Chapter 26: The Partridge Flies (6)
The deep palace is lonely, counting the beans to live, from sunrise to sunset day by day, Cheng Meiren feels that her time has been stretched for a very long time, and she remembered that she was sent to the palace in a daze, and she became a favorite concubine in a daze, and she was pregnant with the dragon seed in a daze, and since then the world has become the small Quartet.
Late at night, she stroked her flat lower abdomen, remembering Emperor Zhao's tight cough, and a chill came out from the depths of her heart. In this deep palace, where should she go?
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Shu Yao was holding a small note in her hand, and the resentment in her heart made her unable to even eat. The Dacheng Dynasty is like a lantern with a beautiful appearance, which looks gorgeous, but it is empty inside, and it is like a tall ancient tree, which looks luxuriant, but the trunk is rotten into mud.
Now that she finally knew the real reason for her assassination in the inn, there were many more such things that could happen. Jinghu North Road Jingzhou Tong sentenced Yang Wanguang to cooperate with Cao Wenyi, Zhizhou, and privately raised the poll tax by 30%, and the people were miserable, but there was no way to ask for help.
Shu Yao looked at the small note again, and the lines of small words on it cut her heart like a dagger: In the seventh year of Longhua, the flood in Ganyang County, Jingzhou, killed one hundred and three people, reported three hundred and twenty-eight people to die in disaster relief, and the porridge can shine on people; In the following year, the locust plague, thousands of miles of red land, no harvest of grains, starvation all over the field, Zhizhou sent a sentence for disaster relief, only the water and the light did not see the rice grain.
Jingzhou was originally a rich land with a large population, and during the tenure of Yang Wanguang and Cao Wenyi, the population lost nearly one percent, and the tax was reduced by nearly two percent!
What's even more incredible is that Yang Wanguang and Cao Wenyi's performance appraisal every three years is still excellent, and the political achievements sent to Emperor Zhao are a cluster of flowers, national peace and security.
Shu Yao crumpled the note into a ball of hatred. There is also civil unrest in Jingzhou, today here and tomorrow, she pressed down the gourd and lifted the scoop, she didn't care much about the stability of the Dacheng Dynasty's Jiangshan Society, but sympathized with the people who would be tortured again even if they died.
Seeing that it is about to enter June, the performance appraisal of officials will be sent to Beijing. And the person in charge of the performance appraisal of officials is precisely Prime Minister Liu Cheng.
Shu Jiao walked around in the center of the ground, remembering that Shen Junzhuo had just talked about the lack of food and salary in the Northern Army, and always felt that these things seemed to be able to be solved at one time.
The Dacheng Dynasty has been around for more than 200 years, and before Taizu, the world was divided into forty or fifty small countries, and there were constant wars between countries. Taizu's former official worshiped the hussar general of the Zhou State, known for not killing prisoners and loving soldiers like sons, and gradually some small countries surrendered, and the power became bigger and bigger, and finally broke away from the control of the royal family of the Zhou State.
Taizu absorbed the drawbacks of the fall of the previous dynasty, and no longer set up a festival envoy and a capital protectorate, but divided the world into 23 roads, each of which has a state and county, and the state and county are under the jurisdiction of the county. In terms of administering the army, those generals were no longer allowed to collect food and salary directly from the localities, but instead stationed troops in the fields and paid by the central government.
The Northern Army has been guarding the northern border and confronting the Northern Xiongnu. It's easy to find Gobi Desert stones, but it's hard to find a place to farm. As a result, there is no land to be cultivated, and grain and wages can only be allocated by the central government.
Now the request of the northern army has been handed over, and they are anxiously waiting for food, but there is basically no silver in the treasury, and the household department has spread its hands, saying that it can only wait for the summer harvest in the south to have some income.
But Shen Junzhuo was worried, even if the Southern Xia cashier grain was available, there was no way to transport it over. The north-south canal has been blocked for two or three years, and even small boats have been frightened, let alone big ships.
(End of chapter)