Ye Qi packed up a few clothes and inspected his room again, thinking with some emotion: "Maybe it's difficult for me to come back." ”

In order to promote the land reform, he provoked conflicts between the villagers and the landlords, and arrested many large households who wanted to resist the land reform in one go.

Although his approach was rude, the effect was quite good, and one-third of Shunyi County's land restructuring was completed within half a month.

However, not many of Jinyiwei's colleagues supported him, but relying on the emperor's authorization, no one dared to come forward to oppose his approach.

Of course, Ye Qi knew that these big households would not give up, he just wanted to complete the entire land reform plan before the big families retaliated, so as to repay the emperor's trust in him.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but sigh and whispered to himself, "If only I had given myself more time." ”

"Ye Baihu, the carriage is ready." A voice came in respectfully from outside the door.

"Alright, I'll come out now." Ye Qi replied loudly, and immediately grabbed the packed package and walked out of the door.

When Ye Qi and two Jinyi guards from Beijing came down from Beijing walked the courtyard, they found that hundreds of villagers were gathering in front of their courtyard gate. He stopped in some confusion, not knowing what the villagers were doing here.

Soon he saw that several old men from the village had come up to him with a tray containing a pot of wine and two side dishes.

"I heard that the adults are going to be recalled to the capital to face the saints, so we have prepared some light wine and side dishes, and we have come to see you off. Adults have been running around for us these days, dividing the fields, and trying to make everyone have a good life. We countrymen don't have anything good to repay the adults, so we can only prepare a little wine and food, and I hope the adults will not dislike it..."

When Ye Qi got into the carriage, he was still excited, and he was still thinking about the scene where the villagers saw him off. When Huangzhuang was restructured, all he wanted was to improve the miserable life of his relatives and friends in the township, and what supported him was sympathy for his neighbors.

From the land reform of the Weisho to the land reform of Shunyi County, it was entirely to repay the emperor's kindness for his promotion.

Ye Qi didn't read much, but because he often went out, he also gained a lot of knowledge. The most profound influence on him is still the words that those who read all day long, such as "the soldier dies for his confidant".

The emperor promoted him from a despicable villager to a hundred households in brocade clothes, and what he thought of was that his life would be His Majesty's in the future.

Since the emperor gave him carte blanche to promote the land reform of the cultivators in Shunyi County, he did not hesitate to deal with these local gentry and wealthy families who hindered the reform.

When Ye Qi did these things, he just thought about carrying out the emperor's orders, and he didn't expect to get the gratitude of these villagers.

And today, he was greatly touched by the scene of these villagers spontaneously seeing him off. It turned out that what he did was not only seen and remembered by the emperor, but also by the villagers.

After Ye Qi got into the carriage, the carriage never stopped to rest. In addition to changing horses at the post station, let him get off the car to solve the physiological problems, and the carriage drove directly to the capital.

When Ye Qi arrived at this time, he completely let go. He was completely at the mercy of the two Jinyi guards who escorted him into Beijing, and there was no resistance.

When the carriage stopped, Ye Qi, who stepped out of the carriage, was a little stunned. The carriage stopped in a secluded alley, not in front of the Jinyi Guard's yamen, as he had guessed.

A brocade guard walked to the small door opposite the carriage and knocked on the knocker, and soon the little door was opened, and the brocade guard talked to the middle-aged servant who came out of the door, and then walked back.

"Ye Baihu, you stay here for a few days first, and then someone will come to summon you to the yamen. I'll go back and reply to my life first. The brocade guard explained a few words to Ye Qi, then left him and took another person into the carriage and left.

Ye Qi was a little dazed with a package, and the servant had already walked up to him to take the package, and said courteously: "This lord, please come with me, the master has been waiting for you for a while." ”

"Sir? Dare to ask who your master is? Ye Qi finally reacted and hurriedly asked.

"When you go in, you'll know." The servant led the way with a smile on his face, but avoided Ye Qi's inquiry.

Ye Qi hesitated slightly, and followed the servant into the small door. From the outside, this should be the back door of the house. After Ye Qi walked in, he confirmed that his idea was correct, after the small door came in, it was a garden, and it obviously would not be the main entrance.

The servant led him around the rockery pool to a single-story building on the edge of the pool.

"Listen to Yuxuan." Before Ye Qi walked into the house, he looked up at the plaque in front of the house and silently read these three words.

After walking through the entrance, it is an elegant flower hall. There was a table of wine in the flower hall, and a middle-aged man was sitting next to the banquet.

After Ye Qi saw this middle-aged man, he hurriedly stepped forward and saluted and said, "The lowly Ye Qi has seen Lord Tian. ”

Tian Ergeng was noncommittal to Ye Qi's greetings, and after he looked at Ye Qi carefully, he said coldly: "Do you know how much trouble you have caused to yourself and to us Jinyiwei?" ”

Ye Qi was nervous, and then replied: "The things in Shunyi are all done by the lowly one, and the lowly is willing to bear all the consequences, and will never dare to involve others." ”

Tian Ergeng pursed his lips and said, "You think this court is opened by you?" You say that if you don't implicate others, you won't implicate others?

If you weren't wearing the skin of Jinyiwei, what do you think you could accomplish in Shunyi? Those who read books originally looked at us brocade guards unpleasantly.

They had nothing to do in the past and still had to hit three shots, let alone caught you as a handle. Tell me what you think?

quietly offended all the gentry in Shunyi, but he didn't even report a word to the officials. Are you planning to let the entire Jinyi Guard carry this black pot for you? ”

"I don't dare." The sweat on Ye Qi's forehead suddenly appeared.

After Tian Ergeng reprimanded Ye Qi, he said slightly: "The imperial court is discussing the punishment of you, so you can live here for the past few days and reflect on it." If you need anything, just tell Ah Quan, and he will arrange it for you..."

After Tian Ergeng finished speaking, he left with the middle-aged servant. After a long time, Ye Qi slowly got up and sat on the edge of the table. Faced with a table of delicacies, he realized that he had no appetite at all.

After Tian Ergeng stepped through the weeping flower gate, he suddenly stopped, and he said to Ah Quan behind him: "Tell the ladies in the mansion that don't go to the back garden these days." Well, don't let Shuyun know that..."

Although it was already March, Shoufu Huang Liji was still wearing very thick, and after he walked into the courtyard of Wenhua Palace, he inadvertently found that the trees in the courtyard had begun to grow green shoots.

He paused for a moment to watch, and heard footsteps hurrying towards him. "Lord Shousuke, everyone has arrived, and His Majesty has also arrived, so please come in for a meeting."

"Oh, let's go." Huang Liji turned his head and said gently to Yao Shiheng, who came to urge him.

Today's meeting is not just a meeting of cabinet members, but an enlarged meeting that includes six ministries and nine secretaries.

Since the Lantern Festival, Zhu Youzhen has not held a court meeting, but only comes to the cabinet every three days to listen to the report.

Officials in both the DPRK and China have quite a lot of objections to Zhu's behavior, especially the speech officials, who cannot openly impeach officials or oppose a certain policy at the court meeting, which makes it difficult for them to get the support of their colleagues and act together.

In the face of constant protests from officials, Zhu Youzhen finally decided to take a step back and convene a meeting of the cabinet and the six ministries and nine secretaries of state every three days to replace the bloated and inefficient court meeting.

Although the officials did not meet the requirements for the resumption of the imperial meeting, it was undoubtedly much better than the previous situation in which only cabinet members could see the emperor.

When Huang Liji walked to his seat, Zhu Youzhen walked out from behind the screen slowly. Huang Liji immediately led his ministers to stand up and salute the emperor.

After sitting down, Zhu Youzhen said, "What are the problems today?" I'm going to Yenching University in a while, so we'll discuss it as quickly as possible. ”

"Your Majesty, I heard that Jinyiwei is in Shunyi, and in the name of the cultivator's own land, he wantonly poisoned the local gentry and exploited the small people. I would like to ask Your Majesty to investigate this matter thoroughly. Han Yi immediately interjected.

Zhu Youzhen pretended to be at a loss, and asked Wang Chengen, "Is there really such a thing?" How I don't know. ”

Zhang Ruitu and Liu Zongzhou suddenly said dissatisfiedly: "Your Majesty, Shunyi County sent a piece of music three days ago, how can you say that you don't know?" ”

Seeing the denial, Zhu Youzhen had to pretend to think for a while before nodding his head and saying, "It seems that there is such a thing, but hasn't this matter been dealt with?" Wang Chengen, how did this official deal with the common people? ”

Wang Chengen immediately said with interest: "The officer has been locked and taken back to Beijing for questioning, Your Majesty." ”

"Oh, that's good. Let's move on to the next question. Zhu Youzhen said vaguely.

"So what about the wrong policy implemented by the officer in Shunyi? Please beg your Majesty to have mercy on the deceased and return to its original owner the land that the man had stolen from the gentry. Han Yi said without hesitation.

Han Yi's step-by-step pressure finally made Zhu Youzhen unable to mess around. He immediately asked rhetorically: "Does Mr. Han think that the minimum goal set by the cabinet is wrong to solve the problem of food and clothing for the people?" Or do you think that the policy of asking the cultivators to have their land is wrong? ”

Han Yi, who was originally righteous, was suddenly a little speechless, Guo Yunhou coughed, and said gently: "It is naturally important to solve the problem of food and clothing for the people, but it is still wrong to forcibly seize the land of the gentry after all.

The ancients said: Confucianism is the treasure of the country, and Confucianism is the treasure of the table. This gentry is the foundation of my Ming Dynasty and the foundation of His Majesty's governance of the country. Damaging the hearts of the gentry and succumbing to the small people is the same as people reversing their hands and feet, and it will not last long. ”