Piao Tianzi    Winter is gone and spring is coming, and half a year has passed in a blink of an eye.

According to the Gregorian calendar, time has entered the spring of 198 BC.

Wei Yue, Baili Yishui was pregnant for ten months and gave birth. Two daughters gave Xiang Zhuang a son within three days. Xiang Zhuang was so happy that he quickly asked Ya's father Fan Zeng to name his son. Fan Zeng thought a little more and named the third son born by Wei Yue, and named the fourth son born by Baili Yishui.

At this point, Xiangzhuang already has four sons, the eldest son Xiang Zheng, the second son Xiang Zhi, the third son Xiang Quan, and the fourth son Xiang Shu.

In the past six months, nothing major happened in Jiangdong. Through the establishment of household laws, the scholastic and agricultural industry and commercial courses, the new land tax law, Xiangzhuang's royal power was unprecedentedly consolidated. The political situation of each county and county has been completely incorporated into the central government. The three major forces of clans, gentry and aristocratic families have been greatly weakened.

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In the Palace of the Chu King, Xiang Zhuang was practicing swords in the back garden.

It is spring now, and it is not the time to hunt. There is really no other entertainment in this era except hunting. Xiangzhuang is determined to choose a group of young and beautiful singing and dancing girls among the people to fill the palace. As a result, before it was implemented, it was fiercely opposed by Yafu, Xiang and others, so they had to give up.

When she was free, Xiang Zhuang could only practice swords and eliminate condemnation.

After practicing swords, she was sweating all over. When Xiang Zhuang was about to take a bath, Ying Zhen entered the back garden with pride.

"Zhengniang, why are you here?" Xiang Zhuang handed the sword in his hand to Jin Xiang, then took the hot towel from Ying Zhen and wiped his face.

Ying Zhen nodded lightly and whispered: "King, I have something to discuss with you."

Xiang Zhuang smiled slightly and said, "It's another matter of adoptive scholar? I have said it long ago that as long as Yishui doesn't object, I won't object. You, it's better to find Yishui."

Before Baili Yishui gave birth to Xiang Shu, Ying Zhen had already expressed the idea of ​​adoption. This is normal. Ying Zhen has been following Xiang Zhuang for almost three years. Seeing that Wei Yue had given birth to two babies and Baili Yishui also gave birth to a son, how could Ying Zhen not know that he was probably unable to give birth, so he had the idea of ​​adopting a son to raise him.

As for why she adopted Baili Yi Shuisheng's Xiang Shu instead of Wei Yuesheng's Xiang Quan, Ying Zhen's apparent statement was that Wei Yue had adopted a son to Xiang Yu, so she didn't mean to speak to Wei Yue anymore, but how could she hide her little thoughts from Xiang Zhuang? Ying Zhen actually wanted to adopt a descendant with the blood of the old Qin people.

As Xiang Zhuang finished speaking, Ying Zhen couldn't help but say happily: "Master, are you telling the truth?"

"Of course." Xiang Zhuang smiled and said, "When did I keep my word?"

"King, Yishui has agreed to adopt Shu'er to me, Princess." Ying Zhen said, and ran away like a butterfly.

Xiang Zhuang shook his head. Just as he was about to turn around and go for a bath, Hu Yan Zhengde suddenly hurried into the back garden.

"King!" Hu Yan Zhengde bowed to Xiang Zhuang and said, "Dan Tu urgently reported that Ge Sheng has returned!"

"Oh, Ge Sheng is back?!" Xiang Zhuang was overjoyed when he heard this. He didn't care about taking a shower and changing clothes at the moment, and said anxiously, "Where is Ge Sheng now? Let him go to the palace to see me immediately, hurry!"

"Yes!" Hu Yan Zhengde replied with a loud bang and took the order.

In less than a moment, Hu Yan Zhengde led Ge Sheng in.

When Xiang Zhuang saw Ge Sheng at first sight, he almost didn't recognize this. Is this the one he knew? Not only did he lose weight, his clothes were ragged, and his face and skin were as dark as charcoal. He was a native monkey in Southeast Asia in later generations!

"Ge Sheng, why do you look like this?" Xiang Zhuang asked with a sniff.

Seeing Ge Sheng's appearance, Xiang Zhuang knew that this trip to Southeast Asia might have failed.

"King!" Ge Shengdi knelt down on the ground and said tragically, "King, I have humiliated my mission and disappointed you."

"Get up, get up and talk quickly." Xiang Zhuang quickly stepped forward and helped Ge Sheng up, and said, "Tell me slowly, and talk carefully from beginning to end."

Ge Sheng nodded and said, "King, last summer, I led ten large ships and two thousand sharps to the South China Ocean. The way was extremely smooth. In less than half a month, the fleet arrived at Fanyu Wharf. However, the officials of the South Vietnamese Kingdom did not let us dock at all, so I had to lead the fleet to continue to move south."

"At an indigenous dock further south, Chen finally made the first deal, and exchanged a piece of silk for half a boat of rice. There, Chen also found the plant called 'cotton' that the king said. As he said that, Ge Sheng took out a silk bag from his arms, and untied the skin of the bag, which contained dozens of cotton seeds."

"Ge Sheng, is this cotton seed?!" Xiang Zhuang said overjoyed, "Have you ever seen this plant with your own eyes, its leaves shape and blooming flowers, is it the same as the painting I gave you?"

Ge Sheng nodded and said confidently: "That's right, it's exactly the same as the painting."

"Okay, great!" Xiang Zhuang took the dozens of cotton seeds from Ge Sheng as if he had received a treasure, and said, "But Ge Sheng, why is there only such a little? Since you have found cotton, why don't you get more seeds back? Also, why don't you ask for some cotton to come back?"

"Oh." Ge Sheng sighed and said sadly, "I actually traded six ships of cotton, and there were dozens of barrels of cotton seeds. However, on the way back, these cotton seeds were all over the storm, and the two thousand sharp men who went south were buried at the bottom of the sea. Only Chen was sent to the shallows by the waves, which were rescued by the fishermen in Jin County. There were also dozens of cotton seeds that I had picked up from the beach after spending a few days."

Xiang Zhuang felt sorry for hearing this. The ten big ships and two thousand sailors were all over?

If you don’t want to think about it, Xiangzhuang will feel relieved. Even in the 21st century, fishing boats often overturned by typhoons, let alone this era? Although the center of gravity of the Chubo ship supervised by the bus is stable, if it encounters a strong typhoon, hurricanes and hurricanes can still easily tear apart the entire ship.

"It's okay, Ge Sheng, you're back." Xiang Zhuang patted Ge Sheng's shoulder and said, "Besides, you brought back the cotton seeds? Bringing back the cotton seeds. Even if you go to Southeast Asia this time, ten big ships are nothing, even a hundred big ships, their value is not as good as this cotton seed!"

"King, I am..." Ge Sheng choked and could no longer make a sound.

"Okay, you go back and rest quickly." Xiang Zhuang said again, "In the past few months, you don't have to do anything. Just keep it well at home. When will your body recover? I will train an elite navy for me. Then I will ask the bus to build a hundred big ships for you, and we will still go to the West!"

"Here!" Ge Sheng replied with a loud bang and turned around and left.

Xiangzhuang then returned to the back garden with the small bag of cotton seeds. He set up a piece of land in the back garden. He asked Jin Xiang to loosen the soil and fertilize the land, and then carefully planted dozens of cotton seeds. Xiangzhuang grew up in the countryside since childhood and knew that cotton grew for a long time, so he had to sow seeds in spring.

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After half a year of preparation, Bai Mo finally began to reform the law in Guanzhong.

The "Junyaofu, Pingju Fu" promoted by Bai Mo is actually somewhat different from Zhang Juzheng's one-whip method and Yongzheng's digging and digging into the mu.

Zhang Juzheng's whip method was to convert all the Yao service and the miscellaneous service into silver, while Bai Mo's Jun Yaowei converted the Yao service into grain and distributed it to the land tax. However, Bai Mo's average calculation of the tuition is the same as Yongzheng's diversion of the acres. Both count the cap tax into the land tax, and from then on only the land tax is levied, no longer the cap tax is levied.

Once the new law was introduced, it was immediately fiercely opposed by the powerful people in Guanzhong.

Because the essence of "Jun Yao's military service, the levy is to reduce the tax burden of ordinary people, but it will greatly increase the tax burden of powerful families, gentry and other powerful people, which undoubtedly seriously damages the interests of the powerful people in Guanzhong.

After Qin Shihuang unified the world, he forced the world to migrate the world's powerful forces to fill Guanzhong. Therefore, there were many powerful people in Guanzhong. After Qin's demise, some of the powerful people disappeared, and some of the powerful people hid in the countryside. However, most of the powerful people surrendered to Liu Bang because of the "Three Rules". In the battle for hegemony between Chu and Han, these powerful people made a lot of contributions to Liu Bang.

Therefore, the powerful power of Guanzhong is extremely powerful and has made contributions. Now Liu Bang not only did not reward merit, but instead wanted to seize food from their mouths. How could the powerful power in Guanzhong give up? At that time, many powerful people gathered to cause trouble and tried every means to obstruct the progress of county officials clearing their land.

However, Liu Bang was extremely determined to reform the law. Not only did he give Bai Mo the power to deal with it immediately, but he also appointed Zhou Guanfu, the Han army general, to be the guardian general, and led 5,000 elite soldiers to protect the law. Although Mrs. Zhou Guan was young, she acted without any ambiguity. In just half a month, she suppressed the troublemakers in more than a dozen counties and killed thousands of heads!

Thousands of bloody heads fell to the ground, and the powerful Guanzhong suddenly realized that the King of Han was serious this time. If they continued to resist stubbornly, they would definitely not be able to get it. After all, the King of Han was the lord of Guanzhong and Bashu, and they held an army of more than 100,000 or 200,000 troops in their hands. Even if the powerful Guanzhong rebelled together, they would not be the opponent of the King of Han.

More importantly, the new law has received strong support from more than three million common people in Guanzhong and Bashu!

It is no exaggeration to say that the cap tax is a heavy shackle that is placed on the necks of the common people. Now the Han King wants to abolish the cap tax. Isn’t this a great blessing for the vast majority of the common people? How can they not support it? But at the beginning they did not believe in the Han King. It was not until Zhou Guanfu suppressed the troublemakers in more than a dozen counties and killed thousands of heads that the people finally believed it and began to spare no effort to support the reform.
Chapter completed!