"As His Majesty said, there is still a long way to go, and most of the common people are used to a self-sufficient life, just like Lao Cui.

The family has money to put into a jar to dig a pit and bury the geography, and live a luxurious life, that is, to eat more rice and white noodles, and a salted duck egg to eat can already make them happy for a day, I am afraid that it will not contribute much to the business tax of Daming.

On the contrary, it is like the three donkeys who spend money lavishly, and every time they buy something, the court will benefit from it......"

Lao Zhu rudely interrupted Ma Du's statement, "Is it reasonable for you to say that the loser is reasonable?" ”

"But no, if the people of the Ming Dynasty are all in debt to enjoy shopping, it will make the Ming Dynasty achieve the most glorious prosperity, and it is not enough for the first emperor Han Wu and Tang Zong and Song Ancestors to lift your shoes!"

"Ridiculous!" Lao Zhu flicked his sleeves and raised his legs and left, obviously poisoned by Ma Du's words.

He looked left and right next to the street with his hands behind his back, and when he saw a family that he liked, he went in to have a look, inspected their farm tools, looked through the rice jar, and saw that if anyone had a big livestock, his face was full of joy, and he touched the head of the ox and patted the donkey's belly, and praised the wealth of the family.

The animal obviously didn't know the real dragon, and a big ram was provoked by him and wanted to push him, but he grabbed the horn and fell to the ground, and laughed proudly. Seeing other people's vegetable gardens, he naturally won't let go, just pulled a few eggplants, and picked a prickly green cucumber, put it in his mouth and chewed it creakingly, the juice overflowed, if it weren't for Ma Du's face, the tenant would really jump to scold his mother.

Such an old Zhu made Ma Du vaguely see the young man who was killing cattle in the countryside of Zhongli and sharing food, and it was confirmed that he was also a bear child in the past, and the stubborn genes on Zhu Xiaosi came from here.

Zhuangzi did not come to the end very quickly, and at the back of the village was a vast wheat field, undulating in the wind like a grass blanket that stretched to the foot of the square mountain, and the thick ears of wheat had turned slightly yellow.

Lao Zhu grabbed one casually and rubbed it slowly between his palms, and the green wheat grains jumped out one by one, and after confirming that there was no residue on the wheat ears, he counted them one by one, and threw them into his mouth and chewed them after counting, and looked at the other ears of wheat, "The ears of wheat on your Zhuangzi seem to be longer than those elsewhere, and there seem to be more grains of wheat." ”

"Hey...... Naturally, before the wheat harvest in my family, the tenants in the family would take scissors to pick out the plump and thick ears of wheat and keep them as seeds for the next year, just to increase the yield per mu. After a lot of hard work, year after year, an acre of land has only grown by an average of more than 20 catties, so they are ready to stop doing it this year...... Hey, why did the emperor kick me! ”

Lao Zhu roared loudly, "More than 20 catties, you are too little, one acre of land produces 20 catties more, ten acres of land is 200 catties, 100,000 acres of land is 200,000 catties, my Daming Tian is countless If each mu of land is 20 catties more, how many people will be fed, there is such a good method, I don't plan to use it or dedicate it to the court, I don't beat you who you beat!" ”

Because the white foam that chewed the mouth of Lao Zhu just now, splashed everywhere with his roar, it was really disgusting, and when he was angry, he lowered his head and admitted that it was the best choice.

Ma Du wiped the venom on his face with his sleeve, "Wei Chen knew his mistake, and when he turned around, he wrote this method as an excerpt and handed it to the General Administration." ”

"Even if you are sensible, you are not in any mood to be angry with you!" Lao Zhu looked up at the bright sun, "It's not too early, I'm going back to the palace to approve the fold." ”

Lao Zhu immediately led everyone back, and Ma Du also breathed a sigh of relief, and finally sent this Lord of Yama away. There was a tea stall at the intersection of the village, and Yuan Sheng whispered: "The emperor will rest here first, and the slaves and maids will call the carriages and horses parked in the Hou Mansion." ”

There were only two dilapidated tables under the tea shed, one was full of people, and the other table was only two people, a middle-aged man and a young man, both of whom looked like dusty servants, and the shoes and toes on their feet were exposed, and they didn't know how far they had walked.

Lao Zhu stepped forward and said, "The two of you don't mind are equal to me at the same table." ”

The middle-aged man said weakly: "It's okay, just sit casually, we just have a rest here and leave immediately." ”

Han Cheng pulled over the bench and invited Lao Zhu to sit down, while instructing the stall owner to serve tea, there is no good tea here, all the broken tea leaves are wrapped in linen cloth and boiled, the tea has turned yellow-brown, and you can buy three bowls for a penny.

Lao Zhu didn't dislike picking up the tea bowl and drank it, and he wasn't afraid that someone would poison him, this bitter and astringent tea Ma Du Bo Qi was not interested, and sat and waited to send Lao Zhu to the car.

The young man at the same table suddenly opened his mouth and asked Ma Du, "Dare to ask Brother Tai how far is it from here to Yingtian?" ”

Ma Du stretched out two fingers and said, "It's not far away, there are still twenty miles!" ”

Hearing this, the young man let out a long breath, "After a lot of hard work, it has finally come to the day." ”

Ma Du asked curiously: "Listen to the accents, the two are from Guangdong?" ”

The young man nodded, "Exactly, it can exhaust people to death from thousands of miles here." ”

Ma Du said with a smile: "From Guangdong to Yingtian, you should take the Meiling Ancient Road into Jiangxi, and then take a boat out of Poyang Lake in Hongdu and go down the river to Yingtian, how can you run to Jiangning, you shouldn't have walked from Jiangxi." ”

The young man waved his hand and said: "Don't mention the matter of taking the boat again, we are unlucky, the boat leaked before it left Poyang Lake, and half of the twenty or thirty people in a boat drowned, and finally escaped with a life, I was really afraid of taking a boat, so I came by land from Jiangxi, and I touched it here in a daze, and finally did not delay the errand in the yamen." ”

"Oh? The two of them are people from the yamen, disrespectful and disrespectful, and they don't know what business they have to do in Beijing? ”

"We are the wardens of the household houses in Panyu County, and this time we entered Beijing to settle the income and expenditure accounts of the household department." The young man was quite proud of his identity, and if he knew the identities of the few people in front of him, he didn't know if he could be proud.

As soon as he heard that the other party was from Panyu, Ma Du immediately became interested, because his old enemy Zhu Liangzu was guarding over there. Ma Du looked at Lao Zhu, who was drinking tea with his head bowed beside him, this was an excellent time for Zhu Liangzu to take eye medicine.

"Panyu, that's a good place, I heard that it was looted by the Japanese a few years ago, I don't know what the situation is now."

The young man said with a smile: "The Japanese invaders landed in Guangdong, but they did not arrive in Panyu, and there were troops stationed by the imperial court there. ”

Lao Zhu raised his eyes to look at Ma Du, probably knowing what kind of moth he was going to give birth to, he didn't speak, just clasped his hands and listened quietly.

"I forgot where Yongjiahou was stationed, and there was a large army in the Japanese Kou, so naturally I didn't dare to make a mistake."

"Oh? Brother Tai also knows Yongjiahou Zhu Liangzu? ”

"Of course, Yongjiahou joined the emperor's command in his early years, and he made a lot of achievements in bravery and good fighting. Yongjiahou is more modest and kind, loves soldiers like children, is honest and honest, selfless, Yongjiahou out of the town of Guangdong will definitely stabilize the place for the benefit of the people, you Panyu people are blessed......"

"Poof!" Before Ma Du finished speaking, the two scribes from Guangdong squirted out the tea in their mouths, but fortunately Ma Du and Lao Zhu did not sit opposite him, but Bo Qi was sprayed all over his face.

"I'm sorry!" The middle-aged man hurriedly got up to make amends, took a hand towel and wiped it for Bo Qi.

Bo Qi took the sleeve of his shirt and dipped it on his face, and said with a smile: "It's okay, it's okay, I'll come by myself." Did you two drink flies in the tea? ”

The young man smiled bitterly: "I just heard this brother's evaluation of Yongjiahou Xiao Ke really don't agree, that Yongjiahou is arrogant, corrupt and bribery, and bullying the market in Guangdong...... Woohoo......"

As soon as he said half of the words, his mouth was covered by the middle-aged man, and the middle-aged man smiled at a few people: "Young people don't know what to do, chew the root of their tongues, and a few people should not hear it, and today's tea money is being invited." He turned around and said viciously to the young man: "What nonsense, don't forget that this is in Yingtian." ”

That's right, this is in Yingtian, Zhu Liangzu's base camp, if it reaches the Yongjiahou Mansion, can they have their good fruits to eat? The young man also knew that he was speechless and arched: "Xiao Ke is young and doesn't know anything, please bear with me, don't spread the word." ”

Ma Du smiled: "We don't know that Zhu Liangzu, what he did in Guangdong has nothing to do with us, we shouldn't have heard it." ”

Needless to say, it's enough to have that. But if Lao Zhu is not happy, Lao Zhu will make anyone unhappy, Ma Du already felt his blade-like eyes, and hurriedly lowered his head and pretended to drink tea, not daring to look at him again.

Yuan Sheng drove the carriage over and said to the inside of the tea shed: "The car is ready, let's go." ”

Lao Zhu slowly got up and said to the two Guangdong officials: "Aren't the two of you going to enter the city, are you willing to take my carriage together?" ”

The two said happily: "I can't ask for it, thank you brother." As he spoke, he threw down a few copper coins and followed Lao Zhu into the carriage.

Seeing the carriage slowly leaving, Bo Qi patted Ma Du's chest with his fat hand, "Congratulations, eighty percent of you are going to get revenge." Yongjiahou is really unlucky to have such an enemy as you! After saying that, he threw down Ma Du and twisted his fat body towards the academy.

Ma Du was in a good mood and was about to go home, when he suddenly found a small burden on the stool, and the square eighty percent were books, and he knew that it was left by the two people just now without asking.

These two people helped a lot, Ma Du naturally wanted to repay the favor, and hurriedly took the little burden in his hand and chased after him, but fortunately, the carriage did not go far, "Your burden, your burden has fallen!" ”

The young warden poked his head out of the car window, "I actually left the account book behind, and I threw it over!" ”

"Good!" Madu shook his hand violently, and the little bag was thrown into the car through the window.

With a bang, the burden thrown into the carriage dispersed, and Han Cheng nervously blocked in front of Lao Zhu, and the short knife on his waist was pulled out at once.

The middle-aged warden was frightened and hurriedly explained: "Don't be nervous, it was our account book that was left at the tea stall and thrown in by the young man just now. As he spoke, he kicked the young warden, "Get out of the car and get it, why let him throw it over, if you lose it, we will run away in vain, I will have a lung against you!" ”

The young warden sneered: "It's troublesome to park, and I don't want to delay this uncle's work." ”

Lao Zhu pushed Han Cheng aside, "It's okay, young people are frivolous and frizzy, my brother-in-law is the same, a lot of experience is." He picked up an account book at his feet, which was originally wrapped in oiled paper, but it had been spread out at this time, "You cherish the account book very tightly." ”

The young warden said as he picked up the account book: "That's natural, if there is no oil paper wrapped in Poyang Lake, it will be soaked in water." ”

Lao Zhu casually flipped through the account book in his hand, suddenly his eyes widened, his expression was suddenly stunned, and he was silent when he looked at the blank account book covered with a big seal in his hand.

"One, two, three, four, five...... Well, six, uncle, give me the account book in your hand. ”

"Oh!" Lao Zhu replied and handed it over casually, pretending to be curious, "Why is there an official seal on your account book but no accounts, do you want to take such an account book to the household department to reconcile the accounts?" ”

The middle-aged scribe smiled and said, "Naturally not, only three of these six account books have accounts, and the other three are for backup." ”

"Spare?" Lao Zhu frowned and pretended to be at a loss, "Even if it's a spare one, there should be an account, right?" Oh, if it's about the secrets of the yamen, don't talk about it. ”

The young warden lowered his head and said while wrapping the account book with oiled paper: "What kind of secret is this, the people in the yamen don't know which one doesn't know. ”

The middle-aged warden also said: "It's really not a secret, if Brother Tai is interested in telling you about it, it doesn't hurt." ”

"Huh...... Excuse me, let me have a long experience. ”

"That's the case, there are a lot of expenditures in the yamen, and the general ledger of the household department often does not match, according to the rules can only be rejected and remade, and the local seal can only take effect, and the prefectures and counties close to the Beijing division are good to say, like us who are far away, once and again at least a few months or more than a year, this year's accounts have not been sorted out, and next year's accounts will be sorted out, so there is this kind of empty seal account book can be directly modified in Beijing, so I don't have to wait for the pain of running back and forth."

The young warden nodded in agreement, "I don't know who came up with such a good idea!" ”

Lao Zhu also laughed and said, "Hehe...... A great idea indeed! ”

Han Cheng subconsciously looked at Lao Zhu and found that the green tendons on his forehead were bulging......