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Chapter 242 Sitting and talking about the Tao

The Xu family was indeed in trouble. They pretended to be Huang Dazhao and ran to the capital to annex the land, and even asked His Majesty the Emperor to arrest him. He was afraid that there would be countless slaps in his face.

Huang Guan was really happy, from the heart. If it weren't for Lao Zhu's breaking, he wouldn't be able to say anything. After all, he had already written a thank-you article. Everyone in the world knew that he owed the Xu family. The Xu family could turn against him under his banner?

If he cannot turn against each other completely, will he also have to be unlucky if something happens to the Xu family in the future?

The situation is the best for him now, but Huang Guan is also a little worried.

"Mr. Liu, let me tell you the truth. The Xu family blames me for more and less grace. I don't care much about what the consequences are. But I am worried that the world will say that I am ungrateful, so I plan to write a letter to plead for the Xu family, but I am worried that Your Majesty will blame me. I finally escaped the relationship. If Your Majesty is suspected again, I will be in trouble."

Liu Chun snorted softly, "Zhuangyuan Gong, it's not that it's not that difficult to deal with. You are eating the bowl and watching the pot, and you want to have a face. Is there such a cheap thing in this world?"

Huang Guan's old face had a fever and said embarrassedly: "What Lord Liu taught me is that I understand... If you don't talk about the Xu family, they will blame you for your own fault!"

Huang Guan said, raised his glass and exchanged glasses with Liu Chun. He started drinking.

There is no doubt about Zhu Yuanzhang's efficiency. When he asked the people of the Xu family, Huang Guan did not know about their annexation of the land, and Lao Zhu was furious!

Huang Guan has restored his original surname and has nothing to do with the Xu family, but the Xu family still under the banner of others, corrupting their reputation and having bad intentions!

It is even more abominable to annex the land, destroy equal land, and affect taxes.

Also, as a powerful man, does the Xu family have evil deeds that oppress the people in the countryside?

check!

Find it to the end!

Wu Hua, the commander of the Jinyiwei, personally led the team to the Xu family in Chizhou, arrested all the Xu family, and escorted them all to the capital.

Logically speaking, it is nothing great to capture a local tyrant.

But something happened.

When the Xu family was taken to the city gate, a woman suddenly broke free and ran towards a crowded place, shouting while running.

"My nephew is Liuyuan's husband! My nephew is Wenquxing!"

"Let him save my aunt!"

"I have also fed him milk! You have passed the No. 1 pick in the exam, so you can't be ungrateful. You have eaten my blood-turned milk!"

...

The woman yelled shrillly, and at this time the Jinyiwei finally rushed up, pressed her down and stuffed her mouth again.

But even so, the woman's words spread.

Everyone in the capital knew that the people arrested this time were Huang Liushou’s relatives!

Although I changed my original surname, my relatives are still there.

Even if you don’t care about your relatives, how ruthless should the one with the surname Huang be!

How could a ruthless person be a loyal minister and a filial son?

This was the second time Huang Guan was criticized after the controversy over the capital. He went to the Hanlin Academy. As a result, his colleagues were far away and looked at him, as if saying, "I saw that?" This is the ruthless beast. The grace of raising more than 20 years is not something that can be cut off by cutting it."

Not to mention a living person, even a dog wouldn't be reluctant to save him!

Huang Guan was depressed and wanted to die. He wanted to grab those people and tell them what happened to him and the Xu family and how much grievances he suffered?

However, he couldn't say it, and he didn't want to listen at all.

The overwhelming curse can make you doubt your life.

I didn't expect that I was such an ugly person!

I might as well die!

Huang Guan was swaying and came out of the Hanlin Academy. He was in a daze and a carriage rushed past the side and almost knocked him into it.

"Life impatiently?"

The carriage stopped, and the coachman cursed. At this time, the curtain was lifted up, and Liu Chun looked outside and smiled, "Huang Zhuangyuan, I'm here to find you, follow me into the palace!"

"Yes, is it Lord Liu?"

Huang Guanchi was stunned for a moment, but he still got on the carriage quickly.

When he went in, he found that there was an old eunuch next to him.

"Our family came to invite Lord Liu according to the will of the saint. But Lord Liu said that we must let Huang Liushou help testify!"

Huang Guan was puzzled, and Liu Chun chuckled and said, "That's right. I'm very interested in the situation of the Xu family. I checked the file and wrote something for His Majesty. His Majesty summoned me. There are some details, and I would like to ask Huang Zhuangyuan to help me add it."

"oh!"

Although Huang Guan nodded, Xin raised her throat. What did Liu Chun discover?

Could it be that the Xu family committed a serious crime of disobedience? Treason? Or was it that they communicated with the Japanese?

Should we destroy the nine clans?

So what should he do? Should he protect or not?

Will it involve him?

Huang Guan was about to collapse.

He really regrets it now. If he didn't get the top scorer and didn't become the sixth song that attracts popularity, maybe everything would be much better, right? At least it wouldn't be so bad!

Since the old eunuch followed, he didn't dare to say anything and could only enter the palace with him.

When he arrived at the hall, Huang Guan found that it was a little special. He actually put on a few chairs, including the prince Zhu Biao, the commander of the Jinyiwei Jiang Yan, and the Duke of Xinguo Tang He.

What is this to do?

Sit and discuss?

Seeing that Liu Chun was coming, Lao Tang smiled and said, "Boy, how could you have so many ghost thoughts? Isn't it just a Xu family? It's worth wasting spit? Just kill it!"

Liu Chun smiled calmly, "Although the Xu family is not enough, the tens of millions of Xu families are worth studying. Wansheng felt that the Xu family was a representative of gentry and powerful people in many places. If they figured out the process of their wealth, they could have a brief glimpse of what happened in the countryside in the past twenty years."

Lao Tang grabbed his beard and turned his head with a smile, "Your Majesty, what this kid said makes sense. I respectfully ask Your Majesty!"

While speaking, Zhu Yuanzhang turned out from behind. He was wearing a wide Taoist robe and did not wear a robe. Such a dress usually only appeared in the imperial court, which shows how much Lao Zhu attached it to him.

"Liu Chun, just talk!"

"Yes, I obey the order!" Liu Chun cleared his throat, "The Xu family took merchants as their business. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, because the imperial court implemented a tax-bearing system, the Xu family clinged to the powerful and gained the power to collect taxes, thus accumulating a lot of wealth."

The tax laws of the Yuan Dynasty were the most stringent in history. As we all know, the Yuan Dynasty was financially managed by Seme people. These Seme people were the best at lending and operating.

They estimated in advance how much tax should be paid for one industry in a place and one industry. The designated merchants first handed over the tax to the court, and then the merchants levyed taxes to the people.

If officials collect taxes, they may charge 35% or more, but if merchants collect taxes, they will not increase by three or five times, they will be considered the Bodhisattva’s mind!

The Xu family was not qualified to collect taxes directly, but they were shameless and gave a daughter to a Semi as a concubine, and finally got some power to collect taxes.

By squeezing the people, they made the first fortune and bought a lot of land, like a powerful man.

Later, war broke out, and Huang Guan's father went to Chizhou to do business and owed the Xu family money. The Xu family wanted to force debts, but found that Huang Guan's father was good-looking, smart, and had studied. This was so important, because the rebel army in various places was surging, and the banner of overthrowing the Yuan Dynasty had been raised.

It is easy for them to get into trouble when they get involved with Semi people.

So the Xu family hired a son-in-law.

Dad Huang helped the Xu family to handle some things and gave gifts to the rebels, which escaped the disaster.

It is precisely because of this incense that Huang Guan studied with the children of the Xu family when he was a child. Otherwise, he would have a child like his family, and he would still be counting on taking the imperial examination and dreaming about taking the imperial examination!

"Your Majesty, since entering this dynasty, the Xu family was still quite honest at first, but with peace in the world, they had more and more children, many of them, and they even entered the county and government offices and became minor officials. This is the first step for the Xu family to reopen their teeth!"

"Originally, according to the court's regulations, Xu's family had a lot of money and should be the chief of grain. However, the Xu family relied on the people in the yamen to push the chief of grain to other families who were not rich!"

Lao Zhu's face looked ugly!

Grain chief was his invention!

Zhu Yuanzhang loves the people, there is no need to doubt this, but sometimes he does bad things with kindness.

Take taxation as an example. Lao Zhu was worried that officials would take the opportunity to take the opportunity to collect grain to the grain chief. The so-called grain chief means that in a grain district, usually ten thousand stones of land taxes are a grain district. In the grain district, a family with a lot of digits and a lot of grain acts as a grain chief, responsible for collecting and escorting tax grain and sending it to the capital.

And this grain chief is also hereditary.

Obviously, it's not a good job.

First of all, it is very troublesome to collect grain, and it has to be delivered to the capital on time, which is even more troublesome.

The losses along the way, the livestock and the people may die on the road, but the court will not care about these.

Naturally, the Xu family pushed the grain chief to others. They were unwilling to be responsible for collecting grain, but they were extremely interested in land. Through continuous mergers, the land they had already exceeded 5,000 acres.

In Chizhou, he is also a middle-aged and upper-class wealthy family. In recent years, the children of the Xu family have been admitted to the exam.

A scholar can be exempted from two stones of taxes and two men to labor service.

The amount of taxes paid by the Xu family is getting smaller and smaller, and the wealth accumulated is getting more and more.

They gradually became unsatisfied with being a powerful man on one side, and they wanted to reach the capital.

Just then, Huang Guan passed the exam and passed the top scorer, so the Xu family thought of borrowing his name, accepting the offer, and quickly accumulating land.

"Your Majesty, according to the inspection, the Xu family has more than 5,600 acres of land, of which more than 270 tenants were farmed for them. This time, Lord Huang passed the top scorer and had an official position, and according to the rules of the court, he could raise family servants. These more than 200 tenants would become Xu family servants. From then on, the court's Huangcai had no such people, and they only did things for the Xu family!"

"Absurd! It's unreasonable!"

Zhu Yuanzhang was so angry that he slapped the table, "No wonder I looked at some places. I have been in charge of the country for more than 20 years, but Dingkou has not increased, and even decreased! It turned out that they have become their slaves!"

Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly looked at Tang He with anger and said angrily: "Duke Xinguo, how many servants are there in your home? Do you not even pay the tribute to the court? And Jiang Yan, where is your home?"
Chapter completed!
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