Gu Qing misses Song Gensheng very much now, especially for it.

It would be great if Song Gensheng was in front of him, he could let go of his hands and feet and beat him up unscrupulously, so that he could know how deep his father's love was.

It is hard to imagine that he offended the local gentry just over a month after taking office as the county magistrate, and he actually dared to take the land and property of the gentry.

Even Gu Qing, a person who has crossed over, knows that in this era, you can move anything, and you must not move the land of the landlord class, that is their lifeblood, if you must move, then you must have sufficient capital to deal with it, and you can completely destroy the landlords before they fight back.

The reason why the reform of the law in the past dynasties has more defeats and fewer victories is because most of the reformers took the landlord's land with the knife, which led to a fierce backlash of the landlord class, but the successful ones were because they gradually sought change in the process of compromise, and gradually increased the tax revenue of the imperial court on the premise of touching the interests of the landlord class as little as possible.

Whatever the reason, Song Gensheng's approach was very direct and brutal. Zhang Huaiyu didn't say it in detail in the letter, but Gu Qing could imagine what Song Gensheng did specifically.

After all, he is too young and innocent, how can a person who only has two colors in his eyes, black and white, be a good official?

The next day, Gu Qing went to Zuowei to answer the news, and after dealing with the mountain of official business, he returned to Li Shiniang's house to wait for the news.

I was very anxious, and Zhang Huaiyu, who had a cold temperament, took the initiative to write a letter to Gu Qing, which shows how critical the situation in Qingcheng County has been, but Gu Qing still tries to wait patiently, it takes time to find out the news, Li Shiniang has no ability to reach the sky, and some things can only be done step by step.

For two days in a row, Li Shi Niang was so busy that no one was seen, Gu Qing simply lived in Li Shi Niang's mansion, and every day after going to Zuo Wei Yingmao, he found an opportunity to skip work, returned to Li Shi Niang's house, and sat on the edge of the courtyard to watch the female disciples practice swords.

Chen Fufeng, who had just met a few days ago, and two other guests also lived in Li Shiniang's mansion, and Gu Qing was unconsciously familiar with them.

There is a phenomenon that is very interesting, Li Twelve Niang's home is like an inn, there are many people coming and going, and the identities of the guests are also different, there are powerful officials, there are people from the rivers and lakes, Gu Qing has even seen a beggar couple being treated as guests by Li Twelve Niang, after being entertained with good wine and food, the beggar couple went away satisfied with food and drink, and when they went out, they bent their waists and begged around with broken bowls.

The Tang Dynasty has a strict class, and there is no equality in the world. But in Li Twelve Niang's family, Gu Qing saw the equality of all beings, and Gu Qing learned a lot from Li Twelve Niang.

In addition to inventing and creating some small accidents, the traverser actually does not have many advantages compared with the ancients, and even many places are far inferior. For example, in the choice of "interests" and "morality", Gu Qing was contaminated with too many mercenary values from his previous life, and this kind of values were very contradictory in the Tang Dynasty.

Those in power will take Gu Qing as a confidant, and Gu Qing can easily blend into the circle of those in power without any obstacles, because everyone has the same values.

In the market, the values of mercenary will be despised, so after the Zuowei corruption case, Li Guangbi, as the general of Zuowei Zuolang, was quite understanding of Gu Qing's choice to escape, but Li Shiniang was very disappointed and deliberately took him to his parents' grave to educate him, which is the conflict of two values.

Gu Qing has always maintained a humble heart, looking at the people and things in this world with his own eyes and heart, not arrogant or humble.

Chen Fufeng's personality is very bold, "bold" means that he is very direct in life and work, and has a very strong purpose, for example, after he lived in Li Shi Niang's mansion for a few days, he was bored one day to watch the female disciples in the courtyard practice swords, and he was quite moved by the appearance of one of the female disciples, so he pointed to the female disciple and asked Li Shi Niang, "If I want to sleep with that girl, do I have to marry her first?" ”

Li Twelve Niang answered him with her fists and let him die that heart.

Gu Qing was next to him at the time, and Chen Fufeng completely conquered him with just one question. He felt that he and Chen Fufeng would become friends, everyone's thinking was the same, simple, clear and clear, the process is not important, the result is important, "marrying" is just the process, and "sleeping" is the result that men really want.

Li Twelve Niang was not in the house, Gu Qing was anxious and had to pretend that nothing happened, sitting on the edge of the courtyard and watching the female disciples practice swords was actually quite pleasing to the eye.

Chen Fufeng sat beside Gu Qing, staring at the female disciple he wanted to sleep with a pair of eyes but couldn't, and let out a regretful sigh from time to time.

"No matter how good the sword training is, it's just a showmanship, the real means of killing still depends on actual combat, look at the skills and momentum of these girls, none of them have ever fought in actual combat, and they are extremely useless......" Chen Fufeng pouted disdainfully, and added: "Twelve Niang might as well send them out to marry." ”

The last sentence reveals his true purpose.

Gu Qing said thoughtfully: "Is it useful for civilians to practice swords?" If it is used to kill people, it is a violation of the royal law, and it is not necessary to use it for fitness, why did Aunt Li teach them to practice swords? ”

Chen Fufeng glanced at him and said, "Of course, it is used to do chivalrous deeds, and after completing his studies, how can he break through the rivers and lakes if he has no skills in his hands?" It was ruined when you went out. ”

Gu Qing was silent for a long time, and asked a question that had been bothering him for a long time: "Is the chivalrous man doing chivalry because he doesn't trust the government?" ”

Chen Fufeng thought for a while and said, "It's true that I don't trust the government. Many unjust officials are unwilling to take care of it, too lazy to take care of it, or are bought by power and money and reverse black and white, and civilians have no power and powerless, except for counting on chivalrous people to help them out, what else can they do? ”

"So how does a knight judge whether a matter is just or unfair?"

Chen Fufeng smiled: "Of course, I listened to the civilians themselves, no matter what happened, the victims were civilians after all, and I had never heard that the powerful officials were oppressed by the civilians, anyway, as long as they stood on the side of the civilians, they couldn't be wrong." ”

Gu Qing also smiled: "So, who is weak and who is reasonable?" Whether rich or poor, human nature has an ugly side after all, is it true that all the common people in the world are good and righteous, and the powerful represent evil? ”

"Whether a matter is just or unjust, the person who adjudicates it must first have basic legal knowledge, and secondly, he must have a keen judgment ability, and strictly collect the motives and evidence of good and evil on both sides. But the knight only judged good and evil on the side of the common people, and I cannot agree with it. Gu Qing shook his head and said.

Chen Fufeng glanced at Gu Qing quite unexpectedly, and then smiled: "Sure enough, you are a person in the officialdom, and you speak with an official flavor, you are too different from your parents." ”

The class position is different, and Chen Fufeng's sentence is clearly somewhat ironic.

Gu Qing smiled: "I am me, I don't want to live in the shadow of my parents." Moreover, I am not speaking in an official manner, but only reasoning with you, and if you disagree with my ideas, you can refute me with facts. ”

Chen Fufeng was silent for a moment, and said slowly: "In fact, the government really can't be trusted, and the responsibility for many unjust and wrongful cases among the people lies with the government and the powerful. ”

"No one is born chivalrous, but they are kind by nature, and they have seen too many injustices, and their conscience forces them to come out to do chivalry, otherwise, who wants to live that day long? After all, there is a thought in my heart, I want to do something beneficial to the world, so I am willing to pay such a price, Gu Qing, if you don't agree with what the chivalrous man does, just do something in the officialdom to make this world fairer, the world is fair, and there is no need for the chivalrous to exist. ”

Gu Qing thought of Zhou Hengwu, who killed people on the street in Dongshi a few days ago.

Yes, if the world is fair, will Zhou Hengwu still kill people?

…………

Three days later, Li Twelve Niang finally found out the news.

I don't know what kind of mysterious intelligence network Li Twelve Niang has, in short, she checked almost all the powerful people in Chang'an, and finally found out that there are people who have a large amount of farmland in Qingcheng County, Shuzhou.

This person is not small, he is the twenty-second prince of Li Longji, Li Huan, the king of Ji.

Hearing his name, Gu Qing's mouth suddenly added a lot of bitter taste.

Li Huan's biological mother is Li Longji's concubine, named a beauty, surnamed Zhong, and born in Yingchuan Zhong.

Li Huan is now in his Chinese New Year's Eve and has been canonized King of Ji for more than twenty years. From the twenty-fourth year of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, the adult King Ji went out of the palace to live in the palace, and after receiving a group of guests, Li Huan consciously used the identity and money of the prince to occupy a large number of farmland in the Tang Dynasty.

The farmland in Qingcheng County is only a small part of Li Huan's enclosure, and in fact he has enclosed a large amount of land in many prefectures and counties in Datang.

Among Li Longji's many princes, Li Huan ranks twenty-second, and it is certain that the position of the East Palace is completely out of his reach, since he is not qualified to win the East Palace, then purchasing property has become Li Huan's only goal in this life.

In the great cause of enclosing farmland, Li Huan can be said to be brave and brave in the stars and moon, and his appearance is not ordinarily ugly. Relying on the identity of the prince to send people around to seize farmland, most of the officials of the local government did not have the courage to disobey the prince, so they turned a blind eye to follow him to occupy it, and there were also a very small number of officials who could not see it to go to the court to sue the king of Ji, and the final result was nothing more than that Li Huan was called into the palace by Li Longji to severely reprimand a few words, and punished him for a few months.

In order to avoid the eyes and ears of the imperial history, Li Huanhuan is still quite skilled after occupying the farmland, he will hang the farmland in the name of the local gentry, but the actual owner is Li Huan, the gentry is just a tool, the harvest produced by the farmland every year is converted into silver by the gentry, leaving a small amount of commission agreed with it, and the rest is transported to the Jiwang Mansion in Chang'an, so as to achieve a win-win situation between the prince and the landlord gentry.

However, it is the common people who suffer.

When Gu Qing knew that the person who occupied the farmland was Queen Ji, his head hurt terribly.

Reason told Gu Qing that the safest and safest solution at this time was to let Song Gensheng immediately release the gentleman surnamed Cai, and from then on ignore the matter of King Ji's encirclement of farmland.

But Gu Qing knows Song Gensheng's character very well, since he has started, he will not be good. At this juncture, he wouldn't listen to Gu Qing's words.

Li Twelve Niang also had a little headache, and sighed helplessly: "Your friend has caused a big disaster, hurry up and repair the book to him, let him let go immediately, otherwise the consequences will be unpredictable." ”

Gu Qing smiled bitterly: "If he is willing to let go, it is not Song Gensheng." ”

Gu Qing had already seen that Song Gensheng was a person who accepted death, and after recognizing one thing, he was as uncompromising as a donkey.

"Then find someone to remove him from his position as county magistrate, let him get out of the way and go home, at least he can save his life. You have a good relationship with Xian Yu Zhongtong, the envoy of Jiannan Province, so it shouldn't be difficult to remove a county order, right? Li Twelve Niang said simply and rudely.

Gu Qing smiled bitterly again: "It's easy to recall, but it will hurt him, maybe in frustration, Song Gensheng's whole person will be ruined, or maybe this donkey will still fight to the end, even if he is already clothed, there will be something out of control, whether to dismiss him, in fact, it doesn't make much sense." ”

After being silent for a long time, Gu Qing suddenly said: "Aunt Li, the powerful people occupy farmland in various places, causing a large number of farmers to lose their land and have to become refugees, so is it right or wrong for Song Gensheng to do this as a county magistrate?" ”

Li Twelve Niang was stunned, she didn't expect Gu Qing to suddenly ask this question.

Gu Qing's tone gradually became unpredictable: "Shouldn't 'the cultivator have his field' be the foundation of the prosperous Tang Dynasty?" The foundation has been shaken, can this prosperous era still be called 'prosperous era'? ”

"From the standpoint of a friend, I should persuade Song Gensheng to let go immediately to save his life and let him occupy him. From the standpoint of conscience, I feel that Song Gensheng's motives are not wrong, but only his way of doing things. Aren't they pitiful to the landless peasant families, their wives and families, and the refugees who beg along the road? Aunt Li, teach me, what should I do? ”

Li Twelve Niang sighed and said, "Can you change the status quo?" ”

Gu Qing shook his head silently.

Since the beginning of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty's uniform land system has been seriously damaged, resulting in the destruction of the government military system, and the enclosure of the elite is the fundamental reason, which is already an unbreakable chain of interests, and even Li Longji cannot change it.

Gu Qing is even more incapable of changing.

Why a rebellion can cause the Tang Dynasty to collapse with a bang, the reason is not the military disaster, but the long-accumulated man-made disaster, which is not something that can be changed by personal ability.

The atmosphere was frozen for a long time, and Gu Qing suddenly smiled: "Now that I am not qualified to think about things that are too far away. Let's solve this problem first. ”

"How to fix it?"

Gu Qing thought for a while and said, "I want to meet Li Huan, the king of Ji." ”

Li Twelve Niang sighed: "I have no relationship with King Ji, I'm afraid I can't help you." ”

Gu Qing hesitated: "If I take the initiative to hand over the post to the door......

Li Twelve Niang glanced at him: "It's just a six-grade long history, and I want to see the prince when I hand over a post, what do you want?" ”

Gu Qing said helplessly: "Today's most favored concubine Niangniang I can see me whenever I want, why is it more difficult to see a prince than a concubine?" ”

"The concubine saw you because of the feelings of the countrymen, what reason does the prince have to see you?"

Gu Qing suddenly stretched out the index fingers of both hands, pointed at his cheeks, and said cutely: "Although my face is not so pleasing to the eye, I am a very talented person, how can I feel my talent if I don't see it?" ”

Li Twelve Niangrao is strong in martial arts, but she was also frightened and took two steps back, turned her head to look to the side in disgust, obviously disgusted.

"Get out of here, see King Ji's affairs and figure it out yourself, I can't help you."

…………

In fact, there was almost no need to think about the method, Gu Qing immediately thought of his biggest backer in Chang'an City.

Isn't it enough to ask Yang Guifei for help, just meet once, Yang Guifei sent a eunuch to say hello to King Ji.

Thinking that he hadn't been in the palace for a few days to contact his feelings, Gu Qing inevitably tortured his soul under his weak heart, whether he was too snobbish, he was a stranger when he was fine, and he rushed to offer his hospitality when he had something.

After introspection, Gu Qing moved a jar of high wine from the inventory brought by Shuzhou, and asked Li Guangbi to send an altar into the palace after beating Lu Xuan's son last time, Yang Guifei's evaluation was not very high after drinking, saying that this wine was too throat-burning and easy to get drunk.

Gu Qing blended a little fruit wine in the high wine, and wrapped the osmanthus petals that were boring in the golden autumn with a gauze towel, soaked them in water, and finally squeezed out the juice and dripped into the wine, so a jar of high wine turned into a low-alcohol mixed wine with the fragrance of osmanthus and a faint juice flavor, after Gu Qing tasted it, he felt that the taste was mild and should be very suitable for women to drink.

So Gu Qing entered Xingqing Palace with the wine jar in his hand.

It is very convenient for Gu Qing to enter the palace, Yang Guifei has been instructed that Gu Qing can enter the palace at any time. Holding the wine jar carefully, when Gu Qing just walked to the edge of the dragon pool, he met an acquaintance, a very white acquaintance, her whiteness, Gu Qing had seen it with his own eyes.

Princess Wanchun didn't expect to meet Gu Qing again in the palace just after returning to Chang'an from the Taoist temple, the eyes of the two met, Princess Wanchun's cheeks were immediately dyed with a red sunset, and she hung her head unconsciously, thinking about it, she was a princess, a golden branch and jade leaf, why was she so weak when she saw this disciple? He should be the one who should be empty-hearted, right?

So Princess Wanchun immediately raised her head and glared at Gu Qing not to be outdone, her ashamed eyes matched her bulging stunning face, but it revealed a lovely taste, and there was no sense of threat at all.

Gu Qing held the wine jar and saluted: "The minister greets Her Royal Highness the Princess." ”

Princess Wanchun snorted and turned her head arrogantly, too lazy to pay attention to him.

Gu Qing didn't want to deal with her, saluting was just the etiquette of the monarch and ministers, so she had to do it.

After saluting, Gu Qing avoided the side of the road very familiarly and made way for the princess.

Princess Wanchun held her head high, walked by Gu Qing's side with a proud posture, and suddenly her footsteps paused, her white jade-like nose twitched a few times, and suddenly said, "What taste?" It smells so good. ”

Gu Qing quietly took a few steps back with the wine jar, this jar of wine was used by him to give gifts to Yang Guifei, and he asked for gifts, and he couldn't be coveted by the princess, turned into meat buns and beat dogs.

"Nature is the princess's natural body fragrance, and there is a poem in the courtier, 'After the east fence puts the wine at dusk, there is a dark fragrance on the sleeves. Mo Dao is not ecstatic, the curtain is swept by the west wind, and people are thinner than yellow flowers', this poem is suitable for Her Royal Highness the Princess......"

Gu Qing patted his ass on his mouth, but sighed gloomily in his heart, in order to keep this jar of wine, he was also quite hard.

Princess Wanchun's eyes lit up and murmured: "'After dusk, there is a dark fragrance in the sleeves...... Good sentence! is worthy of being a talent, and the exit will become a wonderful sentence......"

After repeating it a few more times, Princess Wanchun's face suddenly changed, and she said angrily: "You, you, you...... What kind of body fragrance do you mention, and how do you know that there is a body fragrance in this palace? You still say 'ecstasy', do you still remember that night...... What else do you say, 'People are thinner than yellow flowers', you ...... You, how do you know that Hongu is skinny? What a guts! ”