in the house.

Sang Hongyang sat at the top and smiled at the king of Jiaodong and the others at the bottom: "The king, the minister was ordered to come to Qidi to check the commercial tax, and some time ago I found out some trivial things about the palace, so I came to inquire." ”

After speaking, he handed some evidence to the king of Jiaodong, and the queen sitting next to him took it, and hurriedly flipped through it and said hatefully: "What a traitor, he actually deceived the palace, if it wasn't for the great Si Nong to investigate, he was deceived by these traitors to this point, it is really a shame to be gracious." ”

Sang Hongyang was stunned when he heard this, and then asked: "What the queen said, is it because the palace doesn't know what these treacherous people have done?" ”

The queen raised her eyebrows and asked in a cold voice: "What Da Si Nong said, is it suspected that the palace deliberately evaded the imperial court's taxes and escaped responsibility here?"

You can eat indiscriminately, but you can't talk nonsense, to divide the feelings between the brothers of the Heavenly Family, and to provoke the relationship between the feudal kingdom and the imperial court, what does Dasi Nong want to do?

Do you want to eradicate the clan relatives of the Han Dynasty and go back to the old path of tyrannical Qin?

One day, the world will fall, and if you don't rely on your clan to save the sky, do you rely on a courtier like you who was born in a Legalist family? ”

A series of hats were directly buttoned up to Sang Hong Yang, and the front was quite reasonable, but the last sentence directly provoked Sang Hong Yang.

Legalism is really discriminated against everywhere now, and many Legalist disciples have changed their courts, learned the doctrines of other schools, and become the core disciples of other schools.

But what about the sages of the Legalists?

Until now, there has been no place for Legalist sages in the temple of Zhuzi, and from the emergence of Legalism to its gradual demise, this school has never been recognized by the mainstream academic circles.

In other words, Luo's has always disliked it, but what makes Sang Hongyang feel very aggrieved is that it is clear that all schools of thought are plagiarizing many classics of the Legalists!

At most, it is not as extreme as in the Legalist doctrine.

Sang Hongyang said coldly: "Queen Jiaodong, the Han relies on the sword in the hands of the ministers and the Han law in the hands of the ministers, not a few words of yours.

Whether the Jiaodong Wangfu is involved or not is determined by the results of the investigation, since the King of Jiaodong is unwilling to cooperate, please go back.

You are the elder brother of His Majesty, a noble member of the heavenly family, can the ministers disregard the dignity of the upper and lower levels and imprison you here? ”

Queen Jiaodong sighed in her heart, after Sang Hongyang came to Qidi, many people were trembling with fear, but she didn't care at all, a courtier was not qualified to participate in the affairs of the heavenly family, what she was worried about was the emperor's attitude, and her attitude towards Sang Hongyang was to test Sang Hongyang's confidence.

If it is insufficient, it proves that the emperor does not have any ideas, but if Sang Hongyang is particularly strong and dares to respond positively, it means that the emperor wants to do it.

Now Sang Hongyang's attitude made her heart alarmed, she was sure that the emperor must have told it secretly, or at least hinted at Sang Hongyang!

She turned straight away from here, her face sank like water, and King Jiaodong was even more frightened when he saw that even the queen who had always been strong had this expression, and said in a trembling voice: "Queen, if you go back to Sang Hongyang to discuss it well, you must be able to understand our difficulties." ”

Seeing the appearance of the king of Jiaodong, the queen frowned and said coldly: "What does this have to do with Sang Hongyang, Jiaodong is a big country in Qi, a rare county among the kings of the world, can such a kingdom be shaken by a mere courtier?" ”

King Jiaodong is just a cowardly character, but he is not stupid, he immediately understood the queen's words, and he was even more frightened, and said dumbfounded: "How is this good?" ”

The queen closed her eyes slightly, and said in a cold voice: "What else?

If you can endure it, you can endure it, and if you can't bear it, you will commit suicide, as long as you and I die, the palace can survive.

In the past, the fifth brother made a big mistake, but it was just changed from the princes and kings to the princes, if the emperor dared to kill or exile the princes and kings for indirect tax evasion, everyone in the world would be in danger. ”

There is a principle of punishment in the law, which is the punishment for any crime, for example, if the murderer dies, the thief cannot be a capital crime, and the slanderer cannot be a capital crime, and if all sins and sins are dead, then the law becomes a joke.

The same is true of the law against the princes and kings, if you evade taxes and kill your whole family, and if you rebel, why not rebel?

But even so, King Jiaodong still looked at his wife in shock, suicide seemed to be insignificant in her mouth, Queen Jiaodong seemed to know what her husband was thinking, and said lightly: "Born in the princely family, this is our fate, in this world except for Luo's, where is there always undefeated, do you have the ancestor of the supreme god?"

Did you make a meritorious achievement enough to take refuge in Shojo?

Do you have Rock's blood in your body?

Since there is none, then face everything calmly, even if the emperor wants to kill us, it is not so simple, until the lights are extinguished, who dares to say that he will definitely win?

It's a pity that I was born as a daughter, otherwise I would have to go to Chang'an for a while. ”

The queen's open-mindedness is not at all comparable to others, she is such an outstanding woman, if she is in Bang Zhou, there is a high probability that she will be the queen of Zhou or marry into the Luo country, sometimes looking at the history books, she will also have some regrets, feeling that she was born at the wrong time, but this emotion was quickly suppressed, and people always have to look forward.

In this slightly dull atmosphere, the convoy of Jiaodong Wangfu slowly left Beihai County.

Sang Hongyang's eyes were murderous, just as Queen Jiaodong guessed, he wanted to catch the handle of King Jiaodong from the beginning, but he didn't expect Queen Jiaodong to directly put these things on the surface, which made him very angry.

He was originally thinking about completing the things hinted by the emperor without a trace and letting King Jiaodong commit suicide, but he was so stirred up by the queen that even if King Jiaodong committed suicide, the Han clan would blame him for this matter.

Thinking of this, Sang Hongyang rubbed his head, he didn't feel afraid, the students of the Legalist family have never been afraid of many enemies, they only care about whether they can be in power when they should be in power, and enjoy when they should enjoy it.

Back then, Shang Ying offended so many old nobles in the Qin State, but he still implemented his own new law, and the big deal was just death!

It doesn't matter if the five tripods cook after death, the most terrible thing is that you can't eat the five tripods in life, which is the creed of Sang Hong sheep.

A large-scale raid began, and Sang Hongyang ordered.

……

Changan.

The emperor received a letter from Sang Hongyang, which roughly described the harvest of the trip, even if Liu Dan had been prepared in his heart, but he was extremely shocked to see so much money, grain, and cloth.

His first reaction was that this group of merchants in Qidi was really rich!

When he was a vassal king in the Northern Yan Kingdom, he had seen so much money and grain there, and compared with the merchants of the Northern Land and those of Qidi, it was simply a world of difference.

"This is only the counties of Qidi, if dozens or hundreds of counties in the world are all checking and paying taxes, how much money and grain should be available?"

No one can resist the temptation of a windfall from the sky, Liu Dan immediately asked people to encourage Sang Hongyang, and then sent another one to the big businessman to motivate the big businessman.

Sang Hongyang not only told about the collection of commercial taxes, but also wrote: "Your Majesty, the minister suggests that taxes should be paid according to the assets of the rich families in the world, and the asset tax of 100 to 200 yuan can be collected for every 2,000 yuan. ”

As a master of collecting money, Sang Hongyang said that if he collects taxes, he will collect businessmen, how much money can farmers have?

In the previous Han Dynasty, there was only a transaction tax, but there was no asset tax, Sang Hongyang felt that this was not good, and the asset tax was the big one, because many wealthy people held a lot of valuables that had not been traded for many years, and these things could not be taxed.

Liu Dan naturally doesn't understand the twists and turns in economics if he doesn't learn and don't know how to do it, but Sang Hongyang said in his letter that this policy can benefit a hundredfold, and he can still understand it, whether it is to fight a war or repair a palace, it takes a lot of money, and Liu Dan will not refuse to come.

So a large number of sums of money, "Qing first implemented it in Qidi, and then spread it out in the world after returning to Chang'an." ”

At the end of the letter, Sang Hongyang wrote about the possible involvement of the King of Jiaodong, and also deliberately pointed out that the King of Jiaodong was unwilling to admit it, "The King of Jiaodong is rampant, he does not take the law of the country as the priority, and the ministers will reprimand, especially His Majesty, and I hope that Your Majesty will forgive his sins." ”

Liu Dan replied silently: "The law of the country is important, the society is important, and it is convenient for you." ”

The messenger rushed back to Beihai County with this letter, Sang Hongyang opened it, and immediately calmed down, and called his subordinates and said: "Take out all the evidence about the Jiaodong Kingdom that you have collected over the past few days, and first take down the merchants who work for the Jiaodong Kingdom." ”

These officials brought from Chang'an will not show mercy, these people are all children of Guanzhong, these days to raid the merchant's house, make a fortune, and now hear that they are going to do something to the king of Jiaodong, one by one excited.

Jiaodong Kingdom.

Sang Hongyang's actions made Queen Jiaodong understand that the emperor had made up her mind, and she informed her husband of the matter, and King Jiaodong cried bitterly: "Queen, what should the widow do?" ”

Seeing this, the queen said in a deep voice: "King, cheer up, you are the heir of Emperor Xiaowu."

Emperor Xiaowu is a hero, how can you be cowardly to this point?

It's just life and death!

Now this posture, no wonder the first emperor doesn't like you, the concubine is really ......"

"My father is the reincarnation of the Holy King, where can I compare with the widow."

The queen said coldly: "At this time, there is no other way, you are categorically lifeless, if you hang yourself, you can still leave a dignity."

The emperor is so perverse, the concubine wants to see how long he can arrive? but to see how long the righteous men of the world can endure him. ”

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In the first year of Yuanzheng, the king of Jiaodong sat on the law, Hongyang reprimanded him, the king was afraid, hanged himself in the country, the crowd was surging, please kill Hongyang, the king was not allowed, and the king was given the "mourning", and the five counties of the kingdom were built in Jiaobei County, and the Jiaodong country was still in the old system.

The people of the time said: "The blood of the king of Jiaodong is the most expensive sheep." ”

When I heard it, I heard the old song of King Li of Jiujiang, and I was angry, killing dozens of slanderers, and the more I was closer, the more I was close to the sheep. ——"Hanshu: The Biography of Sanghong Sheep"

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