Daming: I, Yang Xian, really govern Yang!

Chapter 156 There should be a knife in your hand
There is no cure.

Li Jin and Lu Tao both view each other this way.

"Sir, the doctor is here." A servant's voice came from outside the house.

Lu Tao stood up, looked at Li Jin, sighed, and said: "Master Li, the doctor is here. There is only so much I can do for you. You can take care of yourself. I can hire a doctor for you this time. I don’t want to find a partner for you next time.”

After saying this, Lu Tao turned around and left. When he met the doctor outside the house, he did not forget to tell him, "You must treat him well."

Li Jin's injuries were serious, with a bruised nose and swollen face, and multiple fractures all over his body, but most of them were external injuries.

As the days passed, Li Jin's injuries slowly healed.

When he was able to go to the fields, the first thing Li Jin did was to write a letter and send it to Yangzhou.

After sending this letter again, Li Jin seemed to have let go of one of his worries and no longer had any worries.

He turned to look at the rope measuring the fields in the corner of the room.

Dingyuan County.

While Li Jin was recovering from his injuries, the work of clearing his father's land continued.

Of course, we will continue according to the rules of the Lan family and other rural gentlemen.

The people are miserable.

The seeds of hatred towards the imperial court were so quietly planted.

Sometimes this is often the case, no matter how good the policies are formulated at the top, they will be distorted at the end.

Yangzhou.

Zhu Biao looked at the letter in his hand and his whole body was shaking with anger. He said angrily: "How dare they?!"

"How dare they?!"

The voice is raised, even broken.

Taking action against an imperial official is a blatant slap in the face of the imperial court.

The new system of the imperial court is stigmatized.

Fish and meat common people.

No matter which one of these, it is a capital crime!

Yang Xian looked at Zhu Biao. After the other party had released his anger and regained his composure, he said, "Your Highness, reform is not about treating guests to a meal, especially tax reform, which is equivalent to taking meat from the plates of those squire clans. They You must work hard.”

"But those are the taxes they should pay!" Zhu Biao said angrily.

"They don't think so. In any reform, vested interests are the biggest difficulty."

Yang Xian said: "Your Highness, Fengyang Mansion is crucial to the success of the tax reform."

"It can be said that the entire Ming Dynasty is now focusing their attention on this place. They want to see what the imperial court will do when facing the noble families of Fengyang Mansion who have made contributions to the country."

"The key to Fengyang Mansion is Dingyuan. If the court can even let things like beating up court officials go easily, then other places will follow the same example, and even become more unscrupulous."

Yang Xian looked at Zhu Biao and said, "Your Highness, I once told Li Jin that a scholar should have a ruler in his heart to measure the world and determine the rules."

"Now I also have something to say to His Highness."

"Those who guard the rules should have a knife in their hands, and those who violate the rules will be killed without mercy!"

Those who guard the rules should have a knife in their hands!

Zhu Biao got the answer from Yang Xian.

He got on the rail train returning to the capital that day and went to the palace overnight to report to Zhu Yuanzhang what happened to Li Jin in Dingyuan County.

Zhu Yuanzhang immediately burst out with powerful murderous intent.

"These people are so brave!"

He had already prepared to take action against these rural gentry families, but what happened in Dingyuan County just gave him an opportunity to attack.

"Boss, some people want to see if the knife in my hand is still good or not, so I will help them."

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhu Biao and said, "I leave this matter to you." He turned to his personal chamberlain and said, "Pass on Mao Xiang."

"His Majesty."

Soon a man dressed as a guard came in, knelt on one knee and said.

This seemingly ordinary man turned out to be a legendary figure who would become famous in the future, the first commander of the Ming Dynasty Jinyi Guards.

Of course, Jin Yiwei has not yet been established.

But before the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Mao Xiang followed Zhu Yuanzhang as a member of the school inspection team. He not only had rich work experience, but also won Zhu Yuanzhang's trust.

It can be said that he is the best person to accompany Zhu Biao to Dingyuan to handle the case this time.

"Get up."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

"Mao Xiang, you follow the Crown Prince to Dingyuan County in Fengyang and follow the Crown Prince's orders in everything." Zhu Yuanzhang looked at his capable subordinate and said.

"I accept my order from my humble position." Mao Xiang bowed and said.

Dingyuan County.

The Lan family did not realize at all that they were in danger.

These idiots even thought they had won.

The time that Li Jin was recovering from his injuries made them mistakenly believe that Li Jin was finally afraid.

In Dingyuan County, they still have the final say.

So what if the court has a purpose.

There is a saying, haven’t you heard it?

The imperial power does not go to the countryside!
The Lan family even held a banquet at home to entertain other wealthy gentry families in Dingyuan County.

The Lan family is treating guests, so others naturally have to give face.

And they also knew that the Lan family's treat was nominally to celebrate the birthday of Lan Shou's old mother, but in fact it was to form an offensive and defensive alliance with all the wealthy families in the county.

"It's almost time, sir."

The housekeeper of Lan Mansion took a look at Shi Chen and said to Lan Shou.

Lan Shou nodded, glanced at the guests present today, and asked, "How is it? Is everyone here?"

The housekeeper hesitated for a moment, then said: "Sir, the Li family is not here."

"This Li family is really shameless. This time the court wanted to clear out the land acres, and their family was the first to report all the unregistered hidden fields. And they actually truthfully re-measured the previously wrongly reported land acres."

Lan Ping on the side showed a mocking look on his face after hearing the butler's words, and then spoke.

"Is it necessary to be so afraid, you cowards? No wonder Li Xiang, the tribe member who stayed in Dingyuan County, didn't take him away."

When Lan Shou heard his son's words, he frowned and scolded: "You can't comment on Mr. Li Xiang."

"But there is one thing, my son, you are right. Basically, Li Xiang's close relatives have been taken to the capital by him. If they stay in Dingyuan County, they are indeed a bit distant in terms of blood relationship. They are more cautious, That’s understandable.”

"Unlike us, we are close relatives with Marquis Yongchang. We still move around during festivals. If Marquis Yongchang hadn't been able to get away from this birthday banquet, he would have come too."

"However, although he did not come in person, the gift was brought to him by someone."

Lan Shou's words were ostensibly scolding his son, Lan Ping.

In fact, these words were addressed to the rural gentry and noble families of Dingyuan County present.

The purpose is to let them know who is in charge of Dingyuan County now.

Yes, Li Xiangguo is more powerful than Yongchang Hou.

But the relationship between the Dingyuan Li family and Li Xiangguo is not close.

The Lan family are the ones who can truly have direct access to Tianting.

(End of this chapter)