Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 808
Du Jinning and Qi Bokun were discussing how to bring down the aristocratic family, and the heads of several big aristocratic families gathered there to discuss how this matter would affect the aristocratic family.

The Great Song Dynasty has been established for a long time, and land mergers are serious. Most of the country's land is in the hands of big and small families.The high-yield rice developed by Du Jinning has little effect on the wheat-growing areas in the north.But they are different. These aristocratic families hold the land in the south of the Yangtze River, which is a good place to grow rice.

There are two seasons in a year, seven shi per mu in one season, and the increase in production is too large. The grain in the entire Song Dynasty has increased tremendously. The supply exceeds demand, and the price of rice will definitely drop.

Production has increased and prices have fallen, so there seems to be little difference in their earnings.The ones who benefit are the sharecroppers.Even if they pay [-]% of the rent, they keep [-]%.But [-]% of fourteen stones and [-]% of two stones, the difference is too big.As long as it is not necessary to convert the rice into money, and it is not a famine, the tenant farmers basically don't have to go hungry.

Several family owners discussed and discussed, and they all felt that the increase in food production was a good thing.After all, they don't want class conflicts to be too sharp, so don't revolt and riot at every turn.When tenant farmers have food to eat, they will work honestly.

Besides, the tenant farmers have more grain in their hands. Even if they increase the rent from [-]% to [-]% or even [-]%, the tenant farmers' sense of resistance is not as strong as before.However, the proportion of rental income is high, and if the accumulation is small, their income will be more than before.

"As long as you don't let go of the lead and let the business flourish, it won't have much impact on us." The Patriarch of the Zhao family made a concluding speech, "However, this Du Jinning is not simple. When he first became the champion, he easily set us up. The trap has been cracked; and now it takes a year and a half to research high-yield rice seeds. Such a genius cannot be used by our family, and in time, it will definitely become our powerful enemy."

Everyone knew that Zhao Yu would definitely use this as an excuse to promote Du Jinning's official position by a large margin.

Du Jinning has such a high IQ and political savvy, once he is given time to grow up, he will definitely become a headache for the family.

"Or, let's put him..." A Patriarch made a decapitation gesture.

The other said: "You old man Zhang, you know how to fight and kill. He is in full swing now. If you kill him, you don't think that it will cause public anger? That kid Zhao Wei just has no excuse to come to trouble us , aren’t you handing over the handle to him?”

The Patriarch of the Zhang family stared at him: "If I want to kill someone, will I do it so clearly for people to know? If I want to kill him, there are thousands of ways to choose at will."

The other party also glared over: "Zhao Yu is red-eyed now, does he care if you have any evidence? Just put a shit bowl on your head, can you still argue clearly with him?"

"Then what do you say? You are smart and you find a way."

Another patriarch interjected unhurriedly: "In my opinion, people like Du Jinning, who gather the spirits of heaven and earth, may have extraordinary backgrounds, so they should not be killed casually. It's better to drag him into our camp."

"Don't forget, we set a trap for him before." Someone reminded.

"Hmph, so what? In front of benefits, all grievances and grievances are gone."

The Patriarch of the Zhao family listened and nodded: "That's a good idea." He glanced at everyone, "Du Jinning is not married yet, as long as he becomes the son-in-law of our family, are you afraid that he will stand on the opposite side of us? Everyone They all try to find a way, if they are soft, they will become tough, in short, let him get married within a few days."

"What Mr. Zhao said is too reasonable."

"That's settled then."

At this point, everyone got up and left in a hurry.

Although they are in a group, they compete with each other inside.With a person like Du Jinning, who doesn't want to win him into his family and increase the strength of the family?Giving up to others will only ebb and flow, causing oneself to become a weak person who is trampled underfoot.

So they all went back to find a way to prevent others from getting ahead.

Zhao Wei kept people watching their movements.He also has a spy agency like Qi Muyuan, so it's not difficult to get some information.

This brief gathering of the aristocratic family soon brought news to Zhao Mian.

Zhao Wei was still correcting the memorial under the lamp. After hearing this, he immediately dropped a teacup: "What do these people want to do? Song Dynasty finally produced a Du Jinning, what do they want?"

Eunuch Wu's ability to become Zhao He's confidant eunuch is not just because of his loyalty.He usually does not intervene easily in political affairs.But once Zhao Wu has something particularly troublesome and no one discusses it, he will say a few words of enlightenment. In fact, Zhao Wu also values ​​IQ very much.

He said: "Master Du's matter has not touched the interests of the aristocratic family, and the aristocratic family will not do anything to him in the future. However, Mr. Du is unmarried after all. This is a seam that is easy to be bitten by flies. We have to guard against it." ah."

Zhao Yu was helpless.

Du Jinning is a broken sleeve. He and Qi Muyuan fell in love with each other, so they swore never to marry a wife.But the aristocratic family made up their minds to use all kinds of despicable means to recruit him as their son-in-law. Du Jinning alone could escape the first day of junior high school but not the fifteenth day.

Once Du Jinning became the son-in-law of the aristocratic family, he, Zhao Wen, would really have no hope of gaining power.

He suddenly asked: "What did Mingyue do today?"

Eunuch Wu understood what he meant, and replied: "When Master Du came, His Royal Highness the Eldest Princess was waiting for him on the way, and wanted to say a few words to Master Du. But Master Du doesn't want to have anything to do with her. The princess spoke and left with an excuse."

Zhao Yu didn't speak any more. He stood up and walked around the room until Eunuch Wu was almost fainted by him. Then he made up his mind: "Go quietly, don't disturb the Queen Mother, and call Lu Guo here."

"Yes." Eunuch Wu took the order and left.

After a while, he brought Zhao Mingyue into the hall.

"Brother Huang." Zhao Mingyue saluted, then looked at Zhao Wei eagerly.

Zhao He was busy worrying about state affairs all day long, and would not meet her on purpose except to accompany her to dinner with her mother.Call now, there must be a big event.

Based on a woman's intuition, Zhao Mingyue had a vague premonition that what Zhao Wen wanted to talk about must have something to do with Du Jinning.

Zhao Yu had already made up his mind, but when he saw Zhao Mingyue, he hesitated again.

Zhao Mingyue saw him hesitate to speak several times, and couldn't help but said: "Brother Huang, just say what you have to do. The honor and disgrace of my younger sister's life are all tied to my elder brother. It is my younger sister who has the opportunity to share some things for my brother." It's an honor. As long as I can do it, my sister will never refuse."

(End of this chapter)