"Ten taels per soldier is too much, halve, five taels. ”

Peng Zhu sighed and shook his head, the pigs and sheep in the rewards drawn up by the imperial court naturally do not say, meritorious soldiers are rewarded for meritorious deeds, Taiyuan Wang Yanqin does not need to say, the first merit, the emperor decreed, Yan Qin was promoted from the king of the county to the prince, and one of the sons can be promoted to the king of the county.

This reward is so generous, it is eye-catching, the prince of the county is promoted to the prince, in the 800-year history of the Great Jin Dynasty, there are less than ten people, in the 800-year history, the children of the Yan family are all over the world, there are princes and county kings, and there are also peddlers and pawns, and there are not a few people who can only sell straw shoes for a living like Liu Bei.

Taizu's policy for the clan is that within three or five generations, you can enjoy happiness, but you can only be rich for three generations, and after three or five generations, you will look at yourself, and you can't just lie on the grace of your ancestors.

For other generals, Kui Yin, the former military academy captain who led the troops to the expedition, was promoted to the rank of general of Dangkou and was given the title of Marquis of Guannei, Wang Sheng, the captain of the left military academy, was named the brave general and was given the title of Marquis of Guannei, and the former military captain Bai Ying was promoted to the general of Yangwei and was given the title of Marquis of Guannei.

The imperial court sealed three generals at once, this is not an ordinary general, but a real general, from the third rank.

There are many generals in the Great Jin Dynasty, if they are counted, there are hundreds, but most of these are miscellaneous generals, and miscellaneous generals are also an honorary title, and they are not qualified to lead troops to fight at all, and their grades are not as good as some captains.

"No, five taels is too little. Qiu Yun shook his head and said: "Ten taels is not much, these bounties are set down, stripped layer by layer, and finally fall into the hands of the soldiers, it will be three or four taels, if five taels, one or two can fall into the hands of the soldiers, it is a blessing, if so, it is better not to give." ”

"How can you do it if you don't give it. The emperor shook his head, he believed in Qiuyun at this point, and he smiled teasingly: "Liangzhou victory, we are worried about the bounty, it is easy to get together, this time it is more, alas, the soldiers fought bloodily in front, braved arrows and stones, and went through all kinds of dangers to get the victory, but the court actually couldn't get the reward." ”

The ministers were speechless in shame, and the emperor looked at the king of Yanping County: "How much silver can you make up now?"

"Nine hundred thousand taels. The king of Yanping replied: "Most of this year's spring tax has arrived in Beijing, and after deducting the standing expenses, there are still 300,000 taels left, and the emperor, this silver cannot be moved." ”

Every year, the imperial court had to leave a sum of silver from the treasury revenue, which was actually prepared for accidents.

For an army of 100,000, the reward for silver is at least two million taels, and for others, at least three million taels, and the gap is two million taels.

The emperor hesitated, and was about to say that it would be distributed from the inner treasury, when Xue Mi spoke: "Your Majesty doesn't need to worry, this reward will not be issued until the army returns, and there is still about a month before the army returns, we can urge it and let the silver be sent up as soon as possible." ”

"But," the king of Yanping County smiled bitterly: "The taxes paid by Jizhou and Jingzhou have been used. ”

In other words, the tax in Jiangnan has not yet arrived. Xue Yu asked.

The king of Yanping County smiled bitterly again: "Lord Xue, this spring tax is the main tax of the imperial court, and the autumn tax is often only seventy percent of the spring tax, and it is mainly grain, and there is very little silver, less than half of it this year, the salary of hundreds of officials in the imperial court, and the salary of Liangzhou..."

"Forget it, the imperial court," the emperor smiled bitterly: "Urging the sentence, the new tax system has been in place for more than a year, and the battle outside the Seychelles has been over, and it has not been finished yet, Shang Shutai sent them a letter with a stern tone." ”

The emperor was a little angry, he was like a mirror in his heart about the affairs of Yangzhou, he pretended to be sick, but he was actually scared, Gu Wei went down to inspect, and he checked for three months, and he didn't know what he was looking for, Liu Han was in Yangzhou City, and seven people were arrested in the grain depot case, and after more than a month, he hadn't been tried, and he didn't know what he was doing!

Tell Gu Wei that the new tax system is a matter of the world, and only success is allowed and no failure is allowed. The emperor's expression was serious, but Qiu Yun heard a trace of anger in it.

"Yes, Your Majesty. ”

The emperor sat down and began to review the recital, and the others retreated when they saw this, but Zhang Meng did not go out, but still sat on the side.

"You think they can't do it. The Emperor suddenly asked.

Zhang Meng didn't ask who they were, so he smiled and said, "Your Majesty, don't worry, they will definitely do it." ”

"This sentence is an old slippery head, pretending to be sick for several months, Gu Wei is patrolling below, the three county orders have been dismissed, Yangzhou County is now Mo Qi is the agent, except for Sheng Huai, the others have satisfied them. ”

The emperor's tone was very angry, a little childish, Zhang Meng smiled: "The emperor doesn't need to worry, the king of Taiyuan fought this battle well, clean and neat, there can be at least five years of peace on the grassland, plus Liangzhou, the minister estimates that there will be no major events on the border in five years, we can do something big quietly." ”

"That's the reason," the emperor put down his pen, looked up at Zhang Meng, the haze just now was swept away, and said with some excitement: "After the success of Yangzhou's new tax system, it will take me three years to solve the financial problems. ”

"The new tax system will touch the interests of the wealthy families," Zhang Meng said: "Your Majesty, in Yangzhou, how many officials resigned, in a word, Gu Wei and they had to advertise and recruit talents, and in the future, the new tax system will be implemented, and I don't know how many officials will resign." ”

The emperor nodded heavily: "Zhang Bang recruits talents, this trick is very good." ”

"This time they actually have experience in Yangzhou. Zhang Meng said, the emperor turned to look at him when he heard this: "Before the implementation of the new tax system, Gu Wei first debated with Jiangnan celebrities in Yangzhou Academy, which caused a lot of momentum and caused great repercussions in Shilin, Your Majesty, we can't wait, the minister suggested that lectures on the new tax system be held in Taixue and Hanlin, and Your Majesty can give an order to the academies in the imperial capital, and they can send people to listen to the lectures." ”

The emperor nodded slightly, Zhang Meng took a deep breath, and took out a stack of manuscripts from his arms: "Your Majesty, the minister has written an article about the benefits of the new tax system to the court and the people, and Your Majesty can send this article to Taixue and Guozijian, as well as to the academies in the imperial capital, thus opening the prelude to the new tax system." ”

"Okay, I'll take a look. The emperor took over the manuscript from Huang Gonggong, and Zhang Meng naturally did not object, this "Wealth Theory" was not written recently, but began to be conceived in the prince's mansion, and was already written in Liangzhou, and recently revised according to the experience of Yangzhou in implementing the new tax system.

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The good news and reprimand of the imperial court arrived in Yangzhou one after another, and the sentence looked at the court edict sent one after another, jumped up, beckoned the subordinates to change clothes, and the subordinates hurriedly changed his clothes in surprise.

"My lord, what's the matter?" asked the servant cautiously as he changed his clothes.

A displeased reprimand: "Less nonsense, move faster." ”

The illness was a few months, and the condition kept recurring in the past few months, and he was either lingering on the sickbed or recuperating his body, and he never did anything.

But today, as soon as he saw the court edict, he immediately got up.

hurriedly changed into official clothes, and went to the front yard in a sentence.

Seeing the sentence, Liu Han was very surprised, for more than a month, he was very busy, according to the list given by the imperial court, he copied the house, arrested hundreds of people, and all of them were locked up in their respective homes, but the specific trial, but he was not in a hurry, until now, there has not been a single torture, every three or five times, a criminal has been brought to the court.

After passing through the hall, he was different from others, not in the lobby at all, but in a small room, after the criminal entered, he sat down first, then served tea, and then began to question, and there was a clerk on the side who was responsible for recording, not evading at all, and publicly stated.

Not only Liu Han was surprised, but even Qin Chaxing's subordinates were surprised, and he didn't care about everyone's strange eyes, waved everyone to sit down, and walked in front of Liu Han.

"This is the imperial court decree that has just arrived. ”

Liu Han smiled bitterly in his heart, took it and looked at it, immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and shouted at everyone: "Everyone, the king of Taiyuan has won a great victory, beheading 16,000, capturing more than 50,000 people, and plundering more than 100,000 cattle, sheep and horses!"

The room suddenly thundered with joy, Liu Han also looked at everyone with a smile, this victory was somewhat unexpected by him, he thought that it would be a tie, the Xianbei people ran far away, the court showed off its might in the grassland, and then withdrew, and must not chase north.

Unexpectedly, the Taiyuan Wang Qibing sneak attack almost wiped out the Tuli Department, of course, he immediately thought that with this victory, many things in the imperial court can be handled calmly.

When the second letter was opened, it was actually criticized by the imperial court, accusing them of procrastination and delaying the implementation of the imperial court's national policy, and the tone was very harsh, and at the same time vaguely warned that if the new tax system failed due to delay, the imperial court would hold them accountable.

If these have little to do with Liu Han, then it will be related later, and the court edict also specifically mentioned that it is necessary to speed up the trial of the grain depot case and speed up the recovery of stolen money to finance the imperial court.

Liu Han smiled comfortably and said: "Okay, the great victory outside the city, when the people of the whole city are clear, Lord Sentence, it is up to you to write it, and then stamp your Qincha seal and paste it to the whole city." ”

Ju Yu also laughed: "Cheng!"

Ma Ye and the others cleaned up the copywriting with all their hands and feet, and the sentence was quickly picked up and the pen was quickly swept away, the rhetoric was gorgeous, and the excitement and joy of reading it came to their faces.

"This calligraphy of Lord Ju is admirable, think about my dog planing. Liu Han smiled and sighed, Ma Ye also laughed and praised, the word of the sentence is famous in the dynasty, he has worked this word, studied under the calligraphy masters Yan Zhen and Huang Wei of the previous dynasty, the blue is better than the blue, and he created his own original calligraphy, which was become the calligraphy of the sentence by Shilin.

Ju Yi was not modest at all, and joked with a smile: "Brother Zimin, if the old man writes you a sticker, you can copy it." ”

"Cheng!" Liu Han didn't mind at all, smiled, he also practiced this calligraphy, in his previous life, he was vassally elegant, and he lost it after a few days of practice, and then he mainly used the computer, who still wrote with a pen, and the most written was his own name;

A few people were talking and laughing, and Ma Ye called a few bookstores and ordered them to copy a hundred copies, stamp them with the Great Seal of the Qincha, and paste them all over the city.

After the order, Ma Ye was very interested in withdrawing, but the sentence asked him to stay and pulled Liu Han out of the door.

Liu Han tacitly followed him out, and the two of them did not go to the backyard, but went to the official room of Juyi. Liu Han's official room is not with Gu Wei, which is deliberately like this by Liu Han.

Since Gu Wei went down to the county, basically no one came to this official room, and after the two of them entered the house, they sat down separately, and the next person brought tea and went down.

Ju Yi got up and closed the door, and Liu Han picked up the teacup clearly.

The meaning of this action is obvious, and it is important that today's conversation is very private.

"Brother Zimin, how can you speed up the progress of this new tax system?" asked the sentence.

Liu Han steadily picked up the teacup and blew the tea foam on it, took a sip gently, and then looked up at the sentence.

(End of chapter)