The repeated setbacks of the memorials made Cui Yu and Buhu Mu a little disappointed and helpless, but the teachings of Confucian sages were rooted in their hearts and it was still difficult to let go of this, especially Cui Yu felt even more depressed.

"Ping Zhang, Zhongcheng, haven't you hunted with the sweat?" Li Siyan was on the rotation today. He pushed the door and entered the court room. Seeing that the two of them were a little surprised, he hurriedly said.

"Li Zuocheng, the Khan is tired of my misunderstandings, so he won't disturb his interest!" Cui Yu smiled bitterly.

"The Chief Secretary Heping Zhang is all the ministers of our dynasty. He has always been dependent on the Khan. How could he be bored!" Li Siyan said with a haha.

"The Chief Secretary advised the Khan to implement reforms, reduce taxes and pay less taxes, and rest with the people. The Khan ignored him and therefore felt very depressed!" Buhumu smiled and joked.

"Since you have nothing to do, you can have some good tea, so let's taste it together!" Li Siyan asked the two of them to sit down, and ordered the servants to get the tea sets and set them up, so he let them go out to cook tea by themselves.

He skillfully mashed the tea balls, then crushed them into powder with tea, poured them into a pot, then added ginger, orange peel, mint, dates and salt and other seasonings to boil together. When the water boils and the aroma rises, then put them into a cup. His skillful technique, the whole process is like flowing water, and it looks like a kind of enjoyment.

"Zuo Cheng's tea is good, it looks like the Buddha tea from Jiuhua Mountain in the Southern Dynasties!" Bumu picked up the cup and placed it under his nose and sniffed it, then sniffed it lightly.

"Ping Zhang is also a master of this, he will be right at first guess!" Li Siyan praised.

"In recent years, Buddhist tea in the Southern Dynasty is popular, especially in Jiuhua Mountain. It is hard to get it. It is said that we need a hundred gold coins in our court!" Cui Yu also took a sip and tasted it in his mouth before swallowing it.

"It's just a businessman who is pursuing profit and making a nonsense!" Li Siyan chuckled, "At first, the Buddha tea in Jiuhua Mountain was picked by local tea farmers themselves, and then handed it to the temple monks for cooking as a rent. This made it more famous. The top-notch tea in the past was only a few pieces, and the people made it themselves. It is said that the young emperor of the Southern Dynasty traveled here and local officials contributed the tea. After tasting it, he felt it was very suitable for the taste. After buying a few stones to give it to his followers, he became famous. Since then, the price has soared, but it has nothing to do with the Buddha!"

"Haha, so that's it!" Buhu Mu shook his head and smiled.

"Actually, the young emperors of the Southern Dynasty never cooked tea, and always brewed directly with boiling water, saying that they like the aroma and bitter taste of tea, which is even more irrelevant to the popular method of making tea. They are just to do the best way to make tea, and they are just to do the best to attract attention!" Li Siyan shook his head and said.

"It is actually hard to get a reputation under a reputation. I don't taste tea, but a reputation!" Cui Yu sighed.

"This is true in the world, and the Chief Secretary should not be too obsessed with the matter of admonition. Think about the fact that all the famous scholars and scholars of all dynasties have already made light taxes and taxes to persuade the emperors, who can truly achieve this?" Li Siyan advised this.

"In history, in the Xia and Shang dynasties, corvee labor was relatively mild, and about every male strong man only needed to serve for one to three days a year. By the Zhou Dynasty, the method of hard work became denser, and there were already various types of service categories such as military service, submissive service, sergeant service, and rural service, and the service time of the people also increased. Confucians throughout the ages praised Zhou, so what is the solution to this?"

"Well, after the Zhou Dynasty, corvee and taxes have increased from generation to generation, which is indeed true!" Cui Yu nodded.

He also had to admit this fact. In the Zhou Dynasty, the "well-field system" was implemented. Eight families were one well, eight eighty and sixty-four wells were one dian, and more than 500 families were each dian. It was a corvee unit. The number of people serving was divided into upper, middle and lower levels according to the land quality. The court had a Situ, who was specifically responsible for determining the number of service based on the land quality of each household.

The government also has a clan teacher who is responsible for checking the number of people to determine the order of each person's service; a township doctor is responsible for identifying the age of the people to determine whether each person needs to serve. The establishment of these specialized official positions also shows that the corvee service in the Zhou Dynasty was more important than that in the previous generations, and it was only a lighter time after the system was formed compared to the period in which they were in their respective places.

"The Chu State's official Wu Ju advocated light taxes and levies. King Ling of Chu built Zhanghua platform with ten feet high and fifteen feet wide. He climbed up the stairs and had to rest three times in the middle to reach the peak, so it was also called the Sanxu platform. After the completion, King Ling of Chu and Wu Ju took the stage together and said, "Is the high platform beautiful?" He said, "The king and the country are in harmony with the people, and the people are really barren. How can you get fat?" He also said, "In ancient times, gathering goods would not harm the people's food and clothing, and gathering horses would not harm the people's wealth." This shows how severe the people were exploited during the Warring States Period, so Confucianism proposed to reduce their taxes." Li Siyan said again.

"After the reunification of the country, the First Emperor continued to fight outside, and built a large-scale construction internally to build the Afang Palace, and mobilized 700,000 people; built the Mausoleum of the First Emperor in Li Mountain, and mobilized 700,000 people; built the Great Wall in the north, mobilized 500,000 people; garrisoned Lingnan and mobilized 300,000 people; defending the Xiongnu in the north. These few recruits alone have used nearly three million laborers, which has exhausted the people's power and those who died of starvation are on the way!" Wu Mu said.

The other two nodded sadly after hearing this. Compared with the pre-Qin period, the Qin Dynasty's land rent, tuition, salt and iron profits were twenty times that of ancient times. There was a serious situation where "men did not have enough food and salary to farm, women did not have enough clothes to spin; they exhausted the world's wealth to serve their own government, but they were not enough to calm their desires." By the time of Qin II, "the tax was excessively collected" and "the people were poor and the lord did not collect favors", which seriously damaged social productivity.

"After the fall of the Qin Dynasty, at the beginning of the founding of the Western Han Dynasty, it ruled the world with purity and inaction, hoping to achieve the effect of inaction and everything. In terms of financial advocacy, it is still necessary to seek improperness and provide the people with the provisions. Since the establishment of Emperor Gaozu, until the reign of Emperor Jing, the strategy of inaction and ineffectiveness and light taxes and taxes in the Han Dynasty was only compared with the excessive taxes imposed by the Qin Dynasty. The tax and land rent of the Han Dynasty was 15 or 30 taxes, which was not high. However, the types of taxes, including the head fees, the additional taxes, the donation fees, household taxes, salt and iron, etc., were all paid." Cui Yu said.

His words made everyone nod, and it can be seen that although the Han Dynasty claimed to be light taxes and taxes, the actual land rent actually only accounts for a small part of the total tax. In other words, although the people can pay less land rent, their own burden is still quite heavy, which is just slightly better than the Qin Dynasty.

So Cui Yu also knew that the rulers of later dynasties also claimed to have "light taxes and taxes", but the policy of light taxes and taxes in previous dynasties was not implemented for a long time. At the beginning of the establishment of a new dynasty, the founding kings of the founding kings witnessed the uprising of the people and the demise of the previous dynasties with their own eyes, so they could pay attention to reducing the exploitation of the people and implement some policies of light taxes and taxes.

However, the implementation of policies will be greatly reduced in reality. Even the policy of light taxes and low taxes implemented in the early days of the establishment of the new dynasty, which required the heavy taxes of the previous dynasty, was abolished, but due to the chaos of the national tax and service system, financial difficulties, and the urgent two-way constraints of military supplies, the orders for abolishing additional taxes were vain, and private recruitment and secret sects were very serious.

However, as the political situation stabilizes, the economy is restored and developed, the government's fiscal revenue increases, and the greed of the ruling group also increases, and the phenomenon of levying and levying and levying and levying and levying and taxes reappears. Once there are natural disasters and wars, the troops will continue to go on. In addition, Hegong City Defense, civil engineering, and corvee labor cannot be reduced lightly, but the infringement of labor will become prominent. Even if the ruling group implements strict reforms, it is still impossible to achieve light taxes and taxes.

"Thank you for your understanding, I'm too persistent!" Cui Yu realized that light taxes and taxes were just a dream of Confucianism and could not be realized in reality.

"The Central Chief's advice is not wrong, it just needs to be slowly planned, and you cannot just take it in one piece!" Seeing that his expression was depressed, as if he was about to go from one extreme to another, Li Siyan waved his hand.

"Please give me some advice!" Cui Yu thought about it and said.

"Every year after year, the officials of the Great Khan traveled between the two capitals, all the officials of the Great Khan were accompanying him. In addition, the soldiers who protected the troops and the ministers and followers who visited him were no less than tens of thousands of people, which cost more than tens of thousands of gold. The food and grass transported alone were calculated at 100,000 stones. In the time of financial difficulties in the court, it was actually a huge burden on the people. We can advise the Great Khan to reduce the number of people who come and go to the public to save a lot of money. People along the way can also reduce labor service and reduce the expenses of local vocations." Li Siyan said.

"This is the intention of Zuo Cheng to slow down the plan. Since it cannot be fully reorganized and reduced taxes, it will be divided and treated, and advised it from one aspect, making it easier for the Khan to accept it, thus achieving the purpose of gradually reducing taxes and reducing the burden on the people." Cui Yu said suddenly.

"Li Zuocheng is worthy of being a young hero. If this strategy is implemented, it will not arouse opposition from the court officials, nor will it anger the Khan, and the people will benefit from it!" Buhu Mu took a sip of tea and nodded.

"Haha, Ping Zhang is too good, this is just a trick of being a scammer." Li Siyan waved his hand quickly.

Since there was a feasible way, the three of them started to discuss in the room. The atmosphere was warm and harmonious, as if the ideals that predecessors had not realized were already possible in their hands. "Report to the Zuo Cheng, Shandong urgently reported!" Suddenly, the servant on duty came from outside the door.

"Come on!" The discussion was interrupted, and Li Siyan responded with some dissatisfaction. The servant was allowed to come in and present the wooden box, and then withdrew.

"What happened in Shandong? I'm sending it in a hurry?" Buhumu saw that Li Siyan had checked the seal and compared it correctly, and then took out the document to read it, but his face became increasingly ugly. He also frowned and asked.

"The King of Jinan only reported that in order to recover the year-end gift, he and local prefectures and counties jointly sent troops to clear the situation. A group of bandits broke through and fled to the Southern Dynasty. The local recruits also invaded the Southern Dynasty without defensive direction during the pursuit. They accidentally injured the people of the Southern Dynasty during the fierce battle and were attacked by the Southern Dynasty border troops. They mistakenly entered the scene during the retreat..." Li Siyan sighed.
Chapter completed!