Brother Jiang, why didn't you speak? Didn't you see how arrogant Guo Dan was? ”

On the carriage, Huang Daxiao was so depressed that he complained to Jiang Yinglan.

Jiang Yinglan said calmly: "Don't fall into his trap, many times before, we just fell for his agitation, patronizing and arguing with him, and neglecting the business." Even if he grovels to you, it's not good for the bigger picture, we should calm down and focus on this tax. ”

Huang Daxiao nodded slightly, feeling that what Jiang Yinglan said was not unreasonable, they always cared about face, but Guo Dan never cared about face, he was bent on interests, and said, "Then I don't know what Brother Jiang thinks about this?" ”

Jiang Yinglan said: "I have been thinking about this matter just now, although he has reached a cooperation with the vassal king, but at the same time he is also responsible for the taxes of millions of people, unless all the vassal kings are willing to do everything to help him, otherwise, he will not be able to afford it, but do you think this is possible?" ”

Huang Daxiao suddenly realized: "Yes! Although the vassal king has money, it is not enough to offset the tax income of millions of people, what kind of medicine is he selling in this gourd? ”

Just then, the carriage came to a sudden stop.

Huang Daxiao asked, "What's wrong?" ”

The attendant outside said: "Lord Hui, it seems that someone has avenged the wrongs." ”

Huang Daxiao lifted the curtain and couldn't help but look shocked, only to see hundreds of people kneeling on the street in front of him, and some old gentry standing in front of him, he not only glanced at Jiang Yinglan again.

The Zhao family's house.

"What do you have to do with it?"

Huang Daxiao sat here, and Fang Jue was an official.

Liang Yan immediately cried: "That Zhou Wangfu has always been domineering in Kaifeng Mansion regardless of the imperial court system, bullying the people and dominating the market, and seizing people's land.

Some time ago, the Zhou Wangfu colluded with the Weihui Mansion to deliberately create chaos and forcibly transfer our land taxes to its Zhou Palace, which is to force us to die, and we really have no way to block the way to complain. ”

Huang Daxiao's eyes flashed with joy, but he said, "There is such a thing? ”

Zhao Qinghe immediately said: "My lord Mingjian, I can't wait for a cloth cloth, if I don't have to do it, how dare I sue the prince." ”

Jiang Yinglan asked, "Do you have any evidence?" ”

"Yes."

Zhao Qinghe and a few gentry immediately handed over a few small wooden boxes, "These are the pleadings written by hundreds of people in Kaifeng Mansion, as well as some contracts about usury in the Zhou Palace, forcing the people to sell their fields and houses, and this is only a small part of them. ”

Jiang Yinglan and Huang Daxiao opened the small wooden box, took out some papers and contracts from it and looked at them.

Huang Daxiao suddenly slapped the paper on the table, and said angrily: "How can this be reasonable, I just said that there must be something greasy in this, it turns out that they have long colluded together." ”

Saying that, he didn't wait for Jiang Yinglan to reply, so he said to Zhao Qinghe and the others: "Wait and rest assured, we will definitely help you avenge your grievances." ”

Jiang Yinglan glanced at Huang Daxiao and opened his mouth, but he didn't make a sound.

Because the evidence is true, not made up.

That Zhou Wangfu had such a big business, there was no such situation.

It's just that Zhao Qinghe poured all the sewage on the Zhou Palace, and they turned their tax evasion into the Zhou Palace's occupation of their land, and even blamed the previous turmoil in Kaifeng Mansion on the collusion between the Zhou Palace's Mansion and the Weihui Mansion, saying that they deliberately created turmoil, and their purpose was to make the government out of control, and then take advantage of the chaos to occupy their land.

Huang Daxiao had the evidence in hand, how could he wait until tomorrow, so he took Jiang Yinglan and rushed to the mansion.

"Guo Dan, what else do you have to say?"

Huang Daxiao slapped the evidence on the table and asked menacingly.

Guo Dan looked at it casually, and said with a smile: "My lord, these are not enough to prove that Zhou Wangfu has colluded with Weihui Mansion, this is all imaginary, if this can also be done, then can I also say that the adults colluded with those gentry, otherwise, why would the adults come to trouble me for them." ”

"You... How dare you slander your own officials. ”

Huang Daxiao said angrily.

Guo smiled lightly: "I'm just making an analogy, I'm a businessman, I respect contracts, I never talk nonsense about things without evidence, unlike some people, right and wrong all depend on one mouth, just open your mouth." ”

"You... You.... ”

Huang Daxiao was so angry with Guo Dan that he couldn't breathe.

Jiang Yinglan said suddenly: "Regardless of this matter for the time being, the matter of the palace this week, but the evidence is conclusive, what do you have to say." ”

"I have nothing to say."

Guo Dan shrugged and said, "I don't need to say anything, because it has nothing to do with me." ”

"Why don't you have anything to do with you, aren't you helping King Zhou take care of the family business now?" Huang Daxiao gasped.

Guo Dan nodded and said: "My lord also said, I am only responsible for taking care of the family business, as for where this business comes from, I don't care, and I am not qualified to take care of it." ”

Jiang Yinglan asked: "But now that you are contracting Kaifeng Mansion, how can you ignore this kind of thing?" ”

Guo Dan snorted: "Because this is a conspiracy, a conspiracy that wants to kill me." ”

"Conspiracy?"

Jiang Yinglan frowned and said, "What conspiracy?" ”

Guo Dan smiled bitterly: "Your Excellency should know that my main task is to be responsible for the taxes of Kaifeng Mansion, and if I can't pay the taxes, my family will be ruined." And the adults also said that I am just a contractor, I am not an official, and I have no obligation to be responsible for anything that has been done before.

If I want to take care of this, then some people will come to me every day with the past things, then I will not do anything, and I will do everything to wipe the ass of the former officials, this is not a conspiracy and what is it. I'm just in the present, and if this happens now, of course I'll do.

But before that, don't come to me, go to the former prefects, or go to Your Majesty, whatever. But then again, this just proves one thing, that is, the former officials were very incompetent, and this kind of thing happened, but please rest assured, under my contract, this kind of thing will never happen. Hehe......! ”

Huang Daxiao's face turned blue with anger, Guo Dan was obviously sarcastic about the officials being inferior to him, and nodded straight and said: "Okay, okay, I'll go to the court now, and before that, you can't act rashly." ”

"Why?"

Guo Dan frowned and said: "This matter has nothing to do with my half of the money, why can't I do things, if the taxes are not up, are you responsible?" ”

Huang Daxiao hurriedly said: "You don't want to confuse the public, this official refers to the Zhou Wangfu, the Zhou Wangfu has a lot of land that is illegally obtained, and you can't help the Zhou Wangfu collect taxes." ”

Guo Dan said: "I said very clearly, it was a matter of the past, I don't care about the past, I don't understand the evidence, I just care about the present, the tax that should be paid now, not a single cent." If the court's verdict comes down, then of course I will fully comply with the court's orders, but I won't care until the court makes a verdict.

The two adults only have the power to supervise whether I have broken the contract, and cannot prevent me from collecting taxes properly. If you can restrain me with some evidence that I don't know where I came from, then you can take a people's letter and order me every day, and you can't do this, you can't do that, do you think that's reasonable? ”

"Okay, you remember what you said today, let's see." Huang Daxiao is angry and corrupt.

Guo Dan said: "If you want to sentence Zhou Wangfu, what does it have to do with me, I didn't break the law, I collect taxes completely according to my land registration." ”

"You...!"

Huang Daxiao was depressed to death, he didn't expect Guo Dan to be so unkind, and after only a few days of cooperation, he sold the Zhou Wangfu.

But they had no choice, Guo Dan pushed it all out, and they had no evidence to prove that Wei Hui Mansion and Zhou Wangfu colluded to create chaos.

This matter has to be played by the court.

After they left, Aunt Xu walked out from behind.

Guo Dan frowned and said: "Layman, if they shake out the affairs of the Zhou Palace, aren't they afraid that they will also get into trouble?" It's not hard to investigate. ”

Aunt Xu smiled and said: "This world is as black as a crow, not only the gentry of Kaifeng Mansion, but also the gentry of all state capitals, and the imperial court has to take into account the overall situation, how can it be judged by right and wrong." ”

Guo Dan said: "This reason can also be applied to the vassal king. ”

Aunt Xu nodded and said: "You are right, their purpose is not to eliminate the Zhou Palace, they just want to turn this matter into a struggle between the DPRK and China, as long as the matter is not judged for a day, then they can use this as an excuse not to pay taxes to the Zhou Palace, and in the end, it will only be over." ”

As long as anything rises to the political level, it cannot be judged according to right or wrong, even if it is a holy monarch, it is really easy for you to find his stain, whether it is a gentry and landlord, or a vassal king, it is the basic plate of the emperor and ministers, and this fight to the end, it is not just a matter of forgetting.

Guo Dan nodded and said with a smile: "But if they can afford it, then I don't care, because I will let them taste this pain immediately." ”

Aunt Xu asked, "What are you going to do?" ”

"Emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business."

Guo smiled lightly.

Early the next morning.

The merchants of the bazaar had just opened their doors and were ready to open for business, when a group of soldiers came to the bazaar, led by a brocade guard, who said aloud: "Seal all the shops on the list!" ”

"Yes."

Inside a restaurant.

"You're the proprietor of this store?"

"It's... Yes. I don't know what the soldier commanded? ”

"According to what we have checked, you do not have a business license, according to the imperial court system, you cannot operate any business, and your restaurant will not be able to operate until you apply for business registration."

With that, the officer and soldier closed the gate and sealed it.

The small wine shop next door saw this situation, and was so frightened that his soul flew away, the restaurant was the Liang family, and he was just an ordinary small businessman, and he had no business status, the Liang family restaurant was sealed, so he didn't want his life, looking at the officers and soldiers coming, he immediately knelt down and said: "The soldier spares his life, the soldier spares his life, the villain is old, and the little is small, all by this small ......shop." ”

Before he could finish speaking, he saw a post thrown in front of him.

Then I heard the officer and soldier say: "You now have a business license, and you can continue to do business." ”

“.....！”

The merchant looked confused.

Is that okay too?

A satin shop.

"Master Bing, the villain has a business name!"

"I know you're a businessman."

"Then why do you want to close the villain's shop?"

"Because the imperial court requires the implementation of the national policy of heavy agriculture and suppressing business in Kaifeng Mansion, it has been found that there are too many business registrations in Kaifeng Mansion, so it was decided to reduce the business registration, from now on, your business registration has been invalidated, but you can apply again, but before applying for business registration, you can not open the door."

“......！”

......

In the eastern suburbs, a large waterwheel is slowly turning, and many farmers in the fields are working again.

After a while, a pair of officers and soldiers came to the waterwheel and directly pulled the oxen pulling the waterwheel aside, and the waterwheel immediately stopped moving, and then several people went up and began to dismantle the waterwheel.

"Stop! Stop it! ”

Hearing a shout, I saw a steward running over and said, "Soldiers, what are you doing here?" ”

The leader of the team had to be a brocade guard, and he took out an order, "We are ordered to come here and rectify the river." ”

"Rectify the river?"

The steward was stunned for a moment and said, "Even if the river is rectified, you can't dismantle our waterwheel." ”

The brocade guard said: "Your drainage here is too large, and it has seriously affected the downstream farming. As he spoke, he took out another piece of paper and handed it to the steward, "You must rectify the above conditions, and you will not be able to irrigate until the standards are met." ”