After the blood is drained here, the water is boiled over there. Put the pig on the big wooden basin, pour hot water on it, and then shave the pig's hair.

The pig bristles, which are as hard as needles, are all carefully collected. These are good things and can be made into brushes.

The black pig hair has been shaved off, but there is still black skin inside.

The butcher was so powerful that he immediately picked up the pig, which weighed more than 100 kilograms, and hung it on a hook. He then skillfully disemboweled the pig and divided it into pieces.

Remove the pig head, separate the legs, take out the internal organs, and pull off the suet...

Wu Huaiyu was directing from the side, and sent people to clean the intestines, add salt to the collected pig blood to solidify the blood tofu, chop the pig's trotters, chop the ribs, and cut the pork belly...

Add rice wine and some rock sugar to stew Dongpo Pork in a casserole, fill the clear intestines with some pig blood to make blood sausage, stew winter melon with pork ribs, stew pig feet with soybeans,

Twice-cooked pork must be arranged, as well as sauerkraut stew.

Then braise some pig ears, simmer pork liver, stir-fry shredded pork...

A big black pig, in half a day, turns into a pig-killing feast.

Pot after pot of dishes, Wujiapu Zhuangzi is also full of fragrance today, everyone has a share, and meat is available as an extra meal.

Cheng Qian also ate very well and felt that every dish was so delicious. Although pork was a cheap meat and could not be served at the royal banquet in the past, today he personally helped pull off the pig's tail and ate this pig-killing dish, which was particularly delicious.

"It smells so good, teacher. I didn't expect pork to be so fresh and sweet."

Wu Huaiyu was quite happy to eat the big bone.

"Teacher, you now have hundreds of hectares of land, right?"

"Well, there are 200 hectares in Shuofang, more than 200 hectares in Hebei, 100 hectares in Guanzhong, Shannan, Hedong, Longyou, and Shuzhong together have 200 hectares. Calculated, there should be 800 hectares of land."

Eight hundred hectares of land, that is, more than 80,000 acres. Although it is not comparable to the thousands of hectares of land that Pei Ji was given at one time, this amount is already amazing and definitely belongs to one of the top landowners.

Cheng Qian asked curiously, "The teacher occupies 80,000 acres and is a big landowner. Why did the teacher propose the two-tax law? The two-tax law does not make the landowners pay more taxes, but allows ordinary people, especially the landless, to benefit.

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Eighty thousand acres of land is just one item of free grain. If you pay two liters per mu, it will be an extra 1,600 shi of grain. And if the two-tax law is implemented in the future, the land tax will be increased several times per mu. Isn't it right?

Doesn’t it cost five to six thousand shi of food a year?

Why is the teacher willing?"

"Why are others unwilling? Why does Your Majesty still say that the two-tax law cannot be directly implemented? What is the court afraid of?"

Wu Huaiyu chewed on the bone of the stick and smiled when he saw Cheng Qian's sincere request for advice, "Your Majesty once said that water can carry a boat and also capsize it. I wonder if Your Highness remembers that?"

"Remember, Mr. Kong told Gu that the ruler is like a boat and the people are like water. Water can not only allow the boat to sail safely, but also overturn and engulf the boat and sink it in the water. It means that if things are used properly, they will be beneficial, and vice versa.

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"The common people are like water. Your Highness, do you think these common people include big landowners like Ru Chen?"

Cheng Qian fell into deep thought.

"The two-tax law is naturally beneficial in the long run. Today's tax-free modulation actually has big problems and urgently needs to be changed. However, any change in the system will inevitably touch many vested interests.

On the contrary, it will cause opposition. If it is simply enforced, it will arouse contradictions and cause conflicts.

For example, in the previous dynasty, the Sui Dynasty unified the world and ended hundreds of years of disputes since the end of the Han Dynasty. It was great. Emperor Yang was also a very capable emperor. He was ambitious and introduced many reforms. However,

He was just too conceited, and the result was that his reform methods touched the most fundamental ruling class of the Sui Dynasty.

The final result was also seen by His Highness, the nobles of Guanlong all raised troops one after another,"

Wu Huaiyu reminded Cheng Qian that not only should you not do things too hastily, but you must also remember where your butt is sitting. You cannot violate your own foundation.

Although the Two Taxes Law is good, the biggest problem we are facing now is that it will damage the cornerstone of imperial power, that is, the foundation of rule, which is the aristocratic, bureaucratic, gentry group, and even the local powerful landlord class. All those with assets and land will be here.

The new tax law has suffered losses rather than benefits, which is doomed to face great resistance to this policy now.

If it is simply enforced, there will be great hidden dangers.

Water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn it. Just like the Guanlong noble group, they can establish the Western Wei Dynasty, the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and even the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

Of course, they can also establish another new dynasty.

Therefore, even though Emperor Li Shimin had long understood the many shortcomings of the current fundamental national policy of the Tang Dynasty, even if it was very urgent, he did not dare to just slap his head and do whatever he wanted. He was cautious, a little bit of testing, and even all kinds of

Deals and compromises.

"Why is the teacher willing?"
Chapter completed!