Wei and Jin Cooks

  Chapter 672 This method does not work

  The emperor received Zhao Hanzhang's booklet, and his blood boiled with excitement. He felt her loyalty and respect, so he passed the booklet down for all generals and ministers to read together.

   Then let the generals strengthen their training, "When the time is right, we can take back the Northland together with General Zhao."

   Zhou Chang, who sat at the end, waited for a long time. Seeing that the emperor only talked about recruiting soldiers and training soldiers, he couldn't help but said: "Your Majesty, the governor of Zhao also mentioned the method of lightening corvees and sacrificing taxes, and persuading farmers and mulberry farmers."

He said: "It is said in the letter that those who know the sky have a premonition that there will be drought and locust plagues in the next two years, so we should build water conservancy during the slack time of farming. Inspired by..."

Seeing that the emperor listened seriously, he continued: "I also understand a little about the sky, and the weather in Luoyang has been erratic in the past few years. I'm afraid it's just like what Governor Zhao said, and a catastrophe is brewing. Reduce taxes, levy labor to repair water conservancy."

  The ministers looked at each other, and everyone agreed, but the problem is...

   "Your Majesty, if the tax is reduced or exempted, the treasury may not be able to maintain its operation, so it is better to send labor first."

  The emperor pursed his lips. Now he can control only Yanzhou and Qingzhou areas. On the other side of Yuzhou, he is giving taxation tasks. Can Zhao Hanzhang really bring him money and food?

   At most, it is support, which is a drop in the bucket.

  But the taxes in Yanzhou and Qingzhou have been increased layer by layer by brothers Gou Xi and Gou Chun.

  The emperor himself couldn't bear it.

   Everyone is waiting for the emperor's decision.

  The emperor finally looked at Zhao Zhongyu, "What does Zhao Qing think?"

  Zhao Zhongyu: …

  He lowered his eyes and thought about it. Anyway, he has offended the Gou Xi brothers a lot, and this time is not missing, so he stepped forward and said: "Please lower or exempt taxes, Your Majesty, and collect labor."

With the support of the ministers, the emperor finally made up his mind, gritted his teeth and said: "The small tax that needs to be paid this autumn will be exempted from 20% for the small, and half for the half-sized. The tax that each household needs to pay will be reduced by 20%. Water conservancy."

  The ministers responded in unison when they heard the words.

  When the tax was reduced, the revenue of the treasury was reduced. After thinking about it, the emperor still issued an imperial decree for tax reduction and exemption, and at the same time urged all regions to pay a certain amount of tax to the imperial court.

  He said that you were required to pay so much, but now because of the tax reduction and exemption, I halved the charge.

  However, that's what the emperor said, and he also knew that it was impossible to hand over the land in full.

  Zhao Hanzhang had expected that after receiving the imperial decree, he would send the prepared food and money to Yuncheng, and at the same time, he also sent a note.

   The food she sent was not much, the most important thing was that she gave two carts of money, ahem, new money!

   I don’t know if the emperor will be happy to receive her money, I hope he will be happier.

  The emperor hasn't received Zhao Hanzhang's things yet, so he doesn't know whether he is happy or not at this time, he just has a headache.

  Because he foresees that there will not be a lot of taxes collected from other places, he still has to increase income and reduce expenditure.

  The emperor thought about it for a long time, but besides selling officials, he really couldn't think of any way to increase income, so he could only cut down on expenditure.

  So the throttling emperor first reduced the cost of the General's Mansion, and he bought, oh no, several of Gou Xi's subordinates.

  So not only was he able to quietly replace the people who controlled the treasury with his own people, he also placed his own people among the people who received taxes from various places.

  Gou Xi's manpower will not be able to retain enough money and food.

  Gou Xi's General's Mansion now supports more than a thousand servants and maidservants alone, and the number of concubines has rapidly increased to more than 20, and the number of maidservants he favors is about to break through double digits.

   As soon as the money and food are reduced, his quality of life will be affected immediately.

  Joke, his beauty fell in love with a golden hairpin. He used to wave his hand and say he bought it, but now he waved his hand and said he bought it, but the housekeeper actually told him that the mansion didn't have much cash, so he had to be more frugal.

  Gou Xi is now under one person and above ten thousand, but he can't even afford to buy a golden hairpin for his concubine?

  Gou Xi was furious.

  The housekeeper could only knelt down to plead guilty, but this was not a matter of buying a gold hairpin, but buying a gold hairpin, followed by pearl hairpins, treasure hairpins, and silver hairpins...

   This is how the backyard fights for favor.

   And Gou Xi still wants to drink, the price of a jar of good wine is not lower than the value of a golden hairpin, the housekeeper dares to wrong the concubine, but he dare not wrong Gou Xi.

  Gou Xi only found out after asking that the emperor controlled the national treasury.

  The nerves that had been corroded by alcohol for several days barely sobered up, Gou Xi felt a little sense of crisis, and immediately asked, "Where is Gou Chun now?"

  The housekeeper hurriedly said: "Mr. Erlang is in Qingzhou."

   "What about Fu Wenwen and Wenji?"

  The steward looked blank, "General, the two generals are naturally leading the troops in their respective armies."

Gou Xi became more moody after drinking, and was furious when he heard the words, "How could I not know that they are in the army? I'm asking what they did in the army, and who have they met recently? What about Ming Yu? Let Ming Yu Come see me!"

   After yelling at Gou Xi, he realized that Ming Yu ran away!

  The housekeeper knelt on the ground, lowered his head firmly, not daring to speak again.

  Gou Xi's eyes widened, panting heavily, and after a while he kicked the table away angrily, and said with a gloomy face, "Where is Liu Hui? Call him to see me."

  Liu Hui is a general under Gou Xi's sect and one of his confidantes.

  The steward bowed his head in response, bowed and retreated, and hurried to call Liu Hui.

   So it didn't take long for Zhao Hanzhang to copy the booklet to the emperor and send it to Gou Xi.

  Gou Xi stared closely at the contents of the brochure, his mood fluctuating. Judging from his knowledge, he knew that what Zhao Hanzhang said was right, and it was also the most beneficial path for Da Jin.

  But... Gou Xi had a headache, he put down the manuscript, waved his hand and said, "Go heat up a pot of wine."

"Yes."

  Gou Xi re-reads the manuscript while drinking, but to complete this move, it is bound to take many years of operation, and it is necessary to endure hardships and stand hard work. All supplies must be directed to the army.

Gou Xi frowned, "If you want to overcome the Huns' cavalry, you need ten times the infantry, and we can't do without cavalry. A qualified cavalry requires at least two horses per person. This is light cavalry, and heavy cavalry gets three horses." Horse, how much food does this need to feed?"

  A year ago, Gou Xi might have had this ambition, but now, he doesn't.

  Liu Hui also raised his eyes slightly to look at the jug in Gou Xi's hand, and sighed in his heart. If it was a year ago, the general would have been amazed when he saw this note, and maybe he would cooperate with Zhao Hanzhang.

   But now, he just frowned and worried about money and food.

   Liu Hui bent down slightly, and asked respectfully: "So the general thinks?"

  Gou Xi said: "This method will not work."

Good night

  (end of this chapter)