People live in the Ming Dynasty, evil spirits are soaring into the sky

Chapter 433 I Deserve to Be Visited Three Times

When Guo Feixue said "shut up", it was more painful for the scholar than killing him.

He didn't expect that even though he was so eloquent, he still couldn't get Guo Feixue's understanding.

He felt that he was speaking so eloquently just to tell Guo Feixue that the Chen Han you loved was not a good person at all, he was just a little luckier, and if I had such luck, I could do the same thing.

He even wanted to express that he was actually better than Chen Han.

Saint, you will live a better life as long as you are with me.

He even thought at one point that as long as he passed the imperial examination, the big landlords would fund him just like they invested in other scholars in Jiangnan.

After all, he had seen this kind of thing with his own eyes.

Back then, his cousin's family was as poor as theirs, but why did they suddenly become so rich?

It was not because the people in his cousin's family had become hardworking, but because after his cousin passed the imperial examination, everyone thought that he would definitely become a high-ranking official, so they all came to curry favor with him.

In particular, those wealthy landlords registered their own land under the name of my cousin, and this alone brought a considerable amount of income to my cousin's family.

After seeing all this with his own eyes, he thought that he could do the same if he passed the imperial examination.

Unfortunately, this rule was changed immediately after Chen Han arrived.

Now that the tax rate has been adjusted according to the amount of land, those wealthy landlords no longer dare to rely on scholars.

After all, taxes are no longer collected based on the number of people, but based on who has more land.

In this case, what would it matter even if it was registered under the name of a scholar?

Scholars have to pay high taxes. Are they willing to do so?
Even if a scholar wants to, she doesn't have that much money.

This instantly destroyed the opportunities of many scholars to make money.

In fact, many scholars study not for governing the country and maintaining peace, but just to gain fame and make a living.

This is especially true for the scholar in front of him.

He fell in love with Guo Feixue at first sight and vowed to marry her in this life, but he didn't have the money to do so, so he set his sights on the Juren candidate.

He has even negotiated terms with some landlords in his hometown: once he passes the exam, the land will be directly registered under his name, and he will receive a commission every year.

By this calculation, he can get at least fifty taels of silver every year.

This money not only instantly changed his family's conditions, it even made him think for a time that he could become a superior person.

In this way, he would be qualified to marry the saint.

However, he did not expect that before his dream came true, Chen Han carried out reforms. After his dream was shattered, he blamed all his hatred on Chen Han.

Now he heard that his most beloved saint was actually the woman of the man he hated the most. How could he accept this? The saint was obviously my woman.

Why should I be with the person I hate the most? This is unfair. Why is God so unfair? The fame and honor are mine, and so are the registration fees. Even the sainthood should be mine. Why does God treat me like this?

Therefore, he did not do anything else in the past two years, and focused on ruining Chen Han's reputation, either by reporting among the people or by reporting in the capacity of a scholar.

Now, he had stopped Guo Feixue's carriage in front of so many people, just to expose what he believed to be Chen Han's crimes in front of the people and the saint, so that the people and even the saint could see Chen Han's true face.

But what he didn't know was that after listening to his nonsense, Guo Feixue's disgust for this kind of person had reached its peak.

As for the nonsense said by this scholar, not to mention that Guo Feixue, who has experienced so much now, can see through what he wants to say at a glance, even the naive and romantic Guo Feixue before can see the hidden meaning in every word he said.

Isn't it just changing the concept and slandering others?
This kind of person always thinks he is the smartest, as if everyone else is a fool.

Such people may never even realize that they are actually very ignorant.

Doesn't he know that in fact, when the imperial censors reported these things to the emperor before, they were much more intense than what he said, but was it useful?
In Chen Han's opinion, what these people said was just high-sounding talk.

So Guo Feixue stared at the scholar coldly.

The scholar felt very uncomfortable with Guo Feixue's eyes, and could even be said to be very desperate.

He originally thought that he was sure to ruin Chen Han's reputation, but he didn't expect that Guo Feixue didn't buy his tricks at all, and even directly said that people like her were rats in the gutter.

He couldn't accept such contempt.

Especially since the source of this contempt was his most beloved woman.

What he wanted to hear was his beloved woman say to him, how could you be so powerful that you could reveal his true identity in such a short time.

What he hoped to see was that Guo Feixue would be grateful to him, after all, he was the one who pulled him out of the quagmire.

He even hoped that because of his loyal act, the saint would be very moved and would repay him by marrying herself to him, and from then on the two of them would retire to the countryside.

Then, after a few years, his thoughts began to emit light and heat, and the ministers in the court realized that what he said seemed to be right, so they collectively attacked Chen Han, and Chen Han fell.

Then the officials realized that all this was their own credit, and they jointly proposed to the emperor that their contributions were so great that they could become officials directly without any assessment.

So the civil and military officials in the court were like Liu Bei in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, who visited him three times at his cottage to ask him to come out of seclusion. From then on, he was able to make decisions in the court and left a good name for himself.

And his saintly daughter will admire him for what he has done, and will give birth to children for him and raise them for him.

But now it was as if he had been hit by a club.

He never expected that before his first fantasy could be realized, he was knocked down to the mortal world by Guo Feixue, and even stepped on him hard a few times.

This is why.

Why is this happening? I have clearly tried very hard to express my thoughts.

Obviously, he felt that he had expressed himself so clearly, and anyone who heard his words would find it very reasonable, and even the people around him should have the same idea as him. However, he did not expect that no one among the people around him had the same idea as him, and some even looked at him as if he were a mouse.

How is this going?

Is it true that everyone has been deceived by that bastard Chen Han?

What's so good about that bastard? Why are so many people deceived by him? It's obvious that my ideas are the best.

As he thought of this, a huge rage was about to burst out in his heart.

Looking at Guo Feixue in front of him, he didn't care: "How dare you say that I am a rat in the gutter? What do you, a woman, know?"

The Jinyiwei on the side shouted: "How dare you!" The scholar was crazy at this time, and he didn't care about what they shouted loudly: "I'm not crazy, I know what I am saying, you are all confused by that bastard Chen Han, you don't know what the truth is, you are just defending him blindly, and you don't tell the real facts to the people, he is just using you.

The truth of the matter was buried, and I have dug it out.

It's just that people like you don't want to accept it.

You are all people with vested interests, so you don’t want the truth to be revealed.”

He seemed to have found his breakthrough point and responded immediately: "Right, you are the ones who benefit, so you are not willing to admit that what I said is the truth. But whether you are willing to admit it or not, what I said is the truth, what I said is the truth."

He went completely crazy.

The Jinyiwei stepped forward and pushed her to the ground again.

Then the people nearby began to talk about it.

"What a madman, a madman who knows nothing!"

"He was so immersed in his own world that he had no idea what was happening outside!"

"pitiful!"

"It's so pathetic!"

"He has no idea how great the Duke is. How could he be a creeping worm like him?"

Hearing the people say this about him, he became even more unwilling.

"You are talking nonsense. What do you know? You are just a bunch of fools." He cursed at the people: "You people have only received a little favor from Chen Han now, but have you ever thought that this is a good thing in the long run?
He trampled on the dignity of the law but you think it is right. But have you ever thought that what he is doing now is indeed a good thing, but if one day he becomes a person like Wang Mang, can you bear it?

I am just telling you these things in advance, but you can't accept it. But when one day he really becomes that kind of person, what will you do?
I have taken the initiative to stand up for your future, but you are treating your benefactor like this just for the little favor you have shown me. Are you doing me justice?"

The people had no idea what he was talking about.

They didn't understand anything about it being for our own good.

We don't know why this is good for us.

The most important thing is that people like you are doing this for our own good, right?

Now we only see the Duke struggling outside, fighting the Japanese pirates, and killing corrupt officials and profiteers in the southeast.

If Chen Han really will become a person like Wang Mang sooner or later as he said, with all the power in the court, it seems not bad.

Because now everyone in the court knows what kind of people those officials are. They will do anything for their own benefit. There is no good person like Chen Han.

Many people even think that it would be better if Chen Han could become the emperor.

It's a pity that Chen Han's last name is not Zhu, otherwise he would be a good emperor of Ming Dynasty.
Of course, such words cannot be said, otherwise the Duke's reputation will be ruined.

But at least many people think so.

Many people think that it would be a good idea to let Chen Han become the emperor.

At least a shameful incident like the Battle of Tumu would not happen, nor would Emperor Jiajing's absence from court for decades.

And he has made the world such a better place now, shouldn't he be worshipped by everyone?
The scholar was really going crazy when he saw the behavior of the people around him.

Why do you treat me so sincerely and yet you are so heartless and ungrateful? I am doing this for your own good, don't you know?
Seeing the confusion on his face, Guo Feixue said coldly: "You see now, you stinky rat in the gutter, those things you call are nothing but fame and reputation.

You did say one thing right, that is, the court is indeed the court of the people of the world, not the court of the Duke alone. But when you said these words, could you open your eyes and see that before the Duke appeared, how many officials took the people seriously?

How high is the probability of corrupt officials? Can you, a person who reads in the study every day, see it?

What do you know?

These words were really powerful, and immediately caused the people nearby to burst into cheers.

"The Saint is right!"

"That's it! This is the truth!"

"You don't know what kind of scholar you are. The Duke did use his privilege to do some things, but what he did was good for us."

"Yes, so many corrupt officials and so many unscrupulous businessmen have been killed. This is the truth."

"How naive! How can a grown-up be so naive? Don't you know that those corrupt officials keep talking about morality and justice, but what have they done?"

"It's shameful! This is what a scholar does. Even ordinary people like us can see that those corrupt officials simply use these laws as tools to make money.

There are honest officials who stand up and catch these corrupt officials, and then they use the so-called laws to rescue them.

At that time, I guess the law was his best cover-up!"

Otherwise, how can we say that there are experts among the masses who can explain such things thoroughly in no time?

That's what I said.

Those officials do abide by the law, but they do so not to teach the common people, but to find loopholes in the law.

It is called a joint trial, but in reality it is just officials protecting each other.

However, the cleverness of these people lies in the fact that they know how to use the law as a cover-up.

Are there not many officials like this?

At that time, the law became a protective umbrella for those people.

The scholar was at a loss for words after hearing this.

He never imagined that these people actually knew all this.

Isn’t it said that the policies that are popular nowadays are all about keeping the people ignorant?
How could these fishermen express the truths that only we educated people know?

Guo Feixue glared at him: "You stinky rat, do you still think that the people are ignorant now? Just because you say a few words here, will they listen to you?"

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(End of this chapter)