Proton is Emperor [Rebirth]

Years are like a shuttle.

Xie Yuan was so busy in the feudal domain that he hardly touched the ground.

But there is no way around this, he is the new vassal king, and although he has people from the three prefectures under his command, among the three prefectures, only Qiongzhou seems to be richer, and now Jinzhou is also richer because of the drying of salt. However, because Xie Yuan reduced the taxes of the three states by [-]%, and strictly investigated the exorbitant taxes in the three states, there were many strange things, such as raising two hens and planting a fruit tree. One has been modified—it is changed to a family that raises a certain number of livestock and fruit trees and mulberry trees without paying taxes, and only needs to pay taxes if the number exceeds the number, etc., so that the people feel that their lives have a bright future...

But if this is the case, what Xie Yuan needs to face is that, as a vassal king, he cannot collect too much tax, and there is not much money in the vassal king's treasury.

Fortunately, before he left Chang'an, many people gave him money, especially the 3 taels of gold from Rong Wang Xie Rongying. At any rate, Xie Yuan was relieved of the embarrassment of the first year.

A year later, Xie Yuan's sugar-boiling method made all kinds of ingenious candies, which were quickly popularized in various places in the Daqing Dynasty. Everyone jokingly called this new candy "Zhaowang Candy", and countless people loved it. Be captivated by this sweeter-than-ever-ever sugar.

And with this new candy, Xie Yuan finally had more money, and began to do what he wanted to do in Zhaodi.

For example, Tete set up a few research rooms, let them specialize in the research of increasing food production, researching new agricultural tools, researching military supplies, researching weapons, etc. If the literati and warriors who rushed over failed the exam, Zhaodi would compensate the other party with a certain amount of money accordingly, and send someone to send him back to his hometown safely. The weapons and equipment made by them are solid and reliable, and the uniforms of the soldiers guarding the border have also been replaced with newer and stronger ones. In addition, many good stallions have been bought from various places at a high price for breeding...

In just one year, Xie Yuan has done a lot of things, and the whole Zhaodi has also flourished.

He Yunmo is indeed a useful person.

He was originally a son of a noble family. When he was young, he was influenced by various noble sons and knew the rules of the family. When he was young, he went to Shu to worship Mr. De Yuanshan as his teacher. Traveling among various mountains and rivers, not only has extensive knowledge and strong knowledge, but also is transparent, open-minded, smooth and intelligent.Although due to his nature, he cannot be a decision maker, but as a counselor, he is quite outstanding.

And Xie Yuan, who he assisted, was equally outstanding.

The two were still brothers who got along very well back then, so they cooperated quite well.

There are also many talents recruited by Zhaodi through examinations to help. Xie Yuan not only held the entire Zhaodi in his hands during this year, but also recruited enough soldiers—12 male soldiers and 13 female soldiers , and the age of these soldiers is between 30 and [-] years old, it is indeed enough for Xie Yuan to use for a while.

It's just that during this year, Xie Yuan almost exhausted his mind, held Zhaodi in his hands, and recruited a considerable number of soldiers, but in the same way, King Jing, King Ding, and King Xian also gave up their previous ambitions. , began to be exposed one by one.

In particular, King Beichuan, who is close to King Xian, has formally married King Xian and promised his youngest daughter to King Xian as his successor. He only waited for the auspicious day three months later before marrying his youngest daughter to King Xian's domain. .

King Xian was originally the youngest of the three kings. Now that his first wife passed away, and now he is marrying his second wife, he specially appointed King Beichuan's daughter. The reason is obvious.

King Jing and King Ding had endured for several years, but they didn't care about waiting for a few more years, so they all tacitly continued to accumulate strength, and at the same time deployed people in Xianwang's domain, so that the relatively young King Xian could raise his nephew as soon as possible. The banner of grabbing the throne is to accumulate troops and food on the one hand, and save capital for future wars.

The other two vassal kings - Zhao Rong, King of Anyang and Yin Shou, King of Yin, were also doing the same.

Not to mention Yin Shou, the position of Anyang King Zhao Rong's feudal domain is already embarrassing, and there is a dirty relationship between the old Anyang King and Ding King, and the two kings have almost become enemies.

Although Zhao Rong didn't intend to directly help the old man fight the war, but he is also a smart man. He has raised countless good horses in the land of Yunnan and Guizhou, and he is also secretly building walls and accumulating food. It is true that he intends to participate in the championship, but he must also have the ability and strength to step in anytime and anywhere and correct the team.

Although Yin Shou himself is not in the feudal land, he also knows that there will inevitably be a battle for the throne. Therefore, in addition to the many preparations made by the former Yin king, he is also thousands of miles away, so that everyone in the feudal land has more reserves and more training. , accumulate strength.

The same is true for Xie Hanying above the court.

He was originally the emperor who was taught by Dad and Ah Weng with all kinds of thoughts, and Ah Weng saved countless troops and food for him. When he succeeded to the throne, he also got the benefits of Xie Yuan, which made the world's salt price Being able to surrender greatly, not only won the hearts of the people, but also made the vassal kings have to grit their teeth and give up a method of taking more money from the people. Naturally, Xie Hanying became the emperor more easily.

Moreover, Xie Hanying finally got a son.

It's just that the concubine was not blessed, and died of bleeding after giving birth to her son.

Xie Hanying considered it for a long time, and in the end, she could only temporarily put this son under the empress dowager Gao's knee, and only waited for the son to be four years old, then send him to the prince's courtyard to live by himself, and must not grow in the hands of the woman.

Everything went smoothly for Xie Hanying, although he knew that the emperor's uncles were about to make a move, but he also made a lot of preparations, only waiting for the first among the few emperor's uncles to show up first.

However, Xie Hanying did not wait for one of his uncles to show up. He waited until February of the second year of Yonghe. Several places in the north suffered severe drought. Xie Hanying personally prayed for rain three times, but there was still no rain.

What's worse is that in the places in the north that suffered severe drought, at the end of February in the second year of Yonghe, a small half of the places suffered from locust plagues. These places will inevitably have no harvest in the first half of this year.

Xie Hanying's face turned blue.

And with the same ugly face, there are King Jing, whose feudal lands are all in the north, and Xie Yuan, whose feudal lands are in the hardest-hit locust plague area.

The relationship between the father and son is not very good, and then the disaster happened, except for the emperor's territory, but coincidentally in the domain of the two, I don't know if it is God's will.

It's just that King Jing has been operating in the feudal land for several years, and there are often minor droughts in the northern land, so with the stored food, he can barely survive this year's disaster.It's just that he can't control some of the victims.

But Xie Yuan is different.

His domain has the least population.Even if the drought is followed by locust plagues, the fields in Yunzhou will hardly be able to collect any food this year, let alone make the people pay taxes.

Because of the population, Xie Yuan had to go to Yunzhou in person, firstly to appease the people of Yunzhou, secondly to discuss the drought and locust plague with his uncle Jiang Bai, and thirdly, to open warehouses to release grain, no matter what No matter what, let these Yunzhou people live!

After they died, his feudal land would be even more deserted!

After listening to Xie Yuan's thoughts, Jiang Bai also sighed: "Natural disasters and man-made disasters. Man-made disasters may be avoided, but what about natural disasters? You do your best, but it really doesn't work... that is God's will."

Others don't know Xie Yuan's details, how can Jiang Bai not know?Xie Yuan has only been a prince for more than a year, how much money can he have?The grain in the warehouse was only from last year.

Xie Yuan was silent for a while, before he said: "By the way, Uncle, Uncle has traveled to many places with sea ships, have you seen any grains that can produce more grain in a drought?"

Jiang Bai was stunned, then frowned, and pondered: "There is a kind..." After a pause, he began to look at Xie Yuan, "Speaking of it, if the sea ship is still sailing, then this year, it should be Will pass by us. And Ayuan, your Jinzhou Linhai..."

Xie Yuan's eyes flashed, and he said: "I also have the same idea. If it is possible, we can get that kind of food seeds, and we can try to grow one ourselves, but it is not impossible."

Jiang Bai listened, nodded slightly, and then said: "Unfortunately, the far water can't dissolve the near fire. A Yuan, you should think of other ways. This year Yunzhou can't grow anything. And the people of Yunzhou If you can supply food for one year, how can you supply it for one year? What's more, if next year..." What should I do if there is more drought?

After a pause, Jiang Bai still didn't say the remaining words.

Xie Yuan understood Jiang Bai's thoughts, he hesitated for a while, then looked at Jiang Bai firmly, and said: "Uncle, I want to rectify the feudal land." Seeing Jiang Bai stunned, it seems that there is something unclear, thank you Yuan You pondered for a moment before continuing, "I plan to find out as many corrupt officials as possible in the feudal domain - ransack their homes."

What else could he do?

Since we can't grow anything, we should dig out the things and field food that the former corrupt officials of the three states took away.By the way, the power of the vassal land can be more likely to be held in the hands, so that the power and responsibility are clear, and there will be no more excessive corrupt officials.

Then he lured the merchants in the feudal land, gave them certain conveniences, and asked them to donate food and clothes. In any case, he had to feed his soldiers and his people.

After Jiang Bai listened, he sighed lightly, but he could only nod his head: "This is also a good idea." Then he whispered another way to Xie Yuan - he asked Xie Yuan to prepare more silk tea and the like Things, when those fleets arrive, trade with some people in those fleets, let them get some food from other nearby countries, and secretly trade with Xie Yuan.

This is smuggling.

However, Xie Yuan couldn't care less.Jiang Bai is right, once the disaster year comes out, it is likely to be more than just one year.He has only been a feudal king for more than a year, and he doesn't have enough savings at all. If he doesn't want all the soldiers he just recruited to starve to death, and the people in the feudal land also starve to death, he has to come up with some "unique tricks".

——Once the vassal land is set aside, except for a certain amount of tax paid to the imperial court every year, the rest are self-sufficient, and the imperial court rarely returns to the vassal land to allocate food and other things.

And Xie Yuan and Xie Hanying have a deep relationship.He couldn't help Xie Hanying right now, but he didn't want to drag Xie Hanying down, so he decided to find a way to solve the matter of the domain.

Yin Shou is not in a hurry, he still stays with Xie Yuan.

According to Yin Shou's words, everything went wrong, and it was useless for him to go back.What's more, the situation in Yindi is much better than that of Xie Yuan and King Jing, so for the time being, he only needs to use letters to contact Fandi, while staying at Xie Yuan's place, helping Xie Yuan make suggestions or organize things from time to time, Let Xie Yuan have time to sleep for a few more hours——then, when the mood strikes occasionally, let him help warm the bed...

Yin Shou's face turned red when he thought of this.

But while blushing, he was earnestly making the bed and folding the quilt himself.

Xie Yuan marked a few names on the side, and decided to use these people to search their homes first this time. In any case, these people had been greedy for many years in Yunzhou and Jinzhou, where Emperor Tiangao was far away. Xie Yuan had already planned to Good to deal with them.Just according to his original idea, it is necessary to proceed step by step.It's a pity that the world is unpredictable, but now he has no choice but to act first, so that the victims of the disaster can survive this calamity.

He managed to settle these people down, stood up, and saw Yin Shouzheng standing by the bed with a blushing face, thinking about something messy.

Xie Yuan: "... Ah Shou?"

Yin Shou woke up suddenly, turned around, and continued to walk towards Xie Yuan with a blushing face. Then, he hugged Xie Yuan and mumbled a few words in a low voice.

Xie Yuan's ears were also a little hot.

He tried his best to calm down, and then said: "Then you have to call me brother."

Yin Shou nodded immediately: "Of course! Under the bed, A Yuan is my elder brother!" Then he called "Brother" affectionately, but what he thought was that when the two were on the bed, he forced his A Yuan When calling him "brother", his A Yuan's pretty face showed the kind of... Well, he was embarrassed and stubborn, but in the end he had to call him "brother" because of "various reasons" look like...

Yin Shou thought about it, and couldn't help but began to start to touch his sweetheart.

Xie Yuan... Xie Yuan also thought of what Yin Shou had done, his face blushed, then turned black again, and he was holding the whip in the room when Yin Shou grabbed his hand.

"Okay bro, wait until we have a good time, and brother will shake the whip again, okay?"

……

Yonghe two years, March.

King Jing asked the court for help, asking for some food, and there was old food to survive the disaster year.However, many people still starved to death.

Although King Zhao spoke for Zeng, the court also sent a lot of food.Also, King Zhao ransacked several corrupt officials' homes in the feudal domain, so he was able to survive the locust plague.Ninety percent of the people in Yunzhou survived.

However, until mid-March, there was still no rain in the north.

Xie Hanying had no choice but to pray for rain for the fourth time under the urging of the officials.

On March [-]th of the second year of Yonghe, Xie Hanying, the Emperor of Yonghe, once again ascended to pray for rain.

On the same day, an earthquake occurred in Chang'an and several surrounding towns.