Land Tax Reform: Old Li, What Are You So Excited About?

“I casually mentioned equalizing the land tax, so why are you getting so worked up, Old Li?”

Alternate history + daily life + showing off and face-slapping + passionate action + the Tang dynasty

[Synopsis]

After transmigrating to the Tang dynasty thirty years ago, Chen Long kept a low profile in the countryside and completed the System’s teaching missions.

He’d planned to spend his retirement farming and fishing, but two uninvited guests barged into his courtyard and kept pestering him with questions every day.

“Mr. Chen, the aristocratic clans monopolize the grain supply, and the imperial treasury is empty. What should the court do?”

“Isn’t it simple? Equalize the land tax, and make officials and gentry alike serve and pay taxes. We’ll strip those aristocratic clans down to their underwear!”

Those words made the Left Chancellor wipe away sweat again and again, while the Tang emperor exclaimed that Chen was a sage.

But when the great clans joined forces to pressure the palace and try to usurp imperial power, Chen Long merely took a calm sip of coarse tea.

The next moment, the Tang dynasty’s God of War led three thousand White-Robed Guards in a charge through Chang’an. “Whoever dares lay a finger on my master, I’ll wipe out their entire clan!”

Right after that, more than half the court’s senior ministers dropped their disguises and stood protectively before Chen Long.

Old Li watched those murderous bigwigs act as meek as cats in front of Chen Long and sank into deep thought…