Of course, Zhao Junsheng will not let others seize the handle, and the procedure that should be taken must be followed, Hua Mulan is right, even if an ordinary person commits a capital crime, if he wants to carry out the death penalty, he must report to the relevant yamen of the imperial court for approval.

However, the trial of Kou Qianzhi is to be done on the side of Youzhou, and he will judge how he should be judged as the assassin of Youzhou, and after the judgment, he will write to the relevant yamen of the imperial court, and wait for the approval of the relevant yamen before execution.

"I know what you said, how could I not follow the rules and wait for permission to enforce it? I said that if I want to follow the rules, I have to give an explanation to the families of the three slain soldiers and my comrades in the army, as for the court side······ It's not something I can control! ”

While the two were talking, Dongfang Chen walked in and bowed to Zhao Junsheng: "I've seen the envoy!" ”

Zhao Junsheng sighed: "I know that Mr. Dongfang must have come to blame me, and he shouldn't ······."

Dongfang Cheng hurriedly said: "The envoy misunderstood, although he is a disciple of the master, he has always advocated the rule of law in the next step, and he is neither pleading with the master nor blaming the envoy in the next step, he just wants to visit the master in the cell, and please ask the envoy for permission!" ”

Zhao Junsheng clenched his fists and said: "Mr. Dongfang is bright and fair, I will admire it!" Even if it is an ordinary death row inmate, family members can also visit, this is human nature, is it normal for General Ben to treat Mr. and Kou Guoshi differently? The gentleman just went to visit the prison."

"Retire next!"

Zhao Junsheng didn't know what Dongfang Chen said to Kou Qianzhi in prison, only that Dongfang Chen acted as if nothing had happened after he came back, and assisted him in handling military and political affairs as usual.

That night, Zhao Junsheng found Dongfang Chen, the two sat opposite each other, Zhao Junsheng couldn't help but ask: "In the matter of Ling Shizun, Mr. Dongfang doesn't blame me?" ”

Dongfang Chen asked rhetorically: "Why do you blame the envoy?" ”

"After all, it is General Ben who insists on handling it in accordance with the law, if General Ben fights for one eye and closes one eye, Ling Shizun is only afraid of returning to Pingcheng with Cui Hao at this time, if someone on the court wants to take the opportunity to fall into the well, Ling Shizun is only afraid that it will be really fierce and auspicious, is it that Mr. has no guilt for General Ben at all?"

"Hahaha······" Dongfang Chen laughed, drank a glass of wine and looked at Zhao Junsheng and said: "If Shizun dies in a personal vendetta, as a disciple, he will definitely avenge him, but if Shizun dies in the Fa, he has nothing to say, and he is convinced!" As a normal person, Zai Xia naturally resents the general's actions, but it is more gratifying! If the general is extrajudicially gracious, although he is grateful to the general, he will be even more disappointed, this is not the master in my heart! Besides, the general is not able to decide the life and death of my master, and this matter has to be decided by the imperial court in the end. ”

Zhao Junsheng got up and bowed to Dongfang Chen: "Mr. understands the righteousness, Zhao admires it!" ”

One day later, Zhao Junsheng was promoted to the court to try the case of Kou Qian's murder of three border patrol cavalry, and at the same time to hold him and Cui Hao accountable for fleeing the battlefield in Liaodong without authorization, which attracted a large number of people to watch, and Kou Qianzhi confessed to both cases.

After three days, Zhao Junsheng was promoted to the court again, Kou Qianzhi did not make a defense, and Zhao Junsheng sentenced Kou Qianzhi to be beheaded and reported to the imperial court for approval.

After the trial of the case, Kou Qianzhi was taken into custody, but Hua Mulan came to bid farewell to Zhao Junsheng.

"Brother Junsheng, the Right Wing Army has been living in Youzhou for more than ten days, the soldiers have rested, and the injuries of the wounded are almost better, we must set off to return to Pingcheng!"

Zhao Junsheng was very interested and didn't say anything to stay, "When do you plan to leave?" ”

"Tomorrow, leave early in the morning, now that the weather is starting to get cooler, we must return to Pingcheng before it cools down significantly!" Mulan said.

Zhao Junsheng nodded: "Okay, I asked you to prepare half a month's worth of food and grass should be enough for you to arrive in Pingcheng, I will give you a part of the property and baggage captured from the Yan army, and you can take it away tomorrow!" ”

Hua Mulan hurriedly excused herself: "I will accept half a month's grain and grass, and I don't want the property and other baggage, you can leave it all, there are still many places in Youzhou that require a lot of money, and you can't do without property anywhere!" ”

Zhao Junsheng waved his hand: "No, Mulan, listen to me, some of these properties were captured by the Youzhou Army, the Right Wing Army and Gao Xu's 4,000 men and horses, you can do it or not, but what about the soldiers of the Right Wing Army?" They still have small families, and the families of the fallen soldiers also need pensions, what would you think if you didn't give them some rewards and their families? Listen to me, you can accept it with peace of mind, although human life is not worth much in this year, but you must not let the soldiers under your command chill, what should be rewarded is still to be rewarded, and what should be paid should also be compensated! ”

"Okay, I'll take it!"

After Hua Mulan received the grain, grass and property sent by Zhao Junsheng, she asked the quartermaster to load the grain and grass into the truck, and then rewarded all the property to the soldiers according to the merit, including those soldiers who died in battle, but she herself did not leave anything behind.

After sending away Mulan and the Right Wing Army, Zhao Junsheng began to formally govern Youzhou, on the one hand, sending officials to supervise the collection of taxes and the sowing and irrigation of crops after the autumn harvest; On the other hand, it has sent people to strengthen border defense and armament.

For the tax collection after the autumn harvest is the top priority of the Youzhou Thorn Mansion in government affairs during this time, for more than ten days, Zhao Junsheng got the relevant reports of various counties and counties, and it is very easy to collect taxes on the rich, nobles and families, after all, there have been lessons from the past, even the Xianbei nobles like the Baba family have been eradicated because of their refusal to pay taxes, and other nobles and scholars dare not confront the Thorn Shi Mansion because of some taxes.

Zhao Junsheng was puzzled by this and asked Pei Jin: "Why has it become easy for nobles and nobles to collect taxes, but it has become difficult for ordinary people to collect taxes?" ”

Pei Jin replied: "The nobles and the family are afraid that the gains will outweigh the losses by resisting the payment of taxes, so they naturally dare not fight against the government with their lives; Some of the ordinary people who refused to pay taxes did not have property and food, and they couldn't pay it if they wanted to, and some of them found that the officials sent out by the government were not as brutal as before, so they were bold and thought that they would rely on it! ”

After listening to this, Zhao Junsheng thought about it for a while and asked, "Have you thought about how to deal with this situation?" ”

Pei Jin said: "Now my tax law in Youzhou is to pay taxes only if there is land and shop industry, and those who have no land and no shops and industries do not pay taxes, and pay according to the number of acres of land and shop industry!" Most of the ordinary people who could not afford to pay their taxes were affected by the disaster, and the idea of subordinates and other officials was to exempt the affected people from paying taxes; The way we deal with it is to forcibly withdraw the money and grain from the hands of creditors, and the government is the biggest creditor of the people, and the people's income must be paid taxes first, and then they will pay off the debts, and if anyone refuses to pay, they will be punished! As for some other people who have food and money at home but want to rely on it, after finding out, they will be directly arrested and put in prison, so they don't worry about him not paying! ”

After hearing this, Zhao Junsheng nodded in agreement: "This method is okay, just handle it according to this!" ”

He thought about it and said: "We still have a lot of wasteland in Youzhou that has not been reclaimed, I think so, allow those people who have not yet had fields to open up wasteland, each household is allowed to reclaim a maximum of 20 acres, the first three years are not taxed, and then taxes will be collected after three years, each household with less than 20 acres of land can also go to the wasteland, until they have 20 acres, but they are not allowed to occupy more, no matter how much they are reclaimed, the government will not recognize it, only issue a 20-acre land deed!" ”

Pei Jin said: "In this way, wouldn't those families with more than a dozen people per household still have to go hungry and can't pay taxes? ”

"That's because they're all huddled together!" Zhao Junsheng said, instructing: "In this way, the Assassin Mansion will issue another household registration order, and adult men must separate their families after they get married!" ”

"Separation? This ······ It seems to be feasible, and it is similar to the Han Dynasty's Tui En Order, which can not only avoid the problem of overpopulation and insufficient food for the family, but also solve the problem of the family becoming larger and larger over time! ”

Splitting up the family also has the advantage of solving the problem of excessive concentration of a large amount of land and property resources by those big families, so that the family and the nobles can fall into each other's affairs.

After this decree was promulgated, those who became relatives of the nobles and the children of the scholar clan, especially the concubines, clamored all day long to find the elders to divide the family property, and did not give up without dividing the family property, and made noise all day long, and also went to the official government yamen to fight a lawsuit, which can make the lords and the patriarchs of the family very angry, it is all a matter made by the Assassin Mansion, if the Assassin Mansion does not issue such a decree, where do the children below dare to make trouble?

In the era of the patriarchal system, the decrees of the government could not even control the families, and the heads of the clans had the right to decide the life and death of the clansmen, but at this time Youzhou was different from before, under the auspices of Zhao Junsheng, the decrees of the government could even be managed in the village, and the clans wanted to set up a private torture hall and privately decide the life and death of the clansmen has become a thing of the past.

After the implementation of Zhao Junsheng's separation system, many families and noble families on the border of Youzhou were fragmented because of this division system, the fields were divided by the children, the property was also divided, and the patriarchs also lost the qualifications to engage in a big speech, and they could no longer control the life and death power of the clansmen as before.

On this day, Pei Jin reported to Zhao Junsheng with a happy face: "General, the amount of taxes collected this time is extremely considerable, guess how much more is collected than in previous years?" ”

"You say, General Ben can't guess!"

Pei Jin stretched out a finger: "Increase taxes ten times more!" ”

Zhao Junsheng gasped, "Doesn't this mean that those great families and noble families in the past concealed most of their property?" ”

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