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Chapter 2 Going to sea

"Oh?" Of course Yu Su knew that Tao Xiaowu couldn't say these flattering words casually, there must be a deep meaning in them, and he immediately became serious.

"Does the country know that today's Heavenly Emperor is the resurrected Ancient Heavenly Emperor?"

Yu Su was shocked. This kind of thing is still very secret.

After all, Heaven has never announced it, so how can he know?

"Then the country knows that Emperor Qi of Heaven is also called Yu Bangqi, and is he from the ancient tribe Yu Bang?"

"This is also recorded in ancient books!"

"In ancient times, Yu Tongyu, does the country know?"

Yu Su was shocked when he heard this. He had never thought about it.

When the Old Dynasty of Dayu was established, it was the era of the Yugong Divine Court, and the Heavenly Emperor Yugong was on the throne.

Although the Yugong Divine Court was established and the times changed, it has become completely connected to heaven and isolated from the human world. It is rare for gods and humans to coexist together.

The divine court interferes less and less in the human world!

But in that era, the Old Yu Dynasty would definitely not announce its relationship with the ancient Emperor of Heaven in a big way.

He even wanted to try his best to hide this relationship so as not to be jealous of heaven.

After all, theoretically, Emperor Qi of Heaven had fallen for who knows how many years.

And now is the era of Emperor Yuji!

If you are not looking for excitement, you will definitely not arouse the suspicion of the divine court.

Although Yu Su was born in the Dayu clan, he was not from the main imperial clan after all. This was the first time he had heard of these secrets.

No heavy hammer is needed to play the drum. After hearing Tao Xiaowu’s words, he suddenly understood many things!

And this kind of thing, no matter how many words, no matter how many guarantees, it makes Yu Su feel at ease.

After all, this is an era of bloodline clans.

The so-called country, country, country and family.

The civilization of Middle-earth was originally composed of blood tribes and later families.

The so-called transforming the country into a family is nothing more than this!

Since there is such a blood relationship between the Yu family and the current emperor, it is much stronger than any promise.

Without Tao Xiaowu saying anything else, Yu Su had already made up his mind and knew what to do!

However, he smiled calmly, as if he was chatting with Tao Xiaowu, and quickly intervened, inviting Tao Xiaowu to have a meal and stay in the palace for a few more days, and so on.

Then he turned around and started to get started immediately.

This time, he turned against the local big family without any hesitation and directly announced that the world's land, population, and taxes would be levied on everyone!

In this era, land is an important means of production.

But after all, it is still an era when there are fewer people and more land. Population is a more important means of production than land.

In addition, agricultural technology is low, farming is extensive, and there is no intensive farming.

It is normal for a person to farm dozens of acres of land, and the yield per mu is pitifully low.

Therefore, in this era, the most important tax is the head tax, not the land tax.

It was not until the era when there were more people and less land that taxes were changed to be based on land.

Times are different and situations are different.

If we were to tax according to the amount of land in this era, I am afraid that a lot of land in the world would be abandoned!

So actually, Tao Xiaowu made some mistakes earlier.

I thought Yusu had a falling out with the local big family because of the land...

Wrong, what’s more important is population!

Because local powerful households hide their population, these people become slave tenants of the powerful households and do not belong to the country and do not pay taxes to the country.

And these populations can even reach one-third, or even half, of the world's population!

This is how the old Yu Dynasty perished!

There are fewer and fewer people paying taxes, and the court's consumption will not decrease. Taxes can only be added to those who pay taxes.

More and more people are going bankrupt, while fewer and fewer people are paying taxes. Such a vicious cycle!

And those who went bankrupt either became serfs of powerful families or became refugees.

This was also the basis for the rise of those powerful families in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties!

A powerful family has a population and land, and has established a complete manor economy, which is equivalent to semi-independent kingdoms, and even established its own private army.

With money, soldiers and food, during the Wei and Jin Dynasties, no matter which dynasty they were in, they could only cooperate with these families that had evolved into powerful families and use their official positions to win over them.

So the upper-class Wuhan Clan and the lower-class Wushi Clan were formed!

In another world, Emperor Guangwu saw this danger at the beginning of the founding of the country and implemented various restrictions, but the solution was not complete.

During the Three Kingdoms era, why was it said that the heroes of the world were envoys to you and Cao?

Why are the other princes just dead bones in the graves? Why is there no Sun Biyan from Jiangdong?

Because only these two people are the real tragic heroes who changed their fate against the will of heaven, because they are the only two people who fought against the powerful and wanted to re-establish centralized power. They acted like a chariot with their arms and stood in the way of the torrent of history.

So both of them failed!

Although Sun Biyan's ability is not weak, from this point of view, he is far behind, no more than a household dog!

That's why Sun Ce, the little overlord, said before his death that Sun Biyan could inherit and protect Jiangdong's foundation.

However, its pattern is to protect Jiangdong's foundation...

Among the Three Kingdoms, Sun Wu is also the most clan-based. Even Sun Wu's army can be said to be composed of private soldiers from various ethnic groups!

Tao Xiaowu only understood these things later!

After all, the situation in the Jingren court era was very different from that in the Dayu era!

The most important means of production in the Jingren court era was land, not scarce population anymore!

With Heaven as his backer, Yu Su began to sweep away local forces with thunderous means.

For a time, rebellions broke out all over the place.

It seems that Yu, who just ruled the world, is falling apart again.

However, Tao Xiaowu lived a very leisurely life, and even had time to travel to the time and space dungeon again!

After all, he can't do anything about these things, and there's no need for him to do anything!





Mist filled the air from the sea, and there were knocking sounds everywhere, coming dullly from the depths of the fog.

As I got closer, I saw a pair of villagers gathered together on the beach, beating gongs and drums as if to celebrate a happy event.

A flower boat, which is an ordinary fishing boat decorated with flowers, is floating on the sea.

Countless tributes were tied with red ribbons and loaded into the boat. Then with a hard push, the boat left the shore and headed towards the sea.

The crackling firecrackers were lit, but the sound was blocked by the thick fog, making it seem extremely dull.

Along with the faint sound of firecrackers, there was also the sound of crying.

Tao Xiaowu suddenly appeared on the flower boat.

This is not a burial at sea, nor is it a human sacrifice.

In the cabin, there was only a strange-looking clay statue, clad in red and decorated with colors, looking hideous and ugly.

However, under Tao Xiaowu's gaze, tears of blood slowly flowed from the eyes of this statue.


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