Seeing his wife's serious look, Gu Chen took the letter from his wife anxiously.
After taking a closer look, Gu Chen's face couldn't help but turn pale, and then he couldn't help but slap the table in front of him hard.
"Asshole!"
Gu Chen threw the letter on the table and his eyes blurred. He almost rolled his eyes and fell asleep. Su Wanying quickly stepped forward and helped him sit down.
"Don't be anxious, don't be angry, now that this has happened."
"Then we have to find a way to solve it. There is no point in being anxious and angry."
It's no wonder that Gu Chen reacted so strongly. Now the whole world knew that the emperor was going to impose a sea ban, and it was one thing for merchants to be excited and crowded to do business.
But for a scholarly family like the Gu family, there are many young people in the family who want to be officials.
If you want to be an official, it's okay to take the high road, but some people like to seek death.
No, a scholar named Gu Jing in the clan felt aggrieved because he failed to take the examination for the Supervision and Merchant Department, while his younger brother Gu Yan did.
Although he is only a ninth-grade inspector, he is still an official after all.
The parents and relatives at home were very happy and praised their youngest son.
Maybe there was a bit of neglect and suppression on the eldest son, who failed the exam.
So he was so jealous that he killed his brother that night.
When the parents realized something was wrong, the youngest son had already lost his breath.
But it’s so easy to have a ninth-grade official in your family, so how can you give up?
What's more, the old couple has already lost one son, and they must not lose another son!
After weighing the pros and cons, the parents decided to hide the incident and lied to the public that their eldest son had missed the shot, so they committed suicide in grief.
The one who is alive now and has not yet taken office is the youngest son of their family.
But although the two brothers looked somewhat similar, they were not twins born in the same year and month. Even if they were lucky enough to hide it from people in other villages, how could they hide it from people in the same village?
The clan elders could easily figure things out, but they were also confused, thinking that the old couple only had one son.
If both sons were gone, wouldn't that be a burden to the clan?
Moreover, it is also an honor for the clan to have one more official in the clan.
So, they acquiesced that this family did this.
Because of Gu Chen, the county magistrate often helped their village.
If something happens, the county magistrate will pay more attention to it than other villages. If he finds out about it, he has to give face, so he can just pretend that he doesn't know about it.
But Su Xian Cheng refused. He insisted that his son-in-law would not agree, so he started arguing with the Gu family and the magistrate.
The Gu family couldn't resist him, so they had to write a letter in front of Su Xian Cheng.
Gu Chen asked Gu Chen to give him this face, and said that he could not write two characters "Gu" in one stroke, and also said that he hoped that he would take more care of the children of the clan.
"Is there any need to ask?" Gu Chen collapsed a little, and immediately picked up the pen to write a reply: "Can such a bastard who killed his younger brother out of jealousy be an official?"
"He could do this without being an official. How can he do it if he becomes an official?"
"Just ask the magistrate to go to his house to get the person, and behead the head if it's necessary. With such a scourge, you still need to write to me to ask?"
First of all, it is impossible for him to cover up this kind of thing, and secondly, even if he wanted to, he would not dare to cover it up. Is the knife in Lao Zhu's hand a joke?
Dealing with the person now is the most appropriate approach. Paper can never cover the fire if the person is discovered again after a long time.
Can you choose to be clean?
At the very least, he will be like Xue Xiang, who was beaten sixty to one hundred times because of his lax management of the family, just in case the person who executed him did not do it lightly or harshly.
Is there any life left?
Zhan Huike is still staring at him, and he is not stupid. The obvious charges are all innocent. Who would think that the charges imposed on his political opponents are too small?
Su Wanying opened her mouth to say something, but in the end it turned into a sigh: "You deserve to be an official, you really have a clear conscience."
If it were other adults who wanted to protect their own people, it would be just a matter of words. How could the county magistrate be disobedient?
It's just that this person really can't shield him, otherwise even if he becomes an official in the future, he will be in constant trouble and his husband will have to wipe his butt.
Anyone who can kill his own brothers is a cold-blooded wolf.
For the wolf, if you help the first time, if you don't help the second time.
The first kindness doesn't count, and it will come back again.
It's just that my husband was studying and the clan had contributed a lot, so this was the first time he spoke.
If the husband refuses to help, I'm afraid someone will say he is cruel.
Gu Chen smiled bitterly. He wanted to feel guilty, but do you think he dares?
How can someone who doesn't even dare to be greedy for money dare to cover up a murderer?
He wrote directly to the county magistrate, so that he would not have to look at his feelings and punish him according to the law, and also let the elders of the tribe not have to ask him if similar things happened in the future.
Everything must be done according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, and nothing should be exceeded.
This is just a small episode that happened to Gu Chen, but in tens of thousands of families of different classes, they are all conflicting because of their own interests.
When the imperial court opened the sea, it only opened one port, and there were restrictions on the time for going to sea. They had to return to the port within two years.
Therefore, they cannot go too far, which proves that their business at sea is competitive, and it is very likely that their opponents will make them less money.
Even among brothers, a white knife goes in and a red knife comes out.
What's more, among businessmen, for the sake of profit, they use various methods against their opponents in endless and ugly ways.
I wish I could kill all my opponents and pocket all the money for my family.
There are also those secret contests between officials, imperial power, and merchants.
Are there any relatives from the merchant class behind the officials?
If so, when these merchants have money, will they honor their relatives who are officials?
Definitely!
The more they earn, does that mean the official earns more?
So now there are merchants who feel that the taxes set by the emperor are too high and too complicated, so they ask their relatives who are officials to submit memorials to the emperor to reduce taxes.
Of course, you can’t say it directly. Guess how they persuaded you?
I saw an official from Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, with an upright face and a prelude report.
"Your Majesty, scholars, farmers, industry and commerce impose heavy taxes on merchants. This will elevate the status of merchants. I think that business taxes should not be heavier than agricultural taxes."
Lao Zhu's mind changed slightly after hearing this. To be honest, he did have this worry.
This is also why he set business taxes so low in the past.
"Ha~" Gu Chen sneered directly at this time: "What a big joke. The people are living a miserable life, and they haven't even had a meal of white rice yet."
"But they have to bear more burdens than those fat-headed, big-eared, small wine and meat merchants. Let's ask the people, are they willing?"
"Are they mentally balanced?"
"Business taxes in the Song Dynasty were very heavy. Did businessmen have a higher status than ordinary people?"
"Such words clearly indicate that some people know that His Majesty loves his people as his own sons, so they deliberately say such things to benefit themselves."
No matter how you whitewash scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, no matter how you say that businessmen have a low status.
The rich live better than ordinary people. They can use money to contact officials and do things more conveniently than you ordinary people.
Let’s not talk about anything else. Let’s just talk about one thing: Officials can have wine and have fun at the table with businessmen, but ordinary people can?
The status raised by paying a few more grains is simply vulnerable to money.
