[At the entrance of a certain city, a plaque is hung high.

On one side of the door, a servant was beating an old man shirtless.

Several officials next to him giggled and leaned against the wall with water and fire sticks.

"Your Majesty has an order to levy a land tax, build a palace for Your Majesty, and elect an imperial concubine!"

"You old immortal, how dare you not pay the field tax?"

The old man cried out miserably: "Official! It's not that I don't pay, it's that I really can't pay it! ”

"This field tax has been increased once ten years ago, and in the past ten years, my family has scraped together and starved to death of three!"

"If the land tax is increased this year, will we still have a way to live? The rest of our family will all starve to death! ”

Lan Wangji stood aside, watched quietly, and tightened his scabbard. 】

This recollection ends here.

Jiang Yunrui was stunned: "I have never heard of it, the land tax is ......."

Zhao Xuexuan thought about it and said with great certainty: "Yes, there is, in my memory, before I was taken away by the Imperial Sword Sect, my life was not very good when I was a child, and the field tax of Qi Country was already strict. ”

"I added it once ten years ago, and again this year...... The people simply can't bear it. ”

"The royal family and the people in the sect are high, I guess I didn't expect such a thing."

Jiang Yunrui clenched her palms, and her eyes were slightly red: "No, there must be something wrong with this!" ”

"My father is not extravagant, he just likes to eat some food, and the number of concubines in the palace has not increased for seven or eight years!"

"What kind of person is it who dares to increase the land tax privately, and also said that his father wants to build the palace and accept the imperial concubine, this person...... This man must be going to rebel! ”

Speaking of this, Jiang Yunrui's mind recalled some of the descriptions in "Tao Hui" and "Strategy" that she had watched, and many thoughts flowed through her heart like lightning.

Those who can do such things must not be from the royal family.

It must be that the courtiers have a rebellious heart, so they use this method to treat the people harshly and damage the prestige of the royal family of Qi State!

Whether it is the eldest prince or the second prince, no matter how ambitious they are, they will not be stupid enough to scold their father and cause the people to be dissatisfied with the royal family.

Who will this courtier be......

Jiang Yunrui's face showed a wry smile.

Suddenly I realized that something terrible had happened and could not be changed.

Who else could it be?

If there is no hint of the Art of War, Jiang Yunrui does not understand the twists and turns of writing about governing the country and conspiracy, and may have to speculate like a headless fly.

Now, she understood after just a little thought, and the appearance of two thin old men with no eyebrows came to her mind.

Tian Cheng, Tian He.

The "virtuous ministers" of the Tian family have been in charge of the Qi dynasty for nearly a hundred years.

Except for them who can easily isolate the royal family, officials, and people, who else can do it?

"Tian family!" Jiang Yunrui muttered two words.

Lan Wangji was amazed: "The second princess has such a thoughtful mind, no wonder the Tian family wants to find a way to get rid of you!" ”

"Maybe the second princess is still in the capital, everything will be different, right?"

Jiang Yunrui shook his head: It won't be any different if he stays in the capital.

Lan Wangji used the perspective of a cultivator outside the world to consider things in the world, and thought that if he discovered the conspiracy, he would be able to crack the conspiracy......

The other party's conspiracy to smear the royal family and maliciously kill the people to stimulate public opinion has been going on for ten years and decades, can this be explained clearly in a few words?

"The mastermind behind the scenes seems to be the Tian family." Lin Nan said, "This makes sense, the Tian family ostensibly supports the second prince." ”

"There are a lot of things, maybe the second prince doesn't know, they have already done it under the banner of the second prince."

"For example, attack Yun Rui and Zhao Xuexu; For example, contacting the Demon Dao Sect; For example, bewitching Zhao Xuexu to take refuge in the Demon Dao Sect. ”

Zhao Xuexu has also reacted: "Tian Zhiyuan, his surname is Tian!" He was arranged by the Tian family in the Imperial Sword Sect, not by the second prince in the Imperial Sword Sect! ”

"No wonder, only I said that he was sent by the second prince, but he himself never said anything about the arrangement of the second prince."

"It turns out that he is from the Tian family at all."

"At this point, the truth should be revealed." Lin Nan said.

Lan Wangji shook his head: "No, things are far more complicated than you think. ”

"Please keep watching."

Echoing the spirit stone, another new memory that Lan Wangji had seen.

[It's still the same old man who was whipped, he has been rescued.]

The person from the Tian family's shop standing next to him said to the officer: "This old man has borrowed five buckets of grain from our Tian family's shop, which is enough to pay the additional field tax this year, can you let him go?" ”

"When the shopkeeper Tian speaks, how can we not follow the reason?" The officials laughed and said.

The old man knelt down and kowtowed: "Benefactor, save your life!" ”

Many residents on the street were also moved, some were talking, and some knelt down and kowtowed.

"The Tian family is really our great benefactor!"

"Great benefactor!"

"Fortunately, the Arita family helped us get through this difficult time, otherwise we would have been killed by the faint king sooner or later!"

"Qi Guo faint monarch, you can't die well!" 】

"The Tian family is buying people's hearts!" Zhao Xuexu's eyes were solemn, "The royal family has lost all the hearts of the people. ”

"Their conspiracy is really powerful, deliberately mutilating the people, ruining the reputation of the royal family, and acting as a good person themselves!"

Lin Nan and Jiang Yunrui also nodded silently.

The most powerful thing is that before today, the Tian family was not even exposed to the royal family and the Righteous Dao Sect.

All the people thought that it was the faint monarch who did evil, and the Imperial Sword Sect and the emperor and others thought it was the second prince.

"And that's not all...... Look again. Lan Wangji said.

[Tian family shop, there are two buckets in front of the Tian shopkeeper.

A bucket that is lent out is a big bucket; A recovered bucket is a small bucket, only half of the big bucket.

A destitute man is constantly kowtowing to the Tian shopkeeper to thank the Tian family for their life.

It turned out that Tian's tax was very strong, and this man saw that his family couldn't survive, so he came to borrow three buckets of rice from Tian's firm, and now he only needs to return three small buckets of rice.

It is equivalent to the Tian family giving their family half of the rice for nothing, and the family survived because of this, and swore desperately that they would fight to the death for the Tian family in the future. 】

"Terrible conspiracy......" Zhao Xuexu muttered, "The culprits who caused everything are clearly in front of them, but the people of the world regard them as saints and regard them as extremely important." ”

"Now that the Tian family is going to change the dynasty, it is already within the territory of Qi State, and all the people are united in their hearts."

"But it's impossible......" Jiang Yunrui was extremely confused, looked at Lin Nan, and then at Lan Wangji, "Where did the Tian family get so much grain to do this kind of thing that harms themselves and benefits others and invites them to buy the hearts of the people in the world?" ”