Xiangbei County, Ganshun Province.

Left House.

"Daddy! What did the uncle's letter say? Why is your face so ugly? ”

In the main hall of Zuo Mansion, Zuo Lengguang, the contemporary head of the Zuo family, looked at the urgent letter that his eldest brother had just sent from Bianjing, and the more he looked at it, the more ugly his face became.

The Zuo family, from generation to generation, was just a homesteader family in Tuomin County, under the jurisdiction of Ganshun Prefecture, through the efforts of the grandfathers, the first Jinshi of the family, and gradually became the premier official family of this Ganshun Mansion.

In Zuo Lengguang's generation, his eldest brother, Zuo Lengfeng, the eldest son of the Zuo family, inherited the reading talent of his ancestors, and entered the court with good results in the fifteenth year of the Tiansheng examination.

Now it has become the right imperial history of the Imperial Court of the Central Procuratorate, and the official to the fourth grade can be regarded as one foot into the door of the high-grade officials of the court.

And the Zuo family has risen from many eunuch families in the city with the help of the identity of the left cold wind and the right royal history, and has become the top official eunuch family in this Ganshun Mansion, and it is in the limelight for a while.

Although after three generations, the family has also entered the city from the countryside and become a city person, but the Zuo family has never given up the fields of their hometown, on the contrary, the three generations of the Zuo family have successively made the Zuo family's land in their hometown more than a year after year.

Now, I can't help but think that all the land in Gaoshan Village, where the Zuo family was originally located, belongs to the Zuo family, and even the land in the neighboring three or four villages is also owned by the Zuo family.

As the eldest and youngest of the Zuo family, Zuo Chengyu naturally knew that the origin of his 4,000 acres of land was not correct, and it was not on the fish scale map of the government.

It simply doesn't stand up to scrutiny!

As a result, the food that can be left behind every year is often not enough to eat, and the local people have to take advantage of the slack to go to the city to work, go to the mountains to hunt and dig wild vegetables, and other extra work to barely scrape together enough food for the family to survive in the coming year.

"Daddy! You can rest assured! I promise that in three days at most, the big families in the whole province will know this news, so you are ready to lead us all to oppose the chaos of the imperial court! ”

Zuo Chengyu, the eldest young master of the Zuo family, hurriedly took it and looked at it carefully, and after he read the letter thoroughly, his face changed like his father.

But in fact, it is still in the hands of the Zuo family.

Knowing that this matter is related to his own prosperity and economic lifeline, Zuo Dashao did not dare to slack off, and immediately nodded heavily in agreement:

But they still have to pay taxes on these fields.

Such days have been going on for almost fifty years.

The people of these four or five villages have all become tenant farmers of the Zuo family, and they have been helping the Zuo family cultivate the land for generations.

The Zuo family has gone through three generations of accumulation, and now the land in the family has reached as much as 5,000 acres, but the fields on the official face are only 1,000 acres, and the remaining 4,000 acres of fields have long been quietly abandoned, and even the fields have disappeared from the fish scale map of the local government.

After a long while, Zuo Chengyu raised his head and said to his father: "Dad! Your Majesty actually wants to clear the acres of land across the country? Then our family's more than 4,000 acres of land can be ......."

Your uncle is right, if you want to rebel against the imperial court, Chatian can't rely on us alone, you must unite with those big families in the house, otherwise the court will not pay attention to us. ”

And the missing 4,000 acres of land were all obtained by the Zuo family through various means in the past few decades.

Zuo Lengguang shook his head with an ugly face and said: "You must not let the imperial court investigate, once the investigation is opened, my Zuo family will be finished!"

In addition to the imperial taxes on these fields, they also had to pay rent to the Zuo family.

Your uncle said that the emperor is resolute and abnormal on this matter, even if the ministers oppose it, then the emperor will insist on going his own way.

So now, if you want to stop the imperial court from inspecting the field, you can only confront it through public opinion.

In this way, aren't you the most fox friends on weekdays?

Now the time is to use them, so bring some money and immediately let them spread the news to the big families in the whole house, so that they may know about it.

It is also the source of most of the Zuo family's financial resources.

Your uncle asked us to spread the news that the imperial court was going to investigate the field, and guide public opinion to make everyone oppose the investigation.

Zuo Lengguang's face was ugly, and he handed the letter in his hand to his son Zuo Chengyu on the side.

Hearing his son who has always been a gentleman say this, Zuo Lengguang was relieved that his son had finally grown up and knew that he had to share the pressure on his father.

When even nodded and let him go.

The same scene was transmitted through letters from officials of the DPRK and China.

Soon, the news was learned in many places, and this kind of news was the most interesting to those target customers, so soon the imperial court's action to clear the acres of land had not yet begun, but the news that the imperial court was about to move had already spread all over the world.

And this incident did not come out of Zuo Lengfeng's expectations, and caused an uproar in the local area.

There are too many people and interests involved in the matter of Qingzhang Tianmu, and when these people learned the news, they immediately reacted and began to use their various means to influence the court situation, wanting to make the court stop this policy.

Royal Palace, Imperial Garden.

Zhao Jun sat in the Spring Breeze Pavilion, a fishing rod in his hand hung into the water, and the quiet fishing had lasted for a whole hour.

Although he was fishing, his eyes were slightly closed.

Tick! Tick! Tick!

The spring breeze blew, and the wisps of drizzle mixed with the wind through the spring breeze pavilion hit Zhao Jun's face, making Zhao Jun's eyelashes tremble a little, but soon regained his calm, it seemed that the gradually heavy rain outside could not cause Zhao Jun's slightest emotion.

The weather at the end of February is like a child's face, it changes when it is said, just now the sun is still shining, and in the blink of an eye, it has begun to drizzle and haze.

A drizzle falls from the sky, hitting the pool and creating ripples on the surface of the water.

In rainy weather, the fish in the pond seem to be very excited, and from time to time they will emerge to expose the water, and a golden and red fat-headed carp jumps on the surface of the pool and disappears into the water, making the whole pool surface very lively for a while.

And Zhao Jun sat quietly in the pavilion, holding a fishing rod motionless, like a wooden man.

Until......

Smack! Crash! Smack! Crash! Smack! Crash! ……

There was a sound of footsteps stepping on the water, and Wang Huaien hurriedly came to the Spring Breeze Pavilion with an oil-paper umbrella.

After entering the pavilion and putting away the umbrella, before Wang Huaien could speak, Zhao Jun took the lead in speaking.

"There's movement?"

Wang Huaien nodded and replied: "Your lord, the right hand of the Imperial Procuratorate took the lead of the Imperial Shi Zuo Lengfeng, and asked a group of officials to send a message to their families, leaking the fact that the imperial court was preparing to check the world's fields and acres.

Not only that, but they also asked their families to spread the news to all the local wealthy families, and now the landlords and wealthy families all over the world have learned the news and are making trouble.

It is estimated that tomorrow morning, they will act. ”

After Wang Huaien finished speaking, his brows furrowed tightly, and he proposed:

"Your Majesty, these people leaked the secrets of the imperial court without authorization, do you want the slave maid to take the Imperial City Division to take them down?"

Zhao Jun shook his head after hearing this, then slowly opened his eyes, looked at the still calm water surface at the extension of his fishing rod, and said slowly: "No, let them leak it." ”

"Let them leak?"

Wang Huaien was puzzled.

Zhao Jun chuckled and said:

"If you want to fish, how can you not sprinkle fish?

Wang Banban, how do you say my nest is beating?

How long will it take for the fish to be baited? ”

Wang Huaien turned his head to look at the bag of ten-pound special fish food beside Zhao Jun, which had been poured out for the most part, and immediately replied:

"Your Majesty's nest is beaten, if the slave is a fish! You have to eat as hard as you can! ”

"That's good."

Zhao Jun showed a hint of a smile and slowly closed his eyes again.

The drizzle outside the pavilion was still dripping, and from time to time there were gusts of spring breeze blowing the cold rain into the pavilion.

However, the two people in the pavilion, whether standing or sitting, were unmoved.

……

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