"Master Li, isn't Huangzhuang tax-exempt? You go and check what the people below are doing, and the taxes are collected from the prince's mansion! Chen Tang twisted his face and said to the master who was sitting down.

"Yes, yes, the lower officials will do it immediately, and the people below will not see it at a glance, and there will be chaos!" Master Li was busy responding.

"Governor Chen, this is not very good, I mean we still have to pay what should be paid..." The chief steward said.

"Steward Zheng, the prince has not yet divided the government, does his Zhuangzi still belong to the imperial village, and besides, whether it is collected or not is not all the emperor's, it is the same!" Chen Tang interrupted him and said.

"Then thank you Governor Chen!" The chief steward arched his hand and said, happy that this time the government could save a lot of tax money.

"Lord, I still have a small village over there, let my brother-in-law who is not a good person take care of it, not only does he have no income, but he also wants me to post money every year, since the prince wants to buy land, transfer it to the prince!" Chen Tang said to Zhao Ta with a smile again.

"Oh?! Governor Chen wants to sell land, it's all good land, are you willing to do it? Zhao Ta asked after taking a bite of food.

"Why is it reluctant, it was all placed by me a few years ago, and there is no interest every year, which is disturbing, the prince will take it if he doesn't dislike it, and it can be regarded as a favor for the next official!" Chen Tang said in his mouth, but his heart ached, it was more than 200 hectares of land, and he could collect more than 20,000 yuan a year from the tenant rent alone, and now he couldn't take care of it.

"Since that's the case, then I'll take it, but I can't take advantage of you, you can make a price!" Zhao Ta thought for a while and said 'seriously'.

"I bought this land a few years ago, just go at the price at that time, you just give me 10,000 yuan!" Chen Tang said, the people on the seat were all surprised, the prefect's hand is big enough, and now the good fields are sold for more than two or one acre, and this time he will send out 40,000 or 50,000 yuan.

"Sizzle..." Zhao Ta took a breath of cool air, "Ten thousand?!" It just so happened that the mother gave me 10,000 yuan, and you didn't move the money from the big steward! He said to the steward with a knock on the plate.

"Huh?!" The chief steward was stunned, what does the prince mean by this, not to mention the emperor's reward, even the mother also sent 30,000 yuan, is it..." Lord Wang, the little one is guilty, he repaired the house and granary in the house a few days ago, and filled the gap left by the previous steward, the money is not enough, and the small one embezzled two thousand yuan! The chief steward said 'panicked'.

"You... You, you are so bold, go back and I'll settle accounts with you! Zhao Ta patted the table, twisted his face and said to Chen Tang with regret: "Governor Chen, I'm really embarrassed, if you don't have the money, you might as well sell it to others!" ”

"Hey, if you say that you will sell it to the prince, how dare you sell it to others again, just count as much as you want!" Chen Tang hurriedly said, he finally seized an opportunity to show goodwill, how could he let it go easily.

"Lord Wang, I can't take out eight thousand guan!" The chief steward said again with a sad face.

"Tie him up for me, are you greedy for all your money!" Zhao Ta jumped down from the chair and said.

"Wang... The prince is angry, you listen to the small explanation, this is about to be the New Year, we have bought all the money for the land, and at the end of the year, we will pay the servants for wages, give red envelopes, and food, drink, and the use of the house..."

"Don't be verbose, you just say how much money you can come up with, right?" Zhao Ta said angrily.

"Five thousand!" The chief steward closed his eyes and replied for a moment.

"Let Governor Chen smile, there is really not so much money in the house, or I will bet this belt to you, how can you top three thousand yuan!" Zhao Ta said and untied the gold belt wrapped around his waist and put it on the table.

"The prince can't, this is something left by Emperor Taizong, how dare the lower officials stay, five thousand guan will be five thousand!" Chen Tang hurriedly brought the gold to Zhao Ta to re-encircle, pretending to be generous, but his heart was dripping blood, this land was originally the price of jumping off the building, and this gave a discount again.

"Governor Chen, you still have Zhuangzi and livestock on the land, why don't you make a price and sell them to us together!" The matter of the chief steward was finalized, and he hurriedly said, now he understands what the prince means.

"Steward Zheng, I don't live in the township, I don't know the market, you can look at it and give a price!" Chen Tang squeezed out a little smile and said, as soon as I bid, you will stop and cut it, just count it yourself!

The chief steward was really not polite, and said after some calculation: "Your house is rough, even if the house and land are 200 yuan, I don't know how many cattle and horses there are, let's estimate it, count it as 100 yuan, we don't want the furniture, you still pull it away, the price of 300 yuan is more fair!" ”,

"Justice, your mother's fart, it took me five hundred yuan to repair that garden, and you only made three hundred yuan in total!" Chen Tang was a little angry, but he couldn't have a seizure, so he had to say with a smile on his face: "Okay, just according to the price that Steward Zheng said!" ”

"Governor Chen, I'll give you a note, and when we collect the rent next year, we will pay it back to you, and the interest will be 20%, a total of 360 yuan!" The chief steward said as he told the man to prepare pen and ink.

Chen Tang is going to cry at this time, three hundred guan still has to make a note, and it will be given next year, your prince will have four hundred guan a month, you are embarrassed, but now your son's life is still in their hands, "Hehe, steward Zheng, I am joking with you, you are still serious, this house is a big deal, how can it be counted as money!" ”

"No, the trade must be fair, this money must be given, don't let people say that our palace is stingy, it's a big deal that I won't eat meat for a year, save the money!" Zhao Ta quit, said with a stiff face, and the goosebumps on the side fell to the ground, the prince wants to save face, and he obviously wants to take advantage of others.

"Lord, no need..." Two people insisted on not wanting it, the other insisted on giving, two people pushed around, everyone looked stupid, this prince is really a sincere person, and untie the gold belt, and make a strip, and eat vegetarian to pay off the debt, seeing that the happy stomach is about to burst with laughter, but you also have to be tense, it's really hard!

"Come on, since Governor Chen doesn't want it, see Xi and give my lion cat to Governor Chen's Mansion to play!" Suddenly, Zhao Ta stopped arguing and said loudly.

"Huh?! The prince's cat was exchanged by the father-in-law of the country with a painting of Prime Minister Cai and King Xuan, and it is your beloved thing! "Seeing that Xixin said that it was my turn to play again, he said in surprise.

"Why are you so ignorant, what is a cat, Governor Chen gave us a house, and you are reluctant to give us a cat!" Zhao Ta reprimanded.

"Hmph, you can't sleep without holding the cat every day, and now it's a gift, see what you do at night..." Seeing that Xi chirped in a voice that everyone could hear clearly, he retreated dissatisfied.

Everyone is confused again, you said that the prince can calculate, but now he is generous. A cat may not be nothing, but the cat is exchanged for a picture of Prime Minister Cai Cheng, the cat doesn't know how much it is, but Prime Minister Cai's words are valuable, a fan can be sold for 3,000 yuan, and the prefect is not a loss. Children may not understand what is going on here, but it is sincere to be able to give away their beloved things.

After negotiating the matter of buying land, the guys brought up all kinds of dishes like water, Zhao Ta's performance just now was very favored by everyone, and they toasted him one after another, he couldn't drink, so he had to have a big steward and see Xi to do it for him, and the banquet was not dispersed, and he was already drunk.

Chen Tang asked people who had drunk too much to help them go down to sober up, he found a private room and asked Zhao Ta to rest for a while, the guy served tea, Chen Tang waved him back, and Zhao Ta just let the 'bodyguards' guard at the door.

"Lord, help!" Seeing that there was no one else in the room, Chen Tang fell to his knees and said, Zhao Ta didn't wake him up like he did just now, just looked at him with a sneer and waited for his next step.

"Lord Wang, this rebel son of Xia Guan offended the prince and deserved to die, but after all, he is the flesh and blood of Xia Guan, and please spare his life on the thin side of Xia Guan!" When Chen Tang raised his face, he was already in tears, and said with a whimper.

As soon as Zhao Ta saw him like this, he knew that the meat drama was coming, and he performed a family drama in front of him, "Governor Chen, I also want to let him go, but your son insults my parents, and others scold your son, what will you do?" Zhao Ta asked 'seriously'.

"This..." Chen Tang listened to the prince's childish words, and it was really difficult to answer for a while, if it was an ordinary person, it would be easy to say, but his father was the emperor, and the old lady was a concubine, scolding the emperor was the crime of bullying the king, and he was going to raid the family and exterminate the clan, "Prince, the child doesn't know the prince, that's an unintentional mistake, and please ask the prince to be gracious!" ”

"Governor Chen, this matter is not easy to do, others know that someone scolded my father, but I can't scold back, I will say that I am not filial!" Zhao Ta said with his head shaking like a rattle.

Chen Tang has never been so sad, the person in front of him is a child, but he is still the emperor's son, he doesn't eat the soft one, and he doesn't dare to do the hard one, I really don't know what to do with him, so I have to beg bitterly, hoping to impress the prince.

"Okay, Governor Chen, don't cry, crying makes people upset!" A big man was lying on the ground crying, Zhao Ta looked really embarrassed, as if he had done something to him, and said unhappily: "I didn't want his life, but I can't just forget it!" ”

It turns out that the prince is soft-hearted, and he knew that I would cry as long as I did, and the provincial white took a Zhuangzi, Chen Tang thought so but did not dare to show the slightest dissatisfaction, "But according to the king's orders, as long as he is left with his life, let the prince dispose of it!" ”

"He has a bad mouth, so let him be outside the palace and slap his mouth a hundred times!" Zhao Ta thought about it and said, he wanted to say that he would play a hundred boards, but he felt uneasy, the ones who played the boards were Chen Tang's subordinates, and when he poured, he would definitely be merciful and fool himself, and let him slap himself on the street It doesn't hurt or not It hurts, it is secondary, the main thing is to humiliate him, so that he no longer dares to be arrogant.

"Okay, just according to the prince, the lower officials first thanked the prince for not killing!" Chen Tang breathed a sigh of relief, this punishment is really something that only children can come up with.

"Governor Chen, what are you going to do with those people who are besieging the palace?" Zhao Ta took a sip of tea and asked.

"According to the law, the lower officials will exile them for three thousand miles!" Chen Tang said with a righteous face.