The daily life of the science master's book-wearing group

On the other side of the table, Grandpa Xu's youngest son, Xu Chongwen, was chatting with Song Chenrui and Song Chenxing until he was spitting wildly.

Xu Chongwen is ten years old this year, a lively and active little boy.He likes to play with his two elder brothers, Song Chenrui and Song Chenxing.The three brothers have been staying together to play for more than a month, and it's just a matter of asking for help.

Mr. Xu is happy to see it succeed.

As soon as I heard Xu Chongwen's name, I knew that the father-in-law was going to let this young son take the path of a civil official. He didn't expect him to become a successful official in the future, but at least the father-in-law hoped that this boy would be able to become a civil servant when he was about 30 years old. Take a Jinshi exam and raise people.

But Grandpa Xu really made the wrong calculation. Song Chenrui and Song Chenxing were just two monkeys, they didn't want to take the imperial examination since they were young, and it happened that Xu Chongwen didn't like studying either.

Xu Chongwen didn't understand why he was the only one going to school when all the brothers in the family practiced martial arts?Why?
He is very comfortable with the two sons of the Song family. These two young masters of the Song family are not rigid people. They have traveled to many places, and they do not regard themselves as people from the capital city and look down on the difficult conditions in the Northwest.

The three elder brothers went out to wander around every day, and went to the market to discuss business with Hu ethnic businessmen, and they were happy not to stay at home all day.

How did Mr. Xu know that Mr. Song's family educated the children according to their aptitude. Except for the eldest and second son, the rest of the children were almost left to their own free will. At that time, Grandpa Xu was so regretful that his intestines were green.

On the small table, the most favored Aunt Bai watched Su Wangshizi push and exchange cups with the eldest son, her eyes rolled around.

She looked at her 13-year-old daughter, and then at that concubine, she felt that her girl was not much worse than that concubine of King Su.

My daughter is also a little beauty!
Aunt Bai herself has the blood of the Hu people, and she looks very beautiful. Her daughter also has the high nose bridge, big eyes, bright eyelashes of the Hu people, and the oriental beauty's oval face and soft willow eyebrows. beauty.

After the family banquet was over, when she returned to the room, Aunt Bai thought about it, and when her daughter finished washing, she pulled her to the bedside and asked, "Pingting, mother asked you, are you looking at that Prince Su's son?" how do you feel?"

"Mom! What are you talking about..." Xu Pinting was a little embarrassed.

"Do you think he looks good? Mother can tell you, that one will be lucky in the future!" Aunt Bai said excitedly.

"He has good luck, what does it matter to us?"

"Look at you, how dare you say that you are not thinking? Where did you cast your eyes at the dinner table just now? Do you think your mother is blind? You are still pretending to be confused with your mother. You know, the imperial concubine is also A concubine?"

"Then... so what!" Xu Pingting's long eyelashes trembled slightly when she heard that, and Aunt Bai knew that she was moved when she saw her like this.

"I heard that the biological mother of the eldest concubine is just a slave concubine. Her father is a cabinet minister, and your father is a first-rank general! Compared with her, where is your background? But look at her, now That noble appearance, Pingting, don’t you want to be like that? I heard from your father that the current Holy Majesty’s body has long since faded, and he can’t last a few years. In two years, that Prince Su’s son will become the crown prince. Surely, the women around him will all be successful in the future!"

"Isn't that... it's also possible to be confined by high-strength, and the whole family will be destroyed." Xu Pingting frowned and tried to suppress the joy and excitement in her heart.

"Tsk! You girl, stupid! Look at your eldest brother who is so familiar with that person today. Where does your father stand? You still don't understand? With the support of our Duke's Mansion, and the Ning family of Zhenbeihou Mansion What! I don’t believe that person can still lose! Let me tell you, if you follow him now, and follow him after he becomes a prince in the future, the difference in love is not even a star! There is no good thing in this world! exhausted?"

Xu Pingting bit her lip, being moved by her mother's words, she leaned into her mother's arms and acted like a baby: "But I see, the crown prince dotes on that crown prince concubine very much."

"Stupid boy, that's now! In a few years, when there are more women around Shizi, how can he still be as loving as he is now?"

"But that one is very beautiful." Xu Pingting said wringing her fingers.

"How are you worse than her? Mother thinks you are prettier than her." Aunt Bai said disdainfully, "Magnolia is beautiful and noble, but I didn't say that if people like magnolia, they can't like other flowers. Man Well, it’s all a virtue. When you have Magnolia, you still want peonies. After seeing too many peonies, you also like camellias once in a while. You, if you have this kind of thought, mother will talk to your father. In the future Don't think about arguing with anyone, you have to remember that you are not arguing with other women, it is only right for you to spend all your thoughts on men."

"Mother!" Xu Pingting called out, her face flushed red, "Mother, stop talking, I'm still young."

"What are you pretending to be? I won't tell you now, but wait until you get married?" Aunt Bai reprimanded, "It's done, mother will talk about it when your father is in a good mood. You, mother You have to learn the pipa that I taught you, do you hear me? Don’t be lazy! You will have a good time in the future!"

"Understood, my daughter will never be lazy again!"

Aunt Bai hugged Xu Pingting in her arms, and said slowly: "Mother is not young anymore, I am afraid it will be difficult to live in the future, and you will be the only one I can rely on in this life. When your elder brother takes over the position of Duke , our family is dominated by the big family, and it's not like you don't know how Madam has disliked me all these years. Only when you are promising, will your mother have a foothold in this country's government in the future. "

"I know, mother, don't be sad, my daughter will definitely succeed." Xu Pingting hugged her mother's arm tightly and said.

Li Zhao drank with Xu Youzhong until midnight before returning to his room.

Song Qingyue smelled that he smelled of alcohol, but saw that he was walking steadily. She brought him the hangover soup warmed on the small clay stove, and said with a smile: "My husband is smart, skilled in martial arts, handsome, and has a good drinking capacity." So good. Brother Ah Zhao, do you still have any weaknesses?"

Li Zhao took the hangover soup, didn't drink it, put it aside, but stretched out his hand to pull Song Qingyue to sit beside him, hugged Song Qingyue's waist, lowered his head, held her face and gently stroked: "Weakness? Isn’t this son’s weakness the lady?”

As he said that, he lowered his head and kissed deeply, and let go of the lady's soft lips after eating enough, and collapsed on the soft couch.

Mo Shan handed Song Qingyue the wrung-out hot towel, Song Qingyue took it, wiped Li Zhao's face, then brought him hangover soup, and fed him to drink. After he finished drinking, he untied his coat and untied his hair , told his scalp to relax, and gave him a few massages by the way.

Li Zhao took her hand and said with a smile, "Young lady is getting better at taking care of people."

Song Qingyue said: "I'm still a little drunk looking at my husband."

Li Zhao laughed, pulled her into his arms, and put his arms around her: "The wine at the grandfather's house is good, it's almost a catty."

"Husband, don't drink so much next time. If you can drink so much, it will hurt your health. You said you want to spoil me for the rest of your life, and you will live a long and healthy life." Song Qingyue rested her head on him said softly.

Li Zhao caressed her cheek lightly, and said with a smile, "Okay, I won't drink so much in the future."

"By the way, have you told my brother-in-law about the barter department in the Western Regions?" Song Qingyue asked.

Li Zhao hummed: "That's what I'm talking about tonight, but Xu Youzhong probably needs to discuss it with his father."

Song Qingyue sighed: "This kind of thing always happens."

"What kind of thing?" Li Zhao asked.

Song Qingyue said: "Everyone here knows that this is a good thing that benefits the country and the people, but because they are afraid of the jealousy of the person on the dragon chair, they have to think about it in every possible way, and everything is procrastinated. In the end, the good things didn’t come to fruition. As for the court, they all have their own ideas. No matter how good things are, there will always be people who will oppose them and give a bunch of high-sounding reasons. Tell me, is this kind of person a mistake? Country? Is it a felony for people who harm the country? I think it is more serious than the crime of being unfilial and disrespectful. This kind of people who harm the country should take off their black hats, then ransack their homes and confiscate their land, and ask his family to come to the border to serve as an army. Take a look at the life of the low-level military households!"

Li Zhao was so cute by her angry and indignant appearance, he pinched her face and said, "Then tell me, what should we do about this?"

"Try it out for a year or so first, if the effect is not good, then close the port immediately." Song Qingyue suggested.

Li Zhao pondered for a while, then said, "Actually, I think it's not the right time for this."

"why?"

"I walked all the way, and I saw that the life of military households is more difficult than I imagined, and the life of junior officers is also difficult. It is too difficult, and someone must take risks. Once the scale of the exchange with people from the Western Regions is expanded, the control will be relaxed. , there must be a lot of people taking advantage of loopholes and secretly selling weapons to outsiders. If that happens, guess what will happen to those who propose to expand the scale of the mutual market?" Li Zhao looked at Xia Xuanyue outside the window and said solemnly, "Xu Youzhong It's also the same idea, but your fourth brother is very disappointed."

It turned out that there was still such a consideration, Song Qingyue sighed softly: "Don't worry about him, just treat him as a play when he comes here, and gain a lot of experience." She suddenly turned over, lay on Li Zhao's chest, raised her face, and asked: "If your father becomes the emperor, what are you going to do?"

Li Zhaolue thought for a while, and said: "Military reform is definitely necessary, the military household system will be gradually abolished, and military pay will be increased."

"What about the money? Where does it come from?"

Li Zhao frowned and said, "The current tax rate of [-] per [-] is too low, we must increase the tax."

Song Qingyue sneered: "This is difficult. Whoever dares to raise the tax rate is afraid that he will be shamed as a tyrant. Besides, the low tax rate is only on the surface. You have to see how the people below collect it." Tax, the real tax rate is much higher than the twenty-one tax.”

Li Zhao lowered his eyes, stroked her hair, and asked, "Madam, do you have a trick?"

Song Qingyue said: "Let me just say it, and you just listen."

Li Zhao smiled: "Don't be afraid, just say what you want. We husband and wife have nothing to say in private."

"I'll send you a sentence, 'strike the landlord and divide the property'." Song Qingyue said a little nervously.

Li Zhao raised one eyebrow high: "Public robbery?"

Song Qingyue said: "An official in the court, who is clean? I dare not say that my father is clean. Even if my father is clean, those who are attached to our family will always commit crimes. For example, our housekeeper Song Quan, his family has [-] mu of fertile land, can you believe it? And he is just my family's steward!"

Song Qingyue laughed sarcastically, "The imperial court should look for this kind of small landlords who are attached to the powerful, confiscating their wealth and confiscating their land. It's okay to be an official. Let's take it step by step. Those who are scholars and others will even return their official status." No, why accept contributions and not pay taxes? First, the confiscated property can fill the treasury, and second, the confiscated land will no longer be sold. After it is nationalized, it will be distributed to the common people for planting for free. As for farmers, you can give them nice titles, such as "Emperor Huinong", "Liberated Farmers" and so on. If you charge these people one tax per ten, one tax per seven, that's much better than being a tenant farmer. Now, no one will scold you by then."

Li Zhaoyang raised his eyebrows: "What if these small landlords sold the land to their dependents in time? For example, Song Quan of your family sold all the land to your father, what should we do?"

"Isn't there a land sales tax now? At that time, the land sales tax will be increased to ten or twenty times the current level, and land sales will be banned for a period of time in disguise," Song Qingyue said.

Li Zhao sneered and said, "What if the court minister refuses to agree?"

"It's okay, I don't move civil servants and military generals to honor their own land, just clean up their servants. It's really not possible, clean up a few thorns, dismiss two officials, and no one can serve or abduct for their own family. What kind of relatives are willing to be dismissed from office? In the end, the beneficiaries are small farmers, and there are more people. Only the small landlords in the middle will be unlucky, and rebellion and civil unrest will never happen." Song Qingyue said.

But Li Zhao still shook his head: "How do you know that the three thousand acres of land in your family's Song Quan's hands are all his own, and it's not your father using Song Quan as a cover?"

Song Qingyue smiled slyly: "If that's the case, my father deserves to be punished."

"You are so ruthless that you don't even let your own family go." Li Zhao laughed, "You know what you said today, if you do that in the future, how much trouble will be caused and how many families will be ruined?

Hurting a few people now is better than a hundred or eighty years from now, when your Li family dynasty is overthrown and fewer people die when the northern nomadic regime enters the pass. "Song Qingyue looked at him amusedly.

Li Zhao was choked immediately, and said unconvinced: "How do you know that the Li family dynasty will be destroyed in another hundred and eighty years? You, have you seen it?"

Song Qingyue took it for granted: "Every dynasty is like this. Your Great Zhou Dynasty has been more than 90 years old, almost 100 years old? It looks good now, but as long as there is a problem of land annexation, it will take another five or sixty years. Left and right, the imperial court basically can’t collect any taxes. A court without money can’t do anything, and it’s inevitable that the ministers are strong and the monarch is weak. Without the balance of imperial power, the bureaucratic system will accelerate the expansion, and the imperial court will try to find ways to tax If the land squeezes the few remaining people who can collect taxes, the national power will be further weakened. When the treasury is empty and the military salary cannot be paid, the superior officers will speed up the exploitation of the lower-level military households, and the army will become weaker and weaker. For decades, the whole country has been struggling for a living, if any natural disaster occurs, if any Huns, Xianbei, Mongols, or Jurchens come from the north or west, the court will be over!"

Li Zhao was almost sober after being drunk by what she said. He straightened up, widened his eyes, looked at Song Qingyue, opened his mouth, and was speechless for a long time.

Song Qingyue felt that all the talk was about this person, so she simply said more: "If you change a family to be the emperor, wouldn't that just rob all the original landlords at once and replace them with a new batch of landlords? Wait for the new batch of landlords The landlord has almost annexed the land, and the dynasty is basically at the end of its life, and another one will be replaced. Your Highness, you have read so many history books, isn't history like this? "

Li Zhao said with difficulty: "The Taizu himself was born as a farmer. Since the founding of our dynasty, we have attached great importance to the interests of farmers, and the taxes paid by farmers are the lowest in all dynasties!"

Song Qingyue winked at him, and said with a smile: "So what? As long as the problem of land annexation exists, there will be fewer and fewer people who actually pay taxes, and the taxation of ordinary people will only become heavier. It doesn't matter whether the emperor is fatuous or not. Wise, the land is the root problem. Not all the last kings were stupid, many of them were diligent and talented, but why couldn’t they turn the tide? The so-called serious evils, what exactly are these evils? When did you start accumulating? The answer is land. It has been accumulated from generation to generation since the founding of the country. Gentlemen don’t pay taxes, and we must not let it go. After all, this world is not the world of your Li family, nor is it the gentry of literati It is the world of thousands of peasants and thousands of people. If the people at the top do not do well, they will be replaced. It is a dream to imagine that only relying on the Confucianism of the ruler and his ministers and fathers and sons will last forever! Li Zhao, Don't think my words are harsh, those dynasties in the past couldn't escape, and your Li family can't escape either!"

"You, you...you..." Li Zhao talked for a long time, but he couldn't say any more rebuttal words.

"Your Highness." Song Qingyue grabbed Li Zhao's hand, her voice was gentle and melodious, and seemed to have the power to seduce people's hearts: "In addition to wanting to fight for that position, Your Highness, have you ever thought about what kind of monarch you want to be?"

"Naturally, he is a generation of Mingjun." Li Zhaodao.

"Your Highness not only wants to be a wise king, but also a holy king praised by all ages!"

Song Qingyue's grip on Li Zhao's hand became tighter and tighter, the eyes staring at him seemed to glow with a dazzling brilliance, and the word "Sage" made Li Zhao dizzy, and unconsciously followed her train of thought up.

His throat rolled up and down, and he asked hoarsely, "How can I be praised by all ages?"

Song Qingyue laughed: "People of later generations will not care how you got your position, and the history books written by literati are not everything. How much is the price of food, how much is the price of rice, whether science and technology are developed, whether people's lives are happy, whether they can eat Sufficient clothing, warm clothes, whether they can live and work in peace and contentment, whether they can not be invaded and bullied by foreigners...all of these cannot escape the eyes of future generations."

Li Zhao frowned: "But these, as long as you are not a king who is not greedy for pleasure and money, you will have such pursuits, but very few of them can achieve it. Even if I know about the land issue you mentioned, it will suddenly become a reality. I can't think of a solution. The world belongs to the world, but the court is the court of the landlords and gentry. You say you want to equalize the land tax and let everyone pay taxes, but how can you do it? Besides, you can listen to Did you say that the emperor’s order is not to go down to the county? There are 10 people in a county, but there are only a few officials. Adding the government servants, more than [-] people will die. Without the cooperation of the squires and clans, many things can’t be done even if the emperor wants to do it. You have harmed the interests of the country gentry and clan lords, are they not impatient with you?"

Song Qingyue blinked: "That's your business, I just provide an idea!" She wanted to say that the emperor shouldn't have it.

Li Zhao burst out laughing, and tapped her forehead: "So you are just empty talk."

Song Qingyue covered her forehead and said unconvinced: "I can only talk about land issues, but I can help His Highness with scientific matters!"

Li Zhao asked with a smile, "Tell me about it?"

Song Qingyue said: "I haven't thought about the specifics, and I only started thinking about it recently. But there is one thing, the development of science and technology must be made a national policy! To build a country with science and technology! At least the status of highly skilled workers and craftsmen must be raised to The status is as high as that of farmers and even scholars. The imperial court can’t just test the Four Books, Five Classics and Stereotyped Essays. If you want to find usable talents, you must also understand mathematics and science! How to measure land? How to dig How to store water in ditches, how to build roads and bridges, and how to develop people’s livelihood and economy? These are the things that officials should understand. What’s the use of reading sage books?”

But it is still very difficult to realize these things. Li Zhao sighed, nodded, shook his head again, and finally asked leisurely: "Who else have you mentioned these things to besides me?"

Song Qingyue shook her head, and looked at Li Zhao innocently: "I just thought of it suddenly, and said it casually."

"Tell me casually? You, you really..." Li Zhao hugged her, thinking about the topic just discussed in his mind, and murmured: "After I go back, I will talk to my father."

"Don't mention that I said it!" Song Qingyue lay on top of him, interlocked his fingers, and said, "I'm already in the limelight with him, and I'm afraid he will suspect me in the future."

Li Zhao smiled: "Aren't you afraid that your husband will suspect you in the future?"

Song Qingyue's small face immediately wrinkled, and she glared at Li Zhao: "Didn't you say you want to spoil me forever? Are you going to suspect me now?"

Li Zhao pinched her chin and shook it lightly: "You, you, you rely on me... rely on me to love you!"

Song Qingyue's heart was confused by the word "love", she bit her lip, trying to restrain the upturned corners of her mouth, the two looked at each other for a long time, she said: "Your Highness, say it again, you love me. "

Li Zhao thinks that the word "love" is a bit strange, it is more disgusting than liking, rarity, and delight, and it is even more difficult to say.

"Say it again!" Song Qingyue pushed him, desperately coquettish, "Say it again, I like it! Good husband, good man... good brother!"

Li Zhao has no power to resist the word "brother". Every time she yells softly, he can't even breathe tightly. He wants to kiss her, hug her, and rub her into his body .

He looked into her eyes, opened his mouth slowly, his voice was low, with a bit of hoarse sex appeal.

"There are beauties, you will never forget them.

I don't see you for a day, and I think like crazy. "

In this desert where everything is completely silent, it seems that apart from his pair of dark eyes, there is only the whistling wind in this vast world.

Li Zhao stretched out his hand to lift the broken hair around her face, and stared at her eyebrows and eyes inch by inch.

"Yue'er, I love you."

Song Qingyue was stunned for a second, then buried her face in his skirt.

I can't stand it anymore, my heart is beating too hard, and my face must be flushed now.

With such a face on his face, this brat said such a few words affectionately to people, who could bear it!

Li Zhao hugged her, his chest trembled, and he laughed softly. It was the first time he saw Song Qingyue shy like this.

"I'm going to take a shower!"

Lying in his arms for a while, Song Qingyue ran away in a hurry.

Li Zhao didn't hold her back, he was leaning on the soft couch, still in a trance.

When Cai Yue'er said those words just now, it seemed that she was not from this world, she seemed to be high above, looking down on the whole world.Where is the insight that a little girl in the boudoir can have?
But she is clearly just a little girl, she is shy and likes to act like a baby.

The word "Holy Monarch" still hovered over his head with bright starlight, almost taking all his mind away.

His heart was trembling for it, and he couldn't restrain himself from the excitement.

Yue'er is a treasure sent to him by God!I really am the Chosen One!