Last time, it was said that the angel asked Liu Bei to hand over three million money to go to the post.

One stone of rice (millet) is only more than 200 yuan, which will take 50 years to pay off! And even without eating or drinking! Can you do it for 50 years? Liu Bei was very skeptical about this.

Liu Bei looked at his teacher Lu Zhi, and then at Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun, and secretly guessed in his heart how much money they needed to pay to sit in their current position, and how much they had paid before. Where did they get the money?

The more Liu Bei thought about it, the more chilled he became, and the more he thought about it, the more desperate he became: This is the Han left by Gaozu?

Lu Zhi looked at Liu Bei's face turned blue, thinking that Liu Bei was sad because he couldn't take out this huge amount of money, because Liu Bei was his student, and he had a general understanding of Liu Bei's family's situation, and he knew that Liu Bei was very poor before.

So Lu Zhi comforted Liu Bei: "Xuande, if you can't get this money, I'll help you with it as a teacher first." ”

Although Liu Bei really can't take out so much money at once, plus the patriarch Liu Yuanqi and Zhang Fei, he should still be able to take it out, and Anxi County is in Changshan, and Changshan businessmen Zhang Shiping and Su Shuang will also help him. It's just that Liu Bei doesn't know how to repay someone else's favor. What if you get promoted? How do you make up the money in the back?

Liu Bei said to Lu Zhi with a bitter face: "Student...... Students can't afford it. Speaking of the back, Liu Bei lowered his head embarrassedly.

Lu Zhi knew that Liu Bei had just entered the officialdom, and he didn't know anything about it, and as his teacher, he should teach him. It's just that this method is really not very glorious, relying on the gray area, although the whole court does this, but I still feel embarrassed to say it openly and honestly in front of everyone present.

So Lu Zhi said apologetically to Huangfu Song: "Yizhen, you guys go in first, Xuande and I still have some things to deal with." ”

Huangfu Song also understood, took Zhu Jun and He Meng, and led the angel into the backyard, ready to catch the angel.

After Huangfu Song and the others left, Lu Zhi said to Liu Bei: "Silly boy, are you afraid of relying on your money, and you don't know when you will be able to pay back this money?" ”

Because in addition to Liu Bei's own brother, who was his own teacher, Liu Bei also relaxed his vigilance, as if he had returned to his student days, and nodded to the teacher very honestly.

Lu Zhi smiled lovingly and said, "What a good boy! In the future, you must always maintain this original intention! ”

Liu Bei heard Lu Zhi's exclamation, and felt very uncomfortable, it seems that he guessed correctly, the teacher and they ...... Liu Bei didn't dare to continue thinking about it, and if he continued to think about it, he would become slandering the teacher, which was a big rebellion!

Seeing Liu Bei's ugly face, Lu Zhi knew that his students must have thought of the bad aspects, so he immediately straightened his face and reprimanded: "What do you want?" ”

Liu Beicheng said with trepidation: "Students don't dare! ”

Lu Zhi taught: "Listen well to the teacher!" When you entered the army, according to the laws of the Han Dynasty, you were already exempt from tax exemption and forced labor. But when you become an official, you and your family will be exempt from taxes. Do you know what that means? ”

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Liu Bei is not a stupid person, he woke up to Lu Zhi a little: even his own family members are exempt from taxes, which means that his servants, tenants, etc., do not have to be taxed? Then buy more people yourself, won't you be able to make money just by lying at home? It is true that you don't need to exploit the people to get rich quickly, but the official has made the people his own private property, so what about the taxes of the big man? And then the current emperor came up with such a strange way to increase the revenue of the treasury by selling his official beard?

Liu Bei scoffed at this ridiculous idea in his head, but the reality seems to be really like this, just like the "vicious circle" that his fourth brother said. In order to pay for the officials, the officials had to keep expanding their ranks of domestic servants. And when the state has fewer people to collect taxes, there will be fewer taxes, and it can only come up with such a contemptible way to get back the taxes that should be collected from the officials.

Lu Zhi saw that Liu Bei still had a dark face, and he probably guessed Liu Bei's thoughts. He sighed in his heart: Isn't the idea in Xuande's heart his original idea? But the rule of the Han Dynasty exempting officials from taxes had been implemented long before he joined the imperial court. The officials of the entire court are the beneficiaries of this rule, even if the emperor wants to abolish it, he is afraid that the people below will carry the burden together, not to mention himself who was still a rookie in the official team at that time? Later, Liu Hong also came up with the regulations for selling official beards, forcing himself to follow the crowd.

But it is precisely because of the existence of the official tax exemption clause that Lu Zhi and his courtiers, who have big hearts in their hearts, did not join forces to oppose the regulations on selling official positions and lords promulgated by Liu Hong.

Lu Zhi thought about the past, and his mood suddenly became very low, because he found that he had been in the officialdom for so many years, and he had long forgotten his original ambition, and he was thinking more about himself, his family, how to keep his position, how to gain more power. Although he has not become the same as He Jin and them, only themselves are left in their eyes, and there are no more big men and no people in the world. But from his young self, he has long been 108,000 miles away.

Alas! The edges and corners of Xuande's body, one day, will always be smoothed. Thinking of this, Lu Zhi was in a bad mood, so he didn't care about his students anymore, turned around and walked in the direction of the back office.

Liu Bei looked at the teacher's lonely back behind Lu Zhi, and his heart was empty, and the reality further hit his desire to dedicate his strength to the world of his ancestors.

Liu Bei remembered the conversation he had with his fourth brother when he was at a loss about the crusade against the Yellow Turban Army. He remembered that the fourth brother said to himself at that time: "The world is not surnamed Liu." At that time, he was a little touched, but afterwards Liu Bei thought that his surname was Liu, and his body was flowing with the blood passed down from his ancestors, so he had the obligation to dedicate his strength to the world of the Liu family.

But now that he has just begun to see the threshold of officialdom, he found that it was so rancid inside, and Liu Bei felt at a loss again: Is the surname Liu still in this world?

Guan Yu saw that Liu Bei had been looking at the direction of the back office and was stunned, thinking that Liu Bei wanted to go in to participate in the reception banquet, so he opened his mouth and reminded: "Big brother, there will be no place for us inside, let's go back." ”

Zhang Fei also persuaded on the side: "The second brother is right, we have to hold our own banquet and drink three cups for the eldest brother to become An Xiwei." Speaking of drinking, Zhang Fei was in high spirits and began to dance.

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