Fairy, Please Listen to My Explanation Chapter 48: Chaos

Due to the existence of long-distance communication means, the real-time response of this world is quite strong.

The local counties and counties will summarize the major events that happened in the day to the Imperial Capital before the evening garrison time, and the Chaowen Department under the Imperial Academy will select important parts of them for compilation overnight.

Before Mao the next day, the Chaowen Division sent the compiled report back to the various counties and counties. Bookstores everywhere sell them.

It is a kind of alternative morning news, and it is also the only way for most people in this world to understand the major events of their family and country.

The thickness of a newspaper is about a little thicker than the paper newspaper in the previous life, but the layout is similar.

Headlines, subtitles, and then text descriptions, and even some with pictures.

Looking carefully all the way, Xu Yuan's expression became more and more strange.

Except for some people who died in the annual winter cold wave in some northern state capitals, the rest of the Great Yan Dynasty can be summed up in four words, singing and dancing.

It cannot be said that it is completely inconsistent with the Cangyuan background he is familiar with, it can only be said that it has nothing to do with it.

After a long silence, Xu Yuan opened the curtain of the carriage and glanced at the prosperous market outside.

The people in the market are disturbing, the hawkers are passing through the crowds to sell and yell, and the princes and beauties are talking and laughing. During the walk, there are already some Mingwen lights that are illuminated at dusk.

Seen with my own eyes, it is indeed prosperous.

Looking back, he continued to browse, and soon, Xu Yuan found the information he was looking for.

At this time, the northern part of the Great Yan Dynasty was at war.

However, there is only a little space left in the last part of this report.

"The Nine Princesses led the army to the north, defeated the barbarians at the foot of Hanbei City, and killed more than ten thousand enemies."

A very relaxed description is hurriedly passed.

Xu Yuan put down the report, with some doubts in his eyes.

He didn't remember such a war in Cangyuan, but judging from the description in a few words, the scale of this war should be huge.

Because he has a vague impression of that Hanbei City.

Yuanzheng went there once with Xu Changge when he was a child.

It was a huge military city in the northern border of Great Yan.

Looking down at a glance, there is a vast expanse of white snow and fog, just like the Great Wall of Desperation.

There are many satellite military towns around it, which echo the main city of Hanbei and form horns with each other.

Xu Yuan vaguely remembered that Xu Changge said to him when he was still young:

"Cold North City is the gateway to the northern provinces. Once it is broken, there will be no danger to defend the plain behind, and the barbarians will disperse like locusts, causing immeasurable harm.

"Here, never lose."

And it is such an important town, which has been invaded by the barbarians more than ten years later.

“…….”

Xu Yuan raised his hand and rubbed the center of his brows, calmed down his thoughts, stopped thinking about it, and said directly:

"Mr. Zhou, do you know about the war in the north?"

"Huh?"

Zhou Chen, who was driving, heard Xu Yuan's sudden words, doubted him, thought for a while, then shook his head and said:

"I'm not very clear, Mr. Zhou has never been to the northern border, um...Young master, did you see the battle between me, Dayan, and those barbarians from the report?"

Xu Yuan nodded slightly:

"Well, I never knew it before, but now I see it and I am a little concerned, so I ask you."

"My son is concerned about the country and the people."

Zhou Chen cupped his fists towards the back, and then said with a smile, "I really don't know the specific situation, but if you really care, my lord, you can ask the housekeeper to prepare a report from the inside of Xiangguo's mansion after returning home. The report in our Prime Minister's Mansion is much more detailed than the one on this thing."

"Report internally?" Xu Yuan raised his eyebrows.

Zhou Chen said indifferently:

"The official reports are all selected by the Chaowen Department, and many things are incomplete."

“…….”

Xu Yuan understood what he said and stopped talking.

And Zhou Chen, who was driving, seemed to have thought of something because of this topic, and suddenly heaved a long sigh, took a sip of the wine gourd, and said in a rambling manner:

"The guys from Chaowen Division have been reporting good news but not bad news. What's going on outside, don't you have any idea?"

Hearing this, Xu Yuan immediately frowned.

What's the mess?

The Jingjiang city is so prosperous, but the outside is in chaos?

But if this is the case, it can match the plot.

After pondering for a moment, Xu Yuan asked:

"Mr. Zhou, what do you mean by "chaos"?"

“…….”

Zhou Chen glanced back at the small window on the carriage with some surprise.

Isn't it common sense that monsters and bandits are rampant in the world today?

Why does the third son not know?

However, after a little thought, Zhou Chen also realized it, and smiled helplessly.

These three young masters either stayed in the Imperial Capital, or stayed in the huge Jingjiang Mansion. They almost never went out of the city.

Zhou Chen carefully chose his words and said in a low voice:

"Third Young Master, you don't know that you have been staying in Fucheng. In recent years, there have been natural and man-made disasters in various places."

As he spoke, Zhou Chen sighed, with a slightly complicated tone:

"I was ordered to come to Jingjiang City from the Imperial Capital earlier, and I encountered countless times of monsters attacking people along the way. I passed many villages in the air, and I could only see a pile of ruined walls and some dead bones."

Xu Yuan's heart sank:

"A monster attacking people?"

Zhou Chen explained: "It doesn't refer to those domesticated monsters that hurt people, but those that remain in the mountains."

"I know, what I mean is the people who supervise the Tiansi? Isn't it their duty to disturb the people with monsters?"

“…….”

Zhou Chen didn't answer these words.

Pause for a while,

Seeing that Zhou Chen was silent, Xu Yuan took the initiative to speak:

"If Mr. Zhou has anything to say, just say it directly, don't worry about it."

Seeing this, Zhou Chen was no longer silent and smiled:

"Because the court has no money."

His laughter carried a hint of sarcasm.

Because there is no money, there is no one in Tiansi, so they can't manage it.

As for why there is no money?

Hehe.

After a few breaths of silence in the carriage, the sound came out again after a long time:

"Mr. Zhou, can you tell me the reason? Official corruption?"

When Zhou Chen heard this, he didn't care about it any more, he just said softly:

"This is just one of them."

"What are the rest?" Xu Yuan asked.

Zhou Chen did not answer ~IndoMTL.com~ but asked rhetorically:

"Third Young Master, do you know how many sect properties there are in Jingjiang City?"

Xu Yuan narrowed his eyes and shook his head slightly;

"I don't know."

Zhou Chen babbled while drinking:

"Zuixian Building, Xiaoxiang Pavilion, the monster spinning market in the east of the city, and the fertile fields outside the city...all of these are properties of the sect.

"Hehe, the money needed to feed those sect children who don't care about production is several times more than the annual military expenditure of the frontier army."

Zhou Chen's tone is leisurely, but his voice is low:

"But these sects don't need to pay taxes. What they pay attention to is paying tribute. As for the amount of tribute every year, hehe...they have the final say."

Xu Yuan's scalp felt faintly numb, which is probably clear.

Because the example is right in front of you.

The Zuixian Tower is the property of that Mr. Qin.

And at the Tianyuan Conference back then, Xu Changge would kill Mr. Qin, which meant that he was also a member of the local sect.

At least on the surface.

As a gold-selling cave, the Zuixian Tower can make an unfathomable profit overnight.

And this is just a corner of the Zongmen's thousands of properties, but the imperial court can't receive a single cent of this money.

The gentry in the past and ancient times were not so outrageous.

Regardless of the actual implementation, at least officially, the taxation of this group of people is only preferential treatment.

But here, these sects will not accept them directly.

Seeing Xu Yuan for a long time,

Zhou Chen arched his hands toward the sky:

"Third Young Master, Lord Xiangguo has repeatedly challenged the Crown Prince to rectify this problem, but the Crown Prince dismissed them on the grounds that the ancestral system cannot be changed lightly.

"I guess, Mr. Qin's attack on you is probably because of this."