"Then, if it's not Liu Ruoyu, who is the person behind the plot to murder me, Wei Zhongxian?!"
Wei Zhongxian asked in his heart.
"But if I want to prove my innocence to the emperor, I have to find out the person behind this, and I have to lead the snake out of the hole. Then I can't seem to see too clearly."
Therefore, Wei Zhongxian was still thinking about this issue on the way back home.
For a moment, Wei Zhongxian clarified his thoughts, and after returning home, he deliberately threw a cup of tea on the table to the ground, and then shouted: "Liu, let's wait and see!"
After smashing the tea cup, Wei Zhongxian said angrily: "Don't spread the word about our behavior just now! Did you hear it?"
"Yes, sir!"
Several servants in Wei Zhongxian's room immediately replied.
…
In the deep courtyard.
The young eunuch who came here secretly said to the red-robed official: "He smashed the cup! He even cursed, 'We'll see, Liu!' Then he told us not to spread the word!"
The red-robed official looked sad after hearing this, and thought to himself: "What a shrewd man! This is a show for us. He wants us to despise him because of it, so that we can expose ourselves, but I'm not you." Can you think of it?"
With that said, the red-robed official told the young eunuch: "Go back first, and don't come here to deliver news again. I have promised you that I will only let you deliver the news once."
"yes!"
The little eunuch knelt down and kowtowed to the red-robed official, then turned around and disappeared into the night.
The red-robed official shouted at this time: "Come out."
At this time, a concubine came to the red-robed official with three unsteady steps: "Master, what are your orders?"
"You ask your people to bring news to Liu Naixiang and tell him that the man named Wei did not suspect him. He smashed the tea cup just to show others. He can rest assured now! I hope he can understand that if you want to stop the commercial tax reform, If you want to be the true number one in the inner court, loyalty alone is not enough, you must have courage!"
The red-robed official said.
"yes!"
…
"Take someone with you immediately to closely monitor our residence and take a look at our house. Do you want to clean up the house?"
Here, after Wei Zhongxian threw the tea cup, he came to Dongchang under the pretense of personally interrogating key criminals. He called Yang Huan aside, who was on duty, and asked Yang Huan to lead a team of Dongchang's backbone flag school, and followed him to the vicinity of his own residence. , and told Yang Huan so.
"Mr. Factory, do you really want us to clean up your own people in the house?"
Yang Huan was shocked. He didn't expect that the factory owner would let Dongchang monitor his mansion.
"That's right! If you don't try it like this, how will you know if the people around you are reliable? We have placed the bait and are just waiting to see if there are any fish!"
Wei Zhongxian replied.
Yang Huan did not disobey the order and just nodded: "Yes! Don't worry, Mr. Factory, we have been keeping tabs on him since he was a child. Even if he is holding a dog, we can find a way to prevent his dog from noticing."
Then, Yang Huan ordered a few capable Dongchang banner schools, changed into various clothes worn by watchmen, sanitation workers, and soldiers of the Army and Horse Division, and left Dongchang.
Not long after, Yang Huan ran back to Dongchang: "Mr. Factory, you are really good at predicting things. Sure enough, someone is out!"
After hearing this, Wei Zhongxian turned cold and said, "When he comes back later, catch him!"
"yes!"
Yang Huan replied.
So, Yang Huan took several key members of Dongchang to guard outside Wei Mansion.
Sure enough, not long after, Yang Huan saw a person suddenly walking out of the night and appearing outside the gate of Wei Mansion. Then he tiptoed to the gate. After looking around, he knocked on the door.
Soon, the door opened, and the person inside said: "Come in quickly, the master will be back soon!"
"Well! From now on, we don't have to send messages anymore."
Whoosh!
As soon as the man finished speaking, his calf and shoulder were each hit by an arrow, and then he suddenly felt his whole body feel weak and numb, and fell to the ground.
Dongchang has been developing for so long, and the crossbow arrows used have been updated a long time ago. They usually also apply poison on the crossbow arrows that can quickly make people weak or even anesthetize them.
Now the servant of the Wei Mansion who had just returned to the Wei Mansion had a good performance after being hit by an arrow.
The people inside the door were shocked, but before he could react, Yang Huan had already ran in front of him and held him down to prevent him from committing suicide.
At the same time, Yang Huan ordered: "Immediately tell the Wei Mansion to be surrounded, don't let anyone out, and inform the factory owner."
When Wei Zhongxian found out, he sneered in his heart: "You are too young to want to fight with our family!"
Soon, Wei Zhongxian returned to the house and ordered the two servants to be escorted in front of him: "Chen Gui, Lin Chong, I treat you very well, I didn't expect you two to be someone else's workmanship. You are really good." Very! It seems that your previous backgrounds and relatives are all fake. Good guy, you actually deceived our family. Tell our family who you are loyal to. How dare you be so bold and dare to do something like this in our family? Someone is placed in Admiral Dongchang’s house!”
"Now it's in the hands of the master. If the master wants to kill or cut him, Chen Gui will not betray his benefactor!"
Chen Gui replied.
"That's right! Master, please give up. Our benefactor raised us from childhood just for one day like this. Let us repay our kindness in this way! We will not betray our benefactor!"
Lin Zhong also replied.
Seeing this, Wei Zhongxian only smiled coldly and ordered Yang Huan: "Take them back to the prison first! You know how to make them talk."
"I understand clearly!"
Yang Huan replied with a smile.
So, Yang Huan had Chen Gui and Lin Chong secretly escorted back to Dongchang overnight.
Wei Zhongxian stood up and looked at the moonlight outside the courtyard with his hands behind his back, and cursed: "Liu Ruoyu! Although our family knows that you will not harm our family, our family doesn't know if you will be dragged into the water! If you are dragged into the water, , just perfect for our family."
…
"Your Majesty, the court discussion on commercial tax reform has been completed. This is the charter drawn up by the ministers and others. Please take a look."
Early the next morning, Yuan Keli hurriedly handed the newly drafted reform charter to Zhu Youxiao.
Zhu Youxiao nodded after looking at it and told Liu Ruoyu: "The proposal to levy the new commercial tax from the capital after the new year is very appropriate. It just so happens that the Guards are now in the capital, and Liaodong Yu has just trained the brave guards. Replace the Guards, sweep and exterminate the Donglu, and conduct actual combat training. In this way, even if something happens, the Guards will be there to deal with it. Many of the people in the West Factory are old subordinates you have commanded before. I I won’t change it now so that you can implement the new business tax, Liu Ruoyu, approve it immediately!”
"yes!"
Liu Ruoyu replied.
As a result, Yuan Keli became more confident in the next commercial tax reform, because he did not expect that His Majesty the Emperor would support him so much.
"It's rare for monarchs and ministers to be united. I promise that after the commercial tax reform is successful, once the commercial tax exceeds half of the agricultural tax, the world will be free of corvee! In order to liberate the people's power, they will have more energy to create their own wealth."
Zhu Youxiao said with a smile at this time.
To develop the economy, it is necessary to liberate people's power.
Otherwise, as an ordinary citizen, if he spends most of his leisure time working for the government, he will not be able to increase his income. While actively farming, he will also be actively engaged in factory work.
Yuan Keli and Bi Ziyan were even more excited after hearing what Zhu Youxiao said.
"Please rest assured, Your Majesty! I dare to make a declaration of life and death. Once the new business tax is successfully implemented, the tax amount will definitely be more than half of the summer and autumn grain tax revenue!"
Yuan Keli said with confidence.
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