Chapter 140 - Payment of Taxes

As the old man said, this matter is indeed from the mouth of the girl of Sissi, after staying in the palace for so long, she has long been familiar with the maids there, and when she has nothing to do, this girl loves to play with these maids, and after a long time, they have become very good friends.

Those maids also like to be with this Miss Sissi, because she told these maids a lot of things about the rivers and lakes, especially the heroic deeds of the master, they are addicted to listening to it, and they love to get together with this Miss Sissi when they have nothing to do.

Li Chunfeng saw this situation and did not stop it, this group of maids were busy working in the palace every day, and they were tired to death every day, and they had no time to walk around outside.

The old man pointed to a little girl with a long sword standing behind Li Chunfeng, "She is that Miss Sissi, you should believe it now!" ”

The young men were so excited that when they returned, they immediately publicized the matter.

Lin saw that it was hot for the first time, and it was noon, so he immediately took out the arrow in the bamboo tube and threw it on the ground, shouting: "Cut!" ”

The six prisoners were pressed on the beheading platform by the big man next to them, and Gu Sheng was already frightened and incontinent, lying on the beheading platform with empty eyes, and several red-clothed knives and axes behind them, slowly raised the big knife in their hands, and fell heavily, and then the six heads rolled to the ground.

When the people saw this scene, they clapped their hands and applauded, if it weren't for the soldiers' obstruction, those excited people would have run to Xingtai and scraped the flesh and blood of these bad people clean to relieve the hatred in their hearts.

After that big battle, Sissi was no longer afraid of this bloody scene, she didn't show a look of fear, but was very calm, anyway, these people are some damned people, and they deserve to have this situation today.

Lin Jiandi said to Li Chunfeng: "Shisun, what should be done with the corpses of these people. ”

Li Chunfeng stood up and moved his muscles and bones, "Anyway, these people are dead, so return the bodies to their families and let them be buried, don't let the people insult them, if such a thing really happens, it is really detrimental to human morality." ”

"Yes!"

Afterwards, Li Chunfeng took Sissi into the carriage and rushed to the city under the escort of the army.

Sitting in the carriage, Li Chunfeng looked at Qian Qian and said meaningfully: "Qian Qian, I have one thing that I must explain to you clearly, otherwise it will lead you into the evil path." ”

Sissi was asking curiously with big eyes, "What's the matter, master, but it's okay to say it." ”

"The reason why I want you to get used to this bloody scene is because you have to face this situation often when you walk in the rivers and lakes in the future, otherwise it will be difficult to survive in the rivers and lakes, but I don't want you to treat you as a murderer, you have to distinguish who should be killed and who should not be killed, even so, don't kill until you have to."

After the master's enlightenment, Sissi finally realized her mistake, she saw so many killings during this time, she really almost fell into it, "Knowing the master, I will pay attention to it in the future." ”

When the carriage returned to the city, Li Chunfeng leaned out of the window, and he found that there were people kneeling on both sides of the road, so he quickly lifted the curtain of the carriage and asked the coachman outside, "What is the situation?" ”

The coachman rode the carriage and said, "You have saved them from such a great evil, and these people have all thanked you. ”

Li Chunfeng immediately asked the groom to stop the carriage, and he himself walked out of it, jumped slightly, came to the top of the carriage, and said to the people: "You don't have to be so polite, get up quickly!" ”

Since Li Chunfeng used his internal force to induce the voice, most of the people heard Li Chunfeng's words, so they got up one after another after thanking them.

Li Chunfeng continued: "If such a thing happens, it is the dereliction of duty of my palace, we should apologize to you, and it is our duty to kill these villains, if you have any grievances in the future, you can find Lord Lin, I believe he will make the decision for you." ”

Hearing Li Chunfeng's story, all the people gave a thumbs up, the grandson can speak for the people like this, it is difficult to find in the world, this grandson is simply the living Bodhisattva in their hearts.

Back in the palace, Li Chunfeng did not rest in a hurry, but sat in his grandfather's study, began to flip through the tax book, he found many problems, the first is that the people's taxes are a bit too much, and they have to hand over nearly forty percent of the grain every year, Li Chunfeng asked his grandfather beside him: "Why are the people's taxes so serious?" ”

Li Hongjin was also very helpless, "You don't know, we collect forty percent of the grain, of which thirty percent will pay tribute to Your Majesty, and we only collect one percent." ”

Li Chunfeng thought for a while and said: "I will explain to Your Majesty now that we have too many taxes here, and I hope to exempt us from paying taxes here for three years, and from then on, we will only collect 10% of the taxes from the people." ”

Li Hongjin said: "Let's not talk about whether Your Majesty will exempt us from this tax, wait until three years later, when the tax is restored, we will only collect 10% of the tax, and then pay tribute to the imperial court." ”

Li Chunfeng said: "In the past three years, we have exempted the people from so many taxes, their enthusiasm will naturally increase, and the grain production in the field will also increase, and the grain I collected is naturally much more than in previous years, and we must encourage the people to open up the wasteland, whoever reclaims the wasteland first, the land is who's, and it will be protected by the palace, and the local rich and powerful gentry cannot interfere, otherwise they will be punished, so that the taxes we collect have increased a few points." ”

"Also, those landlords collect too much rent, they not only collect half of the grain from the people, but also make them pay taxes, which is too much, from now on either these landlords pay taxes themselves, or exempt the people from thirty percent of the rent, if they refuse to do so, immediately investigate them thoroughly and believe that few of their butts are clean."

This matter is easy to say, but it is very difficult to do, these local tyrants and gentry are very powerful, if their interests are moved, they will definitely fight against the palace, then they will not be able to gain a foothold here.

Li Chunfeng suddenly thought of a good idea in his head, and leaned next to his grandfather's ear to say his thoughts.

Li Hongjin immediately laughed, "Good way, good way, I'll do it." ”

The next day, Li Chunfeng wrote a letter to the prince to explain the situation about the tax reduction and exemption of their fiefdoms, and soon, the prince received a letter from Li Chunfeng, since people have asked for him, the prince must sell him this face, even if he agrees to what Li Chunfeng wants.

As soon as Li Chunfeng got the news of the crown prince, he immediately began to carry out his own actions, and as soon as he released the tax, he was immediately welcomed by the people, who rushed to tell each other, and every household began to set off firecrackers to celebrate the event, and at the same time thanked the grandson.

Some people are happy, some people are worried, the interests of those local tyrants and gentry were touched, and a large number of people came to the local government to make trouble, saying that they would not pay taxes, and they did not farm, all of them were poor and farmed, and they had to pay for them.

The local officials also had a headache, they didn't take the benefits of these people on weekdays, and when they went to the palace, they gave a death order, and they had to do it, but they had to drag it like this.

Li Chunfeng had long known that there would be such a result, it seemed that it was impossible to pluck the feathers from their iron cocks, and he had to use a killer move.

Immediately, Li Chunfeng called Lian Shuzhi to discuss the next matter with him.

This Lian Shuzhi is also a rich man, when the prince gave him a lot of gold and silver treasures, half for his own enjoyment, the other half bought a large amount of land, he is a relatively kind person, and did not force to buy and sell, he was born at the lowest level of the people, knowing that the people are not easy, so he bought the land in the hands of those poor people at three times the price, and then rented it to the local poor, although he collected nearly fifty percent of the rent every year, but he never let those people who rented their own land to pay a share of taxes, all of which were borne by themselves, So for so many years, he only had one percent of his income.

In this regard, those people are also grateful to him, otherwise they would have been exposed to the wilderness.

After Lian Shuzhi heard that the palace had reduced the people's taxes, he immediately made a change to the rent, from the original fifty percent to the current two percent, and those people who rented the land learned the news, all of them were grateful to Li Chunfeng and Lian Shuzhi, and suddenly had hope for the future, so they planted the land more hard.

Lian Shuzhi came to the study and sat down, Li Chunfeng told him his plan, and then he got up and left the palace and went to the restaurant to start preparing for the matter.

Li Chunfeng squinted and looked out the window, and said to himself: "Aren't you unwilling to pay taxes? Then I'll pay it for you. ”

It didn't take long for the fiefdom to start a trouble, these strongmen came and went without a trace, picking those rich people to do it, and every time they would grab a large number of gold, silver and jewelry, the local landlords were miserable, and the government had no way to take them, who let this group of guys have too high martial arts, and those soldiers have not seen their faces, these strongmen have slipped away, and these local officials have to report to the palace and let them send troops to rescue.

Who knew that Li Chunfeng's attitude was beyond the expectations of this group of officials, she didn't want to send troops, saying that the palace had just experienced a big war, those soldiers needed to cultivate, and the palace had not enough military food recently.

These officials are all old slippery heads, and they immediately heard the intentions of this grandson, don't they think those landlords are unwilling to pay taxes! In vain, they went back to discuss the matter with the squires and rich lords.

At the same time, they also had doubts about whether this incident was made famous by the palace, otherwise these two things would be too coincidental!