Chapter 84

At this moment, Ying Zheng looked at the reports before him, which were like snowflakes.

His heart was simply trembling!

A Da Qin noble, the head of the Qiao family, was killed on the spot for resisting tax payment!

A Da Qin noble, the head of the Wei family, was killed on the spot for resisting tax payment!

The descendants of Da Qin's Wuan Jun Bai Qi, due to fierce resistance, were killed until only one young child remained!

The descendants of Da Qin's Shang Yang were killed without a survivor for paying ten thousand shi of grain less!

The descendant of Da Qin's former chancellor Zhang Yi, Zhang Cheng, was killed on the spot for delaying tax payment!

The descendants of Da Qin's former chancellor Fan Ju were wiped out on the spot for refusing to pay taxes!

Da Qin...

Ying Zheng read again and again, his heart bleeding each time.

You must know... these... among these people, some were old-established nobles of Da Qin.

Some were even nobles who existed during the era of Duke Xiao!

Some were nobles who rose through the ranks later due to military merit, killing their way up!

And there were others whom he had ennobled out of gratitude for their great merit in unifying the world.

And without a doubt, these people, more or less, had all established immense merit for Da Qin's unification of the world!

But now... Ying Su has killed them all.

Without holding back, and showing not an ounce of mercy!

Especially... he also heard!

The head of the Qiao family was killed on the spot simply because he wanted a few days' grace!

And the Mi family, that was the most powerful family during the former Queen Dowager Xuan's era!

Once the head of the Four Great Nobles of Qin, but now, they have been killed until fewer than three people remain!

"Rebellious son!"

"Rebellious son!"

Ying Zheng's eyes were about to burst; at this moment, even his hands and feet were trembling!

He knew Ying Su might kill indiscriminately, but... he completely did not expect him to kill so ruthlessly!

So many people have been killed by him.

Moreover, each and every one was a meritorious official, each and every one was a top noble of Da Qin.

This is almost killing all the founding meritorious officials of Da Qin!

"Rebellious son!"

"Rebellious son!"

Ying Zheng's heart grew cold again and again.

And at this moment, Zhao Gao took out another report:

"Your Majesty, the noble Zhang family of Xianyang City requests the First Emperor to depose the rebellious son and for the First Emperor to resume control of the imperial court!"

"And also our Da Qin scholar-officials Wang Wan, the Physician Li Tan, Da Qin Grand Commandant Wei Wei Liaozi, and Da Qin Right Chancellor Feng Quji!"

"They have united with the hundred officials, writing a memorial, demanding the First Emperor resume control of the imperial court!"

"Furthermore, they have stated they can provide troops and Qian Liang for the First Emperor!"

As he spoke, he held the report with both hands and bowed before Ying Zheng.

However, Ying Zheng did not look at it, but threw this memorial aside!

Afterwards, he returned to his room to sleep!

During this period, the land tax has been implemented very vigorously!

Huang Chao and Zhang Liang led two thousand people as special tax envoys!

They were responsible for collecting taxes nationwide.

Wait...

Zhang Liang?

That's right!

Ying Su did not care whether Zhang Liang was willing or not; he directly arranged for him and Huang Chao to be together!

And with Zhang Liang there, this tax collection became even more planned!

Before the tax collection army moved, the proclamation went first!

Before they set out, they would send people to post the imperial court's proclamation all over the world!

Informing everyone in the world that from now on, the Great Wall construction will stop, the Epang Palace construction will stop, and all tax systems will change from the current poll tax to the land tax!

No matter who, no matter what status, as long as one has land, one must pay fifty percent of the tax!

The moment the proclamation was posted, all the common people exploded.

But very quickly, all the common people wept with joy!

"New Emperor!"

"Long live the New Emperor!"

"May the New Emperor reign for ten thousand generations!"

"The New Emperor far surpasses the First Emperor!"

Wherever the proclamation went, all the common people shouted continuously, simply happier than hearing about a three-year tax exemption!

A three-year tax exemption is merely exempting three years!

But after three years, it would still be half of the grain, still requiring handing over fifty percent of the grain in hand to the imperial court, and twenty percent of the grain to the nobles!

All they had left in their own hands was a pitiful thirty percent of the grain!

Thirty percent of the grain might suffice for one person to eat, but for a whole family?

How could that possibly be enough to eat!

And to simply have food to eat, even though the slave system had been abolished, they were still forced to become slaves of the nobles!

There was no other way; all the land belonged to the nobles!

If they did not become slaves, there was no way to survive!

But now, the imperial court's decree has been issued, which means those who hold land must pay taxes; what about those who hold no land?

If one holds no land, then what the hell is there to pay taxes on!

And where do the common people have any land?

No land means they will never have to pay taxes again in the future!

At that moment, truly, all the common people cheered and leaped for joy.

And naturally, those who also cheered and were excited were the halting of the Great Wall's construction and the halting of the Epang Palace's construction!

The Great Wall, the Epang Palace!

In this era, these were truly two great mountains pressing down upon the common people!

Because of the Great Wall, because of the Epang Palace, every man of the Great Qin had to perform corvée labor.

Moreover, once the term of corvée labor arrived, no matter what you were doing, you had to leave immediately!

Otherwise, the Qin Fa was severe, and one would violate Qin laws.

And the prototype of the famous Meng Jiangnu weeping over the Great Wall incident was that on the day Meng Jiangnu got married, her husband had not even had time to consummate the marriage before being dragged away by the labor officers to build the Great Wall.

And Meng Jiangnu, in order to find her husband, traveled thousands of miles to the Great Wall; upon learning her husband had died while building the Great Wall, she immediately began to weep!

Later, somehow, the story spread and was even turned into Meng Jiangnu weeping down the Great Wall!

Now, with the Great Wall no longer being built and the Epang Palace no longer being built, it truly made everyone cheer and made everyone excited!

However, before they could remain excited for too long, a noble began to laugh:

"You wicked commoners, do you really think the new Emperor is so kind-hearted? He did order the exemption of taxes for three years, but... he enacted the Xiao Guo Decree, requiring you to hand over sixty percent of your grain to the state every year!"

"Do you really think you won't have to pay taxes in the future?"

"And as for halting the construction of the Great Wall and halting the construction of the Epang Palace, that is because we are going to fight the Xiongnu, to conscript all of you as soldiers, to go and fight the Xiongnu!"

At that moment, some nobles laughed disdainfully.

And upon hearing these words, some common people's faces instantly changed.

They instantly thought of that terrifying Xiao Guo Decree!

And the matter of Ying Su attacking the Xiongnu!

Wasn't this clearly ordering them to become soldiers?