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Chapter 45 The Queen Mother is immortal (45)

The next day, Emperor Jianyuan came to visit again, bringing with him the same group of ministers as yesterday, except that one big minister was missing.

But this time, they were at full strength.

After all, being prepared makes a difference.

Bai Sheng, on the other hand, remained silent until the ministers finished explaining their theories, then she casually asked, "Have they all been recorded?
  Go back and publish it in full, and remember clearly which words were said by which minister, especially the sentence of the Shaofu Order. No matter how hard it is for the people, you must write it clearly. This is a wise saying, enough to make him famous. If it is left in the annals of history, the Ai family will definitely send people to publicize it.

Now that Your Majesty has made up his mind, let’s do it.

Anyway, the Ai family is still opposed. "

At this time, Emperor Jianyuan and the ministers discovered that the female official standing next to Bai Sheng had not stopped, apparently recording their words and deeds. Suddenly, the faces of the ministers turned pale. How could they not understand what they said? No matter how high-sounding you are, you will be reviled by thousands of people.

If the Empress Dowager really used the latest newspapers to publish it and spread it throughout the country, then they would definitely become something that should be cut into pieces in the hearts of the people.

You may be thrown rotten eggs whenever you go out.

Maybe there will be a ranger who wants to do justice for heaven.

Emperor Jianyuan's face didn't look very good either. If there were no newspapers or the like, and if these contents were not published, small things like increasing the calculation of taxes would not have much impact at all. After all, no matter how dissatisfied the people were, they would not have any channels to express their opinions. Who can see it? As long as a large-scale uprising doesn't break out, it won't have much impact.

But in the absence of natural disasters, most people can survive by having fewer children, drowning a few children, and adding more undead food to each meal.

But now that there are newspapers, if he publishes those contents in the newspapers and describes the misery of the people, how can he maintain his image as a wise king?
  At this point, the officials present could not help but look at Emperor Jianyuan, and even prayed. It was obvious that they could not worry about food and drink. At this time, they had already begun to pursue more ambitious goals than eating and drinking. There was no doubt that Guangda's own school would become famous in history. That's one of their goals.

But if their remarks were spread by newspapers on a large scale today, their reputation would be really bad.

They can't help but worry.

"Royal Grandma, what exactly do you want to do? Is there no room for reconciliation in this matter?"

Emperor Jianyuan continued to ask with suppressed anger.

"There is room for reconciliation. The Ai family has prepared for you three meals a day for ordinary people, oh no, two meals a day, as well as their daily clothes.

If you can eat the people's food and wear the people's clothes for a long time, and persist from then on, then the Ai family will agree to this, and the Ai family can even go one step further and pay the increase you want for the people of the world. How about giving a gift and claiming to the outside world that you are willing to personally experience the suffering of the people and give all the credit to you? can you accept? "

As he was talking, someone brought food and clothes that had been prepared in advance. The food was a bowl of wild vegetable porridge, and the clothes were linen clothes. They were all common people's food and clothing, but in fact, they could eat such food and wear such clothes. The clothes he wears are already considered well-off among the common people.

Obviously, Bai Sheng just hoped that he could endure some hardship.

Otherwise, he would not be able to understand the sufferings of the people at all.

"Okay, but can you afford to pay for it?"

After looking at the contents in the bowl and the linen clothes on the side, Emperor Jianyuan felt that it was no big deal, so he nodded immediately and was a little worried that Bai Sheng would not be able to come up with so much money.

"Of course I can afford it. The three hundred thousand yuan should be enough to offset this part of the endowment. But you have to pay attention. The Ai family is not talking about living the life of ordinary people for a day or two. It is about living a year from now on." So.    If you can continue to persevere after one year, the Ai family can continue to give out three billion as a gift, how about it? Are you sure you can persevere and really can bear this suffering?"

Bai Sheng's current annual income has already exceeded one million yuan, so it is not difficult to pay three hundred million yuan.

At the same time, she was betting that Emperor Jianyuan wouldn't be able to survive.

The official in charge of taxation made some calculations based on Bai Sheng's tax payment last year and told Emperor Jianyuan that the Empress Dowager could afford the money.

This actually made Emperor Jianyuan somewhat embarrassed.

In his heart, he is definitely not willing to live such a hard life, but compared to the Empress Dowager publicly publishing all today's remarks and then raising taxes, there is no doubt that he will get it directly from the Empress Dowager through the tax increase. With the money obtained, not only does it not have to be taxed and stigmatized, but it can also be appreciated by the people, which is even more advantageous.

Maybe it will become a good story many years later.

It is similar to the beautiful talk about Emperor Wen personally tasting the decoction.

So after much hesitation, Emperor Jianyuan still thought that maybe he could give it a try. There was nothing he couldn't bear to eat some of the bran-flavored vegetables eaten by the common people, and he would definitely be able to bear it.

So in the end Emperor Jianyuan gave Bai Sheng a positive response, and then the two of them made a bet based on this. Bai Sheng would give him three billion dollars in advance to facilitate his preparation for the next extermination of the Huns. .

But if Emperor Jianyuan could not persist in the later period and violated the bet he signed, he would either give up the idea of ​​increasing taxes and double the compensation, or he would have to modify and formulate new tax collection methods based on Bai Sheng's ideas.

In order to ensure the sanctity of the bet.

They even went to the Ancestral Temple to worship their ancestors.

Then Bai Sheng happily took gold worth three billion yuan from the warehouse and handed it to Emperor Jianyuan.

And officially took over Emperor Jianyuan's diet.

Just kidding, if she doesn't take over his diet, what if he eats secretly later? Bai Sheng has no intention of letting him get away with it easily. You know, her real purpose is that Liu Che can't fulfill the bet, and she won't She was willing to double the money back, but in the end she had no choice but to accept her tax law reform suggestions.

The series of processes in the middle is just to know that he is short of money now, give him some money first, and let him taste some hardships and experience the suffering of the people.

So starting from the afternoon of that day, all the snacks and fruits to fill the stomach were cancelled. In the evening, there was only a very simple wild vegetable and corn porridge. There was not much rice in sight, and it was mainly wild vegetable and corn porridge.

Then it’s gone. Give me more water at most.

Bai Sheng, who was wearing clothes, was quite considerate and didn't really let him wear linen clothes to go to court. He just changed his underwear into linen clothes.

However, Emperor Jianyuan didn't think it was considerate. He only felt that the Empress Dowager was torturing him on purpose?
  Obviously the wild vegetables he ate before were very fresh and tender, but why were the wild vegetables he ate now bitter and astringent, and the linen clothes were also very rough. He felt uncomfortable all over wearing them, and even his skin was scratched by the linen clothes.

In the morning, I only remember that my stomach was empty, my mind was empty, and I couldn't think of anything else except hunger.

(End of this chapter)