I'm really not King Jing of Zhongshan

Chapter 204 Bastard!Pure asshole! ! !

After receiving his father's order and deliberately changing into casual clothes, Liu Sheng got into the car inside Simamen, and together with his father, headed for the eastern suburbs of Chang'an.

Seeing Tianzi Qi, who also changed into casual clothes, and this ordinary carriage, Liu Sheng couldn't help looking around at the furnishings in the carriage.

Compared with the yellow house left flag, which is the only one in the world, today's carriage is obviously smaller by more than 01:30.

Liu Sheng clearly remembered: the yellow house with the left flag could allow Tianzi Qi to lie on the inside, and at the same time leave a table and a place for three or five people to sit on their knees.

But today, this carriage is much shorter than that Tianzifa's carriage in terms of length, width, and even height;

Sitting in the carriage, the father and son just knelt in front of the windows on the left and right sides, but there was a distance of about three feet between them.

Looking out of the car window, the scenery along the way was left behind by the order of the moving carriages, and the father and son also talked about something from time to time.

"Old Qi, are you still in Jiaofang Hall?"

"—Well, occasionally go back to Guangming Palace."

"Well······"

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"Recently, have you been to Changle Palace?"

"—every day."

"Um······"

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"What does the empress mean about King Liang?"

"—I can't bear to punish, and I'm too embarrassed to plead with my father."

"Oh······"

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"What about you?"

"What do you think?"

After a few short conversations, Tianzi Qi asked another question out of the blue, and finally pulled Liu Sheng's gaze back from the car window.

Turning his head back with some doubts, Liu Sheng couldn't help but look suspiciously at Tian Ziqi.

"Father, do you really want to punish Uncle Liang Wang?"

Seeing that Liu Sheng didn't answer the question, Tianzi Qi still looked out of the car window with a thoughtful face, and asked again: "What's the matter?"

"Do you also think that I shouldn't punish King Liang?"

Hearing Tian Ziqi's words, there was a hint of irritation that was hard to detect, Liu Sheng thought for a while, then shook his head with a wry smile.

"Father, King Liang will not be punished."

"Even if it is to make the emperor's grandmother feel at ease, and to issue the imperial edict to establish the crown prince and queen smoothly, the father will be lenient to Uncle Liang..."

The calm tone of the voice finally made Tianzi Qi turn his head indifferently;
Staring at Liu Sheng meaningfully for a long time, he took another breath and leaned back.

"What would you do if it were you?"

"If you were the emperor now, how would you deal with this matter?"

"What do you have to do to ensure that this matter can be resolved in the best possible way?"

When Tian Ziqi asked in a deep voice, Liu Sheng couldn't help being startled again.

Then he lowered his head and thought for a while, before answering with some hesitation: "The key to Uncle Liang's matter is not Yuan An's assassination itself;"

"It's this incident that reveals from the side that the current Uncle Liang has been dazzled by the position of the crown prince."

"If you want to solve this problem from the root, you should not punish Uncle Liang, but find a way to let Uncle Liang let go of the thoughts that you shouldn't have."

"As long as Uncle Liang is no longer worried about the position of the crown prince and his father's previous 'promise', then Uncle Liang, it is better not to be punished."

"—After all, no matter how you say it, Uncle Liang is still the younger brother of his father and mother, and the most beloved son of the emperor's grandmother."

"If Prince Uncle Liang is punished, then the father will suffer the stigma of 'treating brothers and sisters harshly'. Not to mention, the emperor's grandmother is also difficult to explain to the father..."

Liu Shengyue spoke with a more confident tone, which naturally made Tianzi Qi on the opposite side subconsciously nod his head slightly.

After a while, he asked again: "Then how to control this speed?"

"——If the crime is simply not punished, then the King of Liang will probably think that I dare not punish him, so he will intensify it;"

"What should I do to not punish King Liang, but also to let King Liang know that he is afraid, so that he will know his way back and stop having those thoughts that he shouldn't have?"

When he asked this question, Tianzi Qi's tone already had a hint of complacency.

Liu Sheng didn't pay much attention to this point, he just lowered his head in confusion, thought for a while, and then raised his head with a frown.

"Father, maybe you can talk to Uncle Liang Wang."

"Know it with emotion, move it with reason, and beat it a little bit."

"——If possible, it's better to 'unintentionally' scare Uncle Liang?"

"Let Uncle Liang know that Emperor Father can kill Uncle Liang at any time, but he just doesn't have the heart to hurt his siblings, so he tolerates Uncle Liang again and again."

"In this way, under the combination of grace and power, Liang Wangshu should be able to wake up, and no longer have the sweet dream of the crown prince's brother..."

"Is it?"

Full of hesitation and lack of confidence to speak out, Liu Sheng finally did not forget to shake his head.

"My son doesn't know whether it will work or not."

"But other than that, there should be no other better way..."

After saying this a little lonely, Liu Sheng lowered his head, as if he was really thinking of other ways.

So much so that Liu Sheng didn't realize that as early as when he said the words 'to scare Liang Wangshu', the corner of Tianzi Qi's mouth had already raised a playful arc...
"good······"

"good·········"

Subconsciously murmured twice, causing Liu Shengxun to raise his head;
At the same time that Liu Sheng raised his head, Tianzi Qi naturally turned his head to the side and looked out of the car window again.

The face full of admiration, approval, and even a little bit of satisfaction was also hidden at an angle that Liu Sheng could not see.

The carriage continued to move forward, and the father and son in the carriage fell into silence again.

After a while, the emperor Qi Leng asked again, which made Liu Sheng recover from his thoughts, and at the same time, his face was full of helplessness.

"I heard that you saved Yuan An's life?"

"Don't plan to tell me, where did you know that Yuan An was going to be assassinated by King Liang?"

I saw Liu Sheng shook his head and lowered his head with a wry smile, explaining the matter helplessly.

"It's Brother Five..."

"—that piece of armor, fifth brother originally planned to give it to eldest brother;"

"The eldest brother will not be the prince anymore, and the fifth brother wants to give me that piece of armor, but then he thinks that I made that armor and gave it to the fifth brother..."

"As a result, after they discussed it, they sent that piece of armor to Yuan Ang in my name..."

As he spoke, Liu Sheng couldn't help shaking his head again, and let out a short sigh full of embarrassment.

"Coincidentally, just a few days after that Jia was sent, Yuan An was assassinated outside Anling, and he was lucky enough to save his life..."

"—Half an hour ago, Yuan An was still outside the Guangming Hall, because of this incident, I thank my son..."

"Hi;"

"It's so messed up that I don't even know how to explain it to Yuan Ang..."

Liu Sheng looked like he couldn't argue, but it made Tianzi Qi feel a burst of relief for no reason!
Especially when thinking of the past, when Liu Sheng choked on himself from time to time, Tianzi Qi gloated even more.

Pretending to look out of the window, actually secretly laughed a few times, and finally suppressed the smile, then turned around with a strange expression.

"If you don't understand the explanation, don't explain it."

"This kind of thing is getting darker and darker."

"Even if you tell Yuan An the truth, Yuan An will only think that you are 'awe-inspiring' and that you don't want Yuan An to owe him favors."

"—Instead of doing this, it's better to admit it openly;"

"After all, I'm going to be the crown prince soon..."

"Without a close minister in the court, many things will be inconvenient..."

Pretending to be relaxed, Tian Ziqi's eyes had long since glanced in front of him without a trace, fixed on Liu Sheng's face.

But Liu Sheng's next words made Tian Ziqi completely lose the nature of continuing to explore...
"My son is not my father~"

"Where are so many things that need to be done by the hands of the courtiers?"

"Even if something happens, I have hands and feet, and I know the way to the Xuanshi Palace, so I can report it directly to my father."

"Anyway, Erchen didn't intend to find a 'confidant' to smash the temples of the Supreme Emperor and Emperor Gao..."

Liu Sheng's indifferent words only made Emperor Qi's face turn pale!
When Liu Sheng finally couldn't hold back his laughter, gnawed a smirk, and cast a playful look at himself, Tianzi Qi finally clenched his teeth furiously!

Then he turned his head and looked out the window...
"Damn things!"

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Liu Sheng choked back his laughter, Tianzi Qi was furious, and the father and son looked out of the car window, thinking about each other.

When the carriage drove out of Chang'an for less than ten miles and stopped leisurely outside a field, the faces of the father and son showed the same faint smile again inexplicably.

Compared to the past few days, Chang'an City was a bit bleak, and the fields around the autumn harvest season were crowded with people.

Almost everyone is busy with their own business.

——This field has basically finished harvesting the crops.

The whole day of bending over and working makes the farmers in the field sweat profusely, and their backs ache.

But even so, no one dared to leave their field and sit down to rest on the ridge under the shade of trees;
Every farmer is full of vigilance, surrounded by the corn stalks he tied up with his own hands, and his eyes are fixed on the tax collectors and government officials not far in front of him.

Those tax collectors and government servants are not annoyed by being stared at by the peasants with such obviously unkind eyes;

Only the same serious gaze was fixed on the grain bundle behind the farmer.

——Both are worried about the same thing.

—— Both sides are worried about each other and will steal part of this pile of food...
Not long after, two yamen servants with swords on their waists came running from the gazebo in the distance, and waved to the five farmers next to each other in the field.

Then I saw the five farmers, each under the strict supervision of the tax collectors and government servants beside them, carrying the grain bundles one by one, repeatedly going back and forth between their own fields and the gazebo.

During this process, the five farmers, without exception, left one and a half sons to take care of the grain bundles in their own fields.

It took about half a stick of incense before the grains of the five farmers were carried out of the gazebo in order.

When Tianzi Qi, Liu Sheng and his son stepped forward, they saw the agricultural tax payment method unique to this era.

——The grain of each farmer is weighed on the spot.

Moreover, the farmers personally grab the grains from the grain stalks and put them directly into a wooden square measuring tool—the 'bucket' for weighing.

Every time a bucket is filled, the grains in the bucket will be poured into the coarse sacks prepared by the farmers.

Just like this, one bucket after another was weighed, until the grain bundles that were as high as a person were reduced to straw on the ground, and a loud and clear cry sounded in the gazebo.

"Jiali, Guangming City and Countryside, Cheng Dalang, 210 mu of land, [-] six stones of grain~"

In the gazebo, the tax collector was sitting on the ground, holding a brush in his hand, and a roll of bamboo slips was also spread out on the table in front of him.

After a call sign, the brush in the tax collector's hand was not in a hurry to drop, but hung in the air above the bamboo slips, raised his eyebrows slightly, and glanced at the farmer in front of him.

After the farmer nodded solemnly, the tax collector wrote something on the bamboo slips in front of him.

"Rice 210 six shi, tax thirty take one, tax collection: seven shi and two buckets~"

While writing, there was another call sign, and the yamen servant in front of the pavilion stepped forward in response.

Take the money from the 'dou' used for weighing, and dig out bucket after bucket of grain and rice from the farmer's grain bag.

After digging a total of 72 buckets, Cheng Dalang's family felt a little distressed when they dug, and the yamen servant stopped.

Then, the tax collector in the gazebo raised his head and waved to Cheng Dalang: "Come, make a fingerprint."

"After imprinting your fingerprints, your family's agricultural tax for this year will be considered as paid."

It was obviously not the first time for Cheng Dalang to pay taxes, and he stepped into the gazebo almost at the same time as the tax collector waved his hand.

Under the adoring eyes of his children, Cheng Dalang turned around with a solemn expression and walked out of the pavilion after he pressed his thumb with inkpad on the bamboo slip.

At this time, the entire tax payment process of Cheng Dalang's family finally came to an end.

But Liu Sheng, who was at the side, was deeply attracted by the scene in front of him, and for a long time, he couldn't take his eyes away from the Cheng Dalang family who was carrying the grain bag and went away.

——In his previous life, Liu Sheng was also a farmer's child.

When he was young, Liu Sheng also bent over to work in the fields, helping his parents to share the burden of the family.

But Liu Sheng doesn't remember the agricultural tax he paid in his previous life.

Not to mention collecting taxes on the spot during the autumn harvest as you saw before, even taking the money to the tax bureau to pay taxes is an experience Liu Sheng has never had before.

Seeing Liu Sheng staring intently at the inside and outside of the gazebo, and showing great interest in the scene in front of him, Tian Ziqi's eyebrows also quietly filled with joy.

But soon, Tian Ziqi's attention shifted back to the distance again, Cheng Dalang who dragged his family away with his grain bag in his mouth, but there was no expression of joy on his face...
"210 six stone..."

"Remove the tax, it is less than 210 shi..."

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"one two three four······"

"Four children, two husband and wife, plus an elderly person to support..."

"Ugh·········"

After muttering to himself inexplicably for a while, the emperor's face was once again full of dignity.

A moment later, when the harvests of the other households were also howled by the water in the gazebo, Tianzi Qi's expression sank completely.

——Taking these five households alone, except for one household whose 170 mu of land produced [-] shi, the situation of the other four households is basically the same.

One hundred acres of fields, the output of about two hundred stones, the average yield per mu will be less than two stones.

This is a full third less than the average yield per mu in Guanzhong in the past.

Tianziqi didn't know how many households in Guanzhong, like the five households just now, suffered a huge blow of "harvest reduction by more than [-]%" this year;

But Tianzi Qi is very sure: This year, the life of the people in Guanzhong will be difficult...
"My son heard that the emperor plans to exempt this year's agricultural tax?"

While thinking about it, Liu Sheng finally withdrew his reluctant eyes from the gazebo where the agricultural tax was being collected;

Asking softly, only Tianzi Qi nodded slowly with a solemn expression.

"This year, the farmland in Guanzhong has experienced a complete failure of harvest. Every household in Guanzhong, regardless of whether they sent males or not to participate in the suppression of the Wu-Chu Rebellion, has suffered losses to varying degrees."

"So this year's agricultural tax must be exempted..."

Tian Ziqi's tone became more and more low, but Liu Sheng didn't notice it quickly, just like a curious baby, he hurriedly asked again: "Since it's all exempt, why do you still have to accept it?"

"Wouldn't it be better if you just don't accept it?"

"Receive first and then refund, it's time-consuming and labor-intensive, don't tell me, in case officials get in the way again, filling their pockets, wouldn't it be..."

Hearing Liu Sheng's question, Tianzi Qi sighed with a vicissitudes on his face, turned around, put his hands on his back, and walked towards the distance by himself.

It was only after Liu Sheng quickly followed up that he finally heard Tianzi Qi answering his question.

"For one thing, the exemption of the agricultural tax needs to be passed through the third reading of the court council. There is no objection from the ministers and officials. I will issue an edict to implement it before it can be confirmed."

"Although this matter is almost completely up to me, the procedures that should be followed must still be followed."

"--No rules no standards······"

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"Secondly, there is a difference between not collecting agricultural tax directly and collecting it first and then refunding it."

"Don't collect it directly. Once or twice is fine. If you come a few times, the people will forget that this is a tax exempted by the court, and they will only think that they should not pay the tax."

"And collecting it up first, and then returning it back, can let the people clearly remember: this tax, they should have paid;"

"—But because I miss their livelihood, I refunded the taxes they have already paid..."

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"This is because the kindness and power of the Son of Heaven must be clearly known to the common people, and even experienced personally."

"It's like a prisoner who committed a felony must not be executed secretly, but should be executed outside the market in front of many people as a deterrent;"

"It's also like a tax exemption. You can't just refuse to accept it. Instead, you should collect it first and then back off. Let them remember: this is not a matter of course, but a gift from me..."

A very philosophical discourse also made Liu Sheng fall into deep thought.

It was also a rare time that Liu Sheng didn't have the idea of ​​teasing because of Tian Ziqi's "philosophical thought".

Liu Sheng knew that what Tianzi Qi said was right.

After all, the emperor's kindness to the world is different from ordinary people who are kind and generous.

——Ordinary people are willing to do good deeds, and they can "flick off their clothes and hide their merits and fame" and only care about their own ideas.

But the emperor's kindness and prestige must be given to as many people as possible to experience it as profoundly as possible.

Because only in this way, there will be no situations such as 'I am being scolded while doing good deeds, and you are enjoying the fruits of my labor, and scolding me again and again' will not happen.

Realizing this, Liu Sheng nodded again;

Just as he was about to say, 'My son knows', he saw that Tianzi Qi was already squatting by the side of the road.

Bending down, he picked up a stalk of abandoned millet from the dust without hesitation, looking at the apparently sparse millet, Tian Ziqi's brows were only tightly knit together.

"The rebellion in less than three months has almost shaken the foundation of our Han family..."

"Ugh······"

　I went to the hospital, it was a little later, everyone forgive me.

　　Next Chapter 11:30
　　
　
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