312 Cross-examination
When Xu Kun saw Xu Yuanzuo, he came to his senses again and said, "Jinglian, you are very good." ”
Xu Yuanzuo smiled and did not reply.
At this time, if you say "thank you", it will inevitably leave people with a hypocritical impression.
Now that the dough has been torn, there is only one way to take the thief on the front and pick the cake on the ground!
"After spending a lot of money on my family, you have become the God of Wealth in Songjiang. Every man will have an offering for you in his house, expecting you to give him money. "Xu Kun is not a hypocrisy, it is a set of guns and sticks.
The smile on Xu Yuanzuo's face dissipated, and he said, "That's why I can earn more silver." ”
Xu Kun choked: "You seem to have earned it." ”
Xu Yuanzuo looked at Elder Xu Jie, and then glanced at Xu Kun again. Although he didn't say anything, in Xu Kun's heart, an indifferent and arrogant voice sounded: "Of course you earned it, but you are not qualified to know." The voice was so real, it was as if someone had spoken it close to his ear, and it was seared into his heart word by word.
Xu Kun only felt a tightness in his chest, and for a while he forgot the words he had prepared before.
Xu Jie opened his mouth and said: "Jing Lian has been running the family business for the past year, and he has done a great job, so if you can't help, just stand aside and learn." Could it be that there are still people who want to check the public accounts? ”
The so-called public house is the public benefit of the whole family, and does not belong to a certain house. However, as long as Xu Jie's family is in charge for one day, the public family is also his Xu Jie's family, who dares to investigate? It is not impossible for Xu Kun to check the accounts, as long as Xu Jie drives the crane to the west, as the master of the second room of the Xu family, he is of course qualified to ask the eldest brother to publish the accounts of the public middle school.
"The eldest father is angry, and the second uncle just has no knowledge and doesn't know what ways to make money." Xu Yuanzuo persuaded.
Xu Kun was even more angry, and said in a strange manner: "I have no knowledge, but I don't know where your insight comes from!" Father. This kid is suspicious! Before he came to my Xu family, he was notoriously obsessed and stupid in Zhuli! Nine times out of ten, the gentleman will not be able to answer the question. After reading the book for many years, I can't memorize a single "Analects". Isn't it suspicious that all of a sudden he understands everything! ”
Xu Yuanzuo looked at Xu Kun quietly: "Second uncle is saying that I am pretending to be someone else's son?" My parents have been in Zhuli for more than ten years, and the neighbors have watched me grow up. Since the second uncle has investigated so carefully, don't you know? ”
Don't talk about Xu Kun's investigation. Xu Jie asked Xu Fan to accept Xu Yuanzuo as a righteous son, and he would succeed him in the future, such a big thing, how could there be any reason not to ask? This inquiry was given to Xu Cheng, Xu Cheng has followed Xu Jie since he was a child, will he deceive Xu Jie for an outsider? What's more, Xu He participated in the county examination, and he also reported three generations of pedigree, and there were also students from the county as a guarantee. Since he got the child, the neighbors have watched it every day, and the witnesses are reliable, and no one has ever said that Xu Yuanzuo is pretending to be the son of the Xu family.
Not only is Xu Yuanzuo's background very innocent, but even Xu He's innocent background has been clearly inspected.
"I mean......" Xu Kun suddenly knotted his tongue, not knowing how to continue. It's true that people are not impersonating, so what does that mean?
"Do you suspect that I'm a goblin? The old ghost? Xu Yuanzuo said with a smile: "My nephew can walk in the daylight, and he can enter the palace, and the Xu family is upright." I didn't have the slightest offense, but you want me to wash my face with black dog blood? ”
Xu Jie turned his face slightly. I don't want my sons to see how I can't help but laugh.
Xu Fan laughed heartily: "Does the second brother really believe these nonsense? ”
Xu Kun's face was embarrassed, and he shouted out in a gaffe: "Then you should tell me, how did you go from a fat and stupid person to a knowledgeable prodigy in one day!" ”
Xu Yuanzuo smiled dumbly, barely straightening his waist.
Xu Fan couldn't stand it anymore, and said to his younger brother: "What do you tell him to say?" It's nothing more than an enlightenment. Do you want to say that he was born to know? "Even a saint is not necessarily born to know. Doesn't this question force people to admit that they are more "holy" than "saints"?
Xu Yuanzuo laughed enough, got up and said, "Second uncle, what do you want to hear?" Listen to me being enlightened by the gods? Or did I pick up the golden elixir? ”
Xu Kun's face was swollen and red, like a pig's liver.
"Then why did you suddenly open your mind?" Xu Ying asked with interest, her attitude surprisingly friendly. He has always been said by Xu Jie that he has seven tricks and six tricks. I still don't know anything, and now I meet Xu Yuanzuo, who suddenly opened up, of course I want to ask for a cheat.
Xu Yuanzuo didn't laugh at him, and said, "Zi is fifteen and is determined to learn." Men at the age of fourteen or fifteen always have an opportunity to aspire. Once you make up your mind, you know that you can no longer just play around. The little nephew is at this age, and he feels that it is a waste of time to perfunctory his mother to listen to his husband say something superficial every day, so he simply quit school to work and reduce the burden on the family.
"As for saying that I became a prodigy overnight, I wasn't. Just because the talent of the little nephew could not be shown before, it was like a pearl secretly cast, and the laity only thought that I was a fisheye. Once there is a place to use, and it coincides with the strength of the good wind, it can naturally climb above the green clouds and shine. ”
Xu Jie and Xu Fan were also quite happy to hear it. Anyway, this kid knows gratitude, and he is not arrogant because of some credits, and he recognizes the "good wind" of the Xu family in his heart. Speaking of which, although the two families have recognized their relatives in the continuation of the lineage, in the end, the bloodline is far away, Xu Yuanzuo can think so, it is the real family.
"The books you read and the allusions to the court that you know may not even be known to ordinary students, so how did you know about it?" Xu Kun pointed at his sword, and almost shouted: The demon quickly appeared in its original form!
Xu Yuanzuo took a moment and looked at Xu Kun quietly: "Where does the second uncle think I found out?" ”
Xu Kun was choked again. He can say that a person has stolen something, but it is impossible to say that someone can steal knowledge! What's more, property has a belonging, but learning does not belong, what is read in the bookstore, listened to in the academy, whoever gets it is theirs.
"Could it be that your family secretly raised you and broke into my Xu family to listen to secrets?" Xu Ying tilted her head and squinted her eyes, feeling that she had grasped the truth.
Xu Yuanzuo smiled: "The third uncle said that this family really loves the Xu family. cultivated a man to come out, but worked hard for the Xu family to make money. ”
Xu Fan sneered: "My father was also a prodigy when he was a child, do you think there is anything wrong?" ”
Xu Jie is not only a young prodigy, but also said that he is a celestial Qu Xing. It is said that every time he passed by the City God Temple to go to school, the City God Master inside would come out to greet him, so that he could not work, so he had to entrust his dream to Xu Jie's father. A path was opened for his son to go to school, so as not to disturb the city god.
Can these stories be taken seriously?
Xu Jie didn't want to see his son make a fool of himself again, so he gently supported his forehead and said loudly: "Enough!" ”
Xu Yuanzuo pursed his lips, stared at Xu Kun with his eyes, and said secretly in his heart: Xu Kun is a little strange after coming back this time. Why did you want to get to the bottom of me? How can an innocent kid like me let you find a flaw? And the topic always turns around my talents, could it be that someone wants to skin my double case leader?
Xu Yuanzuo recalled the various links of the two heads of the case. The first case of the county test was ordered by the teacher, and Da Ming Law did not say that the county test should be avoided by the master and apprentice, and the article is good and naturally points to the first case, which is inevitable. Even if someone wants to start from it, it is to attack Zheng Yue for favoritism...... Zheng Yue's level is not enough to qualify for political battles.
As for the head of the court examination, Lin Dachun gave it a little more casually, and the test was also ancient rather than current. Perhaps he will give someone a handle and think that he ignores the rules of the court. However, Lin Dachun was squeezed back to his hometown as early as the month Gao Gong entered the cabinet, who is so bored that he turns over his old case?
- Looks like the target is still on me.
Xu Yuanzuo stood quietly, feeling this person hiding in the shadows in his heart.
Xu Jie dismissed Xu Kun and Xu Ying, leaving Xu Fan and Xu Yuanzuo to talk. He knows very well that Xu Yuanzuo's knowledge is not refined, and he is obviously the kind of person who listens to and learns. If there is a good teacher, he can explain a classic. This kid will never be what he is today, he can really try to hit the talent of the three yuan and six heads.
However, the fate of the teacher is also predestined. Non-human can be climbed. If he can get in touch with Zheng Yue and earn a job, I'm afraid that his lifelong achievements will stop there.
After calming down, Xu Jiefang spoke again: "There is a reason why I called you here in a hurry today. ”
Xu Yuanzuo also guessed that Xu Kun's seizure was just a pretense, of course, Xu Kun himself didn't know. If you look at it wisely. Xu Kun and Xu Jie are simply two creatures, not like father and son at all.
"Zhao Shizhou is going." Xu Jiedao.
Xu Yuanzuo was not surprised and nodded slightly: "It seems that this time Gao Xin Zheng is really going to take revenge." ”
When Xu Fan heard this, he secretly said in his heart: Jing Lian has never seen Gao Gong, it is nothing more than some anecdotes, and he can even deduce that he is inseparable from ten. It seems that there are really geniuses. Extraordinarily accessible.
Xu Jie himself is a genius, and he is used to seeing geniuses, Xu Yuanzuo's genius is just a little characteristic compared to Zhang Juzheng, Lin Xian and others, and it is not worth making a fuss about. He didn't care at all, and continued: "This time, Lin Xuan and Zhao Zhenji's strength is still not enough to bring down Gao Gong. ”
Xu Yuanzuo frowned slightly and said, "It's the kid Meng Lang." ”
"Why don't you want to give it a try." Xu Jie laughed at himself: "Anyway, we are already trapped beasts, even if we sit and watch Zhao Shizhou leave, Gao Xinzheng will let my family go?" ”
"The only good thing is that it has strengthened Zhang Jiangling's anti-high heart." Xu Yuanzuo said: "Gaoxin Zheng can be safe and sound from such twists and turns, it can be seen that one day he is in power, he will be trusted by the saint one day, and there will be no day when Zhang Jiangling will come out." ”
Xu Jie was silent. In the end, it involves his political "pro-son", and no matter how he expresses his position, it is unpleasant. In fact, in the past two years, he also carefully recalled the political situation at the turn of Jialong, and Zhang Juzheng was like a ghost wandering around.
He doesn't seem to have done anything decisive about it, but he has his shadow behind every major decision. Even when Lin Xuan was suddenly transferred to the Nanjing Ministry of Officials in an unconventional manner, there was some smell of conspiracy. At that time, in the Xu Party, Lin Xian was Zhang Juzheng's rival.
Xu Jie didn't want to say that he had lost his eyes, but if he was asked to make another decision, Zhang Juzheng would still be a suitable first assistant for Daming.
In Xu Jie's three-dimensional sense of fame, fortune and conscience, it is obviously more focused on conscience.
Xu Yuanzuo saw that Xu Jie's attention to Zhang Juzheng, but he didn't agree with Xu Jie's desire to protect Zhang Juzheng, and even threw a mouse bogey on the high arch because of this. It's as if people did their best, but they kept a hand, and this hand was out of the mentality of the Virgin Mary - for the sake of Da Ming.
"Father, is it really a good thing for Zhang Jiangling to be in charge?" Xu Yuanzuo said tentatively: "He attaches too much importance to a whip law, I am afraid that once he takes power, he will implement it throughout the country." ”
"What do you disagree with this law?" Xu Jie asked.
It is not a new thing that a whip law was born out of the law of compilation, and the most controversial thing today is that the provincial governors and governors emphasize the technical problems of taxation, such as fire consumption, waste consumption, quality, and so on.
Xu Yuanzuo is not looking at technology.
"There is a lot of silver in the south, so paying taxes on silver is conducive to the consumption of silver in the silver cellar by powerful families." Xu Yuanzuo said: "But there is no silver in the north. When the tax season comes, the people will sell their grain for silver, and silver is expensive and grain is cheap, and the price of grain will naturally plummet. As soon as the tax season passes, the people will have to borrow silver for grain, and then the grain will be expensive and the silver will be cheap. The people worked hard for a year, and the income was wiped out. If you add the interest rolling, I'm afraid it won't take a few years, even if it's a good harvest year, you have to sell your children. ”
This is not only the trend in the original historical script, but also the inevitable law of the commodity economy. Without the control of any state power, the landlords and merchants had no discipline at all, and it was inevitable that they would do their best to exploit them.
Seven cents of the world's taxes are taken from Jiangnan, and Jiangnan is not chaotic; The northerners paid little taxes but couldn't survive first, forming a large army of displaced people in Wuxiaofu County.
"I used taxes from the south to support soldiers and horses in the north, and the north didn't have much tax in the first place." Xu Jie said disapprenously.
Xu Yuanzuo couldn't refute it. Judging from the data he discovered, the entire Shaanxi political envoy - at this time Shaanxi also included Ningxia, Gansu, and part of Xinjiang in later generations - its tax amount is not as high as that of a prefecture in Huzhou, Zhejiang.
Because the vast majority of the land and population in these places belong to the guards, and the land revenues of the guards are directly used for military salaries, the population and land are under the jurisdiction of the capital division and the five military governors, and even the military department does not know the specific figures.
"But ......" Xu Yuanzuo suddenly felt that something was missing.
The land produced by the military tun was not used to improve the livelihood of military households. A large number of military households fled to become generals' families, and the remaining military households became tenant farmers and had to bear heavy military service. This led directly to the collapse of the guard system, which made the conscription system popular. The officers of the guard became large landowners and occupied most of the resources.
However, these words are useless to Xu Jie. Xu Jie has already made a decision, even when he was in power, his perception of the northwest was only "a place where soldiers and horses were prepared", as long as the Tatars did not fight, they didn't have to care about it.
Xu Yuanzuo is not really world-minded. Even if he didn't come from an economic background, he knew a thing or two about the dangers of the simplest inflation and deflation.
If the North collapses, will the South be left alone?
Of course not.
This can't even be described as cold lips and teeth, but it should be said that a person has a heart attack, even if other organs are functioning well, it is inevitable that he will die suddenly.
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