The official of the Shangshu Province was referring to a note that Chen Chong, the governor of Shuzhou, had just rushed over.
Everyone is familiar with the name Chen Chong.
The Chen family was once prominent, and Chen Qingguan was one of the pillars of the imperial court, and Chen Chong and Chen Gezhong were well-known, and everyone in the court knew it.
Of course, that was the old Chen family.
Later, the king of Shu lost power and was implicated by the Cui family, and the Chen family also quickly fell. Chen Chong was reduced to open a cloth shop in Kyoto to make a living. For a long time, the officials of the court A topic of discussion after dinner.
I thought that the Chen family would never have a chance to rise in this lifetime, but I didn't expect that only one year had passed, and Chen Ji changed suddenly and became the governor of Shuzhou.
Shuzhou is the fiefdom of King Jing, the fiefdom of one of the most special princes in Jingguo. The imperial court cannot intervene in the appointment and dismissal of the governor of Shuzhou, nor can it criticize it.
They blamed another thing.
According to the memorial, after King Jing arrived in Shuzhou, he launched a vigorous campaign to suppress bandits. There are many bandits in Shuzhou. This is a fact that all officials know. Effect.
Over time, this will also take a laissez-faire attitude.
They don't care if King Jing suppresses bandits or not. The problem is that they suppress bandits. Isn't it just to suppress a bandit
Although the national treasury has not been so tight in the past two years, it cannot be so profligate.
This is clearly blackmail!
Someone raised his eyes to look at the indignant official, and asked, "Master Qi thinks that we should choose the second road. Shu Prefecture will not pay taxes for fifty years? Although Shu Prefecture is the fiefdom of King Jing, it is also ours." Jingguo's land, what kind of system is this?"
Master Qi waved his hand and said, "We will not take either of these two roads!"
"This sentence, you go and talk to His Royal Highness King Jing, and His Majesty." The man shook his head, and after saying a word, he stopped talking.
His Royal Highness King Jing is more favored by His Majesty than the Empress. If this memorial is delivered directly to His Majesty, it will be approved immediately if it costs one million taels of silver.
They were the ones who forced King Jing to Shuzhou at the beginning, but if they dare to make trouble in such a matter now, even if King Jing is far away in Shuzhou and can't do anything to them, His Majesty will let them go around.
Because of King Jing's departure, the conflict between His Majesty and them has not yet been completely resolved.
What's more, this matter is not so difficult to choose.
Shuzhou was originally a heart problem of the imperial court. If you don’t mind it, it is indeed the territory of Jingguo, but if you manage it, that place is too chaotic. The imperial court’s hand can’t reach that far. The imperial court's hind legs have lowered the country's per capita GDP-all kinds of data from the Ministry of Household Affairs can prove this point.
It's tasteless to eat, and it's a pity to throw it away, so when His Majesty granted Shuzhou to King Jing, there were almost no voices of opposition in the court. Even if Shuzhou didn't pay taxes for fifty years, it would have no impact on the overall situation.
How chaotic that place is, Wu Guo, Qi Guo, the land of chaos, finally threw the blame to King Jing, but no one is willing to pick it up again.
The two prime ministers were not there, and several ministers discussed with their brains and finally made a decision.
Submit this memorial and give it to His Majesty and the princess to decide.
…
Li Xuan has broken away from the vulgar taste of blowing soap bubbles, and is playing with a prism in the sun. A two-year-old girl is standing beside him, watching without blinking, and murmured: "Daddy, why don't you?" The rainbow hasn't been created yet, but Uncle Li has created it all at once... "
After finally tossing out the phenomenon of dispersion, the little girl clapped her hands happily, and quickly ran over to show off to her mother...
"Mother, Daddy turned Xiaorui into a rainbow just now..."
After a while, Wang Qin walked over with the little girl in his arms. Li Xuan looked at her and said, "That guy is going to get married soon, and if he gets married, there will be two..."
"Isn't Your Majesty getting married soon? What is there to be envious of? Can you envy King Jing who can marry two?" Wang Qin looked at him and said, "If Your Majesty is willing, he can marry more than King Jing, except for the noble concubine. , you can also accept a few more concubines... "
"What are you talking about? Am I as fickle and beastly as he is?" Li Xuan said righteously, holding the mother and daughter into his arms.
Wang Qin blushed slightly, and pinched him lightly, "They are all emperors, and they are not in shape yet, Xiaorui is still there..."
The little girl covered her eyes and said hastily: "Xiao Rui can't see anything, can't see anything..."
The family of three laughed and played for a while, Wang Qin took the little girl to bed, Li Xuan walked back to the hall, and opened the top memorial.
He just glanced at it, and then used a Chinese ink pen to draw a circle on the words "Shuzhou will not pay taxes for fifty years".
He sighed and said, "I really want to see with my own eyes what you can turn Shuzhou into..."
The reason why he chose this option was not because he was reluctant to part with money, because he knew that a mere one million taels of silver could not be compared with the Shu state governed by him.
Just because if he doesn't tick the second item, he won't receive any reply next month...
More importantly, according to what he described, Shuzhou...is a good place, it sounds like it is much more fun than Beijing...
…
Shuzhou, Governor's Mansion, Chen Chong looked at the imperial decree sent by Li Yi, and felt that his lips were a little dry.
His Majesty actually agreed!
Agree to let Shuzhou develop freely in the past fifty years without paying taxes to the imperial court...
This is an imperial decree. You have no jokes, let alone childish decrees.
There is no chance of regret for all the officials in the court.
As for Shuzhou, at the beginning they wanted to throw it away, and they threw it away, but Shuzhou was not something they could throw away or pick up as they wanted. From now on, they can only look at the prosperous Shuzhou with envy.
Having been by Li Yi's side for so long, he now seems to understand why Li Yi was reluctant to enter the court when he was in the capital.
Because the ones in the hall are simply a group of pigs!
It is conceivable what it would look like if the imperial court had not intervened for so many years and allowed Shuzhou to develop freely.
It wasn't the Chen family that he was able to sit in the given position step by step, so he could see clearly that in less than fifty years, Shu Prefecture would become richer than Qing'an Mansion and Kyoto, and he didn't know when , They still don't feel sorry for the one million taels of silver
King King's Mansion.
Li Yi looked at Lao Fang and asked, "Apart from the imperial decree, is there anything else?"
Lao Fang nodded and said, "There is one more letter."
Li Yi asked casually, "Li Xuan's?"
Lao Fang shook his head and said, "Princess's."
Li Yi was stunned, and asked in disbelief, "Which princess?"
"Elder princess."
"Ah?" Li Yi suddenly got up from his seat, "The eldest princess has a letter, why didn't you say it earlier, show it to me!"
Lao Fang took a step back, shook his head, and said, "The eldest princess has a letter, but it's not for my uncle."
Li Yi froze in place, the princess's letter wasn't for him, who else could it be, for Yongning, for Ruyi
It won't be for Miss Liu Er!
Lao Fang looked at him and explained, "This letter is from the Eldest Princess to the Second Miss."
"What, Mingzhu for Ruyi?"
Li Yi was stunned again, Mingzhu and Ruyi—their relationship seems not to be good enough to write letters to each other, right
Besides, I wrote so many letters to her, and she didn't even reply to one of them. She would take the initiative to write to Miss Liu Er, which is unreasonable and unreasonable.
Li Yi shook his head and said, "I don't believe it, let me see."
Lao Fang took out the letter from his sleeve and put it on the table.
"I told you to read more!" Li Yi looked at the letter, looked at him with a bit of resentment, pointed to the words on the envelope and said: "Look, it's clearly written 'Li Yi's personal letter', why is it that? What about writing to Ruyi? Although you can't read, you can't just talk nonsense... "
Lao Fang looked a little sad, and said, "Grandpa, you are insulting people. Although I can't read, I can count... "Li Yiqianqin" is four characters, and "Liu Ruyi Qinqin" is five characters."
He shook his head and continued: "Besides, I asked the postman. This letter is indeed for the second lady. My lord, don't lie to me, and don't lie to yourself..."
"..."
Li Yi finally knew why Lao Fang's martial arts had stagnated, he was ignorant, he was simply ignorant!
If he didn't practice well, he secretly learned - he was obviously illiterate before!