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

In court, the emperor couldn't be more satisfied with the tiger-headed sixth son in his family.

I am even more happy because of the fear shown by the always calm old man.

He rejected Yan Jiuyuan's request to sue the old man, and said that the court still needs him, and let the old chief assistant go home and take care of his family.

The old Shoufu returned home that day and pulled his second son, who was over 300 years old, out of bed, and then sent him out of the capital overnight, and then sneakily went to the household department to pay his own tax at the rate of [-] per [-] taxes on the second day. The grain tax paid for nearly ten years of land production in the capital and his hometown, and the nearly five years of land purchase tax have been paid by the way.In addition, he also publicly stated that he is studying mathematics books written by His Royal Highness, and he also bought more than [-] "Equations, Functions, and Linear Programming" to study for his children and grandchildren, and gave them to his students and old friends to study.

In addition, it is proposed to let Song Jianming be the second assistant of the cabinet.

The three things are all expressing his loyalty to the new king.

Yan Jiuyuan's guts are turning green now.

If I had known that Su Wang, a chicken thief, had raised 10 people in the south, and he still had such a terrifying weapon in his hand, he would never stand on the side of the deposed prince!

But what's the use of regretting now?

I can only surrender to the new emperor, hoping that he will show kindness and spare him, an old man who is over seventy years old.

The emperor was quite satisfied with the old Shoufu's understanding of current affairs, and ordered the newspaper office to post the news that the old Shoufu had paid the grain tax for ten years in the mansion newspaper, declaring that Yan Shoufu agreed with the policy of paying the government and gentry as one, and set an example. Several carts of grain and three full boxes of silver went to the household department to pay taxes.

According to the mansion newspaper, the emperor rewarded the old chief assistant for his righteous deeds, thus conferring on him the honorary title of Prince and Taifu.

Everyone ran to Yan's house to congratulate Mr. Shoufu on becoming a tutor, but only Mr. Yan knew that he was inserted here by the emperor as a benchmark for officials and gentry to pay food.

There are many people who congratulate him, but even more people scold him.

Paying food is a taboo for the country gentry!

Not receiving food is the soil on which everyone depends.

If in the future they need to pay grain like the common people, who will come back to contribute land?

How will the family develop?

Of course, the emperor kept Yan Jiuyuan for other purposes.

If the emperor wants to carry out reforms, it will inevitably cause trouble.

In case of chaos, he needs someone who can balance the situation, clean up the mess, and even act as a scapegoat when necessary.

It's a pity that the person who cleans up the mess and takes the scapegoat will not be Song Jianming, but Yan Jiuyuan.

This was the price he paid for writing the imperial edict for the abolished prince.

If the abolished prince dared to take out the imperial edict, the emperor would have Yan Jiuyuan come forward to prove that the imperial edict was false.

Yan Jiuyuan knew for himself that since the new emperor ascended the throne, he was no longer the chief assistant who called the wind and rain, but a marionette in the emperor's hands.

For a moment, all the courtiers tensed up and clamped their tails, for fear that one day the emperor would find out about his family and show the family's bad things to the whole Zhou Dynasty.

What's more, those who know that their children and grandchildren are ineffective, and take grain to the household department to pay grain tax and buy land tax in advance, can be regarded as some kind of compromise with the emperor, begging the emperor to turn a blind eye to certain things, Let it go lightly.

As a result, the land purchase tax paid by the ministers in Beijing and China alone amounted to more than 180 million taels.

For this reason, the emperor specially took out 10 taels of silver to reward his Xiaoliu.

Holding the 10 taels of bank notes from the Royal Bank, Li Shi was laughing in his dreams, and immediately decided to make persistent efforts to relieve his father's worries!
The fifth brother, Li Yan, was a little more cautious than the stupid sixth brother. He didn't make any moves at first, but watched the sixth brother easily get 10 taels of silver with envy.

His biological mother died young, and he usually lives on the little allowances in the palace. Even his father will give him some pocket money alone, but compared to the previous brothers, he is really a pauper.

But he didn't want to be like the sixth younger brother, who reported to his father trivial matters and personal moral issues of the parents, but wanted to seriously investigate a few major cases of Zhili border officials occupying fertile land and killing people. Come!
And in order to hug his eldest brother's thigh, he also specially found out those Yan Shoufu's disciples, that is, those officials who didn't get along well with Mr. Song Ge.

He is a prince, or a prince without a mother. He has no power, no power, and no chance to do bad things. He is barefoot. Would he be afraid of a group of people wearing shoes?

For tens of thousands of taels of pocket money, Lao Wu decided to fight!

The movements of the younger brothers naturally could not escape Li Zhao's eyes. When Ji Quanfu reported the movements of the fifth prince to Li Zhao, Li Zhao became interested.

"Yo, Xiao Wu is picking on the disciples of Mr. Shoufu?" Li Zhao smiled as he saw the information sent by Ji Quanfu.

Ji Quanfu also said: "This subordinate also saw the same way. It is said that he even asked Mr. Liao specifically, who are Mr. Shoufu's favorite disciples."

"Why? Did he have a feud with Lord Shoufu?"

Ji Quanfu shook his head: "His Highness the Fifth Highness has almost always stayed in the palace, except for the palace, he has never been outside."

"Could it be that he believes that the disciples of Mr. Shoufu have committed many crimes? Can he get more money from the father?"

Li Zhao rubbed his chin, guessed for a long time but didn't guess that his little brother just wanted to hug his thigh.

However, Li Zhao wanted to find out the old troubles of the Yan family. He smiled, and said to Ji Quanfu: "Give him some hints and help him. This brat is clumsy, don't worry about it." If it didn’t work out, it’s going to startle the snake.”

Now regarding the annexation of local land and the failure of officials and gentry to pay taxes, the emperor is trying to focus on rectification.

However, there have been fewer land mergers in the capital this year.

The reason is that there are Zhaoyue Bank and Royal Bank that make low-interest loans, and there is no market for loan sharks in the Gyeonggi area!
If you can't put loan sharks, there will be no reason to come to the door to press for debts. In addition, the emperor let the princes act as censors to earn pocket money.Unless those officials are crazy about money, not even afraid of the prince, and committing crimes on the cusp of the storm, they have been acting with their tails clamped recently.

Who dares to be a wolf with a big tail under the eyes of the emperor?

Lao Wuyi couldn't find a model for a while, and was so anxious that he couldn't rest at home!
The money he used to build the palace!

What can I do if I have nowhere to go?
At this time, the little Huangmen Jinbao who was serving him personally gave him an idea: "Your Highness, why don't you go to the Yichun Tower to inquire about the girls? Especially the lady named Nanxiang, who was drunk by her skirt My lord can’t count on two hands! People say that they tell the truth after drinking, so what does she know if she’s not sure?”

"That's right! But... can she really tell this king?" Li Yan hesitated.

Jin Bao smiled and said, "You are the prince! How dare she not tell you the truth like a brothel singer!"

Although Li Yan was hesitant, he felt that what Jin Bao said was reasonable, so he had to give it a try no matter what.

In this way, Li Yan successfully met Nan Xiang and got a big fish from Nan Xiang!
Speaking of this person, he can be regarded as highly respected, and has been in a high position for many years.

Back then, he was the No. [-] scholar and Yan Jiuyuan's most proud student.

Li Yan was so excited that he went directly to the emperor, saying that he was going to Huai'an Mansion to investigate a case.

"Who are you going to investigate?" The emperor raised his eyebrows.

Li Yan chuckled: "My child will be kept secret for the time being, father and emperor will just wait for the good news of my child!"

Just like that, Li Yan sneaked out of Beijing.

In order to build a palace for himself, he also worked hard!

Instead of sitting in the well-arranged carriage, he changed into gray cloth clothes, took a few entourages, and led a few mules, and boarded the merchant ship heading south.

It was the first time for him to go out of the capital at such an age, and it was the first time for him to travel far. He really wanted to risk his life to build a palace for himself.

Half a month later, the results were astonishing!
This old man has nothing wrong with him. He has been an official for dozens of years, so he can be regarded as honest and selfless.

But because he is not greedy, it does not mean that his family members will not do bad things in their hometown.

Under his banner, his eldest brother and descendants ran rampant in Yancheng County, Yurou Township.

Except for some small people who took the initiative to donate land to this elder’s family in order to pay less taxes, this family’s ancestral house alone occupies more than ten acres of land, and the sacrifice land is as many as 6000 acres.

But this family is a big family, and many descendants of offshoots actually don't get much of the family property.

So many offsprings tried to find ways to hire some green-skinned rascals to cause troubles and disputes with some self-cultivating farmers, such as intentionally breaking their own legs, insisting that others did it, and asking them to lose money, and if they had no money, they would lose the land.After they forcibly seized the land, they gave it to the family as a matter of course.

For those self-cultivators who farmed the land honestly, the land passed down from their families became someone else's family overnight.

In desperation, he had no choice but to go to court.There is no doubt that such a lawsuit must not be won.

Who would offend such a family when they have nothing to do?There is someone in his family who is a heavenly official in the capital!
After Xiao Wu found out these things, he excitedly wrote notes to the emperor's father overnight.

This is so typical!

Who is this person?It was none other than Yan Longfei, Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites!
Seeing the three words Yan Longfei, the emperor sneered twice.

But the fifth child is still too young.

The Yan family did more than just a little bit of bad things.

Li Zhao secretly sent Eunuch Ji to find out a long time ago that the descendants of the Yan family have done almost everything to usury, kill people, and occupy people's land in Yancheng County.

That good brother Yan Longfei not only wantonly built his ancestral house, but also seized the farmland to build a cement factory!It is not enough to repair the ancestral house and build a cement factory, but they actually help the local salt merchants to seize the land for salt drying!

You must know that after the land is used for drying salt, it will become salinized. Even if it is no longer exposed to salt in the future, it can no longer be used for farming!
And the land that has been encroached and used for drying fields is as many as 300 hectares!
One hectare equals one hundred mu, and three hundred hectares equals thirty thousand mu of land!
As a result, there is almost no land in Yancheng County that can be used for farming!

The reason why the emperor didn't change people immediately after he ascended the throne was because the emperor saw that this old Shangshu was quite attractive among scholars.

If Mr. Yan knew the current affairs, after seeing the preface written by the emperor at the front of His Majesty's mathematics book, he should obediently follow the emperor's wishes, lead by example, and call on everyone to attach importance to practical learning.

But he didn't, for the sake of the so-called stability, he became a resistance to the emperor's reform.

Since it is an obstacle, it must be removed.

The emperor was still worried about who he would send to take care of Mr. Yan, the Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites.

Who in the court has the guts to track down such a respected old minister as Yan Longfei?
Unexpectedly, a fifth child was killed halfway!

This fifth child is really even tougher than the sixth child!

It was the first time for the emperor to see his two sons so pleasing to the eye!
The two boys are still quite useful.

However, the interrogation can no longer be done by these two bastards. The emperor asked Jiang Yuanchao to do it this time.

The job of interrogating this old Shangshu Yan is really not something that ordinary people can do.

Dali Temple Qing Yu adults are not good.

But Jiang Yuanchao can.

He has the identity protection of the son of the eldest princess.

After Jiang Yuanchao's seven-day interrogation, he learned that although Mr. Yan knew about his elder brother's expansion of his ancestral home and construction of a cement factory, he really didn't know that he was also working with the local salt merchants to seize farmers' land.

I don't even know that my grandnephew is running rampant in his hometown, bullying men and women, lending usury and killing people!
He has not been back to his hometown for many years.

After seeing the results of the interrogation, the emperor felt that Jiang Yuanchao's little cousin was showing mercy.

However, this result has already satisfied the emperor.

With a flick of the pen, Yan Laoshangshu was sentenced to exile and go to the northeast to build roads.

But Yan Longfei didn't go on the road, and died directly hitting the wall in the prison.

Jiang Yuanchao reported to the emperor: "Old Shangshu Yan heard that his brothers and descendants did evil in their hometown. He was so ashamed that he had to apologize with death. This is his letter of apology. Please read it, Your Majesty!"

As he spoke, he took out a torn hem from the small cloth bag in his hand, with words written all over it in blood.

Wang Luen went over to take the blood book and handed it over to the emperor.

The emperor glanced at the blood book, and only sneered for a while. The words of the sages in the whole article were summed up into one sentence, but they were just begging the emperor to let the Yan family go.

The emperor ruthlessly commented on the eight words: "Pursuing fame and reputation, extremely hypocritical!"
"He wants to save his family with death, it's a fool's dream."

Afterwards, the emperor ordered Ning Yuan to take a thousand Jinyiwei to take a ghost worker boat to Yancheng County quickly by sea to confiscate the Yan family's ancestral house, and the cement factory built by the Yan family was nationalized.

After that, officials from the Ministry of Punishment were sent to Nanzhili to secretly investigate the county magistrate of Yancheng County, the prefect of Huai'an Prefecture, officials of all sizes, the Jiangsu Salt Administration, the Salt Transport Envoy, and the Salt Patrol.

He also sent Eunuch Yang to secretly go to Jiangsu to investigate the salt merchants who had colluded with the Yan family with people from Dongchang.

The emperor was afraid that these salt merchants would collude with Japanese pirates or pirates to resist the imperial court's investigation, so he asked Eunuch Yang to notify General Cheng of the Dongyang Navy first, and the two sides would cooperate to act together.

The emperor knew how cruel these salt merchants were. He was afraid that the fifth prince would startle the snake without knowing the depth of the matter. He hurried back to Beijing.

The fifth prince had already found some clues about the salt merchant, and he was also happy to see the letter from the emperor's father.

But he wants to make greater contributions!
Just like that, the unknown Fifth Prince was captured by a group of pirates!
The salt merchants collectively wrote a letter to the emperor, saying that they were willing to make up the 2000 million taels of salt tax they had evaded in the past five years, but begged the emperor to let them go, so they would let the fifth prince go!
When the emperor saw the letter, he laughed loudly, then his face darkened, and he cursed: "Idiot!"

I don't know whether to scold the group of salt merchants or the fifth prince.

Li Zhao learned that his idiot brother was actually captured by pirates colluding with the salt merchants!

I was so angry that I scolded my mother.

Now he will definitely not be able to stay at home with his wife!
Sure enough, before the next day, in the middle of the night, the emperor ordered him to go to Huai'an to rescue Xiaowu. He asked Li Zhao to go to the firearms camp with 5000 people to go south with him to rescue the hostages.

Hey, but it just so happens that by the way, the recruits from the Huoqi Battalion are having meat.

Li Zhao had no choice but to ask Lin Wanfu to pack his things and prepare to leave immediately.

The little brother is in the hands of the villains, so this matter cannot be delayed.

No matter how weak the relationship is, he is his own brother after all.

Song Qingyue couldn't fall asleep, so she simply got up and sat on the bed hugging the quilt to watch Lin Wanfu take a few apprentices to pack up.

Li Zhao sat on the edge of the bed and hugged her, sniffing the fragrance from her neck vigorously, with a look of reluctance.

When it was dawn, Lin Wanfu was ready and Li Zhao was about to set off.He kissed Song Qingyue on the cheek, and told him: "Stay at home, and don't go out if you can! It's dangerous outside! There is no good person in this world except your husband. They are all evil wolves. If a little rabbit like you goes out, you will It has been gnawed until there are no bones left!"

Song Qingyue rolled her eyes, waved her hands, and said in disgust: "I don't know who is the wolf with a big tail! Get out, get out!"

Li Zhao snorted, bent down and pressed the back of her head and kissed her hard, and finally pressed her forehead against her forehead, and said with unsteady breath, "I want to be a husband!"

Song Qingyue burst out laughing, nodded obediently, and lightly pecked his lips again: "Be careful on the road! Come back safely."

Li Zhao held her hand, stared at Song Qingyue's face for a while, and finally let go with great reluctance, turned around and strode out.