Wei Ran's heart was shocked at this moment, and then he hurriedly asked: "The imperial court has a system for recruitment, and five people are drawn from one, why are so many people drawn from your village?" ”

When the old man heard this, he looked at Wei Ran's entangled face, and he didn't dare to speak for a long time, and then said: "This matter can't be said explicitly, I'm afraid that I will cause trouble for adults." ”

Wei Ran was even more curious at this time, what could make the people feel that it would cause him to get into trouble.

Wei Ran pondered for a moment, and then said to the old man: "Sir, don't worry, if you have any troubles, it doesn't hurt to say it, now that the population of the village is withering, but the taxes are still paid in full, you tell the truth to the official, and the official will go to find out the truth." ”

The old man saw that Wei Ran's words were sincere, and then he made up his mind to tell Wei Ran what happened.

In recent years, the imperial court has fought a series of wars, especially during the reign of Xiao Luan's traitors, in order to protect Jiankang, he recruited villagers everywhere to enlist in the army, which is one of them.

Later, Jiankang City was broken, although it had never encountered a major war, but before in the Zhuque Bridge and outside the Xuanyang Gate, Yuan Huzhi's troops were all local powerless civilians, resulting in most of the war dead civilians.

Later, after Xiao Ju succeeded to the throne, Wei Ran provoked wars everywhere, and Xiao Ju recruited troops near Jiankang, but the principle of Xiao Ju's recruitment was to draw one out of five, regardless of whether he was high or low.

Wei Ran also hated the Jiangnan Shi clan very much, so he asked all the soldiers drawn from the Shi clan from all over the country to draw the descendants of the descendants, and they could not use their families to impersonate.

Later, Wei Ran asked the Jiangnan Shi clan not only to go to the lineage, but also to go to the side lineage, which completely cut off the road of the Shi clan, these Shi clan are quite famous in various places, so they joined forces with the local county guard to recruit troops from among the people to fill the number.

Wei Ran's war was protracted, years after years of war, year after year to recruit soldiers, in order to deal with the Yongzhou and Huainan battlefields alone, he recruited more than 80,000 soldiers, although Wei Ran repeatedly made military exploits on the battlefield, but it made the people at the bottom of the people miserable.

The common people who impersonated to join the army could not return home after the victory, and they had to be left in the palace of the scholars as slaves, because everyone was registered, and when the court came to recruit, the tribes knew each other, so they could not be deceived in the army, which led to the common people either joining the army or being slaves in the palace of the soldiers.

After Wei Ran understood the reason, he said even more curiously: "This matter is the collusion of local officials and scholars to deceive their superiors and subordinates, how can they cause trouble and hurt their bodies?" ”

The old man looked at Wei Ran cautiously, then looked at the armor behind Wei Ran, and said in a low voice: "Now that the King of Qin is covering the sky with one hand in the court, the King of Qin has killed a lot of scholars on his face, but in fact, they are all eradicating political enemies, and these remaining scholars are all people who have been favored by the King of Qin, and they act like this with the acquiescence of the King of Qin, and the King of Qin is the huge greed in this world." ”

As soon as these words came out, Wei Ran's heart was suddenly turbulent, he had promulgated so many policies for the country and the people, how could he become a huge greed in the mouths of the people.

Wei Ran forcibly suppressed his mind, drove away the guards behind him, and said to the old man, "Where did these words come from? The king of Qin fought everywhere for the imperial court and made great achievements, but how did he become a huge greedy and traitorous minister. ”

The old man was taken aback by Wei Ran's expression, but he still insisted on opening his mouth to justify: "The King of Qin has been fighting for many years, and he is inconsiderate of the people's strength, and he forcibly starts a war. The situation in our Sanwu region is the most serious, and the king of Qin for some reason hates the people in our Sanwu region to the bone and opposes the preferential treatment of Jiangling Jiangzhou. ”

Wei Ran's mood slowly calmed down at this time, thinking about it carefully, the old man was indeed reasonable, he had not paid much attention to the Sanwu region, and he had let Zhang Gui serve as the observer of the Sanwu region before, and after Zhang Gui was transferred, he almost never cared about the affairs of the Sanwu region.

Wei Ran immediately called Jiankang Ling and said: "This Zhuangzi has been exempted from taxes for the past three years, and you will be given three days to find out about this matter." ”

When Jiankang Ling heard this, he suddenly complained in his heart, the relationship was intertwined, and he really wanted to find out, he didn't know how many people he would offend.

Seeing that Jiankang Ling didn't dare to answer, Wei Ran smiled and said, "Don't you dare? Then this king will do it himself, let you do it, and you can give these people some face, this king will do it himself, and then don't blame this king for killing people. ”

Wei Ran then asked people to send Xiao Ye back to the palace, he changed into civilian clothes and visited around Jiankang, and found that the villages near Jiankang were basically like this, and the world was still like this, extending to the Sanwu area Wei Ran couldn't imagine it.

At the same time, in the process of visiting, Wei Ran also noticed that everyone had a great misunderstanding of himself, and the image of Wei Ran was almost the same, the people of the Southern Dynasty were not highly educated, and they were very easy to be bewitched, which made Wei Ran feel that someone seemed to be deliberately destroying his image among the people.

Although his image has always been a butcher, an executioner, and a lifelong enemy of literati among the scholars of the Southern Dynasty, Wei Ran boasted that he still treated the people quite favorably, and now he is in such a field, which really makes him laugh.

Back in King Qin's mansion, Wei Ran was sullen and broke several inkstones in the study.

Yuan Shu heard the movement, and while cleaning up the inkstone smashed by Wei Ran, she muttered: "This is a green pine inkstone, worth hundreds of taels, and you smashed it like this?" ”

When Wei Ran heard hundreds of taels, he immediately jumped up and asked, "Why is this inkstone so expensive?" ”

Yuan Shu glanced at Wei Ran in surprise and explained: "This is a thing in the palace, you have made war exploits outside, and Your Majesty will reward you in the rear, you are not in the house when these things are sent, naturally you don't know, in the treasury in the backyard, there are many gold and silver treasures." ”

Wei Ran couldn't help laughing at himself: "I see, no wonder the people say that I am the number one giant in Daqi." ”

Yuan Shu came back to her senses at this time, Wei Ran must have heard something today, so he would return to the mansion and be furious.

She slowly walked behind Wei Ran, pinched Wei Ran's shoulders for her, and asked knowingly, "I went to Zhongshan today to sacrifice for Your Majesty, but what did you hear?" ”

Wei Ran grabbed Yuan Shu's hand and said: "Naturally, I have heard a lot, the people say that I am the number one giant greedy, an accomplice of the Shi clan, and a person who cares about people's lives!" ”

Yuan Shu sighed: "I have heard these rumors for a long time, every day I pass by the market, I can hear such words when I walk, so you said that you want to conquer Qingzhou, I don't want to." ”

Wei Ran suddenly became angry again: "Someone must be spreading rumors about me, I ordered Jiankang Ling to investigate thoroughly, Jiankang Ling didn't dare to agree, I expected him to know a thing or two." ”

Thinking of this, Wei Ran immediately got up and walked out of the door, Yuan Shu didn't react for a while, and asked; "It's late at night, where are you going?"

Wei Ran said without looking back: "Jiankang Lingfu!" ”

Jiankang Ling Yin Yi was fidgeting in the mansion at this time, and he always felt restless, as if a catastrophe was coming.

His wife was originally a big family, but she was killed in Xiao Luan's usurpation, so after Xiao Ju ascended the throne, she remembered her father's merits and supported Yin Yi more.

Seeing that her husband was so worried, Mrs. Yin was also suspicious at the moment, and asked, "You have been like this since you returned to the mansion, what happened?" ”

Yin Yi said what do you know about a woman, but after thinking for a while, he said: "I went to Zhongshan today to worship, King Qin heard a lot of rumors about him, let me investigate thoroughly, how dare I investigate thoroughly, the implication is widespread, the court officials use family influence to spread bad words about King Qin everywhere among the people, and they also say that in order to make King Qin lose the hearts of the people in the world, he will not have anyone to support him in the future rebellion." ”

Mrs. Yin glanced at Yin Yiyi, and then said while cleaning up: "You forgot where your Jiankang Order came from?" It was my father who would rather die than obey Xiao Luan for the sake of His Majesty, and he exchanged his bones for your current wealth. What about the court officials, what about the southern scholars, if they are enemies of the King of Qin, why do they bother to engage in such small actions. ”

Yin Yi also suddenly thought of something at this time, and hurriedly asked, "Madame, what do you mean, let me help King Qin settle this case?" ”

Mrs. Yin sighed and said angrily: "My father married me to you because he valued your honest duty, but I didn't expect that one day you could get to this point, and now as a minister of the court, how can you be so stupid." The most important thing to be an official is to judge the situation, His Majesty's grace to the King of Qin is incomparable, even if the prince ascends the throne in the future, the King of Qin will definitely be a first-class auxiliary minister, the two became brothers a few years ago, since the King of Qin has been really angry, then he must personally investigate, if he knows that you don't report it, although it will not kill you, but it will definitely let you retire, Jiankang Ling, is Your Majesty's eyes and ears, how can Your Majesty let you go? ”

Yin Yi suddenly realized at this time and said, "I'll go to King Qin's Mansion." ”

But before the words fell, I heard the next person say: "Master, the King of Qin is here, and the momentum is fierce and terrifying. ”

Yin Yi's legs were suddenly weak, and he hid behind the door and didn't dare to go out.

Mrs. Yin scolded at the moment: "What is not angry, King Qin is not a jackal, tiger and leopard, why be afraid of this." ”

Then Mrs. Yin personally went to receive Wei Ran, who was dressed in civilian clothes at this time, but was holding a sharp sword, obviously not a good person.

Mrs. Yin took a closer look and found that Wei Ran came alone, so she knew that Wei Ran was just angry, but she was definitely not here to anger her husband, so she hurriedly came out to greet her: "The people's woman Yin, I have seen the King of Qin. ”

Wei Ran naturally knew about Mrs. Yin, and also knew that his father had died in a pillar in Taicheng in the past, so he also had a lot of respect for Mrs. Yin, and said with a little courtesy: "Lord Yin, let him come out to see this king." ”

Mrs. Yin naturally knew what kind of virtue her husband was, so she hurriedly said: "King Qin, don't blame, my husband is cautious, he was just about to go to King Qin's mansion to tell the truth, and when he saw King Qin coming, he was frightened and needed to take a break." ”

Wei Ran couldn't help but be stunned on the spot, but quickly said: "This king is here today, the reason, Lord Yin can tell Mrs. Yin?" ”

Mrs. Yin personally made a pot of tea for Wei Ran at this time, then sat down under Wei Ran, nodded and said, "I already know the reason, although King Qin can rest assured, I have persuaded my husband to help him." In fact, this matter was started by the ministers of the court, and the king of Qin was invited to listen to the people's women."

It turned out that after Xiao Ju ascended the throne, many ministers were replaced, most of them for talented and virtuous people, making them in important positions.

In fact, Xiao Ju's original intention was to support the Hanmen, so as to weaken the influence of these scholars in the court.

However, the literati culture of the Southern Qi Dynasty is quite serious, and they pay special attention to the relationship between teachers and students, and often these children of the poor family, the local enlightenment teachers are all members of the big clan, so they are inextricably linked with the local big clan when they become officials.

When Wei Ran purged the Southern Shi clan over and over again, it was impossible to really kill them all, so although he killed a lot of people, they could still seek benefits through their students.

As a result, some of the scholars gradually began to become officials, and with the help of these elders and students, they gradually rose to prominence.

These poor sons not only became the ladder for the promotion of the scholars, but also because they had great appeal among the local people, coupled with the desire for power, they regarded Wei Ran as an obstacle, and the two sides reached a common time on this matter, and began to spare no effort to slander Wei Ran.

He even deliberately created some small conflicts in many places, forcibly relocated the people under the orders of the King of Qin, forcibly recruited troops into Beijing, and at the same time concealed the local facts, colluding with each other in taxes and military service.

After listening carefully, Wei Ran couldn't help but exclaim: "According to Madame's words, wouldn't it implicate most of the ministers in the DPRK, if I really want to find out about this matter, wouldn't it leave no one in the DPRK." ’

Yin Yi had been hiding behind the screen and eavesdropping, and when he heard Wei Ran say this, he immediately stood up and said: "What the King of Qin said is extremely true, it is not that the lower officials are unwilling to interfere, but that it is widely implicated, if the King of Qin starts killing because of this, it will confirm the rumors that they eradicate dissidents among the people, and it is simple to kill them, and the imperial court is supporting a group of officials, but it is inextricably linked with the scholars." Since ancient times, they have ruled the world with scholars and doctors, because their appeal cannot be eliminated overnight. ”

Wei Ran glanced up at Yin Yi, and just said lightly, "Lord Yin, please take a seat." ”

That look, as if Wei Ran was in his own house.

Wei Ran then asked, "Does Lord Yin know about the conscription?" ”

Yin nodded: "I do know something, and I once wanted to stop it, but I couldn't succeed, the people of the Shi clan hid their heirs in the Buddhist temple, the queen believed in Buddhism, and many ministers in the court also believed in Buddhism, so the place of Buddhism, we can't search it without authorization." ”

Wei Ran smashed the table next to him with a slap at this time, and the huge sound made Yin Shi startled, and even Yin Yi was dumbfounded, Wei Ran's palm was so powerful.

"I have long wanted to clean up the Buddhist gate, I am fighting outside, after returning to the dynasty, I heard that the Buddhist gate does not have to pay taxes, can not be searched at will, and there are not many people who investigate the illegal things of monks, so start with cleaning the Buddhist gate."

At this point, the destruction of Buddha in Chiayi kicked off.