On the official road on the outskirts of Chang'an, there is still a little snow on the branches, and the grass beside the road has sprouted.

A red belly pocket was thrown on the side of the road, Gu Wende looked up, Yan Zhenqing and Xue Bai were walking side by side in front of him, not noticing his small movements.

He straightened his robe, and wanted to step forward to say something, but he couldn't say anything, only the picture of last night rose and fell in his mind, and he couldn't help but be ashamed.

After taking a closer look, Liu Jing, who had an indifferent face in front of him, had two bright red marks on the back of his neck......

"If the teacher can trust my ability to ask questions, I am sure that those fugitives have never been granted land."

"Call the old man 'county lieutenant', continue."

When the two talked alone last night, Yan Zhenqing was too lazy to correct Xue Bai, but at this time, in front of others, he was not allowed to play such a little clever.

"Regardless of the amount of land awarded, Ding Nan must be detained, which is a common practice, not new. Those who dare to dissenter, there are many ways for officials to make them bow their heads. ”

Xue Bai knew what Yan Zhenqing really wanted to investigate, and continued: "The people are the most patient, without this acre of land, Qu Ada found a job in Chang'an, and he could have lived a good life. He set up a stall outside the West Market to sell linen cloth, and he paid the rent for eight years, but if he could let the family have food, he would never want to be a runaway or sell himself into slavery. But since five or six years ago, he can't afford to pay it. ”

"Why?"

"If students are allowed to conclude, the imperial court has reduced the proportion of rent in taxes."

"That's a good summary." Yan Zhenqing said lightly: "This is the merit of the right minister, and it is also the reason why the saint has called him 'virtuous appearance' many times." ”

"Yes, it sounds like the right minister is really talented." Xue Bai said: "The waste of granting land, not equalizing the land but equalizing the tax, and the discerning people know that the rent must be changed." The right minister also knew, so he reduced the rent and changed it to various miscellaneous taxes. ”

Yan Zhenqing turned his head and glanced at Xue Bai deeply.

He suddenly couldn't tell the difference, is this a shameless villain who clings to Li Genu and bites back once he betrays, or a politician with big ambitions but unscrupulous means?

"Qu Ada is most afraid that the court will issue an edict to 'exempt the people from renting for one year', saying that the tax in Guanzhong is exempted, but the tax comes from afar, and the foot money has to be collected, but this foot money is not like the rent is fixed, and he has to pay as much as the official says. After paying the foot money, and the color of the folding, and the cloth that was paid is impregnated, and the color is not good, you must convert the loss and spread it on his head......"

When Xue Bai said this, he thought of Qu Ada's crying when he talked about these things, and also thought of Yang Shenjin and Wang Jie's praised financial management methods.

"Yang Shenjin was appointed as the Taifu, and he paid in the states, and those who were damaged by water were all made to levy and evaluate the money in the state, and the state and county levies and transferred them endlessly."

This was when he saw with his own eyes that Li Linfu wanted to protect Yang Shenjin, and he folded the book, which was regarded as a great achievement.

In the past two or three months, these people have persecuted him with power, Xue Bai is not angry, there is competition in the power field, survival of the fittest, and willingness to gamble and lose, this is common sense. But the person who wins the power should at least do his part, which is the basic quality of the person who gambles on his life.

Only this morning, hearing the complaints of those fleeing households, Xue Bai felt angry.

Tianbao has died a lot of people in the past five years, he can die, but he will never allow those who step on his corpse as a stepping stone to climb up, and will only keep breaking the cornerstone of the country.

There is no bottom line at the bottom.

Yan Zhenqing's eyes fell, and he saw Xue Bai's childish face tightened, and there was a kind of majesty and righteousness.

His mind moved, and he finally considered testing a thing or two.

First, he waved his hand and asked the two county officials to go to the post house in front to buy some food, and when he and Xue Bai were the only ones left, he asked: "Xue Bai, only about the tax law, what do you think of the right minister?" ”

Xue Bai looked at the backs of the two county officials and replied, "The right minister is a genius of tax law. ”

Yan Zhenqing said: "Really? ”

Xue Bai groaned slightly, raised his tone, and praised Li Linfu, the more he praised, the more generous he became.

"The Tang Dynasty is prosperous, unprecedented in the ages, and people of insight know that the ancient tax law can no longer adapt to the future, and the rent adjustment must be reformed. However, the right minister does not need to make innovations, but only needs to change the proportion of rents and mediocrity in the state's endowment, collect new taxes instead of abolishing the old laws, and levy miscellaneous salaries without suppressing mergers, so that the official treasury can be full and the treasury will be abundant. It is 'recalling the heyday of the Kaiyuan Dynasty in the past, Xiaoyi still hides thousands of families. The rice is fat and the corn is white, and the public and private warehouses are abundant. It was the saint and the right phase who created the prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty. ”

"Datang sometimes reduced the rent for a whole year, but the tax was more. Why? Wang Gong checked the household registration, and in one year he was able to collect ten years of rent from the heads of the dead soldiers. Yang Shenjin levied the folded color, and the tribute was never cut off every year. The right phase works hard day and night, conscientious; The saint has not been out of Chang'an for ten years, and there is nothing to do at home; The people defected to the great clan, got their protection, and lived and worked in peace and contentment! ”

In this way, step by step, until everyone in the world knows that it is better to collect miscellaneous taxes, and with a little pain of the destruction of lives and corpses, the tax system can be reformed on the basis of the right-sided tax law, and the tax system can be changed from rent to other tax laws. This is all the work of the right minister, it is such a virtuous appearance, it is worthy of more than ten years of dominating the world, the merit is in the community, and the merit is in the eternal! ”

~~

"Such a throttling method, the right phase is so virtuous, no wonder the saint has relied on the right phase for more than ten years!"

In the right minister's mansion, the newly appointed Jingzhao Yin Xiaojiong is visiting Li Linfu.

The things mentioned are the top priority of this year's government - the sage wants to expand the Lishan Hot Spring Palace and change its name to Huaqing Pool; At the same time, the Battle of Longyou was about to start, and the sage urged Wang Zhongsi to capture Shibao City.

Both of these are costly and costly.

However, the Taifu treasury, which was thought to be very full, was in deficit.

Yang Shenjin deserves to die, the Yang brothers have just been escorted back from Luoyang, and the saint gave them to death and exiled them all over the house.

There are countless beautiful servants and maids in the Hongnong County Mansion, and the magnates of Chang'an are already gearing up and ready to eat......

Li Linfu didn't care about this case.

He had been on official business lately, and he had been sleeping all night, thinking about how to raise the money for the saint.

To this end, he has come up with a good way to cut money.

The imperial court spends a lot of money on official paper every year, and Li Linfu played it and picked out the official documents that belong to the annual routine, so that there is no need to reprint them, which can save a lot of paper costs.

But it's not enough to throttle money, it has to be open source......

"Don't boast in front of Prime Minister that Jingzhao Mansion should be an example of the state and county in the world, and its political achievements are indispensable."

"Don't worry, the lower officials are starting to check the escapees, Tianbao has been six years, and the taxes of Jingzhao Mansion will be two percent higher than when Han Chaozong was there."

There was a coughing sound from behind the screen.

Xiao Jiong was stunned for a moment, gritted his teeth, saluted again, and responded: "Sancheng, there is something to be done!" ”

Li Linfu waved his hand, beckoned Ji Wen, and discussed the tax payment of Jingzhao Mansion.

In the end, Ji Wen did not retreat, and said in a low voice: "Right Phase, Xue Bai ......"

"What's the hurry? You're idle, aren't you? Let's talk about it when we find out who is behind him! ”

Li Linfu knew very well what the saint relied on himself for, and only in the face of this kind of serious matter, would he let go of the things of jealousy and jealousy and the exclusion of dissidents.

Finance and taxation are the foundation of the Holy Family.

Don't worry, there are a lot of people who Tianbao wants to kill in the sixth year, and we will talk about it after collecting taxes......

~~

Xue Bai and Yan Zhenqing entered Chang'an City from Mingde Gate and walked along Zhuque Street.

Suzaku Street is wide and bustling, densely populated with pedestrians, and there are not a few people who are well-dressed and full-bodied.

Hu Shang, with curly hair, led the camel as he walked by, his eyes full of amazement at this incredible prosperity, and he exclaimed, "Moo! Moo! ".

The family background of the Tang Dynasty is still thick, which also allows them to recover from the depression of tracking down the escapees.

Walking to Anyefang, Yan Zhenqing wanted to go west back to Chang'an County, and when he turned around, he saw that Xue Bai was still following, waved his hand, and said, "Go back?" ”

"I wonder if the student passed the teacher's test?"

Last night, Xue Bai rejected the beauty plan of Qingxu Farewell, and asked a lot of things this morning, thinking that he was okay.

Yan Zhenqing frowned.

He just wanted to take Xue Bai to do some drudgery to scare him away, but in fact, there was no test at all.

"Don't call the old man like that. In this way, go back and write a policy thesis, with the topic of rent and mediocrity, don't worry, think about it and then hand it over to the old man. ”

"Students must write with their hearts!"

Xue Bai gladly agreed, thinking that this was a great opportunity.

Or someone looks down on strategy, but his experience has taught him that it's very important. Especially in this Datang, convincing others, he can't do things slowly and wait for word of mouth, and later, people will only misunderstand his thoughts and abilities.

How does one think it should be governed? What kind of governance skills do you have? How many political aspirations are there? Policy is the most intuitive thing.

In troubled times, the reckless hero can kill tens of millions of people with a knife and a shot, and his prestige slowly convinces his courtiers of his ability to govern the country for decades. And in this prosperous era, if you want to accumulate fame as quickly as possible, you have to have the most intuitive and solid things.

Following Yan Zhenqing on the right path of officialdom is to consolidate the ability to govern the world step by step, which is fundamental.

The power trick is just a means to help the fundamentals.

~~

When I returned to the Du Mansion in Shengpingfang, I saw Lu Fengniang and Liu Xiangjun sitting in the second courtyard chatting, and several children were running around them.

"More children are lively, I look so envious, I have long wanted to have another daughter, my family is reluctant to ......"

Lu Fengniang hugged Xue Jiuniang and couldn't put down this little girl.

When Xue Bai entered the courtyard, the six children immediately stood in a row and shouted in unison, "Sixth brother." ”

"Sixth brother, didn't you say you were going to go on a long trip? How did you come back so soon? ”

"Well, I went on a trip to the nearest one yesterday, and I have to make another trip to the far one in the next few days."

"Ahh

Everyone was very disappointed.

Xue Bai saluted and went to the study.

Du Youlin was holding a scroll in his hand, and was lying there sleeping, when he heard the knock on the door, he quickly sat up and straightened his beard.

"Xue Bai is here, the old man has something to say to you, why don't you go and save your grandfather?"

"I've been saving."

"Look at this, then." Du Youlin pointed to the note on the table, "Erniang asked someone to give it to you, if you are not there, the old man will read it first." ”

Xue Bai took it and took a look, there was nothing unspeakable about what was said on the note, but everyone knew it.

Xue Ling's creditor backhanded Xue Bai to the Wannian County Ya, asking him to take Fengwei Mansion to repay his father's debts, and made it clear that he would go to Qingmen Restaurant to redeem people, otherwise he would go to Jingzhao Mansion.

The other party finally saw his intentions and refused to give him the opportunity to play a filial son in front of others, and insisted that he be a true filial son.

Xue Bai read it, didn't react much, and asked Du Youlin for some questions about writing policy theories.

At the end, Du Youlin stroked his beard and sighed: "Okay, you can study hard, it's very rare, but don't forget that filial piety comes first. ”

"Uncle, don't worry, I'll go to raise money now, and I'll go to redeem people tomorrow."

~~

Xue Bai then went to Fengwei Building again.

He ascended to the small attic, and Du Yan had already seen him coming from a distance, and changed his robe into a skirt.

"Did you get a message from me?"

She didn't bolt the door to Xue Bai in advance, presumably because she didn't come that night, otherwise she would have to complain according to her temperament.

At this time, it has been posted.

"You didn't come back last night, I didn't dare to send the news to Mrs. Qiu's mansion, thinking that the news would be transmitted home, and you could see it when you went back."

"I didn't go to Xuanyangfang, I went out of the city with my teacher Yan County."

Du Yan's eyes lit up and said, "You worshipped Yan Zhenqing as a teacher?" Although his official position is low, he is a descendant of the Langya Yan family, and he is a member of the Jinshi Deng, and his name is important all over the world. ”

"Hmm."

"Get down to business...... Our plan was discovered. ”

"It's not a quick response."

"What are you going to do?"

Xue Bai whispered: "You help me arrange a person to deliver a message to Pei Mian in the name of delivering wine and food, just say that I can't hold back Lao Liang and Jiang Hai, they can't see the family, and they want to sue the royal ......."

"Okay."

"Trustworthy people?"

Du Yan bit his ear and said in a low voice: "Don't worry, I will make your thirty percent worth it." ”

Xue Bai said: "Xue Ling can't die, I only seize the day, and I don't have time to keep filial piety for him." ”

"Understood, I'll arrange a place."

"Okay, I still have to go see the Tian brothers."

"In a hurry?"

"You've influenced me to write a strategy."

"Whatever the strategy, I can write it for you."

"Do you want to do it now, or wait for me to come back?"

"Then you go, arrange it first."

Since the relationship between the two has changed, the efficiency of discussing treacherous schemes in private has become higher.

When Xue Bai hurriedly left Fengwei Building, someone went out with a food box to deliver wine and food after a while, which was still quite new in Chang'an.

~~

In the evening, Pei Mian returned home.

"Ah Lang, someone said in the afternoon that I had delivered you takeout."

"Takeaway?"

Pei Mian frowned slightly, opened the food box engraved with the words "Fengwei Building", and saw that it was a plate of pastries.

Fengweilou is famous for stir-frying, but the pastries can only be regarded as average, and they can't be exquisite unless they are certain ingredients.

Pei Mian drove away others, picked up a jujube cake and broke it, took out the small note rolled inside, and looked at it, sneering slightly.

In recent days, he has been sending people to keep an eye on Fengwei Building, trying to find the whereabouts of Lao Liang and Jiang Hai, but he found nothing, only listened to a lot of bad things about the Xue family.

But he didn't expect that he was not in a hurry, Xue Bai was in a hurry first.

"Tomorrow, Kangjia Restaurant?" He muttered, "When I don't know your plan to drive the tiger and devour the wolf? Great filial son. ”

Pei Mian knew that it was impossible for Xue Bai to poison him, so he picked up the jujube cake in his hand and tasted it.

It tastes pretty good......