Zhu Yunyu held Liujin's hand and quietly walked through the courtyard in the Forbidden City.

The little hand in the palm of the palm is fleshy. Although it is small, it suddenly feels extremely relieved and warm, and even a kind of power lingers in my heart.

This should be the feeling of blood, and it should be the echo of the closest relatives of the flesh and blood.

The two of them quietly walked through the imperial garden where the old man liked to stroll, through the magnificent Fengtian Palace, through the Yong'an Palace where old things were as good as before, and through the one-acre and three-point land that the old man had cultivated.

The night wind blows gently.

Jiji...

Gugu...

The sound of insects and frogs kept coming from the one-acre three-point land that the old man had fiddled with.

The rice in the paddy fields has grown to the knees. Looking down at the night, it looks like waves surging.

"Father!" Liu Jin whispered softly, "Don't move these places, shouldn't you?"

Zhu Yunxi looked down at him, smiling and saying nothing.

"When autumn comes, you bring your son to harvest, just like when the ancestor is there!" Liu Jin tilted his head, his eyes were crystal clear, "Take your younger brothers and aunts with you, and the whole family happily harvested rice, and then ate buns, noodles and rice by the rice fields!"

Speaking of this, Liu Jin turned around and looked at the Yong'an Palace where the lights were flashing beside him, "I can never move here. What will happen when the ancestor is there and what will happen in the future. But people need to come and clean it every day, and the ancestor likes to clean it!"

"Okay!" Zhu Yunxiu said softly, pinching his son's little face and asking with a smile, "Why can't you move?"

"Because..." Liu Jin tilted his mouth and almost cried, "Son was afraid! My son was afraid that everyone would move here and change. When he thought of the ancestor in the future, what he said would not match the things in his mind!"

Zhu Yunxiu felt sad, "Good boy, I haven't loved you forever!"

Suddenly, Liujin's eyes were bright and he pointed to the horizon, "Father, look, that star is so bright!" As he said that, he turned around and hugged Zhu Yunxiu's waist, raised his head, "You said, is that the ancestor?"

Zhu Yunxi smiled, "Aren't you a bachelor telling you that if a person dies, is he dead?"

"No, that must be the ancestor!" Liu Jin nodded vigorously, "Son, I believe you, the ancestor must have become the brightest star in the sky!" Then, he turned around and pointed at the countless stars in the sky, "Those, those..."

Zhu Yunxiu squatted down, "All those are the ancestors?"

"Those are old people who leave the world like the ancestor!" Liu Jin said solemnly with a stern face, "They all turned into stars!"

Zhu Yunxiu also looked at the stars in the sky, "Then why did they become stars, not anything else?"

"Because only the stars appear at night to illuminate the night sky!" Liu Jin clapped his hands gently, "They are afraid of their sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons. Therefore, they appear at night to give light between the heaven and the earth."

Speaking of this, Liujin clasped his hands together, "Old ancestor, all the stars, bless the descendants of the world, and be healthy and have nothing to do!"

At first, Zhu Yunxiu felt a little funny, but the next second he clasped his hands together and said to himself, "Grandpa Emperor, the Spirit of Heaven bless the earth, the Ming Dynasty, and the grandson!"

(Hospitalized, surgery tomorrow!)

~~

The night gradually passed, and dawn was coming again in the sky.

Outside the huge Meridian Gate, there was only Li Zhigang alone.

It was the first time he had been an official in nearly thirty years, and it was the first time he was summoned so early by the emperor alone so early.

Logically speaking, he should be thrilling at this moment, but now his real feelings deep in his mind are indeed extremely nervous.

Even more nervous than when I was the first to take the Jinshi exam!

Follow the guards through the outer court, retreated in front of the imperial garden, and replaced them with a young eunuch in green.

It was not really dawn yet, so the little eunuch was still holding a gauze lantern in his hand.

Li Zhigang's heart was beating randomly with the shadows on the ground, and his breathing was rapid.

"It's here!" The little eunuch stood in front of Lezhizhai, finished speaking softly, and slowly retreated.

At this time, Li Zhi had just reacted and said quickly, "I'm working-in-law!"

"Mr. Li is here!" The turtlema came out of Le Zhizhai and said with a smile, "Long live for you, come with the miscellaneous family!"

"I'm sorry, the chief executive!" Li Zhigang quickly clasped his fists.

The big manager made the turtle's shameful eyebrows jump slightly, and the smile on his face became stronger, "Mr. Master is joking, what is the manager of the family?"

"If you are not the chief manager, who is the chief manager?" Li Zhigang continued to smile.

~~

In the bedroom, Zhu Yunyu had just gotten up, wearing a bright yellow dress and black hair were casually draped behind her head.

He sat in front of the mirror, followed by the light, squinted his eyes and looked at the memorials that had not been reviewed yesterday, with a serious expression.

"My minister, Li Zhigang, the Minister of Rites, please bow to the emperor!"

When Zhu Yunyu heard the sound, his eyes turned around, and a figure was kneeling outside the threshold of the bedroom.

He slowly put down the memorial in his hand, picked up a cup of tea on the mirror stage in front of him, and took a sip.

The emperor did not ask him to flatten, and Li Zhigang's body fell even lower.

Looking out from the bedroom, his butt was taller than his head.

"You handled the case of the Confucius family in Shandong!"

The emperor's voice echoed in the quiet hall, although light but majestic.

"Yes!" Li Zhigang said hurriedly, "I was ordered to hear the case of the Kong family's occupation of civil land in Qufu that day!"

"Yeah!" Zhu Yunxiu put down the teacup, "What do you think?"

What do you think?

Li Zhigang was stunned and didn't understand why, but he still said, "The descendants of the Kong family are from saints, and have been burdened with the grace of heaven for generations. They should have followed the words of the saints, abide by the rules of the ministers, and set an example for scholars all over the world. However, they have become a thief who oppresses the people, makes money and gains fame through the name of their ancestors! In my opinion, it is a serious crime of disloyalty, filial piety and disrespect!"

He didn't know the emperor's real intention, but he thought that the more he could scold the Kong family, the better.

"Yeah!" he continued to think about it, "Actually, in my opinion, the handling of this case is quite light!" As he said, he kowtowed heavily, "I am confused, thinking about the face of the saint, and thinking about giving the descendants of the saint a room, so I didn't follow it to the end!"

Zhu Yunxiu narrowed his eyes, and no one could see his expression clearly.

"There is something that I'm very strange!" He seemed to have no concern about what Li Zhigang said at all. Whether the handling was lighter or more serious, and continued, "Why hasn't a local official reported the affairs of the Kong family been reported in recent years? No censor impeached?"

"This..." In an instant, a layer of cold sweat broke out from Li Zhigang's back.

"I have read the memorial of the Kong family's embezzlement of the fields over the years!" Zhu Yunxiu said lightly again, "I was shocked when I didn't look at it. In addition to the land in their public center, the land that was only hung under the names of the Kong family's houses was as high as 10,000 acres!"

As he said that, he paused, "These lands are all subject to the privilege of Yan Shenggong, and they have no taxes. But I heard that the real owners of the land under the name of the Kong family have to pay them a tax-free money every year!"

Speaking of this, Zhu Yunxiu turned his head suddenly and looked at Li Zhigang, "Is it?"

"It's true to be back to the emperor!" Li Zhigang was a little panicked and could not keep up with the pace of the emperor's speech, so he could only speak quickly. "When hearing this case, I found that many people hung the fields in the names of the Kong family's houses for tax exemption. Therefore, when the ministers dealt with, they were all dealt with according to the fields embezzled and annexed fields by the Kong family, and they were all converted into official fields. Now the land deeds are in the hands of the Shandong Provincial Administration, and they are ready to sell them to the people in the autumn!"

As he said that, he couldn't help but sweat, "In fact, this kind of thing is common. Not only Yan Shenggong's family, but officials and scholars can be exempted from taxes. There are many wealthy families in the people who are not willing to pay imperial grain, giving them a small amount of money to save them every year... "

Suddenly, Li Zhigang's heart skipped a beat.

He said something he shouldn't have said!
Chapter completed!