The Ran family has a lot of money, the victims moved for two days, and the grain in the treasury was almost gone, so the prefect took the soldiers and hurried over.

You must know that the traffic is inconvenient at this time, and the prefect said that he received the report and came immediately.

The Ran family has a hard time.

In fact, Lu Can and Wen Han took off the wooden door and ran out when the robbers all ran to Ran's house to grab food, it was a dilapidated mountain temple, and there was not even a temple in it, and the robbers' belongings were also very pitiful.

More than half of the Ran family was killed and wounded, and Ran Zhongjian's younger brother who stayed at home commanded the bodyguards to fight against the victims and died unexpectedly. The news spread, and everyone in the big households in Zhongjiang was in danger.

Under the pretext of protecting them, Lu Can personally led the troops and went to borrow food one by one. This time, he had a reason: "Diao Min is too bold, if you take out all the food, they will have nothing to grab, and of course their own family will be safe." ”

Those big families felt that Lu Can and the officials in front of him were not all the way, but they couldn't refute him.

Because Lu Can is reasonable.

He said: "Zhongjiang is big, there are more than 100,000 victims, and I have less than 1,000 soldiers in my hands.

Why don't you lend the grain to the imperial court, and when you collect the taxes in the coming year, you won't pay back a lot of grains? You exchange old grain for new grain, and you don't eat at all, so why don't you want such a good deal? ”

This time, Lu Can coerced and lured, and the effect of borrowing grain was very good, raising a total of millions of catties of grain, and he posted a notice that as long as he returned home, the peasants who participated in the construction of embankments and dams, and leveled the fields to prepare for production, could get a certain amount of grain.

These grains, although not enough to eat, but starved to death, the robbers who went up the mountain were dumbfounded, some deserted and secretly ran home, less than a month, there were only 20 left on the mountain, these people were the gangsters in the village who did not produce anything, they felt that they were already thieves anyway, lest they be settled after the autumn, and continued to insist.

Wen Han volunteered to go to Zhao'an.

There are only more than 20 people, and they are not "bandits" at all, although they have just had the rudiments of banditry, and they are not fierce enough.

But these people are a cancer, and it is difficult to predict what it will develop into in the future.

Although Lu Can was unwilling to let Wen Han take risks, he couldn't stop this ambitious and capable young man.

Among the robbers, there were indeed diehards, who disagreed with Wen Han and fought hard.

Zhongjiang is wealthy, the people are simple, the locals rarely practice martial arts, and the bodyguards of large families are hired from other places, and some are just tall and strong.

The robbers didn't expect Wen Han to be thin and weak, but his subordinates had real chapters, not only easily coped with their wheel battles, but also beat their heads to the ground and couldn't get up.

Winham was victorious and began to convince them. Those who are willing to go home, let Li Zheng come over as a protector, unwilling to be dull all his life and hope to make a difference, Wen Han also pointed out the way out: "What are you doing on the mountain?" Isn't it just to be fed and clothed? As a soldier in the garrison battalion, he also eats and drinks, maybe he can still make meritorious contributions, mix with an official and a half position, and fight for a wife and a son in the future, isn't it an immortal achievement that benefits his descendants? You can't even beat me, and the road of being a bandit will definitely not work, so it's better to practice martial arts with the head of the sect in the military camp and plan for the future. ”

His words were earnest, and he was convinced by the few diehards he said.

The imperial court received an urgent report that the Ran family had been robbed, and it was still dispatching troops, and Zhongjiang had calmed down. The governor received Lu Can's recital, and hurriedly reported it for 800 miles.

As soon as the emperor saw that Zhongjiang was fine, he was angry that some people had falsely reported the military situation, saying that the people had rioted and killed local officials and gentry.

Who is this irresponsible tossing people?

The matter soon became clear, it turned out that Lord Ran received the letter from home and was in a hurry, so his protégé tried to find a way to blow the wind to the emperor. was originally kind to help the teacher, but he didn't want the Zhongjiang prefect to put out the fire, Ran Zhongjian lost a lot of people in front of the emperor, so he held a grudge against Lu Can, and asked his protégé to write a recital to impeach Lu Can for incompetence.

The emperor listened to Ran Zhongjian's slander, and although he did not issue an edict to reprimand Lu Can, his good impression of him was gone.

Someone was not on the same page with Ran Zhongjian, so he naturally sent the news to Lu Can.

Although Lu Can has always been a low-level official in the imperial court, he is a relatively good person, and his father still has some connections, and it cannot be said that he is a fish on the chopping board, which is slaughtered by others.

Su Qing, an opponent who had been suppressed by Ran Zhongjian, heard some rumors and asked his protégé to collect evidence and impeach Ran Zhongjian for forming a party for personal gain, taking bribes and embezzling power.

Su Qing's protégé received instructions from the master, and all of them were as big as a bucket.

This Ran Zhongjian is a big traitor, he declares to the outside world that his family is rich and does not need to be corrupt, although he is in a high position, he has a clean breeze on his sleeves, and he is reluctant to say that he is greedy for power, how can he impeach corruption and accept bribes?

Also, Ran Zhongjian's sons and daughters' in-laws are all departments of the Ministry of Rites or the Hanlin Academy, which have no real power, and he once released the news in a high-profile manner, and only seeks the other party's virtuous and virtuous people, not rich and powerful.

How can this be impeached?

Although the imperial history can be heard, it can't be planted without any factual basis, right? Just when Su Qing's protégé was like a swarm of headless flies, bumping around, a man named Chen Ke received a letter from Zhongjiang.

The letter listed in detail the Ran family's rampant expropriation and extortion, predators and villagers, and coerced local officials to serve their families, and Ran Zhongjian also impeached Liu Rui, the prefect who did not listen to his family's dispatch, causing him to have no way to refute and hang himself in order to seek innocence. Liu Rui's mother and wife were deprived of their lives, and their son was not favored. Since then, as the prefect of Zhongjiang and the prefect of Jiangling, no one dares to disobey the Ran family.

This letter lists a large number of facts, accusing the Ran family of forcibly seizing people's land, kidnapping people's wives and daughters, and bullying and dominating the market in Zhongjiang. Chen Ke is like a treasure.

He was a strict man, and after reading the letters countless times, he made sure that they were by no means forgeries, and then he wrote for impeachment.

Chen Ke is not yet forty years old, he is a member of the fourth grade, and the master has high hopes for him, that is, because he is brave and strategic, bold and careful, and he will definitely beat the water dog with the other party's evidence, and will never allow the opponent to turn over.

Chen Ke's recital caused a big wave in the court, and Ran Zhongjian naturally convicted him, a good Chen Ke, and even read the second impeachment recital in public, saying that Ran Zhongjian was a hypocrite, deceived the world and stole his name, and deceived the saints.

The emperor sent a messenger to investigate, and Lu Can passed the superintendent and transferred the twists and turns to the imperial court to the cabinet.

Su Qing opened it and was overjoyed, which was very consistent with the content of Chen Ke's impeachment.

In fact, the letter Chen Ke received was written by Lu Can and Wen Han in consultation. The two of them operated like this, just to build momentum in the court first, otherwise, a five-grade sesame official, impeaching a first-grade official, directly let the governor suppress it, and even the province couldn't get out.

Fighting snakes does not die but suffers from them, Lu Can is not a nerd who only has the courage of a horseman.

Su Qing personally took Lu Can's recital to the emperor, and after he returned, he arranged for his protégés to take action.

In the next few days, the impeachment of Ran Zhongjian was like snowflakes, and when the Qin sent back from Zhongjiang, he brought back ironclad evidence - the Ran family forced the former Zhongjiang prefect to embezzle the funds of the imperial court to build a flood control dam, forcibly requisitioned people's husbands, and encircled the lake to make land account books and copies of the land deeds.

The emperor saw that the flood in Zhongjiang Mansion had caused huge losses to the imperial court, and he couldn't sleep at night and was exhausted, and it turned out to be Ran Zhongjian's ghost. At that time, he was furious and asked the three divisions of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Criminal Department, and the Ministry of Officials to interrogate and find out the evidence.

The information provided by Lu Can here proved Ran Zhongjian, a hypocrite, to death, and the triage of the three divisions was just a formality.

When the emperor saw that the facts were conclusive, he immediately ordered his head to be beheaded, his family property confiscated, the men were exiled, and the female dependents were sold.

The officials of Zhongjiang nationality are estranged on the surface, but in fact, they collude in private, and they usually echo each other in the imperial court, one person is in trouble, and all sides support, only this time, it was too fierce, and Su Qing was bound to win, and Ran Zhongjian was knocked to the ground.

Just like a clove of garlic is removed, the skin is torn off, and it becomes easy to take off the rest of the garlic cloves. Su Qing saw from the fish scale book of Zhongjiang Xinken fields sent by Lu Can, and saw that the rest of the wealthy gentry were only slightly less than the land obtained by the Ran family, and these officials were all his opponents, so he instructed his protégé to continue to impeach.

The old emperor is old, and he has been tired of the council in recent years, this time, it is also strange that Ran Zhongjian's protégé is clamoring for the Zhongjiang riot in front of the emperor, which is a big thing that endangers the emperor's throne, the old emperor has to cheer up, Su Qing's push to make things go very smoothly, just when the Zhongjiang family united to impeach Lu Can, their own disaster suddenly fell from the sky, and the old emperor found that they were in the same breath and branched together, and they advanced and retreated together ironclad evidence - although Ran Zhongjian did not form a party on the surface, in fact, his family had already formed a net.

Qin Cha went to Zhongjiang Mansion with the holy decree and raided all the gentry who opposed Lu Can.

Su Qing wanted to win over Lu Can, during this time, he looked through Lu Can's files in the ministry, and saw that he discounted the property of the family and stored it in the treasury.

The old emperor didn't remember that Lu Can had such an excerpt, and he really had a good eye for Ren Sanyuan, so that he was promoted to three levels in a row and became the right attendant of the household department.

This time, the imperial court confiscated more than a dozen officials, and the household department received nearly 10 million silver.

Although Lu Can looked forward to the court day and night to help them pull out the nails in Zhongjiang, but when Qin Cha really took the holy decree and asked him to take the soldiers of the garrison battalion to assist in raiding the house, he was still a little dazed.

Finally pulled out the last nail, Lu Can and Wen Han are already exhausted, they are not murderous people, but the arrow has to be sent, if the other party does not die, they will die, Wen Han's previous indecision and soft-heartedness have disappeared, and he has not officially entered the officialdom, he has completed the transformation from a scholar to a professional politician.

Wen Han breathed a sigh of relief and said goodbye to Lu Can, it was time for him to go home and marry, so that Miss Li waited for almost a year, and he felt very sorry for the beauty's affection.

Lu Can is grateful for Wen Han's help during this time, without Wen Han's knife and pen, how can he have the twists and turns to bring down Ran Zhongjian, and his official career may have to be rewritten.

Time has quietly entered the end of this year, the newly opened land in Zhongjiang has resettled the affected farmers, although their former homes, although buried under the water, but these most tolerant and simple farmers, but happily busy in the new land. As long as they are given hope, even if they are hungry and cold, they will barely die of cold, they will endure in silence, work hard, and maintain a rare and peaceful life.

Just when Wen Han arrived at the boundary of Liangzhong Province, the emperor's decree reached Zhongjiang. Just because Lu Can praised him for venturing up the mountain and persuading the mountain bandits in his annual report to the emperor, he actually entered the emperor's eyes, and a hat of Qipin Zhixian fell like this. Knowing that Wen Han had taken a boat to Liangzhong Province, the proclaimed Qincha sighed in frustration, rested here for two days at Lu Can, got up and chased after him.

Wen Han got up and went home, so he sent letters to the Lu family in the provincial capital and the Li family in Huaijin Mansion, asking the other party to allow him to marry Li Yanran in the first month.

By the time he arrived home, it was already the end of the month.

When Webster saw her son's vicissitudes of life, she couldn't help but burst into tears, crying so much that she almost lost her breath, scaring the family into a hurry, and it was easy for her to settle down, but she had to go to the kitchen to cook.

"No need for the second aunt, I'll come with Pomegranate." Wen Jin was so good at talking, but she couldn't persuade her second aunt, but fortunately, Xiao Liangxi pulled her aunt to be coquettish, and then coaxed her back.

"Han'er, sit down, Dad will catch fish for you." Qian Xiancheng's mood also calmed down, and he said happily to his son.

"Good!" Wen Han readily agreed.

"Second uncle, go to the tofu shop and bring some tender tofu, and I'll make bean curd fish." Wen Jin shouted loudly, the two people she was worried about are now safe, and this heart can be regarded as unloading half of the burden.

"Hahaha." Qian Xiancheng smiled and went out.

Merriam-Webster went to the kitchen again to wash the vegetables, and she couldn't rest down now.

Liangqing snuggled up to Wen Han: "Big brother, why did it take you so long to come back?" ”

"Big brother was a little busy a while ago."

"Is the big brother going to marry the bride?"

Wen Hanjun blushed: "Yes, in a few days." ”

"Why wait, I've counted many days, a hundred days."

"Liangxi, can you count to a hundred?"

"Yes."

"What about two hundred?"

"Two hundred, two hundred......"

Wen Jin laughed on the side, this era doesn't pay attention to mathematics, Liangxi is in the second grade, and he hasn't learned carry addition yet.

Qian Xiancheng came back, holding two big fish in his right hand and a basket in his left hand, which contained several lotus roots, as well as dried greens, dried eggplant slices, daylily, mountain mushrooms, etc.

Wen Jin ran over to pick up the vegetables, cleaned them, and then skillfully busied in front of the board, Qian Xiancheng changed a lot, and even started to help light the fire, and Wei gave Wen Jin a hand.

The warm life that has been lost for a long time, the man burns the fire, the woman stir-fries, and Liangxi peels edamame outside, Wen Han smiled and watched on the side, tears couldn't help but come up, blurring his vision, the small courtyard he was thinking about, full of poetry and picturesqueness, appeared in front of him again, making his heart warm.

The fish pieces are fried until golden brown, making a big pot of bean curd fish, Wen Jin even the soup with vegetables, scooping out a few bowls, and letting Liangxi carry the food box and send it to the surrounding neighbors.

Fish is the main dish, Wen Jin made cold lotus root, dried garlic eggplant, braised mountain mushroom rabbit meat, cold salad vermicelli daylily, and when the rice was steamed, the family sat around Wesch's hot kang and began to eat dinner.

Liangxi was childish and wrinkled her little nose: "Ah, it's so fragrant, it's good for the second brother to cook." ”

Wei didn't think it was a pestle, and echoed with a smile: "Your second brother is at home these days, so we have to eat well." ”

Wen Han had a good rest the next day, and on the third day, the family got on an ox cart and went to Weijiawan. Although Liangxi is very well-behaved and sensible, she is still very happy to see her parents.

Ge's body had already reached the point, but he still insisted on going to the kitchen and cleaning up a table of food, Wei and Wen Jin stopped him for a long time, and finally reluctantly agreed to let Wen Jin take charge of the chef.

Wei Chenglan built a new upper room, which was spacious and bright, and also set up a big kang, put the two kang tables together, and everyone took off their shoes and sat around.

"Wen Jin, you live at home for a winter, and you don't care about the business in Minghu City?" Wei Chenglan originally wanted to ask about her nephew's marriage, and asking Wen Jin this question was just a prelude to talking, of course, she had to solve small problems first.

"Well, there's a steward over there, so I don't have to worry about it." Wen Jin wasn't worried, but she didn't know if Liao Sangongzi would forget herself in two months.

"Wen Han, are you going to marry your daughter-in-law this time?" Ge couldn't help but speak first.

"Hmm!" Although Wen Han's ears still couldn't help blushing, he was already able to face these problems generously, "My father invited the official media yesterday and went to Huaijin Mansion with Uncle Wang and his wife in the village to discuss the specific time. ”

"That's good, it's another year, and you'll be twenty."

"Well, it's time to become an adult, I think, when Li enters the door, my mother will be able to take a good breath."

Wen Jin glanced at Wen Han quietly, and lamented in his heart, in this era, it is easy to cultivate machismo, the more capable and mature a man is, the heavier the anger, and this has not yet entered the door, and it will put a heavy burden on people.

The people at the table all felt that what Wen Han said was normal, and no one objected.

Because of Ge's due date, in the past few days, Lianggong and Liangqing, who had been on vacation, including Liangxi, all came to Shanwo Village.

This time, he sent someone to Li's house to set the wedding date, but Wen Jin had an extra heart and let Wang Han and his wife go, otherwise, Li Yanran's stepmother might be able to mess things up. It turned out that Li Xiucai had a serious illness last year, his body collapsed suddenly, Yanran was not at home, and all the affairs of the Li family fell into the hands of his successor Zhen.

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