"Your Majesty, the army of Gongyuedao has returned one after another. General Liang and General Qibi are on the way and will arrive in Chang'an soon."

This good news cheered the king and his ministers up.

Li Zhi was lazy for a long time and went to the harem.

"Your Majesty, Zhaoyi is healthy, rare among women." After the medical officer took the pulse, he gave a result that made both Wu Mei and Li Zhi feel good.

Li Zhi smiled and said, "Some people outside say that new learning is the remnant of a hundred learnings, and the soul under the sword is full of momentum..."

Wu Mei knew about this, but it was beyond the reach.

"Jia Ping'an remained silent. When those people were so proud, he suddenly found a relative of Liang Jianfang's family and asked the students who were studying for the calculation home. Then he found out that the servants in the family were greedy for a lot of money..."

This is for temptation!

Wu Mei raised her eyebrows slightly and felt relieved.

"The powerful!" Li Zhi looked contemptuous in his eyes. "Those powerful and powerful flocked to the scene, and all the students who were studying mathematics were invited overnight. They were called paper expensive in Luoyang. In the end, most of them found out that there were problems with the accounts in their families, so... they were defeated without defeat. I am very familiar with these methods."

After he left, Wu Mei stood outside the door and watched.

"Zhaoyi, Wu Yang Bo is very good at helping him." Zhang Tianxia couldn't help but recall Jia Ping'an he met that time.

"Arm help?" Wu Mei smiled, "I never thought that he could be so calm. Those people shouted, wanting to kill Xinxue, wanting to kill him. I was anxious about this in the palace and wanted to ask for help from His Majesty, but I knew that the emperor was ruthless..."

She slowly turned around and her eyes were calm, "I was struggling in the palace, he was struggling outside the palace, I looked far away for a high place, why did he do? New school. Men value learning, which is a good thing. If he can make the new school bear fruit, it will be famous in history. So..."

She touched her lower abdomen, "How great would this child be if he were a boy?"

Zhang Tianxia felt a stern, "Zhaoyi, after all, there are many people in the world who learn Confucianism. If this child is asked to learn new learning, there will be no fewer opponents."

Wu Mei smiled, "Actually... it's fake to agree or oppose it."

So what is real?

Zhang Tianxia is puzzled.

Wu Mei walked in slowly, clenched her right fist.

"Zhaoyi!"

Zhou Qing came back and said with excitement: "I have found out the news. Concubine Xiao Shu scolded the queen today, saying that the queen has no son and will get out sooner or later."

A queen who has no offspring is a chicken that can't lay eggs. A chicken that can't lay eggs will sooner or later be chopped off by the owner.

This is the simplest truth.

Queen Wang was anxious.

"Even that bitch Wu Mei is pregnant, but I didn't move. There was already a lot of discussion outside."

Cai Yan was also quite anxious, "Queen, this matter must be tight, why don't you... invite a few medical officers to come and have a look?"

"How many times have you seen it?" When recalling the treatment process, Queen Wang felt a little overwhelmed, "I don't know how many of those medicines I took, but nothing was used."

"Queen, Xiao is here."

Queen Wang said coldly: "Go out!"

The palace was filled with mess, and Liu Shi felt it.

"The queen has no son, this is a big taboo!"

Liu Shi was anxious and uneasy. If Empress Wang had any fault, he, as the prime minister, could not sit steadily. This was the disadvantage of the foreign relatives being officials. They did not have enough prestige, and they all prospered and lost.

In the evening, he drank with his confidant.

"It's a pity that the queen is so virtuous but has no son, which makes me extremely uneasy."

My confidant blinked his eyes and thought of a solution while drinking.

"My husband, I have a way."

"What's the way?"

The confidant said, "The queen has been in the palace for many years without a son, so she has no fate. Since that's the case... I heard that King Chen's biological mother is humble, but His Majesty valued it and was named the governor of Yongzhou. If King Chen wants to seek the position of prince, the humble mother is a great disadvantage. If the queen is at this moment..."

"If the queen takes action to gather King Chen, he will naturally be happy, and his mother will be happy. In this way, the queen has reliance and King Chen has reliance, which is wonderful!"

Liu Shi felt that this was a win-win situation and couldn't help but be overjoyed. He drank so much that night.

The next day he let his wife enter the palace.

"King Chen?"

Queen Wang felt that a lightning bolt hit her.

"The biological mother of King Chen, Liu, is humble. If I said I would accept King Chen as a fake son, how could she say no?"

Queen Wang was overjoyed, "It's better for my uncle to think carefully about me!"

Turning back, she asked someone to call King Chen and Li Zhong.

The nine-year-old Li Zhong looked at the same manner as a little adult, and was treated properly.

"Good boy, come here and have a good time to see." Queen Wang's eyes were filled with loving expressions.

Li Zhong passed slowly, feeling a little timid.

"He's a good kid."

Queen Wang then went to ask for Li Zhi.

"King Chen?" Li Zhong said without comment, "I think about it very much."

...

"I've met Wu Yang Bo."

The morale within the mathematics science is high, and Jia Ping'an was welcomed almost like a star-chasing person when he arrived.

After a class, the students benefited a lot. Someone chased Jia Ping'an and asked, "Wu Yang Bo, you said before that tax laws are equivalent to national laws, or even higher than national laws, why?"

Jia Ping'an stopped and a group of students surrounded him.

Looking at these studious students, Jia Ping'an was relieved, "Whether it was the Qin and Han Dynasties or the Tang Dynasties, what is the foundation of a country?"

"force!"

This answer is reliable, but Jia Ping'an just smiled.

"culture."

This is also reliable. Jia Ping'an feels that the students he taught are indeed extraordinary.

but……

"The foundation of a country lies in taxes!" Jia Ping'an has read historical books. The collapse of a country all starts from the beginning of the financial collapse. "The country needs to raise the army, to raise officials, to pay for money and food when going to war, and to provide disaster relief when encountering natural disasters and man-made disasters... The army is good, but if the finances collapse, the army will also collapse..."

The former Han fell to the natural disaster, but the root cause was that he had no money and food.

The subsequent Tang Dynasty was actually poured into money and food.

The Song Dynasty was better, but the finances were still on the verge of collapse.

Not to mention the Ming Dynasty, even if you can’t afford military pay, you will have no money and food to save money and end up with civilians.

But what is the root cause of no money or food?

"If the tax cannot be collected, if someone avoids taxes, money and food will be short. When this trend comes together, do you still remember the former man?"

"Remember!"

"What happened to the Yellow Turbans in the Former Han Dynasty? It was because there was no money and food, so the people were hungry for feeding under the natural disaster and finally rose up." This was a vicious cycle, but the former Han Dynasty really had no money? There was no money and food in the hands of those people. But those people would not give any help to the disaster..."

Someone understood what Jia Ping'an meant and said, "Wuyang Marquis, if the tax revenue is getting smaller and smaller, the Tang Dynasty will be helpless when encountering natural disasters. The court will be short of money, so... the country will be out of power."

This is true.

Jia Ping'an said with great satisfaction: "That's why I said taxes are the first. If there is a problem with the tax, it is digging the foundation of the Tang Dynasty."

Part of the corruption of the subsequent military system was caused by land annexation.

The biggest problem in the Tang Dynasty was fleeing households.

Those powerful people and temples are two major groups lying on the body of the Tang Dynasty to suck blood.

The Tang Dynasty continued to decline, but the biggest problem was still lack of money and food.

The land is constantly being merged, and the slow growth of households can make the Minister of Revenue want to hang himself, as if the world has no children and no family is divided.

When the land was concentrated on a large scale in the hands of the powerful and the temples, the Tang Dynasty became sick.

The so-called equal-field system has become a joke. How can I grant land if I have no land?

But the new population needs to cultivate land!

This contradiction cannot be resolved. Even without An Lushan, there will be Wang Lushan. In addition, Xuanzong was so stupid that he enjoyed it in his later years. The powerful and powerful royal family members had more money than who was more extravagant. It would be strange if the Tang Dynasty did not decline.

Jia Ping'an felt that even if Huang Chao had many bad things, the only advantage was that he would get rid of the so-called clans.

When he saw the students thinking, he knew that the rotten medicine he gave to those people was enlightenment. After that, these students continued to study in this direction, and finally they could analyze the root cause of the financial problems of the Tang Dynasty. Then the people of the world suddenly realized and knew who was the gravedigger of the Tang Dynasty.

And a group of poor emperors would sharpen their knives and force those people to hand over the annexed land.
To be continued...