In fact, it is not surprising at all that Bai Juyi did get a letter from his mother ten days ago, but he was crazy during this time, in the dormitory of the school palace, his hair was scattered, and he scribbled on the paper whenever he had free time to evacuate the depression in his heart.

His brother Bai Xingjian knew that his brother was hit so hard when he heard that Xue Tao, the secretary of Xingyuan Girls' School, was leaving and rushed to Yangzhou to marry Han Yu.

So Bai Xingjian didn't urge, so he silently accompanied his brother.

When he knew that Xue Tao was leaving, Bai Juyi made an appointment with her downstairs in Tianhan, saying that you are a woman, even if you have a long man and a slave by your side, the journey is far and difficult, and it just so happens that my father is going to Chuzhou to assassinate the history, so you can simply go with my family.

Xue Tao expressed his gratitude.

Then Xue Tao said to Bai Juyi quietly: "Lotte, I know your heart for me, but no, I am too old, and my background is not high, my parents are dead, so Ling Zun Lingtang will not agree." ”

Bai Juyi was also miserable, and it seemed that he had no intention of denying Xue Tao's words.

"But, but why did you agree to marry Han Huizhi?" Bai Juyi couldn't hold back, so he asked.

Xue Tao said, do you think that Quan Deyu and Wu Yuanheng often tease me with side poems, in order to marry me sincerely? Wrong - Quan Deyu is now a member of the Wailang Knowledge, Wu Yuanheng also returned to the Dynasty as a member of the Ministry of Officials, they will soon forget about me, and go to find the high-ranking ladies who can help them in their careers, those are their wives.

I, Xue Tao, are just some talents, some fame, they are curious about me, and then out of the nature of a man, they chase me, if I really dwell on it, I can't see myself clearly, then it's really stupid.

What's wrong with Han Yu? Although he doesn't have the wit of the right and martial arts, he can win the article well, and his temper is straightforward, if I marry him, there will be no grievances, what else can a woman hope for in this life, I'm gone, I don't know who will take over this Xingyuan's women's school.

Next, Xue Tao encouraged Bai Juyi and said, this time when you go to Beijing, you might as well stay and prepare to take the Jinshi examination, as long as you can inscribe the name at the temple tower of the Great Ci'en Temple, aren't all kinds of beautiful flowers coming?

"I won't take the Jinshi exam anymore......" Who expected, Bai Juyi suddenly said.

Xue Tao was very surprised.

"Don't participate in the ......," Bai Juyi repeated in an affirmative tone, "Why follow the rules and be mediocre?" I want to take another path, abandon literature and martial arts, enter the martial arts palace of Xingyuan, and make meritorious contributions in the future, and it will not be in vain to walk in this world. ”

"Lotte, you ......" Xue Tao didn't expect that Bai Juyi would suddenly set foot on this road, but before she could say anything, Bai Juyi had already turned around, and then ran in the direction of Taofen Academy.

"Brother, aren't you going to Fengzhou? If you don't go, I'll go. After Bai Xingjian learned the details, he packed his luggage and prepared to leave, but after going around the corridor, he came back and asked Bai Juyi, who was struggling to write, "Brother, what do you think?" ”

"The martial arts academy students also have to cook and clothes every month, and after I finish my studies, I will go from Rong to enter the three yas of the high young master, or go to the Western Regions, and I don't have to worry about not having the opportunity to become famous." Bai Juyi didn't look back.

Bai Xingjian nodded, and said Then I will know, and I can go back and tell my father and mother.

As a result, when Bai Xingjian came to the official residence in Fengzhou and said that my brother had a conversation with Xue Xiaoshu, he suddenly put pen to paper and went to the Martial Arts Palace to study.

Before Bai Jigeng could say anything, Bai Juyi's mother Chen suddenly cried from the middle of the official house, her voice was very sad, and then she scolded Xue Tao, a cheap maid, I don't know what demon tricks I used to bewitch my son, a good precocious young man, he actually went to learn the deeds of the Xunge family.

The white mother Chen, is a heart disease, which is now called mental illness, has a gentle temperament when she is fine, and often teaches several sons to write literature, but once it happens, it is like this.

In particular, she and her husband Bai Jigeng are the combination of a niece and an uncle, and they are not tolerated by secular etiquette, and even Tang Law stipulates that "if an uncle and nephew are married, the law firm must prohibit them", so Chen's mental and psychological pressure has always been extremely great, and he didn't even dare to show his face, and his heart disease is getting worse and worse year by year.

In the end, thanks to Bai Jigeng, as well as Bai Juyi's maternal grandmother Chen Baishi (actually Bai Jigeng's sister, whose husband Chen Run has been living in the Bai family since his death), Chen Shi turned his back to the sky, his body trembled, and his emotions gradually calmed down, and then he just cried, saying that my Juyi, my Juyi, I am afraid it will be difficult to see it after that.

And Xingjian kept prostrating himself outside the porch, not daring to make a sound.

Soon Bai Jigeng paced out, sighed and said to his son Xingjian, Ju Yi also begged me to take Xue Xiaoshu on the road to Yangzhou in the letter, but I didn't dare, because this would make your mother's condition more serious, so I almost ordered a group of shooters from Hechi City, gave them salaries, and asked them to escort Xue Xiaoshu from another way to Yangzhou Jiangdu.

After finishing speaking, the sixty-six-year-old Bai Jigeng also felt exhausted, and when he returned to the hall, he sighed.

Eventually, the Bai family hit the road from Chencang Road.

And Xue Tao, who was interested, took the Hanshui after a few days, ready to take Xiangyang, and then Luyang Road, to the Central Plains and then to the destination.

Around the beginning of the summer tax, Gao Yue's team traveled by boat to Caishui, then entered Chenzhou, and then returned to Runan City in Caizhou.

The officials of the Yangziliu Backyard and the Shoulu Patrol Courtyard, who had received Gao Yue's documents, rushed to the city before they were ready to listen to Gao Yue's governance plan.

Liu Zongyuan, Pei Du, Ouyang Zhan, Han Yu and others on the table were also attentive, wanting to hear what Gao Yue had to say.

Sure enough, the first sentence Gao Yue said was very amazing:

"In the summer in the Huainan states to collect taxes, originally this way had thought, eighty percent of the collection of rice silk and other goods, two percent of the money, but the governor of the march Sima Gu Bowen (Gu Xiu) once wrote to criticize the Tao, saying that such words are unrealistic, then the road retreated, and then slightly reformed - immediately collect the summer tax, the tax money of all households in Huainan, seventy percent of the cloth payment, three percent of the cash payment, the autumn harvest of Hu dou rice, all the grain."

"Do the people of Caizhou and Gwangju really want to be levied?" Han Yu asked.

Gao Yue bowed his head and said that of course it would be levied, and only Yingzhou was explicitly exempted from taxes before (now Gao Yue let his brother-in-law Cui Shu be the assassin), and Caizhou and Gwangju were not exempted.

"But these two places have just been hit by war, and the people can't afford to pay their taxes, or even farm, and if a famine breaks out in the coming year......" Liu Zongyuan worried.

Gao Yue was confident about this, and said: "The powerful and landless people will be recruited into the ranks of the rights and interests soldiers from our town, and they are ready to dig the Jiming Gang; The people who have land and no money to cultivate and weave will also borrow seeds, farm tools, and cattle from our town, and they do not need to pay taxes first, and when they come to the next year, they will pay off the taxes they should pay off together with the debts they owe, and they will not collect interest. ”