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In Penglai Pavilion on Danya Mountain, Li Xiao sat on the soft couch behind the glass floor-to-ceiling windowsill, squinting slightly towards the rising sun, as if he was wandering outside the world.

Six years have passed in a blink of an eye, and the years have added several traces to Li Xiao's face. There was a time when he was ambitious and wanted to show his ambitions. He took a fancy to Li Jing, a young man who had no foundation, but his eyes revealed the same ambition as himself. He had a huge plan, but as the conflict between Li Jing and the Feng clan escalated, Li Jing marched into southern Liaoning, and his development quickly exceeded his expectations.

Salmon Town! In a blink of an eye, he became the envoy of the soldiers and horses of Da Xie Yan, then the military envoy of Zhendong, the assassin of Dengzhou, and then climbed to the envoy of Andong and the envoy of the Zhenguo army.

For Li Wei, Li Jing was originally one of his chess pieces, but this chess piece was not under his control.

By now, the pawn has already crossed the river, and he will arch the old handsome all the way.

Six years is a long time, and six years is a short time.

King Qin, Northeast Daxingtai, Marshal of Terracotta and Horses of Northeast and Hebei, Marshal of Terracotta and Horses of Kwantung!

Six years ago, Li Xiao would never have believed that the little Shamen town general at the beginning, the young man with great ambition in his eyes, had become the prince of Yizi like himself in the blink of an eye, and even now the rank is above him.

A great minister!

He supported Li Jing at the first few critical times, and that was because he regarded Li Jing as his pawn. But now, in fact, he is the chess piece, and he is also a chess piece that has been useless after only a few times by Li Jing.

these years. He has been staying in Dengzhou. has been holding the position of Dengzhou with the title of King Zhao. Dengzhou has changed many assassins. He never changed his car.

In the past few years of staying in Dengzhou, he has witnessed the earth-shaking changes in Dengzhou under Li Jing's rule.

He saw that since Li Jing took charge of Dengzhou, the state and county officials were reformed, and after the new civil service examination system, most of the state and county officials selected by the examination system were clear. The later clerk examination system made a major change to the system of Xu officials, which had not been changed for many years, and Xu officials were no longer just privately recruited by state and county officials, but they had a formal official status. After having a formal salary, and the officials who are excellent in their work, they can also be promoted, become miscellaneous positions, miscellaneous positions, and even pass the qualifications of the outside and the most reluctant.

At the beginning, Li Xiao was very surprised by this clerk system, tens of millions of people in the Tang Dynasty, there were only more than 18,000 officials, but there were more than 300,000 officials. Officials and officials are the boundary between clear and turbid. And this boundary is extremely obvious, but now Li Jing has broken this line. Although it is said that there are civil service and clerk exams. For the time being, the civil service examination only recruits officials, while the clerk examination recruits those who are at a lower level, such as government officials.

But Li Jing included these officials into the unified official system, and even the salaries were also included in the government's financial expenditures, and what surprised him even more was that Li Jing opened the boundary of the turbidity stream, and clearly pointed out that the clerk has the advantage of doing things, and the most Lu has the opportunity to be promoted to civil servant, and the civil servant has the advantage of doing things, and the most Lu has the opportunity to become a foreign official.

Something that has never been done for thousands of years.

Originally, Li Wei still wanted to see Li Jing's jokes, after all, since ancient times, the Xu official class has been called the turbidity stream, and there is a big reason. It can be said that the corruption of local officials is something that has not been truly solved for several dynasties.

But the result shocked him even more, in the past few years, in the states and counties under Li Jing's rule, the officials are mostly Qingming, and the people are happy and happy.

After the implementation of the system of apportioning the amount of grain to the mu, the peasants' taxes were reduced and the mergers were slowed down.

After strong support for industry and commerce, the town developed industry and commerce, and the culture became more prosperous.

From the fifth year of Qianfu to the sixth year of Qianfu, not only the shogunate warehouse was abundant, but also the treasury of various prefectures and counties, as well as the righteous warehouse, which were also abundant. Under Li Jing's rule, the grain in all prefectures and counties was stable at 5 wen per catty of rice for two consecutive years, and the dou rice was only about 20 wen, and the stone rice was only 600 wen. In fact, the prices of the most important livelihood goods, such as salt, oil, and cloth, are stable at a very cheap number.

At this time, in other places in Datang, the price of rice was at least five or six hundred wen per bucket, which was twenty or thirty times the price of rice in Dengzhou.

He was even more shocked by the fact that ordinary peasants now paid less grain. It turns out that a few years ago, an ordinary person's annual tax money was between 4,000 and 600 yuan, and this also had to pay some local additional taxes. But now, the people's land endowment for one acre of land and the Ding service money are added together, and only ten cents are paid per mu, and the household money is abolished, and the additional levy is abolished, and a household of 100 acres of land is only paid a total of 1,000 yuan. The most important thing is that after paying this thousand yuan, there is no need to levy Yao service from now on, and the money already includes the money for this substitute service.

Originally, in Li Wei's view, although such a tax reform was good, where would the money and grain come from?

But in fact, Li Jing has become richer and richer in recent years, and the people are also getting better and better, which is simply incredible.

Li Jing's affluence surprised Li Wei.

In the case of Dengzhou, the city of Dengzhou today is ten times the size of the original, with a population of more than one million. Dengzhou Port is even more prosperous, and the whole city has been expanded several times. Nowadays, the official roads in Dengzhou are all flat roads paved with bluestone, and all four-wheeled carriages can be smoothly unblocked. Moreover, in addition to the industrial and commercial construction in Dengzhou, there is still spare power to build water conservancy, repair roads, and communicate rivers and canals.

There is nothing wrong with saying that Dengzhou Road is not left behind, and there is not even a single beggar to be found in Dengzhou.

The government has set up a special institution to take in abandoned babies and orphans, and the elderly who have no one to take care of them.

The schools in Dengzhou are even more dense, and several school districts are even more continuous. There are more and more children who can read and write, and there are even many special schools for girls. There are even a large number of technical schools run by comptoirs to train workers and teach cultural knowledge, and there are specialized medical schools.

In Dengzhou alone, there are more than 20 kinds of newspapers and magazines.

Under the prosperous economy, you can see merchants from all over the world everywhere in Dengzhou, and even a large number of merchants have settled in Dengzhou and set up shops here.

Dengzhou Auction House's weekly auction can bring in tens of thousands of people to bid on a variety of precious goods and new techniques.

Dengzhou Arena is now a polo league. Each tournament attracts tens of thousands of spectators.

Nowadays, it is the commercial tax of Dengzhou alone. It's already appalling. Dengzhou Customs' customs tax for the last year. It has reached more than 6 million yuan, which is even ten times that of the original Guangzhou Bosi.

Due to the war, the commercial tax of the entire Northeast Province has risen to 1 in 10 taxes, and the total commercial tax in the Northeast Province last year was as high as more than 30 million yuan.

What's more, a large number of workshops in Dengzhou belong to Li Jing's workshops. Last year, these workshops generated more than 10 million yuan in profits.

And now there are ten official ocean-going fleets, each with more than 200 seagoing vessels. There are at least 5,000 people on a trip, and ten caravans are enough for more than 50,000 people. And there are dozens of caravans in the country.

These caravans alone brought Li Jing more than 10 million yuan in income last year.

In the five years of Qianfu, the financial revenue of Li Jingfan Town reached more than 40 million guan, of which more than 2 million guan was paid in taxes, and more than 3 million guan was added up to salt, tea, iron, and mineral taxes, while the tariffs reached 10 million guan, and the industrial and commercial tax was as high as 30 million guan, adding up to more than 45 million guan.

In addition, a large number of workshops and shops. There are also ocean-going fleets, etc., which have earned more than 30 million yuan of profits for Li Jing's privately.

Although the shogunate emigrated to develop the Tohoku. On the one hand, the army continued to expand and the expenditure was huge, but the income of Li Jing's private treasury plus the financial income of the feudal town amounted to more than 70 million yuan. This number is already extremely staggering.

During the time of Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, Qian Sujuan and others added up to more than 50 million yuan. During the time of Tang Dezong, the two tax laws were implemented, and the national annual money was more than 250,000 yuan, and 4 million rice was collected for foreign; More than 9.5 million yuan of money, more than 16 million yuan of rice, for the Beijing division. At the time of Dezong, the country had more than 30 million yuan a year and more than 20 million stones.

At the time of Tang Dezong, the price of rice ranged from 100 to 1,000, and according to the price of ordinary rice in Dengzhou today, more than 20 million stone rice is also worth more than 10 million yuan. If it is calculated according to the price of rice at the time of Dezong, more than 20 million stone rice can be worth 50 or 60 million yuan.

As for Li Jing's taxes, he no longer collects money in kind. However, Li Jing has a huge industrial and commercial and maritime trade tax as the main body, although it only occupies one-tenth of the world's territory, but the tax revenue has reached nearly half of the national tax revenue in the Dezong era after the Anshi Rebellion.

Relying on the huge profits of industry and commerce and maritime trade, the shogunate and Li Jing's inner treasury was abundant.

A large number of people poured into the Tohoku to divide the land and supply large quantities of food to the shogunate. At the same time, more people worked in the workshop mines, generating more tax revenue. By this time, Dengju was the richest in Northeast Province, and Northeast Province was the richest place in the country. The shogunate had a large number of yeoman farmers and workers, and a large number of middle-class families.

Families above the middle class even have surplus grain and livestock.

In particular, after the seizure of Tohoku, the shogunate owned a large amount of land and was able to distribute it to the common people, so that the fugitive households were able to share the land and become taxpayers, and the problem of land annexation was alleviated. At the same time, the large increase in yeoman farmers and the great development of industry and commerce made the shogunate earn a lot of money through commerce and trade, which in turn stabilized the prices of grain, oil, cloth, salt, and other livelihood goods under its rule, and used it to support the shogunate's large-scale immigration and infrastructure construction, and to feed back agriculture, so that the burden on the common people was reduced.

Li Wei has already seen a little, Li Jing has completely jumped out of the old hole and found a new way.

However, the extreme prosperity of industry and commerce also made Li Wei keenly aware that there are still hidden dangers here.

However, it is not clear what kind of hidden danger there will be, but it is obvious that this hidden danger may not be able to explode in his lifetime.

Now, what he can see is that five million people in 30 states and 100 counties are praising 'Master Li', and Li Jing's prestige is unparalleled in the entire East. After the levy and miscellaneous labor were abolished, and after the land was regained, the people were all grateful for the interception. No one will attribute these credits to Li Tang Tianxia, not to the Tang Dynasty, they will only thank Li Jing.

Although the merchants now pay a tax of one out of ten, under Li Jing's rule, the taxes they pay are not worth mentioning compared to the money they earn. What's more, under Li Jing's rule, in addition to the rich harvest of money, the status and treatment that Li Jing gave to businessmen were also impossible to get anywhere else in Datang. Here, merchants made money and paid taxes, and Nadida could even become a noble knight. He was able to stand side by side with officials and scribes.

And the generals and leaders under Li Jing also enjoy high salaries and rewards on the one hand, and also enjoy extremely high social status on the other. These armies are no longer a lowly profession. Instead, it became the most honorable profession. Li Jing gave them generous treatment. On the one hand, they were given a very high social status, just imagine, who could make these soldiers change their allegiance? I believe that as long as Li Jing does not change the treatment and status of these soldiers, these soldiers will unswervingly continue to support Li Jing.

Li Wei supported Li Jing at the beginning, but he achieved a Cao Cao, Sima Zhao, and Liu Yu!

He originally supported Li Jing because he wanted Li Jing to help him achieve great things, but now. but instead helped out a destroyer of the Tang Dynasty.

The truth is really so ironic, Li Jing has now proved to him that his original vision was indeed correct, and he chose an excellent talent. But Li Jing also proved to him today that his vision was too bad, and he didn't find that Li Jing would be today.

Li Xiao has stayed in Dengzhou in the past few years, and he has seen Li Jing more and more clearly. This is an ambitious man who has been working hard for him since the beginning. Li Jing never wanted to be loyal to Li Tang, and it seemed that from the beginning, he was preparing for the overthrow of Li Tang.

Step by step, to this day, Li Jing already has this ability.

He has great prestige. Possess the human heart.

At the same time, Li Jing also has the strongest soldiers and horses in the world!

Compared to everything Coco Lee has done in the East. What the court in Chang'an did was so bad.

If you let the army, the people, the merchants, and even the clan of the world make a choice, let them either be loyal to Li Jing or Li Tang. Then Li Wei believes that there will hardly be any suspense.

From the very beginning, everything Li Jing did was cut off from Li Tang.

Li Jing has not rebelled so far, in Li Xiao's view, this is by no means that Li Jing is loyal to Li Tang, but Li Jing is very treacherous. He sees farther than others, and although he has this strength, he is not in a hurry to take that step. It's just that the frog is boiled in warm water and heated slowly, and when the water is really boiling, it is too late for the frog to jump out of the duck.

In fact, there are still many scholars and heroes in the world, who are still loyal to Li Tang, or rather, there are still a large number of people, who are still unwilling to make a choice between Li Jing and Li Tang.

As long as Li Jing is still a minister of the Tang Dynasty, even if Li Jing's actions have long been known to passers-by, as long as there is still a glimmer of hope, there will still be many heroes who will still be bound by this.

And once Li Jing takes that step, it is equivalent to forcing a large number of people to make choices, and many of them may become his enemies.

Just like himself, in fact, there is still a faint glimmer of hope in his heart. I hope that although Li Jing is domineering, he will not take that step in the end. He expected that perhaps Li Jing would be a powerful minister, but not a usurper. It is precisely because of this hope in his heart that he has stayed in Dengzhou for the past few years, sitting and watching the situation. Even behind the scenes, he secretly supported Li Jing.

I wanted to be the hero of Emperor Wu of Wei back then, and I still wanted to cast a mouse taboo, and I regarded myself as a Hanchen all my life, and never called the emperor. What's more, as today, although the Tang dynasty is declining and people's minds are changing, the hearts of the Tang people in the three hundred years have not been lost.

It's just that on the other hand, the royal family is too uncompetitive.

Li Wei believed in his heart that if the Tang family could work hard, maybe Li Jing would be a capable minister who ruled the world, rather than a traitor in troubled times. In the final analysis, it is still the royal family that is not angry, if there are a few more Emperor Xianzong and Emperor Xuanzong, how can this Li Tang become what he is today?

Li Jing has a rebellious temperament, and now it seems that it is not simply unruly, but unruly.

If the situation continues to develop like this, I am afraid that even if Li Jing is willing to be the minister of the Tang Dynasty, at present, these civil and military men under Li Jing will want to be the heroes of the founding of the country and have to support the merits of the dragon.

Just thinking about it, I still feel a little unwilling in my heart.

Cao Cao was alive all his life, and he has been coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes. If he takes the initiative more, will he have the opportunity to replace the little emperor in Chang'an who gave Luoyang to the grass thief, and is now ready to send Chang'an? Even if he can only be Li Jing's puppet emperor, if he works hard, maybe he can make Li Jing Guo Ziyi instead of Sima Zhao?

Thinking about it, he couldn't think of any other way to make Datang continue.

"Father." Li Hui'er, the lord of Xihe County, arrived, "What is the matter with the father calling his daughter here?" ”

Li Xiao turned his head to look at his daughter, who had already reached the age of marriage, but she had not yet married. On the surface, he was busy with the affairs of the workshop all day, but in fact, he didn't know what to do. Although the little thing between her daughter and Li Jing seems to be secret, it is estimated that there are few people who don't know the way in Dengzhou City. In the past, he had always turned a blind eye to this matter, and he only didn't know the way, but in fact, he knew the way clearly.

Today, Li Huier is wearing a pale white palace dress, but she has a little more dusty temperament in the elegant place. The wide skirt is elegant and luxurious. The black jade-like green silk is simply rolled into a flying fairy bun, and a few full and round pearls are embellished in the hair at will, making the cloud-like hair more soft and moisturized. The beautiful eyes are full of brilliance, and there is a light smile between the red lips.

The daughter has grown up, and in the past few years, she has become more and more beautiful, a little less youthful and a little more mature and temperamental.

"Hui'er, do you feel wronged by following Ji Yu like this?"

Li Hui'er was stunned for a moment, she didn't expect her father to say this. She also knew that her father had known about the matter with Li Jing, but the father and daughter had never talked about it, and they didn't know how to answer for a while.

Li Wei said lightly: "The emperor gave him the title of King Jiyu Qin, and recorded his family under the name of Taizong, do you know what this means." ”

Li Hui'er nodded, in this way, Li Jing is equivalent to becoming a descendant of Taizong Li Shimin's line, and becoming a royal family. Originally, this practice was not uncommon, such as Shatuo Li Guochang was given the surname Li at the beginning, and recorded in the name of Emperor Gaozu's son Zheng Wang, it is said that Li Guochang and Li Keyong are now also royal families.

The imperial court gives surnames, some of them simply give the country surname, and some of them will be recorded in the Li family and become a royal family, which can be regarded as a means to win people's hearts.

Originally, this was nothing, but Li Jing and Li Huier originally had the same surname. Although it is said that the same surname is not married, it actually refers to the same race not married, and it is not impossible for Li Jing and Li Huier to get married. Especially if Li Hui'er is willing to become Li Jing's side concubine, it is okay.

But now that Li Jing has become a member of the Li Tang royal family, then he and Li Hui'er, the county lord, really have no chance to be husband and wife again.

"That's good, and I don't ask for that title." Li Huier said with a smile, but there was a hint of loneliness in her voice.

Li Wei took a sip of tea and took a sip gently, and then said in a low voice: "Although you and Li Jing can't be famous anymore, but, silly daughter, you can also have a child with Li Jing, which is more or less a little compensation." ”

"Father?" Li Hui'er was a little stunned.

Li Xiao chuckled and said, "Father is also for your good, think about it yourself." If you have a child, even if you don't have a name, besides, your father and I have no heirs, if you have a child, I and your family business will need someone to inherit in the future. ”

Li Hui'er was a little stunned, her thoughts were chaotic for a while, and her mind was full of Li Jing and having a child. For a long time, although she said that it didn't matter if she didn't have a name, it was impossible to say in her heart that there was no grievance. Now, her father's words sent a lightning bolt through her head. It is estimated that it is impossible to marry Li Jing in this life, but if you have a child with Li Jing, this is indeed not an impossible thing. (To be continued......)