In the next few days, Yang Ming received messages from Li Jing and Yang Yinjiang successively.

Li Jing wanted to return to Beijing and asked to see Yang Su.

It can be seen that this is to intercede for the Red Whisk Girl, after all, the Red Whisk Girl is someone from Yang Su, what's the matter with running to your house?

Li Jing is an official of Hedong County, Yang Ming's fiefdom, if he wants to enter Beijing, he has to be approved by Yang Ming, and the reason is easy to find, so he said that he came to Beijing to do something, which is similar to going on a mission.

As for the news brought by Yang Yinjiang, it made Yang Ming overjoyed.

Who is Yang Su? I dare not say that the power is tilted towards the government and the opposition, at least it is also half of the government and the opposition.

There is a maid running away from the house, can he not find it? In a few days, the kung fu people have already found out.

But Yang Su took into account that Li Jing was his protégé, and it was really embarrassing for this matter to get out, so he didn't send someone to arrest the Red Whisk Girl back.

As the saying goes, good things don't go out, and bad things spread thousands of miles.

This matter must not be hidden, but Yang Su is also a person who wants face, and his maid has a leg with his protégé, so if it is really spread, he can't hold it on his face.

But now it's different, Yang Su tasted the sweetness of "breaking the mirror and reuniting", so he changed his mind, since he couldn't hide it, he simply took the initiative to say it,

So he directly told the story of Li Jing at the Red Whisk Elopement Meeting at the court meeting.

He is also very good at choosing days, he doesn't say it when Dugu Jialuo is not there, and he says it when Dugu Jialuo is in the court.

What else did he say about the sincerity of the red whisk girl, Li Jing was willing to accept a maid despite the view of the door valve, which was even more commendable, and he was willing to accomplish this beautiful thing.

Dugu Jialuo praised Yang Suzhen on the spot as an elder, and also gave Zhang Chuchen to Li Jing as his wife.

The disciples of the gate valve fell in love with a maid, for Yang Jian and Dugu Jialuo, this is worth publicizing, although they started with the help of the gate valve, but now their status is different, and their thinking is different.

How to weaken the power of the gate valve has always been the biggest headache for Yang Jian and his wife.

So the story of Li Jing, the Red Whisk Elopement Club, under the instruction of Yang Jian and his wife, will soon spread in Daxing, and even the entire Dasui.

Li Jing became famous this time, and even Yang Su's reputation among the people has been greatly improved.

It's the best of both worlds, I have to say that Yang Su is really powerful.

.......

Hedong County,

Hedong County has ten counties under its jurisdiction, and the seat of governance is in Hedong County.

Li Jing is not a poor ghost, he bought a house when he first came to Hedong, and he was unwilling to live in the yamen because it was inconvenient to deal with private affairs.

After coming to Hedong, he has been secretly communicating with the Red Whisk Girl, but it is not clear through what channel.

After receiving Yang Ming's reply, Li Jing was half happy and sad, of course, he was happy that he and his sweetheart would be a legitimate couple from now on, and of course he was worried about the views of the family elders.

Fortunately, he is not the eldest son, and he is not as favored as his eldest brother Li Duan, plus he is married by the Holy Queen, the clan will definitely not dare to say anything, but private reprimands will definitely be inevitable.

It was a rainy day, and after finishing the official duties of the county government, Li Jing returned home.

The ingenious Red Whisk Girl has already prepared a large table of dishes, and they are still hot.

"How did you cook yourself? Let the next person do these things in the future," Li Jing took the red whisk hand distressedly and sat down at the table together.

Li Jing is a son of a family, and there are more than 30 servants in the house, and there are also family members in the courtyard.

The red-haired girl smiled and said, "Brother Xuanling said that he was coming, so the slave family specially went to prepare the wine and food, so that Brother Xuanling would always complain that you were slow to treat him." ”

Li Jinggang picked up the chopsticks, and said with a smile: "Then let's wait for him." ”

After a while, Fang Xuanling came with a yellow clay jar.

"Congratulations to Brother Jing for his marriage after being consecrated, and my brother is here to say hello."

Because Yang Ming has explained, you can ask Li Jing if you can't handle anything, and Li Jing is a righteous person, so Fang Xuanling quickly became friends with Li Jing after he called Hedong.

With a bang, the yellow clay jar was placed on the table by Fang Xuanling, and then his eyes were fixed on the jar of wine prepared by the Red Whisk Girl.

"Yo, it's wine in white porcelain? Let's drink this. ”

The red-haired girl smiled and took away the jar with water and wine and poured it away, then opened the white porcelain jar and poured a bowl for Fang Xuanling.

Every time Fang Xuanling came to Li Jing, he was holding the water wine that Yang Ming gave him, and Li Jing definitely didn't drink this kind of wine, so he could only take out his own private collection for the two of them to drink.

So Fang Xuanling came more diligently.

Fang Xuanling fell in love with drinking three years ago, because he was a county lieutenant in Xi (xi) city at that time, where is Xi City? Fenyang, Shanxi.

After the two drank a few glasses, Fang Xuanling put down the wine bowl and said:

"At the beginning of this year, the royal government will collect taxes in Hedong, and I have inquired, and the taxes handed over to the state treasury in Hedong last year were 340,000 yuan in money, 170,000 stones, 36,000 horses of silk, and 78,450 horses of hemp.......

Li Jing listened carefully, and only after the other party finished speaking, did he nod and said:

"The fixed tax of the royal palace will basically be about ninety percent of the total tax money last year, but the tax is different every year, if the collection this year is less than ninety percent of last year, His Royal Highness will have to pay for it himself."

"It's not enough to post money," Fang Xuanling said:

"There are a lot of wealthy families in Hedong, just let these people fill the gap, but I'm afraid that the gap is too big, after all, this time the north rejected the Turks, and the Hedong Military Government sent out 22,000 people, these people's taxes this year have been completely exempted, in addition to the pension of the imperial court, the county government yamen also has to have a reward according to the rules, and the palace also has to mean that the year is just over halfway, there is already such a large deficit, and I don't know what it will be like in the second half of the year."

The Great Sui was a military system developed on the basis of the Juntian system.

According to the law, except for those who were exempted from military service (clans, nobles, bureaucrats with high lords and their relatives), the remaining Ding men were eighteen to sixty years old, and they had to serve compulsory labor every year, which referred to as forced labor, miscellaneous service, and military service.

If you want to not accept the conscription, it is very simple, pay a certain amount of money and food, and the government will serve on your behalf, and this substitute service money is called "more endowment".

Li Jing knew in his heart that 22,000 people were temporarily conscripted for military service in Hedong this year, and because these people won the battle, they were all exempted from taxes this year, and they had to pay rewards, which was definitely a lot less than last year.

The imperial court doesn't care if you have special circumstances or not, anyway, the fixed tax of the fief is paid from the base of the previous year, and no one is missing.

Therefore, if the Hedong region can't collect ninety percent of last year's tax money this year, Yang Ming can only find a way by himself, whether you are clever or coercive and tempting, in short, you have to fill the gap.

After pondering for a while, Li Jing said:

"Your Royal Highness is far away in Daxing, and I don't know that Hedong is in a special situation this year, as the secretary of the palace, you should take on this burden, this year's tax money must not only be made up, but also set aside the expenses of the palace, you come to find a way, I should try my best to help."

Fang Xuanling laughed: "What I want is Brother Jing's words, since my brother is a subordinate official of the palace, if I have to trouble His Royal Highness to solve this matter personally, then I deserve to drink wine mixed with water for the rest of my life." ”

The two looked at each other and smiled and raised their glasses at the same time.