Xing Yong immediately changed his face and said in a voice: "Your Majesty, although I am incompetent, I will not be accused of the tiger."
Liu Xie was very calm and said lightly: "Is that right?"
Xing Yong was almost mad and stood up. King Kong was angry. "Please give advice from your Majesty. If there is any unjust punishment, I will be willing to be punished."
Liu Xie narrowed his eyes slightly, and a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, with a little ridicule.
Xing Yong became more and more angry, his eyes widening like a copper bell.
He is called "Xing Zi'ang, a virtuous person". He has always regarded himself as moral, but now he is ridiculed by the emperor as a rich man who is swaying his lips and tongue. How can he tolerate it?
Tian Chou sat aside, without saying a word, but he felt secretly happy.
He knew the emperor's methods and knew that the emperor had fallen in love with Xing Yong and wanted to take him for himself. For him, this was of course a good thing.
Liu Xie and Xing Yong looked at each other, sparks flew around for a moment, and when Xing Yong's anger was full of energy, he said slowly: "Xing Jun opposed diving the fields. I guess he felt that there were many people with more land.
, but it is not an ill-gotten fortune, but it has been accumulated through hard work in the past generations."
"That's right." Xing Yong glared at Liu Xie.
"Did anyone have snatched the land from scratch?"
"..." Xing Yong was speechless and his momentum was half weakened. After a while, he said reluctantly: "I guess there must be."
"When you object to Du Tian, have you ever considered dealing with these people like this?"
"this……"
Liu Xie waved his hand and said, "I guess there isn't. Then I ask again, even if their land is right, will they pay taxes according to the actual amount of land?"
When Xing Yong heard this, he hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, according to the court system, taxes follow the households, and do not rely on the land..."
"Is this a court system or a folk practice?"
Xing Yong didn't dare to make up for a moment, so he turned to look at Tian Chou.
Tian Chou coughed. "Taxes do not transfer with the land, and the court has no clear examples. It is a folk practice. In order to save trouble, it was used by the powerful to avoid taxes. The people sold their land, but they still had to bear taxes. They were even more unable to afford it. They would inevitably drink poison to quench their thirst and cut their meat.
If you replenish your sores, you will become a refugee in no time."
Liu Xie nodded and looked at Xing Yong. "Then let's think it's the court system. Xing Jun thinks that is a benevolent or a bad government?"
Xing Yong's face became increasingly ugly. "Of course...a bad politics."
"Since Mr. Xing also thinks it is a bad policy, can he have any suggestions for solving it?"
Xing Yong bit his lips tightly and said nothing.
"Dizhuan is to survive for the people. If you are dissatisfied, you should advise them. You will not comment on the real evil policy. I am really curious. What is the moral standard of Xing Jun? You are asking for your life for the people.
Which citizen is for? A powerful citizen or a civilian?"
Xing Yong's face turned red and white, and turned white and red.
He has always regarded himself as a gentleman and felt that he had not become an official. If he became an official, he would definitely be a good official who loves the people. Now he found that the people he loved were not civilians at all, but rich people.
The emperor said that he opposed the people's living and working in peace and contentment, and that he would be praised by the rich, so why did he wrongly accuse him?
Seeing that Xing Yong was exhausted, Liu Xie let out a sigh and waved his hand.
"If Xing Jun has no other advice, let's go here today. I have something to do, so I won't sit with Xing Jun to discuss it. As for Dutian in Hejian, although there is no edict, I support it. Dutian may have innocent people who were accidentally injured.
But if you don’t pass the field, millions of people were injured. When the Yellow Turbans started, the eight states were launched together, and Jizhou was the most tragic. I don’t want such a thing to happen, so I’m going to pass the field..."
Liu Xie paused and raised his eyelids lightly. "It is imperative."
Xing Yong was shocked by the murderous aura in his eyes and couldn't help but shudder. His heart beat like a drum, and he didn't dare to say another word.
After leaving the big tent, Xing Yong's pounding heart calmed down a little.
He looked at Tian Chou beside him and sighed. "I humiliated myself and even implicated Zitai. I am so ashamed."
"It's okay." Tian Chou said lightly: "It was the same when I first met the emperor."
Xing Yong shook his head. "I tied my hair and read, cultivated my self-cultivation, and thought I was worthy of the world. Now I know that those are all false. What kind of virtue is that I am a useless scholar and a self-righteous fool."
"If you think so, it means you can still save the medicine." Tian Chou signaled Xing Yong to walk forward together. "The saint's principles are not wrong, but we have not applied what we have learned and cannot integrate knowledge and action. Some principles are only when used.
Only by distinguishing the truth from the false, otherwise it will be false in the end. Therefore, the emperor often said that knowing the easy way, and doing it. The king's way is not judged, but done. Instead of sitting all day long and talking about the truth and saying it is shameless, it is better to get up and do it, and accumulate small steps to reach a thousand miles.
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Xing Yong nodded and thought for a long time. "Then... what should I do to be considered a precept?"
Tian Chou turned his head and looked at Xing Yong and smiled slightly. "I have two strategies."
"Speak and listen."
"The best strategy is to go back to Hejian and check which land is purchased normally, which ones are robbed by tricks, which ones are paid normally, and which ones are not paid. If they have not paid, let them pay it immediately."
"Xun Gongda is traveling to the field, is there any need for this?" When talking about Xun You, Xing Yong couldn't help but feel angry.
The emperor did not issue an edict to ask him to save the land, but Xun You forced himself to save the land, not only did he do it, but he also did it very roughly. This was simply to prove himself with the heads of the Hejian people.
"If you are willing to go, I can ask the emperor for an imperial edict to temporarily delay the land in Hejian. If you can travel a county, you can travel slowly in one county. If you can travel a county, you can travel slowly in one county. If you can travel a county, you can travel slowly in one county.
Travel to a state..."
Xing Yong quickly interrupted Tian Chou. "Tell me about your worst plan."
It’s easy to say that it’s impossible to ask those powerful men to pay taxes.
Most of those people have obtained land for many years, and they can't pay back the tax they owe even if they lose their family's assets. Except for a very small number of people, who can eat more than ten years of stored food?
Besides, if you cannot transfer taxes to others, what is the significance of annexing land?
"What is the worst thing? You can go to any county in the Central Plains. It is okay to spend the fields, but not the fields, as long as you can make the people live and work in peace and contentment." Tian Chou smiled slightly. "The emperor is not a tyrant, and it is not a goal to pass the fields, but to achieve the kingly way.
Means. If you can achieve the kingly way without seizing the field, he will not be able to seek it."
Xing Yong's eyes flashed. "Take it serious?"
"How can you joke about this kind of thing?"
"But..." Thinking of the emperor's aggressive appearance just now, Xing Yong couldn't believe that the emperor would accept Tian Chou's suggestion and let him go to a county, and he could not pass the field.
"The emperor admires you, but he just feels that you are obsessed with it, so he is willing to take a wake-up call and alert you. If you are really a hypocrite, it is difficult for you to see him, so how could he waste his talk and say so much to you."
Xing Yong was speechless for a moment.
He was hit hard by the emperor just now and had not recovered yet, making it difficult for him to believe what Tian Chou said for a while.
"Don't worry, think about it carefully. Let's go, I'll borrow a few residences for you to submit a copy. If you have time, you can read more. It's not clear whether it's a matter of reason. It's a five hundred years of change, so it's normal for some to understand.
Only by observing the controversy between a hundred schools of thought can we eliminate the drought and retain the essence, eliminate the false and retain the truth, and seek the kingly way."