Seeing Zhang Xianling's stunned appearance, Liu Chengqian wanted to laugh a little, after Zhang Xianling escaped from eating deflated, a pair of old eyes were slightly confused, like a thirsty fish, slightly open his shriveled mouth, and he didn't know how to prevaricate.

Liu Chengqian put away his smile and said with some seriousness: "Of course, these landlords in the city, if they are knowledgeable and not embarrassed us, the official will still think about their interests, and plan to plead with the Jiedu Embassy to reduce their taxes to twelve taxes and one next year, which is much more preferential than the current eight taxes and one." ”

When Zhang Xianling heard this, he seemed to have been beaten with chicken blood, and he was busy and energetic, looked at Liu Chengqian, and asked excitedly: "What Master Liu said, but is it true?" ”

"Zhang County Order, do you think this official is joking?" Liu Chengqian asked with a smile.

Originally, in the troubled times of the five dynasties, in order to feed their own private army, the feudal towns and towns set their own taxes under their own rule, and Songzhou was no exception, and the taxes were set to eight taxes, so that the people of Songzhou lived in hardship and hardship, and when they encountered a slight natural disaster, the crops were not harvested, and they were forced to be displaced, so that the refugees in Songzhou were repeatedly banned, and they also went up the mountain to be a bandit, and the refugees and bandits in Hutou Mountain were a living example.

Therefore, Liu Chengqian wanted to persuade Liu Zhiyuan to implement various tax reforms in Songzhou, which would be slightly beneficial to the people of Songzhou, give them a little respite, and activate the vitality of the life and production of the people of Songzhou, but he never found the opportunity to speak.

Now, taking advantage of the opportunity to blackmail the lords and clans in the city and hand over the land, Liu Chengqian took advantage of the situation and said what he thought in advance in public, so that the landlords in the city were profitable, and he was not so resistant in his heart, and he willingly handed over that part of the land, which also stabilized the people's hearts and achieved the effect of killing two birds with one stone. He brought Zhang Dongping's army over, but it only played a role of urging and threatening, and he didn't really want to use force against them.

After listening to Liu Chengqian's words, Zhang Xianling knew that he was Liu Zhiyuan's son, and he would come forward and beg for a tax cut, which would definitely get twice the result with half the effort, so he happily agreed to Liu Chengqian, and personally went to persuade all households in the city to hand over the excess part of the land.

Because Liu Chengqian promised to implement tax cuts in Songzhou, the big landlords and big families in the state, after some calculations about the gains and losses, saw Liu Chengqian with a team of soldiers and servants, on the grounds of maintaining law and order and protecting the good people, patrolling around the state city all day long, staring at the families in the city, those big landlords, etc., like wolves, seeing the cold eyes of those soldiers, they felt frightened, and they were under pressure, so they had to hand over the excess part of the land on the last day of the specified period, one after another, hesitantly.

With good land and good land, coupled with encouraging refugees to reclaim barren mountains and wasteland, and resettle the people, it seems to be much easier, Zhang Xianling for a few days, it seems to be much younger, personally go to the countryside, arrange for the public servants, register and make records, and divide the land for the refugees.

Zhang County Ling was originally a mediocre person, with the strength of the family, sat on the Songcheng County Order, in the past two years in Songcheng, under many constraints, has been doing nothing, the errand sent by the state government, originally planned to be a monk for a day to hit the clock, Yang Fengyin to deal with things, now with the help of Liu Chengqian, from the hands of the big families in the city, pulled out so many good fields, let him settle the refugees, relaxed, high-spirited, change the previous depressed state.

Looking at Zhang Xianling's shouting in the fields, commanding the officials, dividing the fields, burying stones and driving piles for the land boundary, looking like an old man and about to do a great job, Liu Chengqian couldn't help but think: In fact, there is no difference between mediocrity and non-mediocrity, but too many external conditions have hit his enthusiasm, making him unintentional and mediocre, everyone has the heart of serving the country and the people, but the general environment has restrained him and made him fall astray.

Originally, the matter of dividing the land was his own business, but now he was rushed to do it by Zhang County's order, Liu Chengqian became a person who stayed out of the matter and had nothing to do, Liu Chengqian had to take Huang San, Zhang San, and others, and instructed some stronger refugees to use local materials and build thatched huts on some highlands outside the city, so that these refugees could temporarily have a place to live and settle down, so as not to sleep on the streets all the time.

Zhang San and others once built thatched huts in Hutou Mountain, and under their command, in less than three days, they built a lot of thatched huts like mushrooms inside and outside the Song City, and resettled most of the homeless refugees in the city.

After resettled the refugees in the city and gave them the land, they also had to seek to buy their grain and spring seeds before the summer harvest, Zhang County's order to raise donations in the city was very limited, and those large landlords in the city had just endured the pain and cut out part of the land, and they were not willing to donate again, Liu Chengqian had to take out some of the money privately, and purchased some grain and spring seeds from the merchants of the Tang Kingdom, plus the part of the grain allocated by the state, barely able to cope with the summer harvest.

Of course, Liu Chengqian is not so tall as to selfless dedication, the part of the gold and silver he gave out is still recorded in the account, and when the refugees have a harvest, they will be repaid in installments, but he did not stipulate the repayment period, when there is, when it will be returned, which is equivalent to an interest-free loan in later generations.

Compared with the division of fields and land to divide grain, communication canals, but it is more difficult, these canals are in disrepair, except for the field section of the big family, there is a slight geographical advantage, sparsely repaired part, the others have been abandoned for a long time, and even some of the slopes of the mountain fields, even the ditch is not, had to be re-excavated, there are fewer tools such as shovels and hoes in ancient times, and the people of this era, hungry lost their spirit, and started to work, the enthusiasm is not high, and many construction periods have been delayed.

Seeing that the spring ploughing is imminent, those laborers are still slow, and some of the overseers are anxious, and they can't shout, scold, and urge those who repair the canals, Liu Chengqian once suggested that Zhang County ordered that the construction of the canals should be managed humanely, and corporal punishment could not threaten these laborers.

Liu Chengqian saw that the progress of repairing the canal was indeed a little slow, and he was afraid that he would miss the spring ploughing time, so he had to implement the canal sectional contracting system, and those who completed the project ahead of schedule would have additional food rewards, and the method of rewards should be used to increase their enthusiasm for work, and those with insufficient tools should work in two or three shifts, and the tools should be used in turn, so as to make full use of manpower and tools and improve work efficiency.

Sure enough, after Liu Chengqian's rearrangement and adjustment, the process of repairing the canal was much faster, and because these refugees, in order to get the limited food prize, they had already gone crazy to compete and excavate, and it was no longer a problem to complete the project ahead of schedule.

Looking at the refugees who were scrambling to be the first, for these prizes, Liu Chengqian couldn't help but shake his head and sigh, is this fame and fortune fishing people's hearts? These refugees are in the whirlpool of fate, and they have to struggle desperately for this little bit of profit, which is really pitiful.

Liu Chengqian felt that he was a little despicable and dirty, and took advantage of the embarrassment of these unfortunate poor people, and took the opportunity to lay a little bait, so he drove them to rob and compete with each other, but for the sake of spring ploughing, he had to do this kind of behavior, which was also helpless.

Finally stayed up until the end of the evening, Liu Chengqian took Huang San and others back to the state city, and then instructed Huang San and others to go back to the wine shop before returning to the state government alone, to meet Liu Zhiyuan, report on his work in the past few days, and plan to talk to him about the tax reduction in Songcheng.

However, before Liu Chengqian entered the palace, he heard Liu Zhiyuan's angry roar, accompanied by the sound of breaking things, and it came out of the government in the distance.