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Tang Zhou told Li Shimin about the reform of the tax system during this period, and in general, the effect was not bad.

Li Shimin couldn't help but praise Tang Zhou after listening to it, but after the praise, those who were as smart as Li Shimin also guessed Tang Zhou's intentions.

"Tang Aiqing wants to cut the domain, right?"

Tang Zhou nodded: "Back to the saint, now that the powerful have paid their taxes according to the new rules, it's time for the princes of these places to shed some blood." ”

Since the Han Dynasty pushed the Grace Order, although there are princes in various places who have been divided, but the strength is not large, it is unlikely that there will be another rebellion of the eight kings to directly approach the capital, and the strength of the vassal kings in various places is strictly limited.

However, despite the restrictions on the number of troops, the feudal kings in various regions were still left to the management of the feudal kings themselves in terms of economy and other aspects, and a large part of the taxes collected were also distributed by the feudal kings themselves, which seemed to be nothing, nothing more than the property of the imperial court was transferred to these feudal kings.

But many people in this world are the most unable to have money, and with money it is inevitable that other ambitions will be born, and it will be much easier to do things with money, and it is not easy to recruit troops?

Therefore, Tang Zhou's so-called cutting of the feudal domain was not to reduce the strength of those feudal kings, but to let them pay a part of the taxes from various places, so as to increase the income of the household department, and also make the cost of their rebellion higher.

Li Shimin pondered for a moment, and then asked: "This matter is not easy to do, is there any good way for Tang Aiqing?" ”

Tang Zhou said: "Many fiefdoms have bad conduct and many things that oppress the people, so we might as well start from this aspect." ”

Li Shimin thought for a while and said, "Okay, then I'll bring it up to you tomorrow morning, let's see the reactions of those people first." ”

"Whoa."

The next morning, the weather was slightly cool, but this time it was slightly cool, not because it was going to rain, but because it was already late summer and early autumn, and the weather was getting colder.

The ministers of the DPRK and China discussed things as usual, and when they were about to discuss it, Tang Zhou stood up.

"Shengshang, Li Yuanli, King of Xu Kang, acted mischiefly in his fiefdom, making the people of the fief miserable, and sometimes someone wanted to go to Beijing to sue the emperor, but they were all intercepted and killed by King Xu Kang, and asked the Holy Lord to investigate this matter."

Hearing Tang Zhou's sudden impeachment of Li Yuanli, King of Xu Kang, the eldest grandson Wuji, Cheng Yanjin and others were shocked, and secretly thought that this kid had finally made a move against those vassal kings.

Several people secretly glanced at Tang Zhou, all of them were a little worried, for fear that this kid would play with fire and set himself on fire, and at that time he would become the target of public criticism, even if they wanted to save him, they couldn't.

However, Changsun Wuji and others saw the clues, but many people in the court didn't care much, just thinking that Tang Zhou was just impeaching a person.

This Xu Kang King Li Yuanli is Li Shimin's younger brother, he is very stubborn on weekdays, he went to his fiefdom and regarded himself as a soil emperor, he can do whatever he wants, he doesn't care about many things that are out of line, he feels that he is the emperor's younger brother, and he thinks about brotherhood, what can Li Shimin do to him?

Li Yuanli acted recklessly, and his son Li Mao also learned badly, and often molested women from good families in the fiefdom, which made the people of the fiefdom complain and were very disgusted with their father and son.

This matter was introduced to the capital a few years ago, and at that time, Li Shimin was busy with other things, and he didn't care about this kind of thing, after all, as a prince, what should he do if he was molesting a people's girl or something?

Li Shimin sometimes can't help but want to get a few beauties from the folk girls to play.

However, Li Shimin didn't have time to take care of this matter before, but now that Tang Zhou brought it up again, the situation is different again.

"And this? Come on, go and investigate the matter, and if the matter is true, immediately escort Li Yuanli, the king of Xu Kang, into the capital. ”

This matter was handed over to the people of Dali Temple, and the people of Dali Temple left the capital soon after receiving the order, and this matter was not mentioned again for several days after Tang Zhou talked about it that day.

It wasn't until half a month later that the people of Dali Temple found out the situation and escorted Li Yuanli and his son into Chang'an City, which was finally noticed, and at this time, it was the beginning of autumn, the fallen leaves of Chang'an were yellow, and the autumn breeze was slightly cool.

In the morning of the second day after Li Yuanli and his son were escorted into the capital, Tang Zhou mentioned the matter again.

"Shengshang, the behavior of Li Yuanli's father and son is not an exception, the vassal kings in many places rely on their own power to do evil there and oppress the people, which is simply a cancer for my Tang Dynasty, and I ask the Holy Lord to investigate thoroughly to calm the hearts of the people of my Tang Dynasty."

As soon as Tang Zhou's words came out, all the princes in the court had palpitations, like them, who hadn't done a few dirty things in their fiefdoms, if this was found out, would it be possible to really punish them?

And at this time, many people also faintly noticed that something was wrong, this Tang Zhou made several shots in a short period of time, and now he is targeting the vassal king, is it possible that he wants to cut the domain?

Just as these people were thinking, Li Shimin nodded: "What Tang Aiqing said is good, but if this matter is thoroughly investigated, it will be time-consuming and labor-intensive, what good advice does Tang Aiqing have?" ”

Tang Zhou thought for a while and said: "The minister thinks that the reason why these princes are so lawless and reckless is mainly because the power given to them by the saint is too great, and the minister suggests that some of the princes' power be distributed to officials in various places, and besides, all the taxes paid by the people in various places should be transported to the capital, rather than being at the disposal of the vassal kings, if something really happens in various places, the court can send people to be responsible." ”

Just now, everyone was just guessing, but now after listening to Tang Zhou's words, even a fool knows that Tang Zhou is going to do something to the vassal king, the vassal king has the actual land in his hand, and these lands do not have to pay taxes, and no one will leave, but all the taxes called by the people will be handed over to the imperial court, so they will be a little unbearable.

After the people's taxes were handed over to the feudal kings in various places, they were handed over to the imperial court in proportion, leaving a part of them to meet the needs of the time, and now Tang Zhou actually asked all of them to be handed over to the imperial court, wouldn't that be to empty them as vassal kings?

Where does their money come from? In addition to the divided land, it is the people's taxes, and without taxes, how much money can they have with their little land?

Vicious, some princes in the court feel that Tang Zhou is too vicious, isn't this forcing them to rebel?

can think of the fate of Li You, the king of Qi, these princes' hearts suddenly sank and rebelled? That's not looking for death.

"Holy Lord, the younger brother thinks that Tang Zhou's suggestions are bullshit, and there are no taxes in the fiefdoms, how to deal with sudden things? The imperial court can indeed send someone to be responsible for disaster relief, but it is easy to write when it is close, but if it is far away, it is not that the far water cannot save the near fire, but it is a mistake. ”

"Father, the son also thinks that this should not be done, there is food and money in various places, it is convenient to do this, get all the money to the capital, how can this be done?"

Those princes in the court talked a lot, but no one agreed, and those taxes were not used much on the people, and many of them spent them, which was their treasury, how could they be given to the court?

What a joke.