On the third day of November, in Zichen Palace.
Hundreds of officials gathered in the government hall and shouted long live.
Immediately afterwards, according to the past practice, the chief internal officer said that if there is anything to do, he will report to the court and if nothing happens, he will withdraw from the court.
"Your Majesty, I have something to report!
Seven days ago, the governor of Xiping Prefecture reported that nearly 100,000 members of the White Lotus Sect had gathered in Dongyang County to promote the coming of Our Lady of the White Lotus. In the process, unknown means were used to create a vision of flowers falling from the sky and auspicious clouds filling the sky.
In addition, Princess Jiahe is also involved.
Appears as the White Lotus Virgin.
She also widely publicized that she could not bear the suffering of the people in the world, and could not bear the oppression of women who were sisters in the world.
Therefore, he came to the world specially to establish his daughter's kingdom overseas.
She is the head of the Daughter Kingdom, and all the officials in the country are women, but there is no discrimination against men. If she has the ability and recognizes the daughter country's strategy of governing the country, she can also become an official.
She hopes that people with lofty ideals will join her in this grand event.
He also hopes that poor people will enter his daughter's country.
At the same time, it also promised many benefits, such as the daughter country, where everyone can go to school and learn to read for free. Regardless of whether they are men, women, old or young, disabled or not, they can be allocated twenty acres of land and are exempted from all taxes such as agricultural tax and poll tax. Only commercial tax, corporate tax, personal income tax and the like are levied. Anyway, this means that the poor do not have to pay taxes.
Quite able to confuse people's minds.
Now the entire Xiping Mansion is in complete chaos, with countless people dragging their families and families away. The White Lotus Sect also took the opportunity to attack the government office, attack all the brothels and dental shops in the entire Xiping Mansion, and kill the madam, the general manager of the dental shop, and even the master behind it. , took away all the lowly slaves.
It is estimated that nearly one-third of the household registration has been lost.
I heard that they are now preparing to attack Prince Xiping's Mansion.
The governor of Xiping Prefecture hopes to send troops to rescue. "
At the beginning of the court meeting, the Minister of War suddenly dropped such a sensational news. The civil and military officials in the court were shocked and silent for a long time. After a long time, Emperor Xuanwu calmed down a little and asked with quite complicated emotions:
"It seems that your previous guess was correct. My aunt is indeed connected with the White Lotus Sect, and even has a high status. She has directly become the Holy Mother of the White Lotus.
We also want to build a daughter’s country!
But are you all trash?
One year has passed, but not only have the White Lotus Sect not been wiped out, but my aunt has not been arrested either.
What have you done this year?
The White Lotus Sect is suppressing more and more people, and there are more and more victims in various places. Even the Holy Mother of White Lotus is now openly starting to establish a country. Although it has not established a country in our Dagan territory, this is still a provocation. What can you trash do? "
Speaking of this, Emperor Xuanwu, who had already stood up from the dragon throne, was undoubtedly very angry. The next second he stepped down from the top, pointed at the nose of Minister of the Ministry of Finance and asked: Kanshu La
"Are the people of Xiping Prefecture so easily deceived?
Didn't you all say that the people are very reluctant to leave their hometowns, and I haven't heard of any major famines in Xiping Mansion. Why are so many people willing to leave their homes and follow the White Lotus Sect to travel far away?
Aren’t the local officials appointed by you? "
Obviously, Emperor Xuanwu felt that the local people were so easily deceived because of local officials. However, those local officials were far away from the emperor and could not be scolded for the time being. Naturally, they could only pursue the superiors who assigned or appointed those officials.
That is, the leader of the household department and the minister of the household department.
The Minister of Hube was silent for a while before raising his head and saying:
"Your Majesty, I submitted a memorial a few years ago to impeach King Xiping for annexing land and forcing the people to death. At that time, the late emperor was in charge of the country and did not interfere with the matter. He only gave instructions not to interfere with these four words. You were not involved in government affairs at that time. Maybe you don’t know, so I’m here to tell you again the specific details of my original impeachment report.
To put it simply, King Xiping annexed two-thirds of the registered land in the entire Xiping Prefecture, and it was basically fertile land. About 80% of the remaining one-third of the land was in the hands of other officials or gentry.
The remaining land is owned by ordinary people.
And official
Neither Yuan Shizi nor King Xiping had to pay taxes.
Guess who pays the annual taxes?
Moreover, that data was from a few years ago. I don’t know what the details are now, because I have not continued to investigate since the late emperor approved the reply. "
The words of the Secretary of the Ministry of Revenue make it very clear. The reason why the people of Xiping Prefecture are so easily deceived and leave their hometowns so easily is undoubtedly because they do not have their own land at all. Going deeper, that is the responsibility of King Xiping. Why It's your father's responsibility not to care. It's your father who told him not to care.
No matter what happened, it was not his fault.
Why accuse him?
Then, Emperor Xuanwu was really choked by these words at this time. After all, he couldn't accuse his own father in front of all the ministers, or call a deer a horse, unless it was all the fault of the Minister of Hubu, which did not violate the late emperor's will.
Should we insist on impeachment or continue the investigation?
In addition, the vassal kings in various places did have some problems that were not easy to deal with, and the whole body was affected by the slightest move, so Emperor Xuanwu could only sigh in the end, pretend to be stupid and ignore the matter, and then continued to discuss the suppression of the White Lotus Sect. thing.
As for matters related to King Xiping.
After going to court, several cabinet ministers and absolute confidants of Emperor Xuanwu were recruited. They held a small meeting in private and finally made a specific decision.
What decision? Just drag...
The process of suppressing the generals and soldiers of the White Lotus Sect needs to be delayed a little bit, including the logistics and reserve of military rations. It does not need to be delayed for too long. It will be delayed until the White Lotus Sect defeats the Prince of Xiping. After the whole family has been killed by the White Lotus Cult, that will be enough.
When the time comes to annihilate the White Lotus Sect, not only will the White Lotus Sect be annihilated, but King Xiping will also be eliminated.
This waste sucks blood from the imperial court.
Fill the national treasury and increase the land of the imperial village.
...
Although Qu Jie didn't know the court's plan, she didn't want to break up with the court directly at this time. Then hundreds of thousands or millions of troops fought against each other, resulting in heavy losses in population, so she assisted the White Lotus Sect to destroy Xiping. After looting and annihilating all the officials, gentry, and even aristocratic families in the entire Xiping Mansion, they immediately withdrew with a large number of people.
At the same time, those who successfully persuaded the White Lotus Sect to withdraw with her, change places, and continue coming.
As for why the people of the White Lotus Sect listened to the advice?
That's of course because when the White Lotus Sect cooperated with her to bring about the coming of the White Lotus Virgin, Qu Jie gave the White Lotus Sect a big surprise. Although the White Lotus Sect actually had some unknown skills in this regard, those skills obviously didn't exist. The method is comparable to that of Qu Jie. After all, they don't even have illusions, so they just engage in fraud.
Taking out things like Qu Jie's holographic projection and lotus-shaped aircraft is simply a dimensionality reduction attack.
So I’m waiting for the performance of the White Lotus Virgin to come to earth to be completed.
Although the elders of the White Lotus Saint are still in charge of the White Lotus Sect in name, their words are far less effective than Qu Jie's. Not to mention ordinary believers, even those with more pious beliefs are more likely to listen to Qu Jie's words at this time. , it is easy to remove the saint.
It's better to steal the chicken than to lose the rice.
Most of the power was directly taken away by Qu Jie.
In this case, Qu Jie's words were no different from the highest order, basically equivalent to an oracle, so she could easily manipulate the White Lotus cult to obey her orders.
After finishing the work, looting the things and people, quickly evacuate.
Continue somewhere else.
