The next day, King Xian held a grand ceremony in the east of the city, and gave King Xian Luan to drive the royal car, to send Antai Hou Ji out of the city, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military together with the crown princess Xihuan should send hundreds of people out of the city, for which the forbidden army of 2,000 people were dispatched, all the way to escort Antai Hou away, until leaving the Chenling defense area, still did not see Bailiyan appeared.

After the forbidden army withdrew, Antaihou's tent slowly moved east under the escort of a thousand escorts. In the car, Mrs. Li Zhu was holding her sleeping son, and Antai Hou Ji looked out of the car window absentmindedly and said:

"It's a long way to go to Jinguo, you have to take care of Kang'er."

"The concubine should be careful, but why don't you see Mr. Wei?" Li Zhu said worriedly.

"Maybe it's because I'm tied up in trivial things, and I can't get out."

As soon as Ji's voice fell, the guards outside the window rode up on horseback:

"Master Hou, Wei Langzhong is in front."

"Oh!" Ji Tong's heart lit up: "Quick, stop." ”

"No!"

Ji Tong was in good spirits, handed over his son to the maid, and walked out of the car with his wife Li Zhu alone.

Bailiyan (Wei Xian) came out of the south gate as soon as it was dark, detoured to the southeast and went straight to the official road leading to the Jin Kingdom, and waited for Ji Tong and Li Zhu on the side of the road.

"The grass people have seen the Hou Ye and his wife."

"Mr. Wei is exempt, I don't know why Mr. is here." Ji Tong asked, his face much kinder.

"There is a lot of inconvenience in the next place, and I hope that the Hou Ye will forgive the sins. I don't know how the little marquis is in your body, but the sores have faded. ”

"Mr. Wei's wonderful hand has rejuvenated, the sores have faded, it is Kang'er's sleepiness in recent days, I don't know why."

"It's spring, the little marquis is young, and lethargy is really to store essence, and it's not a big problem. As long as it is properly conditioned, it will be cured in another half a month. ”

At this time, Li Zhu stepped forward, took a brocade bag from the handmaiden's hand, and said:

"Wei Langzhong rescued Kang'er, the concubine was unable to repay her, a little heart, and asked Mr. Wei to accept it."

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

Bai Liyan repeatedly excused herself, Li Zhu gave Ji Tong a look, and Ji Tong said warmly:

"Mr. Wei has the grace to save his life in Kang'er, and he shows his heart with a little courtesy, and asks Mr. Wei not to refuse."

From the bottom of her heart, Bai Liyan wanted to accept this bag of things very much, but she couldn't say it, and after repeated excuses, she couldn't resist the husband and wife, and finally put it in her bag.

"Thank you Lord Hou for the gift, the grass people are grateful and disrespectful."

"Mr. Wei is serious." Ji Tong said, and took out a tooth card from his arms and stuffed it into Bai Liyan's hand: "Mr. Wei's medical skills are exquisite, one day Hou will inevitably invite Mr. Wei to see a doctor, and I hope Mr. Wei will not refuse." ”

"Please rest assured, but if the Hou Ye invites him, he will do his best."

The waist card handed by An Taihou is the waist card used by Taihou Mansion, but I don't know whether Ji Tong's meaning is Li Zhu's meaning or An Taihou's meaning. However, the brocade bag sent by Li Zhu was extremely heavy, and there were a lot of yellow and white things such as gold and silver.

Riding a horse to accompany An Taihou and his wife, Mrs. Li Zhu never mentioned the matter of returning to Qiguo until noon, when An Taihou was sent out to leave the boundary of Chenling, Bailiyan rode back to Yicaotang.

"Brother Wei, what did you do early in the morning, where did you get the brocade bag."

Xiao Er's eyes fell on the brocade bag, and her imagination suddenly came to mind. Baili Yan forked the topic and said:

"What happened to the Liu family's father and son?"

"Liu Chuan's fever has subsided, but he is nauseous and can't eat."

"If you can't eat it, you have to eat it, and I'll buy some meat and come back to stew soup later, and give him stewed soup to drink." Starting tomorrow, Yicaotang will no longer be on the clinic, and you are ready to prepare, take away everything you can take, and leave everything you can't take away. ”

"What, where is Brother Wei going?"

Xiao Er was born with a pair of delicate eyes, as if she could see everyone.

"Don't ask, let's go and prepare first."

returned to the inner courtyard and first visited the Liu family father and son. Liu Chuan has been having a high fever since the day before yesterday, and it took a fierce medicine to calm it, Liu Zao stayed in front of the bed for two days without closing his eyes, but it is difficult to be a father for this.

Ordinary people live in the world, nothing more than looking forward to a few days of peace, to be able to have enough food and clothing, but it is this world, living is a luxury, all the industries in the world are operating around the will of the powerful, such as the Liu family's father and son, all of them are staged all the time.

Returned to the study and closed the door, opened the brocade bag given by Li Zhu, and was stunned to Bailiyan, no more, no less than thirty inches of gold, and several zhang of various colors of silk and satin, and there was a letter pressed at the bottom. The inscription is a "grass" word, eighty percent of which comes from the hands of Li Zhu.

Li, plum tree, grape, vine also, are all plant characteristics, the grass character is obviously implying that Li Yu wrote, in order to prevent falling into the hands of others, the real name is hidden with the grass character.

opened the letter and looked closely, it was really the first sentence that shocked Baili Yan's back.

Li Zhu already knew that he had invested in the Guangxin Gongmen, and said that this matter must not be concealed from the Jin Kingdom and the Xian King, and mentioned that the Guangxin Gong was indecisive and had many improper intentions, and if there was a rebellion in the future, most of the things could not be done.

Today's waist card given by Ji Tong is a way out for him. In the future, if Guangxin's public move fails, Liang Guo will retreat.

In order to dispel Bailiyan's concerns, Li Zhu cited many unknown top-secret news from Guangxin Gong for more than ten years, including Guangxin Gong's dispatch to Qiguo before April, and conspired with the magnates of Qiguo to incite the government in Qiguo.

Although the letter did not say that Guangxin Gong and Zhiguo had a secret communication, it is not difficult to see that most of the news about Li Zhu was gossip from the eldest son of Jing Shanggong, Mrs. Li Dai, Bailijuan, that is, Sister Bailiyan.

"It seems that Zhao Xun's estimate is good, Guangxin Gong Jiang Min is really not necessarily reliable!"

Baili Yan said secretly, and then burned the letter. Thinking that Li Zhu was advancing by retreating, she knew that she could not persuade herself to return to the country to serve, so she wanted to warn herself with political eryu that she should not be a victim of Guangxin Gong.

Putting away the brocade bag, Bai Liyan didn't dare to hand over so many valuable things to Xiao Er for a while, so she found a cabinet and hid it first.

Thirty gold bars are not a small amount, plus the five inches of gold that have been saved before, and a small piece of gold collar, a total of thirty-eight inches of gold, which is about three hundred and eighty inches of silver, and seven inches of silver, for a total price of three hundred and eighty-seven inches of silver. Such a large sum of money, put in the hand is a hot potato, I am really afraid that a few days later, the tax department will come to check the tax, and all of it will be taken away.

The next day, Yicaotang completely stopped the clinic, and Bailiyan bought two carts, loaded all the tools and equipment accumulated in the past few years into wooden boxes, loaded them into carts, and prepared to move to Guangxin City.

At the same time, the new policy "Pushing the Commercial Tax" was fully implemented under the agitation of public opinion, and the first person to hit the muzzle was Song Gui, a merchant silk merchant with the fifth number in the Lingling Dynasty, and the rice and grain fried from the Song family's grain depot alone amounted to 100,000 stones, far exceeding the total amount of grain stored in the Song family's tax declarations and account books, which also confirmed the fact that some "profiteers and unrighteous people" hoarded Juqi and made ill-gotten gains.

On the fifth day after the implementation of the new policy, Jiang Min, the Duke of Guangxin, sent someone to urge, asking Baili Yan to take Qi Xiaosoft entourage and meet tomorrow in the Wangshan Pavilion in the northern suburbs, which is to set off and return to the fiefdom. So in the afternoon of the same day, I hurriedly came to Zhao's mansion and saw Zhao Xun:

"General Zhao, I will move to Guangxin with Guangxin Gong tomorrow, and I have a special thing to ask for today."

"Mr. Wei, but it doesn't matter, please sit down."

Zhao Xun retreated left and right, and Bai Liyan continued:

"After thinking about it for many days, since it is only an expedient measure for the general to maintain relations with Guangxin Gong, I think that the general can start a new stove."

"Starting anew? What is starting from scratch? ”

"Although the general has a very high reputation in the army, how can he have no soldiers and no power in his hands, if he wants to maintain relations with the various factions in the inner court, it is not enough to keep in touch with Guangxin Gong at a critical moment. In the next thought, when outside the territory of Guangxin City, another land should be found to open up wasteland for the purpose of the general's foundation, and I don't know if General Zhao can be accommodating. ”

Zhao Xun thought for a moment, nodded and said:

"You mean, borrowing trees to bloom?"

"General Zhao sees it clearly." Bai Liyan's voice lowered a lot, and continued: "Guangxin Gong is indecisive, and it is actually difficult for us and other foreign ministers to be reused. Therefore, I thought that since the general did not want to get involved in the dispute, he should have his own foothold. ”

If you don't have military power, you should have wealth. Although Zhao Xun is upright, he is not a person who does not know how to change.

Defecting to Guangxin Gong is only an expedient measure, relying on the relationship of Guangxin Gong alone, the various factions in the Inner Dynasty may not necessarily buy Zhao Xun's account, especially if the big Si Nong Mo Anzheng falls, Zhao Xun will be independent and difficult to support. Once Guangxin Gong gets into trouble, the Inner Dynasty will ask Zhao Xun to show his attitude, which will be very embarrassing.

If Zhao Xun has a force enclave in the field that is enough to make the internal dynasty not to be underestimated, he can not only monitor the movement of Guangxin City at a critical moment, but also be able to support wealth and self-respect, and wait for the situation to change, so that he can be invincible.

In order to encourage land reclamation, the "Agricultural Mulberry Order" divides land reclamation into multiple levels such as 369, among which displaced people and farmers only need to pay 40% of the tax burden for land reclamation. Wealthy merchants and wealthy people have the highest tax burden, and they need to pay 50% of the tax, but they enjoy 20 years of land ownership.

At the same time, the nobles and nobles can also open up wasteland, and enjoy privileges, only need to pay 20% of the tax, and have the right to use the land for 30 years.

In the name of Zhao Xun, he opened up wasteland outside the territory of Guangxin City, which could not only avoid taxes, but also be independent of Guangxin Gong, and only Zhao Xun himself knew how many benefits would fall into his pocket.

"General, opening up the wasteland outside Guangxin can not only make Guangxin feel unharmed, make him think that we are his fellow travelers, but also can be used for surveillance purposes in the future, and the troops will be stationed here at critical moments, so as to facilitate the general's defection at any time."

"Well, it's a good plan. The general will allow you to pioneer in the name of the Zhao Mansion. ”

"General Xie!"

Zhao Xun set up the word as a basis, after the payment was stamped with a letter, and in quadruplicate, one was retained by the Zhao Mansion, one was handed over to the Yamen of Chenling for the record, and the other two copies were retained by Bailiyan, and the other was issued to the Yamen of the Wasteland for the record, so that in the name of Dr. Zhao Xun, the landless land was opened up all over the country.

"You can collect the note, go to Guangxin City, if there is any inconvenience, you can send someone to send a letter to me."

"Thank you, General, for your attention. There is another matter, please ask the general to take care of one or two. In the next home, he took in a pair of official kiln father and son, and the son was broken by the royal superintendent of the workman, and was placed in Yicaotang to recuperate after being picked up in the next house. The road to Guangxin City is far away, and it is inconvenient to accompany it, so I asked General Zhao to take care of it for March, and I will pick it up after March. ”

Liu Chuan's legs were still in a plaster, and he couldn't move for a while, and the bumps in the road were not conducive to recovery, so it was the best choice to leave him in Zhao Mansion to recuperate. Zhao Xun also responded to the matter, and then asked the woman Ma to send a plate of fifty inches of silver:

"You go to Guangxin, you don't have to spend a lot, I will prepare some coils for you, so that you can settle down and drive."

"This ...... The general does not have a lot of money, and the gifts are heavy, and it is really difficult to obey his fate. ”