Nanzhili, Taiping Prefecture.

A tall carriage drove slowly along the newly built official road, next to it were the people busy with spring plowing, which showed a beautiful pastoral scenery.

A little girl, six or seven years old, picked up the weeds dug out of the ground behind the iron target. A young man in a cloth clothes in front was holding the iron target, driving the ox cart as if he was decent.

"Enough, enough, Lord Hanlin of the County, please take a break, let the old man come!" An old man walked over from the ridge of the field, his eyes apologized.

Longgan was the first Hanlin magistrates released by the imperial court. He has been serving as Dangtu magistrate for more than two months. Today, he put down his affairs in the county government and made a special trip outside the city to participate in this spring farming.

After this busy period, sweat had already oozed his forehead, and he stopped showing off his strength. He handed over the iron target's support back to the old man.

"Old Huang, go!" Although the old man is nearly fifty years old, he is strong and the handle holding the iron target is driven away by a whip.

Long Gan wiped the sweat off his forehead with his sleeves, and walked to the ridge of the field beside him to rest, while the maid in blue took out the buns and clear water from the food box.

The little girl who had been helping pick up the weeds in the field followed Long Gan to the ridge of the field. However, she saw Long Gan picking up food, but she was embarrassed to come over again.

But her eyes had already seen the plate of snow-white and seductive buns, but she couldn't help swallowing and spitting, and her legs seemed to be growing in the ground.

After cleaning his hands, Long Gan waved to the little girl and greeted enthusiastically: "Xiaotian, come here quickly, I have delicious meat buns here!"

Xiaotian turned his head and looked at his grandfather. The old man looked at his granddaughter and nodded softly and said, "Mr. County Master is not a bad person, go!"

Long Gan knew that Xiaotian's parents had passed away, and now he was dependent on each other with his grandparents. He first helped the well-behaved little girl wash his hands, then handed a meat bun to Xiaotian, and asked the maid to send two meat to the old man. steamed stuffed bun.

Xiaotian smelled the fragrance of the meat buns, and when she saw that her grandfather was already eating, she could no longer help but take a bite at the meat buns.

Spring is bright, and there are busy working figures in this world. Spring swallows are constantly passing through it, and the scalpers in the distance sometimes make a long "mooth" sound.

"This meat bun is really delicious. I have never eaten such delicious things!" Xiao Tian swallowed the meat bun into his stomach, but suddenly said excitedly.

Longgan's emotions were infected, but he turned his head in surprise and asked, "Have you never eaten meat buns?"

"The meat bun costs three cents per, and it's enough to buy one or two kilograms of rice. And the family's money has to be kept for taxes, so we can't afford it!" Xiaotian's eyes flashed with a crystal clear look, looking very Explained clearly.

Long Gan couldn't help feeling sad. Looking at the little girl dressed in rags but well-behaved, he vaguely felt the profound meaning of Master Lin's arrangement for them to release the magistrate outside the Hanlin Courtyard.

Even if the Hanlin officials have high academic knowledge, if they cannot bring good life to the people and cannot fill their stomachs with these people at the bottom, they will not be able to manage the country well in the future.

He had heard Xu Jie's lectures back then, but he had to admit that Xu Jie was very knowledgeable, but he wanted to implement the "extravagance for three years" in power.

Now it seems that people who govern the country cannot just look at their talents and knowledge. People like Xu Jie were once hailed as virtuous ministers, but they did things that were more hateful than Yan Song.

At this moment, Long Gan realized the heavy mission of being a parent, and reached out and touched Xiaotian's head and promised: "Now the imperial court has implemented the tax on acres. In the future, your family's tax will be much less, and your family's life will be I'm getting better slowly! My term of office is only three years, and I will return to the capital in three years, but during this period I will definitely work hard to make your family affordable meat buns!”

"Yeah, okay!" Xiaotian raised his face and looked at Longgan, then nodded heavily.

Although my grandfather had been scolding officials before, just looking at Long Gan's eyes, she felt that this magistrate was different from the previous officials, and she would definitely allow their family to live a good life, and also buy three when shopping Meat buns.

"The six kings are gone, and the four seas are one; the Shu Mountain is left, and the Afang is out. It covers more than 300 miles, isolates the sky and sun. Mountain Li is built north and turns west, and goes straight to Xianyang."

It was at this moment that a tall carriage with a flag was approaching from the official road from a distance, and a loud voice of an old man came from the carriage. It seemed that when he saw the rise of a book, he began to recite intoxicatedly in the carriage.

Xiaotian turned his head curiously towards the strange carriage, but Longgan suddenly jumped up and ran to the center of the road to block the carriage's way.

The groom was about to scold the person who blocked the road, but he realized that the young man in a common clothes was Dangtu County Magistrate, so he swallowed the words he vomited to his mouth.

"Is Mr. Qian in the car?" Long Gan gave a gift to the carriage and asked directly.

Qian Dewang was wearing a beautiful red dress and silk, with a scented bag and jade pendant hanging around his waist, his hair and beard were neatly combed neatly, and he was holding an ancient book in his hand.

It was intoxicated by this famous article on governing the country that I found that the carriage suddenly stopped, and the corners of my mouth couldn't help but rise slightly, but I knew that my voice of reciting books had attracted worshippers.

Qian Dewang saw Long Gan wearing a cloth through the curtain pulled open by the maid. His eyes flashed with disappointment, and he deliberately joked: "Magic magistrate Long, why are you dressed in this outfit? Could it be that the court has removed his official position?"

"I am still the magistrate of Tu. Today I remember the teachings of Master Lin Ge. Every spring plowing, the fields are hard to work. Today's attempt has indeed benefited a lot, and it is a hundred times better than studying at home!" Long Gan Not angry, but said calmly.

Qian Dewang looked at the book in his hand and suddenly looked sarcastic: "The dignified Hanlin wants to go to the fields to farm and join the crude people. I don't care about this! It's just that I'm understanding the way of governing the country. You are so arrogant and forced to stop me. The carriage, such behavior is a gentlemanly behavior. If there is nothing important, let go of the way!"

"Mr. Qian, I am indeed not a gentleman today! But since I am the magistrate of Dangtu, I should perform my duties conscientiously. I also ask you to pay the 20 taels of miscellaneous taxes owed to the county government!" Long Gan faced Qian Dewang's gaze , immediately make a question.

With the imperial court promulgating the law to deposit acres in the first month of the year, the yamen in the thirteen provinces of the two capitals and thirteen provinces have carried out expropriation work since the Spring Festival, and Dangtu County is naturally no exception.

Thanks to the implementation of the unlucky book, few officials and gentry dare to hide their land, so Dangtu County can only impose miscellaneous taxes on each household according to the number of land in the book.

It was only when Longgan arrived at the local area that he realized the difficulty of local officials.

Although this was a court decree, although the officials and gentry have always said that they are patriotic and loving the people, levying more taxes on them would cost them their lives.

Gu Feng

Although many officials, gentry and wealthy families can understand that this is a good policy of the court, there are also many selfish hypocrites like Qian Dewang, who are still unwilling to pay the miscellaneous taxes that are required to pay for the new policy.

Long Gan was not an easy person to compromise, but now he feels the hardships of an ordinary family like Xiaotian, so he firmly pursues taxes from these officials and gentry.

That's true, even when facing this famous scholar, he still wants to ask for the people of Dangtu County for this miscellaneous taxes.

Qian Dewang's blue veins rose, but he didn't expect Long Gan to pursue taxes in public. He immediately responded coldly: "It's really ridiculous! This place of people is clearly robbing the rich and helping the poor and the bad people. How can we submit to evil politics? It’s a pity that you are not able to see the disaster in the Hanlin!”

"Mr. Qian, this is a decree issued by the Ming Dynasty court in the first month of this year. Do you really refuse to pay taxes?" Long Gan didn't want to argue with Qian Dewang, but asked with a calm face.

Qian Dewang's mouth raised slightly, but he said with a bit of joke: "Magistrate Long, your immediate superior, Taiping, is my disciple, all of you. Could you still be able to imprison me in the county?"

"You have thousands of acres of fertile land, and you can be said to be rich. Now it's just twenty taels of taxes. If you give more, the people below can eat a meat bun. Do you really don't understand this truth? "Long Gan knew that Qian Dewang was lawless because of his support from Taiping Prefect, but he still held back his anger and pointed at the people who were farming and questioned.

Qian Dewang was too lazy to look at the working people, but he said proudly: "Reason? You are just a young man. Even if you want to talk about the great way of governing the country, even Lin Ruoyu is not as good as me! Now, the real reason is that the number of people is invested in the acres. To breed evil people, I, Qian Dewang, will definitely not help the evil. Don’t let yourself be humiliated in front of me! Let’s go!"

In the end, Qian Dewang didn't plan to take care of Long Gan anymore. He gave a direct command to the groom in front of him, and then sat upright there and closed his eyes to rest.

Long Gan did not stop him anymore, so he pulled Xiao Tian who was following him to the side.

But when he looked at the tall carriage that was leaving, he no longer had any admiration for this great scholar, but instead a kind of contempt from the heart.

The one who reads the most frequently is the books of sages, and the one who says the most is worried about the country and the people. But now he only wants such people to bear more taxes, and the result is like cutting their flesh.

But I don’t know if this great scholar was really ignorant or so blind and arrogant, but he actually thought that he knew better than Master Lin’s country, which was really the biggest joke in the world.

"Mr. Magistrate, does he really have to pay taxes?" Xiaotian looked at the carriage away and looked very curious.

Longgan's eyes looked extremely firm, and he looked at the far-distance carriage: "No one does not have to pay taxes, and his Qian Dewang is no exception!"

Qian Dewang returned to Taiping Fucheng's home for only one night, and headed towards Nanjing early the next morning, intending to give a fatal blow to the man who harmed the country and the people.

Although he studied under Wang Yangming, he has become a disciple of the world. However, the theories he created have encountered a bottleneck in development, especially now more and more young people are superstitious about Lin Qingran's theory of hard work to promote the country, which has led to his influence

Significantly decreased.

No matter how he hyped his doctrine, young people are now deeply bewitched by Lin Shiran's spirit of hard work, which has led to his doctrine being questioned by the younger generation.

Like this young Hanlin who came down from the capital, he followed Lin Weiran's style, but he ignored the decency of a scholar and actually went to the fields to cultivate himself.

In view of this, he knew that he must get Lin Qiran down, not only to overthrow Lin Qiran's crooked theories, but also to take this opportunity to justify the world.

Everyone in the world knows how many political achievements Lin Ruoyu has done, but he doesn't know that he is rich in money and knowledge, but he is a person who can truly save the country and the world. All he lacks is an opportunity.

Fortunately, there are many people in this world who have great wisdom, and there are many people who want to defeat Lin Yanran like him.

However, Lin Qinran's power was indeed too great. Relying on his outstanding military achievements in the north, there was no one in the entire court who could threaten Lin Qinran.

However, China's political struggle for thousands of years has already pointed out the way. The power of all ministers actually originates from the royal family, and to get rid of Lin Weiran, you only need to incite the royal family to take action.

After months of waiting and the collection of "criminal evidence" against Lin Junran and others, they finally waited for this once-in-a-lifetime attack opportunity.

Qian Dewang took a carriage into Nanjing City that day. He first met with several friends who had made an appointment in advance, then summoned a group of scholars with great fame, and then jointly submitted a memorial together.

Just when this joint letter made a brilliant debut in the capital, everyone in the world knew that there was a great scholar Qian Dewang, who was worried about the country and the people in the Ming Dynasty. As for the world-famous Lin Ruoyu's good luck should come to an end.

Beijing City still presents the world's first city.

Envoys from various countries gathered here, and today another group of envoys walked into Beijing. However, when they saw this team appear, many people and scholars paused and watched.

This team of messengers was wearing uniform samurai costumes, wearing wooden clogs, and a long knife around their waists. Their hairstyle was strange moon head, and they walked into the capital proudly.

"Japanese?"

"What's there to be afraid of? Japan is now surrendering to our Ming Dynasty!"

"The Japanese pirates were so fussed so hard back then, but it was actually caused by many pirates pretending to behave!"

The people in the capital naturally still have an impression of the Japanese turmoil in the southeast. Now, when a group of Japanese people walked into Beijing, some people couldn't help but feel scared, but more people slowly calmed down.

Not to mention that the Japanese riots in the southeast have long been quelled, and now their Ming army has become increasingly powerful, so there is no need to worry about these Japanese people.

Whether facing the Mongols or these Japanese with strange hairstyles, as long as Lin Qingran is in the position of Minister of War, then all these people are native chickens and tiles.

But when they saw these Japanese people entering the city, the few people who had been sitting quietly in the teahouse opposite to drink tea left in a hurry.

No one expected that Lin Junran would invite the countries of Southeast Asia to invite the envoys from Japan this time. If this was the case before, it would be something that could not be imagined, and even "Tongwu" could be detained.
Chapter completed!