Tianchengzong's intelligence system was efficient, and it took less than two days for Mi Cake Yang to inquire about Fang Keqin's whereabouts. Yao Guangqi rushed over with Fang Xiaoru as soon as possible. Fang Keqin lived in a very ordinary inn, and when Yao Guangqi and Fang Xiaoru found Fang Keqin, Fang Keqin was drinking happily alone.

"You're ......!" Fang Keqin was very shocked when he saw Fang Xiaoru, the cup in his hand fell to the ground, and with a bang, the fragments of the cup and the wine scattered at the same time, but Fang Keqin stammered rarely: "You...... What are you doing here? ”

Fang Xiaoru was even more surprised, his father is a person who pays great attention to self-cultivation and self-cultivation, and he has always rarely drunk, so it is rare to fall off the wine glass in this way, and today he actually behaved so abnormally, seeing this situation, he asked with concern: "Father, my son wants to come and see you, take a look at ......" Fang Xiaoru suddenly raised his tone and said: "Are you okay?" ”

Fang Keqin had regained his composure at this time, and said angrily: "Who asked you to come to the capital?" Is this where you came from? Hurry back and study, what are you doing here? ”

Although Fang Xiaoru was reprimanded, he didn't feel wronged, but felt that this was what his father should be, and then said: "Father, this friend of mine has something to do with you. ”

"Your friend?" Fang Keqin had noticed Yao Guangqi for a long time, but he didn't know Yao Guangqi's identity.

Yao Guangqi smiled and arched his hand, and then reached into his arms, intending to take out the piece of ink made by Hu Jiaofen: "Under Yao Guangxiao, please ......"

As soon as he heard Yao Guangxiao's words, Fang Keqin trembled, his body couldn't help shaking, and his expression looked very strange. Yao Guangqi saw all this in his eyes, so he simply didn't take out the ink, but just took a step forward: "The old man is here, isn't Uncle Fang Shi ......?"

"No, it's not Uncle Shi, what are you doing? Why are you Yao Guangxiao? Are you looking for me......" Fang Keqin was a little incoherent, his thinking was confused, and his body began to shake as if he was drunk.

Yao Guangqi can already be sure that even if Fang Keqin is not the clue he is looking for, he has a lot to do with Li Rou, because of his performance, he obviously knows Yao Guangxiao and is very afraid, who is this Yao Guangxiao? Why is it so mysterious? What secrets are hidden in his identity?

Fang Xiaoru hurriedly stepped forward to support his father, and kept stroking his father's back, comforting: "This Brother Yao is here to thank you, you have given him a lot of care, what, don't you know your father?" ”

Fang Keqin's eyes dodged and he looked nervous: "No, I don't know." ”

Yao Guangqi struck while the iron was hot: "Do you really not know?" You're so forgetful. ”

Fang Keqin stopped talking, but his hands kept shaking, and his expression was very tangled, suddenly, he turned around and left, and Fang Xiaoru quickly chased after him: "Father, father." ”

Yao Guangqi also chased after him, he wanted to keep putting pressure on Fang Keqin, he wanted to squeeze more information out of Fang Keqin's mouth.

Fang Keqin suddenly accelerated and ran, rushed to the street, running wildly, Fang Xiaoru chased closely behind, but Fang Keqin ran desperately like crazy, and shouted loudly while running: "Haha, what am I afraid of, I don't have to be afraid anymore, the fold has been handed over, no matter who you are, whether you are true or not, I don't have to be afraid." ”

With Yao Guangqi's foot strength, he could catch up and control Fang Keqin in the blink of an eye, but he didn't want to do that, a famous Confucian like Fang Keqin, his kung fu to nourish qi must be very home, how could he suddenly be so crazy? He didn't understand why Fang Keqin was like this, could it be that he was insane when he saw him? He wanted to see something more, but he couldn't say exactly what he wanted to see.

Suddenly, Fang Keqin in front of him was mixed with something and fell to the ground hard, Fang Xiaoru caught up, panting to help his father up, Fang Keqin turned around and pushed his son away, turned over and sat up, smiled at the sky, and said to himself: "My Keqin has followed the teachings of the saints all his life, sacrificed his life for righteousness, and benefited the people in the world, what is the way for me to live and die alone?" ”

Chapters, truth and falsehood, sacrificing life for righteousness, Yao Guangqi heard these words truly, but what does Fang Keqin mean when he said that the preface does not match the afterword?

Suddenly, Fang Keqin fell straight down, and Fang Xiaoru shouted: "Father, father." Murong Qing hurriedly rushed forward, touched Fang Keqin's snort, touched his pulse again, and said calmly: "It's okay, maybe he's too excited, go back and let him sleep well." ”

Fang Xiaoru took Fang Keqin away, leaving behind Yao Guangqi, who was deeply puzzled.

"Do you want to send someone to watch?" Murong Qing came to Yao Guangqi and said softly.

After a long while, Yao Guangqi reacted: "Huh? What did you say? ”

Murong Qing sighed: "I said whether to stare at him or not." ”

Yao Guangqi looked at the direction in which Fang Keqin was going, and suddenly asked, "Did you hear what he said just now?" ”

Murong Qing nodded, "What did you think of again?" ”

Yao Guangqi looked up at the sky, the night was very good, the moon was beautiful, but it looked a little bleak: "I have a faint intuition, he returned to Beijing this time just to fold the music, and his abnormality is directly related to the recital." ”

"What's wrong with the upper fold? He's an official, isn't it normal to play a fold? Murong Qing was puzzled.

Yao Guangqi turned his head to look at Murong Qing and smiled: "It's really ordinary to be an official, but have you ever thought about it, he can also play a chapter when he is in office?" Why did you come all the way to Beijing? Do you want to go back to your hometown to see your family first? It is very common for local officials to give a beating to the current emperor, and the current emperor has repeatedly issued edicts asking local officials to admonish, and many local officials will go up, but it is really rare to see someone like him. ”

"You mean there's something very important in the movement?" Murong Qing suddenly realized.

Yao Guangqi thought for a while, and shook his head again: "Although I don't know what it is, but he mentioned sacrificing his life for righteousness, I deduce that there is a shocking conspiracy or big secret in this movement, either which political enemy to attack, or ......" Yao Guangqi hesitated again: "Maybe there is a major event that can set off the situation in the court." ”

Yao Guangqi's inference was not wrong, and a major case that affected the situation and shook the world broke out. And the fuse that broke out was the letter on Fang Keqin.

In the fifteenth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, it was known as one of the four major cases in the early Ming Dynasty.

Early the next morning, Yao Guangqi called Murong Qing: "Fang Keqin was arrested?" ”

"Who caught it?" Yao Guangqi had a bad premonition in his heart.

"Official, ah......!" Murong Qing suddenly let out a long scream as he saw Yao Guangqi standing up shirtless.

Murong Qing hurriedly turned around and covered her eyes: "Why are you like this." ”

"How can you have the kung fu to talk about etiquette, let's go quickly." Yao Guangqi put on his clothes, picked up Murong Qing and ran out.

When the two arrived, Fang Keqin had already been arrested, and Fang Xiaoru sat alone in the room, looking in a trance, his eyes glazed, staring at the few old clothes left by Fang Keqin in a daze.

"What's going on?" Yao Guangqi asked with concern: "Which yamen came to arrest it?" What is the reason? ”

Fang Xiaoru looked at Yao Guangqi, his expression was very stiff, as if crying and laughing, and then began to speak. Fang Keqin woke up last night, the father and son kept talking about dawn, Fang Xiaoru knew Fang Keqin's plan, and knew the cause and effect, but Fang Xiaoru, who knew the truth, was extremely depressed and uncomfortable, facing Yao Guangqi, Fang Xiaoru and Pan said: "Father is too stupid, he wants to use his life to complete the teachings of the saint, he said in person, to do this, to clear the tumor for the world, for the community to drive away the pain." Speaking of this, Fang Xiaoru hid his face and cried, he knew that his father would never come back, and the parting just now was probably the last time he saw his father.

To talk about Fang Keqin, we have to start from the beginning.

All the magistrates in the Ming Dynasty needed to report to the imperial court every year on the financial revenue and expenditure of the previous year, and the institution of the imperial court to verify the accounts of money and grain was the combination of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Commerce. Just as not only provinces have to submit reports to the central finance, but also prefecture-level cities and even county towns have to report to the central government, according to the current management science, it is simply a redundant move to take off your pants and fart.

Fortunately, in this regard, the financial system of our Celestial Empire is now relatively clear, because now it is only necessary for each prefecture-level city to report GDP and fiscal revenue to the provincial finance, and the province will report the summarized figures to the central finance, which not only avoids duplication of work, but also does not cause errors due to the ineffective accumulation of work. Of course, the resulting misrepresentation of GDP and underreporting in various places is unavoidable. A profit will produce a disadvantage.

Got that out of the way, now back to the point. At that time, all levels of local government reported to the Ministry of Household what are the drawbacks of fiscal revenue and expenditure, the most fundamental drawback arises in the tax collection system, because the fiscal tax collection at that time is not money, let alone silver, but grain, and if the grain is lost, there will be loss in the process of transportation, because the people who transport the grain want to eat, you can't let the people who transport the grain go to the restaurant every day, so isn't the consumption of the three public higher? As the old saying goes, "grain is not transported for thousands of miles", and the grain consumed in the process of transporting grain often accounts for two or three percent or even more than half of the total grain expenditure at the time of departure. For example, the county transported 1,000 catties of grain to the government, and sent 5 strong men to transport it, and the strong men ate at least 2 catties of grain per person every day, don't be too much, which is already very conservative for manual laborers. The minimum food consumption in a day is 10 catties, and 5 strong men walk 50 miles a day, which is already very fast. It takes 4 days to walk 200 miles to Fuli, so the answer to this application question is to consume at least 40 catties on the road. But what if these 5 strong men all eat a lot of food? The consumption of 4 catties per person a day will be doubled. If there is a heavy rain during transportation and the trip is delayed for 3 days, or the flash flood washes down the road and bridge and delays for 10 days, then the consumption will be even more.