The Red Mansions

Chapter 1014 How can the disadvantages be solved if the practice is applied to the whole country?

Ningguo Mansion

The sky was dark at dusk, and a round of bright and bright moon had climbed the top of the sycamore tree at some point, and the moonlight shone in the courtyard.

Sure enough, when Jia Heng entered the study room, which was brightly lit like daylight, he saw a girl with a slender figure and a beautiful temperament behind the desk.

Chen Xiao was holding a book, flipping through it pretendingly, when she saw the young man, she frowned, her clear eyes flickered coldly, and said, "This is back."

Just now, I went to Zhuijin Tower, and then turned to Daoxiang Village when I came back.

Jia Heng sized up the girl, looking at the girl uncomfortably, glanced at the dirt on the boots, and said softly: "Xiaoxiao is getting more and more unaware."

Just now Xiaoxiao clearly went to help him watch the wind again.

He now suspects that Xiaoxiao installed a positioning on him.

Actually, Jia Heng guessed right, Jia Heng was marked with a special fragrance by Chen Xiao.

Chen Xiao snorted coldly, with a slight blush on her cheeks, and said mockingly: "It's because you don't know how to behave.

Holding someone in front of the deceased husband's relics, thanks to you, can you do it?It's just ridiculous.

Jia Heng came to the front, picked up the teacup, took a sip lightly, as if nothing had happened, and said in a gentle voice: "Is there any new information about Jinyi Mansion today?"

Chen Xiaoqing said in a clear voice: "Your memorial was handed over to the palace, and once the four new policies came out, the whole capital is now in an uproar, and all the officials in Beijing will discuss it."

Jia Heng put down the teacup in his hand, looked deeply, and said: "Discussions are inevitable, maybe in the past few days there are Ke Dao censors who oppose the new policy, calling it a tyrannical policy."

Chen Xiao raised her eyes to look at the young man, and said, "It's a big wedding these few days, so you should be quiet, really Xianning and Chanyue won't be jealous?"

This is a double entendre.

Jia Heng smiled, looked into those eyes that looked like a stream of clear water, and said, "Xiaoxiao must be jealous."

Chen Xiaoyu blushed slightly, and said angrily, "Who will eat your jealousy."

If you are jealous, you can't finish eating every day.

Chen Xiao was silent for a moment, then changed the subject and said, "The four new policies of yours will soon be spread all over the country. Are you really going to implement the whole country? Will it attract opposition from the people of the world?"

Not to mention anything else, as far as the clearing of the farmland is concerned, it is estimated that the gentry all over the world will retaliate.

Jia Heng said firmly: "It is both a danger and an opportunity. At first I was skeptical, but the arrow is on the line, and I have to launch it. Whether it is implemented nationwide, this is a national policy that will surely succeed."

At that time, it is bound to gain great political prestige.

Chen Xiao said: "You have to be careful yourself, if it is done, everyone will be happy."

Jia Heng took the girl's plain hand and said with relief: "Don't worry, as long as you work steadily and steadily, from small to large, the New Deal will definitely come true."

The two were talking, Qingwen entered the study, and called Jia Heng to take a bath, and Jia Heng went to take a bath without further words.

When I came back from the Grand View Garden before, I ordered the servant girl to look for mandarin ducks, so I won't go there today.

Grand View Garden, Daoxiang Village

After Jia Heng left, Li Wan's face was as beautiful as a flower, with a rosy charm from her cheeks to her eyes, and a thrilling and charming charm from the corners of her brows and eyes that were originally gentle as water.

The beautiful eyes of the young woman in Huaxin looked at the banner hanging on the bookcase, and her eyes couldn't help falling on the wet and messy seal. add.

Secretly said a grievance.

After arranging her dress, she walked towards the embroidered couch in the inner room with her body as soft as a silkworm. As the beauty walked, she suddenly felt something strange.

At this moment, the personal maids Suyun and Biyue blushed, entered the room lightly, quickly opened the window, dispersed the smelly atmosphere, and put ice cream and agarwood into the smoke cage, and the ignited green The smoke filled the room with a faint aroma.

Li Wan was half lying on the bed, with his neck leaning against one of the pillows, the bun on his head was scattered a lot, his face was as red as rouge, his nose and temples were profuse with sweat, his mouth was slightly breathless, and he lost his mind for a while.

Suddenly, he let out a soft sigh.

"Grandma, this one..." Suyun blushed and said in a trembling voice.

"Put it away." Li Wan said weakly, feeling extremely ashamed and annoyed.

She was really ashamed in front of Uncle Heng.

Uncle Heng will trample her to death in the future.

Suyun was a little curious, and murmured: "Grandma, it's all been soaked in water."

Li Wan was lying lazily. Hearing this, her heart was filled with embarrassment and annoyance. She spat secretly, and said in her sweet voice, which seemed to have a trembling cry, "Then roll it up as you like."

She needs to slow down now, her legs are weak and her heart is flustered.

This calligraphy and painting can no longer be hung.

The beauty calmed down her shortness of breath, closed her eyes slightly, it seemed that the unforgettable entanglement to death reappeared in her heart, and finally turned into a flow suspected to be the Milky Way, her mind became more restless and her heart was ashamed.

That person likes to abuse her.

She is also... for Lan Er.

However, that person's soft words and fondness just now entangled the beauty's heart like a mess.

Li Wan opened her beautiful eyes, her plump and charming cheeks were slightly hot, and she sighed again.

After the two maidservants cleaned up the mess, Bi Yue said, "Grandma, the hot water has already been prepared."

Li Wan gave a soft "hmm", got up, looked at the calligraphy and paintings that had not been put away by the bookcase, and said in a trembling voice: "Suyun, put those...all away."

Looking at those words now, my heart is in a mess.

Hearing the words, Suyun was stunned for a moment, and immediately called Biyue to put away the calligraphy and paintings.

Time flies, and before you know it, several days pass by. Jia Heng's marriage with Princess Xianning and Princess Qinghe is getting closer, and Jia Heng is also fully preparing for the wedding ceremony. It has fermented rapidly, and the city is full of wind and rain.

And when there was a lot of noise in the city of Shenjing over the imperial examination fraud case and the Four New Deals——

Jinling, Yamen of Governor-General of Liangjiang

It was the morning hour of the day, and the golden morning light fell on the well-organized official buildings, and the small officials in the courtyard came and went, looking busy.

The birds in the courtyard are chirping non-stop, accompanied by occasional cicadas.

Gao Zhongping just finished his breakfast, sat in the hall of the back house, picked up the teacup with blue auspicious clouds, and told the little official: "Go to the post station, and report to the mansion that was delivered in the nearest city of Shenjing, and come over."

Hearing the words, the little official turned around and left.

Gao Zhongping took a sip of tea, the ruby ​​ring in his hand was shining brightly under the sunlight, this favorite of Emperor Chongping, the current governor of Liangjiang is nearly fifty years old, with a tall and burly figure, with a black beard under his jaw, majestic and solemn On the condensed face, it is full of years of wind and frost, with deep nasolabial folds, and there is a little thought in the tiger's eyes under the thick eyebrows.

At this time, there were two officials who looked like literati sitting across from each other. One was a middle-aged scholar in his thirties. He was Gao Zhongping's staff member Kuang Shouzheng. color.

Kuang Shouzheng said first: "Dong Weng, once the memorial is up, the imperial court will definitely turn against Yingtian, especially the gentry from the south of the Yangtze River. They are used to living a good life. Now they are under the control of the government, and they are even more angry. Students I heard that the central imperial censor is full of bullets, so everything depends on how the central sage decides."

Another old man with a goatee, Wu Xiancheng, twirled his beard with his hands, and said, "Dong Weng, if a whip can be effective in Sichuan, it can also work here. If the two rivers are popular, then the whole country will be promoted. Wealth will no longer be burdened by embarrassment.”

Gao Zhongping nodded and said: "The two rivers and the three provinces are the provinces of the world. If they can be successful in advance, other provinces in the world will be able to do so."

At this moment, a servant from the outside entered the hall, cupped his hands and said, "Zaotai, a letter from the third son from Beijing."

It turned out that Gao Yong was imprisoned in Jinyi Mansion for a day, and was released by Jia Heng. When he returned to the mansion, he was very angry. At the suggestion of Zhongshun King Chen Hong, he wrote a letter and sent it to Gao Zhongping in the south of the Yangtze River. Here, explain why.

Gao Zhongping was surprised, took the letter from the guard, read it, and read the words on the letterhead, frowning involuntarily.

Kuang Shouzheng looked concerned, and asked, "Dong Weng?"

Gao Zhongping put the letter back into the envelope, met the gazes of several people with a calm face, and said slowly: "It's nothing, because Gao Yong was drunk, he was asked by Jinyi Mansion in the capital, and he wrote a letter for such a trivial matter. "

At this time Gao Bo, the second son of the Gao family, was startled when he heard the words, got up quickly, saluted Gao Zhongping and said, "Father, may I read the third brother's family letter?"

Gao Zhongping looked normal, nodded, and handed over the letter.

Gao Bo took the letter and read it intently. Not long after, he frowned and said angrily, "This Duke of Wei is so domineering? The third brother only made a few words to offend him, and let this man get into the Jinyi Mansion. It's really great." Official authority!"

In the letter, it is natural to avoid the important and ignore the minor, mentioning that he was just drunk and speechless for a while, which offended Jia Heng, and then Jia Heng took advantage of Jinyi Mansion's authority to imprison Gao Yong in Jinyi Mansion.

In a few words, a domineering young man named Xungui who is proud of his achievements is outlined.

Gao Zhongping was also the favored minister of Emperor Chongping back then, and he was also the favored minister who helped Emperor Chongping participate in the seizure of the heir. It can be said that he has a close relationship with the Chen Han royal family, but now he is in Sichuan and Liangjiang, but his son is arrested and taken to Jinyi Mansion.

After Gao Zhongping read the letter, his expression was as usual, but Gao Bo received the letter, but he was already furious and aggrieved.

Gao Bo's eyes surged with anger, and he said in a deep voice: "Father has been away from the capital for ten years, and I don't want such a person to appear in the capital.

"Shut up!" Gao Zhongping frowned, looked at Gao Bo with gloomy eyes, and shouted, "How dare Lizi be rude?"

Gao Bo was frightened, cupped his hands and said, "Father."

At this time, Kuang Shouzheng tried to smooth things over and persuaded: "Dong Weng, the Second Young Master is also thinking about the Third Young Master for a while, so that's why he is so impatient."

Gao Zhongping frowned, and said: "Duke Wei is an important minister of the country, the head of the captive chieftain, sweeping away the tendency of my big man to fall, I know Yong'er's temperament, reckless and shameless,"

In fact, I also deduced the reason in my heart, I'm afraid it has something to do with the marriage bestowed by the emperor that has recently spread all over the country.

Princess Xianning was betrothed to Duke Nawei by the Holy Majesty, and Yonger had taken a fancy to Princess Xianning a few years ago, but she was an imperial daughter after all, and originally wanted to find a good opportunity to help Yonger propose a marriage, and did not want Nawei The Duke of the State is the first to arrive.

Gao Zhongping said: "Mr. Kuang, remind me later and write a letter."

The letter was not meant to comfort Gao Yong, but to reprimand him, telling him to study hard at home.

Seeing Gao Zhongping, all the staff didn't think it was disobedient, and it was not good to talk about it.

Kuang Shouzheng said: "Dong Weng, merchants from the Suzhou Prefecture in Jiangsu Province have been collaborating frequently recently. According to the students, they seem to be making some noise to stop Dong Weng's whipping."

Wu Xiancheng said: "Dong Weng, as the civil servants went down to the prefectures and counties, the local gentry and small officials who rejected Qingzhang Tianmu and a whip law colluded with each other, and it was inevitable that they would coerce the people into trouble. Time to intervene."

These days, the Liangjiang governor's yamen sent five or six waves of working groups to prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of Jiangsu to preside over the new policy of clearing Zhang Tianmu and implementing a whipping law.

Undoubtedly, the actions of Qingzhang Tianmu aroused strong opposition from the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River. The gentry coerced the people to besiege the county officials, and the work could not be carried out for a time.

These gentry families were originally well-rooted in the local area, and they were senior officials, and even their young children were officials in the county and township. How can this be implemented?

But Gao Zhongping is Gao Zhongping, who used his authority as the governor of Liangjiang to dismiss all officials who resisted the one-whip law. Before he came to Jiangnan to take office, he had already transferred many officials and civil servants from Sichuan to serve as part of the New Deal. .

At that time, Gao Zhongping still got the tacit approval of Emperor Chongping.

All of a sudden, the political situation in the south of the Yangtze River was turbulent, changing three times a day.

In fact, in the past month, there have been two or three group incidents, and the pace of implementing the one whip method has slowed down a little.

Gao Zhongping said in a deep voice: "I have already asked Shenjing for an order to take back the power of Jiangnan Daying. I think there will be an urgent reply in the near future."

Kuang Shouzheng nodded, and said: "A whip method is a good method that will never be easy. When the two rivers and three provinces are spread, how much money will be reduced by my big man. Only the treasury is abundant. They can all do it with ease.”

Wu Xiancheng said: "Dong Weng's achievements in getting rid of the old and bringing in the new, and getting rid of the old evils will make his name go down in history and last forever."

After the success, it will probably return to Beijing with a reputation.

Gao Zhongping was silent for a moment, then sighed: "I don't dare to leave a name in history, I only hope to support Yulong, clean up the bad government for His Majesty, and report the favor of the king."

Kuang Shouzheng looked concerned, and reminded: "It's just that Dong Weng will slander him if he does this."

Gao Zhongping smiled and said: "The Duke of Wei once read two poems, and I think so."

Everyone looked at Gao Zhongping one after another, even his son Gao Bo frowned and looked at his father suspiciously.

Why did the father mention that Wei Guogong in such a good manner?

"Gou Li..." Gao Zhongping recited the poem lightly, with a few complicated expressions on his majestic and solemn face.

Jia Heng, a rising star who has been well-known in the Han Dynasty for the past three years, Gao Zhongping naturally knows him well, and he is also the emperor's favorite minister. Gao Zhongping has also thought about Jia Heng.

Undoubtedly, the general is unparalleled, able to fight well, and has been able to win the battle against the Eastern captives several times. Not long ago, he even bombarded Huang Taiji, and the slave chieftain was dedicated to the Taimiao. Before, irreplaceable!

Although Gao Zhongping boasted that he might not be defeated in the face of Donglu, Jia Heng could only be convinced by this series of brilliant victories.

Kuang Shouzheng said: "Now that the Duke of Wei returned to Beijing triumphantly, the war in the north has stopped, and the foreign aggression has just disappeared. It is time to take advantage of a big victory to eliminate internal worries. This is the right time to rejuvenate the Han Dynasty. Dong Weng is now practicing a whip in the south of the Yangtze River. , when it is a big success, I hope that the great man will flourish."

Wu Xiancheng twirled his beard with his hands, and said with a smile: "Brother Kuang said exactly that those stubborn people who stand in the way of Huanghuang's general trend can only bow their heads in front of this general trend."

Gao Zhongping said: "The Beijing Central Committee's review is probably coming soon."

According to his understanding of the emperor, the emperor will definitely agree to implement a whip method in the south of the Yangtze River.

While everyone was discussing, the little official went back and said, "Zhitai, this is the report from the post just now."

Gao Zhongping's face was slightly condensed, and he quickly took the mansion newspaper from the hand of the little official, and quickly read the words on the mansion newspaper, his eyes gradually filled with surprise.

Kuang Shouzheng was slightly surprised, and called out, "Make the platform."

Gao Zhongping put down the mansion newspaper in his hand, with a complex expression on his face, he said: "A lot of big things have happened during the period between Beijing and Central."

Without waiting for everyone to inquire, Gao Zhongping said: "Ten days ago, the imperial examination fraud in Beijing broke out. Fang Huan, the minister of rites, was dismissed for leaking the test questions, and Zhao Mo, the chief examiner and cabinet scholar, was fined for the crime of negligence. One year, he was reprimanded to leave the cabinet and returned to the board of directors, the Holy Majesty has decided to retake the exam, and will hold another Enke on August [-]th of this year."

As soon as this remark came out, everyone at the scene applauded their foreheads and said with open smiles: "Dong Weng, this is really a timely rain."

The Zhejiang Party not only has deep roots in the three southeastern provinces, but also has a large number of party members. In the capital, it has a large number of people in the cabinet. Even the chief assistant on the spot is a Jiangnan scholar.

Gao Zhongping said: "They are limited by their regional views, and they don't know that the world is one region, and China is self-contained, and they don't seek the foundation of the world."

Several staff members in the hall nodded and agreed.

Kuang Shouzheng's eyes lit up, and he suddenly remembered something, and said, "Dong Weng, as a result, the Zhejiang Party is deeply involved in the imperial examination fraud case, and it will no longer be able to stop me from advancing the new law in the south of the Yangtze River. The opportunity is once in a thousand years."

Wu Xiancheng said: "It is for this reason that the scholars in the south of the Yangtze River have more candidates for the middle school of each subject than the scholars in the north. I don't want to be greedy enough. In important matters such as the national talent promotion ceremony, they still use the method of leaking questions. It is tolerable or unbearable to use clever means to deceive the superior and the inferior, after this incident, the scholars of the world cast aside, let's see how they have the face to obstruct the great government of the court?"

Immediately Gao Zhongping picked up the other side of the mansion newspaper and began to flip through it. Just after flipping through it, his complexion suddenly changed.

Because Jia Heng's four memorials occupied a page, at this moment, those four memorials were impressively written in the mansion newspaper.

"On the absence of a whip."

Gao Zhongping frowned, and looked at the memorandum, only to see that the memorandum pointed out several disadvantages in the implementation of a whip method, including the fire consumption of casting silver, the transfer of floating expenses, the price of silver and the price of grain... and a series of defects.

Directly pointing out its disadvantages can be said to hit the nail on the head.

After Gao Zhongping finished reading, his face was solemn, and he was sitting upright, with a layer of sweat seeping out of his back at some point.

One whip method has such flaws, and one or two of them can be seen in Bashu.

Later, the summary of the statement: "If you travel to Bashu, you can still avoid the disadvantages of lack of silver if you use the whole country's silver to transport it. If you travel to the whole country, how can you solve the disadvantages?"

Gao Zhongping took a breath.

If the Duke of Wei clearly opposes a whip method, with his influence on the emperor in the center, I am afraid that a whip method will have a long way to go.

However, when he looked down, he was startled.

I saw it mentioned above, "For this reason, the worries of lack of money can be solved by abolishing the two reforms and reforming the yuan, and returning the fire to the public to prepare the treacherous officials to deceive the upper and lower, which can solve the two problems."

Gao Zhongping was shocked at this moment, and continued to read, which detailed the content of the policy of returning the fire consumption to the public, abolishing the two and changing the yuan.

Gao Zhongping's expression froze slightly, his eyes widened, and he was inexplicably shocked.

"Dong Weng." Kuang Shou looked concerned and asked softly.

At this moment, Gao Zhongping's black beard under his chin was trembling slightly, he almost couldn't wait to look down, and when the handwriting came into view, his heart trembled even more.

Among them, a new policy was mentioned, "Everything goes to the mu!"

This method can be said to be a sharp sword when used in conjunction with Qingzhang's fields, and it is not a problem to quadruple the revenue of the treasury.

Gao Zhongping stopped reading, only to feel that his cheeks were reddish, his eyes were fixed, and his head was a little dizzy. It was obvious that he held his breath just now and read it all at once, even a little lack of oxygen.

Seeing this, Kuang Shouzheng and Wu Xiancheng looked at each other in blank dismay, their appetites already whetted.

"The talent of the Duke of Wei has the strength of heaven and earth." Gao Zhongping saw silence on his majestic face, his tiger eyes were aggressive, and he suddenly felt emotional, and even felt a sense of discouragement in his heart.

There is such a talented Wang Zuo in the world?And it's not as weak as the crown, and besides, it's even slightly unparalleled in military affairs?

Gao Zhongping didn't have Xu Lu's thoughts for a while, and he was quite surprised that this son's talent was beyond the reach of a minister.

In fact, this is the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which stands in the lower reaches of history and claims to be the culmination of the feudal dynasty. It can be said that it has laid a solid foundation for the prosperity of Qianlong.

Being sold by Jia Heng in a package at this moment, the shock caused is extraordinary and comparable.

At this moment, Kuang Shouzheng and Wu Xiancheng were already attracted by Gao Zhongping's surprised expression, staring at the residence newspaper in Gao Zhongping's hand.

"Dong Weng, did the mansion newspaper mention the recent court situation?" Kuang Shouzheng asked with concern on his elegant face.

Gao Zhongping turned around, and said softly, "You all should take a look, too."

As he spoke, he delivered the residence newspaper in his hand to the little official beside him.

The little official took the mansion newspaper, turned around and circulated it to Kuang Shouzheng, Gao Xiancheng and other staff.

And Gao Zhongping picked up the teacup on the side, took a sip, and thought about Jia Heng.