In the cell.

Zhao Hao's father and son are good at persuasion, but Xu Wei just doesn't want to get out of prison.

"Why don't you go out?" Zhao Hao asked helplessly: "What is so good in this prison that makes you so nostalgic?" ”

"I eat well and sleep well, no one disturbs me, and someone writes to me." Xu Wei randomly transferred the painting on the bed to the table, and lay down comfortably. "It's just that the update is too slow."

"Let him get out of here! The old man is going to be forced to death by him! In the next room, an angry voice suddenly sounded.

"Hehe, you're going to die of this heart." Xu Wei sneered: "If you can't see the finale, Lao Tzu won't go out." ”

"Hmph, with you in one day, the old man can't finish writing!"

"Phew, break the dog......"

"What the hell is this?" Hua Zhongheng was confused and pointed to the next door.

"That old gentleman has been staying next door because he was an official before, and he has not been convicted." The cell boss hurriedly explained: "He talks about writing and writing all day long, but he can't write many words in a month, which is quite a waste of paper." ”

"You know what? The old man is careful about every word and is responsible for his own words! The old man next door was so angry that he walked to the fence in protest.

Zhao Haofang saw clearly that he had to be disheveled, his eye sockets were black, and he said in his heart that if he couldn't write, he wouldn't write, what was this forced to be?

It's such a pathetic person.

"Pull it down, the stories are ready-made, you just need to string them together." Xu Wei didn't pity him at all, pouted and said, "What's so difficult about this?" Lao Tzu can write 20,000 words a day! ”

"You know what's watering?!" The old man was furious and said: "Yes, there are ready-made stories to refer to, but the adaptation is not nonsense!" Ruined our traditional culture, is to apologize to the people, do you know?!

"This is also a bitter bard...... Second Master Zhao whispered from the side.

Zhao Hao walked to the table, found a few manuscript papers from under Xu Wei's drawing paper, and picked them up to take a look.

I saw that it was written on the top 'The forty-second time, the great sage worships the South China Sea diligently, and Guanyin is charitable to bind the red child'!

He couldn't help but laugh dumbly, no wonder he could hook Xu Wenchang and didn't want to get out of prison, it turned out to be "Journey to the West"?

Isn't the old gentleman next door the same as Zhang...... Uh, no, Wu Chengen?

Unexpectedly, "Journey to the West" was only half written at this time...... Zhao Gongzi said secretly, do you want to co-author?

Forget it, let's be a person.

He called Hua Zhongheng and asked in a low voice, "What did that old gentleman do?" ”

"This?" Hua Zhongheng was a little confused, he didn't know who that person was, so he beckoned the cell boss to come and ask.

The cell boss hurriedly reminded in a low voice: "It's that Wu County Cheng in Changxing County, Huzhou Prefecture." ”

"Oh, it's him." Hua Zhongheng was stunned. This case involves a lot of things, and although he did not participate in the trial, he basically understands it.

He explained to Zhao Hao:

"This matter has to start from the year before last, when Liu Zhongcheng, the governor of Zhejiang, implemented the 'grain policy of Li Di' in the province...... To put it simply, it is the local chief who also serves as the chief of grain to collect grain for the imperial court. But this method is honestly not clever. Because it will cause confusion in the requisition of grain, and it may harm small households, it has caused a lot of backlash at the local level. ”

Zhao Shouzheng's eyes lit up, and he said in his heart, I have heard this in class!

~~

Although Hai Rui and Zhang Zhixian have very different statements, both admit that 'taxes' and 'criminal names' are the top priorities of a county's government affairs.

Yesterday, Hai Jui told him in detail that the current grain collection system is extremely unreasonable -- the tax grain is not directly collected and released by the government, but the government divides it into several grain areas according to the amount of grain collected. In addition, the large households that pay the most grain in each district take turns to serve as grain chiefs, who are responsible for the collection and transportation of grain.

At the beginning of the country, this was a good errand with both inside and face, so the big families rushed to serve as the grain chief. Later, however, due to the serious land annexation, a large number of acres of land fell under the names of the tax-exempt gentry.

As a result, the tax was all on the remaining yeoman farmers. How can an honest farmer afford to pay twice as much tax as he ploughs a field? Either follow the example and join the gentry's family as a slave, or flee with the family and become an outcast......

As a result, fewer and fewer people paid taxes, but the imperial court still marched grain according to the original standards - as a result, the big families not only lost their profits, but had to pay money to make up for the gap in grain taxes.

How can the big ones suffer this loss? resorted to various methods and evaded serving as grain chiefs.

The policy of levying grain in the country was launched under their persuasion - the change to the chief of the grain and the head of the first division concurrently served as the grain chief, which was essentially the behavior of the big households to blame the small households.

Because there are few rich people who will serve as the thankless captain of the league...... And those lieutenant chiefs and chiefs are not wealthy, and if they are forced to become grain chiefs, they will go bankrupt.

But these lieutenant chiefs have a lot of prestige in the countryside, and forcibly throwing the blame on their heads will definitely cause a backlash. When the time comes, there will be chaos in the township, and not a single grain of grain will be harvested!

~~

So Changxing Zhixian Gui Youguang took the lead in opposing this policy, and more than 20 counties responded for a time. Liu Zhongcheng had a tough personality and was unmoved, and strictly ordered to forcibly push the 'grain levied by the Lidi', and as expected, only half of the tax grain in Zhejiang in Jiajing's 45 years was collected......"

Liu Zhongcheng was very angry, so he strictly ordered the leader of the investigation according to the judge and the sub-guard. But because of the turbulent public opinion, the people stormed the governor's yamen, and in the end they just transferred Guizhi County out of the matter. Hua Zhong Hengton paused:

But Wu Xiancheng, who led the people to make trouble, was arrested and imprisoned for inciting a civil uprising. Zhejiang's prosecutor was worried that it would cause some trouble, so he invoked the law and sent him to the Criminal Department. ”

"So where is this case now?" Zhao Hao asked softly.

"It's not moving." Hua Zhongheng smiled bitterly and said: "This matter has been discussed in the court, and Liu Zhongcheng was also transferred out soon. His 'grain policy' was naturally nullified. I heard that Gui Youguang has been crying out for Wu County, and built an earthen room, hiding in it all day, saying that he would accompany him to prison......"

"The ministry is not judged, nor is it released, but this hot potato has been left here. I guess I want to wait until it's cold. Hua Zhongheng said and suddenly smiled: "Actually, it's been almost two years, and it's already cool." ”

He knew too well the dereliction of duty of the Nanjing Criminal Department, and it was estimated that the officials in charge of trying the case had forgotten that there was still such a person.

"It's an opportunity." Zhao Hao said softly: "Let's see if I can help him by the way." ”

"Not bad." Hua Zhongheng has been in the ministry for many years, and of course he understands what Zhao Hao means.

It's just that he's a little strange, could it be that science still teaches the doors of officialdom?

~~

Zhao Hao walked up to Xu Wenming and asked with a smile: "If I get the book out too, will you follow?" ”

"That's going to have to follow." Xu Wei smiled: "Otherwise, where can I go to read the next chapter?" ”

"Okay, you wait." Zhao Hao smiled confidently: "My son is going to bloom twice today!" ”

ps. Chapter 5, ask for a monthly pass~~~~