Son of Song Dynasty

Chapter 82
Zhao Dezhao fulfilled his promise to Wang Xiuzhi and led her to live out her addiction to copying the house.

A minister, a servant, a principal, and several doctors and officials, the family property of these criminals involved in the case is quite expensive, and the property of one farm shop after another was seized, which is a lot of money. It took two days to copy it.

Only these big fish that are a bit heavy can the majestic Princess of Tianshui County barely get interested and condescend to go and search their homes.

As for the more than 60 tax collectors who participated in fraud, they can only be regarded as a group of small shrimps. Zhao Dezhao looked down on them, and Wang Xiuzhi lacked interest, so they were all handed over to Wang Zixing for disposal. I didn't expect Wang Zixing to be really good at doing this. The sum of the numbers he checked out could be as much as nearly 100 million.

After four or five days, the work of ransacking the house was finally finished, and after a rough calculation through the compiled house raid registration book, the total was no less than 400 million guan!

Zhao Dezhao slammed the thick copy of the family book on the table, and said with a wry smile: "My lady, I understand that what you said earlier is so reasonable. My husband is really short-sighted and shallow-sighted!"

"Sir, my concubine has said a lot of reasonable things, which one are you referring to?" Wang Xiuzhi frowned and smiled like a flower.

"On the day when Chi built a new house, I didn't believe it at the time when you said, 'If the Song Dynasty is rich, we will make more money'. Now it seems that Chi is just a small fish. As for these silverfish, they may not be good at managing government affairs, but they are all good at digging the corners of our old Zhao's house!"

After Zhao Dezhao vented his dissatisfaction with those Dasong moths, he pressed the thick copy of the registration book with his left hand, estimated half the thickness like last time, and with a bang, nearly half of the pages were torn off, and he took it to his heart. With a flick of his hand, he pushed the remaining half of the registration book to Wang Xiuzhi: "Old rules, I will take half of it to enter the palace and give it to my father, and the remaining half you will enter the treasury of the palace."

Wang Xiuzhi was dumbfounded by this coquettish operation, and said in astonishment: "Sanggong, don't you hate those corrupt moths very much? Just now you were complaining that they poached the corners of our old Zhao's house, why did you suddenly--ah, Mrs., you Every time you wipe the oil, you steal half of it, isn't it more ruthless than those silverfish?"

"My lady, the geese pluck their feathers, and the birds poop when they fly - this has been the rule for thousands of years, don't you understand?"

"Your husband, my surname is Zhao. I belong to the real Zhao family. What's mine is mine, and what's my father's is still mine. I confiscate some ill-gotten gains on behalf of my emperor's father. What's wrong?"

"Besides, of the 30 guan of tax money paid before, 20 guan were taken from the room of copper coins hidden in the darkroom of Chi's house. After all, it belongs to our private wealth. Since we have all paid for it, Isn't it right to charge some interest back?"

Zhao Dezhao spoke uprightly, leaving the bewildered Wang Xiuzhi behind and went out.

Funing Palace.

Zhao Kuangyin casually glanced at the registration book of house raids submitted by his son, and asked, "How much?"

"A total of about 220 million guan." Zhao Dezhao replied with a smile, thinking in his heart: "Our father and I are half of each other. If a son makes me like this, even after 1000 years, he will be quite filial!"

Zhao Kuangyin let out an "oh" and put down the registration book for ransacking his home. He didn't seem to be very happy about the unexpected huge fortune, but instead looked a little complicated, and sighed, "Erlang, our Great Song Dynasty ruled the world with leniency and benevolence. The rules of copying the house, your way, I'm afraid it's inappropriate!"

"Father, don't you call it lenient and benevolent?" Zhao Dezhao didn't think so, and joked on his face: "Since ancient times, murderers have been beheaded with a knife, and thieves have been fined ten times. What kind of evil did the gangster do, the court will use whatever method to punish him. Those people who are greedy for ink, cheating, and embezzling public funds, they come for money, wouldn't it be appropriate to steal their property? According to my son, the act of ransacking There can be sets, and there should be!"

Zhao Kuangyin frowned and thought for a moment, then finally shook his head: "It's better to use this method with caution! Erlang, you have to keep in mind that it is not easy to gather people from all directions!"

Zhao Dezhao turned his head away, pouted.

From his modern point of view, the reason why the emperors of the Song Dynasty, starting from the emperor's father, treated the officials of the court, especially the civil officials, was outrageous, except partly because of the "disaster of the feudal town" in the late Tang Dynasty. In addition to reflection, the bigger reason is actually that the emperor lacks authority, he can only use generous treatment to win over his courtiers, and he dare not punish severely if he makes a mistake.

The root cause of the emperor's lack of authority is actually that his foreign martial arts are too poor. To put it bluntly, the military is too weak and too incapable of fighting. Naturally, he lacks prestige and confidence;
The negative example is Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Not to mention copying the homes of several ministers, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty even used the "sentence order" to encircle the wealth of the wealthy people all over the country, and no one dared to jump out and stab them. , because he is an emperor who can fight!
But this kind of thing can only be done slowly, Zhao Dezhao is not in a hurry.

Zhao Kuangyin paced back and forth a few times, and said slowly: "A gentleman doesn't do anything for himself. It's always not good to go too far. Now that people's homes have been copied, those criminals who participated in fraud will be exonerated." Exile."

Zhao Dezhao didn't object again, but turned his face away again and curled his lips.

This made Zhao Kuangyin see it, he knew that his son didn't take it seriously, but he just didn't want to argue with his father over such a trivial matter.

He really wanted to teach his son Haosheng a lesson on how to govern the country, but the idea was immediately snuffed out as soon as he thought of it.

Because Zhao Kuangyin really felt that if he really wanted to put on an air to teach, then maybe it would be the father teaching the son, or the son teaching the father!
In recent days, especially after Zhao Dezhao started to handle taxes, Zhao Kuangyin has become more and more aware that this son has his own set of unique views and ideas on most issues, and his son can put forward The unheard-of tax system of deed tax is the most obvious example!
Zhao Kuangyin himself is an emperor who loves to read. He is 1 sure that his son's views and thoughts have never been found in any collection of classics and history. Therefore, it is definitely not some sage's study or even idle books. There are no such things in wild history, and I don't know where the son got it from?

(End of this chapter)