Lord Moyu was forced to open

Chapter 964: How was my fight?
Xiangbei County, Ganshun Prefecture.

Zuofu.

"Dad! What did uncle say in the letter? Why do you look so ugly?"

In the main hall of the Zuo Mansion, Zuo Lengguang, the contemporary head of the Zuo family, was reading the urgent letter that his eldest brother had just sent from Bianjing. The more he looked at it, the uglier his face became.

The Zuo family, a family that has been farming and studying for generations, was just a family of farmers in Tuomin County under the jurisdiction of Ganshun Prefecture from the beginning. Through the efforts of the grandfathers, the family became the first Jinshi and gradually became the leading family in Ganshun Prefecture. A family of officials.

In Zuo Lengguang's generation, his eldest brother, Zuo Lengfeng, the eldest son of the Zuo family, inherited his ancestors' talent for reading. In the fifteenth year of Tiansheng's reign, he passed the examination with good grades and entered the court with a Jinshi background.

Now, he has become the right censor of the Central and Central Procuratorate, and reaching the fourth rank can be regarded as a step into the door of high-ranking officials in the court.

And the Zuo family, with the help of Zuo Lengfeng and You Qiandu's status as censor, rose from the many eunuch families in the city and became the top eunuch family in Ganshun Prefecture, which was unparalleled in the limelight.

Although after three generations, the family moved from the countryside to the capital and became city dwellers, the Zuo family never gave up the land in their hometown. On the contrary, three generations of the Zuo family became officials one after another, which meant that the Zuo family also stayed on the land in their hometown for a year. More than a year.

Now, I can't help but think that all the land in the Gaoshan Village where the Zuo family was originally located belongs to the Zuo family, and even the land in three or four nearby villages also belongs to the Zuo family.

The people in these four or five villages have all become tenant farmers of the Zuo family, and they have made a living by helping the Zuo family cultivate the land for generations.

But they still have to bear the taxes on these fields.

In addition to the court taxes on these fields, they also had to pay additional rent to the Zuo family.

As a result, the grain reserves that can be left behind every year are often not enough to eat. The local people have to take advantage of the leisure time to work in the city, go to the mountains to hunt and dig wild vegetables, and other additional work to barely scrape together enough for the family in the coming year. Food to live on.

This has been going on for nearly fifty years.

After three generations of accumulation, the Zuo family now owns 5,000 acres of land. However, the official farmland is only 1,000 acres. The remaining 4,000 acres of land have long been quietly abandoned, and even the fields have been abandoned. It disappeared from the local government’s fish scale map.

But in fact it is still in the hands of the Zuo family.

The missing four thousand acres of land were obtained by the Zuo family through various means over the past decades.

It is also the source of most of the Zuo family's financial resources.

With an ugly expression, Zuo Lengguang handed the letter in his hand to his son Zuo Chengyu.

Zuo Chengyu, the eldest young master of the Zuo family, quickly took it and read it carefully. After he read the letter in full, his expression changed like that of his father.

After a long while, Zuo Chengyu raised his head and said to his father: "Dad! Your Majesty actually wants to clear the land across the country? Then our family's more than 4,000 acres of land..."

As the eldest son of the Zuo family, Zuo Chengyu naturally knew that the origin of the four thousand acres of land in his family was not right, and it was not on the government's fish scale map. If the imperial envoy came to inspect the land, he would definitely check it out. Son!
It doesn’t stand up to any investigation!

Zuo Lengguang shook his head with an ugly face and said: "We must not let the court investigate. Once the investigation starts, my Zuo family will be finished!

Your uncle said that the emperor was extremely determined on this matter. Even if the ministers objected, the emperor would still insist on his own way.

Therefore, if we want to prevent the court from inspecting land, we can only fight through public opinion.

Your uncle asked us to spread the news that the court wanted to inspect the land, and guide public opinion to oppose the inspection.

In this way, don’t you usually have the most cunning friends?
Now that it's time to use them, you can bring some money and immediately let them spread the news to the homes of wealthy families in the whole government, so that they all know about it.

Your uncle is right. To resist the imperial court's investigation of land, we cannot do it alone. We must unite with the big families in the government, otherwise the court will not pay attention to us. "

"Knowing that this matter was related to his family's prosperity and economic lifeline, Young Master Zuo did not dare to neglect and immediately nodded in agreement and said:

"Dad! Don't worry! I guarantee that within three days at most, all the big families in the government will know this news. So be prepared and prepare to lead us all to oppose the chaos of the imperial court!"

Zuo Lengguang was relieved to hear his son, who had always been a playboy, say this. After all, his son had grown up and knew that he had to share the pressure with his father.

Dang even nodded and let him go.

The same scene was spread through letters from officials in the DPRK and China.

Soon, many places got the news, and this kind of news was what those target customers were most interested in. So soon, the court's action to clear out the father's land had not yet begun, but the news that the court was about to take action had already spread throughout the world. The news spread like wildfire.

This incident did not go beyond Zuo Lengfeng's expectations and caused an uproar in the local area. There were too many people and interests involved in the matter of clearing the father-in-law's land. When these people learned the news, they immediately reacted and began to use various methods to influence the court situation, hoping to make the court stop this policy. .

Royal palace, royal garden.

Zhao Jun was sitting in the Spring Breeze Pavilion with a fishing rod hanging into the water. He had been fishing quietly for an entire hour.

Although he was fishing, his eyes were slightly closed and he was concentrating.

Tick ​​tock!Tick ​​tock!Tick ​​tock!

The spring breeze blew by, and wisps of drizzle mixed with the wind passed through the Spring Breeze Pavilion and hit Zhao Jun's face. Zhao Jun's eyelashes trembled a little, but they soon returned to calm. It seemed that the outside was gradually falling. Even the heavy rain could not arouse Zhao Jun's emotions at all.

The weather at the end of February is like a child's face. It changes at a moment's notice. The sun was shining brightly just a moment ago, but in the blink of an eye it has started to drizzle.

The drizzle fell from the sky and hit the pond water, creating circles of ripples on the water.

In the rainy weather, the fish in the pond seemed to be extremely excited. From time to time, they would pop up out of the water. One after another, the golden and red fat-headed carp jumped on the surface of the pond and disappeared into the water, which made the fish disappear. The whole pool was very lively for a while.

And Zhao Jun just sat quietly in the pavilion, holding the fishing rod motionless, like a wooden man.

until……

Snap! Wow! Snap! Wow! Snap! Wow! …

The sound of footsteps treading water came, and Wang Huai'en hurriedly came to the Spring Breeze Pavilion holding an oil-paper umbrella.

After entering the pavilion and putting away the umbrella, before Wang Huaien could speak, Zhao Jun spoke first.

"Is there any movement?"

Wang Huai'en nodded and replied: "Your Majesty, Zuo Lengfeng, the right minister of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the imperial censor of the capital, took the lead and asked a group of officials to send letters to their families, leaking the news that the imperial court was preparing to inventory the land in the world.

Not only that, they also asked their family members to spread the news to all the local wealthy families. Now all the landlords and wealthy families in the world have learned about the news and are making trouble.

I guess they will take action tomorrow morning. "

After Wang Huaien finished speaking, he frowned tightly and suggested:

"Your Majesty, these people have leaked the secrets of the imperial court without permission. Do you want me to take the Imperial City Secretary to capture them?"

After hearing this, Zhao Jun shook his head, then slowly opened his eyes, looked at the still calm water surface where his fishing rod extended, and said slowly: "No, just let them leak it."

"Let them leak it?"

Wang Huaien was puzzled.

Zhao Jun chuckled and said:

“If you want to fish, how can you not release the fish?

Wang Banban, what do you think of my nest?
How long will it take for the fish to take the bait? "

Wang Huaien turned to look at the ten-pound bag of special fish food that had been mostly poured out next to Zhao Jun, and immediately replied:

"Your majesty is just hunting this nest. If this slave is a fish, you will have to eat it even if you risk your life!"

"That's good."

Zhao Jun showed a smile and slowly closed his eyes again.

The drizzle outside the pavilion is still falling, and from time to time, spring breeze blows the cold rain into the pavilion.

However, the two people in the pavilion, whether they were standing or sitting, were unmoved.

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