Gou Becomes a Boss in the Fairy World

A table, two cups of spiritual tea, Wang Chen and Yu Feihong sat and talked.

It's a long story to say.

What happened in this wild temple today is directly related to Dagan's current national situation and destiny.

During the sixty years of the late emperor's reign, he always pursued the policy of advocating literature and restraining martial arts, and treated scholars very preferentially.

In order to take care of scholars, all scholars who have achieved fame can enjoy preferential land tax and commercial tax.

Scholars, Juren, Gongshi, and Jinshi, the higher the fame, the greater the discount!

This is good governance in the first place, because many scholars come from poor families, study hard and have no food to eat, and have no other skills to make a living. How can they compete with those rich and noble children?

Many talented people were buried because of this!

Such preferential treatment will undoubtedly help these capable scholars.

However, over the past few decades, the gentry class has expanded rapidly.

In order to pay less tax, a large number of merchants and farmers put their shops and farmland under the names of scholars.

And there are a large number of hidden households, hidden fields and hidden properties!

Daqian's annual income was thus greatly reduced.

During the reign of the supreme emperor, Dagan's annual income was more than 55 million taels of silver.

When the first emperor died.

This number dropped sharply to around 30 million taels.

Lost nearly half!

And Dagan has been facing the threat of the Northwest Daxia, and last year's border salary expenditure was as high as 8 million taels.

The national treasury is in deficit every year, and it is all supported by the accumulation of hundreds of years.

After Jinshang ascended the throne, he worked hard and decided to attack the gentry class.

The Inventory Division was established for this purpose.

The task of the Inventory Department is to check those hidden households, hidden fields and hidden properties, and increase the income from land tax and commercial tax.

To make up for the shortfall in the treasury!

After the establishment of the Inventory Division, the first inspection target was placed in Jinzhou.

Jinzhou is prosperous in commerce and trade, and the place is rich.

If the situation can be opened up here, then half of Qianhuang's goal can be achieved!

However, what people didn't expect was that the Inspectorate Department sent three teams to Jinzhou one after another. As a result, the two teams were intercepted and killed on the way, and the casualties were extremely heavy.

The other group was besieged by local gentry when it arrived in Jinzhou, and tragic conflicts broke out.

The government and the public were shocked for a while!

Emperor Qian was furious and ordered the Department of Imperial Guards to investigate the case thoroughly.

Yu Feihong went south according to the order, and soon found out part of the truth.

The Zhang family of Jinzhou, who was deeply involved in the bloody case of the investigation department, was the first to be ransacked and exterminated by the department of imperial guards.

"The gold and silver, land property, and shops we copied from the Zhang family are equivalent to 3.74 million taels of silver!"

Yu Feihong said: "And Dagan's annual income last year was only more than 29 million taels."

Wang Chen was speechless.

The wealth of one state and one family actually exceeds one-tenth of the country's total fiscal revenue!

No wonder the current Qianhuang wanted to wield a butcher's knife.

If you don't kill a few pigs, you won't be able to pass this year!

However, the Zhang family of Jinzhou is not a simple character. Over the past few hundred years, there have been more than a dozen Jinshi and hundreds of Juren. They are deeply rooted and well-connected. How could they be obedient and kill them!

On the way to escort the Zhang family members to Beijing, the Department of Imperial Guards was besieged by unknown forces.

After a fierce battle, the Department of Imperial Guard suffered hundreds of casualties.

Although dozens of members of the Zhang family died, all the others were taken away.

This was undoubtedly a slap in the face of the Imperial Guard Division and Yu Feihong.

As the governor of the Imperial Guard Department, how could Yu Feihong let it go, while issuing sea arrest documents and reward orders to capture the remnants of the Zhang family, while personally leading a team to hunt down and kill the green forest hero who robbed the prisoner.

Xiao Wentian, the Linjiang hero who was shot and killed by the Divine Machine Crossbow earlier, was one of the targets!

As for the master and servant who were taken away just now, Yu Chizhong is a retainer of the Zhang family, and the young man in brocade clothes is the grandson of the eldest son.

They apparently fled here to join Xiao Wentian, but they did not expect the Imperial Guard to follow them.

Catch them all!

"Golden State is now in chaos."

Yu Feihong sipped his spiritual tea, and a cold sarcasm curled up on the corner of his lips: "A group of scholars were so passionate that they wrote a blood letter asking the emperor to cut off my head."

"hehe."

"Now the emperor is under a lot of pressure."

The Zhang family is actually nothing, they can't survive the local tyrants.

However, the Zhang family has a very close relationship with the White Deer Academy and is one of the important members of the "Deer Party".

The Lu Party has great power in the ruling and opposition parties. At least one-third of the officials in the current dynasty came from the White Deer Academy. The current Emperor Qian bypassed the cabinet to form an investigation department, which undoubtedly greatly touched the interests of the Lu Party.

The infighting and the shadows of swords and swords behind this cannot be explained clearly in a few words!

"Master Wang Xian..."

Yu Feihong said to Wang Chen very sincerely: "As far as I know, Bailu Academy has always been hostile to Yunyang Xianmen, and believes that the guarding of the Tianshi Mansion should be abolished."

"Ruan Zhaoming, governor of Nanshao County, is a member of the Deer Party, and the position of guarding Tianshi in Nanshao has been vacant for three years. I am afraid that the people in Tianshi's mansion have developed a different heart. You have to guard against it!"

Wang Chen nodded: "I see."

Yu Feihong's words are believable.

But I can't believe it all.

As for what is wrong with the people in Tianshi Mansion.

He doesn't care at all.

Wang Chen's running away this time is mainly to avoid the turmoil of the Yunyang faction.

He just wanted to live in peace and stability for a while.

Whoever makes him unhappy, then Wang Chen will make the other party regret it!

Seeing Wang Chen was indifferent.

Yu Feihong secretly sighed.

The immortal master from the immortal sect is high above the ground, he doesn't eat the fireworks of the world, and he doesn't understand the dangers of the human heart.

Immortal masters are powerful, but they are not invincible.

As far as he knew, there had been innate warriors who had successfully attacked and killed immortal masters before!

And the mortal world is a place of absolute detestation for immortal cultivators, and ordinary monks are not willing to stay there at all.

If Wang Chen died in Nanshao, although the Yunyang faction would be furious, it is unlikely to make a big move.

But the Department of the Imperial Guard must be unlucky!

After thinking for a while, Yu Feihong pointed to the woman who was waiting beside him and said, "Master Wang, you may go to Nanshao alone, and your life may be inconvenient, so let Xiaowan serve by your side."

"Xiao Wan is a member of our Imperial Guard Department, and she promises to be loyal and reliable."

"And she has the peak acquired martial arts, so she won't be a burden to you."

"In addition, Xiao Wan understands Nan Shao's situation, so you can rest assured to leave any trivial matters to her in the future!"

Yu Feihong's eloquent tongue really moved Wang Chen's heart.

At first he refused.

If a person walks alone and carefree, with many people around him, there will always be troubles.

But what Yu Feihong said made sense.

Wang Chen came to Nanshao with a mission to be the guardian of the heavenly master, and it is impossible to ignore the affairs of his duties after he takes office.

It would be much easier to have an assistant.

He can order the other party to handle some things.

I don't know how much time I can save when I need to do it myself to solve the problem!

Although Yu Feihong's suggestion is suspected of being sugar-coated.

But Wang Chen accepted it with a smile: "Good!"

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The first update is here, I have something to do at home today, please forgive me for the late update, there will be more later.