"What happened to Ye Wutie's condition?" Liu Zhang asked.

The little official replied: "The external injuries are basically healed, and the barbarian Aguda really has two brushes......

The little official's words opened again, Liu Zhang quietly looked at the stars and thought, if Zhang Zhongjing can heal Ye Wutie's injury, Xiao Furong's wild girl should be in a good mood, if there is misfortune, Xiao Furong will inevitably leave a shadow, she is only seventeen years old.

At this time, Zhang Ren came from a distance and said to Liu Zhang: "Report to the lord, the notices we posted were basically torn up at night, and the soldiers who preached the four imperial examinations were also blocked, and there were also inscriptions against the four imperial examinations everywhere in the streets, and there were more than a dozen people who signed up for the exam on the first day, but they all came to ask for retirement the next day, according to our investigation, they were all persecuted by the clan. ”

Liu Zhang lay on the mat and smiled faintly: "This was already expected by me, the power of the world is huge, those people would rather offend their own officials than offend these local snakes, there is a world clan obstruction, no policy will work." ”

"So what do we do?"

"Keep an eye on it, try to find out if it was those clans who instigated the confrontation, and present it to me in three days."

"Yes." Zhang Ren bowed and went out, in addition to supervising the propaganda of the four imperial examinations, he also had to investigate the property of officials and the lawlessness of the clan, and he was tired enough in the past few days.

After Zhang Ren left, Fa Zheng said to Liu Zhang: "Lord, you don't really want to implement the four imperial examinations, right?" ”

"Why else would I spend so much effort?" Liu Zhang said casually.

"It's absolutely not going to work." Fa Zheng stood up from the flower platform all of a sudden, and said angrily: "Lord, you just listen to Fa Zheng's persuasion once, the four branches are a fundamental matter that hurts the world, and they will never compromise, and the lord's move is to cut himself off from the world." ”

Liu Zhang smiled faintly: "One sheep is also driving, and two sheep are also booming, and when I drag my family to kill hundreds of people, I will already be isolated from the world, and I am not afraid of one more time." ”

"What?" Fa Zheng staggered back and said: "Lord, you have to deal with the Shunan clan and the Zhu clan." ”

As soon as the two words of the Zhu clan came out, Fa Zheng himself couldn't believe it, his eyes were fixed on Liu Zhang, for fear that he would say a positive answer, and the talkative little official on the side was scared and paralyzed on the mat, killing hundreds of people, and the person in front of him said it so indifferently, all the presumptuous at the beginning was gone, and it was replaced by cold sweat sliding into his back.

Liu Zhang felt that the little official's body was trembling, so he ordered him to leave, the little official was busy and ran away, Liu Zhang sighed, looked at the starry sky and said slowly: "Xiaozhi, you have also looked at the results of the investigation in the past few days, the so-called 3,000 yuan of the government treasury, in fact, there are 400,000 yuan, these are all saved by Zhao Wei for many years to conceal tax declarations, what are they hiding for?"

There are 100,000 households in Jiangzhou, and they collect 10,000 yuan a year, spread it on each people, and each person is less than 20 yuan, which is really a light endowment.

Gong Cao Shi's so-called countless heroes who resisted the barbarians were just traitors raised by Zhao Wei, children of wealthy families, who had never fought, but provided Zhao Wei with countless money and food, and now they even asked the official to promote them.

Wuguan Peng was worried about the sacrifice, he really didn't lie, Jiangzhou has the custom of sacrificing to the river god, but in recent years, the public sacrifice has been almost completely abandoned, and the sacrificial platform is no one to take care of, and Jiangzhou allocated more money for the sacrifice than all the officials combined, where did the money go? Was it really taken away by the gods?

Jiangzhou is neither a border city, nor a battlefield, raising 5,000 soldiers, and the soldier Cao Shi even wants to expand his armaments, thinking that he has really wronged him, 3,000 of the 5,000 people are eating empty salaries, and there are more than 1,000 old, weak, sick and disabled people in the barracks.

It's not that I want to kill people, it's not fun to kill people, it's they who forced me, the clan bullied and dominated the market, annexed poor peasant land, bought and sold officials, their tentacles stretched to all parts of society, if they were not uprooted, the whole Jiangzhou, and even the whole Yizhou would be corrupted by them, didn't Zhang Ren say that he would set an example? Then let's take the Jiangzhou clan. ”

Fa Zheng was silent and did not speak, in his heart, what Liu Zhang said was reasonable, but reason does not mean that it was correct, the danger of the world clan can be seen by all people of insight, but who would be stupid enough to offend them? That would undoubtedly be digging a grave for yourself.

In the Battle of Fucheng and the Battle of Wuxi, Fa Zheng saw Liu Zhang's courage, but now Fa Zheng feels that this kind of courage seems to be too much and completely contrary to this era.

Seeing that Fa Zheng didn't speak, Liu Zhang smiled and said, "Xiaozhi, are you disappointed in me?" Yes, Yizhou is still a place with fewer clans, Jingzhou, Jiangdong, and more clan gates, and the Central Plains and northern wealthy clans are also intertwined, and now there are separatist forces everywhere that do not serve the Son of Heaven, and those gate lords are sent to various places to be loyal to ensure that the incense is not extinguished.

We do this, not only will not the children of the clan come to invest in Yizhou, but also make those who have the power, the materials and the manpower to resist to the death, so it seems that if I really do something to the Jiangzhou clan, the future of Yizhou is a haze, filial piety, you are a person with great ambition and great talent, if you are disappointed in this official, just leave. ”

Fa Zheng raised his head and looked at Liu Zhang, Liu Zhang said slowly: "Don't doubt it, I didn't say this to test you, I was sincere, a strategist who didn't believe in me, it was useless for me to keep it, and I saw your loyalty from Fucheng, even if you are my enemy in the future, I will not regret letting you go today." ”

Fa Zheng smiled dismally, sat down in the position where the little official had sat just now, looked at the dark curtain in the distance and said: "The lord is too good at acting, talking and laughing and killing, the clouds are light and the wind is light, and many times Fa Zheng can't figure out the lord's mind, but this time I believe that the lord's words are sincere, but the 'lord' exit in Fucheng, Fa Zheng didn't think about taking it back."

It's just that Fa Zheng didn't expect the lord's mind to be so resolute, and he didn't understand why the lord was so angry about the behavior of the clan, in fact, the behavior of the entire Han clan was similar, as long as we replaced these old ministers, and then severely punished the law...... Forget it, if you don't talk about it, the lord will definitely not listen. ”

Fa Zheng lowered his head, and said after a while: "Does the lord remember Wang Mang's story?" ”

Liu Zhang said: "You say it, just when I don't know." ”

Liu Zhang understood that Fa Zheng was going to admonish the curve, Wang Mang was a famous usurper traitor, a hypocrite, humble and polite before usurping the Han Dynasty, and giving to the people everywhere, but after the usurpation of the Han Dynasty, he made the people miserable, but Liu Zhang didn't know what Fa Zheng was going to say about this character, so he just looked at the vast starry sky and listened quietly.