Luoyang.

Cao Chao practiced swordsmanship as always.

The long sword was swept by the tiger he wielded, and there was a burst of sound breaking through the air.

The guards stood not far away, watching Cao Chao practice his sword, but no one dared to come forward to disturb him.

Cao Chao practiced for a while, took out another book, and flipped through it.

The books that Cao Chao took out were the books on swordsmanship left by Cao Pi.

Swordsmanship has been developing in ancient times, and when it developed into the Wei and Jin dynasties, swordsmanship evolved into more moves, and even some magical skills, such as taking white blades empty-handed.

Deng Zhan, who competed with Cao Pi, was very good at this stunt.

Cao Chao wanted to summon a swordsmanship master to teach him, but the ministers recommended several people to him, but none of them were recognized by Cao Chao.

These people are famous, but their swordsmanship is mediocre, and it is almost the same as saying that they are lovers of swordsmanship.

Zhang Hua thought that someone from the army should be found as a teacher.

Cao Chao thought so.

Wen Yang volunteered and expressed his willingness to teach, but Cao Chao did not agree.

Wen Yang's body, this strength, his swordsmanship is not something that ordinary people can learn, and he may not be useful if he learns it, and his physique is different.

Cao Chao temporarily took the books left by Cao Pi, looked at the practice, and the rest of the time was to continue to exercise to make himself as healthy and strong as possible.

When Cao Chao finished today's exercise, he was sweating profusely, and his clothes were wet with sweat, and the ministers hurriedly came to wipe them.

Cao Chao put away his sword and walked quickly to Zhang Hua's side.

Zhang Hua said with a smile: "Your Majesty, Lu Shangshu is waiting in the East Hall. ”

Seeing the smile on Zhang Hua's face, Cao Chao joked, "Can't you let me guess?" Do you have to be so obvious? ”

Zhang Hua hurriedly put away his smile and showed a serious look, "Your Majesty, Lu Shangshu has something important to do!" ”

Cao Chao laughed.

"It's too late!"

Lu Zhi came to the Taiji Palace, naturally to announce the results of this year's autumn harvest.

Zhang Hua's expression had already betrayed Lu Zhi, and it seemed that there was still an improvement.

When Cao Chao changed his clothes and hurried to the East Hall, Lu Zhi was waiting for him, and when he saw Cao Chao, he hurriedly stood up and bowed.

"Your Majesty."

If it weren't for Zhang Hua's smile, Cao Chao would really not be able to tell anything from Lu Zhi's face.

Lu Zhi looked so calm that it was impossible to tell from his face how this year's harvest was.

Cao Chao smiled and sat on the top seat and looked at Lu Zhi on the side.

"How much has it improved?"

Lu Zhi was stunned for a moment, but still said truthfully: "The improvement is great, Your Majesty, please take a look." ”

Cao Chao took the recital and looked down at it.

Lu Zhi explained: "The improvement in various places is very stable, and although the original rented cultivated land is less than the tax in other places, it is only not significantly improved, and it is still improving."

"This year's tax is already higher than the amount of Taihe in the fifth year."

Cao Chao suddenly laughed, this Taihe five years, is the highest tax record set by Cao Heng period, that year, Emperor Ming attached great importance to the harvest, determined to engage in farming.

In order to achieve this goal, he personally went to his own home field to engage in farming, which immediately caused a great impact.

Officials from all over the country followed suit, and the emperor personally carried out sacrifices, hoping that the year would be smooth, and the situation that year was also very good, Kirby could take the initiative to surrender, Shu retreated, the prince was born, and good things seemed to be concentrated in that year.

And that year's grain production, in this case, was also the highest since the founding of the Great Wei Dynasty, which made Emperor Ming very happy, and immediately ordered, saying that he missed the princes and kings everywhere very much, and allowed them to bring their children to see him.

Unfortunately, this only lasted for one year, and from the sixth year of Taihe, frequent disasters occurred in various places, and grain production began to gradually decrease.

By the time of King Qi, the Sima family was crazy and violent, and the quality of officials had declined seriously, and then no one dared to talk about the change in taxes.

What does the tax in the third year of Zhengyuan mean when it reached the data of the fifth year of Taihe?

It shows that the national strength has begun to rise again, and it has reached the same level as when Emperor Ming was at his peak.

Cao Chao couldn't help laughing.

For Cao Chao, the third year of Zhengyuan was also a very peaceful and smooth year.

Just like Emperor Ming's Taihe five years.

However, Cao Chao hopes that this is not just an exception, and he hopes that the four years of Zhengyuan will be even better than this year.

He looked at Lu Zhi again, "Lu Gong, do you think this lease can continue?" ”

Lu Zhi replied without thinking, "Yes." ”

"Your Majesty, judging from the current situation, the matter of renting seeds will have an impact on taxes, but the overall growth is still increasing, although the Great Wei has not been able to complete the long-cherished wish of unification, but Wu and Shu are no longer a threat to Your Majesty and are not kings who are eager for quick success, if they can be fully implemented, it may make the growth of taxes slow, but it is beneficial for future events."

Ruzhi points to more evidence.

According to Ruzhi, the first areas where farming was first carried out have become extremely commercial, increased in other areas, and even law and order has been more stable than in other places, and there have been fewer thieves, which has had a lot of positive effects on all sides.

The new method is to reduce the income of the temple and increase the income of the peasants, and although such a policy will reduce the temple tax, but the people will regain their purchasing power, the market will also prosper, the people will live and work in peace and contentment, and the probability of thieves will naturally be reduced

Cao Chao is not his father.

Cao Pi is a person who likes to pursue these goals that have little practical meaning.

Sometimes, in order to achieve the goal, they will make a move to pull out the seedlings to help them.

But this is not the case with Cao Chao, he is very patient, even if the tax growth slows down, as long as the market can be recovered and all aspects of Dawei can be put back on track, he is still willing to do it.

The tax exceeds that of Emperor Ming, which is just a data, and when the household registration accumulates, it will be surpassed sooner or later.

Besides, there is still half of the country waiting to be taken down by himself.

When the population and arable land of the two countries are collected, this tax will usher in an even greater increase.

Cao Chao is not in a hurry at all.

"Lu Gong, since this matter is feasible, then you can implement it in various places, the situation in different places is different, you still have to take a look at it first, don't be impatient"

Lu Zhi did not expect that the emperor would in turn persuade him not to be impatient.

He immediately took the order, took his things, and left in a hurry.

Zhang Hua stepped forward at this moment, "Congratulations to Your Majesty!" ”

Cao Chao shook his head.

After the end of the war, the taxes on the temples should have been increasing, and only dynasties like the Wei and Jin dynasties had declined in less than thirty years since the founding of the country, and they just adjusted their momentum.

He didn't pay attention to those data at all, and for Cao Chao, the sense of accomplishment brought by these numbers has not yet seen the sense of accomplishment brought by the scale of the restaurant.

"How's going on in Jibei?"

Zhang Hua replied: "Zong Zhengzheng led the king of Jibei to Luoyang, and several sinners who heard about the murder of the king were also put in a carriage and wanted to come to the temple for trial. ”

Cao Chao opened his mouth and said: "If it weren't for Mao Xian, I'm afraid the king of Jibei would be in the ground at this moment." ”

The reason why Cao Chao sent Hu Lie there was because of Zhang Hua's proposal.

After Cao Chao and Cao Yan encountered each other, Cao Yan told Cao Chao that the King of Jibei had a dispute with someone and was going to go to the Criminal Department first and asked the Criminal Department not to try it.

Cao Chao just told Cao Yan to take charge of this matter at that time.

But when Zhang Hua knew about it, he asked a question.

How did Cao Yan know about this matter faster than the Criminal Department?

Cao Chao immediately inquired, only to learn that it was one of Cao Zhi's retainers who came to Luoyang, found Cao Yan, and told Cao Yan about his dispute with the big clan.

After Zhang Hua listened, he immediately advised Cao Chao to let Hu Lie go to the local area, find Hu Zun, and let Hu Zun send troops to protect the safety of King Jibei.

Although Cao Chao was surprised, he didn't ask, and immediately sent Hu Lie there.

After giving the order, Cao Chao asked why.

Zhang Hua said: The king of Jibei has just arrived in the feudal country, it is impossible to have such a capable guest, and he can come faster than the people who come to complain from the big clan.

Even if there was such a guest, with the strength of the local clan, it was impossible not to stop him.

In this way, this person was deliberately released, and it may be that the big clan arranged for him to come to complain.

Zhang Hua guessed that Cao Zhi must have been involved in a bigger problem, not only the problem of selling farmland, but also the local clan must have fallen into internal strife because of what he did, so he had to send someone there quickly to prevent him from being victimized by thieves.

And among Qingxu, the only person who has the strength to shut up the big clans is General Hu Zun.

What happened next was exactly the same as Zhang Hua had guessed.

Cao Zhi's guest was indeed sent by Liu Jiao, the purpose of which was to prevent Gong Shahong from pulling him into trouble.

deliberately sent someone to sue him, just to clear up his relationship with the Gongtian case.

If Hu Zun hadn't received the order and arrived in time, Cao Zhi would really have died in the hands of Gong Shahong.

After being praised by Cao Chao at this moment, Zhang Hua disagreed, he continued: "Your Majesty, all parts of the Great Wei Dynasty, except for the public land, is the cultivated land of the big clan, and in these years, the public land has become less and less, but the cultivated land of the big clan has become more and more. ”

"If this continues, all the people of the world will become vassals."

"This matter must be guarded against."

Speaking of this, Cao Chao reacted suddenly, after the historical An Shi abolished the tuntian system and turned the people who cultivated the temple into yeoman farmers, it seems that he issued an edict strictly prohibiting private tenants.

As a result, there was a great backlash, and Nexperia then began to reform the arable land system.

These reforms met with an unprecedented backlash, and the temple was implemented for seven or eight years, and then Anshi began to indulge in pleasure and abandoned all these things.

And the proponents of these reforms were at the time of the Duzhi Shangshu.

Cao Chao slowly looked at Zhang Hua.

It's you???