"Not credible?" Sheng Zhan raised his eyebrows slightly, "How do you say this?" ”

The sweat on Li Junyi's forehead came down, and he arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty, our main branch and the side branches are not closely moving, but in this kind of major matter, they will still tell the truth to Weichen." ”

"Really?" Sheng Zhan looked at him with a smile, and turned to look at the eunuch beside him, "Passing on my will, this year, the grain tax of farmers only needs to be paid by one percent, but the commercial tax of merchants has been doubled, and the officials' income has been reduced by two percent, and the whole country will tide over the difficulties." ”

After speaking, Sheng Zhan turned around and waved his hand, "Retreat!" ”

He left, but left the stunned officials looking at each other.

"Your Majesty...... How, how so? ”

"Because he's the emperor?"

Everyone: "......"

It's just a mess!

Even if you want to reduce taxes, you have to let the household department decide based on the records of the past years and the harvest in the event of a natural disaster.

There is also a doubling of the merchant's business tax, which ...... It's just going to force businessmen to rebel!

Compared with the previous two, the reduction of 20% of the official's income is nothing.

The chaos of the imperial court is not shown for the time being, and it is said that King Zhao's Jinzhou and the six northwestern states, after determining the drought this year, the entire Zhao Wangfu has also become busy.

However, unlike the chaos of the imperial court, King Zhao ordered his calculating officials and staff to get together and carefully calculate the income and expenditure of the entire six northwestern states and Jinzhou in previous years, and then formulate countermeasures according to different classifications.

After being so busy for half a month, Zhao Wang asked about the situation in northern Hubei again.

"The Lanjiang River is about to be cut off, and the drought in northern Hubei will only be worse than ours, so you don't have to continue to follow up on the salt matter."

When King Zhao heard Zhao Ling say that the blockade of trade routes in northern Hubei and the refusal of the circulation of salt, he could not get the person in northern Hubei to come forward, even if he gave up his previous plan.

There is a great drought in the world, and northern Hubei will definitely not be able to escape, so in the absence of material circulation and not much grain stock, there is no need for him to do anything, and when the drought passes, northern Hubei will naturally be able to break itself.

"But Father, do you really want to give up? There are no salt mines in northern Hubei Province, such as today's drought, and even more when there is a shortage of salt, maybe they will come to us soon, and my son thinks ......" Zhao Ling still wants to fight for it.

After all, this was one of the most important errands that King Zhao handed over to him.

King Zhao waved his hand, "No need, if there is trouble in northern Hubei, that person will definitely come forward." ”

And when Sheng Ze comes forward again, don't think about leaving again.

There are many ways to control a person in this world, and King Zhao doesn't feel that he can't find a way to control Sheng Ze.

A puppet emperor is better than being the emperor himself, he enjoys all the benefits, if he fails to take care of the country, the infamy of the ages is Shengze's.

No one knew King Zhao's plans, but as the drought became more and more severe, rumors of "heavenly punishment" spread among the people.

"Do you know why it's been so dry this year?"

"Isn't God in a bad mood?"

"So why is it in a bad mood? It's not because someone took something that doesn't belong to him, it's a heavenly punishment! ”

"This ...... What do you mean? ”

"What can I mean? The one on the dragon chair will return the things, and maybe this natural disaster will be gone......"

Such rumors soon became loud, not only to Sheng Zhan's ears, but also to the ears of King Zhao.

It's a pity that the news in northern Hubei has been blocked, Shen Qingqian and they don't know at all, they are speeding up the pace of connecting all the rivers in northern Hubei at this time, so that rivers that are not the source of Chengjin Mountain can also receive divine spring water, so as to facilitate the people's lives and irrigate the land.