The sun had just risen, and when the sky was about to be bright, Wang Ruyu sneakily flashed out of the firewood room, squatted on the ground to observe whether there was anyone around, and went out of the small courtyard like a ghost.

About another stick of incense passed, the lazy Lamei walked out slowly with her sideburns, her full chest rose and fell, and she used all her strength last night to completely subdue Wang Ruyu, and even rewarded him with a belly pocket, so that the man could do what he asked.

Shan said that Wang Ruyu went to the shop, and the shopkeeper said: "Fortunately, the goods from the last time were sold, and the master has not yet gone to the south to buy the goods, and there are 10,000 taels of silver." ”

Wang Ruyu was overjoyed, and immediately took his men to hand over three thousand taels of silver to Hu Wu, the guarantor who specializes in eating this meal in the state yali, and Hu Wu bribed the officials, which is the consistent behavior of the yamen.

On that day, the relevant civil and military officials, people from the palace and officials from the palace, as well as officials from the top and bottom, all received a bribe.

Commander Chai Zhi smiled secretly in his heart after receiving the news, since the Xu family is easier to deal with than imagined, he simply opened his mouth directly, and handed over 20,000 taels of silver with one hand and the other hand.

Xu Wen, who stayed in the prison, can be said to be living like a year, he was afraid that his family would be framed and executed before anyone came, and the crime of rebellion was too serious, even the emperor's relatives couldn't stand it.

In order to save his life, Xu Wen didn't care about anything, and promised to buy his life with 20,000 silver, and now that he had opened up the government, he asked his cousin to call all the guys in the shop into prison, and ordered them to sell all the business at a discount as soon as possible.

The stakes are high, the guys see. They had to look for rich people, and they ran around for seven or eight days to find a few buyers.

During this period, Xu Wen was locked up alone in a filthy cell, and lice were full of stench. I really couldn't stay for a moment, and I repeatedly asked people to ask the state officials for bail to go home, but the officials didn't dare to bear it.

However, money can make ghosts grind, allowing family members to send wine and food every day, but not letting people out, even so Xu Wen does not want to be locked up in prison, and keeps urging the guys to do things every day.

Wang Ruyu was secretly instructed by Lamei. He was young and could not convince the public, and no one listened to him, except for the three thousand taels used for a few properties. There were 7,100 taels of silver left, the pawnshop was discounted by 4,000 taels, the two shops were only counted as 1,000 taels, and the fleet and the goods in the warehouse were sold for 10,000 taels of silver.

The rich man in the city heard that Xu Gongzi was unlucky. Thus selling the industry cheaply. Who doesn't rejoice? It doesn't matter how much he took advantage of the Xu family. And all the guys will have to rely on the new owner to live in the future, and no one has the conscience to find out and bargain for Xu Wen.

Not only did they not help, but in order to show their loyalty, the guys also worked together to get the new owner and the Xu family to make a never-repentant deed, and asked the guarantor and witnesses to register in the yamen, and drew a flower charge, anyway, they helped to do it foolproof.

Xu Wen just wanted to be released from prison as soon as possible, and he didn't even want to agree to it. Let Wang Ruyu handle this matter instead, but it's a pity that there is a good business with more than 50,000 or 60,000 yuan of goods and shops. It was only sold for 20,000 pieces of silver, and it was unbeatable. For this reason, the people in Tai'an City all sighed and scolded him for being the loser of the losers.

Wang Ruyu pretended not to know everything at first, and quarreled after the incident, otherwise he would denounce it. The men then asked the new owner to secretly give him 800 taels of silver.

Wang Ruyu carried a heavy amount of silver, and that night and Lamei had an affair overnight, Lamei knew the taste and told him to make a big deal when he had the opportunity, anyway, it was the Xu family's money, and he didn't take it for nothing.

Among them, there are capable people in the Xu family, who saw the flaws and asked for a share of the spoils, and together with the partners, they shared about a thousand taels of benefits, and it was also the concerted efforts of the whole family to do the thing, and no one told the Geng family that they partnered to hide from Xu Wen and his wife.

The impatient Xu Wen ordered two cronies and family members to send 20,000 taels of silver to Qingzhou with Wang Ruyu, got up in the starry night, and reported to the Geng family before leaving, asking for 100 taels as a coil.

Qingzhou's side is responsible for the case for King Qi is the doorman Zhang Dian and Luo Longwen, whoever sends the silver to him and the two of them to deliver, nodding is a true traitor to the party can also be excused, no matter how innocent he is, he is also a criminal.

There are a lot of people who come to send silver to buy their lives, Wang Ruyu bought a number plate first, lined up to come in and ask for release, that pawn is quite kind, just about to accept it, but who expected Luo Longwen to say: "A prince of the governor, worried that he can't buy his life with 100,000 silver?" Escort Qingzhou to the rebel for interrogation, your cousin must be a rebel, at least 50,000 taels, and he will not let go if he is less than one tael. ”

Wang Ruyuxin said that if the Xu family takes the money, not to mention that 100,000 is a million, it is also a trivial matter, I am afraid that you will not have the courage to accept it. While secretly scolding, he begged for Xu Wen every day, detailing that the family sold the house and abandoned the property, and the gold and silver were all gone, and they stopped making up more than 20,000 taels.

Where is Luo Longwen willing to believe? didn't let go of his mouth, and he also owed Zhang Dian to persuade him from the side, so he relied on 25,000 taels, and an additional 500 taels of benefits, saying that it was a reward for the little guys who followed.

Wang Ruyu sent someone back to ask for money, and Geng's had no choice but to sell jewelry, furniture, and property, and finally scraped together 6,000 taels and sent it.

Wang Ruyu got the silver plus the previous 20,000 yuan and delivered it in full, didn't he know that Zhang Luo and the others told the king of Qi 10,000 taels, and the 10,000 taels went into the pocket of the commander Chai Zhi, and the 5,000 taels were privately divided between the two of them, and 500 taels were given to the people related to the palace.

The next day, Qingzhou officials issued an official document, saying that Xu Gongzi was a gambler and did not know about taking in traitors. Xu Wen was released home in accordance with the gambling rules of the Ming Law, and he did not say a word of reprimand, and immediately acted as an order.

This official document was actually from the Qi Wangfu, Luo Longwen showed it to Wang Ruyu directly, and then sealed the paint and seal, and asked Wang Ruyu to take it back to the Tai'an Prefecture delivery official mansion by himself, and said with a smile: "I won't send the public to go, and I saved Xu Gongzi a few hundred taels, this favor is given to you, don't worry about Xu Gongzi not being rewarded, so you have to thank me for life, go!" ”

Wang Ruyu was overjoyed when he got the ticket, Xie Bei and the two came out and told the two family members that they would divide the remaining 1,000 taels into 200 taels each, and he himself got 600 taels, plus Xu Wen, who was released from prison, it can be regarded as everyone's joy in the end.

After this incident, Xu Wen sat in the study and pondered, but he actually wrote a letter to inform the family that it was just a misunderstanding, and the lost money was not earned by his own hands for him, so he was not distressed.

Within a few days, Xu Wen sold the house at a low price of 8,000 taels, dismissed all the family members and ignored his friends, and took Geng and Lamei and others to Qingzhou in a carriage.

It turned out that Xu Wen was unwilling to rely on his family to survive all his life, and lived under Xu Hao's charity all his life, and he keenly judged the reason why King Qi was wantonly accumulating wealth, after all, he had been a Jinyi guard for a while and had received news about King Qi.

Xu Wen took it for granted that with his own support, he could also assist King Qi to compete for the throne like Xu Hao, and when the big thing was completed, who in the world would dare to underestimate him?

In the drizzle, Xu Hao and Mu Ningxue were like fairy couples, standing side by side on the shore of the West Lake.

Xu Hao frowned and said, "Why is it different from what I imagined?" Where is still the famous West Lake. ”

Mu Ningxue ignored people's gazes and said with a smile: "Husband is erudite and talented, how can he not know the cause and effect here?" ”

Xu Hao smiled and said, "Let me think about it first." Oh! This is because of Taizu, since the founding of the People's Republic of China, Hangzhou and other places have heavy taxes, the people have no money to spare, the West Lake is negligent in governance, so that the present everywhere is barren, plus the disaster, the disaster people in order to fill their stomachs to dig up lotus flowers and pick lotus roots and other fruits, the West Lake is mostly covered by silt. ”

In fact, it is similar to what Xu Hao said, the singing and dancing of the West Lake in the Southern Song Dynasty was no less than the brilliance of Qinhuai in ten miles. During the Yuan Dynasty, there was an endless stream of merchants and travelers from the Western Regions, Persia and Western European countries, the most famous of which was naturally Marco Polo of Italy, who said that Hangzhou was the most beautiful and luxurious celestial city in the world at that time, and at that time the West Lake followed the "Ten Views of the West Lake" in the Southern Song Dynasty, and there were "Ten Views of Qiantang", which shows the prosperity and prosperity at that time.

But in the last years of the Yuan Dynasty and even the early years of the Ming Dynasty, the war was raging and the people were not living, and Zhu Yuanzhang migrated a large number of wealthy families to Jinling, he seemed to be very prejudiced against the people in the south of the Yangtze River, and the taxes were several times heavier than those in other places, and the government was unable to govern the West Lake in order to cope with the annual taxes.

Even if every time he submitted a request for governance, he was rejected by Zhu Yuanzhang without exception, and after a long time, the West Lake sunset and the West Mountain will no longer be beautiful.

And in the Yuan Dynasty, the West Lake was surrounded by rich people along the lake, and in the Ming Dynasty, it was even more intensified, and the government acquiesced to the people to turn the lake into fields for a variety of grains, and there was only a small pond left that Xu Hao saw now.

There are about more than 4,000 acres of land occupied by the field, in the history of Zhengde years, Hangzhou was able to restore prosperity, Zhizhou Yang Mengying broke through the huge resistance of the rich people, with the support of the patrol press of the imperial history of the car beam, please dredge the West Lake, the Ministry of Industry allocated 23,607 taels of silver, 152 days of labor, 67,700,000 person-times, demolished 3,481 acres of fields, this is the restoration of the original appearance of the West Lake in the Tang and Song dynasties, is called Yanggong Embankment in later generations.

This time, Xu Hao and his wife came to Hangzhou, firstly, because of the bad floods last year, and this year's heavy rain made the fields in several southern states have no harvest, and the imperial court urgently sent Xia Yuanji, the head of the household department to control the water, and Yu Shiji, the imperial envoy of the capital, to help the hungry people, and sent 300,000 stones of corn and seeds to cultivate cattle, etc., and urged the county officials to urgently send the grain in the warehouse to help the people, of which Xia Yuanji was in Songzhou, and Yu Shiji went to Huzhou.

Second, Mu Ningxue's nurse Xia recently died of her son, because Xia's family is in Hangzhou, so Xu Hao ordered Hangzhou to be in charge of him, accompanied his wife to come to mourn, and planned to live in Hangzhou for a longer time.

As soon as I arrived in Hangzhou today, I passed through the West Lake and wanted to watch it first, but I saw a dilapidated and desolate area, and there were people with yellow faces and thin muscles everywhere as far as the eye could see.

Xu Hao pointed to the bleak scene in front of him, and said to the head of the household who followed him: "Report everything you see to Your Majesty truthfully, okay, you hurry up and go on errands, don't starve to death alone, and come to me again if you are in trouble." (To be continued......)