Daqin: Check in at the beginning of 18 and ask Zulong to abdicate

"Your Majesty, everything is going well, as long as nothing happens."

Tobe Shiro continued: "Once there is heavy rain blocking the road or snow blocking the mountain, and the road is snow-covered and frozen, it will be even more difficult to transport and raise supplies! It will cost more money!"

"No matter how difficult it is, the fortification and garrison in Saibei must be carried out immediately!"

Ying Zigao said without hesitation!

"Your Majesty, if it must be carried out, the financial pressure will be too great!"

The Minister of the Household Department hurriedly said: "It is really difficult to support the current income of the Household Department!"

As soon as Ying Zigao heard this, he understood that the two officials of the household department had to find a way to restore their tax rates and reinstatement.

Then he asked seriously: "Then tell me, how can you support the supply of the northern garrison?"

"Your Majesty, the only way is to increase revenue and reduce expenditure!"

The Minister of the Household Department said seriously: "Your Majesty, you have reduced the tax rate to fifty tax one, which has reduced the imperial court's income a lot!
The collection and distribution of forced labor was also stopped, and the construction was carried out in the form of employment, and wages were paid to the craftsmen and civilians. This was another considerable expense. "

Speaking of this, the Minister of the Household Department took a look at Ying Zigao's face and saw that Ying Zigao was not angry, so he boldly said: "I suggest that the tax rate can be raised slightly and gradually.

Is there a workaround for confiscating forced labor..."

"Impossible!" Ying Zigao waved his big hand and interrupted Hubu Shangshu's words unceremoniously.

He said loudly: "The tax rate has been reduced to 50% and the collection of corvee will be permanently stopped. I wrote it clearly in the edict and announced it to all the subjects of Daqin! What I said is golden words, and there must be no changes!"

Hearing this, all the ministers present couldn't help but feel their hearts tighten, and the household officials were even more shocked, and lowered their heads involuntarily.

"Your Majesty, I have made a slip of the tongue, please punish me!"

Hubu Shangshu hurriedly knelt down on the ground and said carefully!
"The speaker is not guilty, you can live in peace!" Ying Zigao waved his hand.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." The Minister of the Household Department stood up now, and said cautiously: "It's just that, Your Majesty, the financial pressure to supply the Garrison in the northern part of the Great Wall is really too great..."

Ying Zigao hurriedly said: "You don't have to worry about supplying the northern garrison. I already have a solution!"

"Your Majesty, what is the solution?" Hubu Shangshu hurriedly asked.

Yuhuatian, Liu Bowen and several other ministers couldn't help being interested, and looked at Ying Zigao seriously!
"I plan to garrison troops in Saibei, reclaim the land there, grow food, farm in leisure time, and serve as soldiers in wartime!"

Ying Zigao said seriously: "That is to say, let them colonize the border!"

Hearing this, Liu Bowen's eyes lit up.

This method can be said to be very familiar to him.

Originally planned to make this suggestion later, Ying Zigao unexpectedly thought of it first.

Liu Bowen couldn't help admiring Ying Zigao, the wise emperor even more!
"Your Majesty, this is really a good solution!" Yu Huatian became even more excited, and hurriedly said: "Let the soldiers guarding the border open up wasteland and cultivate land, so that they can farm and feed themselves, and the problem of supplies can be solved locally! No need to travel thousands of miles from the Central Plains. Sending it all the way to the border will relieve the pressure on the court!"

"Yes, Your Majesty, this is really a good solution to the garrison's supply problem!"

Liu Bowen also said hastily: "Not only can it relieve a lot of financial pressure on the court, but it can also avoid various problems caused by the untimely delivery of food, grass and luggage! It can also stabilize the morale of the army!"

The ministers were even more amazed by this wonderful method, and they praised it excitedly.

"Your Majesty, although this method is good, the land of Saibei is a place of bitter cold!"

Hubu Shangshu still said worriedly: "That place is dry and rainless, and lacks irrigation, whether it is millet, wheat or soybeans. They are not suitable for planting. Even if they are barely planted, the harvest is pitifully low!
Even if the border guards reclaimed the wasteland and planted food, the harvest would not be of much use! "

Hearing this, Ying Zigao couldn't help frowning.

Yu Huatian even turned around and scolded unceremoniously: "Even if the harvest is not good, there will always be a harvest, right!

If you have a harvest, you can fill your stomach, solve problems, and reduce the financial pressure on the court!Tun Tian's method is good! "

"What the Prime Minister said is very true."

Liu Bowen then said: "Although the land in the north of the Great Wall is a bitterly cold land, it is not completely unsuitable for farming.

In Hetao, the area north of Yinshan Mountain, and the area north of Yanshan Mountain, there are many good lands in Pingchuan!

The Yellow River passes through there again, and the irrigation conditions are also good. As long as the wasteland is well cultivated, the grain output may not be much worse than that in the Central Plains! "

Hearing this, Ying Zigao couldn't help but nodded in satisfaction.

Liu Bowen deserves to be a famous resourceful minister in later generations!
Not only is his brain flexible, but he is also so familiar with geography.

He is even more loyal to himself and supports himself with all his strength!It will be reused more in the future.

What Liu Bowen and Yuhuatian said made the Hubu Shangshu no longer have any objections.

He had no choice but to say: "It's my humble minister who is ignorant! Please forgive me, Your Majesty!"

"I said the speaker is not guilty!" Ying Zigao smiled forgivingly and said, "Since you also know that you are not knowledgeable, you should calm down, like the prime minister, Mr. Liu, study hard and ask for advice!"

"I understand!" Hubu Shangshu couldn't help being shocked when he heard this.

The emperor is teaching him in public, he is not capable enough.Little knowledge!
Although the words were not serious, it also made him, the Minister of the Ministry of Households, lose face!

It seems that this really can't happen again in the future, secretly trying to stop the emperor's policy!
"Your Majesty, the decision to colonize and defend the border is very wise!"

The servant of the Ministry of Finance still boldly said: "It's just that the autumn harvest is over now, and it's too late to reclaim the wasteland beside the trees. I think that it won't be too late to implement the policy of reclaiming and guarding the border next spring!"

"Is it going to be implemented next spring?" Ying Zi Gao repeatedly shook his head and said, "That's impossible! Then we have to wait until next year's autumn harvest to harvest the grain! It will take a whole year to see the benefits, which is too slow!"

"Your Majesty, planting in spring and harvesting in autumn have been the common sense of farmers since ancient times!"

Hearing this, the ministers couldn't help being surprised.

Spring planting and autumn harvest are the rules that have existed since the day of self-owned farming!

"How can there be so many common sense?"