Chapter 113 The 22nd Chapter Li Tongzhi Visits His Old Friend Jin Shilang in the Capital

Once the winter solstice is over, the days of heaven are short.When we first passed, the street was so dark that we couldn’t see anything clearly: Jin Xuezeng came home from the household office in a small sedan chair carried by two people, and suddenly saw a person crouching shyly in the doorway.Who is this? He was wondering.Seeing him stepping out of the sedan chair, the man immediately stood up and frowned, clasped his fists together, and asked with a smile: "Are you Master Jin?" "It's right next to you." Jin Xuezeng heard that the voice was very familiar, but he couldn't remember who it was for a moment, so he took two quick steps and approached to recognize it face to face.Seeing the man's thin face and the dry and sparse goatee on his chin, he couldn't help being taken aback, and shouted, "Ah, it's Master Li, why did you come here suddenly?"

This Mr. Li is none other than Li Shun, the magistrate of Yuan'an County, whom Jin Xue once met when he was working at the Jingzhou Tax Customs.Li Shun helped him a lot in exposing Zhao Qian, the prefect of Jingzhou, who was corrupt and perverted the law, and the two became close friends ever since.In the sixth year of Wanli, Jin Xue was promoted to Huguang Xuezheng, and the two rarely met.In the eighth year of Wanli, Jin Xuezeng was transferred to Beijing to be promoted again, and served as the right servant of the household department. The two never met again.I only heard that Li Shun passed the six-year exam and was promoted to the first level, and was transferred to Henan to become the magistrate of Nanyang Prefecture.I just don't know why he suddenly appeared in Beijing at the end of the year.

"Lord Jin, your house is really hard to find." Li Shun rubbed his hands, and let out a white breath. "Thank you for finding me. Some people don't believe that I live in such a back alley, and they refuse to find me among the poor." Jin Xuezeng said with a wry smile.He asked again, "Master Li, since you came here, why didn't you enter the house?" "Can we go in? Look, General Tie is at the door." Jin Xuezeng saw that the gate was indeed locked.Then he took out a key from a crack in the wall, opened the door, and said: "My old man probably went shopping in the street." He let Li Shun into the house.

After Jin Xuezeng lit the lamp, Li Shun looked around. Although this is a small courtyard house with seven or eight houses, more than half of them are empty. ask: "Lord Jin, where is your family?" "It's all at home." "You are now a member of the third rank, why are you still hanging a mallet on the beams of the roof like in the past, and you are fighting alone?" "When an official is away, it's so tiring to take your family with you." Although what Jin Xuezeng said was a joke, in Li Shun's ears, more than half of it was the truth.Jin Xue had been in charge of the Jingzhou tax office since the third year of Wanli, and he had been in turmoil. Every time he was transferred to a new position, although he was promoted, none of the errands waiting for him were easy.After he racked his brains and tried his best to deal with a lot of troubles, he hadn't let go of his heart for a few days, and there was a new chore waiting for him.Everyone in the officialdom knew that Jin Xue was Zhang Juzheng's most admired official, but he was also the hardest and most tired, and he was so busy all day long.For all the things that offend people, Zhang Juzheng wished that he would charge forward with a red beard and a big knife.Under such circumstances, Jin Xue had no intention of thinking about his family.Now that Jin Xuezeng's "official residence" was so poor, Li Shun almost suspected that he had gone to the wrong place. How could this be the residence of a powerful official like the right servant of the household department? Li Shun also noticed that Jin Xuezeng was wearing a What he wore was a blue cotton robe, not the coveted third-grade peacock official uniform. His heart sank and he asked eagerly:

"Master Jin, why are you wearing this suit?" "I'm no longer the order of the court." "What?" Li Shun's shock was no small matter. Seeing that Jin Xuezeng didn't look like he was joking, he asked, "What happened?" "My mother passed away half a month ago. When I received the bad news, I immediately presented the manuscript to the emperor, begging Ding You to keep it." "The emperor approves?" "Ding You is a common practice, why doesn't the emperor approve it?" Jin Xuezeng's face was full of worry, "Yesterday I went to the Ministry of Officials to complete the procedures for returning home, and today I went to the Ministry of Households to complete the handover. I will leave Beijing early tomorrow morning and go home for the funeral."

Hearing this news, Li Shun felt sad for Jin Xuezeng Daxiao on the one hand, and felt sad that his future was hindered because of this. After thinking about it, he asked: "Sir Chief Assistant Zhang allows you to leave?" Jin Xuezeng smiled sadly: "He won't let me go home to guard the system, so maybe he won't make me lose my love?" "Then..." Li Shun had nothing to say for a moment. Jin Xuezeng sighed, and said: "Since the first year of Wanli, I have done everything I should do in the past few years. I have felt very tired for more than a year. Now, it is time to rest."

Li Shun remained silent, he could hear Jin Xuezeng's words seem to be somewhat dejected, and just as he was wondering, Jin Xuezeng asked him: "Master Li, are you still working in Nanyang Mansion?" "yes." "Why did you come to Beijing this time?" "The message from the Ministry of Officials summoned us to Beijing, saying that we were to have an audience with the emperor." "Oh, I see," Jin Xuezeng slapped his head, as if suddenly remembering something, and said, "You, the acquaintance, are responsible for the clearing of the land in Nanyang Mansion. The officials involved were called to the cabinet to explain that they wanted to find out ten officials who made the most contributions to Qingzhang’s fields nationwide, and invite them to Beijing, where the emperor personally received them and gave them awards. I’m in charge of the household affairs department. Therefore, when the list was agreed upon, I specifically included you in it."

Upon hearing this, Li Shun shook his head quickly, and said mockingly, "We just wondered, how could such a good thing happen to me, a poor man, so it turned out that you opened the back door." "This is not opening the back door. You, Mr. Li, have indeed done a good job. I heard that after the land in Nanyang Prefecture was cleared, more than 10,000 hectares were added." "The increase has increased so much," Li Shun glanced at Jin Xuezeng and said with a sigh, "but I, Li, really don't want to win this praise." "Why is this?" Jin Xuezeng was quite surprised.

Li Shun lowered his eyebrows and lowered his eyes for a while and remained silent for a while, looking at him like that, he seemed to be full of complaints. However, it is said that in the sixth year of Wanli, it first started in Shandong, and then extended to the land clearing of the whole country, and it took three years to complete the project.After investigation and verification, the total number of acres in the world is 7,013,976 hectares, which is 3 million hectares more than the Qingzhang in the last Hongzhi period.The extra part is almost half of the hidden estates owned by wealthy and powerful households.Xunqi Haoqiang used his power for personal gain to gobble up the land wantonly. The number was so large that even Zhang Juzheng, who was already mentally prepared, was deeply surprised.In order to prevent these dignitaries from waiting for an opportunity to counterattack and change over time, he asked the Ministry of Households to immediately formulate supporting laws and regulations to restrict them, and persuaded Emperor Wanli to issue an edict to allow it.This decree was drafted by Jin Xuezeng, the right servant of the household department, and finally revised by Zhang Juzheng. There is a paragraph in it:

In the ninth year of Wanli, it was approved, and the honorary Qi Zhuangtian, the five clothes were reduced.Xunchen stopped at two hundred hectares, and there was no room for discussion.But Qi Chen, such as Shi Shifeng himself is the first generation, the son is the second generation, the grandson is the third generation, the great-grandson is the fourth generation, and the son of the great-grandson is the fifth generation.Start with the current official product, and take the number of land reserved for the current view as the standard.Those who belong to the second generation are divided into three declines; those who belong to the third generation are divided into two declines; to the fifth generation, only one hundred hectares are reserved for the world.If the decency has been extinct and the rank of nobility has been changed, no matter how many acres of land there are, only five hectares will be reserved for the tomb guards of the side branches.

It is also inscribed that, in Zhuangtian of Xun Qi, there is a secretary who collects three cents of silver per mu as usual, and the solution department has completed the inspection.If anyone indulges his family members to go to the countryside to occupy the land, and privately collects land taxes, and rents money with Dole, he will be strictly dealt with by the censor. As soon as this decree was promulgated, it immediately caused an uproar among the rich and powerful.For more than two hundred years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the honored ministers and nobles have always been the largest owners of land.These people believed that they were protected by the imperial court, and they harassed and harmed the people in the local area and ran amok. Most of the common people dared to be angry but did not dare to speak out.Today, Zhang Juzheng personally presided over the formulation of the decree, which not only limited the land to these heavenly nobles, but also reduced the land from generation to generation.If anyone dares to defy the law and then extort money, he will be punished severely.It can be said that it is unprecedented to treat the powerful so harshly.It is precisely because Zhang Juzheng insisted on the governance of the country without hesitation, "no distinction between relatives and estrangements, no distinction between high and low, consistent with the law", the Wanli Dynasty finally reversed the decline since Jia and Long, and the national finances that were on the verge of collapse have fundamentally improved.The benefits brought by the newly added fields in Qingzhang alone can add more than 9 million taels of silver to the national treasury every year. It is really rich in wealth and people, and the country is strong! On this basis, Zhang Juzheng believes that the time to implement taxation reform is ripe. , So he once again asked for the imperial edict of Emperor Wanli to implement the "one whip" law uniformly throughout the country.The so-called "one whip" method is to combine all the land tax, corvee, and various miscellaneous errands and tributes in one state and one county into one, and convert them into two pieces of silver to pay, and the official settlement.Previously, farmers handed over land taxes, which were all grain and wheat in kind, and the corvee that was apportioned according to the number of acres of land had to be traveled by the farmer himself.Therefore, even on the day of tax payment, grain boats and carts are constantly on the roads, and the official warehouses in various places are overflowing. I don’t know how much burden the grain households have to bear because of the loss and exploitation along the way! After the implementation of the "one whip" method, the payment of taxes in kind in the past dynasties has been changed, which is not only convenient for the people but also beneficial to the court. An epoch-making reform move. It was Gui E, a cabinet scholar in the ninth year of Jiajing, who first put forward the idea of ​​"one whip" reform.He conceived of "taking all the money, regardless of whether there is a slave or not, and collecting it according to the field." In the second year, Fu Hanchen, the censor of the field, formally stated: "Practice the 'one whip' method, ten armors and three grains will be collected in one. Li, each li’s rations are collected in one county, each prefecture and county is headed by the government, and each government is headed by the chief secretary, and each province’s rations are distributed to a province’s corvee.” At that time, Emperor Jiajing’s decree was first to go to Ningguo in southern Zhili , Yingtian, Suzhou and other prefectures, Changsha prefecture in Huguang, Pingyang in Shanxi, the second prefecture of Taiyuan, and Thanksgiving County in Qiongzhou prefecture in Guangdong.After half a century, the implementation of the "one whip" law has been carried out intermittently. Those who agree with it are called good governance, and those who oppose it are called "farming beetles".In the Jiajing and Longqing dynasties, there were Suzhou magistrate Hai Rui, Yin Tianfu Yin Song Yiwang, Zhejiang governor Pang Shangpeng, and Jiangxi governor Pan Jixun and other high-ranking officials. In the end, almost all of these people were investigated for insisting on the "one whip" law. Dismissal.Most of the opponents are politicians in power, not to mention Ge Shouli, the first Zuodu censor after Wanli was changed to Yuan Dynasty, is a persistent opponent.He believes that the implementation of the "one whip" method means that "artisans and wealthy merchants are exempted from military service because they have no land, and farmers are alone in the trap."In the second year of Longqing, when Ge Shouli was serving as Minister of the Household Department, he wrote a memorial to the emperor, requesting that the "one whip" law be stopped throughout the country, which was approved by Emperor Longqing.Since then, the "one whip" law has not been applicable to states and counties across the country for several years.As early as the Jiajing period, Zhang Juzheng was an enthusiastic advocate of the "one whip" method, and Song Yiwang, Pang Shangpeng, Pan Jixun and others were also his political friends.In the second year of Longqing, Hai Rui served as the governor of Nanzhili and the capital censor. Because of the "one whip" law, he aroused the panic and hatred of the officials and gentry, and was attacked by the speech officer Dai Fengxiang and others as "disorderly government". Serve as official.At that time, Zhang Juzheng was the cabinet minister.Even in such a prominent position, he could not defend Hai Rui, but after Hai Rui was removed from office and returned to his hometown, he wrote to express his apology, saying: "The three-foot law cannot be used by Wu for a long time. It is advisable to use rope and ink, and it is better not to be unbearable. False words are boiling, and the listeners are confused. The servant is absurd, and the axis can be discussed with the temple, but not for the court. I am ashamed." From this letter, we can see Zhang Juzheng's resentment and helplessness at that time.After he took charge of the cabinet, he deliberately re-introduced the "one whip" law.However, he summed up the lessons of the previous dynasty and knew that if the land was not measured first to check the acres, the implementation of the "one whip" method would indeed have the problem of increasing the burden on small farmers as pointed out by Ge Shouli.Therefore, in the fourth year of Wanli, the ruling ministers in the court no longer had any restraining figures. He decided to re-enable Song Yiwang and Pang Shangpeng, and promote it in Yingtianfu and Fujian Province, where the opposition to "one whip" was the most intense. Gain experience.At the beginning of the ninth year of Wanli, as soon as Qingzhang Tianmu was declared over, he immediately asked Mu to implement the "one whip" law throughout the country.Since then, the tax reform, which has been debated for half a century, has finally become the official system of the Wanli Dynasty due to Zhang Juzheng's iron fist.In-kind land tax has been practiced in China for two to three thousand years, and it has since withdrawn from the stage of history permanently.After a series of reforms such as reducing redundant officials, rectifying official administration, rectifying post delivery, and taxation in Zilitian, coupled with the implementation of Qingzhang Tianmu and the "one whip" law, the Wanli New Deal has achieved great results, and Zhang Juzheng's reputation has also grown. And so reached the pinnacle.From the imperial court to the folk, from Jiangnan to Mobei.As long as Zhang Juzheng's name is mentioned, people will be in awe.Even if it is a villager and a wild old man.We all know that the current emperor Wanli is obedient to his teacher Zhang Juzheng, and he is obedient and obedient.Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, no Chief Assistant has truly held the power of regency to reorganize the country and turn the world around like Zhang Juzheng.The honor and status given to him by the emperor made him the ultimate minister.For example, his second son, Sixiu, and third son, Maoxiu, participated in the Autumn Ceremony in the ninth year of Wanli.The emperor personally circled with a pen, and promoted Maoxiu to be the number one scholar, and his successor to Tanhua.A family of two chiefs.This is something that has never happened in imperial examinations for thousands of years. The public opinion of scholars was in an uproar for a while, but the emperor appointed it, and no one can change this fact.Immediately after the Autumn Ceremony.It is the routine Jingcha.Zhang Juzheng made outstanding achievements after completing the nine-year examination, and was promoted to be a grand master by the emperor, and went to the Zhu Kingdom.Both honors are the highest honor a minister can receive.Especially in Shangzhu Kingdom, among the chief assistants of the Ming Dynasty before Zhang Juzheng, three people had won this honor, but they all got it after death, and only Zhang Juzheng was granted the title during his lifetime.Therefore, a flattering official wrote a couplet and sent it to his mansion in gold letters. , Learn to crown heaven and man." Zhang Juzheng was very happy to get this couplet, and hung it in the living room for the people who came to pay their respects to see it. As Zhang Juzheng's most trusted follower, Jin Xue used to observe politics from the ninth rank of the household department in the first year of Wanli. In nine years, he rose to the top and became the third rank's right servant of the household department.Many people envy him for climbing the best backer, holding the Pearl of the Spirit Snake in his hand, and his future is limitless.Only he knew in his heart that even if such a major event as his mother's death did not happen, his official career would come to an end.Today, after he handed over work from the yamen of the household department and said goodbye to his colleagues, the sedan chair was carried out of Fugui Street where the household department is located, and he suddenly had a feeling of stepping out of a cage.He wanted to find a secluded place to cry bitterly, or find a friend to express his heart, but he thought it was inappropriate.Zheng Zheng was walking back to his house in the back alleys, when Li Shun came to visit unexpectedly, he was both pleasantly surprised and sad.From the conversation, he felt that Li Shun was evasive, so he concluded that he had something to hide, so he thought of talking to him at night by candlelight. It was dark and cold, and the two of them sat in the main room as cold as monkeys.At this time, there was a knock at the door, and Cangtou came back with a large bag of groceries on his shoulders and a small bag in his hand. It turned out that he was ordered by his master to go out to buy things for the journey to Beijing tomorrow.When I came home and saw the guests, I quickly put down my things and lit a fire in the living room to keep warm.Then, go to the kitchen to prepare meals.The old man was quick and quick, and he came up with a few dishes in a short while, respectfully inviting the host and the guest to have a meal. Because of Xiao Xiao's body, Jin Xue was not allowed to drink alcohol, so the two of them grabbed a few mouthfuls of food indiscriminately, and when they were full, they went back to the main room and sat down.Jin Xue used tongs to poke the charcoal fire in the pot, resumed the previous conversation, and asked Li Shun: "I called you to Beijing to meet the emperor. This is a good thing that many people can't think of. Why are you unhappy?" Li Shun was not in a hurry to answer, but handed the bow he brought with him to Jin Xuezeng, and asked a little treacherously: "You are in charge of land clearing in the household department, you should recognize this?" As early as when we met at the door, Jin Xuezeng saw the bow slung on Li Shun's back. At that time, he was curious, but he didn't have time to ask. Now that Li Shun took the initiative to mention it, he asked suspiciously: "Why don't you recognize it? Isn't this a measuring bow for measuring fields? It's so far away, what are you doing with your bow on your back?" Li Shun frowned and said, "Didn't you ask me why I'm unhappy? It's because of this bow!" "For it?" Jin Xuezeng looked at the measuring bow carefully again, but couldn't see any flaws, so he asked, "Why for it?" "You don't see any difference in this bow?" "No." "Let me ask you, what size is the bow sample issued by the Ministry of Households?" "Three feet and five inches." "But this bow, you measure it." Jin Xue once tugged the bowstring with his hands and said, "It seems a little short." "It's three inches short." Li Shun took the bow, flicked the string, and said, "The length of this bow is only three feet and two inches." "Ah?" Jin Xuezeng's eyes widened all of a sudden, "You mean, your Nanyang government uses this kind of bow to measure the acres of fields?" "Yes," Li Shun said, shaking his bony fingers, "One bow deducts three inches, think about it, what a fake it is." At the beginning of land measurement, the Ministry of Household Affairs had formulated a reasonable measurement system, that is, three feet and five inches were one step, and two hundred and forty steps were one mu.Use a small bow, that is, three feet and two inches is one step. After measuring it in this way, one mu of land becomes more than one mu and one cent. Jin Xuezeng secretly calculated this account and asked angrily: "Whose idea is this?" "Our Lord Prefect." "How can he do this?" "Why can't he do this?" Li Shun asked with a sneer, "The king of Chu is so thin, and the harem is so starved to death. Mr. Zhang, the chief minister, wants to clean up the land in the world. The purpose must be to increase the number of acres instead of reducing them. It's what you like. In this way, you can not only have political achievements, but also be favored by the chief minister, so why not do it?" "In this way, there are false elements in the more than 10,000 hectares of land that your Nanyang Mansion has overmeasured?" Li Shun nodded, and replied: "In our Nanyang Mansion, there are not many wealthy and powerful families. The biggest one is the Tang King, and more than 700 hectares were found." "You also use a small bow?" "How dare you use a small bow against him?" Li Shun shook his head and said, "There are already many hidden estates in the name of the king of Tang. They are not satisfied even with normal measurements. These small bows are specially used to deal with those small households of the Ding family. People." "It's really unreasonable!" Jin Xuezeng cursed indignantly. Li Shun smiled bitterly and said, "If we want to make a fortune, we can earn a lot of black-hearted money by measuring the land this time." "yes?" "Because we have two bows in our hands, clearing the land is a matter for thousands of households. Who doesn't want to underreport their own land, so people ask people to insure them, and they ask us to measure the silver with a big bow. So as long as you are willing to use the big bow, you will be rich." "I didn't expect such a simple thing to hide so many tricks." Jin Xuezeng's exclamation was regarded by Li Shun as rare and strange.He said: "You, the right servant of the household department, are in charge of the land measurement of the whole country. You just supervise it with your mouth, but you don't do specific things. How do you know all kinds of tricks here?" "This is your Nanyang." "Using a small bow is not our Nanyang's invention," Li Shun raised his voice and said emphatically, "Our magistrate of Nanyang learned it from other places." "Where did he learn it?" "Zhejiang Huzhou Prefecture." Li Shun went on to introduce, "The magistrate of Huzhou Prefecture was the same year as our Nanyang Prefecture Prefecture, and a small bow of three feet and two inches was used to clear the land." "Qingtian, the prefecture of Huzhou, has more than 16,000 hectares of acres. This little bow must have helped a lot." "If we continue to investigate, Huzhou is not the instigator. Mr. Jin, where is the largest land surplus in the country?" "North and South Zhili, Huguang, Zhejiang, Shandong, Datong, Shanxi, Yifu and other places, and of course, Henan." "If you don't believe me, look it up, all these places use small bows." Li Shun sighed again. "The imperial court implemented the 'One Whip' law, and the new taxes are based on the new acres of land. The provinces you mentioned just now will increase the burden for no reason." What Li Shun said was a shocking shady scene.At this moment, Jin Xuezeng was overwhelmed = he asked Li Shun: "What are you going to do with this bow back to Beijing?" "To meet the emperor, let's put this bow on our back." "What do you want to do?" "Explain the truth to the emperor." Li Shun put on a posture of "willing to cut the whole body, dare to pull the emperor off the horse". "Li Shun, you can't do this." Jin Xuezeng was anxious, and called him by his first name, "Don't be smart for a while, and be confused for a while." "how do I say this?" "Aren't you embarrassing Lord Shoufu Zhang?" "How to embarrass him, he doesn't know about big bows and small bows." "He doesn't know. Even I don't know, and it's even more impossible for him to know. But don't forget, Qingzhang Tianmu is his decision, and it is also his greatest contribution to the Wanli Dynasty." "what?" "Besides, what you want to reveal is only a side issue compared to the actual significance of Qingzhang Tianmu." "Master Jin, I dare not agree with your words." Seeing that Li Shun's face turned red and wanted to argue with him, Jin Xuezeng stretched out his hand to stop him, and asked calmly: "Master Li, tell me, who will be hit the hardest this time around during the nationwide land investigation?" "Of course those rich and powerful households." "That's right!" Jin Xuezeng said while refilling Li Shun's tea, "There are 3 million hectares of new land in the country. According to the statistics of the Ministry of Households, the land belonging to wealthy and powerful households accounted for more than 2.4 million hectares. According to your statement, the local prefecture and county government offices dare not use small bows to measure the farmland of these people, that is to say, four-fifths of the newly added land this time is still living well." "We, Mr. Li, don't object to this," Li Shun said, still sternly speaking, "but you, Mr. Jin, don't forget that the large farms of wealthy and powerful families are used to collect rent and accumulate wealth, and Dingmen's small A few acres of Susukida are used to feed their lives. Poor people already have few fields, and such an increase in burden will affect not just a few, but tens of thousands of households." "This is indeed a big hidden danger, but not all the small households in the Ding family suffer, and some poor people benefit from this land survey." Having said this, Jin Xuezeng paused, and then asked, "The people in Jiangling County That Chen Damao, do you still remember?" "Remember. Isn't it the same person who fought with the guard Duan Sheng in front of the Xuanmiao Temple in the fourth year of Wanli?" "Let's talk about his family, and he will have the benefit of asking for ten acres of paddy fields. His family originally had ten acres of paddy fields, but five acres of paddy fields were crushed by water and sand, leaving only five acres of paddy fields. It is still ten mu. Therefore, his family still has to pay taxes according to ten mu. This time, the clearing of Zhang Zhang’s field reduced his family by five mu. From then on, he could pay less tax for five mu of paddy fields, as in the case of Chen Damao’s family. , and there are not a few in the country.” The two examples Jin Xuezeng gave were very convincing, Li Shun could not refute him, he just muttered: "We're not saying that Qingzhang Tianmu is not good, and we, Li, agree with it with both hands. But the difficulty lies in the fact that a group of young monks have misrepresented the seriousness of Shoufu's words." "The forest is big, and there are all kinds of birds," Jin Xuezeng said emotionally, "Master Li, no matter what, you must not stab the emperor this time about the big and small bows:" "If you don't stab it, who can appeal for the grievances of the common people?" "Even if you stab it, the grievances of the ordinary people will not be resolved. On the contrary, you are doing Shoufu a disservice." "Isn't the chief assistant always hating corrupt officials and slippery officials?" Seeing Li Shun's upright look, Jin Xuezeng was angry and funny, and he could only patiently enlighten such a pedantic teacher: "It's true that Shoufu hates corrupt officials and slippery officials, but he will never show mercy to those who make him trip up." Jin Xuezeng's words were very blatant, Li Shun couldn't help being shocked, and asked dully: "You mean?" "As long as you bring the little bow to the Golden Luan Hall, the happiest people will probably be those wealthy and powerful families. They have been eyeing Shoufu one by one, and they only worry that they will not find a chance to bring him down." "This……" "Lord Li, you must not do stupid things that hurt your relatives and make your enemies happy. What's more, if you do this, you will also push yourself into the abyss." "Let's be honest, what's the crime?" "Master Li, haven't you seen through the affairs of the officialdom?" Jin Xuezeng poked the ground vigorously with the tongs, "How many people who tell the truth can be promoted? But those who are full of lies, one by one Prosperity." Why doesn't Li Shun understand this truth? He just doesn't want to accept this reality. He purposely said: "Your Master Jin always tells the truth, didn't you also become a high official?" "I was just trying my luck. At the beginning of the reform of the capital, I hoped that someone would rush into the battle and be taken advantage of, so I was chosen." Li Shun felt that there was something wrong with Jin Xuezeng's mood today, and thought that his mind might be disturbed by the loss of his mother.Since the words were not speculative, he took a gamble and got up to leave.Jin Xuezeng had just opened the chatter box, so he was not willing to let Li Shun go. He grabbed Li Shun and sat down again, saying: "I'm only halfway through my words, how can you leave."