Spring is here, and it’s a good season for all things to flourish.

The little girls in the main hall who felt that they had no chance to meet the emperor's grandson all turned their attention to the young talents in the Wenhua Hall.

Not only did Kong Yanjin have a confidante, but Chang Jizu, the eldest fool of the Chang family, also found a daughter of a lowly official from a humble family to greet him.

The official positions of the imperial court can separate civil and military affairs, and the imperial system can separate the powerful and the poor.

But Aiqing treats everyone equally...

If you like it, you will like it, and if you don't like it, you won't like it to death.

In the prosperous Jinling City, love stories of the man's love and his concubine's love are happening all the time.

With the opening of the Gongyuan gate and the participation of a group of young students, this spring-filled love game seems to have taken on a new evolution.

The only thing that didn't change was that Zhu Yunxi was busy writing documents every day, as if he didn't care at all about the affairs of men and women.

Apart from the mistress who occasionally walks her dog for a walk, she seems to have never had any contact with the opposite sex.

This made Lao Zhu worried and anxious. He wished he could just stuff dozens of women into his house so that he could have his great-grandson in the new year.

However, it is useless even if Lao Zhu is anxious. If he does not send Zhu Yunwen away, he will not be able to take care of Zhu Yunxi's affairs.

Fortunately, after the Chang family's daughter made such a fuss, Zhu Yunxi finally let go of Zhu Yunwen's marriage, giving him more room for maneuver.

It's just that the eldest girl of the Chang family has broken up with the Chang family and Zhu Yunxi, so is this marriage still useful?

Will this rebellious grandson of his own be able to spare the lives of his own brothers in the future for the sake of the sister of the Chang family? Lao Zhu was murmuring in his heart again, feeling as if he had done something to shoot a stone in the foot.

Fortunately, there were a group of corrupt officials who let him vent his anger. He killed a few today and a few tomorrow, finally giving him a place to vent his anger. Although officials and gentry of the Ming Dynasty had many ways to avoid taxes, they still had to look at who they were facing.

Lao Zhu didn't recognize anything but the national land account book that his grandson made for him.

Although the account books only show the number of acres in each county and do not specify each household. But this is not important. He taxes taxes based on the number of acres in each county.

For example, if a county has 10,000 hectares of land, it will levy a tax of 10,000 hectares.

As for the local magistrates and lower-level subordinates, he didn't care about how they cheated and sent messages. Anyway, he would kill the local officials wherever there was a civil unrest.

Under Lao Zhu's harsh punishments, local officials gradually found a balance point. That is, they can tolerate large households and put their own fields under the names of ordinary people, but the number cannot be too many. Once the critical point of corruption is reached,

, the county magistrate will intervene and forcibly withhold part of the tax in the name of the wealthy family.

At the same time, the tax transfer issue has also been eased. Lao Zhu directly fixed the landowner's tenant rent to death, and he could collect up to 20%, which could never exceed the national tax.

If anyone dares to raise taxes privately, local people are allowed to send the landlords to the county government for punishment!

Lao Zhu's one-size-fits-all approach certainly had many problems, but combined with his butcher's knife, it also brought a sense of solemnity to the local people, and ushered in great peace in the entire Ming Dynasty.

Lao Zhu has now tasted the benefits. In the past, he was afraid that when he made a fish scale atlas, he would be fooled, and he would hide the population and the land.

Now he can send people to see from the sky, and it is clear where there is more land and less land, and there is no way to deceive them!

At the same time, he also understood more and more the importance of abolishing the poll tax mentioned by Da Sun, because people can move, but land cannot.

As long as he keeps an eye on the land, it doesn't matter where his people go!

When Lao Zhu vigorously rectified the officialdom and reformed the Ming Dynasty's tax system, the list of Hongwu's twenty-seventh general examination was officially released. Qi Tai read the list several times and confirmed that there was no partiality in this examination. Even the exam given by the emperor's grandson

I didn't even use the small note, and hurriedly took the list to the palace to meet His Majesty the Emperor.

Lao Zhu looked at the list and found no problems, so he ordered him to post it outside the Gongyuan. However, after the list was posted, it immediately caused an uproar.

Those who passed the exam were beaming with joy. Those who failed the exam were like eggplants beaten by frost, with wilted heads and brains.

He looks like he has no love left in his life.

However, they soon discovered their shortcomings.

"Why are all the scholars on the list from the south and none of us from the north?"

"It's unfair for the imperial court to open courses to recruit scholars!"

"The imperial officials are all southerners, and they favor the southerners!"

"Let's go to the palace to meet His Majesty and ask His Majesty to punish the scientific examination fraud case!"

Qi Tai, who was hiding in the crowd, was feeling the cheers of the scholars when he suddenly heard questions from the crowd. He was so frightened that he quickly looked at the scientific examination list.

You won’t know if you don’t look at it, but you will be shocked when you look at it.

On the list for the examination, all of them are southern scholars!

Qitai looked at the angry northern scholars, and his mind suddenly went blank.

This is a big case!

Once His Majesty the Emperor feels that he favors the southern scholars and collaborates with all the examiners to cheat, then his head will definitely move.

It might even involve the three tribes!

Even if Your Majesty does not think that he is partial, if he makes such a big mistake and causes dissatisfaction among the northern scholars, Your Majesty will push him out as a scapegoat!

If during this period there were a few people who took advantage of the situation and wrote a letter of impeachment to expose his fraud, he would be unable to defend himself!

what to do!

You must find a suitable way before Jin Yiwei comes to arrest you!

Qitaisi thought about it and could only think of one person.

The grandson of the emperor!

At this time, only the emperor's grandson can save himself!

Thinking of this, Qi Tai quickly called a carriage and rushed to the emperor's grandson's palace in the northern suburbs.

Qi Tai was right. Not long after he left, the Jin Yiwei people rushed over. After hearing that he was going to the North Palace of the Emperor Taisun, the Jin Yiwei even chased after him on a fast horse.

Qi Tai sat in the carriage and kept urging the driver, fearing that he would be caught by the Jin Yiwei if he ran too slowly.

The coachman was also afraid of the Jin Yiwei, so he drove the carriage with all his strength, and finally sent Qitai into the North Palace just before the Jin Yiwei caught up with him.

Zhu Yunxi was discussing the improvement plan of the steam engine with several technicians from the Hope School, when he suddenly saw Qi Tai barging in without any idea, and he couldn't stop him.

"Mr. Qi, weren't you hosting the audition for Grandpa Huang? Why did you come to me here?"

"Your Majesty, the Emperor's Grandson, something serious has happened. Your Majesty wants to kill the minister!"

"What's wrong?"

As soon as Zhu Yunxi asked this question, he heard the guards outside the door coming to report.

"Your Highness, the brothers of the Jin Yiwei came to report that they came to arrest Qitai on His Majesty's orders. Please make it easier for you!"

Upon hearing this, Zhu Yunxi roared outside the door on the spot.

"Tell them to get out!"

"If Mr. Qi commits a crime, Guzi will take him to surrender, so there is no need for them to arrest him!"

"promise!"

Xu Liuzi received Zhu Yunxi's reply and negotiated with the Jin Yiwei outside the palace on the spot.

"You have all heard it, right? Our Highness has taken over this matter. You can just reply to His Majesty like this when you go back!"

"this……"

"Xu Qianhu, it's not that the brothers don't give me face, it's really that this matter is too big and involves examination fraud!"

When Xu Liuzi heard this, he immediately became unhappy and snorted coldly.

"Can you use your brains?"

"For whom does Your Majesty hold the imperial examination?"

"For whom?"

"Of course it's for our Highness!"

"Our Highnesses are not in a hurry. How could you two be working as errands and providing food?"

"That's right..."

"Your Highness is not in a hurry, so why should we be in a hurry?"

The two Jinyi guards clasped their fists and saluted Xu Liuzi on the spot.

"We both know how to reply, thank you Xu Qianhu for the tip!"

Xu Liuzi sent the two men away and immediately slipped outside the Government Affairs Hall to eavesdrop.

"Your Highness, I swear to God that I will never show any favoritism.

The fraud. Even the note His Highness gave to the minister..."

"Ahem!"

Zhu Yunxi coughed awkwardly and quickly interrupted Qi Tai's words.

"What note!"

"How come you don't know?"
To be continued...