It was a gratifying thing to occupy the Arrow Furnace (Kangding) to regain control of the Ancient Tea Horse Road, but who would have expected that Fan Mingshan would be very embarrassed to go out and offer beauties.

After the army pacified the Ming Zheng Tusi Rebellion and controlled Kangding, in addition to leaving a section in the local area to maintain law and order and ensure the safety of the Ancient Tea Horse Road, the main force of the first town retreated.

On this day, Fan Mingshan led his troops to go first, returned to the CD, and accompanied by Tibetan toasts such as Litang Tusi and Batang Tusi.

Now that the Son of Heaven is covered with dust and the four seas are in turmoil, Yang Xuan, as the governor of Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu, of course hopes to stabilize the rear and ensure the smooth flow of the Ancient Tea Horse Road.

At the end, Litang Tusi Song had to offer a treasure, and it was actually a Tibetan beauty who offered it.

Dragged by four maids in long skirts, Ah Hei Zhuoma came, different from the beauties of the Han area, the beauties in the Tibetan area are plump, the eyes are deep and people can't stop, plus the whole body is wearing gold and silver or something, it looks like a huge glowing ball from a distance.

Rao is the protagonist who has seen different beauties in his previous life suddenly saw such a scene, and sighed in his heart when he saw the beauties in Tibet, no wonder there is a beauty valley in Tibet, no wonder there are beauties in Tibet since ancient times.

After clearing his throat for a long time, Yang Xuan walked down the steps and said: "Litang Tusi, you invited such a beauty, it is really eye-opening, no wonder everyone in the world says that there are many beauties in Tibet, you present a beautiful woman this time, I don't know what it means?" ”

Litang Tusi Song made his teeth and arched his hand: "We were deceived by Mingzheng Toast, sat on the ground, and deceived adults.

In order to thank the adults for their kindness, the lower officials specially offered their younger sister Ah Hei Zhuoma to the adults, hoping to help the lower officials serve the adults to atone for our sins. ”

Yang Xuan approached to take a closer look, feeling his heart and blood rolling, he originally wanted to agree, but suddenly thought that he currently had a wife and two concubines, and if he married another concubine, such a life would inevitably be even more decadent.

After pondering for a long time, he cleared his throat and said, "Litang Tusi, your mind has been understood, and the beauty of Ah Hei Zhuoma is also quite exciting.

But now that Bendu has a wife and two concubines, his life is already very luxurious, and if he wants to marry Ling Mei again, he is afraid of provoking others. ”

The next crowd was in an uproar, and the political envoy Zhan Tianyan came out and said: "Lord Hou now has a wife and two concubines, of course, there are more than ordinary people, but adults are heroes in the world, how can they be compared with others?" ”

CD prefect Yan Ximing arched his hand and said: "As the saying goes, three wives and four concubines are just ordinary people." Hou Ye is now only one wife and two concubines, and the inner hall is really empty. ”

Qian Bang pursed his lips, and also bowed down to persuade him: "I know that the Hou Ye and the county lord are friends in trouble, and they have a very good relationship and share weal and woe.

But this Ah Hei Zhuoma is different from others, if there is anything melancholy about the Hou Ye, I will not hesitate to this old bone, and I will definitely admonish the county lord, thinking that the county lord understands the righteousness, and will definitely understand the Hou Ye's hard work. ”

Seeing everyone's intentions, Yang Xuan waved his hand and said: "Everyone, from luxury to simplicity, from simplicity to luxury, what is luxury, what is frugality?"

Some people say that people like Hai Jui are a model of clean officials, Hai Jui is not corrupt and bribery, and his innocent life is a model of clean officials to tell the truth.

Everyone in the world said that Hai Rui could not afford to eat meat when he became a county official, and he did not take bribes and was a model of clean officials.

But think about it? Why can't Hai Rui afford to eat meat, even if you don't count other cases of silver, Hai Rui has a normal annual income of 50 taels of silver as the magistrate, and pork is only 20 taels of silver, 50 taels of silver can buy 2,500 catties of pork, seven catties and eight catties a day, not to mention Hai Rui alone, that is, Hai Rui's family can eat big fish and meat every day. ”

Qian Bangqi frowned slightly, shook his head and said: "My lord, after Hai Rui, the world lamented that there is no Qing official like Hai Rui in the world, and it is probably unfair for adults to evaluate Hai Rui like this." ”

Yang Xuan smiled, looked at the other party and said, "According to the inspector, don't worry, let me settle an account for everyone."

Hai Rui married three wives and three concubines in his life, and it took one hundred taels of silver to marry and buy a concubine during the Jiajing period, plus more silver was needed to handle the marriage.

If a concubine marries a lady, she will get more silver.

Hai Rui has three wives and three concubines, and he spends more than 1,000 taels of silver to marry and marry. ”

Everyone was shocked, most of them were scholars, and they didn't calculate such a detailed account in the past, but now when they heard this, they suddenly realized.

But Yang Xuan is not finished, in addition to the cost of marrying, there are also daily expenses, relatives and friends' expenses, so that it costs more.

Before the age of 60, Hai Rui was mostly middle- and lower-level officials, and his normal annual salary was only 60-90 taels.

In this way, Hai Rui lived a simple life, and it was logical that he rarely bought pork when he was a county official.

Back to the topic, although Yang Xuan is now a governor, his annual salary is only 300 taels, and if you add the special fee and the examination fee (double the annual salary), the annual income is less than 1,000 taels of silver.

Even if the income of the Hou Ye's fief is added, it is only 1,500 taels of silver per year.

Now there is a wife and two concubines, and the county lord likes to talk about pomp and circumstance very much, and the annual living expenses are also thousands of taels.

In this way, more than 500 taels of silver can be left every year, but most of this money and grain are used to support the soldiers and support the clansmen, and there is not much money and food left.

Although everyone doesn't believe it in their hearts, although the accounts are like this, Yang Xuan is now the governor of Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu, and he dominates one side, why don't there be all kinds of silver?

Not to mention anything else, just to say that every time the battlefield is captured, there are countless of them, and if these things are converted into silver, they are far above the fortune.

But how can this kind of thing be said, now I hear Yang Xuan openly call it poor, and everyone claims to be it one by one.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Yang Xuan took the opportunity to say his thoughts, that is, to limit the number of wives and concubines of officials.

Encourage the people to practice monogamy, if the people marry a concubine does not need to pay additional taxes, if marrying two concubines need to pay 2 taels of silver, and then each additional concubine needs to double the tax on the original basis for education funds.

From now on, any minor official who has more than one husband and one wife and one concubine, and an official who has more than one wife and two concubines, shall be dismissed from his official position.

Zhan Tianyan, Qian Bangqi, Wu Yanghu and others applauded loudly, most of them were in their thirties, and before that, they had only one wife, and although they also married concubines after they developed, they are now only one wife and two concubines.

As the adults said, if an official has a group of wives and concubines, and his daily life is rotten, and his normal salary is difficult to support his daily expenses, all he thinks about all day long is favoritism and embezzlement of public funds.

Of course, there are also some officials who are dissatisfied, and although they are dissatisfied, it is difficult to make any big waves.

In addition to this, many people immediately discovered the vulnerability.

Now that Litang Tusi Song has made his teeth and put on his sister Ah Hei Zhuoma, Yang Xuan can't ignore it, let alone sweep his face, looking at the young and beautiful Ah Hei Zhuoma under the hall, Fan Mingshan, the deputy general of the first town, is heroic, and suddenly has an idea in his heart, and openly matches the two in the hall.

Unlike the women of the Han family, Ah Hei Zhuoma promised on the spot, but Fan Mingshan seemed quite unnatural, and repeatedly deduced that having a wife and two concubines in the family had already exceeded the regulations just established by Hou Ye.

Yang Xuan laughed and said: "Brother Fan, as the saying goes, things are in a hurry, Ah Hei Zhuoma is beautiful and moving, and she is the sister of Litang Tusi who sent her teeth to make a tooth clood, if you marry Qin and Jin, it is also the friendship between our Han family and Tibetans." ”

In order to reassure him, Yang Xuan promised in public that in the future, if the official general Ruona alien woman is a wife and concubine, it should not be in the scope of the wife and concubine restrictions.

Everyone smiled happily, everyone praised loudly, Yang Xuan was proud in his heart, and thought in his heart that if this policy was implemented for a long time, it would definitely encourage intermarriage between different tribes to achieve the goal of national integration.

On this day, he drank two glasses of happy wine from Fan Mingshan's house and returned to the back hall happily, who expected that the county lord Zhu Shuying was sitting on the top, and the whole person looked sullen.

Swaggering to the top, taking off his boots, a maid brought a cup of hot water, Yang Xuan put his hands on the Taishi chair, while enjoying the fun of the foot bath, he asked with concern: "County Lord, you, what's wrong with you today?" The whole person is depressed, what happened at home?"

Zhu Shuying glared at the other party and said, "Master Hou, you are honest and honest outside, above board, and care about your subordinates, I have no opinion on these."

But you also have to think about the concubine, don't let everyone think that the concubine is a jealous person and can't tolerate people. ”

Yang Xuan smiled and said, "County Lord, where are you, who offended you, why did you say that?" ”

After sobbing twice, Zhu Shuying suddenly turned to look at the man and asked eagerly: "Husband, I heard that Batang Toast presented a beautiful woman today, is the other party beautiful?" ”

Yang Xuan was shocked, his body shrank slightly, and he suddenly smiled: "County Lord, to be honest, the other party is also a rare exotic beauty, compared with Fengyu and Lian'er, they have their own merits, but they are far inferior to the County Lord. ”

The other party looked very disappointed, grabbed the man's arm and said, "This, this is also very good, this girl is also one in a million."

In this case, why didn't the Hou Ye accept him as a concubine, so that the concubine was said to be a jealous person. ”

After thinking about the dispute between the other party and Huang Daiyun in the past, Yang Xuan patted his arm and said, "How come?" The county lord of my family is generous, and in the past two years, he has taken Fengyu and Lian'er as his concubine, and the county lord has no complaints.

There is also Lian'er's entry, the county lord shush for her cold, and beckons the family to repair the house and buy furniture, which is worthy of her sisters. ”

glared at the other party fiercely and said, "Don't pretend to be a good person, don't talk about him left and right, that Ah Hei Zhuoma is so beautiful, why don't you accept him as a concubine." ”

Yang Xuan was shocked, although he didn't know why the other party was so sensitive, but after thinking about it carefully, he probably heard some rumors, and some people said that he was jealous.

After thinking about it, Yang Xuan didn't dare to be sloppy, and said his reasons seriously.

The emperor has three palaces and six courts, three thousand beauties in the harem, and a group of officials' wives and concubines, which seems to be a private problem, but it is actually a social problem.

If the emperor and officials have many wives and concubines, the family expenses must be very large, and such a meager income cannot allow the family to live a decent life, so the emperor and officials will be corrupt and take bribes, and regard the wealth of the world and the property of the place as their private property for them to squander.

If the wind and rain are smooth, if the world is peaceful, the people can still survive, if there is a change in the world, the people are displaced, and this will lead to local civil unrest.

Since Chongzhen, the local people have changed in all directions, and the people have risen accordingly, and the root cause is mainly due to the greed of the royal officials.

In order to arouse the vigilance of the other party, Yang Xuan used his own income as an example to illustrate.

Now the governor earns no more than three hundred taels of silver a year, and if you add the special expenses and examination fees, it is only more than a thousand taels a year.

Now the imperial court has 200 households, and the annual income is only 500 taels of silver.

However, looking at the annual household expenses to cope with a little, he is still like this, and other officials can imagine.

Her eyes were open as if she had gone through a hole, Zhu Shuying listened and watched blankly, and said for a long time: "Master Hou, you want to save the concubine, the concubine was born in the family of the vassal king, and now you can save a lot."

Otherwise, the concubine is not suitable for this family, let Lian'er be the housekeeper's wife, you can see it. ”

When Liu Lian'er next to her heard this, she shook her head again and again and said: "County Lord, I am still young, and I am very stupid, I can't manage my own yard well, how can I manage such a big family." ”

Yang Xuan was noncommittal, in order to show his generosity, Zhu Shuying insisted on it, and finally had to promise to take the county lord maid Cui'er to manage the affairs of the family together.

After washing her feet and preparing to go to the back garden to practice martial arts, Zhu Shuying grabbed her big hand and said: "Master Hou, let's figure this matter out, the lord gave Ah Hei Zhuoma to Fan Mingshan, not because the concubine is jealous." ”

Yang Xuan felt stunned, and even claimed that it was.

As soon as the words fell, who expected Zhu Shuying to sigh with emotion, when Huang Daiyun was still there in the past, the two sides continued to argue, mainly because the other party was bent on overpowering herself when she entered the door.

When Yang Xuan heard this, he hugged him in his arms, and repeatedly admonished him, hoping that he could treat his eldest son Yang Wen well, and said that his various efforts were in everyone's eyes, and everyone would definitely change their views in the future.