Emperor Aoki was greatly moved.

He then smiled: "This painting is excellent. I have taken it away by me, returned to the capital, and sent it to the Qinzheng Hall to hang it."

So the eunuch hurriedly collected the painting.

Emperor Tianqi patted Yang She on the head: "Very good, study hard."

He said that he was studying hard.

Zhang Jingyi, who was standing beside him, breathed a sigh of relief. The matter of Fengqiu County not learning the Four Books and Five Classics was settled.

It’s all about reading, I can teach whatever I want.

It is important to know that education is the foundation of everything.

Emperor Tianqi continued to move forward. At this time, Long Yan was very happy and he walked much lighter all the way. Then he arrived at the county government office.

I saw that this county government occupies a large area, and the original county government functions were very simple, but now, the county has a lot more personnel than before!

Emperor Apocalypse entered the lobby and took his seat.

After being promoted, all officials also entered the yamen.

At this time, Emperor Tianqi ordered people to call Zhu Sufen, the Prince of Yiyang, to come forward to speak.

Zhu Sufen knew that he could not escape, so he had to stand up and said, "Your Majesty..."

Emperor Tianqi changed his kindness and easy-goingness to those children just now, and looked at him viciously: "Didn't you say that Fengqiu County has rebelled?"

Zhu Sufen said with a grievance: "I thought I was against it, but..."

Before he could continue, Emperor Tianqi interrupted him impatiently and said, "I have walked so many prefectures and counties, but no one is so loyal. You guys are here to spread rumors. What does it mean?"

Zhu Sufen cried, "I just think Fengqiu County... is really ridiculous. My wife and brother are suffering from being cheated by them Fengqiu County..."

As he said that, Zhu Sufen really burst into tears.

"Is it a hard time to cheat?" Emperor Tianqi looked stern: "It's because you have to pay taxes? Call your wife and brother... I want to explain it clearly today."

So an eunuch went to find Zhu Sufen's wife and brother-in-law.

More than half an hour later, a gentleman named Liu Wengui came in miserably.

When he saw Emperor Tianqi, he immediately bowed and cried and said, "Your Majesty, someone is going to occupy the ancestral property of his ministers."

Emperor Tianqi looked at him, but saw that he was fat, big-eared, big belly, and kneeling on the ground, which looked particularly ridiculous.

Emperor Aoki said coldly: "How did you invade your ancestral property?"

"This Fengqiu County does not follow the system of the court, especially the county magistrate, who colluded with the Jinyiwei and directly increased the tax of the Caomin to 70%. Where can Caomin pay so much tax, he will not accept it. The servants in this county will take people with viciousness! Yes, they also colluded with people from the farming club. Caomin's family was more than a dozen people, and they arrested seven or eight people. They suffered countless crimes. When Caomin paid the tax, they released the Caomin. Caomin had no choice but to sell the land. These were the land that Caomin's ancestors saved from food and drink. When they bought it, they had dozens of taels of silver, but now, the land price is not three taels of silver... and they have to be sold. Isn't this an encroachment on Caomin's ancestral property?"

Emperor Tianqi narrowed his eyes and said, "You want to sell this place yourself. Since you want to sell it at a low price, what does it have to do with others?"

Liu Wengui was anxious: "If he doesn't impose such heavy taxes, why would Caomin be in a hurry to sell land? Not so many people are in a hurry to sell land... Why is the ancestral property gone?"

Emperor Tianqi said, "Guan Shaoning, is everything he said right?"

Guan Shaoning was standing next to him and was silent. At this time, his mentor was by his side, so he felt quite confident, so he slowly stood up and said, "Your Majesty, this is the case."

Liu Wengui shouted again: "Your Majesty, this is not just the evil things that Shao Ning does... He... He colluded with bandits, which is proof of evidence. He even sent people to discuss with nearby bandits, and took in many bandits in this county."

So Emperor Tianqi looked at Guan Shaoning again.

Guan Shaoning still nodded: "There are indeed many refugees."

After all, Shao Ning admitted it, Liu Wengui became even more excited, so he said: "He levies everywhere for heavy taxes... Many good and law-abiding people can't survive. Do you dare to deny this? "

Guan Shaoning said: "For some people, they are indeed harsh in taxes."

Liu Wengui said at this time: "Your Majesty, I am a law-abiding person like me, but I can't survive. I wonder if this is the official of Shao Ning or the accomplice of the bandits?"

Zhu Sufen, who was standing beside him, also cried and said, "Your Majesty, what I said is true. Guan Shaoning came to Henan, which made people angry and resentful. As a royal family, I am really afraid that he will inspire people and ruin my Ming Dynasty. I beg Your Majesty to observe clearly."

As he said that, the two of them started to cry together.

When the officials saw Liu Wengui, many people couldn't help but feel sympathy.

So someone whispered: "Your Majesty... Guan Shaoning's actions are indeed a bit ridiculous. The court often relies on them for the local genius like Liu Wengui. The tax was urged by them. They helped to raise the rivers and bridges, and they could not do without them. Now Guan Shaoning is so violent here. Isn't this going to kill people? If Liu Wen and others are disloyal to Your Majesty and the court, I am afraid... the world will be in chaos."

"Yes, Your Majesty, I'm afraid of overcorrecting everything... I really force someone like Liu Wengui to the dead end. Who will the court rule the world?"

Emperor Aoki was unmoved.

This is interesting. On one hand, some people say that Emperor Aoqi is a holy king, but on the other hand, some people scold Emperor Aoqi to the point of being bloody.

Emperor Tianqi was not in a hurry to express any opinions, but said: "Liu Wengui."

Liu Wengui was busy and said, "The grass is here."

“How many people are there like you?”

"At least hundreds." Liu Wengui said: "However, people like Caomin are in trouble. Although the 85,000 people in Fengqiu County have been temporarily bewitched by Guan Shaoning, they can bewitched for a while now, but in the future..."

"Let's wait..." At this moment, Guan Shaoning suddenly said calmly.

As soon as Liu Wengui saw Guan Shao Ning interrupting him, he said, "Your Majesty, look, this person is so bold even in front of the imperial court. When His Majesty asked, the people in the grass would speak out, but he interrupted like this. This is not taking His Majesty seriously."

Emperor Tianqi looked at Guan Shaoning: "Why did Guan Qing's family interrupt him?"

Guan Shaoning said: "I just asked Liu Wengui for a mistake. Liu Wengui just said that the 85,000 people in Fengqiu County were wrong... he calculated this."

"Oh?" Emperor Tianqi then looked at the officials.

At this time, a Hanlin stood up and immediately said, "Your Majesty, you are indeed 85,000 people, with a total of 19,000 households."

The Hanlin people were all knowledgeable, and they could still remember some of the numbers of documents and archives of various departments every day.

Guan Shaoning smiled and said, "Indeed, in the yellow book of the Ministry of Revenue, there are indeed 19,000 households and 85,000 people. After taking office, I found that it is far more than this number. The actual number is more than 42,930 households and 231,200 people."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone was upset.

Fengqiu is located in the Central Plains, with a large population, with nearly 20,000 households, which is already a large county. Unexpectedly... Now, more than 20,000 households have been calculated... This...

Guan Shaoning said again: "Not only that, but over the past few days, I have recruited a large number of refugees and asked them to resettle in the county. This is more than 13,000 households. Therefore, now Fengqiu County has 55,000 households and 310,000 people."

Emperor Aoki could no longer sit still at this time.

Guan Shaoning continued: "Since Emperor Taizu Gao, the population of Fengqiu County has not increased in the past two hundred years, and even... has decreased. I have always felt it was strange. It has been peaceful for more than two hundred years, but the population has not increased but decreased? This Fengqiu is not a poor place with poor mountains and rivers, but when I arrived at the place, I established a farming club and asked the farming club to check the land and population, I realized that nearly half of the people in this county did not exist in the imperial court's yellow book!"

"These people have land and land, but do not pay taxes. In the past, Fengqiu's taxes were always borne by those who had no land and rented grain fields for people to grow grain. Do you dare to ask His Majesty, is this reasonable?"

Emperor Apocalypse nodded.

"Therefore, I followed my mentor's prescription and implemented the strategy of storing acres. Whoever has more land will pay more taxes, and whoever has land will pay taxes. Change the former population tax, in fact, land taxes have two benefits. One is that people can hide it, but the land cannot be hidden. Taxes are collected according to the land can be vigorously cracked down on tax evasion. For example, in the past, Fengqiu County collected 300,000 dan of grain every year, but this year, Fengqiu County collected 2.4 million dan. Not only that, the levy of grain did not increase the burden on the people. Not only did the people not have a burden, but many landless poor people have greatly reduced their taxes and were excited."

Two million and four million dans.

As soon as this statement comes out.

The people in the county government were in an uproar again.

The population has skyrocketed.

The collection of food has also increased sharply.

This is unimaginable in any prefecture.

Especially in Henan now, you should know that large-scale bandits have occurred in Henan, and the production situation in many prefectures and counties has been destroyed.

It can even be said that it would be good if the Henan Liqing Department of the Ministry of Revenue could receive 2.4 million dan of grain from the entire Henan this year.

His county...has actually done it.

Emperor Aoki was also shocked: "Can you collect so much?"

"In addition to these, there are also salt tax, iron tax, commercial tax... these are not decimals," said Guan Shaoning.

"This is killing the chicken to get eggs." Liu Wengui gritted his teeth and said, "Who dares to stay in Fengqiu County like this forbidden levy?"

Yes, after so much tax, who would still run to Fengqiu County?

Guan Shaoning smiled and looked at Zhu Sufen and Liu Wengui: "Of course there is, for example, the Prince of Yiyang, wouldn't he move a lot of money, grain, and wealth to Fengqiu County? Several warehouses in the east of the city were all filled with them."

What's the meaning?

The Prince of Yiyang actually secretly moved his property to Fengqiu County?
Chapter completed!