Prince's East Palace.

Qin Feng, Ling Yuanqing, Wen Songlin, and Dong Yushan were enjoying tea and chatting. Ever since he went to the apocalyptic world to work hard, he had seen less of these people. They usually shared the tasks of assisting and teaching the prince.

"...I haven't seen him for several months, and the Imperial Master's demeanor is even better than before. It is obvious that his magical abilities have improved again."

Ling Yuanqing put down the tea cup and smiled.

Qin Feng smiled and said nothing. In the eyes of these people, he, a national master, had been practicing in seclusion for the past few years, and only occasionally appeared incarnate to walk around the world. In fact, he went to another world to fight and work hard, and his growth in strength was inevitable.

"Recently...the country is relatively peaceful, right?"

He asked casually. He rarely interfered in the political affairs of the DPRK and China. Zhao Yuanjin's ability was not bad. With the authority and authority of the founder of the country, it should not be difficult to implement those reform measures.

"Basically,"

Ling Yuanqing glanced at Wen Songlin and said: "The army has always been stable. The emperor keeps a close eye on this aspect, so there is no possibility of trouble. The local area... is relatively peaceful at the moment."

Wen Songlin nodded and shook his head: "It's just that there are too many taxes, but there are still voices of dissatisfaction, especially those gentry and civil servants in Jiangnan. On the surface, they dare not act out of the blue, but secretly they have a lot of resentment."

Qin Feng chuckled. This did not surprise him. It is not comfortable to have personal interests harmed, let alone this group of literati who hold the pen. In the past hundreds of years, they have been aloof and domineering.

Fu, they enjoy all kinds of preferential treatment given by the court, but they try hard to get benefits in their own pockets. Now that these are all gone, can they feel balanced?

But with him here, no matter how much they are unwilling to be resentful, they can only endure it and dare to jump out and cause trouble? Then let's see if they have the ability to change the world!

After a while, the Crown Prince Zhao Xinlu came out of the inner room, followed by a pretty, virtuous and dignified woman with a baby in her arms, who was the Crown Princess.

Qin Feng glanced at her and remembered that the queen had mentioned to him that this was the daughter of the Su Mu family, an important minister in the cabinet and the Minister of Household Affairs. She had been married to the prince for a year, and she had never given birth to an heir so soon.

Speaking of which, the prince is younger than himself, but now he is actually the father of three children, and the other two girls were born to concubines.

Ling Yuanqing and the other three stood up and saluted. Qin Feng's identity was not used, and he nodded slightly as a greeting.

"Please also ask the teacher to give this son a name."

Prince Zhao Xinlu took the baby from her arms and carefully delivered it to Qin Feng's hands. The little guy was not yet one month old, and was fair and cute, with dark eyes looking around curiously.

Qin Feng sensed it with the divine mind of a true immortal, and found that this child has good talents, strong physique, and good luck. If there is no accident in the future, he may have the destiny of an emperor. Of course, there is no need to specify this now.

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He thought for a while and said: "The Chu Dynasty was founded on the virtue of fire. Let's call this child Zhao Yu."

"What the teacher said is very good, so let's settle it."

Zhao Xinlu smiled happily, and Ling Yuanqing and the other two looked at each other and agreed tacitly.

Although the Imperial Master has not stated it clearly, this attitude can already be associated with many meanings in the eyes of outsiders. At least the prince is currently favored by the Imperial Master, and his status is as stable as a rock. As long as the child can grow up safely, he will also have a bright future in the future.

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Qin Feng took out an exquisite purple jade plaque. In the flash of clear light, more than ten people were blessed with magical powers to calm the mind and eliminate diseases and evil spirits. He then handed it to Zhao Xinlu and told him: "Keep wearing it for your child from now on, right?"

He has benefits."

The level of medical care in this era is backward, but there are no vaccines or the like. Children's physiques cannot be compared with adults, and the chance of dying from illness is extremely high. Even the emperor's house is no exception, and it is incomparable with the main world.

The prince hurriedly agreed, feeling satisfied and a little bit regretful at the same time. Although the imperial master had many wives and concubines, it was a pity that he still had no descendants. Otherwise, if he could have children and in-laws, the relationship would naturally be

It's solid. My father must be happy to hear about it.

Qin Feng's spirit was clear, and he could already make a rough guess from the look in his eyes. He smiled bitterly in his heart. His relationship with this family was somewhat unclear. Is this kind of thing really appropriate? Isn't it in the main world anyway?

It's possible. Of course, given my transcendent status in the Chu Dynasty, if it were really like this, others wouldn't dare to question it.

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Jiangnan, the Yu family mansion.

"Boom!"

The gold wine glass in the hand of the head of the family, Yu Shoucheng, hit the banquet table heavily. With his ferocious and twisted face, anyone could tell that the usually amiable head of the wealthy family was in an extremely bad mood.

"Is this damn monster determined to cover up the sky with one hand?"

Yu Shoucheng said gloomily: "Controlling the emperor and the prince does not count, but now even the grandson is in his hands. What does he want to do? Become the supreme emperor of the Chu Dynasty?"

The faces of the dozen or so family heads around him were equally ugly. None of the recent news coming from Luojing City made people happy to hear it.

Zhao Yuanjin had already issued an edict to stipulate that many of the political opinions and proposals put forward by the demon master were ancestral systems of the Chu Dynasty. This meant that even if future emperors had different ideas, they would not be able to openly violate them.

The reform of the imperial examination, the reform of business taxation, the sharing of people into acres, the gentry working as errands and paying the grain, and opening up sea trade, no matter which of them, they are constantly cutting off the flesh from these scholar-officials. Cutting off their flesh is not just a matter of cutting off their flesh, it also needs to be continued.

The flesh of their descendants will be cut off together, so it’s no wonder they have no resentment in their hearts.

Of course, the imperial court is undoubtedly the biggest beneficiary in this process, and the common people are also beneficiaries, so it has been recognized by most people in the world after it was implemented.

In the past few years after the unification of the world, the Chu Dynasty's national power has increased rapidly, and the treasury revenue has increased year after year. The naval fleet has traveled far and wide with a huge sea trade fleet, and every time it can bring back large sums of money, continuously providing Chu with a steady stream of goods.

Blood transfusion.

It's just that all of this has nothing to do with these Jiangnan gentry and wealthy families. All the gold, mountains and silver have flowed into the imperial treasury and the private treasury of the imperial advisor. They don't want to get even a cent of it.

Yang Chuan, the head of the Yang family, said quietly: "As far as I know, the annual overseas trade income of the Imperial Prefecture is no less than 20 million taels of silver. Not counting other income, the imperial treasury can also receive more than 10 million taels of silver every year.

, these... logically should belong to the interests of our Jiangnan aristocratic family. Now they are divided up by this monster and the imperial court. It is pity that our aristocratic family has nothing to gain. It is really..."

Wang Changqing, the head of the Wang family, gritted his teeth and said: "Everyone, we can't go on like this. Our income from the industry has been getting less and less in the past few years, and our situation is not as good as before. If we live a few more years, I'm afraid we will be reduced to ordinary wealthy households.

.How can you bear to have a large piece of your hard-earned money taken away by the court in vain?"

Everyone was silent, and an older head of the family coughed and said helplessly: "Having said that, since the last major case of the Hong family and other heads of the family, there have been very few officials in the court who dare to come forward.

What use can we people do?"

Last time, Hong Chenxuan, the head of the Hong family, united with the largest wealthy families in the Jiangnan area to try to overthrow the queen and kill the prince so that the prince of Concubine Hong could ascend to the throne. However, due to the failure, his family was confiscated and his family was exterminated. A large number of officials were beheaded, dismissed and exiled.

So far, the government and the public have been silent, and no one dares to think about it anymore.

It seems that it was because the largest wealthy families were finished that these families headed by the Yu family had the opportunity to become the leaders of the Jiangnan gentry, and their status and influence were further enhanced.

At first they were quite content with themselves, but after so much time passed and more and more of their own interests were lost, they finally couldn't stand it any longer.

Although there are lessons learned from the past, people's dissatisfaction and resentment can accumulate, and once it reaches a certain critical point, it will explode regardless. The so-called rational fear does not work all the time.

Yu Shoucheng said: "I heard that the national master has been practicing in seclusion all year round and doesn't come out much. Maybe we can do something."

"Brother Yu, what do you think?" Wang Changqing asked.

"We don't need to force ourselves against the imperial court. Let's mobilize the officials and scholars in the Jiangnan region to jointly submit a letter!"

Yu Shoucheng said in a deep voice: "Thousands of civil servants, as well as those folk scholars and scholar leaders, have all presented memorials to the emperor. I don't believe that he dares to go against the wishes of so many people. He will definitely make some changes in taxation and maritime trade."

Make concessions to appease the people in the Jiangnan region."

The head of the Yu family doesn't want to rise up yet and do something big that would implicate the nine clans. Instead, he plans to use the public opinion and public opinion in the Jiangnan region to force Emperor Zhao Yuanjin to compromise using a method that is close to forcing the emperor to go to the palace.

He felt that Zhao Yuanjin, no matter how strong he was, could not take the common wishes of thousands of local civil servants at all levels lightly, and had to be kind to appease him. Otherwise, when the public opinion was in full swing, one careless move would cause half of the country to be in chaos. Such consequences would be expected with a little bit of wisdom.
Chapter completed!