On the Shenzhou continent, the division of the national jurisdiction is different from top to bottom, the dignity and inferiority are orderly, and the other are extremely strict and insurmountable, and the Great Zhou Dynasty is no exception, and even the more powerful the country, the more it abides by this order.

The dynasty is the city, the dynasty is the county, the imperial dynasty is the state, the Celestial Dynasty is praised, and the county of Daozhou is declining step by step.

Recently, the 130 cities of the Chen Dynasty suddenly received a decree from the royal city of Chang'an, which was issued by the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of Households.

The common people's taxes were raised from 15 to 5 taxes, and all adult men had to serve in forced labor every year.

As soon as this decree was issued, the rivers and lakes on the Xianjia Mountain on the Chen Dynasty suddenly became a pot of porridge, and the Chen Guobing Department quickly made a countermeasure, and the garrisons of various cities sent troops one after another to suppress the mountains and mountains, just in case.

In the Weiyang Palace, Lin Li, the household servant, said in a deep voice: "Taifu, is the five taxes and one too heavy? If this goes on for a long time, the people of Chen Guo will surely wither and the bones will be full. ”

Five taxes and one, that is to say, the people have to hand over one-fifth of the annual harvest to the state, and the fifteen taxes of the past have made most of the people live in dire straits.

Fan Siyuan said with a smile: "Lin Shilang is too worried, Taifu has always been benevolent, how can he bear to see the corpses of the people of Chen State." ”

Lin Li still wanted to speak, his top boss Qian Donglai, the head of the household department, gave him a crazy look, this tax increase was originally the meaning of the Taifu, you don't know what to do, and it will cause unhappiness to the household department. When you lose your life, it is small, and Lao Tzu loses the black gauze hat is big.

Fan Zeng said coldly: "Lin Shilang thinks about the people, he is the pillar of the country, but Lin Shilang do you know how much inventory I have in the treasury of Chen Guo now?"

Lin Li shook his head, although the treasury is in charge of the household department, but he doesn't care about the household department! He knows how much inventory there should be in the treasury.

Fan Zeng then asked, "Then do you know that Yang Guo is now eyeing Chen Guo and wants to kill Chen Guo?"

Lin Li still shook his head, he knew that Chen Guo and Yang Guo were feuding, a small battle in two days, and a big war in three days, but they had been fighting for decades, and they had not destroyed Chen Guo. Why did Taifu say this?

Fan Zeng sighed lightly and said, "The scholar has misled the country!"

Lin Li's face was a little ugly.

Fan Zeng stood up and said in a deep voice: "I know that many of you are like Lin Li, dissatisfied with this tax increase, but this tax is not collected, and now Chen Guo's internal treasury is empty, and Chen Guo has reached a critical moment of life and death when he looks around at foreign enemy countries." Only when the treasury has silver can it raise soldiers and protect the safety of Chen Guo, and I hope that all colleagues will work together and unite to tide over this difficult time with Chen Guo. ”

How true or false this is true, and how many people believe it, no one knows, of course, what Fan Zeng wants is not for them to believe, he is just stating why he wants to collect taxes and find a good reason for him to impose taxes!

Regardless of whether they understood the truth or falsehood of these words, the officials expressed their intentions one after another like a sunset building, and they were willing to live and die with Chen Guo. Smart people don't make themselves unhappy.

Fan Zeng said to Lin Li: "Lin Shilang, if you have this idle work, you should read less useless books and more."

Think about how you can bring taxes up. This is to save the country and save the people, and studying cannot save the country. ”

Lin Li nodded again and again.

Fan Zeng waved his hand and said, "If there's nothing to do, let's disperse!"

After the hundred officials dispersed, Fan Siyuan frowned slightly and said: "Father, is this five taxes and one too high, it stands to reason that ten taxes and one is one, this tiring policy can already make that group of people tired, powerless and unwilling, and then be instigated by the King of Han to build momentum for him." At that time, we will guide him a little more, and then put all this tax increase on him, how high his popularity is now, and how many people will want him to get out of Chen Guo at that time. Why do you need five taxes and one tax?"

"Tired people?" Fan Zeng smiled, "Tired people are a good plan, but just tired people are worse after all, I not only want to be tired people, but also poor and weak people." ”

Fan Siyuan was a little puzzled, the tired people had already made the people of Chen State tired, and they had no time to take care of anything else, and they would be used by the King of Han again, so what was the purpose of this poor and weak people?

Fan Zeng may not want to explain too much to others, what he wants is to order and prohibit, but for his son, as long as he is willing to learn, he is willing to teach.

"It is true that the tired people can make the people of Chen State unable to be used by the King of Han, but it is also not available to us. But the poor and the weak can make them available to us. ”

Fan Zeng explained: "The so-called poor and weak people, that is, to make the people poor and weak, ten taxes and one can indeed tire the people, but it is not enough, I have calculated, five taxes and one is just the lower limit that the middle-class people of Chen Guo can bear." ”

Fan Siyuan asked: "What about the people at the bottom! The five taxes are already heavy taxes for them, and they can't pay them at all, so it is difficult to make them starve to death." ”

Fan Zeng waved his hand, asked Fan Siyuan not to speak, and listened to him, "Hungry to death?" After the people are poor and weak, whoever gives them a bite to eat will naturally listen to whom, and the food will be in our hands at that time, I will let them have food, not the Han King who wrote poems and played chess, and then I will be equivalent to controlling their lifeline, and they will naturally be used by me. Five taxes and one, tired of the people of the upper class, weak and middle-class people, poor and low-class people. The people of the upper class are tired of running for their lives and have no time to take care of others, the people of the middle class are difficult to protect themselves, and the people of the lower class are desperate to survive, and life and death are unpredictable. ”

Fan Siyuan was a little stunned, this strategy didn't know how many times higher than his own, if this was the case, he didn't have to think about it to know that in the end, those lower-class people would eventually become their pawns against Dongluo.

Fan Siyuan said with some excitement: "Father, what am I going to do?"

Fan Zeng pondered for a moment and said, "How much dirty water you can pour on him, then how much popular hearts we can gain." ”

Whether it is the tired and poor or the weak, the ultimate goal is to splash dirty water, destroy the people's reputation, and make the people of Chen State petition and invite the King of Han to go to the country.

Fan Zeng smiled: "A little unbearable?"

Fan Siyuan nodded.

Fan Zeng patted him on the shoulder and said: "Read less useless books, do more useful things, the book business can't govern the country, if you want to become an emperor, you must first be ruthless and extinguished, so why don't you die a few people, if you are so sentimental, it will be the same as your father in the future."

He can rest assured that Chen Guo will be handed over to you. ”

Taifu, the prince teacher, the future national teacher, teaches the Son of Heaven, Fan Zeng's move, as if he is already planning to train Fan Siyuan as the future lord of Chen Guo.

Fan Siyuan said in a deep voice: "I will live up to my father's high expectations." ”

Fan Zenggang wanted to leave, and after thinking about it, he said again, "It's a good thing to have a benevolent heart, but that's not the potential of a hero, at least before you become a hero, that is the potential you shouldn't have." ”

Fan Siyuan nodded solemnly.

Fan Zeng turned to leave, and whispered a word in a voice that only he could hear as he was about to go out.

Rather teach me to bear the world, and stop teaching the world to bear me.

This was said to himself, and it was also said to Fan Siyuan, but unfortunately Fan Siyuan couldn't hear it.

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In the Changle Palace, five people gathered again.

Qin Shuyu was in the center, and the other four people sat opposite each other.

This tax collection seems to be incompatible with the eight poles of the Han King, but everyone here knows that they are coming for the winter.

Qin Shuyu asked, "Chen Changsheng, how long will it take for the prince to come out?"

Chen Changsheng shook his head and said, "I don't know." ”

No one can say for sure what is going on in this secret realm, maybe it will come out tomorrow, maybe it will come out forever.

Qin Shuyu looked at Da Hei and asked again: "Death, in addition to the issuance of a tax order in the Weiyang Palace, what else is there any news?"

Death said lightly: "At today's court meeting, Fan Zeng said that now the treasury is empty, and foreign enemies are waiting, and it is the time when there is a shortage of money, and I hope that the officials and people of Chen Guo will work together to tide over the difficulties." ”

Qin Shuyu looked at Chen Changsheng again and said, "What do you think about this?" ”

Chen Changsheng didn't think about it, and said directly: "He farts!"

Chen Changsheng stayed in this Changle Palace for a long time, and it can be said that he has been a neighbor with Fan Zeng for sixty years, and he is already too familiar with him.

What is the situation of Chen Guo now, he still has a number in his heart, after all, not all of the one hundred and thirty cities of Chen Guo are under Fan Zeng's control.

Fan Zeng's words were completely fart.

Qin Shuyu did not rush to make a judgment on this matter, but said to Da Hei: "Death, you go and count all the economic situation and tax proportion of the cities in Chen Kingdom in recent years, and report it quickly, and Chen Changsheng will assist from the side." ”

Chen Changsheng and the Grim Reaper immediately received the order to leave.

Qin Shuyu said to Rong Xuxuan and Wang Xifeng again: "If you want to understand a country thoroughly, you still look at its economy, you can read the files they sent as soon as possible, and maybe you can find the purpose of their tax order." ”

Rong Xu Xuan was a little puzzled and said, "Don't you have the answer in your heart?"

Qin Shuyu said solemnly: "We can't afford to lose, so we must be prepared." The answer cannot be dismantled. ”

Rong Xu Xuan was shocked.

Qin Shuyu stood up and said, "Lord Rong, after confirming their purpose, immediately inform the Temple of Death that I am going to go out of the city and talk to General Zhang about something, although Chen Changsheng said that Fan Zeng said that there are foreign enemies around is false

Yes, but in order to prevent him from pretending to do it, I have to discuss with General Zhang the deployment of troops at the border gates. ”

"Hmm!" Rong Xu Xuan nodded.

Qin Shuyu's figure disappeared out of thin air from the main hall.

Only one of the former lower floors and the caretaker remained in the main hall.

Rong Xu Xuan said lightly: "Lord Wang, I think you should know how to do it." ”

Wang Xifeng smiled and said, "Why don't you teach me?"

Rong Xu Xuan snorted coldly and said, "I'm ten percent sure that I can kill you." ”

The smile on Wang Xifeng's face was suffocated, and it was not a good habit to threaten others with people's personal safety at every turn.

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After Dongluo was sent out of the Water Moon Cave by Chen Ba first, he did not come out of the Changle Palace. Instead, they landed in a land of abundant water and grass.

After Dongluo's careful identification, he finally knew where they were now.

Arctic savannah.

The explanation given by Xue Nianci is that the previous Shuiyue Cave Heaven was like a kite on the Shenzhou Continent, and the entrance in the Changle Palace was the kite line, and now that the kite was broken and could no longer fly, those of them who sat on the kite naturally landed. But where it is, no one knows.

The Water Moon Cave Heaven is that kite.

The meaning of these words is that the Water Moon Cave Heaven has been shattered, and even the wisp of Chen Baxian's split soul, perhaps the last trace of his wandering in this world, has been shattered together.

The fragments were scattered all over the Shenzhou Continent, and they happened to land on the extremely northern steppe.

Dongluo sat on the grass a little dazed, he still had a very important question to ask.

Dongluo muttered, "Old Chen, are you from that place?"

(End of this chapter) I want to talk about "Extinction" with more like-minded people, pay attention to "excellent reading literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find confidants~