royal princess

Chapter 57

The eyes moved to other places. On the palm-width window sill, there were bamboo ruyis, fans and other ordinary small objects. Next to it stood a red sandalwood seat and a sapphire lioness. Next to it was a stove bottle box. No incense was burned, and it was quietly placed there, with a cluster of green bamboo patterns on it light and elegant.

After taking a general look at it, Si Jin had a picture in his heart. This emperor was a person who loved neatness and elegant things.The things in this room can't be said to be luxurious, but everything reveals the style and elegance of a scholar.

Si Jin sat with her back straight, not daring to move casually, the room was so quiet that she could almost hear her own breathing.Across a window, there are two majestic guards with knives. Across a wall, there is the place where Xiao Qi handles government affairs and meets officials. This is the center of the political center of the Dayu Dynasty. Can you not be nervous?
"You are so bold! How dare you disrespect the emperor's order, regard the Tai and the ancestors as nothing, and treat the court's laws as child's play. I ordered the barren land not to be taxed, and to rest with the people, but you still obeyed the tax. They even aggravated the law without authorization. Tian Fu, withholding all private distribution of the imperial court's disaster relief money. It is simply extremely daring, what is it that the imperial court regards me as the law?"

A thunderous roar suddenly came flying across a wall, Si Jin gradually turned pale when he heard it, Xiao Qi's voice was as furious as thunder, Si Jin could feel his heart almost jumping in such a moment throat.

I know that Xiao Qi has been busy with state affairs recently, but I didn't expect things to be so bad.The fact that the locust plague had been concealed before made him very angry. Hearing the meaning of these words, even the relief money sent by the imperial court to the disaster area was embezzled by the officials below, and all of them were embezzled.Not to mention embezzlement, and dare to increase the land tax in the disaster-stricken areas, this is simply forcing the people to die.

Knowing that the family of the Dayu dynasty is powerful, controlling the government and ignoring the emperor, but they didn't expect it to come to this point.So what's the fun of the emperor Xiao Qi, it's just a face saver.Orders from the top cannot be followed, so the government orders do not work, how can we talk about governing the world?

Si Jin's heart was churning with monstrous waves, and the memory of the original owner was slowly churning again in her mind.Under the impact of these words, some things that I didn't quite understand gradually became clear.This is simply coercing the emperor to order the princes. Xiao Qi, the emperor, is too aggrieved.

Disputes continued in the hall next door, and Si Jin lowered her head halfway. These aristocratic families held great power in the court for many generations, so what if Xiao Qi was pissed to death?Here, there are no low-ranking scholars in the upper ranks, and no nobles in the lower ranks. The selection of talents is mostly based on the inspection system, and the selection of talents is basically in the hands of these nobles.Classes are clearly defined and cronyism is the way to go. Under such circumstances, it is a joke for the emperor to want to have his own talents at his disposal.

This situation is similar to the situation in the Wei and Jin gentry period in history. Is it a joke that the king and the horse share the world?
Thinking about it this way, Xiao Qi is really pitiful. He has no land and no one in his hands, and he has the ambition of governing the country and the people, so why not be with him.

Most of the land of the Dayu dynasty was concentrated in the hands of these centuries-old noble families, and most of the officials in the court were recommended by these people. The farming and mulberry tax was what Dayu relied on for survival.But most of the land is in the hands of these people, how much tax can the court get?In the event of natural and man-made disasters, the imperial court still needs to come forward to provide relief. These aristocratic families only make money, but they don't give out a cent.Can you not be angry that the imperial court gave out money to relieve the disaster, and it was divided up by them privately?
Even Si Jin was getting angrier the more she thought about it, these people were simply inhumane.

Just as he was thinking, he heard hurried footsteps outside the door.Yun Chang was the first to push Si Jin vigilantly.Si Jin came back to her senses, subconsciously stood up immediately, and before she could go out to greet her, she saw the curtain at the door as if blown by a tornado, followed by Xiao Qi with a black face, striding in .

When he entered the door and saw Si Jin, he was taken aback for a moment, then remembered that he asked Guan Changan to bring her in, and was so angry that he forgot.

Suppressing his anger, Xiao Qi didn't have the mood to laugh with his little concubine at the moment, and sat there with a black face, before he could speak, Guan Chang'an ran in with his shoes on his heels, "Your Majesty, Mr. Xie is kneeling Kowtow outside, I must see you, please think twice."

Regardless of Chang An's reminder, Si Jin could hear the sound of kowtowing clearly through a thin window.

The ancient kowtows were not fake, they were real kowtows, and the outside was covered with bluestone slabs, and after just a few kowtows, blood would flow all over the face, this is not to scare people.Although Si Jin didn't see it with her own eyes in this palace, she could always hear Yun Shang tell Chen De'an that a slave in the palace knocked out and bled all over her face.

(End of this chapter)