Linzhi Gongzi [Red Mansion]

It was still cool at night, Liang Yu carried Wen Yishu from the tub to the bed.

The warm and thick brocade quilt wrapped around her body, so comfortable that people couldn't lift their arms.

Liang Yu stroked the red mark on the back of Wen Yishu's neck, and said distressedly, "Meng Lang just fell."

"What's the matter?" Wen Yishu closed his eyes lazily, "I never put my heart into it. I'll just wear a thick collar tomorrow."

Holding him in his arms, Liang Yu said, "I brought a gift for your sister, did you see it?"

Wen Yishu smiled, "You are begging for a reward from me..."

Liang Yu didn't answer, and leaned over to kiss her for quite a while.Wen Yishu pushed the person away, "Stop flirting, it's getting hot, you're not serious."

Gu Nian was afraid that he would get hurt, so he restrained himself tonight, so he didn't think that this person would be ungrateful.But I also thought that the two hadn't seen each other for a few days, and I was afraid that it would be me who couldn't control it in the end, so I had no choice but to give up reluctantly.

"Yi Shu, I am very happy today," Liang Yu murmured in a low voice.

"Huh? Are you happy today?" Wen Yishu teased him with a smile, "I can't tell from your wooden face."

Of course Liang Yu was happy, seeing his sweetheart chatting and laughing with his younger brother today, without any trace of life.He knew Wen Yishu well, so he naturally knew whether he was smiling for real or fake.Originally thought that Wen Yishu would be angry with Liang Zhuo because of what happened that day, but today it seems that he didn't at all.Does this mean that Wen Yishu's rejection has diminished?

"I thought..." Liang Yu opened his mouth, then closed it again, "Forget it, it's nothing."

Wen Yishu continued in a hurry: "I thought I didn't want to see your brother, and I would put on a cold face today."

Liang Yu didn't speak, so he naturally acquiesced.

Wen Yi Shuben wanted to say something, but he was silent for a while, and said: "There is nothing I want to say, I was thinking about it before."

He didn't want to hide and hide like before, but wanted to be aboveboard.

So he said: "Going home this time is also to test it out. I want to know if there are still people staring at Wen's family. If there are any, then lead the snake out of the hole, pack a few more, and make snake soup to eat."

He gritted his teeth for a while, then turned to Liang Yu and asked, "I haven't seen Xue Pan for a long time because of what happened last time. I don't know the recent news, so you can tell me about it."

"Recently there is nothing else, but Qi Lubo and Jin Xianghou are in a lawsuit, implicating King Dongping in a coma. The second brother and the sixth brother are quarreling about this matter again, and the eldest brother is still fishing in troubled waters."

"Qi Lubo, Marquis of Jinxiang..." Wen Yishu threw himself into Liang Yu's arms, and he grabbed Liang Yu's waist with his hands, but was grabbed and held firmly, "Why did you start a lawsuit? ?”

Liang Yu sighed: "It turned out that the sons of the two families fought over a prostitute, and they got into a fight after drinking. Later, there was a grudge, and there was no end to it."

"It's so boring because of it," Wen Yishu curled his lips, thinking that he really couldn't remember whether there was any grudge between the Wen family and these two families.If there is, let's step in too, and it will be fun to make both sides unlucky.

After sighing with emotion, he said, "How about the palace repair?"

"During the process, it is inevitable that the Ministry of Household Affairs will cry for poverty once." Liang Yu said with a flat face, "It will take a while."

Wen Yishu laughed: "Crying poor at this time? Then the allocation of funds for the snow disaster was so straightforward? Don't talk about it, I guess our Yangzhou Salt Patrol Master will be tricked again."

It was true. As soon as the head of the household department cried poor, the Emperor Yongjia asked angrily: "No money? What about the salt tax? Is there no salt tax in Lianghuai?"

There are eleven salt areas across the country, such as Fengtian, Shandong, Lianghuai, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Sichuan, etc. Each salt area has [-] to [-] salt fields under its jurisdiction.It is not only the Lianghuai side that pays the salt tax, but the Lianghuai side pays the salt tax quickly, better and more.Especially after going through the mess of Wen Li, Lin Hai's efficiency left an excellent impression on Emperor Yongjia's heart.

So when he ran out of money, Emperor Yongjia subconsciously asked about the salt tax in Lianghuai.This time it was all right, and the Ministry of Households stepped up the opportunity to urge the money to the other end—it was another urging talisman.

"If there is no news, then the hole has leaked again," Wen Yishu asserted.

Liang Yu nodded, "I have asked people to keep an eye on Jiangnan day and night, and if there is any movement, I will continue to act according to the plan."

Thinking of the original book, Lin Daiyu went to Beijing in such a poor way, even with a sense of desertion.Wen Yishu wondered, was it because the Lianghuai Salt Farm was already struggling to make ends meet at that time, and Lin Ruhai was so exhausted that she couldn't even take care of her daughter?In the end, he died of exhaustion within a few years.

What kind of fat man is this Xunyan Yushi? He is clearly a monster who eats people and doesn't spit out bones.

"If there is no news from Lianghuai, what will happen to the Ministry of Household Affairs?" he asked.

"The Ministry of Households will definitely give money, but those who will give it are reluctant, and they will delay it by installments."

"That's good," Wen Yishu clapped his hands together, "We can use the loan shark notes from last time!"

Liang Yu nodded: "I already have an idea of ​​the list of officials involved in printing and printing, and I can prescribe the right medicine."

Wen Yishu shook his hand, "It's not urgent, let's not attack these officials. Last time we lost a few minions, they were still afraid. This time we will not deal with them, this time we will deal with their pocketbooks!" "

"You mean...the salt merchant?"

"Yes!" Wen Yishu made the final decision, his face full of excitement.

Liang Yu patted his head, "You already have a plan."

"No, I just thought of it," Wen Wandan said calmly.

Liang Yu choked his breath, his face moved a few times, and he sighed, "Nonsense."

"Where is the nonsense!" Wen Yishu retorted, "Planning can be done slowly, the important thing is the opportunity! As long as there is an opportunity, you can talk about anything! So if you have the conditions, you have to do it, and if you don't have the conditions, you have to create the conditions!"

"How to create?"

"Framed and framed!"

Liang Yu suddenly had a feeling that it was so, he patted Wen Yishu on the back, and said softly, "Go to sleep."

Then he turned himself over and lay down on his back.

Seeing him like this, Wen Yishu was slightly annoyed, and bumped his head into Liang Yu's face, "Are you looking down on me!"

"No," Liang Yu explained helplessly to his sweetheart, "I'm just thinking about how to frame him."

"Oh, that's it." Wen Yishu immediately turned off the fire, and lay down with his hair down, "Then think about it carefully, I'll go to sleep first."

Liang Yu: "..."

In the quiet night, the summer insects are gone.A light slanting moon covered Wen Yishu's desk, Liang Yu looked there for a long time in a trance, and suddenly said: "Yi Shu, did you say those things you said at dinner to me on purpose?"

Wen Yishu really did not fall asleep, he closed his eyes and asked, "What words?"

Liang Yu turned around and looked at him, "It's the words about the benefits of the family's monthly money."

"Oh, these," Wen Yishu read, and slowly opened his eyes, "I just said such nonsense because I thought of my father."

"Ayu, you are also working in the court. Do you know how much my father's annual salary was when he was weaving in Suzhou?"

Liang Yu said: "I don't know the exact number, I just know it's not many."

"It was 130 taels, but the actual amount I got was 65 taels. I had some paper and silver taels of two hundred and eighty taels, but they were not allowed to withdraw after the discussion. There are also five buckets of white rice per month, which can be converted into four qian at most. My father gets a monthly payment. Less than six taels of silver...my father is still a third-rank official."

He reported it word by word, and added at the end: "I give grandpa grandpa ten taels of pension money every month. Tell me, is this money enough for them to live?"

Reminiscent of the past events described in Wen Yi's book in the evening, Liang Yu touched the key point.But he didn't speak, just looked into Wen Yishu's eyes.He knew that Wen Yishu had something to say now.

"I asked my father, this silver salary has gone through many generations. It was once raised, and then it was cut and never moved again. There was an official who wrote a letter asking for an increase, but was reprimanded by His Majesty. How did you build such a fairy ship Yuyu, bring out such delicious wine and delicacies, and give away countless treasures when you received the driver?"

Wen Yishu said quietly: "Ayu, do you know that His Majesty is tacitly acquiescing and even encouraging corruption?"

"Since you have the heart to govern and rectify the country, you must have discussed with your staff many times how to punish corruption? But after all, you haven't found a perfect method, right?

The Taizu of the previous dynasty was strict, and the punishment of skinning and breaking bones was punished for corrupting five taels of silver.But in ten years, there are hundreds of human skin drums in the penalty hall, and even killed all the way to the point where there is no one in the hall, can they be restrained?Even later, this kind of punishment became just a decoration, and was finally abolished altogether... Taking history as a mirror, how imaginative it is now. "

"So your idea is to increase the salaries of officials and set a clear reward and punishment method," Liang Yu asked.

Wen Yishu nodded, then shook his head, "More than that. In my opinion, the most basic thing is to treat people as human beings and not as dogs. Scholars, farmers, businessmen, and businessmen are all equal. Based on this, Only then can we not make this world crazy, and not turn people into mad dogs."

Liang Yu looked at him quietly for a while, raised his hand to touch a piece of jade worn by a red thread around Wen Yishu's neck, and said suddenly: "I heard that when the prosperous age comes, a unicorn will come from heaven. The piece your father left you Kirin seed, but what does this mean?"

The jade embryo of the unicorn seed was Wenli's birthday gift to his son, and he never left him day and night from childhood to adulthood.But it is the size of a little finger cap, and there is a unicorn engraved on it, which is extremely delicate.

Wen Yishu was taken aback for a moment, then laughed suddenly: "It's just a piece of jade, you can think of it too."

"I just want to tell you that there are too many things that should be changed in my eyes. I thought, no, many things I know are a bit deviant in your eyes. You should get used to it over the years, but in the future If I say it, I'm afraid it will shock the world, and you who stand beside me will also be criticized."

"I'm not afraid," Liang Yu said.

After thinking about it, he hugged him tightly again, "You shouldn't just tell me these words, you should tell many people. I will take you to see Zhanyuan some other day. After hearing these words, he will definitely make you his confidant." .”

"Who is Zhanyuan?" Wen Yishu raised his face and asked.

"It's Ah Wang, his word is Zhanyuan."

"Zhanyuan..." Wen Yishu sighed, "It's so good, my father also wanted to name me Zhanyuan, and wanted me to improve myself."

It's a pity that it's gone before it's time.

After this year, Wen Yishu is ready.