The autumn wind is blowing, and everything is withering.

There is no trace of green in the land of Shandong, unlike the warm winter of later generations, the Xiaoice period of the earth is beginning in this era, and the weather is very cold, especially when the autumn equinox blows, of course, it is the hearts of the people that are colder.

Qufu, Confucian family.

Kong Shangxian sat in the room, looking at the somewhat gloomy sky outside with an expressionless face, his heart was full of resentment and despair. He's locked up, or rather in captivity, these days, and he doesn't know if that's the end of his life.

Seeing someone walking over the window, Kong Shangxian immediately saw that face, and then he smiled.

Kong Shangxian has had a very bad time these days, his skin is pale, his pupils are congested, and his shawl is scattered, which makes his smile very hideous. When the door was pushed open from the outside, Kong Shangxian smiled even harder.

"You're here to kill me?" Kong Shangxian stared at the person who came, and said loudly: "I exchanged my life for your life?" ”

The person who came was an old man, looking at Kong Shangxian, his face did not change at all, it was Kong Wensheng, the highest ranking in the Kong family, Kong Shangxian's third uncle. Since Kong Shangxian was imprisoned, the Kong family is what Kong Wensheng said.

"I'm here to tell you three things!" Kong Wensheng said lightly.

"The first thing is dear, the imperial court has deprived Qufu of the title of Confucius Family, listen up, it is the Qufu Confucius family, not our lineage." Speaking of this, Kong Wensheng sighed: "You should know what this means, right?" ”

Of course, Kong Shangxian knew that this meant that not only did his own line lose the title of Yan Sheng Gong, but the entire Qufu Kong family also lost the title of Yan Sheng Gong.

"The second thing, the Confucian family in Qufu, from now on, the Kong Shangqi lineage is the lineage, and the Kong family will say it in the future."

"The third thing, for the sake of the saint Miao descendant, the emperor is gracious, and he is not punishing the Kong family." Kong Wensheng looked at Kong Shangqi and said, "Regarding your punishment, the head of the family has already said that you will retire in this courtyard in the future." ”

After Kong Shangxian heard the first news, he sat on the ground.

Hearing Kong Wensheng mention the head of the family, Kong Shangxian raised his head suddenly: "You guys are going to call the head of the family of Kong Shangqi now?" Saying this, Kong Shangxian suddenly burst out laughing, tears burst out of his eyes, and finally turned into a howl.

Kong Wensheng saw this scene, sighed, turned around and walked outside.

From today onwards, the Kong family is afraid that it will be dormant and waiting, just like the Confucian family of the Southern Sect. In fact, the Kong family now realizes that although the emperor has the heart to clean up the Kong family, he will not wipe out the Kong family.

This time, the emperor sent Xu De over, obviously to discuss, but they were all messed up by Kong Shangxian, and now it's okay.

Outside Qufu City, Wang Xijue sat in the carriage, put down the curtain in his hand, and said, "Let's go!" ”

The matter on Qufu's side was completed, and after the holy decree was read, the task of Wang Xijue's Shandong party was completely completed. After successfully completing this matter, Wang Xijue was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief.

Now that the matter is here, I can also go back to the capital and go back to handle the matter of opening my own feudal ban.

With the extermination of the White Lotus Sect, the official gentry of Shandong Prefecture officially launched the integrated grain collection in Shandong. The local officials of Shandong Prefecture did not shirk at all this time, and they were very peaceful, and the whole collection process was very smooth.

Qin cha Xingyuan.

Although the task of collecting taxes is very onerous, so far, everything has gone very smoothly. The grain entered the official warehouse, and the silver also entered the treasury of the tax department, and the situation was very good.

In fact, taxation has always been implemented in the same way as before, except that the officials and gentry have been increased to pay grain in one piece.

If they were to do it all, they wouldn't have that many people.

"Lord Wang, I heard that you are leaving Jinan Mansion?" Xu De looked at Wang Yongji and asked with a light smile.

Wang Yongji nodded, put down the teacup in his hand, and then said with a smile: "The matter here in Jinan Mansion is over, I want to go to Qufu, there is still a lot of hidden land over there, this official can't go if he doesn't go!" ”

After listening to Wang Yongji's words, Xu De nodded: "That's right, after finishing the matter of Qufu, Lord Wang will go back to Beijing directly?" ”

Neither Wang Yongji nor Xu De felt that Qufu was a problem, and now the Kong family is a toothless tiger, and they don't have the courage or ability to do some messy things. As long as it passes, it will definitely be able to be won.

"No!" Wang Yongji shook his head: "After the matter over there in Qufu, I will go to Nanjing." ”

Xu De was stunned, he didn't expect Wang Yongji to go to Nanjing, but he was relieved when he thought about it. Shandong is settled, then Henan and Hebei will have no problems. But the south is not good, and those people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang are not easy to deal with.

As a major province for the imperial examination, there are many gentry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which is very difficult to do!

However, Xu De didn't think it was a problem, and said with a smile: "Then I wish Lord Wang a smooth journey." ”

Wang Yongji pondered for a long time, and then said: "Father-in-law Xu, speaking of which, the official still has some things to ask Father-in-law Xu to help. ”

"Lord Wang, please speak!" Xu De put down the teacup in his hand and spoke.

Wang Yongji did not go around the bend, and said directly: "This time in Shandong, the manpower of the inner factory of Gonggong Xu is very capable, and the official will meet His Majesty Chen, and when the official goes to Nanjing, please also transfer the manpower of the inner factory to the official." ”

"When the time comes, I hope that Father-in-law Xu will not be stingy and support him more."

Xu De didn't expect Wang Yongji to think like this, but he still nodded and said, "Lord Wang, the inner factory is His Majesty's inner factory, not ours." If Lord Wang can ask for a holy decree, our family will naturally allocate manpower to you. ”

On this day, King Qincha left Jinan Mansion with Ji and headed towards Qufu.

The entire Jinan Mansion has also been deserted, and Xu De is here to thoroughly investigate the case of the White Lotus Sect, in fact, there is nothing to investigate. At this point, Wang Shan didn't move, and he didn't use torture, and if he caught it again, there were two or three kittens and dogs.

Qufu.

Confucius Hall.

Kong Shangxian looked at Wang Yongji in front of him, one head and two big, in fact, now the Kong family is almost to the point of changing the color of civil officials. Although I knew that although the emperor would not punish the Kong family on the surface, it would definitely not be over in private, but I didn't expect it to come so quickly.

"Master Kong, this is the account book of the hidden land found out by the inner factory."

Wang Yongji put a booklet on the table and said with a smile: "According to the investigation of the inner factory, the Kong family has a total of 1.73 million mu of hidden land, including 860,000 mu in Shangtian and 870,000 mu in Zhongtian. ”

"According to the regulations of the imperial court, Ueda is fined forty taels of silver, Nakata is fined twenty taels of silver, and the Kong family needs to pay a total of 51.8 million taels of fines!" Saying that, Wang Yongji took out another list: "This is a fine notice, please take a look at the head of the Kong family." ”

"The fine must be paid within seven days, otherwise the hidden land will be confiscated."

Kong Shangqi was stunned when he heard it, and fined more than 50 million taels of silver? What are you kidding, there aren't so many people who sold the Kong family!

The Kong family has a lot of land, but if you take out that land and sell it, you will definitely not be able to sell it for so much money! Once it is open for sale, the land price will inevitably fall sharply in the end, and no one will necessarily buy it after the big fall.

All of these lands belonged to homesteaders, which were taken by the Confucian family, and more were sacrificed.

The Confucian family is divided into inner and outer holes, and the inner holes are the children of the Confucian family, and the descendants and collateral lines are counted. However, the outer hole was given the surname by the Kong family, that is, he was not originally surnamed Kong, but he was surnamed Kong when he worked in the Kong family.

These people have a lot of relatives and friends, and their land is donated to them.

Although the gentry were very rich and had a lot of land, it was not possible to realize it. The imperial court doesn't talk about this now, and asks you to realize the land, if you can realize it, then there will be ghosts.

Even if you sell antiques, you can't sell them for so much money, and once there are more things, the price will inevitably fall.

Wang Yongjicai didn't care what the Kong family thought, and said directly: "The head of the Kong family, this official will wait in Qufu City for seven days, if the Kong family can't pay the fine for seven days, these fields will become public land." ”

After saying these words, Wang Yongji stood up directly and led people towards the door.

Wang Yongji left, but the Kong family was in chaos, and Kong Shangqi hurriedly invited Kong Wensheng over. Although Kong Shangqi is now the head of the family, it is impossible to suppress the various veins of the Kong family.

After listening to Kong Shangqi's relay, Kong Wensheng's face also became ugly.

"We're in trouble this time!" Kong Wensheng sighed and said.

"We definitely can't get the money, let each house and its veins get together, and then pick some good fields to pay the fine, and the rest of the fields are gone." Kong Wensheng pondered for a moment and said decisively.

"At this time, when it is decided, it must be decided, and there can be no hesitation!" Kong Wensheng saw that Kong Shangqi was still hesitating, and couldn't help but say loudly.

Back at Qufu's own place, Wang Yongji sighed, spread out a piece of paper on the table, and then began to write the name of the fold, the name of the fold: Please divide the field and sparse the land!

In fact, Wang Yongji has wanted to write this piece for a long time, but there were so many things before, and he didn't have the time to write this piece until now. This piece of music is very important to the king, and at the same time very anxious.

The purpose of this piece of music is actually very simple, that is, it is for contributions.

Although many of the gentry had a lot of land, their land was not bought, but was made by donation.

The wind of dedication has been around for a long time, not to mention other people, just to say that I was admitted to the juren, and the clan elders in the family and so on, the first thing after congratulating myself was to dedicate all the land to his name.

The poor scholar became a landlord overnight, which can be called a model of the book's own golden house, and thousands of acres of fertile land overnight are not illusory.

The land donated to his name does not pay taxes, and he rents the land to his clan relatives to plant, and collects much lower land rent than the field tax. There are more benefits in this, less to pay every year, and more to get.

The gentry were also able to go from poor to rich overnight through the tax exemption system.

Jin Juren, Yin Jinshi, is not just about status, but really rich!