As soon as Yi Yun heard this, he was immediately happy, and he raised his foot and gave me a kick: "What are you talking about? Although Song Yu colluded with the Japanese Invaders, he was not a Japanese Kou, and the people who didn't come were his comrades, isn't it too much to say this?"

Wu Mingliang smiled and said, "Lord Wang, you don't know that these people are very troublesome. They are so timid that many of them will not dare to go to the square to hear your lecture unless they give a reason. But if you threaten them to say that they don't go, they are in the same party, and make sure that one will come faster than the other. ”

"Huh, and that kind of thing?" said Ivan.

Wu Mingliang nodded and said: "At the beginning, Grandpa Tai promulgated the "Dameng Constitution" to the whole country, and wanted the people to learn the law and understand the law. But most of the people are illiterate and can't read. Grandpa Tai also ordered the scholars to be in front of the yamen at a fixed time**, but the people did not come to listen to it...... "Da Meng Constitution" could not be spread at all......"

When Yi Yun heard this, he felt quite amused, and said with a smile: "What did the great grandfather do?"

Wu Mingming grinned and said: "Grandpa Tai ordered that if the person who committed the crime is caught by the government, as long as he can skillfully recite the "Da Meng Constitution" and can say what every sentence means, he can be reduced by one degree." If you can't memorize the "Da Meng Constitution", you will be guilty of one more degree. As a result, as soon as this provision came out, everyone in the Da Meng country could memorize the "Da Meng Constitution" backwards. ”

Evan: "......"

Nima, a person who can skillfully recite the letter of the law still commits a crime, it should be a crime that knows the law and violates the law, and the crime is increased by one degree, right? How can the crime be reduced by one degree? Using this strange method to spread the law, this grandfather is also a talent. But...... Iyun had to admit that this method was useful, and that there was no better way to spread the law than in an era when the people's wisdom was not yet open.

At this time, 200 soldiers were divided into 20 groups in groups of 10 people, and dispersed into the entire Jiashan Oasis, according to the method that Wu Mingliang said, to publicize the matter of the prince's lecture at noon today, this propaganda was really effective, and before noon came, many people ran out of the house in a panic, and ran towards the county yamen square, lest they would be regarded as fellow Japanese criminals if they ran slowly.

You must know that the Japanese have been harming Jiangnan for a long time, not to mention that the government wants to exterminate the Japanese invaders, even if the people hate the Japanese to the core, if a family becomes a fellow Japanese party, they don't need the imperial court to clean them up, and their neighbors can play them to death, such as throwing them into the water and stabbing them twice with a bamboo pole or something, which is by no means uncommon.

After a while, the square was densely packed with people, these people sat down on the ground, waiting for noon to come, and at the same time asked each other what was going on: "Zhang Xiucai, what do you say is the matter?"

"Needless to say, there is a new official in office!"

"The new official has to burn three fires when he takes office, killing Song Yu is the first, killing the Japanese is the second, and speaking to us in a while is the third. ”

"Xiucai really knows a lot of things, you say, what will he do with us?"

"What else? Collect taxes from everyone like Song Yu! You can't kill all the people. ”

"Then you say, will this tax be collected indiscriminately like Song Yu?"

"Isn't this nonsense? How much can the last official be greedy, and the next official who comes can't be less greedy than him, since ancient times, taxes have only been collected more and more heavily, when have you ever heard of less collection?"

"Alas, Zhang Xiucai, you are the identity of the master of Xiucai, can you help us say a few words for a while, Song Yu's tax has been collected very high, and we don't ask the new master to reduce the tax, so I hope he won't raise it again......"

"Alas, what's the use of mere showmanship? Look at how many people I killed today, I'm going to go out to talk, can this head still stay on my neck?"

Conversations like this have come and gone among the people, many of whom are panicked and feel that the end of the world is coming, and some of them have been so exploited that they have long been numb, looking at the gate of the yamen with godless eyes, waiting for noon to come and announce the heavy tax. ...,

Jiashan Oasis is a small oasis, the population is only 50,000, at this time, regardless of men, women and children, all dragged their children to the front of Yamen Square, there are too many people, not only crowded the square, even the streets next to the square are also full of people.

Noon finally arrived, and the people waited eagerly, only to see that the gate of the county government finally opened, and a young man wearing the clothes of his son's brother, holding a birdcage in his left hand and a folding fan in his right hand, walked out with a smile. Many soldiers immediately ran from both sides, brought a few wooden boxes, and helped him build a high platform, and Brother Gongzi slowly climbed up the platform and stood high so that everyone could see it.

Seeing that the person who spoke was actually a young boy, some experienced people sighed: Oh no, Jiashan County has fallen into the hands of a gentleman, and now I am afraid that it will be worse than Song Yu......

I saw that the boy took out a cylindrical strange thing from his arms, small in the back and big in the front, very much like a funnel, he put this big funnel to his mouth and said with a smile: "Hey...... Feed...... Cough...... I'll try the sound, this iron shouting microphone is just made, I don't know how effective it is......"

The soldier standing at the back of the crowd raised his hand, signaling that he could hear what he said, and the young man's face suddenly burst into laughter: "I knew that the iron sheet shouting microphone was reliable, hehe, okay...... Now let's get down to business. ”

"The people...... I am the newly crowned prince of Jiashan in the imperial court!Ahem, the new owner of this oasis!" the young man shouted loudly into the microphone.

"Ah, this young man is King Jiashan, too young!"

"Gentleman, we're being managed by people like this, it's over...... It's all over ......."

There was a commotion in the crowd.

Yi Yun smiled: "I will first announce something that makes everyone happy, it is about the issue of tax collection......"

There was another commotion among the people: "As soon as he came, he said that he would collect taxes, this guy was so greedy." ”

"Maybe more greedy than Song Yu......"

"I can't live anymore...... Woo woo...... "I don't know where the widow cried.

Yi Yun cleared his throat and said loudly: "I declare that this oasis is exempt from tax for one year, and ...... Those who have not paid all the taxes for a long time are exempted...... We'll talk about taxes in a year's time. ”

"What?" the people in the audience were shocked: "Tax-free?"

"Did you hear that right?"

"It really looks like it's tax-free!"

"You heard it right!" Yi Yun laughed loudly: "This king said tax exemption, it is tax exemption! In the Great Meng Kingdom, the prince is 'the first rank of the Son of Heaven', except for the emperor and me, is there any fake when I say tax exemption?"

"Wow, it's really tax-free, that's great!"

"Happy days are coming. ”

"Uh......h Why am I crying?"

The people were in an uproar, and there were cries of surprise from the crowd.

At this moment, a voice suddenly came from the crowd and said loudly: "I'm Zhang Xiucai, everyone be quiet, don't be in a hurry to be happy, I have a few words to ask......

This Zhang Xiucai's popularity is obviously good, and when he made a sound, tens of thousands of people actually quieted down. A Confucian student stood up in the crowd, about twenty years old, he saluted Yi Yun, and then asked: "Please forgive Xiao Sheng for his rude sin, Xiao Sheng wants to remind the prince that although the prince of the Great Meng Kingdom is a first-class son of heaven, he is extremely noble, and he can set taxes at will, recruit troops at will, do business, and appoint and dismiss officials...... But the prince also has to pay taxes to the state. With the scale of the Jiashan Oasis, we must pay a tax of 50,000 taels of silver to the imperial court a year, and if the prince exempts us from taxes, how can we pay this tax?"

"Well, that's a good question!" Yi Yun raised his finger at Zhang Xiucai and said with a smile: "You are a smart person, this question is just to the point, this prince will tell you now......

He pulled out of his arms and took out several silver tickets, this is his entire net worth, about 300,000 taels, and today he brought them all with him in order to act in this scene. Yi Yun shook the silver ticket in the air and snorted: "This king has money, and this year's taxes will be paid by this king for you! ”

"Wow!"

At this moment, the people suddenly shouted, they have seen the officials who are greedy for money, but they have not seen the officials who are upside down with money, this is the sun coming out of the west? Yi Yun is a little worried that the people dare to believe him, but this era is different from the later generations, the officials of later generations say something, the people may not believe it, the people of this era are generally reliable, since Yi Yun said this in public, the people do not have too many doubts.

The whole oasis exploded, countless people danced happily, Song Yu's tax was too high, the commercial tax was as high as fifty percent, that is, half, the people who bought things had to pay two percent of the tax, in addition, there were those who farmed the land to collect the field tax, the food to collect the stove tax, everyone also had to collect the head tax according to the head, messy, zero and zero, these heavy taxes pressed on the heads of the people of the Jiashan Oasis, making them miserable, now all are exempted, and the lives of the people can immediately go to a higher level...... It's like a dream.

Yi Yun looked at the lively and jubilant people in the audience, and he was very happy in his heart, the tax of 50,000 taels of silver, it is really not a problem for him to pay for a year, he firmly believes that if he is given a year, he will definitely be able to invigorate the city, and when the city's business is developed, he will re-study the tax, and then the people will be rich, even if the tax is low, it can collect more taxes than before.

Yi Yun waved his hand on the high platform and laughed: "Okay, that's all for what I'm going to announce today, let's disperse, go back and farm hard, do business hard, work hard, and how much you earn is your own ......"

"Lord Wang, don't you want to talk about the problem of Song Yu's widows?"

"Phew, do you still need to talk about it, it has nothing to do with our. ”

"Right...... Tax exemption is much more important than that. ”

The crowd burst into laughter, and their happy emotions radiated in all directions......

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