In the cell.

Zhao Hao and his son were very scrupulous, but Xu Wei just didn't want to be released from prison.

"Why don't you go out?" Zhao Hao asked helplessly: "What's the good thing in this prison that makes you so nostalgic?"

"I ate well here and slept well, no one disturbed me, and someone wrote novels for me." Xu Wei randomly transferred the paintings on the bed to the table and lay down comfortably. "It was just that it was updated too slowly."

"Let him get out of here! I'm going to be forced to death by him!" An angry voice suddenly sounded in the next room.

"Haha, just let your heart die." Xu Wei sneered: "I won't go out if I can't see the finale."

"Hmph, I can't finish writing it all day!"

"Ph, the dog is broken..."

"What the hell is this?" Hua Zhongheng was confused and pointed to the next door.

"The old man stayed next door because he had been an official and had not been convicted." The prison head hurriedly explained: "He said he would write books all day long, but he couldn't write many words in a month. It's quite a waste of paper."

"What do you know? I'm just careful and responsible for my own words!" The old man next door was so angry that he walked to the fence to protest.

Zhao Hao saw clearly that his beard and hair were scattered and his eyes were black. He thought that he wouldn't write it, so he wouldn't write it. What was he forced to do?

It's so pitiful.

"Take it down quickly, the stories are all ready, just string them together." Xu Wei didn't pity him at all, and said, "What's the difficulty? I can write 20,000 words a day!"

"You are pouring water, do you know?" The old man said furiously: "Yes, there are ready-made stories to refer to, but adaptation is not a nonsense! If we ruin our traditional culture, we want to apologize to the people, do you know?!

"This is also a sent by a scholar..." Mr. Zhao whispered from the side.

Zhao Hao walked to the table, found a few pieces of manuscript paper under Xu Wei's painting paper, and picked it up and took it.

I saw that the above said, "Chapter 42, the Great Sage diligently worships the South China Sea, Guanyin charity binds the red boy"!

He couldn't help but laugh. No wonder he could make Xu Wenchang not want to be released from prison. It turned out to be "Journey to the West"?

Isn’t that the old man next door Zhang…uh no, Wu Chengen?

Unexpectedly, "Journey to the West" has only been written halfway... Mr. Zhao thought to himself, should I write it together?

Forget it, be a person.

He called Hua Zhongheng and asked in a low voice: "What did that old man do?"

"This?" Hua Zhongheng was a little confused. He didn't know who the man was, so he waved to the prison head to come and ask.

The prison head hurriedly reminded in a low voice: "It's the Wu County Magistrate of Changxing County, Huzhou Prefecture."

"Oh, it's him." Hua Zhongheng suddenly realized. The case was very involved. Although he did not participate in the trial, he still had a basic understanding.

Then he explained to Zhao Hao:

"This matter has to be said from the previous year. Zhejiang Governor Liu Zhongcheng implemented the 'living grain policy' throughout the province... Simply put, the local village chief A and the chief were the chief of the grain to collect grain for the court. But to be honest, this method is not clever. Because it will cause chaos in the collection of grain and may infringe on small households, it has caused a significant rebound in the local area."

Zhao Shouzheng's eyes lit up and he thought to himself that I've heard of this in class!

Although Hai Rui and Zhang Magistrate’s statements are very different, both of them admit that ‘tax’ and ‘criminal name’ are the top priority of a county’s government affairs.

Yesterday, Hai Rui even told him in detail that the extremely unreasonable taxation of the current grain collection system is not directly collected by the government, but the government divides it into several grain areas according to the amount of grain collected. The large households with the largest grain in each district take turns to serve as grain chiefs and are responsible for the collection, reconciliation and transportation of grain.

At the beginning of the country, this was a good job that was both wealthy and face-saving, so the wealthy families scrambled to serve as grain chiefs. But later, due to the serious land annexation, a large amount of land was given to the names of officials and gentry who could be exempted from taxes.

As a result, the tax was all over the remaining self-cultivated farmers. The honest farmers had to pay twice the tax on a piece of land. How could they bear it? Either they followed suit and devoted themselves to the gentry's family as slaves, or they fled to become refugees...

As a result, fewer and fewer people paid taxes, but the imperial court still used the original standards to fight grain to the Long March, but the large households not only lost their money, but instead had to pay more money to fill the gap in grain tax.

How could the big families suffer this loss? They used various methods to avoid serving as grain chiefs.

The policy of levying grains in the village was introduced under their lobbying to change the policy of levying grains in the village chief A to serve as grain leaders. In essence, it is the act of large households to blame small households for robbing the blame.

Because few rich men would serve as thankless Li Jia chiefs... and those Li Jia chiefs were not rich and would lose their money if they were forced to be the grain chief.

But these small-scale long-range and long-range long-range people have prestige in the countryside and villages. If they are forced to blame, they will definitely cause a rebound. At that time, the village will be in chaos and even a grain of food cannot be collected!

"So the magistrate of Changxing Gui Youguang took the lead in opposing this policy, and more than 20 magistrates responded one after another. Liu Zhongcheng was tough and unmoved, and strictly ordered the 'receiving of grain in the village'. As expected, only half of the tax grain in Zhejiang for the 45th year of Jiajing..."

"Liu Zhongcheng was so angry that he ordered the inspectors and the leader of the investigation of the road. However, because of the fierce public opinion, the people attacked the governor's office and finally transferred the magistrate Guidance away." Hua Zhongheng said:

"But the Wu County Chief, who brought the people to make trouble, was arrested and imprisoned for inciting civil unrest. The Zhejiang Censorate was worried that it would cause another chaos, so he cited the law and sent him to the Ministry of Justice."

"Then, where is the case going now?" Zhao Hao asked softly.

"There is no movement." Hua Zhongheng smiled bitterly and said, "This matter was discussed in court, and Liu Zhongcheng was quickly transferred. His 'food delivery policy' was naturally invalidated. I heard that Gui Youguang had been calling for justice for Wu County Chief, and built a dirt room. He hid in it all day long, saying that he would accompany him to jail..."

"It's not right for the Ministry to be judged, nor is it right for the release. As a result, this hot potato has been put here. I guess I want to wait until it's cold before talking about it." Hua Zhongheng said suddenly and laughed: "Actually, it's almost two years, and it's already cold."

He knew very well that the Nanjing Ministry of Justice had neglected his duties. It was estimated that the officials in charge of the case had forgotten that there was still such a person.

"This is an opportunity." Zhao Hao said softly: "Let's see if I can help him."

"Not bad." Hua Zhongheng has been in the ministry for many years, so of course he understands what Zhao Hao means.

But he was a little strange. Could it be that science and teaching the officialdom?

Zhao Hao walked up to Xu Wenming and asked with a smile: "If I get the book written out, will you follow me?"

"Then you must follow me." Xu Wei smiled and said, "Or where would I go to see the next chapter?"

"Okay, wait." Zhao Hao smiled confidently: "I want two flowers today!"
Chapter completed!