Mixed Rice, The Prime Minister Bet!
"The aristocratic families of Shandong have jointly submitted a letter saying that the taxes are too heavy. They want me to think for the people and reduce the taxes! The reduced taxes still ended up in their pockets!”
"Since the first year of Zhenguan, the taxes that I have reduced are 30% less than the previous dynasty, and these aristocratic families are still not satisfied! You actually want to use this to threaten me!"
Li Shi Min's cursing grew louder and louder.
Fang Xuanling, Zhangsun Wuji, and Gao Shilian were silent in the cold as they stood with their hands down.
Zhangsun Wuji raised his head and saw that Li Shiming was no longer speaking, so he said,"
"Your Majesty, the aristocratic families of Shandong are on the same side. This time, His Highness the Crown Prince has caused a huge commotion in Qinghe County. We still have to avoid him and plan slowly.”
Fang Xuanling disagreed.
"Duke Qi, things are not that simple. The Ministry of Revenue has already come to me time and time again, saying that they need to build a new water irrigation project here, that they need to relieve the disaster victims there, and that the Ministry of Revenue still needs a large amount of money. The national treasury was almost empty.
Even though they had confiscated the property of the Cui Family of Qinghe, it could still last for a while. However, without the taxes of these Shandong aristocratic families, it would be difficult for them to survive this winter!”
Fang Xuanling was the head of the six tribes!
There were many miscellaneous matters that he handled every day.
Therefore, he was very sensitive to these things.
When Zhangsun Wuji heard this, he had no idea.
At this moment, Li Chengqian quickly walked in." The taxes that should be paid by their aristocratic families cannot be reduced by a single cent. If it wasn't for them, then forget it.”
"Forget it? You make it sound so easy?" Li Shi Min snorted coldly.
In Li Shi Min's eyes, his Crown Prince was becoming more and more boastful.
Zhangsun Wuji explained,"
"Your Highness doesn't know. The aristocratic families control a large area of land, so we have to discuss the matter of taxes with them.
If they really fell out with the aristocratic families, countless commoners would probably run out of food, and the world would be in chaos again!”
Li Chengqian knew the stakes.
Almost all of the commoners in the 52 states of Shandong worked for the aristocratic families, helping them grow crops. Then, they could get a small amount of rations every year to maintain their lives.
As for the imperial court, they would also receive tax revenue from the aristocratic families!
Therefore, a large amount of food was actually in the hands of the aristocratic families! This was also the reason why the imperial court would borrow grain from these aristocratic families during a war!
"The commoners depend on the aristocratic families for nothing more than food. "If we hand over the grain owned by the imperial court to the commoners to grow, then the commoners will pay their own taxes every year. Wouldn't we be able to get rid of the control of the aristocratic families?”Li Chengqian suggested!
"Haha!" Gao Shilian smiled and shook his head at the young Li Chengqian." Your Highness, you're still too young!”
Li Shi Min immediately rebuked," Brat, what do you know!”
Li Chengqian discovered that this father of his really lost his temper easily. His temper was also very fiery!
Zhangsun Wuji was gentler and took the initiative to explain,
"Your Highness, as I said just now, the great clans control a large amount of land, and the Imperial Court only controls forty percent of the Great Tang's land!
This mere forty percent of the land was simply not enough to feed all the people of the Great Tang! This is precisely why we have to cooperate with the aristocratic families!”
Li Chengqian chuckled!
If it was in the past, he really had no choice.
But now!
He had hybrid rice!
How could a hybrid rice yield of 2,000 catties per mu not solve this problem?
"What are you laughing at? Don't tell me you have another way?”Li Shi Min narrowed his eyes and asked.
Li Chengqian nodded." There really is a way!" Imperial Father, please take a look. This is the hybrid rice that I recently developed.”
Li Chengqian directly extracted 1 jin of hybrid rice seeds from the system!
"This rice seed is so full!"
"It seems so different from barnyard rice!”
Seeing Li Chengqian take out a pound of rice seeds from his sleeve, everyone surrounded him.
Li Chengqian explained,"This rice seed is called hybrid rice. The yield per mu is two thousand jin!"”
"What is it? Two thousand jin?"
When Zhangsun Wuji heard that, his hands that were touching the rice seeds began to tremble violently!
"Barnyard millet can mature in two seasons, but it can only produce 200 catties per mu at most!" Fang Xuanling said in a trembling voice.
Your rice seeds can directly increase the strength by ten times? Are you trying to trick us?"
Li Chengqian smiled and said,"My hybrid rice also matures in two seasons. Now, it's planted in March and will mature in June.(It's been improved by the system to enhance the style of the text.)”
"It can mature in three months?”Li Shi Min was also shocked," Li Chengqian, do you know the crime of deceiving the sovereign?”
Li Chengqian immediately said," I have a manor with a hundred acres of land outside the city. Tomorrow, I will order people to plant the rice seeds. In three months, we will naturally see the results!"
If you still have doubts, why don't we make a bet?”
Hearing about the bet…
Everyone was interested!
Li Shi Min laughed." If it's really as you said, it'll mature in three months and produce two thousand catties per mu, then you can go to court with a sword in the future!”
He went to court with his sword!
This was a supreme honor!
"Then I'll add a bet. If it works, I'm willing to betroth my daughter to Your Highness."”
Zhangsun Wuji narrowed his eyes and said,"I'm also willing to betroth my daughter to Your Highness!"”
Li Chengqian was speechless!
F * ck!
I asked you to make a bet. Are you here to send me my wife?
Gao Shilian clapped his hands happily."Sigh! This is good, this is good, this old minister will remember it all for you!”
Stroking the plump seeds of the hybrid rice, Gao Shilian said,""If we can really produce two thousand jin per mu, then forty percent of the Great Tang's land can feed all the people, and even half of it will be surplus! This is definitely a blessing for the Great Tang! With this, the aristocratic families 'monopoly on food would no longer exist!”
Fang Xuanling and Zhangsun Wuji's eyes were filled with tears!
Li Chengqian said helplessly," Alright, you guys can cry here first. I'll go plant crops for you guys!"”
Finished talking, Li Chengqian turned around and left the palace!
The person who brushed past Li Chengqian was a Golden Guard who was in a hurry.
The Golden Guards came to the hall. Cheng Chumo and Yuchi Baolin led 3,000 Left Military Guards to attack 56 residences in the city. These 56 residences were all residences of the Cui Clan in Boling. They killed a total of 692 people from the Cui Clan!”
"What?"
Hearing this urgent report, the few people in the hall were incomparably shocked!
"Cheng Chumo, Yuchi Baolin, where did they get their guts from?!" Li Shimin asked angrily. Tell me, who is the instigator?"
The Golden Guard hesitated for a moment before saying,
"I heard that…it's an edict from His Highness the Crown Prince!”
"Li Chengqian!" Li Shi Min shouted!
Li Shiming had never imagined that Li Chengqian, who had just been chatting and laughing with them about the bright future of the Great Tang, would actually kill all six hundred of the Cui Clan!
Such a method made even Li Shiming, his father, tremble!
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