Zhang Guowei and the others, this time their bodies became brisk, and after they got up, they bowed their hands to Wu Zheng and said, "The ministers are incompetent, and they can't share the worries of the prince, and they are ashamed to ......be ashamed." ”

Mo Zhinian followed them closely, bowed slightly to Wu Zheng, turned around and went out.

Wu Zheng suddenly felt that the situation was different, and the more he thought about it, the more wrong he became, and his heart was panicked.

"Whose idea was this?" Wu Zheng suddenly asked this sentence thoughtlessly.

Mo Obsession's originally trembling and rickety back suddenly straightened, and then quickly rushed out of the door, I go, what does this look like an old man in his seventies? What kind of person is like a person who is facing an absolute situation, heartbroken, and has just cried bitterly?

Dare to love, these people are acting in front of themselves?

The people outside are also embarrassed, you say that if you go farther, you will not hear it, but it is at the door, can you pretend that you can't hear?

After all, it was the prince's question, a few people, you push me, I push you, for a while, Zhang Huangyan was thick-skinned, stuck his head out of the door, and replied with a smile: "It's the old lady's idea." ”

After speaking, he scattered with Zhang Guowei and others.

Wu Zheng suddenly realized, yes, if no one is behind his back, these people who rely on him are all doing this to themselves, then what else can he do?

Dare to love, it turned out that the old man spoke, and filial piety comes first.

Wu Zheng knew that this hurdle could not be avoided, and could only be faced.

……。

Daddy Wu's courtyard is not big, but it is surrounded by mountains and rivers, the mountains are small mountains in the south of the Yangtze River, and the water is a stream, and the scenery is picturesque.

What is rare is that when the small courtyard was built, a piece of bamboo was planted on the left side, and after a few years, it was lush and green, and it had become a forest.

Behind the bamboo forest is a vegetable field, not big, one acre of land, enough to deal with the vegetables needed for a year, or even more, so it will be given to the college.

In Wu Zheng's eyes, Father Wu is a nobleman, at least a petty bourgeoisie.

When he was in Shaoxing Mansion, Father Wu was different from ordinary squires, he didn't value money, and always had an attitude of not bringing life to death.

Also, in the early years, the Wu family, which was one of the best in Shaoxing Mansion, was left in the generation of Father Wu, and there was only one Wujiazhuang, more than a dozen shops and hundreds of acres of land.

But Daddy Wu lives freely, and being at ease is not a kind of cultivation, but an attitude towards life.

In other words, Daddy Wu's freedom is only his own freedom, and it has nothing to do with Wu Zheng.

Since he can remember, Wu Zheng has been beaten many times, which is rare among those playmates who are usually small with Wu Zhengfa.

For example, Daddy Wu is good at asking for monks, that is, a rattan soaked in tung oil and sinking to death.

According to Daddy Wu, jade is not cut into a weapon, and filial piety has been produced under the stick since ancient times.

Wu Zheng disagrees with this statement, I haven't heard that filial piety is beaten up.

But now that Wu Zheng has become the king of Wu, Daddy Wu's statement has been completely verified, but whenever he encounters a neighbor in the past, or an old guest who comes in the autumn wind, Daddy Wu will stroke his beard under his chin, and say proudly, "You have to fight, fight to death...... You see, this is not going to make a difference! ”

Then the followers were crowded, which strengthened Daddy Wu's determination to make persistent efforts.

"Three hundred and sixty days a year, all of them go on horseback." Father Wu sat under the bamboo forest, on the edge of the small stone table in the open air, and his momentum was more like the parents of the suspect sitting in the main hall of the government to interrogate the suspect, "It is said that raising children to prevent old age, you are good, but whenever your father and I are sick and unwell, I don't see your shadow...... If it weren't for your sister all these years, your father would have been gone! ”

Wu Zheng knelt, his waist was straight, it was not that Wu Zheng's military posture was "upright", in fact, this was also the rule of Daddy Wu.

Fathers and sons are often the same, but it is similar to the saying of later generations that "if you are wrong, you must admit it, and if you are beaten, you must stand upright".

Seeing that Wu Zheng's "confession" attitude was still unsatisfactory, Daddy Wu's face eased.

"It's all the people who are the princes, and they don't have any magnanimity, so how can they convince people?" Father Wu breathed a sigh of relief, "Get up, accompany your father and me to have a drink." ”

Wu Zheng hurriedly got up, took the wine jug and poured wine for Daddy Wu, and then sat opposite Daddy Wu.

"Dad, you said that you don't have a good appetizer for drinking, why don't your son send someone to ask the table to bring it?" Wu Zheng pointed to a plate of fennel beans and a plate of dried tofu on the small stone table, and said to his father, "It's not that we don't have any money. ”

Father Wu glanced at Wu Zheng and said, "You Aya left this piece of family business, and your father and I will not lack money when we are young." ”

Wu Zheng was stunned for a moment, and said with a sneer: "Yes, there are Wuzhuang and hundreds of acres of land, how can my father be short of silver." ”

Father Wu took a sip of wine, looked at Wu Zheng, and said, "Your father is not short of silver, but you are a prince of a dynasty, but you lack silver, do you know why?" ”

Wu Zheng smiled bitterly: "Dad, my son is short of silver, but the lack is not his own silver, but ......." ”

"Family affairs, national affairs, world affairs, the truth is reasonable." Daddy Wu put down his wine glass and said, "How can you sweep the world if you don't sweep a house?" ”

Wu Zheng was a little depressed, "It's not the same thing...... ”

Seeing that Wu Zheng was absent-minded, Father Wu sighed and said, "I heard earlier that you want to be exempted from agricultural taxes?" ”

"Yes. The son wanted to be exempted from agricultural taxes, which was decided when the government was opened, and until the beginning of spring this year, it was a limited period. ”

Father Wu shook his head and said, "You are wrong. ”

"What's wrong with my son?"

"Since ancient times, people have farmed and paid for grain, which is actually the same as being a soldier and eating food." Daddy Wu said earnestly, "Everything has its own reason for existence, do you think that transferring agricultural taxes to businessmen is to love the people?" No, the world is bustling for profit, the world is bustling for profit, Jiangnan agricultural tax has been reduced by seventy percent in recent years, plus the abolition of various miscellaneous taxes, the burden on the people is not heavy, has reached the point of five out of a hundred, but the number of people who farm has been greatly reduced, everyone is pouring to the workshops, and the food needed by all the provinces in Jiangnan must be bought from Huguang, even if you are exempt from agricultural tax, I am afraid it will be difficult to reverse the general trend. ”

Wu Zheng shook his head and said: "My son originally wanted to turn most of the people in Jiangnan into hired laborers, and my father must have seen that the income of the people working is much higher than the output of farming. ”

"You're putting your life in the hands of others."

"What do you mean by that, Dad?"

"Huguang is now in the hands of King Yongli Jin."

"But the son and the King of Jin have formed an alliance."

Father Wu raised his hand and nodded Wu Zheng and asked, "Alliance?" When will the alliance end? Will the alliance be unilaterally scrapped? If the Northern Expedition succeeds, the Emperor of the Jianxin Dynasty and the Emperor Yongli fight for the world, will this alliance still exist? At that time, the military rations needed by your army can still be bought from Huguang with silver? ”