On the second day, Sheng Shaoqing once again went to Dongnuang Pavilion to discuss matters with two huge black circles under his eyes.
She clearly used the beauty function in advance last night, but it still didn't work at all?!
System: [If you don’t upgrade, the functions will certainly not have such immediate effects!]
"I'm late——"
"I'll keep you two adults waiting for a while."
If Cui Yun hadn't called her several times just now, she would have almost missed the schedule again today.
Yunzhi and Ji Wenxuan turned around one after another and saluted, saying they didn't dare.
Sheng Shaoqing looked at Ji Wenxuan with a pretty good face. Ever since he agreed to the restructuring that day, he was like an old man suddenly glowing with blood.
Yun Zhi, on the other hand, now has dark circles under his eyes that are similar to his own, and his face looks quite haggard.
"Did Shangshu Yun not sleep well last night?"
Sheng Shaoqing slowly sat down and also greeted the two adults in front of him to sit down.
Yunzhi sighed and looked at Ji Wenxuan and said, "I reviewed the previous records last night, and found many errors and omissions that I had not noticed before. This is really... I did not expect it!"
"Previously, I was too optimistic."
Yunzhi spoke in a deep tone, with a shadow cast over his face, "These numbers have skyrocketed so much that I still confidently thought that my order was effective, and I was only immersed in the joy of success, but...
…”
"That's not the actual situation, right?"
Sheng Shaoqing took a sip of strong tea to refresh himself, "I have also read the brochure you sent yesterday, and the quantities seemed a bit strange to me, but I thought you already knew it, Mr. Yun."
"There are so many people, but the number of acres of land has not kept up. This is not very reasonable."
Yunzhi nodded, and his eyes were even darker now, "So I stayed up all night and sorted out the most mistakes and omissions, and asked the Queen Mother to take a look."
Cui Yun stepped forward in time to take the fold that Yunzhi had brought out from his sleeve, turned around and presented it to Sheng Shaoqing.
Sheng Shaoqing opened this book, which seemed to be warm, and took a quick look. It was very different from what he had calculated last night. There was a problem with the data of several towns near Chenliu.
Sheng Shaoqing closed the fold and said, "I already know this in my mind, so I want to ask you, have you encountered any obstacles since you came to Chenliu?"
Sheng Shaoqing thought hard for a long time last night. Apart from the extremely low possibility of accidentally writing it wrong, the only explanation that made sense was that someone did it on purpose, but she still had to confirm it again.
Yun Zhi glanced at Sheng Shaoqing in confusion, and then at Ji Wenxuan's reaction. He frowned and shook his head and said, "There wasn't any big obstacle. Before, the people didn't believe that the government would allocate fields to them. Later, I followed suit."
The sages set up a wooden mover in the east of the city to win the trust of the people. From then on, the order was implemented smoothly without any obstacles?"
Sheng Shaoqing looked at Ji Wenxuan's understanding expression and asked carefully, "Doesn't Yun Shangshu find it strange?"
Yunzhi was even more puzzled, "What's so... strange...?"
Sheng Shaoqing said in surprise: "Did you already imagine that it would be so smooth before leaving Beijing?"
You don’t have the slightest bit of timidity, and you don’t consider the possibility of failure, and just charge forward. How brave is that?!
Sheng Shaoqing's heart slowly started to beat. At that time, she was a little brainwashed by Yun Zhi's passionate and generous memorial, so she agreed immediately, but now that she thinks about it...
When a small slogan is shouted and a small flag is raised, who wouldn't be confused?
Yun Zhi smiled bitterly and said, "It's not that I don't know what the Queen Mother means, but if I think too much, I'm afraid I will look forward and backward, and simply sink my boat and fight with my back against the wall. Maybe there is still a glimmer of hope for survival."
"Then things progressed so smoothly. Of course I would not have thought..."
Sheng Shaoqing looked at Ji Wenxuan and shook his head slightly. He was also convinced. Looking at Ji Wenxuan's mouth shape, he was definitely saying: Yunzhi is still too young.
"Don't Her Majesty hope that this matter will go well?"
Sheng Shaoqing shook his head, "Of course I hope it will go smoothly, but since I said it is a hope, it means that the reality cannot be so smooth."
Yun Zhi was confused by Sheng Shaoqing's words. Sheng Shaoqing himself felt that he was talking about some boring nonsense, but Ji Wenxuan on the side slowly said, "Master Yun, what the Queen Mother means is, have you ever thought about it?"
Why did life go so smoothly?"
Sheng Shaoqing couldn't help but nodded after hearing Ji Wenxuan's words. Ji Wenxuan understood her!
Yunzhi tilted his head and thought for a while, then stroked his beautiful beard before speaking: "My order is flawless and flawless. It is only fitting that it goes so smoothly!"
Ji Wenxuan sneered, "Master Yun is also considered an important minister in the court, why are you so naive?"
Yun Zhi was a little embarrassed by Ji Wenxuan's sarcastic words, but since he was the Prime Minister, he could only endure the tone and said, "I would like to hear the details, and I hope the Prime Minister can give me some advice."
"Master Yun started his career as a fifth-rank Yuanwailang. However, he has already sat in the position of minister in just a few years. He can be said to be young and promising."
Yun Zhi thought to himself that he was talking about his own faults, why did Ji Cheng praise himself instead? Just as he thought of a word or two of humility, Ji Wenxuan smashed his words of refusal and threw them into the garbage.
"But it's difficult to be a parent. If you do it well, you won't get a reputation, but if you don't do it well, you'll get a bad reputation."
"But Mr. Yun is different. Whether he is a first-rank minister or a fifth-rank governor Chenliu, he can do it very well. I think it will be just around the corner to become a general or prime minister in the future!"
Yun Zhi's face turned red with embarrassment at Ji Wenxuan's strange aura. It was also the first time Sheng Shaoqing saw Ji Wenxuan ostracize others like this, and she realized that if Ji Wenxuan's sharp mouth really made people sarcastic, even Wei Zhen would have to be defeated.
"Prime Minister Ji, what you're saying is that it's so strange that this went so smoothly?"
"Yes!" Yunzhi suddenly remembered something and argued with reason, "But these people are all my trusted followers. It is impossible for them to betray me or make lies!"
Ji Wenxuan looked at Yunzhi and still didn't understand, and asked directly, "Master Yun, your confidant?"
"Can your cronies fill up the entire Chenliu palace?"
"Can your cronies go to this field in person and count people one by one?"
"The worst thing——"
"It's hard to tell whether your cronies have gone to the towns and villages to conduct personal inspections!"
Yun Zhi was silenced by Ji Wenxuan's series of rhetorical questions. He had previously worried that the biggest pressure on his trip would come from the capital. After all, Wei Zhen was a real villain, and he was afraid that even a small move by him would be far away.
He drank a pot of wine while in Chenliu.
Unexpectedly, Wei Zhen unusually did not take any action, and even the spies he sent to keep an eye on Wei Zhen came to report that Wei Zhen had been closing the door to thank guests recently. He only said that he was ill and was recuperating at home.
Later, Chen Liu's affairs became so busy that he didn't bother to pay attention to Wei Zhen. He only vaguely listened to the news. Master Wei Zhenwei's eldest husband mysteriously disappeared for several days and then returned home mysteriously. Wei Zhen became angry.
In a rage, he drove his son back to his old house outside the customs to look after the family. After that, there was no more news about Wei Zhen.
But according to what Prime Minister Ji means, the source of the greatest pressure is actually not the capital, but Chen Liu?!
"But the orders issued by the lower officials are all for the sake of the people of Chenliu. Why should the people in Chenliu's government deceive the superiors and conceal the truth?!"
"What's more... why do they have to make this false appearance of flowers and flowers?!"
Ji Wenxuan asked leisurely, "Master Yun, do you know what it means to kill someone with praise?"
"Since Mr. Yun still doesn't understand, why don't I ask you again? If you can answer it, let's leave this matter at hand and I won't ask any more questions. How about that?"
Yunzhi nodded confidently.
"Master Yun, when you allocate land to the people, where does the land come from?"
"The wasteland is so vast, why worry about not having any land?!"
"Okay, now that we have land, who will divide it?"
"Of course it's the government!"
"Since Mr. Yun said it was the government, who is in the government?"
Yunzhi said with a smile, "Of course they are the government officials and officials at all levels."
"Okay, then where do these officials come from?"
Yunzhi gradually realized the problem, and his tone became less firm than before, "Of course...it's...an official selected by the imperial court..."
"Then who are the officials elected today?"
"They...most of them are the sons of local gentry families in Chenliu..."
Ji Wenxuan also touched his beard and sighed, "Master Yun is sincere, but not everyone in this world is like you, Master Yun."
Sheng Shaoqing, who was listening on the sidelines, couldn't help but nodded. That's what she meant. Isn't Ji Wenxuan just her mouth substitute?
Yunzhi is an extremely optimistic idealist, but not everyone will be like him and full of expectations for the beautiful picture he planned.
Yunzhi frowned, "But dividing the land among the people will not affect them! On the contrary, in the long run, once Chen Liu becomes rich, their benefits will not be less than they are now!"
"Are all the people here such short-sighted people?!"
Ji Wenxuan shook his head, "Mr. Yun, you are from the Yun family. You have lived in the capital since you were a child. You have adequate food and clothing. You are accompanied by carriages and horses when you travel, and you have servants when you come in. You have never seen such suffering in the world, so naturally you have never seen such suffering.
How terrifying can human greed be."
"You think the land you are allotting today is the imperial court's land, but in their eyes, what you are allotting is their ancestral property for generations."
"They just don't dare to go against you, a well-established minister, so they just want to flatter you and make up a good-looking report to make you happy. After one month, you will return to Beijing to become your senior official.
, they took back their own land and continued to be their own extravagant and wealthy people."
"They! How dare they! How dare they?!"
Ji Wenxuan shook his head helplessly, "Why don't you dare?"
"Didn't the report in the Queen Mother's hand explain everything?"
"Today you are confused and asked me why there are more people than Tian. The truth is now telling you that it is not that there are more people, but that there are less Tians. And the truth is certain that there are still many people who do not have fields in Chenliu!
"
Yun Zhi was shocked by Ji Wenxuan's firm tone. He was a little dazed for a moment. When he realized what he was saying, he was about to leave immediately. He was now going to deal with the group of bastards who dared to work together and bully the superiors and subordinates!
"stop!"
Sheng Shaoqing quickly stopped Yunzhi angrily. Why is this place in Chenliu poisonous? One or two of them here are like firecrackers, exploding at one click?
"This matter has far-reaching implications. Are you going to overthrow Chen Liu's government office now?!"
Yun Zhi was furious for a moment, "They shouldn't have been allowed to serve as officials in the first place! How could such a group of spoiled dandies be able to shoulder the heavy responsibility of one of their parents as officials?!"
Sheng Shaoqing and Ji Wenxuan looked at each other and reached a consensus in their hearts: It's almost time, it's almost time to deal with them.
"That's it now, what are you going to do?"
Yun Zhi said angrily, "One of them will catch one, and two of them will catch a pair. We can't let them enjoy the imperial salary while disobeying the imperial decree!"
The more Yun Zhi talked, the angrier he became, "It's really too much to bully people! Especially the township government offices in the towns near Chenliu. At first, I sympathized with their hard work and thought they were careless at work, but I didn't expect that they did it on purpose."
Of!"
Sheng Shaoqing opened the report again, pointed to the names of the towns and asked, "Who are the mayors of Qingshiban Township and Lujing Township?"
Yunzhi thought for a while and said, "The township of Qingshiban Township is Wang Yuan, and the Li Zheng of Lujing Town... seems to be called Wang Shun."
"Why are they all named Wang?"
Seeing the angry look on Yunzhi's face, Sheng Shaoqing did not dare to ask any more questions. He only looked at Ji Wenxuan and saw him silently mouthing: "This is the ancestral land of the Wang family."
Chenliu Wang family?
"No wonder!"
Yun Zhi calmed down for a while before saying, "The Empress Dowager was tracking down the lost items in the palace and found that the stolen items that had been transferred in the government office were the work of the Chenliu Wang family. At that time, many Wang family members had been dealt with...
But I didn’t expect…”
"Master Yun didn't expect that it was the Wang family that was causing trouble in those matters. Master Yun is still a bit clever..."
Sheng Shaoqing saw that the anger that Yun Zhi had just calmed down was about to burst out again, so he choked back "Really..." and only spit out "Ha..."
Ji Wenxuan held his forehead and continued to mouth: "Yunzhi's mother's surname is Wang."
Sheng Shaoqing:………………
Isn't this like the family members of aristocratic families in the world, broken bones and connected tendons?
"Then Master Yun, what are you going to do now..."
Sheng Shaoqing just said, why did Yunzhi get so excited when he mentioned that someone in Chen Liuzhong was causing trouble? It turned out that he was not tricked by outsiders, but by his own relatives.
However, Sheng Shaoqing guessed that in the eyes of the Wang family, Yunzhi was the traitor.
After all, Yun Zhi didn't go anywhere when he talked about equalizing the land, but Chen Liu came to pilot it. This grandson really didn't regard himself as an outsider...
Yunzhi gritted his teeth and said, "Of course... I have to give an explanation to the people!"
"The Queen Mother had a righteous intention to eliminate her relatives and sent her own younger brother to guard the late emperor's mausoleum. I should follow suit!"
Sheng Shaoqing wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, why did he like to talk about this matter...
Sheng Shaoqing quickly changed the topic and suggested, "How about we go to these places together and then we can make a conclusion?"
