Chapter 131: Say Yes!
Due to the reduction of the grain tax by one percent, the pressure on the people has been reduced a lot, even if the imperial court has taken away sixty percent of the grain from each household, the remaining grain is enough for those people to have food and clothing for a year.
After harvesting the grain, the people began to get busy again, looking for a piece of land near the water source to reclaim the wasteland, one is to obtain the farmer as soon as possible, and the other is to leave a large piece of land for the children and grandchildren, so that the children and grandchildren do not have to work hard all their lives like themselves, and can live a rich life by relying on the fertile land they inherited.
Every day passes, the amount of Daqin Liangtian will rise a little, and the national strength will gradually rise!
After two months of recruiting troops and assembling elites, the Great Jin Empire finally gathered an army of 400,000, and as soon as the army was gathered, Li Qi, who was temporarily named a general, immediately led the army to open, and the 400,000 army was mighty, and there was no end in sight, and the goal was directly aimed at Yangguan!
The armies of Daqin are also training hotly and actively preparing for war, and the heavy cavalry is also gradually taking shape, and there are more and more cavalry and war horses equipped with heavy armor and horse armor.
The victory of the Qin army in the battle of Yangguan surprised many countries, and they were all curious about what kind of fireworks would be sparked between Qin and Jin, and the Great Zhao Empire and the Great Yan Empire were also unsurprisingly secretly assembled armies to open the border, ready to take the opportunity to bite the Great Jin Empire.
According to the statistics of the Household Yamen, it was calculated that this year's grain tax was 1.6 million stones, the commercial tax was 400,000 taels of silver, and the salt tax was 500,000 taels of silver, and a total of 1.6 million stone of grain and 900,000 taels of silver were harvested this year.
At present, the treasury still has 3,200,000 stone of grain, 36,500,000 taels of silver, and only 50,000 taels of gold!
On the first day of the first month of the ninth year of the Holy Qin, at the end of the night, the Great Qin Empire, Xianyang City, the Imperial Palace, and the Fengtian Palace!
"Lord Yang, please!"
"Lord Jia, please!"
"General Du, please!"
“.....”
With the passage of time, the hundred officials of the Great Qin Empire walked into the Fengtian Hall one after another, and the palace maid standing at the door saw a minister coming, and she wanted to guide the ministers where to sit.
After all the officials arrived, they all sat in their respective positions.
A middle-aged man in a red official robe strode into the Fengtian Palace, followed by two red-armored guards, these two red-armored guards had long swords at their waists, their blood was surging, and their faces were solemn, obviously elite guards with martial arts.
This middle-aged man is the Great Qi Empire's Hubu Shangshu Boshu, more than forty years old this year, because he has been in a high position for a long time, his body exudes a strong atmosphere of superiors, which is more vigorous than the breath of the general Shangshu of Great Qin, as soon as he walked in, he overwhelmed a large number of Qin ministers in terms of momentum, only Qin Xiang Chang Zifei and Hussar General Du Changjing could not hold on to him.
Seeing Bo Shu coming, Chang Zifei hurriedly got up from his seat, walked up to Bo Shu with a red face, saluted and said with a smile: "Presumably, Your Excellency is the head of the Great Qi Empire, Lord Bo, right?" ”
Bo Shu squeezed out a smile, and returned the salute and replied: "You are below, presumably Your Excellency is Chang Zifei, right?" ”
"Haha, that's right, take a seat!"
Chang Zifei personally entertained Bo Shu to show the respect of the host, Bo Shu is not an arrogant person, he sat down politely, in fact, he has nothing to make him arrogant, after all, eight out of ten wars in Qin and Qi were lost by the Qi Empire, and they were all defeats.
Bo Shu sat next to Chang Zifei, as soon as he sat down, many Qin ministers in the hall looked at Bo Shu from time to time, and Bo Shu also responded with a smile.
"Your Majesty has arrived!"
An ethereal female voice came, and as soon as the words fell, the ministers in the hall got up from their seats and walked to the center of the hall, Bo Shu was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect that it was a woman who shouted this, and when he reacted, he quickly got up from his position and stood next to Chang Zifei.
Ying often walked up to the high platform step by step, wearing a luxurious and luxurious black mink fur cloak, wearing a black dragon robe, when he walked on the high platform, he sat on the dragon chair with a solemn face, and looked around at His Royal Highness with a pair of eyes like sharp swords.
What a prosperous Huangwei!
Bo Shu was slightly startled, feeling a trace of pressure in his heart.
is worthy of being a young hero who dares to launch a palace change, and this imperial authority is no less than Your Majesty!
"Ministers to see Your Majesty, long live my emperor, long live, long live!" The civil and military officials looked respectful, and bent down to make a compilation.
"Foreign Minister Boshu, meet His Majesty the Great Qin Emperor!" Boshu was neither humble nor arrogant, and bent down to salute and shouted.
"Take your seats!" Ying Chang waved his hand with a cold face.
At this time, it is necessary to load!
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" The ministers saluted again and thanked him, and quickly returned to his place, and Boshu also returned to his place and sat down.
Ying Chang turned his head to look at Bo Shu, and squeezed out a gentle smile on his face and said: "The Qi envoy came from afar, and the journey was hard, but unfortunately my Daqin ability is limited, and I can't greet him with a big gift, and I hope that the Qi envoy will understand!" ”
According to the convention, a second-grade minister like Boshu visited in person, and the Great Qin Empire was to perform a national ceremony, what is a national ceremony, that is, to gather the people in the city on both sides of the planned streets, starting from the Xianyang City Gate, all the way to welcome the envoy to visit the Qin Empire.
Not only that, but all the officials of the Great Qin Empire had to greet them outside the city, the palace had to be covered with a red carpet, the Imperial Forest Army guarded both sides of the road, and so on.
This kind of national gift consumes manpower and money.
The current Daqin can't afford such a toss, and he often feels distressed when he spends one or two more wins, and he has already given Ying Chang distressed to a banquet in Fengtian Palace, otherwise he is afraid that this visit by the Qi envoy is the first visit between Qi and Qin in hundreds of years, and Ying Chang wants to directly let Bo Shu come to the imperial study to talk about things.
"It's all some cumbersome and miscellaneous etiquette, it's okay!" Boshu replied with a smile.
Bo Shu also knew that the Great Qin Empire was not in a good situation, otherwise His Majesty would not have taken out money and food to support the Qin Empire's resistance to the Jin, so he did not have any dissatisfaction at all.
"Qi envoy, how about I talk about business first, and then drink and have fun?" Ying Chang said with a smile and went straight to the theme of this dinner.
Belch...
Bo Shu was stunned, he didn't expect Ying Chang to be so straightforward, he was stunned for a moment, then got up from his seat, and saluted Ying Chang with a smile on his face all the time: "Since Emperor Qin is so direct and refreshing, then the foreign ministers will not procrastinate, the foreign ministers came this time, on the orders of our emperor, escorted 300,000 stone grain, 1 million taels of silver into Qin, in order to express my heart to aid Qin to resist the Jin Dynasty, and also carry my country's national letter, hoping to form an alliance with Great Qin!" ”
"Haha!" Ying Chang chuckled lightly and said with a smile on his face: "The sincerity of Great Qi, I have seen it, and I am willing to sign an alliance agreement on behalf of Great Qin!" ”