Ling Ruo nodded and said, "The Thirteenth Master has a heart, Hongli, quickly help your Thirteenth Uncle to get up and sit down." After Yunxiang coughed and sat down, "There is a family banquet in the evening, don't go back to the thirteenth master, just stay here in the palace, if the thirteenth master feels tired, the palace will let Shui Xiu clean up the warm pavilion and let you rest." ”

"Thank you Concubine Niangniang, the minister has nothing to do, but when I was greeting the emperor today, I sent a letter from Henan 800 miles in an urgent manner." Yun Xiang knew that Ling Ruo was better with the Guerjia clan, so he didn't avoid her to speak.

"Henan ......" Guerjia frowned slightly: "This palace remembers that the second elder brother is in Henan, is that letter related to him?" ”

"It's not just related, that excerpt was simply sent by the second elder brother to Beijing." Yunxiang turned his eyes and said to Hongli who was standing aside: "Fourth elder brother, you tell your mother and Concubine Jin what happened just now." ”

Hongli nodded, and immediately recounted what had just happened, and Ling Ruo and the Guerjia clan looked at each other, surprised, and a little incredulous.

Guerjia took a step forward and said: "Fourth elder brother, in the midst of the compromises, do you really mean that the rich households in Henan have all agreed to the new deal?" ”

"Yes." Hongli said with deep eyes: "According to the second brother's compromise, none of the rich households in the province objected, and they all fully cooperated with the implementation of the new policy. ”

"That's weird." The Guerjia clan wrung the handkerchief in his hand and said: "Those common tenants support the new policy, and the rich can understand it...... Hongu really can't understand how they can agree so easily once they calculate according to the tax law of the New Deal, their annual profits will be at least more than half. To put it mildly, if it were them who changed the palace, they would never agree unless they were forced to. ”

"That's exactly what my sister said." After Ling Ruo answered next to him, he said to Yun Xiang: "Thirteenth Master, besides that, what else did you say in the compromise?" ”

Yun Xiang leaned in the chair and said, "Back to Niangniang's words, the fourth elder brother has already said everything, and there is nothing missing." "Because they are all in the Guerjia clan, Yunxiang is not as much of a sister-in-law as he was when he was alone.

Ling Ruo slowly knocked on the handrail, and said in a slightly muffled voice again and again: "Second elder brother has such a great ability, he actually has the ability to give the emperor such a good New Year's gift, looking at the situation, when he returns to Beijing in a month, he will not be Erbeile, but Prince Ding." ”

When the Guerjia clan heard this, he couldn't help but say: "If you want this palace to say, if it is not those rich people who are collectively crazy, or the second elder brother has poured some drugs into them, otherwise how can they be so cooperative, this is not reasonable at all." ”

Ling Ruo lowered his eyes and said: "This palace has received a letter from Li Wei before, he said that the situation in Zhejiang is very bad, several times the rich people gathered the people to make trouble, and almost rioted, although he lobbied everywhere, but less than fifty percent were willing to cooperate with the new policy, even if it was a year for the emperor to say, the number of rich people willing to cooperate would not exceed sixty percent, and the remaining forty percent were the most difficult to convince. ”

Yun Xiang took over and said: "It is said that the folk customs of Henan are more fierce than those of Zhejiang, since Zhejiang is like this, how can Henan be so smooth." ”

Guerjia thought for a long time and said, "Thirteenth Master, according to your opinion, will the second elder brother deliberately exaggerate in order to deliberately please the emperor?" ”

"Tian Wenjing, the governor of Henan, is a straightforward person, and he is extremely loyal to the emperor, with his minister's understanding of him, no matter what benefits the second elder brother allows him, he will not lie and deceive the emperor. If the second elder brother is really cheating, as long as Tian Wenjing's performance comes, it will be exposed, and he can't hide it at all, so if the second elder brother plays such a trick, he can only bring about his own destruction. ”

Guerjia patted the handrail and said, "This is not right, that is not right, but it is really incomprehensible, when the second elder brother became so capable, there is a disrespectful word, even if the emperor goes in person, he may not be able to do this in such a short time." ”

Ling Ruo didn't speak, only lowered her head and stroked the already cold teacup, Yun Xiang glanced at her and said, "What is Niangniang thinking?" ”

Ling Ruo came back to his senses and said, "Second Elder Brother's letter should be true, this palace is just thinking, what kind of method did Second Elder Brother do to make those rich families give up half of their net worth to listen to him." ”

"Will it be yang and yin?" As soon as Hongli's words came out, Ling Ruo denied it, "No, taxes will start in half a year, and if you can't collect taxes at that time, the emperor will blame the second elder brother, and he finally recovered, how could he be willing to fall again." ”

Ling Ruo's eyes were slightly cold, and he said coldly: "How did he do it in this palace, but this palace knows why he did this, he really didn't have the heart to die." ”

Everyone knows what Lu Dao Ling Ruo means, the emperor's throne, until now, the second elder brother has never given up on the emperor's throne, and he still can't forget it.

Hongli pondered: "Eniang, Erchen thinks that the second brother can implement the new policy so smoothly in Henan, it should not be his own work, and the Nala clan has also made a lot of efforts in secret." ”

Guerjia said on the side: "I don't know what method Yingge used to coax back the second elder brother." ”

These words reminded Yunxiang of one thing, and said, "Niangniang, do you still remember the murder that the second elder brother encountered?" ”

Ling Ruo was surprised and said, "I remember, why did the Thirteenth Master suddenly mention this matter?" ”

"Because the minister felt that the murder happened a little strange, so he sent someone to secretly investigate, and found that the perpetrator was clean and neat, without any mud and water, and they were all killed with a knife, not like ordinary Jiangyang thieves, but some like assassins who specialize in killing. Moreover, the yamen has not caught the perpetrator until now, and there is no trace, as if it disappeared out of thin air. Yun Xiang paused for a moment and said again: "And after the second elder brother was imprisoned, he committed two more crimes in a row, as if he was deliberately clearing the second elder brother's wrongs." ”

His words, everyone's eyelids jumped, although Yun Xiang said more vaguely, but standing here, who is not a person with a lot of thoughts, there is no reason not to hear it.

After thinking about it carefully, Hongli hesitated and said, "Did Uncle Thirteen say that there were no Jiangyang thieves at all, but someone sent assassins to kill those prostitutes?" But what is their purpose? ”

Yun Xiang shook his head, according to what he found, there are many doubts about this matter, but after all, it is only doubts, and he can't restore the truth of the matter with these doubts, otherwise he wouldn't have delayed until now.

"Could it be that the second elder brother really killed the prostitute, and then in order to help the second elder brother get rid of suspicion, they sent secret guards to kill the two prostitutes again to clear the suspicion for the second elder brother, and it turned out that he did get his wish, and the second elder brother was acquitted." Speaking of this, Guerjia's eyes lit up slightly, "If this is the case, once we catch the evidence of the second elder brother's murder, he will have no way to deny it."