Destiny Only Han

Chapter 881 Liu Ying: Fangmin's mouth is better than Fangchuan?
Ding Hai in April of the fifth year of the Great Sage, early in the morning.

The light rain that had been pattering all night finally stopped, the sky was as blue as washing, and the red sun hung high.

Liu Ying's cold is almost gone, except for the occasional runny nose...

At this moment, he was leaning against the window, dealing with the government affairs that had fallen over the past few days.

To be precise, these are not government affairs, but letters of sympathy written by some ministers who got the news...

Especially those of his former disciples and ministers, they burst into tears, affectionate and tender...

After all, anyone who knows understands.

Liu Ying took a pen to reply one by one, but compared to the other party's long-winded speeches, his replies seemed very sloppy, usually "I'm fine" or "I understand". After all, besides being stingy and holding grudges, he is also lazy...

After replying to those handwritten letters, Liu Ying began to reply to the telegrams.

Well, these are also articles written to care for him...

But gradually, he stopped writing and picked up one of the eloquent telegrams, which obviously would exhaust several telegraph operators.

It was a telegram sent by Si Zhidu, the envoy of Southwest Yi.

This telegram is different from the telegrams sent by other courtiers to ask for warmth. This is a telegram of advice.

The content is the taste of the Legalist cruel officials as always.

Basically, he was persuading Liu Ying to execute those officials and common people who sang meritorious deeds, saying that he was a god in the world, and could attract the rain to relieve drought with a single word. At the same time, he also punished Confucian scholars and common people who criticized the government.

This is Legalism, which does not allow criticism, nor does it allow praise, what is needed is a cow and horse that just bows its head and keeps silent.

Liu Ying put the telegram aside.

In a trance, he had an illusion of traveling through time and space, as if this scene had happened before.

So he thought about it carefully, and there really was!
When Liu Ying was parading in Xihai County last year, Zhidu also wrote a similar article, which means that the people have no right to criticize or praise the monarch, and are only allowed to obey orders.

At that time, Liu Ying was also leaning against the window, and also put aside the letter written by Zhidu and refused to reply...

Tonight and Hexi...Liu Ying moved her shoulders and got up to change her pajamas.

Wait, he has other things to do.

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Taishan special marshalling stop.

A steam locomotive painted black and painted with flaming red phoenixes slammed into the platform, and the two teams of soldiers who had been waiting for a long time rushed past.

One of them made its way to the rear of the train, where the twelve cars carried freight.

It is mainly used for disaster relief and condolences.

After all, there are still a lot of poor people in this world. Many people's houses are still thatched houses with adobe walls. They were collapsed and damaged a lot under the sudden rainstorm before. Since Liu Ying stayed here, she naturally had to take corresponding measures.

For example, they brought cement from other places and helped them upgrade their adobe houses to brick-concrete houses for free.

Just like in order to maintain the vegetation on the Loess Plateau, corresponding preferential policies are given to the people who settled there, allowing them to buy cement and bricks at a price far below the market price, and use them to upgrade wooden houses to brick cement houses.

Although many people say that wood makes people closer to nature, but no matter what, the cement box is better than a log cabin in terms of sturdiness, moisture resistance, insect resistance, etc.!
Therefore, at the edge of the platform, Zhao Yan, Governor of Taishan County Xuchanghou, cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty is benevolent, and the great man is lucky!"

Zhao Yan, the hero who guided the way for the army when the Han army returned to Sanqin, was granted the title of Marquis of Xuchang after the war, with 1000 and [-] households in Shiyi.

According to Zhidu's suggestion, I should execute you immediately... Liu Ying raised her lips slightly, and asked with a sideways look: "I asked you to count the number of acres of fields that were flooded and destroyed by the rain, but have you counted them?"

Zhao Yan shook his head: "Not yet. But soon, before noon tomorrow at the latest, there should be statistical results submitted to His Majesty!"

After all, there are more than a dozen counties in Taishan County with a population of millions. Although the Han Dynasty has a strict hierarchical structure at this time, and there are officials such as pavilion chiefs, three elders, and village chiefs below the township level, if you want to make a living in such a short time It is definitely not an easy task to count the number of acres affected by the disaster.

So Liu Ying nodded noncommittally.

Zhao Yan boldly asked: "I don't know, Your Majesty, Your Majesty..."

He hesitated for a moment, and finally went straight to the point: "I don't know how His Majesty plans to appease the affected farmers?"

Today he has made up his mind, and is going to eat big households, that is, let Liu Ying pay financial subsidies to the affected farmers, just like the cement being loaded there, it is all allocated from internal funds...

Liu Ying was stunned, and tentatively said, "How about a year of tax exemption..."

Zhao Yan shook his head vigorously.

Liu Ying said again: "Two years? Up to three years, don't push yourself!"

Only then was Zhao Yan satisfied: "I thank Your Majesty on behalf of the people of the world!"

After all, the current default tax exemption is actually a tax refund, that is, the government will return the taxes collected to the people, and finally report the figures, from the Zhisu Neishi Mansion of the Ministry of Households or Liu Ying's small treasury, which is the Shaofu. money back...

Obviously, this time it was Liu Ying who paid for it.

Most of the taxes collected by the Han Dynasty were calculated taxes. This tax was originally used as a military tax for building weapons and chariots. According to the tradition since the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, the matter of making weapons and chariots can only be done by the monarch. Responsible.

In other words, the money actually fell into the pocket of the monarch.

Han is no exception.

However, it wasn't long before Liu Bang became emperor, because the country had no money, and coal and iron trading companies sprung up all over the country, and the weapons and armor made by coal and iron trading companies far surpassed the country's metallurgy in terms of quality and quantity. square.

So, everyone split the money.

Seventy percent goes to the country and is used to purchase weapons and armor, while the remaining thirty percent is used for the daily expenses of the royal family and disaster relief.

After all, the shore of the land is the king's minister.

The emperor's herdsmen are shepherds, and the people are sheep. When the sheep are sick, the shepherd is responsible for paying for the treatment. In this way, whether it is killing sheep for meat or wool, it can be regarded as justified.

So Liu Ying let out a long sigh, and turned her head to look at the carriages used for carrying people.

There, two cute lolis were running towards him with four short legs, one after the other.

"Father..."

A loli with a pointed chin rushed over, rubbing against one of his thighs, like a kitten addicted to human addiction.

This is Liu Xuan who was forgotten by Liu Ying and later made up an edict and canonized as Princess Chiyang.

The other round-faced loli was very reserved. She was about to stand still and salute, but she rushed forward under the encouragement of Liu Ying's eyes, imitating Liu Xuan's appearance, hugging Liu Ying's other thigh, and raised her head :"uncle……"

Well, this is Zhang Dan.

Liu Xuan rubbed against Liu Ying's leg for a while, and raised a small face that was about to cry: "Father, don't die..."

Liu Ying:?
(End of this chapter)