Li Xiaofei was caught by the soldiers guarding the ferry, and the soldiers quickly searched his body, and found a few letters and a few gold leaves on him.

The leader first put the gold leaf in his pocket, and then opened the letter to take a look, only to see that the first line was written "Minister Li Xiaofei to His Majesty Emperor Zhu Yaoshi's eldest brother".

Originally, this letter should not have been written in this way, but Li Xiaofei expected that if he wanted to enter the city to see Zhu Yaoshi, he would have to use such a method, and it was too formal, where could these soldiers understand it, and they couldn't take the gold leaf and chop him up and throw him into the river.

Li Xiaofei had been unhurried and half-squinted to see how these people moved, and sure enough, the leader took the initiative to ask: "Who are you, why do you have a letter to our Emperor's Majesty, I am a fellow villager with the emperor, say, what is your purpose?" ”

Li Xiaofei didn't open his eyes: "Your Majesty the Emperor can hear the news that my Li Xiaofei is coming, you will all have a heavy reward!" Let's go and report it."

The leader's voice became louder: "Lao Tzu is also a character who travels from south to north, although he has never read a book, but you can't deceive me, use this kind of boring news to disturb Your Majesty, I can't keep my head!" ”

A person next to him came over: "Captain, why don't we take him into the city as a spy." Looking at him, he doesn't look like a liar, how can there be such a bold liar. ”

The captain wanted to stab Li Xiaofei and swallowed these gold leaves, but there were dozens of people around him, and the points were not enough, so he would definitely be sued for swallowing alone, so he named a few honest soldiers to escort Li Xiaofei into the city to the palace gate and hand them over to the internal guards.

Li Xiaofei was escorted all the way to the palace, and the captain of the guard was the person who had followed Li Xiaofei from Liyang, and looked around Li Xiaofei for a while: "Are you?" ”

"Your Excellency. This spy said that his name was Li Xiaofei," said the escort soldier.

The captain hurriedly untied the rope for Li Xiaofei: "Master Li, I'm offended, you guys have blinded your dogs." This is the emperor's good friend Li Xiaofei and Master Li, how dare you tie him up? Someone's coming! ”

The escorted soldiers hurriedly knelt down and begged for mercy, Li Xiaofei said with a smile: "Forget it, forget it, those who don't know are not guilty, not to mention that they are all His Majesty's soldiers, but they are also loyal, I think I have to reward them with some money!" ”

The captain happily made a favor: "Get up, get up, Lord Li doesn't care about the villain, you are here waiting for Your Majesty's reward and then go back!" ”

The captain took Li Xiaofei to the Taiji Hall and stopped: "Lord Li, the rules in the palace are very strict, and I can only send it here!" ”

Li Xiaofei took off his shoes, took out four gold bars from the soles of his shoes and handed them to the captain: "Thank you for your hard work, brother, if it weren't for you, I might be killed as a spy today."

The captain waved his hand: "Yes, yes, Master Li looks down on him like this!" ”

Li Xiaofei forced it into the captain's clothes: "If you don't accept it, you will look down on me Li Xiaofei, if you don't accept me, I will go in and sue you!" ”

"Gotta get it, Master Li, I'll take it, you, you still can't get rid of that kind and charitable problem!" The captain took the gold bar, tried his best to hide his joy and walked back.

Li Xiaofei climbed the steps to the entrance of the hall and was stopped by the four internal guards holding the halberd: "Who are you, you dare to trespass into the Taiji Palace!" ”

"The old man Li Xiaofei pays a visit to His Majesty the Emperor of Great Liang!" Li Xiaofei used all his strength to roar out this voice.

The four internal guards hurriedly grabbed him and dragged him out, and Li Xiaofei shouted again: "Pharmacist Zhu! Li Xiaofei is here, you don't even see it! ”

The internal guards hurriedly gagged him: "You don't want to die!" Shouting in front of the Taiji Palace, and daring to call the emperor by his name! ”

When Li Xiaofei was dragged down the last step, the door of the palace opened, and Pharmacist Zhu ran out and waved and shouted: "You can't wait to be rude!" ”

"Li Xiaofei, you want to kill me!"

The four internal guards looked at each other, but they didn't expect that the person in front of them was really the emperor's friend, so they lifted Li Xiaofei back to the palace door and put it down.

Pharmacist Zhu hugged Li Xiaofei: "Why did you kid think of looking for me!" I guess you must have given Chen Hongyi and them to be lobbyists! Right? ”

Li Xiaofei laughed: "No wonder you are the emperor, you guessed it, I am a lobbyist for His Royal Highness King Han!" ”

"Put aside the lobbyist in advance, come on, come on, my brother will take you to the court, see my civil and military officials, and then go to Shanglin Yuan to drink wine and eat meat after the court is dispersed!" Pharmacist Zhu picked up Li Xiao and flew to the Taiji Palace

"Okay, good, you are the emperor, I am here to eat your white food and drink your wine!" Li Xiaofei followed Pharmacist Zhu into the hall in great strides.

The ministers in the hall were all amazed, this scheming emperor was like a different person at this moment, and for the first time in the main hall, his face was full of pride and undisguised.

Pharmacist Zhu ignored everyone's reactions, and actually dragged Li Xiaofei to the throne, and Li Xiaofei didn't care about it, and followed him to the throne.

The ministers were stunned when they watched below, and their eyes followed Li Xiaofei upwards.

Pharmacist Zhu walked to the throne and realized that this position could only accommodate one person, and then looked at Li Xiaofei, but Li Xiaofei sat down on the steps next to the throne and turned his head to look at him: "Brother Zhu, the emperor's position is yours, what do you think I do?" ”

Pharmacist Zhu looked up to the sky and sat down laughing: "It's been a long time since I've met someone with a true temperament like you, and I'm really happy today." You might as well be in this hall, and you will tell you the purpose of your trip, and I know that you will not disappoint me! ”

Li Xiaofei stood up and smiled at the ministers: "Haha, the emperor really believes in me too much, don't hide it from the emperor and everyone, I, Li Xiaofei, came this time to negotiate peace with the emperor on behalf of King Han, this battle will only be fought in vain, and it is our people in the Central Plains and Jiangnan who suffer!" I know none of you will believe it, but I brought the prince's token as a token! After saying that, he really took out a glittering golden token from his crotch

The hall was already full of joy, and Pharmacist Zhu also shook his head and laughed: "Haha, virtuous brother, haha, it seems that you are still so stupid, it is difficult for me to believe you or not!" ”

Song Huafu, the minister, was very sober: "Slow, since the two countries negotiated peace, why didn't the national credentials be submitted?" ”

Li Xiaofei reacted quickly: "Haha, this adult seems to be unaware of the relationship between the emperor and my king Han." What would you think of me if I brought my credentials to negotiate peace? The people of the world still think that the emperor only stopped fighting and ceased under the coercion of King Han, so where is the emperor's face? ”

Song Huafu did not relent: "If this is the case, then why not submit to my Emperor Daliang as soon as possible?" But to negotiate peace? ”

Li Xiaofei shook his head and pointed at Song Huafu: "This lord knows that there are still many soldiers and horses of the big families in Jingzhou and Yizhou, and the king of my family Han gathered them to prevent them from messing around, and it took countless efforts. What's more, King Han is a former dynasty clan, and he came to vote rashly, but he was afraid that the emperor would not believe it, and he couldn't take away this city of soldiers and horses alone. My King Han thinks about the emperor, why don't you think about my King Han? ”

Pharmacist Zhu slapped his thigh again and again: "Only you can say these words, I might as well find out." Your King Han is afraid of the infamy of surrendering and betraying his ancestors because of his clan status, but he can't beat me, so he asked you to be a lobbyist. You're stupid enough to say it all, haha. However, I have made up my mind, and I will soon pour the troops of the whole country westward to level the land of Jingzhou and Yizhou! ”

Li Xiaofei sat down and looked at Pharmacist Zhu happily: "Okay, then this matter is settled." I'm going to take a good look at your next meeting."

Pharmacist Zhu and the ministers looked at each other, they thought that Li Xiaofei was going to persuade Pharmacist Zhu to focus on the overall situation of the world or recuperate with the people, or that Chen Hongyi was already recovering Jiangnan Prefecture, etc., and had prepared countless responses.

I didn't expect to meet Li Xiaofei like no one else, and he didn't even bargain, but had to watch their court.

Pharmacist Zhu was a little worried, he was already preparing to go north, and he had previously threatened to move the army westward, but he wanted to scare and scare Li Xiaofei and let Li Xiaofei expose the bottom line of peace. I never thought that Li Xiaofei was so heartless, but now he is passive.

Li Xiaofei looked at them again: "Your Majesty, everyone, if it is inconvenient for you to discuss matters here, I will go out and wait for you to finish discussing delicious meat and wine!" ”

Pharmacist Zhu smiled awkwardly: "Okay, okay, you're here." Ladies and gentlemen, today we have also discussed the matter of restructuring well, so that the envoys from the west can also see the new atmosphere of the new dynasty! ”

Zhang Pingnan comprehended and took out the new system that had been discussed and agreed upon a long time ago and read it out.

Li Xiaofei listened to the first item and began to interject again: "It is good to divide the land equally between the rich and the poor, but it is inevitably a little inappropriate to establish it as a system for governing the country. In this way, who would dare to work hard to make money early and greedily, but the money earned with blood and sweat will be shared with others, anyway, I will not do it. After a long time, the people became lazy. When the time comes, there will be fewer and fewer goods, and no taxes will be collected, and the treasury will be empty."

Jia Yuanen disagreed: "The affairs of the world do not suffer from widowhood but unevenness, the emperor governs the country with the teachings of the sages and saints, and the people must be grateful to Dade, how can they all become lazy people as you said?" You are slandering the people! ”

Li Xiaofei shook his head and smiled: "This adult is erudite and talented, but unfortunately he doesn't understand the world, and people are strong and weak." Even if you force them all to the same conditions, in a few years, there will still be rich and poor. ”

"Yes, in order to avoid the appearance of another big family to bully the people, so every three years, we will be rich and poor again!" Jia Yuanen said.

"If an adult has planted a field for three years, I have been begging for three years, but in the fourth year I can divide half of the rice. Would you rather be a beggar like me, or would you like to be a man who has been planting a field for three years? ”

Pharmacist Zhu also heard the problem, and waved his hand: "This matter of both rich and poor, you still have to discuss it, and what Li Xiaofei said is not impossible." Mr. Zhang, let's discuss the tax system again! ”

Zhang Pingnan read out the tax system again: "In the past, many tax systems of the old dynasty were abolished together, in order to avoid corruption among officials and enrich the treasury of the imperial court, the new tax system was changed to a consistent system of money for each person to pay to the imperial court every year!" Those who do business will be charged three additional business taxes! ”

Li Xiaofei looked at Pharmacist Zhu: "Your Majesty, some counties here don't have much money in the first place, if you can't get the money, how can you pay this tax?" ”

Song Huafu said: "This matter is easy to do, it is converted into goods according to the price, and whatever is produced locally, this thing will be used to deduct taxes."

Li Xiaofei smiled: "Who determines this price?" If in the first half of the year, the corn is worth three times, and in the second half of the year, it is only worth the same, is the one stone of corn handed over by the people calculated according to three times or consistently? ”

Pharmacist Zhu improvised and adapted: "Well said, I have already seen that these new systems are not perfect, and today I am just brainstorming with you to check and fill in the gaps!" I don't think it's better for you to take it back to the left and right Taiji Hall and then discuss it, and then retreat from the dynasty today! ”

The ministers also sighed, and they could not imagine that an outsider would come and completely complete the new refutation they had worked so hard to draw up for several days.

Li Xiaofei, a person who hasn't read many books, where did he know these things? Pharmacist Zhu couldn't help but be curious.

It was none other than Hongrui who taught Li Xiaofei. When Hongrui took Li Youran with him in Shou County, he was very bored, so he came to study the tax system and the military system of the imperial court at that time.

Hongrui discovered many of these drawbacks, and based on these drawbacks, she formulated many countermeasures. He deduced these countermeasures one by one, and found that none of them could fully deal with the maladministration of the dynasties.

Today, the new system taken out by the Jinling court has already been deduced by Hongrui, and the shortcomings in it have also been written down by Hongrui one by one.

After Li Xiaofei returned to Xiangyang from Tuyuhun, he stayed at home for a few days, Hongrui was worried about the future situation, so he told Li Xiaofei all the conclusions he had summarized, and Li Xiaofei actually memorized most of them by relying on his good memory.