After returning to Huikang, Zhong Zhan and Yuanshuo were not idle, but were pulled by Yuanshuo to continue to go to the countryside around Huikang, calling it a visit to the people's feelings.

Zhong Zhan was as dark as the charcoal head was dry. He finally understood why Zhong Zhan and Yuan Shuo were so dark when they first returned to Huikang.

Zhong Zhan took out the water bag and took a sip. He sat cross-legged on the ground casually in a Hu suit with his sleeves and feet tied his feet. If he had not sat like this before, he would never sit like this. It would have been a disgrace to be honest.

But now I really don't care about it.

"Wenju, what are your plans to go back this time?" Zhong Zhan said with a sip of water. Although it was about to start winter, they ran down every day and their throats seemed to be smoking.

Yuan Shuo stared into the distance and pointed at this, "Daojian, look at the land around him in the name of aristocratic families. Is this reasonable?"

Zhong Zhan knew that it was naturally unreasonable. Even if the land of aristocratic families was enfeoffed, there were still many assets, but every family would purchase or other means to collect the land.

Yuan Shuo looked at Zhong Zhan's silent face, "Look at what life do those people who have lost their land live? Without land, they can only support their families for the noble families. However, after working hard for a year, they have obtained very little food and cannot make ends meet."

Yuan Shuo felt like he was blocked by a rock in his heart because of such a powerful exploitation.

Zhong Zhan finally said, "Maybe I don't know about it at home, maybe the people below are taking their own initiative."

Yuan Shuo sneered, "Do you believe this from your own words? The land belongs to the names of aristocratic families, and the taxes paid to the court have been greatly reduced. If the government's income is low, the taxes will naturally be increased. In the end, the people will suffer. Why did the Jin Dynasty be unfair, bandits abound, and bandits are endless? They can't survive."

Zhong Zhan said nothing, but his face was very serious. A young man from aristocratic families like him was born with a wealth of clothes and food, and he had a lot of slaves. The people he saw and knew were all of them with the same status as them.

Their feet have never stepped on the countryside, and their eyes have never been noticed by those hard-working natures.

I don’t know the sufferings of the people, but I am talking about people like him.

Now I have seen with my own eyes that the people living on the land step by step, and Zhong Zhan is confused.

This is inconsistent with the books he read, the people he sees, and everything he knows.

"Why are the villages around the Villa Garden better than here?" Zhong Zhan asked Yuan Shuo. Although the people's lives were not easy for him to go to the countryside when he was in Villa Garden, it was still better than what he saw now.

"Because the land around the villa belongs to the imperial village, Your Majesty is kind, the living of the households under the imperial village is naturally better." Yuan Shuo said, "Daojian, tax the imperial court and the family will be added to the imperial court, and the governments in various places will be added to the government. The burden on the people is something you and I can't think of before."

Zhong Zhan was still silent, and his former straight shoulders and neck were also slightly collapsed at this time.

He stared into the distance, as far as Yuan Shuo was just now, the afterglow of the sunset spread on the ground, and the people still worked in the fields.

Fertilization, weeding, and watering rarely rest throughout the year, which makes people feel a little sad.

"Let's go." Yuan Shuo stood up, "It's time for us to go back to the city to report."

Zhong Zhan stood up and sighed quietly, "Wenju, do you know that what you did is not a good deed to the Yuan family. Once this move is carried out in the court, the land under the Yuan family's name will also be reviewed one by one."

"A gentleman does something and does not do anything. Aristocratic families take advantage of the people. Even if the Yuan family should vomit out, they must vomit out. Daojian, can families like you and me not be able to live if they return the extra land to the people?"

Zhong Zhan shook his head, of course he could, but he probably wouldn't be as comfortable, free and luxurious as he is now.

"When you are feasting and eating every day, you think of the people in the fields wearing ragged clothes and unable to eat, and watching the toddlers with pale faces and skinny faces... Thinking about them having nothing to wear, having nothing to eat, not being able to go to school, and being illiterate, and having to live with only facing the loess and backs to the sky for the rest of their lives. Why are they different from being a human being?"

Yuan Shuo said the pain in his heart, his eyes were slightly red, he looked up at the sky, and after a while, he said, "Daojian, I am just a member of the people in the world, and my strength is small, but I am willing to do what I want to do. Even if it is difficult, I want to try hard. You should go to Yuzhou to see you. When you come back from Yuzhou, I think you will understand my mood at this time."

Zhong Zhan didn't know what mysterious thing was in Yuzhou. Yuan Shuo seemed to have a very different feeling for Yuzhou. After thinking about it, he said, "Okay, I'll go."

Yuan Shuo smiled and looked at Zhong Zhan, "The sage once said that everyone is the public, and the world is in harmony. I can't do that, but I am willing to give it a try. I hope you can still fight side by side with me after you come back from your Yuzhou."

Zhong Zhan:...

Just looking at Yuan Shuo like this, it was a bit scary. The feeling was very strange. You knew that what you were doing would be detrimental to your family, but you could not ignore the deep feelings in your heart.

He did not agree with the great harmony of the world, but the people were in such a difficult situation.

In Huzhou, he wanted to go even more.

Zhong Zhan is still worried about his future life path, and his family is also making noise about his marriage.

Mrs. Zhong likes Li Chaying very much and agrees with this marriage, but because of the Li family's definite queen party, Zhong Chuo is a little disliked by this marriage.

When Mrs. Zhong got the message from a matchmaker, she knew that the Li family was dissatisfied. She thought to calm the matter down quickly and then she asked her husband to discuss it.

Zhong Chuo looked bad and looked at his wife and said, "Then Li Huan is not a good person. Even if he becomes a relative, he may not be in the same relationship with the Zhong family."

Mrs. Zhong looked at her husband and said, "I know what you are worried about, but it is precisely because the Li family is close to the queen and has a marriage with the Gu family. This is the best place for this marriage. Now that Your Majesty is doing something, Qilang and Jiulang of the Yuan family are doing the job for Your Majesty. I always think that if one day Your Majesty really attacks the Shi family, we have these relationships and will always make the Zhong family safely settle down."

Zhong Chuo snorted coldly, "Can my Zhong family rely on another woman?"

"Of course it's not the case. My husband has been wise all his life. I have never been worried about this life and live a stable life. I always feel that my greatest blessing in my life is to marry you."

Zhong Chuo's cold and hard face rarely relaxed.

"Because of this, I thought that if Qilang's marriage could be as lucky as my father. As the saying goes, a wife is a good husband, the Li family has a reputation for being virtuous, and the Li family is rigorous in management. It would be Qilang's blessing to be able to get this beautiful wife." Mrs. Zhong whispered comfort, but she was very anxious, for fear that her husband would really leave the relative.

Zhong Chuo looked at the anxiety in his wife's eyes. He didn't expect that she liked the Li family girl so much. After thinking about it, he said, "Forget it, it's just a marriage. Just marry the Li family girl and behave yourself. You have to teach her well."

Hearing her husband relieved, Mrs. Zhong felt relieved and said with a smile: "Don't worry, husband, I feel so happy. Look at how many people praised the Pei family's daughter Lang when she arrived in Huikang. Now, it's just like this. It's really hard to bear the reputation. If such a girl enters the house, it would be unfortunate."

When talking about the Pei family, Zhong Chuo was in a bad mood. He couldn't help complaining to his wife: "Your Majesty is close to Empress Gu. Yuan Di is just from a Hu family. Although he has joined the Gu family, he is from the Hu family. Such a thief has no style in the Jin people. He has quietly made Hui Kang look like recently, and he is a good Tingwei Mansion, and now he has become a tiger and wolf land, and everyone can't avoid it."

Yuan Di arrested people because it was really a matter of arrest. No one was useless to plead. Zhong Chuo initially wanted to plead for Pei Su, but he was suddenly pleaded back by Yuan Di. How could he not be angry?

Mrs. Zhong looked at her husband and said, "The Pei family is too arrogant. Pei Su wants to force Queen Gu. Even though he knows that Doufang was done by Queen Gu, he slapped Queen Gu in the face, but he still can't let Queen Gu fight back? What you said is unreasonable."

Zhong Chuo:...

"Which side are you on?" Zhong Chuo said angrily.

"Of course I am standing on my husband's side, but I look at the affairs of Empress Gu and the Pei family in cold eyes, and I think the Pei family is too arrogant. I also heard that the girl Pei came to demonstrate when Empress Gu was recuperating in Yuzhou. Such behavior is really a villain and despises."

Zhong Chuo didn't know about this, so he looked at his wife and asked, "Who did you hear?"

"Mrs. Li said, not only that. Later, Empress Gu went to Jinyang to reunite with her family. The girl Pei actually chased her to Jinyang and wanted to embarrass Queen Gu with the hand of the Fan family, but was blocked by Mrs. Gu. What about the girl Fan who helped her?"

Zhong Chuo, a big man, didn’t know what happened to the back house?

"I heard that the ending was so terrible. Girl Fan was just like lard. She actually acted for Girl Pei in the name of Mrs. Fan. As a result, after the incident was revealed, Mrs. Fan confines her daughter. You would never have thought that Girl Fan sneaked to Hedong to join Girl Pei. As a result, Girl Pei came to Huikang himself and threw Girl Fan, who was abandoned by her family, to Hedong without any care. Such a cruel heart is really cold."

Zhong Chuo was very surprised, "This is what happened?"

If it is true, Pei Yunsong is really too cruel.

"So, marrying a wife for your son depends on family tradition, so I look at the Li family."

The Li family has always been impartial and remains neutral in Huikang. Because of this, the Li family has always been stable in Huikang.

"Pei Su came to see me before and said that his niece was wronged..." Zhong Chuo sighed.

"Girl Pei acts so viciously, which shows that the Pei family is not the same as before. Your husband should be careful when he is with the Pei family in the future." Mrs. Zhong said worriedly.

"I understand. You go and do your business, so let's decide on the marriage." Zhong Chuo said.

Mrs. Zhong quickly agreed, thinking that this time the Zhong family neglected the Li family, she had to come to the door to apologize.

For the sake of his son, Mrs. Zhong can still be proud of her face.

Mrs. Zhong was about to go out, but unexpectedly she met her son who was going home. She was so happy. She originally wanted to take her son to Li’s house to show sincerity, but she saw the black face she was exposed by her son…

Forget it, I'm afraid that Cha Ying won't want to marry if she finds this face.

Zhong Zhan looked at his mother who was full of joy when she saw him, and then pushed him away with disgust...

No, he just went out for a while, what happened?

Mrs. Zhong had no time to tell her son in detail and was anxious to go to the Li family. Before leaving, she only told him to see his father.

Zhong Zhan still had to enter the palace, so he changed his clothes and invited his father to An. The father and son had no time to chat, so Zhong Zhan rushed into the palace again.

When Zhong Zhan entered the palace, he met Yuan Shuo. The two of them were waiting for His Majesty to summon him. Seeing his relaxed and joyful look, Zhong Zhan asked, "Why are you so happy? But what's the good thing?"

Yuan Shuo chuckled, "It's indeed a good thing, Yuanzhou is back."

Zhong Zhan:...

Zheng Huan is back?

This kid has been inconsistent with him, and he would sarcastically even when he saw him, so he had a headache and didn't want to see him.

"Why are you back so soon? Logically speaking, isn't there still some time?" Zhong Zhan hoped that Yuan Shuo would stay outside for a longer period of time.

"Things are going well, so I'll come back faster." Yuan Shuo said.

Zhong Zhan sighed in his heart, and Zheng Huan became even more lively as soon as he came back.

In the harem, Gu Qingyi also knew that Zheng Huan was back, and she was happy and sighed. When the creditor came back, she had to take out her drawings and continue drawing two more strokes.

It became even colder in winter, and the hall was lighted with a charcoal basin for heating. Because there is no anthracite from later generations, even the best coal tastes a little bit, so a small window is always open in the hall to breathe, and it is inevitable that some cool breeze will come in.

Gu Qingyi was afraid of the cold, so she always liked to sit in the small study, which was warmer than the hall outside.

She thought about the drawings carefully and added a few more strokes. She felt that it was like this and then put away the drawings. She could hand over the work. After drawing this time, she would no longer care about the rest. If Zheng Huan still couldn't make any trouble with the rest, that would be annoying.

With no debts and lightness, Gu Qingyi is also an idle person and starts to write about military exercises.

She is not an expert, but she still knows a little bit. It is no problem to construct a framework. If Song Fengyu fills the things inside the framework, it will be enough.

Military exercises also require money, especially the production of projectiles, artillery and other objects is very valuable, at least it looks intimidating, so the number must not be small when there are not many varieties.

As Gu Qingyi wrote, he couldn't help but remember the incident of the Imperial Academy. Zheng Huan had to bring back many qualified and famous teachers when he came back this time. The court urgently needed talents and could not move important positions, but the yamen clerks and small officials could use these people to fill them in.

First, you can get enough experience, learn from experience, and then select the best. After a few years of training, there will be no such thing as a family in the court.

It took a few years to say that it is long or short. Gu Qingyi thought about how the revenue of the caravan in Mubu was. Luxury goods exports are very popular both in ancient and modern times, and they should have good returns.

There were more things to do when she had money. She knew that Song Fengyu planned to rebuild Huikang's personal guards, the weapons must be upgraded, the personnel must be screened, and the power of the emperor's guard team was enhanced, which was also a good phenomenon.
To be continued...