When the emperor received Zhao Hanzhang's excerpt, his blood boiled, and he felt her loyalty and respect, so he passed it on and asked the generals and ministers to read it together.

Then let the generals strengthen their training, "As long as the time comes, we can join General Zhao to take back the Northland." ”

Zhou Chang, who was sitting at the end, waited for a long time, and when he saw that the emperor only talked about recruiting troops and training soldiers, he couldn't help but say: "Your Majesty, Zhao Tingshi also mentioned the method of lightly dispensing with thin endowments and persuading farmers to teach them. ”

He said: "The letter says that those who know the celestial phenomena have a premonition that there will be drought and locust plagues in the next two years, so they should take advantage ......of the leisure time to build water conservancy, so that the people will not only avoid the hardship of labor due to labor, but also reduce taxes to encourage them."

Seeing that the emperor listened carefully, he continued: "The minister also knows a little about celestial phenomena, and the climate in Luoyang has been capricious in recent years. ”

The ministers looked at each other, and everyone agreed, but the question was ......

"Your Majesty, if taxes are reduced or reduced, the treasury will not be able to maintain its operation, so it is better to send labor first."

The emperor pursed his lips, now he can master the area of Yanzhou and Qingzhou, Yuzhou, he is to give tax tasks, can Zhao Hanzhang really transport money and grain to him?

At most, it's a drop in the bucket to support some.

But the taxes in Yanzhou and Qingzhou were increased by the brothers Gou Xi and Gou Chun, and the people were already overwhelmed......

The emperor himself could not bear it.

Everyone waited for the emperor's decision.

The emperor finally looked at Zhao Zhongyu, "What does Zhao Qing think?" ”

Zhao Zhongyu: ......

He lowered his eyes and thought about it, anyway, he had already offended the Gou Xi brothers a lot, and there was no shortage of this time, so he stepped forward and said, "Please ask Your Majesty to reduce taxes and levy hard labor." ”

With the support of the minister, the emperor finally made up his mind, gritted his teeth and said: "The tax that needs to be paid this autumn will be exempted from 20% for Ding, half for Ding, and 20% for each household, and 20% for each household to pay for labor and water conservancy." ”

The ministers responded in unison when they heard this.

After reducing taxes, the revenue of the treasury was reduced, and the emperor thought about it, and still issued a holy decree to reduce and reduce taxes, and at the same time urged all localities to pay a certain amount of taxes to the imperial court.

He said that you were supposed to have to pay so much, but now because of the tax reduction, I will reduce it by half.

However, the emperor said so, and he knew that it was impossible for the place to hand over the full amount.

Zhao Hanzhang had expected that after receiving the holy decree, he would escort the prepared food and money to Yuncheng, and at the same time there was an excerpt.

There wasn't much food she sent, the main thing was that she gave two carts of money, ahem, new money!

I don't know if the emperor will be happy to receive her money, I hope he will be a little happier.

The emperor hasn't received Zhao Hanzhang's things yet, so he doesn't know whether he is happy or not at this time, he just has a headache.

Because he foresaw that the taxes collected from other places would not be large, he still had to save money himself.

The emperor thought about it for a long time, but he really couldn't think of any way for him to open up the source except for selling officials, so he could only throttle.

So the throttling emperor was the first to reduce the use of the General's Mansion, and he bought, oh no, several of Gou Xi's subordinates.

So he was able to quietly replace the people in charge of the treasury with his own, but also installed his own people among the people who received taxes from all over the country.

Gou Xi's manpower could not keep enough money and food.

And Gou Xi's Great General's Mansion now has more than 1,000 servants and maids alone, and the number of concubines has grown rapidly to more than 20, and the maids he loves are about to break through double digits.

As soon as he had little money and food, his quality of life was immediately affected.

Joke, his beauty fell in love with a golden hairpin, he used to wave his hand and said to buy it, but now he waved his hand and said to buy it, and the housekeeper actually told him that there was not much money in the house, so he had to be thrifty.

Gou Xi is now under one person and above ten thousand, but he can't afford to buy a golden hairpin for his concubine?

Gou Xi was furious.

The housekeeper could only quickly kneel down and plead guilty, but it was not a matter of buying a gold hairpin, but buying a gold hairpin, followed by a pearl hairpin, a treasure hairpin and a silver hairpin......

That's how the backhouse competes for favor.

And Gou Xi still wants to drink, the price of a jar of good wine is not lower than the value of a golden hairpin, the housekeeper dares to wronged the concubine, but he does not dare to wronged Gou Xi.

When Gou Xi asked, he learned that the emperor actually controlled the treasury, he couldn't get the money, and he couldn't even talk about Yanzhou.

The nerves that had been corroded by alcohol for days were barely sobered up, and Gou Xi had a slight sense of crisis, and immediately asked, "Where is Gou Chun now?" ”

The housekeeper hurriedly said, "Erlangjun is in Qingzhou." ”

"What about Fu Wen and Wen Qi and the others?"

The butler looked dazed, "General, the two generals are naturally leading the troops in their respective armies. ”

Gou Xi became even more moody after drinking, and was furious when he heard this, "Can I not know that they are in the army?" I'm asking them what they've done in the army, who have they met with recently, what about Ming Pre, let Ming Pre come to see me! ”

After shouting, Gou Xi reacted, and Ming ran away!

The butler knelt on the ground, bowing his head stiffly, not daring to speak again.

Gou Xi's eyes widened, panting, and only after a while did he kick the table away in annoyance, and said with a gloomy face: "Liu Hui, summon him to see me." ”

Liu Hui is a lieutenant general under Gou Xi and one of his henchmen.

The housekeeper lowered his head in response, bowed and retreated, and hurriedly went to call Liu Hui.

So not long after, a copy of Zhao Hanzhang's excerpt to the emperor was copied and sent to Gou Xi.

Gou Xi stared closely at the content on the fold, his mind fluctuated, judging from his knowledge, he knew that what Zhao Hanzhang said was good, and it was also the most beneficial path for Dajin.

But...... Gou Xi had a headache, he put down the manuscript, waved his hand and said, "Go and heat a pot of wine." ”

"Yes."

Gou Xi drank wine and re-read the manuscript, but to complete this move, it was necessary to operate for many years, and to bear hardships and stand hard work, all materials had to be inclined to the army.

Gou Xi frowned, "The benefits of the Hun cavalry, if you want to overcome it, you need ten times the infantry to do it, and we can't do without cavalry, a qualified cavalry, one person has at least two horses, this is a light horse, a heavy horse, three horses, how much food does this need to raise?" ”

If a year ago, Gou Xi might have had this intention, but now, he doesn't.

Liu Hui also raised his eyes slightly to look at the wine jug in Gou Xi's hand, and sighed in his heart, if this was a year ago, the general would definitely be amazed when he saw this fold, and maybe he would cooperate with Zhao Hanzhang.

But now, he's just frowning and worrying about money.

Liu Hui bent down slightly and asked respectfully, "So what does the general think?" ”

Gou Xi said: "This method does not work. ”

Good night

(End of chapter)