Reborn I want to be a giant

Chapter 85

In fact, there were not many things that Cheng Fu sent to the capital.The notice of cloth village expansion forcing people to move their ancestral graves, post station relocation notice, persimmon grove dog wounding case paper, wild lake fishing ban dispute, etc., seem trivial and have no direct relationship with illegal land occupation, but smart people can immediately Aware of the problems, but these alone are not enough to explain that the land occupants have not paid enough taxes.Cheng Fu probably also thought of this, so she blindly calculated the approximate tax revenue of Hangzhou Prefecture for a year, and drew a simple illegal occupation map, which was attached at the bottom.

Xu Ze finished reading the things Jinling sent, got up and walked to the window. At this time, the spring color of the capital gradually appeared, but it was still cold.

He admired the skills of the Jiangnan family from the bottom of his heart. Every year, the inspectors of the imperial court would go to Jiangnan. Jinling, Hangzhou, Suzhou, and Yangzhou were important places to inspect. As a result, no one noticed anything unusual. .Are they not as clever as a little girl?I'm afraid I'm pretending to be confused.

"Who do you think is the most suitable to take the lead?" Although Cheng Fu's blind calculation of taxes was wrong, her suspicion was right, and these things were enough.

Xu Ye played with the seal in his hand, "Hubu."

If you want your appeal to be justified, then you must find a good angle and a proper scale.

The Ministry of Households does not need to target the Jiangnan family from the beginning, or even mention it, just focus on the tax issues in Hangzhou, and Emperor Chengqi will think about the rest.

No one doesn't care about money, whether they are princes or nobles or ordinary people, what they fear most is precariousness. No matter how stupid people are, they can become smart immediately when they encounter things related to money.What's more, the emperor's taxes directly affect the annual military pay, river work, defense and other major expenditures, and he dare not relax in the slightest.

The next day, Duan Min, the left servant of the Household Department, bypassed all the people in the Household Department, bypassed Xu Ze, the supervisor of the Sixth Department, and the two ministers on the left and right, and privately reported to Emperor Chengqi, suspecting that there was a tax problem in the Hangzhou government, and asked to send an imperial envoy to Jiangnan to investigate.

Xu Ze took a rest today and planned to lie dead at home for a day, but Eunuch Changshun came to the door in person and asked him to go to the imperial study with a smile.

"Duanmin is your man?" Emperor Chengqi spoke more like a king at the moment.

"What are my people? My people are climbing trees in the Imperial Academy right now." Xu Ze found a seat and sat down on his own.

"You don't know about Hangzhou?" Emperor Chengqi narrowed his eyes.

Xu Ze sighed, "Knowledge, avoid suspicion, so don't care."

"Avoid suspicion?"

"It's not that you don't know that the Wen family in Hangzhou and the Wu family in Jinling are related by marriage, and we, Xu Xiaoliu, have a feud with the Wu family. It's not appropriate for me to do anything at this time."

Xu Ze has always been more accurate in judging people. After confirming that the Ministry of Household Affairs was in charge of taxation in Hangzhou, he picked and picked from the roster of officials of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and finally settled on Duan Min, the left servant.And the other party accepted his love, that's all.Duan Min is self-motivated, which is a good thing in itself, but Xu believes that as long as he is placed in the right position, he may be a good knife in the future.

However, he didn't lie to Emperor Chengqi, Duan Min was indeed not his man.It doesn't need to be his person either.

Emperor Chengqi's face softened, "Who is to blame? It's not that you have no way to teach your children."

Xu Ze was choked suddenly, innocent and helpless, whoever made the emperor's point was wrong.

Emperor Chengqi glanced at Duanmin's memorial, and said to Xu Ze: "You don't have to worry about Hangzhou."

Xu Ze finally waited for the opportunity to talk back, "Thank you Lord Long En." I can't wait.

"..."

The action of the imperial court was very low-key, and it was silent until the end of February, when the disturbance of land occupation in Hangzhou Mansion broke out like a thunderbolt.A large number of Zhuangzi without formal title deeds were seized. Six to seventy people were arrested in the first batch. The imperial envoys brought household officials down to re-examine the taxation. Everyone in Hangzhou was in danger overnight. It's all about taxation.

Wu Yongling blocked Wu Ying at the gate of Cheng's house, and wanted to bring him to the Zong's house to discuss countermeasures.Many properties of the Wu family in Hangzhou have been seized by the government, and now everyone in the clan is going to the clan to discuss the matter.Wu Tianyou was embarrassed to show up again, so he could only let Wu Yongling make this trip.Thinking that Wu Ying must give this cousin some face.

Wu Ying didn't resist like before, she calmly reasoned with Wu Yongling and told the truth, "Who allowed the clan to use the clan's money to do illegal things in Hangzhou? Now that something happened, the clan would naturally solve the trouble, and if it couldn't be solved, they would pay for it out of their own pockets." Hole. It's only natural, isn't it?"

Wu Yongling admitted that he was right, "The words are correct, but for such a big matter, the Zong family may have nothing to do."

The two stood on the corner of the street not far from the gate of Cheng's house. There was no one around, so there was no need to shy away from talking.The spring is just right now, and the walls of every house are covered with tender green. Wu Ying came to Cheng's house this time to visit the garden, but Wu Yongling would be waiting here.

"How can it be wrong? Isn't the Wu family bragging about the number one family in the south of the Yangtze River? They don't have any skills at all? Cousin, don't be fooled by people's words and phrases. This is nothing to the Zong family. Listen to me and let them fill in the number. Go back and don’t care about anything else.” Every year he makes offerings to the clan the most among his children in his generation, but no matter whether it is the clan or the people with some power in the clan, they spend the money in the public account and never take the initiative to publish the account afterwards, so that everyone The tribe knows.He had already looked away.

Wu Yongling frowned, "Aying, do you hate the Wu family very much?"

"Did you know?" He was so obvious.

"No matter what, you are also a child of the Wu family. You can't ignore the family's affairs." Wu Yongling's tone has long since lost its previous rigidity.

Wu Ying didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Cousin, have you noticed that without me, the Wu family is really going to fail."

"..."

"Think about what I said. There is still an appointment, excuse me."

The Cheng family has several small gardens. Taking advantage of the good weather today, the servants are busy washing and drying in the sun, and the backyard is very lively.The little girl specially asked someone to set up tables and chairs in the long pavilion in the garden, and while the garden was full of spring, she completed the outline of the last few chapters of "Taoist White Crane".And Wu Ying was in a daze on the rocking chair next to her, not knowing what she was thinking. On the coffee table in her left hand was a pile of account books waiting to be checked.

"Master Luo, Jin Xiuniang cried to me yesterday that you wouldn't let her measure her feet." Wen Xiang asked Luo Xing who was sitting on the bench next to her while turning over the paper for her own lady.

When Luo Xing heard the words Jin Xiuniang, his face collapsed, "Last time she found out that I had a blister on my toe, and she ran out crying. Others thought I did something to her." Now it's all right, don't let her measure it Feet, she will cry too.Luo Xing just wants to cry up to the sky, it's too difficult for me.

The Cheng family raised two embroiderers who specially do some needlework for everyone. This golden embroiderer is very skilled, but loves to cry.She cried when she was moved, and cried when she was happy. In short, there were all kinds of reasons for crying, and no one could do anything about her.They are simply people made of water.

"But if I let Tang Xiuniang take care of your sewing in the future, Jin Xiuniang will think you despise her." At that time, I still don't know how to cry.

Luo Xing scratched his head irritably, "Going crazy."

Wu Yongling didn't bring Wu Ying to the Zong family smoothly, thinking that Wu Tianyou would scold him, but he didn't want the other party to say nothing, as if he had expected this result.

Facing the questioning of the clansmen, the several families of the clan all took a unified position and shifted the responsibility to the imperial court, which meant that it would be good if they could pay taxes and get away with it, let alone those properties that were wasted.

Wu Yongling recalled Wu Ying's previous words, and blurted out, "The money from the clan will also be made up." As soon as he finished speaking, the originally noisy lobby suddenly became quiet, and a needle could be heard.

Guo Shi was hysterical, "Do you still have a conscience? How much did the family earn from these properties? Now that something happened, the Zong family has to pay for it. Why don't you say that the Zong family will pay for your lives?"

Wu Yongling regretted that he didn't keep his mouth shut, but Guo's words really made him disagree, "What kind of business do you use the money to do for a living, and you never discuss it with everyone. Why should the clan bear the loss if something happens?" He didn't care. The accounts of the clan, but now I would like to suggest that the elders of the clan check the accounts carefully.

One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and the clansmen present were astonished, and they all realized that they were almost fooled by the clan.The essence of this matter is that the clan took the money from the clan, did not discuss it, and made a living in violation of the court regulations, which led to this result.The purpose of the Zong family's complaints just now was to let the clan share the burden with them.

"Since you said you made money for the clan, then reconcile the account. If it is equal, the clan will not pursue it." Wu Tianyi, one of the elders of the clan, said.

Wu Lingzuo's face was extremely ugly, "Did you forget that I am the suzerain?" As the patriarch, he has the right to control the public property of the clan.

The Guo family came to her senses, "Yes, we are the clan." Why should he be bullied by the clansmen.

None of the clansmen present thought that the clan could be so domineering and unreasonable to their own clansmen, and they didn't know what to do for a while.

Or Wu Yongling's thinking is normal, "But the clan rules also say that you must not violate the laws and regulations of the court, or you will be punished." The Wu clan rules are strict, impartial, and fairly fair, but they have gradually been ignored in recent years.Today's Wu clan is basically Wu Lingzuo's family.

After arguing late into the night, there was no result. Everyone was tired. In the end, Wu Tianyou decided to invite the elders of the Qi clan to discuss it in the ancestral hall tomorrow. Wu Lingzuo couldn't help but agree.

"What did Wu Ying say?" On the way home, Wu Tianyou asked Wu Yongling.

Wu Yongling always respected the clan elders, so he didn't hide anything, and told the other party exactly what Wu Ying said.Wu Tianyou just hummed after listening, but didn't express any opinion.But Wu Yongling couldn't hold back, "What does he mean by that?"

"It's not interesting." Wu Tianyou closed his eyes tiredly and muttered in his mouth.

After finally sending all the clansmen away, Mrs. Guo was so tired that she slumped on a chair, resting her head on one hand, and only then did she feel a severe headache.The fourth wife, Mrs. Qin, is in good spirits, but her mood is not much better.On weekdays, she doesn't deal with the eldest wife very much, but their interests are common, so she naturally wants to fight against each other at this time.

"I think it was Xu Hanlin who made the trouble." Qin drank the water in the teacup and put it heavily on the table.

Guo Shi looked at her puzzled, "How do you say?"

"Sister-in-law, I think so, do you think it's right? The industry in Hangzhou has been around for at least seven or eight years, and it has been doing well before. Why did someone suddenly talk about it with taxes? Those places in Hangzhou are dominated by the Wen family and the Wu family. Whoever had a feud with our two families, who did it?"

Mrs. Guo shook her head feebly, "You also said that the big heads belong to the Wu family and the Wen family, and there are quite a few people who are jealous."

Mrs. Qin thought for a while, and felt that what the other party said made sense, "Oh, my brain is naturally not as good as my sister-in-law's, but I think it's too coincidental. Why did we impeach the Xu family boy in the capital, and within a few days of turning around, Hangzhou caught fire .”

(End of this chapter)