Hearing Wu Mu's meaningful words, Zhou Ping suddenly felt a chill, but he still had to squeeze out a grateful look on his face, not to mention how strange it was. At this time, Zhang Jiahe explained: It turned out that this Wu Mu Wu Gonggong was originally to raise the four states of Yunzhou, Mizhou, Qizhou, and Jeju on Jingdong Road, and these states were located around Liangshanbo. In this way, the tax progress of this Gonggong Wu was naturally greatly impressed. If you put aside the bad influence on the Northern Song Dynasty at that time, the reward and punishment incentive mechanism for Yang Taifu was very advanced for his subordinates, for example, the Du Gongcai who proposed to him to establish Kutian was promoted to the senior official of the observation envoy because of his advice, and the observation envoy was a kind of official who was serving in the Northern Song Dynasty at that time. There has always been a saying of "noble products", which are generally awarded to the clan and important ministers, and the money is extremely generous. And that Du Gongcai was originally just a Xu official, which was definitely a shocking thing at that time. And Wu Mu has paid a lot to get this great opportunity to send him, so it is not difficult to imagine how eager he is to start collecting taxes again to make up for the lost time and losses.

"Then what can the lower officials serve? Do you have to send someone to help the public set up a card to collect taxes? Zhou Ping asked puzzled.

"Then you don't have to bother with being imprisoned!" Wu Mu said with a smile: "There is a lot of oil and water in setting up cards to collect taxes, and there are as many people as there are to do such things." It's just that the people of Liangshan are fierce, although Song Jiang has been killed, there are still many other bandits, so they have to rely on the power of the prisoner! ”

"The relationship wants me to be your dog's leg!" Zhou Ping reacted at this time, but since he has become a military attache of the feudal dynasty, it is his unshirkable responsibility to suppress the peasant uprising, thinking of this, Zhou Ping smiled: "What's so difficult about this, just Han Xianggong says a word, and he will naturally send troops in the future!" ”

As soon as Zhou Ping's words fell, the smile on Wu Mu's face froze, and then the eunuch snorted coldly and turned away. Zhang Jiahe, who was on the side, hurriedly whispered: "Brother Xian, what you said is bad." ”

"Bad?" Zhou Ping was stunned for a moment and asked: "Han Xianggong is the military of Jeju Prefecture, without his consent, how can I transfer troops without authorization?" ”

"Hey! Brother Xian, you are confused, if Gonggong Wu can make Han Xiang speak publicly, why will he come to you? ”

"Huh?" Zhou Ping was suddenly confused, and Han Xiaoxuan would still oppose the extermination of the thieves in Liangshanbo? Didn't he just let himself go to recruit Song Jiang? After listening to Zhang Jiahe's explanation, Zhou Ping slowly understood. It turns out that in ancient China, the emperor himself had a dual identity, he was the head of the whole country and a natural person. When he was the head of state, he was in agreement with the bureaucratic class dominated by Confucian scholars and doctors in most things, but he often had sharp contradictions as a natural person. For example, the Son of Heaven often collects regular taxes such as land tax and oral tax, and also hopes to obtain more wealth through various miscellaneous taxes and gold to meet the needs of war, large-scale projects and his own luxury. At this time, the bureaucracy, often from the position of ensuring the long-term stability of the empire, adopted an attitude of passive confrontation, resistance and even protest against the additional expropriation of imperial power, which is not uncommon in Chinese history. This is also the Song Huizong sent eunuchs or "lucky people" instead of collecting money through orthodox scholars and bureaucrats.

A well-educated scholar and bureaucracy like Han Xiaoxuan would do everything possible to suppress the Song [***] Kou, who posed a serious threat to the rule and order of the state, but the attitude towards Liang Shanbo's spontaneous rebellion against the masses was much more ambiguous. After all, from his point of view, it is not difficult to see that this kind of accumulation of the Xicheng Kutian Institute may be able to obtain a large amount of money in a short period of time, but it has seriously damaged the normal order of society and the country, and the consequences are extremely far-reaching. This view is clearly reflected in the Confucian classic "University": Meng Xianzi said: "Livestock and horses do not observe chickens and dolphins, the house of ice cutting does not raise cattle and sheep, and the house of a hundred vehicles does not gather livestock." Rather than having ministers of aggregation, it is better to have thieves. This means that the state does not take profit for profit, but also for righteousness. Those who grow up the country and use money will be small. He is good, the villain is the country, and disasters are coming. Although there are good people, there is nothing like it! This means that the country does not take profit for profit, but also for righteousness. (The gist of it is as follows: Meng Xianzi said: "If you raise a four-horse cart, you don't need to raise chickens and pigs; If the family of the doctor who uses ice for sacrifice, he should no longer raise cattle and sheep; The princes' houses with a hundred chariots, don't go and take them in

A retainer who looted the people's wealth. Instead of having retainers who loot people's money, there are retainers who steal. A country should not benefit from goods, but with benevolence and righteousness. As a monarch but still bent on accumulating financial loans, there must be villains inducing, and the monarch still thinks that these villains are good people, let them deal with national affairs, and the result is that natural disasters [***] come together. At this time, although there are virtuous people, there is no way to save them. Therefore, a country should not take goods as interests, but should benefit from benevolence and righteousness. This statement may make us feel pedantic in today's prevailing market economy, but if you think about it carefully, there is also his reason, in ancient times, the productive forces were not developed enough, if the Son of Heaven attached too much importance to money, then the officials would inevitably loot on a large scale, so the people could not survive either rose up to resist, or were invaded by foreign enemies, and as a result, the country perished, and the Son of Heaven had more money, what is the use? Therefore, the more far-sighted elements of the ruling class generally advocate restraining their own excessive ** in order to ensure their own long-term interests. In fact, there are similar views today, such as the theory that "GDP" should not be used alone, and the saying that "if you want to be an official, don't get rich, if you want to get rich, don't be an official" has the same effect. ）

In this case, it would be very difficult for Wu Mu to get support from Han Xiaoxuan's side, after all, a person like Han Xiaoxuan was not an ordinary Han scholar, even if he was a minister like Yang Jian, who was deeply favored by Huizong, he would not easily become an enemy of him. And if Han Xiaoxuan didn't speak, Xue Liangchen, who was the prisoner of Jeju soldiers and horses, would definitely not agree. Although Song Jiang was recruited, there were many other thieves in Liangshanbo, and the tax collectors under Wu Mu were like wolves and tigers in the face of fishermen and farmers, but they were discouraged in the face of bandits and water thieves who picked up knives and guns, which was why he came to find Zhou Ping.

After listening to Zhang Jiahe's explanation, Zhou Ping finally figured out what happened. At this time, Wu Mu turned around, patted his chest and screamed: "Prison Zhou, our family is a cheerful person, as long as you help me solve this matter, within three years, you will definitely be dressed in a scarlet robe (Song Dynasty military attachés above the sixth rank can wear a scarlet robe)!" ”

"This!" Zhou Ping couldn't help but smile bitterly, the cake thrown by Wu Mu is not small, and it is really cool to take refuge in the Annihilation from ancient times to the present, no wonder there are so many Annihilation minions. But three years later, Jin Bing might have called, and he didn't have the ability to eat this cake at that time. Thinking of this, Zhou Ping hugged his fist and sang a fat song to Wu Mu: "Thank you father-in-law for your support, but I am also a subordinate officer of Han Xianggong, and my subordinates are soldiers of the national economic system, and it is difficult to obey my fate!" ”

"There's no need to worry about this!" Zhang Jiahe said with a smile: "I have already thought about it for my virtuous brother!" After that, Zhang Jiahe explained, it turned out that Wu Mu felt that there were no soldiers at hand to face the water thieves in Liangshanbo, so he decided to use the relationship between the DPRK and China to set up a military village on Liangshan, and then use the generals in this water village to help him suppress the scene, but after all, he did not have effective manpower at hand, so he wanted to win over Zhou Ping.

Zhou Ping hesitated for a moment and replied in a low voice: "Gonggong Wu, I am afraid that I will not be able to accept your kindness after receiving the great favor of Han Xianggong." But I have a way to do both. One day, when Gonggong Wu came to the Yamen, I called all the strong men under my command and asked Gonggong Wu to choose, as long as he liked them, he would take them all away. ”

Wu Mu was a little unhappy when he heard this, but after all, he had achieved most of the purpose of his trip, and his face looked a lot better, and he arched his hand and said: "Our family has received the favor of the prisoner, since this is the case, then we will change it to disturb the prisoner again." ”

Looking at the backs of Zhang and Wu leaving, Zhou Ping breathed a sigh of relief, only to feel that his throat was very dry, he casually picked up the wine glass and wine jug on the ground, poured himself a glass of cold wine, and drank it all.

"Ah Ping!"

Zhou Ping turned his head and saw Xue Liangchen standing behind him, looking at him with worried eyes.

"Lang Jun!" Zhou Ping hurriedly raised the wine jug in his hand and poured a glass of wine for Xue Liangchen, and said with a wry smile: "Zhang Jiahe led the eunuch surnamed Wu over and talked for a long time, and he was so thirsty!" ”

"It's about letting you help them deal with the water thieves in Liangshan!" A wry smile appeared on Xue Liangchen's face: "Xianggong means that he can't respond to this stubble." Alas! Huashigang, Kuotiansuo, these things are a little bit of skin, the family is ruined, isn't it forcing the people to be thieves? Can the government still take all the people? Now he is a wise man, how can he not even understand such a simple truth? ”

"Because Zhao Ji is a big bastard with a very serious bias, he has more than ninety-five points in everything except politics, but his profession is the emperor." Zhou Ping slandered, but on the surface, he could only reply: "Presumably, there must be a minister who deceived Tiancong and made chaos with this!" ”

Xue Liangchen nodded vigorously, and said in a deep voice: "It must be so, I just hope that the official family will open the Shengcong as soon as possible, far from the villain, close to the gentleman, and let the people of the Great Song Dynasty enjoy the blessings of peace!" "The collection has broken 5,000, Webb is so happy!

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