Palace.

Coming, coming, coming!

Wei Zhong walked over with cheerful little steps, "Your Majesty, there's news from the Black Armor Guard. ”

"Tell me, what's the yield?" Yue Wang has gained a lot of breath after exercise, but he is also nervous and a little short of breath at the moment.

Wei Zhong waved the special paper with an excited expression, "According to the survey, the output of all salt fields in three months has caught up with the previous year. ”

"Three months to a year?" King Yue didn't know how to count it, and folded his fingers stupidly, "A year is twelve months, three months, three, four, one and twelve, that is, the output has quadrupled?" ”

"The king is wise!" Wei Zhong handed the paper to King Yue, "It's a pity that it's about to enter the rainy season." ”

"√, you can't make salt during the rainy season." King Yue patted his head fiercely, "Why did Lone forget this." ”

"Hahaha~~~" Then he looked at the intelligence and smirked.

Wei Zhong also said twice from time to time, loyal servants, you have to accompany your master to be stupid.

"Did the Yan family make any moves?" King Yue pressed the special paper on the table, leaned forward, and was extremely oppressive, as if he was about to die.

After all, the Yan family is a big family that has been inherited for many years, if there is no King Yue to make a move, and he has endured for more than ten or twenty years, maybe there will be a chance of revival.

"Yan family ......" Wei Zhong hesitated, "The Yan family intends to assassinate the imperial court?" ”

King Yue shook his head, "Not good. ”

The Yan family is domineering, and it is King Yue who wants to clean up the Yan family, which is a decision of the imperial court.

If the crime is to assassinate the hero, it will inevitably make people suspect that the Lu family is behind it.

In this way, even if the Yan family is cleaned up, it is not above board enough.

Which hero did the Yan family assassinate? It's Lu Zhi.

So was King Yue forced by Lu Zhili to make great contributions, so he cleaned up the Yan family?

Regardless of whether it is true or not, as long as someone speculates like this, some people dare to criticize King Yue and the Lu family with this.

Relying on merit to coerce the king to take revenge, this is not the way to be a minister, and the Lu family cannot afford such a domineering reputation;

The lord of a country should be high above and adjudicate everything, but once he ends up in person, it will damage his prestige too much, and if there are too many times, the transcendent status of the royal family will be gone, and the gains will outweigh the losses.

"Hey, then ......" Wei Zhong pondered for a while, and finally came up with a few reasons, "The Yan family controls the salt market, threatens the imperial court, plots against it, and intends to rebel?" ”

King Yue shook his head, "How can a mere Yan family blackmail the imperial court?" ”

"Yes, the old slave understands."

King Yue only said that the Yan family did not threaten the imperial court, that is, the other points were very good, and Wei Zhong wrote them down one by one.

It's just that the remaining crimes are very big, and it is inevitable that it will be another raid on the family and extermination.

But this is also a good thing, after all, the empty treasury is in urgent need of filling.

In this way, except for the Yan family, everyone else is a winner, and everyone is happy.

After making a plan, King Yue's face showed a bit of triumph, "By the way, you must send someone to protect Lu Zhi." ”

"The king can rest assured, the old slave specially sent three teams of black-armored guards, and Lu Zhi's safety is not a problem."

"Okay, you do things, don't worry."

…………

But it was said that Yanjia Village was here.

Yan's ancestral hall.

The contemporary head of the Yan family is giving a speech, and the participants are all the descendants of the Yan family and the rulers of each house.

"I'm afraid the court won't let us go." The head of the Yan family drooped his eyelids and waved his hand weakly, "Take all the gold and silver and run away, if you can run, one will count as one." ”

The people in charge of each room hesitated, you look at me, I look at you, and finally the person in charge of the third room stood up, "The head of the family, it's not like that, it's a big deal, let's keep a low profile in the future." ”

"That's right." The person in charge of the fourth house also stood up, "It's a big deal to close the industry, relying on the wealth accumulated over the years, it won't be a problem to survive for thirty or fifty years, and then everything will pass?" ”

"I can't get by!" The head of the Yan family slapped his thigh fiercely, "Why don't you understand?" Our Yan family is now a big piece of fat, everyone wants to take a bite of whoever they catch, don't run? If you don't run, you won't be able to run! ”

"This ......" the rulers of the houses did not dare to speak.

"Let's go, let's go." The head of the Yan family looked at the juniors in the family, "As long as any of you survive, my Yan family will not cut off the incense." ”

The head of the Yan family tried his best to persuade him, and some of the young people had already decided to follow the arrangement.

At this critical juncture, several old men on crutches appeared.

The old man standing in the middle blew his beard and slammed the jade brick on the ground with his cane, "As the head of the family, how can you make such a hasty decision?" Simply incompetent! ”

The Yan family is a big family, in addition to the head of the family, there are many elders, among which the eldest elder is the oldest, the most senior, and his prestige is even higher than that of the head of the family.

At this time, the Great Elder has spoken, and the matter must be reconsidered.

The head of the Yan family sighed, "It's over!" ”

No matter how others discussed and how wise they were, the head of the Yan family knelt under the tablets of the ancestors and ancestors alone, and kept kowtowing and kowtowing......

Li Lingzhi was dizzy, and he could only pray for the blessing of his ancestors.

As for those ordinary salt workers, they had no channels to know about the movements of the imperial court, and they didn't know what the Yan family was discussing in the ancestral hall, they just wanted to take advantage of the rainy season to recuperate and prepare for the autumn to continue to work.

…………

Cracking sound~~~

Lu Zhi's family stood at the door and set off firecrackers, and even Lu Yi, who was in the army, came back.

Today's silk lanterns in Lu Mansion are hung high, which is even more festive than when Lu Ren got married.

When coarse salt entered the market, the price of salt fell by 30%, and the household department also collected a large amount of salt tax.

King Yue saw that the treasury was becoming more and more full, and he was overjoyed for a while, so he wrote the four big characters of "benefiting the country and the people" and presented it to Lu Zhi.

Lu Zhi shirked again and again, unwilling to enjoy the honor alone, the king of Yue willed, and issued an edict to use the script as a model to check and balance the door, and today is the groundbreaking ceremony.

Said Hengmen ordinary people may not understand, this thing is also called the archway, is the imperial court to commend meritorious service, Kedi, virtue and politics and loyalty, filial piety and righteousness of the building.

It is also called the archway, which is a doorway type monumental building, and can also be an ancillary building of the ancestral hall, showing the noble virtues and great achievements of the ancestors of the family, and has the function of worshipping ancestors.

As for where to build it, whether it is a street corner or an ancestral hall, it is all up to the Lu family to decide.

Lu Jian made a decision directly and built it in the ancestral hall, after all, this is the glory won by the little ancestor, and it is appropriate to put it in the ancestral hall.

As for the street, in fact, there is already a memorial arch there, and there are also four words on it - both civil and military, which were taken by Lu Yi and Lu Li in the examination.

Although it is the same archway, there are also different heights, Dayue once again borrowed the ritual system of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and divided it into three classes:

The imperial gift refers to the emperor's edict, and the treasury is built with silver;

Enrong refers to the emperor's edict, and the place is built with silver;

A holy decree is a local application, approved by the emperor, and then built by the family themselves with silver.

Lu Zhi received the highest imperial gift, while Lu Yi and Lu Li's were slightly worse, and they belonged to Enrong.