"Yes, Great Khan, attack one day earlier, and I will occupy them one day earlier, so that they will all be ours.

Kublai Khan smiled and said, "You are all wrong, since the Great Song Dynasty is so rich at the moment, why should we attack them?" Why don't you empty them out and raise me to be richer?"

"At the same time, the Great Song Dynasty has a large population, although my Mongolia occupies many territories, but I don't dare to underestimate the other party, these are all lives, and before every war, we must weigh the consequences."

"Back then, Genghis Khan led his troops to a long distance, but the opportunity is different, if we continue like this, I am afraid that there will be unexpected situations.

Someone said: "Great Khan, then what do you mean?" I'm planning to give up the Great Song Dynasty, and....

Kublai Khan thought for a while and stood up from his throne.

"We are not taking the initiative to give up the Great Song Dynasty, but we are picking a time, waiting for a more suitable opportunity, our army currently has little food reserves, and at the same time there are only one million soldiers, if the Great Song Dynasty comes to a capable general, how can we be an opponent?"

"So, what I mean is that we should not attack the Great Song Dynasty for the time being, at least until two years later, and within these two years, we will expand our troops, save enough food, and then go south in one fell swoop.

In the tent, everyone had no objections, and felt that this matter made sense, so they were doing it now. At the same time, Mongolia is not as strong as it thinks, especially with the turmoil in the country in recent years.

Kublai Khan knew that if he wanted to attack the Great Song Dynasty, he had to govern Mongolia first, and when the time came, there would be a civil strife, and even the king of heaven would not be able to do it.

Therefore, he already felt that he would attack the Great Song Dynasty three years later, destroy the Great Song Dynasty within five years, and change the name of the country to Yuan at that time.

Here in Xiangyang, Vice General Miao has already taken people to collect taxes in Xiangyang City, this tax regulation is very popular with the people, especially the people at the bottom, now he has one or two silver taxes a month, and his life is almost half better.

The major taverns, taverns, teahouses, and large cloth merchants and medicinal herb merchants lost a lot of money, and they had to pay fifty taels of silver a month, and many of them complained of misery.

Fifty taels of silver is already their income for more than half a month, and it is really infuriating to enter the pockets of the imperial court like this.

There are many people who refuse to pay this tax, but Vice General Miao has already moved his real character, and they are powerless to refute it at all, so they have to pay the money honestly.

Someone sighed: "It's not easy to make some money in a month of doing business, but I didn't expect this military camp to be too ruthless, and directly multiplied the silver taels fifty times, you say you can still stand it?" Before, it was one tael of silver a month, and everyone could afford it at that time, but now it's good, fifty taels a month in taxes, and Lao Tzu only earns one hundred taels a month, not including the wages of the guys. ”

Some people sighed: "What are you? This tax collection has changed, and there are many people who can't earn fifty taels of silver a month, and they don't even have enough before taxes, so they either close the door and don't do it, or they take out the old bottom and put it up. ”

"But after a long time, there will always be a time when the mountain is empty, and at that time, there will be no silver left, what will the whole family eat?"

Vice General Miao led people to walk in the major shops in Xiangyang City, and if anyone didn't give it, he would be fined ten taels directly, so it became sixty taels of silver, and so on, until they took the initiative to give money.

These people dare not speak out, they can't afford to offend the people in the military camp, and at the same time, the Great Song Dynasty still relies on them to protect them.

Some people also understand very well, and Vice General Miao said as soon as he left: "Lord Jia led troops to garrison Xiangyang, and he wanted to raise hundreds of thousands of people, and it was one tael of silver per person for food in a month, and hundreds of thousands of taels a month, so there was nothing wrong with increasing taxes."

There are also humanitarians: "Yes, we should understand the difficulties of the imperial court, the treasury has been empty before the war with the Jin people, and it has not been eased for many years, and now there is another Mongolian army, which is infuriating."

"It is true that money is needed to raise soldiers, and Lord Jia brought all the people outside the city and built houses, these are all money, and these craftsmen can't open the court."

"Hey, this Great Song Dynasty finally has a clean official who has been punished by the Song Dynasty, don't ask him to be honest, just ask him not to harm the people, we are already secretly happy.

Except for the rich, the happiest people at the moment are the poor, who are very happy to have less than one or two pieces of silver a month.

Someone gathered on the street and sighed, "My Great Song Dynasty finally came to a Qing official, it is this Lord Jia, the prime minister of the dynasty, you can't imagine it, there are still rumors that he is a corrupt official."

"Look, how nice it would be to get rid of our taxes all at once? Business is already difficult to do, and you can save a tael of silver a month, which is indeed a good thing!"

"Yes, yes, our taxes are gone, the taxes of the rich have been increased, and the days are getting better and better.

At this moment, the people who originally planned to rebel did not have this idea, and they found that they had wronged Jia Yidao, this is a clean official.

There is always something in life that is not what you want, and there is nothing to say.

A few days later, in the barracks, Jia Rudao looked at these white flowers of silver, and his heart was excited, and he counted them, there were hundreds of large restaurants in Xiangyang, which was five thousand taels. There are also 100 teahouses, and 5,000 taels of silver, plus cloth merchants, rice shops, and medicine merchants are 100 more, so that there can be tens of thousands of silver income a month. He said happily: "Vice General Miao, how easy can we collect this silver?" These people don't have any opinions, do they?"

"A.. Hui lords, meanly told them that anyone who refused to pay taxes would be taken directly to the barracks as a soldier for a year until the money was replenished. ”

"Well, that's a good note." Jia Rudao was very satisfied, he estimated that in this way, the tax revenue was more than before, and it was very worthwhile, because it won the hearts of the people.

"Vice General Miao, Master Jia, I am arranging a task for you, that is, you bring a thousand taels of silver, find a thousand households whose life is not easy, and then give each household a tael to know?"

"Ahh Jia Ye, why is this? It's not easy for me to wait for the silver to come!"

"This... This is called winning the hearts and minds of the people, especially the poor, who will rebel whenever they are dissatisfied, and we must win over the poor. ”

"As for the rich people, it's easy to do, they don't dare to rebel, because they have a family and a business in Xiangyang, and at the same time, even if they rebel, you see how Jia Ye and I clean them up."

"Jia Ye deserves to be Jia Ye, if you know about your humble position, you will do it." Jia Rudao was very satisfied.

Qiu was still in the next room, and seven people took turns watching her every day, and she was not allowed to do anything unfavorable to herself, nor was she allowed to leave the house to prevent escape.

Jia Rudao walked in from outside the house, ordered his subordinates to leave, and then said: "Madam, it's been a few days, could it be that you still resent your husband and me?" Do you know that the husband is heartbroken for this Xiangyang City. ”

Qiu Shi glared at him fiercely, and said angrily: "Dog, you don't come to this set, don't think I don't know what kind of person you are, you know, I can't wait to kill you at the moment." "Kill me? What's the use of you killing me? Madame, we're already in a relationship, are you sure you want to kill me? Wouldn't you be a widow?"

"At the same time, once I die, husband, what will you do in the future? And what about my father-in-law? Hehe, husband, my rights are boundless, as soon as I die, you are not afraid that the whole Xiangyang will be messed up?"

Qiu said: "Dog official, you are not the emperor, Xiangyang will be in chaos, do you think I will believe you?" At the same time, you think I'm going to get the people in trouble because of you?"

"Dog official Jia seems to say, I know that you have really attained the Tao now, but I know that you will lose one day in the future, and your fate will be worse than everyone else."

Jia seemed to say that she didn't believe it, and took Qiu Shi in her arms and walked to the bed, she struggled uselessly, and she had no blade, so she had to watch herself fall into the hands of the other party.

"Madam, I said that you should obey my husband and me, although the two of us have not visited the church, but we have already had a husband and wife matter, and even God has recognized the relationship between us.

In the early dynasty of Lin'an Xuande Palace, Wang Hai and Zhou Zheng, who returned from Lanzhu County on this day, finally came to Xuande Palace.

The two knelt down and said: "Wechen has seen the emperor, may the emperor live long live....."

"That's enough." A shout spread, and Song Duzong glared at them and said, "Two adults, do you know why I summoned you into the palace? Do you know what crime you have committed?"

They said confusedly: "Your Majesty, Weichen and the two have been working hard in Lanzhu County, and they have never done anything bad, and Weichen doesn't know what the emperor means."

"Yes, yes, the emperor, the two of them have been leading troops to suppress bandits in Lanzhu County, they are very diligent, and they don't dare to be lazy.

There was a loud shout below, these two people were so bold, they were really against the sky.

Song Duzong said: "I almost forgot, you two are traitors to Prime Minister Liu, this person betrayed my Great Song Dynasty, resulting in two million deaths and injuries, I ask you, do you feel ashamed?"

They were silent, they had already heard about it, and they didn't expect to be charged after so long, and it wasn't their doing.

"Your Majesty, we are all Qing officials, and we have never done anything bad in Lanzhu County. Don't wronged us.

"Wronged you? The two of you, in that case, can you tell me why everything was fine when Song Ci was in Lanzhu County before? Why do you wait and start rioting right now? Why is that?".

They shook their heads and said: "Your Majesty, this matter is also being suppressed by the micro-ministers, I don't know the reason, these days after the suppression of the micro-ministers, they have finally reined in, the emperor."

Zhou Zheng was directly frightened and cried, "Your Majesty, I have always been innocent in Lanzhu County, and I have never had the slightest misdemeanor, the emperor should not listen to the slander of some people and wronged us." ”