Spring City, Schönbrunn Palace.

The emperor and the crown prince of the Chinese Empire sat in a courtyard, placing refreshments and preserved fruits, leaving only a few eunuchs and palace maids around to serve, and the father and son enjoyed a rare moment of rest.

"Haha, as long as you give the Fuso people brown rice and pickles to eat, they will work honestly?"

Emperor Xu Muhe laughed and said:

"This Fusang people are really easy to feed, and the five princes and five people are benevolent! Take two taxes one! If our Huaxia also had this tax rate, I am afraid that our country would have been full of anti-flags long ago. ”

"That's what I said, but we can't squeeze it so hard."

Xu Shiyang shook his head and said with a smile:

"I intend to make it clear that if the cultivated land is leased to the common people, the rent will receive up to 40 percent."

The land of Donghai and Dongying provinces all belonged to Han Chinese and foreign immigrants, and although there were three million common people in Fusang, none of them had their own land.

To survive, they had to rent land for the Han Chinese or work on various state and private farms.

The agricultural tax of the common people of the empire was 30 taxes and 1 of 10 taxes for the common people, and the average tax of Han immigrants in Fusang was 500 stone per household, and the tax payment was 16 stones, 6 buckets and 7 he, and the income was 200 stones according to the maximum rent of 4 percent.

In other words, even if the immigrants rent out all the land allocated to them, they can earn a net income of 183 stone and 3 buckets of brown rice per year.

Within a few years, the immigrants were able to pay off their loans and become veritable small landowners.

"Hehe, in our empire, it's really a simple thing to get rich."

Xu Muhe said with satisfaction:

"Who is against us? All the people in the world have benefited, and my Xu family will be forever! ”

This is of course impossible.

Now is the great expansion of the empire in the rising period, in order to obtain so many benefits to satisfy all strata of society, once the expansion of the empire stops or even begins to shrink, all kinds of social contradictions hidden by the bigger and bigger cake of the expansion period will erupt.

At that time, the empire may last for more than a hundred years, but it will eventually collapse.

So Xu Shiyang will definitely not stop expanding - this is not something that Xu Shiyang can stop if he wants to.

Of course, if such a bad scenery is spoken, Xu Shiyang will not say it at this time, after all, the empire still has to cook oil for a long time.

"But there's a problem with fatherhood."

After laughing proudly for a while, Xu Muhe suddenly asked seriously:

"When exactly are you going to stay?"

The army and industry in China were all created by Xu Shiyang, and most of the policies in Huaxia were also created by him, the crown prince, in fact, the emperor was more like an executor of the prince's policies.

Therefore, no matter how much Xu Muhe wants to unify the world, if Xu Shiyang doesn't act, he can't do anything.

That's why he asked directly, which was also a kind of urging.

"When the situation in the two provinces of Donghai and Dongying stabilizes, and the field army gradually returns to China, we can concentrate our forces."

Xu Shiyang replied very calmly:

"Then as long as there is a suitable excuse, we will send troops and complete the reunification."

Of course, this had to be after his wife and children returned from Gangnam – if nothing happened in the meantime.

"I guess it should start in the second half of next year."

Xu Shiyang gave a slightly more specific timeline:

"When the time comes, Da Zhou won't give us an excuse, and we will make an excuse ourselves."

In fact, Xu Shiyang didn't want to delay this issue for too long, and now, with the pacification of the East China Sea, the expansion of the empire in the north has actually reached the geographical boundary, and further expansion can only be an indirect rule similar to the feudal Qin state.

Therefore, if you want to continue to make the cake bigger and control Jiangnan, so as to obtain the passage to the south, it is the top priority of the next strategy.

Regarding his son's words, Xu Muhe listened very carefully.

He was really concerned about this issue, because it would mean the end of his reign as emperor of the "Northern Dynasty" and his official becoming the true lord of the world.

If the Great Zhou problem is not solved, Xu Muhe will always be just an "emperor" who occupies half of the world, which is too disappointing.

"Shi Yang, I won't hide it from you as a father." Xu Muhe said softly: "As a father, I feel that if I can be the real lord of the world for the last term, I can be satisfied with my father's life." ”

"I also know that this empire was actually built by you, and the empire has always developed according to your ideas and designs."

"To be this emperor for my father is actually taking advantage of you."

"Shiyang, you don't have to worry, your father promised you here that when the world is unified, your father will sit on the throne for another five years, and then I will give it to you."

This made Xu Shiyang feel a little surprised, he thought that his father was sitting very comfortably on the throne, and he would not be able to go.

In fact, Xu Shiyang did not have any urgency for the throne, after all, the emperor's father did not create any obstacles for him.

Of course, it is not a bad thing for Dad to retire while he is alive, and it will also have some benefits for Xu Shiyang to build a new type of government in the future - at least he retires before he is too old to become deaf, and then sets the emperor's retirement period, so that the people will not be too surprised by this.

"Five years later, I will go to Jiangnan to spend my old age."

Xu Muhe didn't look at Xu Shiyang's expression, he lay comfortably on the recliner and said with emotion:

"Jiangnan is prosperous, and I have longed for it for a long time, but I definitely can't live for a long time during my reign. When I become the Emperor, it should be no problem. ”

"This empire, when the time comes, I'll leave it all to you."

……

Jiangnan, Lin'an, Wenfu.

Wen Xianggong is already very weak, he has almost not been able to go to the ground since the beginning of this year, he can't eat all day, and many times his face is pale and sweaty.

He just never cries out in pain.

The imperial doctors brought by Wen Yue from the north used a lot of methods, and even used Huang'an, but unfortunately, there was still no sign of improvement, and in the end, Wen Xianggong got tired of it and refused those doctors to continue tossing.

In his words, this is an old disease, and there will be no way to rejuvenate him.

He now just wants to spend the last days of his life with his family.

Especially several grandchildren, as well as grandchildren.

The doctor originally suggested that Wen Xianggong should recuperate, but now in this situation, they also know that the old man's time is running out, and it is better to spend the last bit of time lively.

This is naturally very much in line with Wen Xianggong's wishes, but he rarely brings all his children together, but likes to talk to them separately.

It seems that Wen Xianggong deliberately divided the children into two groups according to the camp, and if he saw Wen Zhong, he would not see Wen Ji and Wen Yue at the same time.

If he sees Wen Yue, then he will not see Wen Zhong either.

The same is true today, he sees Wen Yue and her children.