After the disaster situation in Taean Province stabilized, the dragon boat continued south.

Half a month later, Zhang Lingyang arrived in Xuzhou, the ancestral hometown of Emperor Tai'an, the birthplace of Emperor Taizu, the founder of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

went to the imperial mausoleum to mourn the emperors of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and set up a banquet in the palace to entertain some poor relatives of 'themselves'.

The ancients said that the emperor also had three poor relatives.

Zhang Lingyang couldn't understand it before, after all, it stands to reason that if a person attains Taoism and ascends to heaven, no matter how poor the emperor's relatives are, it is important that they are much richer than ordinary people.

But when I saw it today, Zhang Lingyang finally opened his eyes.

It is said that after Emperor Taizu won the world, his relatives moved to live in the capital. Most of the people who stayed in their ancestral hometown of Xuzhou were distant relatives of Emperor Taizu, at least relatives other than Wufu.

Emperor Taizu has been nearly 200 years ago, and these people are naturally more estranged from Zhang Lingyang's 'relationship'.

can be estranged, in the end, it is also on the royal family tree, and in the final analysis, it is also a relative of the royal family.

If it sounds good, it is a relative of the emperor and the country, but if it is ugly, it is not much different from calling Hanako.

When Taizu was there, although he had already made five suits with these people, he took care of them a lot, not only exempted them from taxes, but also arranged some rewards during the New Year's holidays, and these clansmen lived quite freely.

But after the death of Emperor Taizu, who will care about these poor relatives in later emperors?

No, except for the exemption of taxes, all the previous rewards have been cancelled.

But these relatives all rely on the reward of the Son of Heaven to live, without the reward, what is the difference between their life and ordinary people?

So at the banquet, Zhang Lingyang saw this scene: wearing crumpled clothes, the men were extremely restrained, with nowhere to put their hands and feet, and they were talking pitifully, while those children, greedy for the food on the table, saliva couldn't stop flowing down the corners of their mouths.

Until Zhang Lingyang ordered the meal to be served, these children grabbed the food on the table and stuffed it into their mouths as if they had the permission of their parents.

Those men, seeing that Zhang Lingyang was so kind, also had a little less scruples, and they also followed the children to eat and drink. There were even a few ignorant adults who grabbed food with children, so that Zhang Lingyang couldn't bear to look at it directly.

However, in the end, it was his own 'clan', Zhang Lingyang was not angry, but kept ordering people to serve food on the king's table.

Fortunately, there are also sensible old people in the clan, seeing that the clansmen were rude in front of the Son of Heaven, they smiled awkwardly: "Don't be angry, these babies, all year round, can only eat a bite of meat during the New Year......"

Hearing this, Zhang Lingyang's eyes were a little gloomy.

Although these clansmen have been taken care of since the death of Emperor Taizu, they have no taxes and servitude. Even their lives are so miserable, what about the ordinary people?

I'm afraid that the people's lives will be even more difficult.

The little Fuzi who was serving on the side saw Zhang Lingyang's eyes gloomy, and thought that Zhang Lingyang was sympathizing with his clansmen, so he persuaded him: "Long live Lord, if you really don't want to go, just reward them with something!" ”

Zhang Lingyang nodded noncommittally, and didn't care if Xiaofuzi misinterpreted his thoughts.

When these people were leaving, they naturally pulled out of the palace in a cart of gold, silver, jewelry, silk and satin, and sent them to these people's homes.

Originally, Zhang Lingyang wanted to reward these beauties with a few acres of thin fields, but he didn't want the concubines such as Empress Dowager Xu and Queen Wang to know about this, and felt that as the grandmother and daughter-in-law of the old Zhao family, they naturally wanted to express something to the clansmen of the old Zhao family, so they rewarded some gold, silver and silk silk, and the other concubines saw this, no matter what the purpose was, they also donated some things.

Just like this, over and over again, the things pulled out of the harem have been filled with more than ten cars. Fortunately, however, no one came up with anything valuable.

Therefore, Zhang Lingyang did not obstruct it after knowing about it.

After all, these people are 'their own' people, and it is only right to give them something.

Even in the countryside of modern society, the clansmen in the village will come to help if there is a happy event, not to mention the ancient society where the patriarchal law is greater than the national law.

In ancient society, even those dignitaries and dignitaries, who didn't have a dozen or twenty relatives to live on them? Not to mention royalty!

So even if Zhang Lingyang is the emperor, if he doesn't save his clansmen to death, he will be poked in the back.

It has been five or six years since he came to this world, and Zhang Lingyang still understands this.

In the end, gold, silver and jewelry can't be eaten, Zhang Lingyang understands this, so according to his previous thoughts, he ordered Xiaofuzi to reward these 'clansmen' with five acres of thin fields for each family, which can also make their lives more relaxed.

After staying in Xuzhou for a few more days, these days, Zhang Lingyang personally went to his poor relatives' houses, but after witnessing their houses, Zhang Lingyang understood in his heart that although these people are still staring at the name of the royal family, in fact, in the final analysis, life is not much stronger than ordinary people.

Xuzhou is the ancestral home of the old Zhao family and a famous military location in the Central Plains.

Like other places in the Central Plains, the people of Xuzhou are not having a good time, and they are all miserable, so Zhang Lingyang directly issued an order to exempt the people of Xuzhou from taxes for three years.

Naturally, no one objected to this kind of thing, not to mention that there was no minister by Zhang Lingyang's side at the moment, even if there was a minister following, no one dared to come out to oppose it.

The emperor exempted his hometown from taxes from time to time, not only in the Great Zhou, but also in any dynasty, and it has long been a common practice.

When the emperor of this dynasty was Taizu, he directly issued a decree to exempt Xuzhou from all taxes, and it was not until Emperor Taizong ascended the throne that he began to apportionment taxes to Xuzhou, but after the death of Taizong, Emperor Gaozong issued an order to exempt Xuzhou from taxes for five years.

So repeatedly, in the Tai'an period, the taxes of the people of Xuzhou were reduced from time to time, and it became a commonplace.

So after Zhang Lingyang decreed to exempt the people of Xuzhou from taxes for three years, no one was surprised.

It's all commonplace, and who would be surprised?

Unless the brain is sick!

In Xuzhou for less than ten days, in addition to mourning the emperor's mausoleum and setting up a banquet to entertain the clansmen, Zhang Lingyang visited several people, and nothing else happened during the period.

Ten days later, the dragon boat continued its journey south, and finally arrived again in Yangzhou, the northern gate of Jiangnan, seven days later.

Maybe it was the shadow left by the last trip to Jiangnan, or maybe it was the Empress Dowager Xu, Empress Wang and others around him, this time, Zhang Lingyang did not do anything ridiculous, just stayed in Yangzhou for five days, and rushed to Jiangning, the capital of Jiangsu......