The attitude of the king of Yanping County is very tough, and Liu Han is not easy to say anything, to be honest, if after three months, these ministers can't get the money, will it be possible to really copy the house?

"What is Mr. Liu thinking," the king of Yanping County asked with a smile when he saw that Liu Han was silent. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Liu Han hesitated and asked, "Lord Wang, I have something to understand," the king of Yanping County gestured to continue, Liu Han asked: "I see that many people don't owe much, but a few thousand taels, this is not much, why can't you pay it back?"

The king of Yanping couldn't help but shake his head: "Brother Liu, Brother Liu, you have millions of family fortunes, so you know the suffering of others." ”

Liu Han was still puzzled, because in his opinion, this was a central-level official, and he didn't even have a few thousand taels of silver?

"According to the salary of this dynasty, the prince's annual salary is 13,000 taels, the county king is 11,000 taels, the duke is 9,000 taels, the marquis is 8,000 taels, the first rank minister, 2,000 taels, the second rank minister is 1,600 taels, and to the seventh rank, it is only 300 taels. ”

"It sounds like a lot, but all the expenses of the palace are in 11,000 taels, and there are more than 700 people in my mansion, inside and outside the city, and there are more than 700 people in the two mansions.

Liu Han couldn't help but shake his head, there are more than seven hundred, and the average person is not even twenty taels of silver, not to mention those ministers, in terms of Xue Yu, he is now a five-grade official, and his salary is five hundred taels a year, with his spending power, I am afraid that he will be able to spend all of his salary in less than a month.

"But this money is not enough at all! Then, one of them...."Liu Han asked tentatively, and the king of Yanping County smiled: "In fact, everyone does not live on salaries, and the lack depends on the Zhuangzi from all over the country to make up for it, in addition, although the scholars cannot do business, but secretly, there are a lot of businessmen, which is also a big supplement, and it is said that borrowing money from the treasury is still due to the first emperor, who sympathized with the difficult life of the ministers, and allowed a small amount of money to be borrowed from the treasury, so it was out of control." ”

"However, I still don't understand, since the minister's salary is so low, why is the imperial court's finances still so difficult?" asked Liu Han.

"Two reasons," said the king of Yanping, "one is that the revenue of the imperial court has been declining, and the second is that the number of officials in the imperial court has been increasing. Maybe you don't understand, according to the law of the Great Jin Dynasty, the children of the royal family, the children of the scholar family will be born in an official position, after the age of five will be promoted to a product, after the age of ten to be promoted to a product, and then, it depends on the grade of the scholar family, the upper grade of the scholar family, to the age of fifteen, and then a product, so calculated, there are millions of officials in the Great Jin Dynasty, and five to sixty percent of the annual income of the imperial court must be used on the officials' salaries. Liu Han's heart was shocked again, this is unimaginable, more than half of a country's financial revenue is used to support officials to eat, this has not yet counted the army, if the army is counted, eighty percent of the country's financial revenue will be used on people's mouths, and the remaining two percent will have to prevent disasters and provide relief to displaced people, build post roads, etc., no wonder the imperial court is financially tight and insufficient.

"Does the imperial court need so many officials?" Liu Han asked, and the king of Yanping County smiled and asked rhetorically, "What do you say?" ”

Liu Han shook his head, Lu Fan has a fifth-grade official rank, but he never does any work, even if he doesn't have to participate in yesterday's court meeting, Yu Lu is the same as Xue Yu.

Such an official, Dajin grabbed a lot of them.

"There are so many officials, the court can't use them, so why don't you just cut them off to save money. Liu Han was still puzzled, he and Lao Huang had discussed the system of the Great Jin Dynasty and the operation of the imperial court departments, but he had never discussed the official system of the Great Jin Dynasty.

"Impossible," the king of Yanping replied categorically: "The ancestral system of the Great Jin Dynasty, the royal family and the scholar clan rule the world together, and the imperial court selects officials, which is implemented in accordance with the law of nine officials." ”

Liu Han smiled bitterly in his heart, the king of Yanping County motioned for him to sit down, Cai An brought tea to Liu Han, and then withdrew, leaving the two of them in the room. Liu Han looked at the clean desktop, and then looked around.

"The ancestral system of the imperial court was set by Taizu and cannot be changed. The king of Yanping County sighed, and Liu Han was immediately keenly aware that he actually knew that this official system was inappropriate, but he couldn't come up with a way.

"Taizu set it hundreds of years ago, after hundreds of years, is it immutable at all?" Liu Han asked rhetorically.

"It's hard. The king of Yanping County sighed: "Many people have proposed changes, but no one has ever proposed a change to this article, because it will touch the capital of the Great Jin Dynasty." ”

Liu Han thought for a while, sighed, and had to admit that the king of Yanping was right, this was to touch the capital of the Great Jin Dynasty, and the king of Shaoyang just changed a little, touching the privileges of the scholars, and was immediately chased and killed by the scholars, and the whole door was beheaded, and even the subordinates did not let go, this is probably a warning from the scholars to the royal family, so that until now, the people in the royal family still have palpitations, and they still have palpitations.

"Lord Wang, what are we going to do next?" asked Liu Han.

"Wait and check. The king of Yanping said, Liu Han understood after a little thought, and he smiled easily: "Since this is the case, then there is nothing to do with me, prince, I want to take a leave." ”

"Is there anything wrong?" asked King Yanping.

"In two days, I'm going to participate in an auction, which is expected to be longer, and I want to take a day off. Liu Han said that this auction is the auction held by Baigongfang in Baiyi Garden.

"One day?" The King of Yanping nodded slightly: "Okay, you can go." ”

Liu Han got up to thank him, and then said goodbye and went out. The king of Yanping didn't move, looking at the empty room, his expression was solemn, and he sighed softly for a long time.

Signed a promise today, there was no big mess, but everyone knows that this is just the beginning, how much silver can be recovered at the bottom, and the king of Yanping County is not sure at all, but now there is 30,000 silver handed back by Xiao Zhao Wangye, which is a good start, but what about the back?

At this moment, Liu Han suddenly came back, and the king of Yanping County was slightly stunned and asked, "What's wrong?"

"I want to remind the prince to pay attention to safety recently. Liu Han said.

King Yanping smiled faintly: "Don't worry, although I don't have a top-grade grandmaster like you, the grandmaster can still find one or two." ”

"It's so good, the youngster will retire. ”

Liu Han returned to the wing room and called Cheng Jia, Peng Yu and the other chiefs and Wu Chang, and told them that from now on, they would be responsible for the safety of this West Courtyard.

"When I am not there, Cheng Jia is in charge, Peng Yu assists, the orders of the two of them are my orders, Cheng Jia, the duty rotation at night, you are responsible for arranging, tell the brothers, work hard for three months at most, something happens during this period, we all have to be in charge of the army, so, give me a tight awakening, officers at all levels must be responsible, do you hear clearly?!"

"Understood!sir!" Everyone responded in unison, they had nothing to say about Liu Han's arrangement, here, Cheng Jia has always been the number two person in this team, Liu Han has not yet arrived, although Peng Yu is the new chief, but he is Liu Han's cronies, Liu Han will definitely use him.

After Liu Han made the arrangements, he left Duzhi Cao, at least there will be no accident in the next ten days and a half, as for the Liu Chuang incident, it will be solved by the imperial court, as for several doubts, it can only be done slowly.

Back in Liufu, Liu Han immediately went to see Xiao Yu, Xiao Yu's injuries recovered smoothly, but the injuries were too serious, and now he only has the previous two percent cultivation.

"How long does it take for Caoyun to start?" Liu Han asked directly when he saw him, Xiao Yu was slightly stunned, and his brows gradually twisted: "What's wrong?"

"They will attack our boats. Liu Han then simply relayed Ding Xuan's words, Xiao Yu breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and Liu Han continued: "I'm afraid I won't be able to get out of the body for these three months, so you have to preside over the affairs of Caoyun, and before Caoyun begins, you must recover your strength." ”

Xiao Yu frowned: "Caoyun will start in mid-May at the latest, and it will take about half a month to transport from Jiangnan to Pengcheng, that is to say, by the beginning of June at the latest, we will have to start from Pengcheng." ”

Liu Han raised his head and sighed, "It's been long enough." ”

"yes, it's a long time. ”

The time is very long, there are advantages and disadvantages, the advantage is that Xiao Yu has enough time to recover, and the combat power will be more adequate at that time, and the disadvantage is that the other party's preparation time is also very long, so it will be more adequate and more difficult to deal with.

"Now that you know, you can deal with it," Xiao Yu said steadily: "Leave this matter to me for the time being, the wind and rain building has not been uprooted, I have been in business with Reina for almost ten years, and it will not be destroyed so easily." ”

"Not ten years, it's six years. Liu Han corrected lightly, he was not completely assured, there were several grandmaster-level masters on the other side, and on their side, at least there were only two grandmaster masters on the surface.

"Six years is enough," Xiao Yu smiled: "Chu Fei is well now, let's add another general, plus ....."

"Brother Xiao, I know the manpower we can dispatch, but I want to deal with this time with the minimum loss. Liu Han said.

Xiao Yu looked solemn: "What do you mean?"

"You're right, I want to use the power of the imperial court. Liu Han said, Xiao Yu was silent for a while before asking, "What are you going to do?"

"I want to solve this matter completely," Liu Han's expression was cold: "I haven't figured out what to do yet." ”

Xiao Yu was silent for a while and shook his head: "You know, we've been guessing whether they will attack Cao Yun or not. But there's a problem, and I think you might be wrong. ”

Liu Han didn't speak, stared at him, Xiao Yu continued: "Attacking Cao Yun, this is a big crime, when the time comes, the imperial court will definitely investigate it, and our crime will not be big, so it is impossible to attack Cao Yun on a large scale, and the biggest possibility is to create an accident and let the court punish us." ”

Liu Han thought about it and stood up silently, this news made him very disappointed, he originally wanted to take this opportunity to uproot Wang Xutian and Ding Xuan.

Unfortunately, this plan was rejected before it could be implemented, but the matter of Cao Yun became more difficult to solve.

An army looks mighty and majestic, but it is actually easy to defend, but what is even more difficult to defend is a special operations squad composed of masters!

Liu Han walked into the Xiaoxiang Pavilion a little dejected, the treacherous and cunning Lao Huang knew at a glance that he had something in his heart, but he didn't speak, Liu Han sat down opposite him, drank three cups of tea from the big head, and then sighed deeply.