The majestic sister of the red mansion

At the beginning, Zou Shilang expressed his gratitude to Prince Yong beyond words. Then, he saw with his own eyes that King Yong presided over the household department, serving the country and the people, disregarding the alienation of the powerful and powerful, malicious and serious injuries... etc., clearing up deficits, investigating corruption and perverting the law... Some things he heard let him know that in the entire court, most of the errands that are tiring, offending, and of no benefit are handled by Prince Yong.

Disaster control, epidemic prevention, begging for rain, checking for deficits... the wind comes and the rain goes, making the noble princes who are more than ten years older than their real ages, and even the dignitaries and courtiers have become a cold-faced king. The title, the folk rumors are mostly belittling him to praise other princes... These make Zou Shilang admire King Yong even more. He has been an official for more than [-] years, and it is the first time he has seen such a real person among the princes.

yes!The other princes are in their prime, all wise and well-known, and each of them is well-maintained with gold and jade, like a prince and grandson, but what have they done to the court and the people?Not to mention the arrogance, extravagance, ambition and talent of the abolished prince, the great prince's reputation for being good at fighting was earned with the lives of General Tong's family.

The third prince is good at literature because his palace has raised a large group of literati as disciples. How did the eighth prince get his reputation for virtue? He bought it with the money collected by the ninth prince. The thirteenth prince is really capable of writing and martial arts. It's a pity However, he was involved in the court strife and is still under confinement. Although the fourteenth prince is the younger brother of Prince Yong's same mother.

However, he is completely different from Prince Yong. Not only is he favored by the concubine and concubine De, the Ministry of Internal Affairs has always been above the princes, but he also has a very good relationship with the eighth prince, ninth prince, and tenth prince. Wu Zhicai is a talent similar to that of the Thirteenth Prince. No wonder he suddenly rose to prominence after the Thirteenth Prince fell out of favor.

But his behavior can make people see that the difference between him and the thirteenth prince is his ambition, and because of his ambition, he was not very close to his mother from the beginning, but he was suppressed by the abolished prince and courtiers. The estranged and notorious cold-faced Prince Yong, on the contrary, is close to the eighth princes who are well-known and loved by many courtiers...

After hearing this, the gratitude of an old man like Zou Shilang who is nearly sixty years old to King Yong has turned into a sincere heart of loyalty. Even in the eyes of Zou Shilang, Prince Yong is a perfect person, serving the country and the people. Unafraid of any suppression, mature and stable, never changing face when Mount Tai collapsed in front of him, etc... He is one of the strong supporters of King Yong's proposition in the Ministry of Households these years.

This afternoon, Zou Shilang, who believed that Prince Yong is the perfect master, sorted out last year's files. It is still the same in all countries and regions, and the tax revenue is increasing year by year. Is it really a bad harvest?It's just that all parties are greedy more, swallowing everything more fiercely, but there are exceptions!Zou Shilang thought about it and felt a little happy.

After sorting out these days, he found that the taxation of the notorious Penglaizhou has been rising year by year, and the salt administration has also improved a lot, which is much better than other places. I went to learn from the prefect of Penglai, but since the last massacre of the family of the prefect of Penglai, the officialdom has been shirking each other about that position.

After all, Penglai Island is a place where people from all corners of the country live. They often do things that are banned by force, but will not cause the bottom line of the court. It is inevitable that corrupt officials will be trembling there. The several salt pans are where the big salt merchants made their fortunes, and those who are honest and uncooperative may also suffer disasters, coupled with the lack of fresh water and other conditions.

Zou Shilang, who worked as a county magistrate there for six years, knows this very well, and therefore admires the current Penglai magistrate's ability to manage that bad land like a land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River without causing public resentment. , this man has a hand!He sighed and was about to hold the dossier to report to King Yong and the Minister of the Household Department, but when he passed the corridor, he saw a few small officials chatting in low voices under the tree.

Although he was in a hurry, he still listened.

"Hey~~! Prince Yong came here on time again today to be on duty. How can he be so diligent every day, like the third prince, who will enjoy the blessings, discuss poetry and papers with the disciples every day, and the disciples will come out. What good poems and words, what good books have been edited, take them to the Long Live Lord and report them, that is a great achievement."

Bold, how dare a junior official speak the right and wrong of the nobles in Tianhuang, it's time to give them a wake-up call, Zou Shilang shook his head.

"What do you know, Prince Yong was born to work hard, and all the errands that are hard, tiring, and not enough to handle are all his. Unfortunately, no matter how hardworking, Long Live Lord doesn't like it...hehe..."

"Stop talking nonsense, Long Live Lord doesn't like it, can he be crowned prince? There are so many princes, but only a few of them have been crowned princes now, and the eighth prince doesn't even have the title of county king now."

"Tch! What do you know? Don't believe me when I tell you that my uncle is a servant of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. I heard that the fourth prince was punished by the Long Live Lord for being moody when he was a child! It is said that the Long Live Lord doesn't like Prince Yong. Temperament, it is much better for the fourteenth prince than for him."

Nonsense, Prince Yong is mature and stable, calm and calm when things happen, and he doesn't look at all in a mood...Zou Shilang is holding the file, walking hurriedly, denying the gossip of the little officials in his heart, and rushing to the public room ...

When Zou Shilang entered the public house, he saw Prince Yong and Mu Shangshu pointing to the file and talking about something. Seeing him coming in, Prince Yong nodded and said, "Master Zou is here, but there is a result?"

"Return to Prince Yong, Lord Mu, Zou has finally lived up to his entrustment, and the result came out." Zou Shilang saw that Prince Yong was serious, and even Mu Shangshu couldn't help but stop the seriousness of his back in front of him, and praised him in his heart , This is what a boss should look like. He is a good boss if he can control the situation. Like Prince Yong, he is not only intimidating, but also has top-notch abilities. It is really unique.

Mu Helun is a stable figure of the moderate faction in the imperial court, and he upholds the word mediocrity as an official. Therefore, after Prince Yong moved into the Household Department five years ago, the former Minister of the Household Department was originally the Eighth Prince. Dissatisfaction with the empty treasury, and Prince Yong's determination to clean up the household department, confronted Prince Yong everywhere, and was dismissed within a year.

Put on the current person, who can only say that the boss is doing the right thing, is kind, and has no idea of ​​​​everything. He is the most suitable deputy Mu Shangshu. The following self-protection method is not that he is a person who is ignorant, stupid and old-fashioned, on the contrary, he is very good at observing words and expressions.

Having been Minister of the Household Department for the past four years, Mu Helun has long been aware of Prince Yong's unfathomable depths, and he also understands very well that he wants to use Prince Yong's cold-blooded and ruthless means to fill the treasury so that he can deal with the problems in recent years. The northwest border is imminent, but it is probably not expected now that Prince Yong took the opportunity to replace several important positions in the household department with his own people.

Zou Shilang in front of him is one of them, which made the entire household department divided into three departments, one department is naturally loyal to the present, the other secretly follows the Eighth Prince, and the last department already belongs to Prince Yong, and even the current household department, Prince Yong's control over it is still higher than the first two... These Mu Shangshu can see clearly, but he didn't say anything, and the reason for not saying it is only clear to himself.

Mu Helun had a gray beard and smiled lightly at Zou Shilang: "Master Zou is capable. Judging by your complexion, it seems that you have discovered something?"

"My lord Mu is overwhelmed. Compared with the prince and your talents, Zou is really not worth mentioning, but I did sort out a little surprise in the file." Zou Shilang is not good at socializing, he said modestly, and immediately embraced Dossiers, walked to the table, quickly opened a few dossiers, and showed Prince Yong and Mu Shangshu the important points he had drawn with the ink pen.

Prince Yong and Mu Helun were taken aback by the key points in the dossier, and then Prince Yong frowned and said, "This is the dossier on Penglai Zhou's tax burden in recent years. How could it have risen so much? The tax has caught up with Su Now that the second state of Yangzhou is gone, it can’t be that the prefect of Penglai is greedy for meritorious service and made some exorbitant taxes?”

"Indeed, since the founding of our dynasty, a poor place like Penglaizhou has had a good year without asking for relief from the court. There has never been such a good thing that the tax payment has increased every year for several consecutive years. Mu Shangshu stroked his beard and said, "It's a good thing to be self-motivated, but if it arouses people's resentment, then the loss outweighs the gain."

Zou Shilang smiled and shook his head, pointed to the file and said to the two of them: "My lord, Mr. Mu, you two have filtered it. I know a little about Penglaizhou. After all, I have been a county magistrate there for six years. Don't look at it as just a small impoverished continent with scarce fresh water and not much arable land, but because it is close to the inland sea..."

"Report! Lord Qiansui, someone just came from Prince Yong's mansion. There is a very urgent matter to ask Prince Yong Qiansui." Just when Zou Shilang was about to tell the truth that he knew, Su Peisheng, the eunuch accompanying Prince Yong, who had just left, suddenly hurried He ran in and interrupted him, and after greeting the three of them, he hurriedly said the message he had just received from the servants of Prince Yong's Mansion.

Hearing what Su Peisheng said, Prince Yong frowned slightly, exuding a faint displeasure, thinking that the women in the backyard of the palace were restless again, and reprimanded him: "Absurd, only state affairs can be called urgent, how can the palace's trivial matters be taken away?" Come to disturb the audience, you go out and tell the people who come, if you have something to do, go back and wait until the king returns to the mansion."

"But...but..." Su Peisheng was so frightened by Prince Yong's slightly leaking aura that he broke out in cold sweat, but thinking about the message brought by that servant, he felt that he couldn't just withdraw like this, in case he waited for Prince Yong to return to the mansion After investigating, he couldn't handle ten of them, and now it was just a momentary anger of Lord Chitose, I'm afraid he won't remember being angry later.

Su Peisheng understood Prince Yong's temper, so he secretly wiped off the cold sweat on his forehead, and said in a low voice, "But, Lord Qiantui, someone from the mansion just reported that the son and his wife have returned."

"What?" This news caused Prince Yong's cold face to show a loss of composure for the first time. He couldn't hold the file in his hand firmly and fell to the ground. It can be seen how much this news shocked Prince Yong.