I was a famous teacher in ancient times

Chapter 841 Bribery
Ziheng and his entourage looked at the yard in front of them silently. What good yard could there be in the village? Lizheng looked embarrassed but stopped talking.

Ziheng turned his head to look at the courtyard where people lived. Some people lived at least with a roof to shelter them from the wind and rain. The yard in front of him didn't even have a roof.

Li Zheng took two steps back, "Dong Li, I have to go back beforehand."

Jiao Huwei waited until Li was walking away before speaking, "There is a problem with this village, Shizi."

After finishing speaking, he looked at the dilapidated yard and couldn't explain it. This was a treatment he had never had before. In the village where he stayed in the past, Lizheng would also choose a yard to subsidize the people. In this village, Lizheng wanted them to leave immediately.

Ziheng was very keen, he could feel someone staring at them, "Clean up the yard first."

It's going to rain now, at least build a roof that can shelter from the rain. Fortunately, there are piles of hay nearby.

Jiao Huwei and others were good at their workmanship. A group of people weaved straw curtains and sealed the roof with grass curtains before the heavy rain. The roof was nailed to the roof to prevent the rain. The temporary rainproof effect of the roof was quite good.

After night fell, the heavy rain outside did not stop, Ziheng nodded to Yiqi, and Yiqi was dressed in black and blended into the night.

Ziheng poked the fire with a wooden stick, and his parents sent an urgent letter telling him to visit the Tang family, but his uncle also sent an urgent letter. His uncle asked him to see the recovery situation in the northern states for himself, and said he had already been notified. Tang family.

Ziheng recalled the information about the Tang family, and his uncle also told the funny story of the first time they met.

Yiqi came back with a boy, who was covered in injuries and shivering from the cold in the rain.

Guard Jiao took out clean clothes and put them on for the boy. The loose clothes looked like skirts, and the boy huddled in the clothes to watch out for Ziheng and his party.

Ziheng heard the sound of gurgling, and signaled Jiao Weiwei to serve the child with rice porridge.

The boy hesitated for a while before taking the bowl, because he was hungry and devoured it.

Ziheng looked at the boy, the boy's eyebrows were full of hostility, obviously trembling because of the pain of the wound, the boy didn't even frown, his eyes showed interest.

Seeing that the boy was full and silent, Jiao Huwei laughed angrily, "Boy, why don't you say anything?"

The boy pursed his lips, "Thank you."

Ziheng raised his eyebrows, "You disappeared in the village, someone will come looking for you soon, are you going to keep silent or wait to die?"

The boy was still silent, and it took a while before he said hoarsely, "Can you take me to Fucheng?"

Ziheng raised his eyebrows, "Maybe I can help you without going to Fucheng."

The boy's eyes were full of doubts. He came in just now and saw that the carriage was full of goods. This is a caravan. "You will get into trouble."

Ziheng was happy, the kid was kind-hearted, "I'm not afraid of trouble."

His current status is only for him to find trouble, and there are really few people who can find trouble for him.

The boy's eyes widened, maybe because the firelight was too warm, the boy's eyes were a little moist, "My father was the one who passed the Lizheng exam, and the current Lizheng colluded with the county magistrate, and my father refused to accept it and was accidentally beaten to death by Lizheng's clansmen. "

Ziheng listened to the boy sobbing and talking. The boy's family was a relocated citizen, and the boy's father was a retired soldier who had injured his arm. He participated in the selection process because he knew how to read in the barracks. The local family was not convinced.

As for why the boy was not silenced, it was because the boy's father was a retired soldier, and Fucheng would ask about the situation of the retired soldiers who moved here every once in a while.

If a family of three loses the capital, they will definitely investigate. The imperial court has detailed household registrations of veterans, and there are sketched portraits in the household registrations. In this village, even if Li Daitao is dead, the veterans also involve disability subsidies, so the investigation is particularly strict. .

The death of the boy's parents required the cancellation of the account, and the villagers did not want to be investigated, so the boy had to come forward to cancel the account in person.

Ziheng signaled Jiao Weiwei to apply wound medicine to the boy. The boy is also a tough bone, and he would not give in even if he was bruised.

Guard Jiao didn't avoid the boy and said, "It didn't take long for the officials to collude with the local family."

When Ziheng saw the boy looking over, he didn't shy away, "After the founding of the People's Republic of China, we vigorously developed the north and exempted taxation for two consecutive years. Some local families were relieved, and the people who came back from the south made some local families rapidly expand. Get up, once people get greedy, they will want more."

Lizheng's reforms are not friendly to the gentry and other families. The local families have always rejected outsiders, and the family is very united in the face of interests. These families are bent on restoring their previous lives.

As for the local parent officials, heh, some officials subconsciously favor the local families for the sake of stability, while others cannot withstand bribery.

Ziheng knew it in his heart, but he couldn't help but feel sad. Today's discovery must not be an exception. There is too much darkness hidden in the vast land and states.

Three days later, in Jiaozhou Fucheng, Yang Xi was invited by the queen. As the time for moving the capital approached, the queen was also in a hurry.

When Yang Xi arrived, the queen was screening the list of merchants.

The queen handed over the list, "Sister, take a look too."

Yang Xi took a closer look and found that there were three merchants for the bonsai used in the Guanggong Palace, including flower merchants, a total of more than a dozen merchants. This is still a selected merchant, "Are there so many?"

The queen looked dazed, "The emperor and I want to monopolize it to a merchant."

Yang Xi put down the list in his hand, "I thought you would hand it over to Huang Shang directly."

Wanning, "I'd rather take the trouble to learn more about various merchants than to be blinded by the imperial merchants in the future."

Yang Xi looked at the busy female officer, "There are countless complicated things to do when I return to the capital, and I will never feel at ease in Jiaozhou again."

Wanning also sighed. In Jiaozhou, she only needs to manage one mansion. When she returns to the capital, she will take care of the entire imperial palace. She has to take care of food, clothing, housing and transportation. "The imperial merchants have already shipped cloth to Beijing."

Yang Xi moved the abacus, "It's good, you can worry less."

Wanning said: "I've been really busy recently, I want to ask my sister to take care of me."

As for the prince, she doesn't have to worry about it, the husband takes care of the prince himself.

Yang Xi looked at the fat baby not far away, and readily agreed, "Okay."

When Yang Xi took the second son back to the Princess Mansion, Zilu and Yang Jin came back with many gifts.

Yang Xi asked, "Did you buy it?"

She never cared about Zilu's money, and Yang Jin was not the one who was short of money, so she thought it was the gift bought by these two boys.

Zilu shook his head, "Mother, these are gifts from merchants who honor us."

Yang Jin answered, "Given it to us generously, really didn't avoid people at all."

Zhou Yu came in and heard these two sentences, "You just accept it?"

Zilu didn't want to accept it either, "Everyone has a share today, it would be different if we didn't accept it."

Yang Xi looked at Yang Jin, this child was more sensitive, Yang Jin explained: "Today we have been tricked, although everyone has a share, our gift must be the most valuable."

As she said that, Yang Jin opened a box, and inside the box were exquisite palace flowers, each of which was exquisite and gorgeous, and Yang Xi fell in love with it immediately.

Zhou Yu understood, "This is to win the supply right of the palace through you."

Zilu nodded, "Since the news of the capital move spread, all kinds of merchants have taken turns to perform eighteen martial arts."

(End of this chapter)