Liu Chengqian entered Liu Zhiyuan's office, only to see the two maids kneeling on the ground, hurriedly cleaning up the broken porcelain pieces on the ground, while Liu Zhiyuan stood aside, with a purple and black face, angry and angry.

Behind Liu Zhiyuan, there was an expressionless old woman, who seemed to turn a blind eye to Liu Zhiyuan's anger, listened but did not hear, was silent, clay sculpture and wood carving, as if it was none of her business. This old woman has gray hair, Liu Chengqian has seen it, a few days ago, when Liu Zhiyuan asked the guards to take him back to the state capital halfway from the execution ground, this old woman once served herself refreshments with a group of maids in the state capital compound, but at that time, she was regarded as an ordinary subordinate, and she didn't care.

Liu Chengqian couldn't help but glance at the old woman a little more, then walked slowly in front of Liu Zhiyuan, saluted Liu Zhiyuan, and asked suspiciously, "Daddy, what's wrong?" Why are you so angry? Don't be angry with yourself. ”

Seeing Liu Chengqian come in, and listening to Liu Chengqian's words of relief, Liu Zhiyuan couldn't help but secretly take a breath of anger, sat down slowly, glanced at Liu Chengqian coldly, and said in a good voice: "Let your kid be right, Hongxin's gang of rabbit cubs took people to various counties in Songzhou to preside over the repair of canals and open up wasteland, but they made things a mess, and killed several untouchables, which made the entire Songzhou people resentful, chickens and dogs jumped, and simple things couldn't be done, I really don't know how they ate dry rice." ”

"They are originally soldiers, they are only familiar with marching and fighting, they have no experience in politics, and they deal with people's livelihood affairs, but they are laymen, lack the means to govern the people, and do not know how to be tactful and flexible, and something will definitely happen." Liu Chengqian said.

"Hmph." Liu Zhiyuan listened to Liu Chengqian's somewhat complaining words, knowing that he had not heeded his warning at the beginning, so that such a consequence had occurred, and he also felt that his face was gloomy, he couldn't help but snort, calmly asked: "I heard that in the past few days, you have also taken some people to arrange the construction of canals and the resettlement of refugees in Songcheng, and there has been nothing wrong, right?" ”

"Daddy, rest assured, the arrangements are almost complete, with Zhang County's order to sit in Songcheng to command, there should be no mistake in spring ploughing. However, I don't know what happened to other states and counties. Daddy has to deal with it properly, all kinds of disputes caused by your uncles, beware of a civil uprising, which not only delays the spring plowing of the counties this year, but also makes Daddy brand a bad impression in the court. Liu Chengqian replied.

"This is still for you, Lao Tzu set up a team of supervisors early in the morning, went to various places, picketed the discipline of each county and army, don't let them shout and kill at every turn, especially Wang Zhang and Ye Renlu, one led the army to break into people's houses, blatant extortion of people's money, and one forcibly conscripted people's husbands and civil servants, killing and evading service, it is simply a king's law." Liu Zhiyuan looked at Liu Chengqian coldly and said angrily.

"Daddy, this is a palliative but not a cure, the key is that these disasters are caused by the uncles' poor handling of civil affairs, Daddy, you shouldn't have completely delegated power to them in the early morning."

"Hmph, if you don't give them power, do you want Lao Tzu to go down and do everything personally, so what is the use of Lao Tzu raising them?"

"The county orders of each county are more familiar with the governance of the people's livelihood, since Daddy wants to meddle in the government affairs of the states and counties, he should let them preside over the arrangement of spring ploughing, and let the uncles bring people to assist, let them supervise each other, and do things for the people with sincerity......"

"As soon as Lao Tzu heard the names of these county orders, he let people have a head and two big, either to ask for money or to ask for food, always saying how many people are here, where and how many refugees, all want relief from the state government, Lao Tzu is just a generational festival, and not Guanyin Bodhisattva, how can there be so much money and food allocated to them, let them govern, then don't you find your own guilt." Hearing Liu Chengqian mention the county orders, Liu Zhiyuan couldn't help but interrupt his words and complained dissatisfied.

Songcheng is a state-governed city, there are so many refugees, and the people's livelihood is so difficult, presumably other states and counties are even more serious, and it is not strange that each county has ordered to come to the state capital to ask for money and food. Today, this embarrassment in the counties is half caused by natural disasters, half caused by man-made disasters, the period of five dynasties and ten kingdoms, it is the Xiaoice period in history, affected by the climate, various natural disasters on the land of China continue, all kinds of crops are not harvested, resulting in people without hunger, wandering around, becoming homeless refugees; Man-made disasters are the constant wars, the states and towns are self-reliant, in order to raise military expenses, all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes are heavy, and the people have no way to live, so they have fled one after another or become bandits. In the past two years, Songzhou has rebelled against several Jiedu envoys, and they all took turns to raid the counties of Songzhou, and the people were even more miserable.

So, Liu Chengqian persuaded Liu Zhiyuan: "Daddy, even the refugees in the state city are so serious, presumably the counties are more serious, and the pressure on the counties will be greater, and it is normal for them to come to the state capital to ask for money and food, this kind of natural and man-made disasters, we can't ignore it, we can't save it when we die, the necessary money and food, we still have to pay it......

"Hmph, standing and talking doesn't hurt your back, you have to come out, you have to go out by yourself, Lao Tzu has no money or food, the court refuses to allocate money and food for disaster relief, do you want Lao Tzu to come out by himself?" Liu Zhiyuan interrupted Liu Chengqian's words again and said angrily.

"Daddy, we don't have to pay all the money and food ourselves, we can borrow it from the rich families in the city, today's Songzhou, the people's livelihood is in trouble, disasters are continuous, but the government's taxes are unchanged, it is still so high, the oppressed people are breathless, do you want the officials to force the people to rebel? It's time for us to reduce taxes and benefit the people, we can reduce taxes as a gimmick, let the rich families in Songzhou borrow money and grain from the government, and give them tax cuts during this summer's harvest, what do you think? Liu Chengqian didn't care about Liu Zhiyuan's interruption and continued to persuade.

"Taxation is a major matter of the imperial court, which is what you want to rise, and if you want to fall, you will fall, besides, Lao Tzu is just a generational envoy, I don't know when he will leave, why do you have to do so many things?" Liu Zhiyuan listened to Liu Chengqian's suggestion to reduce taxes, and couldn't help but glance at him indifferently and prevaricated.

"Who doesn't know that the taxes of the states and counties of the Jin Kingdom are all levied by the festivals of the states and counties to be determined, do you want to take a handful and leave?" Liu Chengqian saw that he mentioned tax cuts, Liu Zhiyuan looked at himself as if he didn't know himself, and immediately prevaricated, and couldn't help but ask with some surprise, but guessed in his heart: Liu Zhiyuan in history, but later became the founding emperor of the Later Han Kingdom, so his vision will not be so short-sighted, right?

When Liu Zhiyuan heard this, he glanced at Liu Chengqian again, and then he was silent, obviously acquiescing to Liu Chengqian's statement. Seeing this, Liu Chengqian couldn't help but be a little anxious, and persuaded bitterly: "Daddy, these taxes are taken from the people, and they should be used for the people, we can't take them lightly......"

"It's not yours, of course you won't be in pain." Liu Zhiyuan saw that Liu Chengqian was planning the interests of his old man's pocket, and his elbows turned outward, and he was angry in his heart, so he couldn't help interrupting his words again, and dropped a sentence with some displeasure, so he flipped through the official document and ignored him.

"Without these tax revenues, although we have lost some interests for a while, once we help the people of Songzhou to overcome this difficulty and stabilize the situation in Songzhou, you will definitely become famous all over the world if you are dedicated to the people and save the people from fire and water. Liu Chengqian was afraid that Liu Zhiyuan would be really greedy for immediate interests, and he would go all the way to the dark, no matter whether he would be angry or not, he would continue to understand him reasonably.