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It is naturally not an ordinary strategy to make King Su and his wife's eyes shine.

Cui Jinghu was idle in the village, and actually sorted out the laws that have been recorded in history since the Three Emperors and Five Emperors. What he attached to the letter is just a catalog, but it is already like a booklet. One can imagine how the final draft will be. A majestic masterpiece.

But Cui Jinghu's cleverness lies in the fact that he simply listed them without any comment at all, completely preventing others from catching his mistakes.

"Princess," Xuanyuan Hui said with a smile, "Since he has already made it up for you, have you wasted the past few days in vain?"

Zhao Xu raised her eyebrows, "Why do I think you're gloating?"

Xuanyuan Hui hurriedly said: "Where, I feel sorry for your troubles."

Zhao Xu stretched out his hand and tapped his forehead, "Stubborn. However, I'm afraid that His Royal Highness Su Wang will be disappointed. Although he and I thought of going together, what he made up is not the same thing. The laws he made up are only criminal laws, household laws, The law of etiquette and the law of work, perhaps to avoid suspicion, he jumped over both the law of officials and the law of soldiers."

"Oh? Then the concubine made up the law of officials?" Xuanyuan Hui felt that something was wrong, and shook his head, "You are much more cautious than him when it comes to avoiding suspicion. Besides, if it is so easy to guess, you won't be so complacent." .Don’t tell me, let me guess.”

Zhao Xu smiled without saying a word, watching him pacing on the spot.

"It must have nothing to do with the palace, and it can't be related to the clan. You have learned a lot, but you don't care much..." He paused, and looked back at Zhao Xu, "Could it be Tian Lu?"

Zhao Xu was a little surprised. Seeing Xuanyuan Hui's sly smile, she was quite relieved, "I have nothing to hide in front of you."

After pondering for a moment, Zhao Xu said slowly: "Throughout the ages, the rise and fall of dynasties seems to be determined by those emperors, generals, and reckless heroes, but in fact it is not..."

"Acres of fields." Xuanyuan Hui said coldly, "The rich have thousands of acres of fertile land, and the poor have no land to stand on."

Until Renzong's later years, the gentry enjoyed the privilege of occupying land, which led to the fact that the gentry monopolized six of the fields in the world.As wise and powerful as the ancestors of the world, he was also restrained when he first ascended the throne, and he was not suppressed until after the rebellion between the two kings.Renzong promoted the integration of scholars and commoners. Since Wuzong Xuanyuan Maoxin married Zhao's daughter, there have been many marriages in the past dynasties, which further eased the gap between the royal family and the noble family, so that although there has been a gap for 200 years, there has been no major friction.

However, the abolition of occupying land also opened the way for the rest of the wealthy households. In the end, regardless of the high and poor families, as long as the households had surplus money, they began to buy land crazily, and even some stupid and tyrants took the lead in collecting taxes. When the tax cannot be paid, the land can be repurchased at a low price.

When Emperor Dezong favored the Deng family, he once did an extremely absurd and unconscionable thing——When Deng Yan was serving as Jiedu envoy in Longyou Dao, he privately led his own soldiers, dug a dam, and flooded the fertile land .Living people are displaced, and selling children and daughters happens from time to time, not to mention the fields that cannot be taken away and cannot be cultivated temporarily?

At this time, Deng Yan made another move, annexing [-]% to [-]% of the land in the two counties at a cost of less than [-]% of the money.These two counties are located in Jincheng, and Jincheng County happens to be the fiefdom of King Jincheng. How can King Jincheng, who already hates Deng's usurpation, bear it?

New hatred and old hatred led Jin Chengwang to act hastily and ended up dying.

Looking at his gloomy expression, Zhao Xu also guessed what he was thinking, and said slowly: "From this point of view, Deng's crime cannot be redeemed after a hundred deaths. I am like Cui Jinghu, and I don't want to give advice to the prince. I can't bear the crime of being poisoned for a hundred years in the future. What I transcribed for the prince is nothing more than the field laws of the past dynasties, and the records of the fields that can be traced in history. If you think about it, the prince already has a lot of fields and taxes."

Xuanyuan Hui looked at him with a complicated expression, "Nineteenth Lang, you..."

Zhao Xu casually picked the aloes from the incense burner, "That's right, my gentry doesn't plan to work hard on the fields, so the prince can rest assured."

Although his words were cold, Xuanyuan Hui's heart was in a turmoil. In fact, what he was most afraid of was that Zhao Xu used merit to force him to resume occupying the land, and then bargained again, and finally let the gentry take the opportunity to annex them.

"It's just," Zhao Xu changed the subject, "We don't take advantage of this, and others have to ask for some face."

Xuanyuan Hui knew who this other person was, and he also smiled, "Don't worry, no one else can compare to you with me."

Zhao Xu sighed quietly, "To be honest, the annexation of this land is inevitable. It is absolutely impossible to stop it from the root. The only thing we can do is to let the people grow without land. There is a way out."

"Do you have any general idea?" Xuanyuan frowned, "I'll ask Cui Jinghu to send all the books later, I'm afraid I have to check the household law. How to divide the land is of course important, how to collect this tax is also a matter of knowledge, how much Corrupt officials take advantage of this loophole. I used to think that if I got that position, the first thing I would do would be to abolish the poll tax."

Zhao Xu laughed loudly, "My lord is really diligent. When the world is settled, the first thing to do is to count the treasury, clear the land and register the population."

"In my opinion, we need to promote talents first, build up the areas that have been laid down first, let them try it first, whether it is good or bad, at least there is a charter, and when the time comes, Jiuzhou and Wanfang will push it together, so they won't get confused. "

"I'll arrange for Zhao Huo and the others to do it later."

Xuanyuan Hui sighed, "No wonder people say that it is easy to dominate the world, but difficult to dominate the world. I understand now that I have not yet governed the country, and I feel that it is very troublesome."

"The imperial examination is still required. The foundation of governing the country is nothing more than people and money. After realizing this, it really doesn't make much difference whether it is a state or a country."

Xuanyuan Hui smiled, "The day after tomorrow, I will prepare to attack the city with them, and the rear will be left to you."

Bai Su reported outside the door: "Your Highness, there is a secret letter from Mr. Zhiji."

Zhao Xu took it over, looked at it at a glance, and handed it to Xuanyuan Hui, "The one who attacked King Langya was Deng Fanyun's secret work. The purpose was to provoke the relationship between you and me, and it was also to avenge Deng Fuyu. Of course, they were To make the Xuanyuan clan extinct is killing three birds with one stone."

Xuanyuan Hui didn't even read the letter, so he threw it aside, and said with a cold face: "It's true that the Xuanyuan family is extinct, and the clan is very withered now, but he doesn't even look at their Deng family, is it still far away from extinct?" ? I really want to see which family burns out in the end! Overwhelming... I don’t want to look at myself!"

"Princess Rouyi is on his side, and can kill him at any time."

Xuanyuan Hui shook his head, "No, letting him die now is too cheap for him, let's take our time."

The author has something to say: Remarks: Deng Yan’s excavation and flooding of fields here refer to the Ming Dynasty, but the Ming Dynasty did this to promote the transformation of rice into mulberry as soon as possible (in order to sell silk to the central bank, they asked to plant more mulberry seedlings, but the people were unwilling to plant them. Just flooded the rice fields and forced them to change or sell the land cheaply for merchants to buy it to grow mulberry and produce silk)