"Oh, are you encouraging tenants to sue you?" Chu Qiguang's heart moved, knowing that this was a move by He Zhixian.

Hao Xiangtong continued: "Many of those tenants took the initiative to donate their fields to our family in order to evade taxes, and some of them were bought by our family......

Chu Qi said in his heart that the Hao family had all kinds of contributions, cheap purchases, and tricks...... There must be problems in the formalities of the fields and properties that have been annexed by other means, and once the yamen is released to investigate, a lot of hidden fields can definitely be found.

Chu Qiguang secretly said in his heart: "The Hao clan is greedy, and it is more difficult for them to spit out the meat in their mouths than to ascend to the sky. At this time, this kind of big family will definitely not take a step back. ’

However, Chu Qiguang didn't care about this, with his current understanding of the Han Dynasty, even if this land reform was successful...... It's just to give the royal family a few more decades of life, and it can't solve the essence of cannibalism in the feudal dynasty.

'You'll have to change me, but this is a chance." ’

Chu Qiguang looked at Hao Xiangtong and asked, "Then what are your family going to do?"

Hao Xiangtong said: "I don't know, I heard that my father and eldest brother are going to the Wu family to talk to the second master of the Wu family." ”

Chu Qiguang said in his heart: 'Is the Hao family advancing and retreating with the Wu family?'

Chu Qiguang asked, "Can you help me tell your father, I have a way to make the magistrate retreat." ”

Hao Xiangtong looked at Chu Qiguang suspiciously: "You?"

Chu Qiguang smiled: "You can ask your father first, whether the imperial court is going to negotiate peace and mutual market with the wolf demon." ”

Seeing Hao Xiangtong's still suspicious gaze, Chu Qiguang didn't say much, and continued to tell the story, and Hao Xiangtong also refocused his attention on the story.

Wu Zetian gradually took control of the government, and began to implement the land of Qingzhang and unified service throughout the world, and used the power of one person to fight against the nobles of the clan and officials at all levels.

Listening to Wu Zetian, a woman in a sinister environment, has to face the doubts of male ministers, the greed of the old emperor, the incomprehension of her parents, and all kinds of slander and rumors all over the world, but she always moves forward and does not regret her death, Hao Xiangtong's heart gradually surged.

Chu Qiguang said: "Okay, let's stop here today, I'm going to continue reading." ”

Hao Xiangtong looked at Chu Qiguang with unfinished eyes: "Alas, this Chu Gongzi...... I don't want money or covet my beauty, so I can't force him, so I can only listen to him every day. ’

Looking at Chu Qiguang's serious reading, his previous words were also hovering in Hao Xiangtong's mind.

......

The next day, the second master of the Hao family, a wife, a five-room concubine, son Hao Yongtai, daughter Hao Xiangtong, two younger brothers, and a younger sister, all of them sat neatly at the dinner table at the moment and ate together.

This is the rule set by Hao Erye, everyone in the family must come to eat together for breakfast every day, so even Hao Yongnian in the past did not dare to spend the night outside, and he had to go home every day no matter how late it was.

The uncle of the Hao family took his wife and concubines and children to Shenjing, and the Hao family in Qingyang County was basically decided by the second master.

Hao Xiangtong had been thinking about what Chu Qiguang said yesterday, and after eating breakfast that day, she finally couldn't help but walk in front of her father.

Hao Xiangtong chatted casually with his father, and then said casually: "Dad, is the imperial court going to make peace with the Northwest Wolf Demon?

Second Master Hao frowned when he heard this, looked at his daughter and said, "Where did you hear the news......?

Hao Xiangtong went back to the room ashamed and annoyed so much early in the morning, and scolded Chu Qiguang fiercely in his heart: "Confused! I'm really confused, why did I listen to the poor boy's nonsense." ”

"No, next time I must ask him to talk about a few more chapters!"

On the other side, Hao Wen, the second master of the Hao family, didn't take it to heart after criticizing his daughter, and took people to the Wu family to discuss the land with him after a short rest.

......

Soon after, in the living room of the Wu family in Qingyang County.

Several principals of the Wu family and the Hao family are gathering together to discuss the matter of the county government's announcement. Among them, Hao Yongtai also followed, and participated in this family event as the eldest son.

Wu Ge Lao of the Wu family took his eldest son to sit in Shenjing, and Wu Ge Lao's second son Wu Wei was the head of Qingyang County. ”

Hao Yongtai's father, Hao Wen, nodded, and only listened to him say: "Otherwise, we will retreat five hundred acres or one thousand acres, which can be regarded as giving He Wenyan some face and letting him stop here." ”

"Give us some face?" Wu Wei said coldly: "If we take the lead in retreating from the field, what will the other families think?

If all the squires in the county retreat from the fields, it will be a general trend and will no longer be stoppable. ”

"When the time comes, if you return 500 acres, he will dare to ask for 5,000 acres, 50,000 acres, will you give it too?"

Hao Wen asked, "What about Wu Ge Lao...... Can't you figure it out?"

Wu Wei said: "Measuring the land and paying taxes equally, this is a national policy set by the cabinet, and my father is afraid that it is not easy for me to reach out directly, and we have to find our own way." ”

"It's just that I didn't expect it to start from our Qingyang County......" Wu Wei sighed: "This time, I'm afraid that someone in the court is targeting my father." ”

Hao Yongtai was surprised: "Someone wants to deal with Wu Ge Lao?"

Wu Wei said: "It's still a trivial matter for our Wu family to lose a few fields, but once it reaches Shenjing, in case it is pushed by someone with a heart again, it will become a matter of time when there is nothing to do." ”

The Hao family and the Wu family have many marriages, and they have always advanced and retreated together, and when he heard this, Hao Wen also nodded thoughtfully, thought about his own field, and said: "No matter what, you must save the face of Wu Ge Lao." But why didn't anyone from the Ding family come?"

Wu Wei sneered: "The Ding family doesn't have much land in the first place, and they have put their strength on the coal mines and iron trading in Meishan all these years, and it will not hurt their vitality if they retire from the fields." ”

After thinking about it, Wu Wei said uneasily: "No, we still have to gather people together, talk about them one by one, we must unify our voices and advance and retreat together." ”

Hao Erye Hao Wen was still surprised that someone wanted to deal with Wu Ge Lao, this was their Hao family's biggest backer, so he couldn't help but knock on the side, wanting to know who was dealing with Wu Ge Lao.

Wu Wei glanced at Hao Wen a few times, and finally said, "There is one thing, I won't hide it from you." In recent years, the northwest wolf demon has become more and more restless, and has gone south to plunder again and again, although it has won and lost with the northern military town, but it has cost too much military salary.

The southeast coast was plundered by the dragons, and the sea trade was not smooth.

The annual military salaries of several major military towns in the north are more and more owed, and the household department has only demolished the east wall to make up the west wall in recent years, not to mention our Lingzhou, and even the salaries of officials at all levels in Shenjing have been owed for several months.

My father has already communicated with several elders, and he wants to make peace with the wolf demon and open up the mutual market. The first is to ensure peace in the north for more than ten years, and the second is to reduce the military salaries of the military towns in the north and reduce the burden on the imperial court. The third is to open up financial resources, so that the imperial court can use more silver. In this way, he can free up his hands to conquer the East China Sea Dragon Clan.

But this is ...... I'm afraid some people will not be able to sit still.

Otherwise, how dare He Wenyan, a sesame-sized Qipinzhi County, come to this hand regardless of it? These people are mad and want to block the peace talks and the mutual market. ”

Hao Wen listened to the news of the peace talks with a surprised face, and his mind was full of what Hao Xiangtong said in the morning: '...... Xiangtong ...... Xiangtong, how does he know this?'