After three days, Qin Dong convened a meeting of the chief and deputy chiefs of the various ministries under the Regent's Palace, generally a meeting of this level may not be held once a month, and only when a heavy decision is to be implemented or a heavy incident occurs, this level of meeting will be held, and usually each department performs its own duties and does not interfere with each other.

In the main hall of the Regent's Palace, the officials stood in several rows, leaving an aisle in the middle, and before Qin Dong came, the officials all whispered to each other, and the content of the discussion seemed to be related to the theme of the meeting.

"The regent has arrived-" After a long announcement sounded, Qin Dong appeared at the small door on the side, and the officials immediately stopped talking, all bowed to the throne opposite, and shouted: "Meet His Royal Highness the Regent!" ”

Qin Dong walked to the throne and sat down and raised his hand: "Excuse me!" ”

"Your Highness!" The officials straightened up.

Qin Dong said: "I summoned you here today mainly because of the unfavorable tax collection, some time ago, Lord Petheus sent people to various places to investigate the situation, the situation is not optimistic, Lord Peteus, please tell your ministers about the investigation!" ”

"Yes, Your Highness!" Peteus saluted Qin Dong, then turned to face all the officials, took out an official document and read it, the main content of which was the reasons for the disadvantage of the tax collection work.

Pethius quickly finished reading, and after reading it, he put away the official document and said: "The above are the main reasons why the collection of taxes is unfavorable! ”

Qin Dong looked at the reactions of the officials below, and only after a moment did he speak: "There are three main reasons in total. The first reason has been resolved, the king has ordered that the tax collectors should return to their places of origin, and foreign officials who are not from our country will be assigned to the towns. Now how to solve the second and third reasons? People evade taxes, officials report on the news, people become family members of officials in order to avoid taxes and forced labor, and officials ostensibly collect the people in their own names, but secretly collect money. Let's not talk about how the people were, but first about the officials who reported to the people, and disregarded the interests of the empire for the sake of money. What is the reason for the loss of a large amount of tax revenue for the empire? Why are officials doing this? Quite simply, they are greedy. In order to gain money, they cost the empire a lot of taxes! If we have problems with ourselves, what can we use to rule the people? Managing the populace? Let's talk about what to do now! ”

After Qin Dong's words fell, the entire hall fell silent. One by one, the officials were silent. If it is something else, the officials will certainly rush to stand up and express their views and opinions one by one, but this matter involves some of them or those officials who have taken refuge in them, because they cannot talk casually, and officials who have nothing to do with this matter are afraid of offending people by talking indiscriminately, and of course it is not easy for officials related to this matter to stand up and speak, otherwise it is easy to give people authority.

It was only after a half-ring that Felton stood up and said, "King." The ministers thought that they should make an example of these officials who harmed the public for their own interests, since they did not care about the overall interests of the royal court. So what obligation does the royal court have to defend them? Chen Jian yì immediately sent officials to various places to conduct a detailed investigation, find out one and arrest another! Catch one and kill the other".

Many other officials in the hall couldn't help but secretly scold Felton for being vicious, everyone is from the dragon's minister, you don't need to be so fucking poisonous, how can you say that there is also the friendship of colleagues, and we just made a few small dollars to spend, and we are not guilty to death, right? You're clearly going to put us to death!

Although many officials are secretly scolding Felton in their hearts, but no one dares to come out to refute Felton's mentions, it is absolutely unwise to speak for those officials, officials are secretly making some money and getting some benefits, as long as they are not found out, they are not put on the bright side, but as long as there is evidence, things are put on the bright side, then no one can speak for them anymore, otherwise it is a cover-up, this is the rule, this is the bottom line, if someone steps on the bottom line, not to mention that other officials must hold on, Even Qin Dong would not allow such a thing to continue, and all officials who came forward to speak and intercede for the offending officials were all regarded as the same party.

Qin Dong saw that no one spoke, so he said: "Of course these corrupt officials must be arrested, of course they must be killed, this king plans to set up a new law enforcement agency, which is for the Inspectorate, which specializes in supervising the corruption of officials, dereliction of duty, omission and other crimes. In the future, what if there are officials who will ventilate and report to them, and then absorb people to evade taxes for their families? Do you have any good ideas? ”

The officials didn't speak, this matter is not easy to solve, the problem of difficult tax collection has existed since ancient times, if it was so easy to solve, someone would have come up with a good solution a long time ago, and there is no need to wait until now.

Seeing that no one spoke, Qin Dong coughed twice, and glanced at Agul, Agul and Cao Charlie did not belong to the subordinate officials of the Regent's Mansion in terms of position, but today Qin Dong specially brought Agul over to observe, Qin Dong had discussed with Agul beforehand, at this time, it should be Agul's turn to stand up and tell Qin Dong a few ways to tell him in advance, and the next few decrees to be promulgated will offend many people, especially many officials, and only an official of Agul's weight can stand up, He was originally a shaman and military advisor of Enek, and he had a high prestige in the Xiongnu Empire, and the officialdom was dominated by the Huns, and the number of officials was the largest, and only if he came forward to say these methods, it would be fine, and anyone else would be attacked if he said it, of course, Qin Dong would not say these methods himself, in fact, it would be fine for him to say it himself, but it would still cause dissatisfaction among officials, especially the officials of the Xiongnu tribe, even if they didn't dare to do anything, they were still uncomfortable, Qin Dong as a superior, Of course, he must not set himself against the officials, as this would undermine his prestige.

Seeing Qin Dong coughing, Agul also looked at himself, he knew that he couldn't pretend not to hear, in fact, he was extremely reluctant, no one wanted to offend people, but he couldn't help acting according to Qin Dong's intentions, otherwise he would be in danger, because he knew that Qin Dong would never allow a disobedient Agul to stay in Saidika.

At this time, Agul stood up and saluted Qin Dong and said, "Your Royal Highness the Regent, this official thinks that it will not be difficult to solve this matter!" ”

Qin Dong smiled and cooperated, "Oh? I don't know what the national teacher has to do? Come on! ”

Agul said: "There are two ways for the ministers, as long as these two methods are implemented, this matter can be solved, first, the implementation of the "Baojia Law", and second, the implementation of the law of 'the official gentry as one errand and one grain'. ”

"What is the Armor Protection Law?" An official asked.

Agul explained to the officials: "Our current officials are only at the town level, and some towns are large, some towns are small, large towns have thousands, even tens of thousands, and small towns have only hundreds of people, and the taxes in small towns are very collective, but the big towns are not only large in population, but also in large territory, and it is difficult for officials at the town level to govern, let alone tax collectors." In response to this situation, the national division came up with a solution, that is, the law of protecting the first grade, the law of protecting the first is to take the household as the unit, ten households as one first, set up a chief, ten a guarantee, set up a chief, and the above is the town, each guarantee is the original township boundary site in the area under its jurisdiction, and the town-level officials will divide the people under their rule into several guarantees, but they shall not divide the people of their own townships and towns into the protection of other townships and towns. The head of the household is basically filled by the head of the household, and the head of the household is nominally recommended by the head of the household and the head of the first in the baojia, but the mayor of the town finds that he is not "competent", or thinks that it is necessary to replace it, he may order the original public promoter to change the recommendation. The head of the household must sign the statute of the first household, and join the head of the household in the first to have a joint guarantee joint sitting, stating that if there is a situation of "banditry and banditry", the joint protection of each household will be implemented. The chief of the armor is under the command and supervision of the mayor of the town, and is responsible for maintaining peace and order in the armor. The mayors of each town are under the command of the county magistrate, but the affairs of each security officer are still the responsibility of the respective chief. The basic work of the organization is to implement "management, education, upbringing, and health". "Management" includes checking household registration, checking knives, guns and weapons, and implementing joint sitting; "Teaching" includes handling school protection, training strong men, etc.; "Maintenance" includes surveying land, etc.; "Guard" includes the establishment of local regimental training, training of village bravery, the implementation of patrols, vigilance, etc.! ”

As soon as Agul finished speaking, an official immediately stood up and said: "Master Guoshi, this official agrees with most of the contents of this armor protection law, but there is one article that the official opposes, that is, is it too cruel to practice joint sitting?" If one person commits a crime, everyone is guilty, which is not fair, and the people will definitely oppose it! ”

"The official thinks it's not cruel at all, if you don't want to be sitting, other people can report to the local government, and after the report, others will not sit together, if no one reports, then implement the sitting, so as to prevent the people from covering each other together, the first chief protects the villagers, the first chief sits together, the town mayor covers the criminals, and the town mayor sits together, so that the criminals will have nowhere to hide, and the people's tax evasion will be solved, neighbors, A chief, and the chief will look at the villagers who want to evade taxes, after the tax officer arrives, They will take the initiative to help collect taxes! ”

As long as the Baojia Law is promulgated, the implementation of the administrative order will be much smoother, so most of the officials are very optimistic about the Baojia Law and support the promulgation of this decree.

Qin Dong said in real time at this time: "Okay, wonderful, the national teacher is really talented, he can think of such a good strategy, it is really a great merit to the society, this king must be gifted with a big single Yu, and reward the national teacher!" ”

Even though he felt disgusting, Agul still had to salute Qin Dong and said, "Thank you, Your Royal Highness the Regent!" (To be continued......)