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The boy tied the rein in his hand to the horse post, and then walked towards the guard in front of the yamen door.
At this time, someone walked out of the Yamen.
The guard outside the Yamen quickly stood at attention and puffed out his chest.
Kong Yinjing, who was standing outside the yamen with his horse, saw the person coming out of the yamen. He let go of the reins and greeted him with a smile on his face. At the same time, he shouted enthusiastically: "General Qin!"
Qin Rong, who had just walked out of the yamen, naturally noticed Kong Yinjing and responded with a smile: "Mr. Kong, it's a coincidence that we met here."
"Yes, it's quite a coincidence." Kong Yinjing's mouth twitched.
He didn't believe that the other party wouldn't know about his visit, but now that the other party was pretending not to know, he could only pretend that he hadn't been there.
After saying hello, Qin Rong said again: "I still have some things to do. Let's talk about it when we have time in the future."
On the other side, soldiers with a tiger-shaped flag brought a horse, and at the same time, there was a cavalry team of about ten people waiting aside.
"General Qin, stay." Kong Yinjing quickly called to Qin Rong.
He finally found someone, but he didn't want to let him go before he could even talk.
Qin Rong, who was about to mount his horse, stopped, turned around, looked at Kong Yinjing and asked, "Is there something wrong with Mr. Kong?"
"There are some small matters that need to delay General Qin for a while." Kong Yin said with respect and pleading.
With a background like Kong's as a backer, he rarely asks for help. He only needs one word to do anything. There is never a shortage of people to take the initiative to help him get things done, but today he asked for help several times.
But for Kong, he had no choice.
If Kong's towering tree falls, the branches above him will only wither with it.
Qin Rong could more or less guess the purpose of Kong Yinjing's visit, so he didn't want to see him at all, but this man was his mistress's uncle who had never been to the fifth level.
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For the sake of his mistress, he decided to stay and listen to the purpose of Kong Yinjing's arrival.
Seeing Qin Rong stop, Kong Yinjing hurriedly walked over and said, "I shouldn't delay General Qin's affairs, but this matter is too big and I have to tell General Qin."
"I do have important things to do here, and I don't have much time. If you have anything to say, Mr. Kong, please just say it." Qin Rong asked bluntly, not wanting to waste too much time on Kong Yinjing.
Although Kong Yinjing felt uncomfortable after hearing this, things in Qufu were important, so he immediately said: "A cavalry of your army appeared near Qufu and blocked the outside of the city. Is there any misunderstanding? Kong and After all, there is a marriage relationship between the Tiger Flags, so Duke Yansheng asked me to ask the general if he should let this cavalry leave Qufu first to avoid deepening the misunderstanding between the two families."
After speaking, he looked at Qin Rong in front of him.
The prefect he met before could evade it by saying that he was not too involved in military affairs, but the man in front of him was one of the main generals of the Tiger Flag in Shandong. He believed that as long as this person was willing to come forward, the cavalry outside Qufu City Don't dare disobey orders.
It would be great if the other party could come forward to ensure Kong's safety.
"There is no misunderstanding." Qin Rong looked at him and said.
Kong Yinjing's heart sank after hearing this, and he asked in a deep voice: "So, if the Tiger Character Banner wants to attack me, the Kong family, aren't you afraid of being criticized by everyone in the world? The Kong family is a role model for scholars. The hometown of Saint Kong."
"The Tiger Flag will not kill innocent people indiscriminately, nor will it exterminate the Kong family, so Mr. Kong does not need to worry. We are just acting normally. As long as the Kong family cooperates, the Kong family will be fine." Qin Rong explained.
Kong Yinjing was stunned for a moment, and then asked: "What do you want to do?"
"Equalize the land, collect taxes, and eliminate resistance." Qin Rong spit out nine words.
Kong Yinjing's expression changed completely when he heard this.
Except for the third one, it is impossible for Kong to agree to the first two alone.
Qufu is the Qufu of the Kong family. How could the land accumulated over the years be divided up with just one word of the tiger-character flag? As for things like taxes, the Kong family has never paid them.
And he heard that the Tiger Flag collects business tax.
Business taxes were almost non-existent in the Ming Dynasty, and it was impossible for a truly wealthy family not to be involved in the business world. The little things produced in the fields were not enough to support the prosperity of a wealthy family.
Whether it was taxation or land equalization, they all came into contact with the Kong family. Even the Ming court could not collect the Kong family's taxes, let alone a thief force that rebelled against the Ming Dynasty.
If the first two cannot be achieved, resistance will become inevitable.
It can be said that Kong was unable to do these three things.
When Qin Rong saw that Kong Yinjing was silent, he added, "Mr. Kong should go back early and tell the Kong family's people to cooperate well. Remember, my tiger-character flag is not the Ming Dynasty."
With that said, he took the reins and got on the horse's back.
"General Qin, wait." Kong Yinjing called Qin Rong, and immediately said, "General Liu's wife is from my Kong family. Don't you care about any friendship at all? Are you really going to fight to the death with my Kong family?"
After hearing this, Qin Rong said: "Mr. Kong is wrong. The net will never be broken. It's usually the fish that die, sir!"
He rode away with a group of cavalry.
Standing in front of the Yamen, Kong Yinjing's expression changed several times.
The boy on the side whispered: "Master, do we still want to see that General Chen?"
"There's no point in saying goodbye. Let's go and go back to Qufu immediately."
One of the purposes of coming to Ziyang City is to find out Tiger Character Banner's attitude towards the Kong family.
Although he did not let the tiger-character flag drive away the cavalry outside Qufu, he still understood the tiger-character flag's attitude.
Compared with the Tiger Character Banner's attitude towards the Kong family, the cavalry outside Qufu City is no longer important.
The two people quickly rode out of Ziyang City.
On the way back to Qufu, I didn't care about the horse power at all, and kept urging my horse to gallop, just so that I could get back to Qufu earlier and discuss a solution to the Kong family's predicament earlier.
After the Tiger Character Banner captured Ziyang City, it began to rectify people's livelihood and at the same time sent troops everywhere to eliminate surrounding bandits that threatened the normal order of the people.
In just a few days, the bandits and bandits in the Ziyang City area fled to death, completely calming down the unstable situation in the surrounding area.
People no longer have to worry about being attacked by bandits.
Land equalization is also in full swing. Farmers' associations have been established in various places based on villages to replace the old gentry forces in the village to manage the village.
On the way Kong Yinjing returned to Qufu, in the farmland on both sides of the road, people could be seen busy dividing the fields and the people who were in charge of dividing the fields.
At this time, he couldn't care about this anymore.
For him, if he cannot come up with a solution to the current predicament of the Kong family, once the Tiger Character Flag succeeds, the Kong family will really suffer disaster.
