"In addition, His Majesty will lower all taxes across the country by three levels at the next court meeting. In addition, it is imperative to abolish other exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes."

Xie Ji felt that local officials were more difficult to deal with than those in the capital. After all, they directly governed the people.

These officials in the capital were suppressed by Xie Ji in the court, but as for the local officials, it was as if the sky was high and the emperor was far away.

Xie Ji thought about it, those officials dared to do random things in the local area and no one exposed them. This was definitely not done by the original person. The original person would not do such a boring thing.

Therefore, nine times out of ten, those local officials relied on a certain minister in the court.

Could it be Wang Cen?

Xie Ji first put aside his doubts.

Those officials around the capital were so bold and directly stole his reputation, but what about other places?

Just thinking about it makes Xie Ji's hair stand on end. It must not be what he thinks.

Hope things aren't as bad as he thought.

By the way, the supervisory censors of the imperial court, those supervisory censors always say where and how the government is doing?

It's all about praising virtue and whitewashing peace.

In fact, according to some of his secret reports, popular rebellions occurred in many places, but I thought that those people could do nothing and kept it secret.

It's really scary to think about it.

These local officials must find ways to govern them well.

As for the law he mentioned before, once the people rebel, the local governor will punish them with treason, so this order may not be enforced.

After all, there were so many small and frequent public riots in so many places. How many local officials would be involved?

We can't kill all those local officials. If that happens, the country will be even more chaotic. Your Majesty is also the first to refuse to agree.

After all, we can’t live without local officials. Who knows if it will be the same if we replace it with another one.

Therefore, this matter must be resolved as soon as possible.

What's more, those local officials still have considerable power, and increasing taxes is simply child's play.

There are definitely a lot of things he did in violation of the law, and he even dared to disobey the emperor's orders, let alone his Xie Ji.

In this case, wouldn't reducing taxes have no effect at all?

It seems that we need to find a way.

It is easy for him to kill a local official, but it is treating the symptoms rather than the root cause. It is difficult to prevent the next official from doing so.

Is it as difficult as ascending to heaven?

Use harsh punishments? That would be great. This kind of nonsense is useless. It should be committed and it must be committed.

He has to think now, no, do we have to do it step by step? Is it too hasty? Not good.

Solve the current issues first and resolve the most important ones.

Are you too anxious to eat hot tofu to reduce corruption and bribery? You can only start by restraining your subordinates.

"Prime Minister? Is it easier to reduce taxes? But the rest are difficult and cannot be solved with just one order."

Jiang Nan said, had he experienced this kind of thing before? In his early years, before he became an official, his father was a local official and governor of a state. He was used to seeing those dirty things.

He has no regrets, this is what his father gave him, but? His father also taught him how to go with the flow, because it is too difficult to get out of the mud without being stained. If a relative breaks the law, he has to cover it up, and there is oppression from above.

He had to go along with the others.

If you keep your original intention, it will be really difficult. It will be difficult for you to face the siege of so many people and remain contented.

Among them, there was something about taxation. Although his father had tried his best to reduce the burden on the people, those lower-level officials and government servants would exploit the people to an even greater extent. They wanted to stop it, but they couldn't.

He does not have the power to kill or kill those officials. To punish them, they have to report them to every level. However, the people below naturally have power in the court. If they are reported, he may be framed and dismissed from office.

So we could only deal with it as much as possible. This was the situation at that time.

In the end, his father couldn't live with his conscience and resigned.

Precisely because his father just turned a blind eye, no one made it difficult for him, but he also felt guilty because he couldn't stop it.

In the end, he died in depression. That year, he had just passed the imperial examination. Three years later, he entered the officialdom.

After that, he became the censor, so he was only responsible for impeaching those officials.

However, as a royal censor, I am even worse than my father.

Even though he didn't mean it, he still did some bad things.

However, when the official thought this was the case, he knew that it would be particularly difficult to issue an order, especially an order to reduce taxes, to counties.

Whether those low-level officials know about this order is a question. The key is whether they can implement it after knowing it is another question.

"I know it's difficult, but it's better than doing nothing. What's more, this is just the first step."

Xie Ji said that the first thing he wanted to do was to reduce taxes. He didn’t talk about whether it could be implemented, but he had to show his attitude first.

If you don't even have an attitude, isn't it no different from those officials?

After Xie Ji said this, it was completely different from what he said before, that he wanted to exploit the people.

It is definitely not what he said he wanted to do to fatten the people and then slaughter them.

They felt a little sincerity from Xie Ji's tone.

Isn't this the Xie Ji they know?

"Then what will the Prime Minister do next?"

An order has been issued, and it is important that someone execute it.

If no one implements it, it will become a piece of paper.

The same goes for the tax order. What can be done by the officials to carry it out? This is the key.

"We'll talk about it then. There are still some things to deal with first."

He wants to pilot his method first.

"Gaoshan, what's going on in Changling County?"

Changling County??

The officials below were shocked. The prime minister had killed the Changling County magistrate silently. It was not silent, but shocking, and he was allowed to be beaten to death by the people.

A county magistrate was beaten to death, and it was Xie Ji who took the lead. This could not help but surprise them.

"Prime Minister, Wang Xi has arrived in Changling County and has settled down in Changling County."

Gao Shan was very reluctant to mention this matter. After all, it was an embarrassing matter for the head of the family.

"After that, this is what the scholar named Xu Bin ordered you to organize."

Xie Ji took the information and saw, my dear, those people lost a total of two million three thousand one hundred and fifty-two taels of silver.

This seems to be an exaggeration. This family lost ten taels, ten taels. Are they laughing at him for not understanding how much money the people have?

Do you think others are stupid and have too much money?

"Prime Minister, this information is ten times the real situation. Except for this ten times, the rest is normal."

Gao Shan reminded Xie Ji, and Xie Ji smiled and said, good guy, it seems he really thinks he is a fool and has too much money.

However, more than two million taels is too underestimated. He must have more than 20 million taels.

"You go and do what he says, do as he says, and send the money to the house."

He doubled the compensation, so it cost more than four million taels.

He was taken advantage of once. He is indeed a fool and has too much money.

"promise."

Gao Shan nodded.

"And give him nine thousand gold coins."

It was only ninety thousand taels of silver, and he was still willing to be taken advantage of this time.

"promise."

"How about Xu Zhao?"

Xu Zhao is the former Minister of Punishment, also known as Old Man Xu.

"Those cases have been sorted out."

Gao Shan handed some documents to Xie Ji. Looking at them, the documents were filled with words, and there were several cases that he had reviewed. However, he crossed them out, re-judged them, and marked that next to them.

It deals with the article of the Daxia Code, which can be said to be very detailed.

It was reasonable and well-founded. Xie Ji read a few copies and felt it was good. It was neither too strict nor too lenient.

"Okay, let's do it like this."

"When you go to Changling, take the silver with you and bring the flowing water back with you."
To be continued...