The governor of Jiangnan, Jia Chun?

Sun Hu and I glanced at each other. Doubts arose in my heart.

Speaking of this Jia Chun, it can be regarded as a clear stream in the court. He is not like me, Du Rong, Jiang and Wei to be proud of the family, nor is he like Pei Lao, he is a relative of the emperor. Jia Chun lost his father when he was a child, and he had no relatives or friends, only a frail and sick mother raised him, and his family was very poor. I remember that when Jia Chun first entered Beijing to take the exam, the silver he needed was all begging.

However, Jia Chun is a capable person, and he won the first place in the scientific examination, and was favored by Peng Yu, the secretary of the household department at that time, and was pulled to be a fast son-in-law of Chenglong. With Peng Yu's secret promotion, coupled with the fact that this person is really capable, Jia Chun soon sat from a minor official to the position of a third-grade official.

Since the current emperor ascended the throne, Peng Yu returned to his hometown, but Jia Chun was promoted two levels in a row and sat on the position of the governor of Zhengerpin, Jiangnan.

Jia Chun has only reached the age of confusion this year, and he has already obtained this high position, I am afraid that in a few years, he will be on an equal footing with me.

The emperor attaches so much importance to Jia Chun, shouldn't he be the one who will do these corrupt things? Even if it is done, how can it be so obvious? It's like I can't wait for others to come and use this to refer to the emperor for a copy.

"Did the Governor do something?" I asked.

Ma Shanzhi didn't know what to say, but said, "A heavenly figure like the Governor, I'm just a doctor, how do I know what he did, it's just ...... It's just that since the arrival of the new governor, our magistrate has posted several notices in succession, all of which are about increasing taxes. I asked my colleagues in Linxian County, and the situation was the same, if not worse. Could this be a coincidence? ”

It's really too strange, if it weren't for Jia Chun's instructions, how could these officials under them dare to be so presumptuous? You must know that if you increase taxes privately, you will be beheaded by a crime, and my Daqin will send inspection officials to visit the people in various places every year, how can such a big thing be hidden?

"How long has it been since the tax hike happened?"

Ma Shanzhi thought for a while and said, "It's been almost half a year." ”

The new emperor ascended the throne, and Jia Chun had just taken office, probably at that time. Thinking about it this way, Ma Shanzhi said that it was Jia Chun's problem, and it was not a nonsense fabrication.

"Is there anything else strange about it in the past six months?"

Ma Shanzhi shook his head: "There is nothing else." ”

"Hmm." I got up and waved my hand at Ma Shanzhi, "What the seniors say today, the younger generations will never say." When the younger generation returns to Tuzhou, he must tell his cousin the kindness of the senior's care today. ”

"I can't afford it. How can you afford it. Ma Shanzhi hurriedly came to help me, "Childe, don't torture me." ”

I said, "Then the junior will go first." ”

Ma Shanzhi sent me to the door, "Originally, the son came to see a doctor today, who would have thought of encountering such a thing, I really can't help it." ”

I waved my hand to show that I didn't care, turned my head and told Sun Hu, "Take fifty taels of silver to the senior." ”

Sun Hu responded to the order, took out a silver ticket and stuffed it into Ma Shanzhi's hand.

"I can't do it, I can't make it ......"

Ma Shanzhi wanted to return the money to me, but I raised my hand to stop him.

"The official just smashed a lot of things for you, you can take this money so that you can make up for it, I believe there are still a lot of patients who need you to see the disease."

Ma Shanzhi still refused.

Sun Hu stopped in the middle of us and said, "My son-in-law has always believed in Buddhism, and they all say that if you accumulate good deeds, you can enjoy good fortune in the next life, so you should help my son-in-law accumulate virtue." ”

This hat was buttoned up, and Ma Shan really didn't know how to refuse for a while, so Sun Hu and I took advantage of it to leave.

As I was walking on the road, Sun Hu whispered beside me, "The excerpt that Gongzi received does not seem to mention the private tax increase. ”

Indeed, the excerpt only stated that the nephew of the Lianhua County County Decree forcibly robbed the people's daughter, but instead killed his brother, and the county decree not only did not arrest the nephew, but also arrested the woman and her parents.

Originally, this was just a trivial matter for the county order to protect relatives, and it was not my turn to deal with it as the prime minister, but the emperor insisted that I come, could it be that I had already heard some rumors?

Also, it is obvious that there have been a lot of exotic people in this Lotus County recently, but Ma Shanzhi, or rather, the entire Lotus County does not feel anything strange. It was precisely because of these sudden exotic people that I deduced that Gu Yuancheng was coming to Jiangnan, how could the people of Lianhua County not notice them?

"For more than half a year, I inspected the imperial history but didn't find anything?" I couldn't figure it out.

"Could it be ......" Sun Hu wanted to say and stopped.

I paused to look at him.

"They were bought en masse." Sun Hu continued.

I thought it was unlikely, so I continued to walk forward, saying as I went, "The imperial history sent to Jiangnan by the imperial court is different every time, all of them are innocent, they are a group of civil officials who boast of being high in the imperial court, and at least three imperial historians and their officials have come to Jiangnan for most of the year, who has such great ability and financial resources to bribe all of them?" You know, among those people, there are many old stubborns who vow to die. ”

"Besides, if you really want to hide the affairs of Jiangnan, why do you need to play an excerpt to impeach the county order of Lianhua County?"

Sun Hu listened to my analysis, and he thought about it for a while, and in the end, he really couldn't think of any other way to do this except bribery.

"Childe." Sun Hu suddenly called me.

I looked at him suspiciously.

"Gu Xiang." Sun Hu pointed to my upper right.

I looked in the direction he pointed, and I saw a young man in green clothes standing in front of the window looking at me, the light blue sky reflected in his eyes, and the ocean was deep.

"Childe, do you want to go up?" Sun Hu approached me and asked.

I retracted my gaze and said lightly, "I'm not familiar with him." ”

With that, I walked on.

Sun Hu subconsciously looked up at Gu Yuancheng, but this sight frightened him to walk a few steps quickly, and hurriedly followed his master.

"Less... Young Master......" Chen Yi looked at the teacup that was about to be crushed by Gu Yuancheng in horror, and said cautiously, "Shen Xiang has already left." ”

"Click!"

The teacup shattered in an instant, and the tea inside, which had already been cold, was poured directly onto Gu Yuancheng's hand.

Chen Yi immediately closed his mouth.

"Huh." Gu Yuancheng sneered: "No one dares to take Ben Shao in his eyes like this!"

After being silent for a long time, Gu Yuancheng sneered again, only this time, there was a strong killing intent in his eyes.

"No one has dared to take a lot of it so seriously."

Chen Yi silently stepped back, and he didn't breathe a sigh of relief until he exited the wing.

This Shen Xiang, he obviously knows that his young master is a stubborn character, but he still has to screw it.

Thinking of this, Sun Hu couldn't help but shake his head and sigh.

They don't make each other unhappy, as if they won't be happy.

How could he not understand this kind of thinking?

The moon is on the willow tops, but I don't have a chance to make an appointment with a girl after dusk, only a little scholar is by the side, which is really a bit desolate.

"This noodle making technique is really not as good as the master in our house." Sun Hu put down the second bowl of noodles he ate today and looked at me as if he was inadequate.

I pushed the noodles in my hand, which I hadn't eaten a few bites of, in front of him, and looked away in disgust.

Sun Hu didn't care that the noodles had already been eaten, so he lowered his head and took a big gulp.

"Xiaohu." I called him.

"Huh?" Sun Hu didn't raise his head, and answered casually.

"Did my son raise a pig as a subordinate?" I asked.

Sun Hu drank all the noodles and soup base in two and two, and then he finally raised his head to look at me, but he looked dazed.

"Childe, what did you say?"

I sighed.

"It's okay, are you still okay?"

Sun Hu finally shook his head this time, "It's very full." ”

I glanced at him and couldn't wait to pay to pull him out of the stall, for fear that he would be hungry again soon.

Really, spending money is like running water, and earning money is like peeling skin.

Sun Hu looked at my loveless look, covered his mouth and snickered.

"What are you laughing at?" I'm angry.

I don't know how expensive firewood, rice, oil, and salt are!

Sun Hu took out a small porcelain box from his arms and handed it to me.

"What is this?" I took the locket and looked at it.

Sun Hu saw that I wanted to open it, so he hurriedly stopped me.

"This is firefly moon powder, which is made from the stamen of a unique firefly moon flower in Jiangnan, which is very precious."

When I heard Sun Hu say this, my heart itched.

"I'll open it and take a look, so I don't spill it."

"No, you can't." Sun Hu pressed the hand I wanted to open the lid "I can't open it, as soon as I open it, this powder will be gone immediately." ”

"Is it so mysterious?" I muttered, but I still listened to Sun Hu's words and didn't open the lid.

"Whew!" Sun Hu breathed a sigh of relief.

"This firefly moon powder will disperse when it encounters the wind, if the son has just opened it, the five hundred taels of silver will be gone."

My hand shook and I almost threw the box to the ground.

"Hey, Childe, don't be like this." Sun Hu saw that my face was pale, and immediately comforted me, "Although this thing is expensive, it is a good thing for my sweetheart." ”

"Sweetheart?" I was stunned.

Sun Hu thought I was shy, so he didn't say anything, and continued, "Childe opened this box in front of that girl on a breezy night, and the firefly powder inside would drift away with the wind. By the way, fireflies, Childe has seen it, right? At the moment, the sky was full of light like fireflies. ”

"You took my son's words to heart." I looked down at the porcelain box in my hand, and my eyes changed.

didn't hear the roar that should have been, and then Sun Hu was stunned.

"Childe...... What do you think? Sun Hu asked tentatively.

Xiangye can't be overly angry, right......

I put the box in my arms and looked at Sun Hu with great satisfaction.

"It seems that it is still good for this son to raise you. I bought it well, and I like it very much. ”

Sun Hu looked at me with his mouth wide open, and he couldn't believe his ears.

"It's gone, it's time to go back." I reminded him, "It's too late, the one in the house is going on a killing spree." ”

I walked back, Sun Hu followed me, he looked at the expression on my face from time to time, and in the end, he didn't say anything.