Early the next morning, Zhu Zhen rode the Pingtian Great Sage, who had not appeared for a long time, and walked out of Donghua Gate and came to Liu Junshi Bridge.

As soon as I arrived at the gate of Chengyi Bo's Mansion, I saw Liu Li and Liu Xiang kicking shuttlecocks there.

In the spring season, the spring shirt is light, and the green skirt of the girl's lake flutters, like a green rippling lake, revealing a white and tender calf from time to time, just like the white swan in the lake.

Zhu Zhen was stunned. It feels like she's grown up again.

"Uncle Xiao, you're finally back."

It wasn't until Liu Li saw him and greeted him happily that Zhu Zhen came back to his senses, smiled and asked:

"yes, did you miss me?"

"Guess what?"

"That's what I thought." Zhu Zhen said.

"You didn't guess." Liu Li chuckled.

"Really?" Zhu Zhen took out a golden hairpin inlaid with rubies as if he were juggling.

This is one of the several gifts that the queen of Goryeo gave to his mother and concubine.

"Of course it's a joke." Liu Li's dark eyes smiled like a pair of crescents. "If you don't believe it, ask Liu Xiang, people talk about Uncle Xiao every day."

"Hmph, you're too easy to be bought!" Liu Xiang is very disdainful, how can this sister not look like himself at all.

saw Zhu Zhen show a sandalwood bow made of North Korea again.

The Korean Peninsula has produced good bows since ancient times, and the "Book of the Later Han Dynasty: The Biography of Dongyi" says that "Lelang, Tan Bow out of its place". Lelang is one of the four counties set up in Han in Korea.

Korea's horn bows and slice arrows are different from those of China and Japan, with good elasticity and long range, while sliced arrows are short and very light, but have a long range.

Liu Xiangden swallowed his saliva, and then pushed his sister in front of Zhu Zhen and said, "Stick the hairpin on her head." ”

Zhu Zhen happily handed the bow to the sensible Liu Xiang, and when he wanted to insert the golden hairpin into Liu Li's sideburns as he said, the little girl blushed, grabbed the hairpin and ran in.

"Alas......" Zhu Zhen shook his head helplessly and followed behind his back.

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went to the Sincerity Mansion, but Liu Li's figure was missing.

Zhu Zhen had no choice but to come to the master's study first, and without knocking on the door, he pushed it open and went inside.

Inside the house, Liu Ji and Liu Lian were talking, which startled him.

"Stinky boy, are you going to be scared to death as a teacher?!" Liu Ji blew his beard and glared.

"Hehe, teacher, can I surprise you?" Zhu Zhen is not afraid of him at all, and Lao Liu still expects him to teach him more things.

"The fright is pretty much the same." Liu Ji said angrily: "You came back from Goryeo so soon?" ”

"What's all the fun in that place?" Zhu Zhen put a huge Korean ginseng and a yew cane on the table, pouted, and said, "My brother is happy to do this." ”

"Haha, who made your little bird useless." Liu Ji actually understood in seconds, and smiled backwards.

"Alas, for the old disrespectful." Zhu Zhen complained, and then greeted Liu Lian and said, "Senior brother, what are you talking about?" ”

"Your Highness, it's nothing." Liu Lian smiled and said softly: "Your Majesty appointed me as the right political secretary of Jiangxi to participate in politics. ”

"How many items?" Zhu Zhen asked with a wink.

"It's from the third grade." Liu Lian replied softly.

"Good thing!" Zhu Zhen cheered: "Is this a seventh-level or eighth-level promotion?" ”

"Because of the empty seal case, there are a large number of vacancies in local officials, so this kind of surprise promotion is now very common." Liu Lian said. Well, with him being Liu Bowen's son, there is nothing to do with half a penny.

"It's called opportunity." Zhu Zhen smiled: "I really envy my senior brother, unlike me, I can't make progress in this life." ”

"Your Highness, you are already a prince, how can you improve?" Liu Lian was speechless.

"Then you can only be the emperor." Liu Bowen sneered.

"Master, don't talk nonsense, I don't have that kind of thought at all." Zhu Zhen hurriedly waved his hand to deny it.

Liu Bowen snorted and didn't answer again.

"When will Senior Brother take office?" Zhu Zhen also quickly diverted the topic.

"The ministry means, of course, that the sooner the better." Liu Lian smiled bitterly: "But my father hasn't promised me to go yet." ”

"Why?" Zhu Zhen asked.

"Why?" Liu Bowen lowered his face and said, "It's obviously a fire pit, so you can jump into it?" ”

"Why do you say it's a fire pit?" Zhu Zhen asked.

"The emperor wants to pilot two things in Jiangxi, one is the 'sales method' that you mentioned in the name of the old man, this should be a matter for the political envoy, and it has nothing to do with Liu Lian." Liu Bowen said in a deep voice:

"But another thing, Qingzhang Tianmu, the designation is that Liu Lian's errand didn't run!"

"My father is going to compile the Yellow Book?" Zhu Zhen said with a solemn expression.

"Well, during the time you were away from Beijing, the emperor had secretly come to me." Liu Bowen said lightly:

He said that the empty seal case hurt him a lot, and he no longer trusted the officials in the world. Of course, he just listened to that, because he had never believed them. ”

"That's ......," Zhu Zhen was powerless to refute.

He also said that the reason why the local government and the household department talk about numbers and make accounts so rampant is because the court does not have the exact number of acres in its hands, so how much tax should be collected every year, the court does not know, and the people do not know, so they can only let the government talk about it!

"If the imperial court can control the number of acres of land in each household and how much tax should be collected each year, how can there be room for corrupt officials to make trouble?" Liu Bowen continued:

"So your father, you have made up your mind to clear the acres of land across the country!"

"It's a big plan." Zhu Zhen said: "All dynasties and dynasties have to do it after the founding of the country. If you don't do it well, the country won't last long. ”

"Do you still need you to teach me?" Liu Bowen glanced at him and said: "Qingzhang acres of land is good for the country and the people. I know this? But what about the magistrates and landlords? ”

"That's definitely no good, only bad." Zhu Zhen said: "After clearing the acres of land, the government's chances of profiting from it will be small. The landlords could no longer hide their land, and they had to pay a lot more taxes, so they must have resisted. ”

"Got it? Top dog? Liu Bowen glared at Liu Lian and said, "You are not as good as a child!" ”

"Of course I'm not as good as Your Highness." Liu Lian said.

"And I also told you that Your Majesty is ready to be ruthless this time!" Liu Ji said sharply: "It's no longer like the household post back then, it's not painful.

"He is going to prohibit the government from going to the countryside to collect taxes after the Yellow Book is compiled! And even the delivery of taxes and grains does not need the government! ”

"Huh?" Liu Lian was shocked: "How is this possible? Don't need the government to collect taxes? ”

"I'm ......" Zhu Zhen was also very surprised, the old thief really dared to be the first in the world!

"How can't it be." Liu Ji explained: "The emperor plans to break the traditional concept of townships and towns after the Qing Dynasty, and organize ten households into a first-class family, and select a first-class head to manage it. A hundred households are exactly ten heads, and one more head is set up from them. ”

(End of chapter)