Chapter 850 Yitian (II)

Xu Jie asked again how to say this. Chen Heng told him a story, saying that just a few months ago, Ye Perch had been to the house. But it happened that Xu Jie went out to visit friends, and Xu Fan received his uncle at home. Ye Perch Jiang bluntly said to Xu Fan: "You have also been an official, so naturally you should know the national law and discipline, why are the slaves in the family running rampant outside, and your brothers don't care, and you don't care?" He said it politely, and did not directly accuse the Xu brothers.

'The domestic servant is unruly, and things are ......' Facing his uncle's questioning, Xu Fan smiled dryly: "After I find out, I will definitely punish ......"

Before he finished speaking, Ye Perch sneered and said, "Still playing official with me? What does it mean to have something or something? It's just true, and there are a lot of them! Then he counted the many crimes of the Xu family, and Ye Perch became more and more angry, and said: "How did Yan Song fall into disrepute, and he was not involved by his son!" Do you want to see your dad finished? ’

When it came to this, Xu Fan couldn't listen to it, so he got up and left. Ye Perch Jiang stepped forward quickly, grabbed his sleeve, and said loudly: "But Yan Song is ruined at most, but his son wants to fall to the ground!" As a result, the two completely turned their faces, and Xu Fan did not allow his family to let Ye Perch into the Xu family again.

Chen Heng said it eloquently, and Xu Jie couldn't help but believe it. As a result, I had a good fishing pastime, but I didn't catch a fish, but I went home angry. The next day, he wanted to ask his brother-in-law to come over for a while, but who knew that Ye Perch Jiang said that he would not come. Xu Jie knew that this was offending others, so he brought a gift and went to the door in person. Seeing him come in person, Ye Perch Jiang was also discouraged, and ordered someone to take out home-brewed snow wine, put a few dishes on the table, and the two talked while drinking. At the request of Xu Jie, Ye Perch put what he had seen over the years, the Xu Mansion bullied the good and dominated the market; colluding with ruffians and forcibly seizing people's land; The domineering and humiliating officials came one by one, and Xu Jie's hands and feet were cold when he heard it, and he only felt that the world was spinning for a while.

I heard that the virtuous brother once said, 'A gentleman learns self-denial', but his own children don't know what self-denial is. I also heard that the virtuous brother was in Jiangxi, and the title of the test he went out of his hometown was "The Prevention of the Saint's Noble Future", but I felt that if I didn't take precautions, it would be too late. Ye Perch Jiang happily poured out the words that had been held in his heart for more than ten years.

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When he came back from his sister-in-law, Xu Jie summoned his four sons, reprimanded them fiercely, and ordered them to discipline his subordinates strictly, and the sons wept bitterly and expressed repentance. But Xu Jie knew that they could all collude up and down and deceive themselves, how much of a role could such a reprimand have?

After all, his sons have already married and had children, and each person has a family business, and he, who has long been an old man, has not been taught, and now he wants to manage it, and he is a little powerless. In desperation, he ordered his sons to be grounded for two months to reflect, strictly discipline the servants, and no longer allow them to disturb the village.

Just when he was thinking about the lawsuit, the family sent Hai Rui's greeting post. Xu Jie's shock was when he heard it, could it be that God, he didn't give the old man a chance to make amends? He sent the impermanence that urges his life. But he is no longer the reigning prime minister, how can he neglect Futai in this province? Hurry up and order someone to change your clothes, and ask you to meet in the main hall of Haidu Hall.

After putting on his clothes, Xu Jie realized that he was a little nervous, smiled self-deprecatingly, and said secretly: "What are you afraid of, even if he is the Lord of Yama, I am still the Bodhisattva of Jizo." It turned out that Xu Jie recalled that Hai Rui had written several letters to him, one of which was that after Hai Rui came out of prison, he returned to Hainan to visit his mother, and he was very excited on the way, and once gave him a letter: "Now that I can see Gao Tang again, the sky is high and the earth is thick, and the gratitude of the foolish mother and son is more than words?" At the same time, he praised the edict and the edict of Dengji prepared by Xu Jie, and even compared it to Yi Yin who assisted the merchants to destroy the Xia and Huo Guang to assist the Han.

At the beginning of this year, Xu Jie received another letter from Hai Rui, although it was mainly a polite greeting, but the letter still fully affirmed his achievements during his reign, saying, 'Today is very different from the previous four or five years, and it all depends on you'.

Thinking about it this way, the old man's old face can still sell a few points. Xu Jie thought secretly, but he was not sure: "I hope so......

Putting away his heart, with the support of the maid, Xu Jie came to the main hall to meet Hai Rui.

"Student Hai Rui meets the old lady." Xu Jie is the young master and the prince and the prince, and he is called 'Taishi' in front of people, and the master is the teacher of a hundred officials, so Hai Rui respectfully respects the disciple salute.

Seeing that he was very polite, Xu Jie was in a good mood, stepped forward and grabbed him and said: "I can't help it, I can't help it, the old man is just a grass man now, how can he deserve such a heavy gift?" Hurry up, please get up. He helped him up and said affectionately: "The emperor sent a blue sky like Gangfeng to my hometown, which is really a creation, and the people are blessed." It's just that the old man is old and weak, and he has never been far away, and he also looks at Haihan. As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and said, "Please." ”

"Old lady, please." Xu Jie sat down with the help of the maid, and Hai Rui also sat down in the guest seat. The servant re-served the tea.

"I haven't seen her for two years, and the old lady's body is getting stronger and stronger." Hai Rui looked at Xu Jie, he really looked much better than when he was in Beijing, and he didn't have the appearance of being a soldier back then, and it seemed that his retirement life was good.

"TOEFL, TOEFL," Xu Jie said with a smile, "Fortunately, the teeth are good, I can eat and drink, and I am also a good rice bag." Speaking of concern, he asked, "Gangfeng Bao wants to take office together?" ”

"My mother is old, and it is not suitable to leave her hometown again, and Humble Jing also died of illness." Hai Rui said a little gloomily.

"I see, but Mrs. Ling is not blessed." Xu Jie sighed, and then ordered: "Gangfeng is already a provincial Futai, how can there be no one around to take care of it?" Come on, choose ten of the maids and servants around me, and go back with Lord Hai to listen to them. ”

"I can't help it," Hai Rui felt ridiculous, isn't this a blatant bribery? Hurriedly called the family and said, "My family is poor and can't afford to support the extra population." ”

"Gangfeng doesn't have to worry too much," Xu Jie said with a smile: "The old man knows that you are a Qing official, but you also have to know that you are not the same as at the beginning, now you are a province and a province is going to open a government office, and the government has special expenses for you to raise horsemen, guards, masters, slaves and maids, this is all reasonable, no one will say anything, you don't have to worry too much." ”

"But ......," Hai Rui sighed softly, "that's not legal." ”

"Hehe, it's not bad for you to say that......" Xu Jie smiled awkwardly: "But Gangfeng, since you call me teacher, I have to say two words to you, I know that you can't rub sand in your eyes, and you take the ancestral law as the golden rule everywhere." But you also have to know that the era of two hundred years ago is different from now, and Emperor Taizu is wise and martial, and he can't predict the changes to the present. After all, he is no longer in the officialdom, and Xu Jie's speech is a lot freer.

"Take you, the governor, for example, when Emperor Taizu was the emperor, he withdrew the province and established three divisions to divide powers, and there was no governor." Xu Jie said step by step: "But then I gradually found that the three divisions hindered each other, and the government decrees were different, and once something happened, it was difficult to follow power." It is because every major event needs to be centralized, and the imperial court can only send high-ranking officials as messengers, which is why there is a governor, and then it gradually becomes customized. If you really want to follow the ancestral teachings in everything, wouldn't the governor of Gangfeng be unjustifiable? ”

Hai Rui can't say anything about Xu Jie, but he only talks about his own heart, and it is impossible to be fooled, and he said lightly: "What the old lady taught me is that I will not save the necessary expenses when it comes to the political and civil affairs." However, I personally have hands and feet, so I don't need to serve, so I don't have to waste the money and food of the imperial court. ”

The feelings were in vain, Xu Jie picked up the teacup a little depressed, and said with a smile: "Forget it, Gangfeng don't think the old man is troublesome." ”

"How dare you, how dare you." Hai Rui hurriedly said.

"Gangfeng is bright today, I don't know what to learn?" Putting down the teacup, Xu Jie asked.

"I am specially waiting for the old lady Wanfu, and secondly, I also want to ask the old lady for advice." Hai Rui said softly.

"Thank you Gangfeng for hanging on to it," Xu Jie smiled slightly: "If the old man knows, he should tell him wholeheartedly." ”

"The old lady is an important minister of the imperial court, and the local elder must know the pros and cons of Wuzhong's politics. When the lower officials first arrived, they hoped to give advice on what should come first in politics. Hai Rui asked.

"Haha, Gangfeng, you are too modest," Xu Jie smiled: "If the old man remembers correctly, you have been the magistrate of Changzhou for a while." ”

"One county and one province is like a cloud," Hai Rui said humbly, "and the students are trembling and walking on thin ice." ”

"Since I want the old man to talk about it, the old man will not be presumptuous and speak to you bluntly." Xu Jie twisted his beard and said: "Wuxia is rich here, and now he doesn't make trouble with the Japanese people, and everything else is okay to say, but there is only one case, there are many people here who don't work and are idle, these people have a fierce temperament, and they are good at suing officials and lawsuits. So to be a good parent on this side, the old man has two sentences to send off...... The criminal and clean government must be bold, and the law enforcement is difficult! ”

"It's a 'criminal and clean government, law enforcement is fair', the students have been taught!" Hai Rui said happily: "I just don't know, if the officials and gentry are lawless, the fish and meat are good people, should it be the same?"

"Gangfeng, you are all straightforward to the first emperor," Xu Jie laughed loudly: "Not to mention the eunuchs!" ”

"Thank you for your advice." Hai Rui continued: "The lower officials have one more thing to ask. ”

"Please." Xu Jie's teacup was raised.

"Xia Guan checked the fields taught by the Susong Prefecture over the years," Hai Rui said in a deep voice: "I found that the money and grain taught in the past ten years are only 30% of the 21st year of Hongwu, 50% of the 3rd year of Chenghua, and 70% of the 5th year of Zhengde, and then it has been decreasing every year, until the current level...... It is said that the world was in chaos at the beginning, it was the depression time of 'thousands of miles without rooster crowing, and the wasteland was connected into a thousand years', and then more than 100 years later, the southeast was peaceful, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. Dare to ask Taishi, what is going on with such an aggressive and strange thing? ”

"Ah......" Xu Jie listened coldly to him throw this question, and he couldn't answer it, so he laughed dryly and said, "Yes, what's going on?" ”

"I was about to ask the Grand Master." Hai Rui looked at Xu Ge Lao fixedly, and said word by word.

"Maybe ......" Xu Jie picked up the teacup to cover it, and his mind turned quickly: "Probably...... It seems that ......" don't say it, it really makes him think about it, and he smiles with a sigh of relief: "It should be like this...... You should know that Emperor Taizu pacified the world, and his biggest opponent was not Meng Yuan, but Zhang Shicheng and Chen Youliang. Zhang Shicheng called himself 'King Wu', his capital was in Susong, Chen Youliang was called King of Han, and his territory was in Jiangxi. Later, after Emperor Taizu pacified the world, he hated the people of these two places for supporting him and the two, and in order to punish the stubborn for a while, he imposed heavy penalties on these two places. Besides, Su Song's men were all under the account of King Wu at that time, and after the collapse of the regime, most of his land and property were confiscated, so there were a lot of official fields in Wu, and the official fields themselves were bound to be heavy. Therefore, in the Hongwu Dynasty, the taxation was very heavy, and many people escaped. ”

"And then?" Hai Rui asked lightly.

"Later, Emperor Yongle did the country, in order to win the hearts of the people, repeatedly reduced the burden on Wuzhong, and then moved the capital to Beijing, grain and rice to walk two thousand miles from the Grand Canal in order to be transported to the capital, on the way a stone to lose three buckets, so the grain and rice in Taicang are getting less and less." After Xu Jie finished speaking, he took out a handkerchief to wipe his sweat, and said in his heart that the old man was really not old.

"I see." Hai Rui seemed to understand when he heard this, but he asked casually: "When the old lady said about Guantian, I checked the yellow book and found that the accounts were seriously inconsistent." ”

"What is this......" Xu Jie said with a smile: "At that time, Wuzhong was a rebellious criminal, and his land and property were confiscated. But in the Yongle Dynasty, Grandpa Cheng pardoned Wu Di and returned the land several times, and the official land naturally decreased. ”

"How many times, how much has been returned, and how much is left?" Hai Rui asked in a deep voice.

"This old man doesn't know." Xu Jie shook his head and said with a wry smile: "You have to go and check it yourself." ”

"I see, I'll find out when I go back." Hai Rui nodded and said, "If there is an illegal embezzlement of official land, what should I do?" ”

"If there is evidence of guilt, of course it will be dealt with in accordance with the law." Xu Jie said with a dry smile.

"The students understand and must be dealt with in accordance with the law." After speaking, he got up and saluted: "In this case, the lower official has taken his leave." ”

"Alas, it's so easy to come once, and I must enjoy a meal." Xu Jie said.

"I'm busy with business," Hai Rui declined, "next time I have a chance." ”

Xu Jie couldn't keep it, so he could only send Hai Rui out.

When the group was far away, his body shook, and if it weren't for the help of someone next to him, he would have sat on the ground.

Don't look at the old guy's righteousness, in fact, he has long been forced by Hai Rui's step by step, and he is forced to give up.

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Today is Thanksgiving, I have to thank all the parents, I have a turkey for everyone, I can only lay an egg for everyone...... Oh no, write an extra chapter. Bow down from the stage......