Chapter 4 Taiyi Divine Essence Pill

Huo Xian is a talent, and he is a legalist talent. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

This guy is in the same vein as Shang Ying, Han Fei, Chao Cuo, and Wang Meng, and he is a guy who only focuses on practical profits and does not care about destruction.

Twenty years ago, after being admitted to the Jinshi, others were busy drilling the camp channel to find a fat shortage for themselves, but he made a big statement in the restaurant - as a scholar, he should capture the tiger, shoot the wolf, make up for the crack in the sky, all the gold, and the fly camp dog for the children and grandchildren, I disdain it!

After saying this, he was sent to Minzhou by the Ministry of Officials to be the chief bookkeeper.

Talent is rare.

The Hu and Han people in Minzhou are mixed, the local people mostly make a living by collecting medicines, climb the mountains barefoot and walk like flying, the power of the clan is greater than the power of the government, and there will be an official who is accidentally taken by the tiger wolf in three or two days.

The government can't dig deeper, and once it is determined that the Minzhou officials were killed by the locals, as long as the government investigates it, the people will rebel.

After the rebellion, all the people went into the mountains, and the officials with high mountains and deep forests were not easy to arrest, so they could only negotiate with others, give money to appease and persuade them to go down the mountain, and no one asked about the dead officials.

When Huo Xian walked for more than two months and came to Minzhou, a very small state capital, to take office, he happened to see the Fuzun of Minzhou Qipin being hanged on the official office, it had been nine days, and the corpse had long been stinking and no one had restrained it, only an old lady of the Fuzun sat on the ground and cried, which was miserable.

The general judge of Minzhou had already gone to Qinzhou to ask for help, and it was impossible to come back without three or five months, a year or two.

Huo Xian, this guy, put on an official uniform, put his confession document at the door of the official office, and then said that the prefect of Minzhou was a remnant of the people and misled the country according to the unified voice of the local people, and according to the law, he should be beheaded!

Even if he died, he couldn't delay the execution of the criminal law, so he consulted with those clans and tribes, asking each of them to send some people to serve as officials, so that the dead Fuzun could be beheaded again.

The local clans and clans in Minzhou were very happy, and felt that the Great Song Dynasty had finally sent them officials who understood.

Everyone happily dismantled the body of Fuzun together, and then found a quick knife hand to cut off Fuzun's head and pickle it with lime spices, and then placed it in the lobby of the mansion as an ornament for the latecomers.

After Huo Xian buried the headless body of Fuzun, he revised the two tax laws in the shortest possible time.

Before him, the two tax laws of the Great Song Dynasty had never been carried out in a border state like Minzhou, and only a small amount of taxes could be collected every year, and the rest of the taxes were embezzled by the tribes and big families, and the Great Song Dynasty taxes existed in name only in Minzhou.

This time, when compiling the spring and autumn taxes, Huo Xian fully considered the interests of the clan leader and the owner of the big family, and decided to start collecting the summer and autumn taxes on all farmland in Minzhou.

Among them, mountains, ravines, woodlands, pastures, graves, and other places that were not subject to taxes before have also begun to be taxed.

The people of Minzhou were in an uproar.

The previous statement sounds very contradictory, because the head of the clan and the head of the extended family are the main targets of tax collection.

But it was beyond the expectations of all Minzhou people.

They thought that the heads of the tribes and the big families would be the first to object, and that they would continue to hang the damned tax-collecting official on the government.

As a result, the unwieldy tribal chiefs and large families unanimously agreed with this tax collection plan.

Not only did he take the lead in paying taxes, but he also coerced the rest of the people to pay taxes.

The confused people of Minzhou obediently paid their taxes under the pressure of these people, and Huo Xian specially checked and almost couldn't find anyone who didn't pay taxes.

When the taxes were paid, the clan leader and the local big family came to Huo Xian.

The guests and hosts laughed and went home.

For some reason, the matter of privately dividing the national tax, which was originally very secret, was accidentally told by a drunken clan leader.

As a result, Huo Xian was once again on the cusp of the storm, and the people of Minzhou hated to eat his flesh and sleep on his skin.

A group of people who didn't know where they came out rushed to tie Huo Xian up, and after parading around him, they dropped a cliff.

Huo Xian was terrified to the extreme when he was parading through the streets, and told everyone with tears in his eyes that he had only received a small amount of money and food, and the rest of the money and food had been taken away by the tribes and patriarchs.

He also told those people that over the years, the Great Song Dynasty had never collected a penny of taxes from everyone, and the people who really harmed the poverty of the people of Minzhou were those tribes and big families, and had nothing to do with the Great Song Dynasty government.

I don't know who told the people in the confusion that the medicinal materials they had worked so hard to collect were actually very valuable, and the extra part was taken away by the tribe and the great patriarchs.

The people saw that Huo Xian, the dog official, had been killed, and the anger in their hearts had nowhere to vent, and they didn't know who roared angrily, if they didn't get rid of the tribes and big clans, the people of Minzhou would have no way to live.

So, the furious hunters, the herb pickers, and the peasants, with their weapons, rushed to the mansions of the tribes and clans that had been high up in the past.

Such a riot lasted for more than a month, and it was not until the Great Song army stationed in Qinzhou marched into Minzhou that the riot slowly subsided.

After this riot, the population of Minzhou was reduced by 20%, and all the big clans and tribes in the territory either fled or were killed by the mob.

Their property was also looted by the mob.

Facing the bright steel knives of the army, the people of Minzhou were surprised to find that the Great Song Dynasty official who was thrown off the cliff was standing in the army with a good look, and beckoned to them with a smile.

When the head of the tribe and the people of the big family died, Huo Xian reconvened the elderly people from all over Minzhou, and re-selected the chief and the chief of grain, and he seemed to have forgotten the disrespect that the people of Minzhou had once treated him.

The first thing Huo Xian did when he took office in Minzhou from the Liupin Prefect was to abolish the two tax laws that he had compiled by himself three months earlier.

In accordance with the laws of the Great Song Dynasty, two taxes were levied again, the ban on rivers and mountains was relaxed, and the people were allowed to go down to the river to fish, go up to the mountains to hunt, and collect medicine.

And the minimum purchase price of various medicinal materials was mandatory, and for a while, the people of Minzhou discussed a lot.

At the same time, three large medicinal herb merchants from Qinzhou were stationed in Minzhou, and purchased medicinal materials in strict accordance with the minimum price stipulated by the government.

After the great rule of Minzhou, Huo Xian personally wore linen and filial piety for the previous prefect's spirit, and relocated the head and body of the previous prefect to a grand funeral.

Even so, the Minzhou chaos provoked by Huo Xian and the medicinal herb merchants, with serious casualties and serious consequences, still made the officials extremely dissatisfied, thinking that it was better to be lenient than strict with the people, although Huo Xian was a capable official, he was too harsh and vicious, and he did not have the idea of being with the gentleman and the light.

Huo Xian served as the prefect of Minzhou for 12 years...... He has never been promoted, nor has he left his post......

Ever since Ouyang Xiu told Tie Xinyuan about Huo Xian's experience, Tie Xinyuan was bent on keeping this person in Hami.

Such a talent is the Xiangguo that he desperately needs.

Only such a person can resist the coming storm with himself.

With such people to help him defend his lair, Hami's army can fight everywhere with confidence.

It is easy to get a thousand troops and it is difficult to find a general, and a country like Huo Xian will not be able to produce one in a hundred years.

Meng Yuan took his shoulder and gently touched Tie Xinyuan, who had fallen into a fantasy, and said, "Don't forget, Huo Xian is bent on wanting the gunpowder formula. ”

Tie Xinyuan said with a smile: "If you get the gunpowder formula, you must also have a suitable way of operation, you can't be invincible in the world if you get the formula."

If the gunpowder formula can be changed to Huo Xian, I think it's worth it. ”

Meng Yuanzhi said a little depressedly: "It's worthless for me to take the initiative to come over, right?" I still don't know the formula for gunpowder. ”

Tie Xinyuan glanced at Meng Yuan and said straightly: "You never asked!" ”

Meng Yuan gritted his teeth and said, "If I asked, you would say yes?" ”

Tie Xinyuan smiled: "Do you want to know?" ”

Meng Yuanzhi said with a dark face: "I don't want to!" ”

Tie Xinyuan and the reluctant Meng Yuanzhi touched a cup and said with a smile: "After the Mid-Autumn Festival, after our cavalry is trained, your army will be equipped with a gunpowder workshop for military needs, and you won't be able to do it if you want to know it at that time." ”

Meng Yuanzhi immediately smiled, touched a glass of wine with Tie Xinyuan again, and said with a smile: "This is about the same, you don't have to tell me the formula when the time comes, I only need this qualification, I don't want to know what the formula is." ”

The argument between Huo Xian and Ouyang Xiu also came to an end.

Huo Xian, who was already a little drunk, laughed miserably and said: "The Great Song Dynasty got Hehuang, the Hami Kingdom got the Qingtang Dynasty, Fu Bi has the merit of opening up the territory and expanding the territory, Pang Ji, Han Qi has the ability to discern people, Di Qing and Yang Wenguang have obtained the coveted military merits, and you Ouyang Xiu have also maintained the relationship between you and the King of Hami."

Haha, only the old man only got a head full of gorgeous hair, and being able to return to the hidden spring forest with his old wife can be regarded as an eye-opener for the gods and Buddhas.

Anyway, since the old man has become an official of the Zhao family, he has been thinking about the Great Song Dynasty all his life, and now, there is only a handful of old bones left, let's see if he can change something for the Great Song Dynasty. ”

As he spoke, he staggered up, came to Tie Xinyuan with a wine glass, took out an ancient jade bottle and put it in front of Tie Xinyuan, and said: "Sun Simiao only entered the Taiyi Divine Essence Pill refined in Yuhua Mountain after he was a hundred years old, and this is the only one in the world, exchanging gunpowder formulas with the king!" ”

Tie Xinyuan's hand that had already reached into his arms slowly withdrew, he thought that Huo Xian wanted to use himself to exchange the gunpowder formula, but who knew that he took out a nerve pill, what did he think?

A pill is to be exchanged for a militaristic weapon?

Ouyang Xiu sighed on the side and said, "The old man can be a guarantee, this Taiyi Divine Essence Pill is true."

Sun Simiao soaked it in alkali vinegar with three flavors of dansha, orpiment and realgar in Yuhua Mountain. Wuhuo training for three years to become the Taiyi Divine Essence Pill, after the Dan was completed, Xia lifted and soared, leaving only three Taiyi Divine Essence Pills, and the whereabouts of the remaining two are unknown, it is rumored that the ancestors of the Huo family got one, but I didn't expect this rumor to be true. (To be continued.) )