Chapter 158: Slave Tax

The next day, the sun rises three poles.

Yang Mu woke up slowly, only feeling refreshed, comfortable and relaxed, without a trace of fatigue.

This is the effect of collecting yin and replenishing yang, Yang Mu suspects that this kind of exercise cultivated to the third level will directly make people flutter and prolong their lives.

Recalling the absurdity of last night with the queen, he also carefully smacked a few times, it was completely different from the previous blending of water and milk, he occupied a one-sided advantage, and the queen who was tactful and happy in the past begged for mercy again and again last night, and finally was tossed and fell asleep.

What do you think? You can't practice early in the morning, right?

This really made Yang Mu feel a sense of pride in his heart, and he felt that he had finally won a game, because every time in the past, it was the queen who woke up first, and by the time he got up, the queen was almost over her morning exercise.

Of course, this also made Yang Mu feel unhappy, probably because of the one-month separation, the queen's body couldn't adapt all of a sudden, and when she lifted the quilt, she could still see a trace of blood.

Yang Mu pulled a silk scarf and helped her wipe the bloodstains, and suddenly only heard the queen's muttering, and slowly woke up, full of fatigue, and saw Yang Mu reaching out, and hurriedly turned his back.

Because last night, she was tossed for a few hours, and begging for mercy didn't work, like a silky eye rolling before Mingjin withdrew the army.

After a call, Ji Ling'er, who was waiting outside, led a group of palace maids to bring toiletries, and then put a large bathtub of water.

Yang Mu hugged the queen in and soaked comfortably in the large bathtub together, while enjoying Ji Ling'er's service.

"Last night, did you say that you would have other concubines share it next time?" Suddenly, Yang Mu said in her ear.

The queen's expression froze, as if she ...... Seem...... When you really can't stand it, you said it, right?

However, what kind of fly is too ridiculous......

She didn't know that before the crossing, this fake emperor didn't even hold the girl's little hand, and usually followed the five girls to be hot, and there were many dirty and absurd thoughts in her heart, but now that she has become an emperor, she has just solved the internal and external troubles in front of her, and those dirty thoughts will naturally be realized one by one.

"Your Majesty, the concubine is really scared of the practice of collecting yin and supplementing yang." The queen said shyly.

"Uh......" Yang Mu was curious and asked, "Is there any harm to you?" ”

"Absolutely." The queen said solemnly: "If it is an ordinary woman, it is unbearable and tired, but for us who practice martial arts, it is a loss of internal breath, and if it is often replenished, it will hurt the vitality and regress the internal breath." ”

"In other words, it's okay to be picked up once in a while?" Yang Mu asked.

“……”

The queen knew that Yang Mu would not give up easily when she tasted the sweetness, but one thing Yang Mu said was right, with her current realm, it would not be a big deal to be picked up occasionally.

"What about that Miaoxi, has she been here recently?" Yang Mu asked.

"No, but ...... Which side of Jinpa, she gave it to Your Majesty? The queen immediately guessed the whole story.

Yang Mu nodded, he also understood Miaoxi's intentions, his fundamental intentions were actually to instigate Yang Mu to ruin the queen's cultivation, maybe there was a bad taste in it......

The bathing of the two lasted for an hour, and the reason was very simple, Yang Mu, who was relaxed, was extremely dishonest with his hands and feet, and this time he took revenge, until the queen disarmed and surrendered, and then took a serious bath.

After lunch, leaving a soft queen, Yang Mu arrived at Zichen Hall in high spirits.

Shen An presented a bunch of folds, a large stack, stacked on top of his desk.

These are all because Yang Mu did not participate in the early dynasty, and those courtiers left behind.

Yang Mu roughly flipped through it, half of which was an excerpt to intercede for Shen Guo, and advised the emperor to meet with Shen Guo's envoys.

"Put all these folds aside and write them down, write down the names of the officials one by one, and then let the Ministry of Supervision secretly investigate." Yang Mu said to Shen An.

"Yes, the minion obeys."

"By the way, how is the Jinyi Guard being prepared?" Yang Mu remembered yesterday's command and asked.

"The list is already on the list, according to His Majesty's orders, a large part of it is drawn from the elite of the army, and the other part is to select eunuchs from the palace and temporarily replace them."

Yang Mu nodded, this is also his order, the reason why the eunuchs are temporarily drawn from the palace is because compared to the elite of those in the army, the eunuchs are missing an object, there can be no offspring, and the ambition is smaller, and they have grown up in the palace since they were children, they can be regarded as loyal, and the relationship with the emperor is a community of destiny.

"Establish Jinyiwei as soon as possible, and work with the Ministry of Supervision to secretly investigate these officials, and after this incident, I will select capable personnel from them and grant them official positions."

"Yes!"

"In addition, send someone to inform the Twelve Ministries, and the court will be evening today."

Late dynasty?

Shen An sighed in his heart, and realized in his heart that something was going to happen, because strictly speaking, the court would be divided into the early dynasty, the middle dynasty, and the late dynasty, but for decades, the Cangguo country generally held the early dynasty, and the last time the late dynasty was held, it seemed that it was because of the discussion of the fiefdoms of King Ze and King Yi......

Shen An didn't dare to speculate, and immediately organized the manpower to go down as instructed.

At dusk, the evening begins.

This time, the main topic of discussion was taxation.

Before the Northern Expedition, Yang Mu had many ideas, including cutting taxes for ordinary people step by step, liberating productive forces, and stimulating the vitality of the whole country.

However, due to the tight time frame and the heavy burden on the national treasury, it has not been realized.

And now, Yang Mu is no longer ready to cut taxes, because the main tax revenue and productivity of Cangguo in the future will not be agriculture, but industry and commerce.

Therefore, reducing agricultural tax revenues to stimulate productivity is not a long-term national policy.

All that was needed was to reduce the number of slaves.

It is undeniable that in today's Cangguo, nearly one-tenth of the population is slaves, and most of them are young and strong laborers, and if you count the Zheng land that is about to return to Cangguo, the slave population will reach more than 200,000.

These 200,000 people are enough to raise the productivity of the entire country to a higher level.

And how to free these 200,000 slaves from the hands of the noble landlords, the best way is to pay taxes.

Not a tax cut, but a tax increase.

In the past, slaves were equivalent to livestock, and in order to prevent ordinary people from forging slavery in order to avoid the human tax, slaves were also levied the same taxes and fees as ordinary people, except that the family with a title was exempted from the slave tax.

And those who can own a large number of slaves are generally powerful families, so it seems that there is no slave tax.

What Yang Mu discussed in the evening dynasty was to levy a slave tax on the family with a title, and at the same time raise the slave tax. ()