Zhu Yuanzhang led the crowd into Chengcheng, a familiar feeling came to his face, vaguely remembered the seventh year of the Apocalypse, he escorted the third lady of the Ma family to come here, at this time the street is still the same, but the characters around him are completely different, there is a poem that says: "Where are the people who come to play with the moon, the scenery is vaguely like last year."

In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang can't say that he likes the third lady of the Ma family much, because that person just looks like Queen Ma, but not Queen Ma, if it is just because of her similar appearance, he will treat her as the Emperor of Ma, wouldn't that be a blasphemy against Queen Ma? As long as the face looks the same, doesn't it matter what the heart looks like? Zhu Yuanzhang is not such a superficial person!

In fact, since the Ma family moved to Xi'an, it has been several years in the blink of an eye, and the third lady of the Ma family is not young anymore, she should have already married a teenager from a merchant in Xi'an, maybe she has children, right?

Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but smile and came back to his senses.

But I heard someone in my ear praising it: "The king is a good poem!" What a poem! ”

"Huh? What good poetry? Zhu Yuanzhang was a little confused.

I saw Lord Xin Lancheng of the county and his master Chen Xi walking beside them, one left and one right, and kept saying: "Where are the people who come to play with the moon, the scenery is vaguely like last year, good poetry!" Good poetry! I didn't expect the king to have such a literary color and write good poems. ”

What a fart! Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't cry or laugh, this poem is the Tang Dynasty poet Zhao Yi's "Jianglou Feelings", Zhu Yuanzhang made up a lot of poems and books when he was self-taught in his last life, and he remembered this sentence. Now that he said it casually, he was actually used by them to pat himself on the back. He didn't believe that Xin Lancheng and Chen Xi, two serious readers, had not read this poem, and they were obviously pretending to be confused, insisting on carrying the famous poems of the ancients to the mountain king in front of him.

Shaking it, ignoring these two goods, he looked at Chengcheng, the city was very dilapidated when he came last time, after Zheng Yanfu's uprising, and experienced several years of great drought, plus I heard that Baishui Zhuba was going to attack this city, the rich families in the city rushed to flee, this place looked even more dilapidated, the shops on both sides of the street were all closed, some were frightened by the thieves entering the city, and some of them were unable to operate for a long time.

Many of the dwellings have been empty for a long time, as can be seen from their dilapidated roof tiles and cobwebbed gates. The houses where the residents were still inhabited were all closed with their doors and windows closed, and pairs of frightened eyes peered out through the cracks in the doors and windows.

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't say anything, it was useless to comfort these residents in empty words, and after a while, they would naturally know Zhu Yuanzhang's benefits, so he just straightened his waist and walked forward, and after a while, he walked to the front of the yamen. The wide Yaqian Square appeared in front of them, and the Shenming Pavilion and the Jingshan Pavilion fell crookedly on both sides.

Zhu Yuanzhang stretched out his finger and pointed to the two pavilions, and said seriously: "Give you ten days to repair these two pavilions!" ”

"What? Repair the pavilion? "Xin Lan Cheng is flustered, there is an unwritten rule in the Ming Dynasty, called being an official and not cultivating the government, why? Because the officials of the Ming Dynasty were transferred every three years, if you made the yamen beautiful, you were transferred after three years...... Didn't he make a wedding dress for posterity? It's better to put the money for repairing the yamen in your pocket, so it is said that the official will never repair the yamen, even if the court leaks, you can continue to work with a basin!

However, when an official does not repair the yamen, it is not the reason why Xin Lancheng is surprised, he is more surprised: when the bandits enter the city, the first thing they have to do is to repair the yamen, what does this mean? Set a fire to burn down the yamen, only then will it be worthy of your identity as the king of the mountain!

Xin Lancheng wiped it on his forehead, a little hairy and sweaty, and his cuffs were actually wet, he secretly wondered: Could this mountain king be talking the opposite?

As soon as he thought of this, Zhu Yuanzhang spoke again: "Ask your master to draft a notice to inform the people of the county that this year's autumn tax will be exempted from agricultural tax, and only commercial tax will be collected...... Until the drought is over, all agricultural taxes will be waived......"

"What?" Xin Lancheng was taken aback, and this time he was even more shocked than the Yamen! For example, when the heroes of Liangshan attacked the city in "Water Margin", they would shout under the city: "Come to your city today to borrow thousands of stones of grain......

If this autumn tax is exempted from agriculture and replaced with a pitifully low commercial tax, what benefits can King Shanda get from it?

He was dumbfounded, and he didn't know what to say for a while, and after a long while, he said with difficulty: "Dashan, you asked me to exempt me from paying taxes...... So how can I explain it to the court? Didn't you tell me to be an official of the court on the surface? If I can't pay my taxes, I can't continue to be an official......"

"If you say this, you can only deceive ordinary mountain kings!" Zhu Yuanzhang smiled: "Don't think I don't know, taxes can be owed to the imperial court, over the years, I don't know how many prefectures and counties have defaulted on taxes to the imperial court on the grounds of 'disaster', and the big officials in the capital will scold you at most when they encounter this kind of thing, and then lower your evaluation, and you can't take off your black yarn hat." ”

"Scared...... This...... How did the king know about this......" Xin Lancheng was so shocked by one strange thing after another that he couldn't even speak clearly.

Zhu Yuanzhang continued: "The county orders this thing to change every three years, I'll take a look...... In the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the county commander Zhang Douyao was killed, and the imperial court must appoint a new one, well, and then this newcomer has been working for three years, that is, Chongzhen for three years, and he has to change to a new county commander...... In this way, you have been in office for three years since Chongzhen, and you have only been an official here for one year, and your term of office will expire in two years! Okay, for the next two years, the taxes will be dragged for me, how to drag the taxes to the court is your business, I don't care ......"

Xin Lancheng's face suddenly turned bitter melon color: "Oh my God...... If I owe taxes to the top for two years, when my term of office expires and I am transferred, I will have to take off my black hat. ”

"You have another option, and I will have your head removed right now!" Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile: "Take off your head or take off your hat, which one to choose?" ”

Xin Lancheng sighed, turned back to his master Chen Xi and said, "Mr. Chen, please go and draft a notice, just write it according to what the king said...... This year's autumn endowment will not be taxed on agriculture......"

The master is a smart man, and when he heard this, he didn't say a word, he pulled his legs and ran into the yamen, and after a while, he came out with a few square pieces of rice paper, on which the tax-free things were written. Xin Lancheng fished out the big seal, "pop and click", and stamped a seal on each piece of paper, and then several officials ran over and cautiously took the notice and went to the four city gates.

In addition to the city gate, of course, a copy of the yamen had to be pasted before, and several officials ran out of the door, painted paste on the outer wall of the yamen, and then flattened the notice and glued it on, this small action immediately attracted the attention of the people who were hiding in the shadows to observe...... When the thieves entered the city, they didn't fight, rob, or burn, but they actually walked with the officials, and they immediately issued a notice...... The content of this notice is really fascinating.

Although there is a risk of being killed by bandits, the more this happens, the more people want to know what the notice is. A few bold people ran out and glared at the notice, saying that the people living in the city were indeed more educated than those living in the countryside, most of them were literate in a few words, and occasionally one or two were particularly literate, and they would often help the illiterate villagers read the notice.

As soon as this notice was pronounced, it was terrible...... Several men jumped half a day high on the ground, and they couldn't help but roar wildly: "Oh my God...... What's going on? ”

"Great joy, great joy!"

"Don't you send fake notices to play?"

"Fool, can the government notice be fake?"

"Get this out of here......"

A few men spread their legs and ran towards the surrounding streets, shouting loudly as they ran, and after a while, voices came from all the houses: "Is this true? ”

"You poppy, don't lie and lie to Lao Tzu, or you'll break your mouth!"

"Those who do not believe can go to the front of the yamen and see for themselves...... Anyway, this bandit is very quiet and will not kill people......"

As soon as there were so many people publicized, Chengcheng immediately became lively, and the residents who were still hiding in the house and did not dare to come out began to try to open the door a crack and stick their heads out, and then they found that there were indeed a few bold guys jumping and jumping on the street, since others were not killed when they went out, they had nothing to fear, and a large number of people began to pour into the streets, and then ran along the streets to the front of the yamen advertisements, scrambling to see the notices.

In fact, these people are also foolish, at least seven out of ten people are illiterate, two are semi-literate, and only one is literate, and even if the illiterate and semi-literate stand in front of the notice, they still can't understand it! But people like to watch the excitement, whether they can understand it or not, anyway, they just want to stand in front of the notice, and don't shout with the crowd, as if they feel uncomfortable.

After everyone confirmed the content of the notice, the crowd immediately began to discuss: "This kind of notice, at first glance, it is not issued by the county master......

"That is, how can the imperial court exempt us from taxes? It's just going to be more powerful! ”

"This is clearly written by Baishui Zhuba forcing the county magistrate......"

"What's going on with this Baishui Zhuba? It's the first time I've seen bandits who don't rob money and force the government not to collect taxes......"

"yes, yes! This gang of bandits is so strange! ”

"Anyway...... The bandits are going back to the mountains soon, right? If they had returned, would the notice still count? ”

"That's right...... If only this group of bandits had been in possession of Chengcheng......"

The people talked and discussed, and finally the topic changed direction inexplicably, and they couldn't help but start thinking about a more realistic question, if the bandits retreated to the mountains, this notice would be abolished immediately, right? Case...... The longer the bandit stays here, the better...... That's amazing! For the first time, we're looking forward to being ruled by bandits......