Chapter 853: I Don't Agree (I)

Fortunately, Hai Rui's eyes were quick, so he helped Xu Jie's knees on the ground in a hurry. Helping the old pavilion elder back to sit down in his chair, Hai Rui sighed: "I knew today, why bother at the beginning......

"Yes," Xu Jie laughed miserably: "The old man also regrets it, Lord Hai, I won't make it difficult for you to do it......" After a pause, he said: "It's better to be like this, the "Da Ming Law" contains a clear text, as long as a person commits a capital crime, the family can accept Su to atone for the crime, and the old man is willing to hand over a batch of land property to atone for the child's sins." It's okay to save people and hold the law in this way, don't you think? ”

Hai Rui was silent, he knew that Xu Jie must know his ultimate goal, so he said this. After pondering for a while, he said slowly: "There is indeed this article in the law, but the crime committed by the two sons has not yet been determined, and it is uncertain whether this article is applicable. ”

"Gangfeng ......" Xu Jie said sadly: "Could it be that the old man begged in every way, but it had no effect at all?" ”

"Alas......" Hai Rui locked his eyebrows tightly, and let go for a long time before he let go: "That's it, the Taishi asks for it like this, if I, Hai Rui, are not accommodating at all, I will be a little unsuitable," said and looked at Xu Jie and said: "I have three conditions, if the Taishi agrees, the case of the two sons will not be pursued." ”

"Gangfeng, please speak." Xu Jie blindly took the route of sadness.

"First of all, there is a famine in Wuzhong this year, and the government needs to purchase a batch of grain from the province for disaster relief in order to survive the spring famine. However, because of the war in the north, the treasury was emptied, and there was no silver in the province, so he had to collect donations from wealthy merchants from all over the country. Hai Rui said.

"That's as it should be." Xu Jie nodded.

"Both, the lower officials heard that the Xu Mansion had thousands of nominal family members, and they were swaggering, which had a very bad impact on the reputation of the Taishi. It is recommended that you take the initiative to cut off those fake household registrations, so that they can no longer continue to use the momentum to commit crimes......" Hai Jui proposed the second article.

"......" Xu Jie was silent for a moment, and Fang said: "It's a big matter, but it's not something that can be agreed to for a while." ”

"This is not in a hurry, let me finish first......" Hai Rui nodded, expressing understanding: "According to verification, the amount of land occupied by the Taishi Mansion is really amazing, and the impact is very bad. ”

"Let me say this," Xu Jie said busily: "Although the old man is away all the year round, he doesn't ask trivial matters when he comes back, and he doesn't know much about the number of the Han family's farm houses, but he also knows that most of the land properties under the name of the Han family do not actually belong to the Han family, but are sent by relatives and friends over the years. In fact, the Han family itself has no benefits, but it is a shame. This time, I can take this opportunity to unload this burden, which can be regarded as a piece of heart disease. ”

"That's very good." Hai Rui bowed his head and said: "In this way, I will give the Taishi three days, and you will give a clear answer after three days, how about it?" ”

"Thank you Gangfeng for your understanding." Xu Jie got up slowly, as if he had aged a lot.

Hai Rui walked to the courtyard with the trembling Xu Ge Lao and helped him get into the sedan chair, but he didn't see that after the sedan curtain fell, Xu Jie's faint old eyes gradually became as sharp as before.

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The sedan chair returned to the house, and the two sons hurriedly stepped forward to support Xu Jie, but he pushed it away, so he had to look at the old man's angry back hand and walk into the study, looking at the posture of the dragon and the tiger, how could there be an old dragon clock when he was in the governor's yamen.

"Feelings are acting......" Xu Kun whispered.

"You just know ......" Xu Fan pouted, he has been following his father all the year round, so he is naturally not surprised by Xu Jie's acting skills.

The two followed up the study and saw Xu Jie's back to the door, standing in front of the lattice window with his hands in his hands.

Cautiously called his father, and waited for a long time before he heard Xu Jie say slowly: "How many fields do you have?" "Hai Rui actually said that his family's 'number of properties is amazing', and it seems that the number of his family's fields is definitely not ordinarily large.

"This ......" The two sons looked at each other and spat out.

"It's all at this time," Xu Jie said coldly, "Do you still want to hide it from me?" ”

"Daddy misunderstood," Xu Kun whispered: "The main thing is that each room has an account, and there is never a summary, and no one can say it clearly for a while." ”

"Then go check ......" Although Xu Jie didn't have a seizure, his voice was so cold that it was even more uncomfortable.

The two sons hurried down and took people to each room to collect the accounts first...... This was originally a ban on each room, and it was absolutely forbidden to check other rooms, but now is an extraordinary period, and each room knows that the third and fourth are imprisoned in the ancestral hall, and even the old man personally went to the governor's yamen to intercede, obviously the biggest crisis in the Xu Mansion is at hand. Therefore, they all obediently handed over the account books, and then summarized them in Xu Jie's front study.

Because it is the top secret of the Xu Mansion, all the accounts in the house cannot be used, only Xu Fan and Xu Kun personally went into battle, plus Xu Jie's henchmen Mr. Li and Mr. Lu, the four of them crackled and dialed the abacus, counting from noon to night.

They counted inside, Xu Jie was waiting outside, he wanted to read for a while, but listening to the sound of the crackling abacus, he was so distraught that he couldn't stand it, so he could only close his eyes and pretend to sleep. Somehow, in my mind, I recalled the incident of King Jing's retreat from the field five years ago...... In the spring of the forty-fourth year of Jiajing, King Jing Zhu Zaizhen died, and there was no child behind him, and his feudal state in Chu was naturally abolished, but King Jing's Mansion had tens of thousands of hectares of Huang's fields in the fief, and these fields were occupied by his relatives and bureaucrats after his death. These granges were originally owned by the local people, so the people were very angry, almost caused chaos, and then Xu Jiejuan asked to return the fields, and seized the fields of Huangzhuang in Jingfu and distributed them to the local people, so that 'Chu Yue', and still praises his kindness.

Five years ago, he ordered Jingwangfu to retire the land, and now it is Hai Rui's turn to make him retire...... Xu Jie laughed self-deprecatingly, but after laughing, he let out a long sigh. Gradually, he closed his eyes and was groggy and groggy, as if he had returned to Beijing again, and he was still the first assistant of the empire who called for wind and rain, and he withdrew this ignorant Hai Rui with a court message.

It wasn't until he was woken up by his two sons that Xu Jie said goodbye to the glory of the past and returned to reality: "Have you found it out?" ”

"There's a pretty good number." Xu Fan worriedly presented a chapter list and said, "Father, don't be angry. ”

"......" Xu Jie looked at him, took it silently, glanced at the last number, his two eyes widened, and after another look, he was sure that it was correct, his eyes were dark, and he leaned on the recliner and couldn't speak for a long time.

Xu Fan hurriedly stepped forward, stroked his back again, and pressed his chest, Xu Jie gradually turned around, stared at Xu Kun with an incredible face, and said, "What do you want so much land for?" If you want to find death, it's not such a way to find it! ”

"Father is angry," Xu Kun quickly knelt on the ground, and said in fear: "You have left your hometown for many years, you may not know that these years are very different from before, now the people of Songjiang no longer make a living from farming, and many husbands and wives go to the factory to work, so they send their family's land to the name of the big family, and only need a part of the grain every year." Then the big families hired people from the north to farm the land, so the land was naturally concentrated in a few families. Our Xu family abides by the rules and cannot do business, and the name of benevolence and righteousness spreads far and wide, so it has naturally become one of them...... If it weren't for our family to farm acres for the people, Su Song wouldn't know how much land would be barren! ”

"You are still a hero!" Although Xu Kun said it very truthfully, who is Xu Jie, and who can deceive him? Hearing this, he sneered and said: "Why are the common people like crazy to return to the land and sue our family for forcible seizure!" ”

"There may be such a situation, but overall it is still the same as the child said." Xu Kun said in a low voice.

"Okay," Xu Jieqi laughed angrily: "I really should have brought you to Beijing at the beginning, just with this ability to be a good official, you are much more productive than your eldest brother." ”

Xu Kun lowered his head and didn't dare to speak.

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"Dong Weng is angry, now is not the time to hold accountable, how to deal with the current pass." Seeing that the scene was frozen, Mr. Li hurriedly said to the mud.

"Hmm......" Xu Jie exhaled a deep breath of turbidity and asked, "What is your opinion, sir?" ”

"Actually, we all understand what he Hairui is doing in Songjiang this time. So even if it's true that 'returning land can be exempted', his appetite will definitely not be small. Mr. Li said softly: "Our family has a big business, and even any housekeeper has tens of thousands of acres of land under his name, and it is not a problem to satisfy him." After a pause, he said: "It's just that if we really retreat so many fields, won't it in turn confirm Hai Rui's accusations, and make people think that the Xu family really took the land?" ”

"Yes, it's a dilemma." Xu Jie's head said: "Hai Rui also asked me to donate, it's the same, if I donate less, I will definitely make him dissatisfied, but if I really donate tens of thousands of taels, how will the Manchu Dynasty Qingliu look at me?" ”

"Yes, there can be no compromise." Over there, Xu Fan also said: "Take 10,000 steps back and say, the current family business is also created by the sons for more than 20 years, and there may be 'seizure' among them, but most of them are legitimate gains, how can he give it up with his words?" ”

"So what to do?" Xu Jie said coldly.

"From a child's point of view, Hai Jui can act arbitrarily, but we should still act according to the law." Xu Kun came up with an idea: "The Daming Law stipulates that if a field property is bought and sold for more than five years, it shall not be prosecuted. Therefore, we don't need to move the fields under our name for more than five years, only check out the new fields and properties in the past five years, and find those poor and controversial ones to return, even if Hai Rui is not satisfied, we are not afraid of him, and we can't let us give away the property that we have just obtained, right? ”

"Hmm, the second son is a good idea." Mr. Li bowed his head and said, "Lang Hairui has nothing to say." ”

"Let's take an inventory of the land and property that has been recorded in the past five years," Xu Jie closed his eyes tiredly and said: "It doesn't matter if you 'occupy' or not, you can clear them all...... Hai Rui asked me to be an example, and the old man should give him this face. ”

"Father ......," the two sons said in heartache.

"Do you really want to kill me?!" Xu Jie suddenly opened his eyes, raised his voice by an octave, picked up the teacup in his hand, threw it on the ground and said, "The old man has a clear name, and all of them have been ruined by you!" ”

Frightened, Xu Fan and Xu Kun hurriedly rolled into the back room and continued to settle accounts.

Mr. Li waved his subordinates away, cleaned the ground himself, and served Xu Jie a cup of new tea, but was about to retreat, but Xu Jie stopped him and said, "You said that I knelt down today, can you kneel Hai Rui?" ”

"......" Mr. Li pondered for a moment, and then said honestly: "Originally, it must have been possible, except for the emperor and the princess, no one in this world can stand your worship." It's just that the current Shoufu is a high arch, and he is definitely unmoved; Second, Hai Rui's backstage, to put it bluntly, is silent, and he is definitely unmoved; Thirdly, those officials have been put to death, lest they have anything to do with us, and they don't dare to complain to you. ”

"Alas......" Xu Jie sighed helplessly: "I knew today, why bother at the beginning, if I wasn't partial at the time, how could I be so embarrassed now?" ”

Li Xiang knew that what he said was silence, and comforted him softly: "People have no front and rear eyes, who knew that the future life would be so fierce?" ”

"That's it, don't mention this stubble...... Xu Jie waved his hand, put away his regret and said: "You're right, as long as Gao Gong is here, it's useless for anyone to intercede for me, so we have to cause trouble, not only my Xu family's family suffers, but also the entire Songjiang, oh no, the big families of Susong's ten mansions will suffer!" He said with a cold smile and said: "These bastard things, they flatter and stammer on weekdays, and now I am in trouble, but one by one I have become dumb, I want to see if I will continue to be silent when Hai Rui's butcher's knife falls on you!" ”

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Three days later, Xu Jie replied to Hai Rui's three requests: first, donate 5,000 taels of silver for disaster relief; second, the house slave has been in the Xu Mansion for many years, and his feelings are deep, so he can't be forced, so he can only let him leave voluntarily; Third, he was willing to return all the land he had bought in the past five years, totaling 40,000 mu, and had ordered his sons to make a register and return the land, waiting for the landlord to come and redeem it.

Although Xu Fan and Xu Kun were unwilling, their father's order could not be disobeyed, so they could only compile the land property into a book and hand it over together with the title deed. Xu Jiexiu wrote a letter, explaining the original situation of the retreat from the field, and sent it to the governor's yamen.

In the courtyard of the Songjiang Mansion Mansion of the Governor of the Yamen, Wang Xijue, who read Xu Jie's letter, said with an excited smile on his tired face: "Congratulations to Dugong, congratulations to Dugong, Xu Ge Lao is finally willing to retire from the field." ”

Hai Rui took Xu Jie's letter and read it carefully, his smile was slightly revealed, and he was in a good mood...... If the ice melts, how can you not like it? The eldest Xu Jiaken retired from the field, and there must be no gentry in Songjiang who dared to die. I'm afraid that the big families of the Ten Mansions of Susong will also retreat, at least the difficulty of attacking the fortifications will be much less.

But his eyebrows had just stretched, and suddenly they tightened, how could he retreat less than a tenth? Compared with the remaining more than 400,000 mu, what is the 40,000 mu enough? If the squires everywhere follow the same example and only one-tenth of the land is cleared, what is the effect of this retreat?

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I'm going to write another chapter, but whether I'll fall asleep halfway through is anyone's guess. It's the end of the month, please!!