When Boss Kong heard Xingguobo's new tax rate, he had a feeling that he could see the moon when the clouds were open. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

His home is not far from the county seat of Jinghai County, and he went to the county government to ask. Although a hundred of those officials were reluctant, they still did not dare to lie and challenge Xingguobo's new tax system. The yamen said that in the future, the county government will not collect the field endowment, and the future field endowment will be the seven liters per mu collected by Xingguobo.

When Boss Kong heard the words of the servant, his heart was stable, and he knew that his good days were coming.

Boss Kong found the only young man in the village who had a good relationship with him and asked him to help him settle the score. Look at how much grain and land you have to pay after the implementation of such a low new tax rate for Xingguobo.

The young man had learned arithmetic for a year as a child and was able to settle simple accounts. He looked at Boss Kong with a smile and said, "Boss Kong, your family's good days are coming!" ”

Boss Kong laughed and said, "Help calculate, how much land can you save?" ”

The young man scratched the ground a few times with a branch and said, "Now Xing Guobo has given seven liters and one he, and your family originally had to pay six stones for twenty acres of thin fields, but now you only need to pay one stone and four buckets of fields." Your family can produce an extra four stones and six buckets of rice and noodles every year! ”

Hearing the young man's accounting, Boss Kong was immediately happy, and almost jumped and walked home.

There are four stones and six buckets of wheat all of a sudden, how do you make Boss Kong unhappy? His family now earns only six stone of wheat a year, and Xingguobo's new tax rate has almost doubled his income all at once.

You won't be hungry anymore when you don't get green and yellow, you can eat meat during the New Year, and you can pull a few feet of cloth to make new clothes. I can even afford to raise a son!

Boss Kong felt that the life that had been gray and dull and desperate a few days ago suddenly became sunny, flashing with scorching vitality, which made people indescribably happy.

On July 16, Boss Kong heard that Xingguo Bo had come to Jinghai County to collect taxes in person under the guard of honor. Xingguobo's guard of honor entered Master Cao's courtyard, and obviously, the gentry who had never paid taxes in the past now had to pay the enslavement silver.

I am afraid that it is because of the full amount of taxes collected from the gentry that lonely peasants like Boss Kong can greatly reduce taxes.

The rumors spread by those scholars, saying that Xingguo Bo collects taxes on the gentry and wants to raise taxes on the small people, has sinister intentions. Boss Kong figured out what was going on at this time, and he hated those readers who were full of hypocrisy.

If you believe the words of the scholar and believe that Xingguobo is going to push himself into a dead end and collide with Xingguobo's honor guard, isn't that going to be killed by Xingguobo's own soldiers? Not to mention that he died in vain, he also wronged a blue sky lord like Xingguobo. If he really became like that, he would be scolded by other farmers for decades after his death.

Fortunately, I was not stupid and did not believe the lies of the readers. Now, the tax officials of Xingguobo are publicizing the new tax system village by village and making things clear.

On 16 July, Boss Kong and other peasants who had benefited from Xingguobo's taxes traveled two miles together in order to kowtow to Xingguobo. They knelt down at the gate of the Cao family's courtyard, and found that more and more poor peasants had arrived in the four fields. Half of the villagers of Zhaojia Village came, the poor men of Hanjia Village came, and the farmers of Yangjiawei also came, and everyone knelt happily on both sides of the road, wanting to kowtow to Xingguobo.

After a long time, Xingguo Bo wore a suit of armor and walked out surrounded by guards and honor guards.

As soon as Xing Guobo came out, he heard hundreds of poor peasants on both sides of the road shouting: "Lord Qingtian! ”

"Li Qingtian!"

"Li Qingtian!"

The shouts converged and spread far away.

The peasants, who were no longer under the weight of taxes, threw their heads on the yellow earth and expressed their gratitude to Xingguobo.

The ragged Boss Kong didn't dare to peek at Xingguobo, and only slammed his head on the ground. After a few kowtows, his tears flowed out. He cried and shouted loudly: "Xingguo Bo, Da Qingtian!" ”

"Lord Qingtian!"

"Lord Qingtian!"

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On July 19, in the Imperial Palace of the Forbidden City, the Great Emperor was holding a court meeting with his ministers.

"If you have something to do, you have nothing to do!"

He Shishou, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, walked out with a tooth tag in his hand and sang loudly: "The minister has something to play!" ”

"Play!"

"The traitor Li Zhi held a drill in Tianjin, demonstrating the attack on the city wall of the capital division in front of the civil and military officials of Tianjin. His rebellious intentions are clearly revealed. If the saint can no longer be angry at the crown and spread the word to start a war, then there will be no king's law in the four seas, there will be no loyal ministers in the Shilin, and the hearts of the people in the world will be lost. ”

The ministers have been besieging the Son of Heaven for a month, and they all seem to be a little tired at this time, so they don't say much about it one by one. He Shishou made the meaning clear in a few words. As soon as he finished speaking, the ministers all raised their cards and sang loudly: "We will second!" ”

"The minister seconded the proposal!"

Zhu Youzhen looked at the ministers who were frozen in the hall and sighed.

For more than a month, the ministers at the court meeting did not talk about other things, and just grasped Li Zhi's problem. Of course, such a meeting will not affect the handling of other government affairs. For other things, the ministers can send the recital to the cabinet for drafting, and then let the Son of Heaven approve it in the Qianqing Palace.

The court meeting was originally intended to provide a channel for officials to communicate face-to-face with the Son of Heaven.

But now, the ministers have made up their minds and only said one thing on this face-to-face communication channel, and that is Li Zhi's matter.

A few days ago, news came from Tianjin that Li Zhi was holding a drill in Fanjiazhuang to attack a four-zhang high wall. It is said that with the cooperation of Li Zhi's artillery and gunners, it only took half a day to beat the tall and thick city wall into a mound of earth and easily take it. According to the official statement of Tianjin, under Li Zhi's new tactics, the soldiers on the city walls defended with swords were simply targets.

This news made Zhu Youzhen a little panicked.

Isn't the four-zhang high city wall the city wall of the capital? Li Zhi is threatening to attack the capital.

Li Zhi's wings have been completed, and Zhu Youzhen has no way to suppress him. Now he can even threaten to attack the capital. If there were no border troops out of the city and Li Zhi's soldiers and horses in the field, tens of thousands of Beijing battalions might not be able to hold the capital.

The statement that the civilian officials are at war with Li Zhi is really on paper and makes people laugh.

But these civil officials were copied by Li Zhi's hometown, and they didn't think about anything else. The civil officials called for a crusade against Li Zhi every day as soon as they went to the court, and after saying these words, they stood quietly in the court and said nothing else. Today, He Shishou took the lead in saying that he wanted to crusade against Li Zhi, and after the civil officials shouted second, they collectively fell silent again and did not say a word.

Zhu Youzhen looked at the civilian officials who threatened him with silence, and suddenly became angry. He slapped the armrest of the throne and shouted, "Crusade! Crusade! Talk about crusade all day long! What crusade to take? Do you want to take the lives of your old men to fight against you? ”

Zhu Youzhen stood up indignantly and shouted loudly: "Retreat!" ”

In the shocked eyes of the civil officials, Zhu Youzhen's face was full of anger, and he walked out of the Imperial Palace with his back hand.