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Chapter 1596 Nepotism Circle

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    Zhen was planning to drive out and go to He Lianyue's place for a small mahjong party.  However, the servant at the door came to report that her eldest sister-in-law, Mrs. Liu, was here.  When Zhen was still a sister-in-law, her elder sister-in-law had already married into the Zhen family.  At that time, Mrs. Zhen was really nice to her sister-in-law out of consideration for her eldest brother and never made things difficult for her.  "However, as the saying goes, a horse's strength can be seen through a long journey, but a person's heart can be seen over time."  After Zhong Jianbo's death, Zhen's husband's family wanted to seize Zhen's property and used all possible means.  However, at this time, Zhen¡¯s biological father and mother had passed away, and her sister-in-law showed a ferocious face. She ignored her, ignored her, and watched Zhen¡¯s slide into the abyss.  At that time, if He Lianyue hadn¡¯t drawn her sword to help, the Zhen family would definitely not have been able to survive those turbulent years.  After so many years, Mrs. Liu¡¯s sudden visit made Mrs. Zhen highly alert.  ¡° If a wild cat enters the house, it¡¯s bound to be up to no good.  Mrs. Zhen didn¡¯t want to see Mrs. Liu.  However, my biological sister-in-law was not even allowed in. Outsiders would inevitably think that Mrs. Zhen was in the wrong.  After Mrs. Liu entered the house, her face was full of smiles. She greeted Mrs. Zhen with care and concern, and never mentioned the unpleasant things in the past.  Mrs. Zhen was in a hurry to go to Xiao Zhou's card game. She didn't have time to chat with Mrs. Liu, so she asked her with a smile: "Sister-in-law, you are such a busy person, how can you have time to visit my small temple?" Mrs. Liu listened.  Zhen's words were thorny, but she just pretended not to hear them and said with a smile: "Hey, look what you said, your elder brother said, let me come and see how his sister is doing? If she is missing  "What? Just take it from home." Mrs. Zhen knows Mrs. Liu too well. A stubborn person like Mrs. Liu would give her something for free?  Dreaming?  "Haha, sister-in-law, since I had an heir, I haven't lacked anything here." Mrs. Zhen's hidden answer made Mrs. Liu tremble in her heart.  ??????????????????????????????????????????????When Zhong Jianbo's clan forced the Zhen family to establish an heir, the Zhen family's eldest brother and the Liu family secretly accepted their money, but they did not dare to support the Zhen family.  As a result, the Zhen family was miserably trapped and almost had their family property taken away.  Mrs. Zhen herself is a widow with only an underage heir. Based on her understanding of Mrs. Liu, she is probably going for Mr. Zhou or He Lianyue, right?  The news that Xiao Zhou is the future palace concubine is nothing new.  Basically, most of the well-known people in the capital know the secrets.  After the smooth reconciliation, He Lianyue moved into Zuo Ziguang's house. This is a fact that everyone knows.  The Zhen family today is no better than it was then.  Not to mention Xiao Zhou¡¯s noble status and ability that can reach the sky, even if He Lianyue is in Zuo Ziguang¡¯s ear and helps to blow the pillow, what can¡¯t be done?  Mrs. Zhen knew that Mrs. Liu must have something up her sleeve.  Otherwise, with Mrs. Liu's money-hungry temperament, would she have sent nearly a hundred gifts?  Mrs. Liu laughed twice, and seeing that Ms. Zhen had not been kind to her, she could only say with a smile on her face: "Your eldest brother wants to kiss my sister. It's your birthday in a few days, and he wants you to go home and reunite."  He lowered his face and said, "I haven't celebrated a birthday in more than ten years, so why don't I give it up?" Mrs. Liu secretly hated Zhen when she saw that Mrs. Zhen didn't have enough food and salt, but she still had a smile on her face and said, "I'm an outsider.  "Your eldest brother is your dear eldest brother." "Huh, dear eldest brother, where was my dear eldest brother when I was about to kill him?" Mrs. Zhen completely lowered her face, guarding against Mrs. Liu's request, and deliberately used harsh words to block her.  Room for death.  Mrs. Liu is indeed a shameless woman. She just pretended not to see Mrs. Zhen's ugly face and said with a smile: "Sister, that's what happened. My biological brother did something wrong. He is called  The people from the Jingzheng Temple were arrested. " Mrs. Zhen blocked her again and again, but she still didn't stop Mrs. Liu from telling her bad things. She didn't hesitate and said directly: "I am a widow, what can I do?  With saliva on his face, he said with a smile: "Hey, look what you said, you are now a prominent figure in the capital. Apart from anything else, last time, you helped Uncle Yang Yuan's house to do a great job, and it has already spread throughout the world.  The whole capital." Mrs. Zhen was so worried that she didn't want to talk to Mrs. Liu, so she excused herself: "I have something urgent to go out now. Let's talk about it some other time. How about that?" Ms. Liu resorted to rogue tactics to hold on to Mrs. Zhen's hand.  cuffs and refused to let go.  "Sister, please, please help your sister-in-law." "Sister, your sister-in-law and I are not a human being, but I have also kept my filial piety for my uncle and aunt for three years, right?" "Your sister-in-law and I are nothing,  Also replaceOur Zhen family has given birth to three sons who will carry on the family line, right?  " Mrs. Liu is really very powerful. Every word and every word hits the target of Mrs. Zhen. " Mrs. Zhen hates her eldest brother and sister-in-law, but it is impossible to hate her own father and mother. No matter how bad Mrs. Liu's character is, she can really stand up for her.  Zhen¡¯s parents have observed the mourning for three years, as the old saying goes, a wife is not allowed to leave the palace for her husband¡¯s father-in-law or mother-in-law! ¡°Tell me, what is going on?  "Ms. Zhen relented and was anxious to go to the meeting, so she wanted to ask for the reason. It turned out that Mrs. Liu's younger brother, who was so greedy and stupid, not only secretly loaned money at usury, but also wanted to use usury to force a wealthy girl from a good family to be a concubine. " As a result,  After the other party became desperate, they reported it to the police, and Liu¡¯s brother was arrested by people from the Jingzheng Temple. According to the information that Liu found out, although the Jingzheng Temple arrested someone, they were only responsible for the preliminary investigation.  The case will be transferred to the Tiqisi Yamen for investigation. After staying with He Lianyue for a long time, Zhen also knows that the Kaifeng Yamen no longer has the power to handle public security and trial cases, and all civil or criminal cases belong to the Jingzheng Temple.  The investigation will be handed over to the Kaifeng Temple of Dali Temple for trial. However, cases involving loan sharking by wealthy families must be investigated and dealt with strictly by Tiqisi. Now, Mrs. Liu obviously knows that Mrs. Zhen and He Lianyue.  The relationship between them was on He Lianyue's mind. Zhen understood immediately, nodded and said, "As you know, I am incompetent. There are some things that I need to ask my sisters for their opinions on.  " When Mrs. Liu heard that Mrs. Zhen was relieved, she couldn't help but feel overjoyed and said in a panic: "If you can help my brother get out of jail, I am willing to pay you two thousand dollars to express my gratitude.  " Mrs. Zhen felt nauseous and didn't bother to look at her anymore. She waved her hand and said, "I'll give you a reply after I ask about the situation, right?  "This is an order to expel guests. No matter how ignorant Mrs. Liu is, she knows that she must leave. After Mrs. Liu left, Mrs. Zhen went to He Lianyue's place, and the two talked about the matter in private. He Lianyue smiled and said:  "Sister, you know Zuo Lang's temper.  I'm just asking you about the situation. Whether it can be done depends on how big the problem is and how deep it is.  " He Lianyue didn't mean to shirk at all, and agreed without hesitation. Zhen was extremely moved. No matter whether this matter can be done or not, Zhen must appreciate it. The great thing about circles and nepotism is that  That's it! With Zhen's close relationship with He Lianyue, as soon as Zhen opens her mouth, He Lianyue has to find a way to help her talk in Zuo Ziguang's ears and make the big things smaller.  As long as the sufferer puts some more money in there and stops the trouble, the world will be at peace. In the evening, after the card game ended, He Lianyue helped Zuo Ziguang change his clothes and go to bed, and she told Mrs. Zhen.  He Lianyue told Zuo Ziguang completely about it. Ever since he followed Zuo Ziguang, he had never asked Zuo Ziguang for anything. Zuo Ziguang thought about it and said with a smile.  Let me ask him, if the matter is not serious, he will be fined a large sum of money and his family property will be reduced by more than half, and he will know that it will hurt.  " He Lianyue was very smart and heard it right away. This was probably the emperor's original words. Seeing that He Lianyue understood, Zuo Ziguang couldn't help but smile and said: "Anyone who makes loan sharks will be punished for the first time.  If caught, as long as he is willing to hand over most of his family property, so that he loses the capital to continue doing evil, he can be given some room to breathe.  "This is the emperor's personal decision-making. It seems to leave room for leeway. In fact, he does not want to push the powerful people into a hurry. "Some things must be done slowly and not to be too impatient." Loan sharking is very difficult.  It has been around for a long time. It cannot be completely banned, but it can be curbed. Li Zhongyi adopted a three-step strategy to build royal banks across the country to solve the problem of common people and businessmen everywhere.  This is a fundamental measure to solve the problem of difficult and expensive financing. Secondly, as long as the loan sharks are caught, they must be fined at least half of their property, so that they will not dare to continue to do evil things.  Collateral, land, can only be mortgaged to the royal bank, and is not allowed to be mortgaged to any individual. This is a fundamental measure to curb land annexation. In short, try to prevent one of the most important financial resources of the imperial court from becoming farmers.  To put it bluntly, after the Royal Bank has obtained the mortgaged farmland, it can still be rented to the debtors for farming, and then the money can be paid back slowly as long as there is a harvest.People are born to be lazy and lazy, and sooner or later they have to pay off their debts.  After paying off the debt and then buying back the land at the original price of the mortgage, this is a great example of good governance.  Of course, Li Zhongyi has a very long-term vision.  After the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Southern Song Dynasty was able to survive for more than a hundred years not because of the land rent from half of the country in the south of the Yangtze River, but because of the large surplus income from overseas trade.  With the plan to colonize overseas, it was gradually put into place.  Li Zhongyi has reason to believe that one day, it can even reach the point where the land tax is 50% and 1%.  A strong country cannot last long if its people are not rich!  In the era of imperial autocracy, the fiscal revenue capacity of the imperial court determined the turmoil cycle of the dynasty.  Among them, under the background of focusing on agriculture and suppressing business, land annexation is the root cause of the continuous reduction of the court's fiscal revenue.
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