Jiangmen Tianjiao: Reborn with funny ancestors

A few days later, Chu Tianjiao received the imperial edict together with Sun Jinyan at the Prefecture Mufu in Xingyang.

When Sun Jinyan heard the imperial edict that he had changed his official position from the second-grade state pastor to the seventh-grade Puyang County Magistrate, his vision went dark and he fainted.

Chu Tianjiao couldn't believe that the emperor actually promoted her official position to the first rank and gave her so many official titles.

Only when she heard the imperial edict that she should use the five states' finances and taxes to supply the northwest army with food and salary on time did Chu Tianjiao understand the emperor's purpose of being so generous.

When she received the financial and tax payment records of the five states transferred from the Ministry of Household Affairs, she felt panicked.

Haha, wherever taxes can be collected, you will all receive them at the end of the year.The remaining places were hit by another disaster. Not only were they unable to collect taxes, they also had to pay subsidies for resettlement grain.

The emperor's abacus was so clever!

This time, it was Li Fengnian who came to deliver the message. This was an opportunity he had earned himself.

He wanted to tell Chu Tianjiao about the assassin in person.

After announcing the imperial edicts respectively, Li Fengnian knelt down and patted Sun Jinyan's cheek, "Hey, Mr. Sun, wake up, it's time to accept the edict and thank you!"

Sun Jinyan woke up slowly, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses. He knelt on the ground in defeat and kowtowed to thank him.

"The sinner, Sun Jinyan, thanks the emperor for his kindness!"

He stood up with an ashen face, brushed off the dust on his official uniform, reached his hands up to his head, respectfully took off his official hat, and took off the official uniform of a second-rank official.

He folded the official uniform neatly, put it together with the official hat into the tray, and handed it back to Li Fengnian.

Li Fengnian looked down on Sun Jinyan for being so pretentious.

"Master Sun, there is no need to do this. There is no harm in handing back the official uniform later."

Sun Jinyan smiled sadly, "I have been demoted from a second-rank local official to a seventh-rank county magistrate. How dare I wear this official uniform again?"

There was indeed a rule in Liguo that officials were dismissed from their posts and returned to their official uniforms.

But later, due to the tight funding of the imperial court, the Ministry of Civil Affairs no longer issued official uniforms when serving as officials, except for the official uniforms for the first official appointment.

These official uniforms are made by the officials themselves, so they will not be required to return them when they are dismissed.

Sun Jinyan's move was just to vent his dissatisfaction.

Seeing that Li Fengnian refused to answer, Sun Jinyan handed the official uniform to Chu Tianjiao again.

"Master Chu, since the imperial decree says that you will temporarily take my position, then you can accept it!"

Chu Tianjiao pushed him back and said in a nonchalant manner: "Master Sun, please keep this to yourself!"

Sun Jinyan said: "I have a question in my heart, and I want to ask Mr. Chu. I wonder if Mr. Chu can tell me?

When did I ever offend Mr. Chu, so that Mr. Chu would make a special trip to Yuzhou to harm my future? "

"Master Sun, you are thinking too much. I didn't know Master Sun at all before, and I had no intention of harming Master Sun at all.

Master Sun still doesn’t understand?

The reason why you were demoted was not because of me at all, but because you were a vegetarian in your position and did not pursue political affairs in your position.

If it were normal times, you might be able to keep your position by following the trend, flattering the superior, and keeping your position.

But in the face of the great disaster, your inaction almost caused misfortune to the people of Yuzhou.

You didn't offend me, you offended hundreds of thousands of Yuzhou people. "

Sun Jinyan didn't seem to agree with Chu Tianjiao's words until he left the governor's mansion.

Chu Tianjiao did not hold out hope that he could awaken Sun Jinyan's conscience.

Li Guo's officialdom has been rotten for many years.

In the eyes of an old official like Sun Jinyan, people like Chu Tianjiao who are dedicated to the people are alien.

Now, Chu Tianjiao is the master of this state pastoral mansion for the time being.

She wanted to talk to Li Fengnian alone and dismissed the other servants.

"Congratulations to the princess on your promotion!"

Li Fengnian was all smiles. He had served Concubine Li in the palace before, and Concubine Li had raised Lu Yu in the palace when he was a child.

Li Fengnian watched Chu Tianjiao grow up since he was a child.

In the past, Chu Tianjiao often followed Lu Yu and others into the palace to play mischief. Li Fengnian really didn't expect that the former little bully would now grow into a first-class official.

"If Eunuch Li has the opportunity to go to Ganzhou next time to deliver an edict, you must come.

Ayu is also in Ganzhou. When the time comes, let him accompany you well and relax in Ganzhou. "

"How can I, a humble old slave, dare to let the prince accompany me? But when the prince came back from Nanning last time, he still remembered to bring Nanning's specialties to the old slave.

The old slave knew that the prince still remembered me in his heart, and he was already grateful. "

"Eunuch Li, do you know why your Majesty suddenly issued such a decree?"

Li Fengnian took out a letter from his arms.

"Princess Princess, His Highness the Crown Prince asked me to bring this to you."

Chu Tianjiao has not received a letter from home yet.She didn't expect that Lu Yuanqing would take the initiative to write to her.

Chu Tianjiao opened the letter and read it, roughly understanding what happened.

Lu Yuanqing encouraged Chu Tianjiao in the letter.

Chu Tianjiao smiled and said, "He looks quite like a prince now."

After putting the letter away, Li Fengnian recounted what happened that day when he was called to the imperial study room for questioning by the emperor.

Chu Tianjiao was grateful to Li Fengnian for speaking up.

"Princess Princess, this old slave should be damned for letting an assassin sneak into the bodyguards who came to announce the decree.

The old slave checked on the way back and found that there was indeed one person missing in the team.

The man's life experience was ordinary, but the old slave started with the people he interacted with and found out about a shop he often went to.

The old slave followed the clues and thought of an excuse. He hired someone to go to the store to cause trouble and discovered something fishy.

There were Dongyi merchants coming in and out of that shop. "

Li Fengnian named the store.

Chu Tianjiao suddenly remembered the hidden clues about Orange Manor. He once reported that Ye Tinglan's mother, Su Xiangyun, often went in and out of this store.

Chu Tianjiao had already guessed that Su Xiangyun was a secret agent from Dongyi.

He once sent Orange Village spies to keep an eye on her, preparing to use her against Ye Linxuan in the future.

Unexpectedly, Su Xiangyun actually asked someone to assassinate him, and the spies of Orange Manor hadn't discovered it yet.

"You don't have to worry about Eunuch Li, I've already guessed who did it."

During the chat between the two, Li Fengnian revealed to Chu Tianjiao that the emperor's health was not as good as before.

"Although this old slave is not on duty in front of the emperor now, he knows that His Majesty is busy making trouble every night. A few days ago, he even invited the eminent monk Miao Yin from Anguo Temple to come to the palace to chant sutras.

He also ordered the Ministry of Works to repair the Ancestral Temple, and the offerings in the Ancestral Temple were doubled. "

Chu Tianjiao's heart moved.

According to the trajectory of his previous life, Lu Yunkui would die at the end of the year, and it was normal to get sick at this time.

Chu Tianjiao couldn't understand why he was torturing the Ancestral Temple now.

Most of his ancestors have returned, so there should be no one to give him dreams, right?

Chu Tianjiao arranged for Li Fengnian to rest in the back office.

There is a place to stay in the back office of the Mufu in this state.

Sun Jinyan had a mansion outside and did not live in the back house of the state capital.

Chu Tianjiao immediately asked someone to clean it up, and she herself moved from Xingyang Inn to the back house of the state capital.

But it stands to reason that the imperial court should have a new Yuzhou governor to take over soon.

Chu Tianjiao can build a new governor's mansion in Xingyang, and the cost should be borne by Yuzhou's finance and taxation.

Seeing the current situation in Yuzhou, how could Chu Tianjiao waste money and resources to build a new mansion again?

If it didn't work out, she decided to squeeze in the state pastor's mansion for the time being.

"Li Guo is really too poor. It seems that God has given me the opportunity to change the tax system."

Since Chu Tianjiao became the governor of Ganzhou, he has known that the root cause of Liguo's growing poverty lies in the tax system.

But if the tax system was to be changed, the vested interests of the wealthy families would be affected, which the emperor did not dare to touch.

Chu Tianjiao wanted to move, but he had no right to do so.

Now that the emperor had granted her the title of shepherd of one state, governor of four states, and given her the fiscal and taxation rights of these five states, the emperor thought that Chu Tianjiao would continue to exploit the people based on the existing tax system.

But what Chu Tianjiao wanted to do was to pilot reform the tax system in these five states and target aristocratic families.

However, the risk of doing so was very high, and Chu Tianjiao had to figure it out slowly and think of a safe strategy.