Zhao Shu pretended to be an ordinary son who went to Jiangnan to visit relatives, dressed in a light gray ordinary satin scholar robe, and wore a carved wooden hair crown on his head, which was extremely inconspicuous.

Su Xiu and the others don't have to dress up deliberately, they dress ordinarily on weekdays, and the only one who disguises himself is Xiao Guozi, who pretends to be a woman, very graceful.

After washing, the first rays of the morning sun on the horizon have passed through the clouds and spread on the ground, and after breakfast, Zhao Shu folded her fan and went out of the inn.

As soon as I stepped out of the inn, I heard a big man say: "I have posted the emperor's list, I heard that Lord Huo has promulgated a new law, which is of great benefit to me and other ordinary people." ”

"What's going on again? Let's go and have a look. "Carrying a hoe, the uncle who was about to go to the ground said.

"Lord Huo sent someone to read it in front of the emperor's list, if you don't understand, you can ask, the official is very easy-going, not fierce at all." Dahan, together with his uncle, went back to see the emperor list again.

Zhao Shu shook the folding fan, and at this time, Sun Ben came before, raised his hand and saluted: "The villain sees the distinguished guest, the goods have been served, and the ship will be sailed in half an hour, I don't know if the guest still has something to deal with?" If it is convenient at this time, the villain will take the distinguished guest on board. ”

The folding fan hit the palm of his left hand, nodded with a smile, and gestured, "Thank you." ”

Sun Ben understood first, and made a gesture of please, "Distinguished guest, please." ”

Zhao Shu walked in front with his feet raised, he was half a step behind, side by side with Xiao Guozi, and led Zhao Shu to the ferry.

Along the way, Zhao Shu saw that some ordinary people were discussing the matter of the emperor's list one after another, "Jiangnan and Shuzhong Dashui, I was worried about the imperial court raising taxes again, but I didn't expect to reduce taxes, old man, I have lived for most of my life, and I have never seen a tax cut." The emperor is really a good emperor, and Lord Huo is also a good official. ”

"Before. Many large families do not have to pay taxes. The people of the imperial court came to us who were so poor every day to urge taxes, and every time my mother-in-law had to scold for a long time, in the end I had to hand over the only remaining rations. "An old man is about 50 years old, and because he has been tired all year round, he is much older than his actual age.

He pulled up his trouser legs, wore a straw hat on his head, and carried a hoe on his shoulder, and after saying the last sentence, he continued with a smile. "My eldest daughter-in-law said that if the court raises taxes again this year, she will send her sister to a big family to be a maid, although she signed a deed of sale and became a lowly citizen, but it is better than starving to death. Now it's all right. Not only did it not need to raise taxes, but it also reduced taxes, and the imperial court finally did a good thing. ”

"Yes, I just don't know about the floods in Jiangnan and Shuzhong. Where is the court going to collect grain for disaster relief, hey, I don't know how many children of good families have to be slaves and maids. "Walk next to him. Said a man who was younger than that.

When Zhao Shu heard this, she choked up for some reason. The simple people are so easy to satisfy.

"Listen to Erni from the head of the village. Her sister was in Guo's house to make a personal maid for Miss Guo's family, 200 wen a month, at first she often gave a few wen to the family, but after a few months there was no news, Er Ni Niang went to find, but the Guo family said that there was no such girl, Er Ni Niang didn't believe it, it took a year's savings to find out from the concierge, the girl made a mistake and was sold to the kiln, you said, a good girl from a good family doesn't do it, hey, pitiful, I look at that child is also an honest one, hey. He shook his head and sighed.

When Zhao Shu heard this, she chuckled lightly and asked Sun Benxian, "Where is the emperor's list, take me to see it." ”

"Hey." Sun Benxian also pricked up his ears to listen, the imperial court seems to have made great achievements in the past few days, and many systems have been changed at once, all of which are beneficial to the people's livelihood.

The place where the emperor list is posted is not far away, and it is not limited to the gate of the yamen or the city gate, but at the fork in the road, and everyone passes by the place to rest on weekdays.

Sun Benxian found a place where everyone gathered in their leisure time on weekdays, where two century-old giant trees had grown, and there were several wooden benches under the green shade, and many people who were about to go to the ground had gathered in front of the imperial list to listen to the yacha read the imperial list.

Su Xiu and others opened the crowd for Zhao Shu, so that she could see the content on the emperor's list, only to see the Ming and Huang brocade silks pasted on the giant tree, and a knife and a yacha were answering questions impatiently.

"Official, do you mean that we, the common people, can also write a letter to the emperor to report?" The questioner was a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy in the first grade, he was dark-skinned, and he was still holding a flat pole in his hand, as if he was going to work in the field, but his demeanor was very polite, his eyes were neither humble nor arrogant, his expression was frank and confident, and he was very sunny.

The official is in his early twenties, he is a handsome young man, his skin is the same as the young man who just asked, dark and healthy, he nodded seriously, "Yes, from today onwards, the imperial court will set up a report box at the city gate, and anyone has the right to report corrupt officials and corrupt officials." ”

"Little brother, can you only report corrupt officials and corrupt officials?" A middle-aged man asked, he looked like he had read a book for a few days, and he was wearing a scholar's robe, but the robe was torn, and the original dark robe had been washed to gray, and he was still holding a sickle in his hand.

Now at this time, the farmer in the field is the long stage, the cattle and sheep in the family can not be released, will spoil the dealer, if there are cattle and sheep in the family, most of them will go up the mountain to mow the grass, this middle-aged man seems to be going to mow the grass.

The official explained again with a smile, "Naturally not, unfilial piety, attempting rebellion, murder and arson, forcibly marrying people's daughters, bullying men and women, rampant and domineering, all of them are bad, they can be reported, and they can be reported anonymously." ”

"Oh, I see." The crowd around the emperor nodded and talked with the people next to them.

Zhao Shu was born, and there were people around her to protect her, and her overall temperament was incompatible with them, so no one discussed it with her, but she saw that she looked good, had a good temperament, and adhered to the principle that more things are better than less things, and only praised one sentence in her heart.

However, some people know Sun Benxian, and know that he is the steward of the Sun family in Tianjin Port, although he is richer than them on weekdays, but Shinong and industrialist, they are good people, and in front of people with low status, there is naturally a sense of superiority in their hearts.

"Steward Sun, you also care about state affairs?" An old man asked with a smile.

Sun Benxian knew that he was a lowly person, and he was not as good as a good citizen, and now the court has changed the law, and he is even more generous to them, I heard that the court has also run an official school, which is in charge of Lord Qiu, and teaches the skills and practice of men under the age of sixteen who have the status of good citizens, otherwise this report box is set up, and it is useless for no one to write.

I heard that the emperor ate a grilled fish. decided that it was better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish, although now he is valued by Sun Yun. But if the children and grandchildren are all subordinates, there will be another master like Sun Zhong. What should I do?

The daughter and granddaughter were sold to the kiln as soon as they committed the crime, what should I do?

He arched his hand, his expression was as usual, and he did not express the envy in his heart, and said very politely: "It's just to accompany the son to come and have a look." He bowed to Zhao Shu and replied to the old man's words.

The old man took advantage of the situation to talk to Zhao Shupan, "I don't know where the son comes from?" "He has lived for decades, and there is nothing he doesn't know about the big family in Tianjin.

Zhao Shu smiled and raised her hand to salute. Quite a bit of elegant gentlemanly demeanor, he replied: "I didn't come from Jiangnan, traveled to Beijing, and now I am going back." ”

The old man looked at him a few times, and saw that Su Xiu and the others were not easy to mess with, although he was not afraid, but he didn't plan to cause trouble, so he exposed it and didn't ask Zhao Shu's accent question. Instead, he pointed to the other items on the emperor's list, and said: "Now the imperial court stipulates that the family also needs to pay land tax and commercial tax, and how much to pay." Depending on the proportion of income, Childe must know it, right? ”

He spoke with a smug expression, as if he had finally raised his eyebrows. "Yesterday, Zhou's family refused to pay, so the official asked him to make up for ten years of tax silver. If you don't make up for it, the Zhou family will really pay ten years of taxes in the end. ”

Zhao Shu listened. smiled silently, and raided the house without paying taxes, Huo Baichuan could do this, but the family must have something in his hands.

Huo Baichuan must be a reasonable person.

"I don't care about family affairs, and naturally I am not interested in state affairs, but my father will definitely respond to the call of the imperial court and support Lord Huo to innovate the law." She talked with the old man with great interest.

Answering like this, the old man's eyes lit up, and he asked curiously: "Doesn't the prince think that the court is a little unreasonable?" ”

"Why do you say that?" Zhao Shu saw that he wanted to talk endlessly, and it happened that she also wanted to know what the situation was at the moment, so she asked again.

The old man was relatively tall, he glanced at the surrounding environment, and made a gesture of invitation to Zhao Shu, "There are many people here, if the son doesn't mind, can you change places?" ”

"Okay." Zhao Shu also made a gesture of please, and Su Xiu and the others opened the way, breaking through the crowd and letting the two of them get out.

Coming out of the crowd, the old man took Zhao Shu to sit down on a long wooden bench not far away, took a puff with a dry tobacco pouch, and said: "The eldest grandson of the former little old man returned from the capital, and he got the news that Lord Huo wanted to change the law, but Lord Yang disagreed, and the two adults immediately quarreled, making the emperor angry. ”

Isn't it because Wei Tingsi destroyed the capital Tangkou, and Hu Lin detained all the unsolved cases since the founding of Dayong on Tangkou, and Emperor Mingde Longyan was angry and became ill?

"Oh? And then what? It was obviously another version, and she was keen to know about it.

This old man has a broken mouth on weekdays, and as soon as Zhao Shu asked, he couldn't wait to tell all the ideas he knew in his head.

"Then Lord Yang is not in good health, and the juniors in the family are not angry, I heard that the nephew of Lord Yang's family bullied the granddaughter of the Lin University student's family, hey, the children of this family are really ridiculous, a few years ago, he said that His Royal Highness King Yong was ridiculous, and now in the eyes of the old man, King Yong is not ridiculous, he is the smartest."

He took a puff of old dry tobacco, slowly spit out a puff of white mist, and continued: "It's far away, where did you just go?" ”

Su Xiu and the others glanced at each other, and they all felt that this old man was too unparticular when talking to the county lord.

Zhao Shu didn't care, still smiling, "Speaking of the Yang family's children bullying the Lin family's girls." ”

"Oh, yes, yes, yes." The old man immediately answered, and resumed the style of the old man who told the story at the entrance of the village, "The son doesn't want to learn from that Yang Gongzi, he didn't take the initiative to marry after bullying people, and the girl of the Lin family was bullied and didn't ask the family to be the master, and then went out to the teahouse to drink tea and fainted. It's ridiculous or not, this little girl is poisonous, and I don't know who to harm. ”

Zhao Shu couldn't help laughing, and finally couldn't help laughing, "She probably wants to find a husband who is better than Yang Gongzi, and it is normal for people to go to high places and water to flow low." ”

The old man obviously knew that the meaning of Zhao Shu's words was not good, and he also laughed, "I really didn't expect that Lord Yang and Lin University students, who are full of wealth, can teach such uncompetitive juniors, which is really unbless by the ancestors." ”

"This dragon has nine different sons, and it is not surprising that one or two golden jade are occasionally born and one or two are ruined among them." Zhao Shu endured the hard work, so she stood up with a sentence, and said goodbye to the old man, "I'm afraid that the boat won't wait for anyone, so I won't leave." ”

"Childe go slowly, childe must not learn from that Yang childe." He was warm-hearted, and when he waved goodbye, he didn't forget to tell him again and again.

Sun Ben glanced at Zhao Shu first, and saw that she was in a much better mood than when she first met, and even Xiao Guozi had a smile on her face, and she didn't know why she was so happy.

Zhao Shu has been thinking about the old man's words in her head, Lin Xiuxue is pregnant, such a big scandal must be enough for the Lin family to shed their skin, plus Yang Shixuan was labeled as the Yang family again, and the Huo family, the Xie family, etc. are behind the scenes, don't want to suppress this scandal, no wonder since the Hundred Flowers Banquet, these two have no news, it turned out to be for this day, but not long after the Hundred Flowers Banquet, Lin Xiuxue was pregnant, and the time didn't seem right.

Before he could figure it out, he arrived, and Sun Benxian pointed to the big boat parked on the water in front of him and said, "Honorable guest, it's here." ”

The ship prepared for Zhao Shu is the largest cargo ship of the Sun family in Tianjin Port, which is more than 30 zhang long, about 15 zhang wide, and has eight masts, which is extremely spectacular and huge.

After looking around left and right, he didn't see Wei Tingsi, thinking that he had his own boat, but didn't he say that he was waiting for her at the head of the horse? Why didn't I see anyone?

I looked around for another week, but I didn't find it, but a captain got off the boat, as if he was returning home in a hurry, and he didn't look at the road when he walked, and hit Xiao Guozi.

"Don't you have long eyes?" Xiao Guozi's bewitching scolding.

After scolding, he patted the place where he was hit in disgust, stomped his feet and approached Zhao Shu, "Childe, it's so dirty here, let's go quickly." He put his orchid fingers on the tip of his nose, and applied a thick rouge to his face.

When others look at him like this, they don't overdo it in disgust.

It was in this gap that a note was stuffed into Zhao Shu's hand, she opened the folding fan casually, and at the same time unfolded the note and looked at it.

There weren't many words on it, just three words, 'Danger.' ’

Could it be that the news leaked out so quickly? Zhao Shu was stunned, her eyes were sharp and she looked around a few times, there were many people on the horse's head, and each one looked like an enemy, Zhao Shu took a step back, and Su Xiu and the Sun family surrounded her.

And, at this time, in the capital, the Inner Palace, Huo Baichuan walked through the long palace road, stepped on a glow, and appeared in the upper study where the princes were studying.

"You should feel honored, because your opponent is me." He said it very plainly, but with a force to be reckoned with, and like a stream flowing across the riverbed, it was natural to go with the flow. (To be continued.) )

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