Gu Jinan was very happy and relieved in his heart, although this Cui Yiwen has a good opinion and looks down on him, but Cui Yiwen is not Tong San, nor is he such an uninformed gentleman, and he has no ill will towards him.

"Brother Cui, don't worry, I will tell you what you say, if I don't see you then, Mr. Ouyang will decide." Gu Jinan agreed.

Cui Yiwen was very happy, thanked Gu Jinan again, drank with him, and just drank two glasses, Yan Xiaowu came.

As soon as he came, he walked up to Gu Jinan and said with a smile: "Brother Gu came really early, I also took a detour to Xu's house to pick you up, but Old Man Xu said that you had already come." ”

Cui Yiwen was taken aback when he heard this, this Gu Jinan is not simple, not only does he know Mr. Ouyang, but Mr. Ouyang personally writes "What is Filial Piety" to defend him, and he also has a relationship with the Yan family, I heard that Gu Jinan is also friendly with the Zheng family in Jiangnan and the eldest grandson of the Shangguan family, this connection...... In addition to admiration, Cui Yiwen could only sigh that his life was good.

Gu Jinan was very happy tonight, this was the only time he had not been embarrassed since he attended so many banquets.

And Kong Xuezheng also said to him: "Mr. Ouyang's article will definitely be presented to the emperor for review, as long as the emperor reads it, when you go to the capital to take the examination, no one will dare to embarrass you." ”

Gu Jinan thanked Kong Xuezheng.

But Kong Xuezheng was wrong, and Emperor Chu didn't care about such a trivial matter at all.

When Kong Xuezheng dedicated Mr. Ouyang's article to Emperor Chu like a treasure, Emperor Chu just glanced at it twice, and threw it aside, still scolding Mr. Ouyang and Kong Xuezheng in his heart, when did they waste his time with such a trivial matter?

Emperor Chu is now in a hurry, Da Rong ransacked Longshan Mansion, the city of Longshan Mansion was broken, countless border people were killed, countless women were taken captive, and his face as Emperor Chu was beaten hard, and his face was swollen.

There must be people in the northwest today who are scolding him, saying that it is all because he got rid of the Wei Guogong lineage, which made the Darong people unscrupulous.

Regarding the affairs of the Duke of Weiguo, Emperor Chu knew that he had done too much, but he did not feel that he was wrong, the Duke of Wei was powerful, in addition to being the emperor of the northwest, there were old departments in the northeast and Zhongzhou. If you don't get rid of Wei Guogong's lineage, it won't take two generations, and it is estimated that Wei Guogong's descendants will enter the capital and grab his family's throne!

It's just that Wei Guogong's line is a sharp blade to balance Darong, and now he has destroyed this sharp blade, and the new sharp blade is not up to the task, so that Longshan Mansion has been ransacked. He must solve this matter and get his face back, otherwise he will be laughed to death by the courtiers.

Therefore, the Emperor of Chu decided to send troops to Darong.

But the war requires money and food, because of the disaster, the treasury is empty, and the money and food are insufficient, and after thinking about it for a while, the Chu Emperor made a holy decree to increase taxes.

Emperor Chu wanted to increase the summer tax, the poll tax and the anti-Rong tax.

When the courtiers heard this, they were all shocked, and they wrote to advise, saying: "The miscellaneous taxes of Dachu are enough, and the peasants are already overwhelmed. Moreover, the northwest, northeast, and central states have not been stable in recent years, and the peasants have no surplus grain, and if taxes are raised, I am afraid that they will cut off their way of life. ”

Emperor Chu heard this for a few years, and he was already annoyed, and scolded the officials in the northwest, northeast, and Zhongzhou for their incompetence: "A group of waste, all of them are white-collar and mediocre talents, and they haven't let a few places in the northwest recover as before?!" ”

Emperor Chu was very angry, and immediately issued an order to reprimand the officials of the northwest, northeast, and central states, and deduct them for three months.

The courtiers are going crazy, these three places are unstable, you should be appeased, why did you suddenly order a punishment? Not afraid of messing around again?

But the will has been made, and the courtiers have no choice but to continue to advise and not let the Chu Emperor raise taxes.

But Emperor Chu had already made up his mind, and said that the money and grain were collected to be used as military funds to fight Darong. However, the courtiers objected too much, and the Chu Emperor finally changed his will: "The northwest, northeast, and Zhongzhou will not increase taxes, but the prosperous places of Jianghuai, Jiangnan, and Zhili will be charged twice the grain tax and anti-Rong tax." ”

Courtiers: "......"

It's crazy, you can't take it, whatever you want.

……

Gu Jin'an and the others didn't know that Emperor Chu was going to raise taxes, so on the third day after attending the banquet, they packed up their things and set off to return to He'an Mansion.

Before going back, they bought gifts for their families, and Gu Dexing quietly went to the silver building and bought a golden hairpin for Xu Zhong.

The golden hairpin is very beautiful, but it is a bit vulgar, Xu Zhaoming vaguely reminded Gu Dexing: "Sister Linglong is more worthy of jade." ”

But if you want to buy a good jade, you can't do it without a hundred taels of silver.

After Gu Dexing bought gifts for his family, he only had less than one hundred taels of silver left, so he could only buy a golden hairpin. And the second aunt said that jade is easy to break like tofu dregs, and if it is broken within a few days, it will be a loss, or gold, if you encounter difficulties, you can use it as silver when you pull it off your head, how good.

Gu Dexing was influenced by the Chen family, so he wanted to buy a golden hairpin for Xu Zhong.

Xu Zhaoming saw that he didn't listen, so he gave up.

However, Gu Jin'an was in a hurry, thinking that when he went home this time and went to visit Mr. Ouyang, he should be able to see Miss Ouyang, thinking that he should prepare a gift for her.

So I went to buy a piece of jade, and planned to carve a jade medal for Miss Ouyang, which was really hands-on.

Shang Xiu only knew about this, she couldn't laugh, looking at Gu Jin'an's careful preparation of gifts for Miss Ouyang, she remembered herself and Xue Niang.

I remember when I was young, he also carved a jade medal for Xue Niang, Xue Niang liked it very much, and even put the jade medal under the pillow when she slept, until she had Yuan Yuan, and then took the jade medal away, saying that she was afraid that Yuan Yuan was not sensible and would swallow the jade chapter into her stomach.

When they had bought the gifts, they got into a mule cart and went out of the city to go home.

Yan Xiaowu learned the news that they were leaving, and came to see them off in person, but unexpectedly, Yan Xiaowu was standing next to Liu Wenqing and Liu Wenqing.

Gu Jinan was very surprised when he saw these two cousins, how did they catch Yan Xiaowu?

Gu Jinan was afraid that Yan Xiaowu would suffer a loss, so he reminded him, Yan Xiaowu smiled bitterly: "They are here to beg me to ask my family to help me during the auction of the Tong family's property, so that their Liu family can buy back the previous family business." ”

Yan Xiaowu didn't want to agree, but Liu Wenqing was too pestering, he was so entangled that he had no choice but to agree, thinking that after he agreed, Liu Wenqing would be able to let him go.

But Liu Wenqing didn't, he changed his rhetoric, saying that he wanted to repay his kindness, and he has been busy with him for the past two days, just like a ...... Minion.

The corners of Gu Jin'an's mouth twitched when he heard this, repaying the favor? What kind of favor to repay, it is obvious that he wants to entangle Yan Xiaowu and catch the big backer of the Yan family.

However, as long as Liu Wenqing didn't have the intention of harming Yan Xiaowu, Gu Jinan would not meddle in his affairs, so he said goodbye to Yan Xiaowu and left in a mule cart.

Liu Wenqing saw Gu Jin'an and admired it very much: "That is the head of the Gu case, I heard that he fled from the famine, he didn't study much when he was a child, and he was able to be admitted to the head of the court, he is really a genius." ”

Liu Wenqing said: "So you don't have to be discouraged, if you can be admitted to Xiucai in the capital of Gu case, you can study hard for ten years." "Mobile phone reading address: it is more convenient to read books, and the bookshelf function is better to use.