After the Qingming Festival on the eighth day of the first month of March, Ding Yi, the patriarch of the Ding family, visited the whole family Gu, Fan, Du, and Dai family members one after another, Chen said the benefits, and asked the seven surnames to join hands to accuse Chu Wenqian of expanding the county house and perverting the law for bribes. Surrender to the Chu clan for the time being, but you are afraid that you will not have a good time in the future, this is originally a matter of both glory and loss-"

Du Zigong has been privately informed by Ding Yi of the six surnamed Hanmen scholars, including his son-in-law Sun Tai's Langya Sun family and Qian Tang Chen's family, Chu's news is blocked but he still wants to suppress the Chen family by hiding the homeless people and evading taxes, Chu's failure can be imagined, so he said: "The Chu family secretly supported the Lu family last year to register the scholars, which is really insulting to the dignity of the scholar family, and now they use official affairs to vent their personal anger, how can these people benefit the township?" If the Dingshe people are forced to hand over their private hermits, the Qian Tang clan will not look good, and I, the Du clan, will have to dismiss some of the homeless people who have been sheltered, so as not to give the Chu clan a handle. ”

Since Du Zigong said so, the Zhu family and the Fan family agreed to jointly accuse Chu Wenqian, and the seven scholars surnamed Qian and Tang jointly wrote to the king of Yangzhou Assassin History, demanding that the Qian and Tang acting county order Chu Wenqian wantonly expand the county building and shield the Lu family's fraudulent registration of scholars-

Chu Wenqian did not know that the Chu clan was about to face a catastrophe, and on the morning of March 13, he ordered the Wu County Lieutenant to lead 30 foot archers to Chenjiawu to arrest Chen Xian, the patriarch of the Chen clan, Laifu, Ran Sheng, and Jingnu. There are only more than 100 people in the Chen clan plus tenants, why are so many people gathered here?

How dare the county lieutenant of Wu arrest people as aggressively as Chu Wenqian commanded, and ordered his subordinates to stop far away, he took two officials to see Chen Xian, the patriarch of the Chen clan, and those tenant farmers outside the dock fort refused to let the passers-by be bold, and no one paid attention to the official authority of the county lieutenant Wu.

In the midst of the stalemate, Chen Shang and Patriarch Liu walked out of the gate of Wubao, and there were several Shu patriarchs in this county, and Chen Shang asked the county lieutenant Wu what business he was doing here?

Wu County Lieutenant said: "On the order of Chu Fujun, Patriarch Chen went to the county government to ask about some things. ”

Chen Shangdao: "The family is old, so I will listen to it on behalf of my father." After that, Shi Shiran left Chenjiawu and went to the county seat with several other patriarchs, and behind several ox carts were hundreds of tenant farmers.

County Lieutenant Wu was dumbfounded, and hurriedly rushed back with his subordinates, while sending someone back to the county to report the letter first, while sternly asking Chen Shang and the others what they wanted?

Chen Shangqi said: "County Lieutenant Wu, didn't I go with you to the Ya for questioning?" Could it be that County Lieutenant Wu wants to tie him down? ”

Wu Xian said angrily: "Chu Fujun only sent you to question. What do you want to do with so many people? ”

Chen Shangdao: "These tenants: they want to go to the county seat. What does it have to do with the next. ”

County Lieutenant Wu knew that he couldn't stop it. hateful said: "Chen Shang gathered a crowd to make trouble this time. You, Chen, are to blame. Walk! "Riding a horse. With a group of foot archers, they rushed to the Maple Grove Ferry first. After crossing the river, he ordered the ferry not to return to the south bank for the time being, and hurriedly returned to the county government to discuss countermeasures with Chu Wenqian.

Chu Wenqian was furious when he heard this: "Let them cross the river." The county is judged to be impartial, and the Tang Chen clan wants to gather people to make trouble, so let them make trouble. The bigger the trouble, the heavier Chen's sin is! "Urgently ordered people to go back to Fenglin Ferry, let Chen Shang and them cross the river, and ordered fifty foot archers in Qiantang County to assemble and stand by. He also mobilized 50 people from the Chu manor to stop those tenants from being instigated by the Chen family to storm the county government.

Chu Wenqian is here to give orders. The messenger sent by Chu Jian arrived quickly. Present a frugal secret letter. Chu Wenqian read the letter. I couldn't speak for a long time—

Chu Jian learned five days ago that the six surnames were a foregone conclusion. The edict has been issued. The officials of the Spectrum Division, the Ancestral Department, and the Ministry of Officials will arrive in Qiantang in the near future. From March. The Qian Tang Chen clan is listed as a scholar clan. The night I got the news. Chu Jian stayed awake all night. The next morning, he was ten years old. Understand that you can't do anything. Chan was enrolled. Then the original means of framing the Chen family were useless. What is the upper grade of the field and the lower quality of the field, the illegal occupation of the shade households, and the private attachment of the homeless. All kinds of incriminating evidence were solved because Qian Tang Chen was admitted to the scholarhood. The Chu family is unable to suppress the Chen family in this regard. Only by continuing to endure -

Chu Jian wrote a letter to his nephew Chu Wenqian, ordering Chu Wenqian to immediately suspend the investigation and inspection of the Qian Tang Chen family, if the three homesteaders have gone to the county government to accuse the Chen family, they will immediately reprimand them sternly, and find a way to reconcile with the Chen family, especially for Chen Caozhi, if necessary, it is also necessary to cater to and even endure humiliation.

Chu Jian can be regarded as able to bend and stretch and make a decision immediately, but he didn't know that the situation in Qian and Tang was out of control, and the seven surnames of Qian and Tang who were surnamed Ding had jointly sued him with the Chu family had already traveled to Yangzhou day and night......

Chu Wenbin was also in the county government that day, and when he saw his cousin Chu Wenqian reading the letter, he was stunned, and hurriedly asked what happened?

Chu Wenqian only retracted his soul from the shock at this time, and hurriedly ordered people to rush to the Fenglin Ferry again, and not let those tenants cross the river-

Seeing that Chu Wenqian's order was changing and capricious, County Lieutenant Wu couldn't help but shake his head secretly and asked, "Why did the prince change his mind?" ”

Chu Wenqian handed the letter to Chu Wenbin and said to the county lieutenant of Wu: "The Qiantang Chen clan is a scholar. Just such a sentence, it seems that all his strength has been exhausted, and Chu Wenqian is depressed.

"Qian Tang Chen has become a scholar!" County Lieutenant Wu was shocked and jealous.

At this time, Chen Shang, Patriarch Liu and others had already crossed the Qiantang River to the north bank, and they were not in a hurry to go to the county seat, waiting for the hundreds of tenants to cross the river in batches, two ferries could cross 60 people at a time, and 5 or 600 people on the south bank could not come in two hours.

Chu Wenqian's second visit saw that Chen Shang and the others had arrived on the north shore, and knew that they couldn't stop it, so they turned around and went back to report the news.

Chu Wenqian panicked, he didn't know how to deal with this situation, or the old man of Wu County, and said: "Fujun, the matter has become a big trouble, since you can no longer deal with the Chen family, you have to settle the matter immediately, otherwise you can't suppress it if you make trouble, and it will be troublesome." ”

Chu Wenqian said: "Yes, yes, but how to calm things down?" ”

Wu County Lieutenant said: "The prince of the government should personally come forward to explain this matter, and the three falsely accused farmers will give the Chen family an explanation." ”

Chu Wenqian was silent for a long time, nodded and said, "Only like this" Looking at his cousin Chu Wenbin who was sitting on the side, he was really depressed to the extreme.

At dusk, five or six hundred tenants from the Hanmen appeared outside the south gate of Qiantang County, Chu Wenqian and a county official set up a tent by the city gate, and invited Chen Shang and Liu Patriarch and other tenant brains to the tent to narrate, Dao Ming was a villain's false accusation, and now it has been investigated, and the three tenants were escorted over and beaten on the spot, and the ghost cried wolf.

Chen Shang remained silent, and Chu Wenqian learned the news of the six surnames being naturalized, so his face changed suddenly.

The patriarch of the Hanmen Shu clan with the head of the Liu clan asked Chu Wenqian to register their private hidden households as tenants, and promised not to relocate these hidden households to other places, and not to arbitrarily raise the households of each household, etc.-

The so-called household is that the government is divided into different grades according to the number of property and goods produced by the people's fields to levy taxes, and the fields are generally divided into three grades and nine grades, and the officials often arbitrarily raise the level of the households, so as to blackmail the households, and those who send money and bribes are rated as middle and low, and if there are those who refuse to bribe, they are rated as a product on the household, and this product is different from the official product, the higher the product, the more miserable and the more degraded.

Chu Wenqian didn't want to turn these poor hermits into naturalized tenants, because the taxes paid by naturalized tenants had to be handed over to the state and county, and the county could not intercept them, and the hidden households, the state and county had no nationality and did not need to pay taxes, but the county officials knew the roots and could seek personal benefits from them.

But Patriarch Liu and others insisted on handing over the hidden household, Chu Wenqian couldn't put it off, so he had to agree, and asked Chu's manor to send a few truckloads of dried jujube steamed cakes to invite these five or six hundred tenant farmers to have a full meal, and then soothe them with kind words and let them go back to the south bank of the Qiantang River.

Thinking of his uncle's words in the letter, Chu Wenqian went to Chenjiawu the next day to apologize to Chen Xian, the patriarch of the Chen family, saying that he misheard the villain's words and almost made a big mistake.

Chu Wenqian went to Yuhuang Mountain to visit Chen Caozhi, saying that Chen Caozhi is filial piety and honesty and great sage in this county, and he Chu Wenqian is the head of a county, so he will visit the virtuous and famous people in this county, inquire about the gains and losses of politics, and better benefit the township——

Jade Emperor Mountain Grass Shed, Chen Caozhi listened to Chu Wenqian's words, the corners of his mouth smiled, polite, when he heard Chu Wenqian say that he was going to his mother's grave to pay respects, he refused, he didn't want this fragrant powdered, duplicitous guy to disturb his mother's resting soul, this forty-six-year-old lewd man also wanted to marry his sister-in-law, looking at it was disgusting.

Chu Wenqian was rejected, and he replied, and said in his heart: "Chen Caozhi, you are just a new scholar, what can you be proud of, and wait for me to discuss with my uncle, do you just let your Chen family be arrogant?" ”

After this petition of the tenants of the poor family, Chu Wenqian's county order has no prestige at all, and before he can come to his senses, Chu's greater crisis has arrived-

On the eighth day of the first month of April, the new Yangzhou internal history Wang Shao was a Yangzhou official and a group of 50 people came to Qiantang, and Chu Jian, who temporarily acted as the Taishou of Wu County, Chu Jian's face was like earth, and he wanted to confess to Wang Shao many times along the way, but Wang Shao did not pay attention.

Wang Shao is the fifth son of Wang Dao, nicknamed the big slave, beautiful appearance, both wind and exercise, deeply valued by Huan Wen, originally as the deputy of the assassin history, this kind of small matter of expanding the county house does not need him to come forward to investigate, he is here mainly to see Chen Caozhi, this ~ Chen Caozhi who is sick with anger, this is said to be good at calligraphy and painting, music, Go, and Qing talk Chen Caozhi, and it is rumored that 6 Na's daughter 6s is devoted to this Chen Caozhi, which really makes Wang Shao curious.

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There must be two more tomorrow, the dormant plot is almost over, I should take the two-meter giant Ran Sheng into Jiankang, I don't dare to ask for a ticket today, tomorrow's second watch, book friends will give me tickets again.