Tokyo.

Court.

"Your Majesty, reports have come from all over the country that there has been constant turmoil this year, with many military disasters, floods and droughts, and I ask Your Majesty to reduce or reduce taxes."

Li Gang looked at Zhao Huan and said.

"What?"

Zhao Huan's face changed greatly, the imperial court is now empty of the treasury, just waiting for the taxes after the autumn harvest to fill the treasury, what should the treasury do if the taxes are reduced or reduced at this time?

"Taxation is the foundation of the country! How to reduce it at will! What's more, now that the country is in an eventful season, taxes should be added by 20%! ”

Li Yan said with a gloomy face, he is now in charge of the Xicheng Office, and he was originally very oily and watery.

However, the appearance of the Liangshan thieves caused Xicheng's income to drop sharply, and the entire land in Hebei and Shandong was occupied by Liangshan, and he only had these lands around Tokyo.

Originally, there was little money and grain that could be collected, but this year there was a flood, and it was almost impossible to collect money and grain, but the emperor was still staring at the money bag of Xicheng, and the local government did not pay taxes, so the pressure would go to Xicheng.

When the imperial historian on the side saw Li Yan speak, he immediately left the shift.

"Your Majesty, the minister talked about Li Yancao, the governor of He Dauchi, who was in charge of people's lives, annexed land in the name of the imperial court, and filled his private pockets, so that the people around Tokyo complained, and the people resisted and were ordered to be killed by Li Yan, and hundreds ......of people died."

The imperial history directly listed Li Yan's ten cardinal sins.

For a while, many people in the court were shocked, and they didn't know which one they were singing today.

Li Yan is a big corrupt official, who doesn't know about this in Tokyo? But this is all acquiesced by the emperor, aren't all the emperor's cronies so greedy from top to bottom.

"Li Yan, what's going on?"

Zhao Huan patted the dragon chair, and his face was very ugly.

"Your Majesty, the minister is wronged, he is indiscriminately biting, and the minister is loyal to His Majesty!"

Li Yan hurriedly knelt down and said.

"Loyal to me, loyal to me needs to do these things?"

Zhao Huan was even angrier when he heard this.

Li Yan kept saying that he was loyal to His Majesty, but the income from Xicheng did not enter the treasury at all, nor did it hand it over to him, but to Emperor Zhao Ji.

This is the fuse of all this in the court today, the public opinion in the world is surging, and the people are rising up and shouting to resist tyranny.

But in Zhao Huan's eyes, all this has nothing to do with him, he has just ascended the throne and become the emperor, what does everything before have to do with him? Why should he bear the evil and infamy caused by Zhao Ji?

There are also these high-ranking and powerful ministers in the court, who keep saying that they are loyal to him, but in fact they are finally the emperor.

This made Zhao Huan completely angry, if he couldn't get the loyalty of his courtiers when he became the emperor, and he would be pressed by the emperor, then what would he become? The emperor who helped the emperor take the blame?

Today is the day when Zhao Huan launched a counterattack.

"This ...... This was the case during the period of Emperor Taishang! ”

Li Yan saw that Zhao Huan was furious, and his voice was a little lacking in confidence.

Li Yan's words made the faces of Cai Jing, Tong Guan and others next to him change greatly, and they all scolded Li Yan for being stupid in their hearts, which pot is really not opened and mentioned, isn't it adding fuel to the fire at this time?

"The Emperor asked you to kill the people?"

Zhao Huan looked at Li Yan viciously.

"I didn't ...... No! ”

Li Yan replied in fear.

"Come on, put Li Yan in prison, and the criminal department will investigate it!"

Zhao Huan shouted outside the hall.

The guards immediately walked into the main hall and dragged Li Yan down, and Li Yan kept shouting in his mouth, "Wronged, the emperor saves me".

"Your Majesty, there are students outside the Imperial City who are petitioning! The palace gate has been blocked. ”

A guard walked into the main hall to report.

"Too student petition?"

All the officials in the DPRK and China were shocked, and the Tai student was a student studying in Guozijian, and he was the foundation of the most official in the country.

"Let's go, let's see!"

Zhao Huan got up and walked outside the hall.

Hundreds of officials followed, and it was a big deal for the students to block the palace gate.

"You can know that besieging the palace gate is a capital offense!"

At the gate of the palace, a guard commander shouted at the excited students, he didn't dare to do it at will, it was a capital crime to besiege the palace gate, if it was one or two people, he would kill it, but now there are more than three hundred, all the students are here, he doesn't dare to really slaughter Taixue.

"If you sin to death, I will not regret it!"

Chen Dong replied loudly with a piece of music in his hand.

"I have no regrets!"

"I have no regrets!"

……

The students yelled one after another, they were all seventeen or eighteen young people, and they didn't care about anything when they were hot.

"The emperor has arrived!"

The eunuch's sharp voice sounded, and the guards and students were instantly quiet, only to see Zhao Huan, who was dressed in a dragon robe, sitting on the dragon and coming slowly, flanked by civil and military officials.

"Meet Your Majesty!"

The students and guards all knelt down and saluted Zhao Huan.

"I don't regret it, do you know that you have committed the crime of punishing the nine clans!"

Zhao Huan looked at the group of students and asked.

"Your Majesty, now that there are internal and external troubles, the country will not be a country, and we can't take care of it much. As a student, he has read the books of sages and sages, and he should take it as his responsibility to serve the world, but he can see that the traitorous ministers mislead the country, deceive the saints, the excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes in various places, the officials force the people to rebel, the civil officials are corrupt, and the military attaches are afraid of death, so they risk death to speak! ”

Chen Dong held Zhou Zhang in both hands and exclaimed sadly.

The chamberlain stepped forward and took the chapter at the signal of Zhao Huan.

"You've done a great job!"

Zhao Huan saw Chen Dong's recital, his face was extremely ugly, and his eyes swept coldly towards Cai Jing, Tong Guan, Liang Shicheng, Zhu Mian, and Huang.

"Your Majesty, today's affairs, Cai Jing is in the front, Liang Shicheng is in the back, Li Yan is in the northwest, Zhu Mian is in the southeast, Wang Hao and Tong Guan are in the southeast, and Wang Hao and Tong Guan are in the middle of the trouble. It is advisable to punish the six thieves and pass on the first four directions to thank the world. ”

Chen Dong and others bowed down and shouted.

At this moment, Li Bangyan, Bai Shizhong, Zhao Ye, Wang Xiaodi, Cai Mao, Li Di and others are all pale, they are all human spirits, and many things can be seen at a glance if they can climb to such a position.

"This was arranged by His Majesty?"

Several people exchanged glances, and this time it was the six thieves who were pushed to the forefront of the power, Cai Jing, Wang Hao, Tong Guan, Zhu Mian, Li Yan, and Liang Shicheng.

"This is to get rid of the former courtiers!"

A few people suddenly had an idea, Cai Jing and the six of them were all pulled up by Zhao Ji.

"Your Majesty, the minister is wronged!"

Cai Jing, Wang Hao, Tong Guan, Zhu Mian, and Liang Shicheng all knelt on the ground and begged for mercy and cried out for injustice.

"Is all this a fake? Come on, go to the prison! ”

Zhao Huan ordered to the guards.

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

Chen Dong and other students shouted in unison.

"You are loyal and patriotic, although you are rushing into the imperial city today, but you are also a sincere heart, and today I will forgive your sins! After you go back, you must study hard and serve your country! ”

Zhao Huan looked at Chen Dong and the others again and said.

"Follow Your Majesty's teachings!"

Chen Dong and the others asked the students to salute again.

Baiguan looked at Zhao Huan, and then looked at the scattered students, now everyone knows that these students are the emperor's support behind them, and today's students are arranged by the emperor, and this time they have taken down the six thieves who have been in power for more than ten years. (End of chapter)