There is a lake on the west side of the imperial city, and the Leyou Garden is built near the lake, and pavilions and pavilions appear among flowers and trees. Aquatic plants such as lotus and calamus are planted in the lake, fish are raised in the water, mandarin ducks on the lake, white geese play, and can roam the boat. It is a place where nobles in the palace can cool down and hide in the summer.

Jingxin Pavilion, the nine-curved wooden bridge leads to the center of the lake, there is a table, a couch, and an incense burner in the wooden pavilion. Two people in the pavilion, one lying and one standing, one reading and one listening.

Shi Fangzhen was wearing a thin silk shirt, lying on the bamboo couch, with his eyes slightly closed, listening to Prince Shi Chongwei reciting articles. There were stacks of neatly placed memorials on the table, which was exactly the countermeasures that everyone in Xuanzheng Hall answered.

The clear childish voice occasionally roared on the stone flower boat on the shore with the wind. Queen Wang was embroidering flowers, looking up from time to time towards Jingxin Pavilion, and a knowing smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.

The sun gradually turned westward, Queen Wang stood up and moved her arms, looked at the incense on the table and said, "It's almost an hour, why don't you let the prince rest? Liu Weiguo, you send the pot of ice-filled grapes on the table to them and hear when will it end?"

Liu Weiguo stood beside him, and quickly responded with respect, holding grapes in both hands and walking across the long Jiuqu wooden bridge, deliberately increasing his pace when approaching Jingxin Pavilion.

It happened that the prince finished reading another book. Shi Fangzhen opened his eyes and sat up, signaling Liu Weiguo to hand over the grapes to the prince, and he picked up the tea himself, and commented on the memorial that the prince had just read. The prince seemed to understand but remembered seriously that he did not even open his mouth to hand the grapes that Liu Weiguo had peeled to his mouth.

Shi Fangzhen smiled and said, "Your son, you are still young. You may still be difficult to understand what I said, but it doesn't matter. The direct scholar of Chongwenguan I chose today will be your useful minister in the future."

Liu Weiguo took advantage of the time and interrupted: "Long live, the empress asks the slave how long will it take to end?"<

With thirty-six copies of the countermeasures, only six of them remained unread. Shi Fangzhen took a look at his sweaty son and asked, "Son of the Emperor, do you want a rest?"

"Father, the son is not tired. There is not much left, so I just finished reading and returned to the palace with my mother." Shi Chongwei replied with a smile.

"Yes, people in the world only say that the emperor enjoys all the blessings of the world, but they don't know that the emperor is tired. Wei'er, you will inherit the throne in the future and do not have the idea of ​​comfort and enjoyment. Being an emperor is extremely hard." Shi Fangzhen said as he lay down on the bamboo couch again and closed his eyes again.

Shi Chongwei reached out and picked up a memorial from the table and read it loudly. Liu Weiguo saw a cool fan beside the bamboo couch, picked it up, stood behind the prince and swayed gently, fanning the wind for the prince.<

"...According to the taxes and labor services of a prefecture and county, the land is calculated, and the grain is completely lost to the official..."<

Shi Fangzhen sat up suddenly and asked, "Who wrote this?"

Shi Chongwei saw the end of the article and recited: "Jiang Anyi."

Shi Fangzhen stood up, took the memorial from her son, read it quickly, and walked in the pavilion for two steps excitedly, then leaned against the pillar to look carefully. After looking at the cup of tea, she spoke out and said, "Okay, good articles, good ideas."

He handed Jiang Anyi's memorial back to the crown prince and ordered: "Remember."

Shi Chongwei recited it word by word from the beginning, Shi Fangzhen sat upright on the bamboo couch with a solemn expression, as if he was in the great court.

When Shi Chongwei was thinking, Shi Fangzhen praised again: "Okay, good article. Emperor, can you understand the meaning of the article?"<

"I don't understand very much."

"This article involves many aspects such as people's livelihood, land tax, labor, taxation, etc. Wei'er, you have not yet known the government affairs, so you don't know anything." Shi Fangzhen stared at the memorial for a moment and explained to the prince: "In short, Jiang Anyi suggested that his father should combine land tax, labor labor and other miscellaneous levies, combine the cash and pay the court based on the mu."<

As Shi Fangzhen said, he stood up excitedly, paced in Jingxin Pavilion with his hands behind his back, muttering the words: "Concentrate the land tax, corvee labor and miscellaneous taxes, convert them into silver and money, and distribute them to the acres of land. In this way, the merger of powerful people will be suppressed, and the people can reduce the burden, but the national tax will inevitably increase, and the prosperity of the country is just around the corner. Good, good way, but unfortunately, the time is wrong."

The prince was a little stunned. Even Liu Weiguo was with the emperor for decades, but he rarely saw the emperor lose his composure. Hearing his father sighed, "It's a pity", Shi Chongwei asked in confusion: "Father, since this method can solve the problem of land annexation, the father can only implement it. Why do you say that it's a pity that the time is wrong?"

Shi Fangzhen reached out to touch his son's head and explained lovingly: "The annexation of fields is mainly done by aristocratic families and officials' families. Not to mention others, even the royal family and your mother's family embezzled no less than a million hectares of land. Although other aristocratic families vomited more or less out of the fields during the Qing Dynasty, they were still only a few, and most of the fields were not handed over under various names, so I was not good at forcing them to investigate. This time, the father's re-inspection of the twenty-seven states in the world was only targeted by court officials, but they were afraid of the aristocratic families. To implement the strategies offered by Jiang Anyi, it would inevitably touch the interests of the aristocratic families and the all over the world. It was difficult."

Shi Chongwei asked in confusion: "Doesn't there be any provisions on the "Da Zheng Law"? The Beijing officials are exempted from 10,000 mu of land, and the following will be reduced to 1,600 mu of land; the local officials are exempted from 1,600 mu of land; the local officials are reduced by half; the Jinshi is exempt from 3,350 mu of land, and the Juren is exempt from 1,200 mu of land; the student is responsible for 80 mu of land. Acting according to the law, the land that most officials possess is taxed."<

"It would be as simple as Wei'er, you said." Shi Fangzhen smiled bitterly, dipped his hand in the tea in the cup, and drew it on the table, saying: "The country's fields are divided into several categories. One is the fields that the Lord has granted. These fields are public fields, and have the privilege of exempting taxes and servants. But in addition to granting fields, these lords also purchase land for their own land. These fields are subject to tax reduction and exemption. But think about it, for example, who has the courage to find your uncle, King Ning, and your uncle, Duke Shen, to collect taxes."

Shi Chongwei stuck out his tongue without making any sound.

"There are also the fields of the aristocratic families. Take Wei Xiang for example. The Prime Minister is in the second rank and can be exempted from land tax of 9,000 mu, but think about the fields of the Wei family, which is only 9,000 mu. This time, Wei Xiang paid more than 3,100 hectares of taxable fields and more than 300,000 mu."<

Shi Chongwei was surprised and asked in surprise: "Why are there so many?"

"More, this is only a small part. How many people are there in the Wei family? How many officials are there? It is estimated that there are hundreds of people, and how many have achieved fame and fortune? According to the "Da Zheng Law", the Wei family can at least reduce the land of more than 100,000 hectares, and the number of other aristocratic families will not be small."

Shi Chongwei scratched his head and was stunned by the numbers reported by his father. The fields in the hands of the family alone were comparable to the total number of fields in the five states. No wonder the treasury had no money, and the money was all entangled by these people.

"Officials are exempted by rank. Can a ninth-rank Beijing official afford 1,600 acres of land? I tell you that as long as you become an official, someone will send land to your house and let you collect benefits. Those who deliver land can also reduce taxes and can also reduce labor service. These officials eat the salary of the country, but dig the corners of the country." Shi Fangzhen said angrily.

"Catch these corrupt officials and save them all." Shi Chongwei's face turned red with a swelling, and he roared with his fists.

"Hahaha", Shi Fangzhen was amused by the prince's childish words.<

After a long time, Shi Fangzhen stopped laughing and said, "Ordinary people have a difficult family and are difficult to survive. Jiang Anyi was born in a poor family and has a deep understanding of this. Therefore, he came up with this method and wanted to change the 'save taxes for saving people' to 'save taxes for saving land'. Therefore, ordinary people will pay less taxes and live a better life."

"It's just that those rich and wealthy families with thousands of hectares of fertile land are willing to pay taxes to the country. If I force myself to implement the method that Jiang Anyi said now, Jiang Anyi will definitely become the target of public criticism. I just said that I am still afraid of aristocratic families, let alone Jiang Anyi, who can speak out to me in a blunt way, is risking the risk of destroying the family. This son has the talent of heaven and earth, and is loyal to the emperor and patriotism, and is truly an unparalleled national warrior. Wei'er, you must remember that as a king in the future, you must treat him well with the courtesy of a national warrior."

The emperor's highest evaluation of his subordinates. Shi Fangzhen said to the prince: "The eight direct scholars I have chosen for you this time are not old, and they are all talents I will leave for you in the future. Jiang Anyi is loyal and patriotic, talented, civil and military, and unparalleled in the country; Wei Youcheng is your brother-in-law, with a family background, outstanding talent, and a trustworthy person, and can balance Jiang Anyi in the future; Zhang Yucheng, this person is both morally and talented and bravely responsible, and is the candidate for the six ministers; He Ziying is familiar with the law, is upright, and can be appointed as the censor; Cui Yuanhu, born in a noble family, is humble and gentleman, as moist as jade, can be used in the Ministry of Rites..."<

Shi Fangzhen said earnestly and taught his children in a leisurely manner. Shi Chongwei remembered it with his heart. In the Jingxin Pavilion, the father was kind and filial, and the whole family was harmonious. When the sun was about to sink to the West Mountain, eight direct scholars in Chongwenguan had been born.

He picked up Jiang Anyi's memorial and handed it to Liu Weiguo. Shi Fangzhen said, "Seal this memorial in the imperial study room. Today's affairs are known to heaven and earth, you and me, and you must not be leaked. Liu Weiguo, you have someone to secretly notify Jiang Anyi, tell him not to speak to outsiders, even his teacher, don't say it. Let him wait patiently and wait for the day when I take this memorial to the Golden Palace to read it."<

Shi Fangzhen looked at the setting sun in the west and murmured to himself: "There are many ways to implement this problem, encourage the people to engage in all industries, mine mineral resources to increase national strength, strictly supervise land transactions, and prohibit private contributions. I will issue an edict to implement these. I hope that this Qingzhang land can clear more of the land dedicated to the land, so that the taxes are relatively fair. I free up my hands to slowly weaken the power of the aristocratic families and then take some land from the nobles of the aristocratic families. At that time, the resistance to taxation by Jiang'anyi will be smaller, but I don't know how long it will take. If it is ten years, I can still do it myself. If it is twenty years, I am nearly sixty years old and have no energy. I am afraid that I will be powerless at that time, I will probably rely on Wei'er to implement it."
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