After soaking in the biting ice water for a long time, it was not until the whole person completely calmed down that Tang Cheng raised his face from the copper basin, pulled the handkerchief and wiped his hands and face, and then returned to the bookcase and sat down.

After breaking through the temptation of the whirlpool of interests, or putting aside huge interests for the time being, Tang Cheng, who calmed down, quickly found out the unreasonableness of this matter.

Since Gaozu Taiyuan raised the army, the imperial court has been in charge of the world for nearly a hundred years, and the construction of various systems should have been completed in a hundred years. Furthermore, from the local point of view, if there is really such a loophole, doesn't it mean that as long as whoever does the Si Tian Cao Judgment Division, he can accumulate thousands of family fortunes in three or two years? This is a fat almost fake, but when you really want to get fat to this point, it is obviously a little out of line with common sense.

When he thought of this from the imperial court system to the state of the world and human feelings, Tang Cheng then remembered Lao Liang's mysterious appearance, and after these three things were tangled together, Tang Cheng had faintly felt that there should be something wrong with this.

If so, what's the problem? After carefully combing through the memories that Lao Liang just said, Tang Cheng did not show any abnormality, after all, the time he had been to the yamen was too short, although he was familiar with the basic process, but when it came to such a thing, his professional knowledge was lacking, so that he could not make an accurate judgment at all.

Since he couldn't figure it out, Tang Cheng put this suspicion aside for the time being, and then pondered Lao Liang.

The temptation just now was put in front of him, if there was something wrong with Lao Liang, who was acting strangely, what was his purpose in doing this? Do you want to get a piece of the pie and get some benefits from it? Or......

The more he thought about it, the more he thought about it, and when he thought of the worst possibility, Tang Cheng was shocked.

At this time, I think about the scene just now, I can't help but want to pull the door. In the cold weather, a layer of fine beads of sweat quietly appeared on Tang Cheng's forehead.

Li Lingzhi is dizzy! In many cases, it's not that people aren't smart enough, but they can't think of anything else under the stimulus of huge interests. Or subconsciously they don't want to think about the results that are contrary to their own interests.

Poppies bloom, and the greatest poison is always hidden under the most beautiful flowers; And Li Lingzhi is the poppy of the human heart.

After splashing the cold tea, Tang Cheng reprepared a cup of hot tea and took a sip while continuing to look at the unfinished book before, and now, at least in front of Lao Liang. He wasn't prepared to inquire into the details.

Seeing that it is about to be time to disperse. Lao Liang walked in again, saying that he had something to say. But what he said was nothing more obvious and innocuous than the cause.

"My lord, Mr. He's ......", under Tang Chengdi's gaze, Lao Liang licked his chapped lips in winter, and said with a smile: "Seeing that the New Year has arrived." This needs to be reported to the provincial government as soon as possible, and it has been urged several times above."

"Well, it's a big matter, let me think about it, and I'll give you an answer tomorrow morning", looking at the disappointment that flashed between Lao Liang's eyebrows, Tang Cheng's heart sank, but he still smiled kindly and said: "Lao Liang, you are Lao Sitian." I guess I should know that there is a whole lot of sloping land in Honshu."

Lao Liang, who was about to turn around and leave the official room, suddenly turned around after hearing this. "Adult means ......".

"Nothing interesting, huh. Just ask at will", Tang Cheng, who turned the tea cup in his hand, smiled on his face, "I said that the land is the official land, and the slope in the official land."

"Wangjiazhuang", Lao Liang looked excited, and reported the name of the place without thinking, "My lord, this Wangjiazhuang is not far from the state capital, although it is a slope, but it is very convenient to get water, and then this piece of land is also neat, and it is more than 1,000 acres", at this point, Lao Liang looked back at the closed door of the official room, and said in a low voice with his fingers: "The market price of this land has now been speculated to five and eight, if it is sold as a whole, it is also good to find a buyer for Liuguan."

"Wangjiazhuang! Okay, I made a note of it, Lao Liang is good, not bad! With a smile in his mouth, Tang Chengtete, who put down the teacup and got up, opened the door of the official room for Lao Liang, "By the way, who is in charge of the geographical map of the mountains and rivers in Honshu?" Oh, it's Feng Haizhou, Lao Liang, you go out and greet him, let him bring in the geographical map of mountains and rivers and let me take a look, Wangjiazhuang, what a name! ”。

"Oh, oh", Lao Liang's expression moved, "I'll go now."

While Kankan waited for him to go out, the bell rang slowly.

After a while, Feng Haizhou walked in with a geographical map of mountains and rivers.

When Feng Haizhou came in, according to Tang Cheng's habits, he didn't close the door of the official room, Tang Cheng looked through the open door, and Lao Liang, who was the most active in the past, was a little abnormal, sorting out something on the bookcase, and occasionally glancing into the room.

"Haizhou, you go first, go to Wanfu Building and wait for me after leaving the ya, I'll do it at night, let's have a drink or two", after glancing outside, Tang Cheng didn't wait for Feng Haizhou to say another refusal, he already shook his hand and said: "Well, it's decided, you go."

Feng Haizhou turned around and walked out of the official room with some doubts, Shangguan invited him to eat and drink alone, after all, this kind of thing is not good to tell others, it is because he left the official room not long after he went out.

After Feng Haizhou entered Tang Cheng's office, he basically came out after putting down the geographical map of the mountains and rivers, and when he left, Lao Liang's ability to clean up the bookcase was also much faster, and then, after he was busy, he called a few other colleagues who were a little behind to leave together. For a while, Tang Cheng was the only one left in the entire Sitian Cao.

After Lao Liang and the others left, Tang Cheng waited for a while, and then Shi Shiran got up and left.

After leaving the state and turning to the street in front, Lao Liang slapped his head suddenly, "Oh, you look at my memory, why do I always drop things", after finishing speaking, he smiled and arched his hand to the colleagues around him, "Go first, I have to go back here to make it." A few of his colleagues made fun of him and walked away, and after Lao Liang watched them go away, he turned around and entered a side alley, and followed the side door at the end of the alley to return to the state office.

In Chen Liang's office, Lao Liang made it clear what happened in the afternoon.

Chen Liang, who was sitting behind the bookcase, listened quietly and listened to Lao Liang. After a long silence, he began to ask, question after question. And each of these problems is finer than the other.

"It seems that he is indeed tempted! Well, tomorrow morning, you will do this, first send me the document with his signature and seal, and more importantly, once he has contacted the buyer, he will come to report it to me immediately", Chen Liang's fingers tapped lightly on the bookcase. A crisp sound that sounds like a rhythm. There is a bearing in this sound, "Speaking of which, our Jin Yushi from Chang'an is now idle." It's tickling on the forehand."

"Yes!" , After Chen Liang agreed, he didn't leave, looking at Chen Liang with blank eyes.

"Don't worry, as long as this thing is done. Don't drive adults, I won't treat you badly", Chen Liang got up and went to the middle of the room, stretched out his hand and patted Lao Liangdi on the shoulder, "I know that you have a good relationship with Xiao Li, and you must have known the news he brought back yesterday, there will be a big change in the state government, Lao Liang, you can seize the opportunity this time."

"All the battles are supported by the adults", Lao Liang's face flushed. Half a head taller than Chen Liang, his waist is bent even more. So that it would be more convenient for Chen Liang to pat him on the shoulder, "If his subordinates can really do that." I will thank you very much."

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say......".

In the Accord of Wanfulou Restaurant, Tang Cheng added wine, looked at Feng Haizhou, who was surprised, and asked with a smile: "Haizhou, what's wrong?" ”。

"Oh, thank you, my lord", Feng Haizhou bowed his body and gave way, and said with a smile to himself: "I didn't expect an adult to ask me about this, there are many disadvantages in this, and the previous judges are all secretive, and it is the first one to inquire like an adult."

"Well, let's talk about it", Tang Cheng threw a few beans into his mouth, chewing out a piece of "gaba" and making a chaotic sound, while raising his hand to let Feng Haizhou eat it too, "Talk about it carefully."

"This is the biggest piece of Sitian Cao's oil and water, and it is also the most accident-prone piece", Feng Haizhou also took a bean and threw it into his mouth and chewed it slowly, "His subordinates were twenty-one years old and went to the Ya, and this year is exactly sixteen years, and in the sixteen years, there are three Sitian Cao judges who have been planted on this."

Tang Cheng became interested, but he didn't interrupt him, and listened quietly after taking a sip of wine.

"Since my lord thought of asking this question, I think I am well aware of the interests of the land, and I need not say anything more; Now I want to say that the ground is the risk", Feng Haizhou put down the chopsticks in his hand, sat upright and said: "This risk comes from two, every year in 10,000 losses of 50 land, the attitude of the head of the ministry to this loss is that it can not be used, but it is absolutely not, the loss may not be rewarded, but if it is a little, it will be strictly pursued."

"Jinzhou has the Han River running through the border, the so-called unpredictable wind and clouds, if the river flow is as stable as in the past two years, it is naturally good, but once the water rises, the number of official land washed out in the whole territory will be far from 50 out of 10,000, what will happen in the meantime?" Feng Haizhou shook his head, "It's easy to report the new silt official land with the head of the household department, but if you want to report the disaster, it will be more difficult, and at this time, Si Tiancao can only use the loss accumulated over the years to fill this hole."

"Well, that makes sense", Tang Cheng nodded thoughtfully, "You go on."

"The second point is that the adults only know that the head of the household department has given us a loss, and I don't think I know that Ben Cao also has an additional task for the official land. This task is summarized every five years, whether there is a new official land, the family property of the prisoners is confiscated, or the arson is reclaimed, or even some local yamen organizes the people to occupy the use of forced labor to level the new fields, etc., regardless of the means used in the locality, in short, when the general manager reports once every five years, the amount of new official land is not less than one acre, which is also the most important criterion for measuring the achievements of our Si Tian Cao. ”

"It's easy to say that it's a new official, but it's hard to do! The newly silted official land is purely harvested by the sky, and even if there is, the newly silted acres are far less than washed away by the water; As for the confiscation of the prisoner's property, this is also not to be relied upon; In addition to these two ways, if you want to increase the official land, you must mobilize a large number of people, but how easy is it to recruit people? There are rules on the number of days that the people need to serve in a year, and after being called by the imperial court and the provincial government, there are very few that can be left for the state government to dispose of. And even if there is, how many days can there be? Leveling the new land is not something that can be done in a day or two. By this time ......".

"At this time, the gap in new official land will still have to be made up by the loss saved in the previous area." Without waiting for Feng Haizhou to say more, Tang Cheng had already said this first, "So to speak." The loss of fifty out of 10,000 is a leak filling stone, although there can be more or less left every year, but it is necessary to prepare for natural disasters and the collection of new official lands once every five years! I said, how could the head of the ministry be so generous, it turned out that he was waiting here! ”。

"My lord is right", Feng Haizhou took the wine in front of him and drank it all, "Although every judge understands this truth. It's a pity that there are few who can hold back and not stretch out their hands. Everyone has a sense of luck, and many people boast of good luck. Thinking that he shouldn't encounter any major events in office, he couldn't help but eat the loss, but the result was delicious and unpalatable, and he finally folded himself in. Everyone says that Si Tian Cao in the yamen is fat, but in fact, ah. This place is a nest of fires. Counting the yamen of the state capital all over the world, I dare to ensure that the officials have the most accidents, and the most convicted must be Si Tian Cao."

"Sharp Mind Faint!" , Thinking of the struggle in the office room in the afternoon, Tang Cheng felt embarrassed, "Haizhou is incisive."

Feng Haizhou was a little embarrassed just now, "My lord praised it."

"You understand when you see things, how is it a false praise", Tang Cheng smiled and raised his lamp to invite a drink. "That's right. Are you familiar with Wangjiazhuang? ”。

"According to Cao Li's errand arrangement, I am in charge of all changes in the land and acres within a radius of 100 miles from the state city. Naturally clear", Feng Haizhou didn't think too much, put down the wine in his hand and sighed: "Among all the slopes belonging to the official land, Wangjiazhuang is the best one, it is convenient to get water, and the fields are neat. But speaking of which, the first judge when I joined Cao was planted on this land."

"Oh?".

"This piece of land is good, the price is high, and the judge of the field moved its mind, originally his luck in those years was really good, if you look at the loss accumulated in your hands, you can eat a few hundred acres of yuan. I just didn't expect that although this land is an official land under the jurisdiction of Si Tian Cao, most of the tenants in it are family members of the town army", speaking of this, Feng Haizhou's voice became deeper and lower, "The town army's grain, rice and pickles are not much, these tenant fields are particularly important to them, Tian Jusi moved this land but stabbed the hornet's nest, the town army made a series of noise, and almost did not make a mutiny, and it was precisely because of this incident that Tian Jusi was beheaded outside the gate of the town military camp for embezzlement of public property, and his body was violent for three days, not only did his family property not enter the official, even the family has been filled with official slaves and maids, and the good family will never recover."

Back then, this Tian Judge Division was really good to Feng Haizhou, who had just entered the government, because when he talked about this old thing, he was inevitably a little sad. After drinking all the residual wine in front of him, Feng Haizhou noticed that Tang Cheng, who was sitting opposite, had a somewhat wrong face, looking gloomy and terrifying.

"My lord, what's wrong with you?".

"Ah, not really! Come, Haizhou, let's continue to drink", Tang Cheng raised the wine cup casually.

looked at the face and everything, but Feng Haizhou always had a feeling that the young judge in front of him suddenly had a little difference, and he couldn't say the specific difference for a while, or when he walked out of Wanfu Building after eating wine, he suddenly woke up, by the way, it was cold, the feeling after the sudden change of Tang Judge was like this cold wind blowing in his face, revealing a cold energy.

When Tang Cheng returned home, it was already dark, if he came back in normal times, Lan Cao'er would definitely be out of the inner courtyard, but today until he walked to the door of the West Wing, there was still no movement.

Originally, I was still thinking about whether she went out and didn't come back, but when Tang Cheng pushed the door open and went in to light the candlestick, the current blue grass was lying on the couch in the house.

"Why don't you light up in the house?" , Because he had something in his heart, Tang Cheng's tone was not good, but Lancao didn't answer him.

"What?" When he walked to the couch, Tang Cheng noticed that something was wrong, and the blue grass lying on the couch was crying silently.

This is the first time he has seen such a scene since he met him, Tang Cheng felt a pang in his heart, and he had already pulled up the bluegrass in his hand, "Something happened, tell me quickly."

The blue grass that was pulled up suddenly got into Tang Cheng's arms, and the silent tears turned into sobs, "Ah Cheng, save Xiao Tao."

"Little Peach?".

"Well, when it was almost dark in the afternoon, there was a ......"