Gao Yue couldn't help but be amazed when he saw the deer.

Lingxu tried hard to evenly breathe, and then twisted out an arrow and put it on the string.

The deer flew away, and the deer jumped up like lightning, and the arrow fell behind it. When Lingxu raised his eyes, the deer had already rushed to the fiery red maple forest.

"Don't want to leave." Lingxu lay on the saddle and jumped to chase him.

Gao Yue kept calling the princess to be home, but Lingxu was still running forward for a long time. Gao Yue had no choice but to follow him.

"The forest is burning." They both came back to their taste and found that the deer had disappeared in the dense forest at the foot of the mountain in front of them. More than ten miles behind them, a fire ignited between the fields and the forests, dyeing the twilight red all over the sky. This was the climax of hunting. By burning grass and woods, the prey was forced to run out in a mess and then hunt thoroughly.

This magnificent scene, with its original barbaric beauty, Gao Yue and Lingxu couldn't help but be fooled by it. The red flames all over the mountains, the soldiers and people running around like ants, and of course, there were also various wild beasts jumping everywhere in the wilderness.

"Yun!" Lingxu suddenly shouted uneasy.

The clouds that were originally like obstacles in the sky would gather together at some time. The prey on the ground and clouds surrounded the entire land. In a dim and in a daze, the cold autumn rain fell down inappropriately, bit by bit, hitting the horse's hair and hunting clothes, and also falling into the originally rolling flames, stirring up a gray-white fog and soon spread out. The hunters were having difficulty distinguishing things among them, and their figures ran around.

Lingxu and Gao Yue were riding horses in the rain in a mess. The mist generated by the mixing fire and rain blew over. They could only lower their heads carefully and groping for the road in the wild forest of Yunyang. Now there was only a falcon on Lingxu's shoulders and the hunting dog with golden bells tied to them.

"There is a cave there, let's go in to hide from the rain." Lingxu said, pointing to the cracked cliff.

The valleys on both sides of the gray-white cliff are covered with trees. The cave is sandwiched between the cliffs and rocks. It is a large naturally formed crack. Some rocks are piled up by woodcutters and hunters who have sheltered from the rain, like a step.

At this time, the emperor and his close ministers and officials, who were also in a mess, came to a village in Yunyang with their prey in a mess. The emperor rode his horse into the hut that was most relied on the outside, and the soldiers of the City Guarding Office followed closely behind.

"Don't panic, don't panic." After the emperor came to the house of the civil servants, he asked the owner who came to bow to the family to get up, took off his hunting clothes, and the guards' patrol officers brought the bed. The emperor sat under the eaves, and the sisters of the Song family stood around. The emperor looked at the rain getting heavier and he sighed and said that the weather was not good. Then he asked the head of the household with a kind look at who was.

"Little Man Ma Yiyan." The head of the household saw the person in front of him, and saw the soldiers of the city patrol officer standing in the courtyard wearing silk cloth armor, and the female officials of the court who were like fairies beside him. He knew that he must be the Supreme Lord of the Nine Five.

"I'm upset." said the emperor.

Then the emperor went to Ma Yixian's stove and circled around, uncovered the pot and found out the food of the people.

Then several soldiers handed over the wild game they had received to Ma Yiyan's wife and daughter, and gave them some money to cook wild game and cook millet rice to fill the emperor and his servants' hunger.

"This year, whether it is wheat or corn in the capital and northwest, it is very rich!" The emperor asked Ma Yiyan to sit on the Hu bed opposite him, and then began to talk about mulberry and hemp, and get close to it.

In fact, the emperor's autumn hunting also has another purpose, which is to observe the harvest among the people. Of course, the feedback made him proud: in the past two or three years, the weather was good, and in Jingyang and Sanyuan, the public and private granaries were abundant.

Ma Yiyan nodded, saying that it was indeed the case.

"After the harvest, the tax was over again. The winter solstice was about to reach the New Year. Can you give your family a meat, clothing, and silk? I am happy too?" The emperor thought of a bumper harvest, and the life of the farmers would definitely improve a lot.

But Ma Yiyan said bluntly: "Not happy!"

The scene was suddenly very awkward.

The emperor looked at Song Ruohua, then looked at Song Ruozhao and Ruoxian, then laughed a few times, and then asked Ma Yisan: "Why are you not happy to get a good harvest?"

In the cave on the nameless cliff in Yunyang, Gao Yue and Lingxu tied their horses to the trunk outside the tree and came to the cave one step deep and one step shallow.

The cave is not high, but it is extremely wide and long. It has rocks like a large bed, with some hay on it. It is surrounded by circles of stones to form a small fire pit, with charcoal embers inside, and some firewood piled beside it. It seems that people will rest here from time to time.

After Gao Yue lit the fire note and threw the firewood into the fire pit, he noticed that the rock had been chiseled into a long and narrow Buddhist niche, and the Bodhisattva with a peaceful expression was lying. The two of them stood up and prayed to the Bodhisattva in their hands.

Then Lingxu cut off the prey he carried with him, a dead wild pheasant, with a dagger and threw it to his eagle.

The eagle was biting slowly, while the hound was squatting at the "door" of the cave, with its pointed ears and quietly looking into the rain curtain.

Soon, Lingxu looked at Gao Yue's eyes and began to take off his red robe.

In Ma Yiyan's house, Ma Yiyan was telling the emperor why he was "unhappy":

"I have collected ten more dou of grain in the past two years, but the government has no credit at all. When I issued the two taxes, I clearly told us that no one should be charged except for the two taxes. But now there are many miscellaneous taxes, which are as numerous as the imperial court, and the prefectures and counties must also collect them. These miscellaneous taxes are about to exceed the regular taxes!"

The emperor's face became embarrassing.

Ma Yiyan continued: "Cook more food. Before the autumn came, the officials were worried about it and forced to give us a deposit. What is the 'whole purchase'? In fact, it is to force the grain from the fields to force it to levy the money."

"This, this, the tax should not be collected from the rich first." The emperor still defended himself.

Ma Yiyan was not polite, and seemed to have a lot of resentment, "Hmph, the households in the clothes and the households in the situation avoided the service, and the poor households fled, and could only put all the taxes missing from both ends on us. Originally, the official said that the rice dumplings paid were enough to be delivered to the side of the road, but when things came to an end, they pulled our donkeys and our calves, saying that they wanted to deliver food to the Jingxijun Town. When they came back, the donkeys died and the car was broken. The good people could not live, they would starve to death in the famine years, and they would be exploited to death in the prosperous years. I am happy, so happy!"

This made the emperor sweat on his forehead, his face sometimes white and sometimes red.

He finally understood that under the current system, the court collected a dou of food from the people and exploited it at all levels, and the people often had to pay a price of five or even six dou. The tax differences and taxes that Li Mi and Lu Zhi said were not evenly understood and uneven, and the same was true for Gao Yue to implement the law of the Sutra.

The imperial minister's words are so bright that Ma Yi was not as alert as the countryside scent.

"Yes, right, where is Gao Yue? I originally wanted to summon him to ask the right one." At this moment, the emperor remembered when Gao Yue disappeared?
Chapter completed!