Jiangmen Tianjiao: Reborn with funny ancestors

After the three people discussed it, Chu Tianjiao sent a letter to Zheng Chuang Fei Ge, asking him to trap the Dongyi envoys in Linhai for seven days. The number of envoys who came ashore and entered Beijing should not exceed ten.

After Zheng Chuang received the letter from Fei Ge, he sighed: "I knew something would happen if my cousin showed up.

Hey, I thought that if I stopped working as a city guard in Beijing, I wouldn't have to wipe my cousin's butt!

It seems that I think too much. "

Zheng Chuang refused to allow Dongyi's ships to dock on the grounds that the two countries had just ended the war.

The envoys who had already landed were detained by him in Linhai to check their identities, saying that they were afraid of being mixed in with spies.

As for the letter of credence, Zheng Chuang said he would send it to Beijing immediately, but it was hard to say how many days it would take on the road.

Chu Tianjiao, Lu Yu, and Li Kuang left Yongping Pass with their people.

The group rode horses for two days and after leaving Quzhou, they reached a fork in the road.

"Your Majesty, won't you go back to Beijing to celebrate the New Year?"

"No, this is my first year in office. I am not allowed to return to Beijing without permission."

Chu Tianjiao took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Li Kuang.

"Third Senior Brother, please help me send a letter to my father."

After Li Kuang received the letter, he put it in his arms.

Chu Tianjiao was about to take Qingfeng away, but Li Kuang said that he would go to Ganzhou to pick up Qingfeng after going to Beijing.

Although Qingfeng said that he didn't need him to pick it up, Li Kuang insisted.

"Junior sister is very busy, how can I have time to accompany you?"

Qingfeng was too young and rode the same horse as Chu Tianjiao.He hid behind Chu Tianjiao and made faces at Li Kuang: "Third senior brother, didn't you just want to go to Ganzhou to see your junior sister? Why are you using me as a raft?"

Li Kuang had a look of relief on his face when his thoughts were revealed.

Lu Yu knew that the road ahead would be bumpy, but this time he was quite tough and did not get tired of Chu Tianjiao.

"My lord, I'm leaving."

Chu Tianjiao waved goodbye:

"Ayu, take care!"

Lu Yu took Phantom and Zichen and rode on the road to Shangjing first.

Phantom saw Lu Yu's eyes were red, and asked Lu Yu: "Your Majesty, why don't you say a few more words to Miss Chu?"

Lu Yu said nothing and just rode with his head down.

Zichen said sarcastically to the phantom: "You have been with the prince for so long and you still don't understand him? He was afraid that he would follow Miss Chu back to Ganzhou, so he ran away first."

Phantom thought to himself: "If it weren't for the fear of something happening to the prince, the prince would probably be able to do such a thing."

Looking at Lu Yu and others leaving, Chu Tianjiao said to Li Kuang: "Third senior brother, please lend a hand and help A Yu."

Li Kuang said solemnly: "I don't have many friends, but he counts as one now, so don't worry."

The three brothers and sisters waved goodbye, and Li Kuang urged his horse to chase Lu Yu.

Chu Tianjiao led his people straight to Ganzhou.

After driving for three days without rest, Chu Tianjiao finally returned to Longcheng.

Longcheng already has a festive atmosphere, and the shops on both sides of the street have hung red lanterns.

The streets and alleys are full of people coming to the city to buy new year's goods.

Chu Tianjiao returned to the Prefectural Mufu and went straight to the back house.

As soon as I entered the yard, I smelled the smell of mutton. I wrinkled my nose and asked my servants what was going on.

Feng Jia came out of the house, pointed to the kitchen and said: "Ganzhou Tianqian, the young lady dislikes our dry skin and is using sheep tails to boil grease to wipe our faces."

Chu Tianjiao shook his head in disgust: "I'm not afraid of the smell."

After Feng Jia arranged for his servants to boil water, he returned to the house with the teapot and poured tea for Chu Tianjiao.

"Miss, if you don't come back, I'll kill you."

During this period, the outside world had always thought that Chu Tianjiao was suffering from rubella. Feng Jia wore a curtain to pretend to be Chu Tianjiao, while Chu Qingyan handled government affairs behind the scenes.

"It's easy to fool others, but Magistrate Wang has almost broken the threshold of the Prefectural Shepherd's Mansion.

He has been here many times and has even begun to suspect that you have been murdered.

I guess he has already written a letter back to Beijing or gone to the northwest for help, asking the fourth master to lead troops to rescue you. "

Chu Tianjiao was changing clothes when Chu Qingyan walked slowly and leisurely into the house with short legs and square steps.

Feng Jia wanted to hug her and sit on a chair, but Chu Qingyan slapped her on the hand.

Chu Qingyan climbed onto the chair neatly, held her hands, looked at Chu Tianjiao and complained:

"Ganzhou is such a poor place!"

Feng Jia admired this young lady so much this morning.

A little kid over three years old is more experienced in managing politics than those experienced officials.

Even if Chu Qingyan behaves abnormally and behaves completely unlike a child, Feng Jia only thinks that this is how a child prodigy should behave.

Hearing that Chu Qingyan wanted to discuss business with Chu Tianjiao, Feng Jia avoided going out and closed the door.

"Great-aunt, thank you for your hard work during this time. When I first returned to the city, I saw that the streets were much more prosperous than when I walked.

The porridge shed at the city gate was also removed.

How did you do it in such a short time? "

Chu Qingyan crossed her legs on the chair. She didn't like looking up at others, so she pointed to the seat next to her and told Chu Tianjiao to sit down.

"Where are you? Didn't the four major families in Longcheng send a lot of food before you left?

You also asked the victims to build roads and provide relief through work. I am just urging the officials to implement your decree.

But I changed it a little. People who have surplus food at home can also go to work. If they don't need food, they can exchange it for wages.

After all, the New Year is coming soon.

When people have some money in their hands, they will always buy new year's goods.

Ganzhou is really too poor. I have an idea. We should open a bank in Ganzhou and lend some money at low interest rates to these people, so that they can have enough money to buy grain and agricultural tools for spring plowing. "

Chu Tianjiao sat across from Chu Qingyan, drank a few sips of tea and asked, "Open a bank? We don't have that much capital, right?"

Chu Qingyan called out to Feng Jia, who had been waiting at the door. After pushing the door open and coming in, Chu Qingyan ordered her to get the account books from the study.

Holding the account book, Chu Qingyan pointed to the accounts and showed them to Chu Tianjiao:

"This is the ledger of our property in Beijing that Qingluan had sent two days ago.

This year, our property in the capital still has a balance of 27 taels of silver.

I plan to invest this money in the mulberry farming in Ganzhou through a bank.

During your absence, I asked Feng Jia to take me to survey the nearby wasteland.

There are 300 acres of wasteland in the river valley alone. If these lands are cultivated, they will be able to produce two to three million kilograms of grain in the coming year.

It’s enough for Ganzhou to be self-sufficient…”

Chu Tianjiao was not familiar with government affairs, and after listening to Chu Qingyan slowly analyze it for her, she realized that the reason Ganzhou was poor was not because there was no land for farming, but because of the excessive land tax.

The land tax has increased from one in fifteen to one in Taizong's reign, and now it has been raised to one in five.

The tax burden has exceeded that of the previous dynasty.

A large number of ordinary people gave up their private fields and were willing to work as tenants for wealthy families.

And these wealthy families enjoy certain tax exemption policies because of their titles or official positions.

For a wealthy family like the Wang family, all the land is in the name of clan members with fame and official positions. There is no land tax at all, and they only need to pay the population tax.

As a result, the poor continue to give up their private lands, wealthy families continue to annex private lands, and the government's tax revenue does not increase, but decreases.

"No wonder the state treasury has no money and the Ministry of Household Affairs cannot even pay military salaries."

Chu Tianjiao sighed.

“If the tax policy is not changed, people will still be unwilling to cultivate private fields.

The tax policy is set by the imperial court. Even though I temporarily serve as the prefect of Ganzhou, I have no power to change the tax policy? "

Chu Qingyan clenched her little fists, squeezed her little fat feet and said, "This is why I want to open up wasteland. Wasteland is not included in the court's land count, and the state government has the right to designate a tax incentive system for land reclamation.

You can announce that land reclamation across the state will be tax-free for the first year, and from the second to the fifth year, there will be a tax of one per fifteen.

After reading this announcement, the common people should rush around to tell each other and go to open up wasteland together?

We just need to prepare grain seeds and farm tools for spring plowing and wait for them to borrow money. "

Chu Tianjiao marveled: "Auntie, with your talents, you are really undermining your ability to govern a state.

Just do as you say! "