After the Xirong envoys from Hexi finished the meeting, they were all settled down to rest!

The ministers still stood in the court, continued to discuss state affairs, Wang Zhe was in a happy mood, he touched his beard and said with a smile: "Many envoys came to the court together, the old man is the first time in his life to see, my great Yong country has a prosperous appearance!"

Lord Lang, the chief eunuch who has never spoken, even said: "Hey, it's a pity that there are very few palaces in my palace, and there are not a few envoys who stay outside the palace, which is detrimental to the face of my great country!

Everyone laughed after hearing this, and Wang Zhele smiled and said: "Lord Lang actually participated in the administration of the court, it should be the first time, hahaha!"

Chief Manager Lang lowered his head and smiled slightly, and said very embarrassedly: "The old slave has heard a lot about this court, and naturally knows a lot about many important things! The number of officials in this great Yong country has increased dramatically, not to mention whether the palace will be expanded, and this palace must be increased! The road to the west of the river is far away, and it must be hard for the officials to come from afar, but there is something wrong with the palace hospitality, and the officials will also murmur in their hearts, and it will be difficult for my emperor to be gracious!"

Wang Zhe touched his beard and nodded, and then said very approvingly: "Chief Lang is reasonable, this matter must be handled immediately, otherwise the worship in the coming year will be the same, and the officials will complain!"

I smiled slightly and nodded at Queen Meng, who then smiled and said, "Since this is the case, this matter will be handled by Lord Baili!"

Uncle Baili came out of the ranks, smiled and saluted and said, "Your Majesty the Queen, the lower officials obey the order!"

Wang Zhe looked at Uncle Baili, turned around and asked him: "Lord Baili, the old man wants to ask Lord Neishi, now that my Dayong has achieved great results in expanding the territory, but the losses of the soldiers are relatively serious, should I stop the soldiers and recuperate at the moment?"

After hearing this, Uncle Baili replied with his head held high: "Recently, my Dayong has been fighting one after another, and now we are in a state of poverty, lack of food, and materials! Fortunately, His Royal Highness the Prince has used the strategy of supporting the country through war, and the treasury will not be completely depleted, and there is still a small surplus! Now that the expansion of the territory has just taken place, we should take the opportunity to recuperate and recuperate by stabilizing the counties and pacifying the people's hearts! The soldiers of our Dayong Kingdom originally numbered 100,000 people, and they have remained unchanged for many years, but now there are less than 70,000 soldiers in the whole country after returning from the war! We should recruit new soldiers to train the new army as soon as possible to supplement the losses of our army in case of contingency! ”

Empress Meng took the initiative to speak this time and said: "Lord Baili is reasonable, my Dayong now has a great increase in the country, and 100,000 soldiers are not enough to protect the country, not to mention only 70,000 people! It is imperative to recruit new soldiers, there are countless displaced people from the east, and it is easy to do it at this time! This matter will be handed over to Lord Taiwei to supervise!"

Lord Taiwei...... It's been a long time since anyone mentioned this title, and everyone only says that I am His Royal Highness the Crown Prince or His Royal Highness the Prince, and has forgotten that I am also a lieutenant! Empress Meng's remarks are intended to show that I am in charge of this matter on official business, and not intended to let me expand my own army! Empress Meng is also true, keeping in mind the disadvantages of the past, it is really cautious step by step! I immediately got up and replied: "My son obeys!"

At this time, Wang Zhe raised his long sleeves and said to me with a smile: "Your Royal Highness Prince, it is now another midsummer, and summer taxes from all over the country have been paid! Since His Royal Highness's tax reform was originally carried out, more than two years have passed now, but the taxes in the two places are also the least, I don't know what His Highness's plans are for this?"

...... , I can barely do everything smoothly, just Nima's tax reform gives me a headache, I don't know where the problem is! This Nima Wang Zhe is also really, holding my pigtail alive and dead and refusing to stop, hey, depressed, depressed!

I looked at him silently, a little unspeakable, thinking about it, I had to answer: "In the past, the gamble with the prime minister, the gentleman said his word, naturally he will not break his promise, this king should honor the original promise! The gambling debt is owed first, let the king make up, and it will be sent to the prime minister's mansion in the near future! This king is a little tired, please retire first, you continue!"

Wang Zhe stretched out his hand and hurriedly said: "Prince and slow, prince, prince ......"

I was depressed, I didn't bother to pay attention to him at all, after saluting Queen Meng, and getting her answer, I turned around and left the hall through the side door!

After escaping from this embarrassing court hall, I stood by the side door and looked up and sighed long, Nima has never been so embarrassed here, what a shame!

I only heard the voice of the imperial uncle from the palace: "Isn't it just five thousand taels of gold, as if you have to force the prince to sell his fiefdom, as for it?"

Wang Zhe hurriedly defended: "Uncle Huang, this is not what he meant, the old minister just wants to ......"

At this time, he heard the Empress Dowager Meng interrupt him and reprimanded: "Prime Minister, you have gone too far! In the past three years, His Royal Highness the Prince has been galloping outside the territory to protect my great yong, and he rarely stays in Yongzhou, so how can he be allowed to deal with the tax reform! As soon as the prince went to the war, he had more than a load, and he had not had a good rest when he just returned to Yongzhou this time, and today he has not neglected to govern the government in all his ways, and there are very few people who are so diligent in politics and the country, so why is the prime minister so aggressive in bringing up the old things?"

Then came Wang Zhe's voice: "The old minister should die, the old minister is confused! The old minister really shouldn't mention this matter today, and he won't mention it again in the future! This has made His Royal Highness the prince in a bad mood, and the old minister is also full of remorse, and I ask Her Majesty the Queen and the imperial uncle to forgive the old minister's ignorance!"

Uncle Huang said coldly: "People are also angry, what is the use of saying this at this time!"

After hearing Wang Zhe's long lamentation in the main hall, I turned around and walked into the main hall through the side door, and everyone looked at me together. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

I said to Wang Zhe: "The bet between this king and the prime minister has indeed been lost, and the eldest husband will take it and let it go, and the gambling debts will be given from the same day onwards! But this king also said that the tax reform was not successful, this is a fact, but only for the present! This king said today to listen to the prime minister, and when the king's tax reform policy is first completed, the prime minister will blame himself for this, if you don't believe the prime minister, you will wait and see!"

Seeing that I was still so stubborn about the tax reform, all the ministers were shocked, and they all bowed their heads and whispered, Wang Zhe was even more stunned, and wanted to say anything but didn't dare to speak.

I smiled at the ministers, saluted, and went straight back to my lodgings to rest.

After returning to Chaoyang Palace, I sat alone in the hall drinking tea, thinking about the tax reform in my head, and I would be anxious for a while!

After a while, a eunuch came to report that several Xirong officials from Hexi wanted to come to see me, and they had brought me some gifts from the Western Regions!

After hearing this, my eyes immediately lit up, the gift of the Western Regions?

Suddenly, I remembered that this Hexi region is not the Hexi Corridor on the Silk Road?

So I ordered all the officials of Hexi to be summoned, and all the officials came together with a smile, and filled my Chaoyang Palace to the brim! There were really not so many chairs, so I asked the eunuchs to spread woolen blankets on the ground, and sat with everyone as if they had gone to the Xirong tribe, so that they seemed more natural, and this was their habit anyway.

I consulted them about the Silk Road, asked about the goods of contemporary merchants in the Western Regions, and learned a lot of things that I didn't know!

Then I asked them to send a message to all the merchants of the Western Regions on my behalf, asking them to come to Hanzhong to bring more goods, and tell them that this king is very interested in the goods of their Western Regions, and will buy a large number of goods from the merchants of the Western Regions!

After sending away all the officials in Hexi, I immediately sent someone to Chaoyang Palace to count my property, these gold treasures were given to me by a tribe in Hexi, originally I planned to sell them to pay off Prime Minister Wang's gambling debts, but now I am not in a hurry to do so!

Then I began to go out of the palace to visit several ministers of the court, and ask them why the people had surplus grain in their hands, but they would rather keep it rotting at home than sell it! I have always been very confused by this phenomenon, and I have not been able to understand the thoughts of the people!

The ministers have not been ordinary people, and they have been rich and noble mansions for generations, so it is obviously difficult to give a satisfactory answer!

In order to find the answer, I had to take some money and manpower and rush directly to Fangling to inspect the people's situation! If I want to know why, it seems that I can only go to Fangl County and ask door to door in person!

Fan Yong has been exhausted in the past few days, he has accompanied me to dozens of peasant households, and the people dare not talk nonsense when they see me, it is all some flattering and flattering words, which makes me understand nothing.

One day, Fan Yong and I went to the countryside to investigate the people's situation, and Han Cheng happened to be free, so he accompanied me down to the mountain village.

On the hillside, we walked into the home of an elderly couple and asked the old man countless questions, but the old man and I kept talking about it and refused to tell the truth.

At this time, Fan Yong and Han Cheng were chatting at the door, and the old people seemed to be very afraid of the two of them, and looked up at the two generals from time to time.

I think they were probably frightened by the GIs, so I said to Fan Yong: "General Fan, you have followed me to fight in Hexi for more than a year, and you have also practiced the swordsmanship taught by this king to you for a year, so why not take this opportunity to ask General Han for advice today, so that General Han can give you some advice!"

Fan Yong was overjoyed after hearing this, and happily dragged Han Cheng to the threshing floor in the distance to learn.

When this guy saw that I was very fluent in sword moves, he begged me to teach him, so I gave him the nine styles of swordsmanship!

This Fan Yong doesn't care about political affairs and governance, but he is very interested in this swordsmanship, and he will get started as soon as he learns it, and now he is no longer the Fan Yong who lost to Lin Chenghua! If he fights Lin Chenghua again, it is not certain who will win and who will lose.

Just as I was smiling and watching the two of them compete with each other, the old farmer stretched out his hand and pulled me, and asked me timidly, "Lord Xiantong, do you really want to know why the grass people refuse to sell it even if they have grain?"

I was stunned for a moment after hearing this, the people of this house only call me a fairy child, I have long been accustomed to this, but this old man suddenly said this to me, could it be that he was sloppy with me before, because he had a relationship with the fierce Fan Yong on the side? The farmers were afraid that he would not dare to say it?

I frowned and asked, "Of course, otherwise why would this fairy child go all over the mountains and fields to ask about this!"

The old peasant sighed and said: "In times of trouble, the suffering of the people is the same all over the world, in the past, who could have surplus grain, and it was a great fortune that they did not starve to death in the wilderness! Those who can fill their bellies, how many people can there be in the world! We are all grass people, so we want a place to live and have food to eat! Thanks to the emperor's grace, we have reduced the taxes of all the people in Fangling, so that every family can have surplus grain! But I don't know that such a beautiful scenery will last for a few days! I heard that the land of Kyushu has been in war one after another, and the displaced people from the east have never stopped, and the suffering of the people in Fangling from other places is also vivid! If this tax is changed back, we will also have surplus grain to eat from previous years, and we will be able to survive for a few days! Although every household in Fangling today has food to eat, they dare not forget the suffering of famine in the past, and even if the surplus grain rots at home, they dare not sell it! This is the reason why the old man does not sell the surplus grain, and it has nothing to do with the small tax on selling grain in the bazaar!

...... After listening to the old man's careful answers, I suddenly realized that the mystery of many years has finally been solved today!

I opened my mouth again and asked, "But if you can get rich by selling grain, and if you have money, you can have enough food at any time, why let the surplus rot at home, isn't it a pity?"

The old man shook his head and sighed: "The fairy boy still doesn't know, if it is a year of famine, the grain in the market is as expensive as gold, and even more so it is difficult to find a grain in hand, what is the use of money?"

...... In a word, the court officials are in chaos, the society is in turmoil, and the people's livelihood is unspeakable, so that the court has lost the hearts of the people!

I nodded, and asked tentatively: "If the imperial court has official grain to sell in the bazaar, the officials and the people have grain to buy, and the price is relatively stable! If so, can the people be willing to sell their surplus grain?"

The old man smiled and said: "If this is the case, we and other grass people naturally don't have to hide grain at home, it's really a pity to rot in vain!

...... I have found the root of this problem, as for how to solve this problem and let the court win the trust of the people, I still have to think about it!

Then I asked curiously: "If this fairy boy sends someone to the village to find the people to buy grain, are you willing to sell it?"

The old man smiled happily: "The fairy child is the reborn parent of all the people in my Fangling, of course I am willing to sell it!

I nodded, sighed, and said, "My army has returned from the battle, and many soldiers are hungry and thin, and now I want to buy some rations to relieve the hunger of the king's army!"

After hearing this, the old man immediately got up, and he replied: "What is the situation of the imperial court, the grass people can't control the short will! If the army under the command of Xiantong is starving, the grass people should offer all the surplus grain at home, and don't buy it! My Fangling people are greatly favored by the fairy child, even if they die, they can't say thanks, and tens of millions of people should be like me, and ensure that the army of the king of Hanzhong has food to eat every day!"

After saying that, the old man immediately turned around and took me to turn over the grain, and I followed him to a small grain storage room, only to see that the small room was full of sacks filled with grain, good fellow!

I really took the old man's food, but I still gave him a lot of money to thank him!

The money given to him can buy double the amount of food, and I thank him for solving a shocking mystery for me!