Diao Kui's expression changed and he said sternly: "Liu Yu, what do you mean? You are the official of the imperial court. Whether you work or not, you have to go through the regulations of the imperial court. How can you be allowed to just leave like this?"
Liu Yu didn't even look back, he just stood there and said coldly: "Is this order from Governor Diao a regulation of the imperial court?"
Diao Kui sneered, stood up, picked up the Emperor's Scepter, and gave it a heavy slap on the ground: "I am here to keep the rule. You can kill it first and then report it. This law is my will and the emperor's will. Do you dare to question it?
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Liu Yu looked up to the sky and laughed, his voice causing dust to fall from the roof beams of the palace: "According to the system of the Jin Dynasty, scholars are recruited as officials, and they do not have to be employed."
"Although I, Liu Yu, used to be an upright person, I enforced the national laws officially implemented by the imperial court, rather than the laws that harmed the people like you, Diao Governor, who relied on the emperor's scepter to forcefully implement it! Since I can't resist the emperor's scepter, I have no choice but to
Just be on your own and stop doing this!"
Diao Hong shouted from the side: "Liu Yu, you are so brave, you dare to say that we are doing harm to the people!"
Liu Yu turned his head, his eyes gleaming like lightning, which made Diao Hong take half a step back unconsciously, and his gentle voice revealed a strength: "In this difficult situation, Diao Jishi does not want to serve the country.
To share the worries, it is to use the national crisis to impose excessive taxes and force the people in Jingkou to destroy their homes and sell their fields, or sell themselves into slavery and become servants and tenants of your unruly family. Isn't this harmful to the people?"
Diao Kui's pupils shrank suddenly: "The country is in trouble, so of course everyone has to do their best. Is there any problem?"
Liu Yu said loudly: "Then since the country is in trouble, why don't you, Diao, the governor, set an example first and send hundreds of servants and tenants of your Diao family into the army to resist the barbarians? Why don't you, Diao family, donate your own money?
Where are the fields?”
Diao Hong laughed: "Liu Yu, have you forgotten? Before we came to Xuzhou and Jingkou, we donated our land to the country, so..."
Liu Yu didn't wait for him to finish his words: "Really? Since it's a donation, why did the imperial court give you this public land in Jingkou? Why do you have to plan in every possible way to make it difficult for the northern refugees who come to Jingkou to survive, and they can only come to you to make a fortune in your family?"
Child servant?"
"You enacted this law just to make it difficult for ordinary people in Jingkou to live, and you, the Diao family, can take the opportunity to enclose land and occupy people. Do you dare to say that this is for the good of the country?"
Diao Kui's eyes flashed coldly: "Liu Yu, I don't want to waste any time talking to you about these principles. You just need to know that I am holding the emperor's scepter now, and what I say from my mouth is the emperor's will. You
If you don't execute it, you are disobeying the order! Even if you are a little famous in the local area, I can punish you!"
Liu Yu's eyes turned to Diao Kui: "Fa? What Fa? It's just that Diao Jishi is holding this Emperor's Scepter. What do you say is the Fa?"
Diao Kui's lips curled up, and he protested: "That's right, what's the problem?"
Liu Yu sneered and said: "The principles of law are nothing more than human feelings. If the law that no one is willing to obey can be implemented with just the scepter in the hands of the governor, or even the emperor himself? If the law is enacted, it can be implemented, then
Why did the violent Qin Dynasty perish?"
Diao Hong pointed at Liu Yu angrily: "Bold, Liu Yu, do you want to die? You actually dare to compare my Great Jin Dynasty to the violent Qin Dynasty, you, what are your intentions?!"
Liu Yu's eyes flashed coldly: "Prince Diao, I think yesterday you should have seen how powerful the people of Jingkou are! The country regards them as its subjects, and they should repay them with their lives. The country abandons them like grass and grass. I hope they will accept it."
"Especially those northern refugees who you try every possible means to incorporate into your Diao family. They don't even accept Qin's rule in the north. They moved their entire family south. Are they just here to be bullied by you?"
Diao Kui raised his eyebrows and said in a deep voice: "I will say it again, I did not bully these northern refugees. All of this is just a temporary legal system during the war. If the Hulu are defeated, I will report it to you. If the imperial court exempts local taxes for a few years, doesn't that mean it's a return? Liu Yu, don't always misunderstand your intentions."
Liu Yu laughed: "People have become servants of your Diao family, so why should we talk about misunderstandings? Is it possible that you, Diao Governor, are so kind-hearted that you will treat these tenants of your family as guests without being slaves?" If they are free, will you give them your Diao family's land to cultivate?"
Diao Kui sneered and said: "After surviving the hard times, nothing is impossible. Liu Yu, I would like to say it again, these collected rice grains and corvees are not for me, Diao Kui, but for the court and the country!"
Liu Yu's eyes flashed coldly: "Really? Then I would like to ask Governor Diao, according to your statement, you have to pay the taxes they are unable to pay, right?"
Diao Kui was slightly startled at first, then nodded and said: "Yes, of course. But my Diao family has no surplus food now. I have said that all our land has been donated to the imperial court. Now come to Jingkou, If we have empty fields but no tenants to work them, how can we collect the grain tax paid to the court without using this method?"
Liu Yu said with a smile: "In that case, can Governor Diao explain why these common people and refugees can't even pay ten deeds of grain tax per person when they are farming on their own land, but when they come to your Diao family's land? Here, you can pay taxes by becoming a boy servant and tenant? Is it possible that the land occupied by your Diao family can grow food and grass by itself? "
Diao Kui began to sweat on his head and was speechless. Liu Yu laughed and said, "Prince Diao, everyone knows what you are doing. Even if you ask the court to increase taxes, you will not be punished by the Diao family." Taxes. These refugees, after the common people came to your Diao family and became child servants, they became a missing population. They were neither yellow nor white. They could only work for your Diao family from generation to generation. Isn’t that what you want? this one?"
Diao Kui said sternly: "That's enough, Liu Yu. I'm not interested in going around with you any more. Just say, are you going to collect grain and tax for Li Zheng?!"
Liu Yu turned his head, did not look at Diao Kui, turned his back to him, and said loudly: "I forgive Liu for being unable to obey his orders, Diao Governor, I would like to give you a message from the common people. This is Jingkou, a place where the imperial court attaches great importance to the source of troops. We are good at martial arts." Hometown. If you mess around here and provoke civil unrest, I'm afraid you will be the one who provokes the anger of the people in the end. Even the Huan family can't control this place. Do you think you are more powerful than Huan Wen? "
As he spoke, he strode forward. Diao Kui stood there with a gloomy expression on his face. Liu Yi gritted his teeth and said loudly: "Liu Yu, Liu Yu!" He also ran out, leaving only Diao Kui.
The brother stood in the hall, silent.
This chapter has been completed!