No matter how small you are, you still have some status, so you don’t know much about some things, and you don’t know much about the sufferings of the world.”

"The Holy Soul Village you were in before belongs to Fasno Province, which is a special province divided by the empire. Because it is close to the border and borders the Star Dou Forest, it is a place with very light taxes. Most civilians are

It’s 50% tax.”

"And here, although it is within the limits of the imperial capital, the taxes are very heavy. It has reached 70% of the 10% tax. After a year of hard work, they have to pay 70% of the tax and food. If they don't starve to death, it is considered a good thing."

What Qian Renxue said completely shocked Dong Qing.

He said in a somewhat disbelieving tone: "It's too much to hand over half of the food. When I first heard about this, I just yelled."

"If Grandpa Jack hadn't stopped me, at the age of five, I would have smashed that tax official's head in pieces. Why is it that in Tiandou City, as the emperor, the taxes are so much heavier than those in Saint Soul Village?"

Dongqing did have this impulse back then. Why would you ask others to hand over half of the food that farmers have worked hard to grow for a year?

But what makes him most angry is that there are actually strict rules. If the tax payment fails to meet a certain standard, people will be arrested and do hard labor.

Facing Dong Qing's expression of disbelief, Qian Renxue's expression remained calm.

She sorted out her thoughts for a while, with a hint of imperial demeanor in her expression, and said in an unhurried tone: "The Tiandou Empire has been passed down for so many years, but it has actually become terminally ill. It has changed from the original centralized rule to the autonomy of kingdoms and principalities.

, the comprehensive national strength has dropped by more than one level.”

"If it weren't for our Wuhun Palace being located across the border between the Star Luo Empire and the Tian Dou Empire, the Tian Dou Empire would have been swallowed up by the ambitious and comprehensively powerful Star Luo Empire."

"There are also large and small sects, soul master families, noble families, and local officials in the Tiandou Empire. They are all attached to this country to suck blood."

"The best targets for blood-sucking are naturally the hundreds of millions of ordinary people. They have no ability to resist or say no, so they can only continue to squeeze their blood and sweat from the dignitaries."

"If it weren't for the Wuhun Palace's nationwide promotion of free martial soul awakening, some lucky people would stand out from time to time, and these blood-drinking worms would even dare to increase taxes again."

"Even though Tiandou City is at the feet of the Emperor, today's Tiandou Empire is no longer the Tiandou Empire it once was. Even the Great Emperor cannot act arbitrarily."

There is nothing false about what Qian Renxue said. The current Tiandou Empire is like this, and it has already entered the prelude to its demise.

Just imagine.

In an empire with many kingdoms and principalities within it, how much majesty and power can the nominal king have?

The reason why Qian Renxue chose the Tiandou Empire instead of the more powerful Star Luo Empire was because she cared about the suffering of the world and wanted to do something for hundreds of millions of people.

But after she successfully pretended to replace the crown prince of the Tiandou Empire, she discovered that her power was not as great as she had imagined, and there were even many things that she didn't know how to change.

People's hearts are complex, and she has no ability to control them. No matter how well she arranges things, the people below will still work against her, and even bully innocent people even more cruelly.

kill?

The Tiandou Empire is already in a state of rottenness. If you can't kill all these people, even if you kill all the people below, it will end up making the people's livelihood even more miserable.

Over time, Qian Renxue could only give up the naive ideas she had when she was young, and even had the idea of ​​giving up pretending to be the crown prince of the Tiandou Empire.

But because her confidence had already been blown out in front of Bibi Dong back then, she couldn't just run back to Wuhun Hall in disgrace now, so she could only bite the bullet and persevere.

I had known so.

Qian Renxue thought that she should have gone to the Xingluo Empire in the first place, an empire that used the method of raising gu to train its princes. Maybe she could still show off her talents with her talent.

.......

"When it prospers, the people suffer; when it dies, the people suffer."

After listening to Qian Renxue's narration, Dong Qing couldn't help but sigh.

Is this a poem?

Qian Renxue tilted her head and pondered for a few minutes. She seemed to have thought of something, and suddenly her eyes lit up like light bulbs.

"Oh, I forgot that Xiaoqing, you are a great poet and the dream lover of thousands of girls. I didn't expect that a casual sentence would be a poem. Please write a poem for me, sister."

"Don't make trouble!"

"I don't care! I want it! And I want it now!!!"

"Sister, please let me go, I really can't hold it in at this moment."

"Five times black and white..."

"Ahem, deal!"

Dongqing coughed a few times, and at the same time, he frantically searched through the Chinese poetry classics he had studied in the Earth era, racking his brains to find a poem with snow in it.

Thanks to the strength of his soul and spirit, after a while, he really found a good poem.

"The north wind blows and the white grass on the ground folds, and the sky is full of snow in August. Suddenly, like a spring breeze coming overnight, thousands of pear trees bloom..."

Every time he read a line of poetry, Dongqing would pause for several seconds, as if waiting for Qian Renxue to digest and understand.

But it's a pity.

In fact, Qian Renxue doesn't care whether the poem is good or not. She doesn't have the artistic talent or appreciation level, and she doesn't even know whether the poem is good or bad.
Chapter completed!