Zhou Yu walked out of the palace in despair, feeling extremely sad in his heart.

In history, the relationship between Zhou Yu and Sun Ce was like that of biological brothers. After Sun Ce's death, Zhou Yu willingly served as a supporter for the Sun family's foundation, and worked desperately for the Sun family's career throughout his life.

Of course, there are reasons why Sun Ce and Zhou Yu have a good relationship, but at the same time, their careers are completely in line with the mutual interests of the families behind them.

In this era, the things that everyone does cannot be entirely for themselves. The interests of the patriarchal family are the biggest driving force for their actions.

Zhou Yu's family is also the sect of the three princes. The family is huge. At that time, the Han Dynasty was in decline, all parties were divided, and the imperial power was falling apart. There was almost no right to speak. As a local prominent family, the behemoth Zhou family must do something for their own family.

No father-in-law will allow his family to collapse in his own hands.

As a wealthy family with two thousand stones, this is especially true for the Zhou family, which has three noble figures.

Judging from the geographical location of the Zhou family, they are fully tied up with a warlord in the south, and exporting benefits is a historical necessity.

Even without Sun Ce, other warlords who can gain a foothold in Yangzhou will inevitably become the targets of the Zhou family.

Sun Ce and Zhou Yu were close friends in life and death, but the deeper reason why Zhou Yu was willing to sacrifice his life for him was because the Sun family had the huge power to unify Yangzhou and bind the Zhou family.

But now...the Han Dynasty is not declining, the imperial power is still stable, Liu Qi revitalized the Han Dynasty, and the Han Dynasty is prosperous and has not collapsed.

In this case, who would Zhou Yu, a descendant of the Sangong Sect, lean toward?

You know, the Zhou family, the Changlong of the Three Gongs Gate... This San Gong belongs to the Han Dynasty, and is opposed to the emperor. Do you still want the title of the Three Gongs Gate?

This is like a young master who originally came from the family of the Minister of Defense of the Han Dynasty. Although he has a good relationship with a local armed force and a rogue son of an evil group, unless the country that the Minister of Defense is responsible for is over, the family really needs to find another way out.

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The relationship between Sun Ce and Zhou Yu is very good, but just a good relationship is not enough for Zhou Yu to tie up the interests of the entire family.

From Zhou Yu's current perspective, what he wants to do is actually to pull Sun Ce out of the gangster group and make him a national-level high-end person like himself.

But Sun Ce didn't accept this sentiment.

Although Zhou Yu felt very uncomfortable, there was nothing he could do about it.

…

At the end of the year, senior officials from each county began to come to Beijing one after another to accept the central government's local assessment, and at the same time, they reported this year's financial statements and income of each county.

After the officials from various regions entered the central government, the central government would assess them and at the same time promulgate the decrees that the Central Committee of the Han Dynasty needed to implement for local reforms in the next year.

Other decrees were barely okay, but regarding the tax system, the imperial court and local governments made strict divisions.

As for this division, the central government accounts for almost 70% of the tax revenue, while the local governments only account for 30%.

The governors of various counties had been notified of this matter long before the officials arrived in Luoyang.

However, the local governor's reply to the central court at that time had various difficulties.

In fact, this is normal. The main expenditures for governance fall on the local governments, but the bulk of the tax sharing falls on the central government. The local governments have less money, but they still have no less things to manage. This makes it easy for local county officials to

accept?

Of course, it’s not like the central government didn’t come up with ideas. If local governments want money... that’s fine! Write a submission and ask for it from the central government.

What is this?

In the past, things that could easily be done by local governments now have to be reported repeatedly to the central government, which greatly limits local financial authority.

There is no doubt that the limited use of finance is tantamount to squeezing local power and strengthening the centralization of power.

Naturally, the local government is unwilling to do so.

So, this matter went back and forth for half a year, but it was not fully implemented.

Until this year-end plan, the imperial court passed the plan and fully expressed its stance to the local counties!

The division of local finance and taxation means that if you divide it, you will get points, and if you don’t divide it, you will get points!

There is no excuse for not executing it.

…

"What is the stance of the planners of each county on the tax sharing policy?"

Liu Qi asked Xun You who was standing below him while playing the piano.

As an emperor, you should not only be proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting, but you should also know how to be arty. After all, this is the characteristic of this dynasty.

In particular, one of Liu Qi's nobles was Cai Yan, the world's best piano player. With her personal guidance, Liu Qi's piano skills naturally improved by leaps and bounds.

Soon, they saw Liu Qi finishing his song and Xun You standing below, and he began to applaud vigorously.

"Good piano skills, good piano skills. Your Majesty's piano skills are indeed superb! It makes people intoxicated. It is truly extraordinary."

"You can even flatter a horse." Liu Qi stood up and shook his head helplessly: "Gongda, as a minister in power, you must not encourage flattery."

"Your Majesty is really too harsh on me. I am only telling the truth and there is absolutely no deception."

“What is the attitude of the planners in each county toward the tax-sharing system?”

Xun You shook his head: "Of course I can think of it. Basically, they are resisting and looking for various excuses not to implement it."

"Haha, it is easy to delegate power, but it is difficult to take it back. I estimate that the governors of each county have already prepared the words to deal with it before sending their planners to the court."

"Your Majesty, the local government does not want to implement it for the time being. Does this matter need to be postponed?"

"No! I want everyone in the world to know that no one is allowed to change my decree!"

"No." Xun You hurriedly handed over his hand.

"After the New Year, let Liu Ye, Man Chong, and Zhang Song go, one to Jingzhou, one to Yizhou, and one to Guanzhong Sili, one county at a time, to implement the tax-sharing system county by county for me. If one of them doesn't respond, he will do it.

The ground has been tidied up.”

Xun You heard this and said, "Do you want to send troops to escort you if you act like this?"

"They are three groups, each sending 10,000 elite troops to accompany them. They are accompanied by three generals: Xu Rong, Ma Xiu, and Gan Ning."

Hearing Liu Qi's arrangement, Xun You knew that he was determined to implement the tax sharing this time.

"Don't worry, Your Majesty. After I have reached an agreement with the Grand Sima, we will handle this matter immediately after the New Year."

"Well, Aiqing has taken the trouble to tell Man Boning and the others that there is no need to be soft-hearted. If necessary, they can take some drastic measures. I can even allow them to kill chickens to scare monkeys, but the premise is that they have settled the matter for me."

"promise."

After Xun You accepted the order, he seemed to remember something again.

"Your Majesty, in fact, a major event has happened recently. It is just because of the end of the year plan, there are many people coming from various counties, and Your Majesty has been paying close attention to the issue of tax sharing. I was afraid of distracting Your Majesty, so I did not report it to Your Majesty.

"

"What's up?"
Chapter completed!