Kang Jian's words made Xu Yinjun pause: "You... don't know?"
Kang Jian shook his head.
"Yes," Xu Yinjun dug out a piece of mud with a hoe, "I'd better write a letter and ask my girl."
A large number of loaches emerged from below, and many unbroken seed buds were damaged.
"No, no, no," a servant shouted, "Master Xu, don't dig here, otherwise this whole area will collapse."
As soon as he finished speaking, a stench emerged from the mud.
Several men were rough men who were not afraid of being dirty or tired. Xu Yinjun had experienced corpses floating all over the city in Congxin Mansion. He took a look and directly picked up a whole piece of mud with loaches on it with his bare hands.
"What's wrong?" Kang Jian asked.
"Look." Xu Yinjun rubbed his fingers and pulled out a bead.
"Pearl?" Kang Jian said.
"You guys are really rich," Xu Yinjun sighed.
The beads were covered in mud and did not shine brightly, but they were definitely pearls.
Xu Yinjun continued to rub it and dug out another one, this time it was bigger.
"Look!" the servant suddenly shouted, "What is that?"
Kang Jian and Xu Yinjun followed the servant's request.
Under the earthworm, there is a small green-black object with half of its "head" exposed. The soil is so thick that you can see that it is covered with patterns.
Xu Yinjun picked it up and wiped off the mud on it.
The small object is as big as his entire palm. It is a bronze square vessel decorated with the main Kui dragon pattern. It is carved with exquisite craftsmanship and is solemn and majestic. There are ears on each side, with a dragon body entwined on each ear.
"What is this?" Xu Yinjun was curious.
"Antiquities." Kang Jian said.
Xu Yinjun felt that it was as if he hadn't said anything.
"But why did it appear here?" The servant was puzzled. "When we first came to work in the mansion, we carefully cleaned the entire mansion from top to bottom, and even swam to the bottom of the lake several times, and
Didn't see them."
"Why go to the bottom of the lake?" Xu Yinjun asked.
"Mr. Du Xuan said that when the sun shines, let's go see if there are any fish and what aquatic plants are under the lake," the servant replied.
"So," Kang Jian looked at the small bronze square vessel, "this object does not come from here."
"The water in the back pond is living water," the servant looked up at the back mountain. "It all comes from the mountain. Mr. Du Xuan said that this is an underground canal. If someone can hold his breath for a long time and swim underneath, he may be able to swim under it.
Drilled out of the well."
"So these beads and bronze square objects came out of our back pond." Kang Jian said.
"It must be related to this thunderstorm," Xu Yinjun said solemnly, "They can come out from the back pond of Qingyue Pavilion, but they can also come out from other rivers or ponds in Hengxiang. Now that there are so many people in Hengxiang, I am afraid it will cause...
"
"There will be chaos." Kang Jian realized the seriousness of the problem.
"I will go back and write a letter to my girl." Xu Yinjun said hurriedly.
"I'll also write to my young master!" Kang Jian said.
Watching the two of them leave, the servant looked away, his gaze fell on the dug hole on the ground, and he breathed a sigh of relief.
It seems that it should be done.
At night, the servant began to have "a stomach upset". Using the excuse of going out frequently, he slipped out of Qingyue Pavilion and walked towards the nearby Gu Mansion.
Although Gu Mansion is called Gu Mansion, it changed hands early.
The servant knocked gently on the door, and Li An stood guard inside the door and opened it immediately.
He was too nervous. After the servant slipped in, he gasped for air. It took him a while to calm down. He looked at Li An and said, "Okay, they believed it. And they were lucky. They met the person coming from the other end and he believed it too."
Already."
"That's good," Li An reassured, "I will send someone to Ning'an Tower to bring the news to the young master."
"By the way," the servant remembered what Kang Jian and the others said, and added, "it is said that someone from the former Duke of Zheng's palace came to Hengxiang and caused them to discuss it."
"Okay, you go back first, and I'll tell the young master too."
"Um."
The servants came and went in a hurry. When the door was gently closed, Li'an noticed someone behind him and looked over immediately.
The man was startled and hurriedly hid in a corner.
Li'an's expression turned bad. He looked at the beautiful figure and said coldly: "I know you are eavesdropping, and it's okay for you to listen, but you'd better be honest. You must not go out and wander around like today, and still get caught.
Following!"
The girl said nothing, her back pressed against the cold wall.
Li An snorted and turned to leave.
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The moon is the same for thousands of miles away. Compared with Hengxiang, where the sky and the ground are covered with rain, Xizhou Prefecture, which has not rained for several days, is now cold and dry.
Zhili yawned, feeling deeply sleepy.
Looking at the girl who was holding a pen and writing, Zhili whispered: "Senior sister, I'm going to go for a walk."
"Go and rest." Xia Zhaoyi said.
"No, senior sister won't sleep, and I won't sleep either."
Xia Zhaoyi looked up at him from the table and said gently: "If you feel sleepy, just go to sleep. There's no need to force yourself to sleep."
Zhili didn't answer, got up and went to the window, yawning again.
He gently pushed the carved window sash open, and the night breeze came in. Across half a small pond and a patch of rocks, flowers and trees, the lights in the house on the other side were never turned on.
"Brother Shen looks like he won't be back tonight." Zhili murmured.
"Shen Lie should be busy with his own affairs." Xia Zhaoyi said, lowered his head and continued writing.
Zhili thought for a while, then looked back at Xia Zhaoyi: "Senior sister, I'll go to the Guangfang River to find Brother Shen!"
Xia Zhaoyi paused with his pen, then saw Zhili's door opened and left immediately.
Xia Zhaoyi chuckled, shook his head, stood up and brought the few books Zhili had written just now.
What Zhili and she wrote on page after page were all the names of officials from Xizhou Prefecture and officials from Hejing.
On the other side, there are all the new laws issued by Li Qian after he moved to Hejing.
The land in Hejing is far less vast than that of the Yong'an Imperial Capital. Five years ago, when Li Ju brought tens of thousands of people to Hejing, those nobles and powerful officials did not even have houses to live in.
So with a stroke of his pen, Li Ju ordered Zhongshu Sheng to draw up a decree that the whole country should be based on household registration. Each household registration has one residence. Rich people are not allowed to dispose of more houses. Otherwise, their homes will be ransacked and all their property will belong to the imperial court.
Under the law, many wealthy people were forced to "voluntarily" donate their excess mansions and houses, so that the nobles and powerful officials brought by Li Ju could have a place to live.
In the past few years, the most stringent laws have passed, and the relaxed atmosphere has gradually relaxed and the Ministry of Household Affairs no longer keeps a close eye on them. Some people have occupied land everywhere in the name of opening shops, and some have given birth to more sons to open houses. At that time,
Many of the princes, princes and grandchildren who have no house to live in now even have several private houses.
What Xia Zhaoyi and Zhili did tonight was to evaluate the "value" of these officials and Li family nobles on the roster.
Who can be given land, who can be given shops, and to whom, giving land and shops are useless. They need to follow other "key points" in the law and take the right "medicine".
Over the years, the information Xia Zhaoyi collected from traveling around and settling down will be of greatest use at this time. After analyzing the current situation, setting goals, and then taking action.
