My Daming New Empire

He was of course very happy to hear Liu Wan call him Uncle Shi. The big man who couldn't please him yesterday has become a junior today.

"Don't dare to be, don't dare to be, my lord has a high position and authority, and I'm just a merchant..."

Liu Wan said with a smile: "Today, we don't care about official positions, we only talk about relatives. My younger sister is married to the Fan family. I hope I can take care of her."

"It should be. Besides, Cuilian is a lovely person. She and Xuewu have known each other since they were young. They are childhood sweethearts. I am very satisfied with this daughter-in-law."

Liu Wan invited the two to get into the carriage together, and the carriage started again, this time, heading straight to Fan Xuewu's house in the east of the city.

Fan Zhengyi is a shrewd person, he knows what Liu Wan wants to hear now.Along the way, I just picked up some interesting things about Cuilian when she was a child, and now that she is in charge of the family, she will talk about raising children.

Others certainly don't care about these things, but for Liu Wan, they like to hear them the most.

Liu Wan was naturally happy to hear that the girl had never experienced hardship since she was a child, and that she is living a good life now.

When he got out of the car at the gate of Fan's house, Xu Gang asked, "Young Supervisor Liu, since your sister is well, how should the Liu family's case be tried, and I hope the young supervisor will give you a letter."

Liu Wan shook his head and said: "This matter is not in a hurry, now we have to make a fuss, how to interrogate and how to judge, we still have to wait for His Highness's instructions."

Xu Gang was dumbfounded all of a sudden.Such a case, how could His Highness be alarmed!Your Highness still has time to take care of such crap?

But at this moment Liu Wan could no longer care about him, his eyes had long been attracted by a young woman at the gate.

Without looking at the birthmark behind her ear, Liu Wan can be sure that this is his younger sister, because the two look so similar that they are brother and sister at first glance.

When Cuilian looked at Liu Wan, she was sure that this was her elder brother, she couldn't stop crying.

Liu Wan looked at his sister, his eyes were a little hazy, but there was a bright smile on his face.

He looked at Fan Xuewu beside her, and the two children in front of them, bowing to Fan Xuewu to the end. "Thank you brother-in-law for taking good care of my little sister, so that I can meet my family one day."

Fan Xuewu hurriedly replied, "I dare not be... Cuilian is my wife, so naturally I should take good care of her."

Liu Wan then said to Cuilian: "It's been almost 20 years since my little sister was about the same age as the child in your arms, but now she's the mother of three children. It's good to see my little sister. Die without regret."

Cuilian was a little weeping, hugging the child and bowing. "Cui Lian is not filial. I only found out about her background today. I haven't visited her parents' graves all these years, so I know you are an elder brother."

Liu Wan laughed with tears in his eyes. "You can live a good life and don't care about everything. Tell me, what are the names of the three children? I am also an uncle."

At this time, Xiao Shanzi also rushed over with a few carriages, and bought a lot of food, things to use, and things to play.

Since Zhu Zhanji built a playground for his younger brothers and sisters in the palace, some toys of later generations have been handed down hundreds of years in advance.

Xiao Shanzi knows that Master is a person who doesn't care about money, and is willing to give the best things to his sister and nephew, so he bought some high-quality toys produced by the inner prison.

Seeing these toys, the two older children were immediately bought by this uncle, calling Liu Wan very happy.

That afternoon, two servants and guards set off from Linzhou. They took Liu Wan's letter and hurried to Puyang.

Although Liu Wan didn't know what kind of attitude Zhu Zhanji would have, he knew very well that His Highness would definitely take the opportunity to play.

Although this matter is his own family matter, it involves the old forces of the clan and disputes over the national law. If he does not report it, it will be his dereliction of duty.

After this matter was arranged, Liu Wan simply didn't go back to Zhangde Mansion, and just enjoyed the unprecedented family happiness in Linzhou.

His younger sister's family is doing well, the husband and wife have a good relationship, and the child is innocent and clever, all of which make him extremely satisfied.

Facing Chang Xiucai who brought up his sister, he was also grateful and treated him like a junior.

Then, he proposed to move his sister's family to live in the capital, so that he could have a home in the capital.

Fan Xuewu was the second son, and he had already separated from his parents, sharing a grocery store business.

Most of the business in the world today is controlled by internal supervisors. Liu Wan just arranges a few things for them, and they can make a lot of money.

Fan Zhengyi was overjoyed. Being able to go to the capital to develop was naturally much better than staying in the small Linzhou.He collected the family's floating wealth and decided to sell several properties to increase Fan Xuewu's principal.

Cuilian and Fan Xuewu are also all right, after all, it is the capital city!

Seeing that his sister and brother-in-law were willing to go to Beijing with him, Liu Wan was very happy, and arranged for Xiao Shanzi to go back to the capital first, and help him buy a house in the capital to house his sister's family.

(Sorry, I broke my promise again today. I owe everyone [-] words. I will remember it and try to pay it back tomorrow.)

Chapter 73 Penalties

In Yingtian Mansion at the end of April, the most sensational thing was that those nobles pulled cartloads of gold and silver to pay off their debts.

But for the entire Ming Dynasty, the biggest sensation was not His Royal Highness asking for debts, nor was he asking the transshipment departments and inspection departments to jointly set up cards to prevent large amounts of gold and silver from being transshipped, but a lawsuit.

This lawsuit has attracted the attention of countless people from the very beginning, and even many civil officials thought that this lawsuit was unnecessary at all.

The Kong family has indeed occupied a lot of land these years, far exceeding the scope allowed by the imperial court, and hiding nearly [-] households, it is indeed hateful.

But there are historical reasons for all this. Many farmers have worked in the Kong family for several generations, more than 100 years.

In other words, before the founding of the Ming Dynasty, these farmers were already farming for the Kong family.

At such a time, they should not be restricted by the current law, and should let the past go, let them clarify the field again, and the population will be fine.

But after Kong Lenan's reckless remarks caused the prince to vomit blood and become critically ill, no minister dared to speak for the Kong family anymore.

Everyone can see clearly that Taisun wants to completely rectify the historical problems left by the Confucian family.

Does the Kong family have many problems?

Countless!

Although they have never done evil to the village, they have invaded land, raised food prices, concealed households, and expropriated imperial labor.

Because the family has a big business, it is inevitable that some branches have done some bullying things, and they have all been exposed one by one.

In Shandong, the Xuanfu team led by Yu Qian exposed all the actions of the Kong family, making the people of Shandong hate the Kong family from the original worship.

And their family still has one of the biggest problems, that is the historical legacy of property analysis and family division.

Because it is a family of sages, Yan Shenggong's family, the Kong family is not like an ordinary family, and the family will be divided if it exceeds three adults.

In the past few hundred years, except for the Kong clan who left Qufu, most of the Kong clan who stayed in Qufu did not separate their families.

In Qufu alone, the combined number of main and branch families exceeds 4000, which far exceeds the current population of the royal family.

And because these people are sheltered under the wings of the Kong family, they don't have to pay taxes. This is one of the main reasons why Zhu Zhanji must dismantle the Kong family.

In the Han Dynasty, the nobles had to pay taxes, but in the Ming Dynasty, not only the nobles did not have to pay taxes, but even those who passed the Juren examination did not have to pay taxes.

The financial crisis that Ming Dynasty encountered in the later generations was mainly because of this problem. The real rich people did not have to pay taxes. How much tax could the low-level farming people collect?

Of course, another serious reason is that the internal control of Ming Dynasty originally controlled the economy of the entire country, but after Tumubao, the economic power was gradually taken over by civil servants.