Section 101

In a hall of about a hundred square meters, there is Liu Xie's temporary court. Zhang Feng, the real Qingzhou master, naturally followed his boss and changed into a full set of black court uniforms, wearing a cicada hat, and worries under his feet. He staggered into the court - he had not yet woken up.

It was really early for the emperor to go to the palace at Chen hour, but the officials insisted that they wait outside at Mao hour. The sky was cold and the wind was strong. A group of black-clothed officials looked like ghosts before dawn, but in fact they were just froze. This was not a formal palace, so where could the side hall hide from the wind?

Yesterday, they introduced Cai Yan to Cao Cao. In fact, they had known each other for a long time, but Cai Yan was too young at that time, and Cao had to have a mature woman, so they didn't remember her appearance.

When Cai Yan talked about his life experience with tears in his eyes, Zhang Feng and Cao Cao sighed at the same time, and even Hao Zhao, who was listening next to him, had his eyes red.

Cai mm said that thanks to Hao Zhao's rescue, he had to escape from the clutches of the Huns. Cao Cao expressed his gratitude to him at that time. Who knew that this stupid head shook his head and said that I don't want money. I want to join the army under Xiao Wenhou, so Hao Zhao became Zhang Feng's personal guard and was under Huang Zhong's jurisdiction.

Zhang Feng knew very well how awesome Hao Zhao was in history later. Only 3,000 people trapped Zhuge Liang in Chen Cang for more than 20 days. If he hadn't been seriously ill, Zhuge Liang might have used his brain to take him away like Jiang Wei. But he didn't expect that he was so famous that such a great man came to ask for his name to join him.

That night, Cao Cao invited a group of close people to accompany the banquet. In fact, he was afraid that Cai Yan would be restrained by himself. Zhang Feng was an indispensable figure, including Hao Zhao.

Talking about the world and talking about how rude Cai mm pushed people into the water, Cai mm wanted to jump up and tear Zhang Feng's mouth; then Cao Cao jumped out to end with Cai mm, saying that Zhang Feng's fart was beaten by him, which made everyone laugh. Cai mm was grateful for Cao Cao's righteousness. While smiling, he finally felt relieved. With such a "Uncle Shi" who should be able to take care of himself, right?

As a result, the dinner ended very much. Zhang Feng's eloquence turned this, which was originally a welcome to Cai Yan, into his personal talk show, which made Cai mm almost forget his situation. The newly acquired younger brother Hao Zhao finally saw Zhang Feng's verbal skills. It seems that he would still talk less in front of this new boss in the future.

So of course Zhang Feng couldn't sleep enough. He could see the dark circles of the two bosses under the yellow oil lamp. Cao Cao was already dark, and even if he had them, he couldn't find them. The two of them squeezed together to keep warm, looking at His Majesty's closed "District" and sighed helplessly.

"Lord!" Zhang Feng yawned, then arched Cao Cao beside him.

"Hmm?" Cao Cao was so cold that his nose was almost flowing out. Why was this easier to recognize than dark circles?

"Can you call me a sick and take a sham? I'm weak and can't stand the wind and rain." Zhang Feng sniffed the heat in his hands, and then retracted his broad long sleeves. His head was almost in the neck cavity, and it looked like a hunchback and hunchback.

"Well - it's OK in principle, but the first morning court is enough, right?" Cao Cao agreed with this point in his heart, but as the boss, his subordinates' laziness should not grow.

"Boss, please help me invite a home every day, just say that I was suffering from the disease when I went to Luoyang." Zhang Feng looked at Lao Cao with a scammer's eyes and looked at him.

I asked your boss to ask you for leave when I was blowing the air and getting cold here, and you ran back to sleep in. Can you say this? On the other hand, it's almost the same.

"How about this, you will go back to Qingzhou tomorrow and be careful of the north and south."

All the officials came from a group of people. Although some people knew each other, they could not tell who was so ugly. Cao Cao and Zhang Feng were the most powerful, standing alone in the same corner, and not afraid of others hearing them.

"Received! Don't worry about Yuan Dasha. My senior brother Gongsun Zan has a headache. He won't be able to make any decisions about us for the time being. But Tao Qian, that old boy, would have caused trouble for him." Although it was cold and cold, Zhang Feng did not forget to use his brain.

"Oh? How can you make trouble?" As long as Zhang Feng said he had an idea, Cao Cao would be very interested.

Fortunately, my daughter is not as ugly as herself, otherwise such a literary and martial character would be despised by her and would be defeated by her switching to someone else's disciples.

"Did the lord forget it? Most of the officials in Qingzhou are from the Yellow Turban family now. I'm sure they are happy to ask them to do their jobs temporarily?" Zhang Feng grinned, making Lao Cao feel thirsty.

Can you think of such bad ideas? But I like it.

"Then...Wi'er, do you want to bring it with you?" Old Cao had already regarded Zhang Feng as a whole son from the bottom of his heart, and someone else's son-in-law was only half a son.

"Well-it depends on your opinion?" Zhang Feng blinked at Cao Cao. He only smiled at Lao Cao like this when there was no one in private.

Cao Cao thought about it and took it with him, afraid that he would have a son before marriage, so he wouldn't take it. What if the two of them didn't meet each other later? Let's change their daughters at the moment? Although Cao's reproductive ability is good.

Forget it, I can't bear to leave my child and can't trap the wolf, and I can't bear to leave my daughter and can't trap the hooligan Zhang Feng. I've done it.

"You can take it with you. I'm so sorry to her. If she suffers a little grievance, hum!" Old Cao knew in his heart that Zhang Feng would not be afraid of his threats in the formal occasion.

Sure enough, Zhang Feng said a few times: "Don't worry, my father-in-law, how could I let my wife be wronged? You think my new sister is serious."

Cao Cao: "?" I thought about it for a long time before I recalled it and said that Cai Yan.

"Do you think..." Cao Cao held it in for a long time and wanted to ask Zhang Feng about the idea he had just had. Just forget it. Zhang Feng is so familiar with Cai Yan, and his relationship with him is a bit outrageous. With his fear of chaos in the world, he probably wanted to be Cai Yan's other brother and then take the opportunity to take advantage of his generation.

If this is true, he is Zhang Feng's father-in-law and he is his brother-in-law? This...

Cao Cao felt it was very messy and complicated, so he simply stopped talking about it.

I don’t know how long I have been talking about it, but I have been talking about going to the Western Regions in the future. At this time, the closed "District" opened with a "squeak". The only palace maid held a whisk in his hand and screamed: "Your morning court, all officials will meet you!"

A large group of men in black were almost supported by each other to move their steps, and they were frozen.

According to the rank, I don’t know which one I need to get Zhang Feng and Cao Cao, but those people are as slow as snails. Anyway, relying on the help of saving the car, the two of them are the first to enter the door.

Fortunately, Cao Cao chose the outermost position when he entered the door. Zhang Feng had gone to the front of him? He stepped forward and almost stood under the "dragon throne". If Cao Cao hadn't been afraid of embarrassment, he waved his hand and asked him to come over, Zhang Damai must have gotten close to the emperor.

The officials came in one after another, and at least they formed two rows, so that the hall of more than a hundred square meters would not be too shabby, and would not hurt Liu Xie's tortured fragile heart.

Everyone had been here for a long time, but they still didn't see Liu Xie's people. It was just that the hall was quiet and no one spoke, and Zhang Feng didn't dare to complain.

The palace maid finally shouted again with a sharp voice: "The emperor is here!"

The officials dressed up, faced the north, then knelt down and said, "Long live my emperor!"

Then Liu Xie entered from the side, followed by two temporary palace maids with two fans, slowly walked to the dragon throne and sat down. He raised his hand and said, "The family of all the ministers is flat."

Then everyone thanked, "Thank you Your Majesty!" Then they heard the sound of clothes, and several people even knelt down but couldn't get up.

Zhang Feng was the only one who dared to kneel in front of the emperor and looked around with his head raised. When he saw the two big long-handled fans, he felt familiar. When he thought that Yuan Shao had used it in the camp of Sour Jujube.

Tell, those who have this style are not afraid of the cold. I don’t know if Lao Cao will be good at this in the future.

"I was able to attend court here thanks to Cao Aiqing's loyal heart. Come on, Cao Aiqing--"

The palace mass immediately shouted, "Xuan Caoqing's family came forward to listen to the seal!"

Zhang Feng finally saw the boss who was usually domineering and was rarely vulgar. He lowered his head and bowed his back, and ran forward and knelt down.

"Cao loves me twice when he was in danger of the country, and raised troops for the Han Dynasty. He made great contributions. He was specially appointed as the Si Li School Captain, and was appointed as the Minister of State for the Jieyue, and recorded the affairs of the Shangshu!"

"I thank Your Majesty for your holy grace!"

Zhang Feng muttered in his heart that there was indeed no material reward, and Liu Xie probably has no one on him now.

However, this Sili School Captain is useless. This fake Jieyue is just a glorious appearance, and it is very useful to record the affairs of Shangshu. At least the boss can justify the political affairs in the future.

Then there was a long list of rewards. Zhang Feng didn't care about the content at first, but later he thought about it in his mind: Liu Xie was indeed not stupid. Although Cao Cao's reward was the most powerful, he was not very rewarded to his entourage members who came out of Chang'an. To put it bluntly, he was just guarding against Cao Cao's dominance alone and cultivating some officials who were only loyal to him.

As expected, there are not many stupid people who can become emperors. It seems that I am not a good job in this industry. It is okay to use conspiracies and tricks, but it is obviously too young to play politics.

"Cao Aiqing, I have heard that Yanzhou is rich in the west, and I don't know how much tax it costs per year?"

He had long expected that Liu Xiehui would ask this question, so Cao Cao had already asked the clerk and the chief clerk to summarize the relevant information, so he submitted it to the palace servant and then transferred it to Liu Xie.

There is some moisture in the information, after all, it is too popular to be taboo. Even so, Liu Xie took it and opened it and looked at it, and his eyes lit up.

"Cao Aiqing is indeed a good building for the country! A state actually has 70,000 silver dollars. Such a great achievement should be issued to the whole province to promote his achievements!"

"Report to the emperor! These 70,000 are only the income from agriculture in Yanzhou! Including commerce, industry and other income, there are a total of about 400,000!"

There was a chilling sound in the hall, and even Liu Xie was a little dazed: "Four...400,000?"

You should know that the average tax revenue in a state should be around 30,000 before the Dong Zhuo Rebellion, and these 400,000... Liu Xie always felt that Cao Cao was fooling him.

"That is, the reason why Yanzhou is rich and the world is the most prosperous... Please ask Rong Chen to be the best of our Han Dynasty. There are many civil servants working in business, which is the fundamental reason!"

"But agriculture is the foundation of the world. If the family is abolished and merchants are established, there will be changes in the world. For example, the rebellion of Dong thieves, how can we raise the people's food?" Dong Cheng, the first in the left, couldn't help but ask.

"Haha, the uncle of the country doesn't know what, how can Yanzhou not know that agriculture is the foundation? If our Yanzhou had not had enough food to prepare for emergencies, how could we dare to promote businessmen like this?"

"Why would you like to ask the Master Cao, how much is the land tax in Yanzhou?" Dong Zhao said this time.

"Return to Lord Dong, thirty taxes per one."

It was another slight sound of gasping for cold air. Thirty taxes were only available in the early Han Dynasty when the Wen and Jing ruled them!

At that time, the taxes of each state were different. Due to the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the state and the governor had the right to set the taxes under their jurisdiction. No matter how much you set, the part you paid to the court will be finished.

And with such a low tax, it can charge 70,000 yuan in taxes. What does this mean?

Although everyone knows that Cao Cao should be very rich, he shouldn't have to pay his own money to make this fake account. Isn't that sick?

Liu Xie felt his throat was a little dry: "If there was the level of Yanzhou in the whole world, then my great man would be so rich and powerful!"

He probably forgot that the area around Luoyang in Sizhou was almost deserted.

"Cao Aiqing!"

"I'm here!"

"In view of my beloved ability in governing the world, I specially upgraded the rewards you have given you. From today on, the Cao Qing family will be the prime minister of my great Han Dynasty!"

As soon as this statement was said, everyone was speechless. Why didn’t Liu Xie discuss this with them before? Suddenly he changed his mind?

Cao Cao was even more unbelievable. A state governor jumped directly to the prime minister's first-class rank?

Zhang Feng even found it incredible. The book... seems to be that's not what he said?

However, Zhang Feng still felt that the faster the better, the better, so that his ideal of changing China's direction could be realized as soon as possible.
Chapter completed!