Chapter 350: Jie Ge is just putting on a show, don't let people take Jie Ge as Xiang Zi

"We subjects dare not claim merit, the stability of the world is all because Your Majesty's virtue shines on the sun and moon!"

"Long live, long live, long long live our Emperor!"

Wang Lun, the head of the Great Gan civil officials, directly shook his official robe,

knelt on both knees, and bombarded Zhang Jie with a round of flattery.

"Long live, long live, long long live our Emperor!"

With Wang Lun taking the lead, everyone in the field knelt down and shouted long live.

"Beloved ministers, rise."

Zhang Jie, who was happy in his heart, stood up and waved his hand:

"Today I want to hold a grand banquet to celebrate, all beloved ministers must attend!"

"Your Majesty is wise!"

There was a sound of cheering from below.

The world is unified, such a great happy event, should be celebrated by the whole world.

"Pass the order down, reduce and exempt the world's land tax for one year to celebrate!"

Zhang Jie, who was in a good mood, waved his hand and made a big decision.

Reducing and exempting land tax for one year will definitely allow the common people who walked out of the war to catch their breath.

As for directly canceling agricultural tax,

it is not realistic at all in an era where more than 70% of the country's income is land tax.

Reducing and exempting for one year can be supported by the previous Great Song national treasury,

the spoils of war from sweeping the entire Great Liao territory, and various exclusive businesses 'invented' by Zhang Jie, but it won't work for a long time.

Only by entering the industrial age and letting industrial equipment replace land as

a more valuable means of production is the time to reduce and exempt land tax.

"Your Majesty's benevolence is like the sky, even the Yao and Shun of the past are nothing more than this!"

Reducing and exempting land tax has been the act of a sage or wise monarch since ancient times, so the officials naturally sent another round of rainbow farts.

This time it was even more exaggerated, directly comparing Zhang Jie to the protagonists of the Three Generations of Governance recorded in Confucian classics,

the Yao, Shun, and Yu, who were regarded as wise kings and sage kings.

"Beloved ministers are over-praising, what virtue or ability do I have to be compared with Yao and Shun?"

Zhang Jie habitually humbled himself.

For one thing, he didn't think that he, who had all seven emotions and six desires, and all five poisons of greed, anger, and ignorance,

could be compared with the sage kings Yao, Shun, and Yu recorded in Confucian classics, who had nothing but the common people of the world, only the greater self, no lesser self;

only the greater family, no lesser family.

To tell the truth, such a sage is probably hard to find even if you search the entire human history.

For another, Zhang Jie didn't want to add a layer of restraint to himself for no reason.

After all, if he now claimed to be a wise king or sage king like Yao and Shun,

wouldn't his future behavior, administrative decisions, and military actions also have to follow Yao and Shun?

How can we still play happily? He established the Great Gan to serve himself,

not to prepare to dedicate his life to these bureaucrats. The primary and secondary relationship between the two must never be reversed.

Jie Ge is just trying to put on a show, don't let people take Jie Ge as Xiang Zi.

"Your Majesty has both the benevolence of Yao and Shun, and the capacity of Han Gao…"

The officials saw that although Zhang Jie was humble in his words, he didn't seem to care about such praise at all,

but the slightly hooked corners of his mouth still exposed his true thoughts.

Knowing that this flattery hit the point, they followed with three consecutive flatteries.

One side was secretly happy, the other side was intentionally flattering, the atmosphere between monarch and subject was so harmonious.

The relationship between our Great Gan monarch and subject is so simple and crude~

……

"Hiccup~"

In the early hours of the night, Zhang Jie, who had just finished today's banquet, let out a big hiccup.

"Your Majesty, the dragon body is important. This slave knows you have a huge capacity, drunk after a thousand cups,

but your dragon body is the foundation of our Great Gan, absolutely cannot be lost!"

Smelling the almost substantial smell of alcohol emanating from Zhang Jie, Li Dequan advised with both worry and heartache.

"I know my body, it doesn't matter. Besides, it's just because I was happy today that I drank a bit more."

Not using internal power to resolve the alcohol, he was already a bit drunk,

but his consciousness was still clear, Zhang Jie waved his hand indifferently.

To tell the truth, with his current cultivation, if he hadn't chosen not to use internal power to resolve the alcohol,

then the low-degree wine used at this celebration banquet for the Great Gan's unification would have been no different from plain water in his mouth.

"There is no wisdom greater than Your Majesty."

Since Zhang Jie said so, what else could Li Dequan say?

He could only shout "Your Majesty is wise!"

"Your Majesty, which lady's place will you sleep in tonight?"

Li Dequan looked at the night sky that was pitch black,

knowing it was late and time to rest, so he asked softly.

"Hmm…"

"Tonight I will go to…"

Zhang Jie thought that he had been wandering in the flowers recently, first taking in all of Zhao Ji's adult imperial daughters,

and then sweeping up Emperor Tianzuo Yelu Yanxi's harem,

and had neglected Pan Jinlian, who had accompanied him since he was young, so he decided to go to the Empress's bedroom tonight.

But he suddenly recalled that at the banquet just now, Pan Jinlian also drank a lot of wine,

fearing that she couldn't serve him, and if he went now, he might disturb her rest.

"Accompany me for a walk in the palace first."

Zhang Jie, who hadn't made up his mind, ordered.

"Yes."

Li Dequan naturally had no objections and arranged for people to clear the way.

Walking slowly, Zhang Jie's footsteps stopped at the Imperial Garden.

This garden, which was decorated beautifully by Zhao Ji at the expense of scraping the people's fat and ointment, collecting strange flowers and grasses,

strange stones and precious trees from all over the world, after falling into Zhang Jie's hands,

because he didn't have Zhao Ji's leisurely leisure, and was either in war or preparing for war,

and when facing the Great Liao's seven hundred thousand troops, he even personally led the imperial expedition for nearly a month,

so even if there was no shortage of manpower, without special funding,

the Imperial Garden was also abandoned and decayed a lot, not living up to its previous glory.

"Woo woo…"

Suddenly, a small sobbing sound, as if complaining and longing, as if crying and pleading, entered Zhang Jie's ears.

"Hmm? Why are there other people in the Imperial Garden?"

Zhang Jie couldn't help but twitch his eyebrows.

Although he, like other emperors, had to clear the streets for ten miles when he went out,

this Imperial Garden was his private garden, and outsiders were not allowed to enter without a decree.

Now that such a person suddenly came, were the palace's security and guards asleep?

"This slave is derelict in his duty, please punish me, Your Majesty!"

Li Dequan, who also heard the movement, turned pale,

sweat pouring down like rain, and knelt down with a 'thump', hurriedly pleading guilty.

As the Grand Superintendent of the Inner Court who manages the affairs of the Imperial Palace, although the protection of the Imperial Garden was not managed by him personally,

letting others enter, he, the top boss, couldn't escape the charge of dereliction of duty.

"Forget it, it was an unintentional mistake, get up."

Li Dequan had always been by Zhang Jie's side, inseparable, in other words,

every move of Li Dequan was actually seen by Zhang Jie, and he really had no fault.

As for the crime of dereliction of duty, in the palace, not counting the ladies and imperial guards who were not managed by Li Dequan,

the other palace people, palace maids, eunuchs, imperial chefs, and handymen numbered in the thousands,

even if there were a few more, it would be difficult for him to manage everything in detail.

"Your Majesty's benevolence is like the sky!"

Li Dequan wiped the cold sweat from his forehead with his sleeve before standing up. ===== CHAPTER 351 =====

Li Dequan wiped the cold sweat from his forehead with his sleeve before standing up.