Zhao Ming watched her back disappear and didn't come back to his senses for a long time.

Changqing stepped forward to put away the official documents, and when he was about to get up, he saw his palm too hard, and said in surprise: "Lang Jun? ”

Zhao Ming came back to his senses at this time, glanced at the cup in his hand, and let go of his hand slightly.

Changqing hurriedly stepped forward to check, "Are you injured?" ”

Zhao Ming waved his sleeves indifferently and put his hands together, "It's okay." ”

Changqing was puzzled, "Why is Lang Jun upset?" ”

He was listening to it just now, and there was nothing wrong with the conversation with the girl just now.

Zhao Ming didn't answer, got up and said, "Distribute the approved official documents." ”

After that, he turned around and left, but he didn't go far before he saw his father.

Zhao Ming turned around and was about to leave, when Zhao Song had already seen him and shouted, "Zi Nian." ”

Zhao Ming could only turn around and salute, "Father." ”

Zhao Song frowned, "What are you hiding from me?" Hanzhang, I was interrupted by your seventh uncle last night, and I haven't had time to talk to her about the new money. ”

Zhao Ming said: "Uncle Qi and Sanniang exchanged a large amount of new money, as far as I know, he also plans to transport the new money to Jiangnan for use, and now that the money has been minted, you can't stop it if you want to, why bother talking about it?" ”

Zhao Song: ......

Zhao Ming looked at his stunned father, and sighed faintly and said, "Father, you don't care about this matter, let Taimeng toss it by himself." ”

Zhao Song looked at him with a frown, "What's wrong with you?" ”

Zhao Ming paused, pursed his lips and said, "It's okay, it's just that there are some things in my heart that I haven't figured out, just wait for me to figure it out." ”

Zhao Song perked up and asked curiously: "What haven't you figured out, say it and listen to it with me, maybe my father can solve your confusion for you?" ”

Zhao Ming glanced at his father, who was a little inexplicably excited, and simply asked: "Father, do you say, is loyalty more important than filial piety, or is filial piety more important than loyalty?" ”

Zhao Song opened his mouth, unable to say the answer.

Zhao Ming asked again: "The so-called loyalty, is it loyal to the king, loyal to the country, or loyal to the people?" Is filial piety to parents, or to the whole family, or to the ancestors? ”

Zhao Song is now sure that this son was born to embarrass him.

He turned from side to side, but when he couldn't find anything in his hand, he shouted, "Mountain people, mountain people, what about the ring ruler, bring me my ring ruler." ”

Zhao Ming immediately raised his hand and said quickly: "My son has retired first." ”

He turned around and hurried away.

Angry, Zhao Song picked up a stone from the flower bed and wanted to throw it at him, but when he raised his hand, he found that the stone was too big, the size of a fist, so he put it down again.

But this did not prevent him from punishing his son, and he said to the steward who ran up: "Mountain people, go and confiscate all his wine, and do not allow him to drink again for these two days." ”

The mountain people responded and appeased the old lady back, but they only dared to attack the wine in the warehouse, and did not dare to enter Zhao Ming's room and study.

Zhao Ming's mood was much better, he left Zhao Hanzhang's "world" and concentrated on thinking about the current labor dilemma.

The order issued by Zhao Hanzhang was sent to the counties, and the counties began to levy labor according to the plan, and the people were panicked, but they still did it.

Serving in the service is a very hard thing, working from sunrise until sunset. It is a series of physically demanding work such as dredging and transporting soil, and many people feel in their hearts that the days are back to before.

Whenever they feel they can settle down, there are always some surprises, some from the outside and some from the inside.

The poor people don't think about the deeper reasons yet, but they also have their own wisdom and have summed up a set of rules.

No matter how good the generals and high-ranking officials who recruit them to take them over may say at first, a considerable number of them will eventually change.

And some generals and high-ranking officials were very strict from the beginning, and they became stricter and stricter year by year, and when they could no longer bear the heavy pressure, they would either die of exhaustion like old cows, or they would abandon their existing family business and continue to be exiles.

It's a matter of luck.

Before the order to levy and issue labor was issued, they were still full of happiness and felt that they were lucky enough to be able to settle in Yuzhou, but now, their hearts seemed to be covered with a layer of dust.

But they quickly thought about it and became optimistic.

"It's better than being very bad at the beginning," Old Man Chen squatted in front of the house and said to his two sons: "This year, the envoy has reduced a lot of taxes, and I heard that Yanzhou not only has to pay for labor, but also has to raise taxes, and life is much more difficult than ours." ”

The two sons were very worried, and their neighbors were also very sad, and asked, "Uncle Chen, do you think that in the future, will we also raise taxes?" ”

Old man Chen was silent for a moment and said: "Even if you add it, it won't be as ruthless as before, we only pay half of the tax now, we have to pay the full amount before we can add it, right?" ”

As he was talking, there was a bustle at the entrance of the village, and everyone hurriedly stood up, took two steps over there, and stood on tiptoe to look: "What's wrong, what's wrong?" ”

A half-grown boy ran over and shouted excitedly, "The envoy is here, the envoy is here!" ”

Everyone's eyes, including Old Man Chen, lit up and immediately ran towards the entrance of the village.

Zhao Hanzhang was dressed in short brown, and her gray-blue clothes were stained with some mud, if she wasn't riding on a horse, the people of Chen County would be quite familiar with her, but I was afraid that they wouldn't recognize her as an envoy.

Zhao Hanzhang turned over and dismounted, stepped on the grass and grinded, grinding off the mud that was still stained on the soles of her feet, and she asked the village chief who greeted her, "It's going to rain tonight, do you have any extra houses?" ”

Naturally, there are no extra houses, but everyone can get together, and the two families are huddled together to make room for them.

Zhao Hanzhang thanked him, greeted the villagers with a smile, and then was surrounded by Fu Tinghan and others to the village chief's house.

Old man Chen, who couldn't squeeze in, could only stand on tiptoe to look, and after a while, his son squeezed back excitedly and said, "Father, I just saw the envoy, I was in front of her, and she smiled at me." ”

Old man Chen was envious and jealous, so he grabbed him and asked, "Did the envoy say what she came to do?" ”

"It turns out that the envoy and we are digging mud today, or the river mud," his son lamented, "It's just raining, and tomorrow it will rain heavily, so the work is temporarily suspended, and they think it will take too much time to return to the city, so they have to borrow it to live in our village." ”

Old man Chen was stunned and asked, "Did you really dig with us?" ”

"That's still fake, you see how thick the mud on the soles of her shoes is, it looks like she just came up from the river."

A student brought a small table and put it on the seat, Fu Tinghan took out the picture and spread it out, and everyone looked at the picture and frowned, "This is not good, we have to optimize the labor force, today is still too chaotic management, such a swarm of bees in, half the effort, we don't have much time, wait until September to plant winter wheat." ”

Zhao Hanzhang also nodded, "You make the data, let the students draw all the ditches, and then let the sections work, so that the connection is faster." ”

The young student on the side asked in a low voice, "Do you want to draw on the ground?" ”

Zhao Hanzhang looked back at him and smiled: "Yes, paint on the ground, use lime to paint, it's very fast, and then you tell the laborers the depth and width, and let them do it as required." ”

The students who were selected to participate in the construction bowed down and said "yes".

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