Jingyang County Ling Tian Zheng led a number of officials such as the county's county officials, chief bookkeepers, and canonical histories, as well as dozens of county officials, to enter Lijiazhuang with great fanfare.

Why did His Royal Highness the King of Qin not live in the ready-made palace and have to go to a small village in Jingyang County? Looking at the slightly damaged palace, Tian Zheng couldn't figure it out even if he wanted to break his head.

In this era, the most difficult local official to be was the prefectural magistrate of the feudal king's residence. The vassal king is the emperor of the soil, although he seems to have little power, but he is often extremely arrogant, and he does a lot of things like bullying the weak and bullying men and women, and he wants this and that at every turn.

As the most basic court official, the county commander himself has little power, but he is under the jurisdiction of the prefect, and he has to control the affairs of the county, and he has to do his best to flatter the vassal king. If you do a good job, you should do it, and if you don't do it well, you often have to carry the black pot for Shangfeng, and it is often a rat drilling bellows, and both ends are angry.

However, Tian Zheng had already received a notice from Xi'an Mansion in advance, and he was overjoyed to learn that he was about to be promoted to the prefect of Fengxiang Mansion. First, he was promoted to become rich for no reason, and secondly, he got rid of the big burden of King Qin.

Therefore, Tian Zheng came here today, just to go through the motions and respond to the situation. As for how this King of Qin will be like in the future, it has nothing to do with him.

But what Tian Zheng didn't expect was that Zhu Youzhen, the king of Qin, actually took him out of the mansion in person. Now he was so grateful that even his lips trembled slightly, and he couldn't say anything.

He had heard of it before, and even Wu Zhiwang, the governor of the three sides, had eaten the closed door soup of the King of Qin. And he is only a small magistrate, but the King of Qin has descended to greet him, this face is really too big! No matter how ups and downs he will have in Huan Hai in the future, this experience will always be his bragging capital.

Zhu Youzhen politely let Tian Zheng to the front hall, and asked the palace maid to serve fragrant tea. Tian Zheng was flattered and wanted to kneel down to thank him, but Zhu Youzhen pressed him on the chair and said with a smile: "Lord Tian is about to rise soon, you must know it yourself." Introduce you to someone! ”

Saying that, Zhu Youzhen invited Sun Chuanting over and introduced to Tian Zheng: "The official document of the Ministry of Officials will arrive in a few days, that is, to appoint this Mr. Sun Chuanting Sun as the next Jingyang County Commander. Seeing you here today, you can get closer and closer to each other and make some preparations for the official handover. ”

It turned out that this was also one of Zhu Youzhen's plans. As early as when he decided to come to Jingyang, Zhu Youzhen decided to let Sun Chuanting serve as the magistrate of Jingyang County. First, Sun Chuanting is a rare talent, he was killed by Wei Zhongxian last time and dismissed, and this time Zhu Youzhen will reinstate him.

Second, although he hid out of Xi'an, he still had to deal with the magistrates of Jingyang. Rather than letting an unfamiliar official hinder and hinder his own plans, it is better to directly install a cronie of his own, and Sun Chuanting is naturally the best candidate.

Although Tian Zheng felt that Zhu Youzhen was a little anxious, he felt that he was going to be promoted anyway, and he was happy to be a favor. So he greeted Sun Chuanting flatteringly, and shouted "Lord Sun" one by one.

In fact, Tian Zheng came to visit Zhu Youzhen out of etiquette, and there was nothing serious at all. After a few pleasantries, I wanted to find an excuse to leave.

How do you know that Zhu Youzhen suddenly said: "Lord Tian, the Governor and the Governor must have known you, since Jingyang County is the king's fief, the county's enslavement is naturally determined by the king." ”

Tian Zheng nodded hurriedly yes, and said secretly in his heart: This little prince may be about to start squeezing the people's fat and people's ointment. In fact, this kind of thing was not uncommon before, and the vassal kings often came to their own estates, arbitrarily raising the servitudes, making the people in the provinces miserable. But Tian Zheng is now a matter of hanging high, if you want to fish, you can fish, even if you stab Lou Zi, it is Sun Chuanting's business.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Youzhen's next sentence surprised Tian Zheng and Sun Chuanting: "When this king first arrived in Jingyang County, the people have not received any favor from this king. In this way, all forced labor for the whole year of this year will be exempted, and only the land endowment will be paid! ”

"Temple... Your Highness, how does this work? Without waiting for Tian Zheng to speak, Sun Chuanting first questioned.

"What's not to be desired?" Zhu Youzhen took a long time to speak.

Tian Zheng also felt that Zhu Youzhen was too nonsense, so he coughed, shook his head and said: "Your Highness, the people depend on the king's land for a living, and they need to pay for service, both ancient and modern. Emperor Taizu also told the world: 'Those who are for our people should know their share, and those who are endowed with land to serve for the superior are also their share.' In particular, this conscription is actually more important than Tian Fu. In the event of a disaster, the imperial court occasionally exempted the field tax, but it never exempted from forced labor.

"In the local area, urging grain and wages, paying imperial tribute, and building rivers and embankments, these major events can only be completed by sending people out of forced labor. There are also those warehouse workers, pavilion workers, soap servants, patrol arresters, shop soldiers, sedan chair drivers, jailers and other servants, all of whom rely on conscription to draw people to do it. If the conscription is exempted and no one does these tasks, won't the county be chaotic? ”

Tian Zheng finished talking about this long paragraph, and thought that Zhu Youzhen would definitely be speechless. Zhu Youzhen listened carefully, but shook his head with a smile and said, "Lord Tian, relax your mind, you can't mess up!" If no one does it, this king can't pay someone to do it! ”

"This..."Sun Chuanting was about to argue, but Zhu Youzhen glanced at him, and smiled at Tian Zheng: "It's not early, the road in Zhujiazhuang is very difficult, and Lord Tian should go back to the county seat to rest." Let Lord Sun go with you and live in the county office temporarily; As soon as the official department arrives, it will be handed over, and this order exempting from conscription will also take effect from that time, okay? ”

Tian Zheng saw that Zhu Youzhen had ordered the eviction of customers, so he had to bow down and withdraw. Sun Chuanting wanted to say something, but Zhu Youzhen whispered to him: "Mr. just go to the county seat and hand over to Tian Zheng seriously." I have a reason for doing this, and I'll explain it to you later. ”

Although Sun Chuanting was full of suspicion, he didn't want to say anything more, so he had to follow Tian Zheng out. After just two steps, he turned back and said, "Your Highness, this matter of opening a porridge factory..."

"This matter is not to be taken care of." Zhu Youzhen said with a smile, "You just have to do your county order, and when you are used, this king will look for you." ”

After sending Tian Zheng and Sun Chuanting away, Zhu Youzhen returned to the study, and immediately brought Rui'er to ask him: "How many assets are there in the palace now, let's count them now!" ”

Rui'er was already in charge of the palace, so she turned out the account books at this time for Zhu Youzhen to see. When Zhu Youzhen couldn't understand it, Rui'er explained it to him on the side.

Zhu Youjian didn't look at the daily flow of water, but only looked at the bulk entry and exit of more than 10,000 taels of silver.

After inventory, Zhu Youzhen learned that there were more than 600,000 taels of silver and more than 20,000 taels of gold in the palace. Coupled with the silver that was given to Li Zicheng and others before, it was close to one million taels of silver, which was really a lot of money. Moreover, Zhu Youzhen is now the third prince of food, and this year's Yulu has not yet been delivered. Once in hand, it will add nearly 100,000 taels of silver.

Zhu Youzhen pinched his fingers and calculated, if the price was compared in the previous life, these silver would be equivalent to hundreds of millions of yuan. And in this era, of course, prices are much lower, and the actual purchasing power of these silvers, even billions, may not be able to stop.

Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but be overjoyed, thinking that he was no longer a penniless poor ** silk now, but a veritable super tyrant, and he could do some big things.

After reading the account book, Zhu Youzhen solemnly returned it back to Rui'er's hand, and said half-jokingly and half-seriously: "Concubine Ai, all the net worth and life of this king are here, and they are all handed over to you, don't sell this king!" ”

Rui'er smiled embarrassedly: "Lord Wang, Rui'er actually doesn't know how to manage finances, or you should hand over this important task to others!" ”

"How's that going to work!" Zhu Youzhen took Rui'er into his arms, stroked her hair and said, "You are my wife and the person I trust the most." I don't let you manage the money, can't you find an outsider? In fact, managing money is also very simple, set the rules, and everything is done according to the rules. If he violates the rules, no matter who he is, he will not be allowed to withdraw a penny, including me! ”

Rui'er listened carefully, nodded vigorously and said, "Don't worry, Rui'er will definitely take care of this account for you!" ”

Zhu Youzhen looked at Rui'er's serious face, and felt very cute, and couldn't help joking: "Today I want to withdraw 10,000 taels of silver to open a porridge factory and help the poor villagers, can the princess approve it?" ”

Rui'er also deliberately lowered her face and said, "Why do you want so much at once?" Do you plan to spend money and set up a small treasury privately for the purpose of looking for flowers and willows in the future? ”

"Princess Niangniang Mingjian, you can't even be satisfied with your husband, how can you still have the energy to find flowers and ask willows!" Zhu Youbao raised his hands to make a surrender form.

"Lord Wang... You're talking nonsense! When... I can't be satisfied..."Rui'er was so ashamed that her face was flushed, and she wanted to escape!

Zhu Youzhen's heart was moved at this moment, and he pulled Rui'er into his arms, and while going up and down his hands, he whispered in Rui'er's ear: "I've been busy for a few days, and we haven't taken care of intimacy yet!" ”

Rui'er was already panting slightly at this time, her eyes were misty, and when she was gradually losing her mind, the maid Yiyi came in with fragrant tea to serve, and just happened to bump into this fragrant scene, so she exclaimed in fright, turned her head and ran, but accidentally smashed the teacup to pieces, and the tea was spilled on the ground.

"Ahem... It's a good teacup, it's a pity to fall, pay attention next time! Zhu Youzhen was embarrassed.

"It's... Slave must be careful next time! Yi Yi was so frightened that she hurriedly cleaned up and ran out.

"Lord Wang, look at you!" Rui'er couldn't help but sneer at Zhu Youzhen, "I just want to do it in broad daylight... In that case, fortunately it was Yiyi who came in, if it was changed to Sister Yulian or someone else, Rui'er would really be ashamed to death! ”

"Blame me, blame me!" Zhu Youjian hurriedly reviewed, "Next time, I must insert the door first!" It's not good to let Yi Yi see it, after all, people are still underage! ”

Rui'er said to Zhu Youzhen with a smile: "Lord, Yiyi is fourteen years old and can get married!" ”