Zheng Mansion.

Zheng Bin returned home with a gloomy face, and after sitting for long, the housekeeper entered the house to tell that the second son of the Bai family was here.

As soon as Bai Zizhong entered the house, he saw Zheng Bin's face and knew that the situation was not very good, and he couldn't say the question he wanted to ask.

Zheng Bin smiled bitterly and said to himself: "Brother Bai came to me to ask about the changes in the officialdom of Hui'an Mansion. ”

"Yes, isn't it bad?"

"It's terrible, I'm now a Tocao military leader, from the eighth grade." Zheng Bin said in frustration.

Senjunzuo is the adjutant who joins the army.

Zheng Bin originally joined the army, but now he is naturally demoted, Bai Zizhong asked, "Aren't you on good terms with Lord Yuan?" Why is this still the case? ”

Zheng Bin scratched his head and said with a bitter face: "Lord Yuan is also a little bad this time, and he ignores me when I talk to him after the meeting." ”

"What, Lord Yuan?"

Zheng Bin nodded heavily, and at this moment, the housekeeper walked in and handed Zheng Bin a letter, saying that he had come from the Yuan Mansion.

Zheng Bin hurriedly opened it and took a look, his face changed greatly.

"What's wrong?" Bai Zizhong asked.

Zheng Bin's gaze stayed on Bai Zizhong for a moment, and he smiled reluctantly: "It's nothing, Lord Yuan asked me to go over." ”

Bai Zi smiled and said: "That's very good, it seems that Brother Zheng's status is still very high in Lord Yuan's heart, so the little brother won't bother, and will come to visit another day." ”

"I'm not far away." Zheng Bin said lightly.

After Bai Zi left again, Zheng Bin looked at the direction of the gate, gritted his teeth and threw the note on the ground, and said, "Housekeeper, in the future, whenever the Bai family comes to the door, they will say that I am not there." ”

"Yes." The housekeeper nodded, picked up the note on the ground, and saw that it was written: "Recently, Bai Zi reused the name of Brother Zheng to disrupt the market, and this matter has reached the ears of Jie Shuai, and I am also implicated. ”

……

For the officials and big businessmen of Hui'an Prefecture, they are concerned about the big changes in officialdom, but for ordinary people, they are more concerned about the land rental system.

On this day, Wang Dali wandered around the village for a few days, and when the change ran out, he thought about going to the city to sell goods.

When setting up the stall, he suddenly heard someone talk about the recent list of the government, he hurriedly asked a few words, this question is terrible, he hurriedly packed up his things and returned to the village.

Running all the way back to the village, he didn't go back to his house, he went straight to Fuzi's house, and shouted loudly before he entered the house: "Fuzi, it's not good, something is wrong!" ”

Hearing his voice, a woman with a bamboo tray came out of the room, and she asked, "Isn't this vigorous?" Why are you panicking, is something wrong? ”

"Aunt Fu, is Fuzi at home?" Wang Dali said urgently.

"At home? What's wrong? ”

Wang Dali didn't reply again, he went directly into the house, ran into Fuzi's room with a familiar way, and saw him writing on a table!

"Fuzi, something is wrong!" Wang Dali didn't bother to ask why he was writing, and hurriedly said.

"What's wrong?" Fukuko looked up and asked.

"I heard someone in the city today that the government is going to take our land!"

"Really?" Hearing this, Fuzi lowered his head again and continued to write.

"Don't write it, won't you be able to write thirteen words? No matter how much you write, it won't turn into fourteen words! ”

"You're wrong, I can already write fifteen words." Fuzi is a serious way.

"No, who did you learn from?" Wang Dali was surprised, and without waiting for Fuzi to answer, he said again: "Hey, don't worry about such a trivial matter, aren't you surprised that our field is going to be confiscated?" ”

"Of course I'm not surprised, Lu Jieshuai came to our village today, he said, the rent of the field is only a penny, and it can be rented for sixty years, what else do you say there is to worry about." Fuzi said slowly.

"What? Has Lu Jieshuai been here? How did I not know? ”

"Of course you don't know in the city."

"Why don't you call me back!" Wang Dali said angrily.

"Lu Jieshuai stayed for a while and left, how can I have time to call you back." Fuzi flickered casually, but in fact, Lu Yuan was warmly welcomed by the villagers and had lunch in the village.

Wang Dali replied sullenly, accepted this statement, and was stunned for a long time before he asked: "Is it really possible to rent for sixty years for only a penny?" ”

"Nonsense, will what Lu Jieshuai said be wrong?" Fukuko glanced at him.

Wang Dali was stunned for a long time, as if he was digesting this information, and when he finished digesting it, he smiled and said, "Isn't this taking off your pants and farting, and it's too much?" What's the difference from before? ”

"Good question!" Fuzi suddenly stood up, held his head high and said: "The truth of this, only extremely smart people can figure it out, for the sake of you being my friend, I will enlighten you today!" ”

"Say it, say it." Wang urged vigorously.

"Do you know how the previous Tang Dynasty perished?" Fukuko asked.

Wang Dali shook his head blankly.

The corners of Fuzi's mouth twitched, and he snorted secretly: "I don't know if you don't know." The mouth said: "It's because of land annexation, the rich have too much land, and the poor have no land to plant, now you understand, right?" ”

Wang Dali was about to say that he didn't understand, when he heard Fuzi say: "I told the hammer twice before he understood this truth, you won't let me say it twice, right?" ”

"How can you!" Wang Dali laughed and said: "If you don't say it, I actually understand, it's just to test you." ”

"By the way, how did you start practicing calligraphy?" Wang Dali began to change the subject.

Fuzi smiled mysteriously and said, "Lu Jieshuai is here today, but he didn't just talk about the land!" ”

"And what else did he say?"

Fuzi hooked his fingers, and after Wang Dali approached, he said proudly: "Lu Jieshuai is preparing to open a new imperial examination?" ”

"Imperial examinations? What the reader stuff? ”

"Wrong!" Fuzi glared at him and said, "It's the new imperial examination, compared with the imperial examination, the admission standard of the new imperial examination will be much lower, I think with my talent, I can give it a try." ”

"The talent to know thirteen words?" Wang Dali sneered.

"you, just laugh, and when I am admitted to the new imperial examination, don't come to me." Fukuko glared.

"Don't, Brother Fuzi, you must pull me in the future!" Wang Dali said with a face.

"It depends." Fuzi said lightly: "Okay, I'm going to learn words, don't get in my way." ”

……

In order to let the people have a correct understanding of rent modulation, Lu Yuan recently began to go to the village to explain the situation to the people.

In fact, he didn't need to go to this matter in person, but since he returned to Hui'an Mansion, he has been handling government affairs in the city, and if he doesn't go out for a walk, I'm afraid he will be suffocated, and this time is just an opportunity.

Anyway, with Li Ruozhen following, there will be no problems in security, he has already asked the civilian officials to prepare for the new imperial examination, and the generals of all armies have also set up military camps outside the city and began to recruit and train soldiers.

Except for Qin Youyu's first army, which originally had 10,000 people, there was no need to expand the army, and the other four armies Lu Yuan allowed them to expand to 10,000, he had already calculated that it was still possible to raise 50,000 people with the current financial resources of Hui'an Mansion, and after these 50,000 people were trained, his next expansion plan could be carried out.

Qin Youyu is now training in the military camp outside the city most of the time, and Sun Shaoqing went to Xiuning to develop, where the business potential is greater than that of Hui'an Mansion, since she became the financial envoy, she has become more and more motivated, in Lu Yuan's opinion, she has a lot of qualifications to be a strong woman.

Since he chose to dominate the world, life is destined to be spent in a busy life, and there is not much time to focus on the relationship between men and women, which Lu Yuan has already figured out.

This is also the reason why he encourages several of his fiancées to develop their own careers, so that they don't have to look forward to themselves at home every day, they can have their own lives and live happier lives.

However, although he has gradually become accustomed to being busy, he also has a small thought in his heart, and when Hui'an Mansion develops steadily in all aspects in the future and the external environment is stable, he hopes to give himself a vacation and go to walk the rivers and lakes with Li Ruozhen, of course, more importantly, he will go to Hangzhou by the way to complete the agreement with Lan Liuyi.

Thinking of this, Lu Yuan asked Li Ruozhen beside him, "Senior sister, what have you been busy with lately?" ”

At this moment, the two of them are walking in the mountains and forests, the air in the mountains is fresh, refreshing, refreshing, and happy, and the accompanying clerks and guards are very interested in falling behind, leaving the two of them alone space.

"Of course it's been solved, and I've solved several cases recently." Li Ruozhen was a little proud.

"In addition to solving the case?"

Li Ruozhen thought for a while and said, "Compete with Ma Kongming." ”

"Who won?" Lu Yuan asked in some surprise.

Li Ruozhen tilted his head and didn't speak, it seemed that Ma Kongming had won, Lu Yuan smiled secretly.

"What are you looking for him to do?" Lu Yuan asked.

"To be stronger, of course."

"Why are you getting stronger?" Lu Yuan asked again.

"Of course, it's because you're too weak, and I can only protect you better if I become stronger."

Lu Yuan was stunned for a moment and said, "Senior sister, why are you so good to me?" ”

"You are my junior brother, I naturally want to protect you, and there is nothing bad about it." Li Ruozhen said softly.

Lu Yuan lowered his head, not knowing what to say for a while.

At this moment, a horse came running from afar, and the person on the horse, Lu Yuan, knew that it was one of his personal guards.

"Jieshuai, Master Zhang asked me to give you a letter." The guards turned over and dismounted.

"Good work." Lu Yuan took the letter and looked at it, his brows furrowed, and the letter said that Wu Yueguo, Tang Guo, Qingyuan and Chizhou actually had envoys to Hui'an Mansion at the same time.

Although Lu Yuan guessed that Chizhou and Tang might send envoys, he didn't expect Qingyuan and Wu Yueguo to also send envoys, no wonder Wu Yueguo didn't attack Muzhou, it turned out that he wanted to negotiate with himself.

They must be stabilized, Lu Yuan thought to himself, for him, the more time he gives himself, the stronger he will be able to develop, no matter whether these envoys have good or bad intentions, delaying it for a while will only be good for him.

So he decided not to return to Hui'an, and ordered Zhang Dezhong to send a capable official to receive them, try to find out the intentions of each envoy, and then make a decision.

At the same time, a rumor began to appear among the people: the Tang State lost the war to Hui'an Mansion and sent envoys to sue for peace.