Among the invitations received by Lin Shuran, if the highest status is the Prince of Alcohol's Mansion, the old Prince Zhao Zhen is already in his old age this year, don't look at his age and the first emperor, but his seniority is higher than the first emperor, and the first emperor has to call him "Uncle Huang" when he is there.

Prince Alcohol is an idle prince, Prince Alcohol Mansion has always been very low-key in the capital, Lin Shuran received the invitation was given to her by the old prince's daughter-in-law, Princess Alcohol, and invited her to participate in the flower and silk banquet held by the palace two days later.

The so-called flower silk banquet is a very special banquet in the autumn of the Jin Dynasty, most of the invited are female dependents, on the day of the banquet, they have to wear a variety of beautiful clothes made of silk, and then arrange flowers and drink tea together, which is regarded as an elegant and interesting activity.

Lin Shuran also received invitations from Princess Qingyang and several other royal mansions, but these people were all juniors in front of Prince Alcohol, so she felt that the first one should go to Prince Alcohol's Mansion first.

Soon, the day of the flower silk banquet arrived, and as soon as Lin Shuran's carriage arrived at Prince Alcohol's Mansion, many people came up to greet her, and those who knew or didn't know each other smiled at her, which was rare in the past.

Lin Shuran didn't pretend to be high, and smiled back enthusiastically, expressing her enough affinity and kindness, which made those who were already interested in currying favor with the General's Mansion even more enthusiastic about her, and she was almost surrounded into Prince Alcohol's Mansion.

There were many people invited to participate in the flower and silk banquet today, and after Lei Yingying entered the palace, she saw that Lin Shuran was surrounded by a group of people, so she forcibly dragged her out of the crowd and took her to a secluded place to hide.

"Look at these people, when I saw you before, I was disgusted and far away, but now when I see you, it's like a bear seeing honey, and I can't shake it off!" Lei Yingying said with a light breath.

The two of them sat down in a pavilion, and Lei Yingying also instructed their respective maids that if anyone wanted to come to them, they would say that the two of them were talking in private and that no one was allowed to disturb them.

"I know their thoughts, nothing more than to let my husband's subordinates show mercy, but if they collect one acre less land and pay less land tax, they can also have more money on hand!"

For these noble ladies in the capital suddenly showed excessive enthusiasm for her, Lin Shuran had already seen through their thoughts, the new decree stipulates that officials above the third grade and the palace of the nobles of the king and grandson will be taxed if there are more than 50 acres of fertile land, and the more land under their name, the more land tax will be collected, and the more land above the seventh grade will be levied if they exceed 30 mu.

In the past, the imperial court was tax-free or less tax-free for these people, and now they are naturally unwilling to let them pay money to the imperial court, but now because of the power of Longjiawei, they do not dare to resist blatantly, so they can only give in temporarily, and even think that they can delay it for a while, maybe someone will stand up and fight against the emperor.

In Lin Shuran's opinion, fifty acres of fertile land is enough to feed many people, but the rich families who are accustomed to living a luxurious life feel that it is far from enough, and the emperor's new decree is simply forcing them to death, where do they go to get silver to pay taxes.

"The emperor doesn't know if he is too anxious, during this time, many officials have either lost their lives or been dismissed because of this incident, and there are many people in the capital who are selling land!" Lei Yingying was also worried, they also had hundreds of acres of land in Yunzhou.

Lin Shuran also knew about this matter, she saw Lei Yingying's sad face, and said with a smile: "What's so worrying about this, it stands to reason that fifty acres of fertile land is not a problem to feed a family, if there is excess fertile land, as long as the yield per mu is high, there will be a lot left after paying taxes, which is not a big bad thing for the people who farm." ”

"Sister, fifty acres of fertile land is a lot, but for people like us, it is far from enough, all the masters have to eat fine rice and noodles, and there are a large number of subordinates to raise, and the price of food is not low. Lei Yingying felt that Lin Shuran didn't know much about farming than her, they were all ladies who had been accustomed to living a life of fine clothes and jade food since childhood, and they couldn't stand it if they ate bran every day.

Lin Shuran really wanted to tell her that the reason why she thought so was that the grain production base before the Jin Dynasty was low, if the yield per mu increased, everyone would not worry about running out of food and the price of grain would stabilize, didn't the emperor already tell the people of the household department about her planting method, why don't everyone believe that one mu of land can produce nearly 1,000 catties of grain?!

"That's what Sister Lei said!" At this moment, a young beauty wearing a long green silk dress walked over, she looked at Lei Yingying and Lin Shuran in the pavilion with a smile on her face, and said embarrassedly, "I didn't mean to eavesdrop on your speech!" ”

Lei Yingying glared at her angrily, with displeasure on her face, but her tone was very familiar, and said: "Whether it is intentional or not is only known to you, as the princess of Prince Alcohol, shouldn't you go to the front to greet the guests, what are you doing here to find us?!" ”

Chen Jiayu, the princess of Prince Alcohol, smiled, and Shi Li stepped forward and said: "Sister of the Lei family, don't you blame me for robbing your fiancé, but back then, it was obviously you who said you didn't want to, and sister, I found a place for myself." ”

This is Prince Alcohol's Mansion, Lei Yingying and Lin Shuran have no reason to stop the owner's house from entering the pavilion, Lin Shuran is curious about the relationship between Lei Yingying and this person, it seems that Lei Yingying doesn't like this Prince Alcohol's princess, but she feels that the relationship between the two is very close.

Lei Yingying glared at the princess of Prince Alcohol who approached the pavilion again, and then introduced to Lin Shuran on the side: "Sister Ran, this is Chen Jiayu, the eldest daughter of the prime minister of the dynasty, and now the princess of Prince Alcohol's Mansion, she used all her tricks to kidnap my fiancé into her hands, so I had to divorce Prince Alcohol's Mansion, this woman is the most treacherous, you must not have too much contact with her." ”

Lin Shuran was stunned, knowing that Lei Yingying had always spoken straightforwardly, but she hadn't seen her "speak out" like this in front of people, she glanced at Chen Jiayu with some embarrassment, but she felt strange, didn't she say that Prime Minister Chen only had one daughter, that is, Chen Jiating, who was about to marry into the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion? Why is there an extra eldest daughter? She's never heard of this person before, has she?

Actually, it's not that Lin Shuran hasn't heard of it, but that the memories of others in her mind have been blurred and forgotten, and she hasn't remembered them.

Chen Jiayu was not angry when she heard Lei Yingying say this, but looked at Lin Shuran and explained with a smile: "Mrs. Xu, don't listen to the Lei family's sister's nonsense, obviously this husband was voluntarily given to me by her, but she took pity on me and gave me a way to live, this kindness Jiayu will never forget." ”