Girl, let me check it out.

Fang Tang spotted the Ragdoll Cat and turned around in surprise, looking as if he was about to stand up and salute.

She had just stood up a little, and then plopped back down on the chair with an exaggerated, somewhat funny and comical movement.

"Wow... my legs are numb from sitting for too long."

Fang Tang's expression was crumpled pitifully in pain.

She bent over and hugged her calves, her hair hanging on the ground in disarray. The princess's elegant demeanor had completely disappeared, and she looked extremely embarrassed.

Fang Weihan: "..."

The ragdoll cat walked up to her, stretched out its paw and gently patted her slender calf, and blood flashed on the pad of the paw.

The gentle blood energy was transferred into Fang Tang's body by Fang Weihan, relieving the lack of blood supply to her muscles.

Fang Tang instantly felt that the unbearable numbness in his calves had improved a lot.

"Thank you, teacher!"

Fang Tang pursed his lips slightly, and the softest part of his heart was gently touched.

The girl smiled sweetly at the ragdoll cat.

"Ah."

The cat used its hind legs to jump lightly and landed on Fang Tang's desk.

"what are you writing?"

Fang Weihan put his head on the paper Fang Tang had just written.

The handwriting has not yet dried, and the scent of ink is strong.

It’s bad, it won’t get on my fur, right?

Fang Weihan quickly raised his paw and took a look.

Fortunately it didn't get stuck.

Maomao finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Write something I've been thinking about these past two days."

Fang Tang supported her face with both hands and looked at the cat in front of her with a big smile, her legs swinging restlessly back and forth under her golden and red skirt.

When she was with her teacher, Fang Tang felt as if she had truly let go of the burden of being an imperial princess and no longer had to use hatred and indifference to build a hard shell for herself as protection.

There is no intrigue or petty intrigue here. I am not Princess Taiping. I am a student and the teacher is a teacher. That's all!

Oh, by the way, the teacher is a cat, a particularly cute one!

Fang Tang thought with delight, and his calves swung even more happily.

She looked at the soft and fluffy fur of the big brown and white cat in front of her, and a hint of desire flashed in her watery eyes.

I really want to... touch it.

"What are you thinking about these past two days?"

Fang Weihan was looking at his own paws just now and did not notice Fang Tang's bitter look.

Otherwise he would have held himself tightly with caution.

"Is it about your plan to self-destruct? Or is it about your plan to govern the country?"

Fang Weihan licked his paws.

Alas, after becoming a cat, I like licking my paws. It has almost become a habit of mine.

It makes me want to lick my fingers even when I'm not using the divine light transformation.

No, I can't lick my own fingers.

Xiao Jin is fine, she seems to be enjoying herself...

The ragdoll cat suddenly woke up and quickly pulled its whiskers to show its alertness.

People who think about sad things all day long have no future!

Next time I meet Xiao Jin, nothing will be awkward and I will take her to recite the Tao Te Ching.

Fang Weihan thought secretly.

"What kind of self-destruction plan is this..."

Fang Tang pouted, looking a little unhappy.

"Teacher, from the perspective of planning, my plan was flawless. There was no possibility of failure. So you can't say that I was self-destructing!"

"That's my first step to revive the royal family! You can call it the Great Zhou Revitalization Plan!"

Fang Weihan obviously didn't think that her crappy plan would succeed in the end.

Whether a plan is successful cannot be judged by looking at the data on paper and calculations. Obviously, it must be tested in practice before a consensus can be reached.

And Fang Weihan just happened to know what the final outcome of Fang Tang’s plan would be.

Alas, it is just self-destruction...

But I can't tell her yet, so I'll just fool her.

So the cat tilted its head and called lazily.

"Meow."

"Woo..."

Fang Tang looked at the cat pretending to be dead again, and couldn't help feeling a little angry.

The teacher is really overdoing it!

It was clearly pretending to be dead to make me angry, but with its cute cat look, I couldn't get angry for some reason. What's going on?

How about... knocking the teacher unconscious and then masturbating for three days?

The little devil in Fang Tang's mind was ready to make a move.

"So, what you just wrote is about governing a country?"

Fang Weihan asked.

"That's right!"

When Fang Tang heard this, he temporarily let go of his slight desire for revenge.

The girl happily pushed the paper in her hand in front of Fang Weihan, and her white fingertips touched a line of words.

Fang Weihan took a look.

The line of words was at the beginning of the note, and it looked like a summary title of what she had written.

There are four words in total: Pay money to replace military service.

I have to say that Fang Tang's handwriting is quite beautiful.

The girl's handwriting was completely different from her appearance. It was sharp and looked like crystal jade shredded into pieces of paper, showing its hardness and sharpness.

"Payment in lieu of service?"

Fang Weihan slowly read out the four words on the paper.

"That's right!"

Fang Tang nodded confidently.

"Teacher, although there are many reasons for the current decline of the royal family, I think the fundamental reason is... lack of money!"

The girl pulled out a scroll from the shelf next to her and slowly spread it out on the table.

"Um... Teacher, please raise your paw..."

Fang Tang held the cat's paw diligently and lifted it up carefully, moving very slowly.

It seemed that the girl was afraid of hurting her teacher due to her violent movements, but in fact she just wanted to touch the cat more.

Before Fang Weihan could react, Fang Tang let him go.

He stepped on a silk scroll, which was exquisitely crafted and decorated with gold-rimmed patterns. It was obviously a collection of the royal family.

This is a big picture.

Fang Weihan took a quick look and found that the scale of this thing was almost the same as the map in his previous life. There was no problem with the location and size of each important geographical unit.

This thing is a rare item nowadays and is definitely made by a famous artist. If it were auctioned, it would definitely be an astronomical figure.

It starts from the Baili Liaoze in the north, extends to the vast sea of ​​clouds in the east, reaches the Tianshan Mountains in the west, and reaches the Shiwan Mountains in the south.

It is square and flat, vast as an inverted dome, and far-reaching like rolling smoke.

This was the territory of the Zhou Dynasty.

"The imperial court collects taxes from the country every year. This is also the rule set by our great ancestor to continue the previous dynasty. If we can collect taxes on time and in full, we will naturally not be short of money."

Fang Tang sighed.

"But it's clear that the tax has never been fully collected."

The girl pointed her finger at the location of Changming City and drew a circle with it as the center.

"The taxes from Jingzhao and Yongzhou have always been handed over to the imperial court. After all, this is a place that our Fang family can fully control."

"But somewhere else..."

Fang Tang retracted his fingers and used his entire palm to cover the empire's territory on the map.

"I checked the statistics of the Shangshutai in recent years. Most of the wealthy prefectures in Jianghuai can pay half of the quota, but this is already calculated."

"The Central Plains states have been suffering from famine due to the flooding of the Yangtze River. They have been exempted from taxes for three consecutive years. However, as far as I know, the flooding of the Yangtze River has not affected such a large area. It is said that Hanoi has had 'millions of corn' for several years, but its taxes have not been paid for a year."

"That's not the most infuriating thing. At least they still have a legitimate reason to fool the court."

Fang Tang clenched his fist and punched a place on the map hard.

The cat took a look.

Sure enough, Shangyuan County, Bingzhou, is an old friend.

"The taxes in Hedong have always been collected unevenly, and the Shangyuan Wang family is too lazy to explain this matter."

"The reason given last year was 'Taihang earthquake'! The reason given the year before was 'Fenhe River waterway was blocked'. Are you kidding a three-year-old?!"

Fang Tang took a deep breath, his chest heaving violently.

"And Sichuan and Yizhou are just like them, colluded with each other and are birds of a feather!"

It would be fine if she didn't talk about this, but as soon as she talked about it, a surge of anger surged uncontrollably in the girl's chest.

"Of the 173 counties in the 12 states of the Great Zhou, only one tenth of them are responsible for paying taxes! It's a miracle that the imperial court can have any say in the local areas!"

The Ragdoll Cat was silent for a moment.

What Fang Tang was talking about has not been solved even after five hundred years, and may have even become worse.

The Wang family of Shangyuan controlled Yizhou and Bingzhou most firmly, and basically did not pay taxes.

Youzhou, Jizhou, and Qingzhou also pretended to obey but secretly disobeyed, finding all kinds of excuses to shirk responsibility. In short, it can be summed up in one sentence:

I have no money but I have my life. If you dare, hit me.

What? You said you won't hit me, so we can only make do with each other and don't look down on each other.

This is the mentality of the three families in Heshuo.

There is nothing wrong with calling them countries within the country of the Great Zhou.

The situation in Jianghuai and southern Henan is relatively good, they can receive more than 70%, which is slightly higher than Fangtang's at this time.

This may be due to the changes in their relationship with Uehara Wangshi.

"The power of the royal family is too weak at the moment. It is not easy to force them to pay the taxes."

The young imperial princess clearly had a very clear understanding of the current political situation in the Great Zhou.

"We must create profits within the rules, secretly accumulate strength, and finally force the aristocratic families to make concessions."

The Ragdoll Cat became a little curious after hearing this.

Maybe Fang Tang can really give him a surprise.