Vol 2 Chapter 1014: Watch out for halfway overturns

A wind chill killed Princess Huyang for half her life.
Gu Jiu sent someone to deliver her medicine, and her condition gradually improved.
She sighed with people around her, "When I am old, my body is not as good as the day, and I don't know how much life remains."
"Bah, baah, mother, don't say these unlucky words. Your mother can live a long life."
Princess Huyang smiled, with a tired and weak smile, "Brother Emperor has been there for three years, and he may still be waiting for this palace on the way."
"The empress has taken medicine and has improved, why is she still so pessimistic?"
"When a person is old, the things I am worried about are nothing more than children and grandchildren, and the things behind them. I don’t have to worry about the things behind. The tomb has been repaired, and the acupuncture points pointed by Mr. Yin and Yang have been specially invited. The utensils for the burial are also set up. The only thing to let Ben The one that Gong is concerned about is Minmin, and I don't know when I can see her."
"Mother, do you want to pass a memorial to the palace, please call back Master Gu."
Huyang didn't comment, but asked, "How many years have Minmin and Gu Yu gone?"
"Seven or eight years."
"It's time to come back. Help my palace sit up."
Princess Huyang ordered a ghostwriter to write the memo, and every word is a mother's miss for her daughter.
The memorial was sent to the palace and placed on Gu Jiu's desk.
Every word is sad, every word is blood and tears.
Gu Jiu asked Bai Zhong, "Is Princess Huyang's illness still good?"
Bai Zhong bowed and said: "It has improved, and the old slave doesn't know why she would pass such a memo."
Gu Jiu sighed, "Huyang is old!"
When people are old, they don’t need to work hard and have more time to miss and remember.
"Niangniang meant to make Princess Huyang get her wish?"
Gu Jiu said softly: "It's time for Gu Yu and his wife to return to the capital."
In the evening, Gu Jiu and Liu Zhao discussed the matter.
"Aunt Huyang has been ill, and she has become sentimental, and she misses her cousin Minmin very much. Do you want to call Gu Yu back to the capital."
Liu Zhao hesitated for a moment, nodded and said, "Summon him back. He stays in Jiangling Mansion, and what he can do is always limited."
Gu Yu only has a fame, which means that his career ceiling is very low.
With a slight stretch of hand, you can reach the top, and there is no way to rise.
Of course, Liu Zhao could act arbitrarily, resisting public opinion and promoting Gu Yu.
However, Gu Yu's talent can govern one county and one state, but not one government, one province and one road.
It is not worthy of position, forcibly promoted, but will harm Gu Yu.
His subordinates are all of Jinshi background, more talented than him, smarter than him, better than his family, and richer than him. As an official, he is difficult to convince the public.
If the government order is unreasonable, how can you govern the place?
If there is an infighting among officials, even if Gu Jiu endorses Gu Yu, Gu Yu will have to pay a price to retreat.
Officialdom has officialdom rules.
Even Liu Zhao and Gu Jiu have to abide by the rules of officialdom most of the time.
They fought with officials and would correct and modify the rules of the court, but they never touched the rules of officialdom or touched the imperial examination system.
This is a big thunder, whoever touches will die.
Both Liu Zhao and Gu Jiu guarded the bottom line cautiously and did not touch them.
Wanton destruction of scholars’ promotion path will surely meet opposition from scholars all over the world.
Throughout the dynasties, only the founder of the country had the opportunity and the prestige to change the rules and systems of officialdom.
But, why change the official rules?
So far, there is no better talent selection system than the imperial examination.
The imperial examination gave the children of ordinary people the opportunity to become officials, breaking the monopoly of aristocratic families on officialdom.
Before a better talent selection system appeared, the imperial examination system was the most worrying system.
At least for now, the imperial examination is the most worrying.
The status and importance of the imperial examinations also determined that Gu Yu, who was the only one who had fame, had a difficult career.
Liu Zhao asked Gu Jiu, "Do you want Gu Yu to enter the court?"
Gu Jiu said: "He is suitable to go to the household department, but he can't be the household assistant."
Liu Zhao nodded, "He wants to be the housekeeper, it's difficult. Even Lu Aiqing will oppose it clearly."
Master Lu was a scholar of Jinshi, and when it came to imperial examinations and promotion of officials, a Juren who wanted to climb onto the head of a Jinshi was not a genius like Ren Qiu. He would definitely oppose Gu Yu's appointment as the household assistant.
Gu Jiu said, "Don't let him go to the household department, he is too wronged."
Liu Zhao asked her for advice, "Should I put it in Shaofu?"
Shaofu was the private treasury of Emperor Liu Zhao. The appointment of officials was naturally the emperor's final say, without going through three provinces and six departments.
Gu Jiu shook his head, "How about Jingzhao Yin Yamen?"
"Jing Zhaoyin? This is an offensive errand, which is not pleased everywhere."
"Because of the unkindness everywhere, Gu Yu's appointment as Jing Zhaoyin will not cause the court to make a fuss. They are eager for someone to take the trouble.
Jing Zhaoyin of the past dynasties usually has no good end.
No matter who is in this position, the official career behind is mostly unsuccessful, with almost no exceptions.
Therefore, many people regard Jingzhaoyamen as a daunting way.
When I arrived in the capital, I wanted to go to three provinces and six ministries to become Beijing officials. Not only is it decent, but promotion is also easy.
Going to Beijing Zhaoyamen is a waste of life and talent.
With countless mountains overhead, everyone can give orders to Jingzhaoyamen. Everyone is an ancestor, but Jingzhaoyamen is a grandson.
In those days, you would be ashamed as you were.
Liu Zhao thought about it carefully, "What you said is reasonable. If Gu Yu is appointed as Jing Zhaoyin, although his grade is high, he will be restrained everywhere, and there must be very few people who oppose it. Moreover, Gu Yu is good at people's livelihood economy, and he sits in this position. That’s right. Gyeonggi, it’s time for a unified plan. I even want to re-register the scale list."
The scales of fish are the land, houses, ponds, and forest census.
Because it involves taxation, it involves large households concealing their population and land, and good people vote for official families. This matter has always been extremely sensitive.
In the two hundred years of the Great Zhou Dynasty, only two fish scale books were conducted.
Once it was the Taejo Dynasty, and the other was the Sejong Dynasty.
In other words, the number of acres officially registered by the Zhou court is the data more than 100 years ago, and the lag is terrible.
In Beijing, the Ministry of Households used to do population statistics in private, but those were all decades ago, and the data was also badly missing.
The truly complete data is in the hands of Gu Jiu.
Chen Erzhuang led people to the countryside to develop the rural economy, and at the same time counted the population and land of each village.
However, these data did not cross the road, and the court could not approve it.
Because once the population field data in Gu Jiu's hand is approved, it is equivalent to crossing the road.
This means that from now on, the government will have to collect taxes and apportion corvee according to this complete data.
impossible!
With the ability of the local government, it is impossible to do it. The people do not approve it either.
The people only recognize the scale book, and tax collection must be based on the scale book.
When the scale register was registered back then, the number of acres was far less than today, and the taxes paid were naturally small.
If taxes are collected according to the new field data, most household taxes will have to be changed.
Especially those landlords, gentry who have no fame, or elite families with limited tax exemption places, will pay taxes in multiples.
Aristocratic families are also not immune, because they are the real big landlords.
These people rioted. A township was connected to a township, and a county was connected to a county. The court was shocked.
Gu Jiu is well aware of the risks, and she said: "Re-registering the fish scale list, you are setting Gu Yu on the fire. He will be accused by thousands of people, he will be stinking for thousands of years, and even worry about his life. The time is not ripe, and you must not act too hastily. I thought that if you wait seven or eight years for the fish scale book, the resistance will be much lower at that time."
Liu Zhao was a little upset, "Cheap them."
Gu Jiu persuaded: "At present, there are commercial taxes, so you don't need to focus on agricultural taxes. Strictly control tariffs and crack down on smuggling by sea. The annual income can be worth all agricultural taxes."
"Even if there is a commercial tax, it can't be cheaper for those family big landlords."
"There must be no rush in this matter. This matter will offend everyone in the officialdom. The family behind every official is a big landlord in the local area. To move the land is to move their interests. We do not have the capital and all the officials in the world. Turn your face, you can stabilize."
Even Gu's family is a veritable big landlord.
Land taxation, from the royal family to the seven-year-old schoolchildren, will jump up and oppose it. Unite, overthrow Liu Zhao, and replace him as emperor.
This matter is too much involved. The emperors of the past dynasties knew the root of the problem, but were unable to change it because the resistance came from the world, from the court, from around, and even from themselves.
It's so good!
As long as you don't be a subjugated monarch, do less snacks, and do less things, every day will be happy.
Liu Zhao wanted to move the land and test the court's reaction.
Gu Jiusheng was afraid that he would be too hasty and overturned halfway, so he hurriedly held him.
"Until we are fully prepared, you must not do anything, or even mention a word, and you are not allowed to reveal the meaning of this aspect. No one in the court is a fool, but if you reveal the slightest meaning in this aspect, you will be Those clever people caught that, then there will be one after another trouble finding you."
"I know how to measure, you don't have to worry about it."
Can Gu Jiu not worry?
Liu Zhao sometimes gets angry, and if he leaks, it's really terrible.
She thought about it, she had to remind Lin Shu to remind her usually.
Liu Zhao was unhappy, "You don't trust me."
Gu Jiu rolled his eyes, "I am worrying about you, you still don't appreciate it."
Liu Zhao laughed, "Of course I know that you are worrying about me. Don't treat me as a 20-year-old impulsive boy. This matter involves a lot of things, and it’s very important. Before I can be sure of it, I promise every look and every one. Keep your eyebrows steady and never make the mistake of saying too many words."
"I believe in you, of course I believe in you."
Afraid of Liu Zhao's nagging, Gu Jiu quickly surrendered in the form of a long-winded king.
She really convinced him.
After becoming the emperor, more and more nonsense.
Liu Zhao was happy, "When we finish the work at this stage, the two of us can relax for a few days. How about Shang Xiaozhu staying for a few days and leaving after Mid-Autumn Festival?"
"Very good!"
Gu Jiu readily agreed, "Mid-Autumn Festival remember to let Brother Yu come back."
"What are you going to do? Tell him kiss?"
"Look at each other first, it may not be settled."