Since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the capital of Chengping for more than 400 years has been in chaos. Whether it was the large-scale invasion of the demon clan before, or the rebellion of the four thieves, no matter where the east, west, north and south became a battlefield, the capital had never been chaotic. Even if the two princes rebel, it will only be temporary, and the superior will immediately stabilize the situation.

This time it was different, the Shu army, the Jin army and the army of the imperial court had a total of 400,000 people, eating, drinking, and Lasa together, and the material consumption was very large. In order to fight a protracted war, each family also began to allocate the materials of the various military camps under their command, and it was inevitable that some people felt that the distribution was uneven or insufficient. What should we do about this? We can only solicit it from the people.

Fortunately, this is the capital, and everyone knows that you can't do too much, after all, you don't want to give others a handle during this critical period. But there are many troops, it is inevitable that there will be scoundrels, they eat and drink for nothing, take sheep with their hands, eat and take cards, fight, molest, etc., the capital does not dare to enter but the counties and towns near the suburbs of Beijing are enough to choke, and many homeless people are even set on fire by the rebels and their houses are burned. The capital did not allow them to enter, so they could only abandon their family business and flee to other places. No matter how detailed things are, these small people in the suburbs of Beijing can know.

Ji Ya walked the rivers and lakes, and also knew that the army of the Marquis of Shu was coming to the capital, but in his inertial thinking, Ji Ya didn't think that they could do anything to the local princes, and now it seems that he is shallow. Even if she doesn't have a good impression of the original family, Ji Ya is the princess of the Great Zhou royal family after all, and if no one else says, the eldest brother must go back to have a look.

In the end, the little sword god still chose Edgeworth to reach the capital, she did not enter the city immediately, but landed outside the city, and the people followed the crowd into the city on foot. Although the capital is now strictly checked, it is not forbidden to enter and exit, unless it is a large number of displaced people, or soldiers of the Shu army and the Jin army.

The gatekeepers will not stop ordinary people, and if you do more, you will just strictly investigate. However, an unspoken rule has been formed, and cloth clothes without selfish property are not allowed to enter. If you wear it poorly and your hands are empty, you will definitely not be allowed to go in. Those who are well-dressed are just that, the cloth-clothed person pulls a cart of goods, drives an animal, even if it is a load of firewood, and if it is not a Gyeonggi accent, he also has to check the identity of the road guide, which is a very rude way to distinguish between the homeless and the virtuous.

However, Ji Ya is not among them, she is very beautiful and well-dressed, and she also carries a big sword on her back, she is obviously a person in the rivers and lakes, even if she has blonde hair, it doesn't matter, the people in the capital still have a wide vision, either the border people in the northwest, or the seafarers in the south. In addition to the South China Sea Flower Capital, there are also many of these alien races in the capital who want to live. Even many rare exotic specialties are still very sought after, when there is a "falling flower to travel everywhere, laugh into the orchid wine shop".

Walking on the streets of the capital again, Ji Ya obviously felt a little depressed, the lively scene that used to be side by side is gone, the pedestrians on the street are in a hurry, the shops are still open, but people buy some daily necessities and leave, and rarely have the mind to hang out.

Ji Ya is ready to find a place to stay, in the past, Master Lin Yue still had a property in Xicheng, she was going to go to that small courtyard first, and then take a look at the current situation in the capital. With her current cultivation, it is not impossible to sneak into the palace, but she naturally knows that there are people in the palace who do not lose their own offerings, and there is no need to provoke them easily, after all, she is not a figure like Master Lin Yue.

From the tempering of the past few years after leaving the palace, Ji Ya has already understood what it means to plan and act. She planned to find someone first, it was Su Shun, one of the eight captains of Beichen, Captain Feiyuan.

When Lin Yue was the commander-in-chief of Yuanzhou, he was a lieutenant under Lin Yue, and later Lin Yue led an army of 100,000 to dominate the Beijing Division. Many people were promoted after the re-takeover of the Demon Cloud Sea, and Su Shun also led the original Yuanzhou Army to re-accept the reorganization. was directly promoted to one of the eight captains of Beichen, Captain Feiyuan.

The previous second prince ascended the throne, and because of the support of the four captains, it added a lot of points to the situation at that time, and Su Shun was also promoted to Zhonglang General because of this merit. But he didn't want to be promoted. Although the rank has gone up, he cannot continue to command the troops, and his power is far inferior to that of the previous Feiyuan captain.

The second prince Ji Xiong certainly wants to reward the heroes, but he has deep worries, today the eighth lieutenant of Beichen can assist himself in order to protect himself, and tomorrow he can also help others like this, although the two best sons of the father and king have died, but he has an eldest brother and a few younger brothers, and this throne is still unstable. In the final analysis, it is safer to be a loose party as its own people.

Although he lost his real power, Su Shun also expected it, he did not show dissatisfaction, but temporarily hibernated, and established a relationship with the children of the Song Party as a meritorious hero.

On this day, he returned to his home, but saw an uninvited guest on the side of the living room, it was the blonde princess Ji Ya, Su Shun hurriedly saluted: "Your Royal Highness the princess, when did you come back?" Ji Ya is not only a princess, but also Lin Yue's apprentice. At the beginning, Lin Yue even confronted Chai Shengnan and wanted to take her out of the palace, which shows that he took a fancy to her.

Ji Ya asked, "I haven't seen you for so long, you seem to have been promoted?"

Su Shun smiled bitterly, and then chatted with Ji Ya, who knew that her eldest brother Ji Wei had been moved out of the palace, and now he was in very bad health, looking like he was sick and would die at any time. Ji Ya, who had already embarked on the path of cultivation, was no longer a novice, she knew that because the eldest brother had passed on his cultivation to herself, she ended up like this, and she was worried about the second brother's senses.

Now the situation in the capital is very delicate, the Shu army and the Jin army have been here for a few days, and the two princes have also discussed with the king several times, mainly in two aspects, one about the distribution of interests in Jin and Shu. Now the court intends to upgrade the Marquis of Shu to the Duke of Shu. In this way, the Duke of Jin had to deal with him, the two princes with different surnames who were originally divided said that they would be the chief of the princes of the north and the south, once the Marquis of Shu entered the lord, then he would be fair to the Jin Kingdom, the location of Shu is very unique, in fact, it is possible to divide the north and the south, and the Duke of Weiguo in the south is far away, and it is most likely that Jin and Shu will compete with each other, for the name of the princes, they can't fight if they want to.

This idea of yin damage was naturally proposed by Xiao Huairen to the king, and a false name can be exchanged for the fire of the two princes, so why not?

The second thing is more special, the king has always had the intention of changing the law after coming to power, but because of the Jin and Shu Chen soldiers outside the city, the king had to put aside his thoughts and hold a meeting with the two princes.

In fact, the reason for everything is because of the continuous wars, the treasury has been empty, coupled with the princes fighting each other, the second prince Ji Xiong has not been happy to ascend the throne for two days, and he found that his decree can convey less and less land, and the entire Great Zhou Dynasty is fragmented. The sea of demon clouds died in the west, and Chai Shengnan died in the east, and there was no choice of generals who could assist in guarding the world. As for the disciples of the Song Party, although Ji Xiong promoted them aggressively, it was based on loyalty, not ability.

Even he himself knows that there may be talents among the children of the Song Party, but there is still no one who takes the lead, after all, this group is still too young.

Therefore, Ji Xiong's first step in coming to power was to find money to restore the prestige of the imperial court. Therefore, the trial changes of the three chapters of the new calendar were proposed, namely: slave state ownership, calculation of mu surplus, and tax quota.

If it was the original Ji Ya, I am afraid that she would not be interested in these, but the blonde princess, who has seen all kinds of chaos in the Great Zhou and has the heart to make changes, also wants to know the difference.

The first is the slave state system, the Great Zhou Dynasty was a slave country, the master had the absolute sovereignty of the slave, and life and death could be decided in a word. And all the value generated by the slave belongs to the master. This creates a problem, that is, the nobles who do not have to pay taxes will steal the land of the common people, and the common people who bear the taxes will sell themselves into slavery because they cannot survive, and attach themselves to the name of the nobles. As a result, fewer and fewer people could provide taxes, and the nobles had more and more land and slaves, even enough to keep their tribes.

Among the common people, the state collected taxes, conscripted soldiers, drew soldiers, and all kinds of forced labor, which accelerated the speed at which the commoners of the Great Zhou Dynasty fell into slavery.

However, after the implementation of the slave state system, it means that the slaves of the whole country will no longer belong to their respective masters, but will all belong to the state, and the original masters will only have the right to use. If the nobles were to continue to use slaves, they had to pay rent to the state on a per capita basis. Moreover, slaves belong to the state, and the original owner can no longer damage them at will, and he can kill or chop them, but he has to pay the state money.

This is in the present state, and it is impossible to get the nobles to spit out the land they have swallowed. However, it is an ancestral system that does not pay taxes and cannot be changed. So we had to go back to the slaves. This also makes sense, the whole world is not the king's land, the shore of the land, and the king's ministers. The status of the nobles is given by the royal family, and it is not for nothing that the slave state is in power.

Therefore, the DPRK and China have both agreed and opposed to this article.

And the second is a set of ancestral systems, counting acres of surplus, which is also divided into two points. First, when the acres of cultivated land are usually converted, it is naturally settled horizontally and vertically. In this way, another problem arises, a lot of land is irregular, after counting the acres of land, there will be some corners and corners, according to the ancestral system is rounded, less than half an acre is not counted, more than half an acre is counted as an acre. As a result, the local personnel below tried their best to reclaim the odd-shaped fields, and calculated the balance when they measured. Relying on this method, some nobles can hide two to three percent, or even more of their land.

The command is that all the balances must be counted, that is, if you have nine acres, it can be counted as two acres. If you only have one acre, one must be counted as two acres of land. This is a bit overbearing, so there are not a few people who oppose it, but there is no way, the court is short of money.

Another aspect of calculating the surplus per mu is that the temple property has begun to pay taxes. In the Great Zhou Dynasty, the so-called temple property is three aspects, tribute land, official school, and ancestral hall.

The tribute land is the temple of the goddess, for example, the field under the name of the Yuanzhou goddess temple where the Miaoyan priest who is good friends with Lin Yue is the tribute land, and the creation goddess Niangniang is recognized as the highest god in the world, the mother of all things on the earth, and the country naturally cannot go to the temple to collect taxes. The other local government school is an official formal school, which is dedicated to the black-clothed sages, that is, the sages who opened the wisdom of the ancestors in ancient times, and of course they cannot collect taxes on the property of the official school.

And the last kind of ancestral hall is relatively rare, generally the noble family has their own ancestral temple, and some heroes who made great contributions in the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the state funded the construction of a place to worship, that is, the ancestral hall.

Although there are only a handful, but the family with the ancestral hall is not the most important in the whole country, this is the glory of the founding king, no one dares to offend in the locality, even the kings of the past must also act respectfully, even if they go out on patrol, they must not pay homage. And the ancestral hall also has a land property in its name, after all, it is an honor given by the state, and it is impossible for its own family to support it, so it is divided into land, and there is no need to pay taxes.

As soon as this decree is issued, all temple properties will also start to be taxed, of course, unlike ordinary people, they only need to hand in one achievement, after all, whether it is a goddess, a sage in black, or a founding hero, it is not good to be too much as a king. But this one is also the most fiercely opposed.

As for the final tax quota, this is easy to understand, the original tax time is very messy, the types of taxes are also complicated, and the calculation method is also very different. Now, at the threshold of lack of money, we are ready to implement a one-size-fits-all tax law for the time being. It is stipulated that the tax shall be paid once a year in a certain month, and no tax amount shall be calculated, and half of the profits shall be paid in full.

Those who farm the land pay half the harvest, those who mine pay half of the ore, those who do business pay half of the net profits, and even the herders, in addition to the original herd, pay half of the newborn cubs of the year. The rest of the time there are no other taxes.

This is a very blunt way to collect taxes, like some small craftsmen or small traders, there is no way to count at all, but it can immediately gather a lot of money, or that sentence, the court is short of money. So even if there are big flaws and problems in this tax system, Ji Xiong can't take care of a lot anymore.

In the past few days, the whole capital has been discussing this, and even the small people of Shengdou are also discussing, so there is such a depressing atmosphere in the capital, in addition to the 300,000 soldiers outside the city, I am afraid it is also related to the three chapters of the new calendar.

The first two items are forgotten, and the people have little to do with it, but the third article is not necessarily, this year other taxes have been paid, if the current tax quota is activated, it will be collected once, or half of the annual income. It stands to reason that the new law should be implemented the following year, but there are faint rumors among the citizens that the imperial court is in financial crisis and is preparing to levy a fixed tax from this year, which makes the people very panicked. Most of the rumors are false, but what if they come true?

Nowadays, these are still only circulating in the capital or Gyeonggi, but with the issuance of the Daejo Di newspaper, the whole country will know about it in a few days, and I don't know what kind of turmoil it will cause.

After a general understanding, Ji Ya has no idea of intervening in the current situation, and it would be easy to know that the eldest brother is not in the palace, and she wants to meet the eldest brother. Su Shun pointed out Ji Wei's location, and Ji Ya then left.

At night, a courtyard in the capital lit up a glimmer, which was originally the residence of a great nobleman, Lin Yue raided the house when he dominated the capital, and now it is given to the eldest prince Ji Wei to live. The new king Jixiong also sent a thousand soldiers to protect him very intimately to ensure that the eldest brother would not be disturbed by outsiders.

Ji Ya dived in, as if she was in a no-man's land, after all, she could compare to the masters of the Dragon Sword Sect who had cultivated for three generations of the three sects, how could this group of salted fish and bird eggs find it. Not far from the master bedroom, Ji Ya landed lightly, and tonight she didn't come out with a big sword for the sake of secrecy.

Just as she was about to probe forward, a cold light flashed, and she hurriedly dodged, thinking to herself, "There is a master?"

Although Ji Ya didn't go all out, and sneaking in was just a joke, but the other party could find out that it was by no means an ordinary mediocre hand, the other party was a two-handed weapon, as if it was two short swords, but it was not a straight sword with two blades, but a serpentine curve.

The next moment, the other party stabbed straight over, this body method was inexplicably familiar, Ji Ya immediately turned her body to dodge, because she didn't want to cause too much movement, so Ji Ya couldn't bear many means, and the strange thing was that the other party didn't shout loudly.

Ji Ya finally figured out the opponent's path, grabbed forward at the right time, and clasped the opponent's wrists with both hands: "The body of the lacquer carver?"

The two stopped moving, and then there was a glimmer of light, and the opponent was a young short-haired girl, and she saw Ji Ya's face clearly: "Little princess?"