There is a table and two cups of Spiritual Tea, Wang Chen and Yu Feihong sitting across from each other and talking.
This is a long story to say.
What happened in this wild temple today is directly related to the current national situation and destiny of Great Qian.
During the sixty years of previous Emperor's reign, he always followed the policy of advocating culture and restraining military force, and treated scholars very favorably.
In order to take care of scholars, all scholars who have achieved fame can enjoy preferential treatment of land tax and commercial tax.
Scholars, Juren, Gongshi, Jinshi, the higher the fame, the greater the discount!
This is originally good governance, because many scholars come from poor families. They study hard in a poor family and have no food to eat. They have no other livelihood skills. How can they compete with those wealthy children?
Many talented people have been buried because of this!
Such preferential treatment will undoubtedly help these capable scholars.
However, over the past few decades, the gentry class has expanded rapidly.
In order to pay less taxes, a large number of businessmen and farmers put their shops and farmland in the names of scholars.
And there are a lot of hidden houses, hidden fields and hidden properties!
As a result, Great Qian's annual income has been greatly reduced.
During Supreme Emperor's reign, Great Qian's annual income was more than 55 million taels of silver.
It's time for previous Emperor to die.
This number dropped sharply to about 30 million taels.
Nearly half lost!
And Great Qian has been facing the threat of Great Xia from the northwest. Last year's border salary expenditure was as high as 8 million taels.
The national treasury is in deficit every year, and it is all supported by hundreds of years of accumulation.
After current Emperor came to the throne, he worked hard to govern and decided to operate on the gentry class.
Investigation Department was formed for this purpose.
Investigation Department's task is to check out those hidden households, hidden fields and hidden properties, and increase the income from land tax and commercial tax.
To make up for the shortfall in the treasury!
After the Investigation Department was established, the first inventory target was Jinzhou.
Jinzhou The place where trade is prosperous is rich.
If we can open up the situation here, then half of Emperor Qian's goal will be achieved!
However, what people did not expect was that Investigation Department sent three troops to Jinzhou. As a result, the two teams were intercepted and killed on the way, resulting in extremely heavy casualties.
When the other group arrived at Jinzhou, it was besieged by the local gentry, and a tragic conflict broke out.
The government and the public were shocked for a moment!
Emperor Qian was furious and ordered Imperial Guard Department to investigate the case thoroughly.
Yu Feihong went south according to the order and soon investigated part of the truth.
Jinzhou Zhang clan, who was deeply involved in the Investigation Department murder case, was first confiscated and exterminated by the Imperial Guard Department.
"The gold, silver, land and shops we extracted from the Zhang Family are equivalent to 3.74 million taels of silver!"
Yu Feihong said, "And Great Qian's annual income last year was only more than 29 million taels."
Wang Chen is a little speechless.
The wealth of one state and one family actually exceeds one-tenth of a country's total fiscal revenue!
No wonder the current Emperor Qian wants to wield the butcher's knife.
If you don't kill a few pigs, you won't be able to get through this year!
However, Jinzhou Zhang clan is not a simple character. Over the past hundreds of years, there have been more than a dozen Jinshis and hundreds of Jurens. They are deeply rooted and well-connected. How can they be killed obediently?
On the way Imperial Guard Department escorted Zhang Lineage to Beijing, they were heavily besieged by unknown forces.
After a fierce battle, Imperial Guard Department suffered hundreds of casualties.
Zhang Family Although dozens of people died, all the others were robbed.
This is undoubtedly a slap in the face of the Imperial Guard Department and Yu Feihong.
As the governor of the Imperial Guard Department, how could Yu Feihong give up and issue arrest documents and reward orders to apprehend the remnants of the Zhang Family, while personally leading a team to hunt down the green forest heroes who robbed the prisoners.
Great Hero of Linjiang Xiao Wentian, who was previously shot and killed by Divine Mechanism Crossbow, was one of the targets!
As for the two masters and servants who were taken away just now, Yu Chi Zhong is the retainer of Zhang clan, and the young man in brocade is the direct grandson of the eldest son.
They obviously escaped here to join Xiao Wentian, but they didn't expect Imperial Guard Department to follow them.
Catch them all!
"Now Jinzhou is in chaos."
Yu Feihong took a sip Spiritual Tea, and a cold sneer appeared at the corner of his lips, "A group of scholars are so passionate that they wrote a letter in blood asking the emperor to chop off my head."
"Haha."
"The emperor is also under great pressure now."
Zhang Family is actually nothing, it can't hold up to the local power.
However, Zhang Family has a very close relationship with the White Deer Academy and is one of the important members of "Deer Faction".
Deer Faction has great power in both the government and the opposition. At least one-third of the officials at that time were from the White Deer Academy. The current emperor bypassed the cabinet to form Investigation Department, which undoubtedly greatly touched Deer Faction's interests.
The overt and covert struggles and the flash of swords behind this cannot be explained clearly in a few words!
"Immortal Master Wang..."
Yu Feihong said to Wang Chen sincerely, "As far as I know, White Deer Academy has always been hostile to Yunyang Xianmen and believes that Garrison Celestial Master's Mansion should be abolished."
"Nanshao Prefecture is a member of Deer Faction when he guards Ruan Zhaoming, and the position of Southern Shao Protector Heavenly Master has been vacant for three years. I'm afraid the people in the Celestial Master's Mansion have developed alien ideas, and you have to guard against it!"
Wang Chen nodded. "I understand."
Yu Feihong's words are credible.
But don't believe it all.
As for what people in the Celestial Master's Mansion have different intentions.
He didn't care at all.
Wang Chen ran away from home this time mainly to avoid the turmoil of the Yunyang Sect.
He just wants to live in peace for a while.
If anyone wants to make him unhappy, then Wang Chen will definitely make him regret it!
See Wang Chen indifferent.
Yu Feihong sighed secretly.
Immortal Master, who comes from the Immortal Sect, is aloof and does not like the fireworks of the world, and he does not understand the dangers of the human heart.
Immortal Master is powerful, but it is not invincible.
As far as he knew, Innate Martial Artist had successfully attacked and killed Immortal Master before!
And Mortal World is a magical place that cultivators hate, and ordinary cultivators are not willing to stay there at all.
If Wang Chen died in Southern Shao, Yunyang Sect would certainly be furious, but it would be unlikely to go to war.
But Imperial Guard Department will definitely be unlucky!
After thinking about it, Yu Feihong pointed at the woman waiting beside him and said, "Immortal Master Wang, you are going to Southern Shao alone. You may have some inconvenience in your life, so let Xiao Wan serve you by your side."
"Xiao Wan is one of our Imperial Guard Department, guaranteed to be loyal and reliable."
"And she has Houtian peak martial arts training, so she won't be a burden to you."
"In addition, Xiao Wan understands Southern Shao's situation. If you have any trivial matters in the future, you can feel free to leave them to her!"
Yu Feihong was so eloquent that he really moved Wang Chen.
At first he refused.
If a person is alone and carefree, and there are many people around him, there will always be trouble.
But what Yu Feihong said makes sense.
Wang Chen came to Southern Shao as Protector Heavenly Master with a mission. It is impossible for him to ignore the affairs within his responsibilities after taking office.
It would be much more convenient to have an assistant.
He can completely instruct the other party to handle some things.
When it comes time to Make a Move yourself, you can solve the problem yourself. I don't know how much time you can save!
Although Yu Feihong's suggestion is suspected of slapping Sugar-coated Bullets.
But Wang Chen smiled and said, "Good!"
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The first update is here. Something happened in the Imperial Family today. Please forgive me for the late update. There will be updates later.