Liu Bingchuan, a self-proclaimed official, is afraid that others will say that he colluded with Li Zhi, a "traitorous minister", and wants to keep his distance from Li Zhi! So in any case, Li Zhi's irrigation canal is not allowed to pass through his family's fields. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Hearing Liu Jiaren denounce himself as a traitor, Li Zhi was very unhappy. In the past, Li Zhi only heard people say that Wen Tiren was a traitor, and he never imagined that one day he would be pointed at his nose and scolded as a traitor.

Li Zhi said coldly: "Is collecting commercial taxes a traitor? Farmers have to pay land taxes for hard work, so why can't merchants pay business taxes? ”

When Liu Jianshen heard Li Zhi's words, he excitedly said with a cane: "The collection of commercial taxes is to take the benefits of the people and compete with the people for money!" When the emperor was in charge of the tax supervisor, the people of the world were the opposite! ”

Li Zhi said: "The world is full of smoke, and the country has no military pay to support its soldiers, and it is already going bankrupt. If the land is expropriated again, the peasants will starve to death and rebel, and in this case, can't the gentry make a little profit? Sitting back and watching the country have difficulties and not make a little effort, this is the real traitor! ”

That Liu Jianshen couldn't say anything about Li Zhi, coughed violently a few times, and scolded loudly: "The traitorous minister is strong!" The old man doesn't reason with you, leave my house quickly! ”

Li Zhi asked, "What about the irrigation canal?" ”

Liu Jianshen waved his sleeves and said, "Don't talk!" ”

Li Zhi lost his temper and said coldly: "Don't be too self-righteous!" ”

Liu Jian snorted coldly, and didn't seem to take Li Zhi's warning seriously.

Out of the Liu family's house, Zheng Hui asked: "My lord, the Liu family took the lead and refused to build irrigation canals for us, what should we do?" ”

Li Zhi said: "Take someone to repair!" Where there is a need to repair the ditch, he dug it, he is a little patrol according to the imperial history, afraid of what he will do? ”

Zheng Hui asked, "What if the Liu family says that we forcibly seized private land?" ”

Li Zhi said: "What are you afraid of, I will stand up to the sky falling!" ”

The next day, Zheng Hui organized farmers to build irrigation canals on Liu's fields. Seeing this, the people of the Liu family were furious. After Li Zhi's people dug for three days, the Liu family started. Dozens of Liu family members rushed up with wooden sticks in their hands.

"Who dares to dig a ditch on Liu's private field?"

"Kill you tenant farmers who farm for traitors!"

"Dare to dig up the Liu family's field?"

The people who built the irrigation canals were all peasants, and they didn't have weapons, so how could they beat these tall Liu family members. Hundreds of people were beaten by dozens of family members, some were beaten with blue noses and swollen eyes, and some were beaten so that they were bleeding and injured, and they scattered and fled. Zheng Hui was originally directing the construction of the canal at the scene, but when he saw the Liu family's family coming, he could only run away.

When he returned to Fanjiazhuang the next day, Zheng Hui told Li Zhi about the beating in Jinghai County.

When Li Zhi heard this, he was furious, and secretly said that the Liu family was not afraid of himself at all, didn't he know that he had a strong army? He built a canal on his land, and he occupied more than 20 acres of land, and he actually fought with himself like this! Could it be that in the eyes of the Liu family, he is really a traitor who does not share the sky?

Is he so desperate to dissociate himself from him?

If the Liu family does not give up the land, the other gentry will follow suit, and their own new land reclamation will be empty talk. The second batch of 10,000 tenant farmers has already been hired, and it is impossible for Li Zhi to stop the cultivation of new fields now. Now Li Zhi is difficult to ride a tiger, and he can only fight with the Liu family.

Li Zhi snorted coldly, and was about to call Zhong Feng to come, ready to lead the troops to Liu's house, but heard the family at the door running in quickly, and shouted loudly: "Master, the governor is here!" ”

Li Zhi was stunned, and secretly said why did Cha Dengbei come at this time, but he saw the governor of Tianjin walking into the second hall with an anxious face, and said to himself: "How did General Longhu rob the private land of the gentry?" ”

Li Zhi didn't expect the Liu family to mobilize the governor to speak for them, he was stunned, looked Cha Deng up and down, and secretly said that this Qingliu was really united when he was fighting inwardly.

"I want to reclaim 100,000 mu of military land, and I can add 12,000 stones of tuntian to be handed over every year, which will greatly benefit the country. The irrigation canal of this military field has to pass through the Liu family's private field, and it is also helpless to move his private field! ”

Chadenbei clapped his hands and said, "No matter what, you can't take away people's private property!" After a pause, Cha Dengbei said loudly: "If the general acts like this, I am afraid that he will be denounced as a traitor by the world!" Everybody hates! ”

Li Zhi sneered and said, "Haven't you been reprimanded as a traitor?" ”

Cha Dengbei smiled a little embarrassedly and said: "As long as the general stops the business tax and rejects the remnants of the eunuch party, the people of the world can still forgive the general!" ”

Li Zhi said lightly: "Don't 'people in the world' and 'people in the world' all day long, it's nothing more than a group of selfish gentry controlling public opinion, and whoever moves their interests will kidnap the people of the world and make trouble together." ”

A governor of Chadenbeitang was reprimanded by Li Zhi like this, and felt very embarrassed, and said: "The general said that Qingliu is a selfish gentleman? ”

Li Zhi closed his eyes and did not answer this sentence, but changed his mouth and said: "I will definitely repair this irrigation canal, and the commercial tax will definitely be collected." If the Liu family wants to go against me, it won't end well! ”

Cha Dengbei was choked by Li Zhi and had nothing to say, shook his head helplessly, and said: "General, don't act rashly, wait another day, things will definitely take a turn for the better!" ”

Li Zhi looked at Cha Dengbei, didn't know what he meant, nodded and said, "Okay, I'll wait a day." ”

The next day, Li Zhi was waiting curiously at home, when a messenger suddenly ran at the door and brought a letter in.

"The Ministry of Rites Shangshu He Shishou has a letter to hand over to the general!"

It turned out that the so-called turning point was a letter from He Shishou, and this He Shishou also joined the camp to persuade him to stop? The relationship network of the Liu family is very wide. Li Zhi knew that He Shishou had participated in his own book some time ago, and he had already broken with himself, so why was he embarrassed to write a letter to himself? Li Zhi snorted coldly and opened He Shishou's letter.

"Ru Ben Buyi, the old man thinks that you are loyal to the country, and I don't want you to be full of wings today, so you make friends with the eunuch party... Thou hast robbed the gentry's private land, and the people and gods were angry... I advise you to stop quickly, if you can wake up, the people of the world may no longer rebuke you..."

Sure enough, as soon as I opened the letter, it was He Shishou's old-fashioned scolding text. The central idea is just one sentence, let Li Zhi not requisition the land of the Liu family to develop irrigation canals, do not collect commercial taxes, and quickly turn around and follow Qingliu's instructions to be an official with his tail between his legs.

Li Zhi was so angry that he threw He Shishou's letter on the ground and scolded: "These Qingliu sit and talk emptyly, I don't know that what is most lacking now is food and silver, without food and silver, the country will not be able to suppress thieves and prevent slaves!" If there is no commercial tax and no new land is opened, how can there be grain and silver? ”

Zheng Hui sneered and said: "My lord, even the Ministry of Rites has spoken, do we still want to fight with the Liu family?" ”

Li Zhi paced back and forth in the house for a few steps, and secretly said that the Liu family's relationship network was really wide, and he couldn't be blindly rude, so as not to find a reason for Qingliu to attack him. Originally, Li Zhi was going to directly lead troops into Liu's house to arrest people and beat the board, but now that he looks at it, it is best to catch the evidence of his corruption and perversion of the law, and the teacher is famous.

"Zheng Hui, go and call Han Jinxin!" (To be continued.) )