The eunuch bowed and retreated, and it didn't take long for a large stack of folds to be brought up with a few eunuchs.

Fang Hongtian casually picked up a piece of music and looked at it, Empress Song glanced at it on the side, and said in a low voice: "Your Highness, this is very good." ”

Fang Hongtian nodded and said, "If you want to be the king of the fief, you must know how to govern the fiefdom, you can answer me a question, 'Chao' Prefecture and Hengzhou know, right?"

Fang Ling Lisuo replied: "'Chao' Heng two states are located in the south of our country, the two states are adjacent, located in the plain area, more rivers and less mountains, the largest river is called Wujiang, the river road derives many ports, since ancient times the land is fertile and abundant, is the grain, cotton, aquatic products and various native products trading and distribution center, when ‖the two states have more talents since ancient times, the literary style is very strong, since the founding of our country, each generation has a lot of scholars and scholars from the "tide" Heng land, there are also many places of interest and historic sites......"

Fang Ling talked eloquently, and the courtiers nodded secretly when they heard it, they didn't expect that the eldest prince who had never been out of the cold palace actually knew so much about all the states in the country.

Xue Zhiqiu and the others also lit up when they heard this, and their worries couldn't help but be less, and Queen Song's face became even more gloomy.

Fang Hongtian didn't expect Fang Ling to have some insight, so he continued: "The governors of Chaozhou and Hengzhou wrote at the same time, saying that there have been a large number of river thieves on the river recently, these people are familiar with water 'nature', familiar with the terrain, and always steal the goods of civilian ships, but it is not easy to capture, if this is your territory, how should you solve this solution?"

Xue Zhiqiu and the others were secretly shocked when they heard this, this question seemed ordinary, but in fact it was a great test of ability, because many river thieves in the two states of "Chao" Heng have heard of it over the years, and they have been exterminated endlessly, and there are many river thieves who occupy the lake and live in the lake, set up as a water village, although the two states have troops, but the helpless river thieves know how to retreat, and the water "nature" is excellent, it is not easy to completely solve this problem.

The foreign envoys listened to it and saw that the test that Emperor Chu said was by no means a formality, but a real test.

Fang Ce's brows furrowed when he heard this, obviously knowing that this question was very difficult, and the courtiers were also whispering, guessing the answer of the eldest prince.

Su Guifei was born in everyone, she was known as a talented woman in her early years, not only familiar with poetry and books, but also dabbled in local customs and customs, Fang Ling grew up under his teaching since childhood, and Dong Canghu was the deputy commander of the imperial front, often guarding outside the palace when he was in the court, and every time he came back, he would tell him what he had heard in the court, so Fang Ling knew everything that had happened in the court over the years, and he was also familiar with the situation in various places.

Hearing Fang Hongtian's question, he just thought about it for a moment, and then replied loudly: "Since ancient times, there have been river thieves in the two states of 'Chao' Heng, and they are inexhaustible, and they are reborn, but as long as you pay a little attention, you will find that every time the river thieves are prosperous, it is a dry season. ”

As soon as these words were said, the courtiers couldn't help but whisper, and some even began to recall whether the trouble of the river thieves every few years was related to the drought.

I only heard Fang Ling continue: "The reason for this is that there are many fishermen in the state of taxation, and there are many taxes paid every year, and the final income is very small, and every time the drought is serious, the harvest of fish and rice is reduced, but the taxes are not reduced, so everyone is forced to fall into the grass, just to make a living." ”

Hearing Fang Ling's words explain the reason, the courtiers only felt that this analysis was reasonable.

But Fang Ce suddenly said: "Then what do you mean, isn't it the official 'forced' the people? The fault is actually the fault of the father? Is it that the father is not considerate of the people?"

Seeing that the crown prince suddenly spoke, and the words led directly to Emperor Chu, the courtiers were all silent, and did not dare to have the slightest expression of "interjection".

Fang Ling looked at him neither humbly nor arrogantly, and said with a faint smile: "The two states of 'Chao' Heng have always been extremely oily and water-heavy, up to the prefect, down to the small officials, all kinds of taxes are constantly being paid by the people, many of which are private taxes that the imperial court does not know, but the prefect either does not know, or just turns a blind eye, just because the more these taxes, the better the political performance." Therefore, the fault is not that the father is inconsiderate of the people's feelings, but that the officials below concealed the ‖ when the two states were the hometowns of the literati, and they ruled the state purely by literature. ”

Fang Hongtian couldn't help but nod when he heard this, and asked, "So, what about the law of governance?"

Fang Ling smiled slightly: "The strength of the country lies in the people, the people are rich, the country is safe, and the people are poor, the country is 'chaotic', and the root cause is the people's heart." If you want to eliminate the pirates, as long as you "disturb" the people's minds, reduce taxes, and send supervision officials to regularly visit the tax matters, once it is found that some officials have set up private taxes, they will be punished immediately, and their crimes will be made public. Of course, there are some river thieves who make a living by collecting money and live in the water village, for these, they can first adopt the method of recruiting security, and lure them with official positions, if not, then mobilize 100,000 soldiers and horses from the surrounding areas, train the water army by the lake, and do the thing of attacking the village.

Before Fang Hongtian asked the question, the courtiers were not optimistic, they only felt that the eldest prince would definitely make a fool of himself, who knew that he made a few words lightly, not only hit the nail on the head, but also solved this problem with both civil and military use.

Many adults in the audience were dumbfounded when they heard this, and even Cui Yiyuan frowned slightly, in fact, about the thieves in Heng Erzhou, Fang Hongtian always asked the courtiers for their opinions, but no one could think of a perfect solution, but it was solved by a big prince who lived in a cold palace and had never gone out, which was undoubtedly a slap in the face to these ministers.

Xue Zhiqiu and the others were even more bright-eyed, no one expected Fang Ling to be so smart, Fang Ce also frowned, and couldn't find the words to refute Fang Ling for a while.

Wei An watched this development with interest, and he didn't expect that this great prince really had some ability, but the appearance of a talented prince in the Chu State was the last thing he wanted to see.

Empress Song's face also changed, Fang Ling's reaction was completely different from what she imagined, and she also understood that Fang Ling's proposed governance plan was very perfect, even Fang Hongtian couldn't help but nodded, a hint of brilliance flashed in her eyes.

She hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, since the eldest prince is so smart, why don't you come up with a few more questions to test him? ”

Fang Hongtian nodded, picked up the other folds and looked at them.

Fang Ling snorted secretly in his heart, but on the surface he seemed very calm, since he had already stood here, he had already been mentally prepared for the worst, but if he wanted to use a few problems to govern the country, he would be stumped, then this calculation was wrong.

Fang Hongtian flipped out a fold and stepped back and asked, "Do you know Baizhou?"

Fang Ling replied: "Baizhou is located in the west of our country, many mountains and hills, the land is vast and sparsely populated, the material is extremely underdeveloped, there is no official road, no matter in and out of the mountain road to enter, its people are fierce, the people are soldiers, three hundred years ago, the ancestor emperor to capture Baizhou, it took a year, this is included in the territory. ”

Fang Hongtian bowed slightly: "In the past few years, I have sent seven prefects to Baizhou, whether it is a scholar or a member of the imperial court, once they get there, they can't handle the situation, and even often violate the customs and taboos of the people, resulting in a series of troublesome things, what can you do to solve it?"

As soon as everyone heard this, they all knew that the matter of Baizhou was indeed a difficult problem, if there was no military attache guarding there, I really didn't know what the 'chaos' would become, but I didn't know what Fang Ling could do?

But Fang Ling smiled slightly and said, "Why didn't my father promote the powerful local officials of Baizhou to the prefect?"

As soon as he said this, everyone couldn't help but be stunned, and Fang Hongtian also frowned and said, "Promote local officials?"

Fang Ling said with a smile: "The 'chaos' of Baizhou is nothing more than the word 'xenophobia', the people are fierce, and they naturally don't like to be controlled by outsiders, but if the local officials are promoted and rewarded, they are familiar with the local customs, and they are grateful for the gift of their father, so they will naturally manage Baizhou very well." And with this promotion, other local officials will also do their best to strive for rewards, and everything will naturally be peaceful from top to bottom. ”

Everyone sighed lightly when they heard this, and secretly said that these four or two thousand catties are really powerful, and the focus of the problem is removed from the people, and put it on the officials, the local officials are familiar with the situation, and if they get a rich reward, they will try their best to repay the emperor's favor, which does make sense logically, and governing the local area with the local area does have a surprisingly difficult effect.

Seeing that Fang Ling had solved the problem in a few words, Queen Song's face was a little unsightly.

Fang Hongtian was a little interested, and successively opened the folds and asked questions, almost every question would be a headache, in fact, these twists and turns were not left at random, but the problems that Fang Hongtian had not thought of a solution after reading them in the past few days.

However, once any problem was raised, Fang Ling would immediately find a solution after thinking about it for a while, and these methods were all unique and refreshing.

Everyone was secretly surprised when they heard this, and they were impressed by this big prince, and those foreign envoys also paid attention to this big prince who had only heard of it, and Queen Song's expression became more and more ugly.

In fact, it was precisely because Fang Ling was in the cold palace that he had not been exposed to too many political things, so his ideas were not fixedly constrained, coupled with the control of political talent given by this royal bloodline, everything was like a bamboo, and the problem was solved.

Not to mention that everyone was shocked, Fang Hongtian's heart was also extremely shocked, it was the deep hatred of love, he had always been haunted by Su Guifei's rebellion, and he deliberately forgot about this son, but he didn't expect that when he saw it now, he was so radiant, and the problems for him were actually solved.