A lucky wife born again from a farm family

Gu Jinan was very happy and felt relieved. Although Cui Yiwen looked down on him because of his family background, Cui Yiwen was not a young boy or an ignorant playboy, so he had no ill intentions towards him.

"Brother Cui, don't worry. I will tell you what you said. Mr. Ouyang will decide whether to see you or not." Gu Jinan agreed.

Cui Yiwen was very happy, thanked Gu Jinan again, and started drinking with him. After just two drinks, Yan Xiaowu came.

As soon as he came, he walked up to Gu Jin'an and said with a smile: "Brother Gu came so early. I even made a detour to Xu's house to pick you up, but Mr. Xu said that you had been here a long time ago."

Cui Yiwen was shocked after hearing this. This Gu Jinan is not a simple person. Not only did he know Mr. Ouyang, but Mr. Ouyang personally wrote "What is Filial Piety" to defend him? He also established a relationship with the Yan family. I heard that Gu Jinan also had a relationship with the Zheng family in Jiangnan. , the eldest grandson of the Shangguan family, this kind of connections... Apart from admiration, Cui Yiwen can only sigh and say that his life is over.

Gu Jinan is very happy tonight. This is the only time he has not been embarrassed by anyone since he has attended so many banquets.

Moreover, Kong Xuezheng also said to him: "I will definitely submit Mr. Ouyang's article to the emperor for review. As long as the emperor has read it, no one will dare to embarrass you when you go to the capital to take the examination."

Gu Jinan thanked Kong Xuezheng.

But Kong Xuezheng's information was wrong. Emperor Chu didn't care about such trivial matters at all.

When Kong Xuezheng presented Mr. Ouyang's article to the Emperor of Chu like a treasure, the Emperor of Chu just glanced at it briefly and threw it aside. He was still cursing Mr. Ouyang and Kong Xuezheng in his heart. What time was it? Wasting his time on such a trivial matter?

The Emperor of Chu is in dire straits right now. The Longshan Prefecture was sacked by the Rong army, and the city of Longshan Prefecture was destroyed. Countless border residents were killed, and countless women were kidnapped. He, the Emperor of Chu, had his face severely beaten and his face was swollen. ah.

There must be people in the northwest now scolding him, saying that it was his fault for getting rid of Wei Guogong's line and allowing the Dayong people to become unscrupulous.

Regarding the affairs of Duke Wei's family, Emperor Chu knew that he had done too much, but he did not feel that he was wrong. Duke Wei's line was very powerful. In addition to being the native emperor in the northwest, he also had old subordinates in the northeast and Zhongzhou. If the lineage of Duke Wei is not eliminated, it will take less than two generations. It is estimated that the descendants of Duke Wei will invade the capital and seize the throne from his family!

It's just that Duke Wei's line was a sharp sword to check and balance Da Rong. Now he has destroyed this sharp sword, and the new sharp sword cannot do the job, and Longshan Mansion has been looted. He must resolve this matter and regain his face, otherwise he will be laughed to death by the courtiers.

Therefore, the Emperor of Chu decided to send troops to Da Rong.

But war requires money and food. Due to the disaster, Da Chu's treasury was empty and money and food were insufficient. After thinking hard, the Emperor of Chu issued an imperial edict to increase taxes.

The Emperor of Chu wanted to increase the summer tax, poll tax and anti-war tax.

After hearing this, the courtiers were all shocked. They wrote letters one after another to remonstrate, saying: "The miscellaneous taxes in Dachu are already large enough, and the farmers are already overwhelmed. How will the people live if we add another anti-war tax? And the northwest, northeast, and Zhongzhou The past few years have not been very stable, and farmers have no surplus grain. If we add taxes, I am afraid that their livelihood will be cut off."

Emperor Chu had been hearing this for several years, and he was already tired of it. He scolded the officials in the northwest, northeast, and Zhongzhou for their incompetence: "They are a bunch of trash, they are all mediocre people with white-collar salaries. It has been several years since they made it to the northwest." Back to normal?!"

The Emperor of Chu was very angry and immediately issued an order to reprimand the officials in the northwest, northeast, and Zhongzhou, and deducted their salaries for three months.

The courtiers are going crazy. These three places are unstable. You should be comforting them. Why did you suddenly issue a punishment? Aren't you afraid of another mess?

But the decree had been issued, and the courtiers had no choice but to continue to dissuade the Emperor of Chu from raising taxes.

But the Emperor of Chu had made up his mind and said that the money and grain collected would be used as military supplies to fight against the Great Rong. However, the courtiers objected so strongly that Emperor Chu finally changed his decree: "There will be no tax increase in the northwest, northeast, and Zhongzhou, but prosperous places such as Jianghuai, Jiangnan, and Zhili will have to double the grain tax and anti-war tax."

Courtiers: "..."

Already crazy, I can’t carry you away, so do whatever you want.

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Gu Jinan and the others didn't know that Emperor Chu was going to raise taxes. On the third day after attending the banquet, they packed up their things and set off back to He'an Mansion.

Before going back, they bought gifts for their families. Gu Dexing quietly ran to the Silver House and bought Xu Zhong a gold hairpin.

The gold hairpin is very beautiful, but a bit vulgar. Xu Zhaoming reminded Gu Dexing in a subtle way: "Sister Linglong is more suitable for jade."

But if you want to buy a good jade, you can't do it without a hundred taels of silver.

After Gu Dexing bought gifts for his family, he had less than one hundred taels of silver left and could only buy gold hairpins. And the second aunt said that jade is as fragile as tofu. If it breaks within a few days after giving it away, you will lose money. Gold is better. If you encounter difficulties, you can pull it off from the head and use it as silver. How wonderful.

Gu Dexing was influenced by the Chen family and wanted to buy a gold hairpin for Xu Zhong.

Seeing that he didn't listen, Xu Zhaoming gave up.

However, Gu Jinan had a thought, thinking that when he went home to visit Mr. Ouyang this time, he should be able to see Miss Ouyang, and thought that he should prepare a gift for her.

So I bought a piece of jade and planned to carve a jade medal for Miss Ouyang. I really did it myself.

Shang Xiucai knew this and couldn't stop laughing. Seeing Gu Jinan carefully preparing gifts for Miss Ouyang, he thought of himself and Xue Niang.

I remember when he was young, he also carved a jade seal for Xue Niang. Xue Niang liked it very much and even put the jade seal under the pillow when she slept. It was not until Yuan Yuan came to have the jade seal that she took it away. I'm afraid that Yuan Yuan, who is young and ignorant, will swallow the jade chapter.

After they bought the gifts, they got on the mule cart and left the city to go home.

Yan Xiaowu learned that they were leaving and came to see them off in person. To his surprise, Liu Wenqing and Liu Wenqing stood beside Yan Xiaowu.

Gu Jinan was surprised when he saw these two cousins. How did they get in touch with Yan Xiaowu?

Gu Jinan was afraid that Yan Xiaowu would suffer a loss, so he reminded him. Yan Xiaowu smiled bitterly and said, "They came to ask me to ask my family to help during the auction of the Tong family's property, so that the Liu family can buy back their previous family property."

Yan Xiaowu didn't want to agree, but Liu Wenqing was so pestering that he had no choice but to agree, thinking that after he agreed, Liu Wenqing would let him go.

But Liu Wenqing didn't. He changed his excuse and said that he wanted to repay his kindness. He has been following him around for the past two days, just like a... slave.

Gu Jinan's mouth twitched when he heard this, repaying the favor? What kind of favor could he repay? He obviously wanted to get involved with Yan Xiaowu and gain support from the Yan family.

But as long as Liu Wenqing didn't have any intention of harming Yan Xiaowu, Gu Jinan wouldn't meddle in other people's business. He said goodbye to Yan Xiaowu and left in a mule cart.

When Liu Wenqing saw Gu Jinan, he admired him very much: "That's Gu Jin'an. I heard that he came here to escape from poverty. He didn't study much when he was a child, but he could be admitted to the court as a criminal prosecutor. He is really a genius."

Liu Wenqing said: "So you don't have to be discouraged. If Gu can be admitted as a scholar in the capital, you can study hard for ten years."