Everyone watched the prince walk out, and they all had different expressions.

The eyes of the officials of the prince's family were full of expectation and admiration, which was the totem they followed, the target of their worship, and the ideal saint in their minds.

On the one hand, they hated the crown prince, because the prince had been implementing the reform of official governance, which touched their fundamental interests, and on the other hand, they had to admit that the prince was indeed more like a great Ming monarch than the four princes.

He has an upright character, is lenient to others, strict with himself, he is diligent in government affairs, thrifty housekeeping, and loves the people like a son, from every performance when he was a child, to his various actions after he was in charge of the country, all of which show that he is the best successor to the huge empire of Daqi.

But...... His attitude was to overthrow the Qiankun Cult and reform the tax system of scholars and officials.

All of these inevitably angered the two largest interest groups in Daqi, which inevitably led to a split within Daqi.

After the prince came out to kowtow, he got up and said, "Father Emperor Mingjian, now my Daqi is indeed suffering from internal and external troubles. ”

There is a set in the emperor's words, if the prince says that what Ning Tongyi said is true, then the prince has an unshirkable responsibility, if the prince says it is not true, then Ning Tongyi is a fallacy to confuse the public, and he will be questioned immediately.

But the prince is not a fuel-efficient lamp, he did not admit it conclusively, but he pointed out the main point: what Ning Tongyi said was true, but how much was true, he did not say.

Moreover, without waiting for others to make a difficulty, the prince immediately presented a recital and said, "This is a record of what my son has seen and heard in various places after visiting everywhere these days. ”

The eunuch of the master of ceremonies took it respectfully, and then presented it to the emperor, Zhao Bairen saw that it was actually a thick booklet, and it was densely packed with words, I am afraid that there are more than 100,000 words.

Zhao Bairen only flipped through the first few pages and threw it aside, and said, "You are a prisoner, you say, what should I do now?"

The prince said confidently: "At present, the income of Daqi is tight, but the expenditure is constantly increasing, there are puppet countries and Dijon countries in the southeast all the year round, the nine underworld kings are ready to move, eyeing the northwest, there are Lingzhou civil uprisings, officials and other henchmen's troubles, the son thinks that the outside must first be peaceful, should first concentrate on solving the problem of civil revolt and corruption in the government of officials, only by refreshing the rule of officials, reforming the tax system, and increasing income, can there be more money to pacify the people! The people are safe, the world is safe, and the world is safe! ”

"Hmph! I'm afraid the third brother is talking about a fool's dream!"

Dare to interject at this time, there is no one else, only the fourth prince Zhao Liexian, he stepped forward and took the initiative to fire, which means that the four princes and the crown prince began to go into battle shirtless and tore them in front of them.

The fourth prince stepped forward, he kowtowed to Zhao Bairen, and then said to Zhao Hanqing: "Dare to ask the third brother, concentrate on solving the civil uprising, how to solve it, where is the money? Refresh the rule of officials, how to refresh it, how to reform the tax system, how long will it take, and when these problems are solved, the daylily will be cold! At that time, will there be time to suppress the civil rebellion, and will it be time to deal with the demon king?"

Zhao Hanqing said with a cold face: "Things have priorities, and it's better to do a little bit than to do nothing." ”

The fourth prince sneered and said, "The current situation is urgent, and the so-called urgent matter should be followed, and special measures should be used at special moments!"

Zhao Bairen asked, "Oh, what's the matter?"

Zhao Liexian had obviously done his homework, and he said eloquently: "At the moment, the treasury is empty, and if you want to raise funds, you must find a way to raise funds. ”

Zhao Bairen was overjoyed and said, "Okay, this method is good!"

Zhao Hanqing said coldly: "My son has objections!"

Zhao Bairen said: "What objections does the third child have?"

Zhao Hanqing said: "Father, at this time, we should take a two-pronged approach, on the one hand, we should rectify the rule of officials, open source and reduce expenditure, and on the other hand, we must re-measure the acres of land and eliminate the maladministration of the field!"

After saying this, everyone was in an uproar.

To put it simply, in order to pay less rent, tenant peasants put their acres of land under the doors of cultivators and aristocratic officials who do not need to pay rent, and this is equivalent to blatant tax evasion, and what does it mean to measure the acres of land? In the hearts of the people, they are like mirrors, and there are some lands under the doors of every household that are cleverly seized and the origin is unknown, and as long as a person pops up to shout grievances in the street when he goes to thoroughly investigate and measure, then the fun will be great, and once the name of the stealing is verified, it will be light.

And who is this prince in front of him? This is the iron-faced and selfless holy prince! I don't dare to go up to the prince's mansion to plead!

Why?

The prince eats the simplest three dishes and one soup every day, and the robe is not changed once a year, and the princess repairs it by herself if it is broken!

Such a prince, do you dare to go to his house to intercede?

I'm afraid that I won't investigate it immediately, chop it and feed the pigs!

Such a prince is very loved by the people and middle and lower-level officials, but many wealthy nobles regard the prince as a devil!

Before Zhao Bairen could speak, Zhao Lie sneered and said, "Okay, the enemy is current, the third brother seems to want to make trouble with us first!"

As he spoke, he said to Zhao Bairen: "Father, this is a self-defeating road, you can't do it!"

Zhao Hanqing knelt in the hall, he said in a deep voice: "Father, the Hades King will come to the world, it will never be tomorrow, the catastrophe is coming, and it will not be at the moment, we still have a little time, this time is the time for us to solve internal problems, but if we don't seize this little time, once we miss it, then it will be too late to regret it...... Dangerous!"

Zhao Lie immediately stepped forward to fight in the ring, he also knelt down, kowtowed, and said: "Father, the emperor! Now is the time to raise heavy funds first, first to help the victims, in order to appease the hearts of the people in the world, and then to cancel the reform, with the hearts of hundreds of officials! In this way, the people of the world are at peace and all officials are at ease, so that we can unite and fight against the demon king together!"

Zhao Bairen perked up when he heard this, and said: "Oh, where does this fundraising money come from? Those rich businessmen, hmph, are all iron roosters, and they should all be killed! However, if you want to take it by force, then it will not work, otherwise the world will be in chaos!"

Zhao Lie first said confidently: "The minister has a plan, which can solve the danger of the emptiness of the treasury!"

Zhao Bairen said: "Oh? ”

Zhao Lie first said: "There are no more rich and noble people in the world than many cultivation sects, they sit back and enjoy their success, and collect financial resources, this people should rise up in response to them, and they should be allowed to pay!"

Li Chengfeng gasped when he heard this: Is this Fourth Prince really in the same group as the cultivation world? This autumn wind has hit the head of the cultivation sect? Isn't the head of the sect going to blow up this guy's head?

Zhao Bairen also gasped, and he hesitated: "This matter...... I'm afraid it won't work, right?"

Zhao Hanqing stared at Zhao Liexian and said coldly: "If the fourth brother can persuade the cultivation sect to send money for disaster relief, the third brother is willing to make compensation to you!"

Zhao Lie snorted first, and he said proudly: "Let them pay for nothing, even ordinary people are unwilling." As the saying goes, if you want to take it, you must give it first. The word "giving" in the world is "giving!"

Zhao Bairen said curiously: "What does the cultivation sect want?"

Zhao Lie said first: "Simple! Two words: autonomy! The cultivation sects each have their own sphere of influence, divide their sphere of influence and hand it over to them for the autonomy of each faction, so that where there is a popular uprising, let them deal with it themselves, the imperial court has less expenditure to do, and gets rid of a big burden, why not?"

After saying this, the officials of the four princes and the family all applauded, and they should continue to be peaceful.

But the officials of the prince's family were all furious!

The crown prince Zhao Hanqing looked at Zhao Liexian in shock, his eyes were like knives, his voice was like iron, and he said word by word: "Fourth brother, this is your way?!"

Zhao Lie said proudly: "That's right! Just as the so-called bell unlocking must be tied to the bell! This method can ensure that I have no worries for a hundred years!"

Zhao Hanqing was furious, he was furious and said: "Fart! Fart!!Fart!! you are a traitor!

As he spoke, he knelt down and kowtowed heavily to Zhao Bairen, and said angrily: "Father, this plan is absolutely impossible! This will certainly lighten the burden for a while, but in this way, all the sects and factions will be like warlords, and countless independent small kingdoms will be all over the city overnight! The people will be attached to the various factions, and after a long time, they will only know the sects and not the imperial court! When the time comes, the binding force of the imperial court on the various factions will disappear completely, and the various factions will definitely attack each other in order to obtain more land and population! From then on, there will never be peace in the world! This is a plan to dig one's own grave, Father Mingjian! Mingjian!!"

Zhao Bairen's face was cloudy and uncertain for a while, and he hesitated.

A fierce quarrel began in the court again, Li Chengfeng watched coldly from the sidelines, although he was a cultivator, but he knew that according to Zhao Liexian's strategy, Daqi would indeed be able to solve his own problems in the shortest possible time.

But this is tantamount to drinking water to quench thirst, this is not solving the problem, this is throwing the problem to the cultivation sect, and it is also throwing power to the cultivation sect.

The plan of the four princes is not to swing a knife to cut at the cultivation sect, this is to send a knife to the cultivation sect, no, it is to send Shang Fang's sword to the cultivation sect!

Although each faction has its own sphere of influence, taxation and local governance are the work of the government, and even some of the businesses done by each faction have to pay taxes to the local government.

However, if each faction is independent and autonomous, then the government will become a part-time worker for each faction and completely become a lackey of each faction.

And since then, the most important measure of the strength of each faction has become land and population, because as long as each faction continues to expand its sphere of influence, their land and population will naturally continue to expand.

As long as you think about it with your toes, you will know that at that time, there must be various factions attacking and fighting each other, and there will be no inch of land in the world that is a paradise, and every place where there are people will fall into war!

This will be the end of Daqi, and it will inevitably be a disaster day for the people in the world!

This...... I'm afraid it's a catastrophe more terrible than the Demon King's incarnation!

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Dazhang, can you make up for the previous debt......