During the reign of the first emperor, for the sake of people's livelihood, small merchants with an annual income of less than 100 taels were allowed to buy 10 acres of land, and large merchants were completely prohibited from hoarding land.

Despite the law, there are still people who think of other ways for themselves.

Just like Xie Xiuwen's practice before, he found someone from the Fang family to put his name on it, even if the government checked it, this shop was in someone else's name, even if everyone knew that this shop belonged to the Xie family, the government could only admit that it belonged to the Fang family.

And those big merchants will naturally have more methods.

For example, if you can let your own domestic servants buy land, or let your relatives buy land, there is always a way to deal with the government's inspection.

Emperor Jingwen twisted his eyebrows and thought deeply, he did not approve of heavy agriculture and suppression of business, but he also did not like merchants to become bigger.

The more money the merchants have, the more likely they are to be attached to a certain force, and now his sons have grown up one after another, although they have not yet set foot in the court, but those imperial relatives have already begun to make a move.

In Emperor Jingwen's view, whether it is military power, or the power of the court, or the world's money and food, it is up to him, a saint, to decide.

Now that I have heard Xie Xiuwen's words, I have some other ideas.

You can't squeeze the big businessmen too hard, otherwise it will indeed be easy to force the dog to jump off the wall.

But you can't just watch them get bigger.

First investigate the matter of hoarding the land, and then find a way to kill the chickens and make an example of the monkeys.

Xie Xiuwen's heart turned to the ground, looking at the meaning of the saint, I am afraid that there will be a big businessman who will be unlucky, but I don't know which household will be targeted by the saint first, I just hope that the saint can be kind this time, and don't make a river of blood again.

After the court meeting, Emperor Jingwen arranged to supervise the imperial history to go everywhere to check the affairs of land and commercial taxes.

It is not too far from the capital, and the famous merchants in Taiyuan Prefecture, who are said to have a lot of money, were found to have hoarded land, and also found out that they colluded with the local government.

As soon as the excerpt was sent to the palace, Emperor Jingwen was furious!

Fortunately, Emperor Jingwen was still benevolent, and did not issue an order to punish the innocent, but only the two principals of the merchant family were sentenced to death, and his family members were exiled.

According to the news that Xie Xiuwen inadvertently spied from the imperial front, he actually copied out more than 400,000 taels of silver, not only that, but there were also a lot of field shops and so on, this time, the treasury was a lot richer.

On the eighth day of the lunar month, Xie Xiuwen sent eight-treasure porridge to Wang Qinshu's house, and accompanied him to play a game of chess before leaving.

When Xie Xiuwen came back when he was in charge of the lamp, he found that there was an extra carriage outside the door, and the porter said that the young man of the Dingguo Mansion had come over.

Wang Yanqing's legs were not yet complete, and he came out on crutches.

Xie Rongzhao lit the fireplace in the front hall, and sent someone to get an extra charcoal basin, so that the room was warm.

"Sister Zhao, your fireplace is really good, and my family has also made it, but I always feel that it is not as beautiful as your family, and it doesn't seem to be as big as your family."

"I guess it's about the same. I just think it's idle on it, so I love to put a vase on it or something. ”

Wang Yanqing is the pure kind of chicken, duck and fish that are not delicious, and other people's pickles and gnocchi are fragrant.

And Xie Rongzhao simply thought that Wang Yanqing was praising her for decorating the fireplace beautifully, and the two reached a consensus so weirdly.

Wang Yanqing saw Xie Xiuwen coming in, and hurriedly stood up and saluted.

"Sit down, your legs are better now? However, it is cold weather, so you should rest well at home so as not to fall again. ”

"Yes, thank you uncle for your concern, my little nephew's leg is much better."

Wang Yanqing lived in Fuyuan Villa for a month, but he was as close to the Xie family as if he were a relative, and he didn't treat himself as an outsider when he spoke.

"Daddy, you're back, then I'll tell A-Niang that you can set the meal, A-Niang knows that Brother Yanqing is coming, and she specially cooks his favorite beef brisket soup by himself."

Beef is not easy to buy, and that is only for ordinary people.

For the families of the powerful, beef and mutton were almost indispensable.

Xie Xiuwen also heard that this was his wife's stay, so Wang Yanqing stayed so late.

In Fuyuan Villa, dozens of miles away, Cheng Jingzhou took a bite of food and sighed again.

Xie Zhou, who was sitting opposite him, shook his head and said expressionlessly: "It's the thirty-eighth time, San Lang, are you still eating?" ”

Cheng Jingzhou came back to his senses, and there was still a little grievance in his eyes: "Guy Bao has never sent anyone to bring me a letter since he left, and I don't know if he forgot me." ”

In the past, Bao Bao would often ask Xiao Langjun of the Song family to send a letter.

Xie Ronglang said with a natural face: "Now that Daddy has a Zhuangzi in the suburbs of Beijing, there is no need for the villa to send firewood so frequently, now it is only delivered once a month, and Sister Ah is now being escorted by Ah Niang to learn the rules, I'm afraid I won't see Song Erlang." ”

Cheng Jingzhou was still a little sad: "How did you see that before?" ”

Xie Rongen pouted and said, "Stupid! In the past, Sister Zhao loved to play, and my uncle and aunt were also loose, but now that she grows up, she naturally has to be restrained. ”

Xie Zhou also nodded again and again: "That's right, and San Lang is also from a famous family, aren't all the young ladies being very strict?" Now Sister Zhao has just begun to learn the rules, but I am afraid that she will be more strictly controlled. ”

The more Cheng Jingzhou listened, the more he felt that the food in front of him was not fragrant.

None of these people mentioned Wang Yanqing, it was clearly discussed!

The more you don't mention this Wang Yanqing, the more it shows that the kid's mind is not pure!

However, he is studying here now, no matter how anxious he is, it is useless to be angry, just waiting to return to the capital after the holiday, and then talk to Ganbao well.

Xie Rongzhao didn't know that Cheng Jingzhou had made up so much in his brain, she accompanied her father to send Wang Yanqing to the carriage, and when she turned around and went back to the courtyard, she yawned.

Xie Xiuwen gathered her cloak: "Sleepy? ”

Xie Rongzhao's eyes were filled with some physiological tears because of yawning, and now he looked moist and even more cute.

"Daddy, I'm still worried about the New Year's gifts for Uncle Zhao, Brother Heng and Brother Yanqing."

Xie Xiuwen smiled and pinched her face: "It doesn't matter, you just look at the preparation, and your father and mother will prepare extra." ”

Xie Rongzhao knew that this would be the case.

"Brother Yanqing's leg injury is not completely healed, and he can't come out to play during the New Year, I wonder if I can make something fun so that he can be happy in the house." (End of chapter)