"Why can't I knock it?" The Lilliputian official headed by him was taken away without paying attention to the drumstick, and as a result, he was empty, and he was so angry that he started to speak stiff Chinese.

The royal history on duty with a hedgehog on his chest, with the drumstick he took back, pointed to an iron list next to the Dengwen drum, and said without a good breath:

"Do you know the Celestial Empire script?"

"Naturally, I know ......" The envoy of the foreign domain was a little proud, and a little unconfident, "some." ”

"Then Nian Nian!" Imperial History.

"All civil lawsuits are ...... from the bottom up," the envoy said word by word.

"Okay, don't read it." Yushi interrupted him and said: "The first sentence of this opening sentence restricts that the drummer must come from the people. So officials can't beat the drum, and officials from outside the fan can't! ”

"This ......" the envoy was stunned for a moment, and then said like thunder: "You are deliberately making things difficult!" They all said that if you beat the drum, His Majesty the Emperor will summon you! ”

"How many more times do you want the official to say it? You're not qualified to play the drums! Yushi said coldly: "If you are unreasonable, you will fork it out!" ”

There was no way, the envoy had no choice but to retreat, and inevitably used his native language to bring out a string of unaware and dirty curses.

He was about to turn back helplessly, but he saw Zeng Tai, and his eyes lit up.

The envoy has been coming to Daming for a while, so he naturally knows that it is a big official who wears a red robe!

~~

After seeing the excitement, Zeng Tai was about to hand over the sign into the palace, but saw the envoy coming towards him.

Although I don't know what the other party is going to do, the shelf of the Heavenly Empire Shangguan is set.

"Meet this lord......" The envoy was not ambiguous, and bowed before him.

"Let's be flat." Zeng Tai said in a graceful tone: "Which country are you an envoy?" ”

"Xia Guan is Yang Suwen, the prime minister of the Cham country, to meet this lord."

"Champ...... Oh, it's the Han Dynasty's Rinan County. Zeng Tai pondered for a moment and said: "Since ancient times, it has been a part of my China." ”

"The lower official came to visit His Majesty the Emperor of the Celestial Dynasty on behalf of the king, but was troubled by the officials of Honglu Temple, originally came to pay New Year's greetings, but it has been more than half a year, and he has not yet seen the face of heaven." Yang Xuwen pretended not to understand his words and said to himself.

"Good fellow, have you been waiting so long?" Zeng Tai was surprised.

"Don't pay attention to this lord, there must be a reason why Honglu Temple doesn't let them see him." That Yushi seemed to know something, obviously hinting at Zeng Tai.

"What's the reason for that?" Zeng Tai broke the casserole and asked to the end. "Is it because you didn't clear the customs papers, or is there something wrong with the national credentials?"

"It's neither, it's just deliberately making things difficult for us!" Yang Xuwen said indignantly.

"Oh, that's right." Zeng Tai nodded, then turned around and entered the noon gate.

"No, adults don't care......" Yang Xuwen was dumbfounded.

"This official just asks casually......" Zeng Tai's voice echoed in the noon door cave, becoming more and more majestic.

"Ah......" Yang Xuwen was dumbfounded, and said in his heart, is it an oil cake!

"Alright, let's go!" The imperial historian was impatient and drove a group of Champa envoys away from the noon gate.

Alas, another day of disappointment......

~~

Wuying Palace.

Zhu Yuanzhang still attaches great importance to this reform cadre, and he met with Zeng Tai as soon as he arrived.

"Hahaha, you are Zeng Tai." Zhu Yuanzhang looked at him with a smile, the more he looked at it, the more pleasing it became, especially this big chin. Hey, absolutely......

"I've wanted to see you for a long time, and today I finally got my wish."

"......" Zeng Tai wanted to say, before I took office, I also specially summoned it. However, in front of Boss Zhu, he didn't have the courage to open the bar for the time being......

"The summer tax has already been collected by now. Come, tell us about the first year of the implementation of the new policy in Jiangxi, what is the effect? ”

"Back to the emperor, the biggest feeling of being a minister is convenience." Zeng Tai hurriedly replied:

"In previous years, when it was time to harvest the imperial grain, Xiatou Prefecture and County were busy, not to mention, and the province could not live in peace. Because the officials went to the countryside to harass the people, there were disputes over how much tax to pay, and even the disputes between the government and the people emerged one after another. ”

"This year is very simple, when the day comes, the county summons the grain chiefs and lieutenant chiefs of each district to the county office, and after passing the yellow book with them, the imperial grain that should be handed over in each district will be clear at a glance. Then the head of the first assisted the lieutenant commander to collect all the taxes and grains of each household and send them to the government. The whole process is spontaneous by the people, and there is no need for officials to go to the countryside to disturb the people. It's a lot easier than in previous years. ”

"Okay, if the officials don't disturb the people, the people can live in peace." Zhu Yuanzhang said happily: "When we were ordinary people, as soon as the family heard that the official mission went to the countryside, they were so frightened that they lost their souls, and quickly let the children take the chickens, ducks and geese at home to the grove and hide them." I'm afraid that the village chief will appoint his own family to take care of the rice......"

"These chickens and ducks are the lifeblood of the common people, so I pointed to laying a few eggs for some family." He said angrily: "Those officials will give disaster when they go to the township, they are full of food and drink, and they leave with their buttocks, and the common people don't know how to live." ”

"Yes, what the emperor said." Zeng Tai nodded and said: "The officials went to the countryside to do evil, and the officials were in cahoots with the big families, bullying and exploiting the people, which is indeed the place that the people hate the most." After the Yellow Book Lijia, there was no room for evil, and these situations were greatly improved. ”

"How much did you harvest for the summer grain?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked.

"Back to the emperor," Zeng Tai said busily: "This year, a total of 1.2 million stones of summer grain were collected, including 100,000 stones of wheat and rice from Jingku, 170,000 yuan of money and 12,000 horses of silk. It's a full two percent more than last year's summer tax! ”

"Well, yes, yes, it's not easy for Xia tax to become like this." Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't close his mouth in satisfaction. He knows that the autumn tax of a year is the big one, and if he can collect so much summer grain, the autumn grain will definitely not be bad.

"But I can't add any more classes, let's see that this number is quite appropriate."

"The emperor is benevolent." Zeng Tai was very moved, and he didn't care to raise the bar and said: "The people of Jiangxi thank you Lord Longen!" ”

"Oh?" Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned for a moment, only to realize that Zeng Tai was grasping his words of 'can't add more classes', and couldn't help laughing: "What, are you still afraid that what we say doesn't count?" ”

"I don't dare." Zeng Tai hurriedly lowered his head, he was really a little worried. Because His Royal Highness the King of Chu didn't know how many times he had complained to him, saying that his old man didn't count it, and didn't say it...... Not like a human king.

"Don't worry, we're not the kind of foolish emperors. We know that this tax is not collected as much as possible - it is all people's fat and people's ointment. The court collected more, and the common people lost weight. The imperial court levied and extorted violently, so it could only knock out the bones and suck the marrow of the common people.

"So as long as the court has coped with the expenses, it is necessary to leave some savings for the common people, so that their lives can be better and better, instead of just starving." Zhu Yuanzhang said in a deep voice:

"Not only Jiangxi, but when the yellow books of all provinces in the country are completed, we will also set the tax amount as appropriate, so that future generations will strictly implement it and never add classes!"

"On behalf of the people of the world, thank the emperor for his great kindness!" Zeng Tai knelt down excitedly and kowtowed to Zhu Yuanzhang, never expected that the tyrant who everyone in the officialdom was afraid of like a tiger was quite good to the people.

(End of chapter)