In Changsha City, the prefect's mansion was inevitably entertained with singing and dancing that night, and drinking and meat.

Although Zhao Yun himself has a simple temperament, he knows Li Su too much. When the Right General came with Wang Ming, he of course had to do his best to entertain him.

Jingnan is low and humid. Li Su's day is approaching late April. It is actually not a good time to go south to use troops. The soldiers' subsequent battles will be very hot, so they can only count on a quick battle.

When Zhao Yun arranged the reception, he also thought that Li Su was always afraid of heat and took a bath in the summer in the south. He had a bad appetite, so he didn't get too much greasy meat. The banquet was mainly light.

There is no domestic meat such as mutton, pork, etc., only poultry and lake food.

Zhao Yun pointed to the steamer chicken in front of him and introduced: "This is the day before yesterday when I practiced, I watched the scenery on Luoxiao Mountain and shot casually. The ingredients for the braised ingredients are all bamboo fungus and monkey heads. The thin square tripods are Yunmengze's sturgeons and porcine fish, both famous products in Changsha County, and you must try it."

There are also a few small tripods and iron plates, which Zhao Yun did not introduce, but Li Su knew them, and they were nothing more than anchovies and eels in Dongting Lake. They can also be eaten in other places, and they are also found in the Yangtze River in Yizhou.

The sturgeon looked like it was not hundreds of kilograms, which were more than six or seven feet long. The porcine fish was slightly smaller, but it was more than 100 kilograms. Of course, Li Su couldn't finish it alone, so he sat around a senior staff member such as Zhao Yun and others, and some waiters sent it to each other's case.

Li Su feasted and finally appreciated some benefits from the end of the Han Dynasty - there were too many sturgeons and porcine fish, so we didn't need to carefully distinguish whether they were subspecies such as "Chinese sturgeon" or "River Porpoise". Anyway, what is easy to catch is not rare, and it is impossible to destroy the ecological balance of Dongting Lake without mechanized fishing.

Although Li Su's life was quite prosperous in his later generations, his understanding of sturgeon was only at the level of caviar imported by the Russians. He had never eaten whole fish, and today's pomp was even more tempting.

"I finally felt a little bit about coming to Jingzhou." After eating the fish, Li Su picked her teeth while patting her stomach and sighed with thoughts.

Who made this era without any landmarks? The natural scenery is similar wherever you go. It is really hard to make people feel the reality of "I came to another state of the Han Dynasty" without eating some local specialties that are not available anywhere else.

Zhao Yun saw it and quietly ordered the people around him: "In the future, let the people from Hu Cao Shi give you a fresh Yunmengze sturgeon and porcine fish every three days. Don't need to be too big, and the extra meat scattered to the Dian Xiaowei, Gan Xiaowei, and other right generals."

The chief officials of each Cao under the governor and the prefectural governor were called "Cao Zheng", and the subordinate officials of each Cao under the prefect were called "Cao Shi". Zhao Yun was the prefect of Changsha, so no matter whether he wanted money or things, the households and cadres had to help him handle the matter, which was equivalent to the financial department of the leader.

Li Su ate happily and spoke more straightforwardly: "It is said that Yizhou is the country of Tianfu, and Changsha is close to the south of the miasma. I want to see that this area around Yunmengze is still a good place, with abundant resources. There is great potential for military use to go south."

Zhao Yun's expression was a little embarrassed: "The king ordered the right general to come here to urge the last general to attack the thieves who expressed their own independence. This is to uphold the authority of the court and to prevent the thieves who do not respect the court and privately grant official positions. What is the benefit?"

After hearing this, Li Su disagreed with Zhao Yun's opinion: "The current low burden of the local people is based on the anarchy of the court, not for a long time. Is it because they do not have to pay tribute in the past few years and will they always be blinded in the future?

Secondly, the court does not want them to pay tribute. I don’t believe that the local county magistrates have not asked whether the people will collect taxes in recent years? Which of the salaries of local officials, military supplies, and various local administrative expenses are not collected from the people? Without the court’s tribute, the officials’ plunder may not be reduced, and they may be more collected, and the difference will only be enough to fill their personal pockets.

Only by implementing the rent and mediocre method can the people have a stable expectation of the future tax burden and know how much tax to pay in the next few years, rather than a temporary decision based on the court's likes and dislikes or whether the local officials are sharp or not.

Mencius said: The people are the way of the people. Those who have constant property have perseverance, and those who have no permanent property have no perseverance. If they have no perseverance, they will do everything they want. Letting the people clarify how much tax they expect to pay is also the main task of making them have perseverance."

These words were like Huang Zhong Da Lu, which inspired Zhao Yun. Only then did she realize that she had been idealized at the beginning.

The main reason is that Zhao Yun himself is too honest, which restricts his imagination of fighting against corrupt officials. He himself felt that "if I was the prefect, if the court had not forced me to collect taxes and bear tributes, I would definitely not have charged this dollar." He did not want to get the actual practices of other corrupt officials.

Only Li Su, who is so treacherous and insightful in human nature, can see through "the corrupt officials will not ask me for it just because the court doesn't ask me for it, and I don't ask the people for it." It's common to deceive the superiors and conceal the subordinates and eat it from both sides.

In an instant, Zhao Yun finally felt that he had completely solved the motive problem of Nanzheng from the inside out.

It turns out that after those thieves and heroes proclaimed themselves as prefects, they slaughtered the people in this way. If the court did not plunder them, they would also plunder them even more. Then why don’t they use the method of renting and mediocre adjustment to rescue those people immediately?

Zhao Yun even felt that the renting and mediocre adjustment method is so beneficial to people in remote areas to reduce the burden. It is necessary that even Jiaozhou has been liberated by compressing corrupt officials, businessmen and hoarders to collect various losses.

Let the people of Jiaozhou, who were originally plundered, live a happy life with "stable tax burden expectations".

Unfortunately, the king's order cannot be violated. If Jiaozhou is liberated, it will damage Liu Bei's reputation and make the world feel that Liu Bei is grabbing territory for him. If Liu Bei did not give him an order, it would be difficult for him to liberate the people of Jiaozhou.

Zhao Yun cheered up his spirit and asked: "Don't worry, right general! Yun will rectify the army and horses within five days. After the Gan Jiao Captain took over the defense of Baqiu, I will take the troops from Changsha to the south of Xiao and Hunan, and make sure that the two counties will submit to the king as soon as possible to save the people from water and fire."

Li Su waved his hand slightly with a smile: "Don't be anxious, sharpening the knife will not delay the chopping of wood. Since we want to completely end Jingnan's restrained attitude, we must also keep a back-up.

For example, if Liu Du and Zhao Fan are ungrateful and we insist on taking them off, in Jingzhou, there are famous scholars and talents who are willing to seek refuge in our position as the prefect of the two counties?

When I came here, the king had full authorization. Even the blank letter of appointment of the prefects of Lingling, Guiyang and other counties had been stamped with the king's seal and entrusted to me, so that I could do things cheaply and not ask for instructions on my own appointment. After the matter was settled, I could report it."

Zhao Yun felt a stern in his heart, thinking that the king's trust in the right general had indeed increased to a higher level. Although the right general had already come to the "fake king's talisman" this time, the full authorization standard was actually at the level of being able to express the prefect of a county without asking for a report, so there was no one else.
Chapter completed!