There was silence in the courtyard.

Even Xiao Baozi, who was behind Li Chen'an, had a sad face at the moment.

She suddenly found that Wanxi Zhai was very good.

At least for so many years, there has been no disaster and no harm.

Even if there is no silver, Wanxizhai is basically enough to be self-sufficient.

After listening to Zhuge Buliang's words, she became more and more determined to return to Wanxizhai and run Wanxizhai better-

Who knows what the future holds?

In case he, the emperor, is not stable, and if the world is in chaos again, at least Wanxizhai can still have a way out, so that he will not be displaced like those disaster victims.

At least one place to shelter from the cold.

Only then did the fourth princess Ning Chuchu understand the reason why there were many bandits in the Northern Desert, and only then did she understand that during the more than 20 years of her father's reign, all that was left to the people of Ning was a heavy burden and a huge disaster!

The people of Ningguo are too poor!

They don't have the slightest resilience!

When they faced such a fate, only a little fell into the grass, and more were still silently bearing.

You shouldn't be so ruthless with those mountain bandits!

It's not easy for them to rob!

Li Chenan pondered for a moment and asked:

"The magistrate didn't do anything?"

Zhuge Buliang raised his head:

"It's not that they don't want to, but they ...... They are powerless! ”

"Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures have always been poor!"

"If you want to talk about corrupt officials...... The corrupt officials in the sixteen states of Yanyun are probably the least in the entire Ning country! ”

"Because Ji Tai has been in power all these years, the officials sent to the sixteen states of Yanyun ...... To tell the truth, these officials actually have real talents. ”

"They are all excluded from the Ji Tai family, but it is difficult for them to fulfill their ambitions here, because the population of the entire Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures is too small."

"When there are few people, there are many abandoned fields, but the taxes demanded by the imperial court are ...... Even according to the new law, a tax of 10% is taken, which is taken according to the number of fields registered, but at least half of the fields in the entire sixteen states have been abandoned! ”

"Local officials simply can't pay all the taxes stipulated above, so Beimo Dao, the poorest province in Ningguo, still hasn't implemented a new tax law."

"It can't be implemented, because if only one percent is collected, the ones handed over to the court will be a big difference, and they will lose their officials at the least, and they will be imprisoned at the worst, and there is no way to do it."

Li Chenan understood.

One of the most important aspects of the central court's evaluation of local officials is the tax payment under their rule.

When Ji Tai was in charge of Ningguo, he adopted two methods for paying taxes at the local level.

Gangnam Province and Annam Province, which have few people in the area, pay taxes according to the capitation.

In the vast and sparsely populated Beimo Road, Shuzhou Road and Lingdong Road, the tax is paid according to the land.

The imperial court collected the maximum amount of taxes, but the treasury of the household department was empty.

has enriched a large number of corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and also suffered more than 30 million people in Ningguo!

Zhuge Buliang seemed to have forgotten that it was the regent of Ning Country who was sitting in front of him at this time, and he felt that the words that were suppressed in his heart were not unhappy at this time.

So, he said slowly:

"I have a reputation for being a showman, and I was a tax collector for the county magistrate in Huangtang County at that time, so I know a little about these."

"There are many unreasonable points, in fact, the officials of the Northern Desert Province have already written to the imperial court, but they have never received a response."

"In this way, these officials in the Northern Desert Province gradually became cold, and gradually turned a blind eye......

"I have a lot of love with the Zhou County Order of Huangtang County, and I also live in the backyard of the county government, and the Zhou County Order occasionally invites me over for a drink, and I will complain."

"Now that I think about it, those whining are not actually whining. It's the real thing! ”

"To say something that shouldn't have been said, over the years, the little money allocated by the imperial court is said to have been in arrears a lot......"

"How does that make the officials in those places do things? It's hard to do things too! So most of them just live a passable life. ”

"In a sentence in the officialdom of the Northern Desert Dao, it is to eat and wait for death! Let's eat together and wait for death! ”

"Hey...... Officialdom...... This is not something that a small person like me should discuss. ”

"If I say more today, it can be regarded as a complaint from me, and I ask the regent to forgive me!"

"In short, after I buried my parents and my fiancée's whole family, I didn't go back to Huangtang County."

"Later, the imperial court conveyed the disaster relief policy, which was to let all the victims come here to build Yanjing City."

"I thought about it, and I came."

Li Chenan poured tea and handed a cup to Zhuge Buliang, "Why are you here?" ”

"Because of curiosity!"

"Curious about what?"

Zhuge Buliang laughed: "At first, I thought this disaster relief strategy was too ridiculous! ”

"In this remote place, it took 300,000 people to build a city!"

"Although it solved the problem of feeding the victims, what is the point of spending a lot of money to build this city?"

"At first, I thought this was a helpless move by the imperial court, and it was you...... You have to do it as a last resort. ”

"But now I know."

"This city should be repaired, because the desolate people are on the other side!"

"It is necessary to build a military fortress, but the name of this city is Yanjing......"

"The so-called Jing refers to the tall city tower in the capital, and the city tower has an arch for the Son of Heaven and the ministers to enter and exit, usually referring to the national capital!"

Zhuge Buliang held the teacup, leaned over, and asked very seriously:

"You will take the name of Yanjing for this city...... Could it be ......? ”

Li Chenan smiled slightly: "This is the country!" ”

"What do you think if the Son of Heaven keeps it?"

Zhuge Buliang was taken aback, and after five breaths, he slowly put down the teacup, and there was a look of disappointment in his eyes.

He stood up and bowed:

"Regent, this matter ...... Don't do it! ”

Zhuge Buliang stood up straight, and said extremely heavily: "There is only one city wall, and I have nothing to do with those craftsmen to build the city inside...... This will roughly cost hundreds of millions of taels of silver! ”

Li Chenan didn't see the strangeness on Zhuge Buliang's face, he nodded, "The budget of the Ministry of Industry is roughly 300 million taels of silver. ”

Zhuge Buliang's heart sank suddenly, and his voice became stern:

"Dare to ask the regent, in today's Ningguo, even the officials' monthly salaries can't be issued, how can these 300 million taels of silver be used to build a city?"

"If you don't risk death, isn't the regent too ambitious?"

"The people in China are poor, and the people's livelihood is the plan!"

"There is Yujing City in the south, and there is a Changle Palace not far from Yujing City...... But the regent wants to build another Yanjing city in this northern land......"

Zhuge Buliang took a deep breath, at this moment, he had put life and death aside.

Because he thinks that Li Chen'an's move is extremely ridiculous!

It does require a castle to be built, but at most it is a fortress city, which is very different from the amount of money it costs to build a Kyoto!

But Li Chen'an's intention ...... He even said that the Son of Heaven guards the country!

I'm afraid that this country has not been repaired yet, and this Ning country has already perished.

He smiled suddenly, this smile was a joke and a disappointment!

"Isn't Ning Guo dying fast enough?"

"Do you think that the taxes on the people of Ningguo are not heavy enough?"

"Pathetic!"

He looked up at the moon, and let out a long sigh, tears already rippling:

"If you don't accumulate steps, you can't reach thousands of miles, people are like this, and so is the country!"

"I thought that you became the emperor of Ningguo, and there would be a good plan to let the people of Ningguo recuperate, so that they can get out of this sea of suffering and live a better life......"

"But what you want is still pleasure...... One country, two Kyotos, in the name of the Son of Heaven guarding the country, do pleasure things. ”

"For the sake of this Yanjing, I don't care about the weight on the shoulders of the people!"

"Your poems can be passed down through the ages, but if you become the emperor of Ningguo...... I'm afraid it will stink for 10,000 years! ”