Not to mention the beacon fire that will be ignited again in Youzhou, Mi Zhen here returned home and brought Ma Qiang's words to the two brothers.

"Taxes can also lead troops?" Mi Fang looked at Mi Zhu in disbelief, hoping that her brother could tell her the mystery.

Mi Zhu closed his eyes and thought for a while, and finally took a long breath and said, "Ming Gong wants to collect industrial and commercial taxes, and he is unwilling to disturb the people, that is, he wants to collect taxes from those big businessmen and powerful people."

But these people are rich and powerful, and they can even recruit soldiers and horses to fight each other at any time, if you don't have soldiers and horses in hand, I'm afraid you won't even be able to see the account books, and you can't let a tax regulatory bureau mobilize local garrisons every day, right? ”

"Then I can still lead soldiers? That's great! Ming Gong is wise!! Mi Fang's hands danced happily, and she was about to jump.

Unlike the elated Mi Fang, Mi Zhu had a gloomy face, he kept walking around with his hands behind his back, and Mi Fang and Mi Zhen couldn't understand why his brother was so worried.

"Brother, didn't you say that the Tax Supervision Bureau is a good place, why do you have such a face now?" Mi Fang couldn't help it and asked.

"I thought that although Ming Gong established the Tax Supervision Bureau, he would also move slowly and gradually implement the business tax, but now that he is ready to let the Tax Supervision Bureau set up soldiers and horses, it can be seen that Ming Gong is preparing to implement tax reform quickly in a short period of time.

As the saying goes, if you are rigid, it is easy to break, in this way, you, or our Mi family, will inevitably offend all the powerful and powerful people in the world, and I am worried about this. ”

Collecting taxes is robbing money, Mi Fang naturally understands the truth that he will offend people, he scratched his head and said, "Then I won't go?" ”

"No way!"

"No!!"

Mi Zhu and Mi Zhen shouted together, the brother and sister glanced at each other, and Mi Zhu smiled and asked, "Little sister, why do you think it's impossible?" ”

Mi Zhen didn't twist either, and said directly, "The second brother is the general's courtier, how can he not move forward despite difficulties?"

What's more, according to what my brother said before, after the general prepares for the successful reform of business tax and property tax, he will gradually reduce the poll tax and land tax, which is a matter of great benefit to the world. ”

Mi Zhu stroked her beard and nodded approvingly, "Little sister understands righteousness, not bad!" ”

Mi Fang saw Mi Zhu praising Mi Zhen, and continued to ask, "But didn't my brother say that this would harm our Mi family?" ”

"Blessings and misfortunes, if the general is a ungrateful monarch, I am indeed worried that one day our Mi family will be thrown out as a scapegoat to vent the anger of those powerful people.

But the general is a person who values love and righteousness, and for so many years, except for the two ladies, he has never touched her, in order to let the two ladies give birth to their eldest son, in order to repay the kindness of the people of Dasong Village in the past.

Therefore, although you will be jealous of the tax bureau, the more grievances you receive, the greater the general's grace will be in the future. ”

Mi Fang nodded as if she didn't understand, since the eldest brother and the younger sister said that it was okay, then it would be fine, as long as they could lead the troops.

Mi Zhu watched the second brother and little sister leave the study, he closed the door and continued to think.

Although in front of his younger siblings, he expressed his belief in Ma Qiang's character, but history proves that Liu Bang, who was the most righteous in Pei County back then, will also pull out his sword against his former brothers for the sake of power and the safety of the world.

"The relationship between our Mi family and the general is still a little lighter..."

In fact, in order to strengthen his relationship with Ma Qiang, Mi Zhu has already accepted a concubine from the Red Star Camp, not that he doesn't want to find people from Dasong Village, but there are too few people in Dasong Village, and he can't find a suitable one at all.

Mi Zhu thought about it while began to flip through the correction documents, and at this time, the housekeeper knocked lightly on the door and said, "The master of the family, the general's mansion sent someone to send a wedding card." ”

"Wedding card?"

Mi Zhu opened the door and took a look at the wedding card, and saw that it was Ma Qiang who was preparing to accept Diao Chan as the third lady and invited Mi Zhu to go to the General's Mansion to drink the wedding wine.

It stands to reason that concubines can be omitted, but after all, Diao Chan is the first woman to be included in the backyard by Ma Qiang except for the Qingcheng sisters, and the Qingcheng sisters also want to take this opportunity to say to the public that the Lu family does not have the idea of occupying the backyard of the General's Mansion.

From the heart, Qingcheng naturally does not want Ma Qiang to have other women, but as Lu An in Qingzhou often said in the telegrams, the Ma clan has too few people, and it must be spread out as soon as possible, Ma Qiang has insisted for so many years for her, and should not hinder it anymore, but should take the initiative to help Ma Qiang expand the backyard, so as to stabilize his position in Ma Qiang's heart, after all, jealousy is five out of seven.

If Ma Qiang knew that his father-in-law was thinking about himself like this, he would definitely be excited to help his good father-in-law find a few more mothers-in-law.

Mi Zhu put the post on the desk, and then took out his calendar to look at his work schedule that day, just as he was flipping through it, Mi Zhen came in with a maid with a chicken soup and said, "Brother, you taste it, this is the perfect chicken soup I learned to boil, the second brother drank it and said it was delicious, let me give it to you to try." ”

As she spoke, Mi Zhen put the chicken soup on the table, and then saw the invitation on the table, and couldn't help but exclaim, "The general is going to accept the head of the mink?" Will there be new plays in the theater after that? ”

"The two ladies are also doing things now, and the general doesn't like to confine women in the backyard, I think there will be."

"It's so good~ I also want to come out and do things after getting married in the future, just like Sister Linzhi."

Mi Zhu paused suddenly, and then looked up at his little sister carefully, only to see that his little sister had long skin like jade, eyebrows like moths, apricot eyes and red lips, although she was young, she could already see that she was a beautiful embryo.

"Little sister, I asked you something, and you will reply to my brother after thinking about it."

"What's the matter?"

"What do you think of Ming Gong?"

"Ming Gong became famous as a young man, suppressed thieves, leveled the yellow scarf, defeated Dong Zhuo, helped Han Fu, and was proficient in the scientific method of Qimen, he was one of the best heroes in the world!" Mi Zhen said, her eyes lit up, which girl is not pregnant with spring, Ma Qiang's resume is indeed very competitive in the marriage and love market in the late Han Dynasty.

"That's... If you have the opportunity in the future, are you willing to marry Ming Gong? ”

"Ahh Brother, what nonsense are you talking about? I knew that I was amused, and I made soup for you, and I left! ”

Looking at Mi Zhen's blushing face and leaving, Mi Zhu stroked his beard and smiled, he already knew in his heart, but this kind of thing was not something that he, a courtier, could do.

Forget it, let's take one step at a time, drink the chicken soup boiled by my little sister first, and there will be no chance to drink it in the future.

When he took the first sip, he only felt a cold current from his mouth and tongue to his head, and then rushed out to the sky, and then rushed down violently, rushing towards the tailbone, as if he wanted to dig out the soul of the whole person.

Burst!!!

Dead second child, no wonder I want my little sister to send this soup, this is to kill my brother and usurp the family business!!