Reborn Nongmen's little lucky wife

Chapter 1153: Chu Emperor's New Edict

Gu Jin'an was very happy and heaved a sigh of relief. Although Cui Yiwen looked down on him because of his family background, Cui Yiwen was not Tong San, nor was he such an ignorant dude, so he had no ill intentions towards him.

"Brother Cui, don't worry, I will tell you what you say. Mr. Ouyang will decide whether to see you or not." Gu Jinan agreed.

Cui Yiwen was very happy, thanked Gu Jin'an again, and started drinking with him, and Yan Xiaowu came after just two drinks.

As soon as he arrived, he walked up to Gu Jin'an and said with a smile, "Brother Gu came really early. I even made a detour to Xu's house to pick you up, but Mr. Xu said that you were already here."

Cui Yiwen was surprised when he heard this. This Gu Jinan is not simple. Not only did he know Mr. Ouyang, he got Mr. Ouyang to write "What is Filial Piety" to defend him, and he also got in touch with the Yan family. I heard that Gu Jinan also had a relationship with the Zheng family in Jiangnan , The eldest grandson of the Shangguan family has a good relationship, this connection... Apart from admiration, Cui Yiwen can only sigh that his fate is good.

Gu Jinan was very happy tonight. This was the only time he had not been embarrassed since he attended so many banquets.

And Kong Xuezheng also said to him: "Mr. Ouyang's article will be presented to the emperor for review. As long as the emperor reads it, no one will dare to embarrass you when you go to the capital for the exam."

Gu Jinan thanked Kong Xuezheng.

But Confucianism's political materials were wrong, and the Emperor of Chu didn't care about such trivial matters at all.

When Kong Xuezheng presented Mr. Ouyang's article to the Emperor Chu like a treasure, the Emperor Chu just glanced at it roughly and threw it aside, still scolding Mr. Ouyang and Kong Xuezheng in his heart. Such a trivial thing to waste his time?

The Emperor of Chu is in a state of desperation now. The Great Rong looted the Longshan Mansion, the city of Longshan Mansion was destroyed, countless border residents were killed, and countless women were taken into captivity. His face, the Emperor of Chu, was severely beaten and his face was swollen. what.

Some people in the northwest must be scolding him now, saying that it is all his fault that he eliminated Wei Guogong's family, so that the Dayong people became unscrupulous.

Regarding the affairs of Duke Wei's family, Emperor Chu knew that he had done too much, but he didn't feel that he was wrong. Duke Wei's lineage was very powerful. Apart from being the local emperor in the northwest, he also had old tribes in the Northeast and Zhongzhou.If we don't get rid of Duke Wei's family, it won't take two generations. It is estimated that the descendants of Duke Wei will invade the capital and grab his family's throne!

It's just that Wei Guogong's line is a sharp blade to check and balance the Great Rong. Now he has destroyed this sharp blade, and the new sharp blade is useless, causing Longshan Mansion to be looted.He had to solve this matter and get back his face, otherwise he would be laughed to death by the courtiers.

Therefore, the emperor of Chu decided to send troops to Dayong.

But the war requires money and food. Due to the disaster, the national treasury was empty and the money and food were insufficient. After thinking hard, the emperor of Chu issued an imperial decree to increase taxes.

The Emperor of Chu wants to increase the summer tax, poll tax and anti-army tax.

After hearing this, the courtiers were all shocked, and they wrote letters to advise, saying: "The miscellaneous taxes in Dachu are already enough, and the farmers are already overwhelmed. How can the people live by adding another anti-army tax?" The past few years have not been stable, farmers have no surplus food, and increasing taxes may cut off their livelihood."

The Emperor of Chu had heard this for a few years, and he was already bored. He scolded the officials in the Northwest, Northeast, and Zhongzhou for their incompetence: "A group of wastes are mediocre with white-collar salaries. Back to normal?!"

The Emperor of Chu was very angry, and immediately issued an order to reprimand the officials in the Northwest, Northeast, and Zhongzhou, and deducted their salaries for three months.

The courtiers are going crazy, these three places are unstable, you should appease them, why did you suddenly order punishment?Aren't you afraid of messing up again?

But the decree has already been issued, and the courtiers have no choice but to continue to persuade the emperor not to increase taxes.

But the emperor of Chu had made up his mind, saying that the money and food collected would be used as military funds to fight against the army.However, the courtiers opposed it too much, and the Emperor of Chu finally changed his will: "Northwest, Northeast, and Zhongzhou will not increase taxes, but prosperous places such as Jianghuai, Jiangnan, and Zhili will be charged twice as much as food tax and anti-army tax."

Courtiers: "..."

Already crazy, can't move, whatever you want.

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Gu Jin'an and the others didn't know that the Emperor Chu was going to raise taxes. It was the third day after the banquet that they packed up their things and set off for He'an Mansion.

Before going back, they bought gifts for their family members. Gu Dexing went quietly to the silver building and bought a golden hairpin for Xu Zhong.

The golden hairpin is very beautiful, but a bit vulgar, Xu Zhaoming reminded Gu Dexing vaguely: "Sister Linglong is more suitable for jade articles."

But if you want to buy a good jade article, you can't do it without a hundred taels of silver.

After Gu Dexing bought gifts for his family, he had less than 100 taels of silver left, so he could only buy gold hairpins.And the second aunt said that jade wares are as fragile as tofu dregs. If they are broken within a few days after delivery, they will lose money. It is better to use gold wares. How nice.

Gu Dexing was influenced by the Chen family, so he wanted to buy a gold hairpin for Xu Zhong.

Seeing that he didn't listen, Xu Zhaoming gave up.

However, Gu Jin'an thought about it, thinking that when he went home to visit Mr. Ouyang this time, he should be able to meet Miss Ouyang, thinking that he should prepare a gift for her.

So I went to buy a piece of jade and planned to carve a jade seal for Miss Ouyang. I really did it myself.

Shang Xiucai couldn't help laughing when she knew about this. Seeing Gu Jin'an carefully preparing a gift for Miss Ouyang, she thought of herself and Xueniang.

I remember that when he was young, he also carved a jade chapter for Xueniang. Xueniang liked it very much, and even put the jade chapter under her pillow when she was sleeping. Fearing that Yuan Yuan would swallow the jade chapter into his stomach if he was too young and ignorant.

After they bought their presents, they got into the mule cart and went out of the city to go home.

When Yan Xiaowu heard the news that they were leaving, he came to see them off in person, but to his surprise, Liu Wenqing and Liu Wenqing stood beside Yan Xiaowu.

Seeing these two cousins, Gu Jinan was very surprised. How did they hook up with Yan Xiaowu?

Gu Jinan was afraid that Yan Xiaowu would suffer, so he reminded him. Yan Xiaowu smiled wryly and said, "They came to beg me to ask my family to help when the Tong family's property was auctioned, so that their Liu family could buy back the previous property."

Yan Xiaowu didn't want to agree, but Liu Wenqing was too pestering, he had no choice but to agree, thinking that after he agreed, Liu Wenqing would let him go.

But Liu Wenqing didn't. He changed his rhetoric and said that he wanted to repay his kindness. He has been busy with him for the past two days, just like a...slave.

The corner of Gu Jinan's mouth twitched when he heard that, repaying his favor?What kind of favor do you want to repay? Obviously, you want to entangle Yan Xiaowu and take advantage of the great backer of the Yan family.

But as long as Liu Wenqing had no intention of harming Yan Xiaowu, Gu Jinan would not be nosy, so he bid farewell to Yan Xiaowu and left in a mule cart.

When Liu Wenqing saw Gu Jin'an, he admired him very much: "That is Chief Gu. I heard that he escaped from the famine. He didn't go to school when he was a child, but he was admitted to the chief case of the court. He is really a genius."

Liu Wenqing said: "So you don't have to be discouraged, Gu An capital can be admitted to the scholar, you can study hard for ten years."

(End of this chapter)