Xiahou Yong's silver teeth clenched, the two steel balls in his hand gurgled, and the green tendons on the back of his hand burst out.

"Wait to win Li Rufeng, Li Pin, you are the new Great Chu Hussar!"

Li Pin thanked him happily,

"However, the Imperial City Janissaries are still in his hands, so naturally they can't clash easily. Do you have a good plan? ”

Everyone has made suggestions.

"Gradually withhold, cut off their salaries, cut off their wings, and break themselves!"

Xiahou Yong pondered for a moment and said: "There is still a Dingguo Marquis in the country who is in collusion with Li Rufeng, and his son Xing Feng resigned with an unclear attitude. ”

Duanmu Hongping volunteered: "The minister is willing to talk to Xing Feng!" ”

The plan of the monarch and the ministers has been decided, and Xiahou Yong told Li Pin: "You cross the river first, and live temporarily in Baiyun Town, north of the Hengjiang River, if there is a change in state affairs, I will send someone to welcome you back to China." ”

Li Pin was overjoyed, thanked him a thousand times, and then took his leave.

At the same time, in the Hussar General's Mansion, Li Pin's wife Hong Ling was tearfully complaining to Li Rufeng.

"Sure enough, as my father-in-law expected, my husband temporarily left his own soldiers with our mother and son, and returned to Beijing to tell the ......"

"Every day I watched him read the strange scriptures that he taught every day, and I gradually became fascinated and instilled these ideas in me and my children......"

Li Rufeng's face could not hide his disappointment, and his words were sad.

"Xing Feng told him to be his father before, and the second child has already shown signs of being bewitched by the Heavenly Sun Sect, and he still doesn't believe it as a father."

"Come to think of it, on weekdays, my father is busy with the military and neglects discipline, but in the end, I only have the wind of being a father."

"This matter should not be taken by surprise for the time being. Next, the pro-soldiers in charge of the escort will obey you, you take the second child to Da Zhou, and then persuade him. ”

Hong Ling asked, "What about my father-in-law?" ”

Li Rufeng smiled bitterly and said: "Eating Chu Lu for my father and dying for Chu Chen, it is naturally impossible to collaborate with the enemy and commit treason." There are princes who take care of each other, but there is no need to worry. Hong Ling, you just take care of the children, don't let them suffer physically and mentally. ”

Li Rufeng called the captain of the pro-soldier who was responsible for escorting Hong Ling home to report the news, and repeatedly admonished him.

The two returned to the same place at night, and the maid who was taking care of the child for Hong Ling talked to her alone.

"The information is correct, the second young master went to the palace secretly."

Hong Ling trembled, just looked at the pair of ignorant children in front of him, and seemed to have made up his mind.

A quarter of an hour later, Li Pin also returned.

"Why hasn't the prince returned for a long time?"

Li Pin looked around and confirmed that there were no personal soldiers present, so he whispered: "That old immortal really killed himself, let's hurry up and cross the river at night, and after he is subdued, I will come back to inherit the official title!" ”

Hong Ling agreed, and Li Pin urged the guards to start the boat.

That night, Hong Ling toasted her husband Li Pin, and after getting drunk with Li Pin, she pushed him out of the bow of the boat while no one was paying attention.

The drunken Li Pin fell directly into the heart of the river.

When the soldiers heard Hong Ling's cry for help, they couldn't search for it.

"Second Young Master drowned!!"

The exclamations at the scene were intertwined with the cries of Hong Ling and the children.

As soon as Li Pin died, the soldiers were forced to go back to report the news.

After entering Beijing, Hong Ling had a secret conversation with the maid alone, and gave a thousand instructions.

"Go and inform Juzi, my husband is hopeless, and I have killed my relatives ...... righteousness"

……

In the Hussar General's Mansion, Li Rufeng was looking at the portrait of Li Xinwen's biological mother.

"Master, something is wrong!!"

The captain of the pro-soldier urgently reported Li Pin's death, which surprised Li Rufeng, and in addition to grief, he also sighed helplessly.

In this way, he barely managed to keep the reputation of his second son during his lifetime......

Considering that the eldest son had already crossed north and could not attend the funeral of the second son, it must be suspicious, Li Rufeng finally decided not to mourn for the time being, but just let the pro-soldiers escort his daughter-in-law and grandchildren to the north of the Great Zhou and defect to Liang Xiao.

The majestic Great Chu Hussar in the past trembled his hands at this moment.

The death of the second son, sooner or later, will not be able to hide from Xiahou Yong and Duanmu Hongping, and they are destined to startle the snake.

"You need to prepare early, discuss with the Marquis of Dingguo, the four princes are wise, and you can set up a new monarch......"

On the third day, Xiahou Yong finally received the news from the north bank of the Heng River, and was shocked.

"Li Pin is missing?? Could it be that the old thief has already noticed?! ”

"Your Majesty! You have to plan ahead! Duanmu Hongping and others have suggested.

Da Chu, who temporarily restored the apparent peace, was instigated by Qin Xun, the great son of the Mo family, and regained the storm.

In the south of Great Chu, dozens of Mo family disciples led by Qin Xun are fighting with the Tianri Sect.

The comrades-in-arms died one after another, and there were less than ten Mo family disciples who fought side by side with Qin Xun in Dachu.

The people are constantly clamoring, hoping that Xing Feng can continue to serve as an official and for the benefit of the people.

Xing Feng never went out, but just took his wife and children back to the Dingguo Marquis Mansion to serve his father, the Marquis of Dingguo of Great Chu.

The people finally stopped expecting Xing Feng.

Xiahou Yong was quite pleased with this, and sent people to spread rumors about Xing Feng, and at the same time privately solicited Xing Feng.

In September, the first round of land tax collection began in various places north of the Yangtze River in the Great Zhou Dynasty.

After the New Deal reforms, the privileged classes that were originally exempt from tax also paid taxes.

Local governments are very busy, but compared with previous years, the collection of poll tax is much easier.

Compared with hiding the population, the hiding of the fields is as difficult as the sky, and the landlords and gentry in various places have nothing to hide, so they can only pay taxes truthfully, and pay taxes several times or even more than ten times more than in previous years, which is unspeakably miserable.

Some landlords and gentry had to give up most of the black households in their families, and at the same time sell the farmland under their names, and the price of the land plummeted, which was purchased by the government and Wuwang Yizhuang.

As a model of Yizhuang in the country, Wuwang Yizhuang has been supported by the government for the acquisition of farmland in various places, and other Yizhuang have followed suit.

In the past, farmland was in the hands of the landlords and gentry who owned a large number of black households, which was a great hidden danger to the state.

Allowing Yizhuang to buy land is equivalent to choosing the lesser of two evils, which is more conducive to social stability.

After the tax was collected, all localities reported the actual income to the capital.

In the West Palace Annex, Duan Yunyi caressed the bulging pregnant belly, leaned happily on Liang Xiao's arms, raised his eyes to look at him, and his beautiful eyes were full of love and emotion.

What Liang Xiao held in his hand was the estimate of the tax sent by the household department today.

In previous years, black households were unable to pay the poll tax, and many landlords and gentry had tax exemption privileges.

After this New Deal reform, compared with the poll tax and field tax in previous years, this year's land tax in the north should increase the national treasury by more than 5 million taels!

Of course, this is because for the first time to promote "one grain payment, one errand", many landlords and gentry who have lost their tax-free privileges have not had time to sell their fields.

After the situation stabilized, all parts of Jiangnan also paid the land tax honestly, and the annual treasury could increase by at least three million taels of silver compared with before the reform!

This is only a superficial benefit, and the apportionment of the land to the mu can greatly promote population growth, and in the future, it can also bring new taxes such as commercial taxes.

What surprised Duan Yunyi even more was that Liang Xiao also tried a new policy.

Research.