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Chapter 182 Lin Daiyu is about to go to Beijing
"Let's go and rescue our mother and brother!"

Lin Daiyu took the Fang Tian Hua Ji and swung it at her door, breaking it down directly. Then she walked out with her personal maid. She hacked and killed anyone she saw on the road, leaving no one alive.

No matter whether it was the masked man in black or the bailiffs and servants in the government office, Lin Daiyu spared no one and killed them all. Even her two concubines were killed by Lin Daiyu with a knife.

Seeing this scene, Xueyan covered her mouth tightly and dared not make any sound.

When Lin Daiyu saw her personal maid doing this, she nodded with satisfaction. At least she didn't need to replace her maid.

This kind of personal maid can be regarded as a family member, and she has been serving Lin Daiyu since she was a child. She is the person who has spent the longest time with Daiyu.

Even after all the members of the Lin family died, Xueyan was the only family member that Lin Daiyu psychologically recognized.

So Daiyu didn't want to get rid of Xueyan.

Now that I see Xueyan is so honest, I am naturally very satisfied.

Lin Daiyu brought her maid all the way to her mother.

At this time, Lin Daiyu's mother, Jia Min, was holding a sword and leading some of her personal maids to resist the attack of the men in black.

As soon as Lin Daiyu walked over, she swung the Fang Tian Hua Ji in her hand and chopped all those clones to death.

"Mother, my son is here. Let's go quickly. I saw them setting fire in the front yard. I don't know where these thieves came from. How dare they attack us?"

Jia Min was also frightened at this time, so she didn't react at all. What was going on?

Seeing her daughter coming over with a Fang Tian Hua Ji, she was even more shocked. Jia Min didn't remember her daughter having learned to use a war weapon like the Fang Tian Hua Ji.

It is even more impossible for him to lift this pure steel Fang Tian Huaji.

Seeing this, Jia Min also asked, "My son, how can you hold such a weapon?"

"Mother, I was born with supernatural powers. I have been able to lift a tripod since I was a child. However, I am a girl and it is inconvenient for me to show this ability. If there were no thieves in the mansion today, I would never have done it."

Lin Daiyu explained it briefly, and Jia Min didn't know whether she should believe these things or not, but she still chose to believe it, because she had no choice but to believe it.

Because if he didn't believe it, how could he explain that his daughter could kill people with a Fang Tian Hua Ji as easily as cutting grass? If he couldn't explain this kind of thing clearly, there would be big problems.

"Mother, let's go quickly. Take my brother with you. I saw my aunt and mother. They have all been killed!"

When Jia Min heard this, she shuddered all over, then looked at her daughter with an extremely complicated look in her eyes.

Lin Daiyu ignored her mother's complicated look. She went straight to the edge of the courtyard wall, picked up the Fang Tian Hua Ji in her hand, and smashed it hard at her own courtyard wall. With a loud bang, the courtyard wall on Jia Min's side was smashed through.

Outside the courtyard wall is a garden with a pool in the garden. There is also a large rockery in the middle of the pool and a winding corridor on the pool. This is Jia Min's private garden. It is not large, about the size of a football field, but it has pavilions and waterside pavilions.

"Go to the rockery, there is a secret room there!"

Jia Min had no intention of escaping, but led thousands of people directly to the rockery. Jia Min stretched out her hand and moved it on the rockery for a few times, opened a piece of rock, and then took a South Pearl from her pearl flower and put it into a hole behind the rock. Then there was a series of clicking sounds from a machine, and the rockery immediately moved away to reveal a hole one meter square.

"Go down!"

Jia Min put the rock back to its original place and led the way down. After everyone came down, Jia Min had the ladder taken away.

Then everyone heard another crackling sound, and a large number of spikes rose from the ground. Those spikes were flashing emerald green light, and they were obviously poisonous.

Lin Daiyu was a little confused at this time. She didn't expect that there was such a place in her home.

[Lin Daiyu, I never thought there would be such a place in my home! ]

[Liu Chan (Zhao Gou), isn't this a very normal thing? A noble family must have a place where they can save their lives, and they must be able to escape from here. If they stay here, they will die, so they must be able to escape.]

[Li Shimin (Liu Chan), girl, you need to check if there are any people here who are not from your Lin family, or your mother's family, if there are any, kill them!]

[Gao Wenfeng, Liu Chan is kind-hearted, but he is right. Run away quickly, run away as far as you can, and don't listen to Li Shimin. It is best not to listen to what Li Shimin said. There must be someone arranged by the emperor in your family. Whether it is the emperor or the emperor, he will definitely arrange someone in your family, because the place where your father is is in charge of nearly half of the tax revenue of the entire dynasty. This place must be used to bury someone. It is recommended that you take people there as soon as possible. If someone asks you how you were able to use the Fang Tian Hua Ji to beat people when you were less than eight years old, you can tell him that it was given by heaven. There are legends of gods and ghosts in your world, so you can directly say that your things were given by heaven, and this is absolutely justified.]

After reading everyone's speeches, Lin Daiyu thought about it and felt that she still could not kill anyone, because who knows who among these people was arranged by the emperor and who was arranged by the emperor emeritus, so it would be better for her to take everyone out as soon as possible. At this time, Jia Min asked what was going on with her daughter?

"Daiyu, what's the matter with the Fang Tian Hua Ji? How can you lift such a thing?"

"The old man in my dream taught me!"

The corners of Lin Daiyu's mouth twitched. At this time, he said that it was the old grandfather who taught him in the dream, but when facing his personal maid Xueyan, he said that he was born with supernatural powers. Lin Daiyu was now afraid that Xueyan would reveal these things.

But Xueyan was also smart. She knew that her young lady's statement must be wrong, so she told the truth directly, "Madam, when an outsider broke in just now, I went to the young lady's room to wake her up, and found that there was already this Fang Tian Hua Ji in her room. There was definitely no Fang Tian Hua Ji before the young lady went to bed. Moreover, I served the young lady until she fell asleep. I went to bed after serving the young lady. There was definitely no Fang Tian Hua Ji before she went to bed!"

Xueyan dared to guarantee that everything she said was true, because she did not hear the Fang Tian Huaji when she left, and when she went to wake the young lady up, the Fang Tian Huaji had already appeared.

"Isn't that a divine gift from heaven? I heard that the second son of the second branch of the Rongguo Mansion was born with a jade in his mouth, and he is extremely rich. Today I am looking at our young lady. She is truly loved by heaven."

The personal maid beside Jia Min also laughed and said that Lin Daiyu was loved by God, and even let the matter pass. Of course, while speaking, he and several other people touched the Fang Tian Hua Ji, which was made of pure steel.

Look at the length of the Fang Tian Hua Ji, it is more than 14 feet long, and its weight is at least 100 kilograms. Lin Daiyu holds the Fang Tian Hua Ji in one hand without breathing, just like holding a round fan, which makes everyone feel very uncoordinated.

Lin Daiyu also began to walk forward with big strides. When she came to a place where there was no way forward, she looked back at her mother.

"Don't go out yet. Wait here for a while. Let me think about who did it."

Jia Min pulled her daughter to her side and began to think about who had done it.

"Mother, the salt tax."

Lin Daiyu reminded her mother of this, and this was also the conclusion she came to based on her own understanding and the information in the book Dream of the Red Chamber.

The Great Zhou Dynasty where Lin Daiyu is now is out of money. The retired emperor and the emperor want to repair the Longshouyuan Hall and the national water conservancy network respectively. Both projects require money, but the court has no money now because the retired emperor had grudges against all the civil and military nobles and allowed them to borrow money from the Ministry of Revenue's treasury.

Originally, this matter was for those brothers who had no money to build houses, and it happened in the early years of the founding of the country. However, after the early years of the founding of the country, this matter was forgotten by everyone. But after the emperor abdicated, he remembered this matter again and started to borrow money from civil and military officials and meritorious ministers.

This time he borrowed money entirely to make those civil and military officials remember his kindness and to tell everyone that even though my son is the emperor, the financial power is in my hands.

The civil and military officials and ministers naturally understood what the fight between the emperor and the retired emperor was all about, but they all felt that the emperor would not survive the retired emperor, so they all listened to the retired emperor's lavish borrowing of money from the Ministry of Revenue. For example, the Ning and Rong mansions borrowed at least hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. Although most of them came from the early years of the founding of the country, they also borrowed a lot during the period when the retired emperor opened the floodgates.

Civil and military officials with smaller amounts would lend one or two taels of silver as a token of appreciation to show that they were like-minded people and would not seek special treatment. Those with larger amounts would lend thousands or even tens of thousands of taels of silver.

There were even many poor nobles who could not even afford to eat, and they had to get tens or hundreds of thousands of taels of silver from the national treasury.

All these results resulted in most people in the court being supportive of the retired emperor.

The emperor had almost no power. It was only in recent years that he gained some power through marriages with noble ministers. Otherwise, he would have died of illness long ago.

However, now both of them need money, one for enjoyment and the other for governing the country, and the treasury is empty, so they both set their sights on the salt tax.

At that time, only 30% to 40% of the annual salt tax could be collected. This time, the emperor said that at least 80% should be recovered, and the emperor emeritus said that at least 70% should be recovered.

This is no small matter; it is equivalent to doubling the tax rate.

After Lin Daiyu's reminder, Jia Min finally reacted, but she still didn't believe it.

"Would a salt merchant be so bold?"

"Mother, this is not a small amount. We only received 30% to 40% before because we can only receive 30% to 40% every year. But if we receive 70% to 80% this year, what about next year? What about the year after? Do we have to receive 70% to 80% from now on?"

"And not only in the future, but also in the past!"

"Now that we are pressing hard, we can collect 70% to 80% of the tax. What about before? If we could, it would be deceiving the emperor and resisting taxation. If not, why can we collect it now?"

Lin Daiyu integrated what she knew with what happened in Dream of the Red Chamber and came to a conclusion that the current salt administration in Jiangnan is the same as the salt administration in the late Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, and is even more cruel!

If we use a TV drama as an analogy, it would be the plot of Li Wei as an official, plus the plot of Liu Ba Nu in The Yongzheng Dynasty, and the Mudu Villa in Li Wei as an Official 2. In short, it's a complete mess.

"We can't suppress this matter, and neither can the entire Lin family. We must unite the four families of Jia, Shi, Wang, and Xue. Daiyu, wait until tomorrow morning. I will write you a letter and you can take people to Shenjing City to find your uncle. He has a relationship with the current emperor. They played together in the imperial study. Let your uncle and Brother Jing from the East Palace enter the palace together."

Although Jia Min is a woman, as a daughter of a general, she is also capable. She also has many connections, and Jia Min's connections go directly to the imperial palace. I wonder how many princes and princesses she had connections with, and they can all come in handy at this time.

After hearing this, Lin Daiyu nodded. She knew that her eldest uncle was Marquis Jia En. Marquis En meant that according to the normal succession, her uncle would be promoted from a duke to a marquis, instead of just being a general as he was now.

This demotion is not normal, but what happened back then? Lin Daiyu didn't know anything. The events of the emperor's succession to the throne were kept secret. She only knew that the prince had raised an army for some reason, and then several princes died and the old emperor was seriously injured.

So the oldest prince with the least injuries was chosen to be the new emperor, and the old emperor became the emperor emeritus. Originally, the old emperor thought he would die in three to five months, but his injuries healed after three to five months.

This was a bit embarrassing. The emperor had not arranged any of his own people in the court because the old emperor had only been in power for a few months. After all, the Zhou Dynasty ruled the world with filial piety, and filial piety was important at this time. Therefore, he could not move any of the old emperor's subordinates and had to wait until the old emperor passed away before he could arrange anyone.

As a result, the old emperor recovered from his injury and everyone was still sitting in their positions. There was no change at all. If there was any change, it was that the Jia family's Beijing camp was handed over to the Wang family, and Jia Enhou became a groom general.

In addition, the entire third-generation heirs of the noble system were collectively brought down.

And for Marquis Jiaen to become the General of Grooms is already the best outcome.

Jia Min brought her daughter to a small courtyard outside the city. The courtyard was not big, about the same size as Jia Min's own courtyard. An old couple lived here. When they saw Jia Min, they immediately came forward to kowtow and called her "Miss".

It’s obvious at first glance that he was someone arranged by the Jia family.

"This is a retreat your grandfather arranged for me. This side is close to the river. You can take a boat directly to the capital tomorrow morning. I'll write you some letters here. When the time comes, give them to your uncle. He will know what to do."

Lin Daiyu watched her mother write letters one by one and put them into envelopes, then sealed them with sealing wax. She then took out a leather bag and put all the letters into it.

After getting the leather bag, Lin Daiyu immediately put it on her waist and prepared a soft sword for herself.

At the same time, he tied a circle of silver needles on his sleeves. These silver needles came from the world of Sword Blood and Valour, and were smeared with a deadly poison that could kill instantly upon contact with blood.

(End of this chapter)