Shopkeeper Zhao was really a little speechless, but Lu Fu had already said this, but he couldn't say anything more, and then Lu Fu took out two more silver and asked him to go to a nearby restaurant to book five tables to come back, Zhao shopkeeper saw that Lu Fu was generous, and became more and more determined that the master behind this maid must be an extraordinary identity, a noble lady, and Miss Wang, immediately dared not have the slightest slack.

In the house, Lu Fu came in with hot water, and after waiting for Yi'er to freshen up, the banquet called from outside had arrived, and four tables were placed in the lobby of the inn, and one table was sent into the courtyard.

Things are similar to what Yi'er expected, but it is obviously a little more serious and complicated than Yi'er expected.

Many of the tenant farmers who rented 800 acres of food were indeed in arrears of rent and grain, but what Cai Gonggong said was that after the rent was reduced due to natural disasters that year, the tenants took that year as the standard, and refused to pay the grain the next year or even later! However, the news that Feng Lang inquired about was that the emperor exempted the rent during the natural disaster of Qiming for a year, but Gonggong Cai asked the tenants to make IOUs and distribute relief rations at four points of interest.

When Feng Lang said this, his chest was a little resentful, and he said: "This is not counting, this dynasty since the great grandfather, the cultivated land has been pursued by the field tax of twelve to one, and then in the twenty-fifth year of Zhaoming, the first emperor was a light tax, and specially changed the field tax to fifteen to one, which has been inherited to this day." But the young lady knows that since this eunuch surnamed Cai became the head of the 800-acre imperial village, the rent he collected was eight and one, which was almost half more than the fifteen and one of the field tax! Coupled with the various taxes and taxes, the actual tenants can leave less than three layers of grain! After the catastrophe of Qiming year, although these years are not a disaster year, but it is not a year of great abundance, and the tax collection is unified according to the standard of three stones, eight buckets and four liters per mu to collect, in previous years, these tenants are thrifty, thrifty and frugal, and can only afford to pay these donations and miscellaneous taxes, now because of the catastrophe, there is no harvest in the farmland, these tenants not only owe the surname Cai a year's rent grain, but also on credit to the relief rations, just imagine, this heavy debt, so how can they afford it? ”

Yi'er's face changed color slightly, and said: "These 800 acres of land were originally the emperor's village, and what Cai Tian collected was the emperor's grain, right under the emperor's nose. ”

Feng Lang sneered: "Miss, in addition to these, the surnamed Cai also secretly colluded with the local gentry and heroes, and skillfully listed all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, for example, the local gentry controlled the canals, and if they wanted to divert water to irrigate the farmland, they had to give silver, and it was also called water diversion money, and the tenant farmers worked hard and picked night incense to fertilize, and those gentry forcibly levied compensation on the grounds of strange smell and bad smell and stolen air...... These piles are all unbelievable and unheard of, and they are also thanks to these people who can think of it! ”

Yi'er thought for a while and said: "This Cai Tian is from the Internal Affairs Office, and if you think about it, the local officials don't dare to meddle even if they know it, but the county magistrate of this Quzhou Mansion just doesn't dare to pay attention to Cai Tian, but those local gentry are strong, and he doesn't care about it at all?" ”

"Where is the restraint? These people are leaning against the big tree of Cai Tian, where will they put the Liu County Order in their eyes? Judging from the small, the Liuxian Order has the intention to rectify and rectify, but it is weak and weak! ”

Yi'er looked at Feng Lang and said, "I heard that you still have some friendship with the Liu County Order, how about this person, maybe he should be of great use?" ”

Feng Lang said: "The small one and this Liuxian order, speaking of which, it is still the last time Chu Gongming was officially befriended, this person has been an official for many years, and he knows some sleek and flexible skills, but the small one looks at him, his heart is still upright, and he also wants to make a difference, but he has always been suffering from no way to work." ”

Yi'er said: "That's good, for the matter of these 800 acres of food, I'm afraid that this water won't be muddy, and see how this Liuxian order will react." If he really handles it properly, even if he looks at Brother Feng's face, I don't mind taking him with me. By the way, Cai Tian is from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, I think he is afraid that he has a backer to rely on in the palace, can you find out, what is his origin? ”

A trace of solemnity flashed on Feng Lang's face, and said: "This person does have a backer, and the idea is not simple and hard, he is the apprentice of Liu Dao'an, the eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor Bingbi!" ”

Yi'er knew that it was not easy for this person to be backed by him, but when Feng Lang said Liu Dao'an's name, she was still stunned, breathed a long sigh of relief, and said: "So that's the case, no wonder this person dares to be so bold!" ”

Feng Lang said: "Although the little one is a martial artist, I have also heard the name of Liu Dao'an, miss, is this matter not easy to handle?" ”

Yi'er said: "It's okay, Liu Dao'an, I've only seen him twice, and I don't know what his habits are, but the 800 acres of Huangzhuang and Cai Tian's affairs, I'm afraid that the emperor has already known about it, and the emperor specially rewarded me with these 800 acres of Huangzhuang as a food, and his intention couldn't be more obvious." ”

"Miss is ...... mean"

"The emperor wants to solve this matter, and he wants to keep Liu Dao'an, so he put all this matter on me. Otherwise, the Criminal Department, Dali Temple, the Internal Affairs Office, and the emperor can just hand it over to whomever to deal with it, so why do you need to borrow the hand of a weak woman from me to solve it? ”

Feng Lang nodded and said, "Miss's words are very reasonable. ”

Yi'er smiled: "You don't have to put a high hat on me." Now that we have guessed the emperor's intentions, the next thing is much easier. Brother Feng, the more than 20 people you brought are mighty and exaggerated, leave a few people who know the roots, just have good skills, and send the rest back. ”

Feng Lang scratched his head and said: "The little one also thinks, Miss is now the county lord, this county lord travels, and the honor guard that should be there is always inevitable, but I didn't expect the young lady to come over this time, and it was a low-key trip in a micro-service." ”

Yi'er said: "Early tomorrow morning, Brother Lao Fu Feng will go with me to my fiefdom to take a look." ”

Feng Lang nodded in response.

There was nothing to say overnight, early the next morning, Yi'er got up early, but the carriage in the yard had already been prepared, Yi'er didn't want to be too ostentatious, so she only received four girls, except for the door panel Feng Lang, only four people were selected from the eight people left by Feng Lang as guards, and the rest stayed in the inn.

When he came out of the courtyard, Shopkeeper Zhao saw it from afar, hurriedly stepped forward and saluted, "Miss, this is going out?" ”

Yi'er put on a hat and covered most of her face, then stopped at this time and said with a smile: "Go out and do something." I have left people in this courtyard, and when they eat and drink at noon, I will ask the shopkeeper to take care of them on their behalf. ”

Shopkeeper Zhao bowed down again and again and responded: "The girl next to Miss has already come over to explain, these are the villain's internal affairs, internal affairs." ”

Yi'er bowed slightly, led the people over, Zhao shopkeeper looked at the people out of the yard, got into the carriage and left, his face was slightly red, thinking that this young lady was so approachable, and her voice was so good, just like the fairy above the nine heavens, talking to herself and being so easy-going and close, thinking like this, I felt even more flattered and excited.

The 800 acres of Yi'er food are located in the area of Aozhuang outside the southeast of Quzhou Mansion. Speaking of this concave village, it is roughly divided into two villages, Shangwa Village and Xiawa Village, Shangao Village has one of the largest gentry landlords, surnamed Peng, this Peng family is very prestigious in Quzhou, it is the number one gentry in Quzhou, this generation of the head of the Peng family is called Peng Lianjin, forty years old, donated a few years ago, obviously I can't read a few big characters, but I like to be vassally elegant, I like others to call him Mr., Mr. Peng's name comes from this! More than half of the fields in Shangwa Village belong to the Peng family, and there are about 50 farming households, of which nearly 30 live by renting the Peng family's land.

Yi'er's food yi, the previous Huangzhuang are all in Xiawa Village. Eight hundred acres of food and food, as far as the eye can see, the entire Xiawa Village, a total of one hundred and three households, all of them are tenant farmers who rent these 800 acres of land, in terms of size and area, Xiawa Village is more than twice as large as Shangwa Village. Shangxia Au Village, is just the usual name of the Au Zhuang area, not the administrative division recognized by the government, in fact, the whole Au Zhuang can only be regarded as a Li Village, only one Li Zheng. Since last year, under the anger of the people, under pressure, the county government has elected a new Lizheng by the farmers of the concave village, the surname of the new Li Zheng is Gao, called Gao Sanshi, and it is also a tenant of Xia Ao Village.

When Yi'er and his party arrived in Aozhuang, it was also a coincidence, and they happened to meet Gao Sanshi's family doing a happy event, Yi'er was interested, so she let Lu Fu get out of the carriage and went over to inquire.

The head of the village suddenly came to the carriage, which is a new thing in the small village of Au Zhuang, those tenant farmers all know that only Cai Tian has a carriage in the entire Xia Ao Village, and looking at the Chen decoration of this carriage, it is much more luxurious than Cai Tian's one. The Peng family in Shangao Village can find a carriage of this grade, but the Peng family's carriage has never been to Xiawa Village.

So as soon as the carriage entered Xiawa Village, when it stopped outside Gao Sanshi's house, a woman had already led a little girl of three or four years old to greet her.

When Lu Fu got out of the carriage, she saw that the woman was not very old, only in her twenties, wearing a light cyan cloth skirt, her hair was tied in a bun, and she looked at the carriage a little strangely.

Lu Fu took a few steps forward, lightly blessed and said: "This lady is invited, we forked the way, and we arrived here by mistake, my young lady is a little tired, I want to find a place to rest, begging for a glass of water to drink, I don't know if it is convenient for your house?" After a pause, he added, "Naturally, we have some trouble, and we will also say that we will not beg for the lady's water in vain." ”