Chapter 225: A Leopard in a Tube (2)

Feast bell has been reading the newspaper at home. From the morning to the evening, when I looked up again, my neck was already stiff. Mother Xu came over to take the lamp, and complained while kneading her shoulders and neck: "What are you doing to see this, but you don't want to take the female champion!" ”

It's too much of a toss-up.

Feast Bell felt that it was a pity that he hadn't read the Di newspaper before. She is a person who loves to read books very much, but because she is a woman, the books she reads rarely involve the current court, and she doesn't like to go out, so even if she has read a lot of books, she can only be regarded as "talking about books on paper" in family and state affairs.

But Di Bao is different, it is really what has happened in the court in recent years.

There seemed to be nothing in these folds one by one, but when she copied them out in different categories, she fell into them and couldn't extricate herself.

For example, from the first year of Jingtai to the present, the emperor has wanted to increase the salt tax and tea tax in Jiangnan five times, and also wanted to restart overseas economic and trade trade, but each time he was rejected by the courtiers.

The reasons for the rejection are also very reasonable, such as the hardships of the people and the hardships of the peasants, and they can no longer bear this tax.

Master Wu, who was born in the south of the Yangtze River, once wrote a song with tears in his eyes: "I am afraid that the sky will be a disaster, I am afraid that the dragon will turn over, I am afraid that the insects will eat, and I am afraid that my wife will be separated, so I tremble, day after day, go out early and return late, wear the stars and wear the moon, face the loess and face the sky, so that I can have a bowl of rice to eat, and the minister, every time I see the miserable situation of the people, I am all heartbroken and want to share it with it." ”

"But the taxes in Jiangnan are becoming more and more serious, and they will increase a layer every ten years, and in the long run, where do the people dare to grow tea, where do they dare to plant mulberry, and where do they dare to sell cloth - Your Majesty, what the ministers ask is for the people, for the country, I implore Your Majesty to take care of the people of Jiangnan, and no longer increase their taxes."

And that was the end of the matter. The feast bell remembered in a trance that one year he went out to buy medicine for his husband, and it seemed that he had heard a few scholars sitting on the tea stall and faintly scolding the heavenly family, and he was grateful to this Lord Wu.

"The expenses of the imperial court, the soldiers need to make up, and the need for silver money is understandable, but you can't look at our rich Jiangnan and keep asking us to pay money, there will always be a day when the tea farmer Sannong runs out, I see the imperial courtβ€”β€”"

"Shhh

Feast Bell didn't understand this at the time, but felt that they were right. If the imperial court is empty, it should not be the people of Jiangnan who should bear this tax, but at this moment, she looks at it from the obstacles, and feels that things are not so simple.

It's just that you won't be able to see it for a while.

Mother Xu saw her in a daze, and sighed: "In the past, I only knew that it was not good for a girl to read a book and look stupid, but now I can also see that what is more terrible than reading a book and being stupid is that the girl likes someone." ”

"Fortunately, he is a good person, if he is a bad person, the girl is afraid that she will be stunned and do many strange things."

The feast bell still has to say something for himself, "I'm not that stupid." ”

She muttered, "You see, I never remember Yu Xingzhi. ”

Mother Xu: "That's just that the girl didn't be happy." ”

She clasped her hands together, "Emperor Bodhisattva, you must make our girl safe." ”

……

"I don't dare."

Fu Suibo said with a smile: "Although it is a profitable business, I always feel unsteady. I'm still suitable for being honest and doing my duty, and I don't covet too much, as long as everyone in our family is safe. ”

Mrs. Fu thought the same way, so when her father wanted to force her to force her husband to make huge profits for him, she didn't dare. The husband is really a good person, the two of them have relied on each other for their lives over the years, although they don't have much money, but their husband is also a serious official, she is in charge at home, and she has a good life.

But she still didn't understand, "Why can't you do it?" Just buy a tea plantation, let's not buy the big one, just buy the small one. ”

Fu Suibo was silent for a while, shook his head and sighed, "Among the things, where to buy big and small can be said clearly." ”

The two were young couples, and he didn't dare to say what he wanted to say to others, but he said to his wife that it was okay, so he said: "With the efforts of the elders and adults in Jiangnan over the years, the taxes in Jiangnan have finally been reduced a lot, and the burden on the shoulders of the people has also been lightened a lot, and I was very happy at first." ”

"I am also from Jiangnan, my family does not have much money, I want to be an official for my future, and I really want to do things for the people, but I ......"

"But if the officials have been doing it for a long time, especially if the officials who have grown in the dirt like me have been doing it for a long time, you will find that the taxes in Jiangnan, whether they are heavy or light, are the hardships of the people, and whether they are heavy or light, the tea gardens of those big families are unscathed - they are all hidden lands, and the court doesn't know."

Mrs. Fu cried out in surprise. She was picking up the lamp to make clothes, but when she was so shocked, blood appeared on her hands, Fu Suibo hurriedly went over and held the handkerchief for her, and said, "You be careful." ”

And again, "Don't be surprised, it's been the case for generations." ”

He straightened up and fell on the bed, and said, "The land south of the Yangtze River, for more than a hundred years, is not so simple. I don't do it, it's not that I don't dare to do it, it's that I don't want to. I, as Aliu said today, is destined to not go far. I still have a little bit of persistence and struggle in my heart. ”

Ah Liu is the left waiter of the Ministry of Rites he saw today, a friend of the same classmate, who once studied together in Yuzhou Academy.

"Aliu's family is better than me, but he is not from a family, and he was three years earlier than me in high school, and now he is incomparable to me. I'm on a good trackβ€”"

In fact, there are more and more poor students in the south of the Yangtze River now. This is something that everyone wants to see.

Therefore, no one is pulling Jiangnan's taxes to lift their own tables. After a long time, I will get used to it.

Mrs. Fu didn't understand the deep meaning, but only knew that her husband had chosen a compromise between persistence and his future. She thought about it and said, "Then you mean that you will neither offend your teacher nor buy a tea plantationβ€”is that what you mean?" ”

Fu Suibo nodded, "I was raised by Jiangnan Water Rice, cultivated by Yuzhou Academy, and raised by Master Wu - if I still want to offend them, wouldn't it be a wolf's heart and a dog's lungs?" ”

"It is impossible for me to betray Jiangnan, it is impossible to betray my teacher, and it is impossible for me to betray so many classmates."

As he spoke, his voice became less and his voice fell, and Mrs. Fu went over to take a look, only to see that he was asleep with a frown.

She shook her head painfully, covered him with the quilt, and went to worry about the silver for the gift to Master Wu.

I lost a piece of jade pendant today...... What else could it be?

There are four more today.

The fourth watch in the afternoon will be sent together at about six o'clock, I was going to change the three watches in the morning, but it's so itchy, my hands have been scratching the skin, I can't calm down the heart code, I still go to the injection first, I was about to go to the injection in the afternoon. When I get the injection, I will code the words slowly, so let's change it together in the afternoon.

Oh my! Do you have any friends who know what to do with eczema, it is the rain that has come out of the past few days, and it has collapsed.