At dusk, Chen **zhi returned to Gu's mansion, that is, he went to see Gu Minzhi and reported to Gu Minzhi, Zhishang Shutai, the modification of the customization of shade clothing and food, and the persuasion order, Gu Minzhi was a little surprised by the persuasion order, it seems that Huan Wen was very determined about this landbreak, and immediately visited Zhang Ping with Chen ** at night to discuss the matter.

Zhang Ping and Gu Minzhi knew that the sixteen counties of Danyang, Dongyang, and Wuxing were delaying the land break for some reason, and most of the magistrates of these sixteen counties were out of the Huiji Yu clan, the Huiji He clan, the Huiji Wei clan, the Wu Jun Zhu clan and the Wu Jun 6 clan, the Wu Jun gate lords, the Gu family and the Zhang clan were still on the sidelines, and the Huiji clan and the Kong clan did not support the 6 from the beginning, because Kong Wang and Chen ** had a close relationship-

The three Wu Shi people are mainly concentrated in the ten counties of Yangzhou, these ten counties are Danyang, Yicheng, Wu County, Wu Xing, Huiji, Dongyang, Xin'an, Linhai, Yongjia, Yixing, Jinling, except for Jinling County, which is not in the list of this land break, the remaining nine counties and one hundred and twenty counties are controlled by the three Wu Shi people, accounting for about half of the 6 first instructed the sixteen counties to obstruct the land break, it is only a preliminary test if the three Wu clans are single-mindedly linked, they can control half of Yangzhou, and the Gengxu land break will not be able to go on at all, if the contradiction intensifies and evolves into civil strife, it is not impossible, but this is by no means compassionate. Zhang Ping is willing to see, as long as he can keep his ancestral inheritance, as long as the family representatives can occupy a place in the court, as long as the children of the family can meet these three needs smoothly and unhindered in their careers, the three Wu clans are willing to be in an inferior position in the court and try to avoid provoking fierce struggles, which can be said to be the consensus of the three Wu clans, and it is also the steady and introverted strategy of Gu Rong and 6 plays.

But now, 6 Shi believes that the Gengxu soil break has damaged the ancestral foundation of the Sanwu clan, and must resist, and Gu Minzhi and Zhang Ping and others think that although the Gengxu soil break is more severe than the previous three land breaks, it is not unacceptable, after all, this is only a review of the household, and the northerners do not take the opportunity to encroach on the fields of the southerners, and the cancellation of the white nationality has a great impact on the northerners. The disobedience was quite dissatisfied, and this Tu Break obviously canceled the preferential conditions of many expatriates, so there was no need to confront Huan Wen on the matter of the Tu Rouge.

Zhang Ping said: "The revised custom system of shade clothing and food stipulates that the first and second grades can account for 80 shade households, nine products can also account for 10 households, and the shade households of the ancestors can be inherited, so that a large part of the hidden households can become legal shade households." ”

Chen ** Zhizhi: "Let the younger generation roughly calculate for Uncle Zhang, if you calculate how many legal shade households the Zhang family of Wu County can have according to the new shade household system." ”

Zhang Pingluo groaned slightly: "My Wu County Zhang clan has one third-grade official, one fourth-grade official, two fifth-grade officials, five sixth-grade officials, seventh-grade seven, eighth-grade three, and nineth-grade five. ”

Chen **zhi responded: "One person of the third grade occupies 70 shade households, one person of the fourth grade occupies 60 shade households, two people of the fifth grade occupy 100 shade households, five people of the sixth grade occupy 200 shade households, seven people occupy 210 shade households, three people of the eighth grade occupy 60 shade households, and five people of the ninth grade occupy 50 shade households, a total of 750 households. ”

Gu Mingzhi and Zhang Ping were very amazed by Chen **zhi's agility, and Zhang Ping planned in his heart: (): "There are nearly 400 shade households inherited by my ancestors and fathers, and the total can have more than 1,000 legal shade households, and there are about 1,000 hidden households on my Zhang manor, according to the new custom system of shade clothing and food, nearly 400 of these more than 1,000 hidden households can be transferred to legal shade households, and the remaining 600 or so hidden households have to be handed over, registered in the government, and bear taxes and servitude, which seems to be bearable. ”

Zhang Ping smiled at Gu Minzhi and said: "Brother Gu's family property and hidden households are more than my Zhang's, and I only look forward to Brother Gu's horses." ”

Gu Minzhi shook his head with a smile and said, "It seems that Brother Changzong is willing to hand over the hidden household, then I will go back to repair the book and report to the family brother urgently, and decide this matter as soon as possible." ”

The three Wu clans take the Gu family and the 6 clan as the manor, and the servants are also the most, although Gu Minzhi does not know the exact number of hidden households in his clan, but there are definitely two thousand hidden households, and this time at least half of them must be handed over, and the burden is heavier than that of the Zhang family.

Zhang Pingdao: "Brother Gu will go with me to see Brother 6 Zuyan first, the three Wu Shi clan are in the same spirit, although I don't agree with the drastic measures of the 6th Shi, I must also remind him, don't let him go his own way." ”

Chen **zhi said: "The two uncles will go to see the big 6 Shangshu first, and I will also go to visit the small 6 Shangshu." ”

Gu Minzhi smiled: "Okay, then let's go together." ”

The mansion is on the north bank of Hengtang, Gu Mansion and Zhang Mansion go around the lake on the south bank, but only a mile away, Gu Minzhi and Zhang Ping only took four or five servants to go on foot, Chen ** Zhi was accompanied by Ran Sheng to open the way to 6 Mansions.

In August, in addition to hundreds of cannas, there are more than ten osmanthus trees on the island in the middle of the lake in Hengtang, and the night breeze blows the dark fragrance, faintly thinking about that day, 6 Wei Rui and short hoes on the island, throwing stones and rushing water, Chen ** couldn't help but smile, 6 Wei Rui stood in front of ** with one hand, and gently beckoned the cute appearance, as if it was right in front of him-

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Gu Minzhi and Zhang Pingzhi entered the Da 6 Shangshu Mansion and discussed the matter of the 6 beginning of the meeting, Chen ** went to see 6 Na 6 Na was preparing to invite Chen ** to meet tomorrow, and heard that Chen ** asked to see him, and immediately went to the study to look up and down Chen **, Chen **, the gentleness and handsomeness as before.

Na asked: "Have you seen Wei Rui?" ”

Chen **zhi didn't expect 6 Na to ask this when they met: "Yes." ”

Na asked, "Is Wei Rui okay?" "6. Na is very reluctant to return to Huating for his beloved daughter, but he can't disobey his brother's 6th order.

Chen ** Zhidao: "When Sanrui passed by the Yanling Jizi Temple, he extended the cross tablet written by Confucius. ”

Chen **zhi seemed to answer the question, but he nodded, and was very satisfied with Chen **zhi's answer, and asked: "What is the matter with ** Zhi coming to see me at night?" ”

Chen's Zhidao: "The juniors are Zhang Shizhong and Gu Zhongcheng who came with Zhang Shizhong and Gu Zhongcheng, and Gu Zhongcheng went to visit the big 6 Shangshu, and the juniors came to visit the 6 envoys. ”

Na "Oh" immediately asked for details, and Chen **zhi said about the modification of the customization of yin clothing and food and the persuasion of the retirement order.6 Na said: "Zhang Shizhong and Gu Zhongcheng are here to persuade my second brother to accept the Gengxu Tu Judgment Order, it seems that Gu and Zhang have been persuaded by 丨**." ”

Chen ** said: "The interests of the family are not something that the younger generations can control, this is Zhang Shizhong and Gu Zhongcheng out of consideration of long-term interests, full of losses, humble benefits, and wealthy families, and cannot be unlimited, otherwise Jiangzuo will be chaotic." ”

Na Twist pondered and suddenly asked: "Do you think that my 6 clan will collapse in the next three years?" ”

When Chen ** heard this, he understood what 6 Na was thinking, and replied: "Jiangdong 6 has produced 6 heroes, there are 6 envoys, such virtuous people in the 6 clan will only become more prosperous, and the younger generation will be appreciated by the 6 envoys, and I hope that the 6 clan will be strong." ”

Na nodded, was silent for a while, and said, "I'll go to my second brother's mansion to listen to what Gu Zhongcheng and Zhang Shizhong have to say." ”

Chen ** immediately said goodbye 6 Na said: "** Zhi will wait for the inner son Zhang to see you, I have sent the boy in to report——"

As he was talking, 6 birds came over and invited the third uncle to go over the house to discuss the matter, and he was shocked and angry when he saw Chen **, but he didn't dare to hate in front of the third uncle 6.

Na was worried that the 6 birds would have a dispute with Chen **, and he didn't wait for his wife Zhang Wenjun to come out, so he went with the 6 birds.

Chen **zhi waited alone in the 6 study room and waited for the two servants to wait.

The footsteps sounded softly, Mrs. 6 Zhang Wenjun came to the study accompanied by several maids, the originally slender Mrs. 6 was pregnant for nearly three months, obviously plump, and when she saw Mrs. Chen, she sighed and said: "Before Wei Rui returned to Huating, I finally saw Chen Langjun, I was finally relieved, otherwise, I was afraid that Wei Rui would be wronged and depressed in my heart, and I wanted to accompany her back to Huating, but she didn't want me to go with me, I was afraid that I would be overwhelmed." ”

Chen **zhi said in a low voice: "It's really ashamed that I let Wei Rui be wronged." ”

Mrs. Zhang Wenjun hurriedly comforted Chen **: "Wei Rui has suffered a lot of grievances, but the happiness she feels here in Chen Langjun is also never, the last time she came back from Xinting, Wei Rui often sat alone and smiled, and also painted several Xinting chrysanthemums and a lotus picture, which should have been traveled with Chen Langjun that time." He ordered the maid to take 6 Weirui paintings to show Chen **.

After talking for a while, Chen **zhi said goodbye and returned to Gu Mansion, Gu Minzhi had not yet returned, Chen Shang was talking with a strange young man, and when he saw Chen **, Chen Shang said: "Sixteenth brother, this young man Lang Jun is from Wu Xing, surnamed Shen, and insists on waiting for you here." ”

The young man was about fifteen or sixteen years old, his eyebrows and eyes looked quite similar to Shen Jin, and Chen ** asked, "Who are you Shen Shijian?" ”

The young man had already stood up and said respectfully, "It's my father." "Speaking of it, I gave a big gift to Chen **, and the young man was only three or four years younger than Chen **, but he did it as a gift to his elders.

Chen **zhi hurriedly asked his name, and replied that Shen Chiqian's father, Shen Jin, wrote back to Wu Xing before crossing the river to the north, and ordered Shen Chiqian to worship Chen **zhi as a teacher, learn Confucianism and the study of the world, and Shen Jin strictly ordered Shen Chiqian to respect Chen **zhi as his father in the letter-

Wuxing, Shen and Yixing, the Zhou clan did not have a high political status during the Sun and Wu periods, and the prestige of the family was not obvious, and Yongjia did not get the attention of Wang Dao later, but when the Shen and Zhou clans were strong, they were called "the heroes of Jiangdong, Mo Qiang, Zhou Shen" When Wang Dun was in rebellion, Shen Jin, the father of Shen Jin, who was deeply dissatisfied with the imperial court, raised 10,000 private soldiers, and Shen Chong was able to raise 10,000 private soldiers in just a few dozen days, which shows the strength of the Shen family in Wuxing, Shen Chong was deprived of the rights of the scholar clan and became a criminal family, but the Shen family still has a large number of fields and tenants in Wuxing, and the influence is huge, and now the imperial court has returned to Shen Jin's loyalty, and has lifted the confinement of Wu Xing Shen's inadmissibility, Wu Xing Shen is expected to revive Shen Jin's sense of Chen's knowledge, and knows that Chen's erudition is the son of Shen Chiqian's teacher, Chen **.