Yin Zhaoxian, as a well-known figure in the Great Zhen Shilin, has now reached the time when he needs to pay great attention to his image, and after Yu Wanzhou took office and understood it for a while, he realized that he could not show certain emotions at will.

Even in front of his wife, Yin Zhaoxian still couldn't show this depression in his heart too obviously, for fear that his wife would be too worried, but at this moment, he didn't have this kind of concern in front of Ji Yuan, which was a rare catharsis.

"Whew...... Let Mr. Ji laugh!"

This will make Yin Zhaoxian a little excited, it seems that he is not less angry in the officialdom, even a person like him who is stable is like this, of course, it may be that he has accumulated too much anger for a long time, and this will be more exciting when it is cathartic.

Ji Yuan didn't drink the teacup, but just gently blew the tea in the teacup, but in fact, the breeze blew and stirred the indoor atmosphere, blowing away the depression on his friend's body, which calmed him down a lot.

"Master Yin, it seems that this rich land in Wanzhou is not as good as other places imagine?"

Hearing that Mr. Ji finally called himself "Master Yin" again, Yin Zhaoxian felt a little better in his heart, and then sighed.

"Hey...... Mr. Ji doesn't know that Wanzhou is indeed a rich land, but there are people who are full of gold and jade, and there are people who can't eat enough, and the former is less than the others, which is simply sick! Can you imagine a small Li Zheng ......?"

Yin Zhaoxian stretched out his right hand and pinched the tip of his little finger as he spoke, almost shaking his hand and gesturing towards Ji Yuan.

"Such a small official with the size of sesame mung beans actually holds fifty acres of mulberry fields in his hands, how did he get this field?

Yin Zhao breathed a sigh of relief, picked up the teacup and took a sip, and then added.

"What's even more infuriating is that in these 50 hectares of fields, there are at least 1,000 acres of Yongye fields, which is the lifeblood of the people!"

Ji Yuan frowned, now that he thinks about it, the boundary of Wanzhou that he passed through when he drove the clouds is indeed full of mulberry forests and little grain land, it seems that it is not that everyone grows mulberry and raises silkworms together to get rich together, but that the people's fields have been annexed?

Perhaps at the beginning, it was indeed to tempt the peasants with the benefits of planting mulberry and silkworms, and then all kinds of natural disasters or man-made people, so that after making a loss, they bought mulberry fields at seemingly "fair" prices.

Seeing the big from the small, Lishun Mansion and even the whole Wanzhou, many peasants and people really belong to their own land and property is pitiful, and they want to be full, most of the time they have to rely on the landlord, but the farming is good, and the manpower needed to plant mulberry and silkworms is not so much, and most of the benefits that farmers can get are attributed to the wealthy families, plus they have to bear taxes, and life is very difficult.

And more importantly, the peasants can only get money for helping Gaomen raise silkworms and silk, and Wanzhou has to buy it from other places if there is not enough grain, and to buy grain, they have to deal with the profit exploitation of many traders, and the price fluctuations are not determined by farmers, and who has the final say in grain price fluctuations, which is naturally linked to natural disasters, but it is the mouth of wealthy businessmen and eunuchs in Gaomen.

What if you don't have enough money sometimes?

Listening to Yin Zhaoxian's analysis, he is an "immortal" in the eyes of ordinary people like Ji Yuan, and he can't help but feel a creepy feeling, Wanzhou farmers have been swallowed up little by little over the years, just like the silkworms in Wanzhou gnawing on mulberry leaves......

Yin Zhao drank the tea in the teacup first, and then said coldly and sarcastically.

"Everyone everywhere in my Dazhen said: The grain of the state and the silk of Wanzhou, hum, but the situation of the people of Wanzhou can not be compared with the state?"

Ji Yuan couldn't help but nodded, he had stayed in the state for a long time, although most of the time he only practiced in Yunshan, but every time the rice harvest season came to the land of Bingzhou, the farmers had heard a lot of laughter and laughter in their busyness.

"So is Master Yin doing something right there?"

Yin Zhaoxian shook his head.

"I want to really be able to see one move one, why bother to be depressed so far, I have been in Wanzhou for two years, first carefully observe the people's feelings and do not show any attitude, as I understand more and more about Lishun Mansion and Wanzhou, I also understand more and more that this is a matter that affects the whole body, there is just one hair for me, but I can't easily move him!"

Although Ji Yuan doesn't understand officialdom, the words of his friend are enough to see that Master Yin's understanding of officialdom is still in place, and he is by no means an officialdom stunned, and he has put down a lot of worries in some aspects of his heart.

"Master Yin is in the position of prefect, and he is not unrelated to the court, but he is also jealous?"

Ji Yuan also picked up the teapot to refill the tea for his friend, just like the afternoons when they chatted with each other in the courtyard of the small pavilion in Ju'an.

Yin Zhaoxian has also calmed down now, and he doesn't feel restrained like Ji Yuan, so he drinks the tea.

"Although for so many years, the imperial court's inspectors have said that Wanzhou is fine, but this is not enough, I am afraid that there are also deep-rooted interests involved in the court, a Lishun Mansion, a whole Wanzhou, it is not small!"

Yin Zhaoxian's speech at this moment is completely like a veteran official who has been in the officialdom for a long time, not a rookie official who has only been sent up and down from the champion position for a few years.

Although Ji Yuan felt uncomfortable with the people of Wanzhou, after some exchanges, he was not too worried about his friends, so he asked as if he was joking, but there was no mocking tone.

"Then Master Yin was sent to Wanzhou, didn't the interest groups here regard you as a thorn in the flesh?"

"It's not enough to be thorned in the flesh, but fear is inevitable, especially when Yin Mou took office, he was just on guard day and night, hehe, now that I think about it, it's really ridiculous!"

Yin Zhao said this first, and his head changed.

"However, although Yin came to carefully observe the people's feelings, he did not have any superfluous actions, and he looked like he was only in charge of his own affairs, which also made them relax, and now the officials of Lishun Mansion and even Wanzhou all think that Yin Mou's three yuan and the first talent are gold-plated in Wanzhou, and sooner or later they will be promoted to Kyoto, and they don't want anything to happen to their tenure, they are a stable lord!"

"It's ironic, since then, there have been more and more people who come to Yin to give gifts, and from small households to large households, the position has become more and more high. ”

"Oh, it's worth a lot?"

Ji Yuan reached out and touched the teapot to make the tea warm again, and refilled a cup for himself and his friends.

"It's worth a lot of money, or rather, a large part of it is money! After all, everyone is optimistic about me, Yin Zhaoxian and then rising step by step, maybe it will be a new backer in the future of the court. ”

Yin Zhao smiled first, and also said something ridiculously.

"These gifts, Yin Mou did not refuse, and accepted them all!"

When Ji Yuan heard this, he didn't show it on the surface, but he was stunned in his heart, but he reacted in an instant, he still has confidence in his friend's heart, this confidence comes from his understanding of Master Yin, and it also comes from the pure and condensed righteousness of Master Yin at this moment.

"What, Master Yin plans to salute first and then settle accounts after the autumn?"

"The parents of those who gave birth to me, and those who know me have a fate! Time and again, I remember every gift clearly!"

Yin Zhaoxian is rare to be unfathomable in front of his friends at this moment.

"If you say that in the entire Dazhen government and the opposition, apart from me, Yin Zhaoxian, who hates this matter the most, then it must be the saint today. ”

Ji Yuan looked at Yin Zhaoxian, shook his head and sighed.

"As far as Ji knows, the old emperor has never forgotten the original auspiciousness, and now he is preparing for a water and land festival, preparing to convene all kinds of 'celebrities and scholars' from all walks of life in Dazhen to participate, it is difficult to say that there is a little bit of heart that can be tied to Wanzhou. ”

Yin Zhaoxian didn't have any special expression except for frowning, let alone saying that his friend's tone was very rebellious.

Ji Yuan smiled and continued to talk leisurely.

"He is the hub of the great chastity and qi, and he enjoys the respect of thousands of people, and it is possible to prolong his life, but if he wants to ask the immortals, unless he can give up the honorable position, it is impossible to grasp it with both hands like him. ”

Yin Zhaoxian is not entangled in this issue.

"The saint may no longer be in the prime of life, but he will not be indifferent to the affairs of Wanzhou, and there is also an ambitious King Jin in the middle of this matter, as early as half a year ago, I have passed the secret music of His Royal Highness the King of Jin, and I didn't say much, just informed the grish money of the givers of the gifts, Mr. Ji can guess how much. ”

Ji Yuan looked at Master Yin like this, and thought to himself that I would not die and guess higher, so he spoke.

"Fifty thousand taels of silver?"

Yin Zhao shook his head first.

"Neither nor not!"

"One hundred thousand taels?"

Seeing that Master Yin was still shaking his head, Ji Yuan immediately spoke.

"Fifty thousand taels of gold?"

"Mr. Ji guessed again, there are yellow and white things that Yin obtained, and there are rare antiques. ”

Ji Yuan grinned, pinched the fingers of his right hand hidden in his sleeve, and then let out a slightly surprised voice.

"There are 210,000 taels of gold!?"

This accurate data made Yin Zhao stunned for a moment, and then nodded and answered.

"Yes, in a few years, if you count all the treasures, it should be worth about more than two million taels of silver, hum, it will almost be the annual money that Wanzhou handed over to the treasury for half a year!"

"I, the prefect of Lishun Prefecture, although I have some prospects, but I have received so many benefits during my two-year term, how much black money have you deducted from the imperial court?

Yin Zhao sneered when he said this.

"The secret letter from the King of Jin said that the saint received my secret performance and smashed the favorite set of teacups in the imperial study!"

Old and mediocre, old and mediocre, although many emperors in all dynasties are like this, but Emperor Yuande does not think that he will be one of them, and now he finds that he is really deceived and fooled by the following, and the anger in his heart can be imagined.

Hearing this, Ji Yuan didn't know that his friend had already made a plan in his heart, and his heart was half relieved and half emotional.

'Master Yin is no longer an officialdom child!'

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