"Damn it, I'm going to cut Li Chongjin alive sooner or later——"

Looking at the empty and dark Yangzhou City, Zhao Kuangyin's black face became darker and darker, and even showed signs of turning green. In the past few decades, he had never been so angry, but today, he was really angry.

Angry.

He was tricked, he was tricked like a monkey, and a dignified emperor of the Song Dynasty was actually tricked.

I waved my fist, but it hit the air. I couldn't use the accumulated strength, and it hurt from the suffocation.

The originally prosperous and lively Yangzhou City now had no lights at all. Only the torches of the Song Army made the city appear before their eyes.

Most of the houses in Yangzhou City, which were lined up one after another, were demolished and used as rolling logs or bricks to resist the Song army, or as firewood. Anyway, the wreckage left behind made my head hurt.

There is not a single resident here, not even a dog. It is like a ghost town. There is no doubt that Li Chongjin's Huainan Army had already evacuated at this time, and they evacuated without anyone noticing. This slap is embarrassing.

It hurts.

Zhao Kuangyin was born in Luoyang, so his accent was the authentic Luoyang accent, and his voice was very loud, so everyone could hear him clearly. Li Chuyun and Wang Shenqi on the side were all silent, and the anger in their hearts was no less than that of the emperor.

"Look, look, we want the news about Li Chongjin. We need to see what kind of magical powers they have to be able to slip away——" Zhao Kuangyin's eyes widened, and the expression on his face was very ferocious. He couldn't accept this result.

, roared.

"Nuo——" Someone followed the order and left.

Accompanying the emperor, Li Chuyun and Wang Shenqi stayed in Jiedu Mansion, waiting for news. At this moment, they did not say a word for fear of offending the emperor.

"Reporting to your majesty, many footprints, as well as several pairs of shoes and a knife were found under the city wall near the river. There are traces of many ships docking on the river bank. It is expected that the Huainan Army left from the river or took a boat...

"

Someone reported it.

"Where are the ships? Aren't the ships in Lingnan blocked in the east? How come there are still ships, and they can transport so many soldiers in one night, without even a single wounded soldier!"

After a while, Zhao Kuangyin finally regained his composure. The long-term battles in the north and south had given him a deep understanding of the city, and he looked exactly like the two people who roared before.

At this time, his dark face was full of seriousness, and he had a knife on his waist instead of the folklore stick. He went to the battlefield and used the stick method. This is a real idiot who will not survive today.

"Your Majesty, he should be the navy of Dongting Lake. The pseudo-emperor Li Jia stole the land of Chu. Li Chongjin was able to hold on until now. The pseudo-emperor put in a lot of effort and even moved all the Dingkou in Huainan.

It can be seen that there is a deep connection with Li Chongjin. Although the Dongting Lake Navy of Chu State is not famous, it is possible!"

Seeing the change in the emperor's face, Li Chuyun spoke up and put forward his own opinion. As a general of the imperial army among the ten brothers of the Feiyi Society, he understood that he was not as good as Wang Shenqi's status, so he could only rely on his strength.

Prove yourself and gain a high position in the Song Dynasty.

"That's all!" Zhao Kuangyin glanced at Li Chuyun, and then at the comfortable look of his righteous brother Wang Shenqi, and his opinion of Li Chuyun improved a bit.

He is a good general.

In the future, he can use it appropriately to check and balance the increasingly powerful Yishe brothers. At this time, only the Yishe brothers can reassure him.

"Li Jing from Jiangnan must have no courage among the withered bones in the grave. Li Jia is the only one who dares to save these rebels!"

After a quick analysis, Zhao Kuangyin immediately understood the cause and effect and made a guess.

This young man, who is only in his twenties, has usurped Lingnan under the banner of the Tang Dynasty, and now he has also taken over Chu. His performance is astonishing, and he may be his enemy in the future!

You know, he is only thirty-three!

"I will kill Li Jia from Lingnan to vent the hatred in my heart!" The jealousy in Zhao Kuangyin's heart gradually turned into murderous intent. The result of the Huainan Rebellion completely ruined his plan. He originally took over Guozhou, but in the end,

Because of Huainan, the newly born Song Dynasty was depleted of finances. Without Guo Rong who destroyed the temple and scraped the copper, how could it have persisted until now?

"Send people to Hunan to ask for Li Chongjin's head. If it is not given, I will lead 500,000 imperial troops to get it myself!"

His domineering words shocked everyone around him.

"Your Majesty, many of the Imperial Guards are quarreling, asking for rewards, and even starting to beat each other——"

Suddenly, someone came to report.

"Damn it -" Zhao Kuangyin then remembered that due to the previous order to plunder Yangzhou City, his morale was greatly shaken. Now that he had entered the city but could not see a single civilian and could not rob, he naturally felt resentful.

Unable to care about chasing the deserters, he began to appease the angry Imperial Guards.

Here, due to the coming of the autumn harvest and the imminent arrival of the Huainan Army, Li Jia was forced to cancel his return to the south and began to preside over the first autumn harvest after occupying Hunan.

As mentioned before, Li Jia sent out transshipment envoys shortly after occupying Hunan to prepare for coordinating the summer harvest in Hunan. However, when they first arrived, the transshipment envoys faced a lot of troubles.

After the collapse of the land equalization system and the An-Shi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty adopted a two-tax law as a stop-gap measure, simply collecting summer and autumn taxes. The total tax amount was determined based on fiscal expenditures, and each locality levied taxes on local people in accordance with the amount allocated by the central government.

Due to the loss of control over the country after the An-Shi Rebellion, tax statistics were extremely difficult, so the number of cultivated fields in the fourteenth year of the Dali calendar (799 AD) was used as the basis.

The two-tax system is very great. It changed the "Dingkou-based" taxation since the Warring States Period and implemented the "asset-based taxation system, not Dingkou-based", which changed the ancient taxation system from "Shirdi tax collectors"

To develop in the direction of "giving up people's tax land".

Therefore, in the Tang Dynasty and before, population was everything. After the Tang Dynasty, Song, Ming and Qing Dynasties, land was everything. As the saying goes, it is okay after people die, but the land is still there, and I will still collect taxes.

The two-tax system, specifically, divided the tax into two parts, with the local vassal towns retaining part and then turning it over to the central government. This delayed the life of the Tang Empire. However, due to the inability to control tax collection, the local vassal towns paid according to the quota every year, leaving behind

It led to excessive taxation and expropriation, which in turn accelerated the demise of the Tang Dynasty. It was also the origin of the refugees who lost their land during the Huangchao Rebellion.

Hunan naturally no longer has vassal towns, but what is more ridiculous is that, or the warlords' worry, today's two taxes are still based on the standards of the 14th year of the Dali calendar, completely ignoring how much land has been added, thus leaving out a lot of

His wealth was stolen by local powerful men.
Chapter completed!