When he remembered something, he said to the inner supervisor beside him:

"Call the inner prisoner in."

Wang Zhen was summoned into the hall, he didn't dare to raise his head, he didn't dare to kick it, he just stood honestly in a remote corner, and listened to His Majesty ask:

"How's that going?"

"Back to Your Majesty, that thing is as Liu Lao said, a thin scholar, cultivating ten acres of land a day effortlessly, this is what the slave saw with his own eyes!"

Ten acres a day? This inner eunuch dared to say so vastly in front of His Majesty in front of all the ministers, didn't he want to emulate the allusion of Zhao Gao pointing to the deer as a horse?

As a great Chu courtier, the son of heaven, how can the ministers allow a eunuch to run rampant so far:

"Dog slave! How dare you bewitch the Lord! ”

In the face of Qianfu's accusation, Wang Zhen didn't raise his eyebrows, but honestly lowered his head and remained silent.

But he couldn't stand the one who wanted to be a direct minister, and the minister of the martyr stepped forward and kicked him to the ground, and beat him with a fist:

"Eunuch! Who are you instructed to bewitch Your Majesty?! ”

There is a precedent for the use of force in the palace.

The founding ancestor of Great Chu was obsessed with beauty, ignoring the government for several months, and there were even women interfering in politics.

Huo Chong, one of the twelve military generals of the founding of the country, was furious and beat the demon girl to death on the spot in the palace.

Taizu Fang woke up like a dream, and bluntly said that he was lucky to have Huo Qing!

Then he worked hard to govern and no longer indulged in beauty, as for that Huo Chong, it didn't take long for him to be convicted of rebellion and wiped out the clan.

However, since then, as soon as the precedent has been opened, there are always those who want to be direct ministers and martyrs who will leave their names in history to do it in the main hall.

It is also a rule to continue like this for a hundred years.

Moreover, the person who was beaten today was only an eunuch in the inner prison, and even if he was beaten to death, he would be fined for three months at most.

It's not every day that you have the opportunity to perform without being punished too much.

So it was the seventy old man, who also squeezed into the crowd tremblingly and gave Wang Zhen a few big-eared scrapers.

The Son of Great Chu would not have done evil to the officials of the three provinces for a eunuch, just waiting for Wang Zhen to be beaten to the point that his head was broken and bleeding, his hands and feet were broken, and he was lying on the ground screaming.

Only then did he order the guards in front of the palace to pull away the hundred officials and say to Wang Zhen:

"Come up and talk to me."

Wang Zhen endured severe pain and got up from the ground, limped to His Majesty's side, and told the 1510 he saw during the trip to Xiling.

Xiling?!

Hou Mansion?

My unassailable son?

Hou Puru, who was standing in the crowd, heard these words, and suddenly remembered that the letter he received a few days ago said:

Hou Shigui invented a farm tool, which can increase ten acres of land a day without hurting the land.

He knew that his wife had always loved this rebel, but when this rebel had made any mistakes, his wife wrote to him to please him in front of him.

I didn't take it seriously.

Who would have thought, how could this matter be stabbed in the ears of His Majesty?!

When Hou Puru was shocked at this, the emperor in the palace was also puzzled.

The smell of this inner prison is compelling, not like the stench of other inner prisons, and it is much easier to talk to him.

After listening to the message, he nodded in satisfaction and said:

"You have done a good job in this matter, and you will stay by my side in the future."

Then he turned his head and looked at His Highness's ministers:

"Where is Doctor Shangshu Hou Puru?"

It's over, Your Majesty will ask me, but I don't know anything!

Hou Puru panicked in his heart, and scolded the unsuccessful son in his heart.

"Ahh

Seeing that the son suddenly sneezed for no reason, Xiang Xu asked with concern:

"Childe is cold? I'll find a few more clothes for Childe to wear. ”

Recently, the weather has become cooler, but it is the season of frequent diseases, but Hou Shigui still waved his hand and said:

"It's okay, how are all the things you have prepared?"

Xiang Xu replied:

"I'll take a look."

Hearing this, Hou Shigui was relieved, and said to Lu Xing'an:

"The autumn harvest is imminent, go and talk to Uncle Lu, the military drill in the house can be temporarily postponed."

After the two left, Bao Ji was the only one left, and Hou Shigui led him to his mother's courtyard.

The autumn harvest was approaching, and he did have something important to discuss with his mother.

After the report entered, he first pinched his waist and beat his legs for Hou Shi very diligently, and then said like a family chat:

"Mother, I have been studying with my teacher recently, and I have gained a lot."

For more than a month, Hou has also seen his son's hard work.

I thought that this great Confucian, who had been an emperor, was different, and he could help me teach my son well:

"You kid, but you want to come to me after reading a book for a month?

You don't look at those poor students, who have been studying hard for ten years, even in the cold winter.

Besides, it's for your own good, you know? ”

Listening to his mother's incessant chatter, Hou Shigui was not the slightest impatient.

waited for the mother to finish speaking, and then said:

"The children are here to ask for a reward, but not for the children, but for the sentient beings and the suffering people to ask for food and clothing."

Hou replied without thinking about it:

"If it is a matter of farm tools, there is no need to say any more, although you made it, it is a matter of great importance, and you must wait for your father to reply before you can decide."

Hou Shigui shook his head and said:

"It's not a matter of farm tools, children read the sages and sages with their teachers, so they know that the world is suffering and the people's livelihood is sad, so ......"

Speaking of this, Hou Shigui walked up to his mother and bowed:

Therefore, the child begged his mother to lower the rent of the land and give the poor people food and clothing! One...... Hope to live. ”

The border land of Xiling, not the Central Plains, cultivates one acre of land, and ninety percent of the income must be handed over.

The annual ration is not enough even for food and clothing, and it can only hang his life.

If there are many people in the family and few people who can work, I am afraid that a few people will starve to death every year.

That's why the mountain bandits of Linshan will be suppressed and born, born and suppressed, and so on repeatedly, and the suppression is endless.

It is also the reason why there are many bandits in Xiling.

After all, people can't live anymore, so who cares about law and morality?

Even in the Central Plains, the landlord collects eighty percent of the rent, leaving only two percent for the small households to make ends meet.

If this continues, the richer the landlord becomes, the poorer the small households become, and there is no hope in their lives.

This is also why after Hou Shigui compensated the person who was whipped by himself that day, the small households, family members, and guards in the house were all grateful to Hou Shigui, and even some people set up Hou Shigui's immortal tablet at home.

Ten taels of silver is just a piece of clothing money for Hou Shigui, but it is enough to change their lives.

Since there is the fruit of good and evil in his heart, Hou Shigui can only do good deeds.

Seeing that the autumn harvest is imminent, he can't control others, but at least on his own side, he should still work hard.

He specially prepared a lot of rhetoric for today's incident.

even prepared a trick of crying, making trouble and committing suicide, thinking that no matter what, he would force the house to reduce the rent for the small households.

After all, ninety-one is divided, what is the difference between this and directly eating the meat of the small household and sucking the blood of the small household? It's too dark.

Don't talk about Hou, Hou Shigui's words came out.

Bao Ji, who was standing on the side, and the maids who were serving the Hou family were shocked.

There was even a maid who hurriedly covered her mouth and almost didn't scream.

Childe he ...... I want to reduce the rent for small households!

Although for a few months, the people in the house have a good sense of Hou Shigui.

But these words came from the mouth of the child, and they still didn't believe it.

After all, even the great Confucians at that time would not talk about rent reductions in non-catastrophe years.