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"It's not the master, the emperor and queen are here."

"what?!"

"what!"

"bump!"

The butler didn't care whether he would be punished, and rushed forward to report anxiously. Tan Yaoqing froze while feeding the little pet, and when he recovered, he tore him off and threw him out. The little boy screamed and staggered, emaciated To Tan Yaoqing, he was just a plaything. When he was happy, he would be pampered in every possible way, but when he was unhappy, he would be thrown away.

Not only Tan Yaoqing, but all powerful and rich people have the same attitude towards playthings.

"Why did the empress come here suddenly? The people outside didn't offend them, did they?"

After finally digesting the news of the sudden arrival of the empress, Tan Yaoqing stood up in a hurry and strode out without even caring about changing his clothes. This yamen servant seems to be in a bad mood, and the little one is not sure if the yamen servant has offended them."

"What did you say? Those trash!"

Tan Yaoqing paused as he moved forward in a hurry, and the butler who followed him almost bumped into his back. Before he could stabilize his mind, Tan Yaoqing hurriedly ordered: "Go to Yongle Hou Mansion and give elder brother a message to let him be fine. If so, come to Jingzhao Mansion."

"Yes."

The butler didn't dare to ask anything, and the two walked a certain distance together. When they reached the fork in the road, the butler went to the side door. Tan Yaoqing trotted all the way to the hall with a feeling of apprehension, seeing Pei Yuanlie and his wife with indifferent expressions Sitting behind the desk, with a few strange men sitting next to him, Tan Yaoqing held his breath carefully, and stepped over the threshold.

"Tan Yaoqing, the minister of Jingzhao Mansion, kowtows to the emperor, long live my emperor, long live long live, long live long live the queen, thousand years old, thousand years old, thousand years old!"

Walking to the center of the lobby, Tan Yaoqing folded his fists and knelt down, shouting long live three times and bowing his head to see him.

"This is the record of the sale and vacancy of houses in the new city and slums. Please read it, my lord."

Neither the emperor nor the empress paid any attention to him. The master presented Shen Liang with a stack of thick booklets respectfully. Before they stepped into the government office, they ordered him to find these things, and he did not dare to neglect them. Fortunately, these things are commonly used, and it is not troublesome to find them. He did not dare to keep the empress and empress waiting for a long time, especially when they were obviously in a bad mood.

"Ah."

Shen Liang nodded as if there was nothing, and opened the booklet with the word Dong, which was the registration record of idle houses in the slums: "Excluding those beggars and black households, how many households are registered in the slums of Dongwai City at present? "

Shen Liang asked while flipping through the pages, and saw that there were indeed many houses that were vacant.

"Reporting to the lord, there should be about 120 households in Dongwai City. There are about [-] people with household registration. Some beggars also have household registration, but they don't have real estate. The rest are black households. Most of them are crowded in those idle houses. Every once in a while, Mr. Fu Yin will let people clean it up, and forcibly disperse or arrest black households."

The master tried his best to stabilize his mood, bowed and replied respectfully.

"Dispel and arrest?"

Shen Liang frowned almost imperceptibly, and looked up at the governor of Jingzhao, who was kneeling on the ground. As far as he knew, household registration was implemented hundreds of years ago when the Great Qin was founded, and the purpose was to better manage the people. Everyone thinks this method is good, and they are vying to follow suit. Under normal circumstances, as soon as a child is born, he must go to the government office to register. Those who have not registered are regarded as black households. It is inconvenient for black households to do anything, and they cannot even get out. If the people in the yamen catch a criminal, as long as they find out that he has not committed a crime, the metropolis will settle him for free. Qin State has done a very good job in this regard, but Xia State seems to need to be strengthened He can understand the arrest, what does it mean to disperse?

"My lord, the ones my servants disperse are the refugees and beggars with household registration who gather in idle houses. There are too many of them, and they often cause a lot of trouble. Only black households will arrest them and temporarily detain them in the prison. In the process, after it is found that they have no criminal record, they will be settled for them, and then let them go."

Secretly calling Master a fool, Tan Yaoqing apologized for raising his head and reporting in detail. As for whether the facts are as he said, it will not be known until after investigation.

"Ah."

Shen Liang nodded dispensably, and then picked up a record of vacant houses in Dongwaicheng New City and opened them: "It is said that the people who originally owned houses only need to pay a very small amount of money to exchange their old houses for new houses in the new city. How exactly was it made up?"

"Reporting to the lord, if the house is exchanged for a house, if the size of the house is similar, the common people only need to pay the ten taels of silver for the house change fee. If the common people want to exchange a small house for a big house, they need to pay the excess silver. Xia Yang The king stipulated that in order to reduce the burden on the common people, the money exceeding the area should only be charged at the cost price of the construction of the Ministry of Industry, and the specific amount to be collected is determined by the Ministry of Industry, and Jingzhao Prefecture is only responsible for registration and bookkeeping.”

The master is in charge of this area, knowing that what he said earlier caused the dissatisfaction of the Fu Yin master, he still has to bite the bullet and continue.

"What about the person who bought the house? What standard did they come by?"

Shen Liang's expression and tone are always indifferent, no one can see what he is thinking, and the master can only say honestly: "The housing prices in the new city are similar to those in the outer city, because the houses and shops over there are industrial buildings. All of them were built in a unified way, and they are all about the same size, and the price is the same, the shop is 6000 taels of silver, the courtyard house is 300 taels of silver, and the quadrangle courtyard is 500 taels of silver.”

Of course, this is only the price for ordinary people to buy it. It will definitely be cheaper if the rich and powerful buy it. Like the Murong family, they only need two-thirds of the price to get it.

"How many houses and shops that have been built in the new urban area of ​​Dongwai City are still unsold?"

After a little thought, Shen Liang continued to ask.

"All the shops are sold out, there are only a dozen or so courtyard houses left, and only a few courtyard houses left."

"Ok?"

Almost all sold out?

There was no fluctuation on Shen Liang's face, but he was very surprised in his heart, but thinking about those people hoarding shop real estate, he felt nothing strange: "The shops and houses that are still under construction on that street should not be sold, right? Probably something When will it be finished?"

The new city has been built for four full years, and only the outermost street is left unfinished. They didn't go there before, and he didn't know much about it.

"It is said that it has been completed, but it is still undergoing final repairs. After the Lantern Festival, it should start to be replaced or sold."

"Very well, all the shops and houses in the last street of the new city in the four cities will be seized, and will not be replaced or sold for the time being, waiting for the imperial edict."

"Yes."

Although they didn't know what he wanted to do, Tan Yaoqing and the master still complied respectfully.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Queen, long live my emperor, long live long live, long live long live my queen, thousand years old, thousand years old, thousand years old, thousand years old!"

Just when Tan Yaoqing breathed a sigh of relief and felt that they should just want to know about the new city, the Prime Minister Lan Yunchan, Minister of the Ministry of Justice Sun Mingquan, Minister of the Ministry of Justice Chu Caizheng and Yang Wanli arrived at the same time. Instead of saluting, he went up to Pei Yuanlie and whispered in Pei Yuanlie's ear. Pei Yuanlie's face was covered with frost when he looked at it. Tan Yaoqing, who peeked at it, felt a thud in his heart, and his eyelids couldn't stop beating.

"bump!"

"Crash..."

Pei Yuanlie suddenly slapped the table with his palm, and the seemingly solid table collapsed in an instant. Lan Yunchan and the others had a vague premonition that something serious might happen, so they hurriedly bent down in unison: "Your Majesty, calm down!"

"Tan Yaoqing, I ordered you to help the disaster, but you searched the good-looking little beggars into your backyard, and rewarded the government servants below after breaking their bodies. In less than half a month, dozens of people were tortured to death. You Is this how disaster relief is done?"

Ignoring Lan Yunchan and others, Pei Yuanlie stood up and pointed at Tan Yaoqing who was also prostrate on the ground. According to Tianshu's verification, it was found that there were murders in the shelters in the four cities in the southeast, northwest, and the dead were all without exception. Good-looking young beggars, the oldest one is no more than 13 years old, and there is no distinction between men and women. Tianshu arrested a few beggars and interrogated the government officials who identified problems. After interrogation, he learned that the source of all this was Tan Yaoqing. Not all the little beggars who were tortured to death were contaminated by him, but because he started this, the servants below became unscrupulous. The beggars gathered together and washed them clean every day, not as dirty as usual Instead, it provides them with convenience, as long as they are a little bit of good-looking little beggars, they can't escape their clutches.

"Your Majesty is clearly aware that this humble official dare not, someone must have wronged this humble official..."

"what……"

Tan Yaoqing was so frightened that he repeatedly shouted for grievances, but before he could finish speaking, the gavel suddenly flew over and hit him on the chest and sent him flying. Tan Yaoqing ignored the severe pain in his chest, got up and continued to kowtow and cry for injustice: " Your majesty is wronged, please be careful."

How did this thing get out?Damn it, who is it that dares to sue him for imperial court?No matter who it is, he can't admit it today, otherwise even if the emperor and I come, I'm afraid I won't be able to keep him.

"How dare you bully the king face to face, Tan Yaoqing..."

"Master, Marquis Yongle is here."

An armored guard suddenly appeared, and Pei Yuanlie, who was furious, was full of murderous intent: "Let him get out and see with his own eyes what kind of bastard his younger brother is!"

"Yes."

This is the first time that Pei Yuanlie is so angry. The main thing is that Liangliang proposed that the benevolent government issued by him is to prevent the common people from freezing to death and save as many lives as possible. Now Fortunately, Tan Yaoqing took advantage of their benevolent government to secretly do nasty things. If the news spread, how could he and Liang Liang have the face to face the people of the world?This is even worse than Lu Shuren bullying them!

"Husband."

Ignoring the attention of many people in the lobby, Shen Liang gave Lan Yunchan a look to make them all get up, turned around and reached out to hold Pei Yuanlie's hand, he was also very angry, but so what?If it doesn't happen, it has already happened. How to solve the current plan, how to appease the people in the shelter.

Feeling the coldness of his fingers, Pei Yuanlie's anger immediately subsided a lot. After sitting down, he wrapped his hand with his backhand, but he didn't say a word. After a while, one of them looked like Tan Yaoqing. Similarly, a middle-aged man of similar stature and age walked quickly, and with him was Tianshu who was sent by Pei Yuanlie to investigate the matter in the morning. He seemed to have brought back a lot of people and temporarily let them stay in the Outside the hall.

"My minister Tan Yaotian sees Your Majesty, Empress, long live my emperor, long live, long live, empress, thousand years old, thousand years old!"

Tan Yaotian, who bowed in, had already taken the situation in the hall into his eyes. When he passed by his younger brother, his footsteps paused slightly, almost unnoticed, and then he quickly stepped forward and knelt down. Even though it was not clear what happened, judging from the situation in the hall It seems that he can probably guess a little bit, it must be his younger brother who made some big mess, but he couldn't figure out what kind of mess would alarm the empress and make His Majesty angry Such a big fire?

His younger brother, he understands, is still very capable, and he is not the kind of person who does all kinds of evil. The only thing that people criticize is that he is lustful. this matter?But this will not alarm the empress, right?Which man is not lustful?This kind of thing is too common for the rich and noble.