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Chapter 484 Crouching Dragon and Phoenix (Added to apologize)

Jiayin in April of the first year of Yuanyou (27).

The imperial edict: Wen Yanbo, the Grand Master and Pingzhang, who are responsible for the military and state affairs, are the elders of the country and the ministers of the country. They should be treated with courtesy to show that the country relies on the old ministers.

From now on, Wen Yanbo will go to the palace to perform the duets in a separate class. The daily and daily rituals will be reduced by half, and one bow in front of the emperor will be reduced. He can take orders alone at the pavilion gate.

Every time he entered the court, he was given a royal banquet from the Jietan Courtyard of Xingguo Temple.

When the grand master enters the court, the chief minister will pick up the shoulder carriage and go to the place where the horse is dismounted. He will ask one of his disciples to support his armpits, and they will go in and out of the ceremony with the chief minister.

He ordered all the Grand Masters from the Neihe Province to enter the court, and he was appointed by Chang Yi to have ten followers, and Cheng Yi officials were to be accompanied by twenty people. They were also given twenty followers and eleven scattered followers. They also had the authority to order thirty personal officials in front of the palace. People are the attendants of the Grand Master.

The main focus is a sense of ceremony.

Perfect in every aspect and every detail!

Wen Yanbo was therefore honored as the minister with the highest etiquette since the founding of the Song Dynasty.

This is a model for other leaders to see.

come on! effort!

When you reach Wen Yanbo's qualifications, you can have it too.

At the same time, it is also for the scholar-bureaucrats all over the world to see.

The determination of the Song Dynasty and the scholar-bureaucrats to rule the world will remain unwavering for a hundred years!

Please rest assured!

The actual effect is not yet known.

But on the surface, at least the chicken blood is pretty good.

At the very least, the sense of ownership of the DPRK ministers has been further enhanced.

The crows on the Yushitai began to look for targets as they howled.

As a result, a large number of unlucky people soon became sacrifices to the crows.

Or it can also be said that in order to keep warm, the crows took out the things they had hidden for the winter and enjoyed them in advance.

then……

Zhang Chengyi, a former Privy Council official, Chuzhou Observer, and acquaintance of Luzhou, became the crows' first sacrifice.

Shi Andun, the imperial censor, launched a series of consecutive impeachments against him.

This guy was also unlucky. He was so lucky that he was hit by a gun, and Andun somehow got conclusive evidence.

More importantly - what he did was really ridiculous!

It's the kind of plot you can't even see in novels.

This guy dug up his father's grave...

Have you ever seen someone dig up other people’s ancestral graves? Who has ever seen someone dig up their own ancestral graves?

Zhang Chengyi did it.

However, there is one detail that I forgot to mention.

This Zhang Chengyi is the uncle of Zhang Qi's grandson Zhang Qian, who was under the supervision of Zhao Xu.

Zhang Chengyi can be regarded as the last glory of the Zhang Qi family of the former Xu Guogong.

Although, Zhang Cheng and Zhang Qian's family separated early on (in the medieval system, brothers separated when their parents died, but in the Song Dynasty, the system further evolved into all sons sharing their parents' property equally.).

But it's hard to guarantee that some villains secretly suspected that An Dun did this to flatter the palace, or he might even have done it with the palace's instructions.

This is to kill the Zhang family!

Here, Zhao Xu made a solemn refutation of the rumors - it's not me, I didn't, it's my fault!

I have never even met Zhang Chengyi, how could I harm him?

Besides, I asked him to dig his father's grave?

Poor Zhang Qi, a generation of dignitaries, finally ended up like this.

If the direct descendants are in charge, they will have no future, and the next generation will be common people.

The only living son also had his grave dug...

Once this happens, he will definitely not survive.

Let's see if we can keep Zhang Qi's face in mind and leave him a bloodline.

Zhang Chengyi's case was still a hot topic.

Li Ding, the unlucky guy, was dragged out by the crows again and began to whip the corpse.

reason?

Zhang Chengyi stole his father's grave, but Li Ding also didn't keep his mother's filial piety!

These two are the same!

The new party cadres are working hard.

Of course the virtuous gentlemen of the old party did not watch the show.

Li Zong, deputy envoy of Zizhou Road Transport, became the first victim of impeachment by the censors of the old party.

This guy is not a good person.

Compared with him, Wu Juhou can be said to love the people like a son on Jingdong Road, and Wang Zijing can be regarded as a common people's parent on Fujian Road. As for Jian Zhoufu's scraping of the land in Jiangxi, the pot smoked, and he even gave people shoes. Not worthy.

Because what Li Zong was playing on Zizhou Road was a very new thing for the Song Dynasty.

After reading his files, even Zhao Xu was stunned.

Such an awesome person actually appeared in the Song Dynasty?

The people in western Sichuan actually didn't rise up and rebel against his mother.

Zhao Xu felt that it was really the elders in western Sichuan who gave him the face of this little emperor!

Otherwise, if you change any dynasty, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang must have originated from Luli.

Because the thing this guy made on Zizhou Road is called: round and zero make it whole.

There is a loophole in the Two Tax Law - the Two Tax Law changes rent tax, land tax, and corvee from physical taxes into money.

This means that each family's tax amount may be different, leaving a small difference.

In places like Western Sichuan, due to lack of money, most people can only use silk and silk to pay taxes.

This further amplifies the shortcomings of the two tax laws.

A piece of land may be big or small, fat or thin.

Of course, the tax to be collected is zero or even.

In the past, according to the general traditional practice, for this kind of tax, generally conscientious local officials would let the common people collect the fractions from three to five or seven or eight households.

If everyone adds up enough round numbers, it's almost done.

This is ‘circle zero and side’.

Even if you encounter such a black-hearted official, he will just use this matter to blackmail the people.

It’s amazing, that is, each family charges a little more.

But Li Zong found business opportunities in this current situation.

Didn’t you Yuan Ling and Pang work together and end up with one family?

Ok!

This great clever man forced every household on Zizhou Road to pay zero tax to other households.

For example, let's say there are eight families. In the past, each family had to pay dozens of pennies with zero tax, which added up to just one foot of silk.

Now, under the wise leadership of Mr. Li Zong, every household has to hand over this foot of silk.

No way!

So, what was originally one foot of silk became eight feet.

The taxes collected by Mr. Li are rising steadily.    This is just the beginning.

Because the human heart is greedy.

Soon, Li Zong felt that even with this tax collection, the money was still too little, and that damn place in Western Sichuan was too poor.

If he continues to collect taxes at this rate, will he be able to get promoted and make a fortune every year of the monkey?

So, he started to do something sexy.

He began to operate crazily all over Zizhou Road.

He let people cultivate uncultivated land, let merchants open shops in uninhabited places, let craftsmen dig wells in places where there was no salt brine, and let farmers grow tea in places that were not suitable for growing tea.

Just to collect taxes, and just to make the reported political achievements look better.

Therefore, various indicators were forcibly allocated and completed within a deadline.

The Zizhou Road side was in a state of chaos and chaos in just over two years.

Even a well-informed person like Zhao Xu was completely convinced after reading the dossier.

"Brother..." Zhao Xu sighed helplessly: "How could I be so virtuous and talented as a young lady like Aiqing?"

Zhao Xu did not dare to keep such a great talent.

The two palaces were also frightened.

Because this is the standard in history books of extortion and extortion!

And in the history books, the final fate of all dynasties that did this is also clear.

It must be stopped immediately, and its influence must be eliminated immediately to regain the support of the people.

Otherwise, once the people in western Sichuan riot, and there is another Li Shun riot, Bianjing City will be waiting to cry.

So, almost not long after Zhao Xu finished reading the files, Liang Congzheng, who was beside the Empress Dowager, came to invite him according to the order.

"But because of the incident on Zizhou Road?" Zhao Xu asked.

Liang Congzheng nodded: "Everyone is wise."

"Mother and Queen, aren't you angry?" Zhao Xu asked.

Liang Congzheng sighed.

Zhao Xu understood and was very angry!

It’s okay to be angry!

Because Zhao Xu was also very angry, and could even be described as angry.

But what made him angry was not Li Zong's violent conquests.

But this guy is stupid!

I don’t even know where to find a place to do it!

Even if we dig through the earth in such a poor place as Zizhou Road, how much money can we get?

Judging from the statistics of the crows at Yushitai, the total taxes imposed, imposed, and newly added by various counties on Zizhou Road from the sixth year of Yuanfeng to the present amount to more than 300,000 yuan (horses and taels).

Even adding in regular taxes and other income, the income of Zizhou Road from the sixth year of Yuanfeng to the present is roughly 1.5 million guan (horse, tael).

In other words, this guy raised taxes for a mere three hundred thousand dollars.

Just a few states along the way, there is almost a riot.

Something is really going to go wrong and a civil unrest is going to happen.

How much money would it cost just to suppress it?

Even ten million guan cannot stop it!

Zhao Xu could only scold that bastard in his heart.

Then he rubbed his temples.

"Yan Shouqin's work on Sichuan Road this year is probably in vain." He thought.

"I'm afraid that the little extra tea money revenue from Sichuan Road will not be enough to fill up Zizhou Road. A large amount of resources will have to be transferred from Sichuan to put out the fire!"

As the emperor, Zhao Xu had some secrets in his heart.

The common people must not be pushed too hard.

If the leek root was cut, it would never grow back, or even turn into a leek maniac, chasing the emperor and biting him.

That is to take jujube pills.

Therefore, he actually already has a rough solution in mind.

Put out the fire first and eliminate the influence of errors first.

This requires finding a capable, honest minister who is familiar with the situation on Zizhou Road to put out the fire.

who?

On the way to Qingshou Palace, Zhao Xu kept thinking about this issue.

A personal choice emerged in his mind, but was rejected by him.

Either it's not suitable, it's just too old.

In places like Western Sichuan, the environment is too difficult.

Not many people are willing to go, and most of those who are willing to go are veterans.

Zhao Xu really couldn't bear to let those old ministers who had sold their lives to the old Zhao family still run around in the world.

Before arriving at the Qingshou Palace, Zhao Xu suddenly stopped and asked Liang Congzheng who was following him: "Liang Duzhi, I remember that when Huang Kao was here, there was a famous official in Xifu, Cai Ting, who was in charge of Xifu and assisted Huang Kao. , combing the world’s forbidden armies.”

"To report to everyone, there is indeed such a person." Liang Congzheng lowered his head and replied: "It's just that this person has passed away..."

"Privy Cai unfortunately passed away in the second year of Yuanfeng. The late emperor mourned his death and gave him the posthumous title Minsu, the Minister of Industry. He is also the Duke of Cai Minsu."

Zhao Xu nodded and asked, "Does Duke Minsu have a son in court?"

Liang Congzheng thought for a while and said: "Master Minsu, Cai Meng, is now the transfer judge of Chengdu Fulu."

Zhao Xu laughed.

This is the person he wants to send to Zizhou Road.

Cai Meng!

He knows military affairs and civil affairs.

He is a new party member and a good friend of Zhang Dun.

Of course, the most important thing is that he is young and familiar with the geographical environment of western Sichuan.

　RT, this chapter is an extra update to apologize for the author’s own mistakes.

　　Note: What Zhang Chengyi did is absolutely beyond your imagination and is a plot that is impossible to appear in novels - this guy even dug his father's grave. He actually put the jade belt and treasures buried with his father's body on his body and paraded around in public.

　　Then someone who identified the goods discovered it.

　　This... isn't this what Zhenzong gave to your father back then? Wasn't he buried with him?

　　Got it!

　　gg!

　　If this was written in a novel, it would definitely be criticized as being mentally retarded and brainless.

　　But reality does not require logic. No one knows why Zhang Chengyi did what he did.

　　

　

(End of this chapter)