Mystery Makes Me Strong

Huang Shangshu of the household department was very happy.

Since the sale of the Fountain of Youth, the imperial court has seen money.

When the big guy went to the court, his anger was much less, and everyone shouted.

The fighting has also eased a lot.

The snow-white silver is pulled to the palace by carloads.

Then it was sent to the Ministry of Households for use in the form of internal money.

Fortunately, I met a wise queen mother who didn't keep the money in her hands.

There was such a stingy master who was reluctant to give money to work in the army. As a result, the money was robbed by the rebels and the person was killed.

He really didn't know how much money the landlords and rich people had.

His family bought some land property, but not much. After all, their Huang family only grew up after he was admitted to Jinshi.

Since the beginning of this year, the Empress Dowager has distributed 30 million silver in all her internal funds.

For the first time, the frontier soldiers made up their salaries and had enough to eat.

For this reason, he specifically asked the Queen Mother to issue an order to send people to patrol the border and monitor the actual amount.

The civil servants are all aware of the fact that the generals are taking empty pay.

In the past, the reason for not checking was that the salary paid was not enough. For 10,000 people, the money given was only enough to feed 3,000 people.

What can I do?

The side will have to use 2,000 people to pretend to be 10,000 people, leaving a thousand vacancies to support the family.

It is written in the booklet that there are 10,000 places, but the actual number of soldiers in the battalion is only 2,000.

This kind of fighting power can be imagined.

Now that all the money has been distributed, the quota of 10,000 people must be 7,000 people anyway, right?

The battles that were not fought before can now be fought.

The Thousand Oaks country in the south, which was ready to move, was rubbed again, and finally calmed down.

As long as the court has money, it will not cross.

If people fail, replace them.

If the officials are too greedy, just change them.

The silver is gone, and you have nowhere to look for it.

The problem is that before, these two problems were mixed together.

Officials can't do it, and they can't collect money; they can't collect money, and they don't have the ability to reform official governance.

If you want to send censors and officials to rectify officials, they all need money and costs.

So it entered an endless loop, and finally everyone finished playing together.

Well now, the queen mother solved the problem directly from the top.

I don't care how greedy you guys are, how you play tricks, anyway, when you get old, you have to spit out your money.

Unless you don't want to reincarnate, don't want to continue to enjoy.

is it possible?

Impossible, why do many people build luxurious tombs after death, why do they want to be buried with luxury goods, don't they want to continue to enjoy?

"The Empress Dowager is clever, this is tax collection in disguise, and the reincarnation tax that no one can escape." Huang Xiong taught his son Huang Tong at home.

The inheritance tax to be paid by the rich in later generations appeared in the feudal dynasty hundreds of years in advance, and the power can be imagined.

The reason why modern society is relatively stable is that it can steadily collect taxes from the rich to make up for various public expenditures, feed the bottom, and prevent the accumulation of social conflicts.

We must know that the rich often occupy more than 80% of the total wealth.

If you can't get taxes out of them, it won't work.

"Reincarnation tax? That's true. In this way, our Celestial Dynasty will no longer have to worry about not being able to collect money, not being able to pay military salaries, and not being able to suppress the Quartet. In this way, the court can last forever." Huang Tong said with admiration.

The Empress Dowager is really the greatest sage, saint, hero, and wise man of all time...

he thought sincerely.

"That's right, so the key is to keep the secret of the Spring of Immortality and not let outsiders know about it." Huang Xiong continued.

"But how can this be stopped? The Queen Mother said before that she wanted to go sailing. Many people were just joking about it. Now they are investing in maritime merchants, building large ships, and studying astronomy. They are all planning to find the Fountain of Youth." Huang Tong worried.

"Oh, this is a troublesome matter. It cannot be changed overnight. It is impossible to prohibit other people from going to sea now. I have already reported it, but the Queen Mother said, let them find it." Huang Shangshu was a little puzzled.

If the imperial court ordered it to go down, it would be good if ten stops could be executed and three stops could be implemented.

If it is related to silver, do not move the knife, and it will not execute even if it stops.

Now he wants other people not to go to sea, how is it possible?

Relying on the spring of immortality, the queen mother can sell hundreds of millions of taels of gold flower and silver every year.

A sip of water is three thousand taels, how many people will die every year?

As long as 30,000 rich people buy it, that's enough.

They will definitely try to get together the money.

Hundreds of millions of taels of silver!

In the past, the household department had a deficit every year, with an annual income of more than 10 million and expenditure of more than 20 million.

It has long been difficult to make ends meet, which is also an inevitable disadvantage in the middle of the dynasty.

All kinds of expenses have increased sharply, but the foundation of taxation, the owner farmers, have plummeted.

The deficit is getting higher and higher, and if there is no money, there will be no elite soldiers. In the end, it will naturally disappear.

Don't worry about that now.

Poor people don't look forward to an afterlife, only rich people dare to think about it.

The rich hand over their money to the imperial court, and the imperial court helps the poor, and the poor will not take risks if they have relief.

All kinds of big jobs are done.

Food can also be bought from outside.

It's not that the food is not enough, it's that the imperial court has no money to buy it, and has no money to give relief.

This routine is actually very simple.

The previous imperial court couldn't play well because no one could tax the rich.

Well now, rich people take the initiative to pay money to the palace.

Moreover, the money was paid in line, and some officials even called for an auction, and the highest bidder would win.

But the queen mother was kind and didn't hold an auction.

Otherwise, the price will be higher, but it will also make people feel uneasy.

"Father, when do you want to be reincarnated?" Huang Tong asked suddenly.

"Uh, I can live another thirty years. It's too early to think about it." Yellow Bear shook his head.

"It's getting late. Many old men bought the spring water of immortality early and kept it at home. In case of serious illness, they should drink it quickly." Huang Tong continued.

"That's right, I'll go and ask the queen mother for grace, so we don't have to wait in line," Huang Xiong said confidently.

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The yellow bear came to ask for grace.

Lu Zhi has a lot of cyanide in his hand.

But it was a bit embarrassing for her to give it to her confidant like this.

Although she wants to destroy the world and restart the universe, although she often stabs people with knives, she is still not an evil and cold person, and she cannot give poison to the yellow bear indifferently when faced with pure thoughts.

That's right, the so-called fountain of youth is indescribable cyanide...

Drink a cup and go straight to heaven.

As for the memory awakening after reincarnation, it was all an illusion made by the hairball...

The real reincarnation can only be achieved by Mr. Zhao relying on blood connections and breaking through the bottom line of ethics.

Lu Zhi still doesn't have that ability.

But she doesn't think there's anything wrong with cheating in this world.

One of the biggest features of feudal society is deception...

Even the position of the emperor is the biggest deception, so what does it matter if Lu Zhi comes up with another reincarnation scam?

The emperor said that he was the Son of Heaven every day, so that the foolish people could accept his rule honestly and reduce the resistance to rule.

As for other scams, it is even more common.

The county magistrate deceived the common people that he was a parent official, and ended up beating the children instead of raising them.

Deceit against deceit, this is Lu Zhi's method.

It works really well...

Navigation prospered, silver flowed, the court became rich, innovations were smooth, and new learning flourished...

Seeing that the prosperous age is about to appear.

Faced with Huang Xiong's request, Lu Zhi pondered over and over again, and finally came to the queen mother's true awakening...

From this moment on, she is no longer a secondary personality of an ordinary high school girl, but a court animal.

"Since Aiqing begged, this bottle of fountain of youth is given to you, but remember, use it when you are old on the bed, Aijia doesn't want to wait for you to grow up for another twenty years."

"Thank you Queen Mother, I will keep it in mind." Huang Xiong was grateful.