The fourth update, for the broken tears and injured alliance leader, thank you for the reward of the broken tears and injured alliance leader!

"Li Xianggong, I want to apologize to you, I shouldn't have questioned your record in the court, and said that I wanted to impeach you, it was a mistake. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info" After eating Li Chao's ham and glutinous rice, Chu Suiliang felt that Li Chao was still very kind.

"This is a certain volume of words, on which a few poems by Li Xianggong are recorded, and I apologize."

Chu Suiliang's apology is still very sincere, after all, he also took out the words he wrote, especially the poems of Li Chao that he recorded.

Li Chao took it and spread it out.

Chu Suiliang's words are really good, compared to Wei Zheng, Fang Xuanling, and Du Ruhui's words. It is said that Li Shimin liked Chu Suiliang's calligraphy very much, and once gave him the position of serving the book. Chu Suiliang originally wrote well, and also studied with Yu Shinan, and then studied Wang Xizhi's calligraphy, and finally created his own school, becoming a famous calligrapher today.

Historically, Chu Suiliang was later known as the calligraphy master of the four major families of the early Tang Dynasty together with Yu Shinan, Ouyang Xun, and Xue Tan.

Li Shimin liked to collect Wang Xizhi's calligraphy works the most, and as a result, many people sent fakes to ask for credit. But none of the fakes can pass Chu Suiliang's eyes, and he can distinguish the authenticity.

Now this master in the calligraphy world has personally copied Li Chao's poems as a gift of apology, which is indeed very sincere.

"Such a good word, I am reluctant to refuse. I accepted the word, as for the apology, in fact, it was too much. You and I are ministers of the same house, and each of us is in my own office. I am fighting on the frontier, and you are an assistant to the government of the DPRK, and it is normal for you to have doubts about my good results, after all, it is indeed a little unusual. It's the right thing, not the right person, and I don't hold a grudge against you because of it. ”

"I believe that the owner of the Chu Pavilion is right about things and not about people, right?" Li Chao held the word in his hand and looked at Chu Chuliang with a smile.

Chu Suiliang's impeachment of Li Chao at that time was of course not all about the matter, but also about people. But now it is naturally difficult to tell the truth, so I have to nod against my will.

"That's it, it's all for the sake of state affairs. Now that the owner of the Chu Pavilion has come to Lingzhou and has become the deputy envoy of Shuofang Town, he will be my adjutant in the future, and we will have to cooperate sincerely in the future, and we can not live up to His Majesty's expectations of us. ”

Chu Suiliang couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw Li Chao accept the words and say these words. This time he came to Shuofang, but he planned to do a good job, if he didn't agree with his boss, it would be too difficult for him to do something in this work.

"Thank you, Lee Sang-kook."

Li Chao smiled.

Chu Suiliang is willing to lower his posture to apologize and ask for peace, and Li Chao has no need to be aggressive. At their level, there are no more pure friends and foes.

"Pavilion Master Chu, you have come all the way, and I believe you have also seen some changes in Lingzhou City now. Do you have any thoughts on these initiatives? Li Chao asked.

Although he can no longer pursue Chu Suiliang's attack on him in the court, he still hopes that this new partner can stand by his side. Especially for some of Shuofang's policies, such as the support of the two tax laws and the industrial and commercial tax law, if Chu Suiliang does not understand his own ideas, and then this deputy will be against him all day long, then even if this kind of person apologizes again, Li Chao will not be able to stay, and he will still have to find a way to kick it out.

Especially now, he is going to go to Ningyuan, and he is ready to leave this family to the deputy envoy.

There are some things that you can not care about, but there are some things that you can't compromise.

Chu Suiliang sat up straight.

"Xiangguo, I did observe carefully on the way here, and I saw a lot and felt a lot along the way. I have seen the earth-shaking changes in Lingzhou, and I have also seen the people living and working in peace and contentment, and I have seen the prosperity of industry and commerce. Xiangguo, Lingzhou has changed a lot. But it's all good changes, very good. ”

At this beginning, Li Chao was very satisfied.

Li Chao personally poured a cup of tea for Chu Suiliang, "Don't care too much about my face, tell me your true opinion, it's all for the public." ”

"I summarized that Xiangguo did several things in Lingzhou, first, cleaning up the household registration, searching the population, clearing the fields, and changing the contract. Then the tax system was adjusted, and in addition to the rent adjustment, a new two-tax system and an industrial and commercial tax law were promulgated, which showed that they were all aimed at the wealthy people in Lingzhou, as well as craftsmen and merchants. ”

"That's right, although Lingzhou is rich, but this is also the frontier of our defense against the Turks, and it is also the base for recovering the Hetao in the future. Even if these 50,000 soldiers don't need additional military expenses and give them land, the cost is still not small. Li Chao also had a serious relationship with Chu Suiliang.

"I believe that the owner of the palace also knows that His Majesty can't give us much food, and in the end we have to rely on ourselves to be self-sufficient and find a way to share the worries of the court. But it's not enough to just collect some rent. One ding of grain and two stones, 10,000 ding is only 20,000 stone of grain, this is also the original intention of my tax change, do not change the tax, although Lingzhou is rich, but we are still poor to make the yamen. If you don't change taxes, you can't afford to raise 100,000 soldiers, and you can't build cities and forts to strengthen the defense line. Not to mention the counteroffensive to recover Dongtao, it is difficult to hold on to the current results. ”

Although the government soldiers do not need to be paid, it is now a wartime state, and the government soldiers are assembled, garrisoned, and trained, and this expenditure is quite large. And those village soldiers, too.

The money and food flow out every day, and I have to give some rewards from time to time.

In ancient times, the vast majority of the imperial court's taxes were used for military spending. For example, during the Northern Song Dynasty, military spending even accounted for more than seventy percent.

Relying on the rent in Lingzhou, it is too difficult to support so many soldiers and horses, and to build a thousand-mile defense line.

"I also understand what Xiangguo said, the imperial court does not have money now, and it has to spend money everywhere. Hebei, Hedong, Guanzhong, and Longyou should also strengthen their defenses, and they should also prevent chaos in the southeast and other places. The court is poor! "Although Chu Suiliang has not been in the center for a long time, he is still quite clear about the background of the imperial court.

After the war, the court was indeed poor.

"It's just that these two tax laws plus the industrial and commercial law can raise how much grain can be raised, is it enough to support Shuofang's use of troops? Also, this tax law may be supported by large local craftsmen? ”

"Of course, they didn't want to do it at first, but I came up with some good mutually beneficial proposals, so I can still do it now."

Li Chao said that he was going to build some workshops here.

"It's still a good country and a good means. Such a tax reform can still be supported by local tyrants. ”

"It's just an exchange of interests. They will also agree to it if they have benefits. ”

The processing industry is always more profitable than simple agriculture and animal husbandry. And now Li Chao has also come up with the Tang Canal plan, which is millions of acres of irrigated land, and there is a degree of moderation to make the yamen plan, and they can also participate.

These people have money and people, and it is nothing to build a channel of ten or twenty miles, but they can get one or two thousand acres of water to irrigate the land at once, and the investment is large in the short term. But considering the importance of fields in this era, it is still very cost-effective in the long run.

Of course, Lingzhou has been recovered, so Huilecheng is an important transit station between Guanzhong, Longyou, Hexi and even Hetao, which is a transit station of the Silk Road, and it is not only a foreign trade road, but also an important transit place for domestic sales.

The commercial potential of Huile City is huge, and it can establish an important commercial and trade center like Taozhou, and it will not even be smaller than Taozhou.

With such a large market, of course, there will be many people who want a piece of the pie.

As long as it works well, it is not difficult to make money from it. The difficulty is just a change of concept, and the government of this era is not very likely to directly participate in this kind of thing, but more just a bystander, just collect taxes.

Li Chao hopes that Chu Suiliang is a more enlightened official, and that he is a deputy who can support his ideas.

Taking a cup of tea poured by Li Chao, Chu Suiliang took a sip.

"This loose tea is also quite good, red tea soup, black tea. His Majesty likes to drink this kind of loose tea, drinking black tea in winter and green tea in summer. The stir-fried dishes were also passed on by Li Xianggong before, and now there is this fried tea, which is really amazing. ”

"In general, in fact, there are not many people who really like to drink this kind of roasted tea now, and there are more traditional ways to drink tea soup."

"I was really unaccustomed to it at first, but after drinking it a few more times, I slowly felt that the tea soup without various condiments was also very delicious." Chu Suiliang held the teacup in his hand, turned it slowly, and considered the sentence. "Xiangguo, I just arrived in Lingzhou, and I don't know much about many new policies, but listening to Xiangguo's words, I can hear that Xiangguo is dedicated to the country and the people. From the bottom of my heart, I support these new policies of Sangkook. It's just that I don't have enough experience in this area, and I'll have to give more guidance to Xiangguo in the future. ”

After a long period of consideration, Chu Suiliang had already made up his mind. Supporting Li Chao and supporting his somewhat bold changes, he can see that although Li Chao's initiatives are bold, they are very successful. Once implemented, Shuofang will indeed change a lot here.

If he wants to return to his hometown, return to Chang'an and return to the court, he Chu Suiliang must show very amazing political achievements. And Li Chao's plans, if they are successful, he, the deputy, can also share the great credit, which is enough for him to return to the glory.

"Hahaha, the owner of the museum is so supportive, and XX is very happy. In the near future, I will personally lead my troops and horses to attack Ningyuan and take the north gate of Lingzhou into my hands. Lingzhou's home, it will be handed over to the owner to preside, the current first priority, is to preside over the development of Tang Canal, this is a big project that can increase Lingzhou's millions of acres of irrigated land, I will entrust it to you. ”

Chu Suiliang's eyes widened in surprise.

"Xiangguo, such an important matter still has to be presided over by you personally."

"Don't shirk the owner of the Chu Pavilion, let's work together and work together, I have always been a person who is not suspicious, and I don't need to be suspicious. Since I believe that you have the heart to govern Shuofang for the Tang Dynasty and His Majesty, then I will not have any reservations about you. ”

These words are heartfelt. Although Chu Suiliang had just arrived in Lingzhou, he had attacked Li Chao before. Now he doesn't fully believe these words. But this posture is quite high.

After listening to it, I was indeed a little moved.

"Since the marshal trusts a certain person so much, then a certain can only go all out and take over this matter for the time being. If there is any confusion, I will write to Xiangguo for instructions. ”

"Okay, that's it!" (To be continued.) )