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The lady wanted to play the piano herself, so of course I had to take a scrutiny. Not only did I, Gao Shun, who knew who had the final say at home and the confidant who sat in the family dinner, dared not neglect. She put down her chopsticks and wine glasses and stood up to listen. The song of a mistress who could cover the head of the family with two blankets to pretend to be sick was not allowed to sit and listen to it.

As the jade finger gently plucked the strings of the piano, the faint sound of the piano seemed to be a breeze blowing through the pines and cypresses on the mountain. The dewdrops on the trembling branches and leaves dripping down and gathering together. Gradually, the sound of gurgling water echoed in the hall. It was like countless streams flowing happily in the mountain stream, and the splashing water splashed when falling from a high place caressed over the rocks, making the old stone man who had existed for millions of years make a low laugh. Suddenly the sound of the flowing water disappeared, and it turned out that at the end of the stream was a quiet lake.

I have never heard of the song played by my wife before. Although it is a bit awkward for people who are familiar with the rhythm and will know that it is a new song that I have just learned for a while, it is this awkwardness that makes people feel as if they see the hardships of the dew gathering into a stream. The sound of the piano stopped and made me think that when the song was completed, the low sound of the piano reached my ears again without realizing it.

The breeze blows through the autumn trees by the lake, and the dead leaves that are ridiculed fall from the branches and dance with the wind; the breeze blows through the autumn water in the lake, and ripples arise on the quiet lake surface.

OK! It's so good! I seem to be in the breeze and autumn water, and the breeze blows between the lake and the mountains, so intoxicated. Of course, it would be perfect if there were fairies in the sky dancing on the clear water!

In a trance, lotus flowers hanging full of dewdrops and buds were about to bloom, and above the pink lotus, a fairy's long sleeves rolled up layers of thin waves. The flying waters in the sky were like the mist in the morning light, making people unable to see the fairy's appearance. The sound of the piano became cheerful, and the lotus fairy played between the lotus and the lake in the rhythm of joy. The petals gradually opened, and the shy flowers were about to bloom.

The sky and the earth suddenly changed color, dark clouds rolled over the mountain peaks, and the storm fell from the sky without any warning. The trickle of stream turned into a turbid mountain torrent, mixed with filth and rushed into the clear lake. The lotus was struggling hard in the mud. The fairy in the flower used her weak arms to block the wind and rain for the weak lotus. It was so helpless and helpless.

The lotus that was washed by mud and water did not see the gorgeous rainbow after the wind and rain, but quietly covered the fairy's body slowly, slowly drying and turning yellow, until a cold north wind mixed with snowflakes rolled up the withered lotus. The fairy among the flowers was drifting in the violent cold wind, and threw into the lake that had turned into a muddy with black petals and crystal snowflakes.

The piano stopped dancing, and the fairy buried her head between her jade arms slowly stood up. After seeing the beauty dancing gracefully before the banquet, I opened my mouth wide and widened my eyes. It was not Diao Chan who had such a look in the world, but that!

After Diao Chan bowed, he said, "Thank you, Lord Gao Yi. The girl will turn around tomorrow. Xu Du will go to guard the tomb for her adoptive father. There is no way to repay you, so he can only offer this dance to you and express his feelings." After saying that, he bowed and turned away without waiting for me to speak. The long white gauze stretched behind her.

After watching such a dance and listening to such a song, hey... it was late at night, so I let Gao Shun and the others scatter, and then I held my wife's hand and walked under the moonlight. The wife said, "That..."

I stopped and hugged my wife in my arms and said, "No need to say, I know what the wife means, but I can no longer accommodate a second woman in my heart. I only want to join hands with my wife in this life."

The lady leaned her head against my chest, and drew her fingers in circles on the palm of my hand and said, "Say some crazy words again."

I asked, "Madam, do you remember, how many years have we been married?"

The lady said, "I married my husband at the age of 18. This year, I have been thirty years old."

I sighed: "It has been twelve years. If we follow Westerners' words, this year will be our silk wedding anniversary."

"What?" The lady raised her face and looked at me in confusion.

I smiled and told my wife the custom of getting married from one year, the custom of getting married from two years, the custom of getting married from fifty years, and the custom of getting married from diamonds for sixty years. After listening, the wife whispered: "There are such wonderful customs in the world!"

After kissing the wife gently on her eyes, I said, "I don't expect God to let us live for a long time, nor do I force Mrs. Yu to join hands with her for a hundred years, but I hope that my wife and I can celebrate the golden wedding."

The lady said with infinite desire: "If that day comes, I will be a fair-looking old woman! I'm afraid that my husband will be lazy to watch."

I hugged the lady in Lou's arms and said, "When you become an old woman, I will become an old man. We are each other, and we should not despise each other."

The lady pointed my nose with her finger and chuckled, "You are already a bad old man now!"

I laughed in silence and said, "Is it old man, you will know in a while! As the saying goes: A small separation is better than a newlywed, madam! Are you right?"

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After sending Diao Chan away, I felt lost. A beautiful woman like a fairy was sent to her mouth but didn't... But I don't regret it. Diao Chan was a respectable woman. She exchanged her sacrifice for the opportunity to revive the Han Dynasty again. Although the people in power failed to seize this opportunity, who could erase her achievements? Such a wonderful woman cannot be casually despised.

I lived in Xuzhou for two years, and the Central Plains was relatively calm during this period. After the previous stage of mutual conquest, the princes were happy and lost.

Sun Ce in the south defeated Chen Li, Yan Baihu, surrendered Zulang, Taishi Ci, defeated Liu Xun, defeated Huang Zu, persuaded Hua Xin to surrender, and took four years to occupy Jiangdong. After establishing a firm foothold, Sun Ce attempted to imitate Cao Cao's approach to employing people, but was not successful under the opposition of the wealthy gentry in the south; Yuan Shao in the north finally completely destroyed Gongsun Zan, eliminated the trouble of his confidant, and prepared to go south while resting. Zhang Yang in the west sent troops to Dongshi when I led my troops to attack Xuzhou, and wanted to save Lu Bu and was killed by his general Yang Chou, and Yang Chou was killed by Zhang Yang's confidant general. Yuan Shu, who escaped under the siege of several sides, vomited blood and vomited to death on the dragon throne.

In the past two years, the salt produced in the salt field has brought me a lot of wealth. How much is it? In the words, "I, Wang Laowu, have never seen so much money in my life."

In the past, I had a lot of money in my hands, otherwise I would not be able to support thousands of people, but the profits of the salt fields still scared me. No wonder in my previous life, salt merchants in the Qing Dynasty bribed officials hundreds of thousands of dollars and millions of taels of silver, because they didn't care about these small money at all, and the profits were too great. With endless sea water as raw materials, wastelands that could not grow crops as factories, and the sun and wind as production tools, the pitiful cost was that labor costs could not be ignored.

It is of course easy to do things with money. Roads need to be built, and shipyards need to be built. The roads built this time are no longer sand and gravel roads. I want to build railways. The iron ore near Xuzhou has begun to be mined, and the smelter is also booming. In addition to satisfying military use, there is also a lot of surplus for civilian use. In order to prevent the outflow of steel from causing trouble to future operations, we must consume this excess steel. Of course, the railway is not a steam engine-powered train, but a horse-powered four-wheeler. This costs a ten-mile railway to pave a lot of more cost than a hundred-mile sand and gravel road to build, but after completion, its transportation efficiency is incomparable to sand and gravel roads. Fast and convenient transportation can also drive the development of the seafood fishing industry and bring a lot of orders to the shipyard.

But the only thing that bothers me was that Xun Wenruo was levied shortly after receiving my reply, and 30% of the high profits were taken away! Oh my God! I hit myself hard, either by the foot or by the head! Well, you Xun Wenruo! You are too cruel! You are too fast! You are too strong in your work! In the past, you read books and TV, and the ancient reforms were delayed for several years and had no accurate letters. You are good, you listen to the wind and rain, and you will collect your clothes when you see the black clouds!

But I came up with the idea, I can't take the lead in tax evasion! I gritted my teeth! I stamped my feet! I cried behind my back and made a fuss! But when I came to everyone, I still said with a breeze on my face: "Paying taxes is the responsibility of every citizen!" I was confused. There is no concept of citizenship in this era. I can imagine that when they saw that the person who paid the taxes was the most me, I laughed at me.

However, I can't let Xun Wenruo and others have a good time. After paying the huge tax, I sent him a letter. It is proposed to establish the concept of citizens and taxpayers, citizens' priority and the protection of taxpayers' interests, as well as the separation of central and local taxes, and to use money to replace grain as salary to officials at all levels. In addition, the royal expenses are separated from the treasury, and the treasury expenses are budgeted.

In my previous life, one of the phenomena I hated the most was the so-called national treatment issue. When merchants in many countries operated across the country, they would try their best to obtain national treatment from their country in order to avoid being discriminated against. In my previous life, what I saw was that our citizens were difficult to vomit blood when they were doing business, but if there was a foreigner, my god! Some people were more close to them than to see their own fathers, and they were so quick that they thought they were doing their own things. And they also claimed that we were a country of etiquette, and friends should be like this! I don’t know what the logic is, their citizens were discriminated against, but outsiders were treated with VIP! In their own country, they all had to enjoy special care from the dwarfs, so it would be even more important to say that our people were outside. What kind of national treatment would you fight for?

Protecting the interests of taxpayers is something that must be done to protect industry and commerce, and it can also avoid the occurrence of excessive xenophobia. While ensuring national priority, it also protects the rights of foreign businessmen. Blind xenophobia will only cause a country to close its doors and miss the opportunity for development. At the same time, I also hope that one day the people who can live in this land can point their chests at the nose of the official and say, "I am a taxpayer! I am the person who pays you for your salary. What you do must be right for the tax I paid!"

The separation of central taxation and local taxation can effectively concentrate funds for large-scale engineering construction and build a strong army, and can prevent local governments from losing money. Moreover, the central government does not have strong finances as a backing, and wants to expand externally will only be an unrealistic fantasy. In fact, China has not had external expansion in history, but often loses one or two battles and loses the central government of the central army that is necessary to consolidate imperial power will naturally be peeped at. But things cannot be done too well, and local governments must retain certain taxes as daily and emergency expenses. Moreover, the differences between localities also determine the differences in tax types. We cannot demand that the tax types and tax rates in a country with vast land are the same.

The royal expenses and the treasury are now a rare opportunity to get out of the treasury. For thousands of years, the treasury's silver was the emperor's silver. The emperor could use whatever he wanted. Many times, the emperor or the people who hold imperial power spent all the treasury for their own pleasure, and when they had to use money to do things, they could only make money from the people's pockets in a different way. At present, the conflict between Cao Cao and the royal family was the perfect time to implement this policy. If Cao Cao died, his son forced Emperor Xian of Han to abdicate and ascend to the throne.

It will be much harder to do this. And once this matter is established, the emperor will have to inherit the facts in the future. If the emperor does not want to do this, then naturally someone will say that this is the family law of the ancestors and cannot be changed lightly. The budgetization of treasury expenditure can not only avoid it, but the so-called treasury grains are moldy and no one eats them, and the ropes of money can not be melted. This is also a tragic thing, and it can also promote the progress of the country's finances and make the country a country for the whole world rather than a family of one person.
Chapter completed!