Xiang'er drank the blood of the snake eel, and saw that the time was not early, Wen Chaotian would be back soon, so she rinsed her mouth vigorously with chrysanthemum tea and rinsed it more than a dozen times, so as to get rid of the bloody smell of the snake eel.

Ha breathed in her hand, smelled that there was no problem, and she dug a deep pit for the broken bowl of slag and the corpse of the snake eel, and buried them all in the soil.

That night, Wen Chaotian came back a little late.

There is no way, as the governor of Yingtian and a part-time governor, he is too busy.

Well, though, power is the best tonic for men.

The bigger Wen Chaotianguan does, the more he doesn't love Xiang'er enough.

As Xiang'er thought, after Wen Chaotian went home, he didn't eat anything, so he picked her up.

……

Entering autumn, Duan Chu was also busy.

As the head of the Yingtianfu Hongyang class, he must arrange manpower after the autumn.

The people in the Hongyang class of Ying Tianfu were very convinced of Duan Chu.

Because Duan Chu has always been distributed according to work, and when assigning tasks, he never favors a certain person.

The area under the jurisdiction of Tianfu is large.

Moreover, there are prisoners in the six departments who want to be executed, and they all let the Hongyang class of Yingtianfu do the work for them, so the income of everyone in the Hongyang class is reasonable.

As the head of the class, Duan Chu's income will naturally not be less.

The commission is only one aspect, because the salary given to him by Wen Chaotian is higher than that of Ma Qianli, the chief catcher.

In the entire government, no one was unconvinced.

Because even if no one dares to talk about the palace on the bright side, there are still rumors in private, and after so many days, the rumors have become the capital and reached Yingtianfu.

It has also become a topic of conversation after tea and dinner.

So everyone knows that Duan Chu helped the emperor, beheaded the bones, and settled the big things.

……

At the beginning of the lunar month, Wen Chaotian and Xiang'er held a simple wedding.

Xiang'er's coveted title of Mrs. Wen was finally obtained by her.

The biggest reason why Wen Chaotian was able to marry her was that Xiang'er was pregnant.

The two had been together for so long before, and Xiang'er's belly didn't react, and this time she was suddenly pregnant, Wen Chaotian thought that this was a reminder from God that it was time to give Xiang'er a name.

In fact, what he didn't know was that Xiang'er had infertility before.

This problem is because at the beginning, she was close to the Jade Skull and was contaminated by the cold of the Jade Skull.

The cure for her problem was the bowl of snake eel blood.

Snake eel, snake and eel need to look at each other and then crossbreed, this kind of thing, a hundred years rare.

That liar, with such a treasure, only knows how to let out some blood every time to coax the people.

But in the hands of Xiang'er, it came in handy.

The use of the snake eel's blood was told to Xiang'er by the jade skeleton.

"You have been with me for so long, you have been contaminated with cold, if you want to get rid of the cold, you can only use dragon qi to suppress it, the Son of Heaven has dragon qi, but you definitely don't want to enter the palace, so you have another way in the future, which is to find the snake eel......"

These are the original words of the jade skeleton when Xiang'er and the jade skeleton parted.

……

Xiang'er is pregnant, Zhao Ruyi and Zhu Zimo, under Duan Chu's hard work, turned out to have both big bellies, and there was still no response.

If one of them is not pregnant, it is okay to say that there must be something wrong with the other.

But neither of them is pregnant, so that's a problem.

So in the mansion, someone joked with Duan Chu: "Master Duan, are you not good?" ”

Duan Chu knew that he must have done it, not only did it, but he was also very brave.

He wasn't in a hurry before, but when he learned that Xiang'er and Wen Chaotian were married to Fengzi, he was a little anxious.

Zhao Ruyi is a person with a third eye on her forehead, she is self-aware and knows that she is different, so she is not sure whether she can have children.

But the Duan family can't help but pass on the ancestry.

So Zhao Ruyi cheered Zhu Zimo up: "Sister, come on, work hard!" ”

Zhu Zimo had a bitter face: "If there is goods in the stomach, you can let me work hard, the key is that there is no goods in the stomach, no matter how hard I try, it will be in vain." ”

Zhu Zimo knew that his problem was bigger than Zhao Ruyi.

She was in a coffin, a coffin that survived alone for two or three years, and then came back from the dead.

The coffin is coupled with the Yang Ghost, and the Yin Qi is extremely heavy.

If it weren't for the fact that she was born in the royal family, the dragon qi suppressed the yin qi, and she didn't know what it would look like.

Now she also understands that she can live and have a room with Duan Chu, this is a God-given opportunity, as for giving birth to a child, she doesn't dare to think about it.

Zhu Zimo and Zhao Ruyi, every time they talked about this topic, they looked at each other and sighed.

There is no way, this dynasty governs the country with filial piety, can't have children, and cut off the incense of the husband's family, which is the biggest unfilial piety.

That's why there are so many legitimate wives, that is, regular wives, because their stomachs are not competitive and they can't have children, they all take the initiative to take concubines for their husbands.

If his husband has no son, and when he has a mistake, then his brother will drive him out of the house and then embezzle the family property.

It's not like this hasn't happened before.

Of course, Duan Chu has no brothers, and the embezzlement of family property will not happen, but it can't make him unable to keep the seeds.

Slowly, Zhao Ruyi and Zhu Zimo turned their eyes to Ma Qingshuang.

Both of them can see that Ma Qingshuang is a normal big girl, and it must be no problem to have a child.

……

Duan Chu was still worried about not having children, but soon, his attention was diverted.

Because after the Spring Festival, the cabinet headed by Zhang Gongmao finally got the acquiescence of the emperor and began to implement reforms throughout the country.

Duan Chu didn't understand the meaning of reform, but after listening to Mr. Wei's explanation, he understood that Zhang Gongmao would transfer all kinds of forced labor taxes from the heads of the people to the fields in the future.

For example, if you have a family of five and only one acre of land, the previous tax was calculated according to the five people.

However, Zhang Gongmao's reform of the new law stipulates that if you have a family of five people per mu of land, the future tax will no longer be charged according to the number of heads, but will be linked to the field and you will be charged the tax of one mu of land.

In this way, it is great news for the poor people in the world.

For a large landowner like Xie Jianglan, who owns 10,000 acres, the implementation of the new policy is very bad news.

Zhang Gongmao stabbed the hornet's nest this time.

Xie Jianglan united the big landowners throughout the empire, especially the big landlords in Jiangnan, to oppose Zhang Gongmao's reform and new policy.

Without waiting for Xie Jianglan to launch an offensive against Zhang Gongmao, Zhang Gongmao made a move on him first.

The one who took the knife for Zhang Gongmao was Ying Tian Governor Wen Chaotian.

……

Gusu City is the jurisdiction of the governor of Yingtian.

That morning, Wen Chaotian took Duan Chu to Gusu City.

He summoned the officials of Gusu and only mentioned one thing, that is, to thoroughly investigate how much land Xie Jianglan had, and how many of these lands came from improper sources.

The local officials in Gusu are inextricably linked with Xie Jianglan.

Many of them are still relatives, friends, or teachers and students with Xie Jianglan.

It must be perfunctory for one's own people to check their own people.

So after a few days of investigation, they didn't find any clues.

Of course, it's not that I can't find out, but I don't want to report it to Wen Chaotian.

Before Wen Chaotian came to Gusu, he had already thought of this result.

So he recruited the officials of the Ying Tianfu Ya, as well as a group of people from Tie Si Prison, and used his own team to investigate.

The pusher has completely fallen to Wen Chaotian.

Because after Wen Chaotian was promoted to the governor of Yingtian, he inquired that Wen Chaotian was a protégé of Zhang Gelao.

Since Master Wen has such a hard relationship, then he will follow him!

Maybe when he is promoted, Ying Tianxuan himself will not be able to reach it, but Ying Tianfu Yin, he will definitely be able to recommend himself as a candidate.

Therefore, the magistrate worked very Wen Chaotian's orders.

With the efforts of the magistrate and Tie Si Prison, the number of Xie Jianglan's fields was quickly ascertained.

There are more than 20,000 acres.

And half of them were taken from the hands of ordinary people.

Wen Chaotian fixed the evidence of Xie Jianglan's cunning and robbery.

The evidence is easy to fix, because when I heard that the governor was administering justice, many ordinary people came to the door to complain.

Although taxes and forced labor in the future will be collected according to the amount of land, the land is fundamental, and the common people will not give up their land because they pay a little more taxes.

So the paper that sued Xie Jiangnan flew in front of Wen Chaotian like snowflakes.

Wen Chaotian wrote a letter to Xie Jianglan, asking him to return the land he had embezzled.

When it comes to the meat in the mouth, there is no reason to spit it out.

Xie Jianglan is also scheming, but there is only one shortcoming, and that is greed.

He won't give the fields back.

I have been an official for so long, isn't it just to enjoy the blessings after leaving office?

These fields are the guarantee of their own happiness!

Without these worlds, I am so old, and I have no official position, can you let Lao Tzu start from scratch again!

Xie Jianglan was very angry.

In order to deal with Wen Chaotian, after he retired a few hundred acres of land, he also wrote a letter to Wen Chaotian.

The general meaning of the letter is that you asked me to quit the ground, I see that you are a junior, and it also gave you face, and now you can say that you are honest and honest, and forced me to quit the ground.

The effect you want has been achieved, so it's better to accept it when you see it.

Xie Jianglan's tone, although it was much more tactful, Wen Chaotian didn't buy it.

The effect that Wen Chaotian wanted was not a few hundred acres of land, but that Xie Jianglan would return all the land.

It stands to reason that Wen Chaotian was already very kind to Xie Jianglan, but he just let him retreat, and he didn't mean to pursue criminal responsibility.

However, Xie Jianglan will definitely not give in easily.

Now he is the leader of the nation's landlords and rebellion against the New Deal.

If he retreats completely, it will be tantamount to bowing to the forces of Zhang Gongmao's faction, and how will he lead this gang to resist the New Deal in the future.

So when Wen Chaotian made it clear that all the land that had been seized by cunning must be withdrawn, Xie Jianglan was moved to kill.

"Reform is all about bloodshed, he Wen Chaotian will not understand this truth, Rao is so, he is still aggressive towards me, then don't blame me for being unkind, let him bleed first!"

Xie Jianglan sent seven of his dead soldiers to take down the heads of the people who were facing the sky.

It stands to reason that Wen Chaotian is the governor of Yingtian, an absolute member of the imperial court, and if he dies, it will definitely cause a sensation in the government and the opposition.

However, Xie Jianglan has a secret move, that is, Yan Song, who is placed next to the emperor.

Before Duan Chu beheaded and ascended, the emperor asked Yan Song to write a green word and burn it to God in order to be foolproof.

So when Duan Chu beheaded and ascended, the emperor gave half of the credit to Duan Chu's ghost head knife, and half to the green words written by Yan Song.

There's no way, you make him believe that the decapitation doesn't turn into bones, it's all the credit of Duan Chu, and he won't agree.

If it's all due to Duan Chu's work, it proves that his dialogue with God in green words is bullshit.

The emperor could not accept this result.

So the green words still have to be written.

So Yan Song, in front of the emperor, became more and more favored.

Xie Jianglan and Yan Song made a plan to kill Wen Chaotian and lead the disaster to Zhang Gongmao.

It is said that in order to build momentum for the new policy, Zhang Gongmao deliberately killed Wen Chaotian and framed them as landlords, so as to create public anger and win the hearts of the people, and then exchange for the emperor's strong support.

Xie Jianglan's move was a good plan, but he forgot that not only Wen Chaotian knew martial arts, but also Wen Chaotian was beside him, and there was also a top swordsman Duan Chu.

……

Xie Jianglan's seven dead soldiers, armed with swords in the middle of the night, quietly infiltrated Wen Chaotian and were in the temporary residence of Gusu City, but before they could get close to Wen Chaotian, they were intercepted by the vigilant Duan Chu.

After a fight, all seven dead were wounded.

If Wen Chaotian hadn't told Duan Chu to catch the mastermind behind the scenes, none of them would have survived.

……

However, Wen Chaotian still didn't catch a single live mouth.

These seven dead soldiers, although they looked like Han Chinese, were actually Fuso ninjas, and with the help of gunpowder and the cover of night, they all finally evacuated.

Back in Xie Fu, seven of the dead soldiers, four of whom died of their wounds.

Xie Jianglan originally thought that all the killer camps under his command would attack, and it should not be a problem to take down Wen Chaotian's head, but in the end, not to mention the loss of troops, he was caught by the reformers.

Although Wen Chaotian has no direct evidence that the mastermind behind his assassination is Xie Jianglan, it is a big crime to assassinate a member of the imperial court.

Zhang Gongmao immediately played to the emperor, saying that the governor of Yingtian was assassinated, and if it were not for his subordinates desperately guarding, he would definitely die in Huangquan and return to his hometown.

When the emperor heard this, the thunder was furious.

In fact, he really doesn't have much interest in whether he can reform or not.

He just needs the elixir.

But refining the elixir of life, civil and military officials have complaints.

Therefore, Zhang Gongmao wants to reform, and the emperor feels that the reform is good, and it is just right for the ministers to be divided into two factions to fight back and forth, so that they will not always stare at their cultivation and alchemy.

This is the real reason why the emperor agreed to Zhang Gongmao's reforms.

As for whether the final reform could succeed, the emperor did not care.

However, the assassination of the governor of Ying Tian was tantamount to picking up the emperor's dragon beard.

A bold thief, even the governor of Ying Tian dared to assassinate, so assassination and assassination, wouldn't one day, he will be assassinated on my head!

So the emperor issued an order to thoroughly investigate the assassination.

At this time, the situation up and down the empire was absolutely favorable for the reformers!

However, everything is subject to change.

Many times, an inconspicuous figure can change the seemingly stable overall situation.

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