The Emperor of the Apocalypse was greatly moved.

Then he smiled: "This painting is excellent, come here, collect it for me, return to the capital, and send it to me to the Qinzheng Palace to hang it." ”

So, the eunuch hurriedly collected the painting.

The Emperor of the Apocalypse patted Yang She's head: "Very good, study hard." ”

He said that he studied hard.

Zhang Jingyi on the side breathed a sigh of relief, this matter of Qiu County not learning the Four Books and Five Classics can be regarded as settled.

It's all about reading, and I teach whatever I want.

It is important to know that education is the foundation of everything.

The Emperor of the Apocalypse continued to move forward, and at this time, Long Yan Dayue walked much briskly all the way, and then arrived at the county office.

I saw that this county government occupies a lot of land, and the original county government function is very simple, but now, the county has to manage all aspects of things, and there are many more personnel than before!

The Emperor of the Apocalypse entered the lobby and took his seat.

After being promoted, hundreds of officials also entered the yazhong.

At this time, the Emperor of the Apocalypse ordered someone to call Zhu Sufen, the king of Yiyang County, to come forward and speak.

Zhu Sufen knew that he couldn't hide, so he had to stand up and say, "Your Majesty ......"

The Emperor of the Apocalypse changed his approach to those children and looked at him viciously at this time: "Didn't you say that this Fengqiu County has been reversed?" ”

Zhu Sufen said with an aggrieved face: "I thought it was the opposite, but ......"

Before he could continue, the Emperor of the Apocalypse interrupted him impatiently: "I have gone through so many prefectures and counties, and I don't see anyone so loyal, what do you mean, you dog, but you are here to tell the truth?" ”

Zhu Sufen cried: "Minister...... The minister just felt that Fengqiu County was ...... It's ridiculous, the minister's wife and brother were pitted hard by them in Fengqiu County......"

As he spoke, Zhu Sufen really burst into tears.

"Bitter?" The Emperor of the Apocalypse had a straight face: "Is it because you have to pay taxes?" Call your brother and wife...... Today, I want to make it clear. ”

So a eunuch went to find Zhu Sufen's wife and brother.

After more than half an hour, a gentry named Liu Wengui came miserably.

When he saw the Emperor of the Apocalypse, he immediately bowed down and cried: "Your Majesty, someone wants to encroach on the ancestral property of the minister. ”

The Emperor of the Apocalypse looked at him, but saw that he was fat with big ears and a big belly, kneeling on the ground, which looked particularly ridiculous.

The Emperor of the Apocalypse said coldly: "How did you encroach on your ancestral property? ”

"This Fengqiu County does not act according to the system of the imperial court, especially the county order to manage Shao Ning, colluded with Jinyiwei, and directly raised the taxes of the grass people to seventy percent. By the way, they also colluded with the people of the peasant cooperatives, and the grass people were a family of more than a dozen people, and seven or eight of them were arrested, and they suffered an unknown number of crimes, and the grass people were released only after the grass people paid the taxes. The grass people had no choice but to sell the land, which was bought by the ancestors of the grass people with the money they saved without eating or drinking. When I first bought it, it was a few dozen taels of silver, but now, the price of this land is not three taels of silver...... It has to be sold, isn't this an encroachment on the ancestral property of the grass people? ”

The Emperor of the Apocalypse squinted his eyes and said, "You want to sell this land yourself, since you want to sell it cheaply, what do you have to do with people?" ”

Liu Wengui was anxious: "He doesn't levy such a heavy tax, how can the grass people be in a hurry to sell their land?" Not so many people are in a hurry to sell land...... Why is the ancestral property gone? ”

The Emperor of the Apocalypse said, "Guan Shaoning, is what he said right?" ”

Guan Shaoning had been standing next to him silently, and his teacher was by his side at this time, so he was quite confident in his heart, so he slowly stood up and said, "Your Majesty, there is such a thing. ”

Liu Wengui shouted again: "Your Majesty, this evil thing that Shao Ning has done is not only like this...... He...... He colluded with the rogues, which is ironclad, and he even sent people to talk to the nearby rogues, and in this county, he took in a lot of the rogues. ”

So the Emperor of the Apocalypse looked at Guan Shaoning again.

Guan Shaoning still nodded: "It is true that many homeless people have been resettled. ”

The caretaker Shao Ning admitted it, and Liu Wengui became more energetic, so he said: "He is leviing everywhere...... Many good and law-abiding people will not be able to survive. Do you care if Shao Ning dares to deny this? ”

Guan Shaoning said: "For some people, it is indeed harsh on taxes. ”

Liu Wengui said at this time: "Your Majesty, a law-abiding person like the minister can't survive anymore, dare to ask Your Majesty, is this Shao Ning an official of the imperial court, or a fellow party of the Liukou?" ”

Zhu Sufen on the side also cried: "Your Majesty, what the minister said is true, this Shao Ning came to Henan, and made the heavens angry and resentful, and the minister, as a clan, is really afraid that he will stir up people's hearts and ruin my Ming Dynasty, so I implore Your Majesty to investigate." ”

As he spoke, the two of them began to cry together.

When the officials saw Liu Wengui, many people couldn't help but feel sympathy.

Then someone whispered, "Your Majesty...... What Shao Ning did was indeed a bit absurd, like a village sage like Liu Wengui, the court relied on them most of the time. They helped to collect this tax, and they couldn't do without building rivers and bridges. Now that Shao Ning is here, he is so violent, doesn't this put people to death? If this continues, if Liu Wengui and others are all detached from His Majesty and the court, the ministers are only afraid...... The world is going to be chaotic. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, I am afraid of overkill in everything...... really forced people like Liu Wengui to a dead end, who does the court rely on to rule the world? ”

The Emperor of the Apocalypse was unmoved.

This is interesting, on one side some people say that the Emperor of the Apocalypse is a holy monarch, on the other hand, some people scold the Emperor of the Apocalypse with blood.

The Emperor of the Apocalypse was not in a hurry to express any opinions, but said, "Liu Wengui." ”

Liu Wengui hurriedly said: "The grass people are here." ”

"How many people are there like you?"

"At least hundreds." Liu Wengui said: "However, people like the grass people are unlucky, although the 85,000 people in this Fengqiu County have been temporarily bewitched by Guan Shaoning, they can be bewitched for a while now, but they will ...... in the future."

"Let's slow down......" At this moment, Guan Shaoning suddenly calmed down and said leisurely.

Liu Wengui saw that Shao Ning interrupted him, and said: "Your Majesty, you see, even if this person is in front of the emperor, he is so bold, Your Majesty asked, and the grass people knew everything, but he interrupted like this, this is not to take Your Majesty in his eyes." ”

The Emperor of the Apocalypse looked at Guan Shaoning: "Why did Guan Qing's family interrupt him." ”

Guan Shaoning said: "The minister just made a mistake for Liu Wengui, just now Liu Wengui said that there are 85,000 people in Fengqiu County, which is ...... He miscalculated. ”

"Oh?" The Emperor of the Apocalypse immediately looked at the hundred officials.

At this time, a Hanlin stood up and immediately said, "Your Majesty, it is indeed 85,000 people, a total of 19,000 households. ”

The Hanlin were all knowledgeable, and they dealt with the documents and the archives of the various ministries every day, and some of the numbers could still be remembered.

Guan Shaoning smiled and said: "Indeed, in the yellow book of the household department, the people are indeed 19,000 households and 85,000 people, but after the minister took office, he found that it was far more than that, the actual number was more than 42,930 households, 231,200 people. ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone was in an uproar.

Fengqiu is located in the Central Plains, with a large population, with nearly 20,000 households, which is already a big county, but I didn't expect it...... Now more than 20,000 households have been counted...... This......

Guan Shaoning said: "Not only that, but in the past few days, the minister has recruited a large number of displaced people and asked them to settle in the county, which is more than 13,000 households, so now Fengqiu County is 55,000 households and 310,000 people. ”

The Emperor of the Apocalypse couldn't sit still at this time.

Guan Shaoning continued: "Since Emperor Taizu Gao, the population of Fengqiu County has not increased in the past two hundred years, and it has even ...... It was also reduced. Chan has always found it strange. After more than 200 years of peace, where is the reason why the population does not increase but decreases? This mounds are not a place of poor mountains and bad waters, but when they arrived at the place, they established a peasant cooperative, and after asking the peasant cooperatives to check the land and population, they learned that nearly half of the people in this county did not exist in the yellow book of the imperial court! ”

"These people have land and property, but they don't pay taxes, in the past, the taxes of the mounds have always been borne by those who have no land and rent grain fields, dare to ask Your Majesty, is this reasonable?"

The Emperor of the Apocalypse nodded.

Therefore, according to the teacher's prescription, the minister implemented the policy of apportioning the land into the mu, whoever has more land will pay more taxes, and whoever has land will pay taxes. For example, in the past, Fengqiu County levied 300,000 quintals of grain every year, but this year, Fengqiu County levied grain, but it was 2.4 million quintals, not only that, but these collected grain did not increase the burden of the people, and the people not only did not bear the burden, but many landless poor people, the tax was greatly reduced, and they rejoiced. ”

Two million quintals.

As soon as this statement came out.

The people in the county government were in an uproar again.

The population has exploded.

The collection of grain has also skyrocketed.

This is unimaginable in any prefecture or county.

Especially in Henan now, you must know that there has been a large-scale outflow in Henan, and the production situation in many prefectures and counties has been destroyed.

It can even be said that it is not bad that the Henan official Qingsi of the household department can collect 2.4 million quintals of grain from the whole of Henan this year.

He's a county...... And it did.

The Emperor of the Apocalypse was also greatly stunned: "Can you collect so much? ”

"In addition to these, there are salt taxes, iron taxes, and commercial taxes...... Nor are these decimals. Guan Shao Ning said.

"It's killing chickens and taking eggs." Liu Wengui gritted his teeth and said: "Such a rampant and tyrannical expropriation, who would dare to stay in this Fengqiu County." ”

That's right, after collecting so many taxes, who still runs to Fengqiu County.

Guan Shaoning smiled and looked at Zhu Sufen and Liu Wengui: "Of course there is, for example, His Royal Highness the King of Yiyang County, won't he move a lot of money, grain, and goods to Fengqiu County?" Several warehouses in the east of the city were full. ”

What do you mean?

The king of Yiyang County actually secretly moved his property to Fengqiu County?

So what did he come to sue?

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