Outside Chang'an City, Tianjiazhuang.

When a Weishui wave flows eastward through Tianjiazhuang, a small river forks out, which flows through the village, travels leisurely around the north, and flows through Han Yue's old house.

It's still the same little yard, it's still leaning against the river.

A few old farmers are plowing the fields with iron pears, a group of children are running wildly in the fields, and on the banks of the Wei River in the distance, the waterwheels are rumbling, and the clear river water is flowing in the ditch, reflecting the golden sunlight like a little fish scale. The occasional mooing of the bullock, and the sound of the old farmer grinning.

"It's so good to live in the countryside!" In Han Yue's old mansion, Li Shimin stood at the gate of the courtyard with his hands in his hands, and the emperor looked at the fields in the distance, and let out a sigh of emotion in his mouth.

Next to the emperor stood Han Yue, the father and son were not far apart, Li Shimin sent out an idyllic sigh, but Han Yue issued a slightly gloomy emotion.

He also looked at the fields in the distance, and suddenly said softly: "The old peasant family lives in the mountains, and he cultivates three or four acres of mountain fields. Miao is not allowed to eat more taxes, and the imported official warehouse is turned into soil ......"

This poem made Li Shimin stunned, and the emperor's face changed slightly.

Han Yue glanced at the emperor, then slowly exhaled a breath and muttered, "Father, the agricultural tax is still too high. One-tenth of the income of the people from a year's cultivation must be handed over to the court. Even if the wind and rain are smooth, it is still difficult to be well-off. ”

Li Shimin clenched his fists and couldn't help but argue: "How can it be tenth?" It's obviously thirty taxes one! I have set this rule since the first year of Zhenguan, and it has not changed in the past 12 years. ”

"Father, you are wrong, not thirty taxes one, but tenths!"

Han Yue exhaled again, and said with a gloomy gaze: "Although you have collected thirty taxes and one tax on agricultural taxes, you have not calculated the people's conscription, military service, and labor service, and each kind of conscription will cost the people a lot of time and effort, and time and strength are also people's wealth." ”

Li Shimin was stunned for a moment and muttered, "Is it considered to be conscription?" ”

"Count!" Han Yue nodded solemnly and said in a deep voice: "So the tax of my dynasty is not thirty taxes and one, but one-tenth." We will take a lot of what the people have produced in a year. ”

Li Shimin let out a breath and said with some embarrassment: "This is also something that can't be helped, the Tang Dynasty established the country with agriculture, and the court can only rely on the people, if you don't withdraw money from the people, the treasury can't resist it for half a year." ”

"Therefore, the people are very bitter!" Han Yue looked into the distance with his hands in his hands, and muttered a whisper in his mouth.

He watched those old farmers ploughing in the fields, rolling up their trouser legs and walking in the muddy water, a touch of sadness involuntarily flashed in his heart, and he continued softly: "It's time to give back to the people, father, it's time to give back to the people, all dynasties have built the country with agriculture, eat the people's, drink the people's, and take it from the people if they are missing, who wants to do the land without taxes?" ”

Li Shimin was silent, and it took a long time before he said bitterly: "I, I don't have this ability now." Datang has to rely on agricultural taxes, and without agricultural taxes, it will immediately subvert ......"

"Three years!" Han Yue interrupted the emperor with a sharp mouth, and said with a firm gaze: "Within three years, I will be able to do no tax." The people who farm no longer pay taxes, and they are given subsidies for farming. ”

This is a major event done by a prime minister in later generations, and the people no longer have to pay taxes for farming, not only do they not have to pay taxes, but the state will also give subsidies.

Han Yue came from that era, although he was resentful and dissatisfied with many policies, but he always admired the fact that farming was tax-free.

Now he is in a high position in Datang, and he also wants to do this big thing in his heart.

In order to accomplish this great event, we must first make the national strength extremely strong, and only when the economy is developed and the trade is prosperous, can a country not rely on agricultural taxes to build a country.

So Han Yue wants to conduct the imperial examination.

With the gathering of talents, we can develop Lingnan on a large scale, continue to explore overseas, and carry out ocean trade.

At this moment, two fast horses suddenly galloped on the road in the village, and the knight immediately turned over from a long distance, and then knelt down on one knee with a puff, respectfully hugged his fists and said: "I have seen Your Majesty, I have seen King Zhao." ”

Li Shimin's eyes flashed, and he said in a deep voice: "Get up and talk, the Dark Moon Dragon Guard generally won't disturb, let's say, what's going on?" ”

"It's not a big deal, but it's weird!"

The two knights glanced at each other, and one of them took two steps forward and said in a low voice: "It is precisely because it is too strange that Cheng Chumo asked us to come in a hurry." The first one has already led people to investigate in a hurry, and now he is afraid that he has already left Chang'an City. ”

"Cheng Chumo chased after him?" Li Shimin frowned, and then glanced at Han Yue.

The father and son both had some solemnity in their eyes, and hurriedly said, "Say, what is the matter?" ”

The knight took out a roll of cloth directly from his arms, and he didn't need to look at the kind of book tied to the claws of birds, he coughed lightly, and whispered: "Since yesterday evening, the Dark Moon Dragon Guards of the Twelve Dao of the Tang Dynasty have all had bird handbooks delivered to the headquarters, and the news reported by the branches of each Dao is very similar, all about the violent death of the Hanmen scholars. ”

"What do you say? The scholar died violently? ”

Han Yue took two steps forward, his face instantly became hideous, and he shouted: "How many people have died, which place is the most serious?" Has the cause been identified, is it a coincidence or a widespread plague? ”

He asked several questions in a row, his voice was extremely stern, and the opposite knight shrank his neck in fright, and said cautiously: "At present, all the circumstances are unknown, so Cheng Shouzao will take people out to investigate." But Cheng Shouzuo thinks that this incident is not a coincidence, and it is likely that he thinks that the killing was ......"

He paused here when he said this, and then cautiously continued: "Cheng Shouzao thinks that the strength of the Dark Moon Dragon Guard is not enough to investigate this matter in the whole world, so he asked the villain to come and report urgently, and he said that Your Highness, you will have a way after hearing it." ”

"I see, I'm looking for a hidden dragon!"

Han Yue nodded, suddenly turned around and shouted at the courtyard not far away, and said, "Zixia, come here." ”

A crisp promise sounded in the distance, and then I saw a peerless woman flashing in, this woman was Zixia, the saint of Buddhism back then, and now the first seat of the hidden dragon.

Her face is absolutely the best among the women of the world, but at this moment she is wearing a very simple coarse cloth dress, and she is carrying a rattan frame in her hand, and there is sweat on the tip of her pretty face and nose.

"What did the husband call me? People are farming with Doudou's sisters. People are wrong for a while, and people are wrong for a year, if there is anything to say, the concubine and a few of them have to compete. ”

Han Yue took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "The imperial examination scholar died strangely and violently. Cheng Chumo had already gone out to investigate, but before he found out, he found someone to report me. ”

Zixia's pupils shrank slightly, and she reacted instantly, frowning: "This shows that he feels that his strength is not enough, so he will ask his husband for help?" ”

"Not bad!"

Han Yue nodded, and said again in a deep voice: "So I asked you to come over, and asked you to give an order to the hidden dragons in the whole world." ”