Daqin started with offering immortal medicine

If the emperor wants to abolish the use of salaries instead of military merit awards and re-introduce the military industrial land system, then you are now affirming that the form of salary rewards for military merit is on the wrong team.

However, you can't deny the form of salary rewards for military merit, because if the emperor's intention of asking this question is just to let everyone praise him, if you deny it, wouldn't you also offend the emperor?

Therefore, it should still be based on the attitude of preferring not to make mistakes than to make mistakes.

However, none of the civil and military officials in the entire hall replied, which is also unacceptable.

The officials in charge of other departments did not reply, and they still talked in the past, but it is impossible for Feng Quji and Li Sizong, who are in charge of the government, to also keep silent?And Meng Tian, ​​he is in charge of military administration, and he is in charge of military merit awards, so he has to answer.

However, if you say that Li Si is shrewd, and he glanced at Li Yang directly, it means that he is saying: "Old Tie, what does the emperor want to hear, whether he wants to affirm or deny, you can give me a hint." chant."

Li Yang naturally knew what Li Si meant when he looked at him, so he nodded slightly.

Li Si's eyes lit up, and he immediately understood, and then he came out and said, "Returning to Your Majesty, the replacement of the military field with the annual salary is a policy of benevolence and righteousness implemented to ensure that all people in the world have enough land for self-cultivation. This policy has been implemented for more than ten years now. , the effect is remarkable. Firstly, the imperial court does not have to squeeze the limited self-cultivated land of the people, and secondly, the sergeants can also be rewarded with money and food for their meritorious service. This can be called the best of both worlds, Your Majesty is wise!"

As soon as Li Si flattered him, Ying Zheng smiled and nodded slightly, looking very helpful.

As soon as everyone heard it, they immediately knew the direction of the wind.

Meng Tian also hurriedly came out and said: "What Li Xiang said is very true. Nowadays, the officers and soldiers in the army have made meritorious service and received the title of title, and receive the corresponding salary according to the title. When serving in the army, military industrial fields had to be left unused, or leased to tenant farmers for cultivation. Especially before the light corvee service, civilian labor was in short supply, and there were no tenant farmers to cultivate the fields. First, they could not get food, and second, they had to pay land taxes. A burden, a burden."

Ying Zheng nodded again, agreeing with Meng Tian's answer.

At this time, the emperor looked at Feng Quji and asked, "What are the disadvantages of this policy of replacing military farmland with annual salary? Prime Minister Feng, please tell me."

Feng Quji nodded, and then hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, what Li Xiang and General Meng said is indeed the benefit of the policy of replacing military industrial land with annual salary. However, if it is necessary to say that annual salary replaces military industrial land, there are actually some disadvantages. There are hundreds of thousands of retired sergeants, and hundreds of thousands of sergeants in service, all of which are replaced by annual salaries, so this expenditure has caused a heavy burden on the national treasury, and this year there is almost a danger of not being paid."

Ying Zheng nodded slightly again, and did not express his opinion, but turned to Li Yang: "Li Yang, tell me your opinion."

Li Yang nodded and said with a smile: "From the point of view of my ministers, the annual salary will replace the military field. This is the most sensible reform of military merit rewards since the Great Qin unified the world. After all, the Great Qin unified the six countries, and the people of the six countries are all the people of the Great Qin It is impossible for Daqin to continue to award all the land of the six countries to the meritorious soldiers in order to reward the meritorious soldiers. In this case, the people in the world will have no land to cultivate. Whether the food can be fed or not depends entirely on the wishes of the landlords. If the landlords are cruel, the tenants will starve to death if they collect [-] to [-] percent of the land rent. How can the great Qin country and society be safe? Therefore, for the sake of the great Qin country, the policy of replacing military farmland with annual salary is really the best policy for Qin!"

Speaking of this, Li Yang glanced at everyone, and found that everyone agreed with this sentence very much, and they all nodded in agreement.

At this time, Li Yang continued: "However, the burden on the national treasury brought about by the replacement of the military field with the annual salary mentioned by Feng Xiang is indeed an inevitable result. However, this cannot be regarded as its disadvantage. The reason why the national treasury cannot bear the burden of sergeants Their annual salaries are mainly caused by the imbalance of the treasury’s revenue and expenditure. If the tax revenue of the treasury can be increased several times compared with the past, the annual salary expenditure of the sergeants will not be a problem for the court. Moreover, even if the annual salary expenditure of the sergeants is now , the pressure on the imperial court is huge, but compared with the 2000 million people in Daqin who rebelled and rebelled due to famine, the advantages and disadvantages of the two are obvious!"

Everyone nodded again, chatting among themselves, and praised Li Yang for his thorough analysis of this issue.

Even Feng Quji had to sigh in his heart, Li Yang's vision of seeing the problem is very unique, and he can see the essence behind the problem at a glance.

At this time, the emperor also smiled with satisfaction: "That's right, Li Yang summed up the pros and cons you mentioned very well, what do you think?"

Everyone nodded and said in unison: "What Prime Minister Zhong said is very true, and we all think so."

"Well, everyone thinks so, very good! It's rare that everyone's opinions are so unified, haha!"

Ying Zheng smiled happily, and then assumed that everyone thought the topic was over, but Ying Zheng suddenly changed the subject and said: "It stands to reason that in order to ensure that the people have their own farmland, the imperial court completed the great cause of reunification long ago. During this period, the policy of replacing military farms with annual salaries has been implemented, but why is there still a famine this year?"

Everyone: "..."

Suddenly, everyone was stunned.

It turned out that it was not the emperor's real intention to ask everyone to affirm that the annual salary should replace the military field. His original intention was actually to discuss this year's famine!

Everyone suddenly realized, but when it came to the famine that broke out this year, everyone dared not answer casually.

Because of the famine problem this time, the most direct reason is that Yingzheng continued to increase corvee regardless of the suffering of the world.

There are no men in the world's grain fields, so it's no wonder there is no famine.

At this moment, the whole hall suddenly became quiet, everyone booed each other, and no one dared to answer.

Ying Zheng smiled and said, "Why, can no one answer me? It's okay for you to say it, let's just say it straight."

however……

Everyone still no one dared to speak up.

Not to mention those Yi doctors and Yi Langs, even Li Si and Feng Quji were silent.

Straightforward?

I can't kill you!

Once this matter is told the truth, it will be bad luck.

Everyone doesn't want to be this stupid B!

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PS: Continue to code, the next chapter is estimated to be midnight again.

Chapter 179 Something Big Has Happened

There was silence in the Qilin Hall.

The atmosphere was a bit weird. Everyone lowered their heads and kept their eyes fixed, for fear that if they raised their heads, they would meet the emperor's eyes and be called by the emperor to answer this stupid question.

You know, what Ying Zheng hates the most is when someone says something wrong about him.

In the past, after the alchemists Lu Sheng and Hou Sheng failed to seek immortality for Yingzheng, they talked about Yingzheng's character, governance, and seeking immortality in private, and then fled with huge sums of money for immortality.Yingzheng was furious when he found out, so he turned his anger on the alchemists, ordered a search and interrogation in the capital, captured hundreds of alchemists and buried them alive.

And those Confucian scholars were also killed because they kept talking about Yingzheng's "atrocities" among the people.

Even Fusu was dispatched to the frontier because of accusing Yingzheng of being too heavy in corvee.

If in the hall, in front of civil and military officials, you directly say that the previous famine was caused by your heavy corvee, wouldn't that be courting death?

There are so many bloody examples, even his son can't talk about the heavy corvee, let alone a courtier.

In short, who says who dies!

Ying Zheng was also speechless when he saw the ghostly appearance of the crowd.

Sighing, he said: "The reason why you are silent is because you all feel that this year's famine is all caused by my continuous years of corvée, so you dare not answer?"

When everyone heard this, they all panicked and said in unison: "I dare not wait!"

"Don't dare? Hmph! I don't think you dare to think, but dare to say?" Ying Zheng snorted coldly, very displeased.

"Minister, wait, ten thousand deaths!"

Everyone trembled suddenly, lowered their heads, and looked like they were terrified and innocent.

Ying Zheng glanced at the crowd with disgust, then looked at Li Yang, and said, "Li Yang, they dare not tell, so tell me the truth about the famine!"

Li Yang was stunned for a moment, pretending to be panic-stricken, and said, "It's not easy to talk about this...my minister. Or... let General Meng or Xiang Feng and Xiang Li analyze it?"

Meng Tian, ​​Feng Quji and Li Si were startled when they heard this.