Li Dai was shocked by Zhou Song's words, and only after a long time did he say: "Liu Zheng is self-isolating from the gentry, he is not afraid of the gentry ......"

Zhou Song smiled disdainfully: "What is he afraid of?" What could the gentry do to him? Boss, although the lower officials are not ashamed of this Liu Zheng's character, but what Liu Zheng has done, the lower officials still admire it very much! ”

Speaking of this, Zhou Song paused slightly, looked left and right, and then whispered: "Boss, the lower official said something heart-wrenching, the current imperial court has been completely eroded, from the first assistant to the first county, there is no one in Qipinzhi County who really does things, if you want to reverse the erosive situation of the imperial court, you have to come up with another Zhang Juzheng!" ”

Li Dai's brows furrowed suddenly: "Shang Yuan, don't talk nonsense!" Be careful! ”

Zhou Song smiled helplessly: "Yes, yes, the lesson of the boss is that the lower official should keep it in mind, but the lower official is complaining in front of you, and if you change someone else, the lower official will never say such a thing!" ”

Hearing Zhou Song say this, Li Dai's brows suddenly relaxed, what is the court like now, can he Li Dai not know? But what about being clear? Just like Zhou Song said, it's rotten from top to bottom, if you want to reverse the situation in the imperial court, you have to have another Zhang Juzheng, but unfortunately there is only one Zhang Juzheng, there will be no second one, even if there is really a second one, he will not be able to sit in the position of the first assistant, or even ......

Just when Li Dai was thinking about it, he suddenly heard Zhou Song say again: "Xia Guan said that he admired what Liu Zheng did, it was sincere, don't look at everyone who said that Liu Zheng was doing nonsense, and sooner or later one day he would kill himself, but in the opinion of the following officials, this Liu Zheng is not doing nonsense, not only is he not doing nonsense, but he is also taking the right path!" ”

"How so?" Zhou Song paused slightly before continuing: "Let's put it this way, in the three hundred years since the founding of the country, the biggest drawback is that the gentry do not pay grain, although Zhang Juzheng wants to get rid of this shortcoming, but he doesn't have the ability, because there are too many people who oppose it, but Liu Zheng is different, Liu Zheng is a thief, he doesn't care about those gentry, you will cut off your head if you don't pay food, he can force those gentry to pay grain, Liu Zheng can do this, but he didn't do it, he drove the gentry to do business, and then he began to vigorously collect business taxes, this is a disguised let the gentry pay grain!" ”

"At the same time as solving this problem, he also gave up the field tax, so that the people will gradually become rich, even in the year of famine, the people have surplus food in their hands, and they are not so afraid!"

Li Dai twisted his brows and thought for a while before saying, "He doesn't collect this field tax, how can he feed the army in his hands?" ”

Zhou Song stretched out his hand and pointed to the long list of billboards next to him and said, "Commercial tax, he relies on commercial tax to feed his army!" ”

Li Dai's brows deepened: "How much can I collect in commercial taxes?" can feed the army in his hands, but I heard that Liu Zheng has nearly 100,000 people! ”

Zhou Song sighed and said, "Boss, if the lower official really couldn't answer your question before, but today, the lower official can answer it!" ”

Li Dai looked at Zhou Song curiously and said, "Oh? Why? ”

Zhou Song stretched out his hand again and pointed to the long list of notices next to him, as well as the dense merchants in satin clothes standing beside him, and said: "The answer is very clear in this notice, Liu Zheng has closed the whole of Shandong, since the first month, all businessmen who want to enter Shandong to do business can only enter Linqing, then Linqing has become a field!" ”

Li Dai understood, all understood, what is the Rongchang, what is the border pass and the mutual market, think about the nobles in the court who are full of stomachs and brains that eat through the Rongchang, and you will know whether Liu Zheng can feed the army in his hands. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

What's more, the Linqing field is not at the border, but in the hinterland of the Central Plains, and even the throat of Caoyun, where all the goods from all over the world are concentrated and dispersed here, just think about it......

Sighing, Li Dai said in a low voice: "Shandong has a population of eight million, millions of fertile land, tens of millions, such a big province, such a large province, such a large province with such abundant products......" Speaking of this, Li Dai suddenly didn't know what to say, and finally only turned into a sigh.

Zhou Song also sighed, and then he said: "Boss, this Liu Zheng is more than that, when you come to Beijing, you can just inquire and know, this Liu Zheng is really a great talent, if he is in the officialdom, he must be a more powerful figure than Zhang Juzheng!" ”

Speaking of this, Zhou Song suddenly said again: "By the way, you don't know yet, Boss, Master Li Tingji Li is now detained by Liu Zheng in Shandong, I heard that Lord Li is helping Liu Zheng do things now!" ”

"Oh?" Li Dai was completely shocked: "Shang Yuan, the Li Tingji you are talking about is Li Erzhang, the young Zhan of Zhan Shifu?" ”

Zhou Song nodded and said, "Yes, it's that Lord Li!" ”

Li Dai said strangely: "That's not right, with Erzhang's temperament, how could he help Liu Zheng?" ”

Zhou Song sighed and said: "This subordinate knows something, then Liu Zheng asked a group of thieves to detain Lord Li, and asked Lord Li for a ransom of one million taels, how could Lord Li take out so much silver, at this time, Liu Zheng pretended to be a good person and helped Lord Li pay the ransom, and then Liu Zheng used this to blackmail Lord Li and let him help him do things to pay off the debt, if only these Lord Li would never help Liu Zheng do things, but then Liu Zheng let people secretly tie up Lord Li's family......"

Li Dai understood, sighed and said: "This Liu Zheng is really hateful, wouldn't he ruin the reputation of Er Zhang I by doing this?" ”

Zhou Song only sighed and didn't answer.

The two of them looked here for a while, listened to the discussion of the surrounding merchants for a while, and then went to the newly built southern city.

Walking around in the southern city, that is, Linqing New Town, Li Dai sighed again, he had to sigh, although the new city was just laying the foundation, but he had already seen how shocking this new city would be when it was built.

Of course, Li Dai was not an expert in architecture, and he could expect the new city to be shocked because he saw a huge picture, which stood in a large open space in the new city.

This picture is full of buildings, although the painting is very realistic, but the whole painting is full of ingenuity, but this painting, in the eyes of the architect or a prefect, prefect, or even the governor, has become very unusual.

He didn't know what kind of brush he was using to draw this painting, but the buildings on it were very realistic, and he could immediately see the whole new city as far as he could see.

The straight and wide streets, the clever gutters, the same but refreshing frontage, oh, and the row of greenery in the middle of the road, all speak of the beauty of the city.

"Such a city, probably, is probably Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty......"

At this moment, such a sentence appeared in Li Dai's heart, but then he thought in his heart: "Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty can't compare to this new city that is about to be born, right?" ”