Emperor Yongming saw that no one spoke out against it, and continued: "Since there is no objection, then you pavilion elders ...... today Well, although it was getting late, I still worked hard to draw up the new preferential exemption rules. In addition to this, a new preferential exemption will be drawn up, and some civilian families will be included, such as those who have accumulated good fortune, those who have already made meritorious contributions, or those who have not made meritorious names but have a far-reaching reputation, etc., and their families' clans can be exempted according to a certain rate......"

The emperor gave an order, and the four elders had to follow it.

"Tomorrow I will submit the pre-imperial ticket, and I will personally approve it."

After the emperor gave his edict, he ended the late dynasty. The red plate was parked on the ramp on the west side of the Huiji Gate, the emperor sat on the board, and the honor guard went all the way north.

After the guard of honor went away, these court ministers walked out of the Huiji Gate one by one and walked east to the Donghua Gate to leave the palace. It's just that the four old men of the cabinet returned to the lobby of Wenyuan Pavilion south of the Huiji Gate.

At this time, the sky was completely dark, and among the courtiers who walked out of the palace, some walked fast, some walked slowly, and the two who fell behind were Qin Xuan, the governor of Shaanxi, and Li Yixian, the governor of Shandong.

Qin Xuan had been frowning until the end of the evening dynasty, always feeling that today's evening dynasty started suddenly and ended sloppily, what was Your Majesty's intention?

Li Yixian, who was with him all the way, saw that he was always frowning, and asked with a smile: "Why does Brother Ben Qing keep frowning?" ”

is also the governor, Qin Xuan has a good relationship with him on weekdays, so he asked him: "Brother Yixian, little brother, I am a little confused, this will be abolished, and then it will be added, what do you say Your Majesty means?" ”

Li Yixian's face deepened when he heard this, he thought for a while and said: "That's it, it's getting late now, because my brother's belly is empty, why don't I find a place to eat first, and then go back to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and tell you the cause and effect of this for my brother?" ”

"Where are you looking? It's better to eat in the courtyard, little brother, after I returned to Beijing this time, I found that the original restaurant chef has been replaced with a new one, and the craftsmanship is actually good, not worse than the outside. ”

"That's right, then call the carriage and go back to the procuratorate."

The two went out of Donghua Gate, and then walked to the outside of Dong'an Gate, quickly called a carriage, after getting in the car, the carriage quickly drove south, took the riverside road to the north bridge of the Yuhe River and then turned westward, crossed Chang'an Street and then walked the Ministry of Punishment, until they saw Dali Temple, the Metropolitan Procuratorate was not far away.

After getting out of the carriage and returning to the Metropolitan Courtyard, the two went to the dining hall for dinner first, and only after they were full of wine and food did they leave the dining hall, and then walked to Li Yixian's small study in the Metropolitan Courtyard.

"The last game of chess is still there, and there is still an endgame left for my brother, how about it, continue today?"

"Sne......er" Qin Xuan was a little disdainful, after he was full of wine and food, his brows finally opened, thinking to himself, brother, you are okay with Go, but chess is too bad, no matter how you play, you can only lose.

"I said Brother Yixian, if you want to win at your current level, I'm afraid I'll have to temper it for a while."

"Hehe, don't worry, let's start with the endgame today."

"Okay, the endgame is the endgame."

The two of them quickly entered the study, Li Yixian instructed Chang Sui to make tea, and then sat down at the square table between the pins, and Qin Xuan then sat opposite him. The chessboard on the table was indeed the endgame left over from the last time, and Qin Xuan knew it in his heart after just a glance.

"Hehe, the outcome of this game has been decided, there is no way to put the head down, it is better to put the chess pieces again."

"How so?"

"If I use Wei to save Zhao in this game, you will have no solution to the black chess. In this way, I will demonstrate one: the first step I eat your rook first in red chess, the cannon nine into eight, and the cannon is contained, but in fact, in order to kill and kill, your rook is two and one, and you can only eat the cannon. ”

After that, he started to deduce, and Li Yixian watched him deduce, and his expression gradually became focused.

"I am five into seven, flying and handsome, this is pushing the window to look at the moon, you are like seven retreating five, retreating like killing. Then the pawn six into one, will be four to five; My soldiers are six and five, and you will be five and six; The soldiers are five and four, and the generals are six and five; The car is eight flat five, and the five will be flat four; The pawn is four into one, and the soldier is called to kill, and you have no solution to the black chess......"

Qin Xuan quickly finished the deduction, and then asked, "Do you understand?" ”

Li Yixian didn't answer directly, looked at the chessboard and thought for a while before replying: "I understand, it turns out that this is Wei Wei to save Zhao, and I have seen it again for my brother." ”

"This game is not complicated, it's just that your chess strength is too shallow, in fact, you can understand it by finding a few more games with a master."

"That's right, then let's play another game."

"Okay, I'll teach you a few tricks as a junior brother today."

The two packed up the chess pieces and set up a new game, Li Yixian was still black, and soon they fought. The study room was silent, except for the sound of the impact of the chess pieces on contact with the chessboard......

However, in the middle of the incense time, black was already tired, and after barely taking a few more moves, he had no choice but to admit defeat.

"I lost," Li Yi saw that the black chess pieces had no life, so he readily admitted defeat.

In fact, Qin Xuan was releasing water at the beginning, but this brother's chess strength was indeed not at the same level as him. He smiled, didn't speak, and didn't care about the pieces on the board, thinking that he should still review, so he simply didn't move it.

He took the tea and moistened his throat, and then said: "This game of chess with Brother Yixian has made the younger brother a little enlightened. ”

"Hehe, enlightenment? That's right, what did Brother Qing say he understood? ”

"It's like Your Majesty suddenly summoned the Evening Dynasty, although there were conjectures before, I thought it was for the land in the south of the Yangtze River, but I didn't expect it to become a preferential and inevitable event, is this trick considered Your Majesty's plan to encircle Wei and save Zhao?"

"Hehe, Your Majesty's chess skills are profound, but if it wasn't for Wei Wei to save Zhao, I'm afraid I would have to get there in the chess game."

"So where do you say this game has been?"

"Hey," Li Yixian couldn't help but sigh lightly, and said: "You think, the whole game of chess is laid out by His Majesty, he only needs to wait for someone to play, but how to play and which move is in his hands." Although there may be strange tricks in the middle, it does not prevent him from controlling it with one hand. ”

"That's what you think?"

"I can't help but don't want to, in fact, Your Majesty is also ambitious, I see it this way, he doesn't want to be a shoucheng emperor, and reforming maladministration has naturally become a must. Now that the time is ripe, I think that in at least the next three or two years, Your Majesty's game of chess will get bigger and faster. ”

"Then I'll be a courtier, and I can only see the moves?"

"If you can see that the moves are all good, I'm afraid that I won't be able to see His Majesty's moves."

"That'...... And how to deal with it? ”

Li Yixian paused, suddenly smiled, picked up a newspaper in his hand, and said, "Read the newspaper often." ”

Qin Xuan didn't understand for a while, he was at a loss for a while, why was he involved with reading the newspaper? He took the newspaper in his hand and flipped through it, this was not the latest issue, he had already read the news reports on it, and some of them were not impressed at the time.

However, looking at what Li Yixian said solemnly, he couldn't help but wonder: "How do you say it?" ”

"This newspaper should have something to do with the female official, regardless of this female official, I found that this newspaper has always been closely following some policies of the imperial court, and can also foresee some policy trends, which is quite interesting."

"You said it had something to do with the female officer, I think it's just that you can get the news earlier, isn't it amazing."

"Not exactly, in fact, this family's current article is quite well written, and the analysis is also in place, and there was a current article about the northwest business exchanges a few months ago, which was quite wonderful...... By the way, you may not have seen it before you entered Beijing at that time, and since you are the governor of Shaanxi, you should have seen it. ”

"Oh? Where else can I see it? ”

"I should have the newspaper here, but look for it, and I'll give it to you when I find it."

"Okay, then Brother Yixian will also talk about these recent things, what is Your Majesty's attitude towards the land in Jiangnan, about taxes, and about preferential exemptions?"

"Jiangnan is an important source of taxes for the imperial court, but the tax has been very low for so many years, in addition to the south of the province, such as the tax of Zhejiang province is a little higher than the north of the province, in fact, not only Zhejiang, the coastal provinces of the tax are very low, which itself is abnormal. What do you think is the reason? What other reasons could there be besides land? ”

"Needless to say? You will know by whose hands the land is. So Xu Xiangxue is still idle at home, right? He is also unlucky enough, in fact, 1,000 hectares is really not the most. ”

"Hehe, if you want to make ends meet every year in the household department, the south can obviously contribute more taxes, but there are frequent problems in the land, do you think Your Majesty can be willing? If Your Majesty doesn't want to, someone has to carry it, and Xu Xiangxue thinks that it is to kill chickens and make an example of monkeys. ”

"Your Majesty's desire to remediate the land has something to do with preferential exemption?"

"Naturally, it has a relationship, I don't want the gentry to have too much land in their hands, and restricting the clan land is exempt, don't you want your family in Jiangnan to divide up as soon as possible, it's best to divide it into smaller and smaller ones, just like pushing the grace order, the influence of the vassal states will be weakened when they become smaller, and the strength of the imperial power will disappear from the other. So don't underestimate the restriction of the clan field, in fact, it is to encourage the 'grace order' within the family. You can see who is expanding the exemption and you know. ”

"As a result, the land becomes dispersed, but it doesn't necessarily increase by how much taxes are paid."

"Concentration has not brought any increase in revenue, but don't worry, I think it's just the beginning now, as for His Majesty's purpose, it may continue to be suppressed."

"Suppression of contributions?"

"There will inevitably be this step, so this is His Majesty's plan to 'encircle Wei and save Zhao', but what about ......"

"Hehe, but don't you think, in fact, killing a few people can be as deterrent, why bother playing thirty-six tricks?"

"It's okay to eradicate killing, but in the current situation, even if you kill people, I'm afraid the problem of Jiangnan can't be solved."

"Then do you think there is a serial plan after 'encircling Wei to save Zhao'?"

"I'm afraid so, but I've always believed that if the imperial court wants to raise taxes in Jiangnan, it can't just go around the land, but also open source."

"Huh~, I know what you're thinking, but it's impossible at the moment."

"Although I know it's impossible, at least be prepared, I, the governor of Shandong, is estimated to be the governor of Shandong, maybe I will be in Shandong for the rest of my life." So I thought that if I could see Jiaozhou open to the sea, then my life would really be complete. ”

"Wait, maybe one day."