Chapter 405: Let's Talk About Taxes
At the table, Luo Yan slowly picked up a chopstick dish and teased: "Patriarch Su is boundlessly charming!" ”
"Hehe~" Su Qiqi smiled sympathetically: "Win the prize!" It's not like the city, and the drunkard's intention is not to drink. ”
Luo Yan said with a smile: "The patriarch's reply is very good, but you are not afraid that if he really agrees to your request, how can it be good!" ”
"Afraid?" Su Qiqi said lightly: "If he dares to come, I will dare to raise him, and I will definitely build a golden house for Bojun to smile, and eat and drink to support him until he dies of old age." ”
"Hahaha...."Luo Yan laughed heartily.
Longqi Mountain, not far from the foot of the mountain, several palaces are born on the ground, and there are several palaces to be built.
The new imperial palace is modeled on the old capital building, and the mountain behind the imperial city is named Longqi Mountain, which is taken from the old capital Longqi Mountain.
Today's emperor misses the old very much....
When night came, there was a crisp sound of smashing weapons in one of the palaces, and Yu Manzhi's eyes were red, and his eyes were full of cruelty, and he smashed the newly placed utensils in a hurry.
Outside the temple gate, the maidservant stood with her head bowed, motionless, silent as a cicada, lest she be affected.
The master is cold-hearted and has fierce methods, and no one dares to step forward to dissuade him.
Fang Li hesitated for a while, hesitated and wandered a few steps, looked around, and the maids outside the palace gate did not dare to come out, and they couldn't wait to bury their heads in the stone slab.
"Whew" Fang Li exhaled softly, raised his feet and stepped into the palace.
"Niangniang is angry, beware of being angry." Fang Li stood beside her, cold sweat dripping from her back, and she reached out to stop Yu Manzhi's raised wrist as if she were desperate.
Yu Manzhi smashed the porcelain in his hand, shook his hand and slapped her face, looking crazy: "Cheap girl! What do you know, the back position is from the palace, and the back position is from my Yu Manzhi, and others don't want to get involved! ”
Fang Li covered her face with one hand, blinked vigorously, and said softly: "Niangniang is angry." ”
"Shut up!" Yu Manzhi kicked her hard, and the unwilling resentment in her heart poured out on her.
Fang Li stumbled and fell to the ground, his back hit the ground, and there was a sharp pain.
Yu Manzhi still couldn't understand his hatred, and kicked her a few times as if he was angry, and kept shouting: "The back position belongs to the palace, no one wants to snatch it..."
Seeing his master fall into madness, Fang Li's heart felt a chill, and an indescribable sadness surged into his heart, so strong that he couldn't dissolve.
In the imperial study, the envoy returned from the city, trembling and returning to the city to give an attitude.
Qin Zhan's cold face was shrouded in coldness, and the imperial pen in his hand snapped into two, and the sharp wooden thorns stabbed the palms of his hands.
The envoy was good at checking the holy will, knowing that it was angry, and he did not dare to come out, full of panic, for fear of being angered.
The air in the study was extremely oppressive.
After a long time, Qin Zhan threw away the imperial pen, took a handkerchief and wiped his palm clean, and glanced at it lightly: "Day and night, all kinds of taxes, household taxes, Ding taxes, etc. ”
"We're in command! Obey the Divine Commandment! The envoy bowed cautiously and withdrew from the imperial study, and let out a long sigh of relief.
A general at the gate of the palace hurriedly came, found Wei Zhixun, and said: "General Wei, another group of servants who built the palace have escaped, and many servants who are responsible for building the nobles' homes outside the palace have also escaped, how to deal with this matter?" ”
Wei Zhixun scolded with his head covered his face: "Stupid! Can't handle such trivial things? Catch it and beat it to death with a stick to set an example. ”
"Yes!" The general's urn replied angrily.
The next day, the city once again ushered in the envoys, Lin Zhongshan looked at the taxes written on a page, all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, all kinds of things, clever names.
"Heh~" Lin Zhongshan shook the booklet in his hand and sneered: "Someone! Fork them out of the city for me. ”
The rebuttal is omitted.
Hearing his words, the envoy was shocked and shouted: "Presumptuous! General Lin, you dare to disobey the holy will, and if you don't take the current emperor into account, do you want to fight against the imperial court, and you can't rebel? ”
Lin Zhongshan sneered: "Your Majesty? He is your emperor, not the emperor of my city, rebelling? My city has nothing to do with the imperial court, which one is against it? ”
"One day, your and my armies will fight, and if you are defeated, you can't even call a change of dynasty, at most you will be considered a broken country. So, don't put gold on your faces, okay? ”
The envoy's face was blue and red, and he really wanted to hold up the high-ranking official frame of the past and reprimand Lin Zhongshan angrily.
Under Lin Zhongshan's contemptuous gaze, he couldn't open his mouth a little, and bluffed: "General Shengyi Lin doesn't report to the city, and acts casually with his opinions, aren't you afraid that the imperial army will come to the city at that time, and the top will blame?" ”
Lin Zhongshan smiled: "This is the housework of my city, and it is not up to the guests to worry about whether they are to blame or not." ”
"Someone, send the guests out of the city!"
"You.. You.. You are simply unreasonable, only a thousand soldiers dare to oppose the imperial court, and if you really eat the bear's heart and leopard's gall, you will wait for the city gate to be broken and there will be no place to die...."You were forcibly dragged out of the barracks, and you came to shout loudly, intending to disturb the people's hearts and fan the flames.
Lin Zhongshan's eyes were sharp, and he peeked through his secret calculations, and did not stop it, the population of the outer city has exceeded 50,000, and there will inevitably be some unpredictable and restless people among them.
On the leveling streets, a group of workers who had gone up to the mountains to cultivate passed by the envoys and whispered.
One of them said: "If the imperial court really sends troops to attack the city, what is good, there are few soldiers in the city, I am afraid that the confrontation will not be won, once the city is breached, then we will become thieves." ”
Li Dahan on the side said: "You don't have a lot of demons to confuse the public, the city is so easy to break?" Are you blind? Can't you see how strong the walls are? ”
The man continued: "That's not easy to say, there are still hundreds of thousands of troops in the imperial court, and the city walls are strong enough to support many people!" ”
Li Dahan laughed: "If you are afraid, leave the city as soon as possible and go back to your court, I think you are stupid by the grain, let me ask you, do you know what the situation is in the inner city?" Do you know how many soldiers there are? ”
The man sneered, "I don't know, you know? ”
Li Dahan snorted coldly: "I don't know, but I know that the city is as stable as Mount Tai." What about hundreds of thousands of troops, what if there are few people who can't fight, as long as the city is closed, the court has nothing to do, and can only look at the city and sigh. ”
The man said, "I don't understand what you're saying, I can't keep my door shut for the rest of my life." ”
Li Dahan glanced at him: "Is there anything missing in the city?" Need to get out of town? Besides, with tens of thousands of acres of fertile land on the mountain, we can have no worries about food and clothing, and surround the army outside the city? Where does the food come from, there are still a few victims left in the imperial city, and some of them have also been pulled to help those nobles repair their courtyards and palaces, who will grow food? I can't understand such a simple truth, what are you talking about......"
When the words fell, Li Dahan quickened his pace, stayed away from the man, listened to the wind and rain, and couldn't afford to incite at all, this kind of person couldn't deal with him, and he was implicated by him if he couldn't say it, and he was driven out of the city.
Going out is a death sooner or later!
Heaven does not stay, but to go to hell, and the good days are only a few days away, and they forget the miserable days of hunger and thirst.