Tuoba Tao glanced at Tuoba Pi, who was kneeling on the ground, his eyes moved, and swept over the faces of the ministers in the hall, and said in a deep voice: "What is the money and grain in the treasury used for?" Military expenses, officials' salaries, daily expenses of the imperial court's yamen, officials' errand expenses, disaster relief, water conservancy construction, river cleaning, etc. The rewards given to the meritorious ministers and generals were all money taken from my inner treasury, and I didn't take a copper plate from the national treasury, so didn't my southern tour belong to going out on business? ”

At this time, Taishi Ling Zhang Yuan looked left and right, he stood up and saluted and said: "Your Majesty, since this matter is already like this, Your Majesty does not need to be angry, just this once, not an example, besides, Your Majesty is also rare to tour the south, and the next visit to the state capitals does not know when it will be, Your Majesty will let the officials from all over the country talk about loyalty!" ”

These words did not make Tuoba Tao extinguish the anger in his heart, he looked at Zhang Yuan coldly and said: "You said it easily and nicely, do you know how many people in the various states and counties that passed through from Pingcheng to here scolded me in their hearts?" If you don't believe me, send someone back now to check how many of the government have started to tax the people on the back foot as soon as I left on the front foot! Not only will the increased taxes be able to fill the holes, but their pockets will be full, believe it or not? The people will not hate the government, they will only resent me in their hearts, scold me for being a faint king, and I will eat and drink them when I go out, who will they not scold me? ”

The ministers and generals in the entire hall were cold when they heard this, and they bowed down one after another to plead guilty: "The ministers are guilty!" ”

Tuoba Tao's face was still gloomy, his gaze moved to Wandugui's face, and he said coldly: "Wandugui, what did you do?" Where did you get the money you spent on entertaining me and my entourage, my army, and my army? Are you planning to use the money and grain from the government treasury first, and then increase taxes on the people when I leave? Or kill fat pigs and rob rich households? ”

Wan Dugui was shocked in his heart, the emperor knew about killing fat pigs? This ······ It's scary, isn't it? Wan Dugui was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat, and he prostrated on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly: "The minister is guilty, the minister has disgraced His Majesty, please punish Your Majesty!" ”

Dongjun Gong and Taichangqing Cui Hao stood up and arched his hand: "Your Majesty is angry, this matter is not irreparable!" ”

Cui Hao is the first strategist around the emperor, the emperor will ask Cui Hao's thoughts and opinions every time he governs and makes decisions, and he has always relied on Cui Hao, he asked: "Cui Qing has any good strategy, although he is blunt!" ”

"Your Majesty only needs to issue an edict exempting the governors of the states and counties along the way from paying 20% of the taxes next year, and the states and counties are not allowed to increase taxes on the people for any reason! If the state and county governments have previously issued a decree to increase taxes in the name of His Majesty's Southern Tour, they will all be declared null and void! These state and county officials were neither praised nor reprimanded, and the content of the edict made them understand for themselves whether they had done the right thing or what they had done wrong! ”

The old minister, the king of Beiping, and the chief lieutenant Sun Song stood up and agreed: "Your Majesty, it is the words of the old man who seeks the country, and the old minister thinks it is feasible!" ”

Tuoba Tao weighed it and agreed: "Then do it!" Get up. Wandu Gui, it is not a way for you to find those rich households to apportion, many government decrees to be promulgated and implemented, without the support of those big clans and rich households, it is difficult to implement, you should learn more to govern the place, remember to return the money of the rich households, don't you think it is a shame to do so? ”

"Yes, yes, the minister will pay it back immediately, pay it back immediately, and never cause trouble to His Majesty!" Wan Dugui hurriedly agreed.

Early the next morning, under the command of Zhao Junsheng, more than 400 village women and strong men who cooked had eaten first, and then sent the food to the post station for the imperial driver, the entourage army, and the officials.

Zhao Junsheng discussed with Ge Qingyuan, and hired this group of village women and strong men to continue to cook, they already had experience, if it was much more troublesome to hire someone else in one place, please stop teaching them by hand.

He asked Ge Qingyuan to prepare eighty carts and carriages, and pulled these people and cooking utensils to the next post station - Liangjiayi as quickly as possible, this post station is still more than twenty miles away from Suiyang City, and the royal driving brigade will not be able to catch up with Suiyang no matter what, so they can only camp in Liangjiayi.

Everyone was going to have breakfast around Gexiangyi, Zhao Junsheng was about to say hello to Wandugui loudly, and then asked Liu Zhubo for money and rushed to Liangjiayi to prepare meals for the army and horses.

"Zhao joins the army, this official is looking for you everywhere!" When Liu Zhubo saw Zhao Junsheng, he immediately greeted him.

Zhao Junsheng walked over and asked, "What is the matter with Master Liu's habit?" ”

"You come with me!" Liu Zhubo took Zhao Junsheng to a camp tent, opened ten wooden boxes, and revealed a box of yellow gold cakes, "There is a thousand gold here, first return the two hundred gold borrowed from Ge Qingyuan, and the rest as the cost of eating, drinking, and Lazar for the imperial driver's entourage, presumably the imperial driver will not stay in the Liang army for long, these should be enough!" Let's go, so many people rushed to Liangjiayi in the afternoon to eat, don't be prepared to delay it in time, it's not good to blame it above! ”

Zhao Junsheng looked at the ten boxes of gold cakes, and then looked at Liu Zhubo and couldn't help but say: "Liu Zhubo, obviously I brought so many gold cakes, but you still asked me to go to Ge Qingyuan to borrow money, and all the wicked people let me do it, you are too unkind!" ”

Master Liu sneered and said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry." The treasury is not rich, and these gold cakes are brought just in case, this is not a word, and it cannot be apportioned to the people, even if it is to find rich families to make fate! ”

Zhao Junsheng didn't bother to bother with Liu Zhubo, and returned the IOU to Liu Zhubo. He found some soldiers to carry the boxes of gold cakes to the carriage, and sent people to find Ge Qingyuan.

"Here, this is a hundred gold borrowed from you, and I will pay it back to you now!" Zhao Junsheng pointed to a box and said.

Ge Qingyuan opened the box suspiciously, and it was indeed a hundred gold, and exclaimed: "The sun is coming out in the west?" ”

"The official said that he would return it to you, and he will definitely return it to you! Okay, the official has to rush to Liangjiayi, so I won't talk to you anymore, and I will leave! After Zhao Junshan finished speaking, he asked the soldiers to drive the carriage to speed up.

Ge Qingyuan looked at the carriage that was speeding away quickly, and muttered to himself: "This Zhao joins the army and seems to be different from other officials!" ”

In fact, Zhao Junsheng was sitting in the carriage at this time, and his heart was happy, the IOU was written with two hundred gold, but in fact he only borrowed one hundred gold, which means that he can put the remaining one hundred gold into his pocket, as long as Ge Qingyuan doesn't say it, no one will know about it, and with this kind of food standard, after spending one thousand gold, he can at least put three hundred gold in his pocket!

"That's a lot of oil and water!" Zhao Junsheng was quite emotional.

On the morning of the third day of entering Liang County, Tuoba Tao and his entourage finally arrived at Suiyang City.

The people outside the city lined up in a queue for several miles, and greeted each other in the middle of the road, under the organization of Deng Tong, not only a large number of people went out of the city to greet them, but also a large number of bands such as gongs and drums and suona played music at the city gate.

Most of the Yulin army and the tiger army stayed outside the city and camped, and only a few followed the emperor Tuoba Tao into the city, and the royal driver stayed in the mansion of a wealthy merchant.

Zhao Junsheng was about to go home to take a look after arranging the cooking task, and when he walked halfway up, he saw some servants driving a group of beggars, probably because he didn't want these beggars to affect the image of Suiyang City, after all, the emperor was here.

Suddenly, one of the beggars caught Zhao Junsheng's attention, he took a closer look, walked over and shouted, "Wait! ”

The officials who drove the beggars stopped when they saw Zhao Junsheng in an official uniform.

Zhao Junsheng walked up to a beggar, looked at it again, and said in surprise: "Brother Chang, you ······ How did you become like this? ”

It turned out that this person was Chang Wei, the son of the former Suiyang County Commander, Chang Wei looked at Zhao Junsheng with an indifferent expression and said: "The surname is Zhao, if you want to take revenge, do it, I have become like this now, and life is better than death!" ”

Zhao Junsheng looked at Chang Wei's appearance, and remembered that he was already a real waste, and suddenly his heart moved, and he pulled him away: "Go, follow me!" ”

"Where are you going?" Chang Wei was not afraid, and let Zhao Junsheng pull forward.