The two walked silently along the bluestone slab and brick street, and after a short time they went around the Jingci Nunnery, looking back, only to see the moonlight like water, the cigarette smoke, the small nunnery seemed to be draped in a hazy light veil, and the palace and pavilion were all looming in the smoke.

"This is really 'I paint the blue river water, love the maple leaves on the evening pavilion, the autumn moon dissolves and shines on the Buddhist temple, and the cigarette curls around the scripture building'." Liang Zheng couldn't help but sigh, "Although Tang Yin's poem says 'I love autumn fragrance', it can be regarded as appropriate for the occasion when used here." It's just ......"

"Huh?" Shen Wanyue looked at him with bright eyes, "It's just what?" ”

Liang Zheng looked at the smiling girl in front of him, and couldn't help blurting out: "It's just that if I change it, I'm afraid that it will have to be changed to 'The evening breeze gusts into the Buddhist temple, and the moon shadow reflects deeply in the scripture building'." ”

"Do I love the Late Moon?" Shen Wanyue's voice was light and calm, and a little ridiculous and playful, "You are so bold, you dare to think about your grandmother." ”

Liang Zheng couldn't help but be silent for a while.

Obviously, she herself is by her side, and she knows who she is, so she wants to prevaricate with this......

That's enough.

However, since the other party didn't say it, it was inconvenient for him to expose it.

After all, there are many things in this world, and it's not interesting to talk about them. And this is ancient times, if you really expose other people, and then you want to walk and talk with such a lonely man and widow without restraint, I am afraid that I will not be able to.

Liang Zheng stood in place and adjusted his emotions: "Everyone has a love for beauty, which is also common sense. What's more, a thousand people and a thousand thoughts, can you guarantee that among the people of your Shen Mansion, no one will have a love for Miss? ”

Shen Wanyue tilted her head sideways and thought about it, she really didn't dare to guarantee it.

In fact, she can read a lot of thoughts in the eyes of those little guys when they see her occasionally, but the identity is there, and the family rules are on their heads, so they naturally don't dare to have any other thoughts.

"But ......" Shen Wanyue was noncommittal, "then I want to ask, you haven't even seen my young lady's face, and you fell in love with her, isn't it too ridiculous?" ”

Liang Zheng was speechless for a while.

Now she's still teasing herself!

"I have never met your young lady," he said, "but I have seen you." ”

"Huh?" Shen Wanyue's eyes flashed slightly, "How do you say this?" ”

Liang Zheng said with a smile: "As the saying goes, the beauty of the girl is rare in the world, and your young lady should naturally be even more shocked." ”

This is not a deliberate compliment or flattery, but a fact.

It's like the girlfriends around beautiful women, generally speaking, they are particularly ugly - there is no contrast, there is no contrast.

So an ugly master, there is absolutely no beautiful maid by his side......

Isn't that nothing to add to your own blockage?

Therefore, if the girl in front of her is really "Qian Zi", then "Shen Wanyue", as her master, is naturally only more beautiful.

"Flim Flam." Shen Wanyue gently smacked him, but her eyes were full of joy.

Neither of them spoke anymore and continued to walk silently along the street. Skirting a few alleys, long flower beds stretch along both sides, strolling through the moonlit alleys, gradually leaving the whirling and dancing fish and dragon lanterns and the laughter of pedestrians into the distance.

There are no noble ladies with BMW carved cars and pearls, no fragrant incense permeating the whole way, no crowds of tourists, no children chasing and playing, except for the occasional birdsong, and the light sound of the wind moving the leaves, no longer hear a little noise, everything seems so quiet, from this section of the tree-lined road, looking up at the flower street standing not far away, it feels like a world away.

Liang Zheng stayed by Shen Wanyue's side step by step, feeling that the girl was only one centimeter away from him, easily smelling the fragrance in her hair and the tulip-like smell on her body, and occasionally feeling the corner of the other party's skirt rubbing against the back of his hand. I wish this road would never end.

"You're ...... this time"

The same words rang out in the world between the two. Both of them were stunned for a moment, and they all stopped talking.

"You talk about ...... first"

Again, they spoke in unison, and then the two of them were stunned again. After a moment, he laughed silently.

"You say it anyway." Liang Zheng said softly.

"I heard that you ...... The young master came to Henan this time, did he come to purchase brocade? Shen Wanyue tilted her head sideways and asked, "But your Liang family is not a cloth merchant, so why don't you have to buy so much brocade?" I heard from the stewards that the brocade silk that the master had prepared for you was full of twenty large boxes. ”

"It's for the sake of sewing uniforms." Liang Zheng explained, "I ...... The young master of our family was entrusted by the order of Wuxian County to transfer the Yongning military regiment to practice, and the imperial court also gave it a establishment. ”

Shen Wanyue was surprised: "You can use brocade silk to make battle robes, this is too ......"

"It's not a uniform, it's a uniform." Liang Zheng explained the advantages of the brocade robe and military uniform again, and said at the end, "So these brocade silks are ...... to me My son-in-law is very important. For example, there is smoke on all sides today, there is Manchu Dolgon in the north, Zhang Xianzhong in the south, Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, and Zheng Zhilong, a pirate, in the east...... It can be described as stormy, not to mention the distant mountains and Shaanxi for the time being, and there are also thieves in Henan, and the guard has long been useless. Only in this way can we forge a division of tigers and wolves, worthy of the grace of the imperial court, and live up to the people's ardent expectations. ”

Shen Wanyue couldn't help but laugh and said, "You...... Your son-in-law still knows about the military? ”

"You can't pull up a mountain and carry a tripod." Liang Zheng said, "Soldiers, the way to danger, the art of danger, how can you lightly talk about knowing soldiers?" There is no permanent war, there is no way to achieve the law, how can we talk about the war? I...... The young master just read some books and wanted to do something for the people. Now starvation is everywhere, the people are not living, as far as we are in Henan, the city goes to see lanterns, visits to temple fairs, but ten miles outside the city is the human market, and the refugees who came from Guide and Runing are washing their faces with tears every day, selling themselves to survive...... This is a natural disaster, let's not talk about it, but man-made disasters can't be ignored. ”

"Man-made disaster?" Shen Wanyue looked at him with bright eyes.

"It's a bandit." Liang Zheng said, "After natural disasters, there will be bandits, and the rogues will most carry the people, and if they are allowed to run rampant, it will only make more and more refugees." And what will happen to these people who can't get by? Isn't it to join the bandits and then kidnap others? That's it...... How to put it, it should be said, is a vicious circle. ”

"Then if it is up to you, how should this trouble be cleared?"

"It's nothing more than four words: soothing and appeasing."

"Oh?"

"The culprit must be dealt with, and if the rest are not asked, the thieves will be solved. Ask the wealthy businessmen to transfer silver and grain for disaster relief, and allow them to scatter their ranks, why don't these lowly merchants do it? And those who have food to eat, who will follow the thieves to make trouble? Such a two-pronged approach, both grace and power, and the bandits will be appeased. ”

Of course, asking a wealthy businessman to transfer silver and grain for disaster relief can only be a temporary problem after all, and it can only solve an urgent need, and what Liang Zheng didn't say is to reform the tax system, after all, this is the most fundamental way - with money, disaster relief will not worry about silver, and there will be no worry about food and salary in the war.

The fundamentals of reforming the tax system lie in two points: one is that the officials and gentry pay taxes as one, and the other is to levy commercial and industrial taxes on the Jiangnan faction.

In the Ming Dynasty, scholars and officials had the right to tax exemption, and if there was a person who made a name for himself, he was already a civil servant, enjoying tax exemption treatment, and a large number of fields were attached to the ground, so the officials and gentry had to pay taxes as a whole, and the state could collect money.

The Ming Dynasty did not attach much importance to commerce, and there was no perfect commercial tax system itself, and at that time, the south, especially the coastal areas, were mostly engaged in maritime trade, so it was necessary to implement appropriate commercial taxes and industrial taxes to fill the treasury.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty has not done a good job in these two points, resulting in the rich Jiangnan has not been able to collect taxes, the state wants to suppress bandits, to resist foreign insults, can only collect heavy taxes to the northwest region with serious natural disasters - that is, to suppress wages, which completely forced the poor.

Of course, to implement these policies, it is necessary to change the law, and this change involves too many interest groups, and it is impossible to do it without iron-fisted support and without an army that can be independent of the system, otherwise the Donglin Party, which represents the official gentry, will not agree to it first. So Liang Zheng didn't say it - this is too far from reality.

But even so......

Shen Wanyue's words were still secretly convinced......

I didn't expect this person to have this insight, not only suave and romantic, but also talented in civil and military affairs.

As soon as he thought of this, he couldn't help but blush, and he was about to find a topic to diverge, but suddenly heard Liang Zheng break off:

"Who?!"

Shen Wanyue was startled, raised her head, and then found that not far away from the shadow of the tree, the shadow seemed to have something, and Liang Zheng drank it before he hesitated to walk out, but it turned out to be a twelve or thirteen-year-old beggar, wearing a swarthy broken hat on his head, his face and hands were full of black mud stains, and he couldn't see his true face for a long time.

"Great, uncle, spare me." As if frightened, the little beggar trembled all over, "I didn't mean to, I ...... I'm just so hungry...... So, that's why I want to beg my uncle and grandmother for a bowl of rice......"

"Poor ......" Shen Wanyue saw that he was still kneeling on the ground and fighting, probably hungry, after thinking about it, he didn't have any broken silver and copper coins on his body, so he asked Liang Zheng, "Do you have any money?" ”

Liang Zheng took out a silver ingot from his body and handed it over. The little beggar probably had never seen such a big piece of silver, and he was so excited that his eyes flashed out in an instant, and he hurriedly reached out to take it, but the range of action was too large, and he accidentally left a few black finger marks on the back of Liang Zheng's hand.

But just like that, Liang Zheng froze suddenly, and stayed there in a daze, and he didn't even seem to notice that the little beggar walked away.

"What are you doing?" Shen Wanyue waited for a long time, and saw that he was still looking at his hand steadily, "Although that kid has soiled you, in my opinion, he is also careless, why are you so careful." ”

"I'm not here for that." Liang Zheng's eyes were gloomy, looking at the direction of the little beggar's departure, "Don't you think it's strange?" ”

"Strange?"

"We are so remote here, how can anyone think of such a place to beg? Shouldn't you go to a crowded place to ask for food? The street in front of me is so lively......"

When he said this, Shen Wanyue couldn't help but wonder: "You mean ......?" ”

"I didn't say anything...... Liang Zheng shook his head slightly, but his face was indescribably solemn.

What he didn't say was that just now, when the little beggar touched his hand, he felt it clearly......

The beggar has a thick callus on his right hand!

I remember that when I was in Taohuadu, Xu Hu once said: "...... I checked it carefully when I helped pack the boxes, and these domestic servants didn't have calluses on their mouths, and they were obviously not people who had been holding knives for a long time. So it should be fine! ”

However, what does the calluses of this little beggar mean?

Liang Zheng looked at the direction of the other party with burning eyes, and a trace of haze flashed in the depths of his pupils.