries.

I want to do something, but as soon as the memorial is submitted, countless people jump out to stop it, saying this is not allowed, that can't be done, and I asked them to come, but they just don't have the ability.

Now the matter has come out, right?

Are you confused?

Before, they were all five or six people, but now, why have they all become turtles?

Go back and tell them that it is because their Secretariat, Left and Right Offices, and the Ministry of Personnel jointly rejected the "Outline of Commercial Law" proposed by me, and did not use the law as soon as possible. The current situation has been formed by making the fund pool an inviolable taboo.

If there were laws to protect it, would Yong Wangxian dare to touch the money in the fund pool? He wouldn't dare to do it even if he had a bear's courage, right?

In the past, people would always say that a certain family did nothing all day long in Chang'an, drinking tea and hanging around, and they would also say that they would turn Chang'an into the Yun family compound, where the wind could not blow in and the water could not splash in, and they were ready to rebel.

Are all the nephews and nephews you stuffed into Chang'an dead?

The garrison of the Sixteen Guards in Chang'an Are they all a bunch of pigs?

When I was squatting on the toilet, two imperial censors were lying on the toilet watching me.

Aren’t they jealous of my achievements?

They humiliated me on Mount Tai, ruined my chance to show my achievements in front of the Emperor of Heaven, and sent me to the angry Queen as a target for arrows.

Okay, I quit, I’m going to be a monk, even if I’m a monk, I’ll become a great monk and you will treat me with courtesy after a few years.

Let me tell you, I can still have children and countless money as a monk. I have to go to Dayun Temple in Handan to worship Buddha. I don’t have time to go back to be the magistrate of Wannian County, the defender of Chang’an City, or the Duke of Lantian County.

Let them really issue an order to get rid of these burdens of mine if they have the ability. ”

Ruichun saw Yunchu started to curse the street with a bald head, and his face turned red. Seeing that Yunchu was tired of cursing, he took the opportunity to say: "My Lord, don’t curse His Majesty. As far as I know, His Majesty treats you differently from all other ministers."

Yunchu said: "If it weren’t for His Majesty, do you think you would hear such wonderful curses from me? You would only see a monk with a calm mind. ”

Ruichun thought that Yunchu’s father was Master Xuanzang, and felt that Yunchu’s future as a monk would definitely not be bad, so he accompanied him carefully and said: "How do you reply to His Majesty? "

Yun Chu waved his hands angrily and said, "Your Majesty has said that, what else can I do?"

Rui Chun said carefully, "Your Majesty has specially sent his mount, the White Jade Lion Horse, so you should return to Chang'an as soon as possible."

Yun Chu was silent for a moment and said, "You go back and report to His Majesty. The incident happened in Chang'an, but the solution is not in Chang'an.

Ruichun said: "Where?"

Yunchu said: "This time, someone did not go south from Mount Tai and return to Luoyang via Yanzhou, but went parallel to Feicheng and Pingyin, crossed the Jishui River and entered Hebei Road, passed through Bozhou and Weizhou, and finally arrived at Handan City in Luozhou."

Ruichun said: "In Handan?"

Yunchu continued: "Wenrou also did not return to Yanzhou. He took a road to the north, passed Qizhou, crossed the Yellow River, passed Nanpi, Cangzhou, Youzhou, and finally arrived in Yuyang.

Only Di Renjie went south along Yanzhou and finally settled in Xuzhou.

Handan, Yuyang, Xuzhou, this is a position distribution in the shape of a triangle, with Yuyang the highest, Handan the leftmost, and Xuzhou the southernmost. Basically, these three places are also the three farthest cities that the caravans from Chang'an to the east can reach.

Every year, the autumn caravans in Chang'an After the fair, the caravans heading east will leave Chang'an with full loads of goods. After processing the goods in the east, they will purchase enough goods from the east and head west to participate in the spring fair in Chang'an. This has been the case every year for the past ten years without exception.

What the three of us have to do is to persuade the merchants in the east to continue to supply goods to Chang'an, and this year, they must do so in advance.

Among them, Handan, the trade hub in the east, is the most important.

As long as we can persuade the merchants here to continue to transport goods to Chang'an, then a trade route will automatically be formed, and all the merchants passing by the trade route will follow.

Chang'an is nothing without goods coming in and out, no matter how much money is invested in the flow sign.

Trade, trade, the important thing is the flow, the original flow The money earned by the water brand itself is the money from trade. As long as Chang'an starts to have large-scale trade activities, the water brand can make money from it and then slowly recover its vitality.

Chang'an now has a lot of money, but without goods, money is useless. "

Ruichun said: "So, after hearing about the incident in Chang'an, did the master lose the heart to practice Buddhism?"

Yun Chu's eyes were full of tears, and he choked and said: "Years of hard work have been destroyed in an instant. Do you think my heart is really made of iron?"

Ruichun couldn't get up, and asked after a long while: "How sure are you?"

Yun Chu raised his head and looked at the sky and said: "Man proposes, God disposes. Even if it is really irreversible, just treat me as a stone and fill it into this bottomless pit."

Ruichun looked at Yun Chu in a monk's robe, clasped his hands together and said : "Amitabha, God bless you, if you need anything in Handan, the Hundred Cavalry Division can send you."

Yun Chu looked at the bronze plaque that Rui Chun presented with both hands, and said indifferently: "Don't make trouble for yourself. You know better than anyone how your master died."

Rui Chun smiled and said: "My master died in my hands, there is nothing to say about this."

Yun Chu patted Rui Chun's shoulder and said: "I am very grateful for helping me get the command of these 1,600 soldiers."

Rui Chun smiled and said: "This governor will report now, please use 1,600 soldiers from Guanzhong to guard the master, and wait until they escort the master to Chang'an, and then disband."

Yun Chu nodded, and pointed to a long object dragged behind the carriage and said: "Please help me hand over this body to Lao He of the Imperial Medical Bureau, he knows how to deal with it."

Rui Chun whispered: "Guo Daifeng?"

Yun Chu said grimly: "Those who collude with foreign countries and murder our Tang children should take this as a warning! ”