A gust of wind passed, the floating incense burst, Ji Lun suddenly felt a chill to the end, since he was pulled into the water by Mingkong, a hypocritical monk who seemed to be merciful and actually vicious, he had never been to this Merlin again, this time sneaking at night was forced to be helpless, so he always felt that in the dark, there seemed to be a lot of resentful blood-red eyes, staring at his spine.

He quickened his pace, but his knees were weak for a while, and it was not until he saw the bamboo hut where the little monk lived, and the trance candle flame in the window paper, that he relaxed his tense mood slightly.

is still kind and kind-eyed, as if he is a master outside the world, sitting in front of the lamp in the bright sky, slightly drooping his eyelids.

The light illuminates the deeper nasolabial folds on Guillon's lips, as well as two bruises under the puffy eyelids.

Of course, he didn't wear an official uniform tonight, the jet-black cloak, the half-washed green cloth robe, even the cuffs were sharpened with raw edges, at a glance, people couldn't believe that such a simplely dressed parent official, in fact, his hands were already stained with innocent and poor blood, just to rise to the top, one day high-ranking officials are generous.

No one believes that the monk Mingkong in front of Ji Lun, this admirable Buddhist monk, has ulterior motives, and under the Buddha's clothes, there is a murderous and ruthless heart.

"Why did Ji Mingfu come to see him at night and propose not to alarm the monks?" Mingkong said first, although he got the message sent by Ji Lun, he didn't know the purpose of the visitor.

"Why did Princess Jin come to see the abbot?" Ji Lun didn't answer the rhetorical question, and his voice couldn't help but tremble when he spoke.

"Princess Jin?"

"A few days ago, the person who had an argument with the monks in the temple was the King of Jin, and the person who traveled with him, dressed as a woman and a man, was the princess of Jin!"

"I see." There was a big difference from Ji Lun's impatience, and Mingkong smiled slightly: "Although the poor monk has already understood that the benefactor is actually a daughter, I didn't expect that she was the princess of Jin." ”

Seeing that Mingkong didn't think so, Ji Lun was even more anxious, and told the whereabouts of King Jin and his wife in a few words.

"Princess Jin only donated 100,000 / merit money, listened to a meditation lecture, and did not ask the poor monk for anything, Ji Ming Mansion does not need to be so worried." Mingkong soothed: "According to the poor monk, the princess has a good understanding of Buddhism, and she should indeed be a believer in Buddhism. ”

"Really?" Guillon still didn't dare to believe it.

"The Jin Wang couple made this trip, I am afraid that it is indeed to secretly check whether the Ming Mansion is credible, and the Ming Mansion is only appointed as the Taigu Order, and has always been sympathetic to the people's livelihood, so why are they afraid of the investigation?"

"I'm worried...... That one thing...... "Even though he is not afraid of the wall at this time, Ji Lun obviously doesn't want to mention the evil deeds.

"The people who act are all trusted by the former Taigu Ling, and the two stay in Taigu, but they are also worried that the poor monk will be unfavorable to the former Taigu Ling, these two people are cautious, and naturally they will not show flaws and endanger the main family, why should Ji Ming Mansion worry? Originally, this kind of thing was not the exclusive practice of the former Taigu Order, but in fact, it was an officialdom practice, and Ji Ming Mansion did not have to worry so much. ”

Ji Lun breathed a sigh of relief: "Princess Jin intends to befriend the children of Taigu Luo, obviously she wants to win over the wealthy family, I'm afraid it will be unfavorable to Mao Mansion Yin, right?" ”

"The Ming Mansion knows that Mao Mansion Yin intends to win over the Meng and Zhen clans, why did he return in vain?" Mingkong is still calm, and there is no impetuousness at all.

"The Meng and Zhen clans should be cautious."

"That's one of the reasons, but it's not the point. Although the implementation of the new policy will damage the wealth and interests of the world, the world, especially the famous families such as Meng, Zhen, Liu and Zhu, will not hurt the foundation because of the new policy. ”

Ji Lun is also a family in the end, although the family has fallen down, after being reminded by Mingkong, it is not difficult to understand the root cause.

The law of the Great Zhou Dynasty stipulates that officials are not taxed, that is, if they are conferred officials, then they will be exempted from the privilege of paying taxes, even if the new policy is implemented, they will not deprive officials of this privilege, and according to the rank of officials, even this privilege can benefit family members, such as Ji Lun, the Taigu Order, during his tenure, his father and son will not pay taxes to the imperial court.

But of course, this does not mean that all the clan classes are not taxed, the national tax law is levied on Ding Nan, even if the new policy is implemented, it is also levied on a household, not a clan.

For example, just like the Taiyuan Liu family, the patriarch Liu Ren is in Henan Yin Yishi, even if he is idle now, he himself can not pay rent, the three sons are all officials, and they can also be exempt from taxes, but the youngest son Liu Qingliu has not been awarded an official, so he has to bear taxes, not to mention people such as Liu Qingyun and other clansmen, as long as they are not allowed to be awarded officials, they will have to pay taxes according to the law.

It's just that the family has enough land, and according to the current tax law, they don't care about those micro taxes at all, but if the new policy is implemented, the family is designated as a household, and the tax will be increased, so the new policy will also cause a loss of financial benefits for the family.

But the children of the family are mostly focused on Shijin, as long as they can be awarded, in fact, it will not harm the financial benefits, even though not every child can be awarded an official, but the family will give up the light, so many families are holding a wait-and-see attitude at the moment, just because they are not sure who will win or lose between Mao Wei and King Jin, and they are worried that rashly standing in the camp will affect Shijin in the future.

Seeing that Ji Lun understood at one point, Mingkong smiled: "However, as far as the wealthy family is concerned, there is no hope of advancement, the foundation is financial power, and the damage of the new policy to the wealthy family is better than that of the world, so Ji Mingfu thinks that Taigu Luo will listen to the bewitchment of a disciple and easily support the new policy?" Even if Taigu Luo has been encouraging his children to join the government over the years, it is difficult to see results at the moment, the poor monk believes that Taigu Luo will not be so rash, and furthermore, even if Taigu Luo is really co-opted by the King of Jin, it will not hurt the overall situation, Taigu Luo and Taigu Jiang have always been not on good terms, if the Jin Wangfu is biased towards Taigu Luo, Taigu Jiang will make up his mind to surrender to Mao Fu Yin. ”

Regarding the monk's analysis, Ji Lun was convinced: "Mao Fu Yin sent that strategist, and said the same, and, in order to completely dispel the doubts of the Jin Wang faction, Mao Fu Yin has another plan...... so he lowered his voice and said something.

Mingkong shook his head repeatedly: "This plan is very good, in this way, Xue Shaoyin and King Jin will believe that Ji Mingfu really advocates the new policy, and then Ji Mingfu will have the opportunity to implement the plan of drawing salaries from the bottom of the kettle and make a great contribution to Mao's Mansion Yin." ”

After this trip, Ji Lun completely regained his composure, and when it was time to say goodbye, he once again passed Merlin, who had made him creepy earlier, and he didn't feel afraid and panicked anymore.

However, as soon as he left, Mingkong changed his face, and the cloud swept lightly, even though he high-fived and laughed, his eyes revealed a ruthless color.

"Is the timing of the mage's words finally close at hand?" The little monk who was guarding the door was very well-behaved and came forward with great interest.

"It's right at hand." Mingkong raised the corners of his eyes slightly: "As long as Ji Lun can gain Xue Xuanzhi's trust and become the main force in implementing the new policy, it will be time for us to return to the country." ”

The little monk was also smiling: "The implementation of the new policy is unfavorable, the people of Jinyang mutinied, and the civil strife in the Great Zhou Dynasty is together, that is, no matter how brave the Marquis of Wuwei is, it is difficult to hold the Weize Pass. ”

"The eldest prince is the eldest prince, and the prince is justifiable, but unfortunately the monarch was wise in his early years, but now he is old and faint, and he is even lazy in beauty, the son of Concubine Shu is not a grandson, what qualifications do you have to lead my subjects in Northern Liao?" The anger in the eyes of the enlightened monk skyrocketed at this moment, and he snorted coldly again and again.

It turned out that although this person was inserted into Taiyuan through Pan Boan, his real identity was from Northern Liao.

Northern Liao Yuan to nomadic for a living, the Great Zhou Dynasty was strong, the Northern Liao tribes even bowed to Zhou Wuzong, but later because the Great Zhou Dynasty was no longer prosperous, the Northern Liao tribes were gradually out of control, when Mingzong, Yelu unified the tribes to establish the Northern Liao, called the king, and imitated the Great Zhou system, and gradually developed to farming, but did not declare war on the Great Zhou, still paid tribute at the age of the year, but in the Gaozong period, the Northern Liao successively annexed the Bohai Sea and other countries that belonged to the Great Zhou Dynasty, and repeatedly returned to attack Yingzhou and other borders.

The ambition of the Northern Liao people to point at the Central Plains has been revealed, but Yingzong, Suzong and even several generations of emperors of Dezong have turned a blind eye, and finally in the He Yan Dynasty, the Empress Dowager Wei in addition to the Pei Zheng two clans, the Yingzhou Governor Pan Bo forced rebellion, Pan Bo was a vassal to the King of Northern Liao, united the Northern Liao army to force back the Zhou army, and established himself as the king in Yingzhou.

At this point, the territory outside Shanhaiguan gradually fell into the hands of the enemy.

Later, it was Yao Qian, a waste, who not only failed to recover the lost land, but even allowed the Pan-Liao coalition army to attack Shanhaiguan and give up the realm of Yan and Zhao.

The Northern Liao royal family is influenced by the Great Zhou, and also believes in Buddhism, and even many royal children enter the Buddhist sect to practice, and there is no shortage of monks in the Northern Liao who enjoy the title of national teacher and meddle in military and political affairs.

To talk about the Northern Liao people do not have a surname, when they surrendered to Zhou, Emperor Zhou set up the Song Desert Governor's Mansion in the Northern Liao realm, and gave it the noble He and Sun two surnames, but the Northern Liao nobles actually worshiped the Han Gaozu Liu Bang and the virtuous Xiao He, after the founding of the Northern Liao, the royal family and the descendants took Yelu and Xiao as the surnames respectively, why did the royal family not have the surname Liu? That's because in Northern Liao, Yelu is actually surnamed Liu.

Mingkong is a disciple of the Xiao family, and his family is a nobleman in Northern Liao, so Mingkong actually doesn't look at Pan Bo in his eyes, and when he is the king of Anton, he is just a courtier of Northern Liao.

But because the Northern Liao Imperial Court is farther away from Taiyuan after all, Mingkong, a spy, is inseparable from the support of Pan Bo's tenant department to play a role, such as the two people he recommended to Ji Lun, who were actually not former Taigu Ling's henchmen, but in fact Pan Bo's tenants.

But because of this, Pei Zijian overheard the words of Taigu Mingde Temple, and this time Ji Lun's night visit, although he did hide Mao Wei, he was not able to hide His Royal Highness King Jin, who was suspicious prematurely.

The fact that Ming Kong had a suspicious heart was obviously further determined by King Jin.