Several young scholars hummed and carried two large pieces of manta ray corpses into the Shangshu Academy, this thing is not very heavy, but the body is not slippery, coupled with everyone's innate fear of drought, they feel that they are carrying a big mountain on their shoulders, which is very hard.

"Lord Wen, unruly son, I'll retire first!" Several people panted and arched towards Wen Chen and the others.

"A few brothers go slowly, and I'll visit tomorrow!" The eldest grandson Wujian followed and saluted back.

Looking at the backs of a few people going out, Wen Chen chuckled a few times, "They are all good children, but their physical strength is poor, and they can't just study in the future, so they need to exercise more." ”

The eldest grandson nodded silently, and stretched out his arms to invite Wen Chen Xuanyang and the two, "The two of you are invited." ”

As he was talking, two figures hurriedly ran out of the courtyard, the man looked sixty or seventy years old, with gray hair and a Chinese face, looking like a man who had been an official for many years, very stylish.

The woman is graceful and luxurious, very dignified, and has a gentle temperament, which makes people feel very comfortable.

"Uninhibited, Feng Guang, what did they move to the room, it's weird and scary, where did you get it?"

"You kid got wet in the middle of the night, where did you go to play?"

Listening to his parents' complaints, the eldest grandson smiled embarrassedly, "Lord Wen, these two are the parents of the boy, the father eldest grandson Tianlu and the mother Gu. ”

Wen Chen bowed down and clasped his fists, and said with a smile, "In Xia Wen Chen, I have seen two elders. ”

The middle-aged man looked puzzled and looked at Wen Chen and Xuanyang, "The two of you are also uninhibited classmates?" ”

The eldest grandson Wujian hurriedly introduced, "Daddy, this is Lord Wen Chenwen from Shangjing City, who is the imperial historian appointed by His Majesty, holding the Shang Fang sword and coming to Qingzhou to observe the disaster!" ”

The eldest grandson Tianlu's pupils shrank, and then he noticed the golden sword in Wen Chen's hand, and hurriedly pulled his wife to kneel, "Xiaguan Qingzhou Assassin Shi Changsun Tianlu, I have seen Your Majesty, I have seen Lord Wen!" ”

He is not as innocent as his son, if the saint uses Shang Fang's sword to cut the horse, Qingzhou will definitely change the sky, what kind of observation of the disaster, it is clear that he is the Lord of Yama who came to ask for his life!

Looking at the trembling appearance of the eldest grandson Tianlu, Wen Chen bent down to help the two of them up, and said kindly, "Your Excellency and Mrs. don't need to be polite, this official is not here with any malice, it's just an ordinary visit, you and I can communicate normally." ”

Eldest Sun Tianlu nodded cautiously, and hurriedly beckoned to the Gu family, "Quickly prepare a bedroom for Lord Wen and Mrs. Zun, and rest in the mansion tonight!" ”

"Yes, sir."

Wen Chen hurriedly raised his hand to stop him, glanced at Xuanyang, who was blushing but did not refute, and said helplessly, "Lord Eldest Sun misunderstood, this official is a eunuch, and he has never married a wife, this is the daughter of King Pingbei, Xuanyang County Lord, screaming is going to have an accident!" ”

The family of three was suddenly taken aback, the lord of Xuanyang County is a relative of the emperor, and he will lose his head if he talks nonsense!

The eldest grandson Tianlu, who had just stood up, hurriedly pulled his wife and children to kneel down again, "The lower officials are ignorant, they don't know that the county lord of Xuanyang is coming, and they have collided with the county lord without concealment, and I ask the county lord for forgiveness!" ”

Xuanyang shook his lips and raised his hand lightly, "It's okay, this palace is not a person who is careful, adults don't have to care......"

"Thank you Lord for your grace!" The three of them bowed heavily.

After making amends for a long time, the eldest grandson Tianlu invited Wen Chen and the others into the main hall.

"Uninhibited, go to the room and instruct the subordinates, hurry up and make some food, Lord Wen and the county lord are tired of driving, it is very hard, we, as the main family, must not neglect the two distinguished guests!"

The eldest grandson Wujian glanced at his father with some hesitation, "Dad, Lord Wen is going to eat drought fish today......

"Stinky boy is talking nonsense, even if Lord Wen really wants to eat dry fish, where do you let your father get it?" The eldest grandson Tianlu shook his head and smiled, picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea.

"In the room, Feng Guang and the big fish that they moved back are ......"

Click-

The teacup fell to the ground and shattered.

One sentence almost burned the CPU of the eldest grandson Tianlu, stood up with a sigh and looked at his son, "What did you say?" Say it again?! ”

"Lord Wen and his warriors have already slain the Drought Fish just now, and we have just returned from Mochizuki Cliff......"

"Impossible...... It's absolutely impossible, how could that drought demon have so many magical powers, how could he be beheaded so easily......"

The eldest grandson Tianlu stood in place with a look of disbelief.

Wen Chen smiled slightly, "I can't imagine that Lord Thorn Shi also believes in this ghost god?" ”

"I have to believe it......," the eldest grandson Tianlu smiled bitterly, "Since the mysterious monk began to worship the drought, Qingzhou has been in good weather this year, and there has been no more drought, isn't this a great supernatural power?" ”

Wen Chen frowned, "Since Qingzhou has had a lot of rain this year, why is it that since this official entered the country, the world he passed by was still uncultivated and barren?" ”

Since he entered the boundary of Qingzhou, he has this question, he thought that it was the rain that had only begun to fall in the past few days, but listening to the meaning of the eldest grandson Tianlu, the weather in Qingzhou this year is not bad.

"I know, it's tax fraud!"

Without waiting for his father to speak, the eldest grandson replied first.

"Bastard!" The eldest grandson Tianlu's face changed, and he scolded, "How can you talk here, go to the room to help!" ”

Hey?

There is a story!

"Wait!" Wen Chen raised his hand to stop, "Lord Eldest Sun, young people have their own ideas, they can speak freely, no matter whether they are right or wrong, they should also listen to it, how can there be a one-size-fits-all truth?" ”

The eldest grandson Tianlu looked embarrassed and sighed, "The dog has been stubborn since he was a child, and the lower officials are afraid that he will open his mouth indiscriminately and bump into the adult, so let him help the cook......"

"You don't have to!"

Wen Chen waved his hand, beckoning the eldest grandson Wuji, who wanted to stop talking, and said, "Unruly son, what is the tax fraud you just said, can you tell the official?" ”

The eldest grandson Wujian gritted his teeth, knelt on the ground with a plop, and kowtowed three times to Shang Fang's sword beside Wen Chen, "Please also ask Your Majesty for forgiveness!" ”

Xuanyang, who was sitting on the side, was very puzzled, "Why didn't you wait to speak, so you asked for the guilt?" ”

Wen Chen's face was straight, and he understood the estimation of the father and son, "Lord Eldest Sun, rest assured, since this official is holding Shang Fang's sword of slashing horses, no matter what kind of excessive words the unruly son says today, he can be exonerated from the crime!" ”

The eldest grandson Tianlu sighed, glared at his son, and shook his head silently.

The uninhibited son was overjoyed, "Thank you, Lord Wen!" ”

"The kid thinks that the catastrophe in Qingzhou in the past two years, natural disasters are excuses and opportunities, and the Dasheng tax law is the root!"

Wen Chen touched his chin and pondered, "What does the uninhibited son mean is that the people can't cultivate land to grow grain, but because of the tax law, they don't want to farm?" ”

"That's right!" The eldest grandson nodded uninhibitedly and said, "I have been in Dasheng for a thousand years, and there has always been a tax name, called 'Ding Fu', which is a tax levied by the imperial court according to the number of males in each family and the number of men in each household. ”

Of course, Wen Chen knows what is going on, to put it bluntly, it is a poll tax, as long as there is a male in the family, he needs to pay the corresponding tax to the imperial court every year.

"Ding Fu, the previous dynasty is also called Yong Qian, not only the Great Sheng opened the country to set up this tax item, all dynasties have it, and according to the official knows, the first emperor in order to observe the people's feelings, deliberately divided the Ding Fu into three classes, under the age of 16 and over 60 years old men are listed as the second Ding, the need to pay the Ding Fu halved, only young adults will pay the full amount of Ding Fu."

Ding Fu is one of the main sources of tax revenue for the imperial court, whether it is the current Dasheng, or before the Wen Chen crossing, the dynasties that the country has experienced, there are almost no exceptions, and this tax item will be designed, which is the national capital and the national economy, which cannot be shaken and changed.

But he heard the eldest grandson say solemnly, "Ding Fu harms my Dasheng, if I don't take this tax, my Dasheng will not be far from the day of decay!" ”