After An Gou and the others left, An Jiuyue, who was standing there, looked at Qian Jiyun and asked.
Do the government just watch the people starve to death? Or do they not care at all if the people in a small place starve to death?
Perhaps, this is really the case.
"The imperial court would not be worried about a flood in a small town at all, but what is happening here now is an epidemic, so the imperial court will take care of it. However, the method of doing so is completely different from other disasters.
There are other differences.”
Qian Jiyun said to An Jiuyue.
"you mean……"
An Jiuyue was in a daze. Although he understood Qian Jiyun's words, he still couldn't believe it.
Does such a large imperial court really regard the lives of ordinary people as nothing?
But I have to say that this is really possible. The life and death of the people are nothing to those in power. They can't see the suffering of the people at all.
In their eyes, they only have good food and clothing in front of them.
"Even so, the imperial court really can't even distribute food at all, right? What about the local officials? What are they doing? Or maybe such a big epidemic is nothing in their eyes?
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"Jiuyue, you still don't understand these things. Even if local officials are determined to make a living for the people, it depends on whether they paid a lot of taxes last year and how much surplus food is left to support the people's expenses?"
Qian Jiyun said to her.
"Ah."
An Jiuyue chuckled.
"I think these days, we can just let everyone hide in the mountains."
Because the imperial court stipulated that the wasteland reclaimed in the mountains did not need to pay any taxes for the first five years, only the poll tax was required.
But after all, it has to be reclaimed from the mountains. It is a very barren mountainous land. If you plant crops, the harvest will be average, and watering is very inconvenient. If there is a drought, there may be no harvest.
Unless they can no longer survive, who would be willing to go to the mountains to reclaim wasteland?
But after all, it is still because the imperial court has not done anything for many years. It has seen that the people are in dire straits, but they still have to see whether the high taxes are enough to cover expenses.
"Do not say that."
Qian Jiyun took a deep breath and looked at An Jiuyue seriously.
"There are some things that are beyond the Emperor's power."
If the emperor alone had the final say in this court, how could the common people reach such a state?
But the current court... He didn't want to say anything more. No matter how much he said, it would just be like that. He could only wait for their little emperor to grow up slowly, and maybe he would get better in the future.
"I have already sent someone there, I believe it will be effective soon."
Hearing this, An Jiuyue was stunned.
Things like floods were not something that a military commander like Qian Jiyun could take care of, but now, because he was involved in it and she was there, it put him in a difficult position.
"Just take care of it as much as you can. As for other things, the road in front of our house is not very wide." She said quietly.
She is not the kind of person who would embarrass her own people for the sake of others. After all, Qian Jiyun is the biological father of her two cute little children. She doesn't want Qian Jiyun to go there just for a few words of hers.
Do something difficult.
To put it bluntly, even the emperor doesn't care about his own people, so why should they care so much?