The clouds rolled in the sky, and after a while, they occupied the entire sky, and a thunderclap, the size of a bean's raindrops, crackled and fell, stirring up a cloud of dust, and in an instant it was pressed down by denser raindrops, forming a gray stream of water on the ground, and the first spring rain of the year arrived......

"Master, you're crazy, you're going to catch a cold!"

Zhu hurriedly rushed to the eaves of the porch, took Tang Shen's hand, dragged it again and again, returned to the house, quickly helped him change his wet clothes, brought a clean hand towel, wiped his hair, and then asked someone to cook a big pot of ginger soup. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"People who are so old, running outside in the rain, how can they look like a child!" Zhu said complainingly.

Tang Shen finally sighed, "If only it were really a child, don't worry so much." ”

He held his head and buried it deep in his chest.

After a while, the maid brought a bowl of ginger soup, and Zhu sent it to Tang Shen's hands.

"Okay, the child's ability is greater than yours, so you don't need to worry."

Tang Shen shook his head, took the bowl, pinched his nose and drank dry, staring at the empty bottom of the bowl in a daze. Zhu was taken aback, he had never seen his husband so worried.

"Master, things are really not good?"

"Hmm." Tang Shen said: "It is a matter of offending people to implement the stabilization of land rent in the southeast and return the land to the people. As far as I know, Xu Jie's mansion went to Yang Bo's mansion yesterday evening, and the two of them talked for more than an hour, but I am afraid that it will be detrimental to the line. ”

Zhu Shi was shocked and shouted: "No, no one in the world knows such a great reputation, I really don't know what virtue you have accumulated in your life!" Zhu pointed to her husband's forehead and said with a smile: "I see, with His Majesty's protection and so many people to help him, even if Xu Ge Lao and Yang Tianguan join forces, they may not dare to do anything." ”

Tang Shen didn't think so, stood up irritably, and walked back and forth.

"It's not bad to say that you have long hair and short knowledge. A hero with three gangs, a fence with three piles, don't you understand such a simple truth? It may be fine, but what about the others? And will Lao Xu use Jingcha as an excuse to blackmail concessions? ”

Tang Shen's question, where did the Zhu family think about it, she pouted angrily, "Cheng, it's a slave who is stupid, you can figure it out yourself!" In a fit of anger, she twisted her waist and threw Tang Shen down alone.

The new monarch changed the yuan and refreshed the rule of officials, once it was taken down at this time, it was almost impossible to think about it again. Although this time Jingcha was raised by Gao Gong, and wanted to use it to deal with Kedao and eradicate Xu Jie's forces.

However, this kind of large-scale investigation involves too many interests, and in the end, it is basically whose fist is bigger, and whoever says it will be counted.

is a bit like Tang Yi dealing with the Xu family in the southeast, Xu Jie, as the first assistant, used Jingcha to cut off dissidents, and took advantage of the right time and place, and basically had no capital to compete.

In the past, it might be possible to exchange it privately, but now that the two sides have torn their faces, how could Lao Xu let Tang Yi go.

After Tang Shen thought about it, maybe the only chance of life was in Yang Bo.

As a powerful minister, Yang Bo almost has the power to determine life and death.

But the question is, will this old man risk offending Xu Jie to protect Tang Yi's men? You must know that this inspection is really playful, and it is to really cut down some officialdom scum and purge the rule of officials, so as to show the intention of reforming the yuan and building a new one.

If you don't take Tang Yi's subordinates, is it possible to cut meat from yourself, or clean up Xu Jie's people?

What are you kidding, Yang Bo definitely doesn't have the courage to fight with Lao Xu, and it's not necessary.

Tang Shen had been thinking and meditating hard, and he didn't even eat dinner, but he didn't have any idea at all.

He wanted to slap himself in both mouths, maybe he could wake himself up, and in a flash of inspiration, he came up with an idea.

At this time, someone suddenly came to report, "Master, Mr. Mao asks to see you." ”

"Please." Tang Shen hurriedly stood up and greeted him, only to see Mao Kun walking in from outside, the two of them had a good relationship in the southeast, no nonsense, and went straight to the point.

"The situation is very bad, I have already inquired about it, Xu Jie wants to marry his granddaughter Xu to Yang Bo's fourth son, Yang Junqing."

"What!"

Tang Shen suddenly got up and exclaimed, "Why did Lao Xu come here again? ”

Mao Kun spread his hands and said with a wry smile: "If it is useful, it will be successful, anyway, he has a lot of old people's grandchildren, brothers and daughters, and the loss of one or two is nothing to worry about." Yang Junqing is a good martial artist, although he is a son's character, but his family education is very strict, and he is a good match! ”

"I wish they were wronged!"

Tang Shen was really anxious, he didn't choose to speak, he grabbed his hair in distress, and the matter seemed to be bigger.

If the Xu and Yang families get married, needless to say, Yang Bo will definitely not be polite to his son. Tang Shen gritted his teeth more and more, Xu Huating really spared no expense, ruthless enough!

"Brother Zicheng, you don't have to worry too much, we can take the medicine according to the prescription."

"What do you mean? Let's marry Yang Bo too? Tang Shen raised his head and thought seriously, he is only one in his generation, and he has children and grandchildren in the past few years, but except for Tang Yi, they are all milk dolls, so they are not useful.

Let Tang Yi marry the daughter of the Yang family, I'm afraid it won't work, that kid is stubborn, especially when it comes to women, he is even more stubborn. It took more than ten years for Liu Ying to warm up one of his hearts, he didn't want to marry, even if he put a knife on his neck, it was useless.

It seems that there is only one sacrifice for yourself!

Tang Shen gritted his teeth and fought hard!

"Brother Lumen, give a dowry to the Yang family for me." Tang Shen gritted his teeth and said with the resoluteness of the wind and the cold.

Burst!

Mao Kun immediately squirted a mouthful of old blood, you don't care about the body, I still have a head! Dare to find another mom for the adult, and he won't kill me?

"Ahem. Brother Zicheng, I mean, Xu Jie's bid, as long as we offer a higher price than Xu Jie, we don't have to worry about Yang Bo not helping, no need to marry, no need. ”

"Oh."

Tang Shen smiled, it turned out that he wanted to be crooked, he smiled dryly: "Brother Lumen, do you think how much price you have to pay, so that Yang Bo can turn around and help us?" ”

Mao Kun was also worried, how much to bid, and to see the situation. Xu Jie, with the power of the first assistant, still offered a daughter, the Tang Party's side, it is tantamount to acting against the sky, and if you don't really cut a few pieces of meat, Yang Bo will not agree.

But the question is what can the Tang Party get in exchange, the position of officialdom? It's not enough to divide yourself!

Business interests? Are those in the southeast willing to cut meat?

As for other things, there are not many that can impress Yang Bo, Rao is Mao Kun has a few unparalleled wisdom, and there is nothing to be done.

"Why don't you write a letter to Xingzhi and let him have an idea." Tang Shen asked tentatively, Mao Kun thought about it, he didn't want to trouble Tang Yi, but he also knew that this matter was far beyond his authority, so he had to sigh and nod, "There are thousands of people in the family, and big things still depend on the decision of adults!" ”

……

What is Tang Yi doing at this time?

He was presiding over a meeting, more precisely, a quarrel.

From the beginning of Wu Shilai's clean-up of Xujia's land, Tang Yi convened representatives of all parties, hoping to agree on a method to limit the land rent. Obviously, the excessively high land rents have deprived the common people of the last copper in their hands, and this is a huge restriction and restriction on the industrial and commercial development of the southeast.

It's like a cage that locks the tentacles that reach out to the countryside.

It is necessary to reduce the land rent, and there are many figures who support this faction, including Lei Qi, Zhou Qinyun, this kind of big businessman who started by industry and commerce, as well as the Lu family, the Wang family and others who have invested overseas, and a large group of them, that is, the Xinxue Sect and the members of the Yangming Society.

Not long ago, led by Shen Shixing, a total of eight Hanlin, spent ten months visiting five southeastern provinces, and later published a rural survey, revealing something shocking.

The poverty, suffering, and backwardness of the peasants are beyond everyone's imagination.

Since then, the Yangming Society has listed the improvement of people's livelihood as one of its main programs, and the literati of the Yangming Society have filled the press circles in the southeast, and Confucianism has always had a people-oriented proposition.

Therefore, the reduction of land rents won almost overwhelming support in public opinion.

Don't think that you can push it down in this way, the resistance encountered is even beyond Tang Yi's estimate, not only the big clans like the Xu family are resolutely opposed, but even some small and medium-sized landlords, they don't do it, and the opposition of these people is even stronger.

Among them, most of them are completely different from the Xu family, relying on ingenuity and robbery. They really relied on the efforts of several generations, a drop of sweat fell eight petals, bought one acre after another, and it was easy to save their family.

When the farm is busy, the whole family goes out, and like the tenants, they are busy from morning to night, without a moment.

They all said that they were industrious and rich, the tenants did not work honestly, their ancestors were not virtuous, they lost their family business, and it was good to have land rent, and they still counted on reducing the land rent, but there was no door, they didn't do it, no matter what, they didn't agree to die.

Tang Yi didn't expect the small and medium-sized landlords to rebound so much, and after thinking about it carefully, he suddenly became enlightened.

Large households, more or less, are operating industrial and commercial workshops, reducing land rents, and promoting industrial and commercial development, for large households, it is nothing more than a left hand for a right hand, and overseas interests, as long as they can settle accounts, in general, they still make money.

This is also the reason why Tang Yi dared to implement rent reduction, but what about those small and medium-sized landlords, they can only count on that bit of land, who dares to reduce the land rent, they will really work hard.

"My lord, why don't you catch the big and let go of the small?" Jin Dan suggested.

"Nope." Tang Yi shook his head, "I understand the situation and ideas of those small and medium-sized landlords, and there are many good people who are honest and willing to work, but the production methods they represent are backward and must be eliminated!" Compromise with them, with the first time, there will be a second, and the third time, my prestige cannot afford to be consumed! There is not much time left for us, the southeast is restless, and the foundation is unstable! ”

Tang Yi closed his eyes, and after a while, his eyes suddenly widened.

"Pass my orders, you can do it!"

Jin Dan and Jiang Zhou were stunned, nodded vigorously at random, and soon, from the traffic line, as well as the headquarters of the Yangtze River shipping, issued countless instructions, the sea, the river, thousands of grain ships appeared at once, among which the largest treasure ship, one full of 80,000 stone rice, from the Ryukyus to chop the waves, sailed into the Ming harbor, an unprecedented dumping action, launched in the southeast...... (To be continued.) )