As Cai Yingyang mentioned when he first met Yang Zhen, the atmosphere of the New Year in Zhuji, a small county, cannot be compared with a big city like Hangzhou. Pen~Fun~Ge www.biquge.info Although there are also people in the city who come from ten miles and eight towns to set up a temporary market to meet the needs of tens of thousands of people, but for the Yang family brothers who have seen the prosperity after hundreds of years, all this is too unattractive.

During the Chinese New Year, Yang Zhen and Yang Chen stayed in the county government office for most of the time, in addition to continuing to study the river embankment files every day, the latter also told the former about the relevant history of the Ming Dynasty that he had mastered. As a traveler, what they are really stronger than the people of this era is their grasp of the general trend of history. In the past, Yang Zhen's lack of historical knowledge in his previous life was naturally unimaginable, but now it was different, he could obtain relevant knowledge from Yang Chen that he did not know before.

Yang Chen didn't hide his selfishness, so he told everything he knew about the history of the Ming Dynasty from the founding to the demise. For example, Zhu Yuanzhang used the Hu Weiyong case to remove the official position of prime minister, such as the establishment of the cabinet, such as the Tumubao incident...... Everything he knows, no matter how big or small, tells the truth.

And on this day, Yang Chen has already said that the current turning point of the Wanli Dynasty: "...... After Zhang Juzheng's death, Wanli revealed his greedy and lazy nature, and did not go to court for thirty years, resulting in the decline of the country. Especially after the three major expeditions, the national strength was completely consumed, which led to the final result of the Manchu Qing Dynasty entering the customs and stealing the Central Plains Dynasty in hand. Therefore, some historians in later generations have commented that the death of the Ming Dynasty began with the death of Zhang Juzheng. After saying this, he looked at his brother in front of him with deep meaning.

How Yang Zhen didn't understand the meaning of his words. Obviously, the other party is once again persuading himself in a covert way not to think about finding Zhang Juzheng for revenge. Of course, he also knew that Yang Chen was thinking more about him by doing this, after all, it was almost more difficult for a Jinyi Wei to deal with the success rate of being the first assistant of the dynasty than hundreds of millions in the lottery in later generations, but it would bring endless trouble and danger to himself.

But Yang Zhen is not a person who is easy to give up by nature, not to mention that he has not encountered any danger now, even if he does, he may not retreat, so even in the face of Yang Chen's repeated warnings, he just smiled and did not say much. However, in the past few days, the relationship between the two has returned to the past, after all, the two have similar experiences, and they have always gotten along as brothers, so it is naturally easy to become brothers again.

Seeing that Yang Zhen was unmoved again, Yang Chen had to sigh secretly, he also knew that there were some things that he couldn't force on.

Just when Yang Chen felt a little helpless, a servant came to the door and reported in a low voice: "My lord, Cai Kewen, the patriarch of the Cai clan, has come to pay a visit. ”

In addition to the two things of the river embankment and talking about history, Yang Chen, the county magistrate, of course, had other things to do during the Spring Festival, such as socializing with his superiors and subordinates, as well as between the county gentry. Every day, some gentry will come to visit him and make friends with him, the county magistrate who has gradually mastered the power of the county government.

Someone from the Xuan family and the Chen family had visited before, but today it was the turn of the Cai family. Because of Cai Yingyang and the relationship between that case, the Cai family can be regarded as the family with the best relationship with them in the entire Zhuji County. Just after the patriarch Cai Kewen recovered from his injury, he rushed to the county seat to thank Yang Chen, and there were always some contacts after that, but this time for the New Year, they came later than other gentry.

Hearing that it was Cai Kewen who came to pay a visit, the look of loss on Yang Chen's face narrowed slightly, and he ordered: "Invite someone to the second hall, and after the official changes his clothes, he will go to see him." ”

Cai Kewen is in his forties and has grown up, and it is obvious that Cai Yingyang has inherited his figure. However, unlike Cai Yingyang, Cai Kewen looks quite elegant.

Soon, Brother Yang Chen met with him and greeted him. In fact, this kind of entertainment doesn't have much meaning, just mutual greetings and greetings, and nothing serious. But this time, things are a little different.

After some clichés, Cai Kewen said cautiously: "I heard that the adults have had some trouble with the Na Li family recently, I don't know if this is true?" "In fact, the county government and the Li family have already had a lot of trouble, even if he is outside the county, it is impossible not to know, so he said this is just a temptation.

Yang Chen was slightly overjoyed when he heard this, and obviously felt that the other party was deliberately trying to help, otherwise Cai Kewen would not have taken the initiative to bring up this matter in this New Year's Festival. In fact, after learning that the Li family wanted to do things on the river embankment, Yang Chen felt more and more that he was overstretched by people who could be trusted and used, and now if he could get the help of the Cai family, it would naturally be of great help.

So he nodded slightly: "I have some contradictions with the Li family, but this is not out of my own selfishness, but for the people in the county." However, the Li family has deep roots in the county, even if it is my county commander, I can't help them for a while, and there are even a lot of troubles. ”

"Oh? But I don't know if my Cai clan can help adults in this matter? Now that Cai Kewen has obtained a positive answer from Yang Chen's mouth, he will no longer beat around the bush. After all, the relationship between the two sides is here, and some words are more intimate.

"Well...... Yang Chen pondered for a while, and said: "You have to think about it, the Li family is extremely powerful, even if I, the county commander, may not be able to fight them, if your Cai family falls into this dispute, once it fails, the consequences will not be light." ”

"It is precisely because I know that the county magistrate is difficult to deal with them, that Xiaomin will come to Mao Sui to recommend himself." Cai Kewen smiled and said: "After all, my lord, you are kind to my Cai family, if it weren't for you, not only would Ying Yang be sentenced to death for murder, but our Cai family's status in the village would inevitably plummet." Now that adults are in difficulty, my Cai family should repay their kindness. ”

"Good! Patriarch Cai is really a true gentleman, and he will repay his kindness. Yang Zhen couldn't help but pat his hands and praise when he was in the audience.

"Second Master Yang, you are too praised, you are just doing your duty as a county people." Cai Kewen said busily and humbly: "The county government has found many cases of the Li family's illegal affairs before, and each of them is complete with human and material evidence, which shows that they really deserve it." Such a rich and unkind family deserves to be punished by the king's law. ”

"Well said." Yang Chen couldn't help but clapped his hands applauded: "This is also the reason why this official will continue to be difficult with it." However, he didn't think so, he always felt that this was the official deliberately dealing with them, so they had been thinking about fighting back against the official. Although they haven't made any big moves for the time being, some things have already been found out by the officials. As he spoke, his face became a little cautious.

Cai Kewen knew that he was about to get to the point, so he also said with a straight face: "I don't know what the adults have found?" Is there a place to get our Cai family? ”

"Do you know that there is such a thing as a shortage of food in the Changping warehouse now?" Yang Chen asked suddenly.

"This, the villain doesn't know." Cai Kewen was obviously stunned for a moment, and he didn't know why the other party suddenly changed the topic.

"This is exactly the trick that their Li family wants to use against their own officials. They have always controlled the price of grain in the county, so they want to hit the reputation of their officials among the people and officialdom by raising the price of grain. ”

"Is this the case?" Cai Kewen said softly in a little surprise. But after thinking about it, he said with some doubts: "But this thing is not easy to do." After all, Zhuji is in the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River, and there has never been a shortage of food, so where did they really have the ability to raise the price of grain? ”

Yang Zhen glanced at his brother, saw that the other party nodded, and said, "Under normal circumstances, their calculation will naturally not succeed, but what if there is a disaster?" ”

Cai Kewen was stunned again: "Calamity? Can they predict whether the prophet will succeed or not, and can they still calculate that there will be a disaster in my Zhuji County? ”

"They are not immortals, so naturally they can't count this matter. But they can create a plague of their own. Yang Zhen sneered as he spoke.

"Second Master, what do you mean ......," Cai Kewen frowned.

Yang Zhen did not hide it, and told the truth: "We are seventy or eighty percent sure that the Li family will think of breaking the Puyang River embankment this year, so as to flood the county." At that time, there will be a shortage of food in the city, and their plot will succeed. ”

"What?" Cai Kewen almost couldn't believe his ears: "How dare they be so mad and don't care about the life and death of the people in the county?" ”

"Otherwise, how can they fight with the county government?" Yang Zhen sneered: "Only in this way will my eldest brother, the county commander, be blamed by the boss Yamen, and finally be completely destroyed by them." ”

After being stunned for a while, Cai Kewen muttered, "It's really a good calculation." But have they ever thought about what a huge damage it would be to other people? ”

"This, I'm afraid they can't think about it. That's why the official wants to deal with them! Yang Chen snorted and said, "Now that Patriarch Cai knows the inside story, are you still willing to help this official?" ”

Cai Kewen didn't even think about it, so he immediately nodded and said: "Xiaomin should do his best!" This is not only for the adults, but also for the people of Zhuji. ”

"Good! If everyone has the idea of Patriarch Cai, how can there be a bully like the Li family in our county? Yang Zhen couldn't help but praise again.

"But I don't know what the adults tell me?" Cai Kewen immediately entered the role and asked, "But do you want my Cai clan to send people to keep an eye on the embankment, so that they can't succeed?" ”

"No, the official will ask the people in the yamen to do this. There is another more important thing here that needs to be completed by Patriarch Cai, and I hope you don't have to excuse yourself. Yang Chen had this idea before, but he couldn't find a suitable candidate for a while, and now as soon as Cai Kewen came, the matter was settled.