I'm really not King Jing of Zhongshan

Chapter 255 Brat, learn slowly~
Hearing the worried voice of the old man, Liu Sheng's first reaction was to look sideways at Emperor Qi lying under the tree root.

From Tian Ziqi's face, it is not surprising to see a look of calmness, as if saying "you can figure it out, I will just watch it, and don't talk". Liu Shengben also had a confident face, and also Can't help but stiffen a little.

The matter of food can be said to be the first policy implemented by Liu Sheng as a political figure.

To be precise, the long-term stabilization of grain prices in Guanzhong by Yi Zhisu Duwei is the only political achievement of the prince Liu Sheng so far.

For this only political achievement of his own, Liu Sheng is neither serious nor confident.

But after the old man's worried 'reminder', Liu Sheng's confidence in stabilizing grain prices has obviously wavered a little...
"Captain Zhisu..."

"Will oppress farmers when buying and selling grain?"

Subconsciously murmured softly, but it provoked several old men to smile wryly;
In the end, it was the older man, who looked at least in his 60s, who answered Liu Sheng's subconscious question.

"We farmers, doesn't everyone want to step on us?"

"The dignitaries, officials, businessmen, whoever sees us farmers, don't they all use everything?"

"Hey······"

"—Emperor Taizu Gao, Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, and even His Majesty, all of them are light corvee and low taxes, and they are the beginning of reform with the people;"

"The court is even more demanding: In addition to the three items of agricultural tax, oral tax, and draft tax, the local government cannot levy other exorbitant and miscellaneous taxes."

"The results of it?"

"If you find any excuse, it will be apportioned layer by layer, and the pressure will make us farmers unable to straighten our waists!"

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"Let's just talk about some of us old guys, every family has a hundred acres of land, and on an ordinary festival, we can have more than 300 shi of grain."

"If there are only agricultural tax, oral tax, and draft tax, there is not much at all;"

"—Take one out of thirty from the agricultural tax, that's ten stones;"

"—Forty qian for a dime, and the discount is at most three shi grains;"

"——The draft tax, three stones each for the draft and three stones, the discount is only [-] yuan, and it is still more food for one stone."

"Calculating with your fingers, after a year of hard work, you can harvest more than 300 shi of grain. If you add up the agricultural tax, oral tax, and draft tax, you only need to hand over [-] shi."

"There are two hundred and eighty to ninety shi of grain left, which is enough to feed a dozen people."

"However, if we count the apportionment by the local government, we have nearly [-] shi of grain, even if we want to support our wife and children for five or six people, it will be too tight..."

Unscrupulously pointing out the current living conditions of the farmers of the Han family, the old man shook his head and sighed to himself, lowering his head and grabbing a straw.

Throwing the grass stalk into his mouth, he sighed as if no one else was there.

The expressions on the faces of the rest of the old men were not much different.

Either shaking his head and sighing bitterly, or looking into the distance with a melancholy face, it seems that he empathizes with everything the old man said...
The reaction of several old men obviously did not exceed Tianzi Qi's expectation.

On the other hand, Liu Sheng, after hearing the old man's bitter emotion, he could not help casting his suspicious eyes on Tianzi Qi, who was leaning against the root of the tree.

"These things······"

"Even the emperor knows?"

Asked full of astonishment, only to see Tianzi Qi raised his head as usual, and let out a short sigh in noncommittal.

"Local county apportionment is a long-standing maladministration."

"For this matter, the first emperor tried to rectify it many times, but in the end, nothing happened."

"—There are many issues involved in this, and they are extremely complicated."

"The only thing the court can do is to send out regular censors, supplemented by audits, so that the local government can restrain itself."

"Other than that, there is no other way..."

The somewhat helpless words only caused the old men on the side to shake their heads and sigh again;
Tian Ziqi raised his head with a half-smile, and looked at Liu Sheng playfully.

"For the matter of food, there is a high probability that the word 'apportionment' cannot escape."

"——The food price set by the court is apportioned layer by layer by the local counties and counties. When it reaches the people, it is likely to be more than ten or twenty yuan per stone;"

"Buying and selling voluntarily may also be forced to buy and sell by the local authorities - after the autumn harvest, the people must sell grain to the Zhisu Duwei, and after the spring, they can only buy food from the Zhisu Duwei;"

"Have you considered all these things?"

"How to solve it?"

"Listen to it, let it go, and still change from being the governor of Su Duwei to a villain who oppresses the peasants?"

"Or should we plan ahead and avoid such a situation in advance?"

Asking this question with ease, Tianzi Qi did not forget to move his body and adjust to a more comfortable lying position;

Afterwards, he turned his indifferent eyes to the stunned Liu Sheng, as if he was looking at something interesting.

Being watched by Tian Ziqi's inexplicably calm eyes, Liu Sheng was stunned for a long time before finally recovering from his astonishment.

But then, Liu Sheng fell into a long period of thinking.

"Father has long known about the apportionment by the local government?"

"Now that you know, why are you so calm..."

"—Shouldn't Thunder be furious and investigate the crime?"

"What does it mean that there is no way to eradicate the apportionment of local counties and counties?"

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"Even the method of apportionment by the local government is well known, why not prescribe the right medicine?"

"Just leave the sentence 'there is no other way' and ignore it???"

"There are also these old men who dare to say these words so bluntly in front of the father..."

"—A convention???"

"This situation has become the default for everyone???"

"This······"

The more he thought about it, the more gloomy Liu Sheng's face became, but he still couldn't say anything.

And under the old tree, Tianzi Qi, who was lying comfortably under the root of the tree, only shook his head and smiled melancholy when he saw Liu Sheng's reaction.

"It's still tender..."

"Um······"

"Wait for a chance, let this kid go out and take a look..."

Thinking so, Tianzi Qi finally sat up a little bit and waved to Liu Sheng;

After Liu Sheng got up in a daze, and sat down beside Tianzi Qi, Tianzi Qi cast his indifferent eyes on several old men not far away.

"Don't worry about food."

"—I'm not going to give you headaches even with this little thing."

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"Zhisu Duwei is subordinate to the Shaofu and is not controlled by the Xiangfu. He only obeys my orders."

"Although it is permanent, there are not many manpower, money and food, and there is no way to eat the food in the whole pass."

"Therefore, the permanent establishment of the Zhisu Duwei is just to coerce the grain merchants to buy and sell grain at the price set by the court;"

"—After the autumn harvest, your food will still be sold to merchants;"

"After spring begins, you still have to buy food from merchants."

"As for Captain Zhisu, he will neither go to the fields to buy grain, nor set up grain shops to sell grain everywhere."

"Unless the merchants force the farmers to spend time and effort to send grain to Chang'an and sell it to the Commander Zhi Su, otherwise, it doesn't make any difference whether there is a Commander Su Zhi."

"As for cheap grain, the same is true—unless the merchants drive up the price of grain and force Guanzhong farmers to travel thousands of miles to Chang'an to buy grain, otherwise, no one will buy the cheap grain of Captain Su... ···”

It seemed to be chatting, but it also seemed to be comforting words, which made several old men nod their heads with a smile;
But after saying these words, Tianzi Qi turned his slightly complicated eyes to Liu Sheng who was beside him.

"This is the reason why Emperor Taizu Gao ruled all the people in the world with the way of Huang Lao's inaction when he established our Han family Guozuo."

"—Governance by doing nothing, does not mean doing nothing and letting farmers perish by themselves;"

"It is to make as few changes as possible and implement new policies as little as possible, lest the local government find an opportunity to justifiably oppress and exploit farmers."

"So far, the Han family has established the country for more than 50 years, and it is inappropriate to continue to govern by doing nothing."

"Whether it is for internal governance or for conquering the Xiongnu abroad, the court needs to make some changes to make our Han family stronger as soon as possible."

"But the more you do it, the more you have to be careful -- the more hasty you are, the more you have to be careful."

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"To implement the New Deal, we must think twice and be careful;"

"Before the new policy is implemented, we must try our best to kill all possible hidden dangers in the cradle."

"Always remember: I, the Han family, must stand with the peasants, and never forget to take care of the peasants."

"—Because my Han family is in the world, the tens of millions of farmers can only count on the emperor."

"Except for the emperor, everyone wants to take advantage of the peasants."

"If even the emperor doesn't care about the life and death of the farmers, then no one in the world will care about the lives of the farmers anymore."

"When the peasants can't survive, then my Han family..."

At the end, he pointedly said, "Then my Han family..." and Tianzi Qi handed Liu Sheng another "Do you understand what I mean?" ' eyes;

Sensing his father's almost expressive gaze, Liu Sheng also subconsciously took over the conversation: "The world is poor..."

"Tianlu will die forever?"

Hearing this, Tianzi Qi was only slightly taken aback;
After three breaths of reaction, he laughed and looked sideways at the old men, pointed to Liu Sheng beside him, and said jokingly: "Look at this kid;"

"After reading two books, I use it everywhere..."

Tian Ziqi took the lead in teasing Liu Sheng, which naturally made several old people giggle, but there was no one, so he continued to talk about the topic of food.

After chatting with some old men, you and I chatted a few words, and then saw the emperor Qi smiled and let out a long sigh;
Leaning his head on the tree trunk behind him again, he pointed to Liu Sheng beside him, and said abruptly: "This kid, he has been living in the Tai's womb for some time;"

"It's this official, the Shaofu has not been able to get it together..."

"how?"

"You old fellows, can you be promising to be officials for this kid?"

It was a random question, but it caused several old men to be stunned, and after a while, they looked away with wide-eyed smiles.

Although the eyes obviously moved to the distance deliberately, the old men did not forget to pretend to be indifferent: "Hi~"

"Our big bosses were all born with one knife and one shot between the ranks;"

"What skills can the cubs you teach have?"

"—that is, the older ones, relying on their brute strength, were summoned by His Majesty to the Northern Army."

"If the prince doesn't dislike it, His Majesty will transfer him directly to serve as the prince's guard..."

Obviously very excited, but deliberately put on a calm posture, which made Tianzi Qi laugh for a while;
A few more jokes, 'Really don't you want to find a few more sons to stuff into the uterus? ' and so on, this matter is considered settled.

——The most promising sons of the old men's families will be directly transferred from the Northern Army, and will be used to form Liu Sheng's prince's guard under the framework of the status of middle-level officers.

According to the practice of the prince's guard at the time of the first emperor, Liu Sheng, who has become the prince, will have a guard of 500 people, that is, a team-a Sima guard.

As for the most promising sons and grandsons of the elders' families, they will serve as the head of the prince's guard, Quhou and other backbones.

Seeing that Tianzi Qi seemed to have nothing else to say, and was not about to leave, the old men also stood up very wisely and walked towards the fields not far away.

——Now, it is midsummer;
Although it is not like spring plowing and autumn harvest, when farmers are required to be busy in the fields, weeding, irrigation and other work also require these "old farmers" to concentrate most of their energy on their own fields.

because······
"Farmers are the most miserable people in the world;"

"Hard work all year round, the only income is the harvest."

"But there are so many places that need to spend money that they can't even count."

"—Taxes and taxes to be paid, firewood, rice, oil and salt for the family's own use, soy sauce, vinegar and cloth, plus welcome and delivery, red and white weddings and funerals..."

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"It's hard~"

"The life of a farmer is extremely bitter and difficult."

"When encountering some accidents, they often change their property, even sell their sons and daughters, and commit themselves to slavery..."

"—What the emperor of the Han family has to do is actually to protect these farmers and let them live a comfortable life without worrying about food and clothing;"

"But this simple sentence is enough to judge an emperor's life;"

"It is enough to judge an emperor, whether he is a wise and holy ruler who will go down in history, or a faint and tyrant who has been infamous for thousands of years..."

Sitting under the root of the tree, looking up into the distance, looking at the hunched figures bending over to work in the field, Tian Ziqi's brows were filled with melancholy.

But beside Tianzi Qi, Liu Sheng still had a frowning expression on his face, obviously he hadn't recovered from the old man's astonishment and confusion about the "local government apportionment" before.

Liu Sheng's reaction did not exceed Tian Ziqi's expectations.

Just sitting under the root of the tree sighing and sighing, enjoying this rare leisure time, silent for a long time;
I don't know how long it took before the father and son sitting under the root of the tree began to talk as usual, talking with you and me...
"The matter of local apportionment..."

"Father, don't you think about changing?"

"—Of course I did."

"—But after carefully studying the key points, I discovered how difficult this matter is."

"Could it be that father gave up because it was difficult?"

"--Hey······"

"—Silly boy..."

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"Are there really no other hidden dangers regarding food?"

"--of course not."

"—I have made arrangements in advance for everything I can think of;"

"—But there must be hidden dangers that I didn't expect, and they will be revealed little by little."

"Father..."

"—There is no other way."

"—I can only do my best to avoid most of the hidden dangers in advance;"

"——For the rest, you can only take one step, look at one step, sew and mend, and improve a little bit..."

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"In that case, the matter of money is probably not that simple?"

"Is it necessary to plan more and not rush for success?"

"--Um."

"—That's why I brought you to Shanglin."

"—The Shaofu is in Shanglinyuan, and there are many workshops for making coins..."

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"Father."

"--Um?"

"It seems difficult to be an emperor..."

"--Hey!"

"--What do you think?"

"——Do you really think that the emperor is just eating, drinking, having fun and ordering the world all day long?"

"Not really..."

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"——Learn slowly, you~"

"—How to be a good emperor, I have learned for 23 years!"

"—to this day, I'm still learning."

"Then, what about son-in-law?"

"My son, do you want to study for more than 20 years?"

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"—you'll learn quickly."

"—You, you will learn much faster than me."

"—but until the day you die, you still have to keep learning;"

"—And also like me, teach the future prince what I have learned..."

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　Sleeping until dark, dizzy...
　　Oh, this body...
　　This chapter counts as Chapter 2 yesterday, so let’s take a leave of absence today, and I’ll go to sleep again.

　　It is recommended the day after tomorrow, starting tomorrow, how can the two updates be normal...

　　Ugh······

　　My bones...
　　


(End of this chapter)