Yuan Jin, the master of the secret gate, was looking at the half-dead middle-aged man opposite with a gloomy face at the moment, and after a long time, he raised his hand and picked up a portrait on the table and said, "Do you know this person?"

Hearing this, Qin Jian raised his head with great difficulty, squinted his eyes that were already dull and looked at it seriously, and after half a ring, he laughed, and his smile was so hearty, as if he had laughed out all the melancholy in his heart for most of the year, and only stopped after half a ring.

"It seems that this person must be from your Inspectorate's Office?"

Hearing the other party say this, Qin Jian didn't feel strange, but laughed twice and said, "It seems that something big has happened, otherwise you wouldn't have come over so hard." ”

Listening to the other party's questioning and answering words, Yuan Jin seemed to be used to it, and held his forehead and said unhurriedly: "I heard that there is a secret peerless master in the Inspector's Mansion, known as the number one assassin in the world, and I think this person is no different." ”

The conversation between the two seemed so strange to others, neither of them was answering each other's questions, but the two were still chatting with relish, but both of them found the answers they wanted from each other's words.

After half a ring, Qin Jian said sullenly: "It seems that he has already succeeded, but I don't know what it is, but I still tell you, if he runs away, don't think about catching him again, there are not many people in the world who can catch him, but these people can't exist in your secret door." ”

Yuan Jin snorted coldly when he heard this, and then brushed his sleeves away, leaving Qin Jian alone in the prison muttering to himself, not knowing what he was thinking.

Spring goes to autumn and Xuancheng nineteen years have passed quietly in this silence, nothing can stop its passing, everything is still going according to plan, and at the end of this year, many governments are quietly changing.

First of all, from the perspective of commercial law, there have been several changes since the Xuancheng years, but all of them are becoming more and more severe, and the harshness of merchants is also the limit since the opening of the Great Qin Dynasty, from the initial fifteen taxes to eight taxes, and some goods are subject to a certain consumption tax, which is the luxury tax.

With the continuous expansion of the trade route and the gradual convenience of transportation, the rarity of more remote places is accepted by the public, and the luxury tax has gradually risen from five taxes to three taxes and one, and today the miscellaneous and miscellaneous add up to almost two taxes and one, which is unbelievable a hundred years ago, but it was also accepted by the imperial court in the case of a rich life.

In their opinion, the group of merchants, one does not engage in labor, and the other is that because of their own instability, it is difficult to be levied by the imperial court, so in their opinion, the group of merchants is no different from moths, although in the past ten years, both in terms of social status and ecological status have improved a lot, but from the fundamental ideology has not changed much.

In the emperor's view, it is a matter of course to value the people over business, since ancient times, those rebellious groups are all the lowest people, and the biggest reason is the heavy taxes and the increasingly thin land, resulting in them having to starve and revolt, and since the Hongzheng period, the emperor began to desperately reduce the land tax, as much as possible from other aspects to supplement the treasury.

Ever since the right Bao Haiyou Shilang of the household department gave the emperor a note a few years ago, Li Jun had to think seriously about this problem, which said.

Since the opening of the Great Qin Dynasty, the people have been prosperous, the national prestige is flourishing, the peak of the Xuan Cheng year, my emperor sympathizes with the suffering of the people, one is to reduce the servitude, the other is to reduce the tax, it is the luck of the minister, the luck of the people of the world, the minister has been entrusted with a heavy task by His Majesty, and he does not dare to slack off easily, but now the treasury is empty, the minister can not rest day and night, and he can not sleep at night.

One: The people's lives are improving day by day, and they are no longer only hungry and full, so the demand for goods is also increasing.

Two: the minister has served in the household department for many years, for some problems are also puzzled, Xuancheng four years of commercial tax fifteen tax one, a total of 94,320,000 taels of silver, accounting for less than three percent, to the ninth year of Xuancheng, the commercial tax changed to eleven taxes one, a total of 18 million taels of silver, accounting for less than three percent, to the eleventh year of Xuancheng, the commercial tax changed to eight taxes one, a total of 113 million taels of silver, accounting for less than two and a half percent, the minister does not understand its meaning, His Majesty is a heavenly man should have a deduction.

Three: the ancient book has no treacherous business, the minister does not dare to speculate, but according to the minister to see the merchant is essential, and today has become the mainstay of my Daqin, want to make a silk, silkworm is indispensable, and in Jiangnan Dao alone this input amounted to more than two million taels, and then through weaving and refining, one to solve the problem of manpower, two to this is a tax, to the hands of the merchant sales, this alone is enough to have 16 million taels of huge every year, if there is a problem at the final pass, the minister can't believe it, the rest of the industry is naturally the same。

Li Jun was actually not very interested in this before, and most of the similar excerpts submitted were sent to the convenience office for approval, but now he had to do his best, after all, with the current treasury, it is difficult for him to carry out his own plan, and Bao Haiyou's suggestions are also some of the problems that Li Jun has been thinking about hard, but no matter how thankless it is, it has become a foregone conclusion, so a new commercial tax was introduced under the senate of a cabinet minister a year ago, and ten taxes and one is the result of joint consultation.

The second change was proposed by Chen Song, the priest of the country, that the biennial examination has become a burden for the children of the prefecture and county, and what is the reason? From the township examination to the government examination and then to the meeting examination, it will take six years, and some students in remote prefecture capitals are like Nanxi, Zhaoyun, and Anping, and many of their homes are hundreds of miles away from the county government, not to mention the state capital, which can take as little as more than ten days and as long as several months, and the expenses involved are really not something that ordinary people can afford.

Therefore, after the consideration of the officials of all parties, it was finally decided to restore the old system of one examination every two years, the township examination, the government examination, and the meeting examination, the time was February 10, March 10 and May 10, respectively, the third problem can be said to be old, that is, the clan problem, throwing away those lords who retired with the country, from the top of the vassal king, the county king to all kinds of generals, the annual court rewards were all reduced to the previous seventy.

As soon as this decree came out, the Manchu Dynasty was in an uproar, after all, among these officials, the emperor's relatives accounted for nearly half, and the vassal kings and county kings in various places also played one after another, playing the emotional card and playing the emotional card, complaining bitterly, Li Jun saw it and scolded these people for being moths, and did not know how to consider it for Daqin, of course, Qin Han was most concerned about the change of the imperial examination system, which means that he had more than two years to less than half a year before.

Such a huge change made Qin Han a little apprehensive, but no matter what, he had to bite the bullet, Yanzi felt bored after living in the house for a while, Qin Han still had time to play with her every day in the first days, but now he can't wait to squeeze every minute of his time, where can he still take care of her, and An Shi can be said to be urging him with a whip every day in order not to take the wrong path for Qin Feng.

The extremely bored swallow was finally arranged by Qin Han to help in the jade powder house, Lin Ergou was unacceptable, and he was worried that he couldn't find a few suitable people, but now it is a good thing to have one more, everyone is starting to get busy, and Ji San is naturally no exception, for the government examination in a few months, he is beating the drum in his heart, after changing the system, the ensuing examinations make him not have a glimmer of hope, in his opinion, he can be admitted to Xiucai is already the ancestor who burns high incense, so for this goal can be said to be more than Qin Han。

At the beginning of the new year, I don't know why the indigenous Pingtong people between the two states actually began to rebel, although they have been a little impatient before, but they have been pressed very well, I don't know if it is the pressure of the border war or what, they have the intention of becoming kings themselves.

And the two states are nearly a thousand miles in circumference, full of mountains and forests, peaks and peaks, even if it is a strong division of a hundred battles, when you get there, you have to vent half of your anger, not to mention the miasma, poisonous insects are raging, the local government army after exterminating many times, not only in vain, but also lost a lot of soldiers, as for all kinds of reasons, it is nothing more than the high mountains and steep roads, and because of the climate, the soldiers are unwell, and the soldiers of the two states have lost nearly 7,000 people because of this reason.

Li Jun looked at this recital from the two lower governors of Hezhou and Binzhou, his forehead couldn't help but jump, and he threw it down fiercely in the next breath, and the court was silent, and no one dared to speak.

"What's the use of widows raising these people, they can't even beat the natives, what is the reason?"

Standing at the front, no one spoke, but Ma Ji, the young secretary of Dali Temple standing at the back, stepped out, and then arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty, my Daqin soldiers, whether it is from equipment or supplies, are not comparable to those natives who lack food and clothing, not to mention that there is a scarcity of iron horses, and many natives also use sharpened bamboo as weapons, it is hard to imagine that they can't beat people like this, and the minister proposed that the inspector's office should investigate the reason behind this, whether someone deducts military salaries, or someone embezzles military funds, no matter what, they should be punished heavily!" As he spoke, he looked at Wei He, the secretary of the military department, with bad intentions.

Li Jun frowned when he heard this, and said after half a sound: "What Aiqing said is not unreasonable, but the important thing now is to quell the rebellion first, and as for the rest of the things, the widow will naturally have arrangements." ”

After saying that, he looked at a military general, but after a few breaths, no one dared to stand up, everyone knew that the two states were now a puddle of mud, and whoever went in the past would have to fall into it, and if they didn't get it, they had to give their lives there, so naturally no one dared to be this bird.