That night, Xue Pan returned to Lixiangyuan drunk while he was out drinking.

The mother and daughter in Lixiang Courtyard were frightened all day.

When Aunt Xue saw Xue Pan returning drunk again, she couldn't suppress her anger and scolded:

"The little beast knows all day long that you are out of Gaole, do you know if you are in trouble, don't do business with Brother Rong, if you are assassinated, Brother Rong will be able to come back alive?"

Xue Pan looked confused, "Mother, did I eat too much wine, or did you eat too much." If you don't do it with Brother Rong, you will have to fold out the income of Fengzihao over the years, and besides, which seat I am on, the assassination can stab me on the head. ”

Aunt Xue cried to herself, "A brute with no conscience, he only knows that he is looking for fun outside, how can he know how much the family is worried about." ”

Xue Pan didn't know what was going on, looked at his sister Xue Baochai, squeezed his eyebrows and asked for help.

Seeing that the family was not at peace, Xue Baochai still opened his mouth and told Xue Pan about today's events again.

When Xue Pan heard this, he didn't care and said: "What kind of character is Brother Rong, if this happens, can he go back to the field?" Rest assured, the assassin won't be able to stumble for long. ”

Xue Baochai was slightly surprised, his brother meant that Brother Rong already knew who assassinated him, but now he has not heard that the government has arrested anyone in this case.

Suddenly, Xue Pan remembered what Jia Rong had explained, and it was good to say it to his mother.

"Mother, Brother Rong wants to use Zhuangzi in Nancheng, and I have already agreed."

Aunt Xue stopped crying and asked:

"What do you want Zhuangzi in Nancheng to do, didn't you help him buy a house?"

"Brother Rong saw that there were too many homeless people in the city, and it was very cold outside at night, so he wanted to use Zhuangzi to help some homeless beggars."

Aunt Xue immediately interrupted when she heard this: "No, a fool who only knows how to eat and drink, send a house to a maid, and now I want Zhuangzi to take it out for the beggars to live, and if the beggars live, can anyone else live?" You are so willing to send it, why don't you send your sister and your wife out. ”

Xue Pan wanted to send her sister over, but at this moment she thought about it and persuaded her with Brother Rong'er's words:

"Our family's business is getting bigger and bigger, and it is indispensable to accumulate virtue and do good deeds, and my mother is not also thinking about reciting Buddha at home all day long."

Hearing that Jia Rong wanted to relieve some poor people, Xue Baochai knew the righteousness and agreed:

"My brother is right, this kind of business is not worth it to a Zhuangzi now, and it must be good to do some good deeds."

"Okay, okay, I'm getting older, I've become an old disguster, anyway, this Xue family is your surname Xue, I don't count if I say a person surnamed Wang, you can make up your own mind."

Xue Pan and Baochai glanced at each other, and they were silent.

Imperial City, Qianqing Palace, Imperial Study.

The criminal department of the secretary Cui Xiang, the Dali Temple temple secretary Ge Rangming, and the first assistant of the cabinet Ren Chengjun in the imperial case with the Longtai Emperor to discuss matters.

"Cui Aiqing, how is the assassination case going?"

"Your Majesty, it was late at night when the assassination took place, there were no witnesses, the assassins retreated, and the Soldiers and Horses Division did not find any traces, as if someone answered.

As for the bow and arrow held by the Assassin during the assassination, judging from the arrows, it is a military system, and the poison applied to the arrows is only arsenic, so it is not possible to determine who instigated it and who did it. ”

"Let you investigate strictly, and you will not be able to track down the murderer?" Emperor Longtai was furious.

"Since it is a bow and crossbow in the army, it is not known which battalion is missing a bow and crossbow."

Ge Rangming cautiously returned: "Your Majesty, a few days ago, the Japanese army had lost a lot of bows and crossbows in the martial arts exercises, all of which had been registered, and each battalion had a different amount of loss, so it was impossible to distinguish them. ”

Emperor Longtai took a deep breath, this is the disadvantage of not being able to fully grasp the army, and he can't deal with the flies in it.

Although Emperor Longtai wanted to vigorously reform the military system, now he had to concentrate all his efforts on restoring the national economy and people's livelihood.

"Okay, you two go down first, and then check."

"No." The two replied.

Emperor Longtai's gaze turned to the first assistant Ren Chengjun and said:

"To be able to, it is urgent to implement the new law, and we still need Aiqing to give me a complete and well-organized performance as soon as possible."

The first assistant of the cabinet is Ren Chengjun, the word is very capable, and he is a capable minister promoted by Emperor Longtai.

Since he was in power for more than a year, Emperor Longtai connived and secretly supported him to form a party to attack the old party, and talked a lot about the reform of the new law, and this person was the first pillar of Emperor Longtai to rectify the mountains and rivers.

"But Your Majesty, now the treasury is not full, and it takes a lot of silver to measure the land, rewrite it, and send the displaced people back to their hometowns.

If you govern a big country, it is already a dangerous and dangerous thing to make such a big move, so why not cultivate for a year and wait for the treasury ......"

Before he could finish speaking, Emperor Longtai interrupted:

"I have already solved the problem of money, and in less than three months, until next spring, it will be the time for the initial implementation of the new law.

The cultivators have their fields, and the people have constant production, and it will come true in our dynasty. ”

Under the pride of Emperor Longtai, Ren Chengjun still seemed very calm and said:

"The tax reform is really a big change, so why not try it out in the area around Kyoto for a while?"

Emperor Longtai shook his head, he would not throw out the new law for trial first, and let the old stubborn people of the old party attack him and attack the new law together.

"Since the tax cannot be shaken for a while, then the commercial tax, the fishing tax, the wine tax, the salt tax, etc., should be rectified first." Longtai Di said.

Today, the matter discussed by the two monarchs and ministers in the imperial study will be the matter of shaking the world from now on.

……

Nancheng,

Xiao Huan is ten years old this year, and he has a four-year-old sister, and at the moment he is holding his sister's hand and chasing the crowd in the same direction.

Xiao Huan's family is a native of Dengzhou Mansion in Shandong Province, and he fled north with his parents, and his father was killed by bandits on the way.

Last night, his mother protected him and his sister under him, but he was frozen at night, and when he woke up today, Xiao Huan called his mother, and his mother didn't answer him before he found out.

A ten-year-old child knows what death is, but he can't care about grief, and he can't even do anything to bury his mother.

Unable to eat for more than a month, he was as thin as firewood, and fearing that his mother would be eaten by wild dogs, he tried all his strength to move his mother to a high level and cover it with weeds.

I heard from the people who fled the famine in the same township that today a wealthy merchant took in the displaced people in Nancheng and gave them food.

The news spread so fast that it was unimaginable, he was afraid that he would not be able to line up with himself and his sister, so he couldn't take a break, so he hurriedly pulled his sister away with the crowd.

He hated why this rich businessman hadn't helped the victims earlier, so that his mother might not have died.

"Brother, where is my mother?" Xiaoxi asked with big eyes.

"Mother went to find us something to eat." Xiao Huan lied for the first time.

"Then why don't we wait for my mother at yesterday's place?" Xiaoxi asked again.

Xiao Huan hugged Xiao Xi in his arms, "Brother heard that a rich businessman is putting porridge, if my mother is looking for us to eat, it must be over there, why don't we rush over first." ”

Xiao Xi stopped talking, and Xiao Huan's eyes turned red.