Since he personally sent away the Tongling Treasure Jade, Jia Lian has been inexplicably a little depressed, and after the New Year, this mood is still difficult to eliminate.

He always felt that there was something wrong with that piece of jade, but it was not good to talk to others.

Now that his heart is entangled in bitterness, and it is difficult to sleep soundly at night, tossing and turning, trying to find someone who has the ability to explain, Jia Lian suddenly remembered that the Qingdao man had disappeared for several years.

Some people say that at the end of that day, I saw Gongsun Yiqing in Shuiyue Nunnery, and he disappeared out of thin air like Grandma Rong, so most of them were taken away by such a demon.

How could Jia Lian believe this, a Qingdao person is not a womanizer, it is better to say that those two are immortals, but it is still somewhat credible.

There are a lot of gods and ghosts in the world, and in the early years, I saw Lin Daiyu turn into vermilion, but others, especially Sister Feng, didn't believe it, which made people impatient.

As soon as she thought of this, Jia Lian inevitably remembered Lin Daiyu, who hadn't seen her for three years in a blink of an eye.

In recent years, the time has passed very quickly, and the elders of the two rooms of the original Rong Mansion have gone neatly, leaving only the old lady Xing who is still in the invisible garden of the East Courtyard all day long.

The four families of Jinling do not need to be mentioned, the old ones, the ones who go, the door to and from day by day is getting less and less, and even the name of the "four families of Jinling" is rarely remembered.

After all, it is no better than the scenery of youth.

Ping'er was the first to see that Jia Lian was in a depressed mood, and after discussing with Sister Feng, she was busy for several days to meet her interests, and invited the gentleman who said Jianghu Shu to come over, and let him eat and drink, and invited Yang Zhi, Wu Yong and others to frolic and explain, and finally asked Zhang Luo to ask Jia Lian for another aunt.

This matter was finally stopped by Jia Lian with a black face.

After the first month, thinking that he was the chief of the government, Jia Lian finally shook his spirits and discussed this year's actions with Wu Yong, a think tank.

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In the sting season, in the Linjing Palace, the six auxiliary ministers gathered.

Jia Lian held the fold in one hand and read aloud: "The early spring has passed, and the Sprinkle family has calculated the inventory of various provinces, and plans to send 200,000 troops, 3,000 large ships, 500,000 stones of grain and grass, 10,000 cannons, 100,000 catties of gunpowder, 20,000 pairs of armor, 30,000 pairs of cotton armor, 200,000 pairs of leather armor, and one million bows and arrows to cut off the Haikou Song River, ask the Qianxiang country, and raise the prestige of the heavenly kingdom!"

It is said that there are six auxiliary ministers, but in fact there are only five, and the power of the old Zongzheng is too small to speak about the daily government affairs.

However, at this time, several auxiliary ministers were dumbfounded and listened to Jia Lian's shouting.

After finally finishing the reading, Taiwei Gao hurriedly came to persuade first: "How can Taishi's words be so vulgar? If you have something to discuss, what do you want to mention to send troops, my Taiwei Mansion has not yet distributed last year's annual salary, and it seems that it is to the point where the pot cannot be revealed!"

The lieutenant, who is considered a military attaché, is still like this, and several other people naturally come to persuade in unison.

Jia Lian said: "The Sprinkle family decided to reform the southeast commercial tax, accumulate grain and grass, and then try to Haikou. This has slowed down a lot, will Elder Wen agree?"

Wen Shiqi hesitated for a while and said, "This matter... It may be implemented."

Jia Lian smiled and said, "That's it, the fold of reform is in the cabinet. This Taishi has ordered the chief Shi Zhen Jue to go south to carry out this matter, and then ask for the title of Qincha."

In this way, the matter of the new policy in the southeast was forcibly negotiated.

Jia Lian asked Hanlin to write a holy decree and come over, seal it in this Linjing Palace, and send it to Zhen Jue. After doing this, because he thought that he would send a Beijing camp to escort the Qin Mission, he immediately resigned and chose someone to go.

The remaining auxiliary ministers did not stay long, and dispersed.

The little emperor was also in this Linjing Palace, because he had not yet been in power, he only saw the ministers arguing and then retreated.

Prince Zhongshun stayed at the end, did not hurry to leave, but retreated from the eunuchs accompanying him, and personally led the little emperor out, and on the way distinguished: "Master Jia is the first to take the lead, and he has found a name to bluff people before doing things. Originally, it was easy to do dark things, but it was difficult to achieve bright things, but the Taishi had always been used to being 'rampant', so he just gave up and only cared about implementing his new policy."

Although the little emperor didn't understand, he was still busy compiling, "Thank you Taifu for teaching."

King Zhongshun smiled and said, "It's my duty, but isn't Your Majesty tormenting the old minister?"

The two of them said as they went to the palace.

The officials of the Manchu Dynasty knew that there was money in Jiangnan and grain in the two lakes, but the taxes were not easy to collect, as had been the case since the previous dynasties.

There are many scholars in Jiangnan, and the squires become officials and slaughterers, so they become local people, and there are many stakeholders involved.

Now when the court Jia Taishi advocates the implementation of the new policy and collects the Jiangnan business tax, there are those in the government and the opposition who sigh, some who dislike, and those who are even more sarcastic.

After all, Taishi Jia himself was born in the Jiangnan family, and in the early years, there were talismans of Jia, Shi, Xue, and Wang in Jinling.

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"The house of Sprinkler shall convince them!"

On this day, in the Rongxi Hall of Rongguo Mansion, Jia Lian received a letter from Mrs. Baolinghou, the former historian of Jinling, who came to cry and persuade her, and tore up the letter after reading it, and was angry.

"Faint thief mother-in-law! I still lead the case, not to mention being stable and low-key, and being a 'farming and reading heirloom', but I don't know whose benefits I have received and whose provocation I have listened to, and I want to stop the new policy!"

Zhen Jue visited and explored Jiangnan for half a year, and just after promulgating the new tax law, his family came to persuade him first, which naturally made people angry.

Sister Feng'er has been a housekeeper for many years, and now she is lazy, and when Jia Lian is at home, she has to put down her affairs and come over to accompany her, so she picked up half of the letter and looked at it, and couldn't help laughing: "It turns out that the friendship of the ancestors is also mentioned in it, and this is the intention to fight with you in the ring." My uncle's wife went back to her hometown in Jinling, but the news was not clear, and the people were confused."

Jia Lian said: "Don't worry about this, the new deal is decided, write a reply to scold her."

Sister Feng said: "No matter how far apart the relationship is, in the end, I can't write about the elders. If you're really not satisfied, I'll have to scold my wife."

This is also a way, Jia Lian nodded slightly.

Sister Feng said again, "What are you doing when you suddenly have the heart to add taxes? In our hometown, there has been a trend of tax resistance in townships and counties since the past dynasty, but whenever the leader of the tax resistance causes an accident and kills someone, he hides in the big clan that protects him, and the local yamen has no choice. It stands to reason that you are a court master, and the official has done it, and it is not good for life to enjoy happiness, and you still work hard for these things, which will exhaust the good people."

Jia Lian snorted coldly: "It's also a mother-in-law who has no ambitions, I have always done practical things, since I am the master of the auxiliary government, I can't learn from other mediocre people."

Sister Feng said: "That's a good thing, you have ambitions to go to the history to leave a name, if I close my eyes, others will remember a sentence of Jia Wang's family, no name and no number, what else do you want to do."

Jia Lian was disturbed by this, and couldn't help but deviate from the conversation, and said, "It's not easy to get a name, Sister-in-law Zhu is a 'Daoxiang old farmer', and I'll give you the name of 'Abacus Tiger'."

"Phew! What bullshit."

Sister Feng took a sip and said, "It's a shame that you are still a master, the leader of the civil officials, and you will only have such a few shabby names."

The two laughed like this for a while, originally making up the letter of the former Baoling Marquis.

Who knew that only a month later, another letter came from Jinling, which was actually sent by the eldest lady of the Wang family, Sister Feng's biological father, Wang Zilang.

Among them, he persuaded Jia Lian to stop the new policy, regardless of the places where the scriptures were cited, and also proposed that if Haikou Song Jiang heard that the imperial court was raising taxes and preparing to crusade, it would have been peaceful, and sooner or later he would have to go ashore first.

When the time comes, it will really cause this disaster, and it will not be good for Jia Lian in the court, it must be that Zhen Jue kid colluded with a political enemy to kill him.

Jia Lian's heart was like an iron stone, and after reading the letter, he was willing to stop, so he only went to the Imperial City Linjing Palace, and ordered the first battalion of the Beijing camp and the first battalion of the Shenji battalion to be stationed in Jiangnan.

It is not only to guard against the landing of pirates, but also to take care of the townships and counties in the south of the Yangtze River, and then there are places to shield the local tax resistance troublemakers, and directly send troops to them, and those who should be questioned are questioned, and those who should be annihilated are annihilated.

The ancestors of the Jia family are also people who are used to doing this cover-up, how can Jia Lian not remember what Sister Feng said.