Between the vast sea of ​​clouds

The next day when Qingping got up, he felt a terrible headache, sat on the bed for a while, and then heard the steward calling for the door.

She replied in the room: "Understood, this will start."

The steward retreated after hearing the words, Qing Ping swept the room, her eyes stopped on the window, she vaguely remembered that the window was open last night, but now it has been closed.Other than that, everything is as usual, nothing seems to have changed.

She couldn't help but suspect that what happened last night was a dream. After getting dressed, she went to wash herself in the warm cage.The steward originally brought people to serve, but Qingping stopped them. She asked: "The guests who stayed at the house yesterday, are they still here?"

The steward said: "It's still there, that guest has been up for quite a while."

Qing Ping felt a little strange, why Li Yan still didn't leave, it depends on what her house is doing.But thinking about it in her heart, she can't really drive him out.I can only hope in my heart that Li Yan will leave quickly, lest I get tired of seeing each other and feel bad.

Li Yan sat in the hall, and the servants served breakfast.She had a rest all night, but now she was in good spirits and woke up early. She wanted to walk around the back of the garden, but it snowed again, so she had to give up.Since she had nothing to do, she first picked up a few books to read casually. The books on the shelf were all travel notes. Li Yan was not interested in these, but was a little surprised. The book should be chosen by the owner himself. Could it be that Li Yan Adults like to read this kind of book?

She felt that she had a better understanding of Qingping, and she was a little happy, but she took a serious look.

Qingping probed to look outside the house, and it was snowing outside again, and it was getting bigger and bigger, and the road that had just been swept away was covered with another layer of snow.She had an idea, and said to the steward: "I don't really want to go out in this snowy day, so I just eat in the house. You go to accompany the guests, so as not to neglect."

There is no male master in the mansion, and Qingping has the final say on all internal affairs.Although the steward felt that this was not in line with etiquette, he didn't say anything. He went to the hall to apologize to Li Yan, only saying that the adult was unwell and couldn't move around.

Li Yan felt a little lost in her heart, why didn't she know that this was an excuse, after all, it was Qingping who didn't want to see her.Thinking of how the two of them got along in the Ministry of Rites in the past, there were all kinds of mixed feelings for a while, and she knew in her heart that she would never go back to the past, and it would be impossible for Qingping to treat herself like that.

Thinking of this, she also felt that there was no reason to stay any longer, so she left without eating lunch.

Qing Ping was quite absent-minded when he heard the steward talk about this matter, he just hummed and said: "Let her go." There were no more unnecessary words.

She sat and studied ink in the study, and dug out the papers used to record past events in the dark cabinet.The entire house was under the surveillance of hidden guards, and she was not worried that this thing would be discovered.Wiping off some dust on the paper, she raised her hand to scratch out a few wrong guesses, and re-wrote the inferences about the Chenzhou incident on a piece of paper, and compared them together.

The few words she overheard in Chenzhou have been lingering in her heart. If she wants to investigate, it should be caused by Sun Congshan's implementation of the new law. According to her original plan, in the fourth year, she should be in the whole Yunzhou The implementation has already been decided at the state meeting, and the state shepherd Jiang Min personally approved it, and ordered the other two county chiefs to assist.

If it weren't for the urgent war on the frontier, the new law should have seen its first effect in Yunzhou now.Next, it should be slowly implemented in other states. If it is done vigorously, it will spread to six states in ten years.

And the most important one is to measure the land and distribute it according to the population of each household.Taxes must also be collected according to the number of acres of land, and the same must be true for those aristocratic families. They have to pay all the taxes for the past ten years. If they are unable to pay, the government must sell their land at the market price. The silver taels offset the tax arrears.Because when the country was founded, the Gu Nian family had more assistance, and more taxes were reduced or exempted.However, since Taiping, the annexation of land by the aristocratic family has been particularly serious. In order to avoid heavy taxes, the common people took the initiative to merge the land into the name of the aristocratic family. Until this dynasty, even in some places, there were thousands of mu of good land, but only a hundred mu of tax was received. For a long time, the treasury Emptiness is inevitable.

If the new law is implemented, the damage will be the greatest, and the aristocratic families will bear the brunt first.To divert the attention of the court, the resumption of the war in Yunzhou is really appropriate.As the main venue for the implementation of the new law, if something unexpected happens to Yunzhou, no one will care about the new law. If there is a war, it may be hard to settle in two or three years.However, Yunzhou is far away in the sky, and no matter how chaotic it is, it will not affect the hinterland of the Central Plains. As far as the other five states are concerned, as long as the Xirong people do not invade, it will still be a peaceful and prosperous world.For the aristocratic family, an innocent disaster was avoided, not to mention the cutting of the vassals, and the vassal kings no longer had to worry about it. Everyone was happy.

Qingping took a new piece of paper expressionlessly, wrote a few strokes, and then painted. After all, these thoughts were just speculations, but for some reason, she felt intuitively that this might be the cause of everything. As for other things, In the final analysis, it still has nothing to do with this matter.

She was a little lost in thought, but what she thought about was, does Chu Jun know all this?

Before Sun Congshan came to Beijing to report on his work, he also visited Prince Xin's mansion. Qingping couldn't easily conclude whether Chu Jun knew about it or not.She suddenly thought of another person, the scribe next to Sun Congshan, the woman named He.Thinking about it now, she didn't know the identity of this person at all, but because of Sun Congshan's trust, Qingping didn't think otherwise.After the city was broken, where did this Mr. He go?

Qingping was like enlightened, and he figured out all the tricks in an instant. Mr. He has stayed with Sun Congshan for so many years, and Sun Congshan attaches great importance to her opinions, and he must discuss everything with her first.This person is indeed a talented person, knowledgeable about the past and the present, but Sun Congshan dragged him to a remote place like Anping for some reason, willing to be a disciple?

She immediately wanted to find out the whereabouts of Mr. He, but she calmed down quickly. After the Anping County city was broken, the original people all moved to other places, and the documents in the county office should also be gone. Where to find it.

After much deliberation, Qingping still plans to go back to Chenzhou to explore and see if there is any news.

She made up her mind so that she spent the past few days reading books in the mansion to recuperate her wounds, and became a hermit who didn't care about worldly affairs.It just so happens that it has been snowing heavily recently, and it is not easy to go out. It can be said that the time, place and people are harmonious.

That day she was nestled in the study, and the steward came to report that the plum blossoms in the back garden had bloomed, and the snow had stopped today, so she could go to step on the snow to enjoy the plum blossoms, and walk around.

Qing Ping was not interested in such elegant matters at all, but the steward obviously had something to say, and the woman she had seen when she returned home was standing beside her, she put down the book and immediately understood.The plaque in this house says it says Li's House, but the surname is Chu after all.

She changed into a thick cotton robe and a cloak, thought for a while and added a hand stove, and then walked slowly to the back garden.She has never visited this mansion carefully, and now it is decorated with pink makeup and jade, and it has a special style in the ice and snow.The woman didn't urge her, but just followed her without making a sound.

Qingping strolled to the back garden, where there used to be a small lake, but now it was frozen and covered with snow, as if everywhere was white.There is a gazebo on the lake, which was originally used for viewing by the water in summer, but now there is a person sitting, holding a small stove, and burning something.

Qingping thought angrily, this is clearly her own courtyard, the surname Chu can't stay in the palace, always running over to squeeze her!

The author has something to say: Of course I am chasing you, silly boy.