Chapter 225: Create Something Out of Nothing (Please Vote for Me)

Smoke and rain filled the city of Hangzhou.

Surrounded by a large number of Xichang fans, Wei Heng strode into the courtyard where the tax inspector and imperial envoy was staying with a serious face. He was wearing a vermilion four-clawed python robe and a smooth black satin cloak, and his steps were open and closed. The clothes are flowing between them, and the domineering look is exposed!

"I didn't know that the Governor was coming, and I failed to welcome him. Please forgive me, Lord..."

After hearing the news, a plump and plump imperial eunuch came out quickly to greet him. He smiled before saying anything and clasped his hands in greeting. The same scarlet python robe was worn on him, but he didn't have the domineering look of a dragon at all. There is a sense of funnyness in strange costumes.

When Wei Heng saw the visitor, he frowned slightly, stopped expressionlessly and then bowed his hands in return. Then, regardless of the person who was still chattering with a smile on his face, he asked directly: "Eunuch Wang, follow up on the gossip. , may I ask Mr. Wang Dashi, where is he?"

The visitor's face froze, but he did not dare to show any hesitation or dissatisfaction. He hurriedly turned to Wei Heng and made a "please" gesture: "Master Wang is checking the account books in the back hall..."

Before he could finish his words, Wei Heng strode past him and entered the back hall. The accompanying Xichang fans dispersed on the spot, guarding every corner of the Bieyuan with their swords, and looking at everyone in the Bieyuan. The imperial guards were like nothing.

When the visitor saw this, he neither dared to get angry nor speak out... The battles in the inner court were far more cruel than those in the outer court.

As the governor of the West Factory, Wei Heng, after the corpse of Huang Jin, the governor of the East Factory, sank into the Bian River, he was already the leading figure among the more than 15,000 eunuchs in the imperial court in terms of power and seniority. He was far from relying on the emperor. The eunuch who favors the superior can afford to offend him.

Wei Heng led a large number of Xichang fans straight into the back hall, and immediately saw Wang Dashi in the hall, who was dressed in plain clothes and working with a pen.

When Wang Dashi heard the heavy footsteps, he calmly put down his pen, pointed at the account book and said to his subordinate waiting beside him: "There is something wrong with this account, you go verify it first, and the rest will come later." Then send it to me for verification... Okay, you all go ahead!"

"yes!"

All the cabinet officials working in the hall stood up, bowed their hands to Wang Dashi in the hall, and then turned around and exited the back hall.

When Wei Heng saw this, he waved his hand without looking back. Upon seeing this, the accompanying Xichang fans bowed and retreated.

"Bangdang..."

The door to the back hall slowly closed.

Wang Dashi stood up, picked up the teapot, poured a cup of hot tea, put it in Wei Heng's hand, and sighed, "Father-in-law shouldn't have come."

Wei Heng took the tea bowl expressionlessly and said coldly: "How can the Zajia not come for such a big event?"

Wang Dashi asked him to sit down: "But my father-in-law's arrival will only make this matter more complicated..."

Wei Heng glanced at him and put the tea bowl in his hand on the table: "What is going on? Do you have any idea?"

Wang Dashi took a chair and sat across from him. He shook his head calmly and said, "To be honest... no!"

Wei Heng: "Then you said that the arrival of the Za family has made things more complicated?"

Wang Dashi pondered for a moment and then said: "This matter... it was apparently for the man in Luting. Is this clear to me, father-in-law?"

Wei Heng asked doubtfully: "On the bright side?"

Wang Dashi nodded: "On the bright side."

Wei Heng: "How do you say that?"

Wang Dashi said softly and unhurriedly: "If you really just want to plot against Lu Ting, there are many better ways than this... For example, the new head of Lianlianwu in Jinling who is having a lot of fun is a very good one. As long as you kill him, the Lu Ting guy will go south immediately."

When he was talking, Wei Heng was drinking water. After hearing what he said, Wei Heng felt as if the tea was scalding his mouth suddenly. He turned around and spit it out, and said in a voiceless voice: "You really dare to think that if Li Jincheng died, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, that guy hasn’t dug a hole in the sky of Jiangsu and Zhejiang!”

Wang Dashi smiled lightly and said: "Dad, don't you think that just because a few people died, Lu Ting will just laugh it off?"

Wei Heng suddenly took a deep breath and said: "So, the Za family is here, it is better for us to do it ourselves than to let him do it himself..."

Wang Dashi shook his head slowly and said softly: "You are still saying below that this matter was only openly directed at Lu Ting, and my father-in-law turned around and forgot about it again?"

This familiar demeanor and this familiar tone made Wei Heng feel very sick...if he had any.

"Zhajia just bothers to talk to you smart people. You can compete with each other in circles. What is this thing? Can you open up and chat a few words?"

Wang Dashi sighed helplessly when he heard this... Talking to brainless people is just tiring!

"This matter is apparently aimed at Luting!"

He simply omitted the process and said the conclusion directly: "But secretly, it is very likely that he is going for Lord Zhongtang and even the New Deal!"

Wei Heng understood what he heard this time, and immediately squinted his eyes with light shining in his eyes: "These corrupt officials in Jiangsu and Zhejiang haven't given up yet?"

Wang Dashi: "It's hard to say, but I feel...no!"

"oh?"

Wei Heng opened his eyes: "What should I say?"

Wang Dashi replied concisely and concisely: "You will kill people and bury corpses in your own land?"

Wei Heng: "So the suspicion formation?"

Wang Dashi shook his head: "It's hard to say. The incident happened suddenly, and the opponent's attack was extremely clean. I have traced very few clues, which are not enough to serve as evidence."

Without waiting for Wei Heng to ask questions, he continued: "Originally, I wanted to devise another plan to induce the opponent to take action. As the saying goes, birds passing by leave a shadow, and geese passing by leave a voice. As long as they take action again, they will definitely leave clues... But now, the father-in-law is here. .”

Wei Heng smiled and said: "Now that the Za family is here, those young people don't dare to act rashly anymore, right?"

Wang Dashi looked at him with a strange expression and said calmly: "My father-in-law is here. If the evil one can't come, it's time for the hard one..."

Wei Heng frowned suddenly, and finally smiled and said, "Really? The Za family really wants to see what a hard way it is!"

Wang Dashi greeted him with a smile, and then he said abruptly: "Mother-in-law, could it be that I have forgotten again that my opponent even dares to scheme against Lu Ting... How do you compare to Lu Ting?"

Wei Heng glanced at him and his smile turned cold: "Don't try to intimidate the Zajia family with false words. Then what kind of person is Yang Erlang? The Zajia family knows better than you. A bunch of young people who even jumped over the wall without forgetting to hide their heads and tails are worthy of being compared with him?" Since the Za family dares to come, there is nothing to be afraid of!"

"You can see that when times are poor, you can be called a true hero!"

Wang Dashi clasped his hands and said for the first time, a natural smile without any emotion on his face: "If my father-in-law is not afraid of open guns and secret arrows, he has a plan, and he may be able to catch the tail of these young people!"

Wei Heng waved his hand: "Just tell me!"

Wang Dashi stood up and returned to the desk where he had just been working. He retrieved an account book from the desk and handed it to Wei Heng with both hands: "Father-in-law, please take a look!"

Wei Heng took the account book and flipped through it without knowing why. It was full of names of places and famous people: "These people are..."

Wang Dashi: "The poor people in Hangzhou Prefecture who cannot afford to pay taxes...are the only place in Hangzhou Prefecture!"

Wei Heng closed the account book and looked up at him: "What do you want?"

Wang Dashi: "Create something out of nothing, please put it in the urn!"

Wei Heng: "How do you say that?"

Wang Dashi pondered for a moment and replied: "To be honest, Eunuch Wei, when I asked for the 'Fair and Just' plaque from the Yuelai Inn, Mr. Yang specifically told me to pay attention to the methods of supervising taxes and never show up again." I fully agreed to the vicious incident of cannibalism and went south along the Yangtze River with great ambition, thinking that as long as I deal with things fairly and impartially, I will be clear in my heart and worthy of Master Yang's trust!"

"I never thought that after arriving in Jiangsu and Zhejiang and really starting to work down-to-earth, I realized that the lives of the people at the bottom are indeed barely enough to make ends meet. Although the New Deal is good, it is still very important to them... Just this account book in your hand, if If taxes are imposed, half the people will die and the remaining half will be sold into slavery.”

As soon as he said this, Wei Heng suddenly felt that the light account book in his hand seemed to be of great weight!

It might be too pretentious to say that I feel the same way...but he is a slave who was sold.

Wang Dashi observed the change in his expression and continued: "I have always been troubled by how to deal with these poor people. Expropriation is to force them to destroy their families and sell their children and daughters. If you don't levy, you are afraid that people with ulterior motives will take advantage of it and affect the taxation." reform……"

"My father-in-law has come just in time. We can use these poor people as bait and claim to the outside world that Mr. Yang is sympathetic to the people's sentiments and has asked His Majesty to exempt them from taxes this year..."

"This way."

"Your Majesty and Mr. Yang are named, these poor people will benefit, and the tax reform will also get a good start. It will not cost the court a penny. It can be said that it kills four birds with one stone!"

"When this news is released, no matter how little people hide their heads, they are targeting Master Zhongtang, Master Yang, the New Deal, and the imperial court..."

"There's no way they can just sit back and let us get this done!"

"With such a large-scale and targeted tax exemption, our opponents also have room to use their dirty tricks, so they won't stare at us and try hard!"

"As long as they move their hands, we have a chance to catch their fox tail..."

Wei Heng rubbed the short beard on his lips and listened carefully to what he said. At the end, he suddenly felt that this guy's operating techniques were strangely familiar. When he thought about it carefully... Hey, wasn't that what Yang Erlang did in Hangzhou back then?

He couldn't help but sneered: "Isn't this move of yours not 'making something out of nothing', but a false way of attacking Guo? When Yang Erlang went on a killing spree in Hangzhou with Shang Fang's sword, the Zajia family was the commander of the imperial guards. You are so You can coax others with some tricks, but you can't coax the miscellaneous family!"

Wang Dashi said in his heart: "How could I forget this incident?" ’

"It's all the same, it's all the same!"

But I made a haha ​​to explain this point in one stroke: "As long as we can dig out those hidden people from their rat holes, no matter whether the taxes of these poor people can be reduced or not, we have achieved our goal, haven't we?"

"This is different..."

Wei Heng sneered: "You are pretending to pass on the imperial edict. If you don't do it well, you will lose your head! You smart people like to fool other people into thinking they are fools!"

Wang Dashi hurriedly clenched his palms and responded: "My father-in-law is overly worried. I have no intention of doing this. This method is just to release a half-truth and half-false message first to lure those people who hide their heads and tail. As for whether to reduce the taxes of the poor people, You can definitely ask His Majesty for orders later..."

"hehe!"

Wei Heng smiled dryly, not bothering to reveal his little thoughts... You damn thing just pulled Yang Erlang's tiger skin over and used it as a banner, and the emperor can still say 'no' ?

He drank tea and thought for a long time, and finally slapped the table and said: "Just follow what you said. You can use the people brought by the Zajia. The Zajia only has one requirement, that is, they must be fast and they must be in time. Before that guy moved to his nest, he pulled out these hidden people and drowned them all in the cesspool!"

Wang Dashi raised his eyebrows and suppressed his joy: "My father-in-law, this can be said to be the birth of Buddha for thousands of families..."

Wei Heng let out a disdainful "嘁".

When it comes to painting cakes, you are far behind Yang Erlang!

…

"Squeak."

Liu Mang opened the door and saw Yang Ge outside the door carrying large and small bags. His eyes were not eyes and his nose was not a nose and he said: "Why don't you come here later? If you are later, dinner will be served soon!"

Yang Ge handed him the large and small bags in his hand and responded with a smile: "Something happened, I was delayed!"

He followed Liu Mang in. The old shopkeeper, who was chatting with his father-in-law in the room, came out with a cane. He stood in front of the main room and waved: "Come here, what are you bringing? Come and sit down..."

"Congratulations, old shopkeeper!"

Yang Ge walked with a smile on his face and held up his hands. Finally, he took out a red envelope from his arms and stuffed it into Liu Mang's arms in front of him.

Liu Mang, in turn, pushed back vigorously: "What are you doing, what are you doing? We asked you to come here to fix this? Our family sends you three melons and two dates?"

Yang Ge straightened his face: "I'm giving it to my eldest nephew, not to you. Why are you showing it to me with all your fuss?"

The old shopkeeper on that side saw that the red envelope in Yang Ge's hand was not thick, so he didn't think much about it. He nodded with a smile and said: "Brother, just take it for you, for good luck."

Today is the 100-day banquet of Liu Mang's eldest son. Liu Mang's idea was to have a grand affair with flowing water mats, but Yang Ge persuaded him to change it to a small gathering of the two families.

Yang Ge seized the opportunity and said something to Liu Mang: "Look, the old shopkeeper is more sensible than you!"

Liu Mang looked at his father, then at Yang Ge, and wisely chose to ignore him.

The attitude of the two men often made him feel that he was picked up and Yang Ge was the biological son of the old Liu family...

Yang Ge strode into the main room and rubbed his hands vigorously on his body: "Where is my eldest nephew? Where is my eldest nephew?"

"His second uncle is here!"

Mrs. Liu Deng squeezed out of the crowd with her baby in her arms, smiling and gently shaking the little thing in her arms: "Look, who is here?"

Yang Ge came forward, raised his hand and wiped it vigorously on his chest, then gently teased the little thing's tender, chubby face.

"Old shopkeeper, have you decided on a name?"

The old shopkeeper squinted his eyes and held his beard: "His father is from the rich generation, but he is from the Guang generation. We think he will be called Liu Guangzong, the Guangzong of Guangzong."

"this……"

Listening to this simple and easy-to-understand name, Yang Ge couldn't spit out the three words of 'good name' that he had prepared a long time ago.

But speaking of it, his father's name is Fuyu, and this little guy's name is Guangzong. The old man's expectations for this little guy are obviously higher than his unattractive father!

Although Yang Ge didn't think it was a pleasant name for his grandson, he couldn't say anything about it. He reached out and took out a palm-sized sandalwood box from his arms, and took out a string of Maitreya Buddhas with a nouveau riche temperament. He put a big gold chain on his head and gently placed it in the little thing's swaddling clothes: "Here, my second uncle will give you a little gadget..."

Liu Deng was shocked when she saw this, and quickly grabbed the gold chain and gave it back to Yang Ge: "His second uncle can't do it..."

"What can't be done!"

Yang Ge shook his head, took the big gold chain and put it back into the little thing's swaddling clothes: "This is the object that I, the second uncle, use to support our Guangzong... to protect our Guangzong from growing up healthily and without worries. Don’t worry until your hair grows old!”

At the right time, Liu Mang, who was in the kitchen, opened the red envelope given to him by Yang Ge and was shocked to find that it contained neither copper plates nor gold and silver, but a silver note.

He pulled out the banknote and was even more shocked to find that "One Thousand Liang" was clearly written on it.

He considers himself a man who has seen the world.

But looking at the three words 'one thousand taels', he suddenly realized that he didn't seem to have seen much of the world...

"Gudong."

He swallowed hard, turned around and shouted towards the main hall: "Yang Laoer, come here!"