I only heard Fang Ling continue: "The reason for this is all in the word tax. There are many fishermen in the two states, and the annual taxes are numerous, and the final income is very small, and every time the drought is severe, the harvest of fish and rice is reduced, but the taxes are not reduced, so everyone is forced to fall into the grass and make a living. ”

Hearing Fang Ling's words explain the reason, the courtiers only felt that this analysis was reasonable.

But Fang Ce suddenly said: "Then what do you mean, isn't it the official forcing the people? The fault is actually the fault of the father? Is it that the father is not considerate of the people?"

Seeing that the crown prince suddenly spoke, and the words led directly to the Chu Emperor, the courtiers were all silent, and did not dare to intervene in the slightest.

Fang Ling looked at him neither humbly nor arrogantly, and said with a faint smile: "The two states of Chaoheng have always been extremely oily and water-heavy, up to the prefect, down to the small officials, all kinds of taxes are constantly being paid by the people, many of which are private taxes that the imperial court does not know, but the prefect either does not know, or just turns a blind eye, just because the more these taxes, the better the political performance." Therefore, the fault is not that the father is inconsiderate of the people's feelings, but that the officials below conceal the report. At the same time, the two states of Chaoheng have always been the hometowns of the literati, purely to govern the state, the local troops are thin, and the foreign soldiers and horses do not know how to fight water warfare, and the water village naturally suffers losses every time. ”

Fang Hongtian couldn't help but nod when he heard this, and asked, "So, what about the law of governance?"

Fang Ling smiled slightly: "The strength of the country lies in the people, the people are rich, the country is safe, the people are poor, the country is chaotic, and the root cause is the people's heart." If you want to eliminate the river thieves, as long as you disturb the people's will, reduce or reduce taxes, and send supervision officials to regularly make secret visits to the collection of taxes, once it is found that some officials have set up private taxes, they will be punished immediately, and their crimes will be made public, and the river thieves will definitely be reformed and abandon the secret and turn to the light. Of course, there are some river thieves who make a living by collecting money and live in the water village, for these, they can first adopt the method of recruiting security, and lure them with official positions, if not, then mobilize 100,000 soldiers and horses from the surrounding areas, train the water army by the lake, and do the thing of attacking the village.

Before Fang Hongtian asked the question, the courtiers were not optimistic, they only felt that the eldest prince would definitely make a fool of himself, who knew that he made a few words lightly, not only hit the nail on the head, but also solved this problem with both civil and military use.

Many adults in the audience were dumbfounded when they heard this, and even Cui Yiyuan frowned slightly, in fact, regarding the thieves in Chaoheng Erzhou, Fang Hongtian always asked the courtiers for their opinions, but no one could think of a perfect solution, but it was solved by a big prince who lived in a cold palace and had never been out, which was undoubtedly a slap in the face to these ministers.

Xue Zhiqiu and the others were even more bright-eyed, no one expected Fang Ling to be so smart, Fang Ce also frowned, and couldn't find the words to refute Fang Ling for a while.

Wei An watched this development with interest, and he didn't expect that this great prince really had some ability, but the appearance of a talented prince in the Chu State was the last thing he wanted to see.

Empress Song's face also changed, Fang Ling's reaction was completely different from what she imagined, and she also understood that the governance plan proposed by Fang Ling was very perfect, even Fang Hongtian couldn't help but nodded, a hint of brilliance flashed in her eyes.