Before the door was closed, the secret gathering was dispersed in a hurry, Yu Chaoen was still a soldier, mixed in Yang Guozhong's guards, and had passed a few streets, he broke away from the brigade, Yu Chaoen did not immediately go to implement Li Longji's order, but quietly returned to his own home, the status of the eunuchs in the Tang Dynasty is relatively high, and the general eunuchs have their own private houses, like Gao Lishi can also marry a wife and raise children, and the official worships the hussar general, so Yu Chaoen gradually came out, and then set up a house outside the palace to raise slaves.

It has been almost an hour since the end of the meeting, the fear in Yu Chaoen's heart still lingers, he found out Li Longji's secret decree, and wanted to see the content clearly through the light, Li Cong's mansion has a master of copying, and a new secret decree is in front of him at this time, changing the holy decree without authorization, this is the crime of the nine clans, but what makes him afraid that cannot disappear is that he signed a letter of allegiance and pressed the hand model,

Yu Chaoen let out a long sigh, the emperor trusted him, and faintly had the potential to replace Gao Lishi, he really didn't have to take this risk, although he often comforted himself that he took refuge in King Qing to seek a future, but he knew in his heart that if he didn't have the three thousand taels of gold, he wouldn't dare to take this step today.

Yu Chaoen locked the door and wrapped himself in the three-bed quilt, but the chill oozing from his bones still made him tremble, even the bed trembled, his heart was full of contradictions, whether to denounce or not to denounce, he had already made a big rebellious move, even if he denounced, Li Longji would not forgive his betrayal, and it also involved the prince, and it was very likely to kill him; But if he doesn't report it, Li Cong will be defeated in the future, and he will also die.

Yu Chaoen pulled his hair in pain, he hated why he accepted Li Cong's bribe in the first place, it was too late to say anything now, three thousand taels of gold bought everything from him. Even life,

Early the next morning, when the sky was bright, Yu Chaoen opened the door, his eyes were bloodshot, and his steps were extremely heavy, he found a confidant, handed him the secret decree and a gold medal in his hand, and said in a hoarse voice: "Within ten days, hand over this secret decree to the hands of King Guangping of Anxi." ”

watched the figure of his henchman disappear into the snow. Yu Chaoen suddenly wanted to call his henchman back, and his lips moved. But in the end there was no sound, at the moment. He couldn't hold it anymore and collapsed on the snowdrift, burying his head deep in his knees

Anxi Qiuzi, Li Long's secret decree has been passed to the hands of the king of Guangping. He had just been renamed Yu a few days ago, but the new secret decree ordered him to be the envoy of the Tang Dynasty plenipotentiary to Daqin to negotiate the matter of pinching the Great Eclipse, Li Yu was very confused, it was early winter, and the road to the Western Regions was full of ice and snow. Even caravans are not passable. How could the emperor let him do it at this time? With doubts. He immediately went to find his master Li Mi to discuss.

After Li Mi was appointed as the judge of the Anxi Jiedu Mansion, Li Qing wrote again that he was the school inspector Langzhong. At the same time, Zhang Xun's appointment as the governor of Anxi Jiedu Prefecture has also come down, and at this moment, these two high-ranking civil officials in Anxi are discussing the issue of taxation of immigrants in the yamen.

At present, there are 80,000 households of immigrants in the area of broken leaves, and because of the winter temporarily stay in Shazhou, Qiuzi, Bawan City and other various diversion points of immigrants are not less than 100,000 households, not only government organizations, more are spontaneous to come, the great success brought by the first batch of immigrants strongly tempted the landless peasants everywhere, the early Tang Dynasty uniform land system is 100 acres for Ding men, 80 acres for Ding women, but in fact it has never been granted, most of them only get more than 10 acres, after a hundred years of land annexation, it is already enviable to have three or five acres of land in hand, More landless peasants rented the land of the big landlords and became tenants and even slaves.

However, the land granted in Anxi is a real 100 acres, fertile land, abundant water sources, although the road is far away, but it still has a strong attraction to tens of millions of landless peasants, originally forced by the government, gradually, after the autumn harvest in September, a large number of Central Plains farmers sold their family property, replaced it with carriages and grain, carrying the hope of a family to Anxi, and gave special passage to the immigration government to Anxi, so that from Chang'an to the Hexi corridor and then to Qiuzi on the official road, you can see the carriages of immigrants everywhere.

According to Li Qing's earliest plan to report to the imperial court, military service in exchange for tax reduction, but many details of the problem have not been solved, such as the tax rate, such as the difference between Ueda and Nakata, such as the tax reduction and exemption of widows and orphans, and such as the grant of land from the age of 16 to Chengding, and then the tax rate of land after land sublease, these details have not been implemented.

"I thought it was not appropriate to use all the land as Yongye Field, although it can attract households now, but after three generations, there will be no land in the hands of the government, and we must plan early."

Although Zhang Xun's level is higher than Li Yu, but Li Yu was a scholar of Hallym University, Zhang Xun did not dare to pretend to be superior in front of him, and discussed with him more as a friend, he took a sip of tea from the teacup, cleared his throat and said with a smile: "I suggest that it is still according to the method at the beginning of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, 28 points, 20 acres of Yongye field, 80 acres of mouth land, after death, Yongye field will be inherited to the descendants, and the mouth field will be returned to the government, so as to ensure that the government has a surplus of land to grant." ”

Li Mi smiled slightly, if in the Central Plains, Zhang Xun's idea is correct, but now in Anxi, how can the government worry about having no land to grant, whether it is Persia and Dashi to the west, or Tocharian and Tianzhu to the south, there is an endless land, and with Li Qing's ambition, how can he be satisfied with the nine kingdoms of Zhaowu, although Li Mi has not been in Anxi for a long time, he has already vaguely guessed the true intention of Li Qing to immigrate to Anxi,

But this can't be said, and even Li Yu can't say it for the time being, after all, Li Yu's ascension to the throne depends on him.

Thinking of this, he smiled and said: "I have discussed this problem with the general on the way to Anxi at the beginning of the year, my initial idea is the same as Zhang Changshi, that there should be a division of land and Yongye field, but the general said that these lands are reclaimed by immigrants themselves, and they should be given more benefits, he suggested that it be divided into 50 acres of Yongye field and 50 acres of convertible mouth field, when a year of soldiers, you can convert five acres of mouth field into Yongye field, so that as long as you are a soldier for ten years, this 100 acres of land will all belong to him, and your descendants can inherit it, I am more in favor of this method, which is tantamount to a disguised method of rewarding military merits. Moreover, once you make meritorious service in battle, there is another reward, so in the eyes of the peasants, being a soldier is an accumulation

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Zhang Xun was silent, this is the contradiction in his heart, he thinks that the various laws formulated by Li Qing are too biased towards military merits, as if the Qin State in the past had almost no preferential treatment for scholars. Once the taxi fails to play a leading role in Anxi, Anxi will gradually break away from the Tang Dynasty. However, in the face of the threat of great eclipse. Again, this seems to be the only option.

He sighed in his heart, and said, "What about taxes?" Master Li thinks that 30 taxes and one size fits all is appropriate? ”

"Inappropriate!" Li Mi said with certainty: "There should be a difference between the upper field and the lower field; There should be a difference in the number of children to be raised; Orphans and widows who do not have a male in their families should be given preferential treatment; and how to give preferential treatment to readers; Moreover, if a family works hard. On the other hand, if another family is engaged in business, even if the Yongye land is not recovered, the taxes he bears must be higher than that of ordinary farmers, and all these things should be taken into account to show fairness. ”

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Speaking of which. Li Mi sighed: "Taxes are not about the level. Ten taxes and one is fine. Thirty taxes or one, it doesn't matter. The important thing is to be fair, let the rich pay more taxes, let the weak pay less, so that the people's mentality can be balanced, and it will be more conducive to the governance of the government, so this tax regulation, you and I have to discuss it well, we must ask more experienced officials, and formulate a perfect law, don't think it is cumbersome, and the more detailed it is, the better. "Boiling Literature Net, 101' et

Hearing that Li Yudi's opinion finally mentioned the preferential treatment of scholars, Zhang Xun couldn't help but be happy, he hurriedly stood up and saluted Li Mishen and said: "What the public says is very true, I will strongly persuade the general to adopt it, if he still refuses, I will resign from this official and not do it." ”

As the two were talking, there were hurried footsteps from far and near, and Li Yu suddenly appeared at the door, "Master, I have something important to look for you!" ”

"Since Master Li has something, let's talk about it another day and say goodbye." Zhang Xun arched his hand to Li Yu and Li Yu respectively, and walked away quickly.

"Master, I just received a secret order from the emperor." Li Yu casually closed the door and handed the gold medal and the secret decree to Li Yu.

Seeing his melancholy face, Li Mi couldn't help but be secretly taken aback in his heart, hurriedly took the secret decree, and began to read it carefully, gradually, his brows were furrowed, and the doubts in his eyes were born, let Li Yu send Daqin, he felt incredible, now that the immigration has just started a year, all opportunities are waiting to be taken care of, and there is no strength to compete with Da Shi at all, once Da Shi fights back, all efforts will go to the water, Li Longji cannot make such an unwise decision at this time.

Li Mi carefully looked at the gold medal in his hand, it was real, and this holy decree was also written by Li Longji, Li Mi pondered for a long time, and then said to Li Yu: "This matter is a little strange, and don't worry, it is estimated that the general should come back in the next two days, let's ask him what he means." ”.

Three days later, Li Qing escorted his family and finally returned to Anxi, and Li Longji had been dealing with him for nearly ten years, Li Qing already knew him very well, once it was confirmed that An Lushan was going to rebel, he would definitely not let go of other Jiedu envoys who also supported the army and respected themselves, and would definitely take away their military power before turning their faces with An Lushan, so as to prevent them from taking advantage of the time when the imperial court fought with An Lushan, and the fisherman's benefit.

This debriefing is just another opportunity, and they will inevitably stay in Beijing temporarily, and then slowly reduce their power, and for him Li Qing, his family is the biggest weakness, if Li Longji threatens his family, he Li Qing can only obediently enter Beijing.

Therefore, take his family out first, so that he will have the initiative, of course, he will also lose, but which is more important, he Li Qing understands in his heart.

"General, I've been waiting for you for three days, and I have something important to discuss."

The situation was urgent, and before Li Qing could calm down, Li Mi hurriedly found him and handed him the secret decree again, "Look at this?" ”

Li Qing took the secret order and said to a few soldiers who were cleaning his study: "You go to rest first, and then come back tomorrow to clean up." ”

After the soldiers withdrew, Li Qing opened the secret decree and hurriedly browsed it, he did not speak, but silently returned to his seat and sat down, his fingers gently rubbed his temples, he suddenly sneered, and said to Li Yu: "If I guess correctly, this secret decree must be fake." ”

"Fake?"

"It's very simple, the imperial court and An Lushan are about to turn their faces, how can Li Longji start a war on two fronts at the same time at this time? What support does he take? Li Qing's face was filled with a look of disdain, "Besides, there is no seal on this secret decree, and it is really easy to make a fake." ”

"But if this is false, then where is the real secret? What will it be? And who did this? ”

"Humph!" Li Qing snorted lightly, and said with a hint of mockery: "Do you still need to think about it?" Naturally, it was the prince who wanted to be the emperor and almost went crazy. ”

Li Qing stood up and walked a few steps with his hands behind his back, but suddenly he stopped, turned back to Li Mi and smiled: "Seeing that the war is imminent, I estimate that the content of the real secret decree is to let the little prince return to Beijing immediately." ”

"Does the general mean to let the little prince return to Beijing or not?" Li Mi asked quietly.

Li Qing raised his head and smiled, and said, "Back!" Of course, I have to go back, and besides, I have to go with me, so as not to forget me after the little prince enters the East Palace. ”

At this moment, a soldier of his own came galloping up, holding a roll of pigeon letters, and shouted: "General, from the red letter." ”

This is a pigeon letter transferred from Shazhou, red represents urgency, Li Qing took it casually, unfolded it and read it, gradually, the smile on his face froze.

"Is something wrong?"

Li Qing threw the pigeon letter into the brazier, staring at it turning into a flame, and then turning into black ashes, and after a while, he smiled faintly and said: "An Qingzong died of a violent illness!" ”.