Sparrow's tongue

The disappearance of Li Jicai and the two maids caused a shock in the entire village.

Many of the villagers didn't know why they left without even saying hello.

I got along with them so well before, was it all hypocrisy?

Even if you leave, at least you have to say something to the villagers, send someone off or something, knowing that the other party is from the capital, and the identity must not be simple.

This friend has a lot of easy roads, and there are few backers in the whole village, after this Li Jicai left, they really felt a little lost.

Huang San took over Li Jicai's affairs, and the village returned to its former peace. But something seems to be different.

At least the things that Li Jicai left in this village have not been worn out for a while.

The villagers began to develop a habit of helping each other. In particular, Widow Li's life is getting better and better.

Villagers who have spare energy help other villagers who have difficulty in farming to farm together, and receive a certain amount of remuneration, and the family has an extra income, and life is getting better and better.

Under Li Jicai's insistence before, many public fields were also devolved, so that some villagers who performed very well were able to generously apply for renting public fields, and the harvest was divided in half with the public family.

And it can be protected by the public, and it is not usually bullied by the bullies in the township, which is a good choice.

In this way, the enthusiasm of the villagers has been raised to a higher level, and the morale of the villagers has been greatly shaken.

The purse is bulging, the smile on the face is more, the days are getting more and more prosperous, and the performance of local officials is getting better and better.

With such an outstanding performance, how can it not be noticed and valued?

The strange appearance of the tongue attracted the attention of many officials who came down to follow up.

Originally, they had come to the finch tongue for a walk in accordance with the rules and habits over the years and then left, for such a lifeless place, they did not have a good feeling, anyway, people are like that, the annual harvest is like that, there will be no major changes.

But this year is different, and this year looks like it's going to be more than any other year in the past, which is refreshing.

The peasants who used to work were not lazy, but they could sit and never stand, lie down and never sit, and don't move their buttocks.

But now it's different, and now they're desperately looking for work.

Whoever needs help will take the initiative to go to the end, and they will take the initiative to give a certain amount of money or food or some other things.

After the people in the village finished helping, the public field and the public vegetable garden also went to help.

After the public affairs were done, they also passed over to the neighboring villages that needed manpower and needed help.

How so? It seems that there is a diseased tree that sprouts in spring.

Since it is indeed not far from the capital, and it is a place where ordinary people gather, it will naturally attract more attention.

So it was no surprise that such a noticeable change as this was reported.

After the report was reported, more people naturally paid attention to it, so that in the end, Emperor Gao De felt very curious.

Such a change has taken place in this good place, and it is an extremely good momentum, but in terms of pure form, it does not conform to the regulations issued by the Chu State at that time.

In other words, someone deliberately changed this system and was actually a challenge to the entire court.

That's right, it's a challenge.

Who would dare to be so bold and risk the world's condemnation?

The first thing Emperor Gao Dedi thought about was accountability, and he wanted to ask who came up with this idea, how to guide them, how to encourage them to do such a thing, and why no one discovered or even stopped it in time in this process.

Although it seems that this approach has achieved certain results, and the people live and work in peace and contentment, and cultivate diligently, this is not what Emperor Gao Dedi wants to see.

What he needs more than change is stability and obedience. He doesn't need courtiers with his own ideas, that is a kind of questioning of his imperial power.

When the matter was traced layer by layer, it naturally found Li Jicai's head without exception.

Li Jicai organized the villagers to organize together to hold the so-called villagers' meeting, and it was she who walked around the county town and obtained the official document that the public land could be cultivated for the common people, and it was she who first began to put forward the concept of encouraging public and private use.

In other words, after tracing it layer by layer, all the root causes are actually on Li Jicai's body.

It's just that Li Jicai's implementation time is not particularly long, and the plan is only halfway through the gradual implementation process, Li Jicai disappeared, and I don't know where to go.

As a lot of things, a lot of follow-up matters, it looks like it's stopped.

Emperor Gao De was extremely surprised, because there was no place to use Li Jicai for the time being, so he threw her out of his mind.

After all, it was lost in a small place, and I didn't think she could make any splashes.

But now, it has indeed been proved that Li Jicai has really made a splash.

There was a minister who was involved in the whole process, and then reported the matter carefully and carefully.

It just so happened that it was the day when Qi Qingchu returned to the court.

Qi Qingchu didn't expect to hear about Li Jicai's measures in the tongue.

In order to help Li Jicai enter the officialdom before, Qi Qingchu temporarily made up a lot for Li Jicai, thinking that it would help her, but now it seems that she really listened to it, and she applied it very well.

Li Jicai's strategy was not fully implemented, and the tongue was just an unfinished product.

Smart people can already foresee what the future prospects of Li Jicai's arrangement will be.

The reporting minister, after giving a detailed account of what he had seen, added some of his own views as appropriate.

Between the words, what was expressed was appreciation and affirmation of Li Jicai.

After listening to the narration, Emperor Gao De and the other ministers were silent, and some of them secretly observed Jiang Xihu and Qi Qingchu's expressions.

Because it is said that this Li Jicai has an extremely close relationship with these two, will it?

"Where is she now?" Emperor Gao De couldn't see that everyone was silent, the court meeting was about to end, and when he heard this news, he must not sit idly by and treat it as if it didn't happen.

"Back to Your Majesty, I listened to what the local villagers said that a few days ago, Master Li suddenly disappeared and disappeared.

Someone saw that a group of people picked her up and went to the direction of the capital, thinking that she was returning to the city, but then there was no news. ”

"No news? Can a good court official disappear? Examine! Check it out for me! ”

Emperor Gao De hadn't taken it to heart yet, but now that he saw that Li Jicai seemed to be a little useful, he immediately began to pay attention.

He thought about it, wasn't Li Jicai his subordinate?

"Do I know where your men have gone? Why is there no news all of a sudden? This was asked to Jiang Xihu.

Jiang Xihu was still in a daze, but when he was asked, he was suddenly stunned, and then shook his head in a trance and said that he had never seen him again.

The talents of the Luo family were the most nervous and panicked, because they all knew that Li Jicai was actually kidnapped by Luo Lianfang.

After being kidnapped, he was locked up, and then a series of things happened, all in all, he couldn't get rid of Luo Lianfang.

So if it is traced and investigated, it will be inseparable from the Luo family.

If you are held accountable, you will definitely not be able to escape.

They were also a little worried that Qi Qingchu would take the initiative to speak out, saying that Luo Lianfang was blackmailing him, and then exposing the whole thing.

In that case, it will be a big problem.

You must know that the kidnapping of court ministers by court ministers is an extremely rare thing in the past, and it is also a matter of criminal responsibility.

After all, they were born in the Chu State, and if His Majesty blames them, the family will not be able to save them all.

Even if you have privileges, you can't go too far, this is the purpose of the family all along, you can do certain things, but you must not leave yourself with risks and put yourself in a dangerous situation.

"Qingchu, do you know what's hidden here?"

As soon as Emperor Gao De said this, the eyes of all the ministers fell on him, and everyone stared at him carefully without blinking, as if they wanted to see something from his face.

When the people of the Luo family heard this, they immediately became vigilant, they were afraid that they would hear some words about them from his mouth.

"Back to Your Majesty's words, the minister doesn't know." Qi Qingchu actually knew very well in his heart, even if he knew the cause and effect of this matter, it was definitely not suitable to say it at this moment.

If Emperor Gao Dedi is involved in this, then the situation will be even more complicated.

If he knew that those of them who were courtiers had contact with the people on the Yan Kingdom's side, had private dealings, and even had some transactions, he would definitely suspect them.

At that time, not only the Luo family will suffer, but also himself, and he will not want to do this kind of thing for the time being.

And Li Jicai may still be in the hands of the Luo family now, if he offends the Luo family, Li Jicai's safety will be difficult to guarantee at that time, how can there be any accidents.

Ah, he felt like he was going crazy.

"Oh? It seems that this matter is a bit strange, in which case I would have sent someone to investigate this matter.

After all, this woman had also made a lot of contributions to the frontier at the beginning, and now she has put forward such a useful local opinion, but it is a good material to be made, so it is better to get her back as soon as possible. ”

Earlier, Emperor Gao De didn't take Li Li Jicai to heart, and felt that this woman was an inconsequential person, that is, at most a puppet who was used.

Even if he has a few friendships with the people of the Yan Kingdom, it is estimated that the effect is not great, which is equivalent to keeping it useless and abandoning it.

So he didn't have any opinion when she was later arranged in a small place outside the capital, but now it seems that he underestimated her.