"Your son greets Imperial Father!"
Ying Ziye was slightly surprised to see Ying Zheng coming. Then, he and Fu Su bowed to their father at the same time.
Didn't he say that he would preside over the morning court?
Why did he go back on his word today?
Ying Ziye was somewhat suspicious and puzzled.
However, looking at his father's expression, he seemed to be in a good mood and did not look angry.
"Greetings, Your Majesty!"
The ministers were so excited that they forgot to greet him.
It was not until Fu Su and Ying Ziye came forward to greet them that they came back to their senses.
Therefore, they all bowed and cupped their hands in respect!
"Everyone, please rise!"
"I'm attending court today, but I have nothing to do and came to join in the fun!”
"This court meeting is still presided over by the Crown Prince. Zhen is only observing from the side!”
Ying Zheng sat on the dragon throne and said with a warm smile.
Actually, the reason why he came to the morning court today was purely on a whim.
Every time, he would listen to the deacon of the Black Ice Platform report to him about the matters of the imperial court. It was not satisfying to listen.
Therefore, he had specially come over today to observe!
He wanted to see with his own eyes how his son handled the government.
How did he manage these officials?
One had to know that all the officials in the court were old foxes. Other than him, it was difficult for ordinary people to control them!
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
All the civil and military officials thanked him in unison, then retreated to the two sides and sat down in their own seats.
However, even though Ying Zheng said that they were only here to observe, they did not believe him at all.
Which emperor would come to observe the morning court?
Something must have happened, which was why he came to the morning court personally.
Moreover, even if the Emperor allowed the Crown Prince to preside over the court meeting, would the Crown Prince dare?
The First Emperor was here!
He wouldn't dare to ignore the emperor and really preside over the court meeting!
"Your son obeys!"
However, to their surprise, the Crown Prince did not hold back at all. He really wanted to preside over this court meeting?
No wonder he wasn't afraid that His Majesty would be jealous.
Aren't you afraid that His Majesty will be suspicious?
All emperors were very suspicious. If their throne was slightly threatened, they would have killing intent!
However, this kid didn't seem to care about these things at all!
Newborn calves were really not afraid of tigers!
It seemed that there might be a good show to watch today!
The officials looked at each other with anticipation.
He hoped that the First Emperor would be suspicious and find an excuse to take back the power of the Crown Prince.
It would be best if he could cripple the Crown Prince!
In that case, they would no longer have to live in fear.
"The court session officially begins today!"
"Just like yesterday, today is still a spot check on the progress of the tax reform!”
"Old rules, if someone is pretending to be obedient, or slacking off, this prince will send your entire family to the netherworld to reunite!”
Just as the ministers were full of expectations, Ying Ziye started to preside over the court meeting without any hesitation.
Furthermore, it was still the same as yesterday's morning court session.
In that instant, even though Ying Zheng was present, all the officials were still on tenterhooks.
"Li Si!"
"I'm here!"
Li Si instantly became nervous when he saw his name being called first.
Even though they had collected a lot of taxes yesterday, they had also completed the distribution of land in Xianyang.
But he was still not confident!
He was afraid that the crown prince would find a reason to kill him.
"The mission this prince gave you, what progress did you make yesterday?”
Ying Ziye looked down at the court and asked faintly.
"Reporting to the crown prince, yesterday, we completed the collection and distribution of land in Xianyang and the surrounding forty counties!”
"Two hundred and forty-four noble families were wiped out!”
"Among them, 241 noble families disobeyed orders and refused to pay taxes!”
"We have already executed their entire family according to the Crown Prince's orders!”
Li Si pretended to be calm and reported truthfully.
"He killed so many people?"
Hearing that all 241 noble families had been wiped out, Ying Zheng was slightly shocked.
Why didn't he realize that Li Si and the others were so ruthless in the past?
In a single day, he had slaughtered more than 200 families!
One had to know that many aristocrats were friends and family with them.
It was somewhat unexpected that he could even kill his own family and friends.
"This prince is not interested in these!”
"This prince only wants to know how much tax was collected yesterday?”
"How many landless commoners have been allocated farmland?”
Just as he was secretly surprised, his son spoke disapprovingly.
"The total tax collected yesterday was 23,750,000 taels of gold. There are countless valuable items, land, and real estate.”
"A total of more than a million landless people have been allocated farmland!”
Seeing that Ying Ziye did not blame them for killing the innocent, Li Si secretly heaved a sigh of relief.
His previous guess was correct. This Crown Prince did not care about the extermination of the noble gentry at all.
This kid only cared about whether the decree was carried out properly!
As long as they were allowed to kill, it would be easy!
In the future, if the taxes could not be collected, they could just directly confiscate their property!
It was too simple!
"Good!"
Hearing that he had collected more than twenty million taels of tax in one day yesterday, Ying Zheng could not help but exclaim," Good!"
In the past, the treasury was often empty, and the imperial court was always short of money and food!
They even had no money to pay the Meng army and were in arrears for almost half a year.
However, the Crown Prince managed to get so much money in just two days!
First, he won a bet of one million gold taels!
Then, he used the corpses of the six assassins to extort five million taels from Jixia Learning Palace.
Yesterday, he had collected more than 23 million taels in one go!
In the past, he had always thought that Great Qin was very poor and had no taxes to collect, which was why the treasury was empty.
Only now did he know that it was not that Great Qin did not have money, but that they had been taxing the wrong person.
All of Great Qin's wealth was in the hands of the nobles, yet he was asking for money from the commoners!
With such a reversal, it would be strange if the imperial court had money!
Now, just Xianyang and the surrounding forty counties had collected more than twenty million taels of silver from the nobles.
If they recruited all of Great Qin's nobles, would they have to worry about not having enough money in the treasury?
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