Gangneung wine tulips, jade bowls with amber light. But that the master may be drunk, and he will not know where it is.

Li Xuandu is playing with a folding fan in his hand, twelve gears, red sandalwood fan bones, gold paper fan, there is no landscape on the fan, no beauty, only this seven-word poem.

This was given by Zhang Baigui that year, and the poem was also inscribed by him.

Jiangling City is about 300 miles away from Sanhu County, mostly flat post road official road, a group of people rarely rush in the daytime, fortunately, after the autumn, the weather is not very strong, cool and pleasant, but do not feel that the sun is difficult, and soon entered the boundary of Jiangling Mansion City.

When I came to Gangneung City, my eyes suddenly opened up.

A city, bordering the river in the south, Hanshui in the north, Shuzhou in the west, and Xiaozhou in the south, is a strategic point and an important town in the southeast.

Looking at it with the very eye, you can vaguely see that a watchtower in the city is actually several zhang higher than the city wall of Gangneung, towering and independent, and the blue-black roof can be vaguely seen, like standing out from the crowd.

Li Xuandu stretched out his finger and pointed to the watchtower and asked, "Is that the Tinglei Tower that Brother Song once mentioned?"

Hu Liang snorted, "It should be." ”

Li Xuandu squinted, and subconsciously wanted to hold the hilt of the sword at his waist, but because he didn't have a sword, he ended up feeling empty.

Only then did he suddenly wake up to the fact that he had not worn a sword for many years.

Li Xuandu simply withdrew his hand, and after a moment of silence, he said softly: "Let's enter the city." ”

Since it is an important town in the southeast and the capital state city, the inspection of the city gate is naturally very strict, but the relevant road quotations of the group are readily available, and there is Shen Shuangmei, a person in the public gate, so there are no twists and turns to enter the city smoothly.

After entering the city, the streets of the market began to be lively, because the little girl wanted to ride a horse, so Shen Shuangmei hugged her in front of her, and the little girl sat on the back of the horse, looking around, her eyes were full of novelty.

Li Xuandu and Hu Liang drove, slowly and slowly, Hu Liang looked at the style of the Jianghu people, in fact, seriously speaking, people rely on clothes and horses rely on saddles, although there is a saying that "wearing a dragon robe is not like a prince", but to a large extent, it depends on how the clothes on the body are. At this time, Li Xuandu was sitting alone in the carriage, but he was dressed as a scholar and a Confucian scholar, and with a folding fan in his hand, he was a proper Jiangnan celebrity.

After a group of people walked around the city for a while, because it was late, they did not immediately go to the wind and thunder faction to visit, but first found an inn, to say that the inn in this state city, it is not ordinary, it covers a large area, the guest rooms are divided into two classes, the general is an ordinary room on the second floor, which is no different from the ordinary guest room, and the higher one is the backyard of the main building, which is divided into a single courtyard, which can be used by a family, Li Xuan spent three Taiping dollars to charter a courtyard.

After Li Xuandu moved in, Hu Liang took the little girl to the lobby for dinner, and Li Xuandu and Shen Shuangmei stayed in the backyard because they had no appetite.

When we arrived in Jiangnan, the weather in early autumn was still not too cool.

Li Xuandu moved out a reclining chair and sat in the courtyard, blown by the gentle evening breeze, gently shaking the folding fan, which was quite comfortable.

Shen Shuangmei sat not far away, and asked curiously: "Zifu is not like a swordsman, nor is it like a Jianghu person, but like a scholar." ”

The two of them are now no longer unfamiliar with before, Li Xuan doesn't mind saying some heart-to-heart words, "In the past few years, I was once like a powerless scholar, that is, the so-called waste people in the rivers and lakes, at that time I was in a place of green mountains and green waters, reclaimed three acres of idle land, planted some rice and vegetables, and built a thatched house, every summer night, the house is stuffy and unbearable, I have to cool off in the courtyard, every winter, bitter cold, I have to chop wood to make a fire to keep warm, now in retrospect, it is really like a different world." ”

"What kind of experience was that?" asked Shen Shuang with his eyebrows tilted his head.

Li Xuandu's eyes showed reminiscence, and he said softly: "Shuangmei, your family has served the imperial court for generations, and it is not half a point with the word poverty, so it is an experience that you have never experienced, to put it simply, eight words are enough to summarize, made at sunrise and rested at sunset." ”

Shen Shuangmei had never thought deeply about the meaning of these eight words, and after reciting them silently, he shook his head.

Li Xuandu closed the folding fan in his hand and said slowly: "I sleep alone on the three poles of the sun, who is the immortal? I am the immortal." In the eyes of ordinary people, being able to sleep until three poles in the sun is already the day of the gods. Because it is most fair to dig in the field, you can get some food if you put in a little effort, and if you slack off, you will be hungry, and I was almost like this at that time, although there is no risk of hunger, but I also have to work every day, and I have known the suffering of the people since then. ”

Li Xuandu paused for a moment and said: "My three acres of land can be regarded as the best fertile soil, and the harvest is naturally excellent, but it can be replaced by ordinary people's homes, most of which are barren fields, even if they are used to work all day and all month, once they encounter a bad year, they are still not enough to eat, in addition, they have to pay taxes, and their lives are unimaginable." The sage said that the harsh government is fiercer than the tiger, and it is by no means an exaggeration. ”

Shen Shuangmei heard Li Xuandu talk about his past experience for the first time, she only knew that Li Xuandu disappeared after the first battle in the imperial capital, but she didn't know what he did during this time, she couldn't help but be shocked at this time, and she also heard something different from Li Xuandu's words.

The words "Taxes?" were bitten lightly by Shen Shuangmei, and he seemed to be a little incredulous.

"Yes, taxes. Li Xuandu slightly accentuated his voice: "My Great Wei Dynasty has an ancestral system, the gentry, the clan, and the nobles do not pay taxes, at the beginning of the founding of the country, I don't know how, but since the founding of the country, the official gentry have been dozens of times that of the beginning of the founding of the country, all over the world." When the people encountered a famine and could not survive, they sold their fields to the gentry at a low price, and were willing to be tenants, because the gentry did not pay taxes. In this way, there are royal family relatives, officials at all levels, and local squires, and the annexed granges do not pay half of the world's taxes, and the small people have to pay the world's taxes if the fields that can be cultivated are less than half of the world. ”

Shen Shuangmei really couldn't believe it, for her, who was born in a family of eunuchs, she had always thought that it was natural not to pay taxes, but she had never thought about this.

Shen Shuangmei looked at Li Xuandu, who had a calm face, as if he had been touched by something in his heart.

Li Xuandu continued: "I have experienced most of the suffering of the people. At that time, Zhang said to me, the time is also fate, do your best to obey the mandate of heaven, first do your best, and then wait for the mandate of heaven, I think this sentence is not wrong, take the case you want to investigate, take the case you want to investigate, the Liaodong Golden Horde is violated every year, and the rebellious army in the northwest is raging every year, endangering the world, but the treasury is empty every year, and even the soldiers' salaries and grass have to be scraped together. As long as the world's major evils are not reformed for a day, even if these eunuchs are arrested, there will be other descendants who will come forward and succeed them, and they will not be able to catch them. Maybe you think I'm too extreme, and I have to do everything slowly, but hundreds of years have passed, and have I ever changed my mind?

Shen Shuangmei opened his mouth, wanting to speak, but he didn't know where to start, and finally turned into a deep sigh.

Li Xuandu slowly unfolded the folding fan in his hand, looked at the seven-word poem on the fan, and said slowly: "It was when Zhang Xiang saw this that he decided to change the law and leather the system, and get rid of this big disadvantage in the world. If you want to change the law, the first thing to bear the brunt of this is these gentry officials and royal relatives who do not pay taxes, this is to cut off their financial routes, dig up their foundations, and cut off people's financial routes like killing their parents. In the first battle of the imperial capital, the reason why the four ministers headed by Zhang Xiang were defeated was not to lose to the Empress Dowager Xie, but to the entire temple. ”

Li Xuandu gently shook the folding fan and fanned it for a while, "Zhang Xiang once said that if you gather in the fire, you will have a cool door." Standing in the fire pit, but there is a feeling of being in an ice cellar, no matter whether the law is successful or not, it is difficult for Zhang Xiang to retreat with his whole body, and his fate today is expected and reasonable. ”

Shen Shuangmei was silent, she looked at Li Xuandu fixedly, and suddenly understood why her father followed that Zhang Xiangye with all his heart back then, and he had no regrets until he died.

Li Xuandu closed the folding fan and sighed lightly: "Empty talk on paper, it is useless to the country, and it is difficult to repay the country with a three-foot sword back then, and it is difficult to pay for the ambition, and now, I don't know where the road is." ”

Shen Shuangmei listened quietly, her heart full of sadness.

The country is in such a situation, in vain.

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