Chapter 791 Natural disaster becomes your excuse

Regarding Li Xiang's move, the officials present were trembling. If it had been someone else, they could even ask, "Aren't you going to Nanzhao to get married?" Why are we taking care of our local officials?

But they are facing Li Xiang, and no one dares to say this. If you say this on the spot, it will be like slapping His Highness in the face. Do you want to talk to Mr. Wang? It is the same? Let your mother and wife go to Gaochang to meet his mother and wife?

Xiao Yu moved his lips next to him, but finally kept his mouth shut. This was considered killing someone to establish his authority. Of course, we also got an advantage. Xiao Yu came from the capital, so local officials would inevitably reject him. , although he once served as the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, he has been idle at home these years, and many officials may not respect him. After having this head, some things will be easier to talk about.

"Where is the Tax Department?"

I thought that Li Xiang had vented his anger, so he should enter the city now. Who knew that Li Xiang asked another question, which meant that the matter was not over.

"Weichen Jiannan Road Tax Department Secretary Chu Suiguang..."

When this person came out, Li Xiang clearly observed that many adults inside were uncomfortable. He was just a local official just now, and his contact with them was not very big, but this was Datang's local tax collection. If If this person talks nonsense, there will be many people involved.

"I have seen the records of the past few years. You have not paid your taxes on time for three consecutive years. Your payment was two months later than the required time, and the amount was not even half. Most of you were in debt. Mr. Chu must be very rich if he eats like this, so why does he only owe money to the imperial court?"

Li Xiang got off the horse and slowly walked to the side of Mr. Chu. When this guy saw Li Xiang's boots, his whole body began to tremble. The name of the person and the shadow of the tree, although Li Xiang The local officials have never been rectified, but their false reputation on the battlefield is no joke, not to mention that these people are not checked. As long as there is a slight check, not one of them has a clean butt.

"If we go back to Your Highness, the road here on Jiannan Road will be difficult and the weather is weird and changeable..."

The guy said tremblingly. Almost every official could memorize this set of rhetoric, and it had basically appeared in their memorials. Li Shimin also wanted to rectify it at the time, but later he thought it was nothing. Oil and water, even if you try your best to clean it up, it won't be of much use in the end, and it may even provoke civil unrest, so you just let it go. Anyway, the main taxes of the court do not come from here, as long as these people look at it As long as the people are fine.

When Li Xiang first learned about the situation here, he thought the same thing. As long as the common people can have something to eat, it is normal for you to not be able to pay taxes due to the harsh natural environment. But this has not been the case along the way. Common people They didn't even have food to eat, but the mansions of these officials were extremely luxurious, and could even catch up with the high-ranking officials and wealthy businessmen of Chang'an City.

"In good years, there is not enough food. If there is a disaster, we have to ask the Hubu Yamen to provide disaster relief. Is that what Mr. Chu said later? I don't know if I am right, but I am It seems that all of you have seen these sentences in your memorials. Do you all follow the same teacher? Are you too lazy to adapt?"

When Li Xiang recited the second half of the memorial, these people knew that Li Xiang was not easy to fool. It turned out that he had already investigated this place clearly before he came. If you want to fool people with these nonsense, then you can't fool them. What a mistake.

"Your Highness, spare your life, Your Highness, spare your life..."

Master Chu obviously had no scheming intentions. After hearing what Li Xiang said, he simply stopped saying anything else and started begging for mercy. This meant that he recognized some things by himself and other people were in his heart. They scolded this coward, but they also thought about it and put themselves in Master Chu's position, so they probably didn't dare to say anything else.

"Your life is indeed insignificant, but I want to know one thing. As far as I know, you have a big house in the two capitals, and you also have several shops for rent. So how do you get the money? ?Your ancestor is not wealthy, he is just a small landowner in the mountains. If you rely on your family's money, let alone the hard work of the past few years, even if it takes a hundred years, you will not be able to live in the two capitals. Buy property.”

Li Xiang's men have the most comprehensive intelligence system on business matters. Even the emperor's men in black can't do it. Normally, the emperor doesn't care about this and doesn't bother to care about it. As long as they don't cause trouble, these people live an extremely comfortable life.

But Li Xiang didn't think so. Along the way, he saw the hardships of the people and deeply felt that Chang'an City had done something wrong. If strict requirements had been imposed on this area earlier, then this area would never Will fall to this.

So Li Xiang had already investigated all these people on the way here. Almost everyone had money at home, even richer than some wealthy businessmen in Chang'an City. How did they get their money? Most of them were searched locally. If you search hard in poor areas, you can imagine what the results are for the people here. There are many villages where there is not even a single person left.

"Wei Chen deserves to die, Wei Chen deserves to die."

This guy can't even explain, because these things can't be explained clearly. Even if all legitimate income is multiplied by a hundred times, I'm afraid he still doesn't have the money he has now. In addition to some assets in Chang'an and Luoyang, Jiangnan There are also his assets in various places, but Li Xiang hasn't found them yet. If he finds them, he may be cut into pieces.

"Your Excellency will soon be the governor of Yizhou. How should we deal with such a person?"

When Li Xiang was about to deal with this guy, he suddenly remembered another thing. If all the bad things were done by himself, then Xiao Yu could use this to firmly hold Chengdu in his hands. How could this be possible? There are some things that we have to bear together. I can't kill people in the front and you reap the benefits in the back. If this is the case, our psychology will be unbalanced.