Established a millennium family since King Wu defeated Zhou

Chapter 433
in the house.

Sang Hongyang sat at the top and smiled at King Jiaodong and others at the bottom: "Your Majesty, I have ordered you to come to Qidi to check the business tax. I found some trivial matters about the palace a few days ago, so I came to inquire. "

After speaking, he handed some evidence to King Jiaodong, and the queen who was sitting next to him took it, hurriedly turned it over and said in a hateful voice: "What a traitor, you actually lied to the palace, if it wasn't for the investigation by Da Sinong, you would have been caught by these traitors." To be blinded to this point is really a failure to the grace of the Holy Spirit."

Sang Hongyang was startled when he heard the words, and then asked: "What the queen said, could it be that the palace doesn't know what these cunning people are doing?"

The queen frowned, and asked in a cold voice: "What Da Sinong said, is it because he suspects that the palace deliberately evaded the court's taxes and evaded responsibility here?
You can eat indiscriminately, but you can't talk indiscriminately, so as to drive a wedge between the brothers of the Tian family, sow discord between the vassal state and the court, what is Da Sinong trying to do?

Do you want to eradicate the clan of the big man and go back to the old way of tyranny?
One day the world will fall, and if you don't rely on your clan to hold the sky, can you rely on a legalist like you? "

A series of hats were directly put on by Sang Hongyang. The previous ones were well-founded, but the last sentence directly pissed off Sang Hongyang.

Legalists are really being discriminated against everywhere now. Many legalist disciples have changed schools, learned theories of other schools, and become core disciples of other schools.

But what about the sages of the Legalists?
Until now, there is no place for the sages of the Legalists in the temple of the philosophers. From the emergence of Legalism to its gradual disappearance, this school has never been recognized by the mainstream academic circles.

In other words, the Luo family has always disliked it, but what makes Sang Hongyang feel very aggrieved is that all schools of thought are plagiarizing many legalist classics!

At most, it is not as extreme as in Legalism.

Sang Hongyang said coldly: "Queen Jiaodong, the big man relies on the sword in the hands of the minister and the law of the Han Dynasty in the hands of the minister, not a few words of yours.

Whether the Jiaodong Palace is involved or not depends on the results of the investigation. Since the Jiaodong King is unwilling to cooperate, please go back.

You are the elder brother of His Majesty, a nobleman of the heavenly family, can I imprison you here in spite of the dignity of the superiors and inferiors? "

The queen of Jiaodong thumped in her heart. After Sang Hongyang came to Qidi, many people were trembling with fear, but she didn't care at all. A courtier is not qualified to participate in the affairs of the Tian family. What she was worried about was the emperor's attitude. Her attitude towards Sang Hongyang is to test Sang Hongyang's lack of confidence.

If it is insufficient, it proves that the emperor has no idea, but if Sang Hongyang is particularly strong and dares to respond positively, it means that the emperor wants to do something.

Now Sang Hongyang's attitude set off alarm bells in her heart. She was sure that the emperor must have secretly informed, or at least hinted at, Sang Hongyang!
She turned around and left here, her face sinking like water, King Jiaodong was even more terrified when he saw the expression of even the queen who had always been strong, and said in a trembling voice: "Queen, why don't you go back and discuss it with Sang Hongyang? understand our difficulties."

Seeing the appearance of King Jiaodong, the queen frowned and said coldly: "What does this have to do with Sang Hongyang? Jiaodong is a big country with a whole land, and it is one of the few kings in the world. Is such a kingdom a mere kingdom?" Can a courtier shake it?"

King Jiaodong was just cowardly, but not stupid. He immediately understood what the queen said, and was even more terrified. He said dumbfounded, "What should I do?"

The queen closed her eyes slightly, and said coldly: "What else can I do?

If you can bear it, you can bear it, and if you can't bear it, you can commit suicide. As long as you and I die, the palace can survive.

In the past, the fifth younger brother made a big mistake, but it was just that the princes and kings were changed to lieutenants. If the emperor dared to kill or exile the princes and kings because of indirect tax evasion, everyone in the world would be in danger. "

There is a principle in the punishment of the law that the crime is punished according to the crime. For example, the murderer dies, the thief cannot be a capital crime, and the slanderer cannot be a capital crime. If all crimes are death, then the law becomes a joke.

The same is true for the laws against princes and kings. If you evade taxes, you will die for the whole family, and if you rebel, you will also die for the whole family. Why not rebel?
But even so, King Jiaodong still looked at his wife in shock, suicide seemed insignificant in her mouth, Queen Jiaodong seemed to know what her husband was thinking, and said lightly: "Born in a prince's family, this is Our destiny, apart from the Luo family, there is no one who is always open and invincible. Do you have an ancestor of the Supreme God?

Have you made any feats enough to enter Zhaocheng for refuge?

Do you have Rockwell's blood in your body?
Since there is no one, then face everything in peace and stability. Even if the emperor wants to kill us, it is not that simple. Who dares to say that he will definitely win before the lights go out?
It's a pity that I was born as a daughter, otherwise I would have to go to Chang'an for a while. "

The queen's open-mindedness is not comparable to other people. If she is such an outstanding woman, if she is in Bangzhou, there is a high probability that she will be the queen of Zhou or marry into Luo. Sometimes she will feel a little regretful when she reads the history books. I was born at a bad time, but this emotion was quickly suppressed, and people always have to look forward.

In this slightly dull atmosphere, the motorcade of Jiaodong Palace slowly left Beihai County.

Sang Hongyang's eyes were full of murderous intent, just as the Queen of Jiaodong had guessed, from the very beginning he wanted to catch the King of Jiaodong, but he didn't expect that Queen Jiaodong would directly put these things on the bright side, which made him Very angry.

He originally thought about fulfilling the emperor's suggestion without any trace, and let the king of Jiaodong commit suicide, but being disturbed by the queen, even if the king of Jiaodong committed suicide, the clan of the Han family would blame him for the incident.

Thinking of this, Sang Hongyang rubbed his head. He didn't feel scared. Legalist students were never afraid of having many enemies. They only cared about being able to be in power when they should be in power, and enjoying when they should be enjoying it.

Back then, Shang Yang offended so many old nobles in Qin State, but still implemented his own new law, at worst, he would die!

It doesn't matter if you cook five tripods after death, the most terrible thing is that you can't eat five tripods alive, this is Sang Hongyang's creed.

The large-scale inspection began, and Sang Hongyang gave the order.

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Changan.

The emperor received a letter from Sang Hongyang, which roughly described the harvest of the trip. Even though Liu Dan had been prepared in his heart, he was still extremely shocked to see so much money, food and cloth.

His first reaction was that these businessmen in Qidi are really rich!
When he was a vassal king in Northern Yan Kingdom, he had seen so much money and food there. Compared with those in Qidi, the merchants in the Northland were completely different.

"This is just the counties and states in Qidi. If tens of hundreds of counties and states in the world are all taxed, how much money and food can they get?"

No one could resist the temptation of a windfall, Liu Dan immediately asked people to encourage Sang Hongyang, and then sent a copy to Da Si Shang to encourage Da Si Shang.

Sang Hongyang not only described the collection of commercial taxes, but also wrote: "Your Majesty, I suggest that taxes should be paid according to the assets of the rich households in the world. We can collect a property tax of one hundred to two hundred yuan for every two thousand yuan. This amount of money is not much for wealthy households, but if it accumulates, it can greatly fill the treasury."

As a master of earning money, Sang Hongyang said that to collect taxes, merchants must be collected. How much money can farmers have?

In the previous Hanting, there was only transaction tax, but no property tax. Sang Hongyang felt that this would not work. The property tax was the big one, because many wealthy households held many valuables that had not been traded for many years. It was impossible not to pay taxes on these things. .

Liu Dan is ignorant because he doesn't understand the twists and turns of economics, but Sang Hongyang said in his letter that this policy can benefit a hundred times, so he can still understand it. A lot of money is needed, and Liu Dan will not refuse anyone.

So he wrote a large batch, "Qing first implement it in Qi, and then spread it all over the world after returning to Chang'an."

At the end of the letter, Sang Hongyang wrote about the possible involvement of the King of Jiaodong, and also specifically pointed out that the King of Jiaodong was unwilling to admit it, "The King of Jiaodong is rampant and does not take the law of the country as a priority, and the minister will reprimand him. I hope Your Majesty will forgive me."

Liu Dan replied silently: "The law of the country is the most important thing, and the country is the most important, so you can do what you want."

The messenger rushed back to Beihai County with this letter. Sang Hongyang opened it and felt at ease immediately. He called his subordinates and said, "Take out all the evidence about the Jiaodong Palace that has been collected over the past few days. The merchants of the Jiaodong Kingdom took it."

These subordinates brought from Chang'an will not show mercy. These people are the children of Guanzhong. These days they searched the merchant's house and made a fortune. Now they heard that they were going to attack King Jiaodong, and they were all very excited.

Jiaodong Kingdom.

Sang Hongyang's actions made Queen Jiaodong understand that the emperor had made up his mind. She told her husband about it. King Jiaodong cried bitterly: "Queen, what should I do?"

Seeing this, the queen said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, cheer up, you are the heir of Emperor Xiaowu.

Emperor Xiaowu, a peerless hero, how could you be so cowardly?
It's just life and death!

With your current posture, it’s no wonder that the late Emperor didn’t like you, this concubine is really..."

"Father is the reincarnation of the Holy King, how can no one compare it with others."

The queen said coldly: "At this time, there is no other way, you are absolutely lifeless, if you hang yourself, you can still leave a dignity.

The emperor is so perverse, the concubine wants to see how long he can last?Let's see how long the righteous men in this world can bear him. "

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In the first year of Yuanzheng, the king of Jiaodong sat down, Hongyang reprimanded him, Wang was afraid, and hanged himself in the country, and the crowd was raging. Please kill Hongyang, but he refused. He gave the king the posthumous "mourning", and took the five counties of the kingdom to establish Jiaobei County, Jiaodong. The country still follows the old system.

People at that time said: "The blood of the king of Jiaodong is precious for Hongyang."

I heard it, and I heard the old song of King Li of Jiujiang, angry, and killed dozens of slanderers, but stopped, and became closer to Hongyang. ——"Hanshu Biography of Sang Hongyang"

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